Chapter 4
Zhu Meizhen sat at the square table with Wang Leiniang Sang Xiaoqing poured water for them and also sat down
“Ask your mother, ask her about the same age as our Leilei We all know each other from the same production team, and you all know Leilei’s kid, he’s an honest kid who will be good to ask Leilei’s father also told me to let him work as a laborer as long as he gets married, so he won’t be exposed to the wind or rain I’m not too old, so I’ll be able to bring them a grandchild when Ask adds one to our family”
Zhu Meizhen frowned as she listened, “Ask is so young, is it necessary to be in such a hurry to have a child?”
“What’s so urgent? Aren’t we all mothers in our twenties? It’s just that our question is too skinny! When she marries into our family, I’ll give her a good tonic so that she’ll be able to give birth! We’re sure to have a good-looking and educated girl who can give the Wang family a good-looking and smart grandchild in the future”
Sang Xiaoqing was just pregnant, when she heard this, her heart moved, she looked at Zhu Meizhen and then to Wang Leiniang, frowned and asked: “Wang Da Niang, how do you know that Ask will give birth to a son? In case there is a girl? Is it possible that your family still favors sons over daughters?”
The question was asked by Wang Lei Niang and also said to Zhu Meizhen
Zhu Meizhen was so focused on asking that she didn’t pay attention to Sang Xiaoqing’s little test, nodding her head and agreeing, “That’s right, it’s not up to us to ask if we’re going to have a boy or a girl”
“Xiaoqing! This is not a matter of favoring boys over girls! Isn’t it for us women to marry and give people a family? Our Leilei is the only child, it’s normal to hope for grandchildren, right? It’s not like we can only have one It’s okay if the first child is a girl and the second is a boy” Wang Lei’s mother glanced at Sang Xiaoqing, “Besides, it’s up to the male comrades to make money to support the family The girl is for others to raise Who’s family isn’t looking forward to a boy?”
Sang Xiaoqing sniffed and looked at Zhu Meizhen
Zhu Meizhen furrowed her brows and looked unhappy: “What’s wrong with a girl? I don’t think it’s for someone else’s family to raise We are better than many boys! Wang’s sister-in-law, your family Leilei is really the only seedling in your family, you should hope for grandchildren In that case, why don’t you consider another girl? I know our character well, she won’t be willing to have a child anytime soon Besides, we’re still in school!”
Sang Xiaoqing lowered her head and breathed a sigh of relief! What are you worried about? The Xu family was different from other families, even if she had a girl in her belly, her in-laws and Xu Wen wouldn’t dislike her
Her mother-in-law is a good person, but she is straight-talking and easily offended
Wang Lei mother is the captain’s daughter-in-law, usually always by the members of the community for a moment by Zhu Meizhen so contradictory suddenly a little unhappy, just for their own son and endured, barely pulling a smile and said: “What does a girl’s family go to school so much? What’s the point of going to high school or not? It’s not a job and you can’t go to college”
Zhu Meizhen still want to open her mouth to dislike, Sang Xiaoqing lightly patted her on the arm and shook her head to stop her mother-in-law from talking It’s not good for the family to turn against the captain’s family, and when the time comes to share the dirty work and then pay less labor points, it’s still their own family that loses out
She smiled and spoke to Wang Lei’s mother, “Auntie, you’re right! In the end, this is Ask’s life matter, and it’s useless for us to be willing to help each other Let’s ask her what she wants when she comes back from herding the sheep at night Besides, my father and Xu Wen have to make the decision on such a big matter Besides, we ask so beautiful, a lot of young people have come to the door to ask for marriage, we have to let ask their own selection is not it?”
Sang Xiaoqing’s words are soft and reasonable, but in fact they are a soft nail To summarize, there is just one sentence: “There are so many people who like to ask, and they don’t necessarily choose you, Wang Lei, so what’s the use of thinking so far ahead!”
Wang Leiniang understand, but can not be refuted, Xu Wen is the commune’s famous good-looking, like her young man really a handful of better than their Wang family conditions there are a lot of
Thinking about this, suddenly the fire is a lot less, cheeky: “words are so, we are the production of seven teams, always than other small teams to know the people of the brigade to know the roots of the right?”
