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Chapter 2 Pain and Pleasure

The three thatched huts with earthen walls are Yunjing's current home. In addition to the main room in the middle, the two rooms on the left and right are divided into two rooms respectively. His grandfather lives in the inner room on the left, and the outer room is a place for storing food and other items. Parents Live in the inner room on the right, and the outer room is the kitchen.

There is no such thing as a guest room.

As for the problem of staying overnight if there are guests, Yun Jing said that he is just a baby who can't speak or walk, and it's too hard for him to worry about it.

There are several tablets on the altar table in the main room at home. He doesn't know the characters on the tablets. The one at the bottom of those tablets is obviously much newer than the others. In addition, he has not seen a person suspected of being a grandma for more than a month after his birth. , he speculated that his grandma in this life had passed away.

There is a thatched shed on the left side of the house, where agricultural tools, firewood and other sundries are piled up. On the right side is a barn, which also has the important function of a toilet.

However, there are only a few chickens and ducks in the barn of Yunjing's family, not a single pig, and he has not seen any traces of cattle in the barn so far.

His house and the barn are surrounded by a half-person-high fence to form a courtyard. The fence is covered with vines, and those vines are just showing new buds. Yunjing deduces from this that it should be early spring.

The area of ​​the yard is not small, it is estimated to be four to five hundred square meters. In addition to the building area, a small vegetable field has been reclaimed in the yard, but now it is bare, and the rest of the area is flat dirt. in a drying place.

These scenes are what Yunjing observed at home on the second day after drinking on his full moon.

The reason why he had time to observe was because his mother used a hoe to dig up the vegetable field in the yard behind his back that day.

In other words, his mother started to do heavy physical labor just after she was born!
This is a true portrayal of a poor peasant family, who can't be idle for a moment.

Being carried on his mother's back, after looking at his own situation, Yun Jing tried his best to turn his head to look elsewhere.

What can be seen is limited. The back of the house is backed by a small forest, and there is a bamboo forest on the right that blocks the view. In other directions, only scattered buildings can be vaguely seen.

Those buildings are other people's homes in the village.

Looking around, Yunjing didn't feel the beauty of pastoral life at all. After everything was condensed, only two words remained.

poor and bitter.

Yes, the word poverty can sum up everything Yunjing sees.

The houses he saw were almost all huts with earthen walls, and conditions worse than his were everywhere.

Some houses seem to be in disrepair at first glance, and seem to be in danger of collapsing at any time. When the wind blows, occasionally a few pieces of thatch on the roof will fly up, and the stones will not be able to hold them down.

This kind of house, not to mention whether it is safe or not, whether it can shelter from wind and rain is one thing.

Because she was being carried by her mother, and her mother was still wielding a hoe to dig the ground, it was inconvenient to observe under the bumps, and Yun Jing could only see these scenes.

Although unable to observe more, he could also imagine that the actual poverty was much worse than what he saw.

Looking back, Yun Jing saw his mother's sweaty neck at a glance, and felt very uncomfortable. He wanted to wipe his mother's sweat with his little hands, but he couldn't reach it.

My mother looks about eighteen or nineteen years old. Most women at this age in her previous life can only be classified as children who need to be cared for and cared for. As for her, she is already a mother, and she has just given birth. The son can't wait to engage in heavy physical work.

Yes, even though she couldn't communicate, what Yunjing felt was her mother's eagerness to get to work, and even Yunjing was extremely skeptical that if it wasn't for the custom of confinement, she would definitely have given birth to herself Once you can get down to the ground, you can start working!
Perhaps it was because Yunjing wanted to wipe his mother's sweat a little harder than usual, which immediately caught Yunca's attention. She stopped digging, said something Yunjing couldn't understand, and then went back to the room to take him away. He untied it and held it in his arms to start 'feeding'.

This……

That's all, let's eat a little bit.

During the 'eating', Yunjing once again pondered a question secretly in his heart.

That is, my mother is an extremely beautiful woman, and the ugly coarse clothes can't hide her beauty, but such a beautiful woman, how could she be married by her rough man, who doesn't look too smart? What about going home?Apart from having a good body, my father doesn't have much to offer.

With nothing but four walls, why would such a beautiful mother marry him?
Is this the legendary hero without a good wife, a lazy man who marries a charming Didi?Um, in fact, my father is not lazy, just a metaphor.

Thinking of his father, Yun Jing really admired him, he seemed to have endless energy and strength, he went out to work every day before dawn, and came back only after dark, rain or shine.

Yun Jing has never seen on his father's face the expression of complaining about the hardships of life, and when he comes back from working hard every day, as long as he sees himself, he has a satisfied expression of no regrets and hard work.

