Zhou Cuiling was cooking dinner in the kitchen, the three leather boys also helped with the work, the eldest brother carried water, the second brother chopped pig vegetables, and the third brother was very busy while adding fire to the stove and pounding minced garlic.

Seeing Meng Tao, Zhou Cuiling said, "I was about to wait for my eldest brother to finish picking up the water, and let him call you over for dinner." ”

"I've already eaten it," Meng Tao said: "The grain advanced by going to the brigade headquarters today has been ground up, and I have got half a bag of rice, and I can have more than ten catties of white rice when I take off the chaff, and I will stew the rice tonight." ”

"Then you don't have to cook?"

"I picked a small cabbage from the educated youths and cooked it like this, it was delicious."

Zhou Cuiling couldn't help laughing: "I see that you have suffered a lot in the Tian family, and you think it is delicious if you have no oil or salt." ”

He pointed upstairs again: "I have collected all the clothes, folded them on the bed, won't you live with me tonight?" ”

"No, I've got my room done."

After Meng Tao finished speaking, he asked again: "Uncle Zhou went back to work in the commune, what about my aunt?" Why are the four of you at home? ”

"My grandmother didn't know what was going on, so she asked my mother to call it a day and go to work, and I happened to settle accounts today, so I came back late, and I haven't eaten dinner yet, and I'm going to be late for class again." Zhou Cuiling said.

Meng Tao remembered that she still had to go to the literacy class to study.

went upstairs to get the clothes and came down, and said to Zhou Cuiling: "Then I'll send the clothes back, you cook and eat first, and I'll come over and go to the study class with you later." ”

"Since you've eaten, you don't have to bypass me, I'll definitely be late. The few educated youths in your family, Jiang Xiaodong, Zhao Ming, and He Huijuan are all teachers, and it is Zhao Ming's turn to go to class tonight, so you can follow him. ”

"Okay, we'll go together when we get back."

"Okay."

Meng Tao came out with his clothes, night fell, the surroundings were numb and dark, the village road was only vaguely visible, there was no electricity, it was so inconvenient, I missed the street lights in the city.

Back in the courtyard of the Meng family, the educated youths are eating, they are a partnership meal system, that is, everyone gets together to take food to cook together, and then uses the lunch box to divide the meal, each eats its own lunch box, washes its own lunch box, and cooks the rice in turns, which is very good, and there is no dependence.

The original two kerosene lamps of the Meng family, one each borrowed by the male and female educated youths, Meng Tao came back, and the male educated youth took the initiative to return it, and there was half a kerosene left in the lamp, which was enough for Meng Tao to use for a few days.

Meng Tao lit the lamp and tidied up things in the room, and when they finished eating, they saw that Zhao Ming was about to leave, and hurriedly told him to wait, put his schoolbag on his back, locked the door, and went to the literacy class with him.

When everyone saw Meng Tao's move, they were secretly surprised in their hearts: This is really a huge change, after leaving the Tian family, they all know that they take the initiative to learn and pursue progress, which is not bad!

Zhao Ming is an enthusiastic and talkative young man, his parents teach in the university, influenced since childhood, he is also very happy to be a teacher, and Meng Tao talked all the way, he found that Meng Tao is actually very smart, some problems can draw inferences from one another, the way of thinking is different, very unique, he can't help but give a promise, to open a small stove for Meng Tao, to ensure that it takes the shortest time to complete primary and junior high school coursework, as long as Meng Tao is willing to learn, he can also teach high school courses.

Meng Tao is very happy, the teacher is here, and she is a "prodigy" who has a provenance.

Meng Tao was "studying hard" in the literacy class, and the yard of the Tian family was quarreling and quarrelling, these days such noise has become the norm, almost once or twice a day, fortunately, the neighbors are not so close, otherwise they have to be annoyed by their family.

