When they arrived at Qian Weihan's house, Zhengjun played with Qian Lanhua and her brother according to Qian Shulan's instructions.
Qian Shulan grabbed a few candies and gave each of them a few, then put the things she had brought on the table.
Qian Weihan was not at home, but Qian Minghua was.
When he saw his aunt coming to the door with something, he was a little surprised.
In the past, let alone giving him things, she never treated me kindly when we met on the street.
Of course, he didn't blame the other party. After all, it was he who took up the quota of his eldest aunt's family.
He moved a stool for Qian Shulan to sit on, and asked Zheng Xiaohua to pour water for his aunt.
Zheng Xiaohua poured a cup of sugar water. In this era, if you go to someone's house as a guest, the more sugar the host adds, the more honored the guest is. However, Zheng Xiaohua didn't add sugar to this bowl of water, and Qian Shulan didn't care. Anyway, she didn't like to drink sugar water.
After she put the things on the table, she told Qian Minghua the purpose of her visit, "Minghua, your nephews are almost old enough to get married and have children. Please help me approve the housing plots."
Qian Minghua initially thought that his aunt wanted to split the family, but it turned out that she wanted to build the house without splitting the family. It was also because his aunt had always held the power of the family firmly, so how could she have the idea of splitting the family? He was really confused.
"We have had more children in recent years, so we have been granted a larger housing plot. When we split up in the future, we don't have to tear down the house and rebuild it."
Qian Minghua thought about it and felt that it made some sense. Since his aunt had already made the decision, he couldn't say anything and agreed to the grant of the housing land.
"Okay, I agree."
Qian Shulan added, "Let's approve the housing site on the vacant land next to our house." The Wang family lives next to the team's private plot. Now the housing sites will occupy the private plot, which is unavoidable. Fortunately, that piece of land is the poorest place, because the terrain is too high, only vegetables can be grown. Now the vegetables in the private plot next to the Wang family have been harvested, so it doesn't delay anything.
If they wanted to argue, she would then exchange her own land with theirs. Anyway, it would be a big pot meal in the future, and the private plots would be taken over by the collective, so it didn't matter whether they planted anything or not.
Qian Minghua nodded in agreement without hesitation.
Qian Shulan talked about the matter of issuing a permit to cut down trees again, and Qian Minghua had no objection and agreed.
And he also promised to help cut down trees tomorrow.
After Qian Shulan left her eldest brother's house and returned home, she told her family about the approval of the residential land.
Everyone in the family is very excited. We are going to build a house. How can we not be happy
Qian Shulan was very happy to see that everyone was eager to try and was very excited, so she told Li Chunhua and Zhou Xuemei to get up early the next morning to make steamed cakes.
Farmers only eat two meals a day during the slack season, and Qian Shulan didn't dare to ask for special treatment, so she asked her family to steam more cakes and keep them as a backup, in case the child was hungry and could fill his stomach.
The staple food is still sweet potatoes. However, there are more varieties of porridge, and Qian Shulan took some rice.
This made my family very happy. They rarely see rice in the north. Firstly, they don't grow rice, and secondly, it's very expensive, more expensive than white flour at three cents per pound.
Qian Shulan told me that the rice was a welfare gift from Wang Shouzhi, and he specifically asked her to bring it back for her family.
Everyone had a complicated look on their faces. There was no one in the family who didn't have feelings for Wang Shouzhi.
The old lady loved this son the most, but he had not returned home for so many years after he went to the city, and she had never even come to see him. People in the village said that the old lady's youngest son was an ungrateful person.
But who would have thought that he would actually be willing to give rice to the old lady as a filial gift. It's really strange.
However, although everyone felt a little strange, they all had a little bit of a favorable impression of Wang Shouzhi.
This was also Qian Shulan's idea. Parents all hoped that their children could love each other and help each other. Although she was not the biological mother of these people, if the original body saw her doing this, she would definitely have a good impression of her, and maybe her coefficient score could be increased at that time.
Qian Shulan didn't let Sun Daqin eat the whole day, but she continued to work. She locked him in the room during mealtime to reflect on his mistakes.
After being hungry for a day, Sun Daqin felt weak all over, as if she had no bones, and was listless.
Qian Shulan asked Wang Shouren to go back to sleep, and asked Sun Daqin to sit on the edge of the bed. She looked at her for a long time, which made Sun Daqin's scalp tingle.
"Do you know you're wrong?"
Sun Daqin replied quietly, "I know I was wrong."
Qian Shulan hummed and said with a straight face, "Look up and look at me."
Sun Daqin had no choice but to straighten her back and look towards the old lady. Meeting the old lady's eyes that seemed to see through everything, she couldn't help but feel a little flustered.
