A head-on conflict with my husband finally happened.

The busy time of summer harvest and summer sowing has passed, but the work of the production team has not decreased, but it is not so intense compared to the extremely festive work of wheat harvesting and autumn planting. The weather was so dry that the ground was on fire, and Jianfeng took turns to water the grain seedlings that had just emerged in the river day and night. She and her two sisters-in-law are often sent to the cotton fields at the same time to hoe weeds, to "wipe trouser legs", "make fritters" and "dig out ear droppings" for cotton seedlings. Needless to say, my husband doesn't stop three days a day. The old woman sat in the shade of the tree in the yard, guarding the wheat that had just been divided, and to pick up the chickens or pigs that had been stolen to eat, and to stir them with a wooden tooth rake, and to bite and crunch in the sun, she could store them with confidence.

At noon that day, the fourth sister was "digging out the ears" of the cotton tree in the cotton row, and a sister-in-law who came to the cotton field to feed the baby told her that the second aunt was coming. The four sisters asked for leave from the women's captain and ran back to the village.

The second aunt sat under the toon tree outside the street gate, and the fourth sister called "second aunt", then reached out and took out the key from the top of the street door, unlocked the lock, and let the second aunt into the yard. There was no one in the house, so she led her second aunt into her small house. Before she finished three sentences, she hugged her second aunt and cried, but she couldn't help it and cried.

"It's Jianfeng...... Bullying you?" asked the second aunt.

"Woo-woo......" she shook her head.

"Father-in-law and mother-in-law...... Scold you?" the second aunt asked again.

"Woo-woo-woo......" she still shook her head.

"The two sisters-in-law...... Do you want to turn your heart?" the second aunt asked again.

"Woo-woo......" she cried and trembled.

The second aunt hugged her and stopped asking, tears falling down her eyes and dripping on her niece's hair.

The fourth sister wanted to cry. The family is young and old, no one beats her, no one scolds her, she eats to her heart's content, and there is nothing to say about the grievances, but she can't tell why, she just wants to cry. She lay in her second aunt's arms, crying happily, but she didn't want to say anything.

She worked with a tense face, pulled bellows or rolled noodles in the small stove room with a tense face, served food to the two old people with both hands, said a half-sentence of entertainment to her sister-in-law and sister-in-law with a tense face, and even with Jianfeng in her own small house...... She felt like her heart was going to suffocate.

Since her husband lectured Jianfeng that night, Jianfeng's face has also become tense, tighter and more flat than her. Not only did he stop laughing and playing with her, but he didn't even talk much, and often put on an air of disdain to be close to her, even when he did that kind of thing at night, he didn't say a word, for fear of losing his husband's frame, and then he fell asleep, no longer like when he first got married, hugged her and said this and that.

The fourth sister felt lonely, panicked with depression, tasteless eating, and tired of work, and often sat on the edge of the canal when she was resting in the fields, looking at the north with dementia, and the treetops in the distance of the plain merged with the gray sky. She thinks about it and her mother, and only now does she clearly feel the fundamental difference between her parents-in-law and her biological mother. In this vast and boundless plain, in countless large and small villages, far and near, there is not a single relative of hers, except for the second aunt, not even a relative. She often sees the siblings of the eldest sister-in-law and the second sister-in-law coming to visit them and the children, and they also lead the children to their parents' house, which is enviable. They can tell their relatives about their joys, and they can also vent their grievances to their parents, get kind sympathy and comfort, and then return to this suffocating courtyard when the sun sets. The fourth sister has nowhere to go, only one second aunt's house, and she can't go around often, and the second aunt takes care of the housework alone, and she can't come to see her often. A reservoir of tears gathered in her heart, and all of them poured into the chest of the second aunt. The whole family went to work, and the timing was right for her to cry without being heard.

After crying, my heart suddenly felt relaxed, but my head was dull because of crying, and I talked to my second aunt for a while, asked about the body of the crippled brother-in-law and aunt, and asked the Yang family about the ration standard of the summer harvest, the proportion of food on working days, and saw that the sun had moved to the middle of the yard, and it was time to make lunch. She wanted to ask her mother-in-law what to cook at noon, so that her mother-in-law would not see that she had cried, so she dipped her towel in water and wiped her face.

Because of the arrival of the second aunt, because she poured out too many tears in her chest, she was in a good mood, and walked lightly through the streets and alleys of Lujiabao to the wheat field in the north of the village. The wheat threshing field, which had just gone through the intense summer harvest labor, was now idle, and the reed mats covered the scene that had been crushed to a clean state, and the new wheat was golden in the sun. From a distance, she saw her mother-in-law gossiping with an old woman in the shade. When she walked to the face, she happily reported to the elders of the family: "Mom, my second aunt is here." ”

"It's good to come. The mother-in-law looked at her and said, "You beckoned to sit in the house." ”

"Mom, what are you cooking at noon?" the fourth sister asked.

"Make grits noodles. The mother-in-law said lightly.

The fourth sister's heart sank, and she hurriedly turned around and walked back. Guests often come to the house, whether it is the eldest uncle or the second uncle, or the maiden relatives of the two sisters-in-law, they inevitably have to make dumplings, roll out noodles, and at least eat a meal of square dry noodles. The second aunt of the fourth sister came, and she was also an important relative of the Lu family, but her mother-in-law asked her to make grits noodles. Grits noodles, which are noodles in grits porridge, are a kind of rice that crops save fine grains, and it is about the worst meal in the lunch meal that is generally valued.

The fourth sister walked back, feeling so unhappy! This was the most obvious cold reception for her dear second aunt. It is not uncommon for the second aunt to eat dumplings or noodles, and people are not hungry in their own houses. This is with an unbearable coldness and arrogance, and it can even be said that it is a clear insult to treat relatives inappropriately. Her chest, which had just relaxed, was now full of breath again.

