Luo Jingyan could even get some gossip just by listening to their casual chatter. It's said that wherever there are women, there will be gossip, and it seems that this saying is true everywhere.
While making and eating dumplings, several military wives chatted with Luo Jingyan about things happening in the compound. Good or bad, anything with gossip value was picked out and discussed. Luo Jingyan and Grandma Xue not only enjoyed eating dumplings but also listened to the gossip with great interest.
At this time, in a small mountain village called Tianjia'ao near the military region.
A woman in her late twenties was watering her vegetable garden with a bucket. The vegetables she grew were growing very well; she could not only eat them herself, but also take them to the market near the military base to sell, and use the money to supplement her family's income.
The woman was tall and slender, about 1.7 meters tall, with a striking face.
A classic oval face, beautiful and captivating peach blossom eyes, a teardrop-shaped nose, and smiling lips that always give people a warm and comfortable feeling.
Although her skin was a bit dark and rough from working in the fields under the sun for a long time, she was still considered a beauty.
After watering the vegetable garden, she looked towards the direction of the military region to the east, which was, in fact, where she was born.
Her father was a soldier. Shortly after she was born, he was discharged from the military and returned to his hometown because he disobeyed orders and caused losses to the troops.
After returning to my hometown, my mother gave birth to a younger sister and a younger brother. The younger sister was normal, but unfortunately, the younger brother was mentally challenged.
When they grew up, because their family was poor, their parents, in order to raise money to "buy" a wife for their younger brother, first married him off to a cripple who had lost his leg in a coal mine explosion. They received a very generous dowry, which their parents used to marry off their younger brother.
She thought she would have to live with the cripple for the rest of her life, but she never expected that not only were the two legs he used to walk disabled, but his third leg was also disabled.
Later, the cripple felt it was pointless to keep her around, so he sold her to human traffickers.
During the transport, she didn't want to go back to her parents, so she married a local farmer named Tian Baoguo.
Tian Baoguo had no parents, and his two older sisters were already married. After marrying Tian Baoguo, she had a son and a daughter. Her daughter, Jinbao, was five years old, and her son and daughter, Beibei, were three years old. Tian Baoguo usually worked in the fields to earn work points. Because she had to take care of the children, she would sometimes go to the fields and sometimes take the children to the nearby market to buy some vegetables to supplement the family income.
She saw that her bok choy and chives were ready to be harvested, and planned to come and collect them tomorrow morning to take them to the market to sell.
With noon fast approaching and lunch still to be prepared for Tian Baoguo and the children, she picked a few bok choy plants from the field and took them home.
When they arrived home, Jinbao was playing in the mud in the yard. As soon as he saw Sheng Yuwan, he dropped the mud in his hand and ran over to her.
"Mom, Mom, something bad has happened! My little sister has a fever again, and her head is burning hot."
Upon hearing this, Sheng Yuwan quickly ran back into the house, hugged her daughter, and touched her forehead; it was indeed very hot.
Because their daughter was born prematurely, she was always weak and sickly. She was often seriously ill. While people in the village usually didn't go to the hospital when they were sick, their family was always going to the hospital.
Because some gossipy women in the village mocked her daughter for not having the life of a rich lady but instead having the illness of one, and how she could afford it since there was no worker in the family.
Beibei lay on the kang (a heated brick bed), her little face pale.
Sheng Yuwan carried her outside, saying, "Beibei, don't be afraid, Mommy will take you to see a doctor."
Although Beibei was young, she was very sensible. She opened her little mouth and asked her mother, "Mom, do we still have money? Those grandmas say I'm always sick and they'll drain our family's finances sooner or later. Mom, can I not go to the doctor?"
Sheng Yuwan's eyes were red, and she tried her best to hold back her tears so that her daughter wouldn't see them.
"Beibei, be good. Mom and Dad are working hard to earn money, so don't worry. We have enough money to pay for your medical treatment. Come on, let's go to the clinic and the doctor will take a look at you."
When they arrived at the clinic, the doctor gave Beibei an injection to reduce her fever. Perhaps because she had received so many injections, the little girl was well-behaved and didn't cry or fuss.
The doctor prescribed her a few more packets of medicine, and then Sheng Yuwan took her home.
By evening, Beibei's fever had subsided, and Sheng Yuwan was relieved.
The next morning, she took a basket to the vegetable garden, picked half a basket of rapeseed and cut half a basket of chives, tied the vegetables into small bundles with straw rope, and after breakfast, she took her two children to the market to sell the vegetables.
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Luo Jingyan had nothing to do in the courtyard these days, so she often went up the mountain with Grandma Xue and the other women to pick wild mushrooms and dig wild vegetables. She was living a leisurely and comfortable life.
After breakfast that day, Jing Yanhong, Aunt Ding, and Qiu Aizhen arrived together.
"Jingyan, you haven't been to the market around here before, have you? Come on, we'll take you for a stroll."
“Okay, I’ll go with my grandma.”
Grandma Xue still does her morning exercise every day, and she's always been in great shape, walking much faster than Fang Aihong.
"Auntie, you're in great health. You know, I'm more than twenty years younger than you, but I can't keep up with you when I walk."
In order to make sure that people could keep up with her pace, Grandma Xue deliberately slowed down her pace.
“I’m used to walking fast, so once I start, it’s not easy for me to stop. If you walk with me every day, you’ll walk just as fast in the future, and your physique will get better and better.”
"Alright, Auntie, I'll practice with you more often from now on."
When they arrived at the market, Luo Jingyan saw that there were rabbits for sale. She said that next time she came here alone, she would definitely buy two to keep in her space.
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