For more than ten days, the production team worked day and night. Because the weather was hot, everyone preferred to work early in the morning and late at night. Anyway, work points were calculated based on the amount of work, and the members arranged their own time.
In the Wang family, except for Qian Shulan who had to look after the chicken farm, everyone else was busy all the time, their faces were baked by the sun and turned several shades darker. In this way, in early July, all the wheat was finally harvested.
After harvesting the crops, we start planting the next season, and this time we plant half soybeans and half sweet potatoes.
We plant soybeans because they are needed for raising earthworms, and we plant sweet potatoes because the yield is large and we don’t want everyone to go hungry.
Qian Shulan looked at Deng Yunping, who was so tired that she looked unrecognizable. She felt helpless and distressed.
What a good girl, she was willing to endure such hardship just to get more work points. The hardship of farming is really unimaginable.
She pushed Deng Yunping back onto the bed and sighed heavily, "Why are you working so hard? Your body is your own, you have to take good care of it."
Deng Yunping held her stomach with one hand and was in excruciating pain.
When a woman is in the most pain during her menstrual period, she wishes she could faint immediately.
Qian Shulan glared at her and said, "You are not allowed to go anywhere today. There are people growing soybeans, and they don't need you. You need to rest now, don't take yourself lightly. If you get sick, you may not even be able to have children in the future. Wait, I'll make you some brown sugar water."
After hearing this, Deng Yunping had no choice but to lie on the bed obediently, rubbing her belly constantly.
Xiao Min lay on the bed, looking at her in pain, frowning, "Auntie Deng, are you still in pain?"
Deng Yunping endured the pain and slowly uttered three words, "It doesn't hurt anymore!"
Xiao Min raised her little face and pointed at the beads of sweat on her forehead, and exposed her without thinking, "You are lying."
Deng Yunping: “…”
Xiao Min tilted her head, thought for a while, then walked to the bedside table and picked up an iron box on the top.
She carried him to Deng Yunping's bedside and handed it to her with some pain, "Auntie Deng, this is for you. Eat this and you won't feel any pain!"
Deng Yunping was very curious, so she opened it and saw that it was actually two pieces of White Rabbit milk candy.
This candy is not cheap. She raised her eyebrows and asked in disbelief, "You are willing to give it to me?"
Xiao Min pursed her lips, a little afraid to look. She turned sideways, waved her hands and pouted, "Eat quickly! I can't see."
Wouldn't it hurt if I couldn't see it? This kid is so cute! Deng Yunping smiled a little, but then there was another pain, and more beads of sweat appeared on her forehead.
Xiao Min didn't wait for her to speak and immediately turned around, only to see Deng Yunping's slightly distorted face.
Xiao Min immediately stretched out a small hand to grab a piece of the iron box, quickly peeled off the candy coating, stuffed the candy into Deng Yunping's mouth, and kept urging her, "Auntie Deng, eat it quickly, it won't hurt after you eat it!"
A glimmer of warmth flashed across Deng Yunping's eyes, which had been misted with pain, and she smiled and thanked Xiao Min.
Xiao Min nodded shyly but with a bit of pride. She reached out to peel another piece, but Deng Yunping stopped her. "Auntie Deng, just eat one piece. You eat it."
Xiao Min shook her head, closed the iron box, and walked to the bedside table again, tiptoeing to reach up. It took her a long time to put the iron box on the top of the pile of books on the bedside table.
Qian Shulan came in at this moment, carrying a bowl of brown sugar water quietly.
Xiao Min was just about to jump up and down to show off her achievements to her grandmother, but when she saw her grandmother's action, she was stunned.
Qian Shulan sat down beside the bed and blew for a long time before finally cooling down a bowl of steaming brown sugar water. "Drink it now!"
Deng Yunping felt so warm in her heart when she saw Qian Shulan's serious actions.
From childhood to adulthood, no one had ever taken care of her like this. Tears flashed in her eyes. She reached out to take it, wanting to taste it slowly, but almost spit it out after taking the first sip.
