Chapter 6 Living in peace and contentment
Since then, Situ Cheng has lived in the Shi family, cooking every day, washing and cleaning, taking care of her children, just like a farmer's daughter.
One day, the Shi couple and the second child, Shi Zi'er, went to work in the fields.
Near noon, Situ Ming carried a bamboo basket to bring them food.
Shi Zi'er's stomach was already growling, so he put down his hand and ran to the ground, not forgetting to say: "Mother, I'll eat first." ”
Uncle Shi scolded:
"Unruly little rabbit, you guys are still working, you take the opportunity to be lazy."
"Alright, old stone, my son has also hoeed the grass all morning, let him rest."
Then Aunt Shi shouted at Shi Zi'er again:
"After eating, let's go home with Xiao'er and rest for a while, and go to the mountains in the afternoon to pull out some thorns and surround the vegetable field in our yard."
It turned out that there were a few chickens in Aunt Shi's yard, and Mi'er liked one of them very much, so she didn't put them in captivity with other chickens. Let it roam freely in the courtyard.
When everyone is busy, they leave their children at home. He took the chicken as a playmate and named it "Ah Hua".
Ah Hua gradually grew into a big rooster, but the vegetable patch in the yard suffered, and it was miserable to peck at it.
Shi Zi'er saw that his mother was very angry about this, and threatened to slaughter Ah Hua and eat it. I was so excited that I could finally eat chicken. I drool when I think about it, and I remember that the last time I ate it was during the Spring Festival.
But when Aunt Shi saw that her youngest son was almost crying with a small mouth, her anger at the rooster disappeared. In fact, she is also angry and talking about herself, an adult big can be exchanged for a lot of good things.
It's almost the Mid-Autumn Festival, and she is going to sell Ah Hua, buy some cloth, and add some clothes for the children. Especially Situ Ming, she can only wear stone clothes every day.
Some of Shi Zi'er's clothes are also leftovers worn by the boss, and they are patched on top of each other. There is a saying in the countryside:
Three years of the new, three years of the old, another three years of sewing and mending, and three years of improvisation.
So I have to stay for a while, but I also have to take care of the vegetable field. So he prepared to cut some thorns and make a fence to fence off the vegetable patch.
Shi Zi'er was gobbling up some big cakes on the ground.
"You wait to eat, drink some boiling water, don't choke." Situ Cheng looked at him and smiled.
"Have you eaten it, do you want to have a piece too?" Shi Zi'er took a piece of bread and handed it to Situ Ming.
Situ Yuan hurriedly shook her head and said that she had eaten some with Mi'er at home before sending it over.
"I'll take you to a fun place later." Shi Zi'er said.
"Godmother asked you to cut thorns in the afternoon, you are greedy to run away, and you are careful not to eat dinner." Situ Cheng persuaded.
"Don't worry, you can't make a mistake."
As he spoke, he stood up and patted the dirt on his buttocks.
"Godfather, godmother, come over to eat first, wait for the next meal to be cold." She shouted.
Aunt Shi answered and asked them to go home first.
She and Shi Zi'er walked on the way home one after the other.
It is autumn, and it is the season when all things on the earth are ripe. There are clusters of wild jujube trees growing on the side of the road, and the wild jujube trees are very small, half-green and not red hanging between the branches.
Shi Zi'er picked up a few ripe ones, threw one into his mouth, and handed the rest to Situ Ming.
"What is this, can you eat it?"
She grew up in the south and never knew the fruit.
"Wild dates, I don't know this. But the fruit on this tree is not tasty, it is too sour. ”
Shi Zi'er pouted and said.
Situ Cheng put it in her mouth and tasted it, and sure enough, it was not true.
"Later, let's go home and get a sickle and go up the mountain to pick dates, you don't know, delicious dates grow on the edge of the cliff." Big, small, and sweet. Shi Zi'er said.
"But the matter of the garden ......"
