After returning from the vegetable market, Sun Guodong drove the carriage and Xiaohong's mother directly to the vegetable field. The five sons went home alone to rest. He got up early every day to go into the city to sell vegetables, and he didn't get a good night's sleep. Especially in these critical days, he was so sleepy that he sat on the edge of the kang with his head heavy, and fought with his upper and lower eyelids. After the grandmother brought the food, he ate a few bites casually, took off his coat, and fell asleep on the kang with his head covered.

After the carriage arrived at the vegetable field, Sun Guodong unloaded the big white horse from the cart and led it to the wooden stake on the ground. He tied the reins to the stake, raised his hand and picked up a sickle, cut some grass nearby, and placed it in front of the big white horse. When the big white horse saw that there was something to eat, he immediately stretched out his neck and chewed it like a naughty child.

Under the violent sun, Sun Guodong crossed his hands on his hips, squinting at this land that had been sprinkled with countless sweats, and his face was filled with indescribable worry. The crops depend on the sky for food, and they do not have too many extravagant hopes, nor do they ask for any great wealth and luxury, but they hope that God can reward them with a good year, and the whole family will be well fed and clothed, and they will be very content.

These days, there have been several days without rain, and there is a noticeable drought in the vegetable fields, and the watered ditches are full of dry cracks, as if they have experienced a bombardment, and they are scattered in all directions, which is shocking. The green vegetable garden suddenly became haggard. Those curly leaves were covered with dust. Because of the lack of water, the leaves had withered and yellowed, and they lay there dying, like an incurable patient.

Sun Guodong grinned, quietly looking at the seedlings next to each other, and stood there dejectedly, like a collective heat stroke, listlessly basking in the sun, lifeless. If he struck a match on the ground and threw it into the ground, it was easy to cause an accidental fire. "What should I do?" He was wandering around the vegetable patch, anxious and spun around.

The sun shone fiercely, spraying angry flames mercilessly, as if to turn the vegetable fields into white gray charcoal. The vegetable field is too dry, and if it is not watered in time, it will directly affect this year's income. Seeing that it is the season to make money, if you can't earn money when you should be earning, then the hard work of the whole family will be wasted.

Sun Guodong walked from one end to the other, and carefully checked one ridge after another, and found that some of the leaves with cobwebs were drowned. He bent down to pluck a few leaves with drowning insects, held them in his hands, frowned, and looked at the whole vegetable field for a while. When he saw Xiaohong's mother pinching those yellow leaves in the ground, he shouted at her: "Are you tired?" Dry up all day long! You have stripped all the yellow leaves of the ground, and the insects have not been clean. You go to the shack to rest first, I'll drive to the village now to buy a few bottles of pesticides, and then come back and take the white dragon to the water pump and water the vegetable field at night! ”

"You see, it has not rained for a few days, and the vegetable leaves are yellow like this, if it continues to be so dry, not only will the vegetables not count, but even the fields will have to reduce production, and they all say that the year of cattle and horses is good for farming, and I am afraid of chickens and monkeys in the past two years, what kind of year is this, you go quickly! By the way, go to the village to borrow another spray, and don't call Wuzi here. Let's dust the vegetable patch together, and we can hurry up! Xiaohong's mother walked out of the ground, she threw a lot of yellow leaves to the ground, wiped the sweat on her face, and sat on the ground panting, she was more anxious than Sun Guodong.

Sun Guodong set up the carriage and left, and Xiaohong's mother went around the field again. Seeing that the vegetable field that gave money suddenly became like this, her heart went up and down, and her mouth was also sighing again and again.

There must be a road before the car reaches the mountain, and it is useless to be in a hurry. If it doesn't work after sprinkling the medicine and watering, then it's no longer useful. Thinking so, a man went to the hut, lay down on the single bed inside, and fell asleep in a daze.

She fell asleep, and the sound of rustling footsteps was slowly approaching the shack. She suddenly opened her eyes, hurriedly sat up from the bed, squinted her eyes, looked out, and saw that it was Xiaofeng's sister-in-law in the backyard.

"The second grandmother is here! I thought it was five sons sleeping in it! It's so hot that when you catch up with the fire, you're going to burn people. Second grandmother, you came back early today! Why do you still look at the ground, what about my second master? Xiaofeng's sister-in-law walked slowly to the shack, and before the two feet of the person could step in, her muffled male duck voice was sharp, and she slipped in through the crack in the door.

A good man is out of the mouth, and a good horse is out of the leg. Don't look at this person who has no culture, he talks in a set way, and anyone can deal with it. She's a good talker, and she doesn't leak between words. She is not too verbose, she has a small mouth, as sweet as eating honey, talking at one time, she doesn't need to find a master to teach, and she can greet several people. It's a pity that the red face is thin, if this is born in the city, maybe how big a company boss can be!

It was in the city, all by bluffing with one mouth, no one knew anyone, even if you walked down the street, met passers-by, stared and told nonsense, some people would believe it. In the small alleys of the countryside, it is different, every house is wall by wall, courtyard by courtyard, whoever is smoking in the chimney, can guess what her family eats. Her way of speaking like this cloudy mountain fog cover slightly annoyed some elderly people, although it is useless to say that heroes are useless, but a rural daughter-in-law has a mouth that can speak well, and she always has to grab some more than a muffled person. However, Xiaohong's mother doesn't like a junior like her who just talks and doesn't practice.