Seeing her frown, Qian Shulan hurriedly said, "Don't spit it out! This has ginger in it, so the taste may be a little stronger, but the effect is better!"
"real?"
Deng's mother had never cooked this thing because she didn't have menstrual cramps, so Deng Yunping naturally didn't know about it.
She took two sips and swallowed them. After a while, her stomach felt warm.
Tears glistened in her eyes, and she was extremely happy, "It really works!"
"Then drink more!" Qian Shulan added, "There's more in the pot! This water has to be hot to be effective!"
"good!"
Xiao Min was happy when she saw that she returned to normal after drinking.
In August, after paying the public grain tax, their team prepared to distribute the food.
Qian Shulan suddenly thought of Du Damei, who had no household registration. Although she had work points in the chicken farm, she was not a member of the production team and could not share the food.
So she found Du Damei to test her thoughts, "What are your plans?"
Du Damei has never had a household registration. During the time she has been living in Lao Wang's house, many people have asked her about her, but she always answered vaguely.
It was easy to fool the people in the team, but what about the commune? It was a bit unreasonable to distribute food rations without having a permanent residence.
Du Damei has been worrying about this these days. Every household only has enough food for themselves, and she can't buy it even if she has money. Now when Qian Shulan asked about it, she asked, "Can I settle down here?"
Qian Shulan did not answer, but asked, "You don't want to go back?"
Du Damei's face was full of bitterness, "I can't go back."
She is already a bad element and will be criticized if she goes back!
Seeing that she had made up her mind, Qian Shulan stopped trying to persuade her and took her directly to find Qian Minghua.
Qian Minghua heard that she was a widow who came here because she couldn't make a living in her hometown, so he directly set up a collective household registration for her.
Soon, the food allocated to the team was delivered.
Qian Shulan asked for half coarse grains and half fine grains.
Sun Daqin and Zhou Xuemei pushed a cart to help her deliver the food back.
Qian Shulan walked behind carrying thirty kilograms of food.
"Grandma, I want to eat dumplings!"
Qian Shulan thought about how she had been busy working this month and hadn't even cooked a single meat meal, so she immediately agreed, "What kind of filling do you want to eat?"
"I want to eat meat filling." After she finished speaking, she asked carefully, "Do you have any?"
Qian Shulan lowered her head, touched her head, and kissed her on the cheek, "Of course."
Xiao Min immediately became happy, hugged Qian Shulan's neck and kissed her on the face, "Grandma is so nice!"
Qian Shulan smiled and stood up, walking back, "Let's go grind the flour first!"
When the grandparents arrived at the mill, it was already crowded with people.
It seems that everyone wants to treat themselves to a meal.
Qian Shulan and Xiao Min were queuing at the back.
They waited for two hours before it was Qian Shulan's turn. After grinding the flour, she took Xiao Min home directly.
Qian Shulan asked Xiao Min to go back to the room to read her textbook while she kneaded bread dumplings at the dining table in the main room.
Qian Shulan was very satisfied when she heard Xiao Min reciting the poem in a very accurate manner.
Compared with Qian Shulan, Deng Yunping asked for mostly coarse grains, with only 20 kilograms of fine grains.
She carried the food into the yard, said hello to Qian Shulan, put the food heavily at the door of the main room, and then sat down without saying a word.
Still not happy after the food was distributed? Qian Shulan kneaded the dough on her hands and asked curiously, "What's wrong with you?"
Deng Yunping rubbed her forehead and said in a muffled voice, "Chen Xuanxuan is pregnant!"
The dough Qian Shulan had just kneaded fell to the ground when she heard this, but she didn't bother to pick it up. She stared at Deng Yunping with her eyes, "What did you say?"
Her face was as black as ink, and if you looked closely, her lips were trembling up and down, and the sounds she made were out of tune.
Deng Yunping thought she was worried about her, so she quickly stood up from the stool and patted Qian Shulan's hand to comfort her, "Aunt Qian, what's wrong with you?"
Qian Shulan grabbed her hand and asked, "What did you just say?"
Deng Yunping originally didn't want to say it, but she was staring at her and seemed very anxious, so she had to repeat it again.
