Xia Juhua said she had known the answer to Sun Hongmei's question for her whole life. When the grain-carrying team came back tomorrow, everyone in the village would know the answer. She then explained the reason: "It's because of the disaster in the south. I heard that the grain had to be transported to the disaster area quickly. The grain station's own workers were too busy to handle it, so our production team got the chance."

"If Zhishuang and big brother go to register now, is it too late?" Sun Hongmei was just making small talk, but now she was really worried. Seeing that Xia Juhua's face had lost its initial gloom, she asked carefully.

No matter what, she hoped that Liu Zhishuang could get the money so that she could have some cash in her hands.

Xia Juhua thought Sun Hongmei's worry was unnecessary: ​​"Don't think it was your third aunt who told me this, this idea must have come from your second uncle."

After many years of experience, Xia Juhua found that although Liu Erzhuang was not close to her family on the surface, he still cared about Liu Dazhuang in his heart and took care of her family in secret. Liu Erzhuang was the production team leader. Now he wanted to arrange two fatherless nephews to do manual labor. The villagers generally did not object - who doesn't have relatives? Liu Erzhuang was taking care of his nephews on behalf of his dead brother, not taking all the benefits for himself.

Xia Juhua didn't need to tell Sun Hongmei this, because Liu Zhiquan and his two brothers had already registered successfully and would have to go to the grain station to work with Liu Sanzhuang starting tomorrow.

Knowing that the food station would provide a lunch, but since her brother left early in the morning, the family had to prepare some dry food for them, Xia Juhua asked Sun Hongmei to make corn cakes for them.

Liu Zhishuang was about to say there was no need to work, but Liu Zhiquan stopped him with his eyes, and the two of them followed him into the yard.

Liu Zhiquan said to his brother with a sullen face: "Don't tell mom to save food in front of her anymore. She can't stand it."

Liu Zhishuang was also very upset: "I just spoke too quickly. In my opinion, Second Uncle should have given the job to us. If our father hadn't given him dry food, he wouldn't have stepped on empty air when he was carrying the food bag because he was hungry, and he wouldn't have left so early."

"Shut up." Liu Zhiquan had no other words to say, except to ask his brother to keep quiet so that his mother wouldn't be sad. Xia Juhua, who was sitting in the window, didn't feel as upset as her eldest son was worried. After all, according to her experience, Liu Dazhuang had been gone for more than 40 years, and even the deepest scars had been diluted by time.

However, the youngest son's words reminded Xia Juhua that except for Mrs. Sun and Liu Sizhuang, the rest of the Liu family were nice people, and she could spend more time with them in the future.

Having made up her mind, Xia Juhua still "ran into" Liu Erzhuang and his wife on her way to work the next day, even though she was busy with work. Li Daya saw her standing on the side of the road and called out, "Sister-in-law is here to work too."

"I have something to do at home, so I can't go to work today." Xia Juhua didn't nod as usual, but smiled and said to Liu Erzhuang: "I have to take leave today and tomorrow."

Liu Erzhuang nodded silently and was about to leave, but Xia Juhua stopped him, "Old Second, thank you for always thinking of the Zhiquan brothers. When they make money, let them buy you some wine."

Liu Erzhuang was a little slow to react, wondering when his sister-in-law, who had been separated from the family, would be grateful. When he assigned work to Xia Juhua, he had secretly reduced her salary, but Xia Juhua always thought she deserved it, and never even got a smile from her, let alone a thank you.

Did the sun rise from the west today, or did my sister-in-law have something more difficult for me to handle?

Liu Erzhuang looked at Xia Juhua warily, fearing that she would ask him to do something difficult. He was just a production team leader, and his words were only effective in Pingan Village. Outside of Pingan Village, who would know him as an old farmer?

Xia Juhua pretended not to notice Liu Erzhuang's look and asked Li Daya, "Da Ya, do you have any peanuts at home?"

That's it? Not to mention Liu Erzhuang's disbelief, even the usually taciturn Li Daya looked at Xia Juhua in surprise and blurted out, "What do you want peanuts for?"

Liu Erzhuang yelled at his wife, "If my sister-in-law needs it, just give her two kilograms. Why are you asking so much?"

Li Daya nodded woodenly, wondering why Xia Juhua waited here so early in the morning just to borrow peanuts from her. So after Xia Juhua left for a while, she remembered to ask Liu Erzhuang: "Really? I don't think my sister-in-law is someone who can't come up with two kilograms of peanuts. Besides, I just want to ask, why are you yelling at me so loudly?"

My daughter-in-law is obedient and doesn't cause trouble, but her brain isn't very useful.

Liu Erzhuang said with some frustration: "You still can't see that, the sister-in-law didn't really want to borrow peanuts from us, she was looking for an excuse to get back in touch with us. Didn't she go back to the old house that day? She wanted to get back in touch with the old house. When you gave the peanuts, don't ask if you want to borrow them or not, just say you're giving them to Baoguo to eat."

Liu Baoguo is a grandson of the Sun family. As the second grandfather, there is nothing wrong with him giving some peanuts to the children.

