Chapter 417: Happy Days
When Gao Xiulan got home, she saw Chuyi chewing a green pear while Hu Qingqing was chopping pig grass. She called out to Hu Qingqing, "Where did you get the pear?"
Hu Qingqing continued working while talking: "I picked this on the road. I don't have much to coax her. This one is not ripe and very sour, but it's edible. Let's coax her first."
Gao Xiulan glanced at her and sighed: "Qingqing! You are a sensible child, a good child. Now that you have come to our home, I really treat you as my own daughter. No, I definitely treat you better than my own daughter." A daughter-in-law belongs to someone else's family after she gets married, and she seldom comes back once a year. A daughter-in-law is different. Once she comes home, she becomes a member of her own family. Even a bucket of water has to be brought home.
"If Dongcai bullies you, you have to tell me, okay? I'll help you deal with him."
Hu Qingqing was stunned for a moment, the knife in her hand stopped, looked at her and smiled: "I know my mother is good to me, and brother Dongcai is also very good to me! He won't bully me."
When Gao Xiulan heard her words, she became even angrier at Lu Dongcai and called him a bastard. Then, with a smile on her face, she said to Hu Qingqing, "It's all right, you two must be fine. In life, the most feared thing is that the couple is not united. It's fine as long as your family is fine. If they are not, then say it. If he doesn't listen to you, tell me, and your father and I will deal with him."
Hu Qingqing smiled and said, "Okay, I'll remember that."
Gao Xiulan then went into the kitchen to cook, sighing as she did so. After all, she was too naive and honest, not even daring to complain. That bastard Lu Dongcai deserved to be punished.
Other people are becoming more successful as they grow older, but he is regressing. He bullies people just because they are young and even resorts to violence. The men of the Lu family don't have the habit of beating their wives. This habit cannot be tolerated.
Lu Dongcai carried the wheat to the wheat field. As soon as he unloaded the wheat, he sneezed several times. He reached out and rubbed his nose. Lu Dongping called out to him, "What's your aunt doing? Did you make her angry?"
"No, who provoked her? I was only halfway listening to what I was saying, and before I could even finish, she started yelling."
Lu Dongping walked arm in arm with him as they returned the items to the warehouse. As they were walking back, he asked him, "How's it going? I see he's quite capable despite being young. Is he any worse than Li Laiying at work?"
Lu Dongcai didn't say anything. After going through such a bad period, to be honest, he had been living a happy life during this period and rarely thought about that person anymore.
Lu Dongping reached out and patted him: "Be well, uncle and aunt have put so much thought into you."
Lu Dongcai nodded: "I know."
Lu Dongping said, "Don't dwell on the past, especially the bad things. Life must move forward, and you must look forward, look at the people in front of you, and cherish them."
Lu Dongcai still didn't understand what was going on with them. Why did they suddenly start crying out for help?
After arriving home, Gao Xiulan started nagging him again. All she said was asking him to live a good life, treat Hu Qingqing well, and not bully her just because she is young.
Lu Dongcai sighed and hurriedly assured her, "Okay, okay, I get it. We're living a good life! I was just teasing her, but she took it seriously. Maybe she was just throwing a tantrum."
Gao Xiulan said, "She's a young girl, how could she not have a temper? You're so much older than her, so try to coax her a little."
She doesn't care about anything else, as long as they work and live without making any mistakes and don't make any trouble. The little disagreements between the couple are nothing.
Small quarrels can make you happy, but big quarrels can hurt your health. As long as they are not really quarrelsome, it’s fine.
After dinner, she was completely invisible, covered in wheat dust. Several men carried water and washed her from head to toe in the yard. Gao Xiulan couldn't stand cold water. Even in the hot summer, it felt piercing. She boiled some water and waited until Lu Dongcai and his three men were inside before she added some water and called Hu Qingqing.
The mother and daughter washed outside and changed their clothes.
