Chapter 33 Scandals Everywhere

Donkey Egg and Dog Egg looked at the new things and tried them one after another. "Mom, this is really delicious, even more fragrant than roasted sweet potatoes."

Put them into your mouth one by one.

Ma Dongmei didn't dare to refute her mother-in-law. She pretended not to hear and just answered her sister-in-law, "It smells really good and sweet. Sister-in-law, where did you find it?"

She went to the back mountain many times, but she still couldn't find any chestnuts.

Lin Yiyi also picked it up by chance. "Under a tree in the mountains, I can't remember the exact location."

Ma Dongmei was thinking of finding out the location first, and then she would go to the mountains to pick up some when the place was empty in two days.

She would pick up some of the free food and send it to her parents' home, so that her family wouldn't have to have only two meals a day in the winter when she didn't work.

Wang Caihong was angry at first, but when she heard her daughter-in-law talking about food, her attention was completely diverted. She ate several pills in a row, and the more she ate, the more delicious they became.

This thing looks inconspicuous and tastes similar to sweet potato.

Filling the stomach is the most important thing. After scolding people, Wang Caihong complained, and her tone improved a little. "Don't go out if you have nothing to do. How many chestnuts did you pick up?"

Lin Yiyi estimated, "About a few kilograms."

"Why don't you pick up some more?"

In a flash, I thought that my second daughter-in-law had a pretty face but no strength, and she probably couldn't carry even if she picked up too much. Then I remembered what Huang Juhua said, that Zhao Dalaizi was so ugly, poor and shabby-looking, and only a crazy person would get involved with such a person. I knew it was a hopeless thing, but I still had to keep an eye on it. Beautiful flowers will naturally attract bees and butterflies.

If something like this really happened in her family, would the whole family still be able to live as human beings?

Seeing that her two twin babies were almost at the age of getting married, she couldn't let anything go wrong. The more she thought about it, the more anxious she became.

Wang Caihong curled her lips and said with dissatisfaction: "Third wife, when you have time, go to the mountains to look for chestnuts. Your sister-in-law doesn't have much strength, so it won't be of much use if she goes."

It would be more reassuring to keep him at home, but he didn't want Lin Yiyi to be idle, so he told her, "Just stay at home to wash clothes, cook, take care of the children, and sweep the yard. Don't go out and wander around if you have nothing to do."

If you don't want to wander around, then don't. It's cold anyway.

Lin Yiyi smiled and nodded in agreement as if she was good-tempered. How could a live-in nanny not get annoyed a little?

She has a great attitude, really.

After dinner, the Zhao family members went back to their rooms to rest and had a good night's sleep. When Lin Yiyi woke up in the morning, she saw snowing outside the window. She was originally from the south, but now she had traveled through the book to the north. She felt the snow in person, which made her feel fresh and happy.

When the snow gets thick, she must build a big snowman.

Lin Yiyi looked at the snow scene and the villagers gossiping about the incident in which the educated youth hero Yang Jingfeng carried the heroine Liu Qing on his back, as if a drop of water fell into a frying pan and exploded.

Life in the countryside is dull and tedious. There is no other entertainment except farm work. If something like a relationship between a man and a woman comes up, you will be very angry.

Everyone described it as if they were there in person. Some people who didn't see it with their own eyes stamped their feet in regret, and had less to brag about to others.

The rumors continued for many days. After Yang Jingfeng and Liu Qing were sent to the educated youth center, they were teased and greeted by the villagers every day. Some even asked them directly when they would get married. They were so annoyed that their ears were callused.

Liu Qing was thin-skinned and in order to avoid the villagers, she took a detour to go to and from work every day. The weather was cold, the roads were slippery and there was snow, and she was unlucky enough to break her leg.

Sun Yanmei and Wang Rulan regarded her as their love rival and were lucky enough not to trip her up. They were not willing to help take care of Liu Qing. The male protagonist was kind enough to help take care of her, and the two of them were entangled with each other, causing even more gossip.

