Yoshida Mii

Chapter 8
The water in the cauldron was boiling, and Mrs. Li was pouring noodles into it, stirring the pot with chopsticks as she lowered it, fearing that the noodles would sink to the bottom and stick to the pan, when she heard Mrs. Lu say this in a hurry, "Ah?", she raised her head Looking at the well-dressed siblings at the door.

She is kind and thin-skinned by nature, and when people say that in front of her face, her face is a bit embarrassing. She has carefully beaten each of those clothes, why are they still not washed?Not to mention people who are as honest and honest as her, but ordinary people. If others help her wash clothes, if they don't come to her door, they will say that they are not clean.

"Then...then I'll go after lunch..." Before Li could finish speaking, Dong Bao, who was squatting in front of the stove and cooking a pot, stood up, pulled out a stick of corn that was burning in the stove, and said with a sullen face. He walked towards the door where Mrs. Lu was standing, and threw it at Mrs. Lu's feet.

Terrified, Mrs. Lu hurriedly jumped a step to the side. The ashes after the corn poles were burnt were floating in the air. Mrs. Lu glared at Dongbao angrily, and hurriedly patted the black ash stained on the trouser legs. Pretend to be polite, and shouted in a sharp voice: "What are you doing! Going to the city without earning farts and wanting to go to the house to expose the tiles! I will tell your second uncle to beat you up and be honest!"

"Second aunt, do you know it's clean? Why don't you wash your own clothes?" Dong Bao said loudly, "I heard people say on the way back from picking up my mother's laundry that the second daughter-in-law of the Song family is a slob. I don’t even wash my clothes!”

Mrs. Lu was annoyed. She loves cleanliness and respects face, so she yelled at Mrs. Li, "Sister-in-law, why are you doing this? I'm pregnant with your little nephew, and I'm inconvenient and can't get cold water. I asked you to help wash two pieces of clothes, but it's convenient. Why are you telling people about this little work!" After speaking, she deliberately puffed her stomach at Li Shi, who told Li Shi not to have a son, so she should wash clothes for her and serve her!

"My mother didn't say anything." Dong Bao stood in front of Mrs. Li, "The clothes are so fancy, people in the village can tell they belong to you at a glance. My mother doesn't have such beautiful clothes!"

Song Xiucai is dead, Dong Bao is his only child, and he has to observe filial piety for three years, while Li Shi has to observe filial piety for at least half a year. Let alone clothes with flowers, even clothes with brighter colors are not allowed to wear, let alone Li's filial piety. Shi also doesn't have any nice clothes, everyone in Tagouji knows this.

"I'm talking to your mother, what's the matter with your girl's film! Get out of here!" Shi Lu pointed at Dong Bao while leaning on her waist, and then said with a long smile to Li Shi: "Sister-in-law, those pants are not washed clean Well, I can't wear it..."

Li Shi glared at Dongbao, beckoning her to stop talking, and the work in her hand didn't stop, the noodles in the pot had already boiled, she poured cold water into the cauldron, and put the chopped cabbage into it to cook , lowered his head and said to Mrs. Lu: "Sisters and sisters, no one is talking about you. Dongbao is ignorant and talking nonsense. I will wash it again after lunch."

Mrs. Lu laughed complacently, and looked down at Dong Bao, the little brat dared to scold her this morning, she was so tired of it!I have to make her suffer a lot!Let's see if she dares to turn her head around!

"Sister-in-law, I have a bad taste in my mouth when I'm pregnant, and I don't like eating anything. You cut some pickled radishes for me, and cut them into thin shreds. I can't eat the thick ones. Mix them with sesame oil and vinaigrette, and then stir-fry them." An egg, to whet your appetite." Lu Shi patted the non-existent dust on his body, and instructed Li Shi who was busy in the kitchen.

"Okay." Mrs. Li replied tremblingly, turning her back to wipe away the water from the corners of her eyes. Mrs. Lu was deliberately finding fault and torturing her. She has never been so troublesome in the past. It was nothing more than watching Dong Bao come back. There are more mouths to eat at home, and the second room is not happy.

Smoke was lingering in the kitchen, and the noodles in the cauldron were beeping and steaming. In the mist, Dong Bao still saw Li's small movements of wiping tears, and felt as if he was scalded by the boiling water in the cauldron for a moment. At the same time, she still thought of the Song family too simply.The Erfang family has two sons, and the Song family has the most right to speak. The entire Song family belongs to the Erfang family, and the Erfang family doesn't regard her and Mrs. Li as members of the Song family at all.Li Shi was exhausted from being a cow and a horse, and they just took it for granted, and they also felt that they and Li Shi had eaten the food of the Song family, and they had suffered a loss.

Dong Bao silently glanced at Lu Shi who was smiling proudly, then turned around and took the wooden basin to put away the blue-flowered trousers hanging on the bamboo pole.

"What are you doing?" Lu asked unhappily.

Dong Bao smiled and said, "Didn't Second Aunt say that the pants were not cleaned?"

Because of sobbing, Li's voice was a little hoarse, and the voice came from the stove, "Go wash after eating."

Dong Bao raised his voice and said: "No, just leave me a bowl of noodles." Then he said to Mrs. Lu: "Second Aunt, you said that these trousers were not cleaned. I just looked at them for a long time, but I didn't see anything dirty. After much deliberation, my father reads a lot, and our family belongs to my father who has the most knowledge. I will take this trousers to my father's grave and ask whether it is clean or not."

