Lucky husband

"Mingcai, that's taro. It's poisonous and you can't eat it." Qian Xinghua hugged her precious son, preventing him from touching the taro.

It was only at dawn that he was crying and fussing. The food he ate every day recently was not good. Today he smelled the fragrance, but his mother didn't want him to eat it.

Qian Xinghua had no choice but to coax Li Mingcai: "Ming Cai is good, this is really inedible, please be good and don't make trouble, mother will go and look for you if there are any candies."

Apart from meat, pastries and candies are Liming Cai's favorite things. Now the pastries in the county are extremely expensive, so Qian Xinghua is reluctant to buy them. She still has a little candy hidden in her house. She is worried that if her son makes such a fuss, she won't pay attention He ran to eat the taro, and simply gave him the hidden sugar.

Liming was dragged into the house by Qian Xinghua, and he didn't smell the scent of taro anymore, and Qian Xinghua coaxed him to say that there was candy to eat, so he forgot that taro started pestering Qian Xinghua for candy in a blink of an eye.

Back in the house, Qian Xinghua opened the cabinet and took out the candy to have a look. Because of the hot weather, the remaining pieces of candy had all melted and stuck together with the sugar bowl, making it impossible to separate.

Liming waited impatiently: "Mom, I want candy, I want candy!"

Her son was crying and fussing. Qian Xinghua felt distressed, and she gritted her teeth and gave him the whole bowl: "Mingcai, all the candy is here, eat it slowly."

He snatched the bowl over, looked at the glistening candies at the bottom of the bowl, Li Mingcai couldn't think of anything else, no matter what his mother said, he nodded and agreed, sticking out his tongue to lick the candy.

Finally comforting her son, Qian Xinghua thought of the roasted taro made by Li Chengli outside, went into another room, looked at her two daughters and cursed in a low voice: "You two dead girls, debt collectors, your father roasted the taro, The two of you are still going to eat!"

The two sisters Limingchun and Limingxia heard what Qian Xinghua and Limingcai said just now. In their memory, taro is poisonous and should not be touched, so they hesitated for a while, wondering if they should eat taro.

Qian Xinghua saw that her two daughters didn't move, so she was so angry that she pinched them twice: "What are you doing sitting around, you know how to eat every day, you waste money for my mother's food, I really should sell you two, can you still eat?" Come back for some food!"

This is not the first time Qian Xinghua said such words. Li Mingchun flinched in fear, then obediently stood up and walked out of the yard.

Li Mingxia clenched her fists and walked out after her second sister.

Li Chengli turned his head when he heard the movement, and saw two daughters walking out of the house one after another: "Chun girl, Xia girl, you two smell the fragrance?"

Just now Qian Xinghua's voice was very low, Li Chengli, who was outside the house, didn't hear it, and thought the two of them were greedy.

Li Chengli took out the cooled taro and gave it to his two daughters: "Your grandma said that the baked taro can be eaten, just like sweet potatoes, and tastes better than sweet potatoes."

When they went out, both Limingchun and Limingxia smelled a different scent from sweet potatoes. They were already hungry and drooling. After hearing Li Chengli say that Mrs. Li said that baked taro was edible, the two looked at each other. glance.

Li Mingxia's temper was more decisive, she took the lead in picking up the taro with a dark shell on the ground, and put a small piece into her mouth.

Li Mingchun next to her picked up the piece next to her and put a small piece in his mouth.

The freshly baked taro was very hot, but very sweet. Li Mingxia fell in love with the taste of the taro after taking a bite. She couldn't wait to blow on it and took another bite.

Li Mingchun's movements were gentler. She broke open the taro and ate it slowly in small bites.

Seeing that the two daughters had eaten taro, Li Chengli continued to eat his taro. The hands of the three were all black, and the corners of their mouths were also black, but their stomachs were full.

Qian Xinghua came out of the house cursing, smelling more fragrant than before, her stomach was growling with hunger, but she dared not eat taro, she was afraid of death.

The day after Li Chengli and the others finished eating the taro, Qian Xinghua saw that their father and daughter were fine, and finally believed that the taro was edible.

This morning, she asked Li Chengli to bury the leftover taro from yesterday's roasting in the non-burning stove ashes after breakfast, intending to cook the raw taro with the remaining temperature in the stove cavity just like stuffed sweet potatoes.

As soon as the packing was done, Qian Xinghua hurriedly dragged Li Chengli out to dig taro. In the past two days, more and more people went out to dig taro in Shanghe Village. They were not moving fast. Maybe the taro by the river would be destroyed in a few days. Hollowed out.

As long as she wants to go out to work, Qian Xinghua will never forget the two maids at home, and let Li Mingchun and Li Mingxia go out together with rags on their backs.

Last night, he was very full after eating taro, and this morning Qian Xinghua added a handful of extra grains when he made breakfast. Li Chengli was full of energy now, and when he got to the place, he picked up the hoe and started to work.

He was digging the ground alone, while Qian Xinghua led his two daughters to clean up the layer of mud wrapped around the taro in the back, so that he could put it in a basket and carry it home to dry the skin for storage.

