Farming and reading family

Chen Hanyue ran for a while and felt relieved when she saw that her mother didn't catch up with her. She wanted to go and talk to her second aunt, but finally gave up and went directly to her eldest sister's house.

The door of Peng Can's house was open, and there were two villagers cutting grass at the door. Chen Hanyue saw them, greeted them, and went in to find her sister.

Chen Yuning was mending Peng Can's clothes when she saw Chen Hanyue running in angrily and almost pricked her hand.

"What's wrong?" Chen Yuning looked at her sister's carelessness and said, "Mom is pregnant, why aren't you at home looking after her?"

"Did you know that our grandpa moved in with Master Xie?" Chen Hanyue slumped in a bamboo chair, looking as if she had lost all hope in life.

Chen Yuning felt that this made her mother lose face. Her grandfather did not live with her daughter but lived in someone else's house. "I heard that Master Xie was bored living alone."

"Oh!" Chen Hanyue sneered. "Master Xie is not at home from morning till night, how could he be bored? It's because our mother wanted to control Second Aunt and prevent our grandfather from working for Second Aunt. As a result, Second Aunt directly found someone to replace Grandpa."

Chen Yuning knew that his grandfather had not been into the mountains for a few days, and he also knew that a new person who specialized in leading people into the mountains had come to his second aunt's house, but he had never thought that there was any connection between them before.

"How can you say that about my mother?" Chen Yuning was a little dissatisfied.

"What does Big Sister want me to say?" Chen Hanyue sat up suddenly. She knew Big Sister would speak for her mother. "Mother also wants me to catch two pigeons from your house and take them back to eat."

"That won't do!" Chen Yuning immediately refused. "Your brother-in-law said this is some kind of pigeon, very valuable. Now he goes to the government office every day to ask for advice on how to raise it."

Chen Yuning learned his lesson from the last incident with the rooster. He knew that they couldn’t touch the pets they kept at home casually.

Besides, Second Aunt didn't treat their family badly. She gave them chickens and piglets, and even said that if they had a calf in the future, she would give them one too.

"Ah?" Chen Hanyue didn't know how valuable the pigeon was, she just knew that she couldn't touch her second aunt's things.

"You must talk to mother about this. If she really wants to eat it, I will ask your brother-in-law to buy squab from He County." Chen Yuning reminded.

"Our mother is now..." Chen Hanyue knew that she couldn't convince him. "I'm leaving first." She stood up and left.

"Hey..." Chen Yuning wanted to call Han Yue and stop her from telling her second aunt about this.

Now that she is alone, she knows that there are some things that cannot be said.

Chen Hanyue had already run out and couldn't be stopped even if we called her.

Chen Hanyue made sure that her mother was not at the door, so she trotted to her second aunt's house. He opened the door for her, and she slipped in sideways like a thief and immediately closed the door.

Gao E looked at Chen Hanyue and asked, "What are you doing?"

Chen Hanyue signaled her second aunt to keep her voice down, and immediately ran to her second aunt and whispered, "My mother wants to eat the pigeons raised by my brother-in-law."

Gao E's face immediately fell. Her sister-in-law wanted to eat everything now.

"Don't say I said that." Chen Hanyue saw the serious expression on Second Aunt's face and was sure that the pigeon was precious. "My eldest sister said that the pigeon was precious."

"It's okay." Gao E quickly regained her relaxed expression. "How many does your mother want to eat?"

"Two." Chen Hanyue said cautiously.

"You go back first." Gao E gestured.

Chen Hanyue nodded. She had been out for a long time and would definitely be questioned by her mother when she returned.

After seeing Chen Hanyue off, Gao E called Lianxin over.

"Ride your horse to He County and buy twenty pigeons." Gao E said as she gave the money.

Lianxin nodded, took the money and went to Pengcan's house to get the horse.

Gao E felt helpless about Yang. Her eldest brother was a good person, and his children were also very good. If she really embarrassed Yang, it would be very embarrassing for her eldest brother and the children.

But... Gao E really doesn't like people taking advantage of her.

Lianxin bought twenty pigeons before dark and came back with Peng Can.

Peng Can met Lianxin on the road, and happened to come with her to talk to Sister Gao about the carrier pigeon.

"Sister, if you want to buy pigeons, please tell me earlier. I will bring them back when I come back and let Lianxin buy them. Those people will charge her two or three cents more." Peng Can said as he went to the water tank to scoop water to drink.

"Don't drink raw water." Gao E called out, seeing Peng Can had already started drinking. "I need to buy some last-minute water. It's urgent."

Peng Can drank a bucket of water before coming over: "Is there something urgent?"

Gao E didn't tell Peng Can, "I heard you've been going to He County a lot lately. How's it going?"

Peng Can was a little angry: "That old man is very stingy. I treated him to delicious food and drinks, but he beat around the bush and said some superficial things. I didn't dare to use them casually."

"Then starting from tomorrow, you will go and hang around him every day, and you don't have to give him food or drink." Gao E said with a smile.

"Ah?" Peng Can thought that it was not yellow anymore.

"Anyway, training pigeons takes more than one or two days. If he doesn't want to teach you, no matter how much you give him, it will be like throwing meat buns at the dog." Gao E didn't have the time and energy to do anything like "Sincerity can move mountains and open up new horizons."

Besides, it’s not a life-threatening matter.

Peng Can thought about it and could only say: "Okay."

"By the way, don't tell anyone about your homing pigeons for now. If anyone asks, just say... pigeons are precious. Someone rich will come and buy them."

Peng Can nodded: "Then I'll go home first. I haven't seen the pigeons all day."

Not only pigeons, but also everything he raises he checks three times a day at home. If he goes out, he checks them once in the morning and once in the evening without fail. Any changes will not escape his eyes.

After Peng Can left, Gao E went to see the pigeons Lian Xin bought, which were much fatter than carrier pigeons.

"Boss, do you want to eat it? I'll kill it for you." Lianxin said as she rolled up her sleeves.

"No need to kill." Gao E waved her hand.

Lei hasn't been back for a few days, and as soon as she came back today, she went to see her second sister-in-law.

"Second sister-in-law hasn't seen it, but the third brother is so proud after putting on the shopkeeper's clothes. He said he would buy a shop for me in He County in two years." Lei said happily.

Her business is doing well now, but she didn't expect it to be so good before. The acorn starch she has in stock will probably be used up before the acorns are harvested.

After that, she didn't know what to sell and planned to discuss it with her second sister-in-law.

"That's great." Gao E said happily, "I'll give you some more when the time comes."

"How can we let my second sister-in-law keep spending money? My husband and I are both healthy and can save up the money. Now my second sister-in-law is helping to look after Yan'er and Ziyou, which is already a great help." Mrs. Lei refused directly.

"The third brother said that when we are better off, mother will save some money and split it equally between the two families." Lei said with a smile.

She used to dislike her mother-in-law, but now she doesn't care so much.

The second sister-in-law was right. That was the third brother's biological mother. As long as she wanted to live a good life with the third brother, she couldn't make trouble with him about this matter.

"You are becoming more and more open-minded now." Gao E was very pleased.

Mrs. Lei suddenly became serious. "I used to think that my second sister-in-law was being taken advantage of. You could tolerate what mother did to you. Now I think it's not that my second sister-in-law couldn't tolerate it, but that it wasn't a big deal at all."

Gao E was surprised: "Why did you suddenly come to your senses?"