"You..." Second Aunt Song's fair face turned red, she pointed at Dong Bao and was speechless.Uncle and younger siblings were originally the type who wanted to avoid suspicion. How could anyone go to ask the uncle with the trousers of the younger siblings, or go to the grave to ask?

Huang came out of the main room with a sullen face, still holding the soles of the shoes she was accepting, and first scolded Dong Bao, "Where are you going to go to eat?" Second Aunt Song, "Your elder brother has just passed away for more than a month. What are you doing in such a festive dress? Ask Dongbao to wash your pants, and your face is burning? If you don't make a mess every day, your dimples will itch." ah?"

Dong Bao couldn't hold back his laughter, and quickly lowered his head, hiding the corners of his mouth and eyes. Huang's curses were the most ruthless, making people unable to get off the stage.

Mrs. Lu was so angry, why did this damn old woman help Dong Bao to speak in a film!But they didn't dare to reply, the Song family still had the final say on the Huang family, so they could only lower their eyebrows and say with a complacent smile: "Mother, am I not happy? After this period of time, I can work."

"You can't work, where did your daughter die? Tell her to wash away, Zhao Di is still two years older than Dong Bao! When the reputation of lazy woman spreads, let's see who will hire her!" Huang's merciless, she It can be seen that the girl Dongbao has been in the city for a while, her face has thickened, her mouth has become sharper, and her heart has hardened.If she had continued to stay in the main room just now, this murderous girl would have dared to walk around the village holding the trousers of the second daughter-in-law, telling all the men in the village to look at the crotch of the second daughter-in-law, and finally to her eldest son. Crying on the grave, the old Song family will lose face by then, and the second daughter-in-law will have no face to go out to meet people.

Song Zhaodi, who was hiding in the West Wing to watch the excitement, did not expect that she was shot while lying down, and her grandmother actually asked her to go to work. Looking at Dong Bao in the yard, Song Zhaodi gritted her teeth in annoyance, and came back to eat and drink from their house. Still not working!
"Grandma." Dong Bao called, "Second Aunt is getting pregnant, and said she has no taste in her mouth, and she wants to eat sesame oil and scrambled eggs. You can give my mother eggs."

The eggs of the Song family are all managed by Mrs. Huang. There are seven or eight hens in the chicken coop, and they can usually collect five or six eggs a day. .In Dong Bao's memory, even Da Mao and Er Mao, who are most loved by the Huang family, can only eat eggs on their birthdays.Except for one person, of course, that is Dongbao's third uncle who is studying in the town. When he comes back, he can eat whatever eggs he wants.

"You want to eat eggs with sesame oil? I'll stew this old bone for you, do you want to eat it or not?" Mrs. Huang stared at Mrs. Lu, and shouted sharply, her eyes were staring straight. Good guy, she gave birth to three sons who didn't care. If she dared to ask her mother-in-law for sesame oil and eggs when she was pregnant, her daughter-in-law would become a fairy!
"No." Lu Shiqiang smiled, his face turned green and pale, "I was just joking with my sister-in-law, the country people are so particular, I just eat some pickled radishes."

Mrs. Huang stood under the eaves with her soles in her arms, her hips crossed, looked down at Mrs. Lu, snorted through her nostrils, and cursed at the kitchen: "Boss, what are you doing for so long! It’s been a long time since I can’t even make noodles, and raising you is worse than raising a pig!”

In the stove, Mrs. Li didn't dare to answer any more, so she just speeded up the work at hand. Dongbao also re-aired Aunt Song's trousers on the bamboo pole, and went into the stove to light the fire. The pot had already been boiled twice. Another corn stalk was taken from the firewood pile, broken into several sections and stuffed into the stove, so there was no need to add more firewood.

In fact, her grandma Huang is a smart person. Sitting in front of the stove, Dongbao watched the burning flames licking the bottom of the pot. She couldn't help but think that Huang's most important thing is boys, because of the status of the second aunt Song in her heart. It is also much higher than Li's, but today Second Aunt Song made too much trouble, which made her unhappy. After reprimanding Second Aunt Song, she immediately scolded Li again, and both daughter-in-laws scolded Second Aunt Song. It is not so ugly.

What's more, Grandpa Song old man is a taciturn and honest farmer. People in the village say that old Song Tou belongs to the type of "three sticks can't make a boring fart". The rural woman, the farthest place she has been to is the town, but she has made the decision to send her eldest son Song Yang to study. The originally wealthy family has gradually become ordinary, and now she supports her youngest son to study.

This is beyond the imagination of ordinary farmers.This is not the modern countryside, where there is nine years of compulsory education. In the ancient countryside, children were half of the labor force, and they could not help the family with their studies.

In Dong Bao's memory, even the well-to-do Lin family next door only sent Lin Shi to a private school for a year, and then went home to help the family after learning a few words.

However, Mrs. Huang is just a selfish and shallow peasant woman. She has a bad temper and can say all kinds of dirty words when she gets angry. She holds her sons and grandchildren on top of her heart. Others can't bear it in their hearts, as long as she can feel comfortable in her heart.

As long as she has a bit of kindness and love, she won't scold Mrs. Li for being dead and Dong Bao for being the tiger girl of Mingjike's family less than two months after her son's death.

(End of this chapter)