Perhaps because he was too weak, Shen Zhihuan slept until noon.

Glancing at the position of the sun, Shen Zhihuan prepared the bath water and went into the kitchen to start working.

After the rice porridge was cooked in the iron pot, Shen Zhihuan went to the vegetable garden to pick two tender cucumbers, smashed them and pickled them with salt, then waited for Li Qiuhua and Xiao Weidong to come back for dinner.

Seeing the villagers who were leaving work walking into the village in groups, but still nowhere to be seen Li Qiuhua and Xiao Weidong, Shen Zhihuan, who had been standing at the gate of the yard looking for a long time, couldn't help but feel a little anxious.

"Aunt Wang, did you see my mother and my younger brother when you were at work?" Seeing Wang Baotian's wife, Wang Lianhua, carrying a hoe and walking home, Shen Zhihuan hurriedly called out to her.

Wang Lianhua stopped and turned around. Seeing that it was Shen Zhihuan, she was slightly stunned. "Oh, it's Zhihuan girl! Your mother is carrying manure today. I guess she won't be back for a while."

"Carrying manure? Hasn't this job always been done by men?" Shen Zhihuan frowned.

"Who knows! As soon as your mother arrived at the assembly point today, Accountant Xu asked her to pick up manure, and said that if your mother picked up all the pig manure in the pit today, he would give your mother twenty work points." Wang Lianhua sighed and shook her head.

Anyone with a discerning eye knew that Accountant Xu was deliberately making things difficult for Li Qiuhua, but...

Who can blame him for being a cadre?

"Thank you, Aunt Wang! Go back and have some rest! I'll go see my mother."

Shen Zhihuan closed the gate and walked towards the production team's pig farm.

Looking at Shen Zhihuan's thin figure, Wang Lianhua, who turned around with a hoe on her shoulder, sighed again.

"Mom, why are you sighing?"

Wang Lianhua and Wang Baotian's younger daughter, Wang Chunxi, had just finished lunch and was about to go out to greet her parents and brother who were coming home from work. But as soon as she stepped over the threshold, she heard her mother sighing.

"Zhihuan girl is also a miserable person. Her father passed away early, and she herself is not in good health. She finally has a child..." When she said this, Wang Lianhua sighed again.

"Stay away from Xu Jiaojiao in the future, and don't get together with her for no reason."

Even though Xu Youcai is a good-for-nothing, Xu Jiaojiao had nothing to do with the matter between the Xu and Su families, and she would not believe it even if she was beaten to death.

As the old saying goes, rabbits don't eat grass near their nests. The Xu family is worse than animals! Not only did they rob someone's fiancé, but they also made things difficult for the orphans and widows, and they weren't afraid of being struck by lightning.

"I know!" Wang Chunxi took the hoe from Wang Lianhua's shoulder and said coquettishly.

"Mom, when I went out to do laundry yesterday afternoon, I saw Su Zijie coming to see Zhihuan."

Wang Chunxi paused for a moment, then moved closer to Wang Lianhua, gossiping, "Mom, do you think Su Zijie came to Zhihuan to ask for a reconciliation?"

"For people like Su Changhe and Wang Chunmei, even if they get back together, Zhihuan won't have a good life if she marries them." Wang Lianhua curled her lips, "When you look for a partner in the future, you must open your eyes and look carefully. Don't look for the kind of person who is shunted over." As soon as Shen Zhihuan reached the gate of the pig farm, he saw Li Qiuhua hunched over, staggering out with two buckets of pig manure on his shoulders. His coarse cotton shirt, which was covered with patches, was already soaked with sweat.

Little Weidong was standing in front of the cart, sweating profusely, waiting, his thin and pale face now red from the sun.

Shen Zhihuan's clear eyes were silently tinged with a layer of coldness.

Xu Youcai...

She didn't even think of settling accounts with their family, but he couldn't stand the loneliness and became restless.

