22 Hardship
To add insult to injury, there is still a baby at home...... Diapers are such a thing as I don't know that there is wood and it has been invented, anyway, Brother Ping, who is only a few days old, has only one job to eat and sleep, and sleep and eat. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info This results in a number of diapers that are not cleaned or clean. Diapers made from old adult clothes are not infinite, once they are dirty, they must be washed out quickly and dried by the stove, otherwise there will be a danger that there will be no cloth to replace. Sometimes one is not good, the thick mattress is also wet, and the entire bed bedding has to be dragged out to wash, which is simply sad.
As mentioned earlier, firewood in this era also needs to be carefully calculated. Although it is said that relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, the people in the mountains do not worry about the lack of firewood. But does the firewood run to the house on its own feet? A large pile of firewood was piled up in the autumn of the previous year, and it was cut directly from the mountains. If you want to light the fire, you have to drag it out to dry, and then tie it into small handles with straw before you can put it in the stove to burn. This kind of thing is also the work of a woman's family, and if a man from any family is making firewood, he will be laughed at by others. The woman who knew how to live had already taken advantage of the slack time to stack many bundles and prepare them to burn. And the Yang family only had one second aunt before, and she was famous for waiting in the pot before she would go to pull firewood. This time, the firewood tied up for the banquet at home was not enough to burn, so I still took a few bundles from the uncle. When the matter is over, it will be poor and white, and Yang Xiaobei will have to prepare everything.
Dad didn't care so much because he was young. Helped her prick some. But most of it was still up to her to do it alone. Well, this is the time to need a pair of protective gloves...... The firewood cut down from the mountain is all shrubs, thatch, thorns, etc., not to mention rough, but the key is that there are wooden thorns from time to time. When you tie it, you need to tie it tightly, otherwise it is easy to spread out and not burn, and at this time, it will either be cut by the thatch, or stabbed by the wooden thorns and bloody. People who have been used to doing it since childhood have a layer of calluses in their palms, but there is nothing. Poor Yang Xiaobei's hands have only been a few days later, and they have already been cut out of shape. Rao is using the brand-name hand cream purchased on behalf of the agent, and there is no use for eggs.
Other things such as cooking rice and feeding pigs are also necessary to do every day. After a busy day, there is not much time to spare. Yang Xiaobei is not really a squeamish lady, no matter how hard and tired she is, she gritted her teeth and insisted on doing it. It's impossible for her to be coquettish with her 20-year-old father and ask him to help her. Although in the later life, as long as she complained about the cold water, her father quickly took it over and washed it. But now he has to go out during the day, and come back at night with an oil lamp and still reading. Usually no matter what kind of work, including diaper washing, will rush to help her, and no matter what others say men can't do. Yang Xiaobei couldn't bear to ask her father for help anymore, she still wanted her father to read hard and be admitted to college!
Grandpa and second uncle are used to machismo, and these things are natural in their eyes that women do them. If you want them to cook a meal, that's impossible and won't. It's not that they don't love Yang Xiaobei, seeing that she hasn't worked, they didn't think about letting her go to the ground at all. I also helped with carrying water, feeding the cows, and beating pigweed. What else can it be? The family she was born in was so poor, these made her unbearable and felt hard work, Sister Fang, Sister Li, and their teenage girls were all familiar with it and used to doing it. It doesn't make sense for a girl of her age to sit at home and wait for the elders to do it. So although he was abused and grinned, Yang Xiaobei did not complain. Fate is like this, even if you change time and space, it is what you should bear, it is yours. God didn't treat you badly, he just told you to do what you should do.
Belch...... At this time, is it necessary to say, "The heavens will descend on the people, and they must first suffer their minds, strain their muscles and bones, starve their bodies and skin, empty their bodies, and act chaotically, so they will be tempted to endure and gain what they can't ......"
When she experienced the baptism of ice water again, Yang Xiaobei was so cold that she gritted her teeth, and she muttered this sentence to comfort herself, and when her father heard it, she couldn't laugh anymore; "Little sister, you are good at ancient literature! Learn and apply it!" Indeed, life in the countryside is very hard, and it must be very hard for Xiaomei to suddenly return here from a big city where she has no worries about food and clothing to do this! Although she said that she had lived an average life in Puhai, she decided that it was impossible to do these housework. Looking at the little sister's hands, you can know that they have been soaked in cold water and red and swollen in the past few days, and there are many small cuts on them, which were scratched when they were cleaning firewood. Yang Qimin felt sorry for his sister, but he had no way to change the environment except for helping her do some as much as possible. He could only silently tell himself that he had to work harder, work harder, and that he must be admitted to university in order to change his fate, change his family, and let his father, sister, and other relatives live a better life.
Speaking of studying, Yang Qimin became interested and asked: "Little sister, are you studying in a health school, do you want to be a doctor in the future?" When making up stories, Yang Xiaobei said that he studied in Puhai according to his own experience. In fact, if someone is more serious, it will be more troublesome, after all, schools have files, and academic qualifications cannot be fabricated, and ......the day of getting a graduation certificate for 3 or 50 yuan on the street is still early!
Yang Qimin was taken aback, he didn't expect such a big thing as reading, and the little sister said to give up and gave up. But it's not okay to blame her, after all, she has become alone, helpless (the above brain is supplemented), and it is also the right choice to go home to find her family. "Then what do you think in the future?" he couldn't help but worry about his sister, girls don't study, only waiting to get married, my sister is so good (not), how can she marry in the countryside like this? Unless......
"Little sister, are you going back to Puhai?" Yang Qimin was still young after all, and he had no idea for a while. "No, after Grandma died, the house was also repossessed by the government, and I had nowhere to go back. Besides, in the past few years, my grandmother has not gone through the formal adoption procedures, my hukou is not in Puhai, and I am an auditor when I study, and I don't even have a file. Yang Xiaobei deliberately showed a lost look, which made Yang Qimin feel distressed.
"Then we won't go back! When you go to work in the township after the holiday, let your father take you to make up the hukou. As for studying, he didn't know what to do with Yang Xiaobei's situation, and he planned to ask the teacher when school started. Second, if the little sister can continue to study, the tuition fee is also a problem that cannot be solved. Yang Qimin's own tuition fees for the start of school, or this time he received money from the family banquet, and the foreign debts have not been repaid, so he will hold on to this first.