Most of the causes are caused by Tian Baoshan and Zhao Liulian, Zhao Liulian miscarried, also considered a small month, she lay in bed every day, waiting for someone to serve, asked to eat chicken and meat to supplement nutrition, and asked someone to wash her clothes and clean up the house, the two daughters must also take good care of her, can't let her daughter cry, these things, if Meng Taohua is still there, there will be no problem, but Meng Taohua is not leaving, so who will do it? Of course, it's mother-in-law Wang Shuifeng.

And how can Wang Shuifeng be in this mood now? The family is in a mess, the old man and the eldest daughter are living in the health center, they have to spend money, someone to take care of them, but the two younger sons have dropped out of school and run home, every day squatting downstairs to the door is reluctant to go out, she is very anxious, how can she manage so much?

If your granddaughter cries if she loves to cry, help Zhao Liulian wash her clothes? Think beautifully! It's just a small month, which woman hasn't experienced it, takes herself too seriously, and still has to eat nutritious, isn't it good enough to eat on weekdays? Go to the whole village to inquire, which family is so willing to cook oil and salt? People use chopsticks to beat oil, and the Tian family uses a spoon, scooping half a spoonful of oil into the pot every meal, which is not nutritious enough?

Besides, Lao Sitian Zhiyuan has to marry the girl, and the bride price is 300 yuan, and Wang Shuifeng only has about 30 yuan left, and he has to keep the medicine fee for the health center, and he must not spend it indiscriminately.

So eat chicken and meat or something, dream about it, and the two hens in the house will have to keep to lay eggs.

Wang Shuifeng actually dislikes her eldest daughter-in-law Zhao Liulian very much, she only gave birth to two granddaughters when she married in, and she still relied on her eldest son to spoil her, she was lazy and coquettish all day long, and she didn't even take care of her own daughter, what happened? Such a daughter-in-law, Wang Shuifeng never talked about her in front of her eldest son before, how could she still bear it now, Zhao Liulian scolded her as soon as she made trouble, and Tian Baoshan wanted to protect his wife and scolded together, just to vent the nameless fire in his heart.

Zhao Liulian is also very powerful, her mother-in-law dares to answer when she scolds her, and her mother-in-law and daughter-in-law have one or two scolding battles every day, and chickens and dogs jump down and are also lively, adding a lot of vitality to the yard full of haze.

Wang Shuifeng crossed his hands on his hips, and just after standing in the courtyard and scolding Tian Baoshan and Zhao Liulian, he saw Tian Yalan wearing a big straw hat, as if she was being chased, running in from outside the courtyard gate, and hurriedly asked her where she went?

Tian Yalan took off her straw hat and threw it under the eaves, pulled Wang Shuifeng into the house with red eyes, and the mother and daughter closed the door and stood in the hall to talk.

"Mom, our whole family is stuffy in the house and doesn't go out, and we don't know what is going on outside-Meng Taohua, that dead woman, she actually went to the provincial capital to find my third brother!"

"What?" Wang Shuifeng was surprised and asked, "Did you go to find Peach Blossom just now?" ”

"I went to find Zhou Cuilian, and I met Meng Taohua on the way, she said it herself!"

"You mean what she said? Why don't you ask Zhou Cuilian? This Zhou Cuilian is too, you treated her so well in the past, and you didn't say anything when you heard any movement...... And your eldest cousin, who is also straightforward, asked him to go to the commune health center to take care of your father and your eldest sister, he only made that one, and he would not be clever and listen to what outsiders said. ”

Tian Yalan was disgusted when she heard Shi Datou now: "Don't mention Shi Datou to me!" ”

Wang Shuifeng sighed: "Things are like this......"

Tian Yalan's face changed: "Mom! What do you want to say? ”

"Okay, don't talk about that. Didn't Peach Blossom really go to the provincial capital, right? She can't read a few words, she is timid, I have detained her all these years, and I don't even give her to go to the commune, how dare she go so far? Aren't you afraid of letting people sell it? ”