On this day, Dongmei, who was busy with her busy life, received a letter from Weiguo. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Due to the busyness of this time, Dongmei forgot how long Wei Guo had not written a letter to his family.

However, Weiguo's letter still made Dongmei's eyes shine.

Wei Guo told her in the letter that he wanted to build a small two-story western-style building in the innermost part of the courtyard.

The purpose of building a western-style building is mainly based on these considerations, one is that the brother-in-law is about to graduate from school, facing the distribution and finding a daughter-in-law, after the small western-style building is built, a special room will be set aside for him to get married.

Second, our children are getting older, and when they go to school in the future, they will have to live separately from adults, which is also for the sake of the children's future.

However, Dongmei thought completely different from Wei Guo.

There are only a few things that are compared between rural people, if the children of whose family are admitted to school, or whose family's life is in front of the aisle, and the most worthy comparison is whose house is high, just like today's urban people compare whose house is bigger and closer to the city center.

Maybe it's the kind of vanity that women are born with, Dongmei thought, so far in the village, no family has built a small western-style house, if his family built a small western-style house, it would be a matter of pride.

Looking from afar, in the middle of thousands of low tile houses, interspersed with a white two-story small western-style building, how mighty it should be, when the time comes, there will be no idlers gossiping, saying that although Dongmei has a man, but it is similar to the life of **.

On the other hand, people will say, look, Dongmei's house, his man works in Xinjiang, although he doesn't go home all year round, but he earns RMB.

Wei Guo continued in the letter that he roughly estimated that the money he had saved over the years, as well as the money his parents usually saved, could basically build a house.

After Dongmei replied to Wei Guo's letter, she devoted herself to the construction of the house.

Her mother-in-law was illiterate, her father-in-law was not good at talking, and everything was pressed on Dongmei's body, she went out to buy bricks, cement, sand, wood, tools, big workers, small workers, craftsmen, bricklayers, and so on.

Everything was ready, in order to save money, Dongmei found her younger brother and sister-in-law's husband to join their army of building houses, and even joined in as a small worker.

Digging foundations, making frames, building turns, going up floors, erecting wood, the house is going on step by step.

More than 20 workers were working in full swing at Dongmei's house.

Dongmei not only has to pay them wages, but also takes care of food and housing.

When building a house, Dongmei worked as a small worker, and when it was time to eat, Dongmei went to cook again, and the meals of more than 20 people were all made by Dongmei alone, which was a huge workload, which was really breathtaking.

The workers are all locals and eat noodles and steamed buns every day.

On average, a bag of noodles is eaten in a few days.

At noon, as usual, Dongmei uses a large basin and noodles, and after the noodles are ready, they are rolled out, and then cut after rolling, etc.

Every time she cooks, Dongmei feels that cooking is more tiring than working.

Dongmei, who was under the back pot, suddenly saw her mother-in-law sneaking into the stove room, holding an iron spoon and an egg in her hand.

After the mother-in-law came in, she was followed by an even more sneaky guy, he was Taotao.

Tao Tao seemed to be happy, and kept licking his lips with his tongue.

I saw that Wei Guo's mother poured some clear oil into the iron spoon, then poked the iron spoon into the stove, boiled the oil, and then easily beat the only egg into the iron spoon, and this iron spoon is not big, only enough to scramble an egg.

At this time, Dongmei understood, it turned out that her mother-in-law would scrambled eggs for Taotao again.

However, scrambled eggs don't need to be so sneaky, just like being a thief. Dongmei suddenly became suspicious.

After the eggs were scrambled, the mother-in-law called Taotao to her side, then picked up a piece of oily egg with chopsticks, dried it, and then exhaled and blew it, and it was not hot before feeding it to Taotao's mouth.

Dong Meixin said that this Wei Guo's mother also spoils her children too much, a five-year-old child, and she eats and feeds.

But who knows, what happened next deeply pierced Dongmei's heart.

The mother-in-law urged Taotao to eat all the scrambled eggs in a few bites.

As soon as Taotao finished eating the eggs, her two-year-old sister Nana followed her ass into the stove room, Nana smelled the smell of scrambled eggs in the stove room, and asked her brother, "Brother, brother, what did you eat just now, give me some." ”

The mother-in-law taught Tao Tao in advance, and Tao Tao said: "My brother didn't eat anything, so he drank saliva." ”

But Nana, who was two years old, was a very clever girl, and when she looked at her brother's lips with oil, she said, "You liar, you have eaten fragrant food." ”

At this time, the mother-in-law came over and lied to Nana with Taotao and said, "Taotao didn't eat anything, don't believe it, you let him open his mouth." ”

Tao Tao had already swallowed the egg, and the open mouth was empty, and there was nothing, and when Nana saw it, she turned her head and walked out.

Dongmei said to Wei Guo's mother in person: "Mom, it's wrong for you to do this, it's too partial." ”

Wei Guo's mother said disappreciatively: "What's the matter, a woman will become a member of someone else's family sooner or later, and only Sun Wazi is her own family." After speaking, she picked up Taotao and kissed her.

Dongmei knew that her mother-in-law was very patriarchal, but she didn't expect it to be so heavy, everything delicious and fun, she secretly gave Taotao alone, and never gave Nana a little, just because she was a girl.

