Liu Chongshan almost didn't sleep all night, and when he thought that his daughter-in-law hadn't given birth to a child, he sighed sadly, and even with Zhang, who had just given birth, he couldn't sleep peacefully at night.

The two of them were talking in the faint light of the sky.

"Tell me what kind of sin I have created, why can't I give birth to a boy? That Liu Xiaobian is not as good as me everywhere, and the mother-in-law is angry, and she gave birth to a pair of boys lightly and skillfully, what about you? ”

Liu Chongshan was depressed in his heart, and said in a very ugly voice: "Do you know what people outside say about me? said that I was destined to be a desperate head in my life, and I would not have a son to send me to the end of my life when I was old......"

Liu Chongshan felt uncomfortable, where can the Zhang family be better, she has been married to the Liu family for almost 20 years, but she has not given birth to a boy for the Liu family, and she has long felt guilty in her heart.

It's all women, how can others give birth to children, but they can't give birth to themselves?

Zhang's own is also strong, when he thinks of this, his chest is uncomfortable, and when he hears the heart-piercing words of the master, the tears fall down, and he doesn't dare to cry, for fear that the child will hear it.

Zhang covered his mouth and whimpered for a while, and then Liu Chongshan remembered to persuade: "Okay, don't cry, you gave birth to four girls in one go, and I don't want to say a few words." ”

Seeing that Zhang still couldn't stop crying, Liu Chongshan lost his patience, sat up from the kang suddenly, put on a piece of clothing haphazardly, and walked outside with a pair of rag shoes.

When he walked to the outer room, he saw that there was no movement in the west side room, so he lifted the curtain and shouted, "Have you slept over?" If you don't get up to cook on the fire, you don't have to pour the urinal in your mother's house! One by one, there is no use for fart. ”

A scolding sound woke up Liu Guiyuan, who was sleeping in Zhengxiang, she looked around, and saw that it was still the old kang in the dilapidated house where she slept last night, and knew that she couldn't go back, so she could only resign herself to getting up.

"Dad, I'm up." Liu Hongzao hurriedly got out of bed and put on his shoes to arrange the quilt again, and Liu Huahua on the other side of the kang also sat up and put on his clothes, and said, "Dad, I'm up too." ”

Liu Chongshan ignored the two, looked at Liu Guiyuan, who was slowly dressing and lacing, and said impatiently: "Guiyuan, you are not stupid now, you have to follow the work at home in the future, move your hands and feet quickly, don't touch and pinch not decently!" Your mother is weak, if you have nothing to do, stay in her house, give her and urine, if you dare to be lazy, see how I beat you! ”

After Liu Chongshan finished training his third daughter, he walked out of the house without looking back, and there were only two dilapidated old wooden doors in the outhouse.

Liu Guiyuan pursed his lips, quickly climbed out of bed, trotted to the back room with a cigarette, stood in front of Zhang, saw her eyes red, and asked, "Mother, how are you, do you still have pain in your body?" ”

Zhang rubbed Liu Guiyuan's hair, shook his head slightly, pursed his lips and did not speak.

"Mother, don't cry during the confinement, and then fall ill." Liu Guiyuan stretched out his hand and gently stroked Zhang's crying red eyes, and couldn't help but comfort her.

In order to save her from going down into the icy river, this is a taboo for pregnant women who give birth, if it weren't for the fact that Zhang had given birth to three children, he was more experienced, and it was estimated that adults and children would be in danger.

"Mother is fine, so I won't cry. By the way, how do you know that you are not allowed to cry during confinement? Zhang watched his daughter, who had always been stupid, become so filial, and finally felt a little comforted in his heart, and when he heard her little adult-like admonition to himself, he asked casually.

Liu Guiyuan was asked by Zhang's suddenly, and he really couldn't answer for a while.

Yes, what she said just now was common sense in her previous life, and now she is a little girl who is more than seven years old, and she was still a fool before, how can she know this.

In a panic, Liu Guiyuan lied that he had heard from his two sisters, which dispelled Zhang's suspicions.

