Chapter 28: A Blessing in Disguise
Xia Yu really doesn't want to have any intersection with Zhang Shan, a man who makes him annoying and annoying, in his life. In their previous lives, in their marriage, the two respected each other like ice, and they were disgusted with each other. Let's be a stranger in this life. Xia Yu remembered that the ancients said that ten years of cultivation can be crossed in the same boat, and a hundred years of cultivation can be slept together.
Xia Yu said silently to Zhang Shan's faint back, we have been unfamiliar with each other for ten years, and we don't want to see each other for a hundred years.
Xia Yu continued to play with his parents and younger brother, calculating the time in his heart to estimate that his sister Zhang Yan was now interning in the county, so he saw their family haunting the county. Thinking of Zhang Shan's sister Zhang Yan, Xia Yu was also thinking about if she also knew that she was reborn, I don't know if she would make the same choice as in her previous life.
Xia Yu's family of four walked around the county for a day, and at noon they ate a big bowl of rice noodles in a small restaurant next to the farmhouse, and the family couldn't get enough of the last shuttle bus home at four o'clock in the afternoon.
Xia Yu originally thought that his father Xia Changde would go out to work in a hurry after the seventh day of junior high school. Unexpectedly, Xia Changde still stayed at home, during which Xia Changde and Wang Xiuzhen went to Wu Chunhua's place again, and soon the couple came out with bitter faces.
Looking at their expressions, I remembered the memories of my past life. This year, Changde had good luck and earned some money. After returning home, the couple thought that now that their children were getting older, there were only four tiled houses without windows in the house, and two pigsty and cattle pens shared with Xia Yu's second father and Wu Chunhua.
Xia Yu's second father lived in his father-in-law's house for a long time, Wu Chunhua was lazy and did not feed the pigs and cattle, so the two pigsty and cattle pens were temporarily used by Xia Yu's family.
However, these four tiled houses were repaired more than ten years ago, and they were originally built for their sons to marry their daughters-in-law, and the quality was not up to par. Coupled with the disrepair over the years, the walls of the warehouse room where Xia Yu lives have been tilted, which means that the two houses of Xia Yu's family are not enough. In the first two years, when Xia Yu was still sleeping with Wu Chunhua at night, the family had a good relationship, so Xia Jie lived in an airtight room in his second father's house. Since then, Xia Jie has been living in that room, which made Xia Yu's family barely live in peace.
Besides, Xia Changde and his wife were squeezed and sarcastic by Wu Chunhua in their lives, isn't it because they dislike that the couple have no ability? This year, Xia Changde earned some money, so he was ready to use the pool that Xia Yu's grandfather had dug before, and simply repair the house.
Xia Yu thought that his parents must have discussed with Wu Chunhua just now. Judging by the results, her selfish and shallow grandmother Wu Chunhua must have opened her mouth and asked her eldest son and wife for money. The eldest son and his wife did not have much money in their hands, and they were going to build a rough room this year, and then go out to work to earn money in the second half of the year.
Wu Chunhua's lion opened his mouth because he didn't want his eldest son's family to be happy, but also because Wu Chunhua's heart had already deviated. The second son and his wife both went out to work and contracted the canteen on the construction site. I made a lot of money in a year, and I was also ready to requisition the pool picked out by Grandpa Xia Yu to repair the house.
This piece of good land Wu Chunhua must have been reserved for his second son.
After Xia Changde was rejected, Wang Xiuzhen sobbed directly in front of her children when she was eating at noon, and said with great concern: "Now the two children are still young, and we can barely get by." Xiaoyu has good grades and will definitely be able to be admitted to university in the future, I am not worried.
But Xiaojie is now in the sixth grade, and he can't see what will happen in the future. Xiaojie will definitely marry a daughter-in-law when he grows up, do we have to squeeze in these four dilapidated houses with our daughters-in-law and grandchildren for the rest of our lives.
You see that there are already a lot of people in our team who have repaired brick houses, the last time the old Zhao family went to Liang (housewarming) wine, I saw their two-story renovated brick house, it looks like a luxury villa in the TV series, and the furniture inside is very expensive at first glance. I walked to the second floor and saw the red carpet, and then looked at the dirt on my yellow rubber shoes, I was really envious and ashamed.
We live in the tiled house that your parents built, despise us and mock us, and we are not allowed to repair the house now, but we are only allowed to build the pigsty and the cattle pen.
Xia Changde, you are a dog, a day, are you not born to Wu Chunhua? She is determined not to give us a way to live, will we be bullied by her for the rest of our lives? ”
Wang Xiuzhen cried sadly, Xia Jie also cried, Xia Yu didn't speak, and he didn't know how to eat.
Xia Changde didn't speak, smoking the cheapest inferior cigarettes, and he had nowhere to vent his grievances. In the end, Xia Changde made a decision: "Count, ball, Lao Tzu will go to work again, and next year we will build a two-story brick house in the garden." Later, when there is money, we buy the best furniture. ”
Wang Xiuzhen and Xia Changde were forced to breathe by Wu Chunhua's partiality, selfishness and hatred, so the couple had to find another way. Until February, there was a smell of sadness and despair at home, and after Xia Changde rested at home for more than a month, he left his hometown with the bacon sausage prepared by Wang Xiuzhen to work and earn money.
However, before leaving, considering that it must be inconvenient for Wang Xiuzhen to answer the phone at the neighbor's house, Xia Changde installed a phone at home, and built a small bathroom at Xia Yu's request, which finally solved the problem of bathing.