“We Wei Zhuang on the palm of a little place, are considered to know the roots” Zhu Meizhen still couldn’t hold back and snatched a sentence
Sang Xiaoqing sighed softly, then opened her mouth to find a remedy: “Auntie, you also said that you watched ask grow up, ask that character you also know well, especially opinionated My mother and I can’t decide on this matter When there is a letter, we will let Auntie Liu convey it”
Zhu Meizhen followed, “That’s right Sister-in-law Wang, we’ve asked sister-in-law Liu to be the matchmaker, so it’s not good to go over her head on everything” What’s the point of going to the door without going through a matchmaker?
Wang Leiniang finally could only leave resentfully
Zhu Meizhen waited for people to go far away and heavily bawled: “But it’s just a production team leader’s wife, really think of herself as the head of the wife? Look at her bear-like! When she is the Empress Dowager to choose a consort for her son? She doesn’t take a piss and look in the mirror! Her Wang Lei is short and ugly, and can’t be bored out of his ass with three sticks, so I’ll ask her”
Xu Wen happened to be carrying a hoe back, wondered: “Mother, who messed with you? Why are you so angry?”
“Wang Lei’s mother came to let ask to marry over to their Wang family to give birth to a son” Zhu Meizhen was still furious
Xu Wen raised his eyebrows, “A toad wants to eat swan meat! Wang Lei’s runt is not good enough for us”
Sang Xiaoqing heard Xu Wen’s voice and walked out of the house, wondering, “Why are you back? Didn’t you say you were going to catch moths in the rice fields tonight?”
Xu Wen’s face softened a lot when she saw Sang Xiaoqing, and she looked at her from head to toe with concern before speaking, “How are you? Are you still throwing up? Are you uncomfortable anywhere?”
Sang Xiaoqing shook her head, glanced at Zhu Meizhen and lowered her head with a red face
Zhu Meizhen raised her hand and slapped Xu Wen on the shoulder, “I’m asking you! Why did you come back?”
“I went to finish my work and happened to run into Ask returning from herding the sheep She said that Xiaoqing had just gotten pregnant and needed to be taken care of, so she insisted that I go home first to have dinner with Xiaoqing She went to light the lamp in the paddy field for me first, and I’ll go back to replace her after dinner”
Summer days long dark late, Xu asked to the production team rice paddies, genius just dark
Commune in these two years, white Russian plague, in order to not be trampled on crops, you have to kill them
To catch white Russians, you need two tools, a lamp and water
The production team dug a few large pits around the team’s crops and in the center of the open space without crops, and filled them with water A not-so-high shelf was set up with wooden sticks right above the pits
In the dark, the duty of the members of the community will carry kerosene lamps to hang on the shelf
The moths gave up their crops and flew to the kerosene lamp, and then ended up in the puddle
The lamps can’t be extinguished throughout the night, so they need to add oil and pick the wicks on time
Xu Wen was responsible for guarding the moth traps at the south end of the path between the Taoyuan production brigade’s rice paddies and the rice paddies of the next production brigade
There was also a moth trap at the north end, which was manned by people from the production brigade next door
At first, Xu Wen saw the real-life version of the moth to the flame and thought it was quite funny Then she realized that the kerosene lamps attracted not only moths but also mosquitoes
In no time, she was so bitten by mosquitoes that she couldn’t squat or stand She kept stomping her feet and slapping or scratching her hands all over her body
She regretted that she wore a short-sleeved blouse for the sake of coolness
“Comrade, please give way, we want to pass!”
Xu Wen looked up, a young male comrade holding a little boy in one hand and a kerosene lamp in the other stopped beside her
The road was just over a meter wide, and after digging the pit, a small path was left that could be used by people
Xu Wen moved to the side to make way, a little puzzled, this voice is a little familiar, where have I heard it before?
The little boy suddenly opened his mouth: “Dad, this is not the female ghost?”
Xu Man: “”
Come to think of it, this is the father and son that he bumped into yesterday morning in the shower
A narrow road between enemies!
Xu Wen raised her hands to cover her face, secretly saying, Careless! It was true that the man hadn’t seen her face, but this little brat named Dongsheng had seen it
But
What does a female ghost mean?
