People feel irritated when the weather is hot, and heavy mosquito nets make people even more out of breath.
At this time, Li Yunlan missed the electric fan, air conditioner, and ice cream very much: "It's so hot!"
After she finished speaking, she fanned the cattail leaf vigorously several times. Her wrists became sore, her heart became more anxious, and her body began to sweat.
"System, system? Are you here? People have golden fingers for traveling through books, some kind of universal space, can you get one for me? System? System?" What answered her was the buzzing of mosquitoes outside the mosquito net.
As he thought about it, he thought of his parents, and Li Yunlan's heart began to sour, and tears flowed down the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes and into the straw mat pillow.
"Mom and Dad, you don't know that your daughter is now full of children and grandchildren, and your beautiful wish of retiring and providing for your children and grandchildren has been fulfilled directly... Hehe... Hehe, Mom and Dad, I miss you so much!"
Li Yunlan slowly fell asleep with thoughts of her parents.
Early the next morning, Li Yunlan sat in front of the mirror, looked at this old face and cheered: "A new day, a new beginning, come on."
For more than a month, Li Yunlan was repeatedly slapped in the face. She had to maintain the characteristics of the original owner, but also changed all the rules set by the original owner one by one. This really hurt her, a good student under the socialist quality education. brain.
"Mom, get up, food is ready." Mrs. Liu carried the pig food bucket to the backyard to feed the pigs.
Li Yunlan looked towards the second room.
Carrying a basket on her back, she went to her vegetable garden and cut a handful of leeks. Then she picked half a basket of cowpeas, peppers, eggplants, and melons. Finally, a basket full of vegetables was filled. Li Yunlan found a small cucumber and rubbed off the thorns on it with her hands, then took a bite. Crisp and sweet.
There were many women in the village picking vegetables from the vegetable garden. When they saw Li Yunlan, they just nodded from a distance and said hello.
After Li Yunlan finished eating the cucumbers, she gritted her teeth, picked up the basket, and then swayed back home.
In Xiaoliu Village, many families eat fresh vegetables, pickle some in small quantities, and feed the rest to pigs and chickens without any awareness of danger in times of peace.
Later I found out that it was because salt was too expensive. A pound of coarse salt cost 20 yuan, which was more expensive than meat. If the villagers had this money, they might as well buy two pounds of millet.
It’s no wonder that after a natural disaster strikes, some families quickly run out of food, and people starve to death before they even begin to flee.
Li Yunlan took a few children to pick honeysuckle and dig wild vegetables when they had nothing to do. The cucumbers, melons and cowpeas produced in the family garden were pickled and dried whenever possible, even the sweet potato vines were not spared.
She learned these things from her grandmother. For example, her father is a master of pickles. The pickled vegetables are moderately salty, sour and crispy. Many regular customers come here for the side dishes in the snack shop.
Mix the chopped chili sauce with the sweet noodle sauce and spread it evenly on the young cowpeas and cucumbers. It will be ready to eat in three days. It tastes very refreshing and goes well with rice.
At first, the children didn't understand why they were buying so many pickled vegetables. Now that the vegetable garden has officially harvested, there is no shortage of vegetables to eat. In the end, Li Yunlan yelled: "If you don't have enough to eat, you won't have enough to wear. You're calculating." If you don’t, you will suffer poverty.”
Although the two of them had never heard of it, they still felt that what I said made sense.
Seeing that his family's money was about to bottom out, Li Yunlan was extremely worried. How could he think of ways to change it?
When I arrived at the door of the house, I met my two sons who had come back for breakfast. The eldest brother stepped forward and took Li Yunlan's basket and said, "Mom, I can wait until the talented woman does these tasks."
"Do you want to exhaust your wife to death? It's such a hot day, so finish it as soon as possible so you can rest."
Qiu Defu moved his mouth but said nothing. He was too embarrassed to say that he asked Mrs. Chen to do the work. Mrs. Chen only said that the body was injured after giving birth and that she should take good care of herself. She also assigned Baoyu the job of cleaning the house. Thinking of it, Baoyu was only as tall as a broomstick, but he felt angry in his heart.
After breakfast, the two brothers still went to the fields while it was not too hot. Li Yunlan took the children to pick vegetables. Liu cut open the melons and scraped off the seeds, then left them outside to dry in the sun for marinating at night.
Successful cries came from the second house, and soon Chen's voice scolding Baoyu also came.
Mrs. Liu looked up, shook her head and continued with her work.
"Mom, we don't have much salt at home. Do you still want to soak these beans?"
Li Yunlan looked at it and said: "Boil some water, scald and dry the vegetables."
Chengcai said to boil water, but Li Yunlan didn't stop him.
After a while, Baoyu stumbled out carrying a basin. Li Yunlan saw that it was a diaper.
Li Yunlan was really angry. When Mrs. Liu saw her mother-in-law's face turned dark, she was so frightened that she quickly lowered her head to do her work.
"Second daughter-in-law~Second daughter-in-law... come out here. When Baoyu is only old, let her wash diapers. Come out here."
Li Yunlan was shouting in the courtyard. Qiu Defu heard it from outside the courtyard and entered the house with a single step.
Li Yunlan: Huh? What just happened?
