Chapter 19: Guaguaguaguagua Her Xiuxiu will be a city dweller in the future
The woman's voice was melancholic. "He knows it in his heart. Because he knows it, he's been dwelling on the fact that Guoqiang isn't his biological son. Can't he just stay ignorant?"
The man scoffed, "Humph, wasn't it him who came over in the middle of the night to ask for sperm? Why is he pretending to be such a big shot now? He's the only one who can do it! The people on your team were right, he's a coward! A wimp! A softie!"
The woman sighed softly: "Ah, there's nothing I can do. Back then..."
The man sneered, "If he hadn't thrown his face down and begged me, he wouldn't have had a son. He's shaking in front of me and beating the kid. How many more years do you think he can keep doing that? Humph!"
The woman seemed not to be listening to the man, and continued to talk to herself, "Sometimes, I feel so bad. At first, I hated him so much that I wanted to kill him with a kitchen knife every night, but after so many years, I'm also afraid of him beating me."
"He doesn't hit me as often now, but Guoqiang was just a little kid, and he beat him so hard that he couldn't even say a word. I feel bad too. And he's also providing for the elderly. Sometimes I get scared when I see the way Guoqiang looks at me and him."
"If he continues like this, will Guoqiang really provide for us in our old age?"
Xiang Yao understood.
The woman's husband was unable to have children before and is still unable to have children now. Her son was born from the sperm of the man in front of her.
Borrowing seeds.
She was not unfamiliar with this word. When she was a left-behind child in the countryside with her grandmother, she had heard such things from adults.
In some families, the man cannot give birth but the wife can. The family wants to have offspring, so they will come up with some weird ideas.
A better option is to adopt a child from a sibling or relative's family;
What's even more extreme is that they ask their wives to sleep with other men so that the children born from them can be treated as their own.
I didn't expect that her gossip would be a big deal if you didn't listen to it.
Apparently, this pair of wild mandarin ducks have been in contact with each other ever since they borrowed seeds.
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It’s said that some of the older generation are more adventurous than the younger generation…
Xiang Yao suppressed the inappropriate thoughts and just felt a little sad.
For some men, a wife is just a tool for continuing the family line. What they value is not the person, but the human womb.
Even if we take a step back and say that it's a matter of one willing to fight and the other willing to be beaten, it's fine. But if you give birth to a child, you should raise it well.
But they neither treat themselves well nor expect someone to take care of them when they are old.
Oh, there is no such good thing in this world.
Xiang Yao sneered silently, gently grabbed his arm, and suppressed all the complicated thoughts.
Hey, what are these two people still hesitating about? She is about to be carried away by mosquitoes!
The wild mandarin ducks chatted in a random manner for a while, then cuddled together for a while, and then left quietly in the night.
Xiang Yao breathed a sigh of relief, and when he stood up, his legs were so numb that he almost fell down.
Seeing that the admission time to the melon field had been extended by twenty minutes, she felt slightly satisfied and no longer looked resentful.
Fearing that the two men would linger nearby, Xiang Yao waited for a while before groping his way home.
The road was not lonely at all. The chirping of various insects and frogs mixed together, and with the laughter, quarrels, and voices of older children from someone's house in the distance, it was very lively.
After walking for a while, I finally arrived home.
Xiang Yao was carrying the basket without saying hello to anyone. She was just about to go back to her room to rest when she saw her third uncle and aunt, who must have finished enjoying the cool air, opening the courtyard door and coming in.
Xiang Jinsheng closed the gate first, then turned around and saw Xiang Yao. He smiled and said, "Oh, Yaoyao, are you back from your grandmother's house?"
Since everyone had greeted them, Xiang Yao had no choice but to stop and stand at the door, nodding: "Yes, Third Uncle and Third Aunt."
Liu Xiaolan glanced at the basket in Xiang Yao's hand and asked curiously, "What good things did your grandma give you?"
Xiang Yao raised an eyebrow: "Nothing."
Liu Xiaolan had an expression that said "I don't believe it" and asked, "Your granddaughter ran all the way to your grandmother's house, and no one gave you anything?"
Xiang Yao smiled and said, "My grandmother's family is poor and doesn't have much to give me. But Third Aunt also went back to her parents' home today. I heard that her family is well off. What did she bring back for you? Did she bring back any Fuqiang flour? Or sugar? Or meat?"
Liu Xiaolan's smile froze. She hadn't expected this girl to turn the tables on her. She forced herself to smile and said awkwardly, "You're such a person. I was just asking casually, but I've actually found out what kind of temper you have."
Her parents always hope that she will take something from her husband's family, and they will never give anything to her.
However, in Liu Xiaolan's view, this is normal. After all, her mother has always told her that the family has raised her for so many years, and after she gets married, she will have to help her parents and brothers at home from time to time.
She has been practicing this principle for many years.
But if it happens too many times, it is inevitable that there will be a little bit of complaints.
Her mother never asked about her situation in the Xiang family. Every time she went back, she would just stare at her basket. If there was nothing good in it, even her brother, sister-in-law, nephews and nieces would not look at her well.
However, how could a stingy person like Zhang Juhua let her take anything valuable out?
She used her own hidden money to buy some extra food and other things to make her family happy.
