Yoshida Mii

Chapter 2 Laundry
Mrs. Huang is well-known for her powerful mouth. With two thin mouths opening and closing, a few words can make people's heads drip with blood. She wished to jump into the river to die. Once, Mrs. Huang found two radishes on the ground. After being pulled out, two holes were left in the ground, Huang was furious, unexpectedly someone stole something on her ground, and scolded in a resonant voice on the ground without embarrassment. morning.

In the end, the person who stole the radish was scolded too much. It was Mrs. Ge from the west of the village. Quite amazing, she stood up and scolded Mrs. Huang, but after a few rounds of "communication", Mrs. Ge returned in defeat, and did not dare to go out for a few days after being scolded.

Since then, Huang has established her position as "the first cursing god" in Tagouji.In those few days, the villagers' ears were buzzing, and the high-pitched and shrill voices of Mrs. Huang and Mrs. Ge lingered endlessly.

Dong Bao's mind went numb when he heard Huang's voice, and at the same time, he also noticed that the hand holding her mother was tightening.It was Huang who was in charge of the Song family, and it was Huang who decided to send her to a wealthy family to "work" to earn money to pay off her debts. Now that she didn't make any money, she came back. One can imagine how Huang feels.

Chen Yazi glanced at Sister-in-law Song and Dong Bao, took a step forward, and smiled at the skinny Huang family: "Auntie, it's my fault, the Wang family has recruited enough maids, I'll take care of you." This can only bring Dongbao back."

Hearing what Chen Yazi said, Dongbao felt a little grateful to him. As a person born in modern society, she naturally didn't like Yazi who was involved in human trafficking. However, Chen Yazi was not a bad person. He could angrily accuse Dong Bao of not following the rules, which annoyed the nobleman and made him lose his job, but if this is the case, I'm afraid that Huang's anger will be directed at him, and the villagers will have rumors about him.From the beginning of entering the village, his argument has always been that the Wang family's servants are fully recruited, and she is not needed anymore, and her reputation as a little girl has been preserved.

Ms. Huang glanced at Dong Bao and Sister-in-law Song with her mouth curled up, tapped the stick at hand, and signaled Dong Bao and Sister-in-law Song to stand aside, so as not to hinder her from talking to Chen Yazi, Huang Shou's face was extremely dissatisfied, "Chen Yazi, I remember what you said two days ago. You said that the Wang family recruited a rough envoy and patted their chests to ensure that Dong Bao would go to work to earn money. Now that the money has not been earned, you have brought her back again. You What do you say?"

Ordinary people would definitely argue with Huang in anger when they heard Huang's words that were almost deceitful. It's my fault. The friendship between our two families is there, you don't need to say it, next time I come again, I promise to recommend another job to Dong Bao, it's better than the Wang family this time!"

Mrs. Huang narrowed her eyes dissatisfied. She is not a fool. She is in charge of the entire Song family. Chen Yazi's words are obviously perfunctory. Who knows that it will be the year of the monkey next time, and Chen Yazi is from far and wide. One of the best teeth, he can't recommend a job, is it really hard to find a job for a maid who signed a work contract?

"Does the Wang family want a girl who signed a death contract?" Huang asked.

Sister-in-law Song, who was standing with her head bowed, immediately raised her head to look at Mrs. Huang, plopped down on the ground, and begged in a trembling voice; Dongbao...Dongbao's father is just a girl like Dongbao, mother!" As she spoke, Sister-in-Law Song began to cry until she was so sad that she was out of breath. Said: "Mother, Dong Bao's father has only been away for a month! Dong Bao is also engaged to someone else, why can't you sell your granddaughter!"

Speaking of the dead eldest son, Huang's eye circles were also red, and he knocked on the stick in his hand vigorously, cursing: "What are you doing? You still want to turn the world upside down, you! What do you want to do in front of outsiders? Yes Didn’t you think you’re just thinking about it when my son is gone? Should I eat less or wear less? You still have the guts to say that my son is only a daughter, and he doesn’t even blame anyone for throwing pots and helping spirits? What's wrong with giving birth to a vicious tigress, you chicken that doesn't lay eggs! Go home!"

Sister-in-law Song hurriedly wiped her face, pulled Dong Bao and walked home, walking very fast, Dong Bao only saw Sister-in-law Song's two shoes with broken toes striding forward in front of her eyes, with a big smile on her lips. Great shame, anger and grief, humble and afraid of being seen.

When she reached the door of the house, Sister-in-Law Song suddenly remembered that she had gone out to wash the clothes earlier, but the clothes were still left by the river and had not been brought back. "Dong Bao, you go back first, I will come back after washing the clothes."

"Washing Second Aunt's clothes again?" Dong Bao asked.

Sister-in-law Song nodded, turned around and was about to leave.

Dong Bao grabbed her, "Mom..." Dong Bao felt a lot smoother after the first cry, "Just take the clothes back, don't wash her, she has hands and feet, and she has hands and feet. If you have a daughter, why do you always bully you and ask you to wash her clothes?"

