Back to 1980: Please Love Me Again

Chapter 35 Second Sister Zhao Wenjun

There are few idle months in the farmhouse, and people are busy in May.

There is a local tradition of "the wheat shoots are yellow, and the daughter sees her mother", that is, when the wheat is about to mature, the married daughter returns to her mother's house to visit her parents.

Usually at this time, the married girl will bring her husband's belt and gifts back to her natal home.

As for why there is such a tradition, it is probably because before the wheat is ripe, the new grain does not come down, and the old grain is almost eaten, so everyone's life will be more difficult.

Although most people are in the same situation, as a married daughter, I still hope to take care of my parents and relatives, and make food from the food I save, and take it with me when I visit my parents. This is also a kind of filial piety. expression.

Another form of subsidy for women at home.

This year, the daughter-in-laws in Shanqian Village are obviously much more motivated.

Carry big and small bags to her mother's house.

In previous years, Shanqian Village was poor, and they could only bring a few cheap gifts or shoe soles they bought when they went back to their natal home.

This year, everyone has made a lot of money selling wild game, and the sales have been a lot more generous.

Sugar, malt extract, pork, etc. are also willing to give up, and the grade has been directly improved by more than one level.

The family members looked at them differently.

The younger daughters-in-law also became more attentive to Zhao Wenmu. When Zhao Wenmu came back from the city, he happened to meet a few groups of people returning to his natal family, and everyone greeted him warmly.

"吇吇 (cicada) is calling, it's so hot,
Every family moved their daughters.

There are fathers and mothers who go home;

No father, no mother, so sad. "

When Zhao Wenmu walked to the door, there were a few children outside who were singing a nursery rhyme.

He didn't even care.

Walking into the house, Zhao Jing was cleaning the yard.

She just stood there blankly, sweeping the broom in her hand mechanically on the clean ground, not even realizing that Zhao Wenmu had entered the door.

Obviously distracted.

"Sister, I'm back!"

Zhao Wenmu said hello, and Zhao Jing only responded with a shallow "Oh".

The situation is wrong, what's wrong?
Thinking of yesterday, Zhao Jing rummaged through to find the shoes for her parents, then stared at them for a long time, and then thought of the nursery rhyme outside, Zhao Wenmu instantly understood what Zhao Jing was thinking.

His girl is not a poor little girl without a father or a mother!
If you don't believe me, ask Zhao Xuehai and Liu Sufang, do they recognize their daughter more or their son?

"Sister, pack up, I'll take you back to your mother's house later, to see our parents!"

Zhao Wenmu shouted with a smile.

A woman must be accompanied by a man when she returns to her natal home, otherwise the meaning will be different.

"Oh."

It took a few seconds for Zhao Jing to react. She threw down the broom and bounced back to the house to pack her things.

a few days later.

The waves of wheat are rolling, and the whole Pingyang County has entered the intense work of harvesting wheat.

Zhao Wenmu didn't slack off just because the wheat was worthless. These days, he left early and returned late. Not only did he have to deliver goods to the state-run restaurant, but he also rushed to collect the wheat at home.

Farming season waits for no one, and a sudden heavy rain at this time may ruin a year's harvest.Everyone is taking advantage of the good weather to race against time to harvest wheat.

Zhao Jing originally planned to share a threshing ground with Zhao Wenlin and Liu Xiumei this year.

After all, Zhao Wenmu never worked. It was simply unrealistic for Zhao Jing to tidy up a threshing field by herself, harvest wheat, thresh, and dry it.

At the beginning of the year, Liu Xiumei told her that the two families would share a threshing floor.

As for the wheat of Zhao Jing's family, Zhao Wenlin and Zhao Wenguang will definitely help harvest it.

Now Zhao Wenmu has changed his temper. Not only has he become extremely diligent, he even doesn't allow Zhao Jing to work in the fields.

Zhao Jing naturally didn't have to worry about harvesting the wheat.

However, Zhao Wenmu still decided to share a threshing ground with Zhao Wenlin's family. After all, it would take two or three days to sort out a threshing ground, which was not cost-effective.

Zhao Jing is also good at doing farm work. Since she was a child, she has done far more work than Zhao Wenmu.

Everyone is so busy right now, seeing Zhao Wenmu so tired that he falls asleep every day after touching the bed, even so, she still wakes up in the middle of the night as soon as the little girl cries, she is very distressed.

So the next day when Zhao Wenmu still didn't allow her to cut the wheat together, Zhao Jing finally quit. She simply ignored Zhao Wenmu, grabbed the sickle and went out.

Seeing that Zhao Wenmu couldn't stop her, he had no choice but to go back to the house and find a scarf to put on her to avoid being sunburned by the hot sun.

"Little brother, why don't you let me work with you?"

Zhao Jing asked with red eyes, she is not some kind of rich lady, which woman is not a man's servant during the busy farming season?
Of course, men are used as livestock.

"Sister, I will feel bad if you suffer."

In the past, Zhao Jing would have blushed with embarrassment and could not speak when she heard such nasty words.

This time she looked up at Zhao Wenmu's eyes, and said seriously:
"Little brother, we are husband and wife, we should share weal and woe, instead of you working hard outside, but I stay at home enjoying it, I want to help you, I want you to need me."

Zhao Jing's words, like enlightenment, made Zhao Wenmu suddenly realize,

No wonder Zhao Jing wanted to help Zhao Wenmu keep the accounts. She just wanted to help Zhao Wenmu and be needed by her loved ones.