Whether it is cleaning up the mud or carrying the taro back home is not an easy job. When cleaning up the mud, be careful not to get it on the skin, otherwise it will be itchy, and carrying the taro home will make your shoulders tired. The clothes you wear in summer now It is thin, and it is easy to grind and bleed after running a few more times.

Qian Xinghua didn't want to run back and forth with a basket on her back, she felt that it was relatively easy to clean up the taro on the river beach, so she asked Li Mingchun and Li Mingxia to carry the cleaned taro back.

A 13-year-old and a nine-year-old girl can carry as much stuff as they can carry, and they can only carry half a basket, more than ten kilograms. Even if the two of them keep running back and forth, they can’t keep up with their parents digging and cleaning taro. speed.

Qian Xinghua looked at the fresh taro piled up beside her, and scolded: "The two dead girls know how to be lazy, eat so much food in the morning, who will show that they look like they are not full and can't do work! "

Qian Xinghua scolded loudly, and other taro diggers around heard it. Everyone actually thought that the two girls could endure hardships, and they ran back and forth with their things so many times without complaining.

Someone said a few fair words, and Qian Xinghua immediately scolded her back: "It doesn't hurt to stand and talk, and these two girls didn't eat your food, so of course you don't feel bad!"

The person who was scolded replied: "Mr. Li Qian, are you lying or a ghost by saying this? You can tell from the appearance of the two girls that they have never had enough to eat twice. You are also a woman yourself. Don't be rude. The daughter is so mean, if you don’t know it, you might think that you are the stepmother who abused the child.”

These words pissed off Qian Xinghua, she stood up and put her waist on her waist: "Fuck your mother's shit, who is the stepmother, the two girls crawled out of my belly, what do I do with them? How about them, you feel sorry for you and let them go to your house for dinner."

The daughter-in-law who talked to Qian Xinghua was angry, she didn't want to continue to argue with Qian Xinghua, and switch to the other side to do things.

Li Chengli, who was digging taro in front, heard what was going on behind him, and stopped what he was doing: "Xinghua, let's dig more taro and go back. There is enough food for the family. The two daughters are very obedient and sensible, so don't scold them all the time."

Outside, Qian Xinghua remembered to save face for her man, she didn't refute, she just rolled her eyes and continued to clean up the thick layer of mud on the taro.

In the afternoon, when Qian Xinghua came to this river beach to dig taro, the taro digger next to them had been replaced by another family. Had a dispute with others, and deliberately worked next to Qian Xinghua, trying to find out what they said in the morning.

"What else could it be because of those two girls in my family." Qian Xinghua complained.

Madam Ma glanced at the two girls who were walking away with their baskets on their backs, and whispered next to Qian Xinghua: "You are really willing to let these two beautiful girls go to someone else's house."

Qian Xinghua said indifferently: "Why can't I just go to someone else's place for dinner, and usually go home to work and sleep, and in a few years, I can marry Miss Chun and get a gift. It's not good."

Mrs. Ma's eyes on Qian Xinghua changed slightly: "Hehe, from what you said, it seems that you want to marry off the two daughters to get a gift."

Qian Xinghua was not good to her two daughters, she tried hard to make them work without saying anything, and beat and scolded them constantly, the whole village knew about it, but once her words got out, the two girls of the Li family would think It may not be easy to find a good family.

The two girls are good, they are hardworking and willing to endure hardships, and their looks are not bad, but this natal family is too bad, not to mention the high betrothal gifts, the main problem is the trouble after getting married, Li Qian's is not a fuel-efficient lamp.

Qian Xinghua didn't notice the change in Ma Shi's attitude, so she took it for granted, "Of course, I have worked so hard to raise them, and I don't want to raise them for nothing."

When Qian Xinghua married into the Li family, Mrs. Qian not only gave her a dowry, but also gave her the dowry from the Li family. Most of the daughter-in-laws in Shanghe village who married in before Qian Xinghua knew about this. Naturally, it was clear, so she brought it up.

Unexpectedly, Qian Xinghua glanced at her mouth, but said nothing.

Before the Li family separated, Qian Xinghua felt that her natal family was very good, and her mother was very kind to her.

After the separation, Qian Xinghua didn't know why she always felt that there was a gap between her and her mother, especially after the Chinese New Year, when she sent a big bag of white rice to her mother's house, her mother only gave back a bag of rice. cornmeal.

When she got married, the Li family gave a tael of silver as a gift, and her natal family gave five hundred cash and a new quilt as a dowry, which was equivalent to one and a half taels of silver when she married into the Li family.

At that time, she really felt that her natal family was very good, but after thinking about it carefully, the sum of the money she secretly gave her mother one after another over the years has already exceeded one or two and a half.

Therefore, the more Qian Xinghua thought about it, the more she felt that her mother's kindness to her was just out of her money.

If Mrs. Qian knew that Qian Xinghua had such thoughts in her heart, she would definitely wish to stuff this daughter back into her belly to prevent her from being born.

Yes, Qian Xinghua secretly gave money to her natal family, but did Mrs. Qian not give Qian Xinghua anything?It wasn't Qian Xinghua who gave the money that time, Granny Qian would have given her rice noodles, pastries and candies.

After giving birth, Mrs. Qian did not ask her daughter to serve her like a son and take care of her in the old age. She never thought that this daughter would not even have a basic sense of gratitude.

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