Chapter 23 Two-in-one I am an innocent old lady...! …
The kitchen was a very small space, so of course Tian Huini saw Lin Xinping sitting at the table, frowning and thinking about something.
She had some impression of this man. In his previous life, he married the captain's youngest daughter. At first, he loved his wife very much. Everyone in the village said he was a good husband. She even envied him at that time. For this reason, the captain's family did not stop him from taking the college entrance examination. Unexpectedly, he never returned after being admitted to the university and no news was heard from him again. The captain's family even wrote to her to ask if she knew the whereabouts of Lin Xinping.
Later, I heard that he married into the family of a wealthy woman, and used her resources and platform to do some things.
——Not a good thing.
But thinking that he was still a person in the end, Tian Huini spoke first: "Why don't you go to eat Song Ruan's warm house meal? I think she was just talking at the time."
Lin Xinping's expression changed subtly, and finally settled into a calm and peaceful expression: "Yes, but you didn't go, didn't you? It's not good to leave you alone at the educated youth camp, so I stayed."
Tian Huini was a little touched and put a strand of hair behind her ear: "You haven't eaten yet, I'll make you something. I still have some pickled vegetables left, let's eat together."
Lin Xinping smiled: "Thank you."
Although he looked down on this woman, maybe she could be useful to him someday.
As they turned around, the expressions on their faces faded and returned to calm.
Everyone's ulterior motives were fully revealed at this moment.
Each family has its own excitement. After smelling the aroma of meat all night, Mrs. Sun found the wild vegetable porridge on the table unpleasant. After listening to the excitement next door, she finally couldn't help yelling, "Does this dead girl know how to behave? She made delicious food but didn't even mention giving a bowl to the neighbor. She is so selfish!"
The eldest daughter-in-law, Chen Guifen, looked at her son Tiedan who was eating the only egg in the family, and responded with a common hatred: "That's right, it is often said that distant relatives are not close neighbors. This little girl is too ignorant!"
If a bowl is brought, wouldn't her son Tiedan be able to get most of the bowl?
Her son Tiedan is so pitiful. He is in the growing period and should eat some good food to replenish his body! That girl is so mean!
Turning around, he saw his little daughter Niuniu staring at the egg in her brother's hand and drooling. He slapped her on the back of the head in annoyance: "Look at how greedy you are, you are such a loser."
Ye Xiang didn't react and even used her chopsticks to pick up a wild vegetable for herself.
This caught the eye of Grandma Sun, who slammed her chopsticks on the table in a sarcastic tone: "We are all educated youth. Others can bring home delicious food and fish, but my family is not good at housework, so we are good at snatching food and eating."
Ye Xiang paused, held the chopsticks and lowered her head with some grievance.
Granny Sun wouldn't give up: "I said a few words to you and you act like you're in trouble. Who are you showing off to? You've already married into the family, so why don't you stop being so hypocritical? You wash your hands before eating, picking vegetables, and entering the house. How come your paws have been used to pull manure? Where did you get so much water to waste?"
The more she scolded, the fluenter she became, from the fact that Ye Xiang wasted oil when cooking to the fact that the soap became thinner every time she washed clothes. All the anger she had incurred from Song Ruan burst out at once, and she felt refreshed after she finished scolding.
So what if he is a city person and an intellectual? He still has to endure the scolding from a country woman who can't read a single word!
Back in the room, Zhao Weimin reached out and patted Ye Xiang on the shoulder: "I'm sorry for putting you in such a difficult position. After all, she's my mother, so I can't say anything. I'll take you to the commune in a couple of days."
Her man still thinks about her.
Ye Xiang suddenly felt that the grievances she had just suffered were nothing, and she threw herself into Zhao Weimin's arms: "It's okay, I know everything."
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There is nothing else to do after dinner in the greenhouse except working in the fields, which is getting busier and busier. The land in Northeast China is cold, and the Dongfeng Brigade is even more typical. The wheat planted is late-maturing wheat once a year, and it is harvest time these few days. The endless wheat fields usually look like a pastoral scene with waves of wheat in the wind, but now it is endless farm work and exhausting work, which makes people feel exhausted just by looking at it.
Not to mention the scorching sun these days, the autumn heat is so fierce that you want to take off all your clothes to cool down, but the long wheat awns make people itchy and painful, so you can only wear long clothes and long pants, and sometimes you have to cover your face with a layer of
In addition, the corn in the fields needs to be harvested and the soybeans need to be cut. The soil in the Northeast is fertile and weeds grow in just a few days. The crops that have not been harvested are just about to grow. Can we destroy them at the last minute? Someone also needs to be arranged to pull it out.
