Chapter 26: Out of Confinement
Today is the day of Du Juan's confinement, a whole month, and if she sits for one less day, she will attract Sang Chunhua to stare at her.
There is no way, the most authoritative person in the Du family for this kind of thing is Sang Chunhua, so Du Juan can't even find someone to plead.
No, early in the morning, Sang Chunhua instructed Du Shilan to boil a big pot of bath water for Du Juan and let her wash it well.
After washing up, Du Juan stretched comfortably, "Could it be that you have been lying in bed for a month, and you are still lazy?" ”
Shaking her head with a self-deprecating smile, Du Juan washed the bathtub with bath water, and poured the dirty water in the basin into the large wooden bucket, ready to be dumped in the backyard later.
When I opened the cabinet door, I found that except for the army green, it was blue, or gray, and there was not a single slightly brighter dress.
"Alas, I don't know when this unfortunate era will pass." Du Juan didn't have a choice, so she could only take one casually and put it on, anyway, she wore it the same way, and what else to choose.
"Those beautiful clothes that I saw in my previous life, I don't know if I will have the opportunity to wear them in this life?"
A person muttered and cleaned himself up, Du Juan carried the bathtub to the back wall of the house again, and opened the door with her bucket of dirty water.
"Xiaojuan, finished washing?" Du Shirong had just re-tied the fence in the middle of the two rooms with a straw rope, and when he looked up, he saw a delicate and tender girl, carrying a wooden barrel as high as her thigh, and instantly put down the work in her hand and ran over in a few steps, "Why don't you squeak this kind of heavy work, there are so many brothers at home, why don't you need to carry it yourself." ”
"Big brother, came over so early?" Du Juan didn't argue, just smiled and gave the barrel to Du Shirong, who was glaring at her.
"I'm usually busy at work, so come early on my day off to see what work I have to do at home." Du Shirong easily carried the barrel and walked to the backyard. They are women of the Du family, how can they pour their own bath water!
Du Juan followed behind, and today should be the first time she took a serious look at Du Jiazi.
Just like in the memory of the original owner, vegetables were planted in the front and back yards. But the vegetable seeds have only been in the field for a long time, so they look a little sparse and untidy.
"What are you doing here, go back to the house quickly, the weather in early spring is not good for people like you who have just come out of confinement. Be obedient and hurry back to the house. Your aunt and Lan Lan are preparing lunch, you can go to them and talk. ”
"Okay, big brother."
The courtyard of the two brothers of the Du family, although it is not small in the mulberry brigade, is really not good in Du Juan's eyes.
The walls of the courtyard are all made of rubble and are only half a meter high.
There was not even a tree in the yard except for vegetables, but in a circle in the corner of the yard, there were a few hens who were constantly looking for food.
In addition to a row of six gray brick houses, the bluestone well in the whole courtyard is the most conspicuous, the water in it is very clear, according to Du Juan's facial features, and the two twisted braids are dark and shiny.
"Xiaojuan, I'm done." Sang Chunhua carried a big sieve, on which were placed small cloth bags, and in the bags were some rare dry goods. She plans to take advantage of the good weather today to turn over the sun again.
These dry goods are generally used to entertain guests, and the Du family is usually reluctant to take them out to eat, but today is the day of Du Juan's confinement, and Sang Chunhua plans to use dry goods to make a dish.
Du Juan smiled and nodded, helping Sang Chunhua pour out the various dry goods in the bag and classify them flat, "Auntie, do we also have mushrooms here?" Seeing the unknown mushroom in the sieve, he asked curiously.
"What mushrooms do we have here?" Sang Chunhua said with a smile, "These were brought back by him when the patriotic army came back a few years ago, and the family has been saving food, but there is not much left until now." After a while, my aunt will make you a mushroom stewed chicken, and Aijun said that it is a dish from the north, let's try it later. ”
"Okay."
"Mother, which chicken do you want to catch?" Zhao Jinhua came out with a kitchen knife, she didn't stop coming over early this morning, and she always felt that the Du family would forgive her for what she had done before.
"You don't have to do that job, I'll let Shirong come later." Sang Chunhua frowned slightly, she used to see her eldest daughter-in-law waiting for food with her legs crossed every time she came back, and she couldn't wait to drive people back to Zhao's house.
Now that she is looking for work everywhere and rushing to do it, why does she feel that she is not as comfortable as before?
But after thinking about it in a flash, the eldest daughter-in-law has become more diligent and knows that it is a good thing to go back to her mother-in-law's house to find work. It's a good thing, she can't hit the other party, so she commanded again: "Jinhua, the chicken killer doesn't need a woman to do in our Du family, you go to the vegetable patch in the backyard to see if there is anything that needs to be pulled." It's been a few days since the seeds were sown over there, so don't let those weeds rob the soil of the nutrients. ”
"Hey, okay." Zhao Jinhua replied loudly, happily put the kitchen knife back in the kitchen and ran to the backyard, like that, as if someone would rob her of her life.
"Auntie, she ......" Du Juan wondered, this person was still arrogant in front of her a few days ago, would this ...... What's the fuss about her?
Sang Chunhua looked back and forth, left and right, and said softly to Du Juan, "The incident happened, she gave all the family's money to her maternal brother without your eldest brother's consent, and your eldest brother knew about it." A few days ago, your eldest brother went to his father-in-law's house to talk about something, and her mother and her brother almost made her father angry. ”
"So strict? Then the eldest brother and his father-in-law were okay later, right? Du Juan showed worry on her face, but in her heart she scolded Zhao Jinhua and the eighteenth generation of her Zhao family's ancestors.
Your Zhao family can't raise their daughters by themselves, so don't come to harm their Du family. Who did they recruit and provoke whom? They don't owe you the Zhao family.
"It should be fine, your eldest brother didn't say it, I guess I'm still angry." Sang Chunhua patted the crumbs on her clothes and pulled Du Juan into the house, "Don't worry, your eldest brother will take care of this." ”
"Well, I know that." Du Juan nodded in response, "That sister-in-law just did this, did she come to our house to watch Xiàn?" "That person is not completely brainless, and he still knows that he will go back to his mother-in-law's house to make amends.
"I think it should be, otherwise she will either rob my hand of the work in the morning, or rob your second sister-in-law, that is also a good word, what to say that she is not sensible, married into the Du family for so many years, and did not do something for the family again, now she has figured it out, knowing that she is the daughter-in-law of the Du family, she has to think about the Du family in her heart, and do things for the Du family......"
Du Juan listened with a smile and didn't express any opinions, she could see that although Sang Chunhua complained about Zhao Jinhua in her mouth, she was actually quite satisfied with Zhao Jinhua's appearance today.
Du Juan entered the house, greeted Sang Xiaohong and Du Shilan, and helped everyone prepare lunch together.
Today, the Du family gathered together, and with Du Juan's full moon, everyone had a reunion dinner before spring ploughing.
"Xiaojuan, you can change the small fire." Sang Xiaohong added cold water to the pot, put some seasonings in an appropriate amount, and covered the pot.
Patting her apron, after she finished instructing Du Juan, she turned around and came to the board to prepare the next dish.
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