Hard times have room

Chapter 8
In the early morning, with the sound of crackling, Pauline still opened her eyes and couldn't sleep. She got up after putting on her clothes.

"Mom, what are you doing? It's so loud, I finally got a good night's sleep." Pauline rubbed the corners of her eyes sleepily.

"Hmph, your aunt is beating and washing clothes there, don't worry about her, just pretend she didn't see it, lest she say something unpleasant when the time comes." Su Hongying wiped the table and chairs with a rag and said : "By the way, there is hot water in the pot for you to wash, remember to use it!"

"Oh, I see." Paulin responded and walked out of the main house door, and saw her aunt, Li Tao, washing the clothes that the family of four had changed two days ago with a bucket and rainwater under the eaves.

When passing by her aunt, Pauline walked out for a while, so as not to meet her aunt, get in the way of her eyes, and cause trouble.

A few days ago, the eldest aunt Li Tao and her mother said that she was ill. The aunt followed her to the west end of her mother's village, where she took the children to wash clothes and pack up the private plot. She was only at home at night, but she was at home during the day today.

Oh, by the way, it's raining today, so she can't go out to work, so why go there and stick to it, her mother will be fine.

"Auntie, do the laundry." Pauline knew that her aunt didn't look down on her, but it was still necessary to say hello in face.

Looking up and not looking down, there is no need to be too ugly under one roof.

After brushing, the sound of wooden brushes brushing clothes sounded, Li Tao looked up at this worry-free niece, and replied casually, "Yeah."

Entering the kitchen, Pauline patted the water stains on the clothes on her head, found a basin, put on the handkerchief, and opened the lid of the iron pot, but it was empty inside. After thinking about it, she knew who did it. , didn't make a sound, didn't want to argue with her aunt over these trivial things, it was boring.

I scooped two scoops of cold water into the kitchen vat, and after rubbing my face with the handkerchief, it was really refreshing.

After leaving the kitchen and returning to the main room, Paulin thought that her father didn't see anyone when she woke up. After thinking about it, she asked, "Mom, where is my father? Why didn't I see anyone else early in the morning."

"I'm still thinking about the county seat! Now all the men in the village are having a meeting at the brigade headquarters to discuss the purchase of lime fertilizer. Your dad also went there early this morning." Su Hongying twisted the wet handkerchief in her hands and said. : "I told your dad last night that if he said you were going, he would let you go. Anyway, with him watching, nothing major could happen."

"Mmmm." Pauline nodded quickly, and didn't come back when she couldn't miss the opportunity. Looking at her mother's somewhat serious expression, she was afraid that she would disagree, so she hurriedly said, "Mom, you're so kind."

"You, you will play tricks with your mother, okay, let's play!" Su Hongying smiled and patted Baolin on the shoulder, looked at the drizzle outside, waved her hand, and let her play by herself .

"By the way, the mushrooms we had yesterday weren't completely dry, right? The half-dry and half-wet mushrooms won't grow moldy and go bad today." Pauline didn't move, but looked at the kitchen and said worriedly.

When I returned home last night, all the mushrooms were stored on the kitchen shelf. Even if the kitchen was on fire today, the air still contained water vapor when it rained. It would be useless to ignite it.

"Well, I got tired of touching a little bit, so I made it at noon, so as not to break it and waste it. It's a pity, there are so many, and it can be sold for a lot of money!"

In the past, all the income of the Wang family had to be handed over to the parents, her milk, including the money for selling mushrooms and bamboo shoots, and each room could not have private money on the surface.

Later, her aunt Li Tao gave birth to two sons. Her mother, Su Hongying, only had Bao Lin, who was an orphan. She claimed to be a hero of the Wang family, so she wanted to arrest Su Hongying and bully her. All to Su Hongying.

Su Hongying being able to come to Hecun completely by herself means that she is not a soft bun to be kneaded by others, so she naturally refuses.

Before Baolin was three years old, the Wang family was so noisy that there was no peace. The big room and the second room were a toss up. Today, there was a lot of quarrels over trivial matters. The second room is clamoring for separation.

The men of the Wang family love their wives, and they are soft-hearted. Women are basically in charge of major and small matters in the family. Men only work to earn work points.

The daughter-in-law of the second room was arguing, and the second room was naturally not in harmony. The man couldn't control the daughter-in-law. In the end, it was the old lady Wang who came out to do it.

The family split, Mrs. Wang and Mrs. Wang were unwilling to agree, let alone the young and old in the family before they got married, and the Wang family didn’t have any family background. After finally marrying the daughter-in-law, it was the whole family’s strength to work together to achieve a better life. When the time comes, if the family is divided, I am afraid that the villagers will die of laughter!

In the end, I came up with a compromise solution. The food for the whole family to work and share is managed by her milk together for the whole family to eat.The firewood and water used by the whole family and the wild vegetables and mushrooms that are usually eaten are collected by the whole family or take turns to work, and no one is an exception.

Usually, the mushroom shoots or wild objects collected by each house belong to each house, and they have the final say on how to deal with them, so that each house has a private house on the bright side.

Usually, the children's school fees and books, medicines for minor pains and illnesses, and the gifts to go to their mothers-in-law's homes during the New Year and festivals are all paid from their own private houses, and the family does not share these.

The Wang family now belongs to the same pot, eats in the same pot, and lives in the same family. As for the others, it is no different from the separation of the family, because the money and wealth of each house are separated.

The same goes for the mushrooms this time. If it wasn't for the rain today, they would go bad if they were not eaten, and they would not gather the mushrooms from each room together, and some of them would be eaten by the family at noon.

The other part is to blanch the water in a large pot, then fry it in a large iron pot, fry it dry, and save it for the evening and the next morning.

In this era of eating bitter wild vegetables every day, it is absolutely impossible for a good thing like mushrooms to be wasted. If the mushrooms picked this time cannot be dried, they will not be allowed to rot. They will only fall into the population after processing.

At this time, the two suddenly saw people entering the yard. Paulin fixed her eyes and looked at it. Isn't this her father? .

Wearing a bamboo hat, Wang Jiandang quickly rushed from the yard to the main room, came to the two of them, looked at the curious eyes of the mother and daughter, and quickly told what he knew: "The captain said at the meeting, if it doesn't rain tomorrow Go to the county to buy lime fertilizer, I have signed up to go with me, if you want to go to the county to see, then go with me."

"Hmm, Dad, I'll go with you. I've grown up so much, and I haven't been to the county seat yet." Paulin nodded like a chicken pecking at rice, her words full of cheers.

(End of this chapter)