"Let's make this clear beforehand: you're responsible for raising your own children. Don't expect me to help you with your kids. It's your responsibility as parents, not me as their grandmother. My responsibility is for you four brothers."
Yue Jiuyue felt she had to make this clear in advance, lest everyone ask her to take care of their children in the future, and she would offend people if she refused.
"Forehead……"
The four of them were speechless.
It's only natural for grandma to help take care of the kids. If a grandma in a family doesn't help her son and daughter-in-law take care of their children, then there must be something wrong with her!
Now that this old woman with the problem has become their mother, how should they react?
If you don't know how to react, then get to work!
The brick kiln workers had already unloaded all the bricks and left. Thinking of the small puddle behind the house, were they watering their vegetable garden or mixing mud to make bricks?
(︶.?︶?)
A month has passed in the blink of an eye, and it's time to harvest the wheat again.
This year, Yue Jiuyue covered herself up completely. Her head was wrapped with a triangular piece of coarse blue cotton cloth, covering all her hair; her face was covered with an earth-colored coarse cotton cloth, revealing only her eyes; her neck was also wrapped with a dark blue coarse cotton cloth, and her cuffs and trouser legs were tied tightly. She also wore gloves sewn from scraps of hemp and coarse cotton cloth...
At first, none of the villagers recognized Yue Jiuyue when they saw her like this, until Lin Chaodong and Liu Shi called her "Mother".
Villagers: \(◎o◎)／!
If you didn't know better, you'd think she was someone's new bride!
She's already past her prime, yet she's still covering herself up so tightly. This reminds some people of the rumors from a while ago, making them doubt the veracity of those rumors.
That's right. They knew it was fake, and it was just something they said casually out of envy, jealousy, and hatred. But Yue Jiuyue's behavior made them wonder if they had accidentally discovered some earth-shattering secret.
Otherwise, why would Yue Jiuyue, a widowed old woman who is usually more like an animal than a beast, suddenly care about her reputation?
Yue Jiuyue didn't know what others thought, and even if she did, she wouldn't care, since they weren't from the same era and had different values.
Last year, at this time, she was a newcomer and naturally followed the original owner's code of conduct, with the goal of preserving her identity.
This year, she has every reason to make a change, after all, the idea that "money corrupts" has never changed from ancient times to the future.
Her "turning bad" is simply because she cares more about her reputation than a young wife. After all, she will be the landlord in the future, and her reputation is her face, so it's normal for her to care about it.
"Swish, swish, swish," Yue Jiuyue harvested wheat at the same speed as the original owner.
They bent over to cut the wheat, bent over to bundle the wheat, carried the wheat on a shoulder pole, or pushed the wheat to the threshing ground in a cart. They used a chaff cutter to cut off the wheat ears, and after drying, they used a stone mill to grind the wheat ears to remove the grains. They continued to dry, winnow the wheat, and then bag it.
This year, Lin Chaobei was the one who went to the threshing ground at night to guard the wheat. Just like Lin Chaonan last year, he was greeted by mosquitoes before nightfall.
"Mom, last year when my third brother was tending the wheat threshing floor, he had sparrows to eat. This year it's my turn, and all I get are mosquitoes!"
Lin Chaobei felt wronged. Why hadn't the sparrows visited his threshing ground this year?
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