At the door of the shack, Li Youwei was already waiting there with Baoer in her arms!
Seeing Zhou Yang carrying a tall but very thin woman on his back, followed by an equally thin middle-aged man, Li Youwei knew that these were her parents-in-law.
Similar to what Li Youwei imagined, the father-in-law wore a pair of somewhat blurry black-rimmed glasses, and he looked like an intellectual at first glance.
My father-in-law is a little shorter than Zhou Yang, but by visual inspection he is about 1.78 meters, so he can be considered a tall man no matter where he is placed.
It's just that his face is very pale, and his body is extremely thin. For such a big man, he probably weighs less than 120 pounds, and he looks malnourished.
The first impression that mother-in-law Ye Lifang gave to Li Youwei was that she was very beautiful. Although she looked a little haggard, her extraordinary temperament could not be concealed.
Li Youwei really couldn't imagine how beautiful her mother-in-law could be when she was young.
After seeing her daughter-in-law, Ye Lifang immediately got off her son's back, and then looked straight at the two beautiful people in front of her, one big and one small.
Zhou Yang immediately said: "Dad, Mom, these are my wife and daughter..."
Before she finished speaking, Ye Lifang stepped forward and grabbed Li Youwei's hand and said, "You must be Weiwei, you are such a beautiful girl!"
"Mom, I am Li Youwei, Zhou Yang's wife!"
The little girl in her arms looked at Ye Lifang curiously, and then said in a milky voice: "Are you grandma? I am Bao'er, my name is Zhou Jiayi, my father's daughter!"
Ye Lifang suddenly said happily: "Oh, dear baby, I am grandma, I am grandma!"
As he said this, he was about to step forward and hug the little girl, but he thought of how dirty he was and held it back.
However, the little girl is very familiar with herself. She opens her two little arms and wants her grandma to hug her!
She was used to crawling around in the countryside, and she didn't mind the weeds and leaves on Ye Lifang's body at all.
Ye Lifang immediately looked at Zhou Yang. After all, the skirt her granddaughter was wearing looked newly made. It would not be good if it got dirty.
Zhou Yang smiled and said, "Mom, Bao'er is waiting for you to hold him!"
"Oh...grandma's sweet baby!"
Saying that, Ye Lifang happily took Bao'er from Li Youwei's arms.
Li Youwei came to Zhou Yawen and respectfully shouted: "Dad!"
"Oh! Good girl, I've suffered so much for you!" Zhou Yawen sighed and said.
When his son wrote to her last time, he briefly talked about what happened between him and Li Youwei. He knew that his daughter had suffered a lot with his son.
"Dad, marrying Zhou Yang is the happiest thing in my life. I don't feel bitter!" Li Youwei said.
Zhou Yawen nodded and said: "I, Zhou Yawen, recognize you as my daughter-in-law. If this kid dares to bully you in the future, just tell us that we, the old couple, will make the decision for you!"
"Um!"
When everyone saw that there were guests in Lao Zhou's house today, they all knew it and didn't bother them. Most of them said hello to Zhou Yang and went back to their respective shacks!
After sending everyone away, the family returned to the shack!
After entering the door, Li Youwei looked around the room, wanting to get some water for her parents-in-law to wash their faces, but she couldn't find the washbasin!
However, her expression of looking for something caught Ye Lifang's attention, and she immediately asked: "Xiaowei, what are you looking for?"
"Mom, I want to find a washbasin and get some water for you and dad to wash your faces!" Li Youwei said truthfully.
Ye Lifang smiled bitterly and said: "Hey, where is the washbasin? Besides, there is no need for that thing here!"
Seeing the puzzled expression on her daughter-in-law's face, she explained: "This place is short of water. We don't even have enough water to drink. How dare we wash our faces with water!"
"Then you and dad usually..."
"We usually just wipe it with a towel dipped in water. We only wash our faces when we go to places with springs on the mountains!" Ye Lifang replied.
Hearing this, Li Youwei's eyes suddenly turned red.
In fact, when she saw the situation on the farm, she had already anticipated that her parents-in-law's life might be very difficult.
When I saw those people who came back with their parents-in-law just now, they walked slowly and leisurely, and I knew that this was caused by their long-term malnutrition.
But she didn't expect that the hardship here was far more terrifying than she imagined. Even washing your face was a luxury.
This made Li Youwei, who had not suffered much since she was a child, couldn't help but burst into tears.
"Girl, don't cry, we are used to it!" Ye Lifang said with a sore nose.
"Dad, are you always so short of water here?" Zhou Yang asked with a frown.
"No, it was fine in the past few years. There was a well in the village, and at least there was no shortage of water!"
Then he sighed and said, "But since spring this year, there hasn't been a drop of rain. All the wells in the village have dried up, so now drinking water has become a problem!"
"Then the officials here don't care?"
"No matter what, they reported to the superiors and wanted them to dig a deeper well for us, but they didn't apply!"
Then Zhou Yawen continued: "Director Zhang organized everyone to dig their own wells. As a result, they dug more than 20 meters but could not get any water. We had no choice but to find a few large oil barrels and asked the soldiers to give us ten wells every day. Lugging water to eat from a few miles away!”
"But hauling water is so hard that neither humans nor animals can bear it, so we all save as much as we can."
At this time, my mother Ye Lifang also said: "Every household of us now dare not do anything else except necessary food, drink and water. To be honest, we haven't washed our clothes in the past six months!"
Zhou Yang and Li Youwei subconsciously looked at their mother's clothes. They were indeed dirty. They probably hadn't washed them for a while.
Zhou Yang was silent!
Before he came here, he had already expected that the situation here would not be very good. Otherwise, his parents would lament every time they mentioned the life here in their previous lives, and would even avoid talking about it most of the time.
But he really didn't expect that the situation would be so bad, it was simply beyond his expectation.
It’s really hard to imagine how my parents survived in this place all these years!
Looking at his son and daughter-in-law who looked distressed, Zhou Yawen smiled and said: "It's a bit hard, but at least we are still alive!"
Zhou Yang nodded and said: "Yes, as long as we are all here, that is enough!"
Li Youwei wiped her tears and said, "Zhou Yang, can we bring our parents to live in the village?"
Zhou Yang's eyes suddenly lit up, but then he shook his head and said, "It's embarrassing. If they could leave, I'm afraid these people would have left long ago!"
Zhou Yawen also nodded and said: "The policy does not allow it. We people can't go anywhere without permission from above!"
Ye Lifang also said: "Forget about going to your place, even if you want to go into the city to buy something, you have to report to the county from the management office, let alone other things!"
"Then we can't stay here forever. The environment here is really too bad!" Li Youwei said.
Zhou Yang nodded and said, "Well, let me think of a way, maybe it can work!"
He thought of Director Yang of Saibei University. Wasn't he reorganizing the chemistry department of their school? His father was a professor of chemistry and also served as the department head.
If he could accept his father to teach at Saibei University, maybe there would be a turn for the better.
But Zhou Yang also knew that this was difficult, and that Director Yang might not have the power to transfer people from places like Dongquan Farm.
While Zhou Yang was deep in thought, a hoarse voice suddenly came from outside: "Lao Zhou, Lao Ye, dinner is ready!"
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