Chapter 70
Lin Hongna didn’t expect her own mother to be so aggressive. She said that she would fart
after taking croton powder for her mother-in-law… Her grandson’s mother-in-law always valued her reputation more than anything else. If she really farted in front of everyone after taking croton powder, she would definitely be extremely ashamed and angry. Not to mention that she would be devastated
, she would never be able to work properly in the future. Although Lin Hongna hated her mother-in-law very much, she would never let Li Aifeng do something that would harm others and benefit herself.
Li Aifeng didn’t understand the twists and turns inside, so Lin Hongna didn’t say much to her. She just held her belly and told her not to do anything rash.
Li Aifeng was also a good talker, she kept smacking her lips, looking at the chicken cake on the table, her eyes were shining, "You still have chicken cake in the house, give mom a piece of it. Mom is suffering in the country. She eats black flour pancakes every day, and her throat is hard to swallow. It's terrible."
Lin Hongna only had a plate of chicken cake in the house. There is nothing good to nourish the body now, so chicken cake is the best.
Li Aifeng ate two or three pieces in one go. The weather had been hot recently, and Lin Hongna had a bad appetite. At night, she ate two pieces of chicken cake and pointed at it to fill her stomach. She moved the plate of rice chicken and cake to the counter, distracting Li Aifeng's attention without leaving any trace.
"Mom, where does the old hag let you stay tonight?"
Li Aifeng licked the snack foam on her hands, "There was a small house where an old woman used to live in your family. I can clean it up and let her stay there."
The Sun family had such a big yard, so they could definitely find a bed for Li Aifeng.
Li Aifeng licked her fingers clean, and without washing her hands, she carelessly opened Lin Hongna's closet and searched for the things in it, even the rattan box on the closet.
"Oh, the material of this blouse is really good, it must be silk cloth, right? It's very expensive to buy one outside, and it's also expensive to buy the cloth yourself. Nana, you're getting bigger, and it won't be comfortable to wear. Why don't you give it to mom? Mom doesn't have any good clothes, and mom can wear it to save face for our family."
Li Aifeng's hands were very dirty, and she was touching and pinching in the closet. Lin Hongna looked at her messy closet, and she was fiddling with one of her small clothes in her hand, and she wanted to try it on herself to see if it fit.
"Mom, what are you doing! These are my little clothes, you can't put them on!"
Lin Hongna came over angrily, snatched her underwear from Jia Zhang's hands, and said coldly, "Let me remind you, the Sun family can't tolerate dirt in their eyes. You'd better change your petty theft habit, otherwise I won't be able to save you if something goes wrong."
Li Aifeng looked confident, " I'm your biological mother, so what's wrong with getting some things from my daughter's house? Besides, you're pregnant now and you're still wearing small clothes. You can't take them home and change them into pants for your brother. Your brother is a young man in his twenties and doesn't even have any decent pants. A sister doesn't know how to help."
Li Aifeng's weird remarks almost made Lin Hongna angry.
Now that supplies are scarce, she finally has two small clothes to change and wash. Lin Hongwu has taken thirty or forty yuan from her. Not to mention saving the money to live on, he smokes, drinks and plays cards every day. He deserves his miserable life!
Lin Hongna feels that she doesn't owe anyone!
Besides, what mother would alter her daughter's small clothes and give them to her son as pants!
If her grandson's mother knew about this, she would point at her nose and scold her for having no shame!
It took her a lot of effort to suppress her anger. "This is my dress. I can't give it to you. If you want to make clothes for Lin Hongwu, go buy them yourself."
Li Aifeng wanted to say something more, but when she saw the girl was pregnant and married to an official, her face was not as rosy and shiny as that of an ordinary pregnant woman, she also felt a little sympathetic. "You are also destined to be... "It's not good. You're pregnant in a disaster year. Your mother-in-law's family won't give you any nourishment. There are eggs in the kitchen. I'll make you a bowl of egg and brown sugar water to replenish your blood."
Lin Hongna touched her face. She looked at herself in the mirror these days. She did not look good. Her face was pale and her eyebrows were weak. The doctor in the town said that it was a deficiency of blood and qi. If she didn't take care of it, she would have a premature birth or even miscarriage.
Lin Hongna spent money to suppress the matter. Before that, she asked Sun Jialiang to take her to the county to see a gynecologist.
Sun Jialiang returned from Yunshui County with a failure. He couldn't stand hearing these three words for the rest of his life. He immediately said angrily, "Why go to the county ? It's natural for a woman to be pregnant. My mother gave birth to three children and didn't go to any county. You are just being pretentious!"