Then she heard Chen's crying and Qiu Defu's beating and scolding. After all, she said she couldn't beat her wife, so she went up to push the door and found that Qiu Defu had locked the door from the inside.
Li Yunlan knocked outside: "Second brother, come out here and open the door for me."
After shouting for a long time, the door opened and Qiu Defu sat down on a stool in the outer room. Li Yunlan entered the room and saw Qiu Chenggong crying on the bed and Mrs. Chen sitting on the floor crying, her hair disheveled and one side of her face was red and swollen.
Li Yunlan turned around and shouted at Qiu Defu: "How can you hit someone? She is your wife."
Qiu Defu stood up fiercely and said: "She should be beaten. She will treat herself as a royal concubine after giving birth to a child."
Li Yunlan hit him twice, went into the room, picked up Qiu and coaxed him successfully, and then stretched out a hand to pull Chen.
Mrs. Chen raised her head and glared at Li Yunlan fiercely, and opened her hand: "Why are you pretending to be a good person? There is no good person in your family." After that, she ran out.
Qiu Defu: "Why are you talking to my mother? If you go out and get out of this door, don't even think about coming back. I'll send a divorce note to the Chen family."
Mrs. Chen stood in the yard as if she was frozen, then turned around, cursed loudly, and ran out.
Li Yunlan was afraid that something would happen to her, so he asked Qiu Defu to chase her, but Qiu Defu was unwilling. In the end, Li Yunlan got angry and chased her out.
"It's evil! Mom*! If I provoke someone, I will be an evil mother-in-law at a young age."
Then he began to coax Qiu Chenggong into his arms.
At this time, Mrs. Chen had already arrived at her mother's house. As soon as she entered the house, she hugged her and cried. As soon as Chen's eldest brother saw his sister's face, he clamored to go to the enemy's house to avenge her.
Youshi sat on the floor and scolded Li Yunlan as a black-hearted old widow. Although this old widow did not abuse her daughter as much as before, she had learned to play dirty tricks, which made her grit her teeth with hatred.
Soon Qiu Defu also came to the door, and Chen's eldest brother went up to beat him indiscriminately, and the two soon started fighting each other.
In the end, it was Chen's father who stopped him when he returned home. Qiu Defu told the story again as if he were pouring beans into beans, and Chen's father's face almost turned black.
He pulled the mother and daughter into the house, scolded them, and then came out to apologize to the son-in-law. He also said that he was too embarrassed to see his biological mother, so he prepared some things for the daughter and son-in-law to take back.
Mrs. Chen reluctantly followed Qiu Defu back to her enemy's house. When she entered the back room, she saw that Baoyu had fallen asleep and her son was sleeping soundly in her mother-in-law's arms.
Then he knelt down and kowtowed to his mother-in-law, saying that he had made a mistake and would never do it again.
Li Yunlan thought to forget it, but she thought of Mrs. Liu, who was the mother of the heroine. She worked every day without any complaints. How did Mrs. Liu treat her? Mrs. Chen took the kindness of people for granted and relied on her own life every day. gave birth to a son, but Mrs. Liu didn’t give birth to a son? No one owes you anything, so just put your child on the bed with a straight face and go back to your room.
Ms. Chen lowered her head and choked, thinking of her father's words: "Have you lost your mind after giving birth to a child? You are also a man with a son. Are you not afraid of retribution on yourself? Where will the face of our Chen family go if you do this? Come on, if everyone knew that the daughters of my Chen family are all dominatrixes who are unfilial to their parents-in-law and disrespectful to their brothers and sisters-in-law, would your nieces still be able to get married? Don’t just lie down just because you gave birth to a son. You are not the only one who has his enemies. Son. So what if you give birth to a son? My unfilial mother-in-law can divorce you because of this. When you are divorced, you can become your sister-in-law. Don’t blame your father for being cruel. You are not the only daughter in our Chen family."
Chen was kneeling on the ground, no one wanted to know what she was thinking.
Because Wang Sheng came to announce the good news that Qiu Ruyi was pregnant.
Li Yunlan took out the last bit of money and asked Qiu Degui to buy some things to deliver.
The sun was shining brightly, and Zhizhi was screaming at the top of his lungs. Li Yunlan wanted to calm down and think about any way to make a fortune, but he couldn't.
"How can you make money? There are three essential treasures for time travel: soap, ice making, and refined salt. The first one is okay, but the second one is to refining refined salt is equivalent to death. What else is there? Doing business, cooking and dreaming, Li Yunlan reads Looking at the soap on the washstand, it seems that someone has already arrived first. It's okay to make ice for yourself, but taking food from other people's mouths is simply a way to die." Li Yunlan turned over: "It seems that I have to go to the town or county to see. Let’s see if there is any small business we can do.”
Qiu Defu looked at his mother, who was sighing and talking to herself on the bed in the courtyard, and said, "Brother, tell me what's wrong with my mother, is she feeling unwell?"
Qiu Degui waved his fan and said, "Is there any?"
"Why not? Look at my mother tossing and turning with a sad look on her face. Brother, go and ask."
Qiu Degui turned to look at his younger brother and said, "Why don't you go? If you go, you will be scolded later on."
Qiu Defu: "..."
After that day, Ms. Chen took the initiative to apologize to Ms. Liu and began to take turns doing housework with Ms. Liu.
