The room became quiet.

Wang Xiaozhu got under the quilt, stretched out his head and looked at Wang Tianxiao, "Second brother, is your chimney really filled in by third sister-in-law?"

"Sleep your sleep." Zhang Meifeng pulled the quilt to cover her little daughter's head, and then looked at Wang Tianxiao, "Second brother, the eldest brother is not at home, and you are the eldest son in this family. You must have a big heart. Everything will be fine for the family and the family.

I have told you this truth since you were young, and you must always keep it in your heart."

Wang Tianxiao looked at his mother's pale hair and secretly felt sorry for her. Thinking that it would be useless to tell her too much before the incident happened, he said: "Mom, I won't shirk away from the things that should be my responsibility, but don't think about it when others ask me."

Shit on my head."

"You have such a stubborn temper, you don't know who you are following." Zhang Meifeng sighed, "Let's do this, you can bring your wife to your mother first. Women can't cause fetal distress at this time, otherwise they will suffer for the rest of their lives."

"Um."

"Then go ahead." Zhang Meifeng said tiredly.

When Wang Tianxiao returned to his cave, Li Yali hugged her daughter and stared at the door eagerly. Seeing him come in, she asked nervously: "Is the chimney really blocked?"

"block up."

Li Yali looked embarrassed and said helplessly, "I haven't offended them on weekdays. I don't know why I keep staring at us to cause trouble."

"This has nothing to do with you, they just want us to move out as soon as possible."

Wang Tianxiao comforted his wife.

My wife is kind-hearted. Even so, she still has no resentment in her heart and only thinks about whether she has done something wrong.

She has been like this all her life. She is very good, but she has been suffering from it all her life.

Having said that, it was fortunate that she had such a temperament that she could follow him for the rest of her life. If it were any other woman, she might have run away long ago.

"You mean to separate the family?" Li Yali's expression changed.

"Yes, that's what they mean. They say it's because Hua'er is getting older and it's not convenient to live with the third child all the time."

Li Yali nodded, "That's true."

Wang Tianxiao was stunned and smiled bitterly.

My wife is really a considerate person. Even in this season, she can still think of others.

He didn't accuse his wife of being stupid.

Having been a human being for two lifetimes, he learned a lot of truths. There is nothing wrong with being kind, but what is wrong is to let down kind people.

She is a kind woman, and what she can do is to always protect her and prevent her kindness from being used by people with ulterior motives.

"It takes time to poke the chimney. You can go to Mom's place and stay for a day first."

Li Yali shook her head, "I'm not cold. Why should I be cold if you are at home?"

Wang Tianxiao was stunned again. Seeing his wife's red face slightly blushing with a hint of shyness, he gently touched his wife's hair.

"It's better to go there, too cold is not good for the children."

Speaking of children, Li Yali's eyes were full of tenderness. She stroked her big belly and said gently, "I've been craving for sour food recently. This must be a big fat boy."

"It's possible, a sour son and a hot girl." Of course Wang Tianxiao knew that there was a son in this.

"But my sister-in-law Runlan said that if it's a boy, the belly will be pointed, but if it's a girl, it will be round. Why do I think my belly is round?"

"Yes, I think it's sharp." Wang Tianxiao said with a smile.

"Then let it be sharp," Li Yali said happily, "I want to give you a son. Everyone else has a son, but you don't have a son. Mom, I don't like it."

"It doesn't matter, I like all my sons and daughters," Wang Tianxiao rubbed his daughter's head as she returned to sleep, "As long as they are our children, I like them all."

In this era, sons are valued over daughters, so the old lady naturally prefers grandchildren. The eldest, third, and fourth family members all have sons, but Wang Tianxiao, the second oldest family, does not yet have sons.

The old lady didn't say anything with her words, but her actions showed it countless times.

When Li Yali heard what her man said, she felt warm in her heart and felt that the weather wasn't that cold anymore.

Wang Tianxiao thought that there was nothing to eat at home, so he asked Li Yali to rest first while he went to the town to buy some food.

He had originally planned to return to work early today, but as it was now, it was impossible for him to leave.

Whether or not I can return to my workplace is another matter.

Because it was too early, many places were not open. Wang Tianxiao waited for a long time. When the supply and marketing cooperative's grain and oil store opened, he bought some cornmeal and a bottle of oil. He saw someone selling vinegar in a vinegar bucket on the street, so he bought a bottle.

