Chapter 64 Chapter 64 (Catching Bugs) It’s not like you’re giving the old house to…
The Feng family's conditions are not considered good among the Xianchang Brigade.
There are quite a few people in the family. Aunt Feng gave birth to three sons and one daughter. Both the sons and daughters are good at housework. The only person in the family who can't do housework is her husband, except for her two-year-old granddaughter.
Feng Dahai was neither tall nor short, but when he stood next to his wife, he was almost half a head shorter than her.
He is short and not in good shape.
Originally, Aunt Feng thought that if she had many children, they would be able to help with housework when they grew up, and her life would be much easier.
Unfortunately, the two elders of the Feng family fell ill one after another. Her own mother became paralyzed at home and was driven out by her brother and sister-in-law. She was the one who brought her back to take care of her. Although she lost all three elderly people, she felt fortunate that she had fulfilled her filial piety and had no regrets in her heart.
The only bad thing is that the medical expenses for the three elderly people have left the family with a lot of foreign debt.
She and her children had finally paid off their debts three years ago, and had saved some money to help their eldest son find a wife. Life was getting better and better, but her husband developed a disease that comes with being rich. He could not work and needed to take medicine every month. However, with a large family supporting Feng Dahai, it was not too difficult.
The second boy's marriage has to be postponed. I originally thought that I would save money for another two or three years, and when I had saved enough for the betrothal gift, I would find a wife for him.
Unexpectedly, less than two months after his elder brother got married, that bastard Feng Erchuan found himself a beautiful wife, did not ask for a penny in dowry, and moved in directly with her luggage.
At first I was happy and worried.
I am glad that my second son doesn't have to be single anymore, but I am worried that she is a city girl. Who knows if she will come back to the city one day? What if she leaves without a care in the world?
Not only was she worried, she also knew that there were many people in the queue waiting to see the joke.
For example, the widow Feng mentioned above. Don’t think that she didn’t know that when she married Feng Dahai, she had set her eyes on him. It’s just that Feng Dahai had many eyes and he didn’t like anyone else but her.
The widow had no choice but to marry someone else, but the man died within a few years, leaving her and her two children.
Even though it had nothing to do with her family, Widow Feng hated them. Not only was she always comparing them with others, but whenever something happened in her family, you could hear Widow Feng gloating over the misfortune.
When Feng Erchuan married Jiang Huanhuan, Widow Feng mocked that his new daughter-in-law would run away sooner or later. After two years of mocking, Jiang Huanhuan still lived in Feng's house. She said in a gloomy way, what's wrong with daughters-in-law in the city? If she loved her daughter-in-law, how could she bear to let her go to the countryside? She was so far away and couldn't take care of her wife. She was also lazy...
Pooh!
What happened to Jiaola?
Should I eat her rice or let her help with the work?
No matter how coquettish or lazy Jiang Huanhuan is, she is still her daughter-in-law.
Don't let Feng Erchuan, that bastard, be willing to pamper him. Even her, the proper mother-in-law, has no objection to him. So what qualifications does a widow from another family have to fart here?
Jiang Huanhuan has some minor flaws, but girls from the city can understand them.
Although she is arrogant, she is not overbearing and speaks softly. If the mother-in-law is not protected outside, there is no telling how she will be bullied.
He ate a little but was unwilling to work.
This not working doesn't mean going to the fields to do farm work.
Several times she saw with her own eyes that bastard Feng Erchuan secretly washing Jiang Huanhuan's underwear, and he even rubbed her socks with his own hands.
That's really unbearable to watch!
But there was nothing she could do. Feng Erchuan was willing to do it. What else could she say?
The only thing that makes me unhappy is that it has been almost two years since I got married, and Jiang Huanhuan has never told her in-laws about her marriage, which makes them feel ashamed.
Aunt Feng took out two cloth bags from the cupboard.
She scooped about five pounds of rice into the bag and handed it to the daughter-in-law, "Give each of your two sisters-in-law a bag. Please remind your second brother to take this bag of food to the post office and mail it to his mother-in-law's house."
