When they went to school in Xiaoshan, their family was already a difficult family in the team to lose. It's not that my father and my eldest brother and sister-in-law don't work, but no matter what they do, they can't catch up with how much my father and mother send out.

Every year, my father and mother send the family's rations openly and secretly, and the eldest brother and sister-in-law are all diligent people, but the father and mother are like a big hole, and they can leak out as much as they earn. The sister-in-law made a lot of trouble about this, but her father and mother were doing good deeds, she made too much trouble to make people look down on, and her father and mother were justified wherever she went, and the eldest brother was a person who only knew how to work with her head bored, she was disappointed again and again, and people slowly became mean.

Zhou Lanxiang put herself in the position of her sister-in-law and thought about it, in fact, her sister-in-law is another self, but her father and mother will not be as bad as the Wang family, but she can let her sister-in-law starve, let her sister-in-law's children starve and suffer, and the food and money sent out also have a share of the sister-in-law, although it is wrong for her to be angry, it is not completely incomprehensible.

And if she goes to work in the production team, at least the centimeters she earns can fill the family, so that her sister-in-law will not be able to touch it at all. And Xiaoshan can go to earn work without going to school, a little uncle who only spends money on food and does not earn money, and a little uncle who can support himself by himself, of course she chooses the latter.

After all, the family is poor like this, and it is her in-laws who are so poor, why should she be a sister-in-law for the sake of her brother-in-law!

The sister-in-law has never had a good life in her life when she got married, and until the production team was disbanded more than ten years later, she has never eaten a full meal, and her two little nieces have been starved to the point of yellow skin and thin muscles. The little niece has been malnourished since she was a child and often gets sick, and a few years later, she was seriously ill, and the eldest brother borrowed the money for the child's medical treatment and let the father and mother lend it out.

The sister-in-law is getting more and more mean, scolding is becoming more and more vicious, and her hair is half gray in her thirties, but she still works diligently, and takes care of her children and husband with all her heart, but the relationship with her eldest brother is getting worse and worse, and she has lived with him sincerely for a lifetime, teaching her two daughters well, so that the eldest brother will have a home when he is old, and someone will send the elderly to the end.

Such a woman was actually the benefactor of her eldest brother in her previous life.

So all Zhou Lanxiang can think of now is her difficulty, and she is willing to try to ease the relationship with her.

Just can't be like a family, and can't be like an enemy anymore, at least let her be close to her eldest brother and little niece, so that she can have the opportunity to take care of them as much as possible.

The Zhou family is at the west end of the last street of Tunzi, and the neighbor to the west is the old house of Grandpa Han, which is only separated from the production team by a village road and a vacant land, which is close to the mainland and the well, which is a rare good location in Tunzi.

However, compared with the neat wooden planks and bluestone tile houses of Grandpa Han's old house, the three adobe houses and the low and dilapidated shoji of the Zhou family are too shabby.

Zhou Lanxiang saw her eight-year-old niece and girl carrying a big basket thicker than her to the yard, she hurriedly walked a few steps over and unloaded the big basket of buds.

The big girl was dark and thin, looked like she was six or seven years old, with yellow hair, wearing a tattered coat with patches and patches from her mother, and a pair of flowering and broken cotton shoes on her feet, half of the mille-feuille bottoms were worn off, and she didn't follow her feet at all, and it turned out to be Xiaoshan who replaced them last year.

The eldest girl couldn't say a word to her sister-in-law in the past two years, and she looked at it several times unfamiliarly before she recognized it, and she didn't speak in a daze.

Zhou Lanxiang looked at her niece like this, her nose was sour, and she touched the girl's hair to suppress the heat in her eyes, and the girl was so frightened that she quickly took a step back, glanced around and whispered: "My grandparents are not at home, and my uncle is not at home." ”

Zhou Lanxiang squatted down and asked her softly, "Is your father and mother at home?" My sister-in-law didn't come to see your grandmother and uncle today, but came to see you and Erniu. ”

The girl is still stunned, she has listened to her mother scolding her aunt and uncle since she was sensible, and when she was very young, she occasionally got close to her sister-in-law or uncle, and her mother must have beaten and scolded her, and then she didn't dare to get close to her sister-in-law and uncle, and they no longer came to her secretly in the past two years, and her sister-in-law was suddenly so close to her, she couldn't react at all.

