I woke up early the next morning. It was still dawn. I slept early and I really got up early.?????????          w?w?

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?c?n? Touched his side, and the pear blossoms had already gotten up.

This time, I should have helped cook in the kitchen. Taohua quickly got up.

When I entered the kitchen, my second sister and Zhang were indeed there.

Seeing her getting up, Zhang smiled and said, "Why don't you sleep more?"

Taohua scratched her head embarrassedly, "Well, I can't sleep anymore."

"I'll give you water to wash your face." The second sister said as she was about to come out of the stove.

"No, I'll do it myself." Taohua took off the basin from the shelf next to her, scooped out the water tank, rolled up the sleeve tube and washed it slowly.

After pouring the water, Taohua moved a small stool and sat next to her second sister to watch Zhang cook. In fact, there was nothing good to look at. Almost all corn porridge and black steamed buns, and the vegetables were boiled in water, which had no taste. The family was too poor. Taohua looked up at the can of oil. She secretly looked at the can of oil two days ago. There was only one can of oil in the bottom of the can. Lihua said that it was sent by her grandmother during the Chinese New Year last year, and she was willing to eat it when the guests came on weekdays, and she didn't use it. Taohua felt that her mouth was almost losing its basic function. Should she go to find some wild game? Taohua has long been a little concerned about the mountains behind. As the saying goes, the mountain is a treasure.

"Mom, why haven't you seen the villagers go to the back mountain to hunt?" Taohua asked curiously.

"Silly girl, do you think hunting is so easy, and all the wild game is standing and you can't catch it." Zhang lifted the lid of the pot and pressed the steamed buns with his hands.

"We can set traps," Taohua said.

"Does Taohua want to eat meat? I'll ask your father and brother to go to the mountains to see if he can get a pheasant back?" Zhang said, "Okay, the meal is ready, go and see if your father and brother have packed it up."

"Oh." Taohua agreed and ran out. Mingsheng just came out of the inner room, hugged Taohua all at once, and said with a smile, "Sister Three, I'm so hungry."

"Okay, the meal is ready, have you gotten up?" Taohua pinched Mingsheng's face and looked at Jin Dazhong who was fetching water in the yard and shouted: "Dad, it's time to eat!"

"Oh, that's all." Jin Dazhong agreed and slowly brought a bucket of water over. Yesterday, he saw that there was not much water in the water tank. He was afraid that his mother and mother would not have enough water at home today, so he cooked it in advance.

"Brother went to the forest behind to pick up firewood early in the morning. Hey, brother is back." Mingsheng said and ran out of Taohua's arms, running towards Jingsheng, who had a large bundle of firewood on his back, circled around his elder brother, and even reached out to help, but Jingsheng smiled and drove him aside.

Jin Dazhong poured the water into the water tank, and Jing Sheng piled firewood in the corner of the kitchen. Taohua hurried to bring the water to wash his elder brother's face. Zhang was urging him to hurry up. After a meal, although it was busy and tedious, Taohua still felt happy. After all, everyone was struggling for this family. Although there was no too much words or any earth-shaking actions, the touch and warmth flowed into Taohua's heart bit by bit.

Just after dinner, my father and my elder brother told me to go see Mr. Su and go to work in the city later. Zhang and Lihua took needles and thread to embroider things, and Mingsheng ran out to find his friends. Taohua was waiting to sit down and look at him, and a sharp voice came from outside the door.

"Three brothers and sisters, are you at home?" A woman walked in from outside the door. She was nearly forty years old. Her small eyes turned around when she entered the yard, with slender eyebrows raised high. She was wearing dark gray clothes, her head was messy, and a wooden hairpin was slanted, as if she would fall off her head at any time. This is the old lady of Peach Blossom, Du, who is so sharp.

"Oh, my sister-in-law is really asking this question. The door is open, so it must be at home. Could it be that I will go to someone else's house while my third brother is not at home?" Another woman squeezed in from outside the door. She had a fat figure, dark skin, but she looked pretty good. She seemed to be idle with her mouth and said something about her. This is the second mother of Taohua, Li, who is very shady and very unpopular in the village.

"Auntie, second wife." Lihua and Taohua stood up and shouted reluctantly.

After coming here for so many days, Taohua almost forgot that she still has relatives.

Zhang originally greeted him with a smile, but when he heard Li's words, he couldn't help but sink his face, "What is the second sister-in-law saying? Why can't I understand?"

"Oh, look at my mouth, I just don't have a doorman. Didn't I just say it casually? I'm all sisters-in-law. Look, I have no malice." Li walked over with a smile and said, holding Zhang.

"Yes, yes, third brother and sister, don't you think the second brother is just that? What are you thinking about?" Du also advised, but the gloating in his eyes was so obvious. Humph, you were not at home all day long, your family was at the end of the back village, and there were no neighbors on the left and right. Who knows if you did such shameful things, and you can't tell me. My mother shouldn't have separated the family at the beginning, and she couldn't have divided the yard so big. Although it was a bit broken, the place was big.

"No evidence, I hope my second sister-in-law will not talk nonsense." Zhang's face is still not good-looking, "Lihua, go and move a stool for your aunt and second wife to sit. Our room is small and we can't accommodate so many people."

"Oh." Lihua agreed and turned around and went to the house. Before leaving, she glared at Du and Li. Taohua stood aside and put away the needle and thread basket and prepared to take it into the house.

