The autumn harvest soon arrived.
The autumn harvest means the year is almost over.
There is a harvest holiday during the autumn harvest, and the children don’t have to go to school. They follow Su’s mother to the fields to dig sweet potatoes early in the morning.
Su Qing was ordered to rest at home and just cook a meal.
Last time, Su Qing was in a coma for more than half a month for no reason, which scared the Su family a lot.
Su Qing himself didn't know why he fell into a coma, and he even dreamed of those strange things.
Before I could figure out what was going on, I returned to this time and space in a daze.
"Xiaoqing, just do whatever you want. Don't tire yourself out, okay?"
Su's mother was a little worried.
"Xiao Liu, stay home and look after your mother. If anything happens, go to the field and call us. Are you listening?"
Xiaowu is a naughty monkey who can't sit still. He will definitely follow us to the fields and make trouble. Only Xiaoliu can be relied upon.
"Okay grandma, I will take care of mom."
The mother and son, who were idle at home, began to take care of the vegetable garden.
The eggplant tree no longer bears fruit, so you can pull it out and plant something else.
Lettuce is delicious in hotpot.
The fried bacon with black-eyed peas is very fragrant.
Cabbage is resistant to cold and is also very delicious when stewed with vermicelli.
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The two of them were chatting and laughing as they weeded and sowed seeds.
"Xiao Liu, I'm done. It's almost time for dinner. Let's go cook first. You light the fire for Mom."
"Okay, mother."
Considering that digging sweet potatoes is strenuous work, the meals Su Qing cooked were rich in oil and water.
Scrambled eggs with carrots, stir-fried green beans, pork ribs with fermented black beans, shepherd's purse and pork soup, and a bowl of noodle dumplings.
Just as it was done, Su's mother and the others came back.
The whole family was eating happily.
But the Li family next door was not so lucky.
Li Niuniu looked at the small half bowl of sweet potato rice on the table and frowned, "Grandma Li, is this not cooked enough? Do you want me to cook some more?"
Li Yingnan could finish this little bit of sweet potato rice by herself.
"That's enough, no need to cook. It's just right for you and Yingnan and the other two sisters to eat less. Niuniu, this family depends on your uncle and aunt. They need to eat well, otherwise they will be weak. You have to be considerate of your family.
Besides, you're a girl, and eating too much is not good for you. You'll get fat, and being fat doesn't look good at all. It'll also easily overinflate your appetite, making it difficult to find a husband in the future."
Li Niuniu's fists clenched unconsciously.
I originally thought that two meals a day was the limit, but I didn’t expect that the old lady Li would directly reduce it to one meal a day.
She and her two sisters, Li Yingnan, started working as soon as they opened their eyes, but they couldn't even get enough water to drink.
"Okay, stop standing there like an idiot. Go get the custard."
Old Mrs. Li stuffed two mouthfuls of sweet potato rice, turned around and started to coax Li Jindan.
"My golden eggs! Are you starving? Soon you'll have delicious egg custard to eat. Aren't you happy?"
Li Jindan was babbling something, his mouth drooling.
Li Niuniu brought out the egg custard indignantly.
Maybe I put it down too hard and some of the egg custard spilled out.
"What are you doing? Why are you throwing a tantrum? I just asked you to do this little bit of work, and you look so reluctant."
Old Mrs. Li looked at Li Niuniu with a distorted face.
"What does a money-loser eat? She deserves to eat sweet potato rice. She can't even earn two work points a day, and yet she keeps complaining about wanting this and that.
He's always comparing himself to this and that. Why doesn't he see that Si Ya next door has a father who is a worker. Is she so lucky?
It's already good enough for our Li family to adopt her. Her ambitions are as high as the sky, but her fate is as fragile as paper. What a joke."
Li Niuniu was angry but dared not say anything, and ran out of the Li family crying.
I could still vaguely hear the cursing voice of Old Lady Li behind me.
Si Ya's little feet, which had just stepped out of the door, retracted again.
She had only eaten a few times sitting on the doorstep, and Old Lady Li was always talking about her.
Even though Old Lady Li didn't say she was annoyed, she was tired of hearing it.
Just as Si Ya was about to close the door, she was met with Li Niuniu's pitiful gaze.
"Sister, sister, fourth sister." Xiaowu's voice came from the room.
"Here I come."
Si Ya ignored Li Niuniu outside the door and closed the door directly.
Li Niuniu looked at the closed door, and the sadness on her face disappeared, replaced by a gloomy and terrifying look.
She tried to make peace with the Su family again and again, so why couldn't the Su family accept her?
Anyway, the Su family has so many children, one more won’t make much difference.
With her intelligence, it will be no problem for her to get into a junior college.
Once the Su family hands her over, she will definitely repay them well.
It's such an honor to have a scholar in the family these days.
Having been turned away, Li Niuniu had no choice but to walk towards Dahei Mountain, hoping to try her luck and find some wild fruits to fill her stomach.
But the wild vegetables outside the Dahei Mountain were picked clean as soon as their heads were ripped out, and the wild fruits were climbed up the trees before they were ripe.
Li Niuniu was destined to gain nothing from this trip.
After hesitating for a while, Li Niuniu went to work silently again.
dinner……
Still half a bowl of sweet potato rice.
Old Mrs. Li quickly grabbed the rice spoon and took over the job of distributing the rice.
She first filled a bowl for herself, her son and daughter-in-law, and then divided the rest into the bowls of Li Niuniu and the other three.
"Grandma Li, we haven't eaten today. Can you give us some more?"
Li Niuniu had been carrying sweet potatoes in the fields all day and hadn't eaten much, so she was now feeling a little dizzy from hunger.
“I wanted to, but I didn’t.”
"Grandma Li, if you continue like this, I'll have to reconsider our living together."
Li Niuniu bit her lips tightly, and her bloodless face looked a little scary under the dim kerosene lamp.
Snap...
The already brittle chopsticks broke in two.
"What do you mean? You despise our Li family because they are poor and want to leave our Li family. Li Niuniu, you must not be ungrateful or you will be punished by heaven."
The look in Old Lady Li's eyes was as if filled with poison, as if she wanted to stare Li Niuniu through.
"Grandma Li, you know very well what kind of life I've been leading in the Li family, but how come you're saying it makes me feel ungrateful?
You know, I didn't have to do any work at home before. I just had to study hard. And I had three meals a day: milk in the morning, meat at noon, and fine grains in the evening.
Now I start working as soon as I open my eyes, from morning till night, and I only get one meal a day. Even an old ox wouldn’t work like this.”
Thinking of the good times in the past, Li Niuniu couldn't help crying.
Watching the two people he hated the most fighting each other, Li Lai'nan lowered his head, but in fact he was very happy in his heart.
"Don't the children of the Su family have three meals a day and can go to school regardless of gender? Sister Niuniu, do you want to live with the Su family?"
Li Yingnan said this out of the blue.
The aura around Old Lady Li became even colder.
"The three Yingnan sisters are here. Sell whoever is suitable to buy food and pay tuition for you. Or kill them. The saved food will be all yours."
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