After seeing the foolishness, Liu Guiyuan came out of the back room, and warned himself in his heart to be careful in the future, don't do anything out of the ordinary, otherwise, it is possible to be burned to death by the ancients as a goblin.

After all, it was already bizarre that she suddenly returned to clarity from a fool.

Out of the inner room, through the old wooden door of the outhouse, Liu Guiyuan began to look at the living environment in front of him.

The house they lived in was a large house with earthen walls, divided into three parts, the inner room was occupied by the Zhang couple, the middle outhouse was decorated with miscellaneous items, and the west side room was occupied by the three sisters.

There was no wall outside the house, only a row of sparse hedges enclosed by branches, and in the middle was a bare clearing, and near the west side of the house there was a straw hut made of two logs, which was used for cooking pots and rice.

In the bright sky, the eldest sister Liu Hongjube was lighting a fire under the stove door, colliding with two small flints, and getting under the wheat wool that was grasped, and the fire was ignited.

Seeing this, Liu Guiyuan stepped forward and lifted the lids of the two pots, and saw that there were bamboo strips in the big pot, and a few leftover cakes were placed on it, and the small pot was empty, so he began to brush the small pot, ready to make something good for Zhang's.

"Guiyuan, will you do all this? Don't need me to teach? Liu Hongzao looked at Liu Guiyuan who lowered his head and brushed the pot in surprise, a little incredulous.

"Well, you don't need to teach, I used to see you and the second sister do this." Liu Guiyuan was sure that he used to watch his sisters work a lot, so he lied and didn't make drafts.

The small pot was brushed clean, half a scoop of water was added, Liu Hongjube quickly led the fire to burn together, and Liu Guiyuan went to the clay pot in the corner of the west house to dig out the eggs, which she saw last night.

Bang bang, Liu Guiyuan knocked five eggs in a row, all of them were beaten in the boiling water, and Liu Hongjube was a little distressed, but he didn't speak.

"Eldest sister, is there brown sugar at home? Pepper too? Looking at the poached eggs floating on the water in the pot, Liu Guiyuan felt that there was some clear soup and little water, so he wanted to add some condiments.

"No, we haven't bought pepper for a long time, and brown sugar has never been bought." Liu Hongjube picked up the hot cakes into a bamboo dustpan, scooped a spoonful of flour water, mixed it with the bubbling boiling water, and waited for the fire to boil, and the rice porridge was ready.

There was no way, Liu Guiyuan could only put five poached eggs in a large bowl, add some clear soup, and bring them to Zhang's for her to eat.

"Mother, the poached eggs are ready, you eat more."

Zhang took his little daughter in his arms and patted it, looked down at the five eggs in the big bowl, and was startled: "Why do you beat so many?" ”

There are only more than 20 eggs saved at home today, I ate four yesterday, and I ate five more today, which is estimated to be not enough to eat until the confinement.

"Mother, don't feel sorry for the eggs, your body is important, and there is a little sister, if you don't eat better, how can you have the strength to take care of her." A little bit of eggs, Zhang's heart is like this, which shows how poor this family is.

Sure enough, when Zhang heard this, he nodded silently, put down the child, took the bowl in the hand of the third daughter, picked up a poached egg and ate it.

She has not had much milk since she gave birth, and she hopes that eating these poached eggs will help her body quickly and not make her little daughter hungry.

Zhang ate poached eggs, and Liu Guiyuan walked out with an empty bowl. Under the grass shed outside the house, Liu Hongjube had already cooked porridge, and he was afraid that it would be cold for a while, so he covered the pot with a spatula, and the heat was half leaking.

"Eldest sister, I've brushed both urinals, you've already cooked the meal, why is it so fast? What else can I help with? Liu Peanut brushed the two urinals, one was placed at the back of the house, and the other was ready to be sent to Zhang's house.

Liu Hongzao saw her coming from outside, pointed at Liu Guiyuan and said, "The third sister helped to do it, otherwise how could it be so fast, she is very capable now." If you're okay, go out with me to pick up two buckets of water and come back, just because the tank doesn't have enough water. ”

The only well in the village is not far from their house, so they get their water from the well. Unlike the people who live in the back, some of them are far away, and they use river water for eating and drinking.