Qian Shulan was completely stunned.
So that's it! It turns out Chen Xuanxuan is pregnant!
No wonder the two of them didn’t dare to meet in private again, it turned out they were worried that something might happen to the child!
"My brother is as happy as a fool!" Deng Yunping sat down on the stool, pouting and looking unhappy, "but I can't be happy at all." There was awkwardness in her voice when she spoke.
Deng Yunping hated Chen Xuanxuan very much, but because she was pregnant, her brother's interest shifted back to Chen Xuanxuan's side.
She also said that the baby would call her aunt, but she didn't care!
Qian Shulan felt dizzy and didn’t know what to do now.
If she forced them to separate when Chen Xuanxuan was pregnant, wouldn't it hurt the baby? Wouldn't she be committing a sin? Qian Shulan kept thinking about this question.
But then another question came to my mind: whose child is that
She calculated secretly, they came here in March, and now it is August, it seems that both of them are possible.
But no matter who the child belongs to, she doesn't seem to have the power to decide the life or death of the child. Let's separate the couple after the child is born!
Although leaving a newborn orphan without a mother, it is at least better than living with a vicious mother!
Unfortunately, even though she thought this way, others didn't give her a chance to breathe.
Two days later, Deng Xingming was working in the canal when he heard Qian Minghua calling him from a distance.
He turned around, and Qian Minghua stuffed the letter in his hand into his hand, "This is your letter!"
Deng Xingming was a little stunned. He took the envelope and saw that it was sent from Beijing.
It was obvious that the words on the letter were written by his adoptive mother. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but curl the corners of his mouth.
He quickly tore open the envelope, and the happy smile on his face gradually disappeared after he read the contents one by one.
How is this possible? Isn't this just a coincidence
He glanced around and saw that Qian Minghua had already left. He thought that he had just come by and must be busy with other things. He started looking for someone else.
There was an aunt feeding chickens not far away. Deng Xingming threw away the broom in his hand and ran over quickly, "Aunt, I want to ask you something."
This auntie was none other than Qian Shulan's second sister-in-law, Lv Xiuhong. After hearing his words, she turned around and nodded, "Ask!"
Deng Xingming thought about it for a moment and asked tentatively, "I would like to ask, is there a person named Wang Liyong in our production team? He is about 62 years old this year."
Lu Xiuhong looked at him as if he were a fool, "He is our factory director's man."
Deng Xingming was stunned for a long time. "The factory director's man?"
Lu Xiuhong nodded, "Yes! Her husband is Wang Liyong, what's the matter? Do you have something to do with him? But he has been dead for a long time. What can you do with him?"
Deng Xingming swallowed nervously. He stared at Lu Xiuhong with his eyes piercing and asked again, "Did he have twins? He gave them away 25 years ago."
Lv Xiuhong felt a little uncomfortable being stared at by him, but this educated youth was very serious about his work, so she answered, "Yes! They are twins, a boy and a girl. There was a disaster in Henan that year, and we were also affected. All the food was transferred there, and every household had very little food. They had many children, so they had no choice but to give the children away."
Deng Xingming felt his eyes were empty and his mind was in a mess. He didn't even bother to say thank you and turned around and left.
He confirmed the content of the letter, but didn't know what to do.
Aunt Qian is his and Yunping's biological mother, so how should he treat her
Although she was very kind and took good care of him and Yun Ping, she was the one who abandoned them after all! How could he recognize her again
"Hello? What's wrong with you?" Qian Shulan saw Deng Xingming walking forward with lifeless eyes from a distance, and he didn't even realize that he almost fell into the canal.
This canal is not dry anymore, it is now full of river water. If someone who can't swim falls in, they will probably drown.
She pulled the man to the middle of the road and waved her hand in front of Deng Xingming.
Deng Xingming, who had come back to his senses, was looking at Qian Shulan with a complicated expression.
Should he recognize her? But she abandoned him.
But she was forced to do so. If she didn't send them away, some of them would probably starve to death!
"Are you okay?" Qian Shulan saw that there was something wrong in his eyes and looked at him with some concern.