The two daughters-in-law weighed five kilograms each, without any bias.
In a few years, it will be divided into four parts, with each of the four children getting some. Her greatest achievement in life is giving birth to and raising these four children.
Although they are a little annoying on weekdays, they are all good people who work hard and don't have many bad intentions. I am very satisfied as long as the whole family is harmonious.
Even if they have to share some things after they get married, she would be happy to do so. There is no other way. Her children are all capable. Even if there are always some twists and turns in life, as long as the whole family works together, they can overcome any setbacks, no matter how big they are.
It was really difficult when the children were young. The old had to take care of the young, and the burden fell on her and Lao Feng. Lao Feng's illness was caused by overwork.
When Lao Feng was diagnosed with the disease, the only thing she was thankful for was that it was okay. If she had fallen ill two or three years earlier, she really didn’t know how she would have managed to hold on. Now her children are all strong, and as long as they continue to work hard, their lives will get better and better!
But...
Aunt Feng took a deep breath, raised her head and shouted: "Why are you still dawdling? Do you have to sleep until the sun shines on your butt before you get up? Feng Erchuan, you bastard, get out of here!"
He has to be treated many times to a meal, and he feels uncomfortable if he is not scolded several times a day. This kid is born to deserve to be scolded.
"Mom, let's get up!" Jiang Huanhuan went out first, followed by Feng Erchuan with a straw hat in his hand.
This straw hat is different from others. It has a pink cloth strip tied on it, and can be tied into a bow on the chin when worn. It is both sturdy and beautiful.
Everyone else thought that Jiang Huanhuan had made it for herself, and they praised her for being a city girl with skillful hands and fashionable taste.
But in fact, Feng Erchuan sewed it stitch by stitch in the house late at night with an oil lamp.
I ate a bowl of steaming hot porridge and left with two roasted sweet potatoes in my hands.
A very small baked sweet potato, about the size of a palm.
But this kind of sweet potato will be sweeter when baked and taste much better than the big ones.
After one and a half years of married life, Feng Erchuan has already figured out his wife's preferences.
His food, clothing, housing and transportation were all arranged properly, and he would even let his wife hold his right arm when he walked.
With a little effort, his right upper arm bulged and seemed particularly powerful.
All the way to the farmland, he could clearly feel his wife secretly pinching him several times.
The two of them worked in different places. Feng Erchuan first sent his wife to her destination and put a straw hat on her. He said, "I'll pick you up in advance at noon. After lunch, we'll go to the commune."
"good!"
Feng Erchuan held her hand again and said, "If you feel tired of weeding, find a place to rest. I will do the work for you when you come back in the afternoon."
"Um!"
Feng Erchuan checked the water bag she brought with her to make sure it was filled with warm water, and then put the cooled sweet potato into her pocket. "Eat when you're hungry, drink when you're thirsty. If you really don't feel that it's enough, just go back and let Dad make you something to eat."
In their family, the father takes care of the household affairs and the mother takes care of the outside affairs.
My dad suffers from affluenza and can't do heavy work, so when he's working he stays at home taking care of his two-year-old granddaughter and he's also the chef for three meals a day.
"Do you think I'm a kid?" Jiang Huanhuan brazenly stretched out her finger and poked his right upper arm. It was so hard that it hurt her finger. "Brother Feng, don't worry. If I really can't do it, I will definitely not force myself."
In the past, there were no conditions, and no one would coax her even if she wanted to act coquettishly.
Now that I am being pampered and coaxed by this man, I feel like I am getting younger and younger.
So, when this person knows that someone is willing to coax her, she will start to get more and more demanding. If she is tired or hungry, she will definitely not force herself to do so.
Because she could clearly feel that someone was willing to protect her.
Feng Erchuan smiled and said, "Okay, see you at noon."
Having said so, he didn't turn around and leave until he saw Jiang Huanhuan got off the field and walked over to the person he knew and squatted down to work together.
"Your man really loves you. It's been almost two years, right? He still takes you here every day without missing a day." Zhang Xiaohua next to her was envious. She had been on several blind dates during this period. The more gay men she came into contact with, the more she realized how difficult it was to find a husband who met her expectations in every way.
