0p0 Chapter 254 The reborn sister-in-law’s cannon fodder niece (2)
Chapter 254 The reborn sister-in-law’s cannon fodder niece (2)
Fang Baozhu finished breakfast, washed the dishes and chopsticks, drained the water and put them away, then threw a cleaning charm to keep the room and yard clean.I grabbed another handful of bran, chopped some vegetable leaves, mixed them with some water, and fed them to the chickens.
Their chickens are kept in a large fixed cage. The cage is more than one meter high and two meters wide. It is placed against the south wall. When it rains, it is covered with a straw curtain.
It won't work if they don't live in captivity. There are vegetables growing in the yard. If they were kept free-range, these vegetables would be harmed.
Another reason is that the gates in rural areas are often open, and there have been cases where free-range chickens went out for a walk and did not come back.Her parents learned from the lessons of others, chickens were raised in captivity.
The Shangsi production team has no restrictions on raising chickens, no more than ten chickens are allowed.However, individual members of the commune are not allowed to raise pigs, and they are raised by the production team.
After feeding the chickens, Fang Baozhu took a closer look at the house.
The conditions of the Fang family are good or bad, and they are average in the village.The house is an adobe house, but it is spacious and airy, with large windows. The roof is made of wooden beams and tiles, not straw.
There are three rooms in total. My parents live in the east room, she lives in the west room, and the living room is in the middle.
There is an Eight Immortals table against the wall in the middle of the living room. Behind the Eight Immortals table is a table and a chair on the left and right.There is a bench on each side of the wall.If you are entertaining guests at home, move the Eight Immortals table outside, place two chairs on the side facing the door, and a stool on each of the other three sides.If you don’t have enough benches at home, you can borrow them from your neighbor’s house.Return it after use.
If we weren't entertaining guests, it would be much simpler. My parents would each have a chair, and she would sit on a stool.
The two bedrooms have similar furnishings, including a bed and a desk and cabinet.The desk cabinet has many functions. The countertop can be used as a table. There are three drawers below, where you can store small things, and below there is a two-door cabinet, where you can store clothes.A small table cabinet can meet all daily needs.
There was also an old-fashioned flip-top wooden box in her parents' room. It was her mother's dowry, and it was still locked.
The three main rooms of her family, plus the kitchen, toilet, and small utility room, were all built with the help of her maternal grandfather's family.
Here I have to talk about her wonderful grandma Tian Xiao'e.
Rural people at this time generally favored sons over daughters.But Tian Xiao'e is an exception. She values girls over boys.
Still extremely favoring girls over boys.
In her opinion, sons are just little family sparrows who forget their mother's goods after marrying a daughter-in-law. Only daughters are her mother's caring little cotton-padded jackets.
After Tian Xiao'e married Fang Xiuwen, she gave birth to her first son, named Fang Xuewu. She was so embarrassed that the relatives and friends who came to congratulate her looked confused.
The second child gave birth to a son, named Fang Xueli. Her face became longer, making everyone even more confused.
Here, when there are weddings and funerals, people will be sent to relatives' homes to report the news, and the same goes for childbirth.
In every family, there is a person who is responsible for bringing news. As long as this person comes to the door at any time of the year, it is either a happy event or a funeral.
If they hear that they have given birth to a baby, everyone will first ask: "Are you giving birth to a baby, or a baby?"
If the answer is "I gave birth to a baby," the person who asked will congratulate from the bottom of his heart: "That's really joyful."
If the answer is "I gave birth to a little girl," the person asking the question will even say congratulations a little bit insincerely: "That's quite happy."
Listen, the difference between boys and girls is so big!
Therefore, everyone's joys and sorrows are not the same as Tian Xiao'e's.I couldn't understand her emotions and thought she was showing off to everyone.Suddenly, Tian Xiao'e's popularity, which was not good to begin with, became even worse.
Therefore, she disliked her two sons even more.
