A peasant woman who wears a book and has a little field

Chapter 16
Everyone in the family paid attention to what dinner was on the table, but no one noticed the chicken ring at all. When the third aunt shouted, Mrs. Li immediately looked over, her face sank a little, and she strode over to the third aunt and touched it. lap.

"Mother." The third aunt pursed her mouth and felt aggrieved, "Didn't Dad say that the eldest and second treasures will go to school in the next year? I was thinking about giving them more supplements before going to school, so as not to be bullied by classmates. , I just didn’t see an egg. You can see that Dabao’s face has lost two rounds of weight.”

The third aunt felt distressed, her family's eldest treasure used to be so fat and white.

"Mother, since this chicken doesn't lay eggs now, why don't we just kill it and eat meat. Let's buy a new chick, maybe it will lay eggs?" The third aunt lowered her head slightly, very cautiously.

"Impossible!" Li Dabao was full of hostility, he raised his foot and kicked the stool aside, "I saw that Li Mu had eggs to eat! Why don't our chickens lay eggs?" The child knows when he is not sensible I saw Li Mu eating eggs.Then I must have eggs to eat.

Mrs. Li's face became more and more gloomy, "When the family was separated, each person had a chicken. It makes no sense that her family lays eggs and we don't lay eggs. What's going on?"

Mrs. Li glanced around and looked directly at the sister-in-law, "You are cooking at home today, have the chickens laid eggs?"

The sister-in-law's face was a little pale, and she subconsciously looked sideways at Boss Li. The eggs were cooked in the morning, and they were secretly eaten by the eldest sister at noon.But what did she say?
Mrs. Li has lived for decades, and she can see the tricks at a glance, and the sister-in-law's expression is not quite right, "Do you know?"

"Mom!" Boss Li washed his hands and came over with a smile, "Isn't it just eggs. As for mobilizing the crowd like this? I felt that I hadn't eaten meat for a long time at noon, and I was a little greedy, so I ran back and ate the eggs."

Mrs. Li glanced at Boss Li. She looked down on Boss Li the most. Although Li's second son was the most annoying, he was not close to his parents and hardly spoke, but he knew that he would post everything home when he went out to make money.Boss Li just can't kick a fart, it's annoying to watch.

"What about the eggs from before?" Li Laosan could see that the eggs were eaten by Da Ya, and Boss Li knew about this at all.He thought it was his sister-in-law who had the guts to do it secretly.

The sister-in-law immediately looked at the third aunt, "Didn't the third brother and sister not see eggs when they were cooking?"

The third aunt suddenly felt aggrieved, "I wanted to tell my mother about this a long time ago. Why are there no eggs at home? I didn't see any eggs when I was cooking. I was still wondering, and then I thought about checking again. I just told my mother. I didn’t expect that sometimes all the eggs laid by the chickens would be eaten by the elder brother.”

The sister-in-law almost gritted a tooth, she didn't expect the third aunt to say this, and she directly insisted that there were no eggs when she cooked.It's good now, but the old people are greedy when they see the eggs, so they eat them directly.

Now it is the third aunt who is left behind.

Mrs. Li's face was so gloomy and scary, "You can still eat all the eggs these days?" She didn't believe that Boss Li had the guts to eat eggs for several days in a row. Aren't you going to get the eggs?"

The third aunt became more and more wronged, "I thought about not making eggs in the morning, so as not to scare the chickens. Who knew that there would be no eggs after noon. Before, I thought it was because the chickens refused to lay eggs. How did I know that they were taken by someone?" gone."

The third aunt looked at Mrs. Li, her eyes were red, "Before, everyone ate egg soup together. But no one eats alone."

"Mom, I seldom eat eggs after I have Dabao and Erbao." Li Laosan also felt wronged. During this period of time, he didn't even see meat, and there was no oil in his stomach. He was already hungry and felt that everything he saw was OKEspecially working in the fields these days, I almost gnawed grass.

"The wild boy eats well!" Li Dabao's eyes were burning with hatred, "I met him in the village these days, and he gained weight. If it wasn't for the good food, could he gain weight?" Li Dabao suddenly raised his finger Looking at Da Ya, "Same as Da Ya! His face is starting to turn pale!" Li Mu used to be dark and thin, his face was sallow and bloodless, and it was different from now.

Da Ya was suddenly pointed out by Li Dabao, and she was too frightened to speak. She had eaten eggs a lot during this time. Just now, Boss Li said that he ate them, so Da Ya was even more afraid to speak. She was afraid of being beaten. Li Mu was beaten to death at home before.

Mrs. Li looked at Da Ya suspiciously. She was busy farming these days, and she really didn't pay much attention to the rest of the family. Only now did she realize that Da Ya has really gained weight and her face looks much better.

"You must be seven or eight years old." Mrs. Li smiled. She hated what the village chief often said about the new regulations that girls must be 20 years old to get married.That girl stays at home when she grows up, she just eats idle food and wastes her natal family's food.If you marry earlier, you can get the gift money, and you can save your worries.At the age of a big girl, it will take at least ten years before she gets married at the age of 20. How do you count the food for these years.

The sister-in-law was taken aback, and hurriedly laughed along with her, "I will be nine years old in the next year."

"That's not too young." Mrs. Li sighed, "I was already engaged at that time."

"It's a pity that the family doesn't have much money, and they can't send you to school. After the year, the eldest and second treasures will go to school, which is another expense."

Mrs. Li's eyes were shining brightly, "I heard that some time ago Lin Zixuan took Li Mu to the market and bought a lot of seeds back home. There must be something for sale in the town. Let's keep all the eggs and wait I sold the money to pay tuition fees for Dabao and Erbao.”

Mrs. Li heard from her neighbors in the village that if she can stay in the city after finishing her studies, she will have a solid job. In the future, if Dabao and Erbao can really study well, she will follow suit, and maybe she will be taken to live in the city. , when the time comes, I will be more advanced than other old ladies in Lijia Village.

"Mother." The sister-in-law was unwilling to say anything more, "How long will it take to save eggs to pay the tuition fee?"

Mrs. Li glanced at her sister-in-law, "From now on, I will collect eggs every day, and you don't have to worry about it. If the chicken can have two eggs, I will drink egg soup at night."

Now the third aunt's complexion is not very good, as for the chicken at home, one egg a day is good, but can you expect it to lay two eggs a day?It looks like I haven't been able to eat eggs for a long time.But thinking that Mrs. Li saved eggs to sell money for Dabao and Erbao to go to school, the third aunt's mood improved a lot.What else can be compared?Da Ya hasn't gone to school at the age of nine, so it's obvious that she doesn't plan to let her go to school.

Let’s not talk about the second house now, the old family has no son, and the maid is not allowed to go to school. After the eldest daughter gets married, the old family will be like this for the rest of their lives. They can only live on the land.

The third aunt became inexplicably happy when she thought about it, as long as Dabao and Erbao went to school well, they would be promising in the future, and she would follow suit.

(End of this chapter)