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

Zhang Xiuhua was happily dreaming of getting rich, but a whistle brought her back to reality.

Well! The courtyard is still far away. She should focus on the present first.

After harvesting the beans, you are also responsible for bundling the beans onto the cart and taking them to the threshing ground.

Zhang Xiuhua mechanically held the soybean stalks, wondering what else to eat in her space.

She didn't buy much fruit, only cherries, apples, oranges, and durian. If she had known before she traveled through time, she should have bought more.

But there are a lot of meat and vegetables in the refrigerator. The freezer contains glutinous rice balls, pork shank, quick-frozen dumplings, hand-pulled pancakes, chicken steaks, steaks, and shrimps. These are stored in the freezer because Jidong and Baolin come to visit her so that she can cook for them.

As for the things placed in the insulation layer, there are many kinds of things but the quantities are small, including pork, vegetables, potatoes, sweet potatoes, tofu, eggs, fresh corn, seasonings, various beverages and yogurt.

After taking inventory of the food, Zhang Xiuhua thought about the tables, chairs, and beds in the space. They were all good things. Jidong spent a lot of money to buy them for her, but it was a pity that she couldn't move them out.

After loading, Zhang Xiuhua and Li Jianguo carried the soybean stalks back one by one. While Li Jianguo was unloading the goods, she went home to take a look, and the children had not returned yet.

Seeing that it was getting dark, Zhang Xiuhua was a little worried, "Should we go find them?"

"No need! They will come back when they are hungry." Li Jianguo told her not to worry, "Let's go back and cook first. We still have to harvest in the evening."

The weather is not that hot now, but we are still working so hard that we are sweating all over. We prefer to harvest soybeans at night.

Now every production team has a contract responsibility system, and usually everyone likes to slack off, but during the autumn harvest, no one dares to slack off.

Northeast China only grows this staple food. If the autumn harvest is not harvested in the next few days, the whole year's work will be in vain. This is their granary, so don't expect other places to transfer food to them.

So everyone worked hard to harvest the crops and even had to work overtime at night.

Li Jianguo parked the empty cart in front of his door, and then went into the kitchen with Zhang Xiuhua.

Zhang Xiuhua was too tired, her hands and feet ached. Li Jianguo saw her rubbing her belly and took the initiative to say, "I'll do the cooking. You light the fire."

Zhang Xiuhua was a little surprised, "You can cook?"

It's not that she looked down on the men at that time, they were the kind that wouldn't even help when the oil bottle fell. Just a dozen years later, it was not easy for men to find a wife, so they began to learn to do housework to give themselves extra points in the marriage market.

Li Jianguo doesn't think cooking is a big deal. "My cooking may not be as delicious as yours, but it's cooked." He paused and said, "If you're worried, you can give me some pointers. I learn very quickly."

Zhang Xiuhua nodded, and she really added more fire to the stove while watching him busying himself.

It's worth mentioning that Li Jianguo looks big and strong, but he is very meticulous. He washed the pot very cleanly, put the washed sweet potatoes into the pot, and added water to cover the sweet potatoes. Then he started to cut the potatoes.

I'm too tired today, and it would be a waste of time to cut it into strips, so just cut it into pieces.

Zhang Xiuhua instructed him to stew potatoes, and thought with some regret that she had pork in her space, which would definitely be delicious if she stewed it with pork. Unfortunately, she couldn't take it out for the time being.

Li Jianguo saw her sighing and said, "At the end of the year, the production team will slaughter pigs and each family will get a few pounds of meat. You and the children can have something good to eat."

Zhang Xiuhua's eyes lit up, and Li Jianguo added, "If someone gets more meat, you can buy some with your money."

They had just returned, and the work points they earned were not enough, so the meat they got must have been very little.

Zhang Xiuhua nodded, "Okay."

Li Jianguo didn't let Zhang Xiuhua worry about the next step. The stew was very simple to make. After it was cooked, it could be served and eaten.

After serving the food, Zhang Xiuhua stood at the door and looked out. The evening light was dim and only the last ray of light from the setting sun remained. She saw a few black dots on the path in the distance, slowly moving towards this side.

