Nowadays, no one's family is having a hard time. Yun Shu thinks that the past three months have been too much trouble for the Tong family. Now that she is not a real child, she can't trouble others if she can solve it by herself.
Although in Da Ya's memory, Mrs. Tong's treatment of her and Da Zhuang was not much worse than that of their great-grandfather, Yun Shu was not the original owner, so she felt a little guilty.
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When the pimple soup was cooked, Da Zhuang got up smelling the aroma of rice without his sister calling him.
When Da Zhuang saw that he had a toothbrush, he didn't ask much. Anyway, he had already seen his mother's foresight in the secret room yesterday. He quickly brushed his teeth and washed his face. When Yun Shu told him to start dinner, he happily took a sip of the pimple soup and then another sip. Malted milk.
God knows what it would be like to mix the two together, but seeing Da Zhuang's eyes narrowed to a slit, Yun Shu also smiled.
The two had breakfast, and Da Zhuang wanted to go out to pick up beans and ears of wheat. Although there was a lot of white flour and rice in the secret room, he had to save on eating. The beans he picked up yesterday could be exchanged for half a pound of cornmeal.
Yun Shu hurriedly stopped him and said: "Our family is not short of food for the time being. What our family is short of now is firewood for the winter.
Sister, I will go to my second aunt’s house to bring Xiao Zhuang back. Then you can watch him at home while I collect firewood.
Let's raise Xiaozhuang by ourselves. When dad's pension comes, if grandma and second aunt reach out again, it will be ignored. "
Hearing this, Da Zhuang was both happy and worried. He knew very well that the people in that yard were definitely going to cause trouble.
But in the future, they will raise their own little brother and eat at home, so naturally they don’t need to give money to the people in that yard.
Da Zhuang nodded vigorously, "Sister, you go ahead. Everyone in that yard should have gone to work now. My grandma is probably at home, but she has always treated us as invisible."
Speaking of the only girl in the Wang family, Daya's aunt Wang Chunhua is only 16 years old this year and is the only girl in Qingxigou Village who has gone to high school.
Wang Chunhua is now in her first year of high school in the county. She is spoiled by Daya's grandparents like Miss Jiao. In the Wang family, she is a figure at the top of the pyramid.
However, this old lady has always been aloof, so she did not try to push Da Ya Niang with Da Ya's grandmother and second aunt, but she did not speak for Da Ya Niang when using their things.
So I can't blame Yun Shu for gloating. Wang Chunhua is a freshman in high school this year, and when the Cultural Revolution began in 1966, she happened to be in her senior year, which is quite sad.
If you don't participate in the recommendation of workers, peasants and soldiers to go to university, you will have to wait at least ten years. I heard that she studies very well and is a famous talented girl in the school.
Da Zhuang rushed to wash the dishes, and Yun Shu combed his hair a few times with his hands. Fortunately, there were no lice, otherwise he would have gone crazy.
The hair I washed with rice water yesterday is indeed much smoother to the touch today, and is long enough to be braided.
Although the clothes she wore were shabby, they were washed yesterday and were clean.
The only good thing about this era is that there are no oil stains on the clothes, so they are easy to wash.
Yun Shu had packed up enough to go out. It was almost eight o'clock. All the adults in the village had gone to work in the fields, but no one was seen on the road.
Yun Shu followed Da Ya's memory to the old house in the center of the village.
It is said to be an old house, but in fact it had been renovated before Da Ya's father and mother got married. Of course, it was Da Ya's father who spent money.
There are five mud-roofed houses in the middle, and there are pigsties, cowsheds, and chicken coops in the yard. Although the fences and stockades are not as good as the mud walls of Daya's house, the work is not bad, and it is the handiwork of Daya's grandfather.
As for Grandma Daya, she can’t work or cook well. She only talks a lot and doesn’t know where she comes from.
And her grandfather was good at everything except being afraid of his wife. This reputation was well-known in the surrounding villages. Probably the only thing that my wife didn't listen to was to propose marriage to the Jin family for her eldest son.
The gate of the old house is not the heavy solid wood door like Daya's house, but a wooden door. The door is locked with an iron chain from the inside. Most mountain villages have fenced yards like this.
Yun Shu stood outside the courtyard and shouted twice: "Is anyone here?"
Soon a girl wearing a light blue floral top came out of the easternmost room. It was Wang Chunhua.
No wonder her grandparents loved this old girl in every possible way. She was really good-looking, with an oval face, almond-shaped eyes, and a straight nose. Although her mouth was not a cherry mouth, it was not big either, and she also had two dimples, which made her very sweet and lovely.
Yun Shu had also looked in the mirror in the space. Da Ya had a good foundation, but the damage done in the past three months was a bit miserable, so she could only hope to recover well.
But Daya's mother is a famous beauty within a hundred miles, and Daya remembers her father as being very handsome, and looking at her old lady, she also knows that Daya's father is good-looking.
Therefore, in the future, I will definitely not be much worse than this beauty in front of me.
It took Wang Chunhua a long time to recognize that the charcoal-like child in front of her was her former delicate and lovely eldest niece.
But we haven’t seen each other for three months, why are we like this?
Wang Chunhua was speechless for a long time. No matter how ignorant she was, she still knew that her mother and second sister-in-law had gone too far.
But she had never been close to her eldest brother, and she was a little jealous of her eldest sister-in-law. She moved her lips but said nothing.
Yun Shu didn't care what Wang Chunhua was thinking. When he saw her in a daze, he said, "Auntie, I want to see Xiao Zhuang. I haven't seen Xiao Zhuang in two months."
Wang Chunhua opened the door and let Yun Shu in. Seeing her going straight to the second sister-in-law's house, she thought about it and walked in.
The second sister-in-law didn't lock the door and asked her to read a little article before leaving. She agreed at the time, but she forgot about it as soon as she read the book.
At this time, Yun Shu had already opened the door.
The two rooms on the west side were originally shared by Da Ya's family and her second uncle's family. Later, Da Ya's family was separated, and Da Ya's second uncle opened up the two rooms. There is a big kang inside, and the mother's family also has a kang, but it is shorter. , with a Kang table.
Nowadays, the two rooms are full, many of them are the eldest girl’s dowry and the furniture she bought later.
There is a little baby lying on the kang inside and outside respectively. The one in the middle is surrounded by pillows. The covering and bed underneath are all small mattresses and quilts made by the eldest lady. The baby is sleeping soundly, with a pink and tender face. It's pink, but this one is a girl.
But Xiao Zhuang, who was supposed to enjoy all this, was lying on the hard kang outside. The color of the mattress underneath and the quilt on his body could not be seen.
The little guy was awake, his face was sallow, but he had no strength to cry.
Yun Shu gritted his teeth and lifted the quilt, and almost cried when he saw that his little body was not wearing any clothes. Three months later, he was still thinner than when he was born, with no flesh on his body.
And the mattress he was lying on was still wet with urine and feces. He didn't know when he peed.
The child's back was covered with prickly heat and eczema, and his big eyes were open blankly.
This is Da Ya's younger brother, her Yun Shu's younger brother. At this moment, Yun Shu wants to cut into pieces the woman whom Da Ya calls her second aunt.
She is also a mother, how could she treat a child like this!
