The fertile farm girl in the portable space

Chapter 6 Sister-in-Law Liu Fights Injustices

"Oh, mother." Hai Rui nodded respectfully.

Mrs. Chen put the coriander on the red-painted wooden chair, and helped the old lady carry the table into the yard, and put the bowls and chopsticks on the table. fall down.Fortunately, Coriander is very well-behaved, she seems to know how hard it is for her to be a mother, which makes her feel relieved, Chen feels very relieved.

Coriander was lying there obediently, with big eyes rolling, the sky was so blue, a blue cloth was hanging above the head, there was a tall camphor tree in the yard, and a few sparrows were among the branches " Chirp, chirp, chirp" playfully.Looking at the huge crown and thick trunk of the old tree, it must be some years old. There is a well under the tree, and there is a wooden barrel tied with a rope beside the well.There is also a large stone mill in the yard, which must have been used by farmers to grind some grains. Coriander had only seen this thing on TV before, and thought it was novel, so she glanced at it a few more times now.Next to the millstone, a few chickens were crowing, flapping their wings, looking for food.

The whole family sat around the square wooden table. The small wooden table was badly worn, rickety, and unstable. The old lady skillfully picked a piece of wood and placed it on the table legs.

On the wooden table was a small half pot of steaming rice porridge and a hard cornbread that had been split into two pieces. There was also a pinch of black bean paste that was neither black nor yellow nor yellow on the small plate.

Mrs. Chen still put the coriander in her bosom on the wooden chair, got up and took a bowl to serve porridge for everyone, but the old lady snatched it with quick eyesight, "It's nothing to do with you! Sit down, sit down. I'll share it!"

Chen sat down with an embarrassing expression, still holding the coriander in her arms.

The old lady held the big bowl, picked up the big wooden spoon, stretched it into the pot without stirring, just skimmed the top layer of rice soup, scooped up a few spoonfuls, filled a bowl, and put it in front of Mrs. Chen.

"Here. Eat!"

Chen was stunned looking at the thin bowl of soup that could reflect people's shadows. This is not rice soup, it can only be called rice water.

"Mother... This, this is too watery, how can I be full?"

"Hey, I'm talking about Ru Xian's daughter-in-law, how can such a small baby have teeth to stutter rice grains? This mother who has never raised a baby just doesn't know anything. Newborn babies drink rice soup!" The old lady narrowed her eyes. Squinting, without blushing and heartbeat, he filled a large bowl and put it in front of his son.The sticky, fragrant and soft rice porridge is almost overflowing.Then I scooped half a bowl of thick porridge for myself from the bottom of the pot.There was only half a pot in the first place, and the bottom of the pot was about to bottom out after this filling.

"But... coriander can drink rice soup, what about my bowl? Me, I just drink rice soup, I don't have the strength..." Chen's voice dropped as he spoke.

Reluctantly, the old lady stretched the wooden spoon in again, and took out another big bowl of rice soup. The difference was that this time the wooden spoon was loaded with some porridge grains.

"Here!" The old lady put it heavily in front of her, and said angrily: "Is this enough for now? There is no more, I scraped the pot clean, and our mother and I are just one person and one child." bowl."

Mrs. Chen picked up the rice soup first, and fed it to the coriander bit by bit with a spoon. She wondered what the rice soup was for. The newborn baby drank only the rice soup to avoid starvation, so she decided to grind some rice flour to make rice cereal when she was free. coriander.The coriander was also hungry, so I obediently drank it all. Although it tasted like water, it was better than being hungry.Only then was Chen satisfied, and Fang picked up a pair of thick wooden black chopsticks and began to eat his bowl of rice porridge that couldn't be thinner.

Mrs. Chen dipped her chopsticks into the bean paste dish, put it in her mouth and sipped it, and didn't dare to pick the bean paste. When she wanted to dip it again, the plate had already bottomed out, and the shaven was even cleaner than her face.

Mrs. Chen felt that the bowl of gruel would slide down with a mouthful, and her stomach was still empty. She was so hungry that she swallowed while looking at the hard corn in the bowl, and stretched out her chopsticks. go.

"Crack——" The old lady's chopsticks hit Chen's chopsticks, and she said coldly, "I said, daughter-in-law, I will leave this hard cornbread for Ru Xian to eat when he is hungry. Come on, he is your husband, so you don't expect him to have a future? At that time, won't you two enjoy the blessings too?"

Chen's shameful face was slightly hot, and he withdrew his hand as if bitten by a snake, and said with a sip, "Mother said so."

Hai Rui gulped down the porridge, his mind still thinking about the merit test, he didn't pay attention to other things at all, when he ate at the bottom of the bowl, he suddenly saw a hard-boiled white egg.

"Uh, mother... how come there is a boiled egg in my bowl?" Comrade Hai Rui is an honest man, he is fundamentally different from his mother's old cunning, so he said it loudly.

The old lady never thought that Hai Rui would tell her face to face, she couldn't bear it, she glanced at her daughter-in-law, seeing that she didn't respond, she simply said: "I let it go. My son, you study hard, so I'll help you. It's no better than ours. These ladies and gentlemen, eat it while it's hot."

"Mother said that. If my mother doesn't eat it, my son wouldn't dare to eat it." Comrade Hai Rui is a well-known nerd and dutiful son in Qingshui Village. eat.

"Cough, if you tell you to eat, you can eat, why are you so talkative!" The old lady kicked her son hard under the dining table.

Xiao Xiangcai watched them push back and forth with a cold face, but no one mentioned her mother.

"That's how it is. I will eat half, and mother will eat half." After arguing for a long time, seeing the stalemate, the genius Comrade Hai Rui finally came up with an idea to get the best of both worlds.With chopsticks, the egg was split into two, and Hai Rui respectfully put the larger half into the old lady's bowl.

Only then did the old lady nod slightly, she picked up the bowl contentedly, and savored the delicacy of the half-boiled egg carefully.The old lady had good teeth, and she finished the bowl of porridge in a few clicks.Hai Rui also finished eating, put down the bowl, and went into the main room.

Mrs. Chen didn't take care of herself after giving birth, her body was weak, so she couldn't help eating slowly. Before she finished eating, the old lady stood up, removed the pots and bowls from the wooden table, picked up the big broom leaning against the door, and vigorously Sweep up the yard.

"Mom...look, I'm still eating here..."

Xiao Xiangcai coughed very cooperatively, and waved her small fist, signaling to the girl that I am very upset.

"I see!" The old lady didn't stop broom, "My old lady is not blind! You eat your food, I gagged you?"

"No... I mean this courtyard, you just leave it there, I'll sweep it after I finish eating, otherwise the smoke and dust will fly all over the sky, and I won't be able to eat this porridge." Chen said nicely.

"Eat, eat, eat! You know how to eat at sky-high prices all day long. What else do you do besides eat?!" The old lady swept more vigorously, "I'm not doing my own work, why don't others be allowed to do it?!"

Knowing that it would be futile to say anything, Mrs. Chen silently lowered her head, picked up the rice in twos and twos, silently packed the dishes, wiped the table with a rag, and went to move the square wooden table.Unexpectedly, his body was weak, he gritted his teeth and moved a few times, and then broke out in cold sweat.

(End of this chapter)