Qian Shulan looked at her, her voice gentle and with a hint of smile, and asked a question that was irrelevant, "Big Boss's Wife, do you think you are a blessed person?"
Sun Daqin was stunned for a moment, not quite understanding what the old lady meant. However, she thought she was very blessed. Who could give birth to three sons in a row like her? What a blessing! She gritted her teeth and nodded.
Qian Shulan sneered, looked at Sun Daqin and said firmly, "No, you are not blessed! You are the most unlucky person in the family!"
Sun Daqin was shocked by Qian Shulan's words. She wanted to refute her, but she was afraid of angering her mother-in-law and not letting her eat, so she lowered her head in anger.
Qian Shulan looked at her and saw her hands clenched into fists, as if she was suppressing her anger.
She smiled with satisfaction and continued, "For us women, our blessings are either given by men or by children. You know how the eldest brother treats you without me telling you. Let's not talk about that for now, let's talk about Zhengkang and the other two. You see, I punished you by not eating for a day, and I even had someone cook a few more sweet potatoes at home, but none of your three children dared to give you sweet potatoes to eat."
Although Qian Shulan didn't care about children and men, they were the most important to Sun Daqin. If she wanted to change Sun Daqin, she had to figure out what she valued the most. It was undoubtedly a considerate man and a filial son.
Sun Daqin raised her head suddenly. When she was so hungry that she felt dizzy and dizzy, she did ask Zhengkang and others to help her get food, but they said they were afraid that grandma would see it.
"Don't say I didn't allow you to do that. After breakfast, I went to the private plot with the eldest brother and the others to measure the homestead, but I wasn't at home. You said you were afraid I would see this, but that's not true at all." Although she was not at home during the day, Xiaolian was very shrewd and liked to talk nonsense. As soon as she came back, she told her about it.
Sun Daqin's eyes widened, and she obviously couldn't bear the blow. She just wanted to stand up and settle the score with the three brats, but she hadn't eaten for a day, and she felt a little dizzy as soon as she stood up, so she had no choice but to sit back down.
Qian Shulan was afraid that she would starve to death and then have to spend money to feed her. She shouted outside, "Chunhua, bring over the sweet potatoes that we saved last night."
Li Chunhua brought it over immediately. It was her turn to be in charge of the kitchen today, so naturally she had the key.
So, she quickly brought over the sweet potatoes that were hot in the pot.
Sun Daqin didn't care about anything else and grabbed the sweet potato and stuffed it into her mouth.
Li Chunhua felt a little relieved when she saw that Sun Daqin, who looked so terrible, looked like a starving ghost. A slight smile appeared on her lips. She turned around and saw her mother-in-law staring at her intently.
Li Chunhua was so frightened that she lowered her head quickly, her face flushed with guilt, as if it was on fire. Qian Shulan smiled at Li Chunhua and said, "Have you written all the characters that Zhengkang taught you tonight?"
When Li Chunhua heard her mother-in-law ask this, she felt a little worried. She didn't know what was going on. Those characters were so difficult to write. She tried dozens of times but still couldn't write them well.
Either an arm or a leg is missing.
Seeing her face flushed, Qian Shulan asked, "Where are Xiaomei and the others?"
Seeing that her mother-in-law didn't hold her back, Li Chunhua breathed a sigh of relief and said hurriedly, "Xiaomei and Xiaolian learn very quickly. Xiaohe is a little lazy and doesn't like to learn."
Qian Shulan knew that her child had poor self-control, and although there was a job ahead, it was too difficult after all. It was really not that easy to find.
Everyone still prefers to see the immediate benefits.
Qian Shulan felt that she should find a new way to get them moving.
Alas, they are all cows and they won’t move unless you beat them. It’s really frustrating!
Li Chunhua saw that her mother-in-law seemed to be thinking about something, so she hurriedly said, "Mom, if you are okay, I will go out."
Qian Shulan waved her hand.
Li Chunhua quickly slipped away. When she came out, she saw Zhou Xuemei coming out of the main room. The two bumped into each other.
Zhou Xuemei held a piece of flowered cloth in her hand. "Third sister-in-law, can you help me check if the size of this coat is wrong? I really don't dare to cut it, for fear that the cloth will be ruined if I cut it."
All the clothes in Lao Wang's house were made by Li Chunhua. Her mother used to be a maid in a wealthy family, working in the sewing room. Although she was not as good as the old tailor, her skills were much better than those of the country girls.
Li Chunhua learned from her mother, so her skills are quite good.
Li Chunhua followed Zhou Xuemei to her room and measured again, but the size was too small. She was a little surprised and asked, "Fourth sister-in-law, are you making this dress for Xiaotao?"
Zhou Xuemei nodded and said, "I have enough clothes to wear, but I feel sorry for Xiaotao. In the past few years, she had to pick up our old clothes." She was not willing to take the clothes her mother gave her and make them smaller for Xiaotao.