Liu Huahua nodded, tied up his scattered hair, took the flat pole and two buckets, and walked out of the fence with a yawn, followed by the eldest sister Liu Hongjuo.

Only then did Liu Guiyuan see clearly that her second sister, her snow-white face was crawling with freckles, a dense layer, and at first glance she looked like a Westerner.

This kind of freckles and pockmarked face, if it is placed in modern times, it is estimated that it can be eliminated by rubbing some products to lighten melanin, or it can be done in the hospital for laser surgery, but this is in ancient times, there is nothing.

By the way, my backpack just contained two boxes of whitening and freckle removal products, and it would be nice if I wore them along, so that the second sister's face could still recover.

She was in frustration when suddenly there was a thud, and a familiar pink backpack fell from the sky and smashed straight on her feet.

Liu Guiyuan looked at it, hey, isn't this his newly bought pink large travel bag?

At that time, she was standing by the river with a travel bag on her back to take pictures, and suddenly heard someone falling into the water calling for help, and without saying a word, she jumped into the river without even having time to put down her backpack.

Who knew that the person she saved successfully went ashore, but she sank to the bottom of the river due to exhaustion, and then came here as soon as she opened her eyes.

Suddenly seeing his own things, Liu Guiyuan was surprised and delighted, and hurriedly looked left and right, it happened that the eldest sister and the second sister had gone away, and the Zhang family was in the back room, otherwise her operation would definitely frighten them.

Carrying a backpack to the west side of the house, Liu Guiyuan quickly opened the backpack to check, the bag contained two sets of change of clothes, a cosmetic bag, two boxes of whitening products, a pair of sunglasses, and some souvenirs bought at tourist attractions.

In addition to whitening products, the second sister Liu Peanut can be used, Liu Guiyuan looked at the pile of miscellaneous things in front of him, and sighed slightly.

If the traverser generally has a gold finger as a benefit, then I ask you: what is the use of her large backpack and the contents inside?

She can't wear clothes, she doesn't need cosmetics at the moment, sunglasses don't fit, and those colorful souvenirs are useless.

Alas, if there is no such thing, Liu Guiyuan folded the clothes he took out one by one and stuffed them back, thinking about where to put this backpack in a while, such a large piece is not easy to hide.

Who knows, as soon as she had this thought, the pink backpack suddenly disappeared.

Did you go back? Liu Guiyuan tried to think about the pink backpack just now in her heart, and soon with a bang, the backpack fell, and she thought about retracting the backpack, and sure enough, the backpack disappeared again.

Liu Guiyuan put away the backpack and thought about how to make use of the things in the backpack.

At this time, she heard movement outside the house, and when she went out, she saw that the eldest sister and the second sister were back with two buckets of water.

When a large vat of water was filled, Liu Chongshan came back from outside with a tense face.

"Dad, the meal is ready, it's ready to eat." Liu Huahua saw his father and hurriedly shouted, if his father didn't move the chopsticks first, she wouldn't be able to eat first.

Liu Chongshan hummed, indicating that he understood, and sat on a square table in the big room, waiting for the meal to be served.

Liu Hongzao hurriedly picked up four bowls, lifted the lid of the pot, and each filled a bowl of poor porridge with few rice grains, and at the same time did not forget to support Liu Huahua beside him: "You go to the house to grab some salted dried radish, and change the knife to bring it over." ”

Eat multigrain cakes and rice porridge in the morning, with some salted radish and rice, generally do not eat at noon, or eat a little dry cake padding, and then drink a half-thick brown rice porridge in the evening, this is the family's food for a day.

There are many people in the family and little land, and there is often not enough food to eat, although it is still enough at the moment, it will take some time to wait for the new grain to be harvested. Besides, when the farming season is busy, the grain saved is just enough to add food.

According to Liu Chongshan's words: There is no year or festival, and there is no heavy work in the field, why are adults and children so full?