Chapter 1 The Three Girls of the Bai Family
Bai Xia she crossed.
It wasn't her first crossing, but it was the unluckiest of all her crossings.
"Dead girl, what time is it, and you haven't gotten up to cut pigweed, are you dead asleep?"
"I'm as lazy as a pig every day, and I'm still waiting for my wife to serve you."
"Get up and work"
The piercing and sharp voice exploded in Bai Xia's ears, accompanied by the sound of slamming the door, making her unable to sleep even if she wanted to.
The person outside is none other than her mother-in-law.
She sadly dressed as a child daughter-in-law this time, or a child daughter-in-law who fled the famine and came to this village and was rescued by her current mother-in-law.
Bai Xia hurriedly got up from the bed, wiped his face, pulled out the bolt and opened the door forcefully, and came face to face with Lin who knocked on the door hard.
Lin was knocking on the door and knocking hard, but the door suddenly opened, so that it didn't knock directly on the door of Bai Xia's head.
"Death..."Facing Bai Xia's dark eyes, Lin's heart was inexplicably cold, and the words that were about to be scolded were blocked in his throat, and he changed his words: "Get up and hurry up to cut the pigweed, I finished feeding the pigs, and yesterday's clothes were washed."
After speaking, he turned around and walked away with his hoe, muttering in his heart: Why are this girl's eyes so flustered.
Bai Xia rolled his eyes and glanced at the Li family's house, two slightly wide thatched houses, a fence built of bamboo, and a small vegetable plot in the courtyard and some greens.
The yard was full of mud, and one foot was one mud mark.
It's just one word when you look at it as a whole.
Poor.
But there is no way, there are orphans and widows in this family, and there is no man, so he can't go to work elsewhere, so he can only live on that little land, isn't he poor?
Bai Xia took the sickle on his back and walked towards the small river ditch outside the village.
She came in the summer, and the hogweed grew luxuriantly, and in a short time a basket was full.
I went home with the pigweed on my back, and went up the mountain to pick up some dry firewood, chopped the pigweed, boiled it, fed the pigs, and went to the river to wash the clothes.
As soon as I survived, the morning passed.
Bai Xia was not idle, the Lin family had already taken out rice noodles in the kitchen, not much, just half a slap of brown rice, half a slap of a 9-year-old child.
Put the rice in the pot with a slap, mix some water into it, and you can see the figure after cooking.
Bai Xia glanced at the Lin family's house, all the food in this house was locked in her house, between smashing the lock and drinking water, Bai Xia chose to smash the lock.
The lock was not particularly delicate, and the two bricks were loosened.
As soon as she entered the house, Bai Xia set her eyes on the jar at the end of Lin's bed, she stepped forward and lifted the lid, her eyes suddenly froze.
I saw that under the jar, a thin layer of brown rice was only a few catties, and there was still more than a month before the autumn harvest.
It's no wonder that the Lin family has taken out less and less rice in the past two days.
Bai Xia closed the lid and pulled the belt of his pants with his hand, hey, who can't eat porridge yet.
Restoring the lock on the door of the Lin family's room, Bai Xia went out with a basket and walked towards the hill at the entrance of the village.
It's a pity that this is summer, and all kinds of wild vegetables are growing well, otherwise just that little rice would have starved to death.
picked up a basket of wild vegetables on the mountain, looked at it again, and saw no trace of game, Bai Xia was a little unwilling to carry the basket home.
Chop the wild vegetables, some are mixed in the porridge to cook a wild vegetable porridge, and some are blanched directly and then formed into cakes and dried in a pot.
As soon as lunch was ready, Lin came back with a hoe.
Bai Xia's cheap husband was sent to the private school in the village for enlightenment, and he went before dawn in the morning, and when he went out, he brought dry food, and he didn't come back to eat at noon, so there were only two people at the dinner table, Bai Xia and Lin.
When Lin came back, his brows were tightly locked, he first glanced at the clothes drying in the yard, then looked at the pigs in the pigsty, and saw that Bai Xia had done all the work she had arranged, so he sat down at the dinner table.
Glancing at the wild vegetable porridge and wild vegetable cake on the table, Lin glanced at Bai Xia in surprise.
Is this dead girl enlightened?
She muttered in a low voice, but they were all on the same table, and no matter how low her voice was, it was still heard by Bai Xia.
Bai Xia resisted the urge to roll her eyes, looked at Lin with her eyes, and motioned to her if we could have dinner?
After all, the Li family now has one meal a day, except for her little radish husband, she and the Lin family only have one meal at noon.
The original Baixia was to cook as much porridge as the Lin family gave, and occasionally when the Lin family told her to pick a little wild vegetables and cook them together, she would pick wild vegetables.
To put it simply, she does what the Lin family commands, and if the Lin family doesn't command, she doesn't know what to do.
Special muna.
That's why Lin was so surprised to see the wild vegetables on the table, after all, she didn't arrange for this dead girl to pick wild vegetables today.
"Let's move the chopsticks"
Lin picked up the chopsticks and immediately picked up a wild vegetable cake and ate it.
Bai Xia was already hungry, and he had been supported by a single thought before, and as soon as Lin spoke, he hurriedly ate it.
Seeing her look like a starving ghost reincarnated, Lin's eyes sank, his mouth opened slightly, and he wanted to scold a few words fragrantly, but he couldn't help but think of her eyes in the morning, and silently scolded a few words in his heart, speeding up the speed of eating wild vegetable cakes.
With porridge and wild vegetable cakes, the taste was saltless and tasteless, and Bai Xia almost cried without grievances.
Fortunately, she is a strong person, and she knows that as long as she persists for a month, her golden finger will be awakened, so she swallowed all the grievances in her heart.
I've worn it so many times, and I've never been so short of food and clothing as this time.
The meal ended in a hurry, and in the afternoon, the Lin family continued to work in the field, and Bai Xia went to pick up some dry firewood and pulled out the grass in the vegetable field under the arrangement of the Lin family.
As soon as this work is done, it will be dark.
Seeing that there was not much water in the water tank in the kitchen, and the Lin family was still in the field and did not come back, Bai Xia had to take the bucket and go to the village to fetch water.
There is only one well in the whole Lijia Village, which provides water for the whole village, and in addition to the well water used for eating, drinking, and drinking, the other water will be used from the river in the small river ditch.
And in order not to waste water, like washing clothes or something is washed directly by the river, just wash it with the river water, no need to fetch water to go home, the water of a river can be used many times, and it is not wasted, which is simply great.
Bai Xia can't say what's wrong with this, after all, the resources are limited, and the ancestors of Lijia Village have been here like this for generations, what can she say.
Because there is only one well, every household draws water from this well, and the water level in the well is terrifyingly low at this moment.