Chapter 75: Giving Benefits to Relatives(1/2)
After hearing this, Boss Song immediately laughed: "Oh, I see, mother, you are so smart, you can figure out such easy things. The second brother and I have been cheating for so long, but we have never thought of changing our ways..."
Speaking of which, Boss Song couldn't help but feel a little worried. Is it true that he and the second child are not biologically related?
He used to think that his brain was not like his father's, but must be like his mother's, so he couldn't study.
But now it seems that both parents are smart, and their younger brothers and sisters are not bad either. Why are they so stupid?!
Pei Yu couldn't see the awkwardness in Boss Song and said with a smile: "What are you thinking! Your mother, I eat more salt than you eat rice. This is accumulated from life experience. You will know when you reach my age.
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What's more, didn't Mom think of it before? She thought of it today because she was so anxious that she couldn't help you this year. I feel sorry for you. Maybe I got wise in my haste. In previous years, there was no shortage of people to work in the family. I really didn't think about it like this. Alas,
It’s also luck.”
Song Laozi and Song Laoer suddenly felt swollen in their hearts. My mother really felt sorry for them! Look how anxious my mother was!
In previous years, my mother would help collect and thresh the millet during the autumn harvest. She really didn't have the time to think about this. When we started working, everyone just wanted to finish the work quickly, and they really didn't have the time to think about anything else.
"Mother, mother is so lucky." Song Mingzhu obediently came over and looked at her mother with a small face.
Pei Yu smiled and pinched her daughter's fleshy face: "You are the only one with a sweet mouth."
"Mom, I am also sweet-tongued. Mom, you are the best!" Song Mingli said hurriedly, unwilling to lag behind.
"Yes, you have a sweet mouth and you are really a good son of my mother." Pei Yu smiled and touched the third child's head.
This child is getting closer to her, and he is getting better and better at inviting pets and acting cute.
Song Lao and Song Lao Er felt very envious of Lao San at this moment. They also really wanted to be patted on the head by their mother!
"Okay, you've all had a hard time these days. Take a hot bath and have a good rest." Pei Yu ordered as he looked at several people.
Although the family is extremely tired every day, they still need to take a hot bath because the rice is itchy.
Moreover, hot water can help soothe muscles. She doesn't care about it on weekdays. These days, she has stipulated that everyone should take a hot bath before going to rest.
"Mom, can you teach my father how to do grain threshing?" Wu asked in a low voice, looking at her mother-in-law, for fear of upsetting her mother-in-law.
No mother-in-law would be happy for a daughter-in-law to miss her parents' family. This is a waste of time and money...
But, her father is old and there are only three brothers in the family. She really just wants to make the family more relaxed.
"Okay, tomorrow I will go to your father-in-law's house to teach, and then I will go to your grandfather's house when you come back." Of course, Pei Yu would not think that Wu was cheating.
The Wu family are all good people, and if they treat the Wu family well, the Wu family will naturally care about them.
What's more, it's normal to honor your parents and care about your brothers and sisters. She's not really a feudal mother-in-law.
"Thank you, Mom! Mom, you are really the best mother-in-law!" Mrs. Wu was very moved when she looked at her mother-in-law.
She dared to say this, but she was actually relying on her body, thinking that her mother would not punish her even if she was angry. As a result, her mother-in-law agreed immediately without being unhappy at all, and Mrs. Wu suddenly felt enthusiastic but guilty.
To have such a good mother-in-law, she was truly blessed in her previous life!
Mrs. Wang stood aside silently without saying anything. She no longer had a natal family, so the breakup was not for nothing.
What's more, her parents are gone now, so she has nothing to worry about. As for her sisters...
Her elder sister doesn't care about her at all, she even hates her, and her younger sister is not close to her either.
In fact, the only one in the family who loved her was her grandmother. Otherwise, her grandmother would not have relied on the Song family for her sake, regardless of her face. She knew it in her heart.
Pei Yu saw Wang's head lowered and her whole body mood was not quite right. She frowned and glanced at Song Laoer.
"When you go to your grandfather's house tomorrow, go see your wife's two sisters and bring some food. Now that your father-in-law's family has no one to rely on, you, the brother-in-law, should take more care of them. If they are too busy with the autumn harvest, you
Go and help too."
Wang's body trembled, and she looked up in disbelief. Her eyes instantly became wet, "My mother-in-law is so kind."
"Hey, mother, I told my uncles before, please take care of Si Ya and Wu Ya for a while. With my grandfather's family here, I think they won't be bullied." Song Laoer said truthfully after hearing what his mother said.
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He is a considerate person, so he will not ignore the situation of his two sisters-in-law. There is only so much he can do.
"Okay, mom, don't worry if you do things thoughtfully." Pei Yu smiled. The second child is sensitive, but it's not a bad thing.
"Thank you, mother...thank you, head of the family, I, my life is so good." Wang choked with sobs and was a little incoherent.
It was true that she had no relationship with her sisters, but she didn't want to really have no relatives from her mother's family. After all, she was a biological sister from the same mother.
The mother-in-law is willing to take care of her natal sister, so naturally she cares about her. This is the respect that her in-laws attach to her and give her face.
Unexpectedly, her husband also loved and cared for her and asked her uncle to take care of her early.
"Brother and sister, not only are you lucky, but I am also lucky. Those who can be our mother-in-law's daughter-in-law must have been burned incense in the previous life!" Mrs. Wu said with a smile. She was sincere in her words.