"Third sister!" Xiao Weidong raised his hand to wipe the sweat, but paused.

"Why did you come out when the sun is so bright?" Li Qiuhua put down his burden, frowned and looked at Shen Zhihuan, his eyes full of worry.

"Mom, let's go home and eat first!" Shen Zhihuan took out a handkerchief from his pocket and wiped the sweat off little Weidong's head.

Li Qiuhua pulled up his sleeves and wiped the sweat that was streaming down his forehead. "You and Dongzi go back first. I'll take this truckload of manure and dump it out first..."

"It will take a while to finish picking them all, why are you in such a hurry! They are living here and won't run away. It would be the same if you go home to eat and then come back to continue working." Shen Zhihuan said as he snatched the shoulder pole that Li Qiuhua had just picked up and threw it behind the gate of the pig farm.

Seeing the gate of the pig farm being locked by Shen Zhihuan, Li Qiuhua glared at Shen Zhihuan and reluctantly followed her two children back home.

While Li Qiuhua was carrying the dried water from the yard into the hut, Shen Zhihuan deftly brought the mixed cucumbers to the table.

Under the grape trellis at the kitchen door, in front of the naked little Weidong was a large basin of water warmed by the sun. The little guy was rubbing his back with his backhand in a chaotic manner, which made Shen Zhihuan burst out laughing.

"Third sister, you are not allowed to look at me." Little Weidong blushed, covered his little bird with both hands, and yelled.

"I helped you wash when you were a child! Why can't you look at it now?" Shen Zhihuan joked with a smile.

"I'm a grown man now, and from now on... I can only show it to my own wife." Xiao Weidong turned his back and said with a flushed face.

"Who told you this?" Shen Zhihuan was shocked.

"Xiaopang said so." Xiao Weidong wiped the water off his body with a towel and put on the clean clothes that Shen Zhihuan had placed on the bench for him.

There is no wrong version in the 1619 book forum!

"Third sister, is Xiaopang right?" Xiao Weidong thought about it, blushed and moved closer to Shen Zhihuan and whispered.

"...Yes!" Shen Zhihuan nodded, suppressing the urge to burst out laughing.

When Li Qiuhua came out of the shower, she saw her two children having fun together.

She broke off the engagement with the Su family because she was afraid that her daughter would be upset and do something stupid again.

But she found that since she broke off the engagement with the Su family, her daughter's temperament has become much more cheerful. Not only does she talk more, but she also laughs more than before.

Seeing the rice porridge on the table, Li Qiuhua couldn't smile anymore.

"Zhi Huan..."

As soon as Shen Zhihuan saw Li Qiuhua's expression, he knew what she wanted to say.

"My younger brother is in the growing stage now. It's not okay for him to eat wild vegetables and coarse grains for every meal. Mom, I'm well now. I'll figure out the money and food issue in the future." Shen Zhihuan comforted.

Li Qiuhua said quickly: "Zhihuan, we can't make mistakes..."

"Mom, don't worry, I know the seriousness of the matter. Let's eat first." Shen Zhihuan picked up a piece of mixed cucumber and put it in Li Qiuhua's bowl.

"Third sister, rice porridge is so delicious!" Little Weidong took a small mouthful of rice porridge and chewed it carefully, and was reluctant to swallow it for a long time.

"If Weidong likes it, we can eat it every day from now on." Shen Zhihuan smiled and rubbed little Weidong's soft hair.

"Eating rice porridge every day?" Little Weidong widened his eyes, somewhat incredulous.

"Yes! We eat it every day, every meal." Shen Zhihuan nodded, "But if someone asks us what we eat every day, do you know what to say?"

Xiao Weidong thought for a moment, "Wild vegetable soup?"

"What if Xiaopang asks?" Shen Zhihuan looked at Xiao Weidong playfully.

"Wild vegetable soup." Xiao Weidong said in a firm tone.

(End of this chapter)