Li Rongguo lowered his head, tears streaming down his face, "Zhengguo, I'm sorry for you. I was too cowardly. In those years, I..."
"Don't mention the past." Li Zhengguo interrupted him, "The past is past. Life must be lived backward and looking backward."
Ouyang Lei slapped Li Rongguo on the shoulder, "You are too cowardly. You are such a big man, and you are still being held in your father's hands. Have you ever thought about your baby?"
"If he is bloody, he will definitely feel aggrieved. If he is not bloody, he will be a coward like you for the rest of his life. You are the father, so you should take the lead."
"Go back and cut the vegetables, and I will take them away for you. If the supply and marketing cooperative doesn't accept them, I can only sell them to ordinary people. The money is not much."
"Thank you, thank you." Li Rongguo wiped his eyes, raised his head and thanked Ouyang Lei.
He turned around and thanked Li Zhengguo again, "Thank you, cousin. I, I will come over tonight to change the seedlings. I will definitely not tell anyone else."
"No, you must tell others." Ouyang Lei spoke for Li Zhengguo, "Li Zhengguo just wants to let your father and your second uncle know that he is willing to help you but not others."
"Ah? Oh, I understand. I cut the vegetables and came to replace them with seedlings."
"Aren't you stupid? How could you be manipulated like this by your own father?"
Ouyang Lei's words made Li Rongguo embarrassed, "My father also works hard for our brothers."
"Okay, hurry up and leave. As soon as I hear your words, I know that you are a foolish and filial person."
Ouyang Lei drove Li Rongguo away impatiently.
Tian Jing laughed, "You don't have parents?"
"I jumped out of the stone."
"The one who popped out was named Sun."
"I changed my last name later."
"It's strange that I believe your nonsense."
…
In the afternoon, Li Rongguo came to change the seedlings.
Following him was a thin, dark girl who looked about ten years old.
The girl, who was not very happy at first, put on a smile when she saw Tian Jing, "Auntie, my name is Damai, and I am Li Rongguo's eldest daughter."
"Da Mai, that's a good name. Just wait a moment and Auntie will bring you some candy."
Not allowing Damai to refuse, Tian Jing went into the west room and got a small half bag of brown sugar. The remaining sugar triangles were left over from the last time she wrapped them. She forgot to prepare some candy cubes, so she went to her mother-in-law's east room and asked for two pieces of peach cake.
Stuffed the peach cake into the brown sugar bag and handed it to Damai, "I forgot to prepare the sugar cubes. You can take this brown sugar back and drink it with water."
"That's not possible." He didn't dare to ask for barley, and brown sugar was harder to buy than white sugar.
"Hurry up and take it. I don't like pushing and shoving like this. My aunt saw that you were more cheerful, so she got you candy. Go on."
Damai didn't dare to refuse, "Thank you, Auntie."
"You're welcome."
Li Rongguo moved the wooden box out, and Damai hurriedly put the candy bag into his trouser pocket.
The trouser pocket was a little small, and the peach cake was a little high with brown sugar. She used strength to crush the peach cake and put it in it.
Tian Jing took a look and shook his head secretly. This eldest cousin couldn't be so stupid and filial that he would let his daughter guard against him like this.
Li Rongguo handed the wooden box to Damai and went into the east side room to move another box.
Tian Jing looked at Damai's little arms that were as thin as bamboo poles and felt a little distressed, "Da Mai, put the box on the ground and ask your father to push it back with my wheelbarrow. Just remember to bring the car back."
Damai, who turned to leave, quickly put down the wooden box, "It's a bit heavy."
"Girl, don't try too hard, you will only suffer the consequences."
Damai smiled with red eyes, "Auntie, you are only a few years older than me, and you are not much fatter than me?"
"Huh?" Tian Jing slapped her forehead, "I forgot, you called me cousin. I'm senior, don't I have to learn how elders care about younger ones?"
"Auntie, you are so kind." Damai's tears fell down.
"What the hell, I can count how many people scolded me behind my back."
"Pfft" Damai laughed with tears in his eyes, "Those who scold good people are bad people. Don't worry about them, they are just jealous and envious."
"That is, those who are envied and envied by others are superior to others, and I am the one."
Tian Jing's arrogance made Damai shed tears. She wiped her face and said, "Where is the wheelbarrow? I'll push it."
"Over there." Tian Jing pointed to the alley door to the west of the gate, "Open the door and you'll see it."
When Damai rolled out the wheelbarrow, Li Rongguo was already waiting in the courtyard.
The father and daughter left Li's house pushing a wheelbarrow.
Li Zhengguo hugged Tian Jing and said, "Tiantian, even if you give birth to girls, I will treat them well."
"Don't you dare try to be nice to them?" Tian Jing pretended to twist his ears.
Li Zhengguo hurriedly begged for mercy, "I don't dare, I definitely don't dare."
Uncle Li's seedlings were grown from seeds, and the members soon found out.
Someone wants to come to Li's house to ask.
He was stopped by another person and said, "They are a family. Big Mac Daddy also said that it would only be his family."
"No, there's something wrong with that."
"What's the problem?"
"Da Mai Daddy said it would only be his family, but I saw only Da Mai's family busy in the plastic shed and no one else."
"Isn't that a problem?"
"But what everyone is saying is that the seedlings in Grandpa Barley's house are transplanted. I heard that his brothers planted them separately, one for one year. If that doesn't work, I still have to ask for clarification."
Li Zhengguo heard this member's question and gave the correct answer, "It's just Li Rongguo's cousin's family. The rest, no matter who they are, get five cents a seedling."
"Your uncle doesn't count?"
"Well, I just want to help my stupid and filial cousin Li Rongguo. There is no way for the others."
After the rumors started moving in the right direction, no one wanted to exchange seeds anymore.
…
In the evening, while the Li family was having dinner, there was a knock on the door.
Tian Jing was still curious about who was so unafraid of pain. When she patted the door of her house, she heard someone shouting outside the door, "Uncle, aunt, please save my mother."
barley?
Tian Jing dodged and opened the door the next second, "Damai, what's wrong? Doesn't your hand hurt?"
"It doesn't hurt, it doesn't hurt." Damai said without looking at his hands, "Auntie, I know you are a very capable person. I beg you, go save my mother."
"What's wrong with your mother?"
"My mother..."
It turns out that Da Mai hid the brown sugar for her mother to drink. After her mother gave birth to her sister Xiao Mai, her grandma was very dissatisfied with her mother.
All the housework was assigned to her mother, and she was also asked to work, earning at least eight work points every day.
Damai Niang felt that she had given birth to two girls, and she was a little bit wrong, so she listened to her mother-in-law.
She thought it would be good to give birth to a son next time, but she never had the chance. After giving birth to two girls, her body was not recuperated.
When I became pregnant again, the fetus was not firmly seated, and I miscarried due to fatigue. I have never been pregnant again in this pregnancy.
Damai thought about using brown sugar to supplement her mother's health. One mother and daughter drank brown sugar water, and the other two ate chopped peach cakes. Unexpectedly, Uncle Li found out.
And because of the rumors, Uncle Li was so angry that she beat Barley and Wheat with a fire stick, saying that Barley and Wheat were eating alone.
Damai Niang wanted to protect her daughter, but was pushed to the ground, and blood soon began to flow from her body.
Only then did Uncle Li let the three of them go.
Damai helped her mother back to the house and found that something was wrong with her mother, her face was pale and her body was cold.
She went to beg her grandma, but her grandma didn't care, so Damai sneaked out.