June

The sun was scorching the earth early in the morning.

Looking around, there are cracks everywhere in the fields, and the crops in the fields have long dried up.

Even the river is drying up.

In the courtyard of an adobe house at the end of Kaoshan Village, two little girls with sallow faces and skinny muscles were playing in the corner with mud.

A young and thin couple looked sad and sad. The woman sighed and said, "Dachun, what should I do?"

"It hasn't rained in half a year. Our food reserves are almost gone and we are going to run out of food."

"We can live frugally and eat just one meal a day, but our sons Lele and Qiaoqiao are only a few years old."

"It's the time when the body is growing, so we can't hurt the child." She felt heartbroken when she saw her baby's thin face.

Fortunately, there is a well in the village that can draw water, but each household can only carry two buckets of water a day, which is barely enough water for cooking.

The young man named Dachun, who was lean and dark-faced, frowned and sighed heavily after hearing what his wife Wen said.

"Ugh……"

"Wait a little longer, maybe my mother still has money and can buy some more food."

When Mrs. Wen heard her husband say this, she frowned even more. Her mother-in-law was even more unreliable.

Not only were others unwilling to deal with him, but even the dogs would bark when they saw her, and the mice would take a detour when they saw her. The whole village was offended by her.

I remembered that since my father-in-law passed away, my mother-in-law had become even more aggressive in gambling, and she even owed eight taels of silver in gambling debt.

Last year, the moneylending leader of the casino came to collect debts and brought along a few high-powered thugs.

He also said that if the debt was not repaid, his son Lele would be used to pay the debt. Grandmother Li was afraid that she would be implicated, so she quickly separated their family overnight to live alone.

Although my mother-in-law is lazy. But the only good thing is that he loves his little grandson Lele.

In order to pay off his gambling debts, he married his sister-in-law Zhang Erya to Liu Neng, the son of gambler Liu Gao from the next village.

Liu Gao and his mother-in-law were card game friends. They often cheated and played tricks, and often won a small amount of money.

His son Liu Neng was also a prodigal. He often went to Chunxiang Tower in the county to fool around with the little money his father had won.

One time, he wanted to live free of charge and was beaten by Chunxianglou and one of his legs was disabled. In order to comfort him, Liu Gao thought of marrying him a wife.

When Liu Gao saw Shen Ping worrying about gambling debts, he told her to make her second daughter Zhang Erya his daughter-in-law and gave her ten taels of silver as a betrothal gift.

Seeing that the Liu family is a den of tigers and wolves, the mother-in-law is also cruel to let her daughter get married, but when she thinks about it again, this mother-in-law is also doing it for her son Lele.

Mrs. Wen fell into deep thought for a while, not knowing whether to say this mother-in-law was good or bad.

Alas... maybe this is Erya's fate!

"Dachun, why don't you and your wife go out to find something to eat? Are you just thinking about being lazy here all day long?"

"I'm telling you, Mom has no money! If we can't survive anymore, I have to sell that stinky girl of yours."

The sudden scolding startled Ms. Wen. Didn't she see her mother-in-law going out? When did you come back?

Turning around, I saw the tall and strong figure of my mother-in-law, Shen Ping, standing at the door of the main room, with her hands on her hips, glaring at the two of them with wide eyes!

"mother……"

Dachun and Wen stood up together. Dachun looked anxious and lowered his head at a loss as he said, "Mom, we'll go right away. Please, don't be so clever!"

Mrs. Wen nodded quickly and agreed: "Yes, mother, we don't want to be lazy, let's go now!" As she said this, Mrs. Wen hurriedly went to get the basket.

"Mom, don't be so clever!" Liuya, who was playing with the sand on the ground, cried and ran over and hugged Shen Ping's thigh. His little face was full of fear.

"You damn girl, if we don't sell her, our family won't be able to survive. If you keep crying, I'll sell you too!" Shen Ping cursed.

"You two wait, go with Miharu and the others!" After saying that, he turned to the room next to him and said sternly: "Miharu, you don't even have enough to eat, and you two are still tired of staying in the room all day long."

As he spoke, he rolled his eyes: "My third daughter-in-law, don't think that you don't have to work if you have a big belly. Our family doesn't raise idle people. Let me tell you, if you have a girl in your belly, don't blame me for being rude to you. ."

As soon as he finished speaking, Sanchun came out, a trace of warmth and anger flashed across his dark face, and then it disappeared in an instant.

He said forbearingly: "Mom, why do you say such things? If something happens to Lan Xiang then, I will be worried about you!"

"Sanchun, don't talk to mother like that!" Wu Lanxiang timidly tugged at the corner of her husband's clothes. Miharu patted her hand gently to reassure her.

After listening to Miharu's words, Shen Ping immediately sat on the ground and patted his thigh: "Damn it, I really have a hard life. I made you stinky boys work so hard to shit and pee. You unfilial sons have taken wives one by one and forgotten your mother!"

Dachun ran in quickly and said anxiously: "Mom, don't do this, please! We'll go right away!"

