When I woke up, it was already more than two o'clock in the afternoon, and it was normal for farmers to take advantage of the cooler time in the morning and evening, especially in the summer, when they were doing farm work.

Xia Yu got up and saw rice boiling in the rice cooker, and egg custard was steaming on it. Wang Xiuzhen and Xia Jie hadn't gotten up yet, Xia Yu was sweating and a little uncomfortable, so he picked two pokes of well water. Poured some warm water from the coal stove, carried a large bucket of warm water, brought a soap box towel, brought a change of clothes and lit mosquito coils. Xia Yu began to wash next to the pigsty.

The conditions in Xia Yu's home are very poor, there are only four tiled houses, and they are all earthen walls without painting the walls.

As Xia Yu and Xia Jie grew up, there was no separate bathroom at home, so Xia Yu's father Xia Changde had to open a simple squatting toilet next to the pigsty, which was actually a simple urinal with cement paste, which led directly to the pig manure pit.

Xia Yu hung up a torn dress in front of the pigsty as a cover, quickly took off his clothes, scooped water with a scoop of water to wash it, smelling the smell inside the pigsty, Xia Yu was about to vomit nauseously, listening to the mosquitoes buzzing, Xia Yu was irritable, and quickly finished washing. Finally cooled down, Xia Yu decided, and when he got paid, he must ask to build a separate bathroom next to the pigsty.

After this rebirth, although he felt the pure green vegetables and the warmth of the family, the sanitary conditions were so bad that Xia Yu could hardly bear it. Thinking that he would have to survive for seven or eight years, Xia Yu was very annoyed, which tendon was wrong at the beginning, and he had to quarrel and divorce Zhang Shan to encounter this kind of thing and experience such a poor life again. Xia Yu really couldn't bear it, thinking of his comfortable, bright, spacious and clean room before, and feeling the poor and tired family life again. Xia Yu remembered that he would continue to harvest corn tomorrow, and this tiring summer vacation had just begun, Xia Yu sighed that it was difficult to go from luxury to frugality.

In the afternoon, Xia Yu accompanied Wang Xiuzhen to peel off the tender corn kernels, ready to grind them into a pulp, and make corn pumpkin shredded buns to eat. When Xia Jie was cooking at night, Xia Yu carried the corn cobs that had been exposed to the sun for a day home, these corn cobs that had been slurred could peel the corn kernels, Wang Xiuzhen had already taken a straw hat to shovel the corn stalks in today's cornfield with a hoe from the rhizome, poured them into the cornfield, and waited until the sun dried, and then they could be carried home as firewood to cook pig food.

After four days of tiring and busy work in the morning, Wang Xiuzhen took a pair of children back home with all the corn cobs, and didn't even do the business of steaming rice cakes. Xia Yu has been carrying corn home on his back for the past few days, and his shoulders have been strangled out of the shoulder straps two finger widths like blood stasis, and there are some dark red blood-colored beads on both sides of the blood stasis. Although it was very painful and uncomfortable, the mother and son of the Xia family were used to it, so they could only slowly recover through the body's metabolism.

First, they don't have time to do business, and secondly, the farmers are busy harvesting corn, and when the farm is busy, they don't have the leisure to go to the market, and the streets are deserted, and there are not a few people at all, all busy in the fields.

Most of these peasants have been chained to this land all their lives, and although the peasants have starved to death in this era, the peasants have worked in the land every year with such a little blood, sweat and hard money.

When it comes to education, medical care, and other expenses, most of the peasants are at a loss and resign themselves to fate. When you are young and strong, you can still find food from the soil, but when you are old, you can only count on your children, and most of the time it is very miserable to expect others. Xia Yu sighed, so if you want to go out, reading is really the only shortest and fairest way.

In their previous lives, Xia Yu and Xia Jie relied on being admitted to college to change the fate of themselves and their families, and finally they were admitted to college, found a stable iron job, and in the face of high housing prices, they began to buy houses and cars with extraordinary savings. So much so that he neglected to buy pension insurance for his parents, until Xia Yu went to the Social Security Bureau with his parents' ID number to inquire, he learned that his parents had not paid their social security for nine consecutive years in order to build a house for themselves and buy a house for his younger brother.

As a daughter, Xia Yu, who is financially well-off, paid social security to her parents. Unexpectedly, it was precisely because of this incident that it became the fuse for Xia Yu and Zhang Shan's divorce.

Xia Yu doesn't want to mention the things in his previous life, in this life, he decides to rely on himself, and does not have any extravagant thoughts about anyone, especially men, women must be self-reliant and self-reliant at all times.

Xia Yu, Xia Jie and Wang Xiuzhen are now peeling corn in their palm-sized yard. The corn has been dried for a day and has been dehydrated. Reclaiming the corn from the field is the first step.

The second part is to peel corn kernels, although there is already a machine for automatic corn peeling at this time. But the price is too high, and Xia Yu's family can't afford it. In addition, it has not yet been extended to the remote small township of this impoverished county where Xia Yu is located.

The mother and son had no choice but to use the most primitive manual labor. However, in the process of work, the working people also constantly discovered their own wisdom and summed up relatively simple and trouble-free methods.