After several days of heavy snow, it was soon the end of the year and the New Year was approaching. Every household was at home resting, counting work points, and preparing to distribute food. The whole village was not only happy about the food distribution, but also excited about the gossip and scandals.

By the end of the year, Wang Rulan became busy as a scorekeeper, calculating with Zhao Shuwen every day. This was a detailed and troublesome task, and any mistake in calculation could easily lead to trouble.

There are more than 60 households in the entire Zhaojiatun, with a total of nearly 500 people. Before the meeting of the higher-level commune is over, each household privately calculates how many work points they have earned in a year.

Zhao Tiezhu didn't receive much education, but his mother Wang Caihong could recognize a few words, but arithmetic was difficult for her.

I sat on the kang and flipped over and over again in the small notebook that recorded my work points. The results were different each time. I had to calculate them clearly at home, and when I went to collect food, I would just take whatever the scorekeeper said.

By that time, many people will be rushing to distribute food, so there will definitely be errors in the number of work points.

The third son of the Zhao family, Zhao Li, only graduated from elementary school. He is about the same as his wife Ma Dongmei. It's okay to count the tens or hundreds, but it's really confusing if there are too many numbers.

In previous years, Zhao Sheng or the younger son Zhao Cong would be at home to help with the calculations, but this time the second son was out doing transportation, and the youngest son, who was in high school, had not yet had his holiday, so he was not at home at all.

The whole family sat on the big kang in Zhao's mother's room waiting for the work points to be calculated. Lin Yiyi was teasing Tiedan to eat chestnuts beside them. She couldn't bear to watch it anymore, so she stood up and took Zhao's mother's small notebook, "Let me calculate it. After all, I graduated from high school."

"Why didn't you say anything earlier and just sit there and watch the show?"

Wang Caihong glared at him unhappily and said in a choking voice.

This daughter-in-law is the kind of person who doesn't care about anything that happens to her. She's lazy and only useful at this moment.

If Lin Yiyi knew what Wang Caihong was thinking, she would probably throw the notebook in her face. Their family has been doing farm work for so many years, so they must be very familiar with this matter. Who would have thought that they would still stumble and fall like this? It's really frustrating.

Knowing that Wang Caihong was a bad talker, Lin Yiyi didn't want to argue with her. She would feel uncomfortable after all the quarreling, but she didn't have the temper to leave the Zhao family.

Lin Yiyi calculated page by page, marking each page as soon as she finished calculating for fear of making mistakes.

Finally, tell Zhao's mother how many work points she earned this year, and how much corn, millet, sweet potatoes, and rice she can exchange for according to the work point system...

On the day of distributing grain, when I followed the Zhao family to the warehouse, there was already a long line of people surrounding it.

Lin Yiyi heard a lot of bloody gossip and was amused by the foul language of these aunties and grandmas.

The people from the educated youth point were also there. Yang Jingfeng and Liu Qing, as the protagonists of the incident, were the ones who were constantly teased, and all eyes were on the two of them, like a spotlight.

"City people are different. They hug and cuddle without any manners and their movements are very big. Did you see it a few days ago? When I married my husband, no one carried me on their backs like this before~"

The skinny woman next to him smiled with her eyes narrowed into slits and continued, "Come on, Qingzi's wife, can your man carry your big ass? Won't it crush Erqing so hard that he can't get out of bed?"

Someone kindly explained, "Isn't this saving people? It's normal to carry someone on your back when they faint."

"Bah, there are a bunch of women here, why let a man take action? You are just scheming, but you are blinded by shit and can't see clearly." Erqing's wife, who was called strong, spat and said disdainfully.

"But the youths here are all young people of marriageable age, so it's normal for them to do something ridiculous. Not to mention that they are a good match, except that the female youth is a little skinny, with no breasts or buttocks. If you marry her, you'll have to spend money on food to raise her, otherwise she'll be ridiculous."

…