Not long after the sweet potato porridge was cooked, Wang Guiying filled a bowl of fruit and a big bowl for Guo Xiang.

"It smells so good!" Guo Xiang picked up the porridge and smelled it, her stomach growled, and she smiled awkwardly, "I'm hungry!" ”

I haven't eaten for two days, can I not be hungry?

"Let's eat!" Wang Guiying smiled, put an egg in her bowl, and pushed a small plate of kimchi in front of her.

"Thank you, mother!" Guo Xiang smiled at Wang Guiying, picked up the chopsticks and stirred them, blew them, and ate them with a snort.

Wang Guiying saw that she didn't dislike her, she ate quite deliciously, and a smile appeared on her face, it seems that this daughter-in-law is quite easy to support.

Guo'er poked the chopsticks into the bowl and saw that Guo Xiang was eating deliciously, and his face was stinky.

"Eat the fruit quickly, and you have to go to school after eating!" Wang Guiying looked at Gu Guo'er, who was slowly devouring sweet potato porridge.

"It's sweet potato porridge again, I don't want to eat it!" Gu Guo'er replied angrily, "If it weren't for her, we would have eaten white rice." Also, why does she have eggs and I don't? Give it to a fool to eat, my mother is eccentric. ”

Guo Xiang's hand holding the egg stiffened, is this family so poor? Can't even afford an egg? can come up with a thousand yuan of bride price, it stands to reason that it should not be poor. She didn't know that most of the money was borrowed.

Wang Guiying was a little embarrassed, and knocked Guo'er's head with chopsticks, "What do you say, your sister-in-law is just sick, what's wrong with eating an egg?" Eat fast, go to school hungry if you don't eat. ”

Guo Xiang looked at Guo'er and then at Wang Guiying, and the eggs in the bowl couldn't be eaten.

Pick up the eggs and send them to Guo'er's bowl, but Guo'er didn't appreciate it, "You've eaten it and your saliva is there, who wants to eat it?" ”

After saying that, he put down the bowl and chopsticks and stopped eating, pulled the strap of the schoolbag and walked out.

"Wait, I'll send you!" Guo Xiang quickly finished eating the porridge in the bowl and stood up.

"Who wants you to send it?"

Gu Guo'er put on a stinky face, "I don't want a fool to send me, I'm ashamed!" ”

"How do you talk, kid?" Wang Guiying's face sank, "This is your sister-in-law, not a fool, haven't you seen it all, she is fine now, she is not stupid, why is she so rude?" ”

The children of the Gu family can be poor, but they cannot be uneducated.

"Forget it, mother, the fruit is still young, it's okay!" Guo Xiang hurriedly said, she didn't mind, the fool said that it was Guo Xiang in the past, not her, she wouldn't sit down by herself.

Besides, the name of her marriage is not right, and it is normal for Guo'er to be angry, which shows that she loves and hates clearly, and is jealous and hateful, which is also in line with her age.

"Who wants you to say nice things? Fake. Gu Guo'er glanced at Guo Xiang, ignored her again, picked up her schoolbag and ran out.

"Xiangxiang, look, it's all mother's habit, don't pay attention to her." Wang Guiying was a little embarrassed.

"It's fine!" Guo Xiang shook his head, he had seen a lot of bear children in his previous life, Guo'er was nothing, and no matter how much a bear child could treat him well.

After speaking, he followed Gu Guo'er unhurriedly, while looking at the surrounding environment.

In the 80s, the countryside was really backward, almost all of them were adobe houses, and there were few brick houses. The road is also potholed, and you can step on a foot of mud after walking for so many minutes.

Watching Gu Guoer walk into the village primary school, Guo Xiang walked back the same way.

When he got home, Wang Guiying was picking beans, Guo Xiang found a small bench and sat down, asked Wang Guiying how to pick them, and helped pick them up.

"Haven't done it at home before?" Wang Guiying couldn't help asking.

"Uh...... In the past, my brain was confused, so I would just sit in the room and ...... nothing," Guo Xiang smiled embarrassedly.

"No wonder it's so white." Wang Guiying nodded, it seems that she has never worked in the field, so her skin is dazzlingly white, but she is really good-looking, she doesn't look like a countryman at all, but like a city person.

Seeing that she has a good temperament and is willing to learn to do housework, Wang Guiying is quite happy in her heart, as long as she is willing to learn, there is nothing that she can't learn.

After picking the beans, Wang Guiying put the beans on the dustpan to dry, and was ready to put them in the kimchi jar to make capers.

Almost every household in Shonan will make kimchi, you can soak anything, beans, peppers, radish, garlic moss, in the summer, there is no taste in the mouth, a sour radish can eat a bowl of rice.

However, at this time, there are very few families who can eat rice, and almost every household eats sweet potatoes, either sweet potato porridge or sweet potato rice, and some even don't even have rice, only sweet potatoes. Fortunately, sweet potatoes can withstand hunger, otherwise I don't know how many people would starve to death.

The place where the Gu family is located is a well-known poor county, the land is not fertile, the river is not wide, the mountains are full of limestone, overgrown with weeds, and not even a tree grows.

In other places, there is nothing to rely on here, and there is little land, one person will divide three or four thin fields, like the Gu family of four people have less than two acres of land, and they have to pay public grain, and they can't eat enough every year, if they don't have sweet potatoes, they would have starved to death.

Originally, Gu Zhennan had a more generous salary than other families, but a few years ago, his father was sick and owed a lot of debts, and later died of illness. This has just finished paying off the debt, who knows that he was blackmailed by the Guo family and owed hundreds of yuan, even if he has a salary, he can't withstand such a toss.

However, Wang Guiying is not worried, because her son is an oil worker, whose salary is twice as high as that of ordinary workers, and he can pay off his debts as long as he suffers for a year or two.

But she knew that her son was very hard, the work in the oil field was dirty and tiring, and he was not at home all year round, otherwise he would not be able to do so much more than others.

In the past, the Gu family was so poor that they owed a lot of debts, and they had younger brothers and sisters to support, so Gu Zhennan didn't marry in his twenties, and later he became an oil worker, with a salary of more than 70 yuan.

The family that originally had a surplus has become in debt again, but fortunately, Guo Xiang is normal now, otherwise Wang Guiying would really cry to death.

After drying the beans, Wang Guiying carried the hoe to the field behind the courtyard, ready to turn over and plant some pepper seedlings, and when it was hot, there would be peppers to eat.

"Mother, what is this going to do?" Guo Xiang asked curiously, she had never lived in the countryside before, and everything felt very fresh.

"Turn over the ground, plant some pepper seedlings, and in a month there will be peppers to eat." Wang Guiying said.

"I'll do it!" Guo Xiang took the hoe.

"Will you?" Wang Guiying looked at her suspiciously.

“…… You teach me. Guo Xiang laughed.

Wang Guiying nodded, took the hoe and demonstrated it first, Guo Xiang said that she understood, she came to dig.

took the hoe and dug it into the ground, and dug a big pit with a hoe, which scared Wang Guiying a lot, and her daughter-in-law had a lot of strength.

"You don't have to dig that deep, just ...... Half a palm's depth is enough. Wang Guiying had no culture and didn't know how to use the unit of measurement, so he gestured on his hand.

Guo Xiang looked at her palm, which was about five or six centimeters long, nodded, raised the hoe and continued to dig.

In a few clicks, the depth is even. When Wang Guiying saw it, she did a good job, her daughter-in-law was not only not stupid but also very smart, and she picked up the treasure.