After He Ailian left, Old Mrs. Su was so angry that she started cursing in the yard again. After Xu Guixiang persuaded her for a while, she went back to the house angrily.
Su Wan had already taken Zhaodi to her room. When Xu Guixiang came in, Xiao Yatou was eating something with her snack. The tears in her eyes had not yet dried, but she already had a smile on her face.
Su Wan looked at him with great pain. People of this era generally favored boys over girls. In their eyes, girls were just money to be used as wives for others.
It is different for a son. Not only can he marry someone else's daughter, but he can also carry on the family line and become the financial pillar of a family.
Of the girls in my second aunt's family, the oldest one is eleven or twelve years old this year. She has never been to school for a single day. Her clothes are patched up with patches on top of patches, and she does nothing but work every day.
I followed He Ailian around during the day, and had to wash clothes and clean up after coming back. It didn't hurt He Ailian at all to use her.
A child who is used to being enslaved by his family will not resist, and will work hard like an ox all his life.
If you can marry a man who understands your feelings in the future, it means you have been born into a good family. If you marry a man who doesn't know how to care for others, and his mother-in-law is a bit tough, you will be drowned in misery for the rest of your life.
Xu Guixiang also sighed as she looked at Zhaodi. Whenever He Ailian encountered something unpleasant, she would take it out on the children. The three girls had been beaten by her since they were young.
She even blamed these three girls for not being able to give birth to a son, blaming them for running too fast and blocking the way for her son.
Xu Guixiang hated favoring boys over girls the most in her life, and He Ailian couldn't stand her favoring girls. The two sisters-in-law even quarreled twice because of this.
Later on, I couldn't convince anyone no matter what I met, so I just avoided this kind of problem.
After Zhaodi finished her snack, she saw Xiaoyatou still looking at the table intently, so Su Wan gave her another piece.
After eating for two o'clock, the girl seemed satisfied. Xu Guixiang knew that her daughter had worked hard climbing the mountain today, and wanted her to rest early, so she pulled Zhaodi out of the house and prepared to send her to He Ailian.
As soon as I walked through the door, I saw Su Weidong and a few other guys coming back from outside after taking a shower.
As soon as Zhaodi saw her father, she rushed towards him.
It is true that He Ailian favors boys over girls, but Su Weidong is quite good to his three daughters and it is rare to hear him scold the children.
So the three daughters were closer to him than to He Ailian.
When Xu Guixiang saw her husband following in, she called her into Su Wan's room.
Su Weidong looked at the basket of mushrooms and the chickens and eggs in the basket. Only then did he realize that his daughter had made quite a good harvest today.
He smiled at Su Wan and said, "Wan Wan, how about I go to the city tomorrow and exchange these things for money for you?"
Sure enough, the couple wanted to go together.
Before Su Wan could answer, Xu Guixiang took over.
"I thought so too, but your daughter won't let me sell it. She wants to improve the food for everyone."
Su Weiguo still smiled and said, "Okay, let's listen to the lady."
They took all the food out together, putting the rice, flour and eggs in their room and the pheasant and mushrooms in the kitchen.
The chicken must have been killed by the stone. Xu Guixiang was afraid that it would go bad tomorrow, so she and her husband lit a kerosene lamp and worked overtime to gut and clean the chicken, then hung it up to dry, ready to be cooked tomorrow.
Old Mrs. Su came out to use the restroom and saw that the light was on in the kitchen. Her heart ached again. She was about to rush in and scold whoever was wasting kerosene here, but she was stunned when she saw a clean chicken hanging on the beam.
"Where did the chicken come from?"
"Mom, this Wanwan is on the mountain today. Look, there is a basket of mushrooms there. This can be enough for three days of food." Su Weiguo asked his mother with a smile.
Old Lady Su curled her lips and said, "She is the only one who can buy a pheasant? Who are you kidding? She must know where you got it from."
"Why don't you believe it? Wanwan said that she saw the pheasant standing on the tree, and she picked up a stone and threw it over. By coincidence, it hit the pheasant on the head and killed it directly."
"Our Wanwan is very lucky. This child will definitely be blessed in the future." Xu Guixiang praised her daughter without losing any opportunity.
Old Mrs. Su snorted. Why didn't she believe it? A stone was thrown at the pheasant and it was knocked unconscious. Was the pheasant dead? Was it just standing there for her to hit it?
If she continued to say that she didn't believe it, the couple would definitely keep arguing with her and would force her to believe it. So she might as well change the angle and attack.
"If she wanted to be lucky, she wouldn't have been driven back from the city, and she wouldn't have lost her job. She has lived in the city for ten years, and now she is being pushed back to her original state. Is this what you call luck?"
After saying this, Mrs. Su turned around and left without even giving Xu Guixiang a chance to refute.
Xu Guixiang was so anxious that she shouted at Old Lady Su's back, "Mom, our Wanwan will come back for a while to catch up. She said she would find a way to make money."
Old Lady Su ignored her. Making money these days is harder than eating shit. Even men can't make money. How can a little girl like her think of making money? She could just dream on.
At this time, Su Wan was busy in the space. As soon as Xu Guixiang and Su Weiguo left, she quickly closed the door from the inside.
The ginseng dug from the mountain has not been planted yet, so she has to work overtime tonight to bury them all in the soil.
As soon as she came in, she was startled again.
The seeds she planted had only grown two leaves yesterday, but now the corn and soybeans have grown to the height of her thighs.
The beans that are not growing upwards have already begun to bloom.
The growth rate is really too fast. It is estimated that one day of growth in this space is equivalent to half a month of growth outside.
If you calculate it this way, you can harvest a wave in just a few days.
Seeing the gratifying growth, Su Wan was in a good mood. She cleared out a space and buried all the ginsengs there.
When she was about to leave the space, she suddenly heard a noise.
Su Wan looked up in the direction of the voice and saw a woman in ethnic minority clothing suddenly appear on the other side of the grass.
She also noticed Su Wan, and the two looked at each other. A hint of panic flashed in the woman's eyes.
Su Wanzhong was shocked and shouted at the girl, "Who are you?"
The woman was probably frightened, so she turned and ran away. I don’t know what happened today, but the portrait was covered with a layer of fog, and soon the woman’s figure could not be seen.
Su Wan was so frightened that she stood there frozen for a full half minute. When she finally recovered, she bravely walked towards the other end of the grass.
As she walked, she found that this space seemed to be larger than before. When she entered the mist, she discovered that there was a spring there.
Smoke kept rising above the spring, and it seemed that all the smoke came from this spring.
Passing the spring, Su Wan walked forward cautiously, wanting to see if she could find the woman she had just seen.