Chapter 30: Weak Mother
When I arrived at the meeting place, the captain Tao Aiguo was distributing the work, Tao Duoduo was too thin and small, and many people were reluctant to divide it into a group with her, for fear that she would slow down the progress and not get the full work, so Tao Aiguo had always arranged his sister in a group of two brothers.
Duoduo didn't even know how to do housework in her previous life, let alone do farm work, although she also understood which mountain sang which song, since she had been reborn at the end of the seventies, then she had to work, otherwise she would be hungry, although she had just arrived, but she had already tasted the taste of hunger, it was too uncomfortable, so she worked very hard, but within an hour, she was so tired that her waist was not her own, and the hand holding the hoe also grinded out one blister after another.
Duoduo is afraid that others will say that she is squeamish, in the countryside, a girl who can't work will be discriminated against, so she desperately endures and continues to work, but the progress is really slow, everyone is far from the end of the field, she is still struggling in the center of the field, I don't know when the cotton field she is responsible for weeding will be able to hoe the grass.
Tao Aijia looked back while working, and was a little surprised to see Duoduo's hard look, although she had always been unable to work, but it was not as bad as today, so she accelerated her hoeing, and finished it herself early, so as to help Duoduo.
When it was close to noon, the Tao Aiguo brothers had already hoeed all the grass in the cotton field they were responsible for, and they all turned back to help Duoduo hoe the grass, and with their help, Duoduo finally completed the task before lunch.
The brother and sister and the third brother followed each other home, and met Lin Yongfang and Liu Cuihua on the way, and they also went home from work.
Tao Aimin has to walk from the mountains every day after work, and pick up some dead branches to come back as firewood.
Lin Yongfang saw that Duoduo was listless, and her legs couldn't be dragged, so she asked with concern, "Duoduo, what's wrong with you?" ”
Duoduo was exhausted: "I didn't do much, I was just tired, hungry and thirsty." ”
On such a hot day, working under the sun for many hours, sweating so much, can you not be thirsty, hungry or tired? What's more, breakfast is so oily and waterless!
Duoduo saw a lotus pond not far away, and suddenly had a little spirit, pushed Tao Aijia, and said coquettishly: "Third brother, pick a lotus leaf for me to shade the sun, I'm about to die." ”
Tao Aijia said: "No, if you pick a lotus leaf, the whole lotus root under the lotus leaf will be rotten." ”
And this kind of thing?
Duoduo said that he was very surprised, in his previous life, he went to Nanhu to play, and saw that there were many lotus ponds there, and he often picked many lotus leaves to play with and threw them away, never thought that his actions would make the lotus roots growing in the mud rot.
Lin Yongfang took off his straw hat and put it on Duoduo's head, feeling distressed: "I always ask you to wear a hat, but you refuse, now I know that I am afraid of the sun, look at you, the sun is like a black briquette." ”
Duoduo heard her mother say this, and then she noticed that although Lin Yongfang also works every day, it is not dark, and then look at the two brothers around her are not dark, because they both wear straw hats and do sunscreen protection, they are tanned, so there is still help.
When Duoduo came home last night, she was tired and sleepy, and the kerosene lamp at home only picked a wick, and the light was dim, Duoduo didn't see what her mother in this life looked like, but now when she looks at it, she looks really beautiful.
Lin Yongfang has a typical goose egg face of that era, and Liu Xiaoqing has some faces, both have big eyes, curved eyebrows, and a straight nose bridge, but in Duoduo's eyes, his mother is much better looking than Liu Xiaoqing, Lin Yongfang has that kind of gentle temperament, without the aggressive domineering of a strong woman, and then look at the eldest brother and the third brother are also ungodly and tall, which is pleasing to the eye.
Tao Aijia looked at Duoduo and looked at them and then at them, and one person secretly smirked and asked, "You are laughing so gloomy, what are you laughing at?" ”
Duoduo glanced at him: "How can you smile very gloomy, I want to be beautiful, I want to be white." ”
Lin Yongfang said happily: "It's a good thing." ”
Liu Cuihua, who had never intervened, said in a weird manner: "If you want to become white, you can't bask in the sun, then you can only sit at home and eat white food, there is already a person who eats white food at home, add another one, how do you live this day?" ”
Chen Meiling really called eating white food, but Liu Cuihua didn't dare to mention her, because the two concubines ate each other in a pot with their mothers-in-law, sisters-in-law and uncles, but no one paid a penny for food.
But if Duoduo doesn't go to work in order to raise white skin, it means that the mother-in-law and uncle don't have enough to eat, and Liu Cuihua has to take out part of the work of her husband and wife to support the family, which she is unwilling, so she talks about Aiyun and speaks to Lin Yongfang and Duoduo.
Lin Yongfang's smiling face that finally bloomed immediately became gloomy again, the youngest daughter's health was not good, like a mountain weighing heavily on her heart, the eldest daughter-in-law also said this, which made her feel even more uncomfortable, although the youngest daughter couldn't do heavy things, but she was not lazy, she was always doing things for this family within her ability, and although she didn't earn work, she didn't eat her Liu Cuihua, why did she say this about Aiyun!
The eldest daughter is eighteen years old, she looks so dark, she looks distressed as a mother, she was white when she was a child, her skin can be broken, who in the village doesn't praise her for being beautiful, as cute as a little girl on the New Year's painting, the reason why she is so black is not because she gets up early and works outside the house? Of course, it has something to do with her not liking hats.
Duoduo has reached the age of saying kiss, the girl is beautiful, and the conditions of the people who come to ask for marriage will be better, of course, she hopes that her daughter will marry well and live happily in the future, don't be like herself, Liu Cuihua said this, it was like a knife in her heart.
Duoduo thought that Lin Yongfang would have to say a few words about Liu Cuihua, even if her daughter didn't go to work, she wouldn't put her mouth into her Liu Cuihua's bowl to eat, where would it be her turn to talk like that! But left and right, Lin Yongfang didn't see any movement.
Duoduo is really drunk, although it is not the old society of all evils, there is no mother-in-law abusing her daughter-in-law, but like Liu Cuihua, she is still eating her mother-in-law's food with red mouth and white teeth, and she has to speak to her mother-in-law, such a big rebellion, it is still okay to teach two sentences, even if it reaches the ears of the villagers, public opinion will be on the mother's side, after all, the whole of China values filial piety in any era, let alone in the countryside, whoever has a child who is not filial will be spit on, but Lin Yongfang is too cowardly, and he would rather hurt himself secretly, I don't dare to blame Liu Cuihua, and the eldest brother is too, my daughter-in-law wants to teach two lessons, how can she be so indulgent!