Is borrowing someone else's things considered walking around? Li Daya couldn't figure it out, but she still went home obediently, took out the peanuts from the cabinet in her room, and without weighing them, she estimated the weight of about two kilograms with her eyes and put them directly into her small cloth bag.

As soon as they went out with the cloth bag, Sun and Sun Guizhi were looking at the pigs in the pigpen with worry. When they heard Li Daya's door ring, they turned their heads to look. Sun's face was gloomy when she saw Li Daya: "Didn't you go to work? Why are you back? You just slack off every day. What are you going to eat if you don't go to work?"

If An Baoling was here, she would definitely ask Sun why she didn't worry about Sun Guizhi not having food to eat since she also didn't work. Li Daya was now facing Sun. She just stood there honestly, without making any moves or explaining why she came back. After Sun finished talking for a while, she asked, "Mom, I'm leaving now."

Sun was so angry that she almost died. If her second son was not the production team leader and she was counting on him to share some of the easier work with her younger son, she would have wanted to ask Li Daya if she didn't take her mother-in-law seriously. Otherwise, why didn't she answer a single word after her mother-in-law asked her for a long time?

Li Daya didn't get her mother-in-law's consent, so she kept looking at her, as if to say, "If you don't agree, I'll just stand here." Sun sighed and asked, "Why didn't the second son let the fourth son go to the grain station to carry the food bags? Could it be that the brother who stirs the same pot with him every day is not as good as the two nephews who don't even talk to him?"

Li Daya had discussed this topic with Liu Erzhuang and was able to answer it: "Mom, Zhiquan and Zhishuang usually greet us. They work hard and will not hinder the grain-carrying team."

Sun Guizhi was furious when she heard this: "Second sister-in-law, what are you talking about? How can we, the fourth brother, not finish the work assigned by the production team and hold others back? My second brother is the production team leader, he shouldn't be so partial. Well, the two nephews and the third brother of the first branch have gone to make money, but you don't like our fourth branch and don't let him go, right? If we can't live well, will it be good for the second brother to be the production team leader?"

When it came to the youngest son's life, Sun's anger finally couldn't be suppressed: "We haven't even separated yet, and you can't stand the fourth son doing well. Does the fourth son eat and drink from you?"

To deal with an unreasonable person, besides being more unreasonable than him, another way is to let him be unreasonable and keep silent. Li Daya has been Sun's daughter-in-law for so many years, especially after Xia Juhua separated from the family, she became the de facto eldest daughter-in-law, and Sun's unreasonableness would be directed at her.

Thus, Li Daya learned the way to get along with Sun Shi by herself, which was that no matter what she said, she didn't know, didn't know, and didn't understand. If you are really pressed to the limit, then go find your son. I can't make the decision in our family, so don't ask me.

To a certain extent, Li Daya's behavior in front of Sun was like rolling on a knife. Sun had no good way to deal with her: when she was scolded, she pretended not to hear it, and she didn't take it to heart at all, as if it didn't hurt or itch. It was the same as not scolding at all.

Really hit her? Not to mention that Li Daya gave birth to two sons and two daughters for the Liu family, and her hard work was seen by the villagers, so there was no reason to hit her. Even Liu Erzhuang would not support her as a mother.

I don’t know if it was an illusion, but Sun felt that after the death of her eldest son, her second son was no longer as obedient to her.

It's not that he doesn't listen, the second brother still nods no matter what she says. But Sun Shi has never been satisfied with the extent to which he can accomplish after nodding. It was not like this when the eldest brother was still alive: at that time, the production leader of Pingan Village was not Liu Erzhuang but Liu Dazhuang, and Liu Sizhuang didn't need to work at all. The three older brothers and their wives could fully support Liu Sizhuang's family.

Because she found that the second son was not as decisive as the eldest son in carrying out her orders, Sun Shi did not dare to force Liu Erzhuang into a corner - if Liu Erzhuang really turned against her, the younger son would not be able to go to the fields to work, but would have to do all the work like the other villagers.

Could the youngest son support the family of four by working in the fields alone? Even Sun Shi, who thought her youngest son was good in every way, did not dare to hold such an extravagant hope. So her gloomy face slowly brightened up, and she waved her hand at Li Daya: "Come on, there's no point in saying anything to you, go back to your fields."

Li Daya nodded, walked around Sun and the other two went out. Sun Guizhi was not satisfied and complained to Sun: "Mom, why did you let my second sister-in-law go like this? Today is the first day of the grain-carrying team, and we can still squeeze in Si Zhuang. If we are late, we won't be able to squeeze in."

Seeing Sun Guizhi trying to take advantage of everything, Sun felt tired: "What can you get out of her? Is she someone who can tell me to replace her?"

Sun Guizhi thought about it and realized that it was right. She vaguely remembered another thing: "Mother, did my second sister-in-law take something in her hand just now? She seemed to have gone to the west of the village. She should work in the east of the village today."

"You know so much, why don't you go to the east end of the village to work." Sun felt that Sun Guizhi also needed to be scolded, so she turned around and went back to the house. She wanted to think carefully about how to talk to the second brother so that he would agree to put Liu Sizhuang into the grain-carrying team. As Sun Guizhi said, two people from the first wife had gone at once, so it wouldn't be a big deal to replace another one.