Splendid Pastoral: The Strong and Hot Wife

Chapter 17 Keeping the house ([-]) Hiding things

Xu Xiaomi didn't remember who the old woman was asking the question.However, she had a very bad premonition that something might happen to this woman.

So, when the ox cart arrived at the door, she asked her father to unload the cart.But I don't plan to move things home.

I just asked my father: "Dad! If my grandma came to ask for these things, would you give them to her?"

Xu Erqiang didn't know why his daughter asked such a question, but he just said lazily, "Why would she come to our house?"

"Then what if she comes?" Xu Xiaomi continued to ask without giving up.

"..."

Xu Erqiang stood there and ran his hands through his hair.In fact, he really wanted his parents to come to him.

Although he hated his mother back then, but now that his daughter is back, she is still so capable. To be honest, he sometimes thanked his mother!

If it wasn't for the old lady who bought her daughter to someone else, would she have learned so much from them?

Seeing that her father encountered this problem, Xu Xiaomi didn't know what to do, so she simply asked her younger brother to put things in with her.

He said to the dazed Xu Erqiang: "Dad! It's this time today, and we have to clean up in the afternoon. It's still early. Go to the mountains and see if there is any harvest from the traps we dug."

As he spoke, he gave Xu Erqiang the pancakes he had brought with him that he didn't have time to eat.

"Okay! That's right! It's been a long time and I guess I should have it. Well, I went to Erniu to help my sister move her things back to the house, and I will go back as soon as I go."

After speaking, he took the cake Xu Xiaomi gave him and walked to the back of the house.Xu Erqiang really wanted to go to see if those traps could still surprise him.

When her father walked into the woods, Xu Xiaomi asked her mother to take the things she bought today to the mountains with her.Er Niu and San Niu stayed at home to watch the house.

When I left, I said to my younger brother: "If anyone comes to ask, just say that my sister and mother are going to my grandmother's house."

Er Niu didn't know why his sister did this, but he still nodded obediently.

Xu Xiaomi was still carrying the things in the pannier.However, when there were many branches behind the house, she took a branch and her mother, Zhou Yuqing, carried the cotton rice noodles to the depths of the forest.

Zhou Yuqing didn't know why her daughter didn't put things back home.Instead, let her help carry things up the mountain.However, when her daughter asked her husband questions, her husband's reaction made her feel very uneasy.

Therefore, when the daughter said that she wanted to put the things in the mountains, she acquiesced.These things are hard to come by!If it was really taken by that greedy mother-in-law, their family would be hungry again after drinking black batter.

She is not the Zhou Yuqing she was before.She wants to protect her children well, and will not let her mother-in-law bully her daughter casually.

Carrying a large bag of cotton and rice noodles, the mother and daughter ran quickly and walked for about forty minutes before reaching the first trap.

"Mom, it's here! Let's hide things here."

Xu Xiaomi stopped and put down the pannier.Take the branch that carried the cotton in your hand, walk to the edge of the covered trap, and push away the dead grass and branches.

My father should have seen it here just now, and there is nothing in it except branches.

She put the cotton bag down, then slid down by herself and asked her mother to hand her the contents of the basket one by one. After she put everything away, her mother helped her up.

"Mom, why don't you ask me why I put things in the mountains instead of taking them home?" Xu Xiaomi asked while looking at her meek mother.

"What is there to ask! What you do is for the good of the family after all. Mother knows that you don't want these things to be taken away. You have to take care of your younger siblings and the family. Mother understands how you do it and supports you." Mother said to Xu Xiaomi with tears in her eyes.

"Mom, I'm glad you understand, let's go! Let's go back quickly! I'm afraid Erniu and the others will suffer if they are late." Xu Xiaomi wiped Zhou Yuqing's tears with her hands while speaking.

Zhou Yuqing heard Xu Xiaomi's words, hurriedly took her hand and ran back.

When the mother and daughter walked to the back of the house, they heard the cry of Erniu.

"Give me back the rice noodles, this belongs to my family, um... um... you give me back the rice noodles!"

"Your house? Your house is mine!"

"It's broken! Are you really here to grab it?" Zhou Yuqing heard the voice of her mother-in-law Wang.

"Mom! Don't be afraid, I'm here!" Xu Xiaomi took her mother's hand and squeezed it hard.

Hearing her mother's tone, Xu Xiaomi knew it was the grandma of this body, Mrs. Wang.And, what about grabbing something at home?
The mother and daughter walked to the gate of the fence a few steps, and saw the gate tilted from the inside to the outside and fell to the ground.

An old woman in her 50s was holding the black clay pot that Xu Xiaomi used to hold rice noodles two days ago.Several red five-finger mountains on Er Niu's cheeks bulged high.He was holding on to the mouth of the clay pot with each hand.

He kept saying, "Give me back the rice noodles, this belongs to my family."

Seeing that Er Niu was really difficult to deal with, Mrs. Wang pulled hard, but who knew that Er Niu was holding him tightly.

When Wang was about to kick Erniu in a hurry, she looked up and saw her second daughter-in-law, Zhou Yuqing, and her eldest granddaughter Xu Xiaomi walking in the yard.

When he didn't realize it for a while, he let go of his hand, and Er Niu snatched the two clay pots containing rice noodles back.

Wang was not reconciled and wanted to snatch it.Xu Xiaomi rushed in front of Wang Shi in one stride, standing between Er Niu and Wang Shi.

He opened his mouth and yelled, "Grandma, grandma, have you grabbed enough?"

"You..."

Wang Shi glanced at her, and was about to curse, but when her eyes saw Xu Xiaomi's eyes, she couldn't help shivering.Immediately, the words that came to his lips were choked below his throat, and he couldn't swear for a while.

