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

Li Jianguo and his group returned at the right time, as Lijiatun was in the midst of autumn harvest.

The grain harvest in Northeast China is earlier than in the South, and most of the crops are rice, corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes, peanuts, etc.

After putting the luggage at the door of the main room, Li Jianguo didn't have the key, so he had to find his family first.

There was a yard at the door of the house, surrounded by a fence, so adults could just walk over it. Zhang Xiuhua followed Li Jianguo's example and crossed the fence, squatting on the stone in the main hall to rest. This layout was completely different from that in the south.

There is little land in the south, and the residential plots are lined up in rows, with the private plots in front and behind only a few centimeters in total. But the free land here is a large piece, roughly estimated to be half an acre.

There are many kinds of crops planted in front of the house, including peanuts, sweet potatoes, corn and soybeans. There is also a small area of ​​radishes and beans.

Baolin likes to tend to the vegetable garden. She took the lead in strolling around, pointing at the two bean vines at the door and shouting excitedly, "Mom, these beans are so big."

Zhang Xiuhua came over, and Jidong and Jilin followed, looking at the beans curiously.

It looked like a lentil, but not as flat as a lentil, nor did it have the pungent smell of a lentil. This was the first time they had seen such a thing.

Zhang Xiuhua recalled the videos she had watched before and explained to the children, "This kind of beans only grows in Northeast China, and they are called oil beans."

Baolin suddenly realized.

Zhang Xiuhua waited for a quarter of an hour, and Li Jianguo came back with two children. The boy was probably Li Jianguo’s eldest son, Li Youcai, who was ten years old this year. He had sharp eyes and looked a little repulsive.

The girl was younger, her name was Li Yaoyao, she was five years old, shy and timid, she lowered her head quickly after just one glance.

"Dad, who are they?" Li Youcai was not a person who could keep his cool, and he started yelling with a dark face. There were tears in his eyes, and he felt a little aggrieved. His mother had only been gone for a year, and his father had already found a stepmother. Would they be abused by their stepmother like Ergou in the future?

Whenever he thought about the hard life he and his two younger sisters were going to have to live, he became like a hedgehog, stabbing everyone he saw.

Li Jianguo didn't expect his eldest son to reject her, but he still explained in a good-tempered manner, "This is your stepmother. If you don't want to call her mom, you can call her aunt. She and these three brothers and sisters will live with you in the future."

Li Youcai glared at Zhang Xiuhua, unable to control his tears any longer, and refused loudly, "I don't want a stepmother. I don't want one!"

After saying that, he turned and ran out of the house.

Li Jianguo didn't have time to chase his eldest son. He opened the door and introduced Zhang Xiuhua to the house.

There are three large tiled houses in total. The layout on the northeast side is a long row of large flat floors, with a width of 20 meters.

On both sides are the kitchen and toilet. On the right side near the kitchen is a shed, which is filled with firewood, corn stalks, soybean stalks and other things that can be used for burning.

The three children live and eat at the eldest sister-in-law's house, but Li Youcai and Li Yaoyao have to come back every night. The youngest child is only one year old and can't walk yet, so he is taken care of by Li Jianguo's mother. She lives at the eldest son's house.

Li Jianguo wanted to take his three children back home, but the kang at home was not wide enough, so he had to find someone to build it.

Three boys lived in one room, three girls lived in another room. He and Zhang Xiuhua lived in one room, which was just right.

Zhang Xiuhua had no objection, but it was the autumn harvest season now and she might not be able to find anyone to build the kang.

She asked her doubts, and Li Jianguo nodded, "Definitely not now. But I have a month's vacation this time, and I still have 20 days of vacation left. We can wait until the autumn harvest is over before setting up the kang."

After that, he asked Zhang Xiuhua to pack up first, and he was going to find the team leader to register Zhang Xiuhua and her three children. When he arrived, the three people's household registration had already been transferred.

Only after settling down could Xiuhua and her three children earn work points and share food in Lijiatun.