"Ye, let me see what my third brother and sister embroidered?" Du didn't wait for Mrs. Zhang to say anything, and snatched the needle and thread basket from Taohua's hand and took out all the embroidered handbags, while saying, "Oh, so much embroidery, it looks so beautiful, it costs a lot of money, right? Second brother and sister, do you think so?"

Li also picked up a purse and looked over and over again, nodding repeatedly, with a greedy light in his eyes, "Oh, this is really good. Judging from the color and style, it is a fashionable thing in the city, it costs a lot of money."

The incident was almost instantly born, and Taohua couldn't react a little. Damn, these are all the best people. Taohua looked up at Zhang, and there was no expression on Zhang's face. She only reached out to get the purse and embroidered handkerchiefs, "All valuables are embroidered for the embroidery workshop. I don't understand, I only earn some hard money. Aren't my sister-in-law and second sister-in-law also embroidered?"

But Du Li took the embroidery tightly and didn't let go. Zhang couldn't help but say angrily: "What does the eldest sister-in-law and the second sister-in-law mean?"

"What can we mean? I want to borrow the embroidery of my third brother and sister and take it home and learn it." Du said with a smile, and Li also agreed, "Yes, the third brother and sister are good at embroidery, and the people in the embroidery workshop praise me. They get several cents more than us every time. We also want to learn to earn more, right?"

If these two people really take this embroidery, they may come back? Taohua doesn’t believe it.

At this time, Lihua moved the stool and fell heavily to the ground, "Is the aunt and second wife bullying my father and not at home? Why don't we go and ask grandpa to judge!"

"Hey, look at what Ni said, why are you going to make trouble for your grandfather?" Du let go with guilt. Zhang quickly took all the embroidery and put the peach blossoms into the house.

Taohua has no impression of the people in the old house of Jin family. Occasionally, I heard someone in the village say that since his parents got married, they were separated by themselves. Brother Jin Dazhong was the youngest, but he was separated by himself. This really made Taohua unable to understand. What happened to him must have happened back then. But Zhang never said that, so Taohua's master was not very clear about this. He only heard that his grandmother did not agree with the marriage back then.

"Second sister, do you know why the aunt and second wife came?" Taohua walked to Lihua who was looking for a stool and asked.

"Who knows, it's so annoying. One is so stingy that he's just talking nonsense! Fortunately, he didn't live with them." Lihua was angry, but in the end he was grateful, but Taohua also agreed with this. If she really lives with such a top-notch, she would have to go crazy.

"That's right, we don't have any interest. We just look at the embroidery of the third brother and sister, so we want to take it home and take a look more." Li curled his lips, "If you don't let me see it, you won't look it. We are not such stingy people."

Zhang was a little angry and laughed. His ability to turn black and white was really great, but after all, because of the sister-in-law's relationship, he didn't say anything else. Seeing the two of them lifting the bench and sitting down, he asked: "I wonder if my sister-in-law and second sister-in-law are at home?"

"Hey, we are here to see the peach blossoms. Didn't we hear that it fell into the river yesterday? His grandfather bought peanut cakes for us to eat for peach blossoms." Du said, as if he had just seen peach blossoms, he hurriedly took peach blossoms' hand and asked with a smile: "It seems that it's better now."

Taohua just came out of the house and heard Du talk, and was pulled over again in a blink of an eye.

Du's hands were very rough, and Taohua was pulled so hard that she hurt. She nodded and said, "My aunt Xie was concerned."

"Her second mother, where are the things our father bought?" Du touched Li with his elbow, with a smile on his face.

"Oh, where is the thing?" Li Shi hurriedly looked for something and touched her body, then pushed Du, "Look at you, I'm in a hurry to come, I forgot to bring the peanut cake."

Lihua sneered beside her. Taohua also looked at the farce calmly.

"It's true, look at my memory, but looking at peach blossoms is the key point. I'll buy it for you next time." Du Shi said very nicely, but her sharp voice really made Peach blossoms not have any good feelings, and she just smiled foolishly.

"If you forget, forget it. It's the same if you keep it for a few children at home." Zhang said.

"Haha, that's right. Zhan Peng wants to go to school every day, so he naturally needs to make up for it. This girl and boy are definitely different." Du Shi almost laughed when she talked about her baby.

Taohua naturally remembers the old lady's second son, fourteen-year-old Jin Zhanpeng, who looks sophisticated and always has a sinister look. I think she has seen him several times in the village, and she hides away every time.

The two of them were talking and talking, and Lihua was there next to her and tried to drive people away several times, but they were stopped by Zhang. In the end, they could only pick up a broom to sweep the yard and sweep the originally clean yard with dust. In the end, the two had to say goodbye and leave.

"Mom, why don't I tell them to chase them away? Look at what they say. What does it mean? What's wrong with her children? Just let her eat Zhan Peng, and we can't eat peach blossoms." Li Hua threw down the broom and said angrily.

"Let's just listen to their words, you really can't care about them." Zhang advised: "You are not young anymore, you can't speak so unrestrainedly. How can you get married in the future? And no matter what, they are your aunt and second wife.

"Yes, second sister, do you have to bite you back after being bitten by a dog?" Peach blossom said indifferently.

Zhang and Lihua looked at each other and both laughed.
Chapter completed!