The small western-style building is rising little by little, Dongmei is busy from morning to night every day, there is almost no time to rest, because she is too busy and tired, she simply handed over the two children to Wei Guo's mother, that is, when she went to bed at night, the two children also slept with Wei Guo's mother.

A few months later, the small western-style building rose from the ground and stood in the backyard of the country, which felt like it stood out from the crowd compared to the low tiled houses in the village.

Standing in front of the small building, Dongmei wiped the sweat from her forehead and looked at this small two-story building that she had worked hard to build.

She couldn't believe that in the process of building the house, she was working like a man, sifting sand and cement, throwing bricks, moving rafters, lifting floors, doing everything, and not treating herself as a woman at all.

When she returned to the house, she looked in the mirror and found that her originally plump and full face had become shriveled, her fair and delicate skin had become black and rough, and her clean face had also been left with many spots from the sun.

She looked at the mirror and smiled, thinking that it was worth it, building a house for his own family, if Wei Guo came back from Xinjiang and saw the small western-style buildings rising from the ground, how happy he would be in his heart.

At night, Dongmei picked up the two children from her mother-in-law and slept with her.

At night, when she was undressing Nana, she was surprised to find that Nana didn't seem to grow at all, but her belly was bulging and her belly was big.

Dongmei couldn't believe her eyes, how her child had changed, just like the African children on TV, with thin limbs but a big belly, obviously caused by malnutrition.

Nana laughed happily when she saw her mother looking at her bulging belly, and Taotao also laughed when she saw her sister's big belly and said, "Nana, you are a little fat man." ”|

The brother and sister laughed, you poke me, I kick you.

But Dongmei looked at Nana's bulging belly, which was more than two years old, and she was extremely uncomfortable, she knew that she was busy building a house and neglected to take care of the child, resulting in malnutrition of the child.

Nana otitis media is just right, why is her belly bulging again, what if it affects her growth and development in the future?

Dongmei wondered, where did the goat milk ordered for Nana go every day, how could her mother-in-law bring Nana to malnutrition, the more Dongmei thought about it, the more angry she became, and she wanted to go over to her mother-in-law to comment, but when she looked at the window, her mother-in-law's house had turned off the lights.

That night, Dongmei didn't fall asleep all night, she looked at Nana, who was sleeping next to her, with a big belly, full of taste.

The next day, Dongmei cleaned up the sanitation in the small western-style building, swept and wiped, and was busy for most of the morning.

Dongmei, who was tired, sat on the steps to rest, and when she looked up, she suddenly saw her mother-in-law carrying a bottle of goat's milk with a discarded hanging needle bottle, and was about to go to the stove to burn it.

The Wubao household at the west entrance of the village has raised several dairy goats, and has been drinking goat's milk since Nana was weaned.

Dongmei saw her mother-in-law cook the goat's milk, put it in a bowl, and walked into the back room.

Dongmei thought that Nana must be in the back room, otherwise how would her mother-in-law bring the goat milk ordered for Nana into the back room.

At this time, Dongmei suddenly saw Taotao running into the inner room from outside the door, Dongmei was very puzzled, she knew that Taotao was not only naughty, but also very greedy, not only love sugar, but also love to drink milk.

She suddenly guessed that during this period of time, her mother-in-law should not give all the goat milk to Taotao to drink, and put Nana aside.

So, Dongmei threw down the broom in her hand and walked to the back room.

At the door of the inner room, Dongmei saw Taotao holding a bowl of goat milk to drink, and after drinking, she didn't forget to lick the remaining drops of goat milk in the bowl.

Seeing this scene, Dongmei's stomach was full of anger, thinking that it must be her mother-in-law's partiality, she took three steps and made two steps, looking for Nana all over the yard, but there was no trace of Nana.

She went out through the head door, and turned her head to see Nana sitting alone on the small stone under the locust tree, without speaking, looking at the courtyard opposite.

It's hot in summer, Nana is barefoot, wearing a small shorts underneath and a small vest on her upper body, which Taotao wore when she was more than a year old, and now Nana is wearing it again, and the clothes are obviously big on Nana.

Dongmei walked over and saw that under the vest, Nana had a big belly, and her heart was sour, her child was sitting here stupidly like a child without a mother, she asked Nana: "Nana, what are you sitting for?"

Nana raised her head, saw that it was her mother, and said happily: "My brother doesn't play with me, he ran to the house, I'm waiting for my brother." ”

Dongmei glanced into the courtyard through the head gate and said, "My brother is secretly drinking goat's milk inside, don't wait for him, let's go in and drink goat's milk." ”

After saying that, Dongmei stretched out her hand to Nana, who was sitting on the small stone.

Nana glanced at her mother, and did not grab her mother's hand, she said: "Grandma said that she has no money to build a house, so she can only buy a bottle of goat's milk, my brother is a boy, my brother drinks, Nana is a girl, Nana does not drink." ”

Dongmei heard Nana's answer and knew that it was her mother-in-law who taught her children patriarchally, so she couldn't suppress the discomfort in her heart, covered her mouth with her hands, and cried in front of the child, tears running down her cheeks.

When Nana saw her mother crying, she hurriedly stood up, put her little hand in her mother's hand and said, "Mom doesn't cry, Nana will go home with Mom." ”