got up the next day, and according to the previous division of labor, Xiao Qiulan followed Huang Meixiang to wash clothes.

Doing farm work every day is stinky and sweaty, no matter whether it is hot or cold, the habit of the people in the village is to bathe and change clothes frequently.

Every morning, there are two large buckets of dirty clothes for a large family, and there are also a bunch of grandfather's smelly clothes, no wonder two people are arranged to wash clothes, no wonder aunt Liu Chunhua would rather carry water than wash clothes.

Not far from the house there is a special laundry pool, with a row of large stones that are smooth, of different shapes, with a flat surface, and the women and girls in the neighborhood gather every morning to wash their clothes.

In ancient times, there was no soap laundry detergent, everyone slapped and slapped their clothes with sticks, laughed and complained, complained and gossip, and the family was long and the family was short, accompanied by the dirt that was slapped out of the clothes, and was drifted far away by the clear canal water.

Because of grandpa's smelly clothes, even if they came early, Huang Meixiang consciously squatted at the end of the water to wash them, for this, Xiao Qiulan had a good impression of this stepmother.

The village really spread how Xiao Qiulan was, and the aunts who did the laundry praised her in person, either real or not, and praised her a little embarrassed.

Aunt Liu Qunxiang, who was also washing clothes, said in a weird manner: "With such a good reputation, it seems that our little Qiulan has the possibility of climbing high branches, and then she will be a young grandmother of a rich and noble family, don't forget our poor relatives!" ”

Everyone can hear that she is clearly praising Xiao Qiulan when she says this, but secretly laughing at her.

For people like Liu Qunxiang, ignoring her is the best response, Xiao Qiulan lowered her head to wash clothes, this aunt is the same as Liu Chunhua, it is annoying to watch.

After drinking the gruel in the morning, Mrs. Chen assigned the work, Yao Erbao wanted to go to the master's house to help, Liu Chunhua then went to turn over the land that was not turned over yesterday, and Huang Meixiang Niang'er and the four went to clean up the ridges of the three acres of land.

The three seedling paddy fields are under the embankment of the man-made canal, and a long field is cut into four sections along the canal.

The ridge is actually the embankment of the canal, almost one person high, and there are weeds and branches growing in the cracks of the stones.

The field has been ploughed once with oxen, and the water is being raised, and the water in the morning is cold to the bone.

I had to clean up the ridges, take off my shoes, and roll up my trousers.

Liu Chunhua will always have a cheap place to take advantage of, there is not much left of the land that was not turned over yesterday, and she can easily finish it with her strong body.

Huang Meixiang took the sickle and cut in front, and Xiao Qiulan and Xiao Donglan followed behind, pulling out the weeds that could be reached in the stone cracks.

Yao Zhiqiang also took a sickle and climbed the ridge with his feet on the crack in the stone, and he was responsible for the weeds and branches on it.

The work was carried out in an orderly manner, and Xiao Donglan suddenly screamed, and a small flower snake was pulled out by her along with the weeds.

She quickly threw away the weeds in her hand, and the little flower snake had obviously not woken up from hibernation, and it was moving in the paddy field.

Hahaha, Xiao Qiulan laughed very unkindly, it turned out that the bold and pungent little five were afraid of snakes!

Xiao Donglan looked at the fourth sister suspiciously, surprised, isn't she more afraid of snakes than her?

Yao Zhiqiang jumped down, stretched out his right hand to catch the tail of the little flower snake, and pulled it with skill, and the little flower snake he carried in his hand was disjointed, hanging stiffly, and died so much that he couldn't die anymore.

Xiao Qiulan's eyes are straight, and the little brother still understands this trick!

This kind of trick against snakes, she has only heard of and has never seen it.

Yao Zhiqiang put the dead snake into the cloth bag he brought, cut it into sections and fed it to the hens, and the eggs laid were particularly large.

Next, hibernating snakes were pulled out, and Yao Zhiqiang concocted them in the same way, tearing them to death and bagging them.