After a day's work, Song Ruan felt so exhausted that he could change his name to Song Ni, and his spirit was so tempered that he could be named Song Gang.
That day she was still arranged to pull weeds with Xu Daya and the skinny lady. Compared to her tired and droopy appearance, the two of them looked better, but they were less talkative about other people's private matters - it might also be because nothing major had happened recently.
Just as I was thinking about it, I saw Grandma Sun grabbing a goose by the neck and dragging it to the edge of the field. The goose struggled desperately by flapping its wings and kicking its legs. The goose, which was usually the bully in the village, looked weak, helpless and pitiful in the hands of Grandma Sun, the top figure in the village.
Grandma Sun yelled angrily, "Whose goose is this? It ate my vegetables and tried to run away. You are taking advantage of me! If I hadn't run into it on my way back to the toilet, my vegetable garden would have been completely eaten up!"
Xu Daya and the other man, who were pulling weeds listlessly, suddenly raised their heads, their eyes shining.
Song Ruan squeezed forward.
Xu Daya squinted and studied it. "I think that goose belongs to the White Widow. There's a streak of black hair behind its eyes. It pecked at my goose last time."
The skinny old lady laughed when she heard this: "That's great, they are not good people."
Her son sneaked into the White Widow's house and was coaxed into stealing ten eggs from the house and sending them over.
Ten eggs! Adding a little more can be exchanged for half a pound of meat. Is there gold inlaid under the White Widow? Is she a weasel? She eats like that!
But this matter involves a work style issue and cannot be told to outsiders, and it has to be kept secret from her daughter-in-law. She even has to keep her scolding to herself, and she really has to swallow her anger.
Song Ruan has been following the intelligence team every day for some time, and he is also Grandma Sun's neighbor, so he has some understanding of some basic information.
Speaking of this old lady Sun, she is actually a pitiful person. I heard that she was so lucky that she gave birth to three boys in a row that everyone envied her. But later her husband left and the three boys became a heavy burden. She raised them all by herself and suffered a lot. Because of this, she developed a mean and opportunistic character. The villagers felt sorry for her and did not care, which made her become more arrogant.
After much difficulty, she raised her three children to the age where they could start a family. However, the eldest son, thinking that his mother had not eaten meat for a long time, went hunting in the mountains and accidentally fell to his death. During that time, Mrs. Sun was very sad and restrained herself a lot.
But not long after, her second son was selected to join the army. She became even more arrogant, acting like she was the boss and she was the second in command all day long, and she even wanted to walk sideways.
"Whose goose is this? No one recognizes it, right? Then I'll chop it up for my dinner tonight. My third child has been working hard these days and needs some money!" Mrs. Sun jumped up and down and cursed.
The skinny old lady sneered: "Come on, don't worry, everyone knows that among her three sons, the one she dislikes the most is Zhao Weimin."
But it's understandable if you think about it. The eldest son fell to his death in order to get two more pieces of meat for his mother, the second son became a soldier and has a bright future, but the third son does nothing all day long and eats his own food while working for other families. It would be annoying for her too.
As she was speaking, the White Widow came out from another field, looking weak and frail: "Aunt Sun, this is my goose. I'm so sorry to have caused you trouble."
"I'm sorry, is that all you need to say?" Mrs. Sun threw the goose away angrily. "Isn't this bringing trouble to others?"
The White Widow frowned, but her tone was still gentle: "The beast is ignorant, why are you arguing with it?"
"You beast, you are more ignorant than me...Ah!" Grandma Sun screamed.
It turned out that the goose was used to being the boss in the village, and suddenly suffered the humiliation of being grabbed by the neck. If it admitted its cowardice, how would the little girl next door look at it? As soon as it was thrown away, it flapped its wings and pounced on Grandma Sun, stretched out its neck and bit her butt hard.
The bite was so hard that Mrs. Sun's hair stood on end.
She endured the pain and hit the goose with a big sinus with her backhand, making it dizzy, then she tore it apart and threw it aside.
Granny Sun glanced at Song Ruan who was eating melon seeds, and suddenly an idea came to her. She fell to the ground with a plop: "This is terrible, you bit me like a goose, it hurts so much, pay me! At least five eggs!"
She rolled on the ground, howling, "My ass! My flesh! The White Widow is ordering the goose to beat people up!"
Looking at the strangely familiar Song Ruan: ...
The others also felt that the face looked familiar. They followed the direction Grandma Sun had just looked and saw Song Ruan, who was silently chewing melon seeds. They had a moment of enlightenment.
I remembered that place looked familiar.
It’s bad, and Grandma Sun has learned it!
Song Ruan, who was being looked at vaguely by everyone, said: ………
She was really convinced.