So, every time she wore the clothes for a season, she would have them altered to be smaller.
Li Chunhua glanced at Xiao Tao. She was sitting quietly on the bed, watching them quietly, not making any noise. This child was too quiet.
Li Chunhua also felt sorry for Zhou Xuemei. However, she was not much better off than Zhou Xuemei. Although her daughter was healthy, she would be someone else's after she got married. When the time came, she would be like Zhou Xuemei, without anyone to take care of her in her old age.
They are the same, and neither is worse than the other.
In the room, Sun Daqin ate three sweet potatoes in a row without drinking a sip of water, and she choked.
She wanted to get up and pour some water, but Qian Shulan stopped her, "Don't you have three sons? Try to order them around!"
She had to let Sun Daqin know how much of a failure she was!
Sun Daqin raised her buttocks and pressed them back down. She just couldn't believe it. As a mother, she couldn't control her son
She yelled at the top of her voice, "Zhengkang, Zhengjun, Zhengguo, all of you come here!"
This loud voice could blow the roof off. Qian Shulan's scalp felt numb.
She said to the smug Sun Daqin, "It's so loud, as long as they are still at home, they will definitely hear it." She glanced out the window. It was pitch black outside. How could they not be at home at this time
Sun Daqin nodded affirmatively, "They are at home."
But, one minute passed, two minutes passed, . . .
It was so long that Qian Shulan's legs were numb. She picked up the alarm clock on the bedside table and said calmly, "Oh, ten minutes have passed. Do you want to shout again?"
Sun Daqin was a little embarrassed, but she still shouted twice.
This time, Zhengkang was brought back by Wang Shouren.
"You are shouting so loudly to summon ghosts!" During the day, Wang Shouren was busy measuring the foundation and going door to door to find people to cut trees tomorrow. He was exhausted and lay in bed to sleep, but his wife kept screaming in his mother's room. He was so tired that he couldn't even open his eyelids. He thought something happened to his mother, so he brought his eldest son over with her.
Who would have thought that his mother was fine! Then why is this woman yelling? She is really going to tear the roof off the house if she is not beaten for a day!
Sun Daqin didn't want to answer Wang Shouren's question. She stood up and grabbed Chao Zhengkang to her side. She had been waiting for too long and she was getting angry. "Mom called you so loudly, but you were dumb and didn't even answer."
Zhengkang pursed his lips, frowned, and waved his mother's hand away impatiently, "Mom, everyone is sleeping at night, why are you running to my grandma's room instead of sleeping?"
When Sun Daqin heard her son was sleeping, she didn't blame him. Just when she wanted him to go back to sleep, she heard her mother-in-law cough. She hurriedly said, "Hurry up and pour me a glass of water. I'm thirsty!"
Zhengkang looked at his mother as if he had seen a ghost, broke free from her arms, jumped far away, and was about to walk out, "Mom, you don't have arms or legs, won't you fall down by yourself? I'm sleepy, I want to go to sleep!"
After saying that, without waiting for Sun Daqin to answer, he passed directly under Wang Shouren's armpit, opened the door, and ran out like a gust of wind.
This series of actions lasted less than ten seconds and left Sun Daqin stunned.
Qian Shulan smiled and said to Wang Shouren, "Boss, I'm thirsty. Go and pour me a bowl of milk."
Wang Shouren walked out immediately.
Qian Shulan clearly saw Sun Daqin's back stiffen for a moment.
Soon, Wang Shouren came in. But he only had a bowl of water in his hand.
He seemed not to have heard Sun Daqin telling Zhengkang that she was thirsty.
Qian Shulan took the bowl and asked casually, "Your wife is thirsty too, why didn't you pour her a bowl?"
Hearing this, Sun Daqin moved.
Wang Shouren said as if it was a matter of course, "It has always been the wife who serves the man, how can it be the other way around?"
Qian Shulan almost knocked over the bowl she was holding! Oh my god! Not only is he a mama's boy, but he's also a straight-cancer man
She looked at Sun Daqin with some sympathy. Sun Daqin, who had been sitting on the kang, jumped up after hearing this, pushed away Wang Shouren who was standing in front of her, and ran out.
Qian Shulan ignored her and patted the edge of the kang and said to Wang Shouren, "Boss, you are wrong to think like that. Although your wife has many shortcomings, she gave birth to three children for you after all. It is your duty as a husband to be more considerate to her."
Wang Shouren frowned, "Mom, didn't you say that? A wife is for bearing children, and if she doesn't obey, she will be beaten. If you treat her too well, she will quarrel with you. Look at the fourth son's wife, she always orders the fourth son around, making the fourth son more and more nagging, without any manliness at all."