To smooth things over for the Wang family.
Mrs. Wang nodded excitedly: "Sister-in-law is right!"
"Okay, let's pack up and go to bed early." Pei Yu raised her hand and took her little girl to take a bath.
Song Lao Er and Song Lao Er quickly helped to carry water. Since the family built a bathroom specifically for bathing, several pots of hot water were boiled every day. My mother and sister had to take hot baths every day.
Boiling water costs firewood, and the Song brothers wash themselves with cold water every weekday.
Even though Pei Yu said it several times, they still responded with cold water on their backs.
Pei Yu thought for a while and realized that the temperature was not too cold, so he just turned a blind eye.
Mrs. Wu and Ms. Wang felt sorry for their men who collected firewood every day, but their mother-in-law had warned them that they were women and could not wash themselves in cold water. If their bodies were broken and they could not have children, they would be divorced!
After being warned, the two people naturally did not dare to violate the rules, but they only rinsed them every two or three days, and usually just used a basin of hot water to wipe them. In this way, the firewood at home was tighter than usual.
The elders Song and others didn't feel aggrieved. Taking a hot bath was comfortable, and boiling water was not a big deal. Of course, they wanted to make their parents more comfortable.
They were tired and had nothing to do. They just went for a walk in the mountains to get some firewood.
Their village has nothing but mountains and woods, so anything that doesn't cost money doesn't matter.
What's more, now that they have a water source at home, they don't have to go to the village to fetch water. They can just replace the effort of fetching water with collecting firewood. Carrying water is much more tiring than collecting firewood.
"Boss, when the autumn harvest is over, go to Mingfu's house and ask. Our family will go to the back mountain to cut some firewood for the winter. Ask them if they are willing to put in some effort and have a full meal for one day. After the work, we will give half a bag of unshelled food.
Millet.”
After the little girl finished taking a bath, Pei Yu looked at her eldest son who was carrying water and said that the family was running out of firewood, so they didn't have much firewood.
After the autumn harvest, winter will soon begin. Then the whole winter will be inseparable from the kang, and several rooms in the house need kang burning.
Especially for Mrs. Wu, when she was about to give birth, neither the child nor the woman in confinement should catch cold.
In fact, it is better to use charcoal, which is also convenient for drying children's clothes and so on.
Although she knew how to make charcoal, it was too late to make it now.
And she didn't dare to be too pushy. Burning charcoal was a big move and she couldn't hide it, so she'd better use firewood.
It's so frustrating to have a rare skill but not be able to use it.
Boss Song made a bitter face, "Mom, the harvest this year is not good, and our family's grain storage is gone... It's better not to find anyone. My brothers and I just need to work a little longer. Behind our house is Big Fish Mountain. Enter
The mountain is very fast.”
Boss Song really doesn’t want to find anyone. He has no food at home! The food harvested this year is very small, and he still has to pay taxes.
"I said, just look for it. Our family has no food, but didn't your father go find a way? When your father comes back, we will buy food.
Don't always think about working hard, it's all work anyway, it's very tiring, you are still young and you can't waste your body, you know?!" Pei Yu rarely turned dark.
How old are you, and you are already treating yourself like an ox and a horse?
Boss Song had a lump in his throat, "I know, mother, I'll go over and ask when the time comes."
Pei Yu patted her eldest son on the shoulder and went back to the house to get a change of clothes.
Song Lao Er carried the last bucket of hot water into the bathroom and was dragged away by Song Lao Er when he came out. He couldn't help but share the joy and emotion in his heart at this moment with his brother.
Early the next morning, Boss Song went to the Wu family. The Wu family lived in Taohua Village, a village downstream, not too far away, and could be reached in an hour's walk.
The Song family was not idle either. The whole family dried the grains in the sun. The second and third sons took out the threshing buckets and put them away, and then they practiced martial arts in the yard with their younger brothers.
Yes, practice martial arts.
Ever since he was beaten at Wang's house last time, Pei Yu came home and started watching Song Laoer practice martial arts. A man who had been practicing martial arts since childhood was beaten by two gangsters and an old drunkard until his nose was bruised and his face was swollen, and he was completely humiliated!
I was busy with the autumn harvest a few days ago, so naturally I didn't practice. Now that I had some free time, Song Laoer obediently started practicing by himself.
He was also angry, feeling that he had disgraced his mother. Her reputation was well known to everyone in Dayu Mountain, but it all fell into his hands! He would never embarrass his mother again!
Pei Yu watched her son's morning exercises with satisfaction, then turned around and picked up the basket and went out. The family was busy with the autumn harvest these days, so she didn't have time to look at the wild flowers and weeds. She didn't know how the two children were doing.
When he arrived at the patriarch's house, Pei Yu didn't even have to knock on the door. The millet was drying in the yard, and Zhou's third daughter-in-law was taking her children to look at the millet.
The courtyard of the patriarch's house is also large. There are several sunbathing mats in the courtyard, and there is only a small open space left in the entire courtyard for people to stay.
"Grandma Pei~" Weicao grabbed a small bamboo stick and ran over on her short legs to call someone.
The little guy hugged Pei Yu's legs tightly, his little face looked aggrieved. Grandma Pei hadn't seen him for a long time. He thought Grandma Pei didn't like him anymore.
His sister said that it was busy in autumn recently, and Grandma Pei must be too busy. It wasn't that she didn't like him, but he still felt sad in his heart. He was afraid that Grandma Pei wouldn't like him in the future.
To be continued...