If Mom does this, she will attract more neighbors, and the village chief will punish them for their unfilial piety.

"Huh! That's not bad, you go quickly!" After saying that, Shen Ping raised a proud smile and got up from the ground.

"Lele, let's go. Grandma will go and untie her hands first. You wait for her at the door! Grandma will buy you candies then." After saying that, he took Lele beside him and walked to the backyard.

"Hey, third brother, look away, this is my mother's temper. Let's go together!" Dachun patted Sanchun on the shoulder and said.

"Brother, you just follow your mother's wishes all day long. When I grow up, if anyone treats me badly, I will treat her badly!" Wu Chun leaned against the door frame and said angrily.

Thinking of her mother marrying that poor second sister to that bastard with rat-like eyebrows and rat-eyes, Wu Chun felt angry in her heart.

"Let's go, stop talking, have you done everything? Let's go out, otherwise mother will be angry again when she comes out and sees us." Mrs. Wu walked out with a puffy belly.

"mother……"

Along with the sound of hurried footsteps, an anxious child's voice came from the backyard, interrupting Wen's meditation.

Mrs. Wen turned around and saw that it was her son Lele. At this moment, his tiger-headed little face looked anxious.

"Lele, what's wrong with you..."

Looking at their son's anxious face, Zhang Dachun and Wen couldn't help but feel excited.

"Father, mother..."

"Grandma fell into the toilet, please pick her up quickly." Thinking of grandma, Xiao Lezi couldn't help but feel worried!

Grandma clearly asked her to wait at the door of the hut, and after she finished going to the hut, she would take her out to buy sweets.

I waited and couldn't see her coming out, so I ran in and took a look, only to see that grandma had fallen into the manure pit.

"What...! Mom fell into the toilet"

Zhang Dachun and Mr. Wen looked at each other, and it took them a while to realize what they were doing, and they quickly ran to the toilet in the backyard.

Zhang Dachun shouted while running: "Sanchun, Siya, come here quickly, mother fell into the toilet..."

After a while, several figures from the main room ran out and quickly ran to the backyard.

Wu, with her big belly, also followed behind.

Several people came to the toilet together. Zhang Dachun hesitated for a moment and said to his wife Wen:

"Lianhua, you and Siya go in first to see what's going on?"

The little girl's round face suddenly fell when she was called Siya.

His face wrinkled into a ball, and he said with a look of disgust: "Brother, the toilet stinks so bad, why do you let us in?"

Hearing this, Dachun's face darkened: "Eldest brother is a man no matter what, you and sister-in-law go in first and take a look."

Mrs. Wen knew what her husband was worried about. Without saying a word, she grabbed her sister-in-law and said, "Let's go, Siya, let's go in and take a look."

"Hey……"

"Sister-in-law, please slow down..." Zhang Siya covered her nose with one hand, looking reluctant.

It was said to be a latrine, only about two square meters, with a rectangular cesspit dug inside and filled with excrement water.

A wooden board was placed on the edge of the manure pit, and ordinary people would step on this board and squat in the pit.

Mrs. Wen pushed the door open and walked in. The latrine was not big and was clearly visible at a glance, but there was no trace of her mother-in-law anywhere.

Si Ya looked at it and cursed angrily: "You're such a little kid, you actually lied." After saying that, she threw away Wen's hand and walked out.

It stinks so much, get out quickly...

"My Lele won't lie." Mrs. Wen rubbed her eyes and searched around the cesspool, but couldn't see anything.

"Mom, are you there..." Mrs. Wen looked at the empty toilet and screamed.

Strange……

Shen Qing suddenly felt a stench in the cesspit, had difficulty breathing in her chest, and suddenly felt choked in her mouth and nose.

As a stream of fluid poured into the nose and mouth, indescribable pain rushed straight to the brain.

A feeling of suffocation came over me.

Damn it! Ten thousand grass mud horses galloped past in my heart, what is going on?

It stinks... Shen Ping struggled to stand up reflexively.

"Cough cough cough..."

Raise your head and take a deep breath, then you can feel like breathing. Why does my face feel sticky? Do not use your hands to pull.

Standing by the manure pit, Mrs. Wen was startled by this sudden situation.

"what……"

"Dachun, come in quickly..." Wen Shi trembled and shouted in horror.

It would be a lie to say it wasn’t scary, even though I heard my son say in advance that my mother-in-law fell into a manure pit.

But as soon as he came in, there was no one around, and suddenly a man stood up in the calm pit.

She was so frightened that she wanted to turn around and run away, but her legs felt like lead.

Zhang Dachun was outside and ran in quickly when he heard Wen's frightened cry.

Sanchun said to his daughter-in-law Wu Lanxiang: "Lanxiang, hold on to your belly, don't go in, wait outside with Si Ya."

After saying that, he walked in, followed by Wu Chun reluctantly.

The sun was shining brightly outside, but the pit was dark and smelly. Several people squinted their eyes to adapt to the light inside the pit.

Mrs. Wen pointed at the people in the cesspit and said tremblingly: "You...who are you...?"

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