Most people in the northwest like to be jealous. Vinegar is needed to eat noodles and cold dishes. The vinegar of this era was brewed from pure grains, which smelled very fragrant and tasted even better. Unlike later generations, the vinegar was blended and tasted better.

Only sour and bitter taste.

He only has a dozen yuan in his pocket and cannot afford white flour, so he can only make do with cornmeal for the time being. Cornmeal is not corn hazelnuts, but directly ground flour. It tastes very sour, but it is okay to eat it occasionally. If you eat too much, you will always feel nauseous.

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But there is nothing we can do about it. The yield of corn is higher than that of wheat. The land in mountain villages is uneven and water cannot be collected in some places. The wheat harvest is too poor. Corn, sorghum, and millet have relatively higher yields and are easier to survive. They have become people's staple food.

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After dawn, the snow became lighter, but the snow was still very thick. Wang Tianxiao had not used his bicycle to carry goods for a long time. He twisted and fell twice along the way. It was already past 11 a.m. when he got home.

As soon as I turned into the path leading to my Kang courtyard, I heard sharp curses from a distance.

Very familiar, it is Yu Xiaofeng.

Could this hanged man be bullying his wife again?

The corners of Yu Xiaofeng's eyes were slightly droopy, a bit like a hanged ghost in a Chinese fairy tale. In addition, she was usually mean and aggressive, so people in the village secretly called her a hanged ghost.

He speeded up and ran home quickly.

From a distance, I saw a lonely figure standing on the edge of the cliff (the flat land above the Dikeng Courtyard, close to the Dikeng Courtyard, like a cliff. Cliff (ai)), pushing a small wheelbarrow in his hand.

It turned out to be my father-in-law Li Wanfu.

Li Wanfu is a very honest old man. He does not know where his ancestral home is. When he was very young, he came to Qingcheng begging for food and worked as a long-term laborer for a long time. Fortunately, he met a local girl and settled in Qingcheng.

He had some articulation problems and a dull personality, so he seldom spoke. Wang Tianxiao was not particularly familiar with him in his previous life, and they had very little communication.

But he knew that this old man loved his daughter very much.

Especially the eldest daughter Li Yali, who was suffering a miserable life, even before she died, she held onto Li Yali's hand and refused to close her eyes.

Perhaps he knew that his daughter was too kind-hearted, and was afraid that she would suffer a lot throughout her life.

"I said, Second Sister-in-law, come out quickly and see who is on the edge of the cliff. Why do I look like a beggar?"

As soon as Wang Tianxiao arrived at the edge of the cliff, he heard Yu Xiaofeng's sharp voice shouting in the pit yard.

Father-in-law Li Wanfu stood blankly on the edge of the cliff, embarrassed and not knowing what to do.

"Uncle, why are you here?"

When Li Wanfu saw his son-in-law, he finally breathed a sigh of relief and smiled honestly: "I guess Lili has nothing to eat or cook, so I will give her some. When will you come back, Tianxiao?"

"Last night at midnight, please wait a moment and I will stop the car and come up to help you push the car."

Li Wanfu stretched his head and looked under the pit courtyard, a little frightened, "Then I'll wait for you here."

Li Wanfu didn't dare to go down to the Kang courtyard of the Wang family.

The Wang family is a well-known bandit in a radius of dozens of miles. The whole family is so big that almost most of the people in the Wang family village are on the family tree.

Wang Tianxiao's grandfather had six brothers. By Wang Tianxiao's generation, there were thirty or forty households. Not counting his grandfather's cousins, the number expanded to one or two hundred households.

In his previous life, his father-in-law was humiliated by his mother, Zhang Meifeng, for being a beggar. He had never entered the Wang family's house. Even every time he came to visit his daughter, he would talk outside the door, secretly stuff some of his hard-earned money and go back.

Wang Tianxiao pushed the bicycle down to the underground kang courtyard, and Yu Xiaofeng immediately got into their cave dwelling and did not dare to come out again.

When he saw his wife Li Yali sitting on the edge of the Kang, crying silently, he suddenly felt a surge of anger in his heart.

Uncle and aunt are dialects that refer to father-in-law and mother-in-law, but my mother’s younger sister and elder sister are also called aunt. That’s it anyway. As for why, only the ancestors know.
Chapter completed!