Ms. Li was bending her heavy body to mow the grass. When she saw a nest of wild eggs not far away, she was surprised and walked carefully on the slope. She was unable to move because she was nine months pregnant with her child and was about to give birth. When I was a kid, I couldn't live without firewood for cooking at home.

This was what her mother-in-law ordered. She still remembers that in the morning her mother-in-law went to the aunt in the same village to help take care of the children because the aunt gave birth to a son.

"How can you, who specializes in making money-losing goods, be so delicate? There is no firewood at home, so you have to cut it twice a day."

Mrs. Li could only be obedient, and when she was about to give birth, she had to go to the mountains to cut grass.

She cut the grass and found wild eggs in the grass. When she saw the wild eggs, she thought of the four slender children at home. She reached out to pick up wild eggs. When she passed by a place, there was a wasp's nest, "buzzing".

"ah!"

Li reflexively slapped Huang Feng with the straw hat on her head. Her movements were slow, not as fast as those of the little bugs, and her face and hands were all stung by needles.

Quilting needle still carefully placed the wild eggs in the bag, picked off the wasp's nest that was buzzing around her, and walked slowly out of the hillside.

I feel hot pain on my face and hands, and there are also wasp stings.

Mrs. Li then lay down in the weeds and rested here while the wasps gradually flew away.

She felt that her face was painful and hot, and her hands were so swollen that she couldn't use them. She looked up at the sky, only a slit was swollen, and her eyes were blurry as the sun rose into the sky. She tied up two large bundles of grass and lifted them up with a stick. Seventy or eighty pounds of firewood.

I walked slowly down the mountain with one foot high and one foot low. I walked a mile back to the village and met an old woman coming out of the vegetable field.

The mother-in-law was dim-sighted when she saw Mr. Li: "Acer family, you have to be careful with such a big belly! Acer is true, he has wood chips when he does carpentry. Why do you have to go up the mountain to cut grass with such a big belly? If you fall, What should I do?”

Mrs. Li heard the villagers saying such sympathetic words every day, and she was thinking the same thing as these people. It was just that she was used to being cowardly and had given birth to several female babies. Her husband's family was passed down to only two generations. If it were her generation, Unable to give birth to a boy...

"Third Wife, I'm fine..."

"Oh, what's wrong with your face? And your hands." As the third wife got closer, she realized that Mrs. Li's face was swollen like a pig's head, and her exposed hands were swollen and enlarged.

"Third Wife, I'm fine. I was stung by a wasp just now."

"Acer's, you have to be careful! They are poisonous. I don't know if they will affect the children."

"This..." Mrs. Li was frightened and frightened after hearing what her third wife said.

"Did you remove the wasp fetus? Picking this one will detoxify it."

"Yes, I'll go home and cook."

Li's hair was twisted with a wooden hairpin, and some messy hair fell out. Sweat dripped from her bloated face, and she still walked with one foot high and one foot bowed.

"Pig head..."

"Let's beat the pig's head..."

The naughty children playing on the roadside picked up stones and hit Li. The stones were not very big. Li protected her belly and did not scold the naughty children.

"Mom, don't hit my mother..." The eight-year-old girl was carrying a bamboo basket, carrying a one-year-old girl on her back, holding a three-year-old girl in her hand, followed by a five-year-old girl. The baby was also carrying a small bamboo basket, and they were going to cut pig grass.

"Da Ya, don't come over here. The stones will hurt very much." Li's heart was to protect her daughter, and all four girls were there.

"You are all bad guys... don't hit my mother..." Daya cried and scolded those people, trying to help her mother avoid the stones thrown by these naughty children.

"Ah! It turns out that the mother who gave birth to a loser has turned into a pig head today, haha..."

One had a runny nose, many patches on his clothes, short sleeves, and short pants, which obviously didn't fit him.

The other naughty children also laughed.

"Goudan, you are naughty again." A strong man came back from the mountains carrying firewood and scolded the children.

Scared these naughty kids away.

Daya cried and said to Mrs. Li, "Mom, do you feel any pain?"

"Uuuuuuuu, mother..."

The doll on Da Ya's back and the other two younger sisters were also crying.

"Mom, it's okay, let's go home first."

After Mrs. Li's tossing just now, she felt her stomach drop.

"Cry, cry, cry, it's useless, why don't you go home and cook quickly." Mother-in-law Lai helped her eldest daughter take care of the baby. When her daughter came back from working in the fields, she asked her to go home for dinner. She heard their mother and daughter in the distance.

The five people cried and became irritable.

"Lai, your wife's belly is so big and you don't pick up firewood. Acer's wife, what's wrong with your face? It's swollen like this. Come on, let me help you."

Granny Li from the neighbor's house was holding a basket of vegetables in her hand. There were only a few families nearby and she sympathized with Mrs. Li.

"Bah, you Mrs. Li, isn't it what a daughter-in-law should do? What does it have to do with you? Who asked you to be a good person?"

Lai's triangular eyes widened, he stamped his feet on the ground, spit, found the cloth bag hanging on Li's hand, rolled his eyes, grabbed the bag and went home quickly.

"Mother-in-law..."

Mrs. Li was so anxious that she shed tears. Her mother-in-law took the bag and risked her life to pick up wild eggs and wasp embryos...

"Acer's family, don't worry...go home first."

Grandma Li took the basket from Mrs. Li and held her vegetable basket in her hand. She didn't know why Mrs. Li paid so much attention to the cloth bag.

Li didn't care about her falling belly and took a few steps quickly to catch up with Lai.

"Mom, walk slowly."

Mr. Lai had already entered the courtyard gate of a mud-tile house with only three rooms and a kitchen. On the other side of the courtyard was a thatched hut, where a father and son were making furniture.

She pushed the door open and came in. The father and son who were making furniture looked up and continued making furniture.

Two girls walked out of a room in the house. They were thirteen and fifteen years old respectively. These were Lai's two daughters. The fifteen-year-old daughter was already engaged and was about to get married and was making dowry. The other

Just stay at home.

"Mom, what good things did you bring back? We are hungry."

Mr. Lai was held by her two daughters, one on the left and the other on the right, and helplessly opened the bag in her hand.

"Wow, wild eggs."

"There are still wasp fetuses in there, Mom, I want to fry them and eat them."

The two sisters felt their mouths watering when they said this. They took the cloth bags and followed Mr. Lai back to the inner room.

Mrs. Li happened to see her two sisters-in-law when she walked in. Her mother-in-law, Mrs. Lai, put away the cloth bag.

Tears rolled in Li's eyes, which had only a slit, and her legs stayed in place.

"Mom..." Da Ya came in with her sister, put the pig and vegetable basket on the ground, and helped her mother to get out of the way.

The father and son who were making furniture looked up and continued making furniture.

Granny Li picked the firewood in. When she saw the indifferent father and son, she gently put the firewood in the yard, looked at the father and son with reproachful eyes and said:

"Uncle, Acer..."

Hearing the voice of the aunt next door, the father and son raised their heads again, and the father stopped what he was doing.

"Sister-in-law, it's true that my daughter-in-law is too, how can I ask you to help choose her?"
Chapter completed!