136: What if the roof collapses?
Yu Jiahui roared madly in his heart:
"I just don't like those two old guys being nice to my daughter. It's not like our family can't afford to eat. What do those two old guys mean? I raised my daughter, do they think they can coax her away with just a few meals?"
Yu Xiaoye didn't quite understand his father's inexplicable sense of crisis:
"Dad, I just went out to eat. I'm not going to be coaxed away by anyone. Don't get angry."
The daughter's words at least calmed Yu Jiahui's irritable heart:
"Thank goodness my daughter is sensible. If it were someone like that, she might have been so disloyal that she would have been fooled into disowning her parents just by a few meals."
Xu Ying chuckled coldly, and ignored the unreasonable old man in her family. She turned to ask her daughter:
"Bao, are the dumplings delicious?"
"It's delicious." Yu Xiaoye said in a low voice.
"What's the filling?"
"Shepherd's purse, black fungus and eggs, with a lot of lard added. It's just like pork dumplings, so fragrant and greasy." Yu Xiaoye whispered even more.
Xu Ying's stomach rumbled like a gong, and saliva spurted out of his mouth like a high-pressure gun used to wash a car.
Although she couldn't imagine what shepherd's purse, black fungus and egg dumplings with lard would taste like, she knew it must be delicious as soon as she heard it!
She grunted twice and felt as satisfied as if she had just eaten two large bowls of shepherd's purse and egg dumplings with lard.
Then the family of three locked the door and returned to the space.
I don’t know if it was because the shepherd’s purse and egg dumplings stimulated their appetite, or because they had been hungry for a long time, but the old couple had particularly good appetites and ate a lot.
Fortunately, there were delicious fish, shrimps and crabs in the kitchen, otherwise the old couple would have been so greedy for the dumplings they hadn’t eaten.
The people of the Yu family here live a peaceful and prosperous life without any major worries, but the situation at the home of Widow Wang in the company is quite different.
Their shed had not been repaired for two years. They wanted to repair it last spring, but the child caught a cold at that time, and Widow Wang was exhausted from taking care of the child and had no time to repair the house.
Moreover, repairing a house is usually a job done by men. There are no adult men in Widow Wang's family. She wants help from others, but as a widow, she is too embarrassed to ask for help. That is why the house has never been repaired.
So what their family worries about most is rainy days, when it rains heavily outside and drizzles lightly inside.
When it rains lightly outside, water drips everywhere from inside.
When it rains, there are pots and pans everywhere to collect rainwater, such as on the ground, on the stove, and even on the kang.
The big bowl on the ground was filled with another bowl of rainwater.
His son, Qin Xiaochuan, picked up the bowl and poured out the rainwater at the door. He turned around and put the bowl back on the wet mud. He looked at the raindrops dripping into the bowl, then looked up at the moldy roof. Qin Xiaochuan said with a sad face:
"Mom, can we repair our roof this year? Otherwise, if it rains heavily at night in the summer, I won't be able to sleep."
Qin Xiaoyuan, a girl who is only six or seven years old, also said:
"Yeah, Mom, I'm scared too."
Widow Wang was sitting on the kang sewing shoe soles. After hearing what her children said, she felt a little sad, but she said stubbornly:
"What's there to be afraid of? Mom is here!"
Qin Xiaochuan didn't understand his mother's thoughts. He was very worried about the situation at home:
"Mom, I'm really worried that the roof of our house will collapse if it rains heavily. It's okay during the day because we're not at home, but what if we're all sleeping on the kang at night and the roof collapses and we're trapped inside?"
"You crow mouth, what unlucky words are you saying? Be careful or I'll beat you up!"
Seeing that his mother was about to get angry, Qin Xiaochuan sensibly shut up and said nothing more.
He turned his head and saw that a clay pot on the kang was almost full of water. He found an empty bowl to hold the water, carried the clay pot out, poured out the water inside, and put it back where the water was leaking.
Even so, the water splashing out of the earthenware jar still made the kang mat wet.
I wonder when this rain will stop?
Widow Wang sighed quietly in her heart. She felt a little regretful that she shouldn't have been so harsh to her son. Her son was already very sensible and took the initiative to share the housework with her. At such a young age, he learned to wash clothes and cook.
Although other children also help their parents with housework, no one has as much hardship as her child.
She carries water, washes clothes, cooks, gathers firewood, feeds chickens, digs wild vegetables, picks fruits, and is good at everything. She has almost no time for play.
Moreover, at such a young age, while children of the same age all look innocent and carefree, their children have started to worry about family matters at an early age.
The reason why their family's life was difficult was not because they were poor.
Their family was not poor, because Widow Wang had a formal job and earned 32 yuan a month, which was enough to support the mother and her two children.
Moreover, Widow Wang's husband died in the line of duty. A few years ago, during a land reclamation mission, he accidentally fell into a swamp and was swallowed by the swamp on the spot.
Other farm workers found him fallen into the swamp and used a horse to rescue him, but the horse was also dragged into the mud. Both man and horse died, and even their bodies were not found.
After the accident, Widow Wang's husband was posthumously recognized as a martyr. The Corps Farm gave Widow Wang a large pension and allowed her to take over her husband's job, becoming a formal farm worker with a fixed monthly salary.
So with a stable salary and a generous pension, Widow Wang is not short of money.
What her family lacked was a man, an adult man who could do heavy physical work and help them repair the house.
Without a man, Widow Wang had to take on all the work for the family by herself, playing the role of both father and mother. She went out to work during the day and came back to do housework and take care of the children at night. She had almost no free time. Except for sleeping, she was busy all the time.
I can only sleep four or five hours a day, and often do needlework until late at night. I have to get up before dawn in the morning to prepare meals for the children.
Fortunately, my son has grown up in the past two years and has become more sensible and considerate of his mother.
I appreciate the hard work and take the initiative to help with housework.
But children are children after all, how can they be treated like adults?
Moreover, her son could not learn to write because he had to help with housework, which made Widow Wang feel guilty.
A few days ago, on the evening of May Day, a group of people went to Sai Jinhua's house for dinner. During the meal, the master from the city heard that her two children were so old but still could not read and write, so he advised Widow Wang to make sure her children could read and write and never be illiterate.
When Widow Wang heard this, she felt as if she had suddenly been enlightened, and she also felt that her son must learn to read.
She had never thought that reading and writing were so important before. She was too busy every day to take care of it. But when Hong Cheng reminded her of it, she realized the seriousness of the matter.
She really delayed her son's life for too long.
She cannot let her child's life be wasted on housework, otherwise when the child grows up, he will definitely blame her as a mother.
She couldn't let her child blame her.
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