Traversing the good life of a peasant woman

Chapter 21

Zhou Li is an exceptionally efficient person, and within two days, everyone in the village knew the benefits of this new-style kang.All of a sudden, the Fang family's new house welcomed batch after batch of guests. Although those who saw it with their own eyes were generally applauded, there were always a few families who didn't believe it, and there were many people watching.

But all of this is no longer within the scope of Fang Dachuan's worries. Seeing that the autumn harvest season is approaching, and seeing the scene of a bumper harvest in the field, what Zhao feels the most these days is to thank God for giving them a good time years.

At night, Fang Dachuan, who came back from helping Aunt Sun's house with a kang, washed off the mud, and took advantage of the moonlight to sharpen a sickle in the yard. Wen Yue came out with a big belly holding a bowl of warm water.

Fang Dachuan hurriedly took the bowl from Wen Yue, helped her to sit down, looked at Wen Yue's stomach and said with some fear: "It's so dark, why did you come out?"

Wen Yue moved her body. After seven months, Wen Yue's stomach has been getting bigger day by day, like blowing air. Although it is not difficult to walk every few steps, it will be difficult no matter whether it is sitting or standing for a long time. Very uncomfortable.At night, she also changes her sleeping positions, and the child in her stomach is extremely picky, often kicking her legs in protest because of her poor posture.

Just like now, probably because she was sitting in a bad posture and made the baby in her stomach uncomfortable, she touched the small bump on her stomach, this time it should be a fist.

Fang Dachuan, who lowered his head and sharpened his knife, saw Wen Yue's movements from the corner of his eye, stopped what he was doing and said, "The child kicked you again?"

Wen Yue nodded with a smile, Fang Dachuan gently touched Wen Yue's belly, and said softly: "Little thing, be honest, you have spoiled your mother these days, when you come out, you must Please honor her well."

"Honor your father too!" Wen Yue added.

Fang Dachuan looked at Wen Yue with a smile on his face, and said with infinite satisfaction: "Go back to sleep, I will go back to the room soon."

Wen Yue shook her head: "No, the room is too hot, I can't sleep, I will accompany you."

The low thatched hut is poorly ventilated, and the sweltering August makes it feel like a sauna every time you stay in the room. The pregnant woman already has a body heat, and the child is growing up and she has difficulty breathing, waiting to fall asleep. That period of time was really too tortured.And it was not only her who worked hard, but also Fang Dachuan, who was careful and took a big cattail fan to artificially cool her down every day.Several times, when Wen Yue got up to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night, she saw Fang Dachuan sitting next to her with a fan in her arms and falling asleep.

Fang Dachuan speeded up his movements: "It's too hot, if you feel wronged for a while, we will move to a new house after the autumn harvest."

"I'm not wronged, it's just that I'm tired of you, and I have to work on the house and the new house. I can't help at all." Thinking of Fang Dachuan's recent hardships, even with her efforts to adjust her diet , but the contours of his face became more and more obvious.

"You also told me not to think too much, and I think you think too much." Fang Dachuan put down the sickle in his hand, walked into the house while supporting Wen Yue, and said, "A family is so polite, don't you think I'm a family member?" what?"

Wen Yue saw that he had found a place here, twisted Fang Dachuan's arm lightly and said angrily: "Okay, you are waiting for me here, be careful."

Fang Dachuan didn't care about Wen Yue's ant-like strength, but was numb by her whole body with the infinite wind, and couldn't stop laughing.

The night sky of the autumn moon is full of stars, and the already dark village is so quiet that you can hear the rumbling snoring of the men in the houses. Wen Yue looked helplessly at Fang Dachuan who broke the silence with laughter without knowing it. Pushing him to go in: "Hush your voice, grandma and mother are asleep, don't wake them up."

Zhao Mancang put down his chopsticks and wiped his mouth, and said to Zhang Cuifen, "Give Shuanzi and his wife two taels of silver, and let them go to town to buy some food for the family today. You will follow me to Chunmei's in a while."

When Zhang Cuifen heard that he was going to Fang's house, he was a little stunned and unwilling to ask: "Why are you going to her place? I still want to go around the town today, so I can get acquainted."

"You are familiar with the fart. If you don't have money to watch, Shuanzi and the others will come back after buying rice. If you dare to waste a penny, I will see how I deal with you." Zhao Mancang looked at Zhao Shuan and Xiao Erfeng warningly. : "What kind of money was spent, how did you spend it, and you will report to me when you come back, don't try to fool me, have you heard?"

Xiao Erfeng looked at Zhao Shuan who was eating sullenly, with a hint of disdain flashing in his eyes, he smiled and said to Zhao Mancang: "Oh, Dad, don't you feel at ease with me here?"

Zhao Mancang glanced at Xiao Erfeng, did not speak, and continued to say to Zhang Cuifen: "I will go to Chunmei's place in a while, don't talk nonsense, do you know how to look at me?"

"But what's the use of me going?" Zhang Cuifen said with a frown.

When Zhao Mancang heard that Zhang Cuifen dared to refute his words, he wanted to get angry, but he turned his head and thought that his mother-in-law was really useless, so he said to Xiao Erfeng: "Your mother is right. It's useless, so don't go to the town today, you and Shuanzi come with me."

