Spring, when everything grows, is the season of hope and the fragrance of flowers.

It's March, and the morning mountain stream is shrouded in a white mist. It had just rained last night, and the grass buds on both sides of the trail were covered with droplets, and the orange sun had slowly risen from the distant mountain tops, but the air was still cold.

It was just dawn, and there were already people working in the fields halfway up the mountainside.

Joked and laughed from a short distance.

Shen Zhiyao struggled to carry the water up the mountain, and it immediately became a topic of ridicule.

"Ouch, you see, it's really laughing to death, the waste on the top of the new daughter-in-law of the Chunsheng family, carrying the burden of water and sprinkling it all the way, only half a load is left when it arrives home."

"Sister-in-law, she is a young lady from the city, and it is good to be able to carry water. Look at the city from the next village, I haven't been out of the house for three years since I married to the Zhang family. Listening to her mother-in-law, she slept under the quilt at home all day long, lying down and waiting for someone to eat! ”

"If you want me to say, Wang Chunsheng should have married my niece in the first place, she can go up the mountain and down to the ground, do laundry and cook, how can she be like this person who can't carry his shoulders and can't carry his hands, maybe he won't be able to live a hard life and run away with someone."

"You can't say that, although the daughter-in-law from this city is squeamish, but her appearance is really good, you look at the little face of the people, just like the tofu that has just come out of the pot, white and tender can pinch out the water. These eyes are shining, big and round, and they are seductive. The figure is not bad, the legs are long, the waist is thin, the butt is big, at first glance, he is a good child, his chest is bulging and he can raise a baby, he is a man who likes it. What's more, people are born in spring, and their appearance is also thoughtful, so they should marry a good-looking person. ”

"Ah, you woman is a hooligan!"

"Hahahaha-"

Shen Zhiyao staggered and climbed up the mountainside with half a load of water in this burst of laughter. The original owner was only seventeen years old, and her strength was already small, and she had never done physical work at all from birth to adulthood.

She once wore it to the 80s, and became the male protagonist, who was unwilling to be lonely, abandoned her husband and woman and eloped with someone, so angry that the male protagonist's perennial sick old mother whimpered with life, and used her son to cheat money for the male protagonist, but was slapped in the face by the male and female protagonists and sent to prison and sentenced to life imprisonment.

It's really heartwarming to die on the spot.

These middle-aged women all spoke in local dialects together, and Shen Zhiyao didn't understand anything when she heard it, but from the eyes and expressions of these women, it could be seen that these women were laughing at her.

But so what?

She came by wearing a book, and she was alone to survive in this unfamiliar place, and she had to be good to the male protagonist's family to avoid the tragic fate of the vicious ex-wife in the original text.

Therefore, her gentle, virtuous, kind, beautiful and generous and decent truth, kindness and beauty must not fall!

So, Shen Zhiyao smiled at these women who didn't think it was a big deal, nodded and continued to walk up with the water. There was the chirping and laughter of those women behind him, and Shen Zhiyao couldn't help but chuckle, quite helpless.

The male protagonist's family lives halfway up the mountain, the river and the well are at the foot of the mountain, if you want to carry water to eat, you have to go to the bottom of the mountain to pick it, fortunately, the distance is not too far, and the path is only about 300 meters winding, if the distance is farther, Shen Zhiyao really can't bear it.

Pushing open the bamboo door, she had just entered the courtyard fenced with bamboo, when she heard a deliberately suppressed cough from the house, and she hurriedly poured the water into the water tank, and then took the warm water that had been boiled earlier and went to the house.

I saw the male protagonist's mother Zhang Cuihua lying on the side of the bed coughing breathlessly, and her wrinkled face was flushed abnormally, which was caused by a long-term cough.

Hurriedly handed over the warm water and the cold medicine found in the medicine bag that was always available in Zhang Cuihua's house, Shen Zhiyao said softly: "Mom, you haven't recovered from the cold, take the medicine with warm water first, and I'll go and boil a bowl of ginger soup for you to drink after a while, sleep and cover your sweat, and you will be well soon." ”

"Yaoyao, I've wronged you."

Zhang Cuihua was moved and guilty, her eyes were hot, she took Shen Zhiyao's hand and choked up: "Chunsheng and you have only been married for a few days before they go out to work, and I am always sick and can't work, and you have to take care of me." You girl from the city have to learn to do all farm work, and you have to work hard, you are really wronged. ”

Zhang Cuihua lamented.

Her daughter-in-law was brought back from the city by her son, and she got married without saying anything, and her son went out with someone to work a few days after getting married, and he didn't come back for more than three months.

Her husband died early, her youngest son is only eleven years old this year, and her daughter is only thirteen years old, so she can't do much work at all. Now that it is the sowing season again, all the burden of the family has fallen on his daughter-in-law, who is from the city.

But I can't help it!

They are rural people, they live by growing some food, even if she regrets it, she can't say anything to let her daughter-in-law do nothing, the whole family is waiting to feed it!

Even though her eldest son is running around all the year round and making money to support the family, every time she comes back, she will give her a sum of money, so that she can take her younger son and daughter to live a good life, and she should not be reluctant to eat and wear.

But where is she willing!

That's all her son's hard-earned money outside!

As a last resort, she is reluctant to spend a penny.

In previous years, her eldest son would rush back to help during the busy farming season of spring plowing and autumn harvest, and it is estimated that this year will be soon, probably in these few days.