Zhang Xiuhua watched him leave, then took her three children to clean up the house.

The two children, Youcai and Yaoyao, usually don't eat at home, so the other rooms are not cleaned up. There is dust and spider webs everywhere in the house.

Li Yaoyao felt a little bad when she saw them busying around in her house and she felt like an outsider. So she walked up to Zhang Xiuhua and asked timidly, "Aunt Zhang, what should I do?"

This child's personality was completely different from Baolin's. Zhang Xiuhua asked her to go to the yard to pick some vegetables, select them, wash them, and then light a fire to cook.

Li Yaoyao was stunned for a moment, then turned around and went to the yard to pick beans.

After Zhang Xiuhua and the children cleaned the house, Li Jianguo came back with half a bag of grain in his hand.

"This is the food we borrowed from the team. We will cook our own meals at home from now on."

Zhang Xiuhua nodded, carried the grain into the main room, scooped some rice, and asked Baolin to go to the vegetable garden in the yard to pick two sweet potatoes.

Baolin loved doing this kind of work. He ran over like a gust of wind, and soon he started to pull it out, and then he shouted, "Wow!!"

Jidong and Jilin heard her voice and ran over happily.

After washing the beans, Li Yaoyao saw them gathering in the vegetable field and went to watch the fun. But she couldn't figure out why she was shouting.

Jidong squatted down, holding the sweet potato and looking at it from left to right, muttering, "What a big sweet potato. No wonder aunt said we don't have to worry about food."

Zhang Xiuhua was a little amused and explained to them, "The soil in the Northeast is black, and the crops grow very big here."

Baolin said happily, "That's great."

She often went hungry in Liushui County, and it was great that she could have enough food to eat now.

After pulling out two sweet potatoes, Zhang Xiuhua asked her three children to pick the vines as well. This can also be used to make a dish.

While she was busy here, Li Jianguo finally had time to look for his son Li Youcai.

The little guy didn't run far, and kept hoping that his father would come to find him, but he watched his father go out, then turn a corner, and didn't come to find him at all. He was lying in the woods crying. Dad didn't want him anymore. He would be as pitiful as Ergou in the future, which really made him sad.

"A real man should shed blood but not tears. Why are you crying?" His father's voice sounded behind him. Li Youcai shuddered and subconsciously wiped the tears from his face. He said stubbornly, "I'm not crying!"

Li Jianguo didn't hesitate, but asked him bluntly, "Why are you crying?"

Li Youcai repeated what he had just said, "I don't want a stepmother."

"Do you plan to stay at your uncle's house from now on?" Li Jianguo looked at his son.

Li Youcai lowered his head and counted on his fingers. He didn't want to eat at his grandfather's house either, but he couldn't cook, let alone take care of his two younger sisters.

"She will take good care of you and your two sisters." Li Jianguo touched his son's head and said earnestly, "Your grandmother is in poor health and can no longer take care of your sisters. Dad can only find someone to take care of her."

Li Youcai lowered his head and kicked away the stone that was in the way. When he looked up again, tears welled up in his eyes. "Stepmother is not good. She will beat Yaoyao and Zhuzhu."

Li Jianguo thought for a moment, "Your aunt Zhang has three children. She is different from other stepmothers. If you don't believe me, you can see how she behaves. If you see her beating Yaoyao and Zhuzhu, you can write to Dad." He squatted down, "Dad will protect you. No one can bully you."

Li Youcai lowered his head and pondered for a long time. He felt that his father had assigned him a glorious task. He was afraid that he could not complete it, but in the end he nodded and agreed, "Okay."

Li Jianguo smiled, "Let's go. Your Aunt Zhang has prepared the meal, and we will eat at home from now on."

Li Youcai didn't know what he was thinking about, and he let out a long sigh.

Li Jianguo took in his son's expression and guessed that he was not having a good time at his eldest brother's house. He touched his head and said nothing.