It took most of the day when I returned to my hometown in the countryside with my luggage.
"Who are you? Opening the locks of other people's houses!" As soon as Shichu took out the key to open the door, a rough voice next to him asked with caution. Shichu turned around and saw that it was his neighbor Aunt Wang.
"Auntie, it's me, I'm back." Shichu said as he opened the door.
Aunt Wang's eyes widened when she heard the familiar voice. She looked at Shi Chu several times in shock before saying in disbelief: "Sister Chen, it's you? You...how did you become so young?" I don’t even recognize it!”
Chen Shichu smiled and said, "I'm not young, I just changed my hairstyle and clothes."
Aunt Wang walked around Chen Shichu several times as if watching a Western scene. As she walked around, she praised: "It's true that life in the city is easy. Look, you've only been here for more than a month and you've changed your appearance. You look a dozen years younger." age."
"What's better? This month I have to take care of my daughter-in-law during her confinement period and my grandson. I'm busy doing housework all day long. I'm so busy that I finally got out of confinement, so I hurriedly ran away home." Chen Shichu said.
"Why did you come back? You are so blessed that you don't even know how to enjoy it! Why don't you just stay in the city to help your son and take care of the grandson? It's silly to have to come back and be miserable all by yourself!" Aunt Wang really felt that Chen Shichu would not stay in the city It's totally stupid to bring a grandson into your home.
Chen Shichu showed a wry smile and said, "Mom, you don't understand. I have to do everything when I stay there. I haven't stopped since I got up at five o'clock. I have to make breakfast for my son first, and make milk powder for my grandson after breakfast." , feeding, changing diapers, and then they have to do laundry for the whole family. When the daughter-in-law gets up, she has to make her breakfast, and then she has to go to the market to buy vegetables and come back to cook... When the child cries, she has to comfort her, feed her, Changing diapers... After lunch, I have to clear the table and wash the dishes. I have to take the children for a walk in the afternoon, and I have to buy groceries and cook... At the end of the whole day, I keep spinning like a top, and my waist is straight from exhaustion. If I can’t get up, I’ve never been so tired while farming in the countryside, I really can’t stand it.”
Chen Shichu complained: "Look at me, I have lost more than ten kilograms in just one month, and it's all because of fatigue!" She said without any psychological burden, and she was indeed not lying. The original owner really lost weight due to fatigue.
When Aunt Wang heard what she said, she suddenly sympathized with her: "It seems that it's not easy for you either."
"Yes, it's not that easy. If you coax the child slowly and make the child cry, your daughter-in-law will scold you for being lazy. Tell me, I obviously went to help them, but they don't appreciate it. Forget it. , you are so angry with me and treat me as a free nanny, how can I stand it? So I just came back!"
"Forget it, you are still young now and you are comfortable living in the village." Aunt Wang said a few words and then returned to her home.
Chen Shichu did a thorough cleaning and threw away all the unnecessary things, leaving only what she liked. After such a tidy up, the two-story small building immediately seemed spacious and bright.
The original owner built this house more than ten years ago. It is an ordinary house, no different from other villagers' houses. Fortunately, it was built in a village. It is warm in winter and cool in summer. After tidying up, it can be used as a small villa in the country.
You must know that this house will be demolished twenty years later, which will cost a large amount of demolition money. But now, this house completely belongs to the original owner, because Liu Zongqiang's household registration had been moved to the city when he was admitted to college, and the original owner's husband died, and the household registration book only has the name of the original owner, so as long as Chen Shichu Twenty years from now, even if it is demolished, this house will have nothing to do with Liu Zongqiang.
After all, he wanted to live by himself, so Chen Shichu planned to renovate it, separate the toilet and bathroom, and open up the three rooms on the second floor to integrate them into a bedroom and a study room. The first floor is a living room, kitchen and a guest room.
There are no complicated procedures to renovate a house in the countryside. All you need to do is find someone and give them the drawings and let them make the modifications.
But before that, Chen Shichu had to have enough money for her to do the hard work.
So within a few days, she dug out a hundred-year-old wild ginseng tree from the mountain. Today’s ginseng is not a rare thing, but it is cultivated, and the wild one is still rare, so Chen Shichu’s old ginseng tree sold for a good price Price.
Chen Shichu deliberately "revealed" the discovery of wild ginseng to others when he was going down the mountain. As a result, there were many more people digging for ginseng on the mountain the next day.
Once the source of the money was revealed, Chen Shichu stopped taking things out and focused on building her house.
Unlike Chen Shichu's chic life in his hometown, Liu Zongqiang and Zhao Shuwen in the city were suffering enough after she left. Although they expected that they would be busy for a long time after Chen Shichu left, they never expected that this would happen. The discomfort was much stronger than they imagined.
First of all, no one is doing the housework at home, so Zhao Shuwen cannot be as leisurely as when Chen Shichu was still there. She has to get up to clean the house, wash and cook.
Then, no one took care of the child, so she could only take care of the child and do housework at the same time. It was impossible not to do it, because Liu Zongqiang had to go to work, and if she didn't do it, no one would do it at home.
So after only three days, Zhao Shuwen already felt that life was worse than death. Why did he have to wash and cook every day? Why is it so difficult to raise children? ! Zhao Shuwen, who had grown smooth during confinement, only had three days of night feeding, three days of coaxing the baby, and three days of housework, and her face became haggard, with dark circles and red bloodshot eyes appearing.
"Liu Zongqiang! I can't stand it anymore, please hire a nanny." Zhao Shuwen finally couldn't help it anymore and said to Liu Zongqiang who was coming home from get off work.
"Hire a nanny? Do we have money?" Liu Zongqiang asked mercilessly as soon as he heard this.
"Isn't it time to save it? I am alone at home, doing housework and taking care of the children. I have never rested. I can't stand it anymore!" Although Zhao Shuwen is a child of an ordinary family, he has never suffered much since he was a child. The biggest hardship was that she had to get up early to go to school when she was studying, and she couldn't get up. Before having her own experience, she had no idea it would be so hard after giving birth.
"My mother can bear it, why can't you?" Liu Zongqiang asked immediately, "Isn't what you are doing now what my mother did before? My mother works harder than you. In addition to taking care of the children and doing housework, you also have to take care of them. You are a pregnant woman, but my mother has never complained.”
Don't get me wrong, Liu Zongqiang said this not because he understood his mother's hardship, but because he wanted to use these words to silence Zhao Shuwen.
But this is enough to prove his arrogance. He clearly knows how hard his mother is, but he just turns a blind eye. The reason is just because he is the one who benefits. Now that his mother has left, he wants to use this matter to kidnap him morally. Another woman in the family - his wife.
