Chapter 3: Delivering Meals
I have been lying in bed for several days, and every time I have a meal, Hui'er comes in with porridge and steamed buns. During this period, I occasionally heard Zhang Li's scolding, and the crying of the younger son of the brother-in-law next door. It's just that every time she cries and thinks of it, Hui'er is inevitably scolded.
It is the autumn harvest season, and the men have all gone to the field, and only Zhang Li and Qiao are left in the house.
Shu Min saw that the sun was just right, so he and Hui'er moved all the quilts out of the house, planning to dry them well. After these days of rest, Shumin's injuries are almost healed, as long as he doesn't do heavy work, it doesn't matter.
"Yo, I'm finally willing to give up, I thought some people would just lie in bed and enjoy happiness!"
As soon as he took the quilt out, he heard Zhang Li's voice that was neither yin nor yang.
"Now that you're up, you'll make today's lunch, I'll have to take care of you and your younger siblings for the next two days, and my back hurts. Other people's mother-in-law is not a daughter-in-law to serve, so my life is hard, and I serve my daughter-in-law every day."
These days, because Shumin is lying in bed to recuperate, although Zhang Li is dissatisfied, it is a matter of human life, and it is not too much, but in terms of diet, Shumin is slightly better than when he was not injured. At least there are steamed buns to eat.
At this time, seeing that Shumin was already able to get out of bed, she wanted to instruct this daughter-in-law to do things again.
"Mother, I haven't been good yet, if I bump into it again, I will have to spend money!" Shu Min replied angrily.
As soon as Zhang Li heard the word silver, his heart hurt, and Shumin's collision cost nearly two taels of silver. In addition, the little daughter-in-law is confinement, and the autumn flowers will enter the door next month, and everything will cost money. Zhang Li's heart hurt as if he had been stripped of him, and he secretly scolded for losing money, so he took the basket to the vegetable garden. This daughter-in-law is not as obedient as before after she died once! But it's only been a few days, and everything is waiting for Qiuhua to enter the door.
Lunch is three dishes and brown rice, no meat but enough oil and water, one is because the men need to eat better, and the other is that the conditions of the Zhang family are not bad. At first, I thought that the Zhang family was very poor because Shumin saw that his and Hui'er's clothes were patched, and he guessed, but now he said that he and Hui'er's clothes had the most patches at home. The clothes on my brother and sister and Zhang Li are all very good materials!
Alas, poor Hui'er, my mother will definitely not let you suffer again in the future.
After lunch was ready, Zhang Li asked Hui'er to deliver the food, and she put the rice and vegetables in a small clay pot and put them in the back basket for Hui'er to deliver. Shu Min carried the back basket, at least ten catties, frowned unconsciously, and said, "It's so heavy, where can Hui'er carry it!"
"She can't carry your back, she eats all day and doesn't work to make trouble for me. As soon as Zhang Li heard Shumin's words, he exploded. "There are so many things at home, your brother and sister are still lying in bed for confinement, I have to serve you after serving her alone, what's the matter, I can't ask a little one to deliver a meal? !
Zhang Li's nagging kung fu Shumin has seen it in the past few days, and when he saw that she started to be endless again, he immediately shook his hand, "Okay, okay, don't talk about it, I'll go with Hui'er to deliver food." Anyway, this village is so big, in case I faint outside or something, everyone knows about our family and will send it back to me, and the doctor will naturally invite it. ”
After speaking, he greeted Hui'er and went out together. The angry Zhang Li stomped his feet in the back.
The back basket was carried by Hui'er, but Shumin dragged it behind her with one hand to help her lose some weight. Originally, her body was still not suitable for going out, but she really couldn't bear to carry her children to deliver food with such a heavy back basket.
"Mother, you are just so powerful, grandma is so angry with you. Hehe" Hui'er tilted her head and smiled sweetly at Shumin, as if it was a very happy thing for grandma to be so angry that she jumped to her feet.
"Doesn't Hui'er like grandma?"
"It's not that I don't like it, it's just that grandma doesn't like Hui'er. Does my mother like Hui'er?"
"Hui'er also likes her mother the most" The child's heart is very simple, if you like her, she will like you.
It didn't take long to come to the fields, most of the fields in the village are concentrated in this area, the fields are golden, some of the rice fields have been harvested and some are still being harvested, and the scene is in full swing.
There were also many people who greeted him along the way, and Shumin also greeted them with a smile based on the memory of the original owner.
Not far away is their own land. The population of the Zhang family is not large, but there is a lot of land, so when it comes to the busy farming season, they hate that there are too few men in the family, and even the children of the second brother Zhengming's family are also busy with the adults in the field.
The second brother's family has a total of three boys: Zhang Youfu, Zhang Youlu, and Zhang Quanquan, who has just been born not long ago.
Youfu is a year older than Hui'er, already more than 6 years old, can already do some simple farm work, Youlu is only four years old, one year younger than Hui'er, it is the age when he likes to run behind his brother, I heard that my brother has to follow him to the ground, most of them are here to play. In fact, this is also true. I thought it was a fun thing to go to the field to harvest rice, but who knew that I was exposed to the sun and bitten by insects, and now I am still itching all over my body by rice, and I have long regretted it. I want to go home, but I'm afraid to go home alone, so I'm bored sitting on the ridge. At this time, I saw Hui'er delivering food, but I was happy, so I ran over from afar.
"There's something to eat," Hui'er hadn't put down the basket yet, he couldn't wait to pounce, and Hui'er almost didn't stand firm.
"Don't worry, wait for grandpa!" Hui'er was pounced on by him, almost fell, and said with some dissatisfaction.
"But I'm hungry, and I'm going to eat first. Youlu shouted a little unconvinced, "I did a morning's work, you girl is enjoying yourself at home, where do you have so many words now!"
"You have been doing it all morning, obviously you have been sitting all morning" Shumin listened to a child and took a bite of a girl's piece, a mouthful of Qingfu at home, and felt angry, so he said, "My Hui'er has done a lot of things at home, I see this dish. And these meals are all carried by my family Hui'er from home. ”
"Who wouldn't know how to wash rice, wash vegetables, and deliver food!" Youlu was still not convinced.
"Then when you go back next time, will you carry these dishes and chopsticks or something?" Shumin seemed to say casually, "Don't Hui'er will get it then, you won't."
"Whoever doesn't pull, I carry it. ”
"That man has to talk about it, you won't regret it!" Shumin brought him a top hat,
"Of course words count, if I regret it, I'll be a puppy!" Youlu raised his head and swore solemnly. There is no consciousness of falling into the trap of others.
Hui'er heard it and smiled at herself, and Shumin quickly glanced at her, for fear that this kid would notice