Chapter 51 Autumn Harvest VS Raising a Baby
Han Jianwu only let her go after a deep kiss, and carried her to the kang in the bedroom. Huo Qingqing was put on the edge of the kang, but she didn't let go, and hugged the man's neck and said, "Don't sleep on the bed when it's cold. Your injuries have healed, so you don't have to worry about being touched by the kids."
Han Jianwu said, "Okay!" and stuffed the person into the bed.
The kang was still warm. The weather had turned cooler recently, and the kang needed to be heated every day. Han Jianwu was the one who heated the kang, as Huo Qingqing still couldn't heat up this big earthen kang. She couldn't fall asleep in the warm bed. She tried really hard, but the two of them seemed to be drifting further and further apart?
Maybe she really hurt someone?
Han Jianwu started cooking after fetching water for the second time. As soon as the oil tea was ready, someone called out. It was the leader of the production team. He stood outside the door and spoke to Han Jianwu, "Today, we will use the cart to transport beans and buckwheat to our team. I have already informed the team leader. After breakfast, go to the stable to harness the cart. We have to finish the work today. I don't think this weather will last for a few more days. We have to harvest the autumn crops, dry them, and hand them in before it rains continuously."
Han Jianwu said, "Okay, I understand."
Huo Qingqing was preparing milk powder for her baby. Standing at the door, shaking the bottle, she said to the production team leader, "He can't do heavy work! He can drive a horse-drawn carriage, but he can't load anything."
The team leader was very young, only a few years older than Han Jianwu, and they were both from the Han family. He said, "I see. You two are the only ones in the team who protect each other."
Who says it’s not! Huo Qingqing has been in the countryside for four years, but she still can't do farm work and can't carry anything with her hands. However, Han Jianwu is willing to support her as an idle person and never cares about the sarcastic gossip in the village.
In the eyes of everyone in Hanjiagou, why does a child need a young and strong daughter-in-law to stay at home to look after him? That means she is lazy and likes to eat. So, isn't Huo Qingqing just a lazy person kept by Han Jianwu in the eyes of the people in Hanjiagou?
This time, Han Jianwu was badly injured while saving Yan Zhaodi. Many people were waiting to see Huo Qingqing make a fool of herself. But in the end, she still didn't have to go to work, she was dressed neatly, her two kids were still clean and good-looking, and she took good care of Han Laosi.
Han Jianwu did not participate in the summer grain delivery this year. All six production teams in the brigade used small horse-drawn carts and handcarts to deliver the public grain, which was very time-consuming and labor-intensive. A production team could complete the task in one day using large horse-drawn carts.
It can be said that the whole team is out today, because it is Sunday, and the students, teachers, cadres and workers have all gone home to harvest. The autumn here is very short, and every autumn it will rain for many days in a row. The weather has been good these days, and all production teams are rushing to harvest. Even the old mother and father of the Han family joined in. After all, as long as people worked in this kind of big pot, they would get some work points.
Han's mother's elder sister asked her, "Your fourth daughter-in-law is so lucky! Your mother-in-law has to work, how can she stay at home?"
Han's mother said, "Since the family has been divided, I have no say in what they do. They can do whatever they want."
The elder sister said, "She didn't come out to work during the time when the fourth child was recovering from his injury. How did they feed the four mouths in the family?"
Han's mother said, "My parents gave me food coupons and money to buy food! The food was good. We had meat every few days, and the two kids had eggs all the time. The fourth child also had eggs and milk powder every day while he was recovering from his injuries."
Old sister, "Oh my god! She is really the eldest daughter of a capitalist family! Then they eat meat and eggs every other day, so they are not filial to you two old people?"
