It was getting dark when the blacksmith finished all the tools Meng Li wanted. Maybe he couldn't see clearly when he got home. His mother-in-law kept complaining to Meng Li:
"There are still people at home waiting for dinner, why are you waiting so long to cook in the dark?"
Meng Li said: "It's already so late, this is what I can do."
She also didn't expect that the blacksmith's skills and equipment were so poor that it would take so much time.
It seems that Ren Da's legs will have to get up tomorrow. It's too late tonight and there's no light.
The mother-in-law complained all the way, which made Meng Li a little upset, so he blocked her words again. Fortunately, when he got home, he saw San Yatou and the others cooking.
It was made by Ren Daoying and the children. They washed the wild vegetable roots and boiled them in the chicken soup. The noodles were also cooked in it. The portion of chicken left for the second girl was placed there. The third girl and the others were very greedy but didn't eat it. This was okay. Meng Li was quite satisfied.
Seeing that the children had almost finished cooking, my mother-in-law felt better.
During the meal, Ren Da asked about the second girl again, and Meng Li asked the third girl. The third girl said there was no movement, so Meng Li stopped asking. Let's see how long she can survive.
The mother-in-law scolded her hard and disliked her, but at the moment she felt pity for the second girl. She said, "Call her out. She's still sleeping tonight."
Meng Li said: "I was the one who said you didn't teach her, and I taught her and you came to defend her. Mother, this is really embarrassing for me."
"Don't go too far, right?" The mother-in-law glanced at Ren Da and expected Ren Da to speak for her. Who knew Ren Da said: "Mom, just let Er Yatou and her mother teach her, and she won't starve to death."
The mother-in-law said irritably: "Forget it, don't worry, that girl asked for it."
Thinking about that girl's behavior and words, it makes people feel disgusted, but also thinking that she is a living person.
Everyone ate in silence. After dinner, Meng Li arranged his two sons in Ren Da's room, and went to the room where the third girl and mother-in-law lived. Meng Li didn't want to lie with Ren Da at first, so he went there. I was sleeping, but who would have thought that when I got here, my mother-in-law would talk about it for half the night.
She kept talking about the hardships of life over and over again, even when the three girls fell asleep and woke up, she kept talking.
Meng Li said helplessly: "If you can change the situation by saying it here, I don't mind if you say it."
"Aren't you going to tell others? Do you dislike me for eating food when I am old and useless?" the mother-in-law asked through the curtain.
Meng Li: "I don't dare."
In the plot, the mother-in-law committed suicide because she felt that living was a waste of air and food.
The mother-in-law snorted.
"Go to sleep. I've been listening to you complain all night. No matter how bad the life is, you have to live it. The more you think about it, the worse it becomes. It would be better if you don't think about it." Meng Li closed his eyes with a look of helplessness.
It was such a wrong decision to sleep here. How could she make such an unwise choice.
I originally wanted to close my five senses and go to sleep, but I was worried that I wouldn't be able to hear what happened to Er Yatou, so I gave up. However, the mother-in-law who doesn't close her five senses is too annoying, and she seems to want to finish all the suffering in this life.
She couldn't say so much to her two children, and she wouldn't let go if she was finally caught.
"You think I'm annoying again. A woman like you is not filial at all. I shouldn't have let Ren Da marry you back then." The mother-in-law still didn't want to let Meng Li go.
Meng Li: "Did I insist on marrying you back then? It wasn't your family who begged me to marry you."
"That's not because other girls are unwilling to marry. The conditions of our two families match." The mother-in-law said angrily.
Meng Li: "......"
She closed her mouth, sat up silently, and began to practice. No matter what her mother-in-law said, she remained silent. It was too cold lying on the bed, and she hadn't been warm after being covered with a quilt for so long. She could get warmer by practicing.
But she was sitting here practicing quietly, and the mother-in-law seemed to know that she was not asleep, so she kept talking, which made Meng Li's head buzz.
There is a difference between the sound of breathing when a person is asleep and when she is not asleep. This mother-in-law has good ears and knows that she is not asleep, and does not care that she does not respond to her.
This is how people's expectations of others will be lowered unconsciously. If the client listened to her mother-in-law talking about these things and said a few words of comfort to coax her, but Meng Li not only refused to say nice things, but also refuted her, she would Don't expect Meng Li to talk, it would be nice to just listen quietly.
Saying she was tired, saying enough, she had been causing trouble to Meng Li for most of the night, and finally stopped. After she stopped, Meng Li stopped practicing. There were many problems with this body, and the practice was a bit slow, and the Qi was not introduced into the body.
In the morning, Meng Li woke up and saw that her mother-in-law was still sleeping soundly. Thinking of her staying up half the night last night, she felt inexplicably angry and called her directly:
"Mom, get up."
The mother-in-law opened her eyes, looked at Meng Li, was silent for a few seconds, and asked, "What?"
Meng Li said: "It's okay, mother, you can go to sleep."
It was fine to wake her mother-in-law up, but she was so angry that she had stayed up half the night last night. She knew that her mother-in-law did not sleep well and it would be difficult to fall asleep as long as she woke her up.
The mother-in-law closed her eyes again, opened them again, sat up and stared at Meng Li: "Do you have intentions?"
Meng Li snickered in his heart, why did you refuse to stop last night
"Mom, how dare I do this? You have a good sleep. I won't go out this morning. I'll dig the ground," she said.
The wild vegetable roots I found yesterday are enough to eat this morning, and there is still some extra left there. I will dig in the ground while it is still dark, and when it gets bright, I will come back to deal with Ren Da's affairs when there is light.
After saying that, she went out. She didn't listen to what her mother-in-law muttered. It was so cold. When she opened the door, the cold wind blew on her face and she felt a stinging sensation.
My whole body has never been warm except when I ate meat yesterday, and has always been in a state of numbness and stiffness. It will be much warmer in another half month, and in another half month the high officials will come.
By the way, I used my mental energy to look at Er Yatou. She was lying in a ball on the bed of her two brothers. She was cold and hungry. She was trembling all over and her eyelashes were trembling. She looked quite pitiful. She seemed to be awake. He was just trying hard to induce sleepiness.
Meng Li didn't take the initiative to ask her anything. He fetched two buckets of water and put them at home before going out. When he got to the field, he looked at the vegetable piles on the ground. If they hadn't expected these old vegetable roots to sprout new vegetable leaves, they would have Just get it and eat it.
Now there are no new vegetable leaves growing at all. Each vegetable root has two or three old, yellow leaves full of insect holes. Meng Li pulled up the vegetable roots and threw them into his basket. With these vegetable roots, he will spend the next few days. No need to look for wild vegetables anymore.
It was daybreak after pulling out the vegetable roots in the two fields, and the ground had not yet been dug. When carrying the heavy load of vegetable roots home, my mother-in-law sat outside and mended.
The mother-in-law was not idle every day. There were many children at home, and clothes were wasted. Anything that was broken had to be repaired in time to prevent it from getting worse. When she saw Meng Li coming back with a basket full of vegetable roots, she sighed and said, "It's really hard to eat these." We’re running out of food.”