Chapter 2 Mountain Foot Village
The father-in-law and his wife returned to Shanjiao Village, and the fifth house at the end of the village was the Shen family's courtyard.
There are more than a dozen families in the whole village, scattered at the foot of the mountain, hence the name Shanjiao Village.
At this time, there were not many people walking around in the village. On the one hand, it was because the weather was too hot, and on the other hand, it was also because of their age and the fact that the villagers did not have enough to eat, so they were still willing to move.
Father Shen walked behind and followed Zhang Chunnuan into the yard.
The yard of the Shen family is not small. When you enter the yard, you can see three tall mud houses painted with white dust.
The room on the left was the original room of Mr. Shen, which is now the utility room of the family. The front half of the room in the center is the main room and dining room, and the back is the kitchen. The right side is the bedroom of Shen Hu and the original owner. Now only Zhang Chunnuan One person lives inside.
Immediately behind the utility room on the left is a wooden house, half of which is used as a bath room and the other half as a dry toilet.
On the left side, a vegetable plot of more than an acre was enclosed with a bamboo fence. It is now empty. On the right side, there is a small mud house. It used to be the family's cowshed and is now Hu Zi's father's bedroom, kitchen, and dining room.
Zhang Chunnuan stopped, looked at Father Shen, murmured for a while, and then said: "Please clean up the utility room and move back here. All the things in it will be put in the cowshed."
As an outsider, she had no right to let the real and only owner of the family live in the barn, while she could live in the best room with peace of mind.
The original owner could do something so unconscionable, but she, Zhang Chunnuan, couldn't do it.
Father Shen was stunned, "Nuan'er, what's wrong with you? Did what I just said make you feel uncomfortable? If you feel uncomfortable, just let it out. Don't keep it in your heart. Dad, Dad lives well. of."
"I don't feel bad." Zhang Chunnuan had long thought that if she asked her father-in-law to move back, he would definitely arouse suspicion.
After all, the original owner, a new daughter-in-law who had just entered the family, could instigate her husband to kick her father-in-law off the dining table and make him live in a cowshed. She was not a kind-hearted person.
But now that she had spoken, she naturally thought of a way to respond.
"It's August now, and the baby will be born in two months. As a grandfather, you live in that dirty place. I won't be able to answer questions when the baby asks me. Don't think too much about it. I'm just doing it for the baby's benefit."
Zhang Chunnuan didn't want to change her attitude towards Father Shen too much from the beginning. There had to be a step-by-step process.
She has also thought clearly in the past two days. In this era where she can't go anywhere without a letter of introduction, she only has two places to go.
Either stay with the Shen family in Shanjiao Village and become a single widow raising a child, or go back to the original owner's natal family, the Zhang family in Luosigou Village, which is dozens of miles away from Shanjiao Village.
The Zhang family definitely can't go back, it's not a good place to go.
They could marry the original owner to Shen Hu for fifty pounds of brown rice, but there was no chance that she would be married off again if she went back.
How can women who have received modern higher education not take their destiny into their own hands?
Comparatively speaking, staying in the Shen family is currently the best choice.
After all, Shen Hu is dead and she does not need to fulfill the so-called wife's obligations. In addition, her father-in-law cannot control her. It can be said that she is the master of the Shen family.
The famine will be over in half a year. After she gives birth to a baby, she will be able to go to the fields to earn work points after the new year and the beginning of spring.
With the farm, she believed that she would be able to live a good life and raise her children well in this era.
As for Mr. Shen, the original owner was his daughter-in-law anyway, and she was an orphan. She had taken possession of this body, and she should have cared for the old man until she died.
Having made a decision in his heart, Zhang Chunnuan did not want to create any complications, and said in a tone that left no room for doubt: "No more talk, you will move back in tonight. I'm a little tired, so I'm going back to my room to rest."
After saying that, she walked towards the room, looking up at the mountains behind the house as she walked.
Just wait, wait until she gives birth to the child, and then go into the mountains to hunt for treasure!
Behind her, Father Shen watched her enter the house with tears streaming down her face.
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The sun tilted, the shadows began to grow longer, and the sounds of people gradually began to appear in the village.
The rice harvest is finished, and there are also cotton and beans.
Farmers who face the loess and back to the sky always have endless things to do.
A villager carrying a cloth bag to pick cotton passed by the wall of Shen's courtyard. Seeing Father Shen busy back and forth in the courtyard, he stopped and looked at it for a while and asked: "Dad Hu Zi, what are you busy with? Come on, let's go to the fields.
Go pick cotton!”
Father Shen waved his hands towards them and replied with a smile: "You go ahead, I will go later. Nuan'er asked me to move back to sleep, so I have to finish moving now."
Before he finished speaking, he walked to the bullpen again.
Outside the courtyard wall, the villagers who heard that Zhang Chunnuan asked Hu Zi's father to move back in looked at each other.
What?
Doesn't the sun rise in the west today?
The mean and vicious little daughter-in-law she married in Luosigou actually let Hu Zi’s father move back?!
Full of questions, several villagers came to the cotton field.
The noisy village woman entered the field and started looking for Li Suizui. When she saw her chatting with the women in the village who loved to watch the fun, she smiled and walked over.
"Shazui'er, have you heard? That Zhang Chunnuan asked Hu Zi's father to move back in!"
Hearing this, Li Suizui turned to look at the village woman who was speaking. She had slender eyes and high cheekbones. There was still white foam at the corner of her mouth from being too excited to talk. She spoke in a sharp and harsh voice:
"Who did you listen to? That conscienceless vixen could make Father Tiger move back? It would be great if she didn't drive Father Tiger away!"
"Hey! How can I fool you? Can what I saw with my own eyes be false? If you don't believe me, ask the people who came with me. They also saw it. Father Hu Zi is at home moving things!"
Li Suizui's eyes were dark, he thought about it and sneered: "Heh, maybe that vixen is harboring some bad ideas in his heart?
Let me tell you, the last time I went back to my parents’ house, I heard that her sister-in-law from the Zhang family was already asking her about people, and she was just waiting for the Shen family’s baby in her belly to be born, and she was going to marry her off!”
"real?"
"I lied to you and my mouth is full of sores! Look at her charming look, ugh! How shameless!"
Listening to Li Suishui's vicious abuse of Zhang Chunnuan, all the village women nodded in agreement, but they didn't agree in their hearts.
As if no one knew, Li Suizui had been jealous of Zhang Chunnuan, who was several years younger than her, ever since she was a girl.
I’m jealous of someone’s good family life, jealous of someone’s good marriage, and most jealous of Zhang Chunnuan having a baby in the first month of her marriage.
Later, when Shen Hu died, she thought that Zhang Chunnuan was finally going to have a hard time, but she never thought that the mine would actually send compensation...
Unlike Li Suizui, she has a mean look, her husband is a coward who only listens to her own mother, and her mother-in-law is not easy to get along with either.
She has been married for several years but has not laid any eggs. The men at home and her mother-in-law look down on her.
Even though she said she was relegating Zhang Chunnuan to the dirt, in her heart she wished she could be reborn in the same life again!
Chapter completed!