Traversing the good life of a peasant woman

Chapter 3

Early the next morning, Mrs. Li was cooking breakfast in the kitchen when she heard Mrs. Zhao shouting outside: "Don't forget to get Mrs. Chuanzi an egg to eat."

Mrs. Li responded, thought for a while and said, "Mother, let me cook one for you too."

"You prodigal old woman!" Outside the house, Mrs. Zhao started cursing again abruptly: "There are only a few eggs in total, and you still have to cook them for me, an old woman who can't live for a few days. Are you playing dead? Give it to your daughter-in-law and make up for her."

When Wen Yue came to the dining table under Li Shi's call, she saw only three bowls of vegetable porridge there. After she sat down, Li Shi carefully took out a hot egg and put it in her lap. He said to him, "Eat quickly."

Mrs. Zhao had already picked up the bowl and started to eat, Wen Yue looked at the eggs that only she had and hesitated: "This...

Mrs. Li looked at Mrs. Zhao, smiled gently and said, "Good boy, this is specially left for you by grandma. Anyone who is healthy should make up for it."

Hearing Li Shi's words, Wen Yue understood that this egg was the egg that Zhao Shi played tricks on yesterday and risked everything to get it from Tie Zi's family.Wen Yue had already defined Mrs. Zhao in her heart as a tricky, unreasonable old lady, but the egg in front of her today made Wen Yue's face hot.

She opened her mouth softly, and called out to Mrs. Zhao with a little awkwardness: "Grandma." Wen Yue wanted to give the egg to her bowl, but Mrs. Zhao put the chopsticks on the table with a snap, and said, : "If I give you something to eat, you will eat it. What are you doing like this? Do you think I love you? It's because you have my poor grandson's child in your belly."

When Mrs. Li saw it, she also persuaded: "Good boy, mother knows that you are filial. When we get better in the future, mother will make it for grandma. You can eat it first."

An ordinary egg made Wen Yue's heart feel sour after eating, she couldn't tell what she was feeling now, all kinds of past life, everything now, uneasiness, grievance, and emotion all came to her heart, she was already dead. Restraining the tears that swirled in her eyes, but when she saw Zhao Shi and Li Shi's bowls that were as clean as they had been washed, she finally couldn't help but shed tears.

Seeing Wen Yue crying again, Mrs. Li hurriedly said, "Yue'e, what's wrong with you? Did you miss Dachuan?" Thinking of this possibility, Mrs. Li said tentatively, and then followed the sad eyes Yihong said: "Yue'e, let's not cry. Although they all said that Dachuan is gone, mother doesn't believe it. Mother knows that my Dachuan will not just leave us alone. You have to believe like mother. Wait for him to come back, you know?"

Mrs. Zhao outside the house, when she heard the crying coming from the house, she originally wanted to open her mouth to curse, but when she heard Mrs. Li's words, her eyes turned red, and she silently stared at the distant mountains in a daze. Dazed.After a long time, she wiped her eyes with her cuff, and said, "Don't cry, Miss Dachuan, pack up quickly and go to the field with me, even if there is no man in the house, we have to support the house, Chuanzi Daughter-in-law, please rest at home."

Mrs. Li said "喛", stood up and began to clean up the dishes. Wen Yue also got up to help and said, "Mother, there are not many dishes, I will wash them. Are you and grandma going to farm?"

Mrs. Li snatched the bowl from Wen Yue's hand, looked at her sadly, and said, "You really don't remember, it's only February, and it's still a while before planting the land. We are latecomers, and the land is divided Most of them have been left unused for a long time, so they must be cleaned up quickly."

Wen Yue didn't understand what Li Shi was talking about. She didn't understand anything about farming. To be honest, she just knew that food grew in the soil.Mrs. Li washed the bowls, and after explaining a few words to Wen Yue, she hurriedly followed Mrs. Zhao to leave. Wen Yue stood in the dilapidated yard, looking at the pastoral scene in front of her, and couldn't help but feel a little melancholy. In the city, can she live well in this backward ancient farming life?

The wound on the head can no longer feel pain, but just this night's rest, but Wen Yue feels that her whole body is not as dizzy and nauseated like soot poisoning like yesterday. Is it because her soul and Wen Yue'e's body have completely disappeared? Is it fused?Wen Yue is not a lazy person at all, since Mrs. Li and Mrs. Zhao would not let her follow her to work in the fields, she simply rolled up her sleeves and started cleaning the house.

After a busy morning, Wen Yue only cleaned up the three rooms in the main house. When she was cleaning the house, Wen Yue discovered that the structure of the houses here was completely different from the rural houses in Northeast China she saw in modern times.Although there are also three houses, the one in the middle is not a stove with a pot, but a large water tank in the hallway. Although the sleeping room is also an earthen kang, it is a firewood in the middle of the kang. the hearth.No wonder she always felt a little awkward when she went to eat this morning, because the kitchen is a separate room.