I was pricked by wheat awns for a whole day, my face was covered with wheat dust and sweat, and it was painful and itchy. This time I washed it and I finally felt much better.
Hu Qingqing borrowed the oil lamp in Gao Xiulan's hand to go to the main room, and then groped her way into her bedroom.
There was an oil lamp on the shabby table beside the bed in the bedroom, and the bean-sized flame illuminated the room.
Lu Dongcai was a little tired after carrying wheat all day, but he didn't sleep and leaned against the head of the bed.
Hu Qingqing climbed onto the bed from outside and rolled over him.
After Hu Qingqing fell asleep, Lu Dongcai blew out the oil lamp and lay down.
He turned sideways to look at Hu Qingqing and asked her, "Are you angry today?"
"Ah? No, I'm not angry!"
"Then why have you been avoiding me this afternoon?"
"I'm not hiding from you, who is hiding from you?" After saying that, she felt a little guilty. After thinking about it, she said to him honestly: "Then next time you are unhappy and want to spank me, don't spank me. It's very embarrassing. Only children get spanked!"
Lu Dongcai chuckled and said, "Okay, let's go to another place next time! No, if you behave yourself next time, I won't touch you, right?"
"Then I don't think I'm disobedient. I haven't done anything bad." After staying in the Lu family for a few months, Hu Qingqing has become familiar with the family members. She is no longer as nervous as when she first came here. She dares not to speak, and sometimes she even argues.
"Then it's a good thing I let you take a break at noon! You're so busy now, working from dawn to dusk all day long, and there's only a short break at noon, and you're still busy pulling grass for the pigs. Wouldn't it be nice to have a quiet break and lie down for a while?
Hu Qingqing said: "No, I don't have the habit of taking a nap at noon. I sleep a lot. Once I fall asleep, I don't want to wake up. I get a terrible headache when I get up. The little time at noon is not enough. It's better not to sleep. The more I sleep, the more tired I feel. You can't force me to sleep just because you are sleepy."
Lu Dongcai sighed: "Okay, okay, I won't force you in the future." Today was really the day, because of that one moment, the offended little girl avoided him for the whole afternoon, and then she was nagged by his mother and his cousin.
He had no status in the family to begin with, and now he has even less.
After a busy day, it was impossible not to be tired. The two chatted for a while and fell asleep in a short while. In a daze, Hu Qingqing first rolled to the innermost part and slept against the wall for a while, then turned over and rolled to the outside and continued to hold Lu Dongcai's arm like a monkey climbing a tree.
After a long time, no matter how uncomfortable it was, it became a habit. Lu Dongcai was extremely tired, and he would no longer lie flat all night long like before. He turned over in a daze, curled up his legs, and his other hand instinctively rested on the little girl's slender waist.
Everything happened so naturally and smoothly.
After the wheat was harvested and the seedlings in the fields were mostly planted, the busy holiday was over and Lu Dongfu had to go to school as usual.
There is one less person to do the housework.
The good thing is that after the seedlings are planted, they will be idle for a while.
Of course, this idle time only applies to Hu Qingqing; Lu Dongcai and the others have no free time at all. After planting the rice seedlings, they'll use the flail to thresh all the wheat in the threshing floor while the weather is good. They'll sieve what needs to be sieved and air-dry what needs to be dried, trying to collect the wheat before the weather changes, weigh it, and store it in the warehouse.
In comparison, Hu Qingqing could breathe a sigh of relief.
Chuyi was taken to the wheat field by Gao Xiulan and placed in the shade under the eaves.
She didn't have to take care of the children, but she still got up before dawn in the morning and went to the fields to pick grass for the pigs.
With quick hands and feet, one day's pulling can feed two days' worth of food. After a busy day, he would go to the wheat field to thresh the wheat with Gao Xiulan and others the next day, and at least he could earn some work points.
