The morning light quietly lit up the night sky in early spring, and the chickens in the yard began to crow with their necks stretched. Yu Xiaocao's twin sister, Yu Xiaolian, put on her clothes lightly.
She slept a lot during the day, Yu Xiaocao woke up as soon as her sister moved. She rubbed her eyes, saw through the window paper that it was still early outside, and said in a daze, "Why do you wake up so early?"
Yu Xiaolian yawned and put on her patched coat, glanced at Liu Shi who was sleeping soundly on the big kang, and said in a low voice, "Did you wake up? Mother went to bed late yesterday. I will do more work so that mother can sleep more." Rest for a while. It's still early, you can sleep a little longer... "
Xiaocao looked at the thin back of this eight-year-old little loli, this modern primary school student who is still acting like a spoiled child in the arms of her parents, in this family, has already done more than half of the labor force.
In the yard, grandma bluffed again: "What time is it? Haven't cooked yet! It's justified if someone in the family is injured, can you do everything?"
This person was also looking at the dishes, seeing Liu's weakness, and Yu Hai was obedient, holding the big and small tightly in his hands. The men are better when they are at home, probably because they are a little scruples about the old man.
Hearing Zhang's howling again early in the morning, Yu Xiaocao frowned impatiently. An eccentric grandma, an aunt who is picky all day long, and a greedy and lazy eldest brother who always bullies them... In her previous life, she lived alone with her younger siblings. I've never been so frustrated.
In the past few days, apart from doing heavy housework, Mrs. Liu has not closed her eyes at night by her daughter's side. Originally thin and weak, only a handful of bones remained, and his face was so pale that there was no trace of blood, and now his eyes were thick black.
Hearing the yelling and scolding from outside, Mrs. Liu got up in a hurry, but when she got off the kang, she staggered a few steps before she stood still.
Yu Xiaocao hurriedly got off the kang to support her mother, let her sit down on the edge of the kang, and said: "Mother, you are not in good health, please rest for a while. If you miss a day of cooking, they will not be hungry! If you are tired and sick Well, dad still can't feel so bad..."
According to observations, Yu Hai, a cheap father, not only dotes on his children, but also loves his wife. As long as he is at home, he always grabs the work from Mrs. Liu. It's a pity that he fishes, sells and hunts every day, and spends too little time at home. Otherwise, Liu's body wouldn't be so dilapidated.
"Damn girl, who did you learn this weird talk from!" Liu Muyun's yellow and thin face was stained with a layer of rouge.
"Xiao Lian can't do it by herself, let me go and have a look..." Liu Muyun raised his foot and was about to walk out the door, but was pulled by his daughter and forced on the kang.
"Don't pay attention to grandma, she has menopausal syndrome! What is she scolding, you go in one ear and out the other, don't take it to heart..." Yu Xiaocao paused, then suddenly raised her voice, and screamed: "Mother, mother! What's wrong with you!! Grandma, come quickly, my mother has fainted!!"
Liu Muyun sat on the edge of the Kang, staring blankly at her daughter, but didn't react. Yu Xiaocao hurriedly lowered her voice and said, "Mother, you're fainted from exhaustion. Still lying down?"
After the youngest daughter woke up from an injury, she became smarter, and her temper became a lot weirder. I don't know who I learned from. Liu Muyun nodded her small forehead, and lay down cooperatively.
As soon as Liu Muyun closed her eyes, Mrs. Zhang opened the door and walked in, muttering: "What's going on? No one in the family can worry, Xiaocao, why did your mother pass out?"
"Mother has not closed her eyes for several days in order to take care of me. Just now, grandma called out that no one was cooking. Mother got up in a hurry, and she fell to the ground and was unconscious. I finally helped her to the kang...Grandma, Doctor You please take a look. I'm so afraid that my mother won't wake up, woo woo woo..." Yu Xiaocao covered her face and pretended to cry.
Mrs. Zhang frowned, seeing the second daughter-in-law who was so skinny, she couldn't help muttering in her heart: This sick and crooked second daughter-in-law's family, can't she be really sick? If you are really tired and sick, you have to spend money!
She said to Yu Xiaocao: "Doctor please, your mother was too tired and fell asleep, don't be surprised. Don't disturb your mother, let her sleep more!"
When I went out and heard the eldest daughter-in-law still gesticulating and saying that no one was cooking, Mrs. Zhang finally couldn't help it: "Eat, eat, eat! If you eat less, you won't starve to death!! Look at the chaos in this house, and how can you eat?" I don’t think it’s enough!! I’ve been arguing endlessly in the early morning, and if I want to eat early, I can do it myself, didn’t you see that Xiao Lian is busy?”
Aunt Yu Caidie came out of her room silently, took a bundle of firewood from the firewood pile, and was about to go into the kitchen to light a fire. Mrs. Zhang didn't want her daughter to cook, so she took a broom head and smacked it on the arm of the eldest daughter-in-law who was leaning against the wall to bask in the sun: "You have no eyesight, why don't you cook! Let you A teenage sister-in-law serving you?"
Yu Xiaocao was speechless, feeling that your daughter is a daughter, and other people's daughters are not daughters? Yu Xiaolian is only eight years old, much younger than your daughter. You can't see it from morning to night, but your daughter feels distressed when she hugs a bundle of firewood
The eldest daughter-in-law clutched her beaten arm, mumbled into the kitchen, lit up the fire unwillingly, and began to make breakfast cursing.
Seeing her mother lying on the kang and falling asleep after a while, Yu Xiaocao tiptoed out the door, closed the door carefully, and took a basin to help Xiaolian feed the chickens.
Yu Xiaolian snatched it quickly, glanced at the gauze on her head, and said in a low voice: "Your injury is still not healed, how can I let you work? Are you hungry? You sit down for a while, and breakfast will be ready in a while!" "
The eldest daughter-in-law hasn't touched the stove for many years, and it's really hard for her to break a sweat for the whole family's breakfast. During this period, only two meals are eaten a day, usually around ten in the morning and four in the afternoon. It was almost twelve o'clock at noon, and breakfast was not served.
Drinking the mushy bean soup and the dried noodle cakes that were almost choking to death, the boss Yu Dashan, who came back from fishing, couldn't help but get angry: "How can people eat this rice? And noodle cakes, hard It's like a stone, can it still be eaten?"
"Ask your daughter-in-law! Ask her to cook a meal. She has been in the kitchen since Sishichu (nine o'clock in the morning), and after almost two hours of tossing, she came up with such a thing!" Mrs. Zhang broke a piece of dough in the kitchen Chewing hard in his mouth, he took two mouthfuls of bean soup before choking on it.
Yu's bean soup is made from soybean flour mixed with a small amount of millet flour. It already had a beany smell, but when it was boiled, it tasted very sour.
"Where is the second daughter-in-law? Why didn't you come to eat?" Old Yu frowned, put down the bread in his hand, and asked.
Yu Xiaocao hurriedly said: "My mother fainted from exhaustion, she is lying on the kang and hasn't woken up yet!"
"What? Your mother fainted?? I'll go and have a look!" Yu Hai didn't eat any food, and hurriedly strode towards the house.