Chapter 71 After the Rain(1/2)
Mayberry still didn't know that their group was being targeted.
Mayberry remembered to clock in and was looking forward to the rain stopping every day.
As a result, the rain in front of me lasted for seven or eight days.
Except for the heavy rain on the first day, it was almost always rainy and light rainy days afterwards.
But this kind of weather makes people feel even worse.
It's like boiling frogs in warm water, boiling the hearts of all farmers.
"I have more than an acre of wheat if I work hard and slowly..."
Mayberry was sitting at the door looking at the beans and winter melons growing along the fence in the yard.
Her ears were filled with the voice of Aunt Wang who came over to chat with her mother.
More than an acre of wheat sounds quite sad.
Just as Mei Bei was silently commenting on Aunt Wang's wheat, for some reason she suddenly brought up the other people's pity.
"Oh, how pitiful you are. You said that child was already five years old! He just disappeared like this~"
Mei Bei's eyelids jumped when she heard Aunt Wang's words. Why did the topic turn to this?
"You don't even know about the Erniu family. Xiaolin's wife almost went blind from crying. Now, she and her mother-in-law are crying at home every day... ugh!"
Wei Meili also sighed.
As expected, my mother is soft-hearted and easy to sympathize with, so the mention of that family matter made her sigh.
But Aunt Wang was really distracted from the conversation, and after finishing this sad topic, she immediately turned back to her home.
"Let's talk about my wheat.
The more than one acre of wheat in my house has not even been harvested, let alone harvested! Look at the weather, when it clears up, it will sprout as soon as possible!"
This topic changes...
Meiberry even turned around and glanced at her mother secretly, only to see her mother sighing and scoring two points.
The first half laments that someone’s child is gone;
In the second half, I could only follow the topic and lament that Aunt Wang’s wheat was ruined.
So much so that after Wei Meili sighed, she didn't say anything anymore.
For the first time, she found that it was difficult to even sigh!
Next, Aunt Wang did not continue to cry about the wheat she had not grabbed, but began to talk about the issue of how to deal with the wheat she grabbed.
Mei Qiang and his family were not the only ones to come up with the idea of using a kang for drying. If there was a kang at home, almost everyone thought of using it for drying.
"It's just too useless. When the weather gets better this time, I guess many people will go up the mountain to cut firewood and lay grass."
As Aunt Wang said, Wei Meili nodded. Looking at the village from the yard these days, every household was full of smoke.
If you want to save more wheat, you have to give up firewood.
"I heard that there were big insects in the mountains in the early years! Most people in our village dare not go up there, but a few days ago I heard from people in the town that a mysterious hunter hunted a big insect and sold it to the county.
Here’s a rich man!”
"Really?"
Hearing Aunt Wang suddenly mention tigers, Mei Berry remembered the tiger that Mei You had killed earlier.
Meiberry didn't interfere with the subsequent matters, and she didn't expect that the heroine was actually sold to someone in the county.
Aunt Wang chatted with Wei Meili again about her two sons who had gone out to work a few days ago, and then muttered, "Now that the big bug is gone, I feel a lot more relieved when I go up the mountain in the future.
When the Dragon Boat Festival comes and the fire and wood come back to celebrate the festival, I ask them to go up the mountain to cut some firewood and come back.
His brothers didn't catch up when they were harvesting, so why don't they come back to compensate?"
When it came to her son's failure to catch up with the harvest, Aunt Wang regretted and sighed: "If his brothers had left two days later, I guess the more than one acre of wheat at home could have been saved. It's all our fault.
use!"
"Oh, stop talking! Auntie, you are already very powerful.
You, Uncle Wang, and Miss Cuihua, the three of you are trying to harvest the harvest of six acres of land! You are better than many others!"
Even with this record, Mei Bei looked up to Aunt Wang when her mother told her about it.
"Oh, it's not like my parents-in-law..."
The rain has been light these past two days, and people from nearby houses are visiting each other.
As this goes on, isn't the information from Lao Mei's family reaching Wei Meili?
Of the six acres of wheat land, four acres were taken back.
Two acres of land were soaked by rainwater!
Mei Bei heard that after calculating the manpower of Lao Mei's family, the three of them were competing against Aunt Wang's family. They were all an old couple with a daughter-in-law, and the result was a difference of two acres of land.
Hey hey hey!
While gloating about their misfortune, Mayberry also had to dislike them.
"Actually, both of your parents-in-law are very hard-working, especially in the early years when your father-in-law went out to work. Your mother-in-law stayed at home alone to take care of her in-laws, who were in poor health, and also took care of their young son. She also took care of everything in the fields, so everything was in good order.
!”
"Aunt Wang, are you talking about my mother-in-law?"
When Aunt Wang said this, both Mei Bei and her mother looked suspicious.
"Yes, but as you get older and become a mother-in-law, don't you enjoy the blessing of being a mother-in-law~"
Although she could understand it, Aunt Wang still looked down upon Zhang's enthusiasm for teasing his daughter-in-law as soon as she became a mother-in-law.
"But Dahu's wife..." Aunt Wang mentioned the Jiang family again, with a more speechless expression on her face, "I heard that her waist was twisted at the beginning, so it wasn't of much use."
Wei Meili: "..."
Yes, she is a sister-in-law who is used to cheating and cheating. It is really difficult for Wei Meili not to think that this is her sister-in-law's intention.
Is this a trick on her parents-in-law?
Not only Wei Meili thinks so, but Mrs. Zhang and Old Man Mei also think so.
In the past two days, I was very tired from grabbing wheat that night. Just like this, even if I turned over while lying down, my whole body would hurt so much that it made Zhang grimace.
How many years has it been since she was so tired?
Thinking that the reason she was suffering this time was because of the lack of manpower at home, Mrs. Zhang immediately hated the two houses she had divided into two houses.
It's just that it's far away from her right now, and the only one she can "bully" is her eldest daughter-in-law, Mrs. Jiang.
Therefore, Mr. Mei and Mrs. Zhang have been resting at home these two days and did not do any work.
Jiang was left busy all by himself.
So Jiang was physically tired and mentally miserable these past few days.
Make a fire to cook and roast wheat;
Washing and sweeping the floor to serve the whole family;
From time to time, her mother-in-law would criticize her.
Whenever Jiang was working and saw no one around, he would curse everyone he knew.
She was really wronged this time!
It was true that my waist was twisted that night, and it was also true that I was unable to work for a while.
But who would have thought that with her physical fitness, she would be jumping around before dawn the next day.
Her parents-in-law could really see how flexibly she twisted her waist.
Looking at the old couple's cannibalistic looks, even though Jiang immediately swore that she was not pretending to be injured, her in-laws didn't say anything, but they didn't believe it when they ordered her to work inside and out.
Her words?
Thinking about the past, it was the two sisters-in-law who suffered this crime, and now it was his turn, Jiang's mentality became more and more unbalanced.
Just like her mother-in-law, she began to hate the two separate houses more and more.
This is probably the so-called family does not enter the same house.
Their thoughts are all equally biased.
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The rainy day finally cleared up after tormenting everyone for seven or eight days.
On the day it cleared up, Meiberry saw many people coming out of their homes and going straight to the fields.
After all, not everyone can harvest all the wheat in their own fields.
To be continued...