Someone was not happy and spoke up in the crowd: "Mrs. Sun, we are all from the same village. It's not good for you to blackmail people like this, right?"
Granny Sun's eyes swept over like a hawk: "Oh, it's the boy from the Liu family, what's wrong, are you worried about your little wife?"
"You, you are talking nonsense!" Liu Dashan replied with a red face, but he still lacked confidence.
There was laughter from the people around.
"You fart!" The skinny old lady who was watching the show yelled and joined the battle.
Can my little wife say such things carelessly? If this gets out you will be criticized! This damn old woman Sun wants to wipe out her family!
She was so angry that she blurted out: "It's not enough that you killed your own son, you also want to bring disaster to other families, right? What's your last name, Sun? Your last name should be Sun!"
The death of her eldest son had always been a thorn in Mrs. Sun's side. When someone poked her in the face like that, she exploded and wanted to pull her hair.
The skinny old lady also stretched out her claws to fuck her.
"Why are you making a fuss if you're not going to work?" The team leader heard the noise and came over with a gloomy face.
The two let go angrily.
Seeing that she couldn't fight him, Granny Sun turned around and picked up her blackmail business. She put her hands on her hips and said, "Captain, you're just in time. I was bitten by the White Widow's goose. I want her to pay me!"
When the captain arrived, he had already heard the whole story. He glared at him and scolded him, "What are you paying for? Stop lying here. I think you can run and jump pretty well!"
Mrs. Sun, who jumped up from the ground because she wanted to hit the skinny old lady, said: She was careless!
Granny Sun was speechless for a moment, her eyes rolled around, and she slapped her thigh fiercely: "Well, I'm an innocent old woman, and I got bitten on the butt by a beast. Shouldn't I be compensated? Isn't my reputation a reputation?"
The people around were stunned for a moment.
"Grandma Sun, you are going too far."
"Or maybe Granny Sun has a plan."
"This, this is also what..."
Of course, the White Widow didn't want to be blamed like this: "Aunt Sun, if you say that, my goose is also pure and innocent. I didn't mean to take advantage of you."
"You little bitch..." Mrs. Sun jumped up and was about to curse.
"Alright!" The captain was annoyed and made a quick decision, "It's just a trivial matter that has taken so long. White Widow, you should pay for the vegetables that the geese pecked at, and Grandma Sun, stop nagging me. All right, everyone, get to work. It's harvest time and you're idle. If you keep making trouble, I'll deduct your work points!"
It is not okay to deduct work points. The work is so tiring now but they are still persevering. Aren’t they just hoping to earn a few more cents during this time so that they can earn more money to support their family?
The effect was almost immediate, and the onlookers dispersed, but the field continued to buzz with sound, as if it were home to a swarm of bees.
Song Ruan lowered her head to pull the weeds with a look of unsatisfied interest. The skinny old lady came back angrily and pulled the weeds in the field fiercely, as if she treated them as Grandma Sun.
She worked very hard, so Song Ruan, who was working with her, naturally felt a lot more relaxed.
It was also a rare day during this period when she got off work with a smile on her face. Thinking that it was still early, she went to the river to wash her hands.
There were several women washing clothes by the river, and several children soaking in the water, splashing water on each other. In this era without air conditioning, this is the most common way for children to cool off.
An older child suddenly slapped the water, and the splashing water spread out like a wall of water. The woman who was busy beating clothes didn't react in time and was splashed in the face. She raised the washboard and yelled at him.
Song Ruan was afraid of being injured by mistake, so he walked a few steps upstream, found a bay with calm water flow, and walked down into the river carefully.
Just about to reach out...
"Fuck!" She whispered, covering her mouth. A big fat fish was swimming tightly under the water plants. It looked like it was almost a foot long.
"Quick, all, take a stick off the leg of the old Song's stool for me. I'll treat you to spicy fish today."
Song Ruanping took a deep breath and moved forward quietly, and as soon as he touched the ground, he was hit by the stick.
Water splashed everywhere, and before the unfortunate fish could react, a dent appeared on its head, and it floated away and turned white.
"Ah, poor little fish," Song Ruan's crocodile tears flowed from the corners of his mouth. He wiped them away and mourned for the other party with a smile, "I will make sure you die a worthy death."
She retracted the rod as the water splashed, pulled a long grass from the shore, passed it through the fish's mouth, took it out from the gill, tied a knot, and held the fish proudly in her hand.
The children who were playing in the water came over with a cry. Some of them dived into the water to see if there were any fish, and more children surrounded Song Ruan, chattering.
"Fish! What a big fish!"
"Song Zhiqing caught a fish!"
