Chapter 3 A Family of Refugees

"Let me help you pick some vegetables." After sitting down, Bai Jing began to sort the wild vegetables. Seeing that there were only three of them at home, she asked, "Where are my younger brother and mother?"

The second sister glanced at her eldest sister and said, "I went to look for mother. She is still in the fields. The autumn harvest is coming soon. There is a lot of work in the fields and she will get off work late."

Now it is a work point system. A strong laborer can earn ten work points a day. People like Bai's mother can earn eight work points a day. This is considered the team leader's care for her family. No matter how capable the women in the team are, they can only earn six work points at most. After all, work requires physical labor, and women are not as strong as men.

After the three sisters worked together to prepare dinner for a while, they finally heard the team's loudspeaker playing the song of leaving work.

After waiting for more than half an hour, I saw two figures walking up the mountain from the foot of the mountain.

The houses of the villagers in the Fourth Brigade are not concentrated together, they build houses wherever they like.

At that time, her mother had just been introduced to the Bai family and married. She was happy for a long time when she learned that the family would be divided after marriage. However, when she saw the kind of person her mother-in-law was, she chose a site farthest away from her hometown.

It's not just her family that's like this, it's the same with her second and third uncles' families.

It was also because of Luo Chunhua's ability that she supported the family alone. If it were someone else, Bai's father would have become a widower with his wife and children dead.

Bai's father's actions over the years have made Luo Chunhua open up to things and just pretend that there is no man.

No matter how hard or tiring it was, she raised her child alone without asking anyone for help.

When Luo Chunhua looked up, she saw three people standing outside her yard. A smile spread across her face. "Mom is back." She shouted loudly to her three children who were waiting for her upstairs.

Hearing his mother's voice, Bai Jing couldn't help but shout to his mother, "Mom, we have prepared dinner, come back and eat soon."

Hearing what she said, I thought that they had prepared some delicacies at home, but it was just a pot of wild vegetable soup without any oil or water. They added a sweet potato to the dinner for five people, and it was the kind as big as a fist.

"Hey, here I come."

Luo Chunhua feels that life is sweet whenever she sees the children.

After crossing the stream, Luo Chunhua picked up her son and climbed up the mountain.

Her house is halfway up the mountain, and it only takes three to five minutes to walk up.

After working for a long time, she has become very strong and has no difficulty in holding her little son.

"Eldest sister, second sister, third sister." The younger brother Bai Yong was so excited to see his three sisters, "Do you know? I just picked up..." Before he finished speaking, his mother covered his mouth.

"Let's talk about it when we get home."

Bai Jing really couldn't think of anything in the fields that he could pick up at this time. He just smiled at his younger brother and mother without saying anything.

Arriving at her own yard, Luo Chunhua put her son down and walked over to touch her eldest daughter's head. "The fever is gone, it seems she's better now. Rest at home for another day tomorrow, and then go back to work. The team leader has assigned you the task of guarding the fields."

Guarding the fields means that there are no one to take care of the fields in the mountains, and we are afraid that the birds will damage them, so we let the children in the team guard a few pieces of land and drive away the birds and some wild ducks.

Bai Jing thought about it for a long time before she figured out what Morita's mission was. Then she realized that her mother had gone to plead with the captain. "Okay, I'll take my younger sister and brother with me then."

"No, they still have to go to school. They can go during the holidays." Bai's mother shook her head. She attached great importance to her children's education. She had always had a dream, which was to let all her children pass the exam and leave the village.

Life in the village is so hard.

Unfortunately, I didn’t come across any job openings.

Even if there was, they couldn't find any information in the deep mountains.

My eldest daughter has graduated for more than half a year, but there is still no news about job recruitment in the town.

Bai Jing knew her mother's concerns and had no intention of changing anything. She didn't think there was anything wrong with going to school.

Unfortunately, the lives of these four siblings are so hard, so miserable.

"Okay, I'll listen to you." Bai Jing still needs to adapt for a while, and once she adapts, she will be able to share the burden of the family with her mother.

She has had a life experience, which is not outstanding, but better than the people today.

Looking at the family's faces that looked like big-headed dolls, Bai Jing knew what she looked like now without having to think about it.

After eating a large pot of wild vegetable and sweet potato porridge, he washed his hands with the boiling water in the pot and went into the house to rest.

After all, if you move less, you can stay hungry until dawn.

Bai Jing sleeps with her mother.

Although the living conditions at home were poor, Luo Chunhua kept the house very clean.

"Mom, how long will it take for Dad to come back?" Lying in bed, Bai Jing couldn't help but ask about her unreliable father.

No matter how unreliable her father was, he was still her father. At least after her grandfather died, he was still a human being and took on the responsibility of supporting the family. Although it was too late at that time, it had to be said that there was still a big difference between having a father and not having one.

Luo Chunhua glanced at her daughter lying beside her and asked, "What do you think of what your Aunt Feng said today?" She didn't really want to mention her man. If possible, she would rather he died on the battlefield.

"I don't agree, mother. The youngest son of the Wu family has a bad reputation. I heard of him when I was in school in town." Bai Jing shuddered. No matter what, she didn't want her mother to marry her off just for her to have a full meal.

"If you don't believe me, go and ask around. I really didn't lie to you. Although I don't know why Aunt Feng came to our family, I don't think the Wu family would look down on me." Looking at her appearance, haha, if the youngest son had not ruined his reputation, how could the Wu family marry a woman from the deep mountains like that.

Thinking of the scene when she married into the family ignorantly in her previous life, she wanted to kill Aunt Feng.

Luo Chunhua didn't say whether she believed it or not. She just said, "Go to sleep," and turned away.

"Mom." Bai Jing was very nervous. "Mom, don't be angry. I want to stay with you for a few more years. Our family is having a hard time. I can't ignore you and my brothers and sisters just for myself." Bai Jing hugged her mother's back.

Only when you become a mother can you understand the kindness of your parents.

Just as Bai Jing was crying, her mother sighed deeply, "Well, if you don't want to get married, then don't get married."

"But your Aunt Feng also means well. Next time, don't curse people. It's bad for your reputation." Holding her daughter's hand, Luo Chunhua said with a sob.

"Okay, I'll listen to you, mom. Just don't let me get married."

"If you don't marry, stay for a few more years."

Forget it, forget it, if my daughter doesn’t want to get married, then she won’t get married.

Perhaps because of her mother's affirmation, Bai Jing fell asleep quickly.

When she woke up the next day, no one was home.

It goes without saying that my sister and brother went to school, and my mother must have gone to work.

Bai Jing got out of bed without hesitation.

After cleaning myself up, I went to the kitchen.

When she saw a wild duck egg warming in the pot, her heart melted. This was what the little brother mentioned he had picked up in the field yesterday.

A wild duck egg.

I didn't expect that my mother actually left it to her.

After eating an egg with tears in her eyes, Bai Jing sorted out her thoughts and began to think about changing her family.