Splendid Pastoral: Space farmers are good for farming

Chapter 2 Give me away?

Grandma was mending in the house, when she heard Fennel's cry, she hurried out, and together with Fenix ​​and Shan Xing, they helped Lady Jigeng into the house.

Seeing that Mrs. Jiaojiao was about to give birth, instead of going in to help, Mrs. Chen grabbed the half bag of potatoes that Mrs. Jiaojiao wanted to return to her on the ground, went to the side of Jiaojiao, grabbed her potato basket and poured it into the bag.

Seeing that she was about to grab her, Kikyo grabbed her arm and shouted, "What are you doing, let go, this belongs to me!"

She was a six-year-old child, and she was thin and small. Even with all her strength, she couldn't move one of Chen's arms, but Chen raised her hand and threw it aside, and fell heavily into the ditch.

Like a bandit, the Chen family filled the bags with the potatoes they had dug out, dragged them with difficulty, and walked out.

Kikyo got up and pulled him again, shouting: "You give back my potatoes, you give back my potatoes..."

At this time, Qiao Mandun, Jugen's father, came back from the outside, saw this scene and asked, "Sister-in-law, what are you doing, why are you robbing the child?"

Chen dragged the potato bag in his hand and gave him a blank look, and said, "Whoever snatched it, you owe me the potato seeds, I don't know, I'm here to ask for it!"

Qiao Mantun was also stunned, and said, "I don't owe you so much. If you want to take away so much, it's obviously a scam!"

Fearing that Qiao Mandun would stop him from taking it away, Mrs. Chen shouted like a cannonball: "Whoever ransacked the house, whoever ransacked the house, you don't want to pay back what you owe! No wonder your daughter-in-law always gives birth to girls. It's bad for you to do so, and God won't let you Those who gave birth to a son, your daughter-in-law gave birth to a girl again, go and see it!"

After hearing this, Qiao Mantun immediately forgot about the stubble of the potatoes, and ran into the house as fast as he could.The rest, Jugeng, couldn't snatch away the big and thick Chen family no matter what, so he could only watch her drag away a bag full of potatoes.

After Mrs. Chen left, Jujiao dug some potatoes from the ground and brought them into the house, planning to cook them and eat them after the mother gave birth.But there was no sound in the room, as if the mother had given birth.

She didn't feel well, so she didn't dare to go into the house to have a look. She silently went to the stove, washed the potatoes, put them in the pot, and started to boil them.

At this time, Grandma Kikyo came out with a pale face, washed her hands and went back to her hut to sit.

The eldest sister and second sister who were guarding the door also walked away silently, probably because they guessed that they didn't dare to enter the house to see.

The atmosphere in the house was dreary and scary.

Half a day later, the low sobbing sound of Kikyo Niang was heard in the room.

It was good that she didn't cry, but when she cried, Qiao Mandun suddenly became angry, and shouted at the top of his voice, "Why are you crying, you gave birth to another girl, you have no reason..."

Then there was a muffled sound of a painful "bang bang bang bang" fist hitting the flesh.

Ji Jiao stood up from the stove, screamed and ran into the house, saying: "Father, stop beating, mother just gave birth..."

While screaming, he had already entered the house, climbed onto the kang and hugged Dad's arm desperately.

Qiao Mantun was in a fit of anger, and his attack was not serious. By the time Jijie stopped her, Niang Jijie's eye sockets were already bruised.

She was beaten right after giving birth, and Kikyo-niang's cries became louder.

Fennel and Shanxing also ran back to the house when they heard that, one dragged their father off the kang, and the other comforted their mother.

It didn't know how long it took to calm down. Father sat on the stool and trembled, and mother lay face down on the kang and sobbed.

Knowing that her father can't do anything anymore, Ji Jiao went out of the kang to look at the potatoes she cooked, which made her feel angry again.

I saw Zanthoxylum and kidney beans sitting in front of the stove, Zanthoxylum was holding a freshly boiled potato in both hands, and it was so hot that it was grinning and still gnawing. The three-year-old fifth sister, kidney beans, could not grab it with her small hands.

Kikyo cursed in her heart, this heartless person, she still has the heart to eat after the family is in trouble like this.

While thinking about it, he went over, snatched a piece of potato from Zanthoxylum bungeanum, squatted on the ground, broke the potato into small pieces and fed it to kidney beans, glared at Zanthoxylum bungeanum angrily and said, "Didn't you say that potatoes are not tasty, why do you still eat them?"

Zanthoxylum bungeanum was still stuffing it into his mouth, and he said with his tongue out, "I'm hungry, I won't eat if I'm not hungry..."

For dinner, we only had pepper and kidney beans, and no one else took a bite, as if the family had suffered a catastrophe.

Lady Jijiao felt aggrieved, and she was still crying until night.

Qiao Man felt sorry when he lost his anger. He lay in bed at night and persuaded him: "Forget it, if you have a daughter, let's have a daughter. At worst, you will have another one. There are six girls, and the seventh one should be a girl." son."

Kikyo Niang choked up and said: "But they all said that I was destined to have a daughter, what if I have a daughter..."

Before she finished speaking, Qiao Mandun yelled back: "What are you talking about? They are all women. Why should others give birth to sons? You are a daughter!"

Mother Jijiao was wronged, she cried softly, and said: "Even if I can give birth to a son, but now I have six children, and I have to give birth, this big family will starve to death..."

Qiao Mantun got angry again, and said impatiently: "If you didn't live up to it, if fennel and apricot are boys, they will be laborers now, and there is nothing they can't afford. They are born to this point, and they can't raise them." I have to live even if I get up!"

Lady Kikyo fell silent.

After a while, Qiao Mantun said again: "If it really doesn't work, just give one away."

Kikyo Niang was stunned for a while, then sobbed again, but she didn't object.

The children seemed to be asleep, but the bellflower that was crowded on the edge of the kang was awake. Hearing what his father said, he felt dark in his heart. They were so born that they couldn't afford to give the child away, but they still wanted to give it away. Sons are so important to them, but daughters are not their flesh and blood?If you say give it away, you can give it away, so you won't feel bad when you think about it later?

Just as she was thinking about it, the weeping mother said, "But which one should I give away? It's all the flesh that fell from my body."

Qiao Mantun thought for a while, and said: "If you don't want to give it away, let Anise marry. She can receive some bride price when she gets married, and her life will be more generous."

Jiaojie Niang said: "Fenix ​​is ​​only thirteen, she's so skinny, she hasn't grown up yet, how can she bear to marry!"

"Alas..." Qiao Mantun sighed, and said, "Yes, the fennel is too big, and you can still work for two years if you stay at home, or you can give away the kidney beans. You are young and don't know anything. Will not bear any grudge against us."

Ji Jiao Niang still disagreed, and said: "Kidney beans are so small, they can't do anything, no one knows how to settle accounts, should she eat for free?"

Qiao Mantun didn't speak again.

Kikyo lay there and suddenly had a bad premonition, let's talk about it, don't talk about yourself, right?
Just as she was thinking about it, her father said again: "Why don't you give the orange terrier to someone else, she is sensible and can work, and she won't be annoying to anyone's house, so she won't be too angry."

Mother was silent again, just crying there, seeming to agree with Dad.

(End of this chapter)