Especially, there are really few people who can be as considerate as Feng Erchuan.
One or two months would be fine, but it has been almost two years and I can see Feng Erchuan sending his wife over every day.
It seems like a very small thing.
But it just so happens that only Feng Erchuan can do such a small thing, and he must have really taken it to heart to persist for such a long time.
But envy is envy.
She had no intention of paying attention to Feng Erchuan.
We are all in the same team, who doesn’t know who?
Feng Erchuan has been a very cruel person since he was a child. Not only is he extremely vicious when fighting, but he is also very treacherous. When her brother was a child, he was not only beaten up by him, but in the end he was dragged by his family to apologize.
Her brother was so aggrieved that he cried so hard.
During that time, he kept saying that Feng Erchuan was his lifelong enemy and that he must teach him a lesson in the future!
But what is the result?
In just three days, her brother treated Feng Erchuan as his own brother, and even saved the bird eggs that he was most reluctant to eat for his good brother.
I don’t know what kind of magic potion Feng Erchuan gave me.
Anyway, she can't afford to offend this man.
His mind is full of holes, and he is only sincere to Jiang Huanhuan. If you try it with someone else, I'm afraid they will be fooled by him.
"He dropped me off so we could talk more on the way." Jiang Huanhuan thought this was great. Although the journey was only about ten minutes, if they could spend ten more minutes together every day, it would be a very, very long time in their lifetime.
Besides, her husband sent her here, and even if some people around didn't like her, they didn't dare to say anything nonsense in front of her.
The entire group of wise men knows that the Feng family is very united.
If things really get out of hand, the entire Feng family will definitely come out to block the door and demand an explanation!
Let’s not talk about how good Aunt Feng is at fighting, but with her mouth, no one in the entire team can beat her in an argument!
Not only does she curse at people, but she does so in a very loud voice. If she chases you and nags you for hours, even when she stops, the sound will remain in the mind of the person being cursed.
Great fighting power! The reason why she took a fancy to Feng Erchuan at that time was not only because of his strong body, but also because of his family situation.
The Feng family has many children, and some people feel that conflicts are inevitable with so many brothers and sisters.
Jiang Huanhuan has experienced this personally.
It wasn't her biological brothers and sisters, but her cousins. When they were young, the cousins who bullied them the most were those who lived in the old house.
But even with her personal experience, she still prefers large families, especially those with harmonious relationships.
Jiang Huanhuan still remembers that less than a month after she came to the countryside, she saw with her own eyes Aunt Feng taking her children to find trouble with others.
The family made fun of Old Man Feng, a grown man, for being a gigolo at home, and ended up being stepped on and beaten by Old Man Feng. Feng Erchuan and a few others were standing by to hold the others back, and no one could rush in to save them.
There must have been more than a dozen people in that family, but they were no match for Aunt Feng's family of five. In the end, not only did they get beaten, they also went to apologize to Father Feng in person. People watching the excitement around kept talking about how cruel the Feng family was, and counting how many people they had beaten in the past, saying that they must not be offended.
But when Jiang Huanhuan heard these words, she just felt that if she could be protected by their family, she would definitely feel safe!
Sure enough, she was right.
It's really super invincible and safe!
It’s not that no one pointed fingers at her, but they only dared to say it behind her back, otherwise she would end up like Wang Qiang!
She was lucky, and all the people she met after going to the countryside were very nice.
Only Wang Qiang stared at her with particularly disgust, and even shamelessly told her in private that they were educated youth and they were all the same kind of people, and they should support and rely on each other, so she might as well just become a partner, and he would definitely take good care of her.
The "partnership" here does not refer to an ordinary friendship, but being husband and wife in reality but not in name. They are husband and wife in the Xianchang Brigade, and then go back to their own homes and never contact each other again when they return to the city.
I didn't mean to hate her at that time!
She really wanted to find someone to support and protect her, but not just any man would do. Wang Qiang claimed to be a city dweller, and acted superior to the villagers of the Xianchang Brigade.
