Chapter 1 Wild Eggs
Li bent her body and mowed the grass. When she saw a nest of pheasant eggs not far away, she walked carefully on the slope with surprise. She was unable to move because she was nine months pregnant and was about to give birth. She could not provide firewood for cooking at home during her confinement.
This was what her mother-in-law told me. I still remember that in the morning, my mother-in-law went to the aunt in the same village to help take care of the children because her aunt gave birth to a son.
"How can you, a money-lossing thing, be so delicate? There is no firewood at home, so you have to get it back twice a day."
Li could only be obedient and go to the mountain to mow the grass when it was about to be produced.
She mowed the grass and found wild mountain eggs. When she saw the pheasant eggs, she thought of the four yellow-skinned children at home, so she reached out to pick up the pheasant eggs. After passing by a place, there was a hornet nest, "buzzing"
"ah!"
Li's conditioned reflex was used to slap Huang Feng with the straw hat on her head. Her movements were slow, not as fast as those little bugs, and there were needles on her face and hands.
The needle still carefully put the pheasant eggs in the cloth bag, and took off the buzzing hornets surrounding her, and slowly walked out of the hillside.
I felt the scorching pain on my face and hands, and the wasp chasing the needle.
Only then did Li lie in the weeds and rest here, and the wasps gradually flew away.
She felt her face hurt and hot, and her hands were swollen and uncontrollable. She looked up at the sky, with only a slit of swollen eyes watching the sun rise in the air, tied up two large bundles of grass, and used sticks to lift seventy or eighty kilograms of firewood.
I walked down the mountain slowly, walking up and down, and walked back to the village for a mile and met a mother-in-law who came out of the vegetable field.
The mother-in-law saw Li: "Academic family, you should be careful with such a big belly! Acer is really, he has wood broken wood when he works as a carpenter. Why do you have to go up the mountain with such a big belly to mow grass? What if you fall?"
Li heard the villagers sympathize with such language every day, and what they thought in their hearts was the same as these people thought, but she was used to being cowardly and gave birth to a few more girls. The husband's family passed down two generations alone. If she could not have a boy in her generation...
"San Po, I'm fine..."
"Oh, what's wrong with your face? And your hands." San Po walked closer and realized that Li's face was swollen like a pig's head, and his exposed hands were swollen and swollen.
"San Po, I'm fine. I was just now been killed by the wasp."
"Acco, you have to be careful! They are poisonous, and I don't know if it will affect the child."
"This..." After hearing the words of San Po, Li was frightened and scared.
"Have you removed that wasp fetus? It will be detoxified after taking it."
"Yes, I'll go home and cook it now."
Li's wooden hairpin tilted and some messy hair fell off. Sweat dripped from his bloated face, and he still walked with his head high and lowered his head.
"Pig head..."
"Let's fight the pig's head..."
The naughty children playing on the roadside picked up stones and hit Li. The stones were not very big. Li protected his belly and did not scold the naughty children.
"Mom, don't beat my mom..." The eight-year-old girl was carrying a bamboo basket, carrying a one-year-old girl on her back, holding a three-year-old girl in her hand, and a five-year-old girl behind her was also carrying a small bamboo basket. They were going to cut pig grass.
"Don't come over, the stone will hurt a lot." Li's heart protecting women, all four girls are there.
"You are all bad guys... don't beat my mother..." Da Ya cried and scolded those people, and wanted to help her avoid the stone thrown by these naughty kids.
"Ah! It turns out that she is a money-losing woman. Today she has become a pig's head, haha..."
A runny nose, a lot of patches on her clothes, short sleeves and short pants, which obviously didn't fit.
The other naughty kids laughed.
"Goudan, you are naughty again." A strong man came back from the mountain with firewood and scolded the children.
These naughty kids scared away.
Da Ya cried and said to Li, "Mom, do you feel pain?"
"Woooooooooooooooooooooo..."
The doll on Da Ya's back and two other sisters also cried.
"Mom is fine, let's go home first."
After a while, Li felt his stomach fall down after a while.
"Crying, useless things, why don't you go home to cook soon." My mother-in-law Lai helped her eldest daughter take care of the baby. Her daughter came back from the field and asked her to go home for dinner. She heard the crying of the mother and daughter in the distance and was upset.
"Lai, your wife has such a big belly, and you don't even take Chaicao. Acer's wife, what's wrong with your face? She's so swollen, come and I'll help you."
Grandma Li, who is in the neighbor's house, is holding a basket of vegetables. There are only a few families nearby who are neighbors, and she is very sympathetic to Li.
"Bah, you Li, isn't your wife supposed to do things? What does it have to do with you? Who asked you to be a good person?"
Lai's triangular eyes glared, stomped his feet on the ground, spit out a mouthful of water, and found the cloth bag that Li hung on his hand. His eyes turned and grabbed it, he quickly went home.
"Mother-in-law..."
Li was so anxious that she was about to cry. Her mother-in-law took the bag, and the pheasant eggs she picked up at risk, wasp fetus...
"Acco, don't worry... go home first."
Grandma Li took Li's load and carried her vegetable basket in her hand. She didn't know why Li attached so much importance to cloth bags.
Li didn't care about his falling belly and took a few steps to catch up with Lai.
"Mom, go slowly."
Lai has entered a yard gate of a mud tiled house with only three rooms, and a kitchen with a yard with a thatched straw shed on the other side of the yard. There is a father and son making furniture there.
She pushed the door open and the father and son who were making furniture looked up and continued to make furniture.
Two girls walked out of a room in the house, they were thirteen and fifteen years old, respectively. These were the two daughters of Lai. The fifteen-year-old daughter had already been engaged and was about to get married and was doing dowry, while the other stayed at home.
"Mom, what good things did you bring back? We're hungry."
Lai's arms were held by his two daughters, one left and one right, and he had no choice but to open the bag in his hand.
"Wow, pheasant eggs."
"There are also wasp fetus inside, mom, I want to stir-fry it."
When the two sisters said this, they felt saliva flowing, and followed Lai back to the room inside with cloth bags.
When Li entered the door, he happened to see two sisters-in-law. His mother-in-law Lai put away the cloth bag.
Li's tears were rolling in his eyes, his legs stayed in place.
"Mom..." Da Ya brought her sister in, put the pig and vegetable basket on the ground, and helped her mother to make way.
The father and son who were making furniture looked up and continued to make furniture.
Grandma Li took the firewood in. When she saw the indifferent father and son, she gently placed the firewood in the yard, looked at the father and son with a reproachful look and said:
"Uncle, Acer..."
Hearing the voice of the aunt next door, the father and son raised their heads again, and the father stopped the wooden work in their hands.
"My brother and sister-in-law, and daughter-in-law are really good. How can you ask you to help you choose?"
Acer noticed his wife's swollen face and walked over quickly and said, "Damn it, what's wrong with you?"
Chapter completed!