Unearned
Ma Huilan and Xiao Lin live next door, and the invisible contrast is everywhere.
Xiao Lin doesn't have to do work outside the door, she is idle at home, and she has time to tidy up the room, clean the floor, scrub the furniture brightly, cook the food to taste, dress the clothes well, and dress the children up beautifully. Miss squeamish, weak and windy, her physical strength is too poor, she doesn't even have to pick up water, she doesn't even need to pick up her children to school, she just stays in an air-conditioned room all day, drinks water with a water dispenser, cooks with a rice cooker, cooks with an induction cooker, washes with a washing machine, and cleans the room with a vacuum cleaner.
The furnishings at home are no different from those in the city, and the people are also like Hong Kong and Taiwan stars, who are talking and procrastinating, with a trembling tongue with a nasal breath, a milky voice, and a crooked body, with a long left leg and a short right leg, walking with a twist and a limp, particularly weak, how can they do rough work? Invite someone to drink tea at any time, are you tired? Are you thirsty? Rest for a while, go into the house and have a cup of tea, and then go to work! Chat with people everywhere, is the old man good? Is the child well-behaved? When you need my help, shout, be on call! She is soft-spoken, slow and reasonable, and can talk to anyone, polite words are more comfortable than the truth, and false words are more pleasant to the ear than the truth, just by a sweet mouth, you can make everyone happy when you are unhappy, and happy when you are happy.
Xiao Lin is good at observing words and colors, can meet in secret, can speak well, is good at flattery, gags, is good at slapping horses, and uses words to win the favor of others, so as to gain the sympathy and help of most people, and get benefits and benefits from it.
Sick Xi Shi, everyone because of pity and sympathy, and give to each other, weak women, everyone out of compassion, and generous, often feel that they have done a good deed.
She looks handsome, delicate and well-behaved, lively and docile, flattering to everyone, showing weakness, especially anyone can be close, especially pleasing people, so she has been cared for and favored by many people, giving money and gifts, killing pigs and cattle to send meat to the door, slaughtering dogs and sheep and sending a leg to taste, fruit and drink for her to drink, and seasonal vegetables for her to eat.
There are many people with great strength, small raindrops gather, and the river becomes a stream, saving a few mouthfuls per person per meal is enough for her to eat, and a few pieces per person per day is enough for her to use, and the treatment she enjoys is equivalent to the five guarantee households in the large collective period, which is equivalent to everyone raising her as a woman.
She wears stockings and leather shoes, has long hair and a shawl, a flowing skirt, greased and powdered, and always acts as a new daughter-in-law, without doing farm work, whether the crops grow well or not, and whether the autumn harvest will be more grainy has nothing to do with her. It's a good life, you can see and touch, you don't do any farm work, you play cards when you have money, you watch TV when you don't have money, you don't sleep a lot, or you travel around. At the end of the year, in addition to eating and playing, drinking and playing, sitting and playing, standing and playing, I didn't see her working, every day is equal to the festival, where do you need to raise pigs and feed cattle? Eat and wet your mouth, wash your face and wet your hands, hoe no soil, and don't go into the mountains, such a leisurely and stretched life is really a fairy life.
In addition to farming, Ma Huilan also has to take care of children, grow vegetables and do housework, and also have to feed pigs and cattle, which is no less than other women, at least more than Xiao Lin.
Most of the village women walked as fast as a spark, spoke as fast as a jumping bean, had a high throat, and shouted across the slope and the river. Ma Huilan went to the field, worked together all day long, and slowly became affected, next to a field, every other slope, the person on the other side is easy to recognize, it is inconvenient to speak, greet and talk, greet and consult, respond to the reply, can only shout, do not shout and can't hear, can't talk, and then laugh and make fun, divert attention, time flies, and I don't feel tired. She didn't enjoy any special treatment, she cooked and drank vegetables for a few months, worked with a broken straw hat, carried a hoe and picked up dung on her shoulders, rolled up her sleeves and trousers, dragged mud and water with shoes and socks, the so-called sun and wind blew the old and young, her face was red and black, her hands and feet were rough, and she was no different from them.
Besides, her mother loves her late cubs, and her father loves her children, and she always sees Xie Xiong taking the old man's dried fish, bacon, chickens and eggs to enjoy. A man wants a woman, and her husband loves his wife, she always sees Xie Xiong wearing an apron to cook and wash dishes, wash clothes and quilts, wash socks and shoes. Xiao Lin is leisurely not playing mahjong, knitting sweaters, or watching TV. When there is no running water, the washing machine is a furnishing, Xiao Lin washes clothes, or boils hot water at home to wash her hair, and then Xie Xiong brings it to the pond to beat it a second time, and when it is clean, he also goes to dry, take it back, iron, fold, and hang it in the closet.
Xie Xiong is diligent and tame, Gu Jia loves his wife, helps with housework and takes care of the children, and doesn't want her to go to the field to do farm work, don't want her to raise pigs and feed chickens, and don't want her to go out to earn money, it is Xiao Lin's blessing from her previous life!