From his father, Yun Jing really felt what a man is the pillar of the family, what is a reliable man, he is always inexplicably reassuring.

To be honest, Yun Jing found that his father was a bit inarticulate, and the word 'honest man' was perfect for him, and the word 'honest man' here definitely did not have any ironic or derogatory meaning.

He always tries to make himself happy in a clumsy way, he doesn't think that embarrassing Yunjing is embarrassing, how can this make Yunjing laugh, but he just enjoys it...

Yunjing, who was thinking about these things in his heart, unknowingly stopped the action of 'eating'. Seeing this, his mother put on her clothes, hesitated a little, put Yunjing on her back and went out to continue digging.

Yun Jing really wanted to say, mom, you can actually put me on the bed without causing you any trouble, and now I can’t even turn over with my small arms and legs, so I can’t even cause you trouble if I want to, especially after I just finished eating Grandma, you dig the ground behind my back, are you really not afraid of spiting me up?

It's a pity that Yunjing can't communicate with her at all, because the language is barrier.

Even if they can communicate, they can't communicate. A one-month-old doll can communicate normally with adults, so it shouldn't scare people out of their minds.

Yunjing has never been a parent before, so he naturally doesn't understand the mentality of parents who don't feel at ease once their children are out of sight...

It has only been more than a month since he was born in this world. A baby of this size sleeps most of the time every day, and Yunjing is no exception. When he is awake, he tries hard to learn language from the "communication" between his parents and himself, but There is too little time, and up to now he can barely understand the meaning of a few words, and there is still a long way to go to learn this unknown language.

The small vegetable patch in the yard was plowed early in the morning, and then she put down the hoe and went back to the house to cook.

There is no such thing as breakfast in poor peasant families. They go to work in the fields as soon as they get up, and only go home to eat when they are really hungry. It is already lunch.

Yunjing witnessed the whole process of his mother cooking, and the final product made him feel sad.

There are only three kinds of food, noodle porridge and pickles, there is no oil or water at all.

The noodle cake is made of flour that is ground into powder with the shell and then baked. There is no oil. Strictly speaking, the dough is just baked in a hot pan without any seasoning.

The porridge is boiled with two handfuls of rice, and it takes half a pot.

After the porridge was cooked, his mother showed him a miraculous operation. Mica put all the porridge in a soup basin. After standing for a while, the rice grains in the porridge settled down, and then she poured the rice soup on it into an earthen pot. Then she poured the remaining thick porridge back into the pot and added an egg, and finally she put the porridge with eggs in a big bowl.

Turning a pot of porridge into a can of rice soup and a thick porridge with eggs, Yunjing really didn't understand this operation at first, but he figured it out soon.

The rice soup is used to moisten the throats of fathers and grandfathers who are working in the fields. After all, the coarse grain cakes look hard to swallow. As for the thick porridge with eggs, the mother eats it herself. It is not that she wants to eat alone, but that she wants to To breastfeed yourself, you must have adequate nutrition.

This is caused by poverty, which forces people to plan carefully.

A can of rice soup and coarse grain cakes were placed in the basket, and two bowls were placed in the basket, and then Mica began to eat porridge and cakes with pickles.

During this process, she looked towards the gate of the yard from time to time, and said something to Yun Jing that he didn't understand, as if she was waiting for something.

Yun Jing knew that she was actually waiting for her father.

After Yun Mu ate two coarse-grain pancakes with pickles and porridge, and finally washed the dishes, her father appeared at the door.

He came back in a hurry, smiled at Mica, said a few words that Yunjing couldn't understand, then turned around and left with a basket containing food.

Early spring is the busy time of farming, which is related to the livelihood of a family. For farmers, a moment in this season is extremely precious.

There is a saying that being too busy to touch the ground is the truest portrayal of farmers.

Father Yun, who was carrying a basket of food, walked to the door but stopped. From Yunjing's point of view, he looked around furtively, then turned around and came to the side of Yunca, and first pinched Yunjing's cheeks. Cheek grinned, then kissed Mica on the cheek.

This……

He was actually sprinkled with dog food!
Yun Jing immediately tore off the label of being an honest man that was pasted on his father. How can he be honest?
It's clearly boring!

Having said that, although Yunjing calls Father Yun's father in his heart, in fact, Father Yun is not very old, only in his early twenties. He was originally the age of a spirited guy, and life has forced him to practice it so that it is easy to ignore He is mature for his age.

After being kissed, Yun Mu blushed and pinched Father Yun's buttocks, and Father Yun carried the basket and rubbed his buttocks and left.

Although life is bitter, there are occasional moments of sweetness in life...

(End of this chapter)