The tool with the iron rod is a tool with a point on one end and a wooden handle on the other, called a drill.

Yang Manchun didn't know how to use it, and she had little strength. She watched Zhao Suhua easily drill out two or three rows of corn with a drill. She tried it herself. Not only was the movement slow, but she could only remove one row of corn at a time. grain.

In just two or three corns, a blister appeared on the palm of her right hand.

She quietly rubbed her fingers, and the muscles on the outside of her thumb felt painful and hot. When she lowered her head and looked, sure enough, it was also crimson, and it looked like blisters were about to form.

"Oh, Sister Yang, your hands are too tender. With such little survival, your hands are blistered?"

Liu Hongping's wife smelled the sweet-scented osmanthus and saw the blisters on Yang Manchun's palms at a glance. Her eyes widened in surprise, and there was envy and jealousy in her eyes that Yang Manchun could detect at a glance.

Wen Guihua is indeed envious and jealous.

Not only was she envious of Yang Manchun, a new daughter-in-law who was treated as a treasure when she returned to the Liu family, but she was also jealous of her father-in-law and mother-in-law's kindness to Yang Manchun.

From the time Yang Manchun arrived at the Liu family, except for going to the old house early the next morning to see Liu Hongjun's bedridden grandfather, and when he went to the home of some relatives of the Liu family with gifts to recognize people and treat them with guests, he accompanied Liu Hongjun. At other times, he only went out , almost all Zhao Suhua led Yang Manchun.

When eating, her mother-in-law was the first to ask Yang Manchun if he had any taboos and what he liked to eat.

After dinner in the evening, her mother-in-law also asked the three sisters-in-law to clean up the pots and bowls and feed the pigs, and then took Yang Manchun to get mugwort to smoke the house, saying that she was afraid that Yang Manchun would not be able to bear the mosquitoes.

Also, Yang Manchun was too particular, and it was not uncommon to take a bath every day, but why should she ask her and Sister Chen to warm up the bath water for her (it was only Zhao Suhua who asked her to see if the firewood in the stove was burned out)?
It had been almost five years since she married into the Liu family after Wen Guihua, and she had never been treated like this by her husband's family. She was naturally envious and jealous, and she unconsciously showed it in her tone when speaking to Yang Manchun.

"Bubbing?"

Zhao Suhua was immersed in peeling corn. When she heard Wen Guihua's words, she raised her eyes and looked at Yang Manchun's hand. Sure enough, she saw the crimson patch on the outside of the thumb of Yang Manchun's right hand.

She laughed:
"You are an honest little girl. If your hand hurts, don't peel it off. You can do it in the house, take a nap, or read a book."

With her delicate look, Zhao Suhua didn't dare to speak too loudly to her, for fear of scaring her.

How could Yang Manchun have the nerve to go and lie down in the house by herself when the whole family was working? She shook her head:
"It's okay, I'll peel it off slowly."

She did it very slowly. Look at Chen Li's hand speed. She had already peeled three or four of them, and she only started to finish them off.
"Mom, do you plant a lot of corn at home every year?"

She was accustomed to say "your family", but suddenly realized that she was also a member of the Liu family now, and if she used "your family" again, it would sound unorthodox, so she changed her words temporarily.

"Our side has many mountains and few fields, so we grow more corn and wheat, as well as red potatoes."

Zhao Suhua wiped the sweat from her face with her shoulder.
"Our house is relatively good. We have a lot of people, a lot of land, and everyone is quite diligent. After paying the agricultural tax deduction, we can still have some millet and wheat left."

Unlike some families, not only are their land allocations small, but their people are lazy and they don't pay enough taxes every year, but they still owe the country.

Yang Manchun nodded in understanding. In the past few days, when it was not so hot, she went out with Zhao Suhua to rush to the door. It was inevitable that she would see someone's food at home. It was really just steamed sweet potatoes, let alone rice grains. , not even a little bit of cornmeal was sprinkled on it.

She didn't know what the situation was like in the Liu family, because after arriving at the Liu family, the cornmeal batter she ate basically every morning contained a lot of rice grains, and of course, there were also a lot of sweet potatoes.

It's sweet and the sweet potatoes are soft and glutinous. She actually likes to eat them.

Although it is not a meal of white rice at noon, it will be at noon the next day. On the remaining days, Zhao Suhua either steamed steamed buns, mixed the batter and spread it over pancakes, and then fried sweet potato porridge with black beans.It's just that at night, during the first two days, Yang Manchun was really not used to the noodles made by Zhao Suhua.

The Liu family's seasonings were not complete, including soy sauce, vinegar, and even chili oil. After they came back, Liu Hongjun went to the county town and bought several kilograms of rapeseed oil to make it together with other seasonings. of.

"Manchun, be obedient and wait for a while. Otherwise, you can take out the book and read it."

Seeing that Yang Manchun's movements were getting slower and slower, Zhao Suhua simply snatched the corn from her hand. She was a neat person, and she hated to see anyone work slowly and slowly. It was better not to do it, so as not to affect her speed.

Yang Manchun raised his eyes and looked at the three sisters-in-law who were working silently next to him, bit his lip, and stood up:

"Okay, then I'll take a fan and fan you to drive away the mosquitoes."

"Pfft!"

Smell the sweet-scented osmanthus and laugh again:
"Sister Yang, there's no need. We're not like you who have delicate skin and tender flesh. A mosquito bite can take a few days to get rid of."

She smiled and shook her head, while looking at Yang Manchun's tightly wrapped legs and arms, she said "tsk, tsk", making Yang Manchun blush successfully.

She actually didn't want to, but she had no choice. She was really afraid of the long-legged mosquitoes here. Even though she was wrapped so tightly, the mosquitoes would still bite her through her clothes and pants.

Chen Li patted and smelled the sweet-scented osmanthus:

"Do you think Manchun is just like you, with rough skin and thick flesh, and is used to being bitten by mosquitoes?"

Even if they are used to it, if they are bitten twice by mosquitoes, they still itchy so much that they laugh at what others are doing, and they are not always irritable when they are bitten.

Yang Manchun has been turning a deaf ear to Wen Guihua's words these days.

It wasn't that she didn't want to fight back, but she still wanted to save her face, and thought that she wouldn't be able to stay at Liu's house for a few days anyway, so she just said it. , to save her mother-in-law the trouble.

He Xiangxiu, the daughter-in-law of the fourth child Liu Hongan, also raised her head:

"Mom, are we running out of mugwort at home? How about I go back later and get some more?"

Her maternal grandfather was a barefoot doctor in the village. Every year during the Dragon Boat Festival, the family would go to the mountains to cut a lot of mugwort and dry it.

Zhao Suying didn’t even raise her head:
"No, your aunt's family is full of them. She sent Heido (meaning a lot) here in the morning."

The aunt she was talking about was Liu Changbao's eldest brother's family.

On their side, the eldest uncle is called eldest father, and the eldest uncle's mother is called aunt. On the other hand, the children of the eldest family call her and Liu Changbao, second dad and second mother, or Zhao Concubine.

When Yang Manchun first started shouting, he was not used to it. He even asked in private, what is the name of the youngest uncle and aunt?
Liu Hongjun also taught her the dialect here, but it was useless to her. When she saw Liu Hongjun's uncle and aunt in the next room, she still called them uncle and aunt according to the names in Beijing.

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