Seeing his wife covering her face and running away without looking back, Zhao Cheng frowned.
Chu Yunli took a look and happened to see Zhou Cuiliu turn down and soon no one could be seen. Seeing Zhao Cheng like this, she asked, "What? Do you want to go with her?"
Zhao Cheng shook his head, somewhat disbelieving, "Cui Liu is really gone?"
Chu Yunli had not said anything about her earlier, and even scolded her fiercely, but she pretended not to hear. She didn't want to go back to her parents' home at all, and she was not such a fragile person who would just leave after being scolded. The reason why she ran away...
Probably she also found out she was pregnant.
Chu Yunli ignored it. Although the house was built and the furniture in the house was about the same, there was still a vegetable garden that would need to be reclaimed later. The family only had a few hundred kilograms of grain. If we didn't reclaim the land, what would we eat next year?
Therefore, after being separated for only half a day, the Zhao family sat down to eat together again. He Hua cooked and the whole family worked.
After the vegetable gardens in the two backyards were secluded and the pig pens and chicken pens were built, four or five days had passed. Chu Yunli took them to the original Zhao family's land to clear away the stones in the soil.
Now, if you build a fence around it, you can plant it in the spring next year.
After the flood, the weather has gradually become colder. Recently, I have to cover myself with quilts at night, and the original charcoal fire has almost burned out. Therefore, charcoal has been deposited recently when cooking. The weather is getting colder in the blink of an eye, and I have to prepare winter clothes. There is not enough material at home.
Chu Yunli also took the time to go to the town to exchange some materials and cotton wool, and planned to make cotton-padded clothes for each of them.
The family was busy and the two brothers didn't go. She took He Hua with her and didn't stop when she passed by the Zhou family's cave, as if they were strangers.
After walking a long way, He Hua looked back and whispered, "Mom, I think I saw my sister-in-law."
"Don't worry about her." Chu Yunli didn't look back, "The sooner you can get rid of someone who can't handle her, the better."
He Hua's heart shuddered, this was a lesson learned from the past, and she didn't dare to cause any trouble again.
After shopping, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law hurried home and didn't stop when they passed Zhou's house.
Ten days later, when Chu Yunli was picking up stones on the mountain, he saw a woman coming towards her with a smile.
"Brothers and sisters, you don't have a lot of gravel in the soil, but you are about to finish picking it up."
Chu Yunli raised his eyes and saw that she was a woman from the village whom she was not familiar with. She was Zhou Cuiliu's aunt. She smiled and said, "Actually, there are quite a lot. We picked them up for many days and still can't get them all."
"That's almost it." Ms. Zhou smiled, "I haven't congratulated you yet. Your eldest daughter-in-law went to see the doctor yesterday and she is more than a month pregnant."
Chu Yunli paused for a moment, could the Zhou family not be able to bear it any longer?
Think about it, twenty kilograms of grain can be eaten by five people for ten days. Even if it is eaten with wild vegetables, it should be finished long ago.
"oh."
Just one word, no more words.
Mrs. Zhou was a little surprised, "Why did your daughter-in-law go back to live at her parents' house? There is a cave over there, and the air is very cold. What if she catches a cold and is pregnant and hurts the baby?"
Chu Yunli stood up and said, "She likes the Zhou family and insists on going back to live there. What can I do?"
Mrs. Zhou glared at her and said, "You can't let young people run wild, you have to go and pick her up."
Fuck it!
This person must have been approached by Mother Zhou to make peace.
"I'm not free recently." Chu Yunli waved her hand, "It's just right to live there, I don't have to take care of you anymore."
The woman was a little reluctant, but she had no choice but to leave after a few words of persuasion.
At noon the next day, when the mother and son went home for lunch, they found that there was an extra person in the house. Zhou Cuiliu stood in the yard and saw the three people coming in. He hurriedly took a basin to get water and said, "Wash your hands first. You will have dinner in a while."
When she handed it to Chu Yunli, she forced a smile and said, "Mom, I was wrong."
Chu Yunli took the basin and said, "What's wrong with you? You can't watch your parents and second brother starve to death. You're right! It's me who's wrong. If I don't help my family, it's a heinous crime."
Hearing this, Zhou Cuiliu didn't say anything and handed over the handkerchief.
