Chapter 14 Mother-in-law and daughter-in-law
Author: cool beauty
The weather is too hot, and Xiao Hong is like an eggplant beaten by frost at this moment.
She really had no appetite and said with a bleak look on her face: "I don't want to eat!"
Well, her tone and expression were particularly familiar to Zhao Youqiang. Anyway, this was the expression Xiao Hong had when she came to them.
To be honest, if he didn't really care about his wife and didn't want her to suffer, he would really be too lazy to deal with this squeamish and cheap daughter.
When Xiao Fang saw her stepfather looking at her biological mother in confusion, she quietly tugged at the hem of Xiao Hong's clothes.
Xiao Hong came back to her senses now, cheered up and smiled at Zhao Youqiang: "Uncle, I feel a little dizzy in the car. I really don't mind eating. Why don't you buy me a mung bean popsicle?"
She knew very well in her heart that he was kind to her because he loved her.
From now on, when I spend more time with him, it would be great if we can all coexist peacefully.
It was rare for Zhao Youqiang to see Xiao Hong's smiling face, and he was a little flattered. He responded repeatedly: "Okay, okay, I'll buy it right away."
Then he looked at his wife and Xiao Fang: "Do you also eat mung bean popsicles? Do you want anything else?"
Wu Julan also shook her head: "Just buy four popsicles. Do we still have hard-boiled eggs and steamed buns in the basket?"
Zhao Youqiang asked them to stay under the shade of the trees, and at the same time watch the oxcart for him, and then he quickly went to the store to buy popsicles.
Although Zhaocun is considered a remote area, this is Houzhai Town. There are ordinary shops, but there are very few rare fruits.
He first went to the place that sold big cakes and sesame cakes, each one was triangular. He ordered three big cakes, and ten sesame cakes were a dollar for a dollar.
Then I went to the supply and marketing cooperative and found the popsicle counter. I ordered three mung bean popsicles for sixty cents.
This little thing cost him three yuan, which was almost as much as his day's wages.
He can be regarded as a son who inherited his father's business and learned to be a bamboo craftsman.
The baskets, cooking dustpans, dustpans, baskets, sieves, and large mats they make for drying rice are strong and durable. They are quite famous in the neighboring villages. They earn four yuan a day for a meal.
Unfortunately, this kind of work is not available every day.
He usually finds part-time jobs and takes care of his family's fields, so he can live a comfortable life.
Wu Julan has to take care of the two pigs and a dozen chickens and ducks raised at home. She also has to go to the fields to pull weeds and do housework.
In this way, the couple can save about two hundred dollars every year in addition to spending money, which is considered good in the village.
If the two daughters in the family weren't both physically delicate, they might have been able to save more money.
While Zhao Youqiang was generous to his wife and daughter, he was not so willing to treat himself.
After he bought the things, he asked them to sit on the ox cart and eat slowly. He drove the ox cart to the police station first and successfully added Xiao Hong's household registration to Zhao Youqiang's household registration book.
Things went smoothly and they were on their way home within an hour.
It was around two o'clock in the afternoon, the sun was scorching, and except for their family, there were no other pedestrians on the road.
Wu Julan also felt sorry for her man. After taking a bite of the popsicle, she stuffed it into his mouth: "It's too cold. It makes my stomach uncomfortable. Don't buy it for me in the future."
Zhao Youqiang smiled and handed her the flat kettle while driving the car: "How about you drink some water?"
Xiao Fang was used to the good relationship between her mother and stepfather, so she didn't take it seriously.
Xiao Hong felt a toothache when she saw it, and felt like she had been stuffed with dog food.
However, when she thought about her mother's stomach discomfort, she thought of another thing.
According to the time in her dream, her mother might be pregnant soon.
In the dream, her mother only found out about her marriage after she was forced to marry Zhao Long, and she immediately went to find her.
At that time, she was controlled by the Zhao family's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, and she was beaten and scolded for being timid and cowardly. When she saw her biological mother, she fainted from crying.
Wu Julan wanted to send her daughter to the hospital, but was stopped by the Zhao family's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. The two sides got into an argument. In the end, Wu Julan also had stomach discomfort. Only when she went to the hospital did she learn that she had had a miscarriage.
To be honest, Xiao Hong felt in her heart that she couldn't be like what she saw in the book, being beaten and scolded, and still just swallowing her anger and being a lowly person.
But if it was fake, then how could I know so many things? How could I become mature?
She doesn’t feel like she’s been reborn? Nor does she feel like she’s been transported into a book?
Or maybe grandma really has a spirit? She is trying to remind herself?
Anyway, no matter what happens, she will live a good life every day.
In my memory, my mother had an accident near October this year, so it is almost August now.
That means mom will be pregnant next month.
Family planning began in the 1980s, but in remote areas of the countryside, families without sons all wanted to have a son to avoid being scolded as "extremely poor".
However, there are also people who hide out and work in order to have a son.
There are also some villages that are quite xenophobic and will take the initiative to help the villagers hide it. After the child is born and goes to school, they will pay the fine and let the child register.
Previously, Xiao Hong was able to settle in successfully because Wu Julan was older and she had already undergone IHR after giving birth to Zhao Yanyan.
Xiao Hong could only sigh in her heart that when her future brother or sister is born, she should be named Zhao Jianqiang.
If you weren't strong enough, you wouldn't be able to give birth to another little life.
After leaving Houzhai Town, there are bumpy dirt roads, and they are all uphill, and the ox cart cannot go fast.
Fortunately, he didn't walk too fast, otherwise Xiao Hongbutt would have suffered.
The mountain road is winding, with lush trees on both sides, and even the sun is not that hot.
The two sisters couldn't help but doze off next to each other.
Wu Julan took the opportunity to sit next to her man and asked in a low voice: "Xiao Hong will follow us from now on. Do you think it will be tonight or tomorrow? We are going to order food and treat the family to a meal. We will also talk about this and
Say something, mom?"
The family was separated after she got married, and she didn't spend much time with her mother-in-law.
But because she was married for the second time, she did not give birth to a son for him.
And because she remarried with Xiao Fang, Xiao Fang took the quota for the second child, so her mother-in-law was a little dissatisfied with her.
Fortunately, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law spend less time interacting with each other, and there are no major conflicts. Even if the mother-in-law is sometimes in a bad mood, she will always say something to her.
Now that she had brought another daughter to Zhao's house, she felt a little embarrassed when she thought of her mother-in-law's angry face.
She didn't mind being scolded by her mother-in-law, but she was afraid that Xiao Hong, a child like Xiao Hong, would be careless and unwilling to stay after hearing this.
Zhao Youqiang quickly comforted him: "It's okay. I'll go and talk to my grandma later."
Xiao Hong just closed her eyes and rested her mind. After hearing what they said, she was also thinking about how to get along with the cheap grandma.
As far as she knew, Grandma Zhao was a Buddhist.
She vaguely remembered that in the small village in front of Zha Village, there was a half-blind goddess who could read Feng Shui, tell fortunes and tell the day, and she was quite famous in villages and towns all over the country.
Chapter completed!