Chapter 7: Traveling Through a Book
Xie Shen was obedient. He boiled some warm water for a shower, then heated up another pot of water for his mother and sister. Then he went to bed. He was tired after a busy day and fell asleep as soon as he got into bed.
When Xie Yun arrived at the threshing ground, quite a few people were already there. The main force in husking the corn was women, including elderly ladies who couldn't work in the fields during the day, both to earn work points and to take the husks home.
By the way, you can also pick a corn or two to take home.
Xie Yun and Zhang Ruifeng reported to the scorer, received a bench, found a place to sit down and started peeling.
Everyone put the peeled corn husks under their buttocks, and gradually, the stools were no longer needed, and they just sat on the pile of corn husks.
What is under your butt belongs to you, and there will be no disputes.
Xie Yun kept his eyes and ears open and saw several old ladies unexpectedly pull a corn with the skin mixed with the corn husk under their buttocks. Their skill and dexterity were amazing.
Of course, Xie Yun was no less enthusiastic. She collected a few and stored them in her own space, intending to plant them when she had time.
The corn in her space is not the same variety as the corn here, so she can't take it out at all.
The original owner would do what these grandmothers and aunties did, scooping up two corns and putting them under their buttocks, and finally putting them into the backpack along with the corn husks when leaving. When putting them in, they had to be very careful not to let the patrols see what was going on.
Although the patrolmen knew that everyone was smuggling, they just glanced at it and did not carefully check everyone's basket. They turned a blind eye and let the matter go.
But you can't just slap someone in the face. If you don't hold it properly and the corn falls out, well, you'll have to wear a paper hat and walk around the brigade twice in a parade tomorrow.
So everyone was very careful and only took one or two, and didn't dare to take more than that.
Xie Yun worked very quickly, and before long, a small hill of corn husks had formed under her butt. She stood up, stuffed the corn husks into her backpack, carried them home first, then came back and carried the husks that Zhang Ruifeng had peeled back home, and then sat there to continue peeling them.
All the corn harvested today has been shelled and can be scattered.
As they worked, they chatted about the harvest, the children, and the trivialities of their families. Zhang Ruifeng and Xie Yun simply listened, rarely speaking, only offering a few words when asked. Their family was small, with no conflicts, so there wasn't much to discuss. They also preferred not to participate in discussions about other people's family affairs, and they wouldn't comment.
After finishing the work, it was already past ten o'clock in the evening. Xie Yun and Zhang Ruifeng returned home, washed themselves with warm water, and quickly cleaned themselves up. Zhang Ruifeng urged Xie Yun to go back to his room and go to bed.
She took out the old yeast she had saved and let the dough rise before going back to her room to sleep.
The busy farming season is really tiring.
Xie Yun closed the door, entered the space and took a shower, otherwise he would feel itchy all over.
After everything was packed, she lay down on the bed and soon fell into a deep sleep. Today was more tiring than any other day in her previous life.
While sleeping, Xie Yun read a book titled "Traveling Through the 1970s to Raise Children", which was a sweet story about marriage first and love later.
The female director, Xiuzhen, was an educated youth sent to the countryside. She traveled back in time because the original Ren Xiuzhen did not want to go to the countryside and went on a hunger strike in protest. However, she overestimated her status in her parents' hearts and did not get them to compromise even after not eating for three days. Instead, she suffered a heart attack induced by hunger and died suddenly.
Ren Xiuzhen, a modern career elite, traveled through time and space. Following her parents' request, she gave up her temporary job to her younger brother, decisively severed ties with her parents, signed up to go to the countryside, and arrived at Liushutun Brigade.
As a time traveler, she understood the direction of the country's development and knew she wouldn't be able to stay in the countryside for much longer. It was already 1974, and in three years she would be able to take the college entrance examination and return to the city. Taking this opportunity to escape her unscrupulous family, transferring her household registration, and having no further ties with them would be a good option.
However, after going to the countryside, she found that she could not adapt to rural life at all.
At this time, the Zheng family of Liushutun Brigade was looking for a wife for their third son, Zheng Guoqiang.
Zheng Guoqiang was a soldier, 28 years old at the time, deputy battalion commander, widower, and had three sons. The eldest was five years old, the second was less than three years old, and the third was born not long ago.
Girls with better conditions are unwilling to marry him.
But Ren Xiuzhen is willing.
She likes children, but she doesn't want to have any herself. Zheng Guoqiang happens to have three children, so she can raise them for fun. Moreover, Zheng Guoqiang's salary is not low. If she marries him, she can join the army and leave this place. Isn't this the husband tailor-made for her by the time-travel god?
So, she took the initiative to find Zheng Guoqiang and expressed her willingness to marry him.
Although Zheng Guoqiang is a widower raising children, he is also very picky. He looks down on those with better conditions and those with poor conditions.
Ren Xiuzhen's appearance made his eyes light up.
A city girl, well-spoken and good-looking, is willing to marry a rough man like him and be the stepmother of his children. What else can he be dissatisfied with?
The two hit it off immediately.
The story then goes on to say that they get married first and then fall in love. Ren Xiuzhen treats her husband and his first wife's children as her own, caring for and nurturing them wholeheartedly. At the same time, she subtly educates the male protagonist, changing his foolish filial piety and male chauvinism, allowing him to focus more on his own small family.
The male protagonist also continues to grow and improve in the process of getting along with the female protagonist, and becomes a role model of male virtue.
The two of them started out living together, and later got to know each other and fell in love. The heroine also overcame her fear of having children and wanted from the bottom of her heart to leave behind blood with her beloved. After a few years of marriage, she gave birth to a daughter, who was loved like a treasure by the whole family.
The story looks very beautiful, the hero and heroine go hand in hand and live a happy life, if "Xie Yun" is not the hero's original wife who died early.
"Xie Yun" is a background character in this book, a comparison group for the heroine, and lives in everyone's memories.
For example, when the male protagonist admires the female protagonist's excellence, he will pull her out for a walk, which makes the female protagonist look even more outstanding.
The hero's family admires the heroine and will also take her out for a walk, belittling her to the point of being worthless.
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