Deng Xingming came to his senses and pushed her away, strode forward, as fast as an arrow shot from a bow, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Qian Shulan was confused by his action! What happened
Just then, Lu Xiuhong came over carrying a basket of eggs.
When she saw that Deng Xingming didn't even sweep up the chicken shit and actually ran away, she stamped her feet in anger and said hatefully, "These kids from the city are just lazy and don't work. It's really outrageous!"
Qian Shulan was still confused. "I don't know what happened to him just now. He actually ran away."
Lu Xiuhong suddenly thought of what happened just now. "Don't you think this kid is funny? He actually asked me who Wang Liyong is?"
Qian Shulan's whole body froze, and she didn't come back to her senses for a long time. She suddenly had a bad guess. How could Deng Xingming, an educated youth from Shanghai, know Wang Liyong, who had been dead for so many years
Qian Shulan narrowed her eyes slightly, "What else did he ask you?"
Lu Xiuhong thought for a moment and said, "Oh, and asked if you were giving a pair of twins to someone else?"
As soon as she finished speaking, she suddenly remembered that this educated youth and her sister seemed to be twins, and were around 25 years old.
so...
Lu Xiuhong suddenly had a bold guess. Her eyes lit up and she asked gossipingly, "Third sister-in-law, do you think that asking this means that the children who were taken away are them?"
If even Lu Xiuhong could think of it, Qian Shulan could naturally think of it as well.
So the secret was out.
After being shocked, Qian Shulan actually felt relieved.
This secret was like a sword of Damocles hanging over her head, and she didn't know when it would fall.
Seeing her reaction, Lu Xiuhong immediately realized that she must have known about this all along, and patted her arm, "Congratulations, Third Sister-in-law. It's really not easy for you to recognize the child you took away."
In those days, if a child was taken away, it was almost like he was born in vain.
Qian Shulan forced a smile from her face. Congratulations? Where did the joy come from
The way Deng Xingming looked at her just now didn't seem like he wanted to recognize her.
After saying goodbye to Lu Xiuhong, Qian Shulan turned and left the canal.
When Deng Xingming found Deng Yunping, she was resting at home.
She had just been to the chicken farm to feed the chicks, and she only needed to go again in the afternoon.
Seeing Deng Xingming, the smile on Deng Yunping's face disappeared immediately. She turned her head to face him and said in a bad tone, "If you have anything to say, just tell me! Shouldn't you be with your precious wife now? Do you still have time to pay attention to me?"
Deng Xingming didn't care about his sister's cold face. He stuffed the letter in his hand into his sister's hand. Seeing that she wanted to struggle, he quickly said, "This is a letter from my adoptive mother."
Hearing this, Deng Yunping struggled even harder, and she subconsciously wanted to throw it away.
Deng Xingming held it down, his voice a little hoarse, "Sister, there is information about our biological parents in here."
Deng Yunping paused as she was about to throw the letter away. She struggled for a long time before finally mustering up the courage to open the letter.
Then her expression was exactly the same as Deng Xingming's, "So, Aunt Qian is our mother?"
Deng Yunping was shocked at first, and then excited. Her eyes turned red and tears flowed uncontrollably.
"She is our mother?" Deng Yunping grabbed Deng Xingming's arm and kept asking.
Deng Yunping didn't let go of her hand until Deng Xingming nodded heavily. She flew around like a stray fly.
Seeing how excited she was, Deng Xingming hurried forward and hugged her, "Yun Ping, are you okay?"
Deng Yunping wiped away her tears, but there were so many tears in her eyes that she wiped them several times but they still kept flowing.
"I'm fine!"
"Yun Ping, do you want to recognize her?"
Deng Yunping nodded heavily, her voice choked with sobs, "I want to recognize her. From childhood to adulthood, no one has ever been so kind to me as she is." She turned her head to glance at Deng Xingming who had remained silent, "You don't want to recognize her?"
Deng Xingming didn't say anything, just glanced at his sister, turned around and left!
The author has something to say: The second update will be at 20:00 in the evening...