But what does he actually have?
The food was borrowed from the brigade, the house they lived in was shabby, and they couldn't even earn the minimum work points required by the brigade leader. Yet they talked about supporting and helping each other. If she believed them, she would be a fool!
He was clearly a playboy who was looking for this excuse to take advantage of her. She rejected him without hesitation, but he still shamelessly clung to her. Fortunately, the other people in the Youth League House were kind enough to help and hide it, otherwise she would have felt annoyed even if she had not suffered any loss.
Later, she married Feng Erchuan. For some unknown reason, this man said bad things about her to everyone he met, and some of them were obscene. He said that she was staying at Feng's house and did many things that should not have been done before marriage.
He also said that she was after men and was obviously a slut.
However, before she could complain to her husband's family, all the members of the Feng family came out and took her directly to the threshing ground, where several brothers took turns punching her and almost broke Wang Qiang's leg.
From then on, even if someone disliked her, they would only dare to say it in private and would never dare to say it in front of her.
But she also knew what those people said about her behind her back.
Because she has a good friend who can tell her the news!
While pulling out the weeds in the field, Zhang Xiaohua whispered, "Mrs. Ye's new daughter-in-law is complaining about you again, saying that she brought a lot of things from her parents' home, so why should she do so much work..."
After being married for a long time, I have been worn down by the daily necessities of life and have long accepted my fate.
But some new daughters-in-law are different, such as Ye Pozi, the daughter-in-law.
She felt that her parents' family was well-off and that not only did she receive a lot of dowry, but after she got married, she also took a lot of things from her parents' family back to her husband's family. It could be said that she held her head high in her husband's family!
But when she saw Jiang Huanhuan, she became unhappy.
Although Jiang Huanhuan is a city girl, her parents' conditions are either poor or they just don't care about her. She has been in the countryside for almost two years and her parents haven't sent anything to her.
It can be said that the Feng family did not benefit from their in-laws at all.
If this happened in other families, the husband's family would be somewhat dissatisfied, but it was not the case with the Feng family.
Just depend on Jiang Huanhuan to do the work.
If the Feng family was not satisfied, Jiang Huanhuan would not have received only two work points every day for more than a year. Most of the remaining three work points were made up for her by Feng Erchuan, or other people from the Feng family. In any case, she always met the minimum work points required by the team.
It can be said that among the entire group of wise leaders, Jiang Huanhuan is the only one.
How could the old woman's daughter-in-law not be jealous?
They are all newly-wed daughters-in-law. She even brought two quilts with her on her back. A few days ago, she even brought a set of nearly new clothes to honor her mother-in-law. The old lady praised her like a flower, but no matter how much she praised, she still had to continue working.
The daughter-in-law was unhappy and kept talking about Jiang Huanhuan, saying that she didn't bring anything when she came home except the clothes she was wearing. In comparison, she was much better.
Jiang Huanhuan was unhappy when she heard this. "Who said just one set of clothes? I brought a lot of things with me when I came home. And my mother has sent me mail several times in the past two years. It's just that her situation in her hometown is not very good, so she has no choice."
Sometimes she really regretted that her hometown was so far away from here.
Otherwise, she would definitely bring the Feng family back to support her mother, as she didn't believe that the people in the old house could defeat her in-laws.
In fact, she had heard some of those things outside.
Among the eight educated youth, she didn't bring many things, but it wasn't too few either. They were all specially prepared for her by her mother, who was afraid that she wouldn't have a good time in a strange place.
For this purpose, he borrowed a lot of money and tickets from outside. He said that he didn't want her to worry, but he took all the pressure on himself.
In the past two years, her family has sent her things several times. It may seem like a small amount to outsiders, but she knows the situation at home. Even if it is just a little, it is definitely something that her family squeezed out of their pockets to give her.
Although she received a letter some time ago saying that she could rest assured, but hasn't she ever reported good news but not worries before?
I said that was good, but I was actually worried.
But she was powerless.
As a person who only earned two work points, she really had no ability to grow more food for her family. The only thing she could do was to whisper in Feng Erchuan's ear.
