And her three sons are still harvesting rice with great enthusiasm.
"Hey, isn't this Wen Xin's mother? She actually started working in the fields. The sun is really shining in the west."
A discordant voice suddenly sounded from behind. Xu Miaomiao turned around and saw that it was Ma Yan, the widow of the village. The two of them never dealt with each other.
Xu Miaomiao was thirsty and tired. She was in no mood to talk to her and didn't want to pay attention to her.
Ma Yan has always been a mean-tongued person. She likes to make irresponsible remarks and spread gossip in the village. She also likes to mock others in person, just like now.
"Widow Xu, why didn't you lie down at home today? You are so tired when you go out to work. How can you feel comfortable lying down at home?"
Seeing that Xu Miaomiao ignored her, Ma Yan became more excited. She sat down next to Xu Miaomiao and crooked her arm.
Xu Miaomiao frowned and sat aside in disgust, "Why don't you just lie down at home when you feel comfortable at home?"
Ma Yan was choked, and the smile on her face couldn't hold back, "Oh, I'm different from you. Your four sons are so blessed. I only have one daughter. If I don't work, there won't be anything at home.
If people are working, then I have to go drink northwest cents."
When she talked about this, she felt heartbroken and angry at herself for not living up to expectations.
Although Xu Miaomiao's husband died like her, she gave birth to four sons, which was enough for her to live a straight life in Liujiacun.
Unlike herself, she gave birth to a cheap girl who was still lazy. If she didn't do the work at home, she would starve to death.
"Then you want to give birth too. You don't have a belly." Xu Miaomiao shrugged. Giving birth to a child is not a technical job. It's like opening a blind box. It's either a boy or a girl. Just give birth to more babies.
Boys and girls are the same, they are all their own children.
A boy has to spend money to find a wife, so girls can worry less, be considerate, attentive and filial.
Xu Miaomiao gets a headache when she thinks about having four sons. These are all responsibilities and money!
After saying this, Xu Miaomiao didn't even look at Ma Yan and continued working in the fields.
Ma Yan stood up from where she was and stamped her feet angrily.
Xu Miaomiao, a fat widow, dared to laugh at her for not being able to give birth to a son!
She also wants to have a baby, so she has to have someone to give birth to with her!
Soon all the grain in the field was harvested, and several people took the grain home and began to thresh the rice, which is a manual threshing machine with a roller style.
The operation is very simple, but also very tiring.
In order to enable her sons to dig poria cocos in the mountains as soon as possible, Xu Miaomiao also joined the ranks of rice threshing.
They dealt with it casually at noon, and it was not until three o'clock in the afternoon that the five people finally finished plowing a yard of rice.
Xu Jiaojiao felt a sense of pride as she looked at the fruits of her labor piled in the yard. At the same time, the aches and fatigue all over her body became more and more obvious.
She was so tired and wanted to lie down in bed and sleep in the dark!
"Mom, are we going to dig Poria cocos in the mountains?" Liu Wenle asked, standing in front of Xu Jiaojiao.
Xu Miaomiao was a little hesitant. If she went, she would be too tired today. If she didn't go, she would feel like ants were biting her and couldn't let go.
Finally she gritted her teeth and said, "Go!"
If you don't make money, you're a bastard. At worst, she can go to the mountains and watch her sons dig.
Dig as much as you can, as long as you dig it home it will be hers.
"I want to stay at home and move the food into the room and store it up." Liu Wenjun glanced at Xu Miaomiao expressionlessly, and then went to the yard to continue working.
Xu Miaomiao didn't care about him. She could tell that among the sons, the third son had a greater opinion of her. No matter what she did, he seemed to be on guard and tended to think the worst.
In fact, I just don’t believe her, maybe because I think she is messing around.
Liu Wenjun had this sentiment, and Xu Miaomiao could understand it.
Fortunately, the boss and the second child had objections to her in their hearts, but they still listened to her words and were not so rebellious.
The four people picked up their tools and bags and went straight up the mountain.
"We're just ahead, I'll take you there." Liu Wenle excitedly led the way like a little adult.
After a while.
"This is right here. My mother and I dug Poria cocos here yesterday." Liu Wenle pointed to the ground and said.
Liu Wenxin and Liu Wenshao looked at each other, and then looked at Xu Miaomiao who was following behind.
Xu Miaomiao was exhausted and walked slower than them. She was out of breath after finally reaching her destination.
She took a rest and said, "Yes, it's right here. You can start digging after you rest. You have to be careful not to damage it."
She doesn't have the strength to work anymore anyway.
After saying that, he found a stone and sat down, wiped the sweat from his forehead, picked a large leaf from the side and started to fan.
However, it is much cooler in the mountains than in the villages, and the contrast is quite obvious.
Xu Miaomiao rested for a while and then joined the team digging Poria cocos. When she was tired, she rested for a while and continued digging after she had rested.
By the way, I sold some of the poria cocos I dug.
She sells very little, and her eldest son and second son are here, so she can't do it so obviously.
It wasn't until she went home that she bought three kilograms and made sixty yuan.
On the way home, Liu Wenxin carried Poria cocos on his back, and several others followed him down the mountain quickly. It was getting dark, and the dark mountains were unsafe.
The next day, a few people went up the mountain again at dawn. They didn't even go home for lunch for a whole day, and finally dug up this piece of Poria cocos.
The news that Xu Miaomiao and her sons were digging tree roots in the mountains also spread like wildfire and became a hot topic in the village.
Xu Miaomiao didn't know that everyone in the village was talking about her. After being tired for two days, she just wanted to have a good sleep. This night, she slept very soundly, and even thunder and rain did not wake her up.
She didn't know that her sons got up in the middle of the night and took the Poria cocos from the yard into the house.
When Xu Miaomiao woke up in the morning, it had stopped raining, but traces of rain could still be seen in the yard.
"Wen Xin, help me carry the Poria cocos to the oxcart at the entrance of the village. I'm going to the market today. Tell Uncle Niu that I'll be there soon. You go to the oxcart and wait for me first." Xu Miaomiao said and went.
Brush your teeth and wash your face.
Just when Liu Wenxin was about to ask him if he was going too, Xu Miaomiao had already entered the kitchen.
He didn't talk much at first, so he had to put the bags of Poria cocos on the ox cart and sit on the ox cart to wait for Xu Miaomiao's arrival.
"Wen Xin, what do you have in your pocket?"
"Is it food? Is your mother going to town to sell food in exchange for money?"
Seeing Liu Wenxin blushing and shaking his head, they didn't believe it and immediately started gossiping to change the subject.
"Wen Xin, doesn't your mother give your brothers enough food every day?"
"You brothers are so skinny that only one skin is left, and you don't have enough to eat every day. It's really pitiful."
"By the way, Wen Xin, you are already seventeen this year, and you will be able to meet someone in two years. With the current conditions of your family, I don't think anyone will be willing to marry you. It is impossible to expect your mother to marry you."
