vines and melons

Chapter 39

After dinner one autumn day, the production team distributed apples, and Fang Jie was in line behind Yanzi. She saw that the iron rings kept in the warehouse were all for Yanzi to pick up the big ones. Fang Jie saw it clearly, but dared not speak out.

As the saying goes: Mother's spirit is father's courage.Fang Jie has no father and no guts. Usually she dare not speak to outsiders, and she is even more afraid of dignified people. For example, Uncle Fang Qiang, Uncle Feng Nian, once Fang Qiang came back from the hospital to bask in the sun, and her mother asked her to greet her uncle. , she didn't dare to go, and under her mother's repeated urging, she mustered up the courage to go. When her eyes met Fang Jie was scared, and she didn't say "Uncle, hello!" Laughing and running away; talking to uncle is always coy.

Now, Fang Jie and Yanzi go home together with the basket.The bright moonlight shone on the green apples, which were emerald green. She looked at the big apples in the swallow's basket and felt unbalanced, cursing the iron rings in her heart.

When I got home, Fang Jie told her mother exactly.

Seeing her mother's helpless expression, she suddenly had the urge to seek justice, so she said hello to her mother and left the kiln door.

Guizhi wanted to call Fang Jie back, but then thought: This child is timid, let her go to exercise!Doesn't matter if it's Apple or not.

Fang Jie put the basket on the table and said, "Exchange for my apples!" She was terrified when she said this.

The iron ring said: "They are all small apples, where are the big ones!" "Or, you pick them!"

Fang Jie saw that there was only the bottom of the apple left, and there were hardly any big ones, so she made a layup and turned away without saying a word.

Guizhi scolded the iron circle in his heart for being a villain.

Life in the iron ring is very particular, but her daughter-in-law is not particular at all. Every day, her hair is unkempt like a chicken coop that has been planed by chickens.We all know that she has grown a pair of long eggplant breasts. In summer, when working in the field, she always feels that those two wizened and squeaky "skins" are in the way. She takes off her shirt when she looks around and sees no man, and slaps Throw those two "skin bags" to the shoulders twice, and work shirtless.When she was accidentally bumped into by a man, she would yell at him for being shameless. Some men ignored her and turned away, and some men deliberately teased, "Are you shameless or I am shameless!"

The rumors spread to the ears of Iron Circle, and he was ashamed of it, and never wanted to touch his daughter-in-law again.Later, she often compared her daughter-in-law with Guizhi.

The crop work made Gui Zhi's face dim, but her good figure and bright eyes and teeth are still there, and she is well dressed and clean, which makes her and others slightly better than her.

After comparing the iron rings, he shook his head like a rattle and sighed, "Hey! I blame my own life!"

The two people who were obviously incomparable, he pulled a piece to compare, and after comparing them, he had an idea.

One day, Gui Zhi was drying and harvesting grain in the production team. Tie Huan said to Gui Zhi, who was carrying a cloth bag and pouring grain into the storehouse, with a playful smile, "Is life hard?"

Guizhi knew that he had bad intentions, so he shook the empty cloth bag vigorously and turned his face away.Give hoops a hard time.

Continue to dry the grain the next day.

This time Gui Zhi wanted to avoid the iron ring, she didn't carry the bag, she was only responsible for filling the bag with food, the iron ring saw that no one was coming in, she came over to Gui Zhi in a sensual way, "The day after tomorrow, leave the door open for me." Because, the day after tomorrow, his daughter-in-law will return to her natal home.

Without Fang Qing, Guizhi is clean and self-respecting, and never provokes disputes. Except for Fang Qiang, who comes to help at home, she never shouts at anyone else;It is said that there is a lot of gossip in front of the widow's door, and Guizhi sits upright and walks upright. No one has ever said "no" to her Zhang Guizhi.Today, she didn't expect that Iron Circle would say such insulting words, she really wanted to call him a bloody bastard and slap her twice, but Gui Zhi never scolded or hit anyone.She gritted her teeth and said, "There is a dog-beating stick behind the door of my house. Whoever comes, I'll beat him to death with a stick!"

The iron ring immediately grew a face, turned away with its hands behind its back, then turned around and muttered, "We'll see."

Two days later, the production team collected public food.

The iron circle puts the wheat of all the team members at level 2, except for Gui Zhi's level 3.Guizhi didn’t make any noise, just said loudly: “I take the food distributed by the production team at home and give it to the production team. This is different! Will I steal or rob? What?! Why put it at level 3 for my family?!"

Iron circle blushed and was speechless.

Some people pawed and pulled the wheat to have a look, and some picked it up and put it in the bag. They were all discussing in whispers, but no one came out to say a word of justice.

Guizhi couldn't be more angry, she thought: If you don't show Iron Circle his majesty, he will continue to be arrogant!Although, I don't have a man to support the family, I still have an uncle to rely on!Who can guarantee that the family will be safe and sound!Who dares to say that he (she) does not need a good doctor!Who doesn't write some couplets during Chinese New Year!To be honest, Guizhi never complained to his uncle, nor asked him for help.

Guizhi knew that Iron Circle had a habit of squatting on the riding stone outside the gate with a bowl to eat every day, except on rainy and snowy days.

The next day, Guizhi specially made dumplings, and when everyone was sitting outside the gate with bowls for lunch, she asked the two daughters to bring a bowl of dumplings to the father-in-law in the lower court.She explained to the two daughters: "On the way, when you are tired, you can switch sides. If anyone asks, who is the dumpling for? Just say, it's for my grandfather. Say it loudly."

The two of them remembered their mother's words clearly, and said so to anyone who asked.

Gui Zhi's uncharacteristic behavior made the smart Fang Wannian figure out: Gui Zhi must have encountered something that is inconvenient to talk about, and wanted to borrow his majesty.He also came to push the boat along the way.

On the third day at noon, Fang Wanlai went to the upper courtyard to eat, and he sat on the riding stone to eat in the iron circle and got up from afar to say hello.

(End of this chapter)