The morning light quietly lit up the night sky in early spring, and the chickens in the yard began to crow at the neck. Yu Xiaocao's twin sister, Yu Xiaolian, got dressed lightly.

I slept a lot during the day, and as soon as my sister moved, Yu Xiaocao woke up. She rubbed her eyes, saw through the window paper that it was still early outside, and said blindfoldedly: "Why do you get up so early?" ”

Yu Xiaolian yawned and put on her patched coat, glanced at the sleeping Liu on the big kang, and said in a low voice, "Did you wake you up?" Yesterday, my mother slept late, so I did more work to let my mother rest more. It's still early, you can sleep a little longer......"

Xiaocao looked at the thin back of this eight-year-old Lori, a modern elementary school student who is still coquettish in the arms of his parents, in this family, he has already taken on most of the labor.

In the yard, grandma shouted again: "What time is it?" Haven't cooked yet! If someone in the family is injured, it is justified, can you do anything? ”

This person also looked at the dishes on the plate, and saw that the Liu family was weak, and Yu Hai was obedient, holding the big and small ones tightly in his hands. The men are better when they are at home, probably because they are a little afraid of the old man.

Hearing Zhang's howl in his throat early in the morning, Yu Xiaocao frowned a little impatiently. The eccentric grandmother, the uncle who picks thorns all day long, and the lobby brother who is greedy and lazy and always bullies them...... In her previous life, she lived alone with her younger siblings, although it was a little difficult and a little bitter, but she had never been so aggrieved.

In the past few days, in addition to doing heavy housework, the Liu family has not been able to stay by her daughter's side at night. The originally thin body was boiled to the point that only a handful of bones remained, and his face was even more pale without a trace of blood, and his eyes were thick blue and black.

Hearing the scolding outside, Liu hurriedly got up, but when he got off the kang, he staggered a few steps before standing firmly.

Yu Xiaocao hurriedly got off the kang to support her mother, asked her to sit down by the kang, and said, "Mother, your body is not very good, rest for a while." Cook one less day, and you won't be hungry for them! If you're tired and sick, Dad won't be distressed to death......"

It is observed that Yu Hai, a cheap father, not only spoils his children, but also loves his daughter-in-law. As long as he is at home, he always grabs the work in Liu's hands. It's a pity that he fishes and sells fish and hunts every day, and he has too little time at home. Otherwise, Liu's body would not be so dilapidated.

"Dead girl, who did you learn this strange thing from!" Liu Muyun's yellow and thin face was dyed with a layer of rouge.

"Xiaolian can't be busy alone, I'll take a look......" Liu Muyun raised her feet and was about to walk out the door, but was pulled by her daughter and pressed on the kang.

"Ignore grandma, she has menopausal syndrome! What is she scolding, you go in and out of your left ear, don't go to your heart......" Yu Xiaocao paused, suddenly raised her voice, and screamed: "Mother, mother!" What happened to you!! Grandma is coming, my mother fainted!! ”

Liu Muyun sat on the edge of the kang and looked at her daughter in a daze, but didn't react. Yu Xiaocao hurriedly lowered her voice and said, "Mother, you are tired and faint. Still not lying down? ”

After the youngest daughter woke up from injury, she became dexterous and had a lot of weird temperament. I don't know who I learned it from. Liu Duyun nodded her little brain and lay down cooperatively.

As soon as Liu Muyun closed his eyes, Zhang pushed the door in, and muttered, "What's the matter?" There is no one in the family who is worry-free, Xiaocao, why did your mother faint? ”

"My mother hasn't closed her eyes for a few days in order to take care of me. Just now, my grandmother shouted that no one was cooking, and my mother was in a hurry, and she fell to the ground unconscious...... Grandma, please take a look at Dr. You. I'm so scared that my mother won't be able to wake up, woo woo woo ......" Yu Xiaocao covered her face and pretended to cry.

Zhang frowned, and when he saw the second daughter-in-law who was so thin that he didn't have two taels of flesh, he couldn't help muttering in his heart: This sick and crooked second family can't be really sick, right? If you're really tired and sick, you'll have to spend money!

She said to Yu Xiaocao: "What doctor, your mother is too tired to sleep, so she should be less surprised." Don't make a noise with your mother, let her sleep more! ”

When he went out and heard the eldest daughter-in-law still pointing fingers and saying that no one was cooking, Zhang finally couldn't help it: "Eat, eat, eat!" You won't starve to death if you eat less!! Look at what this family is messing up like, it's not enough!! The noise is endless early in the morning, and if you want to eat early, you can do it yourself, don't you see that Xiaolian is busy? ”

The sister-in-law Yu Caidie silently came out of her house, picked up a bundle of firewood from the firewood stack, and was about to go into the kitchen to make a fire. Zhang's family was reluctant to let his daughter cook, so he copied a broom head and slapped it on the arm of the eldest daughter-in-law who was leaning against the wall and basking in the sun: "You have no eyesight, don't cook yet!" Let your teenage sister-in-law serve you? ”

Yu Xiaocao was speechless when she listened, her feelings are that your daughter is a daughter, and someone else's daughter is not a daughter? Yu Xiaolian is only eight years old, much younger than your daughter, you can't see it from morning to night, your daughter is distressed when she hugs a bundle of firewood?

The eldest daughter-in-law covered her beaten arm, grunted into the kitchen, reluctantly lit the fire, and began to cook breakfast with a curse.

Yu Xiaocao saw that her mother fell asleep after lying on the kang for a while, so she tiptoed out of the door, carefully closed the door, and took a basin to help Xiaolian feed the chickens.

Yu Xiaolian hurriedly snatched it, glanced at the gauze on her head, and said in a low voice: "Your injury is not healed yet, how can you let you work?" Hungry, right? You sit for a while, and breakfast will be good for a while! ”

This eldest daughter-in-law hasn't touched the stove for many years, so it's really hard for her to sweat for the family's breakfast. In this era, only two meals a day were eaten, usually around 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. It was almost twelve o'clock in the afternoon, and breakfast was served.

Drinking the mushy bean soup and the dried mixed dough cakes that almost choked people, Yu Dashan, the boss who came back from fishing, couldn't help but get angry: "How can people eat this rice?" And the bread, which is as hard as a stone, is it still edible for people to eat? ”

"Ask your daughter-in-law! Let her cook, she went into the kitchen at the beginning of the morning (nine o'clock in the morning), and after tossing for almost two hours, she came out with such a thing! Zhang broke a piece of dough and chewed it hard in his mouth, and drank two mouthfuls of bean soup before choking.

Yujia's bean soup is made of soybean flour mixed with a small amount of millet noodles. It already has a beany smell, and when it is boiled again, the taste is very sour.

"What about the second daughter-in-law? Why didn't you come to eat? Lao Yutou frowned, put down the bread in his hand, and asked.

Yu Xiaocao hurriedly said: "My mother is tired and fainted, and she hasn't woken up yet while lying on the kang!" ”

"What? Your mother fainted?? I'll check it out! Yu Haifan didn't eat anymore, and hurriedly strode towards the house.