"What? Lucky Star?" Wang Jinzhi asked a little worriedly, "Is it working?"
Xu Dongmei nodded and said: "It's amazing! When everyone chose Su Xiaomeng to be the captain, it was because his little niece was a lucky star and they wanted to get some luck."
As soon as she finished speaking, her sister sneered, "Mom, don't listen to her nonsense, I saw that little girl today, what kind of lucky star is she? She's just an ordinary child, she can't even speak clearly.
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After saying that, she said disdainfully: "You are so stupid and ignorant! It's better that you don't go back to your parents' home in the future, lest people know that I have a stupid sister who is as superstitious as you and embarrass me!"
Xu Dongmei doesn't want to argue with her sister anymore.
"I've said everything I can. I'm too lazy to say anything else, and I don't want to say it anymore." After saying this, she turned around and walked out.
Wang Jinzhi saw that Dongmei was very different from usual, so he couldn't help but chase her out to ask her what was going on today? Why was she talking to her sister like that?
And what she said just now, "I don't think I will come back to this family for a long time..."
What does this mean?
Although she is married, she basically goes home once a week to help with household chores, chopping wood, carrying water, and doing laundry.
I still remember that just a few days after getting married, Dongmei gave her fifty cents, saying that it was the money her mother-in-law gave her to buy cloth for new clothes, but she was reluctant to use it.
"Mom, you should save this money. You are older and you will not be easily bullied if you have some money."
Wang Jinzhi didn't say a word of thanks. He accepted the fifty cents from his younger daughter and bought a new piece of fabric for her eldest daughter Chuntao to make a new dress.
If Dongmei doesn't come back, who will chop the firewood piled in the woodshed every week? Don't expect her to get a penny back to her parents' house, right?
Thinking of this, Wang Jinzhi hurriedly chased her out, "Dongmei, wait a minute."
Xu Dongmei stopped and looked back at her mother, with a hint of expectation in her eyes that had not faded.
Although she was deeply disappointed with her mother's family, deep down in her heart she still hoped that her mother would love her, even just a little bit.
Just as Wang Jinzhi was about to speak, her eldest daughter ran forward and pulled her sleeve hard.
"Mom, why are you chasing her? Didn't you hear what she just said about me? Let her go quickly, I'm tired of looking at her." Xu Chuntao said angrily.
"I want to ask her..."
Wang Jinzhi hesitated for a while and said, "Dongmei, do you have two cents? Your sister wants to take a donkey cart to the town health center."
Xu Dongmei looked at her biological mother, the remaining expectation in her eyes disappeared.
"No." After saying that, she left without a trace of nostalgia.
No matter how many times her mother called her this time, she never looked back.
Two cents can buy rice. How many families are willing to spend two cents to make a donkey cart?
When she was seventeen years old, she had a high fever and the barefoot doctors in the village told her to rush to the health center in the town. Her mother said that it was too expensive to go there by donkey cart.
Later, her two sisters-in-law took turns applying cold towels to her overnight, which brought the temperature down.
Thinking of countless similar things in the past, Xu Dongmei wanted to cry and laugh a little.
When she raised her head, she couldn't help but think of Jinbao's cute big eyes and the words she said to herself, "Write with confidence, don't be afraid."
For a moment, there was a feeling of enlightenment. Xu Dongmei looked at the sky and laughed easily.
After laughing for a while, she seemed to suddenly see something. She was stunned, and hurriedly rushed home to get a box of matches, a bag, a knife and a piece of wood, and immediately turned back to the road halfway up the mountain.
There is a beehive on the tree, with a thick layer of wild honey that looks to weigh at least ten kilograms.
Xu Dongmei first lit the wood, smoked the bees away, then climbed up the tree neatly with a bag in her mouth and a knife in one hand.
When she looked at it from a close distance, she saw that the hive was much larger than what she saw under the tree. She filled most of the bag with sparkling honey after scraping a little bit.
Although the hive was smoked in advance, there were too many bees after all. During this period, she was stung several times by bees, and her hands soon swelled up with several large bumps.
Xu Dongmei hissed a few times, without stopping her hand movements, and continued to scrape the honey until the bag was completely filled.
After filling it, she climbed down the tree and ran to Su's house with a large bag of honey, "Aunt Li..."
"Who is it?" Li Xiu'e walked out of the door and saw Xu Dongmei, wondering, "Why are you here again?"
Because of Xu Chuntao's relationship, she also felt displeased with Xu Dongmei and frowned.
Although this sister is much better than her sister and is polite, but...
Hey! Anyway, she just hoped that these two sisters would stop coming to her home and stop pestering Xiao Meng.
"This is Jinbao's!" Xu Dongmei handed the bag in her hand to Li Xiu'e.
"What?"
Li Xiu'e took the bag doubtfully and opened it, her eyes full of surprise.
Isn’t this big bag of yellow, shiny, and pieces of honey honey?
She hadn't seen honey for many years, and the last time she saw it was when she was marrying the fourth child.
In order to prepare half a bushel of rice as a bride price, she and her eldest son secretly went to the black market to buy food stamps.
If she remembered correctly, a pound of honey cost one yuan, which was ridiculously expensive. She thought no one would buy it, but she didn't expect that it was all sold out very quickly.
She was amazed, and her eldest son said: "Mom, this is not surprising, those capitalists are already rich, and most of the things in the black market are sold to them."
"These capitalists are really pests, sucking away people's hard-earned money."
"No, the poorer you are, the more glorious you are. They are rich, but everyone calls for beatings. It's better for us. We are poorer, but we have a higher status!"
"Yes, we farmers have a high status!"
When Li Xiu'e said this, she was still thinking about the shining honey just now and kept swallowing her saliva.
After recalling what happened a few years ago, she looked down at the bag in her hand and said, "It's really honey."
"I just scraped it from the tree. If it weren't for Jinbao, I would never have encountered such a big hive."
When Xu Dongmei was talking, Xiao Jinbao, who heard her conversation with her grandma, came out of the house.
"big sister……"
Jinbao ran towards Xu Dongmei with his short legs.
Hearing her calling her sister affectionately, Xu Dongmei's eyes were flattered and she touched her head, "When I was in the production team last time, I wanted to tell you that I am not a sister, but an aunt."
"I haven't given birth to a baby, but I am still my sister." Xiao Jinbao had a smile on her face. She liked Xu Dongmei very much and felt that she was completely different from her sister.
At this time, Zhao Fengzhu walked out of the house and didn't understand what happened. "Mom, what's going on? Are these Xu sisters making trouble again?"
"I'm not here to cause trouble," Xu Dongmei hurriedly explained, "I came back from my parents' home, and when I was going up the mountain, I just thought about Jinbao, and a big beehive appeared in front of me. I scraped the honey specially for Jinbao to eat.