90s Little Struggle

Chapter 14
The weather is too hot, and Xiao Hong at this moment is like a frost-beaten eggplant.

She really didn't have any appetite, and she looked sickly: "I don't want to eat!"

Well, Zhao Youqiang was very familiar with her tone and demeanor. Anyway, Xiao Hong came to them with this expression.

To be honest, if he hadn't really cared about his daughter-in-law and was reluctant to let her be splinted, he would really be too lazy to talk to this squeamish cheap daughter.

Seeing her stepfather looking at her mother in a daze, Xiao Fang quietly tugged at the hem of Xiao Hong's clothes.

Xiao Hong also came back to her senses now, pulled herself together and smiled at Zhao Youqiang: "Uncle, I feel a little dizzy in the car, I really don't mind eating, why don't you buy me a mung bean popsicle?"

She knew very well in her heart that he was kind to her, and he loved the house and the black.

I will spend a long time with him in the future, and it would be great if everyone can coexist peacefully.

It was rare for Zhao Youqiang to see Xiao Hong's smiling face, and he was a little flattered, and replied repeatedly: "Okay, okay, I'll go buy it right away."

Looking at his wife and Xiao Fang again: "Do you also eat mung bean popsicles? Do you want anything else?"

Wu Julan also shook her head: "Just buy four popsicles, and we still have boiled eggs and steamed buns in the basket?"

Zhao Youqiang asked them to stay under the shade of a tree, and by the way, he could watch the bullock cart for him, so he hurried to find a store to buy popsicles.

Although Zuo Village is considered a remote place, it is a Houzhai town, and there are general shops, but there are very few melons and fruits that are rare.

He first went to sell big pancakes and sesame cakes. There was a triangular pancake. He ordered three pancakes, ten sesame cakes for one piece and five.

I went to the supply and marketing agency to find a popsicle counter, and ordered three mung bean popsicles for sixty cents.

It cost him three yuan for this little thing, almost catching up with his day's wages.

He can also be regarded as inheriting his father's career, learning to be a bamboo craftsman.

The baskets, shau-kei, dustpans, baskets, sieves, and large mats for drying rice they make are strong and durable, and they are well-known in the neighboring villages. They earn four yuan a day for a meal.

It's a pity that this job is not available every day.

Usually, he would also look for part-time jobs, and take care of the family's fields, so he could get by.

And Wu Julan has to take care of two pigs and more than a dozen chickens and ducks raised by the family. She usually has to pull weeds in the fields and do housework.

In this way, besides spending, the couple can also save around [-] yuan a year, which is not bad in the village.

If the two daughters in the family were not physically delicate, maybe they could save more money.

But Zhao Youqiang was generous to his wife and daughter, but he was not so willing to part with himself.

After he bought the things, he let them sit in the bullock cart to eat slowly, and drove the bullock cart to the police station first, and successfully put Xiao Hong's household registration on Zhao Youqiang's household registration booklet.

Things went well, and within an hour they were on their way home.

It was past two o'clock in the afternoon, the sun was scorching, and there were no other pedestrians on the road except their family.

Wu Julan also felt sorry for her man. After taking a bite of the popsicle, she stuffed it into his mouth: "It's too cold. I feel sick to my stomach. Don't buy it for me in the future."

While driving the car, Zhao Youqiang handed the flat water bottle to her with a smile: "Then you drink some water?"

Xiao Fang is used to the good relationship between mother and stepfather, so she doesn't care.

Xiao Hong felt a toothache while watching it, and somehow felt like a mouthful of dog food was stuffed.

However, when she thought of her mother saying that she had an upset stomach, she remembered another thing.

According to the time in her dream, her mother might be pregnant soon.

In the dream, her mother found out about her marriage only after she was forced to marry Zhao Long in a daze, and immediately went to find her.

At that time, she was restrained by Zhao's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, and she was beaten and scolded as a coward. When she saw her mother, she fainted from crying.

Wu Julan wanted to send her daughter to the hospital, but was stopped by Zhao's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. There was a dispute between the two parties. In the end, Wu Julan also had a stomachache and went to the hospital to find out that she had a miscarriage.

To be honest, Xiao Hong felt in her heart that it was impossible for her to be beaten and scolded like what she saw in the book, and she would just swallow her anger and humiliate herself.

But if it was fake, how could I know so many things?How can it become mature?
Doesn't she feel like she's born again?It doesn't look like it's worn in a book?
Or is grandma really alive?Are you reminding yourself?

Anyway, no matter what it is, she will live every day steadily.

In my memory, my mother had an accident in October this year, so it is almost August now.

That means the mother will be pregnant next month.

Family planning began in the 80s, but in remote rural areas, families without sons all wanted to have a son, so as not to be scolded as 'extinct'.

However, there are also people who hide out to work in order to have a son.

There are also some villages that are more xenophobic, and they will take the initiative to help the villagers hide it. After the child is born and has to go to school, they will pay the fine and let the child register.

Previously, Xiao Hong was able to settle down smoothly because Wu Julan was old, and she was already in the ring after giving birth to Zhao Yanyan.

Xiao Hong could only sigh in her heart that the future brother or sister should be named Zhao Jianqiang.

If it is not strong enough, it is impossible to have a little life.

After leaving Houzhai Town, the roads are all bumpy and uneven, and they are all uphill, and the ox carts can't move fast.

Fortunately, he couldn't walk fast, otherwise Xiao Hong's fart would suffer.

The mountain road is winding, with lush trees on both sides, but even the sun is not so hot.

The two sisters couldn't help dozing off together.

Wu Julan took the opportunity to sit next to her man, and asked in a low voice: "Xiao Hong will follow us from now on, do you think it's tonight or tomorrow, we are going to order food, treat the family to a meal, and let's talk about this matter by the way." Mama say something?"

She got married and separated, and she didn't spend much time with her mother-in-law.

But because she was married twice, she didn't give birth to a son for him.

And because she remarried with Xiao Fang, Xiao Fang was allowed to have the second child, so her mother-in-law was also a little dissatisfied with her.

Fortunately, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law spend less time dealing with each other, and there are no major conflicts. Even if the mother-in-law is sometimes in a bad mood, she will say a few words about her with a stick.

Now she has brought another daughter to Zhao's house, thinking of her mother-in-law's stern look, she feels a little trembling in her heart.

She didn't mind being scolded by her mother-in-law, but she was afraid that Xiao Hong, a child with a heart, would not want to stay after hearing it.

Zhao Youqiang quickly comforted him: "It's okay, I'll go talk to my grandma first."

Xiao Hong just closed his eyes and rested his mind. Hearing what they said, he was also thinking about how to get along with the cheap grandma.

As far as she knew, Grandma Zhao was a Buddhist.

She vaguely remembered that in the small village in front of Zha Village, there was a half-blind sorceress who knew Feng Shui, fortune-telling and date, and was quite famous in ten miles and eight towns.

(End of this chapter)