Zhou Lanxiang knew that she couldn't tell the child clearly for a while, so she quickly took out a handful of dried beets from the basket and stuffed it into the girl's hand: "My sister-in-law made it, it's delicious, go and share it with my sister." ”

The two children have not eaten a few full meals since they were born, and there are almost no snacks, and the smell of sweet dried beets is too tempting, and the big girl is so hungry that she swallows her saliva, but she still doesn't dare to eat it.

Zhou Lanxiang looked at the back basket on her back, took the girl's hand into the yard, and patiently talked to her as she walked: "Your father and mother went to work, right?" You go into the house with your sister-in-law first, and when they come back, you'll finish eating, and your sister-in-law won't tell anyone. ”

The big girl clutched the dried beets tightly, afraid that her mother would know and beat her, but the fragrance was too tempting, and she was reluctant to let go. And the sister-in-law spoke softly, it was so comfortable to listen to, and she was reluctant to shake her sister-in-law's hand.

Mother speaks with yelling or scolding, Dad is always worried, almost doesn't talk to them, grandparents always let her starve, she doesn't want to talk to them at all, in fact, she likes sister-in-law and uncle the most, she is good-looking, and she talks with a smile, but unfortunately her mother doesn't let her find them.

Zhou Lanxiang pulled the big girl into the yard, the Zhou family is the most common three adobe thatched houses in the tunzi, the middle door is open, the middle one is used as a kitchen, the east side lives the father and the hill, and the west one lives the eldest brother's family. Put the basket of buds and rice on her back by the stove, go to the west house and carry the same thin and tattered little niece to the east room, and let the two of them sit on the kang and eat dried beets.

The clothes on the two children are very tattered, but they are not dirty, the sister-in-law has a bad temper, but she has always been a diligent person, the only drawback is that the needlework is not good, no matter how thick the needlework can still deal with making clothes, shoes and socks, the sister-in-law is ignorant in this regard, it is said that her family's needlework is done by her mother-in-law and sister-in-law, and she can't do a finished product herself.

Others are also a big family, of course they can't help her too much, her mouth is getting meaner and her temper is weird, and her mother's family is becoming more and more reluctant to help her.

So the two children were not dirty, but they were dressed like a little Hanako.

This is also the main reason why my sister-in-law hates Zhang Guirong, she is famous for her needlework as a grandmother, and Zhou Lanxiang's good needlework is what she taught, but she would rather make shoes and cotton clothes for other people's children than sew a stitch for her own granddaughter!

Zhou Lanxiang found Zhang Guirong's needlework basket and reluctantly repaired the shoes on the girl's feet first. It's too late to make new shoes today, so let's deal with it first so that the child will suffer less from the cold.

The eldest girl's shoes and the cotton jacket and cotton pants of the exposed cotton were sewn and sewn for the second girl, the two children were very restrained at first, biting the dried beets and looking at the sister-in-law carefully, Zhou Lanxiang slowly teased the two of them to talk, and when she finished sewing quickly, the two children already had a smile on their faces.

Zhou Lanxiang saw that there were rags in Zhang Guirong's needlework, so the two children sewed a colorful little sandbag with the corner of the cloth, and the two little girls had their own toys for the first time when they were so big, and they were so happy that they didn't know how to baby.

Seeing that it was not early, Zhou Lanxiang packed up and prepared to leave. Before leaving, he handed over the dried beets and a bottle of syrup to the eldest girl, and told her that if her mother came back and looked at their clothes and didn't scold hard, then show her the dried beets and syrup, and if her mother was so angry, let her hide it and eat it secretly with the two girls.

"You can't eat too much at once, you can't eat at night, or your teeth will hurt! My aunt will come to check in two days, and if you come obediently, you will bring delicious food! ”