But last year, because I had to take my father-in-law to the hospital, I used up a lot of food to exchange for the medical expenses, so I didn’t have much to send back to my mother’s home.
But this year was better. Feng Erchuan and his friends went to the mountains together and exchanged the prey they got for some cotton wool.
He said that part of it would be saved for her to make a cotton-padded coat, and the rest would be sent back to her hometown.
Feng Erchuan also told her the details of this grain distribution, and he would give her some of the grain to send back to her when the time comes.
It’s definitely not a lot, but he was happy that he could remember her.
Although my mother had been exploited by the old house, she still had food and clothes. She sent some things back to them, not because she wanted to help them, but because she wanted to reassure them and tell them that she was living well in the Xianchang Brigade.
Anyway, she just didn't like hearing people in the team talking about her family.
Jiang Huanhuan thought about it and decided not to go to the movie later.
Four cents could still buy some things, and then she would put them in the package that her mother would send her to make up for the shortage. When she came back, she would walk around the group to tell everyone that her family was thinking about her too!
Before noon, Feng Erchuan came to pick someone up.
Jiang Huanhuan explained the plan, and Feng Erchuan was happy to cooperate. He also said, "Brother has some private money, and I have saved some candy tickets. I will borrow some from them and pay them back later."
"That's fine!" Jiang Huanhuan stared at the man with shining eyes.
Her man is so nice!
No matter what the problem is, it can be easily solved for her.
Just like that, Feng Erchuan went back to borrow money and bills first. The two brothers of Feng family had bitter faces but had to borrow money, especially the eldest brother of Feng family. Even his wife didn't know that he had hidden his private money, and no one knew how the second brother knew it!
Looks like I need to change the place where I hide my money!
After borrowing the money, Feng Erchuan went out first and borrowed an ox cart from the team leader before going to the commune with his wife.
The commune was more than an hour's journey from the brigade.
Walking is very tiring, but riding a bullock cart is less tiring and you can even rest on the cart.
Since they didn't plan to watch a movie, they went to the post office first.
I thought I would first see what was sent, and then think about what I would buy to fill it up.
When they arrived at the post office, Feng Erchuan tied the ox cart to the stone pier nearby and carried his wife down.
The two of them walked into the post office together, and he handed the introduction letter and ID to the staff, "Jiang Huanhuan, an educated youth from Xianchang Brigade, is here to pick up the package."
"Jiang Huanhuan? Wait a minute, let me look for it..." The staff member turned around to look for the package.
This was not the first time Jiang Huanhuan came to pick up a package. She knew that it would be difficult to find the package since they were all piled together, so she reminded him, "It won't be too big. Do you have a smaller urea bag?"
"Urea bags? Let me look for them." The staff member stared at the urea bags and searched for about five or six minutes without finding them. He shouted, "Zhao Tian, do you remember the package of Jiang Huanhuan from the Xianchang Brigade?"
"Who is it?" A man came out of the room. He didn't hear the name his colleague said clearly.
"Jiang Huanhuan."
When Zhao Tian heard the name, he slammed the table and said, "You are finally here. Move your things away quickly. This takes up too much space."
After saying that, he pointed to a wooden box standing in front of them and said, "Hey, this is the package sent from your family."
Jiang Huanhuan's already big eyes widened even wider, "So big?"
"That's right. It took us a lot of effort to move it from the station." Zhao Tian patted the wooden box. "But this box is really well made. It's not damaged after being sent from such a long distance. You can still use it to pack your things when you take it back."
Jiang Huanhuan was still surprised. The box was right in front of her, but she didn't even dare to touch it. "Could it be a mistake? My family can't possibly send me so many things..."
"Is it wrong?" Zhao Tian took their introduction letter and ID, checked them one by one, and said with certainty: "Yes, the sender is Xu Yingxia, is she your mother?"
“…”
“!!!” It’s really her mother!
Jiang Huanhuan was still a little dazed. What on earth did her mother do to send such a big box of things to her?
Did they rob the old house?
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