Chu Yunli took the handkerchief and wiped her hands, "Go back, our family is about to eat. We don't have much food recently and we don't entertain guests."
It happened that He Hua came out of the kitchen with food, a plate of fried meat slices, a pot of bone soup, a plate of vegetables, and a pot of dry pancakes.
Nowadays, few people can drink porridge, and only people in the town can eat dry pancakes.
Smelling the aroma, Zhou Cuiliu's eyes fell over. Recently, the Zhou family really ate braised vegetables, as long as they were hungry. They hadn't seen meat for many days. Now that she saw meat, how could she bear it?
After hearing Chu Yunli's words, Zhou Cuiliu's smile became more forced, "Mom, I really know I was wrong." Thinking of something, she stretched out her hand to touch her belly, "Dad is right, you really want to have a grandson. The doctor said,
I've been pregnant for more than a month, but...if I don't eat well, I might have fetal gas."
When we came back together, it was time for the dental beating ceremony. Chu Yunli stretched out her hand and pulled her to the door. She pushed him out without any explanation. Before closing the door, he said, "You can keep this child if you like. It's none of our family's business."
As soon as he finished speaking, the door closed with a bang.
Looking at the closed door in front of him, Zhou Cuiliu became really anxious. He walked to the side where the fence was lower and said, "A Cheng, we have a child."
Zhao Cheng stood under the eaves with a confused look on his face.
Chu Yunli stretched out her hand to pull him in and whispered, "She can't carry it properly. Now that her temper has changed, I will take her back."
Hearing this, Zhao Cheng's frowned eyebrows relaxed and he said, "Thank you, mother."
Chu Yunli sighed in her heart. This daughter-in-law asked her to see her, but she was not satisfied with anything. However, Zhang Yuer thought she was not bad, but she trusted the Zhou family too much, so she could just change. Zhao Cheng was also very fond of his wife.
If Shang Xin were to marry again, he would probably not be willing to do so in a short period of time.
The family entered the house, and no matter how Zhou Cuiliu shouted outside, no one came out to pay attention to her.
After Zhou Cuiliu returned, Zhou's mother came in the afternoon of the same day, and she was very aggressive when she entered the door. "My daughter has been here for a year. She has been filial to her elders and has taken care of her family and outside. She has not had a day off. Now that your Zhao family is well, is it a big deal to have a house? That's it.
If I want to kick my wife out, I won’t be able to get past anyone who is not such a bully."
She stood outside the yard and yelled. Chu Yunli stood in the yard with his arms folded and sneered, "You don't know why I would kick her out? You can't live with your daughter's troubles, but you have the nerve to come here."
Are we in trouble? If you want me to take her back, you can pay her back the food you owe us and promise not to ask her for anything again, and I can take her back!"
The neighbors all heard such a big commotion, and some planned to come over to break up the fight. After hearing Chu Yunli's words, even the people who came over did not say anything to stop the fight.
Everyone knows how important it is to have more food now! The Zhou family is trying to suck blood from the Zhao family, a family of four, and no one can stand it!
After listening to Chu Yunli's words and noticing the gazes of the people around her, Zhou's mother burst into tears, "We are all in-laws. If I can do something about it, would I want to ask you to lend me food?"
Howling and crying makes those who hear it sad.
There were more and more people watching around. In order to prevent them from talking about the relationship and further quarreling with each other, Chu Yunli took the lead and said, "Don't try to persuade me. Who knows how painful this kind of thing is. If anyone wants to persuade me,
Just help me support the Zhou family!"
Originally, it seemed that Zhou's mother was crying sadly, and someone did want to persuade her. Originally, no one wanted to hurt the Zhou family, and there was really no other way, so they could only live by borrowing money.
But after hearing what Chu Yunli said next, "Help support the Zhou family," everyone fell silent. At this time, when their own food was not enough, how could they help others?
Zhou's mother cried so hard that no one said anything. It was Mrs. Zhou who had come to ask Chu Yunli to bring her daughter-in-law back, Zhou Cuiliu's aunt, who spoke out, "Brothers and sisters are all relatives. If you can help me, I will help you."
Help me..."
