Li Daya quickly stood in front of the gate of Xia Juhua's house. Compared with other people's houses in the village where several generations had lived, Xia Juhua's main house looked newer. Combined with the later built east wing and the west wing that was just built at the beginning of the year, it looked like a crane standing out from the crowd.

Li Daya was silent, but she was still very jealous of Xia Juhua. Although life was a little difficult for her and her mother in the years after her eldest brother died, now they can live in such a neat courtyard and be the master of their own house. Unlike herself, she was about to get married, but she had to live with her mother-in-law. No matter what she did, her mother-in-law would find something wrong and yell at her.

Although I don't take it to heart, when my daughter-in-law comes home and sees me being bullied by my mother-in-law everywhere, will she still be able to see me as I am? What if my daughter-in-law learns from her mother-in-law and yells at me? After I have to bear the anger of my mother-in-law, I will have to bear the anger of my daughter-in-law.

Li Daya felt her whole body tense up just thinking about it.

It would be nice if her family could be separated from her mother-in-law's. Even though Liu Erzhuang is now her mother-in-law's eldest son and Sun's family has to rely on Liu Erzhuang for support, Li Daya thinks that as long as she doesn't continue to support Liu Sizhuang's family and suffer a bad fate, it is acceptable.

"Aunt?" Wang Caifeng didn't go to work today. While Liu Baoguo was sleeping, she took her basket and went to her private plot to dig some radishes. When she saw Li Daya standing in front of her house, she naturally greeted her: "Aunt, you're here. What's up?"

Li Daya was not embarrassed at all when she saw that she was in a daze. She said calmly, "Is your mother at home? She needed peanuts, so I brought them to her."

Li Daya's expression was normal, which meant she had no expression, and her words were even more straightforward. Wang Caifeng had been married to Ping'an Manor for three years, and she knew the character of this second aunt to some extent. She was not dissatisfied with her expressionless face, but stepped back two steps to make way, turned around and shouted to the main room: "Mom, the second aunt brought you peanuts."

What did the mother-in-law want to do with the peanuts? Wang Caifeng kept it in mind but didn't dare to ask her face to face. If the mother-in-law hadn't asked yesterday, her husband would have to hand over all the money he earned to her, and she wouldn't get any. It seems that she has to please the mother-in-law even more so that she will stand on her side when something happens.

So Wang Caifeng's voice was very affectionate, which made Li Daya look at her. She felt that her eldest sister-in-law's daughter-in-law was very good to her mother-in-law.

Xia Juhua had just finished spreading the quilt when she heard Wang Caifeng's call and came out. She smiled and said to Li Daya, "Why did you deliver it so quickly? I'm not in a hurry to use it." Then she said to Wang Caifeng, "Go quickly, or Baoguo will wake up and look for you, and I won't be able to live."

Xia Juhua's words were not pleasant to the ear, and she did not look smiling at all, which made her look more like the evil mother-in-law who ordered her daughter-in-law around. But Wang Caifeng had just made up her mind to please her mother-in-law, and she did not think her mother-in-law was wrong at all. She went to her private plot in a hurry, leaving Xia Juhua to let Li Daya into the house.

There was really no place for anyone to sit on the kang, so Xia Juhua had to roll up the quilt cover on the kang a little and ask her to sit down. She said embarrassedly, "Don't be disgusted. I'm only halfway through my job and there's no place to sit."

"Don't mind, don't mind." Li Daya was not good at being polite, and she handed the small cloth bag in her hand to Xia Juhua directly: "I don't have a scale, if there is anything missing, please tell me and I will send it to you."

As soon as Xia Juhua took it, she knew there were plenty of peanuts. She smiled again and said, "Of course there were plenty. You guys are at a loss. I will return them to you next year when I distribute the peanuts. You gave me the peanuts. Mom didn't say anything, did she?"

Li Daya shook her head: "This is ours. Erzhuang said that this is a snack that Second Master gave to Baoguo, so you don't have to return it."

Xia Juhua was stunned. The second house actually had its own things. It was much better than her life in the old courtyard. At that time, her family had nothing of their own except the clothes they wore.

Li Daya and Xia Juhua had never had any intimate conversations before, and there was nothing else to say after they discussed the origin of peanuts. It would also be inappropriate to leave immediately - Liu Erzhuang had said that his sister-in-law was interested in getting in touch with his family again, and if he left after discussing the matter, his sister-in-law would be suspicious and think that he was unwilling to get in touch with her, which would be bad.

Liu Dazhuang gave up his dry food to Liu Erzhuang, but ended up falling down from hunger. Not only Liu Erzhuang remembered it, but Li Daya also kept it in mind. So in recent years, Liu Erzhuang secretly took care of Xia Juhua a little, and Li Daya not only didn't say anything, but sometimes even covered for him in front of Sun.

How many times had she watched Xia Juhua raising two children as both mother and father, and she couldn't bear to think whether she could endure that kind of hardship if it were her, and whether she would just leave the four children to the Liu family and walk away.

Li Daya was lost in thought. Xia Juhua thought she was uncomfortable. After a moment's thought, she said, "Go back and tell Lao Er that he is not to blame for what happened back then. Tell him not to keep it in his heart. People still have to live their lives well. It's okay to keep things in your heart."

Li Daya came to her senses and heard Xia Juhua's sincere advice. The honest words were also true: "Sister-in-law, Erzhuang is not a heartless person. How could he forget the kindness of his elder brother?"

Xia Juhua waved her hand at her: "We all know why Erzhuang didn't take any dry food with him when he went out to work that year."

