"It's okay. I just feel happy seeing this child." Bai Xiaohua said after wiping her tears. No one could believe what she said. The children in Bai Xiaohua's family were all fine. How could they cry when they saw An An? There must be something wrong here.
But Bai Xiaohua didn't want to speak, and there was nothing they could do. Tian Tian could only tear a piece of paper for Bai Xiaohua and let her wipe the tears from her face.
Bai Xiaohua held the chubby An An in her arms and played with him for a while, then returned An An to Tian Tian and sat there chatting absentmindedly with Lin Meiyu.
Tian Tian and Lin Meiyu both noticed that something was wrong with Bai Xiaohua. They looked at each other but didn't show anything.
After chatting for a while, Bai Xiaohua couldn't hold back any longer and spoke first: "Aunt, I came here today because I have something to ask you!"
Tian Tian and Lin Meiyu thought to themselves that they had finally arrived, and said, "What's the matter? Tell me."
"Has my wife come over to ask about your business before?"
"Yes, I asked. I asked some time ago." Tian Tian said. She remembered that when Lin Meiyu was at her house before, her aunt specially called to ask. At that time, she thought that her aunt had finally made up her mind to do business, and she was happy for her aunt.
And Tian Tian also told Lin Meishuang about it a few days ago.
"Then can you tell me again about the business you are doing?" Bai Xiaohua asked.
"Yes, I can, but what's the matter? Didn't I tell my aunt before?"
Bai Xiaohua wanted to cry again after hearing this. She didn't want to say it at first, but Tian Tian kept asking her and Lin Meiyu looked at her with concern and even poured her a bowl of sugar water. She couldn't hold it back any longer.
"My grandmother came home and told us about doing business. My eldest sister-in-law and I agreed at the time because we didn't have much land at home, and the population was increasing in the future. We couldn't make much money from the land. Seeing other people's lives getting better and better, but our children couldn't even get enough food to eat, we felt very sad, so we supported my grandmother to do business."
"But the old lady said that doing business is unpredictable. It's easy to lose money, and our family situation at the time really couldn't afford to spend any more money."
"But my sister-in-law and I thought that it's already like this, so how bad can it get? If we can't get out, we'll just starve. But if things get better, we can make at least ten or eight yuan a month, if not more. If we divide it among the four families, each person can get two yuan and fifty yuan, which can be used to buy some candies for the children, and we can save up to send them to school later." Bai Xiaohua said.
At that time, their family conditions were really poor. Although they were not starving, they had already married two wives and had to find a partner for the third son.
All the money borrowed when getting married was saved and prepared to be used by the third child. Lin Meishuang was reluctant to spend a penny.
At that time, they ate the vegetables produced at home every day. It was nothing, after all, Bai Xiaohua ate these meals before she got married. But it didn't matter to her, her younger brother couldn't even eat these meals at home. When she married into the Wu family, Lin Meixia told her that she didn't need a dowry when she got married, and the Wu family would help raise her two younger brothers and sisters until they grew up.
Lin Meixia also told her that she would go to deliver food to her younger brothers and sisters at home, and Bai Xiaohua believed it at the time, but Lin Meixia never went back to deliver food to her younger brothers and sisters.
Her younger brother and sister were also worried that she would not have a good life in her husband's family, so they didn't tell her a word. It was not until Bai Xiaohua went up the mountain to pick chestnuts that she saw her younger brother and sister. They were even thinner than before they got married. They picked up the chestnuts on the ground and stuffed them directly into their mouths without even spitting out the shells.
It was then that she realized that Lin Meishuang had not sent any food home, and her brothers and sisters had been relying on the food she had left at home, as well as some wild vegetables and fruits picked from the mountains to survive. Because they didn't know when food would be delivered, they didn't dare to eat it and only ate a small amount every day.
Bai Xiaohua was heartbroken when she saw this scene. Her mother died when she gave birth to her sister. Her father was thinking about ways to make money every day at that time, in order to buy milk powder for her sister. In the middle of winter, he went up the mountain with her to chop wood, but was killed by the wood.
Bai Xiaohua raised her younger brother and sister. The three siblings have a very good relationship. It can be said that Bai Xiaohua got married just for them.
But now seeing her beloved brother and sister-in-law become like this, Bai Xiaohua could not bear it anymore.
He took the two of them home, quarreled with Lin Meishuang, and went to get some food for his younger siblings to take home.
But Bai Xiaohua also knew that this was not a solution, because her husband's family was indeed very poor. If she continued to support him like this, not only would her two younger siblings, but even their entire family would not have enough to eat. Bai Xiaohua was not a selfish person, she wanted her family to be better, so that her two younger siblings could live a better life, and she even wanted to send them to school.
Why not go and discuss with the eldest brother's wife whether we can go out and work together to earn some money?
At that time, there were many street vendors in the county town, and many people went out to work and earn money. Not to mention those far away, there was a young man in their village who went out to do business and finally made a lot of money and returned.
They don't want to earn too much, they just want to earn a little less to improve their family's life.
It just so happened that her sister-in-law had just given birth to a baby. Due to lack of nutrition and no milk, the baby was very skinny.
She was originally a little resentful of Bai Xiaohua for taking out the family's food to give to her younger siblings, but after hearing what Bai Xiaohua said, she and Bai Xiaohua immediately agreed, and the two immediately decided to go to the county town to take a look.
After hearing about this, Lin Meishuang stopped the two of them and told them that she and Tian Tian had asked for business advice and would start a business together after a while. The two of them thought this was a good idea, because after all, working outside was not as good as running a business for their own family. They didn't expect to earn too much, and they just wanted their family to not be so tight.
As a result, they waited and waited, and her two children were born, the eldest sister-in-law had a second child, the third child got married, and now they were immediately arranging to find a wife for the fourth child. As a result, the business still did not take off, and they just waited without knowing when they could take action.
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