Chapter 28: Guests from afar
Zhang Mingfeng's daughter followed several cousins' names Meixiang, Hua San, Jiu Tian, Full Moon, and 100 days, all of which were hosted by Zhu Linglong. Although Liu Baiquan was not present, Meixiang was the only one among the girls in the Liu family who had completed all the procedures that a newborn should have. In this way, Zhang Mingfeng still felt dissatisfied and had an opinion on her father-in-law's belly. Because her father-in-law did not specifically ask her aunts to buy new clothes and shoes for her daughter like Cao Xiang. They all gave her an old hen, six kilograms of noodles and sixty eggs. This gift sounds very thick, but it makes people clearly see that she is distant and not close enough.
Adults' emotions can always affect children, especially when they are pregnant until they are born and still eat milk. They are the babies who rely on their mothers. Zhang Mingfeng thinks that he is full of resentment all day long and is not a big deal to vent his anger, but in fact, it has seriously affected Mei Xiang.
Wang Hongying heard Mei Xiang crying during the day and at night, and the crying made people feel uncomfortable when they heard it. He just fell asleep tonight, but was awakened by Mei Xiang's heart-wrenching crying. He couldn't help but complain in a low voice: "I don't know what's wrong with this child? Why are he crying except sleeping? He can't sleep at night!"
When the child started crying, she also ran over to call the door in panic and asked about the situation. Later, she found that the child was crying. He was not physically ill, so he gradually stopped being anxious, but was a little bored. However, Liu Yujin would not care so much. He fell asleep at night and didn't wake up from thunder in the sky. How could this little baby cry a few times to wake him up, the sleeping god?! Wang Hongying was awakened and complained a few times, but he didn't think about having to attack anyone. Seeing that his man was still sleeping in a dark place, he only sighed and pulled over the thick quilt to cover his head to sleep.
I didn't sleep well, so I almost couldn't get up early the next day. Fortunately, there was no farm work to do at this time, so I didn't have to work hard.
Liu Yujin carried salted ducks early and went to the county town to sell them. Several children also had breakfast and went to school. Wang Hongying closed the yard door and went to bed to sleep with Caoxiang and Taoxiang. Just as he was sleeping soundly, he heard the door of his yard being shot and jumping around, as if someone was shouting. Wang Hongying quickly got up, put on his cotton jacket in panic, and responded loudly while tying buttons: "Here's here!"
"Ye! Hongying! When is it now? Why are you still sleeping?" Wang Hongying's mother-in-law was so surprised to see her eldest daughter-in-law running out to open the door in a mess. She is not a lazy person.
"Oh! Mother-in-law, don't say it. I made Meixiang cry so heartbroken every night that I really couldn't sleep. In the morning, they went to the county town and went to school. They all left. Meixiang stopped crying. I took the opportunity to sleep. Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to hold on every day!"
Her mother-in-law followed her into the door. After hearing the eldest daughter-in-law's words, she could only express sympathy. The front window of the eldest daughter-in-law's bedroom was facing the back window of the second daughter-in-law's bedroom. The sound of the child's crying could naturally disturb the eldest daughter-in-law. The back wall of her bedroom had no window. As long as it was not in the kitchen or yard, the noise behind it could be heard, but it would not affect her sleep. However, although it could not affect her sleep, it was still annoying to hear the child crying as soon as she woke up during the day, especially the child's old capitalist was particularly taboo to the problem of her children's crying.
"This child doesn't know why she is so crying! She is so angry that she can't hear her name now, let alone look at her. This second wife is getting less and less knowledgeable. I am really worried about the second child's life in the future! Hi! I won't talk about her anymore! Your father-in-law and uncle's relatives picked two stone corn particles to exchange for rice. I'll come to ask you for help." Zhu Linglong always felt that Mei Xiang's love of crying was related to her second daughter-in-law, but she couldn't tell any reason, so she didn't want to pursue it in depth.
When Wang Hongying heard his mother-in-law say that his father-in-law's uncle's relatives ran over in the morning, he opened his mouth in surprise: "Their home is so far away, why did they arrive so early? I haven't come here for more than ten years, and I can still find this place in the dark? Is this too amazing?"
Her mother-in-law laughed: "I thought to myself when I saw them! These two children are so amazing. They actually touched my house. As a result! My cousin told me that his family had a new marriage, and they were in Shiqiao Town. This time, I went to the in-laws to exchange corn, so I took two loads of this big head to our house for replacement. They left there before dawn and didn't eat breakfast. I cooked a pot of porridge and spread a basin of egg cakes. I just thought the slim plate of pickled vegetables was too ugly. I came to find you to bring a few salted duck eggs to cook, and I served them on the table, and it always looked like a lot."
This relative didn't come. Since he came, he had to be treated with a heavyweight distinguished guest. During the famine, six brothers and sisters took a sister-in-law and lived directly at the uncle's house. Although the uncle's house had no food to eat, they lived in the mountains, relying on taro that they didn't have to hand over in the mountains, as well as the wild vegetables, leaves, wild fruits, rabbits, birds and other animals picked at home, all of which were alive.
Because the children were not at home, the brigade was also the food in the brigade and the miscellaneous grains sent by the brothers from the eldest daughter and the mother-in-law's family from time to time, it was more than enough to support them. Although it was a little unpleasant to have a child at my uncle's house, it was not an exaggeration to say that their family saved the Liu family and the whole family.
Wang Hongying brought out a jar with a big belly and a small mouth from the temporary straw hut. The jars of pickled duck eggs are all filled with jars of pickled duck eggs. Every few days, her second brother Wang Hongshun will come to take away a hundred handfuls of pickled duck eggs and then take them to the county town for sale. Now the Wang family has gone out to collect eggs and no longer just take them from Wang Hongying's house. Hongshun helps Wang Hongying's house to sell eggs and salted duck eggs, and Wang Hongshun earns dozens of yuan.
"Mother-in-law! Take all the salted duck eggs home. You usually eat them when you don't come. There are too many at home, so don't be reluctant to leave them! At noon, you and your father-in-law took your cousin and his nephew to have dinner at my house. After breakfast, ask your father-in-law to help me go to the meat seller in the countryside and buy five kilograms of meat. You come and help me kill another goose and a rooster. OK?"
The eldest daughter-in-law is so generous to help her mother-in-law entertain guests, how can she not be a mother-in-law? She nodded quickly: "Okay! Then I'll be lazy, I'll leave it all to you. By the way! Didn't you cook breakfast?! Come and eat with Taoxiang and Caoxiang, don't be busy anymore."
Chapter completed!