It was the end of the three-year disaster. Pingan Village, located in the plain, had to hand over all its grain to support other places, so its members had to eat one meal and one meal. Sun couldn't bear to see her two eldest sons take the dry grain, so she asked Liu Dazhuang and Liu Erzhuang to leave most of the dry grain for Liu Sizhuang, saying that the remaining dry grain was enough for them to eat.

Liu Dazhuang felt sorry for his brother and only said he was not hungry. He ate a bite and let Liu Erzhuang eat the rest of the dry food, which led to the tragedy. Whether in her previous life or in her new life, Xia Juhua never blamed Liu Erzhuang for Liu Dazhuang's death. If she really wanted to blame someone, she would blame no one except Sun.

Hearing Xia Juhua's sensible words, Li Daya's eyes turned red: "Sister-in-law, you have been living alone away from home these years, and you only care about work every day. You don't know how hard Erzhuang feels."

"Big brother lost that piece of dry bread, and he always felt sorry for him. Mom was unreasonable sometimes, and once she said Erzhuang was unfilial, she said he would rather die in his place. Sometimes he cried quietly in the middle of the night, and I had to pretend I didn't know, and I felt aggrieved inside."

Xia Juhua had been Li Daya's sister-in-law for several decades, but this was the first time she heard her say such words. She couldn't help but reflect that she had lived her whole life in vain. Li Daya also had her own thoughts, otherwise why didn't she suffer any loss at the hands of Sun?

It seems that other people know their lives more clearly than I do. I can't continue to live in a muddle-headed manner like I did in my previous life.

But now Xia Juhua still had to persuade Li Daya: "Otherwise, how could I ask you to go back and tell Erzhuang not to always remember what happened in the past? We must always move forward. If something happened to your eldest brother, and I just cried every day, would I be able to cry out two daughters-in-law?"

It was also the first time that Li Daya heard her sister-in-law speak so humorously. Her eyes were red, but she was smiling: "Okay, now that you said that, I know how to persuade him."

Xia Juhua added: "You also have to tell Erzhuang that he has taken care of his two nephews for so many years, and Zhiquan and his brothers all know what's going on. In the future, just let them do the dirty and tiring work in the team. Otherwise, other members will not be convinced, as if Erzhuang is always giving his nephews a backdoor, which will have a bad influence on him." Liu Zhiquan and his brothers do hard work every day, and when they come back from the fields, they don't have the energy to listen to their wives' instigation.

"Well, I'll listen to you, sister-in-law." Li Daya nodded happily, stood up and said, "Sister-in-law, it's really nice to talk to you today. I'll talk to you again when I'm not working."

Xia Juhua didn't try to keep her either - going to work was to earn work points, and even though Liu Erzhuang was the production team leader, if Li Daya was delayed for too long, some members would still say bad things about her behind her back.

After seeing Li Daya off, Xia Juhua continued to make quilts while listening to the noises in the east room. When Liu Baoguo started crying, she stood up and walked out. When she entered the room, she saw the little boy crying with tears falling in pairs, looking around to see if anyone was paying attention to him.

As soon as he saw Xia Juhua's shadow, the little boy cried even louder, as if he had suffered a great injustice. Xia Juhua was amused, and while holding him up to help him pee, she asked with a smile:

"What's the matter? Are you feeling aggrieved because you can't see anyone when you wake up? When your father was in his time, your grandmother had to work in the fields every day. He had to pee on the kang, and poop on the kang. Your grandmother had to come back from the fields to clean up the dirty and wet bed. Compared to your father, you have already enjoyed enough." It's a pity that he is an ungrateful person who only knows how to enjoy himself and not how to be grateful.

After he finished talking and peeing, Liu Baoguo stopped crying. His black eyes kept looking at Xia Juhua's opening and closing mouth. It seemed that he understood, but also seemed that he didn't understand. His confused look made people want to kiss him.

Xia Juhua resisted the urge to kiss him. She had long made up her mind not to invest too much emotion in her grandchildren in this life - as the old saying goes, one should not worry about the affairs of the next life. He has a father and a mother, so let his parents love him.

But she still carried Liu Baoguo to the main room, lest the little thing fall under the kang when no one was around. Since he was carried to the main room, Xia Juhua could no longer do her job.

Children are always curious about things they have never seen before, and they have no sense of balance in their hands. Liu Baoguo can tear the freshly quilted cotton into pieces with just two handfuls. Xia Juhua simply put away her work and put it on the kang cabinet, spread her quilt and pillow across the kang, and took Liu Baoguo's hand while she took out the peanuts that Li Daya had sent to pick out.

Li Daya is really honest. The peanuts she sent were full of kernels, with smooth pink skin, which was very appetizing. They were much better than the fallen peanuts that Xia Juhua picked up while turning the peanut fields for the production team.

Xia Juhua couldn't help but put two peanuts in her mouth. The unique fragrance of raw peanuts filled her mouth at once. Such good peanuts can be kept for seeds. Thinking of this, Xia Juhua tied up the bag of peanuts and put it in the cabinet, then took out the peanuts she had picked.

"Milk, eat." Liu Baoguo didn't know when he saw Xia Juhua's mouth move. He stood up tremblingly and walked towards Xia Juhua, opening his hand to ask her for food.

If Xia Juhua had seen this in her previous life, she would have taken out the peanuts that she had already chewed and put them into Liu Baoguo's mouth. But this time, she swallowed the peanuts directly into her stomach - in her previous life, her grandson's wife had complained about the way she fed her children, so why did she want to repeat the same mistake?

Seeing that there was nothing in grandma's open mouth, Liu Baoguo burst into tears: "Milk, eat, eat..."