Happy pastoral event: a wonderful wife

Chapter 140 Zhang's thick skin

The cold winter passed by in a flash, and in a blink of an eye, spring came.

During this period of time, Shen Yunjin and Li Yi have been busy redecorating the shop in the town. They have been busy for more than a month, and it is estimated that it will take another two months. If everything can be completely renovated, the family can move to the town.

But of course, their imminent move to town had always been a secret, and they had never let the rest of the Li family know.

If the Xu family or the first and second bedrooms find out about this, they will inevitably make a fuss again, and they will definitely want to take this opportunity to gain fame with the third bedroom, and then there will be no peace.

So Shen Yunjin and Li Yi had already made a plan, and they would not confide a word to them until they moved out, and they would not be able to detect any clues.

It is spring now, and the most important spring plowing of the year is coming soon.

This year's climate is exceptionally warm and pleasant, so the folks in the village have discussed with each other, planning to start the spring plowing date a little earlier this year, earlier than in previous years, so that the heavy farm work can be done earlier. There's nothing wrong with taking a rest.

So since the past two days, many families have started to cultivate the fields one after another. The men wield their hoes to do heavy work in the fields, while the women do some light work on the side, or do good work at home. After the meals are boiled and hot water is taken to the fields, most families have their own division of labor in this way, and the work will be more efficient.

As the days passed, there were more and more people sweating like rain in the field, but the land of the Li family was always empty, which looked very abrupt in a bustling field, and there was nothing cultivated in the field at all. signs of passing.

One day, Mrs. Zhang from the big room came to the third room to look for Shen Yunjin and Li Yi. Mrs. Zhang didn't come here empty-handed this time. She even brought something rare, and what she took was a few cornmeal pancakes.

As soon as Mrs. Zhang came in, she smiled cheerfully, "Third son, third daughter-in-law, you probably haven't eaten yet. I made some vegetable pancakes for lunch today, and I thought I'd send some over for you too. It just so happens that I don’t have to cook anymore.”

Shen Yunjin glanced at the small and dry vegetable cakes, shook his head, and said, "Sister-in-law, you are very polite, but we just had lunch and we are already full, so you can take these vegetable cakes back .”

"Have you all eaten? It seems that I am late. If you come earlier, your family can still eat hot vegetable cakes. The vegetable cakes I made today are delicious. Your eldest brother alone I ate three." Zhang said while looking around with her head probed.

Shen Yunjin followed her gaze for a while, but couldn't see what she was looking for. "Sister-in-law, what are you looking at? It's not the first time you've come to my house. Is there anything to see?"

Mrs. Zhang replied, "I didn't look at anything. I just wanted to find out where the third child is. Isn't the third child at home? Why haven't I seen him since I've been here for a while? Could it be that he has gone out?"

"Now Yunwen and I are the only ones at home, and Li Yi has gone out." Shen Yunjin paused before saying, "He took Jing'er out for a walk to digest food after eating, and he probably won't be back for a while , Why, do you have anything to do with him, just tell me."

Li Yi went to the town this morning to see the progress of the shop's renovation, and took Jing'er there to play, and he won't be back until about an hour later.

However, Shen Yunjin did not tell Mrs. Zhang the truth. She was afraid that if she said that Li Yi had gone to the town, Mrs. Zhang would become suspicious. After all, everyone in the Li family knew that she and Li Yi often went to the town, but they didn't. People know exactly what they're up to.

She didn't want Mrs. Zhang to ask her why Li Yi went to the town, so she simply didn't say where Li Yi went.

Mrs. Zhang smiled after hearing this, and said, "That's fine. It's the same to tell you the matter. You can make the decision anyway. Third daughter-in-law, I'm here today to discuss something with you. See if you can Can't you let the third child take some time to come and do us a favor by planting the land for us?"

When Shen Yunjin heard this, he frowned immediately, "Planting the land? Why, could it be that you haven't started spring plowing yet? When is this? Several houses in the village are almost finished. Don't tell me you haven't done anything yet?" ?”

"Oh, third daughter-in-law, it's not that we don't want to work, it's that we really can't do it." Mrs. Zhang slapped her thigh with a bitter face.

She continued to ramble, "Think about it, in the past years, your eldest brother, second brother and third child planted the land together, but this year, your third room and us separated the land, and the second child's current His body is weak and he can't be tired at all, so all the work in the field depends on your elder brother alone, he is not an iron man, nor does he have three heads and six arms, how can he be busy by himself."

Shen Yunjin retorted irrefutably, "You can't go a thousand miles without taking a few steps. Everything can be done little by little, and the same is true for the work in the field. Big brother even takes farm tools to the field to have a look." No, of course we can't finish planting the land. Sister-in-law, think about it. In the past, although the three of us were busy plowing and harvesting together, most of the work was done by Li Yi alone. You should also be clear in your heart, since Li Yi can do so much farm work by himself, why can't big brother?"

Mentioning this, Shen Yunjin felt a little angry.

In the past, when there was no land distribution, the first house and the second house were too lazy to work, and Li Yi couldn't just watch the good land go to waste like this, so he had to do almost all the farm work alone, and he was so tired. Enough.

But even so, when the food was distributed in the autumn, the first and second families still tried their best to trick the third house and did all kinds of heartless things.

Shen Yunjin's memories can't help but go back to the day when she just traveled here, looking at the poor and tinkling home, she had to take her younger siblings to find the first and second families to ask for food...

"The third daughter-in-law, you can't say that."

Zhang's voice brought back Shen Yunjin's thoughts, and Shen Yunjin looked at her unhappily, to see how she could argue.

"Your eldest brother is not the third child after all. The third child is young and capable, but your eldest brother can't do it. He can't plant all the land by himself, and it will exhaust him." Mrs. Zhang looked at Shen Yunjin pleadingly, "If you want No, you can ask the third child to help us for a few days, otherwise we really don't know what to do."

(End of this chapter)