Splendid Pastoral: The Strong and Hot Wife

Chapter 4 Family ([-])
When Xu's father and son returned home, it was already dark, and their mother, Zhou Yuqing, was standing outside the fence waiting for them.

Xu Xiaomi saw her crying when she went out, and wanted to comfort her after returning home.So, when Xu Xiaomi saw Zhou Yuqing's thin figure at the door of her house, she trotted to hold her cold hand.

"Why don't you wait at home? It's windy here, let's go inside."

Xu Xiaomi took the initiative to hold her hand, which was a big surprise to Zhou Yuqing.

She felt that since her daughter was bought by her mother-in-law at the age of five, she hoped that God would treat her better, and that she would be lucky if she had no relatives to take care of her.

Can meet a good family, so she can grow up safely!Unexpectedly, on this day after four years, the landlord's family in a neighboring village sent back his dying daughter, who was drenched all over her body.

At that time, she fainted from distress.The husband was also hit hard.But they didn't know how to go to the Zhang family to ask for an explanation.

I could only watch helplessly as my daughter was persecuted.She also silently said to herself: This daughter, this life has only a few years of mother-daughter relationship with me!
Who knew that when her husband was about to bury this small body in the soil, she hoped for a miracle to happen, and her children also cheered her on. She didn't even have the courage to call out her daughter's name.

But she still opened her mouth and cried heartbreakingly.In the end, a miracle really happened, and her daughter really came back to life. She thanked God for being kind to her...

However, the child woke up after two days of coma and was unwilling to call her mother.She began to think that her daughter would hold her and cry bitterly when she woke up.

But she was terrifyingly calm.She never imagined that her daughter's body now lived in a soul about her age...

When Xu Xiaomi came back from the river, she, a mother, was so excited that she shed tears on the spot.

When she touched her daughter's little hand on her arm with her rough hand, she broke down in her heart and said in tears: "You child, why haven't you called your mother after waking up? Mother thought you were hating me for the past few years I didn't look for you! Woo... woo... woo... woo..."

Xu Xiaomi heard the temporary petrification.She didn't expect this woman to say it so directly, how could she answer her?

But yes!It's been a long time since then!Mother and daughter can't always talk about you and yours!But now I can’t call it out!
But it was hard for her to die, but in just a moment, Xu Xiaomi reacted, and said with a smile: "You are thinking too much! I didn't think so much, and you also know that I have been outside alone these few years. Do more and talk less, even so I almost..."

Having said that, she deliberately stopped talking.Sure enough, the woman cried heartbreakingly and hugged her small body.

"My son... my poor child... it's all parents who are sorry for you, we didn't protect you well..."

The woman was sobbing so hard that she couldn't speak.

"Okay! Mother, let's go inside when it's cold outside! My daughter caught a lot of fish tonight, so let's eat fish tonight!" Xu Erqiang made a relief.

Zhou Yuqing turned around and saw Xu Erqiang with a pannier on his back, a fish cuff on his body, and a child with one hand.

And the eldest daughter supported her again, this kind of scene was actually something she had longed for in her dreams many times, and now it has finally come true, although life is a bit bitter.

But at least the family can be together is happiness.The happiness she wants is right in front of her eyes, what is there to be dissatisfied with?
So, she wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes with her sleeve and said, "Oh! Good! Let's eat fish tonight."

This is really happy for the two children. The family has always eaten black food, and they shouted happily tonight when there is fish to eat.

"Oh! Eat fish! We have fish to eat! Dad, mother, brother, we have fish to eat. We can eat fish when sister comes back!"

San Niu yelled and ran to Xu Xiaomi, grabbed her sister's clothes and said, "Sister, it's good to have you!"

Xu Xiaomi really loves this younger sister.He knelt down, picked up Sanniu and walked into the house.

Although this child is five years old, the food at home is really bad. She is much shorter than her peers, and the same is true for her younger brother Er Niu. At seven years old, she is only as big as a modern five-year-old boy.