As time went by, the team members became familiar with each other and knew that Lu Dongcai had divorced and found another young woman. Privately, they couldn't help but compare them. This comparison made them admire Gao Xiulan's vision.
He is really good at judging people. This one is much better than the previous one Lu Dongcai talked about in terms of appearance, temperament, and work ability.
These words cannot be said to someone's face, but they will always be said behind his back.
Gao Xiulan didn't know, and Hu Qingqing didn't know either. Busy with planting and harvesting, by the time they were done, the whole family was tanned. Even on the first day of the new year, they went to work morning and night, and were tanned.
She was a little darker, but she was also very hardworking and had always been in good health, without any problems. Although she didn't drink her mother's milk, she drank two cans of malted milk and was fed with rice porridge, and her face was still chubby.
By July, when the weather was the hottest, the wooden basin could no longer hold her. She refused to sit in the basin obediently anymore. If she stayed in the basin, she would turn over after a while and crawl out with her butt sticking out.
Fortunately, I am not busy at the moment, so I can finally take a break.
Lu Dongfu and his neighbor Chun'e graduated from junior high school this year. They both came back early after taking their exams and are waiting for the results.
He has been studying for so many years and has always been a good student. Naturally, his family hopes that he can pass the exam. No matter what, as long as he can get into high school, he can go to the county town. After graduating from school, he will have the opportunity to work as a worker in a factory.
Hu Qingqing is heartless and doesn't care about these things.
Now that she is not busy anymore and does not have to take care of Chuyi, she goes to pick grass for the pigs every morning. She can multitask and even go into the woods to pick up a lot of mushrooms.
The girl Lu Dongfu asked her to take care of was not at home day or night. She seemed to have completely forgotten about the exam and was not anxious at all.
I got a mat and put it in the sun. Within two days, it was covered with edible mushrooms, honeysuckle and other things drying in the sun.
After coming back and having breakfast, they disappeared again. If we go to the river dam to look for them now, we will definitely find them.
He would carry a basket and rummage around the river dam. He was very skilled at it. As long as he could find a small fish under the rocks, he would catch it.
Lu Dongfu, a young man like him, admires his second sister-in-law so much that he feels like there is nothing he can't do with her.
Lu Dongcai felt that his status in the family was getting lower and lower, and his prestige in front of his wife was getting lower and lower. He couldn't control her at all.
Most importantly, he didn't know how to manage it.
He never neglects any of the work he is supposed to do, and then he stays out all day long, running around everywhere.
But it seems that he didn't run around aimlessly and never came back empty-handed.
She had only been home for a few months, but both Gao Xiulan and Lu Minghai treated her like a treasure. They would smile before they even opened their mouths when talking to her, and Lu Dongfu would call her "second sister-in-law" in the same way.
This was truly a treatment he had never received before.
In the evening, after returning from the slope, Lu Dongcai would go to the river, and Hu Qingqing would go with him again.
Go take a bath in the river, rinse your hair thoroughly, then sit by the yard for a while. By the time you go into the house, you're almost dry.
At this time every afternoon, the house is the busiest. Either they are visiting the neighbors, or the neighbors are visiting here.
Lu Dongcai hadn't seen Lu Dongping for the past two days. When he heard his third aunt and his mother complaining, he found out that his cousin had taken a long vacation and took his cousin's wife back to her parents' home.
When it comes to loving his wife, his cousin Lu Dongping is really the best in Lujiazui. I have never seen him so caring. He will grant your every request and even find a way to pick the stars from the sky.
When Lu Dongcai thought of the couple, his eyes involuntarily fell on Hu Qingqing.
Hu Qingqing was extremely ignorant. She and Lu Chun'e were catching fireflies to amuse Chuyi. They were mumbling to each other and no one knew what they were saying, and then they just laughed out loud.
Influenced by their happiness, Lu Zhongcai also laughed and felt inexplicably happy.
Life should be lived happily like this. Although it is a little tiring, it is really happy.
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