She yelled at the top of her lungs, and soon saw a dark figure running towards her, shouting, "Mom!"

This is Baolin's voice. This child has a loud voice and is always so happy.

She ran, and the other children followed her. Soon they were in front of her, vying to get closer and show off their trophies.

Everyone was carrying a bag of urea. It wasn't obvious from the outside, but when the beans were poured together, there were about ten pounds.

"Wait until the autumn harvest is over. I'll make tofu for you."

Several children jumped for joy.

Baolin was so greedy, "I also want to eat fried soybeans!"

"Okay! I'll fry them for you tomorrow and put some in each of your pockets. Eat them while you pick up the beans."

The children were so happy. Baolin even held Yaoyao's hand and boasted, "My mom is good. I told you a long time ago that my mom loves me the most. She agrees with everything I say."

Yaoyao glanced at Zhang Xiuhua, her face flushed, and she quickly lowered her head, but the corners of her mouth were still curved.

Li Jianguo stood at the door and shouted at them to eat quickly.

So all the children ran to the well to wash their hands.

Standing in the bright light, Zhang Xiuhua noticed that the children were covered in dirt below their knees. "Oh, why are they so dirty? Stop flicking, the dust will fall into the vegetables."

Zhang Xiuhua stopped the children's actions, took a wet rag and asked them to wipe the dust off the surface.

After wiping, the children sat down one by one and ate on the kang just like they did at noon.

Li Jianguo asked Li Youcai and Jidong to boil water and urge their younger brothers and sisters to wash their feet and change into clean clothes.

Li Youcai was a little reluctant, "It's not like they don't have hands. Why do they want me to boil water?"

Jidong heard the subtext in his words, "It's so late, you're still going out?"

Li Jianguo admired the child's cleverness and explained to them that he and his mother were going to work in the fields.

When Li Youcai heard this, his eyes lit up immediately, "Dad! We have to go and earn work points too."

Li Jianguo was somewhat reluctant. The children were tired after a day's work, so it would be nice for them to rest at home. If they kept doing heavy work, they would not grow tall in the future.

Li Youcai stood up stealthily and took a look outside, then whispered, "We must earn work points tonight. We can bring back some beans."

Li Jianguo was shocked. "You are undermining socialism."

He joined the army at the age of 22, and it has been ten years since then. This is his first time to come back for the autumn harvest. In the past, he only came back to visit his family during the Spring Festival.

Li Youcai curled his lips, "Dad, you are just too honest. Other families do the same thing. Dahu's father is so lazy that he slacks off at work. But every autumn harvest, he works at night just to steal food."

He counted several families on his fingers, and even the captain's daughter-in-law did the same thing. Only their family was the dumbest, and they didn't know about it until today.

"Who told you that?" Li Jianguo was a little unconvinced.

Seeing that he didn't believe him, Li Youcai became anxious, "Auntie, she told me so herself. If you don't believe me, go ask her."

Li Jianguo certainly couldn't ask his sister-in-law, so he thought for a moment and said, "You kids can do it. I'm an adult, and it would be inappropriate for me to be caught."

Li Youcai had an expression that said "My dad is so stupid".

Zhang Xiuhua coughed lightly and tried to make amends for him, "Your father is not afraid of losing face. He is afraid of losing his job. I'm with you!"

Seeing that she supported him, Li Youcai raised his head, almost poking it to the sky. When he was satisfied, he began to instruct them, "You should change into pants or shirts with more pockets. How much you can put in it depends on your ability."

There are also skills to stealing beans. If you put them in a sack, that won't work. That's called stealing from socialism. But if you put them in a bag, if someone sees you, you can explain that you picked them up in the field at noon and put them in your bag to avoid wasting them. If no one asks, you can take them back home.

Of course, this can only be done at night. The scorers can see it during the day and catch them every time.

"We have to pay 20% of public grain every year. If we bring more home, we can pay less." Li Youcai imitated the adults' speech.

Zhang Xiuhua sighed, thinking that the country would have to pay farmers to grow crops in the future, and she couldn't help but sigh that farmers were really having a hard time at this time. They could only take the food they grew home secretly.