Xiang Yao didn't know that her short words had aroused the resentment deeply buried in Aunt San's heart. She just continued to smile with her eyebrows curved -
"It seems that Third Aunt's family didn't give you anything good."
Liu Xiaolan almost wanted to roll her eyes. This little girl is so annoying!
She laughed dryly and nudged Xiang Jinsheng with her elbow. Xiang Jinsheng would change the subject: "Yaoyao, you must be tired from the journey. Okay, go and have a rest. We won't keep you chatting any more."
Xiang Yao blinked, agreed, turned around and went into the house.
Liu Xiaolan watched her slam the door shut. The smile on her face fell and she rolled her eyes unhappily: "Look at this girl, I didn't say anything and she gave me a cold look!"
Xiang Jinsheng patted her arm and said, "Well, she might be in a bad mood these days. Let's not bother her. Besides, mother won't allow her to study in the second half of the year, and our Xiuxiu is still studying..."
He only said half of the sentence, but the meaning was clear.
The two sisters are about the same age. One of them has no education because her father died, while the other one is still studying with great pampering. Anyone would feel bad for her. Why would you mess with her?
There's no point in making a fuss, it will make everyone look bad.
Liu Xiaolan was still unhappy, but thinking of her daughter, she didn't say anything.
She even felt a little secret pleasure in her heart.
Humph, what's the use of having good grades? You still won't be able to go to school. When her daughter Xiuxiu is recommended to go to college next year, the gap between the two sisters will be completely widened.
Dreaming of her daughter eating state-owned grain and commercial grain after graduating from university, Liu Xiaolan happily went to wash Xiang Xiuxiu's clothes.
Her daughter Xiuxiu will be a city dweller in the future. When she marries a city official, she will be able to eat meat every meal from then on!
Humph, when the time comes, Xiang Yao will still have to beg their family for help.
She's so sharp-tongued now, she'll be in trouble in the future!
Xiang Yao listened to the sounds of people washing and humming songs at the well outside, with no expression on his face.
Whatever Liu Xiaolan was thinking was reflected on her face. How could she not know?
As the female supporting role in the book, Xiang Xiuxiu did a lot of messy things later in the story. As far as she knew, she failed the college entrance examination on her first try.
As for whether there was a second time, she didn't know, as the book didn't elaborate on this part of the supporting character's plot.
At that time, the male and female protagonists had already flown out of Shitang Brigade and went to a distant big city to study. The author would not care about Xiang Jiawan and other supporting characters.
Sitting cross-legged on the bed, Xiang Yao carefully finished the remaining rice, then lay down on the mat with satisfaction, touching his full stomach, feeling extremely satisfied.
There was a constant sound of insects outside, but the house was quiet. In this quietness, Xiang Yao suddenly remembered that he still had a watermelon.
She originally wanted to eat the melon at her mother's place, but just explaining the peanuts took a lot of time, and if there was a big watermelon out of nowhere, she really didn't know what to say.
Besides, the basket she was carrying couldn't hold a big watermelon.
Thinking that there were still many watermelons in the melon field, Xiang Yao didn't feel sorry at all. He immediately decided to either eat some of them in the evening or finish them tomorrow.
When the noise outside finally died down, Xiang Yao thought that Liu Xiaolan had finished washing the clothes, so he went out to boil some water to take a bath and wash his hair.
In the middle of the process, Zhang Juhua came out and stood in the yard, cursing her twice, saying that she didn't come back earlier to use the water warmed by the sun during the day, but instead boiled water late at night, saying that she was a spendthrift.
Xiang Yao has heard the word "spendthrift" so many times recently that her ears are almost callused.
This no longer aroused any emotion in her.
So of course he pretended not to hear it. Not only that, Xiang Yao could even hum a tune or two while thinking about his abundant melon fields.
Seeing this, Zhang Juhua muttered a few more words, "A dead pig is not afraid of boiling water," and went back to the house cursing.
Xiang Yao caught a glimpse of the people leaving, clicked his tongue twice, and continued to stuff firewood into the stove.
If she were to say, many of these firewood branches were picked up by the original owner in the mountains, so why couldn't she use them?
"Today, we ordinary people are so happy~"
Humph.
I'm so happy.
It's late at night and everyone is asleep.
These days, there’s no TV to watch, no mobile phones to play with, and in Shitang Brigade, only the brigade headquarters has electricity.
In the pitch darkness, Xiang Yao took out the watermelon from the melon field.
I used the scissors that I had secretly boiled when boiling water to slowly cut a knife on the watermelon. With a "click" sound, the watermelon split open along the cut.
Without even looking at the flesh, just by smelling the fragrance, Xiang Yao knew that this must be a rare and delicious melon that came to repay a favor.
Carefully placing the other half of the watermelon into the melon field, Xiang Yao happily held the remaining half in her hands, took a bite of the sweet flesh in the dark, and smiled broadly.
So sweet!
Xiang Yao felt that even before she came here, she had never eaten such a sweet and delicious watermelon.
Just this bite of melon made her feel that crossing over was not such a bad thing.
Produced by Gua Tian, it must be a high-quality product!
There was just one bad thing. I finished half a melon in one breath. Xiang Yao got up many times in the middle of the night and went to the toilet several times...
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