Zhao Jing was never a canary, and he shouldn't have kept her in a cage.

Thinking of this, he took Zhao Jing's hand.

"Sister, I've always needed you."

Even so, Zhao Wenmu still only asked Zhao Jing to cut the wheat together when it was not too hot, and at other times to help dry, thresh, and do some not too heavy work in the threshing ground.

"Ah Jing, do you have it?"

At the threshing ground, Liu Xiumei suddenly reached into Zhao Jing's ear and asked in a low voice.

Zhao Jing didn't react for a while, and it took a while to understand what Liu Xiumei meant.

Her face turned red up to her ears, and she quickly denied it in a low voice.

"No, no, sister-in-law, what are you talking about!"

"really?"

Liu Xiumei was still dubious.

"No, my little brother is afraid that I will be tired and won't let me work."

Although the little brother treats himself very well now, he has never done anything to himself except holding hands occasionally.

Thinking of this, Zhao Jing didn't know whether she wanted Zhao Wenmu to do something to her or not to do something.

She shook her head, trying to get rid of all these messy thoughts.

On the ninth day of May, the Zhao family finally finished harvesting all the wheat, and the new wheat that had been air-dried was put into the warehouse after the public rations were paid.

The wheat of the production team was harvested the day before.

The entire Shanqian Village is filled with joy. In fact, the income from wheat is not as much as they earn from catching wild game for a few days, but farmers are like this. They would rather give up a few hundred yuan of income than let dozens of yuan Grain rotted in the ground.

The income of the production team this year is also very considerable. In less than two months, they have already received 2247 yuan from Zhao Wenmu.

With this money, plus the fee for contracting the barren hills, the construction of a water pumping station leading to the farmland in the north of the village can be put on the agenda.

The farmland is vast and fertile, but irrigation is very inconvenient. Right now, only sorghum, sweet potatoes, and millet that are not too demanding on the environment can be grown.Once the water lifting station is built, not only millet and corn can be grown, but also cash crops such as cotton, ginger, and scallions can be grown.

Zhao Xuelei has coveted the water lifting station for a long time, and now he is finally about to get his wish.

So with a wave of his hand, he secretly allowed the villagers to raise more chickens, ducks and pigs.

Everyone's life is getting better and better. During the Chinese New Year, we must eat more meat. Now there is nothing wrong with raising more poultry and livestock!

Zhao Xuelei and Zhao Wenmu are happy to meet each other now, and in their eyes, each other is as kind as a second uncle.

After the wheat was harvested, Zhao Xuehai and Liu Sufang were sitting at the door of their house to enjoy the shade, when an unexpected person appeared in front of them.

Their second daughter, Zhao Wenjun.

As a child in a stable family and a girl, Zhao Wenjun's sense of presence has been relatively weak since she was a child. In addition, she has an honest nature, so to put it bluntly, she is a bit dull, and her sense of presence is even lower.

It is this kind of child who is usually a model of a good girl, because in the eyes of everyone, this kind of child has the least things to worry about.

However, it was this good girl who left the weekly meeting of the first educated youth in the village to return to the city two years ago.

But fortunately, before leaving during the Zhou meeting, a matchmaker was invited to come to promise marriage, and a bride price was also brought to the door.

Although the parents in the Zhouhui didn't show up at all, not even a single letter, considering that Jin Province and Qilu are far away and everything is inconvenient in this age, the Zhao family didn't say anything in the end.

Even so, there were some unpleasant rumors in the village, saying that Zhao Wenjun must have fallen in love with Zhou Huizhong a long time ago, and was just waiting to go to the city to become a rich wife or something.

Liu Sufang blocked the door of the tongue-twisting person and cursed for several days before the matter finally subsided.

Zhao Wenmu actually looked down on last week's meeting. This person looks gentle and bookish, but in fact he has a small belly and no responsibility at all.

This guy once wrote a letter to the commune, wanting to reflect the difficult living conditions of the educated youth, but before sending it, he deliberately soiled the letter, and then lied that his hand was frostbitten, so another educated youth with a simple mind Dong Xuewei helped transcribe and signed his name.

After receiving the letter, the commune believed that the educated youths were exaggerating the facts and defaming the national policy, and immediately sent people to Shanqian Village to investigate the situation.

Dong Xuewei cried and said that he only helped Zhou Huizhong to copy it, but Zhou Huizhong denied it.Not only that, he also accused Dong Xuewei of complaining about the difficult conditions many times, which was clearly premeditated!
Originally, this matter was not a big one, but Zhao Xuelei was planning to come forward to coordinate. No matter who wrote the letter, the production team would come forward to criticize and educate them.

However, the testimonials in the Zhou meeting directly made the matter no longer turn around, and Dong Xuewei was quickly transferred from Qilu to a more distant border province.

The reason why Zhao Wenmu knew this was because he had a pretty good relationship with Dong Xuewei. The day before he left, Dong Xuewei, who had been betrayed by his relatives in the village, told him everything that day in tears.

Except for him, no one believed Dong Xuewei, because Zhou Hui had always presented a polite, honest and reliable image!

In his previous life, he only received a letter from Dong Xuewei many years later. At that time, he had married a wife and had children in the frontier, and his life was not satisfactory. Looking back on the past, he only had one plain sentence:

"I hate being young and ignorant, trusting others in vain!"

It has been more than two years since Zhao Wenjun returned to Jin Province with Zhou Huizhong.

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