Lin Hongna bit her teeth and said, "You are being pretentious, you idiot! It's natural for a woman to be pregnant? Why don't you men try it yourself? You flirt with others because you have two taels of meat. If I make you angry, I'll cut you off with scissors!" Lin Hongna drank the egg and brown sugar water brought by Li Aifeng and lay down in the house again. Li Aifeng looked around the living room of her grandson's house with her triangular eyes. Like a weasel, she sniffed around inside and outside the house and soon dug out the glutinous rice dumplings hidden in the food jar by her grandson's mother. Dumplings! She hadn't eaten them for several years. Li Aifeng grabbed a dumpling without hesitation and bit into it and found two pieces of good meat. She chewed and cursed, "You damned old woman, you didn't give me the good stuff at home, and I had to find it myself. You're really a jerk!" * After the Qingming Festival, the sun in the mountains began to shine, and Zhang Cuilan planted two rows of corn seedlings in her yard. In those days, all the land outside was public, and the people went to work to earn work points. The Gu family had no land in their hometown. If they planted some food, fruits and vegetables outside, they would be arrested and sent to labor reform. Fortunately, the yard of the Gu family's old house was large, half an acre of land. Planting two rows of corn seedlings was not a lot, and it was enough for the family's daily consumption. There was enough rain recently, and the old Gu family applied fertilizer and weeded. The corn seedlings grew very well. The new and shiny leaves fluttered in the wind, and the green was very pleasing. Lin Yao was five months pregnant, and her belly was like a ball, swollen, and she was wobbly when she walked. In the evening, Gu Shi'an fetched water for her to wash her feet. Lin Yao touched her belly and complained that she looked like a big green frog. Deputy Director Gu said affectionately, "Even if it's a frog, Yaoyao is the most beautiful one." Lin Yao: "......." No, I don't know how to say sweet words, so I won't say them. Once I open my mouth, I will offend my wife. Only Gu Shian, a straight man who can't talk, will do that. Lin Yao spread the quilt angrily, turned his back and ignored him. Gu Shian came back with the foot washing water, and wanted to hug his wife to sleep. Lin Yao kicked him and said unhappily, "It's hot, sleep on the other side."
Gu Shian didn't understand, so he could only go to sleep obediently.
When Lin Yao woke up in the middle of the night, she clung to Gu Shian like an octopus, resting her head on his arm, and slept comfortably all night.
Lin Yao quickly got out of Gu Shian's arms, and her stomach suddenly moved, and the little guy in her stomach moved quite violently.
Lin Yao couldn't help but groan.
Gu Shian suddenly opened his eyes, and stared at her with his deep eyes.
"Yaoyao, is your stomach uncomfortable?"
Lin Yao lay on the pillow with her arms around her belly, humming, "It's okay, the thing in my stomach is kicking and punching again."
Gu Shian gave her a gentle massage. Lin Yao saw that he looked clear-headed, not at all like he had just woken up, "You, you are not asleep."
Gu Shian's lips curled up. If it weren't for the little one in her belly making so much noise, Lin Yao would have covered her face.
——You can tell from the expression that someone is pretending to sleep.
The kid in her belly made so much noise for a while, then calmed down, and Gu Shian carried her to the toilet.
Lin Yao washed her hands, and automatically got into Gu Shian's arms. She leaned against the man's warm and smelling arms, and fell asleep comfortably because of her sleepiness.
Lin Yao didn't know that in the second half of the night, Gu Shian held her with his big hands on his wife's belly. The little guy in her belly kicked from time to time, and the expectant mother was sleeping soundly.
Feeling the vigorous energy of the little life, the man's eyes were slightly hot, and he lowered his head and gently kissed his wife's belly.
The next morning, Gu Shian went to the county public security bureau.
Lin Yao slept until noon as usual, and then slowly came out of the house.
Zhang Cuilan was weeding the cornfield in the yard. Lin Yao wore a straw hat, long sleeves, and took a small stool to help.
Zhang Cuilan waved her hand quickly, "Yaoyao, don't come over. This is a dirty job. You are pregnant now, let's not take risks."
Lin Yao stopped. The corn leaves have those small sharp blades that scratched her skin, leaving red marks.
Lin Yao's skin was delicate and tender, and it would take several days for the scratches to go away.
So she obeyed, put down the small stool, sat on the recliner and watched the clouds roll by.
The mountain breeze in April was gentle and aggressive, carrying the fragrance of rapeseed flowers in the countryside.
Lin Yao began to feel drowsy after sitting for a while.
"Sister-in-law, sister-in-law!"
Outside the yard, Dongzi came running over in a hurry.
Lin Yao's sleepiness flew away in a second after being shouted by him. She stood up holding her stomach and looked out through the fence wall.
Dongzi, the naughty boy, was running towards here with his trouser legs rolled up, wearing straw sandals and holding a banana leaf in his hand.
Lin Yao called him, "Run slower, don't fall."
The naughty boy called his sister-in-law and then his mother.
Zhang Cuilan poked her head out of the cornfield, "What are you calling for? I'm calling your mother's soul!" When she saw that the bastard's trouser legs were wet, she immediately glared at him, "The little bastard has caught fish again!"
Comrade Cuilan looked for her husband everywhere to teach her son a lesson.
Dongzi ran into the house with a grin, "Mom, my brother caught some fish in the fish basket he put in the water. There are grass carp, carp, and quite a few."
Gu Shidong shook the banana leaf in his hand, and indeed, several fat fish were revealed inside, shaking their tails.