Qian Shulan wanted to curse her mother. Was she going to have to run on the road of hitting herself in the face from now on? She suppressed the strange feeling in her heart and said with a straight face, "Mother was wrong before! Anyway, you should be a little more considerate to Daqin. If she doesn't listen, you can scare her, but don't really hit her. She is your wife, not your slave. It's not good to hurt her."
If you want to reform Sun Daqin, you have to give her a sweet reward after a beating. Anyway, she only needs to talk, and she doesn't have to do anything. Moreover, this will make Sun Daqin realize that her husband treats her well because he listens to his mother. Look, you can't order your son around, but he can. You are such a failure as a mother. This is called crushing her psychologically and making her feel in awe.
Of course, Qian Shulan really didn't like men beating their wives, because it reminded her of her grandmother. Wang Shouren had such a low sense of right and wrong, so this factor could not be ruled out, so he had to change his habit of beating people at the slightest disagreement.
Wang Shouren saw that his mother was angry, so he could only nod and agree reluctantly. The two chatted for a while, and Wang Shouren came out, closed the door gently, looked at the dim moonlight outside, and sighed heavily.
His mother really does whatever she wants.
He rubbed his face, thought about what his mother had just said, and poured a bowl of hot water.
He held the hot water and quietly opened the door.
The room is not big, but it has two beds.
Zhengkang and Zhengguo slept on the small kang, while Wang Shouren, Sun Daqin and Zhengjun slept on the big kang.
When Wang Shouren walked to his kang, he found his wife sleeping with her back to him. He pushed her gently with his hand, afraid of waking up his son, and lowered his voice, "Wife, aren't you thirsty? I've got you a bowl of water."
Sun Daqin, who was facing inward, certainly didn't fall asleep. She was almost quarreling with her man because of what he said just now. She wanted to quarrel with him, but she didn't dare to.
She could only return home feeling frustrated. When she heard him coming in, she quickly closed her eyes and pretended to be asleep.
But, who would have thought that he actually knew to pour water for himself.
This was really new. When did he become considerate? Did he know that she was angry with him
Sun Daqin raised a smile at the corner of her lips, but she tried hard to hide it. She pretended nothing had happened, got up, took the bowl from her man, put it to her mouth and took a big sip.
After drinking half of it, she suddenly felt something was wrong. How could she not know what kind of temper her man had? He was just a cow, and he didn't know how to read other people's faces. How could he tell that she was angry? Why didn't she believe it!
She asked tentatively, "Why did you pour water for me to drink?"
Wang Shouren did not hide it, "My mother made me fall down."
Sun Daqin paused holding the bowl, not knowing whether to drink or not. She felt a little aggrieved. She had to ask her mother-in-law to ask for a sip of water poured by her own man. What kind of life was she living
She sighed and asked casually, "What else did your mother say to you?"
Wang Shouren was a man who was inflexible, and he either kept silent or told the truth, so he repeated everything Qian Shulan had said to him.
After hearing this, Sun Daqin's face was filled with surprise that was hard to conceal.
Is this still her mother-in-law
It is said that men should be considerate to their wives
Why is she so unconvinced? She looked at her man suspiciously. Could he be deliberately saying something nice to his mother
Wang Shouren didn't know what she was thinking. Seeing that she kept asking questions, he didn't even drink the remaining water. He urged her, "Hurry up, I have to put the bowl back. I'm so sleepy."
The room was too narrow, and even after putting two kangs in it, there was no room for a table. So the bowls had to be put back in the main room.
Sun Daqin quickly collected her thoughts and drank the remaining water.
After Wang Shouren left, Sun Daqin lay back on the kang.
After a while, Wang Shouren came back. After taking off his shoes and getting on the kang, he soon began to snore and fell asleep.
But Sun Daqin couldn't fall asleep.
She was hungry for a whole day, so she forced herself to sleep for a whole day. Otherwise, staying awake would be really uncomfortable.
At this time, she was full and not sleepy at all.
Thinking about what my mother-in-law said today, is she a failed mother
She shook her head again. It was impossible. How could she fail? She was Sun Daqin, who had given birth to three sons in a row. Who in the village was more blessed than her
She felt like there were two little people fighting in her head.
One said: "You called Zhengkang several times, but he didn't get up. He definitely doesn't have you in his heart."
Another said: Nonsense, he didn't get up because he fell asleep and didn't hear it.
One said: "Don't fool yourself. You woke up your husband. They live in the same room. It doesn't make sense to wake up one but not the other."
Another said: Maybe Zhengkang was sleeping too soundly. He didn't do it on purpose.
. . .
Sun Daqin felt like she was going crazy. She pulled the quilt over her head and forced herself to continue sleeping.
The author has something to say: I don’t know if this transformation method is acceptable, it’s just making the best use of it…