"Song Zhiqing, you are amazing!"
"Of course not!" Song Ruan raised his head proudly and walked towards the shore carrying the fish.
A child asked her, "Song Zhiqing, how did you catch him?"
Song Ruan pondered for a moment, then boasted calmly, "When I saw this place with lush aquatic plants and a gentle bay, I predicted that fish would easily stay here. After careful observation, I saw a big fish. The fish was cunning and wanted to escape, so I immediately punched it (omitted 500 words of heroic struggle)... The fish finally fell into my hands."
The child was blown so hard that his eyes became dizzy.
[You are really good at bragging]
"If you have the ability, it's not called bragging!"
There was no way to hide it since so many people saw it, so Song Ruan held the fish proudly in her mouth, head held high, and prepared to go home.
The fish head can be made into chopped pepper fish head, the fish body can be made into spicy fish fillets, and the fish tail can be made into braised fish tail. She slurped and arranged the fish clearly.
Suddenly, she heard someone behind her calling her in a low voice: "Song Ruan! Song Ruan!"
Ye Xiang was also one of the people washing clothes on the shore and had noticed the movement here a long time ago. She knew Song Ruan, the new educated youth who moved out but didn't invite her to dinner, causing her to be scolded by her mother-in-law. I was angry at her, so I didn't say hello.
But when she saw Song Ruan caught such a big fish, her mentality changed.
How great it would be if she was the one who caught this fish! She could take such a big fish back home and cook a good meal for her husband. Her husband has lost weight due to the busy farming season these days, and she felt very distressed when she saw it.
Besides, Song Ruan lives next door to her house. If she brings such a big fish back, her mother-in-law will definitely see it. Then she will say that she is an educated youth and why she can't catch fish. It's useless to look down on her.
Thinking of this, I felt bitter and a little resentful.
God is so unfair. Why did Song Ruan meet such a big fish? She doesn’t need this fish to eat!
Perhaps, Song Ruan would help her since they both knew the truth? Anyway, it was such a big fish and she couldn’t finish it all by herself.
Thinking of this, she called out to Song Ruan.
"Song, Comrade Song Ruan, my name is Ye Xiang, I was also a comrade of the educated youth, and now I live in the house next door to you."
Ye Xiang introduced herself quietly.
Song Ruan was in a hurry to go back for a bite to eat. After simply saying hello and preparing to leave, her sleeve was pulled.
She had to stop and asked: "What's wrong?"
Ye Xiang stammered: "Comrade Song Ruan, you are amazing. You can catch such a big fish."
Song Ruan raised her chin: "I think so too!"
Waiting for the other party to be modest, Ye Xiang choked for a moment: "You live a really good life, your family loves you and sends you so many things, and you can easily catch fish for a snack. But it's not the same for me. My mother-in-law is old, there are many people in the family and the expenses are high. My husband has lost weight and his face has become protruding in order to earn a few more centimeters..."
Song Ruan was too lazy to listen to her nonsense: "Then keep going! I believe that under the leadership of the Party, we will get better and better!"
Ye Xiang was scolded again. She secretly hated her for not offering to help her after all this. She was really selfish. Afraid that she would leave, she quickly said, "I just thought that you couldn't finish such a big fish anyway, so why not..."
She looked at Song Ruan's expressionless face and finally changed her words: "Can I change a little? I don't want much, just a fish tail to taste it."
She sounded so pitiful, and Song Ruan still had the nerve to actually ask her for something?
Song Ruan was embarrassed: "Then what do you want to exchange?"
Ye Xiang was stunned for a moment. She murmured subconsciously: "I, I just want a little."
Song Ruan: “?”
She didn't understand at all, and said with a fake smile: "I think you are not beautiful but you have beautiful dreams."
"I, my family really..." Ye Xiang did not give up.
"The five-guarantee households should go to the team to get supplies. I'm not the team leader." Song Ruan walked away without looking back.
Just as I entered the yard and processed the fish, I heard the ding-ding sound of a bicycle bell outside.
Who bought a new car and showed it off all over the village? Isn’t it sunny in the middle of the day?
She was complaining in her heart when she heard a shout from outside: "Comrade Song Ruan, is Comrade Song Ruan home? There is a letter for you."
Ah, there is still a letter from her?
Song Ruan wiped her hands and walked out blankly. The postman handed her the letter and left in a hurry.
Song Ruan tore open the envelope and took a quick look. It was sent by her parents.
Now she was interested.
Without even caring about the fish, she turned back to her room, poured herself a glass of water, bought a slice of watermelon from the system mall and placed it aside, then unfolded the letter with the mentality of unpacking an electronic pickle.
Let me see what these two are going to do.
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