When she returned to the house, she took care to hide her resentment, so that the second aunt would not see it, so as not to make her uncomfortable, in case the second aunt felt neglected and walked away in a hurry, it would be even more difficult to clean up. She asked her second aunt to rest in the house and went into the stove room to cook by herself.

The eldest sister-in-law and the second sister-in-law returned from work in the cotton field. The second aunt came out of the house and talked to the two sisters-in-law. When the two sisters-in-law saw that a guest was coming, they washed their hands and came to the stove room to help. This is also a family rule, whenever a guest arrives, no matter who is on duty to cook, everyone must intervene to help, in order to show respect for the guest, but also to create a kind of three concubines working together, family harmony atmosphere for any guest.

"Why did you put grits in the pot?" asked the sister-in-law.

The four sisters lowered their heads and rolled noodles on the board, without saying a word.

"How can I give my second aunt grits noodles? The second sister-in-law also blamed her.

The fourth sister said sneeringly: "Our mother called ......"

The two sisters-in-law looked at each other and stopped talking.

The fourth sister cut the noodles, heard the familiar footsteps in the yard, and knew that her father-in-law was back, so she handed over the following things to the two sisters-in-law, walked out of the small stove room by herself, and said in a low voice to her father-in-law: "Dad, my second aunt is here to ......" Before the words fell, the second aunt had already come out of the small house, smiling and greeting: "Are you out of work?"

The old man said "um", put down the shovel in his hand, did not go to the back room, turned around and said, "You rest." Then he walked out of the second gate, jumped into the pigsty, and squatted down.

The fourth sister was stunned, her husband's coldness and arrogance were so undisguised, and even deliberately gave the guests an ugly behavior, which caught her at a loss. The second aunt immediately had an embarrassed look on her face, smiled stupidly, and had to turn around and walk into the small mansion again.

Usually, when relatives and friends come to the house, the husband's tense face shows an eager smile to receive him, and he immediately puts down all the work he is busy with, and leads the guests to the upper room to drink tea, smoke, and do homework. Now, the old man was squatting in the pigsty, and wisps of blue smoke were rising from the low wall, and there was no sign of it.

It was not until the meal was scooped up that the old man, at her urging, jumped out of the pigsty and walked back to the back room, where he sat down at the table where he usually entertained guests. The second aunt also walked to the other side of the table in the humility of the two sisters-in-law.

"Eat fast. The old man finally opened his mouth to greet the guests, "It's commonplace, and it's strange." ”

The second aunt pretended not to care and picked up the bowl.

The sister-in-law proposed to let her replace her mother-in-law and come back, but the husband immediately stopped: "Forget it, you bring her a bowl and forget it, she said she won't come back." ”

The fourth sister's heart sank again, and the old woman didn't even see the face of the second aunt, which was a rare move for the old woman who paid attention to etiquette.

Don't be awkward to eat, and the second aunt will leave.

Sending the second aunt away, the fourth sister returned to the house, lying on the quilt, crying and eating, the more I thought about it, the more I felt angry, too trampling!

Later, she worked in the field for a while, but she still couldn't figure it out. After dinner, she walked into her husband's back room and lowered her head: "Dad, I want to go to my aunt's house tomorrow ......"

The husband stared at her, did not speak, lowered his head and lit a bag of cigarettes, raised his head, and pretended to be unguarded and said, "Okay! It is said that Xia is done, and it is right to go for a walk." But right now, the team is watering the ground, and the management of the cotton field is also in full swing, and after a while, the cotton is overwhelmed, and the ground is watered, so you go again. ”

The fourth sister leaned against her mother-in-law's kang and did not speak.

Lu Laoba was very satisfied with his answer to this little daughter-in-law. At noon today, he came back from work and went to the wheat field to see how dry the wheat was, and his wife told him that the third daughter-in-law's second aunt was here, and the third daughter-in-law and her second aunt were crying in the house. She said that she went home to drink water, and when she heard people crying, she didn't dare to alarm, and quietly retreated to the wheat field.

Lu Laoba said in his heart, your third daughter-in-law is crying in your second aunt's arms, she must say that my Lu family has treated you badly! Let the neighbors hear it left and right, and they don't know what to suspect! Besides, as the second aunt, you came to my house and didn't persuade your niece, but actually cried with you, as if my Lu family really oppressed your niece! Besides, when a relative comes, he doesn't greet the master first, and he burrows in his niece's house, what kind of etiquette does it be? Your niece doesn't know etiquette, and you don't understand how to be an adult? Since you don't respect the rules of my house, I won't treat you as a guest!

He is very much in favor of his wife's move: entertain with grits noodles!

In return, he refused to invite her into the upper house, hid in the pigsty, and let you go cold!

Lu Laoba stared at the third daughter-in-law who asked him to leave his mother's (aunt's) house, and realized in his heart that she was demonstrating to him. He treated her second aunt slowly, and he couldn't say anything when he was angry, and he was going to leave his mother's (aunt's) house. He didn't refuse hard, he just talked busily, which was a completely valid reason to anyone to hear. Let her and her second aunt think about it, why did the master treat her slowly?

The fourth sister stood by the kang, and the words went up from her heart several times, but they were all stuck in her mouth, she wanted to ask, why did she treat the second aunt slowly? and it was not easy to speak, and the demonstrative act of asking to go to the second aunt's house was completely shattered by the husband's gentle flick. She turned and walked out, determined to leave them with a look of dissatisfaction, and to make her husband think about it.

But when she went out, her mother-in-law said: "The cotton clothes and pants of the three babies should be dismantled and washed, and they will have to wait for the snow to catch the needle......"