Fang Xuewu and Fang Xueli were both left by Tian Xiaoe to her mother-in-law, and she never cared about them.Fortunately, her mother-in-law only had a son like Fang Xiuwen, so no one else came to give her opinions.
I don't know if it was retribution for Tian Xiao'e not loving children. Later, she became pregnant three more times, all of which were sons, and she was unable to keep any of them.Probably her son didn't want to come to her house and suffer.
When the two children were in their teens, their grandmother passed away.They can only rely on themselves, since their biological mother Tian Xiao'e cannot be relied on anyway.I can't rely on my biological father either.As long as Fang Xiuwen, an old man, takes good care of him, he will not care about anything at home and let Tian Xiao'e do whatever he wants.
Later, Fang Xuewu married a daughter-in-law, an orphan who came to escape famine, named Wang Chunnier.The bride price is half a bag of corn.The Wang family left Chun Nier behind and ran away.
As soon as Fang Xuewu got married, Tian Xiaoe immediately left the house.It's the kind of thing that really drives you out.
The clan elders couldn't stand it anymore, so they came forward to help him get some food and money so that he could build two adobe houses so that he would not have to live in the village.
Tian Xiao'e didn't give anything to her son, but she told him that during the holidays, there should be no lack of etiquette.At the end of the year, you have to pay filial piety money.
Later, Fang Xueli also married a daughter-in-law, Zhang Wenjuan from the next village. He seduced her by himself with his handsome face. Otherwise, given his family's reputation, he would not have been able to marry her at all.Who is willing to marry the girl to him?Even the man who sells his daughter looks down upon him!
As soon as the two got married, Tian Xiao'e followed Fang Xuewu's example and gave them a share and told them to get out immediately.
Every penny given to her son seemed to tear her heart out.
She really didn't want to give any money.But it won’t work if she doesn’t give it, those bad old men will come looking for her.
Fang Xueli is a little better than his brother. His wife's family's conditions are not bad. His father-in-law, mother-in-law, and two uncles all come to help and contribute money and effort to build him three rooms. The kitchen, woodshed, toilet, and courtyard walls are all damaged. Good.
Why is Zhang Wenjuan’s family so open-minded?It's also because Zhang Wenjuan is a bit of a naughty kid. To put it simply, she's lazy and has a bad temper. It's hard to choose a family for her because she's afraid that her life will be too chaotic after she gets married.
Although the conditions of Fang Xueli's family are not good, the young man looks pretty good, he is good-looking, has a sweet mouth, and is smart. The key is that Zhang Wenjuan is satisfied with himself.In the words of later generations, the emotional value he can provide is high.
Moreover, when you get married, you can separate the family and don't have to serve your parents-in-law, which is just right for Zhang Wenjuan.
As for having a hard time, who is having an easy time?Just don’t starve to death!With some help from them, they can always keep the two of them alive!
Not to mention, Fang Xueli and Zhang Wenjuan were just bastards who fell in love with Mung Bean.After they got married, they both worked harder than before. Zhang Wenjuan was coaxed out of her temper by Fang Xueli, and the couple really lived a happy life.The Zhang family was amazed to see it!
In this way, the Fang family is divided into three families, each of which is very independent.The two brothers are quite close, but they are far away from their old home.Even when choosing a homestead, we chose as far away as we could, and we all lived on the edge of the village.
Every New Year's Eve, he would travel through most of the village and go to his old house to deliver holiday gifts with great fanfare.
This was Fang Xueli's idea after he was separated.
"Brother, since we have done it, we must do it openly, so that our mother will not use this to squander us in the future."
Brother Fang is more honest, but he fully agrees with the second brother's suggestion.
There are not many festival gifts, including a few eggs for the Dragon Boat Festival, two moon cakes for the Mid-Autumn Festival, and a piece of pork for the New Year.Give me some more money at the end of the year.
But the good reputation of filial piety was established.
As long as Tian Xiao'e makes trouble, no one in the village will turn to her.