Fish in early spring are the most delicious. Fish at this time are not as easy to catch as in winter. In winter, if you make a hole in the ice, the fish inside will jump out.
In early spring, the number of people fishing in the village increased sharply, and the fish in the river also learned to swim to deep water when they saw people.
Gu An placed a few fish baskets in the river and put earthworms in them to see if they would be willing to take the bait.
The fish baskets were placed for three or four days, but no fish were caught.
The old Gu family was discouraged, and then good news came.
Lin Yao was overjoyed watching the fish swimming in the basin. She winked at Dongzi, who was drooling, and said, "Let's have fish balls tonight."
Gu Shidong wiped his mouth and said, "Fish balls, how are fish balls made?"
The poor child had never eaten fish balls. When he lived in the county, he could only eat fish once a year. He would either stew it in soup or steam it in a pot with chopped green onions and garlic.
What are fish balls?
Gu Shidong's little head was filled with confusion.
Lin Yao clapped her hands and said, "You'll know when your brother comes back tonight."
His sister-in-law kept him in suspense. Gu Shidong scratched his head and didn't think too much about it. He continued to squat and salivate over the fat fish in the basin.
Daju was also watching from the side, tilting his head and licking his paws, while trying to jump into the plate to pick up a fish to taste.
Gu Mancang saw it, took Daju away and locked him in the house. Daju was angry and meowed and knocked on the door.
Lin Yao was annoyed by its noise, so she had a calm "negotiation" with Daju, and finally calmed Daju down in exchange for half a bowl of dried fish.
After lunch, Zhang Cuilan and her husband packed up, changed their clothes, and planned to go to the city to see the young lady.
Gu Mancang carried half a bag of dried sweet potatoes, and Zhang Cuilan carried two fish and put them in a basket, on top of which were dried wild vegetables that she had dried at home.
Zhang Cuilan asked her old son if he wanted to go to the city.
Gu Shidong shook his head like a rattle, "No, no, I'm waiting for my sister-in-law to make me fish balls."
It's good that the old son doesn't go. Now the city is full of steelmaking and factions. It's a mess and it's not comfortable to go.
It's better not to go. It's safe in the countryside.
There is a dirt road from Gujiaao to the county town. Shan Daye in the village drives his donkey cart back and forth twice a day.
Gu Mancang and his wife went out early. Gu Mancang handed Shan Daye a cigarette, and Shan Daye took it and sniffed it in front of his nose.
"Daqianmen, the smoke of officials, or Mancang's grandeur."
Gu Mancang smiled naively. This Daqianmen was given by Yaoyao before he left, and he waved his hand to take it.
It seems that the child still has his own ideas. When he encounters something, he must give some sweet things to others.
Zhang Cuilan repeatedly warned her old son, "Listen to your sister-in-law at home, don't run around the mountains like a fly all day long, stay away from the gossipers in the village, and don't show off the good things in your home. The village is the same as the city. Whoever lives well will attract jealous wolves. Your brother will be back in the afternoon, wait for him at home."
Gu Shian nodded quickly.
"Mom, when will you and Dad be back?"
"That's uncertain. Maybe tonight, or tomorrow or the day after tomorrow."
"Oh."
The old donkey's cart went away with the jingle bells, and gradually turned into a small black dot.
Gu Shidong couldn't see him anymore, so he walked home.
In the evening, the sun was setting. Lin Yao estimated that it was time for Gu Shian to get off work, so he took Dongzi and Daju to wait at the intersection.
A big case happened in the county today.
An old farmer from the Liujiawo Production Team under Yunshui County came to the county to report that his eldest daughter disappeared on the way back to her parents' home to visit relatives two years ago.
In the past two years, the old farmer and his son-in-law's family have searched the area everywhere, but they couldn't find the daughter.
The son-in-law insisted that his wife had been kidnapped and disappeared without a trace. He could not stay with his wife all his life. He was a man and could not be single. The family had to carry on the family line.
The old farmer thought it was a waste at first. The son-in-law had been running around looking for a concubine in the past two years, which was considered to be his best effort.
If he could not find a concubine, it was God's will. He could not delay the son-in-law's life.
The old farmer nodded and agreed. A few days later, the son-in-law married a widow from the same village. The old farmer also gave a gift to his ex-son-in -law.
The widow was a new widow. Her husband had been gone for only half a year. She was pregnant. As soon as she got married, she gave birth to a big fat boy in just a few months.
The son-in-law and his family were very happy. They set off firecrackers and went to the ancestral temple.
The old farmer was suspicious and secretly went to his ex-son-in-law's house to take a look at the child. He was shocked to see that the child and his ex-son-in-law looked exactly like each other. They were obviously father and son!
There was definitely something fishy going on here. The old farmer also found something strange. His ex-son-in-law's family had just built a thatched shed. There were many thatched sheds in the countryside.
But no one had two thatched sheds. The old farmer asked around and found out that his ex-son-in-law's family had built the thatched shed at the same time as his daughter went missing! The
old farmer felt suspicious and immediately went to the county to report the case.
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