Night owls come into the house and come with nothing. I don't know what the purpose of a vain person like her is that she is okay today, and she has come to the vegetable garden. Xiaohong's mother thought quietly, what did she want to see, this woman with purple teeth came here to find her for no reason, it was not a begging, if you want to borrow it, the conditions of Xiaofeng's family have always been good, and it has never been a day of borrowing.

"The vegetables in the field are drowning, it seems that pesticides have to be sprinkled, your second master went to the village to buy pesticides, and he will come back in a while." Xiaohong's mother couldn't guess, so she simply didn't suspect it, she gently put the water bowl on a square stool, and waited for her to come in and make her clear.

"Your family is so capable, there is no idler in the whole family, one can make more money than the other, they all say that your family is living a good life, and the family is not in a hurry to make a penny!" Xiaofeng's sister-in-law exposed the purple tooth bed, she gave a thumbs up, and she didn't care if people liked to hear it or not. Her series of tsks are simply too fake, she made a fortune on the left, and she passed on the right, she praised one after another, and Sun Xiaohong's mother had goosebumps all over her body.

"There are more than a dozen people in a family, some are old and some are young, and they don't do anything. The people in our family are talking, neither can they speak, they can't say, there is no other way out, they can make some effort to earn some money, it's nothing, while they can still work for a few years, isn't it also to save some money for their children? If you want to say that you can make a fortune by growing vegetables, everyone rushes to do it. This work is too tiring, and there is no rest, good people are not rare to do, and lazy people will not do it. We also have no way to make a living by growing vegetables, otherwise, what else can we do? After staying at home for a long time, there are many conflicts at home, and I can come out to do activities for a day when I can move. ”

"That's right, the family doesn't know the family, and your family's way of living is really tiring. Many people only know that your family earns money, but they have never seen you work and suffer, or how to say, good days are boiled out! In our alley, I don't accept anyone, so I will obey you and my second master. With a mother-in-law like you, in the future, whoever wants to be your daughter-in-law will enjoy what a blessing! ”

"Children and grandchildren have their own children and grandchildren, and now girls are pampered, which is a blessing for others. If I really had a daughter-in-law, I would have to go on strike in less than two and a half days if I had a daughter-in-law and let me work all day. You see that it's okay to give a few more if you have money, don't mention the work, we don't dare to use it! When you say that, you lift me up, if you can't see the light and shadow, I don't even dare to think about it, and I can only whine behind my back and blow it away as the wind blows in my ears. ”

"What do you dare not think about, I think your fourth son and fifth son are quite capable, if you get married in the future, you will be a good hand at living by yourself. I look at you, you just look at the child too much to let go? Xiaofeng's sister-in-law said with a smile, and she looked at her face as she spoke, as if she had found some secret passage on Xiaohong's mother's face, looking for an opportunity for the following topic.

"Don't look at it. Si'er works outside all the year round, not in front of him, although he earns a lot of money, it's quite worry-free, I and your second master are worried all day long. The work on the construction site was spinning and shaking, and it was unsafe to do shaking, and at night I even dreamed that he was working on the springboard. As soon as he went out, it was a year, and he couldn't come back until the end of the year, and I didn't know what kind of places he ate and lived. You said not to let him go out, there are always people who come to the house to look for him, when he sees that people give him a lot of money, he doesn't even ask, he picks up a big shovel and leaves, and his father and I can't shout back. Seeing the age of marriage, but he can't even look at a figure, you say how noisy I am! ”

"Second wife, I don't think you should make a fuss, my fourth uncle will go out to earn more, and when he gets married, he can also reduce some of the burden on the family, isn't this also a good thing?" Xiaofeng's sister-in-law said along the vine, she seemed to have a piece of the field, her eyebrows and eyes were squinted together, and she smiled even brighter.

"It's all said that he gets married, he doesn't even have time to talk about the object now, he is in tattered clothes against the sun every day, standing on the gangplank with a dirty face, and he is as tanned as the big sauce, which little girl do you say can run to the construction site every day to talk to him? Otherwise, my father and I are going to die of sorrow, when I first taught him the craft, I didn't see his master take him to build any building, but now it's good, he has a seat belt on his body, hanging in the air every day, how scary. The last time I came back, I told him to stop doing it, he didn't listen to anything, Cheng Po was so bad that I inked with him for an afternoon, as if I didn't say anything, and finally left. This kid is really worrying! Speaking of this, Xiaohong's mother sighed.

Xiaofeng's sister-in-law saw Xiaohong's mother's worried appearance, and hurriedly picked up the topic: "I'll just say it, everyone in your family can endure hardships." Let's take my fourth uncle as an example, if the girl from whose family gives me my fourth uncle, I am sure that I can enjoy a lifetime of happiness! Second grandmother, I came to the vegetable field today to find you, just to introduce someone to your fourth uncle. My mother's brother and daughter-in-law have an old sister who is very beautiful, the same age as your fourth uncle, and neither of them is an outsider, and they know the roots. What do you think? If I think it's okay, I'll build a bridge between them. ”

Listening to Xiaofeng's sister-in-law's words, Xiaohong's mother was slightly stunned, this sudden good thing made her feel too unexpected!