The eldest daughter of the second aunt, Zhaodi, is two years older than her. A 12-year-old girl from a farm family has long been a laborer, and washing clothes for her mother is nothing at all.

"Keep your voice down." Sister-in-law Song said hurriedly, and after seeing that there was no movement in the yard, she sighed and said, "Dong Bao, don't talk nonsense, your second aunt... isn't she pregnant, she needs to wash I don’t have many clothes, so it’s just a matter of mother.”

Huai Mao Mao is the dialect of Tagouji, which means pregnant and has a baby in the stomach.

Dong Bao pursed his lips. It was just the beginning of spring, and the water in the river was still bitingly cold. Washing clothes could freeze a layer of skin off your hands. What a coincidence, she had never seen anyone better than Dong Bao's second aunt. The more delicate peasant daughters-in-law don't do it themselves, and they are reluctant to do it with their own daughters, but they bully the sister-in-law vigorously.

The second aunt gave birth to two sons, Da Mao and Er Mao, and she considers herself the number one hero of the old Song family. Now she is pregnant with her fourth child. As soon as she is pregnant, she doesn't do any work, even washing private clothes. All the work was pushed to Mrs. Song.Huang only had her son and grandson in her eyes, and she also looked up to her second aunt who had given birth to her two grandsons and was about to give birth to a third grandson.

If the clothes were brought back to her as they were, the second aunt would make a fuss, and the Huang family would definitely not ignore it, and they would be the ones who would suffer.

"Then you just rinse your clothes in the river and fish them out." Dong Bao whispered into Mrs. Song's ear, "Don't try to wash her. When she asks, I have a way to deal with her. Sometimes grandma can’t say anything.”

Sister-in-law Song had a sore nose, and it took her a long time to hold back the tears that were about to fall. Once the girl entered the city, she grew up and knew that she loved her, and she was no longer the silly girl she was before.

"Okay, mother knows, mother is not stupid." Sister-in-law Song said with a smile, "you go into the room and rest, if you are sleepy, you can sleep for a while."

"Hey, good." Dong Bao said, watching Sister-in-law Song's thin back gradually go away.

The yard of the Song family is not small. There are four main rooms facing south, the middle one is the main room, the westernmost small room is for grain storage, the next room is the third uncle Dongbao’s room, and the easternmost room is Dongbao’s. Grandparents' room.

There are two rooms in the west wing next to the main house, which are the rooms of Dong Bao's second uncle's family, and a room on the east side next to the stove room, which is the room where Dong Bao's family lives.In winter, the fire is burning in the stove, and the firewood is damp and difficult to burn. I don’t think there is much heating, but the smoke is suffocating enough. In summer, it is very hot. It is the worst house in the Song family.

In Dongbao's memory, when she was a child, she and her second uncle's family each lived in a west wing room. Later, the second uncle's family added two more sons, and the second uncle yelled that they couldn't live there anymore, and had no money to build a new house. He moved to the adobe house next to the kitchen, and has lived there ever since.

Apart from these few houses, two paulownia trees were planted in the yard, and at the turn of spring and summer, the trees were full of paulownia flowers.Except for the chicken pen and pig pen in the yard, the rest of the place has been reclaimed as a vegetable field.Dongbao walked along the path all the way to their house, and saw that the vegetable field was newly turned and cultivated with farmyard manure. The black fertile soil exuded a faint smell, and the sown vegetable seeds had already emitted tiny The tender buds swaying slightly in the wind.

Before she left, these lands hadn't been turned over. These jobs were either done by her mother or by her grandfather Song. Don't expect him to be lazy, because Aunt Song's family is a "delicate" person, and it is impossible to go to the field, and Uncle Song's family is still studying, so he probably doesn't know where the hoe is.

"Hey, you... why are you back?" A sharp voice rang in Dong Bao's ear.

Dong Bao looked up, and saw a girl wearing a coarse cloth jacket and two braids coming out of the west wing with a basin of water, looking at her in surprise.The girl was much taller than her, and her hair was slightly withered and yellow. There were only two thin braids when all her hair was tied up. Her face was also a bit long. If you looked closer, you could see a lot of freckles on her face.

There is a nice name for this in Dongbao's hometown, "Mask Face Veil", which refers to a girl with freckles, as if covered with a layer of veil.Some girls grow up to lose the veil, while others wear it for life.

"Elder Sister." Dong Bao greeted and continued walking.

Song Zhaodi, the eldest daughter of the Song family, was not happy, and shouted with raised eyebrows: "What am I asking you? Are you deaf?"

Dong Bao glanced at her, "My grandma knows why I came back, Chen Yazi told my grandma, when my grandma comes back, you can ask her."

In Huang's eyes, granddaughters are losers. Even if Song Zhaodi is the eldest daughter of the Song family, she will be trampled under her feet. If Song Zhaodi has 120 guts, she will not dare to ask Huang's Dongbao what to do. come back.

(End of this chapter)