You are the ghost, your whole family is a ghost!
Xu Wen lowered her hand and looked at the father and son with some indignation
The sky wasn’t too dark, plus the two kerosene lamps were enough for Xu Man to see each other’s looks clearly
The man’s face was three-dimensional, with a sharp, angular profile, high nose, and prominent features Keeping a flat head seems to have a beauty tip, the right side of the face has a scar, from the cheekbones diagonally upward rubbing the location of the temple disappeared in the location of the hair to destroy the perfect looks
The scar looked like it had been inflicted by a sharp instrument and was somewhat hideous
On anyone else it would have been a real mess, but on this man’s face it wasn’t scary and added a bit of manliness It’s very cool!
Lu Yuanzheng saw Xu asking staring at the scar on his face and didn’t move, thought she was afraid, slightly sideways to avoid her line of sight, raised his hand and knocked a chestnut on Dongsheng’s head, admonished, “Speak properly! What female ghost?”
Dongsheng rubbed the knocked head with one hand, pointed at Xu Man with the other, and said aggrievedly, “She’s the missing female ghost in the pond!”
“How many times have I told you, she’s not a ghost but a human being!” Lu Yuanzheng finished lecturing Dongsheng and looked up to survey Xu Man suspiciously
He hadn’t seen Xu Man’s face yesterday, so he wasn’t sure if Dongsheng was telling the truth, and his gaze fell towards Xu Man’s waist
The waist that he had wrapped his arms around was, like the lesbian in front of him, exceptionally thin
Xu Man saw him looking at himself and subconsciously shook his head to deny it, “It wasn’t me! I didn’t go swimming yesterday!”
Lu Yuanzheng froze, then looked at Xu Man with a smile on his face
Dongsheng didn’t say it was yesterday
Besides, she had a look of lust on her face
Xu Man also reacted and hung his head, itching to bite off his tongue
Luckily, Lu Yuanzheng didn’t tear Xu Man apart, thanked her, and clasped the back of Dongsheng’s head to bring her forward, “You’ve got the wrong person!”
Dongsheng was forced to move forward, but also tried to get rid of Lu Yuanzheng’s grip to look back, defiantly argued: “She is the most beautiful female ghost I’ve ever seen I’m not mistaken!!!”
“I told you it’s not a ghost, it’s a person” Lu Yuanzheng again lightly patted Dongsheng on the back of his head, but did not deny that he complimented the person’s good looks
Indeed beautiful!
A palm-sized melon face, a pair of big eyes that could talk, a small and straight nose, and a crimson cherry mouth It was also the best looking lesbian he had ever seen
It’s just that the other lesbian ran away quietly yesterday and denied it today, making it clear that she didn’t want to mention yesterday’s events
He couldn’t open his mouth again and could only cooperate with her
Dongsheng jogged a few steps to get out of Lu Yuanzheng’s grip, and turned around to curiously survey Xu, asking: “Pretty sister, are you a ghost or a human being? How did you become invisible? It’s because you can’t see the light when the sun comes out, right?”
Xu Wen: “”
You shouldn’t be called Dongsheng, you should be called Hundred Thousand Reasons
Figuring that a child should be easier to fool, Xu Wen denied again, “Little friend, you’re mistaken I’m not the female ghost you’ve seen, I’m human”
Lu Yuanzheng kicked Dongsheng’s ass again, his tone warning, “No more?”
It was obvious that Lu Yuanzheng hadn’t exerted any force, it was just that Dongsheng was too small and still stumbled, almost falling
Xu Wen bent down and reached out to give Dongsheng a hand, her brows furrowed as she protested towards Lu Yuanzheng, “Child abuse is against the law! Even if you’re the child’s father, you can’t always beat him! Even though you didn’t use force, it’s bad for the child’s physical and mental health”
The man had beaten Dongsheng three or four times in just one look, Xu Wen inexplicably felt a little bit sorry for Dongsheng and couldn’t help but open his mouth to meddle
Lu Yuanzheng froze
Dongsheng was quick to react, hugging Xu Man’s neck and giving her a bite on the face, “Oooh, sister, you’re so nice! You’ll be my mama!”