A few days ago, because they were worried that the Zhu family would come to their door, their family didn't even dare to leave the house, and they didn't dare to get too close to the Fang's house.It wasn't until yesterday when he heard from his neighbors that Zhu Jiafei not only didn't blame him, but also gave the Fang family a large sum of money, he started to think this way again.With the mentality of being cheap and not a bastard and his disdain for the Zhao family from the bottom of his heart, he decided to go to Fang's house again to see if he could scrape back something.

In addition, he has been thinking about the words of his grand-daughter-in-law that day. Yes, since Fang Dachuan's daughter-in-law can make money from embroidery, why not let her teach the skills to his two grand-daughter-in-laws? Isn't it Haihai's coming?
When Zhao Mancang arrived at Fang's house, Mrs. Zhao and Mrs. Li had already returned from the mountains, and Wen Yue was sitting with them in the yard sorting out the newly picked mountain goods.For people who live on the mountain in this era, the mountain is as important as a mother. Generations after generations rely on the gift of the mountain to harvest the hope of countless lives.

This time when they went to the mountains, Mrs. Zhao and Mrs. Li gathered a lot of mushrooms in addition to wild fruits and vegetables and some common herbs. They dried and stored these mushrooms until winter when food was scarce, and they would become table mushrooms. The most beautiful scenery ever.Thinking of the famous northeastern dish in her previous life, chicken stewed with mushrooms, Wen Yue suddenly drools.

Mrs. Zhao looked at the piles of mushrooms happily and said to Mrs. Li: "This trip was not in vain this morning. The two of us have picked the most mushrooms. Why don't we take some to the town to sell?"

Seeing that her stewed chicken with mushrooms was about to fly, how could Wen Yue agree: "Grandma, our family is not short of money now, so let's not sell it! The house is also built, and there is basically no money for it in the future I still have two unsold embroidery jobs in my hand, and our family has income, so we don’t need this bit of mushroom money, so we can keep it for ourselves, do you think so?”

"Succeed, listen to you, you are about to give birth, let us make up for it ourselves." Just as Fang Dachuan felt that he was a head short in front of Wen Yue, Zhao's also felt sorry for Wen Yue after seeing Wen Yue supporting the whole family. Wen Yue's words were rarely refuted.In this case, Wen Yue paid more attention to her words and deeds, and always reminded herself how much respect she had received, and she should not lose her composure because of success, which would hurt people's hearts instead.

"Hey, are you all at home?" At this moment, a voice that did not belong to Fang's family came in from outside the door.Mrs. Zhao, who had her back to the courtyard gate, turned around, and when she saw that it was Zhao Mancang, the smile on her face disappeared without a trace.

Zhao's face was cold, but Zhao Mancang was longer than her face. After finding a stool and sitting on it, he pointed to Zhao's nose and said: "The family's prodigal, how can you do it?" Did you teach the village how to cook the kang easily? Do you understand that the fat and water don’t flow to outsiders’ fields, why didn’t Dachuan teach them the land in our family? In the future, this will also be a way of life?”

Mrs. Zhao cleaned up the mushrooms on the ground without raising her head and said, "Why should I teach you? I can do whatever I like with my things, and it's your turn to take care of them?"

Seeing that the situation was not good, Xiao Erfeng hurriedly took over the conversation and said, "Auntie, you can't say that. What kind of relationship do we have? We are relatives with broken bones and tendons. I heard that Zhu Dahu returned it to you a few days ago. There are a lot of rewards from the family. My parents are very happy at home. If they don’t really care about you, how can they be happy for outsiders? My father talks like this, so don’t be angry, you said you are casual Just revealed a way to make money without discussing it with my father, can he be happy?"

Mrs. Zhao ignored Xiao Erfeng's words, she muffled her head and quickened her movements, put all their unfinished things into the basket, and arranged for Mrs. Li to put them away in the house.

Zhao Mancang, who was ignored, stood up angrily and cursed: "Why are you so anxious to collect things, are you afraid that we won't be able to snatch them?"

Mrs. Zhao came out of the house, patted the dust on her body, looked at Zhao Mancang mockingly and said, "Why don't you be afraid, didn't you see that your daughter-in-law's eyes turned green just now when she looked at this little thing in our house?"

Xiao Erfeng didn't expect her little thought to be discovered by Mrs. Zhao. Although she was surprised, she didn't think it was a big deal. When she just entered the yard, she saw so many sun-dried mushrooms, so she thought about it, and thought about it before leaving. , this old lady has quite good eyesight.

"Tell me, what's the matter with you today?" Sitting opposite Zhao Mancang, Mrs. Zhao asked coldly.

Zhao Mancang coughed: "I heard these days that your family has built a new house, and the Zhu family has given you a lot of rewards. First move it out and lend us some. I also want to build a new house. It doesn't make sense for you to Let the younger sister live in a big house, let my brother and my family live in a poor house?"

Mrs. Zhao laughed angrily at Zhao Mancang's shameless words: "Are you sick? I haven't seen you for a few years, but you are very sick. Why should I lend you money? My surname is Zhao, but this family's surname is Fang. What does the Fang family have money to do with your Zhao family?"

"Why, do you mean that if you marry someone, you are no longer our Zhao family?" Zhao Mancang stood up angrily.

(End of this chapter)