Stepmother Reborn: Dad, my mom hasn't hit me for three days

After Zhang Sixi got married, the team officially welcomed the autumn harvest. The previous harvest was wheat, which was not much for the team. But the next harvest was corn, sweet potatoes, peanuts, soybeans, etc., which were the big crops.

The members were very busy. Zhang Xiuhua had to raise chickens in the first half of the year and asked for leave almost every day, but if she didn't earn work points during the autumn harvest, she would have to buy them at the end of the year.

In order to save as much as possible, she went to the fields and of course also acted as a scorekeeper.

Even though the scorers do relatively little farm work, one can imagine how it feels to work under the scorching sun.

Fortunately, Li Jianguo knew to swap shifts with others and help with the autumn harvest for a few days. In addition, the children were older, so they no longer earned three or four points. Youcai and Jidong could both earn seven points. However, Zhang Xiuhua was reluctant to let Jidong do manual labor, so she asked him to take over her job as a scorekeeper. She was responsible for pulling the grain from the field to the threshing ground.

This job is easier than harvesting grain, but it's not very tiring.

After the autumn harvest, the rest of the work will be much easier.

Every family was consolidating their private plots. Zhang Xiuhua used half of her private plot to raise chickens and the other half to plant fruit trees and vegetables. She didn't plant sweet potatoes.

Other families all planted some sweet potatoes. For example, Wang Honghua next door planted all sweet potatoes.

Li Xingjia went to college and could not earn work points. She could not earn ten work points, and her grain allocation was not enough, so she wanted to grow some sweet potatoes to supplement the family income.

Zhang Xiuhua was exhausted and just wanted to rest, so she asked Zhuzhu to pull the vegetables from the field and dry them in the sun for two days so that they could be made into pickles.

Aunt Wang from next door was picking up vegetables from her own plot. Seeing how comfortable she was, she also wanted to take a break and came over to chat with her, "You are living a very comfortable life. You have your children to help you."

Zhang Xiuhua laughed, "Both of your children are working now. You are much happier than me. My child is still young."

Aunt Wang said with disdain, "What's the use of working? I still can't make any money."

It turned out that the two children were working, but rent, food, and everything else cost money, so they couldn't save much money. But there was one good thing, the two children didn't need her to support them, and the old couple only had to earn their own food. So she didn't mean what she said.

Zhang Xiuhua also heard it, so she just smiled and didn't say anything.

Aunt Wang said mysteriously, "Hey, do you know? Something's wrong with Wang Honghua."

Zhang Xiuhua looked at her in confusion, not understanding what she meant.

Aunt Wang Er saw that she knew nothing and said, "She lives next door to you, and you don't even know this."

Zhang Xiuhua was even more confused, "What do I know?"

"Have you seen the private plot in front of Wang Honghua's house?" Aunt Wang raised her chin and motioned for her to take a look.

Zhang Xiuhua stood up, took a look, and lay down again. "What's the matter? Aren't they all collected?"

Aunt Wang snorted, "It would be abnormal if she had harvested all of them. After the food was distributed yesterday, every household was exhausted. How could she have the energy to harvest the sweet potatoes in her own plot? And she pulled them all out overnight?!"

Zhang Xiuhua thought about it and felt it was indeed a little strange. "Maybe she was very diligent and pulled them out overnight?"

She found that the women here were very hardworking, taking care of all the housework and earning a lot of work points in the fields.

Anyway, compared with other women in the production team, she was a loser. But no one in the production team complained that she earned too few work points. After all, her family had six children to raise, and with that configuration, who wouldn't say she was capable?

Li Xingjia went to college, and although he didn't have to pay tuition and the government provided living expenses, that little money was only enough for him. Wang Honghua supported herself and her children. She was still very capable.

Aunt Wang curled her lips and said, "I saw someone picking sweet potatoes for her family last night. You are the only one who is stupid."

Zhang Xiuhua finally understood, sat up straight, and said seriously, "Don't say such nonsense! This will ruin your reputation."

At this time, it is a crime of hooliganism. Both Wang Honghua and the person who framed them must go to jail.

Aunt Wang Er saw how serious she was and said, "If you don't believe me, ask her yourself!"

She saw it clearly last night and would never make a mistake.

Normally, Zhang Xiuhua would not ask, as it was none of her business. But Second Aunt Wang liked gossip, and if it got out, Wang Honghua would be in trouble. She was about to stand up and ask, but Wang Honghua came first.

She wanted to ask Zhang Xiuhua if she still harvested sweet potatoes. She wanted to dry some sweet potato starch to make vermicelli in winter. The leftover residue could also be used to feed pigs.

Zhang Xiuhua nodded, "Sure! Just wash it and peel it and you can beat it!"

She waved her over, "I have something to ask you."

Wang Honghua was originally very busy, but seeing her serious expression, she thought it was something important, so she had to come over. "What's wrong?"

When she came over, Aunt Wang felt a little uncomfortable, but Zhang Xiuhua was calm and composed. "Yesterday I saw there were still so many sweet potatoes in the plot in front of your house. How come they were all pulled out today?"

Wang Honghua looked a little uncomfortable and hesitated, not wanting to say anything.

Aunt Wang winked at Zhang Xiuhua in an ambiguous way. Zhang Xiuhua sighed, "You'd better tell me, otherwise it will get out and be embarrassing."

Wang Honghua was stunned for a long time and her face turned ugly, "Who spread gossip about me! I I..." She was not good at speaking and couldn't curse, so she couldn't utter a swear word after holding it in for a long time.

Zhang Xiuhua stopped her and said, "No. Everyone in the village can see people coming and going."

Wang Honghua looked around and said, "I didn't want to do it either. He was the one who insisted on pulling it out. I was also shocked. If Tiedan's father comes back, he will definitely be mad at me again."

Aunt Wang thought to herself: If it were me, I would be angry too.

Zhang Xiuhua motioned for her to continue.

Wang Honghua then spoke, "My father-in-law probably wanted to reconcile, but you also know that the Xing family ignored them, so they wanted to start with me. Mother-in-law usually makes something delicious for Tiedan. My father-in-law saw that I was too tired to earn work points, so he helped me pick sweet potatoes. I didn't see it, and if I had seen it, I would definitely not let him help."

Aunt Wang thought about it carefully. She really didn't see Wang Honghua come out last night. The man was indeed sneaky. At first, she thought he was a thief. But there were so many sweet potatoes in the fields in Northeast China, so why would he steal from the private plots? So she didn't think he was a thief. But now thinking back, he did look a bit like Li Mancang.

This... was actually a farce caused by her. Her face flushed red. Fortunately, she didn't spread the news. Otherwise, she would have really hurt someone.

Zhang Xiuhua could also understand Wang Honghua, "Your husband hates his parents so much, you should stay out of this matter. Just pretend you don't know."

Wang Honghua nodded. "If I don't tell them, they will definitely mention this to Tiedan's father. Next time if you see them doing work for me, you'd better remind me, so that Tiedan's father won't blame me when he comes back."

Before Zhang Xiuhua could say anything, Aunt Wang Er was feeling guilty and patted her chest to promise that she would tell her next time.

Wang Honghua was busy with other things, so she left after saying this.

As soon as she left, Aunt Wang felt a little guilty, "Next time I will definitely verify it. I won't talk nonsense."

As they were talking, Li Jianxin walked by the door with the twins. Both children had red foreheads. They were fine yesterday, so why are they injured today?

Zhang Xiuhua looked at Li Jianxin in confusion.

Li Jianxin said casually, "Rui Rui accidentally hit his head, and Xiang Xiang also ran over and bumped into it."

Zhang Xiuhua: “…”