Situ Cheng wanted to eat big and sweet dates again, but she couldn't delay the business.
"You little girl is really stupid, but you don't know that this wild jujube tree is a good thorn. It is not easy to pluck the fruit, cut down the branches, and drag them home. ”
Shi Zi'er glanced at Situ Cheng impatiently, and didn't wait for her to hurry home.
Although Situ Cheng is a person who has lived a lifetime, how can he say that he has also given birth to two children, but he was robbed by this little hairy child. But life here is really interesting and tight, and it feels like a home that she has always longed for.
In her previous life, her mother, Su, was sold to the Qian family by her grandparents, and her father was in his middle at that time. accepted Su as a concubine, firstly, he fell in love with Su's beauty, and secondly, his wife Li failed to give him a son, and he hoped that Su's could add a son to his Qian family to continue the incense.
Su's stomach is also very competitive, and she became pregnant not long after passing the door, but unfortunately it is still a baby girl, and the baby girl is Situ Ming.
In Situ Ming's memory, her mother had several more pregnancies later, but they all slipped the fetus, which is said to be due to her poor health.
Situ Ming's father gradually snubbed their mother and daughter, especially after Aunt Sun passed the door, their mother and daughter were bullied by the Li family and the Sun family, and they were not even as good as the rest of the family.
Her biological mother, Su Shi, was naturally cowardly and fearful, and sometimes she couldn't protect her. In Situ Ming's heart, she is like a weed, with nowhere to avoid the wind and rain.
These days, she has found the warmth of home, and the Shi couple treat her like their own parents, and their children can stick to her. The sweet sister of the little mouth kept shouting.
Sometimes she seems to forget all the things in her previous life, but worry and resentment are like a budding seed, which makes her feel uneasy and live a comfortable and warm life.
Situ Cheng was thinking about her thoughts as she walked, and when she came back to her senses, she couldn't see the stone anymore, thinking that this half-grown child was really fast.
When I came to a corner, I saw Shizi'er squatting sneakily behind a big rock. She was about to ask a question, when Shi Zi'er made a silent gesture at her.
I saw a girl about thirteen or fourteen years old walking over not far away, carrying a bamboo blue in the crook of her arm. Although the girl was not as beautiful as a flower, she was also very delicate.
As the girl drew nearer, the stone jumped out from behind the big rock and shouted, and the girl sat down on the ground and cried.
Situ Cheng looked at the stomach and laughed, but felt that Shi Zi'er was too nonsense, if the girl's family came to the door, Shi Zi'er would have to be beaten again.
The very delicate girl is named Xiaoyu, and she is the daughter of Aunt Cao next door, and Aunt Cao is famous for protecting her shortcomings. Xiaoyu has been crying since she was a child, not a trivial matter, seeing that she cried so much that she couldn't stop crying, people who didn't know thought that the sky was falling.
Situ Cheng hurriedly stepped forward to help Xiaoyu up, and comforted her softly.
Xiao Yu took a few steps back, retracted her hands, and peeked at Situ Cheng again.
Shi Zi'er also stepped forward to accompany him, didn't he say:
"Sister Xiaoyu, I was just joking with you just now, I'm sorry I accidentally scared you. I can't bear to give you my beloved plaything. ”
As he spoke, he pinched a green cabbage worm with his index finger and thumb and was about to put it in Xiaoyu's hand.
Xiaoyu was also curious about what kind of fun thing she wanted to give her, and when she was about to receive it with both hands, she saw clearly that it was a green vegetable insect with a body constantly twisting and surging.
She shouted, almost throwing away the bamboo blue in her hand, and then turned around and ran.
Shi Zi'er was still chasing after her.
"The cute caterpillar is chasing you."
Xiaoyu screamed at the top of her voice and forgot to cry.
Shi Zi'er chased for a while and stopped, bent down and laughed while covering his stomach.
"I'm laughing to death, hahaha, no, my stomach hurts. Hahaha......"