Li Mingqin was stunned.
She didn't even expect to be able to ask her mother-in-law for money. She only thought that her mother-in-law was cruel, but she didn't expect to fight for it herself.
Li Mingyun couldn't help frowning, "Mingqin, you couple are really honest."
"Then what? I'm asking my mother-in-law for money with Taozi?" Li Mingqin couldn't help but get up and wanted to go home to find her mother-in-law.
"Second aunt, forget it."
Mei Xiaoran pulled her back again, "If you go back now, your second uncle has already left. Maybe he thought you two agreed to split the family like this."
"what is it now?"
Li Mingqin panicked when he thought of the days to come. There was nothing. What do the children eat and drink
"It's very easy to handle. You will eat in the mother-in-law's house in the future."
Mei Xiaoran sat down and grabbed a handful of peanuts that her father had just brought back from the country.
"What's the matter? My mother-in-law is so overbearing. Now that we are separated, she won't let us follow her to eat and drink, and maybe even beat me out."
Li Mingqin became more and more worried as she thought about it. She was two years younger than Li Mingyun, but she looked older than her elder sister after years of hard work, and now she looks a few years older.
"Just tell your mother-in-law that the autumn harvest is about to come. If she doesn't want to control your family's food, you won't help her harvest the crops."
Mei Xiaoran had already figured it out. She didn't know the bad deeds of the second aunt in the previous life. She wanted to control Granny Zhou. There was no way, but the second aunt couldn't turn this corner.
Li Mingqin's eyes widened, "That's all right? My mother-in-law will listen?"
"Why don't you listen? You have been married to the Zhou family for so many years. You and Taozi did not do all the work in the field. Your mother-in-law hasn't been in the field for many years. Let her go to work in the field. Crying to death?"
Li Mingyun also agreed with the girl’s view, she even thought of more, "Your two uncles are also people who have never been to the land, and now their three mothers have to collect a few acres of land for the marriage, they must be more worried than you are now... You just talked about the separation of the front foot, and the back foot is about to harvest in autumn. I think your mother-in-law is now too embarrassed to let the two of you help with the work. The separation has caused you two to be pitted. How can she open her mouth?"
The sad look on Li Mingqin's face finally eased, "Well, I will tell my mother-in-law when I go back."
"Also...Before harvesting the crops, you have to talk to your mother-in-law about how much food you want. You can get as much food as you need according to the land that your husband and wife get. This is not at all convincing." Li Mingyun said no matter where he thought of it, anyway. There are so many things that the second sister has to solve, and she can't say clearly for a while, "Wait for you to let Taozi build a shed at the door, pull some adobe to the stove, I will buy you some pots and bowls, since You have already separated. Sooner or later, you won’t eat in the same pot. The stove must be set up first... Don’t use a wood stove, just use a coal stove. It saves space and looks good, and cooks quickly."
Li Mingqin sighed, "I can only do this right now, but the two of us don't have a penny. Even if we can eat it, it's impossible not to spend a penny, right?"
"My dad said you have a dead brain, you really have a dead brain... When you got married, you didn't have a sewing machine. I now help others with private work, which is to help them make gloves or something. When I turned back, I asked if there was any private work of making clothes. If it works, you can take it home. As long as you couple are diligent, you won’t make less money."
In order to jump out of the farm, Li Mingyun has been working in this area over the past few years. Unlike Li Mingqin and his wife who have been wandering around the land like old scalpers... She found that doing this can be faster than farming, and it’s not that hard, but It's tiring to live a lot.
Li Mingqin was moved by what she said, "Sister, this really works? You know, my mother-in-law still asks us 20 yuan for living expenses every month."
"Oh, it's too late for you to tell me this now. Your elders from the Zhou family are here, and you two don't know to ask for it. You really convinced you... You have agreed to your mother-in-law, and now you regret it? Your mother-in-law can't take a knife. You?" Li Mingyun persuaded her, "Anyway, the family is separated now, and you can do it well in the future. Although twenty yuan is a lot, it is not really too much. Both of you are very diligent and diligent. , What are you afraid of?"
But Li Mingqin has never had the experience of her eldest sister. Although she has never had any money, she gave all the money she earned to her mother-in-law. She really has no confidence!
"You take the ten dollars first, and the rest slowly
Come, the days will pass the better. "
Li Mingqin didn’t want to live or die, or Li Mingyun forcibly stuffed the money into her pocket, “You’re still polite to me, but I’m your sister, if there’s anything I’m not going to help you who will help you? You made a special trip to bypass your parents, and you don’t want them to know I'm worried, if I don't help you, who else can you call?"
Li Mingqin who said this grinned again and wanted to cry... Mei Xiaoran smiled when she saw it, "Second auntie, second auntie, you have more tears than my mother, hurry up and stop!"
Li Mingqin burst into laughter, "You kid, are you still teasing your second aunt?"
"Ran Ran, take out ten eggs from the house, and put them on your second aunt first."
Li Mingyun also couldn't see his sisters suffer, so he would rather be frugal and want to help the top leader.
"Sister, I have all the money, I can't ask for eggs, my family doesn't even have a pot..."
"I can get it all for you in these two days. If you don't take it now, you have to let me take it for you later. Take it and go back quickly."
Mei Xiaoran jumped out of bed with a smile, "Mom, there are peanuts in the house, can I also get some for my second aunt?"
The next day was an autumn vacation.
There were very few people who could eat public meals at that time, and most of them were farmers, even the county towns.
From elementary school to middle school students, the children have autumn vacations, all in order to let them go home and help with farm work.
For most students, it is real farm work, but for Su Xiaomei... it is a real vacation.
There are also more than ten or twenty days in the autumn vacation, and almost no homework is assigned. The purpose is to let the children go home to help with work, which is the same as the spring vacation, but different from the winter and summer vacations.
"Ran Ran, we are all going to your second aunt's house today."
Li Mingyun made a speech, the Mei family of four, except for Mei Zhonghua, all went to Li Mingqin's house in Beiguan.
Before going out, Li Mingyun also asked Mei Xiaoran's sister and brother to hold pots, pans and other things, all the way from Chaihuo City to Li Mingqin's house.
"Second aunt, here we are."
As soon as Mei Xiaoran entered the yard, he saw his second uncle Zhou Jincheng at the stove, and his uncle Li Hongwei was also helping.
"Ran Ran, Lei Lei, take things into the house first."
Li Mingyun asked the children to put down their things, and Li Mingqin greeted them hurriedly, "Big sister, come here, what are you doing with so many things?"
"You don't use anything, I don't care who cares?"
(End of this chapter)