Chapter 2 She is not my biological mother, so of course she won't spoil me

The thin wooden door was opened and many people rushed in.

Shen Qing glanced around and saw that those rushing in front of him were all his sons.

The one wiping his tears and howling was the eldest son Jiang Xiangdong: "Mom, you finally ate. I was worried all day for the past two days because you didn't eat!"

Shen Qing just wanted to sneer: Your mother is about to abandon your own daughter, and you still care whether she eats or not!

Whose hard times start with throwing away babies? Throwing away two babies can save a lot of food!

What's this pig thinking?

What do you mean there is only one mother, but you can find another wife and have more children? Where can you find them?

Huo Bing was a child bride and didn't cost any money, but in their place, marrying a wife costs seven or eight taels of silver. The family has a total of more than ten taels of silver. There are five brothers in their family. How could his mother possibly give him more money to marry a wife!

Without a wife, who will give birth to his children!

Shen Qing looked towards the eldest son, his third son Jiang Xiangnan, whose fresh face was full of worry, and his fourth son Jiang Xiangbei, who pursed his lips, and thought of the miserable state of the whole family he had seen in his dream.

As summer approached, heavy rains washed away the riverbanks, the river water flooded back, walls collapsed and houses collapsed. There were people affected and fleeing everywhere, and their family was no exception.

On the road to escape famine, people couldn't eat or sleep well and had to deal with all kinds of burning, killing and looting. They had no money, no belongings, and no one, and they had no ability to resist risks. The remaining people were scattered and died in the displacement, and no one had a good end!

Seeing more than ten people die miserably, she only regretted that there was no one like her among the younger generation. If she had come here, she would definitely let that old man know what it means to be a wicked person and be punished by a wicked person...

Now, she no longer needs to let others know what a bad person is and who needs to be dealt with by the bad person, because she is the bad person!

Damn it, the vicious old guy she cursed in her dream and woke up from cursing turned out to be herself!

And strictly speaking, he can only be described as vicious, not old, because even if he has grandchildren, he is only 37 years old.

She is thirty-seven years old, which is about the same age as a lot of children in China, and some of them don’t even have children yet - like her.

Unexpectedly, after traveling through time, she not only has many children, but also granddaughters. Shen Qing, Shen Qing suddenly felt that she didn't seem to have suffered much even though she was seriously ill?

Forget it, now that I’m here, of course I should set up the stall and live a good life first!

"Mother-in-law, you, you have some porridge. It has been kept hot in the pot and is very thick." Huo Bing handed the coarse pottery bowl forward carefully and in a flattering manner.

Seeing Shen Qing take the coarse pottery bowl, everyone in the room stared at him and couldn't help swallowing.

It is the slack season for farmers now, and they have two meals a day. They originally had breakfast and lunch at Si time (9 to 11 o'clock), but because their mother didn't respond or open the door, they could only come to the door and call out from time to time. It was past noon and they still hadn't eaten. They were really hungry.

Shen Qing was indeed hungry. She took the coarse earthenware basin with weak hands and feet. Her eyes first fell on her eldest daughter-in-law Huo Bing who handed her the food. She couldn't help but sigh.

This child is truly unfortunate. She was sold to the Jiang family as a child bride at the age of ten. She gets up earlier than chickens and goes to bed later than dogs. She eats the worst and works the hardest. Fortunately, she has a good foundation and grows up strong.

He looks heroic on the outside and has a rare and resilient character on the inside.

The mother-in-law who was in charge of the household threatened to abandon her daughters by committing suicide. The husband was foolishly filial, but he still left with the two children even though he knew that he would die.

Yes, the result of this incident was that not only were the two granddaughters abandoned, but Huo Bing also died.

Even in China, life would be extremely hard for a woman who had just given birth and was taking care of a sick baby and another child who was less than a month old. What's more, in this backward place, there was no way to make a living.

This was indeed the case. When they went out, they had little food and drink, suffered from hunger and cold. First, the eldest daughter died of illness, and then the youngest daughter also died. Huo Bing, who had always been strong and healthy, first lost his body due to childbirth and the lack of confinement. Later, he lost his will to live under the blow of losing his two children in succession, and soon died while guarding the two small graves.

Why!

It’s bitter~

Shen Qing poured the yellow paste from the coarse earthenware bowl into her mouth while feeling sorry for her. When she swallowed it, tears almost came out of her eyes!

Not only is it tasteless, it also irritates the throat!

My throat hurts from scratching, which shouldn't happen.

She often eats corn, and has also eaten corn grits porridge and corn flour many times. Corn flour, in particular, has this bright yellow color when cooked. Although the porridge in front of her is coarser and rougher than the corn flour in China, how can the taste of the same thing be so different!

She swallowed the porridge in her mouth with difficulty, looking at the large earthenware bowl with inquiring eyes.

I saw not only yellow grains inside, but also white-brown strips. Could this be corn cobs?

That is the white core in the middle of the corn, but isn’t it used for making fire?

Could it still be eaten in ancient times?

"Mom, why don't you eat anymore? Sister-in-law, why don't you know to make me some egg custard that I like!" The third brother Jiang Xiangnan raised his eyebrows and accused unhappily.

Jiang Shui snorted from behind, but didn't say that it had nothing to do with Xiaohua, and didn't speak up to join in.

Jiang Xiangdong rubbed his hands, looked at his mother and then at his wife, looking anxious as if he wanted to speak but didn't know what to say.

When Shen Qing heard her third son's accusations against her eldest daughter-in-law, she ignored her rumbling stomach and asked coldly, "Since you know that mother likes egg custard, why don't you make it yourself?"

His own son didn't go, but instead ordered other people around. This is definitely outsourcing filial piety.

What's the point of rushing to the front? In the end, it was Huo Bing who brought the filling porridge.

Jiang Xiangnan looked at Shen Qing in disbelief and shouted, "Mom, how can I make egg custard? Besides, I'm a son, so kitchen chores should be done by women."

Let alone kitchen chores at home, isn’t it all done by my sister-in-law?

After the sister-in-law came to their house, anyone could order her to do work, and they had gotten used to it over the years!

"If you don't know how to do it, go and learn. How can a grown man like you not learn the things that women can do?" Shen Qing is not his biological mother, so of course she won't spoil him.

Besides, even if she was their biological mother, she would not spoil her sons like the original owner did, or show favoritism to them in every way. This resulted in her sons becoming useless like rich young masters when they encountered disasters and difficulties, and none of them could stand up and support the family.

Poor families have their own way of education. Blindly pampering and spoiling their children will only harm them and yourself.