Chapter 9: Work is delayed

Chu Xia held the noodle bag in his arms and walked out angrily.

Jiang's eggplant was like frost, and said discouragedly: "It's useless to look for your milk, she won't admit it, maybe she will beat her upside down, saying that we are accusing her." ”

"Is that all? I'll go to Lizheng and ask him to give us a review. ”

Xiangling, who had always been eager to repay her, took a deep breath, took the noodle bag on Chu Xia's body, put it on the box, and sighed: "Brother, what if you don't forget it?" We didn't grab my milk and mix it with wheat bran, even if Li Zheng wanted to help us, he couldn't help us. Besides, we can't be troublesome about trivial things. ”

Chu Xia squatted on the ground in disappointment, indescribably decadent.

Xiangling poured the wheat bran back into the noodle bag, mixed it with the multigrain noodles, and said calmly: "Mother, big brother, the wheat bran can also be eaten, and it is also rich in nutrients." According to the nature of my milk, I am grateful to her for not putting rat poison. ”

Xiangling put the noodle bag back into the box.

Jiang was depressed for a while, wiped a handful of tears and stood up, and his voice was muffled: "Your Uncle Changlin is here to help our family work for free, and it is not good for people to eat wheat bran noodles." Mother went to your aunt's house to borrow noodles, and ate multigrain noodles for the helpers, and we ate wheat bran noodles at home. ”

Jiang took the noodle bag out of the box again, scooped up a small half pot of wheat bran noodles and went to He's house.

Chu Xia also stood up and said to Xiangling: "Xiangling, Aunt He's house is at the foot of the mountain, a little far away, I'll go with my mother." ”

Chu Xia said that he was not worried about the Jiang family, but Xiangling knew that Chu Xia was angry in his heart and wanted to find an excuse to go out to relieve his emotions.

There were only two sisters left in the house, and Xiao Xianglian asked with a deep sense of worry, "Sister, will we starve to death?" ”

A four-year-old girl, skinny and skinny, with large prominent eyes, no glimmer of light in her withered yellow hair, and a sorrow in her eyes that did not correspond to her age.

Xiangling's eyes were a little moist, and she asked in a thick nasal voice, "Lianlian, will you blame your sister for moving out of grandma's house?" ”

The decision to split up was made by Xiangling, and she never expected to get to this point.

The only thing Xiangling hates is that she didn't have much ability in her previous life, and she only worked in a grain trade company, not a high-tech job.

If it weren't for her crossing, the three of Jiang's mother and son would still stay in the old house, adults could get two nests a day, and children could get one nest a day, and they wouldn't be able to eat enough, but they wouldn't starve to death.

Xianglian stretched out her little hand, wiped her sister's red eyes and smiled: "If my sister doesn't cry, she will starve to death, and Lianlian is also willing to separate from the old house, in fact, there is one thing I have never dared to tell my mother........"

The little guy put his face next to Xiangling's face, and his long eyelashes inadvertently crossed Xiangling's face, causing Xiangling's heart to soften even more.

Xiao Xiangling whispered: "Actually, Lianlian's nest head was also snatched by the fourth sister, she said, if Lianlian said it, she would prick Lianlian's buttocks with a needle." ”

The fourth sister in the little guy's mouth is Chu Xiangqing, the eldest girl in the third room, who is thirteen years old, and Chu Dong is a dragon and phoenix fetus.

Xiangling's heart is so sad that it can't be done, now it seems that the children in Dafang and Sanfang, except for Dafang's fifteen-year-old second daughter Chu Xiangwei, all the children have bullied the brother and sister.

Xiangling held her sister tightly in her arms and cried profusely.

Little Xianglian patted her sister's back with her little hand like a little adult, as if she was her sister and Xiangling was her sister.

After crying for a while, Xiangling sat up straight and said, "Sister finished the pine needles first, returned Zhou Langzhong's medicine money, and then tried to make money, and never let Lianlian go hungry." ”

"I believe in my sister, my sister is very powerful!"

"No, my sister is super powerful!!"

The two sisters finally had a smile and dispelled the gloom in their hearts.

When Jiang and Chu Xia went home, the young ladies were already asleep with each other in their arms.

Jiang silently covered the quilt for the young lady, and hoped that the thing He promised to help her ask would be successful, so that she could earn more than ten yuan a day, and the children would not be able to drink enough from the northwest wind with her.

Early the next morning, Jiang got up early on the kang, went to the courtyard to take a look, and found that the sky was not beautiful, the sky was terrifyingly cloudy, and a heavy rain was inevitable.

Because I want to build a yellow mud wall, the process is more complicated than a fence wall. It is made of two long wooden planks as a frame, and the concrete is mixed with loess and grass thorns in the middle, and the next layer is fixed.

Because it is wet mud, it will become yellow mud soup when it is poured by the rain, and it can only wait for the sunny weather to be dry.

Jiang sighed, his mood was even more gloomy than the weather.

There was a knock on the door of the courtyard, and when the door was opened, it was He.

He Shi lifted the cloth on the basket, revealing the four wheat bran nests inside, and stuffed the baskets into Jiang's arms together and said: "According to what you said, give your family of four steamed wheat bran nests, and the steamed grains for the helpers are not needed, so I will be in charge of our steaming, and I will steam the dough again the night before the wall." ”

Jiang's eyes turned red, and he choked up: "Fortunately, with your help, otherwise I would definitely not be able to survive." ”

He is a pungent character, and he can't stand the sensationalism of others, so he waved his hand again and again: "Don't cry, I can't stand this." I asked Hua'er and her father to go to Liuhe Village to help you ask about that early in the morning, and I will be able to reply to the letter in a while. ”

Jiang finally burst into tears and smiled: "Help me thank Hua'er and his father." ”

He Shi rolled his eyes and teased: "Are you unloading the mill and killing the donkey?" Because we are good friends, Hua'er and her father helped you, you thank him so much, where did you put me? ”

Jiang knew that He deliberately teased her, and "fluttered" and laughed: "Are you a donkey?" ”

"........" He was choked and stared, after such a fuss, Jiang's worries were diluted a lot.

He laughed with Jiang on the face, but felt sorry for Jiang in his heart, and secretly rejoiced for himself.

Which family's daughter-in-law is not rubbed by her mother-in-law? He's the same, but her mother-in-law scolded her in front of people at most to save her face, but she was really good to her grandchildren's children, even if she was biased in her heart, she would get by on the big side.

It's like the old pious woman of the Chu family, who is too vicious, and the rations for her grandchildren are mixed with wheat bran, and she is not afraid of retribution.

He said goodbye and left, Jiang entered the house and sent a nest to the children: "It's cloudy today, let's stay at home for a day, and we won't go out of the house." ”

Xiangling ate the noodle nest in two bites, jumped off the kang and said: "Mother, the rain hasn't fallen yet, I'll go and pick up pine needles for a while." ”

Chu Xia also ate the nest head, and should be with Xiangling: "Mother, I will also go to the mountains to chop firewood, it is cold on cloudy nights, let's burn more kang hot and hot, and the extra firewood will be used for burning the stove in two days." ”

Jiang was not at ease, so he threw it into the basket and put on his coat before letting the two siblings go out.