"Then you help!" Chu Yunli interrupted her, "No more. I lent them twenty kilograms of grain, and you also borrow twenty kilograms. After that, I will borrow as much as you borrow."
Zhou: "..."
The Zhou family lived in the cave next door earlier and had already finished their food. They were the first to start eating wild vegetables. If they had food, they would not have to go to this muddy water.
Chu Yunli's tone was very harsh and she didn't give any face at all.
Even so, there was no one around to help Zhou.
Mother Zhou cried for a long time, but no one helped her.
It is really an emergency period now. There is no food and many people are secretly eating wild vegetables. In the past two days, the vegetables that some people planted have grown out, which has made things a little better. Not to mention the Zhou family, they also want to borrow some food.
Things came to a standstill at this point. Chu Yunli took the hoe and said, "I still have work in the field, so don't hang around and go home quickly. After the weather gets cold in a few days, you can work again."
No more."
Soon, the crowd dispersed.
He Hua was at home looking after the house, while Chu Yunli took the two brothers out to work. When they came back in the evening, Zhou's mother was already gone.
Someone else quietly told Chu Yunli that the Zhou family's life was very difficult. They lived too close to the town and there were not many wild vegetables. There were two people in the family who needed medicine, and they basically only had one meal a day.
Finally, he added, "Cuiliu went out to dig wild vegetables. It's slippery outside. What's the chance of a fall?"
"If you ask me, it's okay if you don't help the Zhou family. At least you can bring back one of your own. She has the blood of the Zhao family in her belly. It would be a pity if she really lost it."
The person who came had a worried look on her face. She was not necessarily called by the Zhou family. Maybe she came because she really felt pity for Zhou Cuiliu.
At dawn the next morning, Chu Yunli went out with a small bag containing half a catty of grain and a piece of meat as wide as a finger, and quietly placed it at the door of Zhou's house.
Zhou Cuiliu got up in the morning to go to the convenience store. When she came back, she happened to see a small bundle at the door. Thinking of something, she quickly stepped forward and opened it to see the food and meat inside the bundle. She burst into tears instantly and shouted in surprise, "
Mom, come and see!"
That day, the Zhou family had a meal of soup with grains added, and a plate of wild vegetables stir-fried with meat. It was much better than the previous soup that was all wild vegetables.
The next morning, there was another half a catty of grain and an egg at the door.
There were too few eggs, so Zhou's mother made soup and gave the bowl with more egg flakes to the father and son. The whole family didn't think anything was wrong.
From that day on, there was half a catty of food at the door every day, sometimes an egg, sometimes a large piece of meat.
Of course, most of the meat and eggs went into the mouths of the Zhou family and his son. After a few days, all Zhou's mother had to cook was grain.
Two days later, Zhou's mother directly said that the person delivering food at the door had not come at all! Because of this, Zhou Cuiliu and Mrs. Li were asked to go to the mountains to dig wild vegetables every afternoon, otherwise they would not be able to eat!
As for Chu Yunli, Zhao Cheng finally discovered that Chu Yunli was sending food there every day. On her way back that day, she saw Zhao Cheng squatting on the big rock with a complicated look on her face, "Mom, you send food there every day."
?"
Chu Yunli: "...Hmm." If you hadn't just wanted this wife, I wouldn't have bothered.
"Go back." She didn't explain and walked forward first.
Behind him, Zhao Cheng's eyes were red, and he was moved to tears. His mother was hard-spoken and soft-hearted, but she was reluctant to let him go. Fortunately, he still felt that his mother was indifferent earlier. How much he complained at that time, he feels so apologetic now, and he quietly wiped it off several times along the way.
tears.
As for the Zhou family, Mrs. Li forgot to bring her knife, and when she took Zhou Cuiliu back to get it, she could smell the unique aroma of meat porridge made from grain and meat coming from inside the cave.
The two looked at each other in confusion. After entering the cave, they saw Zhou's mother taking two half bowls of sticky, meaty porridge and handing it to the father and son, "Drink it while it's hot..."
Before he finished speaking, he noticed that the light at the entrance of the cave had dimmed. Looking back, he saw his daughter-in-law and daughter standing there with unkind expressions.
Seeing the empty pot, Mrs. Li was very angry and threw the basket in her hand. "I won't serve you anymore!" After saying this, she turned around and left!
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