Zhang Tiezhu pushed a wheelbarrow to send Widow Yuan's mother-in-law to the health team, and before the medical staff came to check, the old woman opened her eyes.

The old woman saw Zhang Tiezhu on the side, she grabbed Widow Yuan's hand fiercely, and said with some inarticulate: "You can't remarry, my grandson... You must always be surnamed Fang, and in the future, you will raise it well..."Give her grandson a daughter-in-law, give birth to a child, and continue the bloodline of her old Fang family.

The old woman didn't know about Zhang Tiezhu and Widow Yuan, but last year at the barn floor, I happened to hear a few gentlemen say that she was angry at the time and wanted to tear Yuan Chunhua, but there were only two women in her family, and there were four and a half old children in the family.

The half-grown boy eats the poor man, but Widow Yuan always brings back some food from the outside to the family, so she opens one eye and closes one eye.

The old woman hates her daughter-in-law for being inappropriate, but the grandson of the family wants to eat.

The old woman's voice was too quiet, Widow Yuan could only listen closer, and heard her say where to put the family, and a bad premonition floated in her heart, is her mother-in-law explaining her last words?

After the old woman finished speaking, she closed her eyes tiredly, and Widow Yuan probed her nose, and she was still breathing, and finally breathed a sigh of relief.

At home during the holidays, Jiang Xinyu was busy with this and that, and the whole day passed.

In the afternoon, the mother and daughter went to work in their own land, cutting beans and building shelves, weeding, and carrying a lot of water to water the ground.

Jiang Yuzhu also picked up more than a dozen soft big green worms, and Jiang Xinyu got goosebumps.

The big green worms feed the chickens, but they are nutritious, and almost all the children in the brigade dig earthworms to catch insects and feed the chickens, and there are almost no who are willing to feed the chickens with grain.

In the evening, Chen Xiuyun braised Li Yuezhen's meat with sugar, and after stewing, the pot was vacated, and Chen Xiuyun fried wild vegetables and eggs, and the mother and daughter ate it with Wowotou.

The two hens in the family can lay at least three eggs in two days, and they haven't made hair cakes these days, but they have saved a bunch of them, and they don't feel distressed to eat.

The pot was boiling water, Jiang Xinyu squatted in front of the stove and boiling the pot, the firewood in the stove was rattling, and occasionally sparks were blown up in it.

Jiang Yuzhu asked her if she wanted to go to the toilet together, Jiang Xinyu shook her head, and she went out of the courtyard, and Xiao Hei followed behind her.

The pot was boiling bath water, and when the water boiled, the tea bottle was filled first, and Jiang Xinyu was adding cold water to the deeper wooden basin, when the sound of jingling bells sounded outside the courtyard.

Jiang Xinyu went out, and sure enough, it was Chen Yi who was at the gate of the courtyard.

"Only now?"

Chen Yi said "um" and handed her the cloth pocket hanging in front of the handlebar, "There are mushrooms in it that I collected in the Shijinggou Brigade yesterday." ”

Jiang Xinyu didn't answer for a while, "Does your mother know?" ”

"I just came from home, and she asked me to deliver it, so don't worry."

The road of the Shijinggou brigade is not easy to walk, the village is surrounded by mountains and forests, there are a lot of wild mushrooms and fungus in it, the people in the brigade are poor, they love to go to the mountains and forests to find food, hares or anything else, mountain fungi can distinguish which poisonous can not be eaten, which non-toxic can be eaten, picked back and cut to dry, can be stored and eaten slowly.

Chen Yi spent a dollar and came back with half a bag.

Hearing him say that the widow also knew, Jiang Xinyu put down the cloth pocket, and then the two suddenly fell into silence.

"Why aren't you leaving?" Jiang Xinyu's face tightened when he stared at her, and she broke the silence and asked.

Chen Yi stretched out his hand, pinched the soft flesh on her cheeks, and said as if weighing: "There is still not much meat." ”

Jiang Xinyu glared at him, also reached out and pinched it back, and said deliberately: "Well, you can fry a bowl of fatty meat." ”

The skin on his face was tight, and she didn't even pull it.

After the trouble, Jiang Xinyu suddenly felt so naïve, and was about to raise her legs to walk, when she heard him say again: "How Steel is Made, do you want to watch it, I'll send it to you tomorrow?" ”

Chen Yi wanted to be good to her, but in addition to trying to make her eat well, he didn't know what to give her, there was almost no entertainment in this era, and books were rare now, but he wasn't sure what type of books she liked. Thinking about it like this, he felt even more like his past self, he didn't know what she liked, and he didn't try to understand it in the past.

"You can bring it tomorrow."

She cleared her throat, "Thank you." ”

He put his hand on the handlebar casually, stared sideways at her, and said slowly, "I don't think you need to say thank you with my relationship with you." ”

Jiang Xinyu snorted, "Our relationship? What relationship? How did I not know? ”

Chen Yi didn't argue with her, so he pretended not to hear it, and left the next sentence, "I'm going home, go back quickly." ”

Jiang Xinyu carried a cloth bag into the courtyard, and saw Li Yuezhen holding her arms at the door of the kitchen, with the light on her back, the figure was black, she was silent, Jiang Xinyu couldn't tell who it was.

"What about you?"

Jiang Xinyu said "um", "What are you standing here?" Weird and scary. ”

Li Yuezhen said: "I want to soak my feet in some hot water, don't you wait for you to come back." ”

Jiang Xinyu put the cloth bag into the kitchen, added cold water to the deep wooden basin, mixed it with hot water, and left a little for her, "If it's not enough, you can add firewood and burn it again." ”

It's been very warm these days, I used to scrub in the house, but now I bring the basin directly to the small room under the shed that is fenced with wooden boards, you can splash it and wash, and a few red bricks are laid underneath, and the water that flows to the ground will dry the next day.

If the courtyard door is not up, there is no way to wash it with peace of mind, Jiang Xinyu thought of Jiang Yuzhu who had been out for a while, and the time she had been out for a while was not small.

She went out of the courtyard door to the direction of the latrine, shouted twice and no one answered, and went in again to look, but there was no one in the latrine.

There are only a handful of people in the team who use lights, and the earthen houses are all built very thick, and there is no light at all on the side of the latrine, Jiang Xinyu is a little stunned, she shouted a few more times, and Xiao Hei came out from behind her and scared her.

"Xinyu?"

Jiang Xinyu heard Jiang Yuzhu's voice, and her tense heartstrings finally relaxed.

In this dark night, there is no other family at the entrance of the village, Jiang Yuzhu has not gone back for so long, she will inevitably think about it.

"Where did you go to the latrine? I didn't go back for half a day, I thought you fell in. ”

The sky was dark, and Jiang Xinyu didn't see the unnaturalness on Jiang Yuzhu's face.

"After I went to the latrine, I went to the village for a walk."

I couldn't wash my hair at night, and I didn't dry it after washing, so Jiang Xinyu went to bed after taking a shower.

At this time, Chen Yi's family, mother and son were talking.

Widow Wang laid out a bunch of nonsense, without a complete sentence, Chen Yi didn't know what she was babbling about and what she wanted to say, but seeing that she looked like she wanted to speak and didn't know how to speak, he simply said directly: "Mom, if you have something, just say it, if you don't say it, I'll go to sleep." ”

Widow Wang was also uncomfortable, and she was afraid that her son would blame her, if her son knew that his father was a capable person, but she let him follow her for so many years of hard life, would he blame her?

(End of chapter)