"Mom, it's okay, don't be wronged. When I marry into this family, I am a part of this family, and if you say so, you will see the outside. ”

Shen Zhiyao smiled and handed the water and medicine to Zhang Cuihua's mouth, and said with a smile: "Mom, drink some warm water and eat the medicine!" I'll make breakfast when you're done eating and lying down, and then the summer fruit and autumn harvest will be ready to cut the pigweed and come back. ”

There are still three pigs and more than a dozen chickens at home, and the male protagonist's sister Wang Xiaguo and younger brother Wang Qiushou went out early in the morning to cut pigweed, and they should come back in a while.

One pig is ready to kill the smoked bacon for the New Year, and the two are ready to be sold to Wang Xiaguo and Wang Qiu for school, both of which are very expensive, and they must be fed every day, and the pigs must be taken care of not getting sick, and the pigsty must be cleaned every day.

These jobs are really a heavy blow to a modern beautiful girl who has just graduated from college and has never done dirty work, and it is even more unbearable for her than letting her go down the mountain to fetch water.

After all, pig manure is really dirty and smelly.

But it can't be helped!

This family is old, weak, sick and disabled, and the only labor force that can be used does not return in March as soon as they go out.

She's also very melancholy!

As soon as Shen Zhiyao finished cooking the pimple soup, the voices of Wang Xiaguo and Wang Qiushou rang out at the gate of the courtyard.

"Mom, sister-in-law, we're back."

"It smells so good! What delicious did my sister-in-law cook today! Starved, cooked? Is it ready to eat? ”

Shen Zhiyao walked out of the kitchen, helped Wang Xiaguo and Wang Qiushu put down the heavy basket full of pigweed, and said with a smile: "If you are hungry, wash your hands quickly!" I cooked pimple soup, which was already cooked and ready to eat. ”

"Okay sister-in-law, hard work sister-in-law, sister-in-law is the best."

Wang Xiaguo hurriedly washed her hands with a smile while talking, her mouth was very sweet, and the way she smiled was very cute. Although her thin face is tanned, her silhouette is very delicate, and her figure is slender and tall, which belongs to the bony beauty.

As for Wang Qiushui, a spiritual guy, although he is still young and has not grown up, he can also get a glimpse of a bit of handsomeness from his immature face.

And Wang Chunsheng, as the male protagonist, was written so that there is nothing in the sky and no earth, and the specific description of Shen Zhiyao can't remember clearly, but I only remember that it was a large number of gorgeous words, and she suspected that the author was counting the words in the water.

Wang Qiushou also followed Wang Xiaguo to wash his hands, and while washing his hands, he turned his head to Shen Zhiyao and said, "Sister-in-law, I see that someone is already scattering small seedlings, and I will go and cut the vegetables in the vegetable field in front of the door in a while and scatter small seedlings on the ridge ground!" ”

Growing rice is quite troublesome.

First of all, small seedlings should be sprinkled on the ridge in the dry field, and when the small seedlings grow to a height of six or seven centimeters, they should be transplanted into the paddy field, and when the seedlings grow to a height of twenty or thirty centimeters, they should be transplanted into the large seedling field.

That's not all, after the big seedlings are planted, weeds and insects must be removed from time to time.

After working for a few months, I didn't receive much grain, and I only harvested a few hundred catties of rice per acre of land. Their village is located deep in the mountains, with very little farmland, and they basically rely on growing crops on dry land to survive.

Examples include corn, sweet potatoes, potatoes, peanuts and soybeans.

But the land in the mountains is not fertile, and the grain production is not high.

People in this era have a lot of children, so the vast majority of families still don't have enough to eat.

"Okay, I'll go to the ridge with you in a moment."

Shen Zhiyao smiled and nodded.

Now that it's time to plant, get busy!

Although she was born in a middle-class family, her parents were intellectuals, and she had never worked in a farm, it did not mean that she would avoid labor. Since wearing books is a foregone conclusion, it is necessary to make one's life better under the existing conditions.

She, Shen Zhengyao, has never been a negative person.

Even in a backward and poor small mountain village in the 80s, she still has the confidence to live a good life.

The gnocchi soup is boiled with an appropriate amount of flour, a little lard, two eggs, some tender vegetable leaves, a little ginger and a tomato, and after cooking, a little chives and three coriander chopped and sprinkled into it, and then put salt and home-grown ground peppercorn powder to taste, the taste is very good. The glutinous rice gnocchi is soft and smooth, with an excellent taste, color, flavor and flavor.

The family is smiling.

Zhang Cuihua boasted: "Yaoyao! Your craftsmanship is really good, we can marry such a good daughter-in-law as you in Chunsheng, it is really a blessing for our Wang family. ”

Wang Xiaguo's eyebrows were crooked, and he nodded with joy on his face: "Yes, Mom is right, it is a blessing for our family to have a sister-in-law, since my sister-in-law entered the door, the food in our family is so fragrant and fragrant, and the meal made by my sister-in-law is the best meal I have ever eaten." ”

Wang Qiushu smiled, and also nodded: "Sister-in-law is ingenious, everything is good." ”

Shen Zhiyao blushed in the praise one after another, although what they said was also the truth, but it was embarrassing to boast in front of her!

After a night of driving, Wang Chunsheng, who had just stepped into the door and was thirsty and hungry, heard bursts of laughter from the kitchen, and frowned suspiciously.

What were his mother and younger siblings talking about?