Liang Shengdi was pregnant again, this time at the beginning of autumn.
Originally, Zhang Xiaonv used to argue with her every day about eating and not doing anything, but now she has calmed down a lot.
Because the old doctor said that she was weak and the pregnancy was not going well, Liang Shengdi had occasional bleeding from her lower body when she first became pregnant. Lin Wenxuan scared her so much that Liang Shengdi didn't want to lie on the bed, so he had to hold her down on the bed.
The obsession of having a boy to carry on the family line will remain the obsession of the people on this land for another fifty or sixty years, and Zhang Xiaonv no longer dares to ask her daughter-in-law to work.
It is always more cost-effective to eat a few more grains of rice than to spend money on medicine.
Liang Shengdi finally got what she wanted and lay in bed to drink fairly thick rice porridge. Three meals a day, with some pickled vegetables, that was enough for her.
Zhang Xiaonu was in a complicated mood. She was reluctant to give up the food, but she didn't want Liang Shengdi to be the only one to drink the thick porridge while her working son had to drink the thin porridge. So she simply cooked another pot and let Xiao Yulan, who was almost one year old, drink her fill every day.
Then he looked at the food in the bag and began to feel heartbroken.
Lin Wenxuan has given up comforting his mother and decided to go for the autumn harvest, so he can always make some more money.
No one talked about selling grain during this autumn harvest because people outside heard that the situation was in chaos.
The village heads of several villages would gather together every now and then to whisper to each other, and they would also send people out to gather information, with news coming in every day.
The Central Plains were suffering from floods, droughts, and locusts. I heard that the disaster was even more serious than the one they suffered in the previous two years, and countless people were fleeing famine.
Although most of the refugees there headed west, few came because of the large number of Japanese invaders and the long distance, there was still some. Those who managed to come here had already suffered a lot.
It was said that there was really no food left, and people were dying of starvation every day. Even those who died of starvation could not be buried in peace. Even if they were buried, they would be dug out and eaten.
People's hearts are very strange. It's really scary to hear people shouting "Amitabha", but they still squat there on time every day to listen to the news.
The Bodhisattva was blessing them again at this moment. At least they were relatively safe now. Even the Japanese devils in the town, probably because the main force was not there, had figured out the thoughts of the people here.
That is, he would find a place to eat for free every day and steal some things. He would only kill someone occasionally if you didn't let him steal. That's all.
Anyway, as long as they were not killed, everyone felt that they were safe.
Although there is no severe drought here, there is not much rain either, so the autumn harvest this year is not very good, and no one wants to sell grain anymore. The best thing to do is to quickly harvest the grain and keep it at home.
Now the sentries at the village entrance not only have to keep an eye on the Japanese invaders, but also have to guard against people fleeing famine. After all, these days, everyone has to count the rice they eat, and no one is rich.
Liang Shengdi sat on the bed listening to Lin Wenxuan chattering to her about things outside, looking ahead with a blank look in her eyes, not knowing what he was thinking.
"You and Yulan should go to bed early tonight. Mom and I will go back to the fields to harvest more.
Brother Youliang said that the more chaotic the situation outside, the more valuable food becomes. The Japanese fighting in the west also need to eat. If they can't grab enough food outside, they will probably ask the Japanese here to grab food and send it over. The sooner we finish harvesting, the safer we will be.
These two days, Zhang Xiaonv and Lin Wenxuan have been busy in the fields day and night, leaving Xiao Yulan in the house for Liang Shengdi to look after.
Although Liang Shengdi cannot do heavy work, it is not a big problem for her to take care of the children.
Little Magnolia is almost one year old now. Every day she walks from one end of the room to the other, holding on to tables, chairs and benches, babbling. She is lively but not noisy, and is very lovable.
Liang Shengdi was also very casual when taking care of the child. She would sit on a chair and feed her, and let her play by herself for the rest of the time. When the time was almost up, she would pat her butt and coax her to sleep, and then wait for the child's grandmother to take the child away in the middle of the night.
She used to wear open-crotch pants, and only wore diapers when the weather got cold. It was okay if she peed or pooped, just tear them off and throw them aside and wait for her dad or grandma to come back, and someone would wash them.
Liang Shengdi won’t wash anyway.
Liang Shengdi sometimes feels torn between herself and occasionally wonders if what she is doing is inhumane.
But sometimes I wake up from a dream and feel that I am not wrong.
In her dream, she went out to work. Although the boss was abominable, he still paid her wages. She could eat her fill with wages, so no matter how abominable the boss was, she would still work hard.
Isn’t the purpose of working to have enough to eat?
How come when it comes to working for your own family, you can't get enough to eat as well as working for outsiders?
She didn't understand, but she felt that everything was right, both in dreams and in reality.
So what went wrong?
So sometimes she thought about it and felt that if she was not a human being, then she was not a human being. She just didn't work, she didn't kill anyone or set fire to anything.
You won’t have enough to eat if you work at home, but you won’t starve to death if you don’t work at home.
She thought, "That's it! This is fine now. I won't get hungry if I don't work, and it doesn't matter whether I eat enough or not."
At least I wasn't as envious of the dead as I was when I was fleeing from famine.
Whatever.
Xiao Yulan was already full and sleepy, rubbing her eyes on the bed. Liang Shengdi patted her little butt and nodded to her husband.
"You guys go ahead, I'll watch her."
"Did you have enough tonight?" Lin Wenxuan looked at the door to make sure his mother was washing dishes in the kitchen and would not come over for the time being, then he took out two handfuls of chestnuts from his trouser pocket and stuffed them into her hands.
Liang Shengdi widened her eyes and looked at the chestnuts in her hand in surprise, then hid under the quilt immediately, her eyes also looking at the door.
"Where did the chestnuts come from?" she asked in a low voice.
"From the chestnut tree at the foot of the mountain opposite the village. Dashan and I have been eyeing that tree for a long time. As soon as the chestnuts are ripe, we quickly pick them down. Last night it was our turn to stand guard, and we peeled them on the roof all night, hehe."
Lin Wenxuan was a little proud when talking about this matter, without any sense of shame for "slacking off".
"Dashan roasted them all during the day. I didn't pack them in bags until they were cold, but they're already cooked. You can just peel them and eat them. When you're done, I'll get you more. We'll each have half, and we can still get two or three more bags."
Liang Shengdi was overjoyed, but she also felt that something was wrong, so she glared at him with bared teeth.
"You two aren't keeping watch properly. If the Japanese sneak in, you two will still be roasting chestnuts. Be careful, the village chief will catch you two... you two..."
"Sacrifice the flag?" Lin Wenxuan finished her sentence, then said with a smile, "No, there are two of us. If one of us is absent, the other one will always be watching outside!"
He tucked in the corner of the quilt for his daughter who had slept like a pig, and whispered,
"You can eat it slowly after we leave. If you feel cold, just warm it up with a kerosene lamp. This stuff will fill you up."
"Well," Liang Shengdi took out a chestnut in a lightning-fast manner while he was speaking, bit it open with her teeth, took out the meat and stuffed it into Lin Wenxuan's mouth.
"Is it sweet?"
"sweet!"
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