Chapter 23: Hardship

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"Huiya, get up and make breakfast!" Mrs. Dong's voice came from the east house, and Hui Ya sat up from the kang excitedly, rolled up a shabby mattress and put it on the top of the kang, and then went down to cook in Suosuo.

Today's Huiya is no longer the high-flying Miss Huiya who first arrived at the Dong family, because of the sudden departure of Mama Zheng, Huiya, who has lost her backbone, is now the lowest status among the five members of the Dong family.

Naturally, the brocade quilt in the carriage at the beginning, Hui Ya had no possibility of using it anymore, as well as the purse containing silver, the gold bracelet on her hand and so many beautiful clothes of Hui Ya, all of which were taken away by Mrs. Dong in various names.

In fact, these things could have not happened, and Huiya didn't necessarily have to hand over those things, if Huiya resisted desperately.

But in that case, between Mrs. Dong and her, there will not even be the last trace of incense left, and she wants to get rid of the gold and silver on her body every day, while Dong Taohua will look at the clothes on Huiya's body and look greedy, and become more and more jealous of Huiya.

Don't underestimate these calculations and jealousy, maybe there is nothing in one day or two, and the cumulative effect over time is enough to make Huiya, a child who is only eleven years old, take a huge risk, and even die young.

Therefore, after thinking about it, Huiya didn't make a sound when Mrs. Dong secretly turned over her clothes in the middle of the night, and handed over all her property on the surface.

After all, she is an eleven-year-old girl, in a strange mountain village, if she still has a lot of gold and silver on her body, it is equivalent to a child swaggering through the market with gold, and it is strange not to be robbed or killed.

Hui Ya didn't think about escaping with gold and silver, or asking someone to accompany her to the capital. But Hui Ya is only an eleven-year-old girl now, she can't even beat a boy of the same age, she had a bumpy experience in her previous life, Rao's family will fight each other for gold and silver, and how can the weak Hui Ya dare to trust others?

Today's Huiya, although she has no beautiful clothes and gold and silver on the surface, thinks that at least she has no worries about her life. Although it is hard and busy, and the food and clothing on weekdays are a little poor, as long as you can survive this period well, it will be good to wait for your father and mother to find it.

Today's Mrs. Dong is holding a dozen taels of silver in her hand, and she is very happy in her heart, not only Dong Taoshu's dowry has been solved, but Dong Taohua's dowry is no problem.

Although she was screaming at Huiya every day, Mrs. Dong saw Huiya's straight little waist, but she always felt that she was not a girl who could be called. Although Hui Ya can help herself do some work on weekdays and will not cause trouble, Mrs. Dong is always hairy in her heart, as if she doesn't dare to go too far with Hui Ya.

Because of this strange psychology, although Mrs. Dong is good and bad for Huiya, she has long lost the idea of cutting the grass and eradicating the roots.

Rao was able to save his life, but Huiya's life was not easy. The work that was called by Mrs. Dong every day, Rao is these things have been done countless times in his previous life, Rao is just doing some laundry and cooking household chores, which is extremely difficult for Huiya, who has never done heavy work.

Hui Ya washed her face with half a basin of cold water, cleared up her brain, which was drowsy because of getting up early, and took advantage of the faint morning light to cook.

Huiya first poked the ashes in the hearth with a burning stick, and when she saw that the sparks in the hearth were still there, she filled the hearth with a handful of hay. That wasn't enough, Huiya needed to blow hard into the hearth to make the spark more vigorous, and set the hay on to rekindle the fire.

When blowing into the stove, it was not very easy, and the ashes in the stove were scattered everywhere with Huiya's movements, not only Huiya's body, but also her head and face. Sometimes when I blow too much, I will choke on the soot and cough, and I will become disgraced in the morning.

Seeing that the hay was lit, he added some small firewood branches to the stove, and when the small firewood branches were also burned, Huiya added a few more thick firewood branches to make the fire prosperous, and by the way, she added two scoops of water in the big iron pot that was almost a man high.

The fire in the stove was blazing, and Huiya finally breathed a sigh of relief, and finally finished the first and most difficult thing of the day. While breathing a sigh of relief, Huiya did not dare to delay for a moment and began her busy life every day.

This cooking is extremely difficult for Huiya in the previous life, and it took a long time to learn, but for Huiya today, it is very familiar.

Although Mrs. Dong has some silver in her hand, it is for the sake of her children's marriage, so the Dong family is still very simple in terms of food.

Breakfast is the nest of bud rice noodles, with porridge with sorghum rice, and the pickled cabbage gnocchi that Mrs. Dong pickled herself earlier. is such a meal, and it is extremely difficult to eat enough in the original Dong family.

When a large pot of water was half-boiled, the reddened sorghum rice grains were washed and poured into the pot by Hui Yatou, and then a peeled branch was put in the pot, and a small basin was placed on it, and the nest left over from last night was placed in it.

In the effort of boiling porridge, Huiya fished out half a pickle gnocchi, sliced it into thin slices with a kitchen knife and cut it into shreds, cut the green onions, ginger and garlic into minced pieces and put them on it, and then slightly drizzled a few drops of sesame oil.

Even the simplest food should be made to taste better, and even the most difficult environment should make oneself live a better life, which is the truth that Huiya realized after experiencing so many hardships for so long in her previous life.

So even when she was beaten into the dust, Huiya still insisted on doing it, and she did so to make her life less difficult. For example, this pickle gnocchi, when Mrs. Dong cooks breakfast by herself, she will be disgusted to death by the whole family, and let Huiya be so careful that it has become an appetizer that the whole family likes.

Although Mrs. Dong always dislikes Huiya's craftsmanship, which costs oil and salt, she only nags a few words, and she doesn't really accept the sesame oil bottle, obviously she still likes Huiya's small dish.

After cutting the pickles, Huiya squatted back to the stove to watch the fire, it was already summer, and although she was wearing heavy coarse cloth clothes in the morning, it was still very hot. In addition, there was a fire to burn, Huiya's little face was originally pounced with a layer of black ash, but after a while, a lot of sweat had already flowed, and she wiped it with her sleeve casually, and her face was black and white.

finally finished cooking and called Dong Da's family to eat, and Huiya, who had eaten a bite of food in a hurry, didn't have time to clean up herself, so she began to be busy washing dishes and wiping the stove again. After that, he tended to the vegetables in the vegetable garden, removed insects and loosened the soil and watered them, and then helped Dong Da's family wash their clothes......

Whenever there is a little slackness or slow movements, Mrs. Dong's reprimand as if urging her life will appear, so that Huiya has to step on her heavy legs, hold her arms that are already pantothenic, and keep working.

When the day's heavy work was finished, Huiya was already tired and had a sore back, where could she still take care of tidying up herself, and as soon as her body was next to the edge of the kang, she fell asleep.