Abandoned Daughter's Beautiful Pastoral

Chapter 7 Mind

After hearing this, Mrs. Zhao stopped, looked at Zhang Baozhu suspiciously and asked, "Is what she said true?"

Zhang Baozhu really wanted to say it was a lie, but before she could open her mouth, she was interrupted by a soft voice: "Grandma, what little aunt said is true, even Zhuang Zhuang saw it!"

Xiao Zhuangzhuang looked at his grandmother timidly with black eyes, then pointed to Zhang Baozhu and said, "The eldest aunt still calls the little aunt a bitch, and she wants grandma to come back and beat the little aunt to death. Grandma doesn't want to kill the little aunt OK?"

These words were all heard by Xiao Zhuangzhuang when Zhang Baozhu and Lin Shiyuan scolded her after Zhang Xiaocao left. He liked little aunt but didn't like big aunt, and didn't want grandma to kill little aunt!

When Mrs. Zhao heard this, what else did she not understand?Although he didn't value this frail grandson very much, he was his own grandson after all. He never lied. Since he said so, it must be true!
I took a look at my eldest daughter, saw her dodgy eyes, and didn't refute, so I believed my grandson's words.

She didn't care if her little daughter was splashed with water, but she also felt that she had something to say that won her heart. Although she wanted to please the head of the village, she definitely didn't want others to ride on the head of their family and scold her, even if it was Neither can the granddaughter of the Li Chang's family!
Zhang Xiaocao saw that Zhao's face had softened a lot. As early as when Lin Shiyuan was covered in water, she thought of a countermeasure. After more than half a year of contact, she realized that with Zhao's strong temper, she absolutely cannot tolerate others. Such insults, so he added more anger: "If outsiders know that a child of her dares to scold our family like this, our family will not be laughed at to death? They think our family is easy to bully, and anyone will come up and step on it. Feet, mother definitely doesn't want this!"

When Mrs. Zhao heard this, the idea of ​​forcing her to go to the head of the village to apologize was instantly dispelled. If she bowed her head to a girl, would there still be a place for their family to talk in this Zhangjia Village? ?
Seeing that Mrs. Zhao had given up on beating her up, Zhang Xiaocao breathed a sigh of relief. She is Mrs. Zhao's daughter, and if Mrs. Zhao wanted to beat her, she could not hide, let alone fight back. That play was for nothing. Fortunately, Mrs. Zhao is a person who wants to save face and be strong, otherwise today's test would be really difficult!

This hurdle is dangerously passed!
In the evening, Momo made a sumptuous dinner. She said it was sumptuous, but in fact she fried two more vegetables than in the morning, put in a few drops of oil, and cooked a pot of brown rice. Now that the farming season is busy, I have to grab it during the day. Work, when the corn is broken, I will be busy plowing the land and planting winter wheat. Now I eat some oil, and I will have strength when I do things. If the farming is slack, let alone oil, I only eat two meals a day, and it is still thin. Almost everyone is like this.

When all the busy people in the field came back, everyone gathered in the main room for dinner, Zhang Xiaocao was still sitting on a low stool beside her with half a bowl of rice, and she didn't even pick up any food, Mrs. Zhao would not let her This is for people who are "idle food" to eat an extra ration.

Zhang Xiaocao doesn't mind either, anyway, she cooks the food every day, she won't be so stupid as to starve herself like the original owner, but she doesn't dare to go too far, Zhao's spirit is like a mouse, and she has one grain missing in her heart It's all clear.

After Zhang Xiaocao cleaned up the kitchen, he boiled two pots of hot water to wash the whole family. Now that it is autumn, it is still cold in the morning and evening, so we cannot bathe with cold water like in summer.

After Zhang Xiaocao finished washing, she returned to her room in the dark. She said it was a room, but it was not with the main room at all, but a small utility room connected to the stove room. Firewood, a narrow bed was placed near the inside. It was said to be a bed, but it was actually a slightly larger plank with a bed foot made of adobe bricks under it. The bed had a thin and torn quilt and a tattered sheet that couldn't see the original color clearly. On the bed was an equally thin and hard quilt that looked like dirt.

It's just autumn now, and it won't be cold in the near future, but when it's deep winter, relying on these, she might freeze to death. The family sleeps on a kang, and in winter they can burn a kang to keep warm. I'm not afraid of a thinner quilt, but No one has ever cared about how her child will live in winter.

From the memory of the original owner, Zhang Xiaocao knew that she could no longer sleep with her parents when she was six years old. She could have slept with Zhang Baozhu who had a room all to herself, but Zhang Baozhu disagreed life and death at that time, and Zhao felt very distressed. Daughter, she tidied up the utility room casually and let Zhang Xiaocao live there for four years. She really didn't know how the original owner survived the cold winter.

In the past six months, Zhang Xiaocao has deeply realized how difficult it is for the original owner to live in this house. She has been doing housework since she was three or four years old, from feeding chickens and ducks to feeding pigs and cooking, but she is often beaten and scolded and cannot eat enough. But he dared not steal food while cooking. Seeing his sister eat well and dress well, and live with her, I was envious at first, but finally realized the reality, and even the envy seemed pale and feeble. She could even feel the desperate cry of the original owner's soul.

She was reborn into this body, and she also wanted to get along well with this family. She didn't do less dirty work, and she didn't say anything about poor food and clothing. She thought that as long as she got their approval, she hoped They will love her like relatives in previous lives.

However, no!
She cautiously wanted to integrate into this family, but was beaten up by Mrs. Zhao, and all her expectations were wiped out. That time, she lay on the bed for four days, almost dying!
She has never experienced any hardship since she was a child, and she has suffered almost all of it in the short six months. It is not that she has never thought of leaving, but she is a ten-year-old girl with no household registration and no guides. Where can she go?

Although most of the people here are very simple, there are quite a few with bad intentions. A homeless child like her is easily captured and sold by kidnappers. Even if she is not lucky, she can only wander around and suffer from hunger. , These are not what she wants!

Although this home is not good, at least she can settle down. If, if she can't stay here one day, she is not a wimp at the mercy of others!
Looking at the twinkling stars in the sky, Zhang Xiaocao secretly clenched his fists, his eyes glowed with a light comparable to the stars...

During the busy farming days, besides doing housework, Zhang Xiaocao also has to tend several ridges of vegetable fields. It is already autumn, and it will not be long until winter. These vegetables must be planted during this time, otherwise they will not be eaten in winter. None of the vegetables.

Zhang Xiaocao identified the rapeseed that Mrs. Zhao gave her, all of which she knew, including cold-resistant Chinese cabbage, radish, and a kind of long cabbage used to make pickles. She was surprised that none of them she liked very much. The spinach and carrots she ate, not only that, but even the garlic that is very commonly used in winter was sown in spring, which surprised her.

(End of this chapter)