Xia Changde left home with regret and sadness, and Wang Xiuzhen lived at home with a pair of children as always. Since installing a phone at home, Wu Chunhua often comes to use Xia Yu's phone, and Xia Yu's second father, aunt and aunt also often call to contact Wu Chunhua.
Xia Yu's aunt and her husband went out to work together, so they left their eldest cousin to be taken care of by Wu Chunhua, and their younger cousin to be taken care of by their in-laws.
Xia Yu continued to spend half a year calmly, and when he was busy at home in the spring, he helped Wang Xiuzhen harvest rapeseed and wheat. When the family is busy, it also catches up with the time when the green and yellow are not available.
Xia Yu's family's vegetables are almost all self-sufficient, when the green and yellow are not available, the family can hardly eat fresh vegetables, and they are reluctant to go to the vegetable market to buy high-priced greenhouse vegetables to eat.
Fortunately, Wang Xiuzhen has long been accustomed to it, and she will send mung bean sprouts by herself before the spring holiday, relying on the bean sprouts and the kimchi in the jar, as well as some wild vegetables, the family can always support the vegetables until the vegetables are green.
Xia Yu had just carried the rapeseed home, looking at the bean sprouts that he had eaten for several days, and thinking of the pancake soup that Xia Jie fried at noon, Xia Yu's taste was really picky. I simply fried some thin dough, and fried a large pot of bacon fried dough at noon. Wang Xiuzhen and Xia Jie ate delicious fried pork with dough for the first time, and the three of them almost gnawed the pot.
There is less farm work during the spring vacation, mainly drying wheat and rapeseed, and after Xia Yu completes his homework and review, he specializes in food. In the evening, Xia Yu fried a hot and sour shredded potatoes and fried noodles. This made Wang Xiuzhen and Xia Jie eager to eat their tongues.
The next morning, Wang Xiuzhen went out, Xia Yu was reciting his homework, Xia Jie suddenly walked in and begged: "Sister, the sour and hot potato shreds you copied are so delicious." I still want to eat. ”
Xia Yu nodded: "Okay, I'll make it for you at noon." ”
Xia Jie choked on saliva and said, "I want to eat it now." ”
In the dimly lit room, Xia Yu looked at Xia Jie's gradually rising height, Xia Jie must need more nutrients to satisfy. Thinking that although Wang Xiuzhen paid her sister and brother one dollar a day every time she did farm work, Xia Jie, who had lived in a poor family since she was a child, knew the importance of money at a very young age. Therefore, the remuneration given by Wang Xiuzhen for farm work and the annual New Year's money, Xia Jie is very precious to save. If it weren't for Xia Yu making extra money, Xia Yu, who likes to eat snacks, would definitely not have as much savings as Xia Jie.
Xia Jie was very frugal, but he was reluctant to go to the street to buy snacks to eat, so he had to pester Xia Yu to fry hot and sour potato shreds to satisfy his hunger.
Xia Yu looked at his younger brother's expectant eyes and nodded: "Okay, the fire on the stove is too small, I'll cut the shredded potatoes first, and you will light the fire later." ”
Xia Jie nodded obediently. But considering that he had just had breakfast and there were neighbors coming and going, Xia Jie always felt embarrassed, afraid that others would say that he was greedy, so he immediately half-closed the door, but he didn't take into account that the cooking smoke at home would actually expose the gluttony of the sister and brother.
Xia Yu began to fry the hot and sour shredded potatoes on high heat, Wu Chunhua suddenly pushed open the door, and saw the sister and brother in front of the stove holding chopsticks and anxiously eating shredded potatoes, Wu Chunhua looked disgusted: "Two delicious women, gluttonous mouths, fried potatoes behind closed doors, ashamed to death, it is not yet noon to be so greedy, sure enough." ”
Then leaving a fat back to leave, Xia Jie was in a good mood, but suddenly heard Wu Chunhua say this, and wanted to cry aggrievedly. Xia Yu comforted: "What are you crying about, we eat our own potatoes and don't steal or rob, why are we out of luck?" Leave her alone, just when she doesn't exist. ”
Xia Jie nodded and continued to eat shredded potatoes, but his mood was not as happy as he was just now. At noon, Wang Xiuzhen came back and heard what happened at home, and said to Xia Jie: "Your sister is right, you call her crazy, our own food, you can eat it when you want to eat it when you are hungry, don't care about her." I just want you two to eat more and grow taller and stronger.
Come to noon today, I'll give you stewed pork ribs to eat. ”
Xia Jie smiled happily.
Half a year passed quickly, and Xia Yu approached the best class of the county high school smoothly as in his previous life, which made Wang Xiuzhen raise her eyebrows in front of everyone, especially in front of Wu Chunhua. This at least means that Xia Yu has half a foot on the threshold of entering the university.
Xia Yu doesn't want to dwell on the grievances of the previous generation in the family, he just wants to work hard, take his parents out, and leave this depressing and depressed original family. The high school entrance examination ended soon, and when the results came down, Xia Yu saw that it was already a lot higher than the line, Xia Yu didn't remember his score in his previous life, but he just thought that as long as it was as before, there would be no deviation.
When Xia Yu was patiently waiting for the notice during the heavy summer rain, there was a landslide in the mountain behind the pool at home, and the mud, stones, and trees that rolled down filled the entire pool. After the rain stopped the next morning, Wang Xiuzhen looked at the scene next to the pool, and the injustice in her heart disappeared, thinking that God blessed her with a blessing in disguise.