This kind of structure is really unscientific. How dirty the house should be when the kang is burned in winter, and firewood is needed for cooking with kang, which is unnecessary waste at all.Could it be that all farmers in this time and space are like this or only theirs is like this? Doesn't it mean that this house is divided by the government? Maybe there is such a possibility.

Although she had doubts in her heart, in order not to appear too abnormal, Wen Yue decided to keep this question in her stomach, and make plans after getting familiar with the environment here.

Turned around and went to the kitchen. After searching around, I only saw a large vat with sorghum rice in it, and there were some wilted wild vegetables in the wicker basket in the corner, one half hanging in the air. There are a few eggs in the small basket, and there are several small pots on the shelf next to the stove, only two of which are filled with lard and coarse salt that are shallowly covering the bottom of the pot.

Wen Yue wanted to cook, but she knew what to use to start a fire, and she didn't know whether the pile of hay piled up by the stove could support her to cook a pot of rice.Only at this moment, she felt even more powerless. What is the difference between this kind of time travel and her like a cripple?Seeing that the sun had already passed overhead, the disheartened Wen Yue sat on the threshold, staring stupidly at the leaked courtyard door, waiting for Li Shi and Zhao Shi to return home.

In the afternoon, the power of the spring breeze began to show. The strong wind rolled up the dust all over the ground and flew in the air. The warm sunlight was blown by the wind and no longer had any effect. Standing in a dark corner, one would even feel the chill.Seeing that the sun had already set to the west, and there were more than three appearances by visual inspection, Mrs. Li and Mrs. Zhao finally appeared in her sight.

There was a bundle of thick withered grass on the backs of the two equally thin ones, and almost no emotion could be seen on the dusty faces of the two of them. Wen Yue's eyes were sore from being pierced by this scene, and she hurried forward to meet them.Wanting to help Li Shi and Zhao Shi share the weight on their bodies, Li Shi dodged, and Zhao Shi did the same.

Seeing that they all rejected her, Wen Yue hurriedly went back to the house, brought out a basin of water and wanted them to wash it, but Zhao Shi took it and said ungratefully: "Okay, don't be so hasty, you Take good care of yourself, and give birth to the baby in your stomach to our Fang family, which is the first achievement."

Her turbid eyes looked at Wen Yue's lower abdomen, with unconcealable anticipation and cherishment in her eyes, Li said with relief: "Listen to grandma, go back to the house, don't blow the wind outside anymore."

Wen Yue had no choice but to turn around and go back to her room. Li looked at Wen Yue's background and said to Zhao excitedly: "Mother, do you think that since Yue'e broke her head, people have changed?" less?"

"It's only been a few days of work, what can you tell? Let's see in a few days, when will you save me some trouble." Mrs. Zhao gave the basin she had washed to Mrs. Li, and said in a muffled voice: "Go ahead and wash, it's not easy for you to carry water."

Li's nose was sore, and she wanted to shed tears but was afraid that Zhao would see it, so she splashed water on her face.Although the mother-in-law is fierce, she is only fierce on the surface, and she has always been kind to her in her heart. She can only blame her for not being up to date, soft-tempered and always having no idea when things happen.In this short period of four months, she lost her man first, and her son didn't know whether he was alive or dead. If her mother-in-law was not here to support the family firmly, she would not know which rock she would have crushed to death.

"Why are you being lazy here? Hurry up and cook the meal, what will you do if the child is hungry?" Zhao yelled again in the kitchen. The word "child" brought hope to the disheartened Li family. Yes, the daughter-in-law has a child in her belly, and it is her grandson, the blood of Chuanzi.

Dinner is still wild vegetable porridge, and her bowl still has more rice than vegetables. Although she has no appetite, when she looks at Zhao's and Li's bowls that are almost full of wild vegetables, Wen Yue only feels that the bowl in her hand is so heavy .

After dinner, Mrs. Zhao, who entered the room, was stunned for a moment looking at the cleaned room, then sat there and muttered: "Could it be that breaking your brain can really change your temper? If that's the case, that would be great." , Dachuan, you must come back! Look at your daughter-in-law who has become better, and the child in your wife's belly, come back and live a good life with us."

Seeing the clean house, Mrs. Li also feels in every way. It is a good thing that the daughter-in-law can change her temper of Miss Jiao all day long, but the person who should enjoy this blessing the most is now not knowing whether to live or die.Son, you must come back, mother has lost her man, you can't let mother lose her son!

Few of the poor people in the countryside are willing to light lamps. When it gets dark, the whole village falls into silence, and people go to bed one after another.Wen Yue was also lying on the hard and cold kang, yes, the kang was cold, and the dead grass brought back by Mrs. Zhao was only enough for cooking.Moreover, it seems that Mrs. Zhao and the others don't have the idea of ​​burning the kang at this time, and Wen Yue doesn't want to increase their burden, so she can only endure it.

Just when she was tossing and turning and couldn't fall asleep, she suddenly heard a strange sound coming from the yard, and Wen Yue's heart beat a few times in fright. Could it be a thief?No way, how could such a poor and white family recruit thieves?Otherwise, is it because their family is all women, so they want to take advantage?