For a while four years ago, when she handed Xu Xiaomi to her cousin, Xu Xiaomi cried and called her: "Grandma, don't sell me, I will be obedient, I will do a lot of work, grandma." You don't sell me."

She felt very empty when she thought about these things, and suddenly felt powerless. She said to herself: I am thinking too much!Take a deep breath and you'll be fine.

When she closed her eyes and was about to take a deep breath, the image of Xu Xiaomi's body, which was drenched in the water and blue in the face, was brought to their home by Zhang's servant, she put her hand in front of Xu Xiaomi's nose. After trying, I was not breathing at that time.

Thinking of this, Wang's legs went limp, and he sat down on the ground.As soon as he sat down, he felt like he was sitting on a needle, and when Gulu got up, he ran away.

Wang desperately ran out of the courtyard, shouting, "Ghost! Ghost! There is a ghost! Help! There is a ghost! Daqiang! Come and save your mother! Help! There is a ghost!" !..."

Xu Xiaomi just glanced calmly at Wang's reaction, while Zhou Yuqing watched her run all the way to Xu's old house with her eyes widened in shock.

Afraid of scaring Zhou Yuqing, Xu Xiaomi hurriedly took her hand and said, "Mom, let's go in!"

When Xu Xiaomi's warm little hand took Zhou Yuqing's hand, Zhou Yuqing's mood slowly recovered.

She took Xu Xiaomi's hand behind her back and walked into the room with her big hand.Er Niu threw himself into Zhou Yuqing's arms and burst into tears, "Wow".

San Niu saw Wang Shi come in to grab things, and was so frightened that she hid in her parents' room and cried.Seeing that her sister and mother were both back, Wang also ran out like crazy, and then she ran out and cried in her mother's arms with her brother.

Xu Xiaomi thought that if they went farther today and came back later, Erniu would definitely be killed by Mrs. Wang, and she was afraid when she thought of this.As soon as his legs were weak, he hugged his mother's shoulders and cried.

Mother Zhou Yuqing also knew that if the eldest daughter didn't send her husband Xu Erqiang away today.If the mother-in-law came to the house to ask for things, they couldn't keep the things they hid and the things at home.

So, holding the three children in her arms, she cried and asked, "Has your uncle been here?"

"No!" Er Niu shook his head and replied.

"Has anything been stolen from the house?" The mother continued to ask Er Niu.

"No!" Er Niu gasped.

Xu Xiaomi thought they were gone, so when they really came to grab the house, they ate the leftover rice noodles, the meat bought a few days ago, and the wolf's meat.Not much loss.

Now hearing what Er Niu said and not being robbed, I feel much more at ease.

Xu Xiaomi walked into her parents' room and saw that everything was thrown on the ground. She hurriedly picked it up and patted off the dust, and put everything back together.

When the mother heard it, she also came in to help tidy up the sad tears.I feel bad!

Since marrying Xu Erqiang, she hasn't had a good day.Even when she was pregnant, she was sent to the field by her mother-in-law early every day.

On the third day after giving birth to the eldest daughter, she was scolded by her mother-in-law to do housework, and she always told her sister-in-law Wen Xiuniang: "I gave birth to a loser, and I still have to stay in confinement?"

She was so angry that she cried all day, and her husband couldn't say a word, so she let her mother-in-law and sister-in-law torture her all the time.

Later, she gave birth to Erniu and treated her a little better.

But not long after San Niu was born, the eldest daughter was sold by her mother-in-law again.

She hugged the two-month-old Sanniu everywhere to find her daughter.However, after searching for several months, I couldn't find it.She took Erniu, who was three years old, and Sanniu, who was a few months old, back to her natal home.

A few days later, Xu Erqiang had no choice but to go to pick her up, and only agreed to come back to separate the family under the coercion of her four older brothers.

From then on, Xu Erqiang never allowed her to return to her natal family.

The man she married was too cowardly.She has to be strong to protect her kids and everything she has.

Now, her eldest daughter is back, and she will take the children back to her natal home for the Chinese New Year this year.Back then, if she didn't have her four older brothers to support her, she would not have been able to separate the family. Maybe she is still working for their family now!

Thinking of this, Zhou Yuqing stopped crying.She wiped her tears and said to Xu Xiaomi who was still cleaning the house: "Girl, what's in the big bag we hid today?"

"Mom, that's cotton. I'm going to make some decent quilts for you. The ones on your bed, and the ones for me and my sister. And when my father comes back, let him make a bed for my younger brother. He also wants to make a new one for his bed. Quilt. Mom, are you happy?"

"Happy! My daughter has grown up! You know how to worry about everything! Mom, when you were your age, she didn't know anything except sewing all day long. My daughter is better than me!"

How could Zhou Yuqing be unhappy?The dowry given by her parents and brothers when she got married was taken over by her sister-in-law and mother-in-law when she wanted to separate the family.Just took two old and worn-out quilts.She accepted it all for freedom.

In the past few years, when renting land and planting, there is not much food left every year except for the rent.Living a precarious life, where is the money to buy these?

This may be God opened his eyes!She sent her daughter back, and let her be so capable that within a few days after her return, the family could eat white rice and white noodles.And meat to eat!
Such days made her full of hope in life.

"Mom, what are you talking about? Where would I be without you! Let's go cook, and we'll all go up the mountain after eating. We have to wear clothes for the Chinese New Year!" Xu Xiaomi put the broken broom Under the eaves, he said to his mother with a smile.

"Yes! Let's go cook and go up the mountain when we're full!"Seeing such an energetic daughter, Zhou Yuqing was full of expectations for life.

She has lived with Xu Erqiang for more than ten years, and it is only now that she feels that life is so enjoyable.

(End of this chapter)