Chapter Twenty-Eight: A Visitor from Far Away
Zhang Mingfeng's daughter followed several cousins with the name of Mei Xiang, washing for three days, nine days, full moon, and one hundred days, all presided over by Zhu Linglong, although Liu Baiquan was not present, but Mei Xiang was the only one among the girls in the Liu family who had completed all the procedures that a newborn should have. www.biquge.info In this way, Zhang Mingfeng still felt dissatisfied, and had a lot of opinions about his father-in-law, because his father-in-law did not specifically instruct several aunts to buy new clothes and shoes for her daughter like he did with Caoxiang. They all sent an old hen, six catties of noodles, and sixty eggs, which is a very thick ceremony, but it makes people clearly see the estrangement and not close enough.
Adult emotions can always affect children, especially such babies who are dependent on their mothers from the time they are conceived to the time they are still breastfeeding. Zhang Mingfeng thought that it was no big deal for him to vent his grievances and grievances all day long, but in fact, it had seriously affected Mei Xiang.
Wang Hongying listened to Mei Xiang crying during the day and at night, and the cry made people feel uncomfortable when they heard it. I just fell asleep tonight, and I was woken up by Mei Xiang's heart-rending cry, and I couldn't help but complain in a low voice: "I don't know what's wrong with this child? Why is he crying except sleeping?" I can't sleep at night!"
When the child began to cry, she also ran to the door in a panic to ask about the situation. Later, I found out that the child was crying, not in good health, and gradually he was no longer anxious, but a little bored. However, Liu Yujin doesn't care so much, as soon as he falls asleep at night, he doesn't wake up when there is thunder in the sky, how can this little baby cry a few times to wake him up as a sleeping god? Wang Hongying was awakened and complained twice, but he didn't think that he had to have an audience to crusade against anyone, seeing that his man was still sleeping dimly, he only sighed, and dragged the thick quilt to cover his head and sleep.
I didn't sleep well, and I almost couldn't get out of bed early the next morning, but fortunately, there was no farm work to do at this time, but I didn't have to work hard.
Liu Yujin took salted ducks and salted geese to the county seat early to sell, and several children also had breakfast and went to school. When I was sleeping soundly, I heard the sound of someone banging on the door of my yard, as if someone was shouting. Wang Hongying hurriedly got up, put on a padded jacket in a panic, and responded loudly while buttoning it: "It's coming!"
"Whew, Hong Ying! When is this, why are you still sleeping?" Wang Hongying's mother-in-law was so surprised to see her eldest daughter-in-law running out to open the door with her hair messy, her eldest daughter-in-law is not a lazy person.
"Alas, mother-in-law, don't say it, I make Meixiang cry every night so much that I can't sleep. In the morning, they went to the county seat and went to school, and Mei Xiang stopped crying, so I seized the opportunity to sleep in the cage. Otherwise, I won't be able to hold it up every day!"
Her mother-in-law followed her into the door, and after listening to the words of her eldest daughter-in-law, she could only express sympathy. The front window of the eldest daughter-in-law's bedroom is directly opposite the back window of the second daughter-in-law's bedroom, and the sound of the child's crying can naturally disturb the eldest daughter-in-law. And there is no window in the back wall of her bedroom, as long as it is not in the kitchen or yard, although the noise behind her can be heard, it will not affect her sleep. However, although it does not affect her sleep, during the day, it is still very annoying to listen to the child crying as soon as he wakes up, especially the child's old man is particularly taboo about his child's crying.
"This kid doesn't know why she loves to cry so much! Her old boss can't even hear her name now, let alone look at her. This second daughter-in-law is getting more and more unpopular, and I'm really worried about how the second child will live in the future! Hey! Don't talk about her! Your relatives in your father-in-law's and uncle's family picked two stones of corn particles to exchange for rice, and I came to you to help. Zhu Linglong always felt that this Mei Xiang's crying was related to her second daughter-in-law, but she couldn't say any reason, so she didn't want to investigate deeply.
Wang Hongying heard her mother-in-law say that her father-in-law's uncle and relatives ran over in the morning, and opened her mouth wide in surprise: "Their home is so far away, why did they arrive so early? I haven't been here for more than ten years, and I can still find this place in the dark? This is too powerful, right?"
Her mother-in-law laughed: "When I saw them, I thought to myself! These two children are so amazing, they actually touched my house in the dark." My cousin told me that his family had a new marriage, and it was in Shiqiao Town. This time, I went to my in-laws' house to change the corn, but I didn't change much, so I picked up the two burdens of this big head to our house to exchange. They left from there before dawn, and they didn't eat breakfast, I cooked a pot of porridge and spread a pot of egg cakes, but I thought that a plate of pickles was too ugly, so I came to you to take a few salted duck eggs back and cook them, and put them on the table, and they were always presentable. ”
If this relative doesn't come, if he comes, he has to entertain him with a heavyweight guest. At the time of the great famine, the six brothers and sisters took a sister-in-law and lived directly in this uncle's grandfather's house. Although my uncle and grandfather's family also had no food to eat, they lived in the mountains, relying on the taro that did not need to be handed over in the deep mountains, as well as the wild vegetables, leaves, wild fruits, rabbits, birds and birds they picked at home.
Liu Baiquan and his family are also because their children are not at home, and the rations sent by the brigade, as well as the miscellaneous grains sent by the eldest daughter-in-law and the brothers from time to time, are more than enough to support them. Although there was a little unpleasantness at my uncle's grandfather's house, it is not an exaggeration to say that their family saved the Liu family.
Wang Hongying came out of the makeshift straw shed with a big belly and a small mouth, and the shed was full of jars of pickled duck eggs. Every few days, her second brother Wang Hongshun will come over and take away 100 pickles, and then take them to the county seat to sell them. Now the Wang family has all gone out to collect eggs, and no longer only take them from Wang Hongying's house, but Wang Hongying's eggs and duck eggs are sold by Hong Shun, and one is sold for two cents. During this time, Wang Hongshun earned dozens of yuan just by helping Wang Hongying's family sell eggs and salted duck eggs.
"Mother-in-law, you take this jar of salted duck eggs home, you yourself usually don't come to eat when you don't come, there are many at home, don't be reluctant! At noon, you and your father-in-law took the little old watch and his nephew to eat at my house, and after breakfast, I asked my father-in-law to help me go to the village to sell meat and buy five catties of meat back. Come and help me kill another goose and a raw rooster. Okay?"
The eldest daughter-in-law is so generous to help her mother-in-law entertain guests, how can she be a mother-in-law who can't say it? By the way, you didn't make breakfast, did you?! Come over with the peach and grass fragrance and eat it together, don't be busy. ”
"Okay, then you go back and eat first, I'll put on the grass incense, and I'll go over." ”