Although Mrs. Du didn't want them to see Deng Xiaoniang, she couldn't stop her, so she could only force a smile and ask the Wang family to call her out.

After four months of separation, the mother and daughter finally met.

Du Qingliu's eyes were a little red and said, "Mother, my daughter wants to go back to the room and talk to the little lady." ”

Although she looked down on this concubine and her husband, Mrs. Du would not embarrass them in front of outsiders.

After all, Du Xiucai still wants to be faced.

So despite the displeasure in her heart, she still smiled kindly and said, "Go, I'll go to eat with your sister-in-law and sister-in-law, and I'll go back after eating at home with my son-in-law." ”

If it weren't for seeing that those gifts were still passable, Mrs. Du really didn't plan to stay for dinner.

It's just a concubine, how can she be entertained.

However, she didn't plan to entertain anything later, so she asked her daughter-in-law to cook some rice soup and serve it with some sour radish.

After giving the order, she pouted and carried the things Yunfei brought back to the room.

This year, except for Du Xiucai, no one in their family made cotton clothes.

She is worried, what should she wear to go out to meet guests, she can't tell anyone, their Du family can't even afford a new cotton coat.

…………

Inside the firewood room.

In this room, there is a large half of the place, where the firewood is stacked neatly.

There was only a little space left, a bed and a table, two chairs.

If it weren't for a window, the whole room would be dark.

Yunfei didn't go in, after all, this belonged to his mother-in-law's boudoir, he was a man, and it was not good to go in.

So I simply took a stool, sat outside the door, and took out a book to read by the way.

It's not that I'm diligent and I always carry books when I go out, but I'm used to it, no matter what plane I'm in, some personal belongings like to be placed in the space.

For example, money......

In the house, Du Qingliu hugged her mother and cried bitterly, her hands carefully holding Xiao Niang's hands that were as thin as tree branches.

Although it is very thin, it is very smooth.

After all, she still has to rely on her hands to make money, so even if Mrs. Du is unwilling, she will still buy her a small box of alabaster every month to wipe her hands.

Because if the hand is too rough, it will hook the silk, and then the embroidery will be broken, not to mention making money, and you have to lose people's money.

"Mother, why are you so thin, haven't you eaten enough?"

Speaking of this, she hurriedly took out a bag of things wrapped in a handkerchief from her arms.

"Mother, you have some snacks first." Because I put it in my arms all the way, it's still warm at the moment.

Deng Xiaoniang didn't want to refuse her daughter's kindness, so after taking it, she only took one piece and returned the rest to her.

"You can eat it too, just taste it."

"Mother......" Du Qingliu's heart was very uncomfortable.

She is now out of the sea of suffering, but her mother's life has no end in sight.

"I'm not hungry, in terms of food, my husband has never treated us harshly, and he will buy us whatever he wants."

"That's good, you're doing well, my mother will rest assured........."

I haven't seen my daughter return home for so long, and she is a concubine married to the government, although she is going to be a wife, Deng Xiaoniang is still worried.

The only consolation is that her daughter is better off than her and has not been assigned to be a concubine.

Du Qingliu didn't know what to say, she really wanted to take her mother out of here, but she also knew that it was impossible.

I can only tell her about my current situation to make her feel relieved.

The mother and daughter knew that they couldn't talk for too long, otherwise Mrs. Du would have found a reason to make things difficult for Deng Xiaoniang, so they could only make a long story short.

Du Qingliu is all right, Deng Xiaoniang reports good news but not bad news.

She took a small bite of a snack, looked at her daughter lovingly, and told her what to pay attention to when pregnant.

Outside the door, Yun Fei looked at the book and suddenly felt a shadow.

A thin teenager squatted beside him and asked curiously, "Are you the second brother-in-law?" ”

Du Qingliu is second, so it's not wrong to say that he is the second brother-in-law.

"Are you the third brother?"

He heard Du Qingliu say that her third brother is also a concubine, and his treatment at home is also not very good.

After all, there is a brother on top.

It seems to be called Du Qingbai.

"Uh-huh......" the boy smiled shyly.

"Second brother-in-law, are you reading?"

"Yes." Seeing the envy in his eyes, Yun Fei didn't know what to say for a while.

"Du Qingbai, didn't you ask you to chop wood? Where did he die again? ”

The young man's face turned pale, and after saying goodbye to him politely, he ran to the front yard.

Yunfei heard the sound of insults coming from the front yard all the time, and did not hear the young man talk back during the period.

There is a girl's voice arching the fire, and the voice is not very old, it should be Du Qingliu's sister-in-law, Du Qingqing.

Listening to sound is not good stubble.

has been arching the fire, and asked her mother to punish Du Qingbai not to eat at night and go to collect firewood.

is like the best family in the extreme, in this kind of environment, Du Qingliu actually grew up safely, it is not easy.

It's thanks to her that she has a capable mother.

If it weren't for the fact that it was not easy to sell their daughters as daughters-in-law in this era, and it would be humiliating to sell themselves as slaves, it is estimated that many girls would not be able to grow up at home.

Poll tax, most families are reluctant to pay for girls.

I don't know how the conversation was going, halfway Yunfei gave Du Qingliu the eggs in his sleeves and asked her to hide them for Deng Xiaoniang.

I guess she won't have anything to eat tonight.

After lunch was ready, it was Wang who came to call them to eat.

Yunfei ate in the hall by himself, because there was no man at home who could accompany him to eat.

A bowl of rice soup that is so thin that you can't fish out ten grains of rice, and a small dish of sour radish.

As for the pastries and three catties of pork belly he had just brought, there was no shadow to be seen.

The ladies ate in the stove.

Du Qingliu had no appetite at all after crying just now, but in order not to waste food, he still reluctantly ate it himself.

After eating, the couple could not continue to stay, so they could only say goodbye and leave.

As soon as they left, Mrs. Du, who was still smiling, stopped pretending.

Yin Yang said angrily: "Sister Deng, you also know that there is no food at home, in order to entertain Miss Liu, I made an extra lunch today, so you should eat less these days." ”

"It's not that my sister is reluctant to give you food, it's the food at home, there are already a number, and the extra food spent now is eaten by your daughter and son-in-law, so naturally let you save it, do you say that's the reason?"

Deng Xiaoniang didn't argue with her, she bowed her head.

Then I went back to my room and continued to do embroidery, with numbness and pain in my eyes, as well as relief.

Wait a minute.........

After making sure that her daughter was happy and seeing her unborn grandson again, she could be relieved.

It's not that she's cowardly, but she's living like this, not like a person, and she can't find any other way to solve all this except to seek death.

If she had to raise her daughter, she would have died a long time ago, so why let these people struggle so hard.

As long as she sees her daughter's happiness with her own eyes, she will be blind even if she dies......

Du Qingliu didn't know what her little mother was thinking, and on the way back, she had been in a daze, her eyes were red.

(End of chapter)