Framed at the beginning: Female educated youth forced to marry disabled military officer

Father Xiao rubbed his hands in embarrassment, "Third brother, to be honest, dad also wants to help you, but you also know that our family's situation is such that we really don't have much money. All your mother and I can do is to take good care of ourselves. Try not to put any burden on you."

The implication is that it's good if I don't ask you for money. If you want to borrow my money, there is no way.

"Okay, it seems we can only pay it back slowly." Xiao Xiangdong said and continued to dig potatoes.

Father Xiao sighed, "Then work hard, I'm leaving.".

After Xiao's father left, Xiao Xiangdong raised his head and glanced at his back, with a wry smile on his face. The relationship with his parents would be like this in his life. It was good to live in peace and not disturb each other.

During this period, Xiao Xiangdong and Meng Xiaoman not only went to the mountains to collect mushrooms, but also went to work every day.

This is the time when porcini and matsutake grow, and people in the village often go into the mountains to pick them. Now that the farm is busy, Meng Xiaoman can't take time off, so he squeezes out time in the morning to pick.

In order to squeeze out time to go up the mountain, Meng Xiaoman also canceled her morning exercise and replaced it with mountain climbing and picking.

Summer is approaching, and the sky is getting brighter and earlier every day. In order to pick more fungi, Meng Xiaoman and Xiao Xiangdong got up before dawn and went up the mountain. When they arrived in the mountains, it started to get brighter, and the two of them started picking mushrooms separately.

Occasionally encountering pheasants and rabbits, Xiao Xiangdong would also pick up some wild animals. Such small things are easy to put away, just throw them in the backpack. I also saw wild boar and reindeer once, but those things were too big to handle, so Xiao Xiangdong didn't hunt them.

Since being reported by Wang Hao last time, the cooperation with Liu Zhiyuan and Xiao Xiang has ceased.

Xiao Xiangshang had earned enough money to marry a wife. After what happened last time, he was a little scared, so he went to work honestly. He and his partner from the Xinghu Brigade had already agreed to get married after the wheat harvest.

Liu Zhiyuan also wrote to ask about wild animals recently, saying that all the customers in the city were thinking about it, but the limelight has been tight recently and Xiao Xiangdong rejected it.

After harvesting the potatoes, it’s time to harvest the rapeseed. There is something special about cutting rapeseed. You cannot wait until the fruit is completely dry. If it is too dry, the pods will split and the rapeseed will fall to the ground. Generally, it is done four or five days in advance. After being cut down, it is left to dry on the ground for a few days, and then it is taken to the drying field and beaten with a flail for threshing.

The rapeseed harvested in the brigade will be turned into public grain and seeds, and the rest will be squeezed into rapeseed oil and distributed to the members of the brigade.

At the end of May, the weather was already very hot. Meng Xiaoman had already put on a straw hat and a face towel, and also wore self-made cloth gloves on her hands.

"It's so sunny this year. Last year, the rapeseed took a week to dry before threshing. This year, it took four days and it was completely dry." Sister Fang wiped the sweat with the towel on her neck and said to Meng Xiaoman.

Meng Xiaoman was thinking about how to tell people close to her that there would be a drought in the future. When she heard what she said, she said, "Yes, it's only the end of May and the temperature is so high. There won't be any drought. ".

"No, no, we have high mountains and lots of water. Droughts rarely occur. Even if there is a bit of drought, the water in the Qinghe River will be enough for a while."

Sister Fang didn't believe it, and Meng Xiaoman didn't say much.

After harvesting the rapeseed, it’s time to harvest the wheat.

During the busy farming season, men really act like beasts and women act like men. They rush to work every day just to get the grain back as soon as possible. Meng Xiaoman wanted to shout, it won't rain, it won't rain in the next month, don't worry, but she only dared to think about it and didn't dare to say it out loud.

Cutting wheat is more tiring than cutting rapeseed or digging potatoes. There is a saying in the village, "Men are afraid of the fifth month, and women are afraid of the twelfth month." The former refers to the intensity of labor when cutting wheat.

Harvesting is also called harvesting. At this time, even the children and the elderly at home cannot be idle. They must pick up wheat ears, deliver water, cook, and deliver meals. These scattered tasks are all theirs.

It's okay to be tired. What Meng Xiaoman fears most is the pain in her back. She has to half-bend when cutting wheat. She can't stand or squat. After a long time, her waist will almost break.

Xiao Xiangdong saw her standing up and beating her waist. He walked to her and reached out to take her sickle. "It's almost time to get off work. You go back to cook first. I'll do the rest."

"Is that okay?" Meng Xiaoman took a look and saw that no one had left yet.

"It's okay. I'll tell the team leader and I'll do your job. The most important thing is the result."

After hearing what he said, Meng Xiaoman nodded and went back first.

When I get home, the first thing I do is boil a pot of hot water and take a shower.

When the wheat is cut, the awns will stick to the skin, causing it to itch and sting. Although Meng Xiaoman's skin is fair and delicate, it is easily sensitive. Small rashes began to appear all over her body due to the wheat awns, which were red and itchy. When she sweated, she was stung all over her body.

She did know the treatment prescription and had memorized it, but she lacked medicinal materials and could not prepare medicine for herself for the time being.

The herbs in the space are all unprocessed and cannot be used directly.

I could only boil some mugwort leaves and take a bath in water to kill bacteria and relieve the itching of my skin.

After taking a shower, Meng Xiaoman started to make lunch. The staple food was steamed steamed buns with corn flour and white flour. She made scrambled eggs with garlic sprouts and cold eggs. Finally, she put a chopstick of cucumber with sauce on top. On the top.

When country people work, they usually eat better than usual. No matter how difficult it is for a family, they will give their family workers better food during the busy farming season, otherwise such tiring physical work will easily tire them out.

The family did stock up on a lot of meat, but Meng Xiaoman didn't cook it. Lunch is eaten in the fields, and what everyone eats can be seen by everyone around them. Meng Xiaoman didn't want to be criticized, so she always cooked the meat at night.

After cooking, Meng Xiaoman finished eating first, filled the dish for Xiao Xiangdong, and filled a thermos bottle with warm water before walking into the field carrying the bamboo basket containing the food, kettle, and porcelain jar.

On the way, I met Sister Fang’s mother-in-law who came with me to deliver food.

"Xiang Dong's family, what delicious food did you cook for your man? I can smell the fragrance here?" Although Grandma Zhou lost her husband in middle age and her son in old age, she was very open-minded and kind, and she had a sense of vicissitudes of life. of peace.

Meng Xiaoman smiled and opened a corner of the basket to show her, "I made scrambled eggs with garlic sprouts. I thought I was too tired to cut wheat, so I fried them with lard and added several eggs. You can try it later." ?".