The old Zhao family.
A group of people were busy with farm work. After taking the time to finish their work at home, they went to work at the sister-in-law's house in the afternoon to earn some money.
In the past few days, the family has had income every day. A dozen copper coins a day is not a small amount. Moreover, Old Man Zhao has an extra two hundred coins on hand because of his abacus. For the old Zhao family who has little wealth, this is a huge sum. A huge amount of money.
Mrs. Zhao was sitting under a big tree mending clothes, thinking about when she would buy some meat to mend her children's clothes.
Just as she was thinking about it, Donghua came back with red eyes.
Mrs. Sun became anxious when she saw it: "What's wrong with you? Who bullied you? Tell mother quickly!"
Dong Hua Wen said angrily: "I just went to my aunt's house to return the empty bowl. I saw her feeding meat to the dog. I also wanted to eat a piece, but she wouldn't give it to me..."
"What?" Mrs. Sun's voice was a bit sharp, "How can my sister-in-law do this? She has meat to feed the animals, but why can't she feed her niece?"
Old Mrs. Zhao raised her head and said coldly: "Don't you know why we feed the dog? Because this rabbit was caught by a wolf, and it can be fed to Xiao Hei whole. No one can say anything!"
Sun was unconvinced and retorted: "How can an animal be so precious? Why don't you let people eat it first and then feed it to the dog? I think the sister-in-law deliberately doesn't give Donghua meat. This means she doesn't regard Donghua as her biological niece at all..." ...After the eldest brother died, the eldest sister-in-law no longer regarded herself as a member of the Zhao family, and she would not think of our Zhao family for any good things..."
Mrs. Zhao's anger was instantly ignited: "I dare you, sister-in-law, to ask your man to help you instead of pulling you. Mrs. Sun, I think your life is too comfortable and you want to eat at the head of the queue. The family lives in peace and harmony. Meimei, but you are the troublemaker here. Please clean up and go back to your Osmanthus Village."
Ms. Sun had been feeling confident just now, but when she heard that her mother-in-law was going to drive her back to her parents' home, her eyes suddenly widened.
She has been married for more than ten years, and her mother-in-law has never been so angry.
Didn't she just tell a few truths, but her mother-in-law was dissatisfied... She wanted to defend herself, but Zhao Youcai grabbed her hand and cursed: "You are the only one who has done so many things. You think about it day by day." You're wandering around, you want to eat rabbit meat, right? I'll go up the mountain and catch one back later, okay, you go down to the ground to catch bugs, don't be an eyesore at home."
Sun felt aggrieved.
She didn't want to eat rabbit meat, she just felt that her sister-in-law would rather feed it to a dog than to her daughter, which made her feel that humans are inferior to dogs.
She felt uncomfortable in her heart, and her abdomen suddenly felt a little uncomfortable. In addition, the weather was very hot, and a nauseating feeling suddenly came up. She covered her mouth and rushed to the side to retching.
Zhao Youcai's forehead jumped. If this woman continued to do this, the old lady was determined to drive her back to Guihua Village, and he would not be able to protect her.
He walked over and grabbed Mrs. Sun: "Don't look like you are desperate for life and death, and go to work in the fields quickly..."
Mrs. Sun raised her head, revealing an extremely pale face.
Zhao Youcai was startled: "What, what's wrong with you?"
Mrs. Sun was usually as strong as a cow, so Zhao Youcai's first reaction was that the woman was pretending to be sick, but with her face so pale, she couldn't just pretend to be sick.
Mrs. Zhao put down her work and walked over, reaching out and touching Sun's forehead: "You don't have a fever either, what's wrong?"
"His third aunt, have you not been here for a while?" Wen said in a low voice, "It can't be the case, right?"
"What?" Mrs. Sun's energy came back instantly, "Yes, I, I must be pregnant. Hurry, Zhao Youcai, hurry up and find Mr. Zheng, hurry up!"
She didn't dare to get too excited and called Xia Hua, "Help me lie down on the bed. I'm old. If I can't keep this pregnancy, I won't be able to get pregnant again."
