The Fang family was well off to begin with. Both his parents-in-law were working, his son was capable, and the family was well off.
They could have married a city girl who was good in all aspects, but instead they married Tian Lijuan, a rural girl, and they felt very uncomfortable about it.
Later, because Tian Lijuan was good at dealing with people and doing things, she coaxed her parents-in-law with nice words, and she was also capable.
She helped her find a successful job, and she gave birth to twin daughters, which brought honor to the Fang family. Only then did she follow Tian Lijuan to play the role of a good mother-in-law and a good daughter-in-law.
No one except Tian Tian's family knew how much suffering Tian Lijuan went through when she got married. They could only see Tian Lijuan's glamorous appearance.
Now Wang Cui and Zhou Ni seem to be doing well on the surface, but no one knows the truth.
"It turns out that the stepmother is not as good as the biological mother. In the middle of the day, he didn't even ask Zhou Ni to stay at home for a meal and just let them go back like this." Tian Tian said, looking at Zhou Ni's back.
It is obvious that Wu Lili has no feelings for Zhou Ni, otherwise, even if she is a stepmother and has nothing to do with her daughter, she would definitely invite them to have a meal at this time to save face.
"Let's go! We've seen it all, let's go home, it's almost noon!" Tian Yun said as he looked at the chimney on the roof that was starting to smoke.
She didn't want to come in the first place. How other people lived after getting married had nothing to do with her, and they were not very familiar with each other. But Shen Lingling insisted on dragging her over, and she couldn't resist Shen Lingling, so she followed her here.
When Tian Tian returned home, smoke was already coming out of the chimney. Tian Baobao and Tian Zhuo had also finished collecting grass for the pigs and returned home. They were squatting in the vegetable patch, catching insects.
They are both grown up now, and this year when the wheat was harvested, they were able to go to the vegetable garden to pick up wheat ears and do some work.
"Mom! Is the meal ready? Is there anything I can help with?" Tian Tian asked Tian Baobao to press water for her to wash her hands in the yard, and then went into the house.
"There's not much work to do. The food is ready. Go out and play with your two brothers!" said Lin Meiyu.
"Tiantian! Go downstairs and get me some corn husks." said Chen Guihua, who was sitting in front of the stove and making a fire.
"Return!" Tian Tian picked up the earthen basket beside her and scooped a basket of corn husks from the stove, then poured it into the pile of firewood next to the stove in the kitchen.
As Chen Guihua was putting corn husks into the stove, she turned her head and glanced at the sky outside. "It's so cloudy, I think it's going to rain heavily tonight!"
The sky outside was gloomy, and there were so many dark clouds in the sky that it felt like you could touch the clouds with your hand.
"It would be good to have some rain. If it rains now, all the mushrooms on the mountain will pop up in two days. We can pick more mushrooms this year, dry them and eat them in winter. Last year we picked too few mushrooms and they were gone after two meals." Lin Meiyu said.
"There is not much work at this time. We can go up the mountain and pick more while we are still free. When it is time to harvest the land, we can let Tiantian and her two siblings go up the mountain to pick mushrooms." Chen Guihua said.
"Why does Tian Baobao need to pick mushrooms? We have to register him for school starting in September this year. He is old enough to go to elementary school!" Lin Meiyu said with a smile.
When she heard that Tian Baobao was going to school, Chen Guihua slapped her forehead with sudden realization, "Look at my memory. I said I seemed to have forgotten something. I must have forgotten about his schooling. Thanks to you for reminding me. I haven't even made Tian Baobao's schoolbag yet."
Old Mrs. Tian had discussed this matter with them a long time ago, and everyone in the family knew about it, but Chen Guihua had been so busy recently that she forgot about it.
"Don't worry, there is still a month left. Making a schoolbag is not difficult and you can finish it anyway. If you really can't do it, just stop doing the housework for now and I will help you. You just concentrate on sewing the schoolbag." Lin Meiyu said.
"How can that be possible? How can you do all the work for the whole family? I am not good at sewing clothes, but it is very simple to sew a schoolbag. I can do it myself." Although Chen Guihua was a little greedy, she was never vague about the work that was hers to do.
"Schoolbag? What schoolbag?" After catching bugs, Tian Baobao and Tian Zhuo ran into the house to ask when the food would be ready, but they heard Chen Guihua and Lin Meiyu talking about schoolbags.
"Of course I'm making a schoolbag for you. You're going to school this fall, and you can't run around like you are now!" Chen Guihua said unhappily.
She was almost pissed off to death by Tian Baobao recently. Not only did she have to wash Tian Baobao's clothes every day, but yesterday Tian Baobao caught some bugs from somewhere and put them in his trouser pocket. Last night, when he took off his trousers and put them aside, all the bugs crawled out of his trousers. This morning, when Chen Guihua opened her eyes and saw the bugs on the quilt, she was completely shocked.
There were also many insects that were crushed to death while they were sleeping, and the strange-colored juice stuck to the quilt and couldn't be washed off. Chen Guihua was so disgusted that she gave Tian Baobao a scolding in the morning. However, looking at Tian Baobao's expression, it seemed that he didn't take the beating seriously at all.
"Go to school?!" Tian Baobao's eyes lit up. "Then I don't have to go to the soy sauce jar every day? I don't have to collect so much pig grass?"
"You are not very tall, but you have beautiful ideas!" Chen Guihua retorted without thinking, "You have to go to school, and you have to cut enough pig grass for me every day! Do you think your tuition is for nothing? You spend money to go to school and you want to eat and drink for free at home? And those notebooks and pens you use for school, don't you get New Year's money? Use your New Year's money to pay for them all."
Tian Tian and her friends kept all the New Year's money they received. Since there was no supply and marketing cooperative nearby, they had no place to spend the money, so they kept the money in their own hands. Otherwise, how could the original owner have saved so much money.
Tian Baobao's face fell all of a sudden, "Then I won't go to school!"
He had no interest in going to school, and didn't want to collect grass for pigs and clean the soy sauce jar every day. He had no time to play, and he went to school just to avoid doing these things every day.
"You wish!" Chen Guihua's face fell all of a sudden. "How many people want to go to school but can't afford it! But it's different with you. We pay for your schooling but you're not happy about it! I tell you! You have to go to school, and you have to gather pig grass for me every day. Others gather pig grass before school in the morning, why are you complaining when it comes to you?"
Tian Baobao was unhappy, but since he had just been beaten by Chen Guihua in the morning, he didn't dare to talk back to her.
He looked around and saw Tian Zhuo standing next to him looking at him with envy. His eyes lit up and he pulled Tian Zhuo over to him, "What about Xiao Zhuo? If I go to school, then he will have to do all the housework by himself. He is still so young, what if he is tired? Besides, he is alone at home and there is no one to play with him."
Before Chen Guihua could say anything, Tian Zhuo said, "Brother! I can do all these things by myself, you should go to school! It's so good to go to school!"
Tian Baobao immediately looked at Tian Zhuo as if he were a traitor.
"Look at Xiao Zhuo, and then look at you! How could I give birth to a child like you who is so ignorant!" Chen Guihua said with a regret.
The more she looked at him, the more she felt that Tian Baobao might not be able to go to class peacefully, and with Tian Baobao's active personality, he might get into trouble.
Chen Guihua was a little worried. She immediately saw Tian Zhuo, who was comforting Tian Baobao in a kind voice and telling him how good it was to go to school. Her eyes lit up and she had some ideas in her mind.
"Baby Tian! Go outside and pick some cucumbers for me. I'll serve all the food and mix them with cucumbers.
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