It seems that she has to make money as soon as possible!If you have money, you can buy white rice and noodles for them. As long as the nutrition can keep up with them, they can grow up healthily.

When the family entered the house, Zhou Yuqing had already boiled the hot water.Xu Xiaomi took the wooden ladle and scooped hot water from the pot into the broken wooden basin, and carried it to the yard, letting Xu Erqiang and the two little ones wash their hands and warm them.

Then, she asked her mother Zhou Yuqing to find a big basin and pour out all the fish to clean it up.Now Xu Xiaomi is a child who has suffered a lot. Her first job was as a waiter in a restaurant.Therefore, she packed the fish very quickly.

She finished a dozen or so fish very quickly, and took them to the kitchen to cook tonight, and then cook the rest after dinner, so that the younger siblings could eat and go to bed early.

She walked into the kitchen with the packed fish, and beside the earthen stove, her mother put a torch made of a short bamboo pole, illuminating the room very brightly.

Xu Xiaomi searched but couldn't find any oil.

"Is there no oil at home?" She asked the woman sitting in front of the stove softly.

I was afraid that the loud voice would misunderstand the mother.It took a second for the woman to react when she started looking at her.

"Oil? Ah! Yes!"

She stood up from the stove and patted the dust off her body, walked to the place behind the stove where several clay pots were placed, took out a black pot and placed it on the stove.

Open the lid: "Here!" She stood aside after saying that.

Xu Xiaomi took a look into the pot, and there was only a little lard in it!

well!This family needs money too much.Xu Xiaomi is not in the mood to think about it now, let's talk about tonight's past first!

She quickly washed the pot, waited for the pot to heat up, put a little lard in the pot, added a ladle of water to the pot when the oil melted, put the fish in the pot when the water boiled, and put the wooden lid on .

Seeing this at home, she didn't ask if there was any ginger, onion and garlic, but in the end she still had to ask if there was any salt?

Salt has always been held by kings in ancient times, and it is very precious here, but fortunately, they still have some at home, which is stored in a small clay pot.

Seeing that the fish soup in the pot was almost cooked, Xu Xiaomi lifted the lid and put some salt into the fish soup, dipped some soup with the tip of his chopsticks and tasted it in his mouth.

Um!There is salt!When she was holding a large pot of soup, San Niu and Er Niu walked in smelling the aroma.

"Sister, sister, it smells so good!" said San Niu.

Er Niu said, "Sister! The fish soup you made is really delicious!"

Xu Xiaomi turned around and looked at them with a smile, "Yeah! Xiang! As long as you like my sister, I will always do it for you, okay?"

"Okay! Okay! It's great to have you!" San Niu yelled.

"Oh! My sister also thinks it's nice to have parents and you!" Xu Xiaomi said while putting the fish soup basin on the table.

"Erniu go ask dad to eat!"

Turning around, she turned to Zhou Yuqing, who was lighting a fire in front of the stove, and said softly, "Mother... come and eat fish!"

Zhou Yuqing stood up excitedly as if hearing the sound of nature, and responded with tears in her eyes.

"Hey! Eat! Eat them all..." He went to the place where the bowls and chopsticks were placed and took five pairs of bowls and chopsticks and put them on the table.

Xu Erqiang brought the two young ones to the table and sat down, and saw that there were only three wooden blocks, and the two young ones stood beside the two adults in a sensible manner.

"Mom! You eat!"

"Oh! Niuniu eats too..."

"Father! You eat!"

"Okay! Erniu also eats, and your sister, daughter, eat quickly!"

Xu Xiaomi looked at the pot of fish soup with uneven ingredients. She couldn't eat it, but seeing her siblings and parents eating so happily, she also picked up chopsticks and started eating.

It was the first decent meal she had had here in her life—a fish soup with nothing but salt.

Many years later, her mother, Zhou Yuqing, talked about this incident and said to her apologetically: "The family was really poor at that time. It was the first time I ate fish in my life, and it was also the most tasteless time. But our family But they all ate with gusto."

(End of this chapter)