Mrs. Zhao frowned and said nothing.
The third child and Sun Shi had been looking forward to having a baby for six or seven years, so it was normal for them to have a son.
In the afternoon, when the people from Lao Zhao's family came to work at Cheng Wanwan's place, Cheng Wanwan heard about this.
However, Sun was quite old and she had just become pregnant, so the old lady didn't want anyone to make this matter public, so she secretly told Cheng Wanwan.
Cheng Wanwan silently cursed, Sun seemed to be only twenty-seven or eighty-year-old. In her time, some girls in their mid-twenties and eighties had just gotten married, which was the best time to have children. But here, she turned out to be an advanced age. Maternity.
The temporary workshop was busy in an orderly manner.
Cheng Wanwan calculated the time, and it seemed that if he was busy for another seven or eight days, the ice powder business would have to be put on hold temporarily.
Because in seven or eight days, it will be the autumn harvest. After the rice is harvested from the fields, it needs to be dried and shelled. There are a lot of things that will take at least half a month. After the busy work is completed, autumn will officially begin, and there is still autumn planting to be busy. By then Not many people will eat ice powder anymore.
After seven or eight days, she earned more than three taels of silver a day. She could still earn more than twenty taels, and she almost had enough money to buy the land.
The backyard was busy, and the front yard was cooking lantana. People kept coming to cook it, and the boiled water was sprinkled on the rice fields. The uncooked lantana was left to burn at night to kill the locusts.
In just a few days, locusts have become rare in Dahe Village, and the ducks at home have no longer rushed to the fields. First, there are not many locusts, and they are afraid that the ducks will eat the rice. Second, the wild vegetables in the field have also been contaminated. Lantana to prevent ducks from accidentally eating it. Finally, the rice fields are about to be harvested, and the water in the fields is slowly drying up, making it unsuitable for ducks to survive.
That night, after trapping locusts by the bonfire, Cheng Wanwan and his family fell asleep.
She was lying on the bed, thinking that after the autumn harvest was over, she had to concentrate all her energy on making adobe and build a new house as soon as possible. The weather was not cold at the moment, so Cheng Zhao was fine sleeping on the ground. In autumn, there were things on the ground. It was cold and people could catch cold after sleeping all night. Even though Cheng Zhao was not her biological son, she couldn't be so unsympathetic to him.
"Woooooooo..."
Outside the house, Xiao Hei's whimpering sound was suddenly heard.
Cheng Wanwan thought this guy was hungry, so she got up and got out of bed and walked quietly to the yard.
Under the moonlight, she saw Xiao Hei jumping up and down on the courtyard wall. He was too small and short to jump up at all.
Fortunately, he couldn't jump up, otherwise he would have been electrocuted. For such a small wolf, something would have happened if he was electrocuted.
"Xiao Hei, what are you doing here without sleeping at night? Are you hungry..."
Before she could finish her words, she felt something staring at her.
She looked along the courtyard wall and almost had a heart attack.
Outside the wall, there were actually four wolves, four pairs of green eyes staring at her, making her break out in a cold sweat.
She picked up Xiao Hei with her backhand and threw him outside the courtyard wall: "Your little brat, I'll give it back to you, hehehe."
Xiao Hei ran towards the female wolf like she was having fun. The four wolves surrounded Xiao Hei and kept licking her. Xiao Hei instantly turned into a drowned wolf.
Cheng Wanwan was still frightened.
She really couldn't let go of Xiao Hei, but when Xiao Hei stayed at her house, these wolves would visit from time to time. If they did this every night, people would be scared to death.
She hoped that Xiao Hei could just follow her own mother.
Unexpectedly, Xiao Hei came from the courtyard door wagging his tail, and Cheng Wanwan had no choice but to open the door for him.
I saw this guy running back to his kennel, taking out a bone, then wagging his tail and going out again, handing the bone to his own mother's mouth like a treasure.
The bone had been licked so many times by Little Hei and Big Hei that it probably had no taste at all. The Big She Wolf spit it out in disgust.