Place the bench on the side of the bench on the ground, and then put the most common yellow rubber shoes in the countryside on the legs of the bench, and the gears on the plastic shoes are the best tools for peeling the corn kernels. Xia Yu and Xia Jie leaned the end of the corn cob on the sole of their shoes, and very skillfully made the gear form a vertical angle with the corn. Holding the corn cob and rubbing the sole of the shoe up and down, the corn kernels rolled down. This is very efficient.

Xia Yu and Xia Jie are young and have good physical fitness, and Xia Jie is even more immersed in the backbone under the lure of watermelon.

Soon after, the golden corn kernels where the sisters and brothers were sitting had buried their calves, and Wang Xiuzhen was very happy to see the efficient and happy work of this pair of children. Very diligently, the peeled corn kernels are packed out and poured on top of the bamboo mat, and the sun is spread out and exposed.

The sister and brother worked hard for two days in a row, and finally solved all the corn cobs in the house.

Wang Xiuzhen was very relieved to see her children so diligent and sensible. After the task was completed, I bought a big watermelon very happily to reward the two of them.

Xia Yu remembered that in his previous life, his sister and brother always liked to grab food, and Xia Jie always relied on his young age to always occupy more food. When I was a child, steamed buns, in order to compete for more steamed buns, after the first basket of hot buns came out, Xia Jie would take a bite of each bun and use Xia Yu's cleanliness habit to grab the buns.

When eating oranges, he will swallow a small orange one bite at a time to avoid Xia Yu taking advantage. When eating watermelon this time, Xia Yu knew that Xia Jie would definitely occupy most of the watermelon, so he was very proud to hold most of the watermelon and eat it with a spoon.

In his previous life, Xia Yu was reluctant to follow Xia Jie's various behaviors of snatching food without discipline and bottom line, and he was also unrelenting in all kinds of troublemaking. But now Xia Yu watched Xia Jie divide almost two-thirds of the entire watermelon, smiled faintly, cut the remaining third into triangular pieces, and tasted it slowly with Wang Xiuzhen.

Wang Xiuzhen looked at her daughter, and always felt that her daughter seemed to have become different, as for the difference, Xia Wang Xiuzhen couldn't say clearly. It seems to be more sensible than before, and he is no longer as childish as Xia Jie's children.

Now the corn harvest has entered the third stage, which is exposed. Wang Xiuzhen has free time to grind the tender corn full of bamboo baskets into corn syrup.

At noon, the mother and son of the Xia family ate a very sumptuous corn feast. Wang Xiuzhen made corn porridge, fried corn tortillas, and steamed tender pumpkin shredded corn steamed buns.

Eating the tender pumpkin shreds and the aroma of bacon in the tortillas, Xia Yu felt too happy. In the same way, Xia Yu still brought some corn tortillas and steamed buns to Wu Chunhua's room, Wu Chunhua still didn't have a good face and accepted all the food as ordered, but he was so disgusted with Xia Yu's big family that he avoided it.

Xia Yu didn't have any mind to ponder Wu Chunhua's mood and mind at all. Just when the family was eating happily, a neighbor who was eating and drinking came to the door, and it was a strange old man, and all the younger generations in the family were not at home. It is not easy for an old grandmother to be lonely and lonely at home, so the kind-hearted Wang Xiuzhen left Grandma Fang to stay and have lunch by the way.

Grandma Fang was in the middle of it, so she stayed for a cheap meal. Eating and eating, Grandma Fang actually looked at Xia Yu with a smile on her face, Xia Yu forgot a lot about what happened more than ten years ago after being reborn, and looked at Grandma Fang's ill-intentioned expression.

Xia Yu suddenly remembered the embarrassing incident before, hey, why did he forget that he had been said to be a matchmaker. Xia Yu remembered Grandma Fang's intention, so he watched the joke silently.

Grandma Fang praised Xia Yu while eating: "Xiaoyu has grown so big and so tall, yesterday the school's Wang Jiacai came to your doorstep and kept praising Xiaoyu for being really diligent." has always said that I don't know which kid will have such a blessing in the future to marry Xiaoyu home. ”

When Wang Xiuzhen heard this, her smile fell, thinking that her daughter was only fourteen years old, and her grades had always been among the best and she had never taken the second exam, and her daughter would definitely be able to be admitted to college and find a very good job according to this trend. This old woman is simply blind, and she actually says goodbye to her daughter, which is simply disgusting.

Wang Xiuzhen politely refused: "Xiaoyu and their homeroom teacher Teacher Xu said that Xiaoyu will definitely be able to be admitted to the experimental class of our county high school next year, and he will definitely be able to be admitted to university in the future." ”

Grandma Fang still didn't look at herself and said: "This Wang Jiacai's house has built a two-story building, the furniture in the house is high-end, and air conditioning has been installed. Their son is only three years older than your family's Xiaoyu. I discussed it with Grandma Xiaoyu, and her grandmother also felt that it was a good match.

Her grandmother also said that why do girls read so many books, find a good family to marry earlier, earn more bride price, and it is good for your family. ”

Xia Yu knew that Wu Chunhua's old woman was uneasy and kind, and she actually wanted to sell herself to make a little money. I, Xia Yu, even in my previous life, was a very capable and promising young backbone in my career, and these old witches with rat eyes are simply infuriating.