Less than a year after Fang Xueli got married, her biological mother Tian Xiao'e announced that she was pregnant.
Tian Xiao'e was very happy that the old clam was pregnant with pearls, and felt that her wish for a little cotton-padded jacket was about to come true.This was 1954, and Tian Xiao'e was in her early forties. Pregnancy at this age was considered common in rural areas.
Tian Xiao'e wants her eldest daughter-in-law Wang Chunnier to serve her, but why?When Chun Ni'er was pregnant with the eldest and second child, Tian Xiao'e didn't have any help. She had to rely on herself for pregnancy, childbirth and confinement. Now that you are pregnant and you ask others to take care of you, who will care about you?
But it's not good to refuse directly. After all, he is the elder.Just when Chun Nier was thinking of making an excuse, she discovered that she was also pregnant.
It’s okay now, no need to go.
So Tian Xiao'e set her sights on Zhang Wenjuan, but Zhang Wenjuan didn't want to go.Fang Xueli came up with the idea to make her "pregnant" too. The couple was about to pretend, but Zhang Wenjuan started to vomit.The fake pregnancy turned into a real pregnancy.
Now, she doesn’t have to go!
Tian Xiao'e was furious, but there was nothing she could do.He cursed at home all day long, scolding his two daughters-in-law and the child in their wombs.
Pregnancy lasts ten months and gives birth once. In 1955, the three of them had children on their front and back legs.
Tian Xiao'e got a daughter as she wished, named Fang Mingyue.
Wang Chunnier gave birth to another son named Fang Lidong. The eldest daughter was named Fang Lixia and the eldest son was named Fang Liqiu.
Zhang Wenjuan gave birth to a daughter, named Fang Baozhu.Moreover, it would be difficult for her to get pregnant again in the future due to the difficult birth she had.
The Zhang family was also worried about what Fang Xueli would think, but it turned out that he was very open-minded and even comforted his old father-in-law and his family that having a child would be great and would save them a lot of trouble.He really meant it.
Tian Xiao'e's whole attitude has changed since she gave birth to this daughter. In the past, she just ignored the boss and the second child, treating them as if they didn't exist, but now she wants to scrape off the skin from them.
I think the things given by the two of them are too little, so I want to add more.
Brother Fang was honest, and because he was annoyed by her, he added a little more etiquette.
Fang Xueli had no choice but to join in.
At this point, Tian Xiao'e was still dissatisfied.Every once in a while, I would carry my daughter to the homes of my two sons and search for them. I took away some thin noodles and other things.
But she only succeeded twice. Later, both sons learned to hide things, and they hid them so deeply that she couldn't find them at all.
Tian Xiao'e clapped her thighs and cried, scolding her two sons for being unfilial.Everyone in the village curled their lips. With your virtue, you still want others to be filial. Are you worthy?
Moreover, if you didn’t find anything, it means that they live in poverty, so you still have the nerve to ask for it?
Since the increase in festival etiquette, Fang Xueli has been trying to find ways to secretly cheat Chen Cang.After giving away a few eggs during the Dragon Boat Festival, he would find a way to steal several more from his old house.He may have made money in the end.
Because of this operation, the original owner often drank raw eggs when he was a child.Fang Xueli gently broke the egg a little bit, inserted a piece of wheat straw into it to use as a straw, and asked the precious girl to suck out all the egg liquid inside and drink it. Then he used a little mud to cover the small holes in the egg shell and sneaked back to the old house. Swap empty eggshells for real eggs.
The original owner is lucky not to be infected with bacteria!
Speaking of which, even if Fang Mingyue was not reborn, the relationship between the two would not be good, or even bad.
Tian Xiao'e cursed at home all day long. She scolded everyone, including her son, daughter-in-law, and grandchildren.He scolded them for not being filial to their parents and grandparents, and for not caring about their little sisters and sisters-in-law.
Fang Mingyue would inevitably be affected. She had no friendship with her eldest and second brother's family, and instead felt a little more resentment towards her ordinary neighbors.