The more Wen Yue thought about it, the more frightened she became, she looked out under the white moonlight shining into the room, but she could only vaguely see an unusually large black figure standing in the middle of the yard.It's okay if Wen Yue doesn't look at it, but after seeing it, she gasps. Could it be that the beast on the mountain ran down?But watching the black shadow continue to move towards the house, there was also a sound in Zhao's room, and then they opened the door, and Wen Yue bravely picked up the bench on the ground to open the door and go out.

At this moment, Zhao's trembling voice was heard calling, "Is it Chuanzi?"

Then, a very tired man's voice came over: "It's me, grandma. Mother, it's me, Okawa."

Then, Wen Yue in the house heard Li Shi and Zhao Shi crying together in the yard, and occasionally something fell to the ground, making a muffled sound.Wen Yue, who was hiding behind the door, was in a state of confusion. The man she always thought was dead came back alive. This made her a fake, how could she live with this man?Although she wouldn't get tired of all the men in the world just because of a scumbag, it was still different from getting along with another strange man day and night.God, why are you giving me such a hard time?
While Wen Yue was still at a loss, the door of her room was slammed: "Yue'e, come out quickly, it's Da Chuan who is back, it's Da Chuan."

If Wen Yue pretended not to hear such a loud voice, it would be too fake. She had no choice but to open the door, looked at the excited Li Shi at the door, and called softly: "Mother!"

Mrs. Li took her hand and walked out, saying with a smile on her face, "Yue'e, look, it's Da Chuan who is back."

Under the moonlight, Wen Yue saw a young man standing there, his face was full of haggardness, the cuffs of his clothes were already torn, and the beard of different lengths around his chin made him look even more And it's scruffy.With just this one glance, Wen Yue didn't want to continue to observe, she turned her head to Zhao Shi and said, "Grandma, go into the room and tell, it's cold at night."

Then Zhao smiled and said: "No, Yue'e was right. She was so happy that she didn't let Da Chuan come in for a rest." She kept holding Da Chuan's wrist tightly and refused to let go. To pull him into the house, Li Shi looked aside, pointed to the huge thing on the ground and said, "Chuanzi, what is that?"

Fang Dachuan glanced back, and said, "Blind Xiong, I stayed in the mountains for so long because of it, which made you worry."

After entering the room, Mrs. Zhao took out the lamp oil that was not worth lighting all the time, looked up and down at Fang Dachuan with the help of the weak light, and said after seeing that there was no external injury, "You child, you can't do this in the future. Now, money and wealth are things outside of us, you don’t know how you scare us these days.”

Wen Yue's eyes turned red when she saw Mrs. Zhao talking, and Mrs. Li wiped away her tears. Feeling nothing, she hurriedly stood up and said, "I'll go get some water." Then she hurried out.

Fang Dachuan glanced at Wenyue's back, a look of disappointment flashed in his eyes, Li Shi on the side saw it and quickly explained: "Dachuan, when you were not at home, the child Yue'e suffered."

She slowly told Fang Dachuan about how Wen Yue was injured, how she lost her memory, and how she had a child in her stomach.At the beginning, Fang Dachuan heard that Yue'e and his mother were being bullied, and his brows were frowned, but when he heard that Wen Yue had a child in her belly, he was in disbelief at first, and then became ecstatic. Mrs. Zhao laughed silly with a "hehe".

When Wen Yue Duanshui entered the room, she saw Fang Dachuan laughing foolishly at her, Li patted him on the head and said: "Yue'e, don't pay attention to him, he is listening Said he is going to be a father, happy."

Wen Yue brought the water to him, and Fang Dachuan drank it up after receiving it with a few "gudong" sounds. Zhao looked at Fang Dachuan distressedly and said, "Okay, the child stayed on the mountain for more than ten days, but After suffering, let him go back and have a good rest."

Mrs. Li hurriedly nodded in agreement, and when she was about to continue to explain a few words, she heard Fang Dachuan say: "No, I'll just take a nap for a while, and the things outside have to be sent to the town to sell in the morning when no one is around. You should be jealous if you are seen during the day. The reason why I only entered the door after dark is also because of this."

What Fang Dachuan said made Wen Yue couldn't help but nod in her heart, and she was really thankful. At least for now, this is a man who knows how to be flexible. Such a man should be easy to communicate with.

Mrs. Zhao nodded and said: "You are right, there are too many people suffering from pink eye disease these days, if this is the case, you should sleep in your mother's room today and let your mother go to my room. Just don't bother your wife, she has to rest well with her body in her body, and if you get up early, it will affect her."

Although Fang Dachuan really wanted to talk to Wen Yue, but after hearing Zhao's consideration, he also felt that it made sense, so he rested in Li's room.

When Wen Yue returned to the room, her mind was in a mess. Even she couldn't figure out a clear idea. She was full of worries about getting along with Fang Dachuan in the future, and she even flinched a bit.But when she put her hand on her lower abdomen, thinking of the little life that was conceived there, she suddenly felt that the difficulties in front of her were nothing, but how difficult it was to live with a man.

(End of this chapter)