Chapter 1 Brown Sugar (1)
Although it was early spring and the weather wasn't stuffy, the thunderstorms kept falling. Liu Ruchun stood in front of the threshold, his eyes kept looking out of the wall, a little worried about his father who was hunting in the mountains this morning.

"Chun girl? Chun girl?" An old woman who was nearly sixty years old came out of the main room and stared at her impatiently.

Liu Ruchun turned around, saw grandma coming, hurriedly greeted her, lowered her head and called, "Grandma, what's the matter?"

"What's the matter?" Lin's voice suddenly increased a little, and he pointed angrily at the small, dark, small earthen room on the left, "Have you washed the dishes at noon, and you're lazy here again? I, an old woman half buried in the earth, will support you?"

Liu Ruchun didn't raise her head, but said in a low voice, "Sister Meng from the uncle's family should wash the bowls today." There is no division in the Liu family, and the housework is shared among the women in the house.Little things like washing the dishes, sweeping the floor and cleaning the table are all done by the girls at home.

Besides, my father gave her most of the money from hunting and selling furs every month. There is no such thing as eating and drinking for free, but it is the third uncle's family. The three boys do nothing all day long. them.

"What's the matter, dare to talk back, you dead girl, Meng girl is tired enough to learn piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and you still have the nerve to let her wash it? I said how did your heart grow? Can't you see Meng girl? Okay?" Following Lin's crackling words, there was already a red mark on Liu Ruchun's face.

The burning pain on her cheek forced her to raise her head to look at grandma, full of grievances, and was about to refute, but she saw her mother came out with a pregnant belly of more than nine months, and apologized to grandma with apologetic face, " Don't be angry, mother-in-law, girl Chun is still young, I'll wash the dishes in the kitchen right now."

Lin's anger subsided a little, but she still scolded Liu Ruchun a few words before turning into the room with a cold snort.

Liu Ruchun sighed, looked at her mother's big belly, and thought that her mother's health was always bad, how could I make her tired, so she had to endure the pain on her face, and went to help her, "Mother, come out What to do, go back to the house, you are not well."

Zhong's temperament is very weak, and because he didn't add more incense to the Liu family after marrying, he felt that dwarves were inferior. Be happy, but it just so happens that she is not in good health, so many things can only be swallowed.

The slender fingertips gently stroked the red mark on Liu Ruchun's face, her eye circles were a little red, she bit her lip and said in a low voice, "It's all mother's fault, you go and play."

She was about to give birth, how could Liu Ruchun let her do things, he immediately dragged her into the house, "Mother, go back and rest, I'll just wash it." It's also about to give birth, why can the third aunt be happy every day She eats and drinks well, but her mother does this and that. Is it because she gave birth to three sons in one go?

Liu Ruchun coaxed her mother back, and then went to the kitchen, looked at the water tank that was as tall as her, sighed helplessly, and tiptoed to pick up the gourd to scoop water.

Although it has been five years since she came to this world, she is only five years old. Even if she can think of many things, she can't do them, and she shouldn't have done them at her age.

So, she could only endure it first.Waiting to grow up, so that my mother won't be bullied all the time.

It was said that Liu Ruchun had finished washing the dishes, and it was still raining outside, so she had nowhere to go, so she went straight back to the earthen house that belonged to her own house.

In the courtyard of the Liu family, there is a large adobe house in the north, the main room in the middle, and a small door on the left and right, leading to the wing rooms on both sides.

This wing room is a connected room, divided into an inner room and an outer room.The grandparents live on the left, and the uncle's family lives on the right.

In addition, there are three connected adobe houses in the yard, but they are all independent rooms, and the third uncle's house occupies two rooms, and the remaining one is lived by Liu Ruchun's family.

Naturally, the family of four was not enough to live in, so Liu Ruchun's father looked at the trees from the mountain, and asked the village carpenter to make two planks with a deer, and separated the middle into three, with parents in the middle. I live in a bed-sized room outside with my elder brother.

Although the room is small, there is no place to put a pair of shoes when you go in and out, but it is still your own little world.

Lifting the curtain, just about to go in, but heard the voice of the third aunt from outside.

Speaking of Liu Mingrong's daughter-in-law Wu Shi, the eldest son of the Liu family, by coincidence, she had a wedding in the same month as the daughter-in-law Zhong Shi of the fourth Liu family Liu Mingqiao's daughter-in-law, and now she is also carrying a pregnant belly of more than nine months.She pushed the door open to enter the single room, her ruddy face was full of smiles, when she came in and saw Liu Ruchun, she couldn't help giggling and said, "Chun girl, where's your mother?"

Liu Ruchun looked at the picture of Mrs. Wu who was so fat that she could barely see her eyes, "What's the matter with the third aunt? Ever since the mother was also pregnant, the two uncles often asked someone to bring things over. Isn't it yesterday?" Son, uncle sent someone to bring some brown sugar for mother and water to drink, third aunt must be thinking about it."

While replying to her words, Mrs. Wu forcefully squeezed in, "I'm just here to chat with your mother."

Liu Ruchun didn't believe her words. Knowing that her mother was always honest, she was afraid that the brown sugar would be cheated by her again, so she hurriedly followed, "The road is narrow, Third Aunt, be careful."

Zhong Shiben was sitting on the bedside mending his son's clothes, when he heard Wu Shi's voice, he packed up his things, stood up to meet her, "Sister-in-law, sit down quickly."

Mrs. Wu was also not polite, and glanced at the only wooden stool in the narrow room, and unceremoniously sat on the bed, pressing her big buttocks on the pillow, as if she didn't feel that her behavior was in the slightest. There was something wrong, and he grinned as he looked at Zhong's belly, which was obviously a little smaller than hers, "It's almost time to give birth, do you feel any movement?"

Seeing that she really didn't pay attention to sitting on the pillow, Mrs. Zhong didn't dare to ask her to get up, but just moved her body sideways, looked down at her belly, and stretched out her hand to gently caress that round belly. With a happy smile, "It's just a kick in the stomach, nothing major."

Wu also stretched out her hand to touch her stomach, but she smiled triumphantly: "I reckon this baby is another kid, and it's like fighting in my stomach all day long." Speaking of this, she looked enviously. Looking at Mrs. Zhong: "You are still blessed. No matter how you were born, you are a daughter. I guess I have to go to the temple to ask for it later, so that the Bodhisattva Empress will give me a daughter!"

When Zhong Shi heard her words, the smile on his face stagnated, and he smiled awkwardly for a moment, but he didn't speak, just buried his head.

Liu Ruchun didn't like Wu shi in the first place, but now seeing her showing off to her mother and saying that she was like a sufferer, she couldn't help hating her even more.

(End of this chapter)

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