Chapter 38: Supplementing Mei Zhizhong
Of course, She Yufen and Zheng Juan are not the worst.
Mei Zhijun alone has heard of it, and there are not a few who are worse than them.
What was taken by his father and mother to "change relatives" and marry a man who was poor in the family, or else he was disabled or had a hobby of domestic violence.
What was married to a fool by his father and mother, and an old widower in exchange for a high bride price, just to build a house and marry a daughter-in-law for the brothers in the family.
The most tragic thing is that there is a family in Majia Village, and the father, whose wife has been dead for many years, actually put his daughter to sleep and become pregnant.
Seeing that her stomach couldn't be hidden, her unscrupulous father simply sold her directly to the famous "husband [lǎo gong]" in Heigang Township.
Growing up in such an environment, Mei Zhijun naturally would not react to the patriarchal preference of Zheng Juan's family.
He just sympathized with Mei Zhizhong and Zheng Juan a little.
After the wedding, the newlyweds who even had problems eating did not know how much effort they would have to put in to live their lives in the future.
After a little thought, he said to Mei Zhizhong: "Wait a few days, and I will ask someone to help bring you some food." No matter what, I have to let you and my sister-in-law deal with this winter first. ”
Mei Zhizhong didn't say anything polite to him, "Cheng." You help me keep the accounts, and when I have enough money, I will pay you back in money. ”
Mei Zhijun waved his hand, "What is produced in your own land, how can you pay it back." ”
"Then you have to pay it back, your family is not having a good time." Mei Zhizhong dropped such a sentence and went to sweep the yard, Mei Zhijun shook his head helplessly.
After returning to Taizi Village, Mei Zhijun told She Yufen that he had promised to receive some food from Mei Zhizhong.
She Yufen herself has tasted the pain of having nothing, so she is quite sympathetic to Mei Zhizhong and Zheng Juan.
When they were free, the husband and wife immediately carried a few bags of millet and a few bags of corn to the processing factory, processed 100 catties of millet and 100 catties of fine cornmeal, and then entrusted Li Guowen's eldest son, who worked in the city, to help Mei Zhizhong.
There were also two fat rabbits, a jar of snow-white and delicate lard, a small bag of red kidney beans, a small bag of mung beans, a small bag of shredded beans, dried eggplant, and a mixture of dried mushrooms.
Afraid that Zhao Huiying would come to his house to make trouble if he found out, Mei Zhijun was like a thief, and only went to Li Guowen's house after dark to ask Li Guowen's eldest son who came back to visit the old man, and when the day the family was leaving, he got up early in the morning and transported these things to the shuttle station in Heigang Township.
Li Guowen's eldest son only needs to help him take care of these things in the car, and when he arrives at the station in Shuidi Township, Mei Zhizhong will get the things back from the station by himself, and he doesn't need Li Guowen's eldest son to send them all the way to his home.
If there weren't too many things, the shuttle bus driver would easily lose them if he couldn't see them, and Mei Zhijun could even directly entrust the things to the familiar shuttle bus driver and ask them to help take them down.
Maybe it's because the people here are still simple, or maybe it's because everyone knows each other well, anyway, like this "piggyback", the shuttle bus driver has always been uncharged.
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Time is in a blink of an eye, and it is the spring ploughing time of the second year, and Mei Yali, who is almost two years old, has grown a lot taller.
Today, in addition to the chickens, geese, and pigs that are basically raised by the villagers, her family also raises rabbits and sheep that are not raised by ordinary households.
As mentioned earlier, Mei Yali had already been raised by her second cousin's family in her previous life, and she just advanced this process a little earlier.
The sheep are raised by her grandmother's family all the year round, and Mei Yali resorted to the coquettish method of letting her parents raise two, in order to raise sheep to sell wool and mutton, and she can also get some goat milk to drink when the ewes give birth to lambs.
Pure goat's milk didn't taste very good, but the people here had already mastered the trick of using almonds to taste it, and she didn't even have to pretend to be naughty and throw a few almonds into the pot.
During the spring ploughing, Mei Zhijun's family was still partnered with Old Man She and She Fenggang, and after the spring ploughing, Mei Zhijun and She Yufen began to vigorously develop the breeding industry.
Because of the careful care of these two people, all kinds of animals in their family are like the little seedlings in his vegetable garden, one day at a time.
Seeing that their hard work was duly rewarded, Mei Zhijun and She Yufen were very happy.
The two of them got up more and more early and worked in the dark, and their desperate posture won unanimous praise from the villagers of Taizi Village.
Of course, this "unanimous" melon-eating masses does not include Zhao Huiying, who is becoming more and more unhappy.
On the second day of Mei Zhizhong's wedding, she took away half a bag of millet, so that they didn't even have to eat, in order to give her eldest son and eldest daughter-in-law who had just entered the door a dismount, so that they could know their importance.
But Mei Zhizhong didn't come to her to beg her.
This made Zhao Huiying, who had already figured out how to beat (in fact, it was difficult) Mei Zhizhong, puzzled, she couldn't understand what was going on in the middle, so she guessed that it must be Zheng Juan's parents who helped Mei Zhizhong and Zheng Juan, the young couple.
This guess made her scold the old Zheng for half a month.
Removing all kinds of foul language, Zhao Huiying cursed Lao Zheng Tou'er's core idea is one - the water spilled by the married daughter, what do you have to do to make up for it? Since you have that money, why didn't you accompany your daughter in the first place?
Scolding and scolding, she remembered that She Yufen's parents and grandmother were also nosy.
As a result, there were more people from the She family among the objects of her cursing.
Mei Jinfeng quarreled with her a lot about this.
On the one hand, Mei Jinfeng felt that the old She family and the old Zheng family had done nothing wrong, and Zhao Huiying's scolding was simply untenable.
On the other hand, Mei Jinfeng is also worried that after Zhao Huiying's practice of cursing the whole family and the eighteenth generation of her in-laws and ancestors at every turn spread, Mei Zhiming will become more and more difficult to talk about his daughter-in-law.
It's a pity that Zhao Huiying didn't listen to him at all.
Mei Zhizhong and Mei Zhijun all relied on the fact that they married their wives, which made her self-confidence unprecedentedly high, and she firmly believed that with her youngest son's appearance, height, and temper, there would be a lot of good girls lined up to pounce on Mei Zhiming.
Mei Jinfeng couldn't make sense of her, but fortunately, this kind of "unreasonable" situation had happened many times in the first half of his life, and Mei Jinfeng could be regarded as experienced.
As always, in the end, he had no choice but to choose "not to be like an old lady like her".
Zhao Huiying's style, the long-tongued women in Taizi Village who are not afraid of big things have already come to talk to Mei Zhijun and She Yufen, but Mei Zhijun and She Yufen did not make trouble with Zhao Huiying as they expected.