The Chen family.
At noon, Old Man Chen led everyone back home.
After putting down the farm tools in the yard, he entered the main room and found that there was nothing on the table. Apparently there was no cooking.
"Boss, where is the food?" Mrs. Zhou shouted loudly.
"Mistress, mom is not at home. She went back to her parents' house in the morning. My uncle asked someone to send a message that grandpa is sick and asked mom to go back and take a look." Hearing Mrs. Zhou's cry, Mrs. Li held the child in her arms. Come out of your room.
"Why are you sick when you are fine? No, I have to go and have a look." Chen Dasong said.
"Where are you going! You are sick. You are clearly asking your wife to go back to harvest rice." Mrs. Zhou curled her lips and shouted angrily.
Every year when the farming season comes, whether it is harvesting rapeseed, rice, or sesame seeds, there are always various excuses for Zhu to go back.
What can I do when I go back? It’s nothing more than doing things.
When she thought of the Zhu family and Zhu's natal family, Mrs. Zhou was filled with anger, and she also felt suffocated when she looked at Chen Dasong.
She knew what the Zhu family was like at the beginning and was determined not to have the Zhu family. Little did she know that Chen Dasong was like a drug addict and had to have the Zhu family.
Until the end, Chen Dasong knelt on the ground and begged her, saying that Zhu was pregnant with the old Chen family's child.
This made Mrs. Zhou so angry that she couldn't get out of bed for several days. Who would have thought that Zhu could make Chen Dasong do such things in the forest where no one could see her.
The Zhu family came to visit and threatened to sue Chen Dasong to the government if they did not agree with the marriage, saying that he had raped a woman from a good family.
In the end, there was really no other way, so in desperation, he spent six taels of silver to marry Zhu.
Fortunately, Mrs. Zhu gave birth to Chen Yuanxiu when she got married, so Mrs. Zhou finally felt a little more comfortable.
"Your mother-in-law is not at home, don't you know how to cook? Didn't you see that we are starving to death." Mrs. Zhou pointed at Mrs. Li and yelled angrily.
"Nai, I want to take care of Xiaobao. Xiaobao can't live without me, and I also want to cook." Ms. Li looked aggrieved and lowered her head in silence. In fact, in his heart he is extremely reluctant to be the meal for this large family.
"Bah, you're just lazy! Xiaobao is watching over his father, get out of here and cook." Mrs. Zhou's voice rose another octave, and her tone became sharper.
"Ms. Ding, Mrs. Liu, you guys should go together, hurry up!" Mrs. Zhou waved her hands impatiently, urging them in an anxious tone.
Zhu Family
"Sister, please send the rice to the fields." Zhu Wen stuffed a piece of fat meat into his mouth and said to Mrs. Zhu with his mouth full of oil.
"Okay." Mrs. Zhu responded, picked up the basket with food and went out.
It was noon at that time, and ordinary people usually stopped working in the fields, except for the Zhu family.
Mrs. Zhu’s mother, Mrs. Jiang, is very heat-resistant and can work in the fields at noon without being affected at all.
Therefore, even if it was noon, she would not go home to rest, but would eat in the fields, which could save a lot of time in traveling back and forth.
If she doesn't go home to rest, her three daughters-in-law and granddaughters can't go back to rest either, otherwise they will be scolded for being unfilial.
Mr. Zhu was wearing a straw hat and walking on the field ridge against the rolling heat wave.
Not long after, she saw her mother leading a large group of people to cut rice in the field.
She shouted at the top of her lungs: "Mother..."
When Mrs. Jiang heard the eldest daughter's voice, she stopped what she was doing and looked up.
"Why are you here? Is your sister here?"
Mrs. Zhu shook her head.
"That damn lazy guy probably doesn't want to work! I'll ask the boss to go over later."
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"Mom, maybe my little sister is on the way. She is farther away than me."
Zhu's sister, Zhu Zi, married to Liulinwan, a more remote place. It takes twice as long to get to Guhuai Village.
"You guys come to eat first." Mrs. Zhu sat on the ridge of the field and greeted a few people.
Mrs. Jiang did not move her feet and said, "I will go back after cutting this ditch."
She did not move, and no one from her three daughters-in-law and four nieces dared to He couldn't move, so he had to lower his head silently and continue to do the work in hand.
It wasn't until Mrs. Jiang finished cutting the rice in that ditch that these few people walked towards Zhu's side.
"Mom, why didn't dad come back?" Zhu asked curiously.
Old man Zhu studied for several years when he was young. Although he never passed the exam, he was considered a scholar and felt quite capable.
I found a job as a recordkeeper in an inn in the town, mainly recording the carriages and horses entering and exiting the inn.
There are many carriages and horses in an inn in a small town, so it can be considered a very easy job.
During the busy farming season of the year, we will take a few days off.
However, Mrs. Zhu did not see her father at home.
I asked several younger brothers and they all said they didn’t know.
"Forget it, it's at that naughty guy's house outside!" Mrs. Jiang gritted her teeth.
Mrs. Jiang was the child bride of the Zhu family. When she was just over seven years old, she was sold to the Zhu family by her biological parents for half a tael of silver.
Old Man Zhu’s parents were unwilling to take care of the newborn Old Man Zhu, so they bought Mrs. Jiang as his wife in order to take care of him.
Old Man Zhu relied heavily on Old Lady Jiang when he was a child, but after he started studying, he gradually disliked Old Lady Jiang as his wife and believed that she was not worthy of him.
Outside, those messy women have never stopped, and he still relies on his talent and romance.
Although he disliked Mrs. Jiang, he did not delay at all in letting her give birth to his child.
When Old Man Zhu was only thirteen years old, he gave birth to Mrs. Zhu. Until Old Mrs. Jiang was almost forty years old, she was still giving birth to children.
Mrs. Jiang gave birth to dozens of children in her life, but only five survived.
Of course, this also includes those miscarried and abandoned baby girls.
"Is she still the same widow as before?" Zhu asked.
"No, this time this person has a husband, but the husband is out."
"Changed again?" Mrs. Zhu couldn't help but exclaimed.
"Shut up! Go cut the rice quickly." Mrs. Jiang glared at her, after all, her wives and granddaughters were still there.
When talking about these things, she was really embarrassed.
Seeing Mrs. Jiang's face full of displeasure, Mrs. Zhu took the sickle and went to the field.
She bent over and cut the rice with noisy sounds. Her energetic momentum and skillful and quick movements were completely different from her lazy appearance in the Chen family's field yesterday.
She didn't care about the harsh sunlight shining on her body, and didn't even bother to wipe the sweat sliding down her cheeks.
She thought that if she cut more, her mother would cut less.
If everyone in the Chen family saw such a scene, they would definitely be extremely surprised, and if Mrs. Zhou saw it, she would definitely curse her for half a day.