Han's mother has always been a tolerant and kind mother to others. Only when she is with a few good sisters will she speak ill of her sons and daughters-in-law, especially the fourth son and his wife. Nowadays, in addition to talking about Han Jianwu saving Yan Zhaodi and the scandal between Huo Qingqing and Zhang Guohua, the village is also spreading rumors that Han Laosi and his wife are heartless and harsh on their parents, and that Huo Qingqing is the eldest daughter of a capitalist family. No wonder Han Jianwu has to support her even though he is cuckolded. It turns out that his wife is the rich one.
Others said that Huo Qingqing would rather lend money and food coupons to Lao Xiang and Zhang Guohua than to her mother-in-law and father-in-law.
Han Jianwu pulled a team of autumn grain back to the threshing ground at around 3:00 p.m. Several sets of stone rollers harnessed to mules, horses or donkeys were grinding the grain, creating a very lively scene. Huo Qingqing actually likes this season in Hanjiagou the most. It is not as hard as the summer harvest, the weather is not hot, and everything is golden. Although the women are talkative, they can always be seen smiling in this season because the autumn grain will be distributed soon.
Public grain is paid twice a year, and the food rations are also divided into two periods, summer and autumn, and the interval between autumn grain and summer grain is very short.
The kids couldn't stay at home when the weather was good, and Huo Qingqing wanted to take them out to bask in the sun, so she carried a bag of wool, water and toilet paper for the kids and took the two kids to play in the village.
There were a lot of children, with no adults to take care of them. They were all ragged and dirty. Niu'er was a little scared when she saw them. She stuck to her mother and refused to play. Zhuangzhuang walked over and wanted to play with them. As soon as I walked into the group of children, one of them shouted, "Little educated youth, lie down."
Zhuangzhuang, "My mother won't let me lie on the ground!"
The child was not afraid of Huo Qingqing at all and said, "Then we won't play with you. How about you give us something delicious?"
Zhuangzhuang, "I don't have anything delicious!"
"Then you get down on the ground and let me ride you, or we don't want you to play with us."
Zhuangzhuang hesitated, and Huo Qingqing called her son, "Zhuangzhuang, come here, mommy will take you to see daddy's big carriage."
Zhuangzhuang: "But I want to play with them."
Huo Qingqing knew that her son wanted to play with dirt, so she said, "How about we go to the threshing ground to play?" There were several threshing grounds in the village. Some were grinding buckwheat and beans, and a few were used to dry grain. These days, they had millet, corn, sorghum, millet and other crops drying in the sun, so they could play with them.
The security guard of the third sister-in-law's house took Zhuangzhuang's hand and said to Huo Qingqing, "Fourth aunt, I will take my brother to play, you take your sister to the threshing ground to play!"
Huo Qingqing said, "No! My brother is too young to play with you big kids. He can play with you when he grows up."
Liu Chunyan's eldest son Baoping brought his silly brother and looked at Huo Qingqing and snorted, "You just don't want your child to play with us."
According to what Huo Qingqing saw when she went to Hanjiagou in her previous life, Liu Chunyan's two sons were also quite amazing. The eldest was extremely smart and had done well in his previous life, but the second was a complete fool. After observing for a lifetime, I found that this child is really smart. He can say such words at the age of four. It may be that Liu Chunyan taught him, but he is rare among these children to be able to express himself so accurately.
Huo Qingqing said, "Yes! I just don't want them to play with you. They are still young."
Zhuangzhuang refused to leave and wanted to play with them. Huo Qingqing said, "There are children playing in the threshing ground too!" Just then Han Jianwu came back with a large horse-drawn cart of bean stalks. He then carried the two children onto the cart and asked Huo Qingqing, "Would you like to come up too?"
Huo Qingqing glared at him and said, "I'll go over there."
When the carriage arrived at the threshing ground, Han Jianwu got off the carriage holding the two children and said to Huo Qingqing, "I may be home very late tonight, so you don't need to leave any food for me."
Huo Qingqing, "Why?"
"Our team has finished pulling. After unloading the truck, we will go to Team 3. The captain of Team 3 is waiting in the car!"
Huo Qingqing, "Then you have to be careful and pay attention to safety."
"good!"
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