reborn peasant mother

Chapter 2

Listening to the sound of gongs and drums outside, Feng Yujiang sat in the room in a daze.The bed and the floor were full of things.Enamel washbasins, teapots, thermoses... There are two wooden boxes against the west wall, new and smelling of paint.There is a three-drawer table and two wooden chairs on the north side, which are also freshly painted red.Next to the three-drawer table was a sewing machine covered with a dust-proof safflower cloth.This is the dowry of the eldest daughter. I think this dowry was considered first-class in this poor and remote village.

It was the night before her eldest daughter got married.

Feng Yujiang remembers that she was born in 46, married to Zhong's family at the age of 16, and gave birth to her eldest daughter the next year. The eldest daughter married at the age of 17. It should be 1980, and she was 34 years old.

The youngest son was not born that year!

The room is small, so full of things, there is no place to plug in.Feng Yujiang picked up the bamboo dustpan on the ground and put it on the three-drawer table, her eyes fell on the things in the dustpan.They were all bought for the eldest daughter according to the custom, the dragon and phoenix bowls of Double Happiness, red chopsticks, combs, grates, and - mirrors.She picked up the mirror and looked at it under the kerosene lamp. It was the face of a peasant woman in her thirties.

It's not so easy to live a lifetime, she actually returned to the age of 34!God, is this pity on her, or does he think she has not suffered enough?

"Mom, come quickly, I'm too busy."

Feng Yujiang raised her head and saw her eldest son Shanzi holding the door frame and calling her. The 15-year-old Shanzi looks like a thin noodle, and an old military uniform hangs dangling on his thin body.

"Mom, someone is filling boxes outside, you should go out quickly!"

Feng Yujiang quickly responded and said, "Tell your second sister to pick up the glutinous rice balls together."

"Second sister is too young. She can't recognize some people who add boxes, so she can't keep accounts." Shanzi turned around and ran away after finishing speaking.

Guozi is a small food fried with flour and sugar in the Sulu area. When the local big girls go out, relatives and friends come to "fill the box", two packs of Guozi are a must.

Feng Yujiang put down the mirror, turned around and went out quickly.Outside the gate, lively gongs and drums are loudly ringing, which is called "rejuvenating makeup drum".When every household in the village hears the sound of gongs and drums, they know that there are daughters in the village who are out of the house. objects, and some will seal a gift money of a few dollars.

When someone in the village came and what they gave you, you must take the account book and remember it clearly. If there is a happy event in another day, you have to go with the gift, and you can't be sloppy.Erya is young, only 12 years old, so she can't handle such a big thing.

Feng Yujiang walked out of the gate, and under the moonlight, he could vaguely see many people gathering outside the gate, it was very lively.Both Shanzi and Erya were standing by the door, when they saw someone approaching with two boxes of cakes, Shanzi quickly took the cakes, and at the same time grabbed the person and walked into the house.

"Sixth aunt, I told you to spend money. Come and sit in the room."

Feng Yujiang went up to meet her, pulled the guest in affectionately, and said, "Aunt Six, she told you to spend money." Feng Yujiang recognized that this belonged to Wang Liu's family in the south of the village, and she was only in her twenties. Young is a little strange.Feng Yujiang is still used to her wrinkled face decades later.

"What did my sister-in-law say? My eldest niece is going out, so I shouldn't come?" The two entered the main room while talking, Wang Liu's family took Feng Yujiang's hand, and put an unfolded ticket in her hand. Come on, say: "Buy something for Da Ya."

(End of this chapter)