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

After eating fried peanuts and lying on the kang, Zhang Xiuhua felt that her waist was about to break. She was so tired from a day and a half of farm work that she could hardly get up. If she did this every day, she would probably have a lumbar disc herniation earlier than in her previous life.

No! After the busy farming season is over, she must find an easier job.

The next morning, Zhang Xiuhua was so tired that she lay in bed and couldn't get up.

Li Jianguo didn't understand why she was born in a farming family and couldn't do such a small job. But seeing how tired she was, he didn't say anything.

He called Youcai to the kitchen and asked Youcai to cook the rice first while he washed and cut the vegetables and fried some cabbage.

When Zhang Xiuhua got up, the children were already up and eating together around the table on the kang.

"I don't want to go to the fields to earn ten work points today. I want to do something lighter." Zhang Xiuhua couldn't bear it. If she didn't have space, she might have to grit her teeth and endure it due to the pressure of life. But now that she has space, she doesn't have to endure it anymore.

Anyway, I won't make much money by the end of the year. Why work so hard just for a few work points?

When she said this, everyone was stunned. Baolin was the first to get anxious. "Ah? Why do you want to change? Peanuts are so delicious."

Zhang Xiuhua laughed, "I can pick peanuts. I don't make much, but I can still eat peanuts."

Baolin scratched his head and said, "Yes."

Zhang Xiuhua looked at Li Jianguo, seemingly asking him to express his opinion, but in fact she was testing whether he kept his word. They had agreed that she had the final say in family matters. She said she could earn as many work points as she wanted. He couldn't stop her.

Li Jianguo was surprised for a moment, but soon recovered. He was thinking that if she only earned seven work points instead of ten, would she have enough food to eat? Thinking carefully, it should be enough. He would send her his salary every month, and the money should be enough for her and the children to live on. So he let her do whatever she wanted.

"But in this way, you may not get much money." Li Jianguo knew that she wanted to save money to leave some private money for the children. He thought her plan was good. He kept some money, and she kept some too. This was fair. But if she changed her job, she would not make much money. If she had no money, how could she save money to build a house for her children?

Zhang Xiuhua smiled and said, "It's okay. The children are still young and there is no place to spend money for the time being. Just save slowly. There is no rush."

Seeing that she was open-minded, Li Jianguo stopped trying to persuade her.

After dinner, Li Jianguo took Youcai to the field to pick peanuts.

Zhang Xiuhua went to find the captain of the second team, Li Jiandang, to exchange jobs.

Li Jiandang was speechless, but he still said nothing.

So Zhang Xiuhua took the rest of the children to pick peanuts. Because the children were weak and slow in picking peanuts, their work points were the same.

Jidong, Baolin and Jilin were of course willing to go with Zhang Xiuhua to pick peanuts. Zhuzhu wanted to be watched by Jilin, so she would definitely go too. Yaoyao was very attached to Baolin, so she naturally wanted to go too.

All the peanut seedlings are piled up in the threshing ground, and people are assigned here to spread out the peanut seedlings to prevent them from getting covered together and getting damp.

Zhang Xiuhua took a stool and found a place to sit down. All the children crowded around her and sat beside her, picking peanuts together.

If you want to eat, just stop, peel a few and put them in your mouth, and no one will say anything.

The children ate and played, and their laughter was as sweet as silver bells.

Zhang Xiuhua looked at the children from time to time, and seeing the smiles on their faces made her feel satisfied.

Just then, an aunt came over and asked, "Who are you from?"

Zhang Xiuhua and Li Jianguo were both remarried, so they just got a marriage certificate and didn't hold a wedding. It was the busy farming season, and no one had time to visit each other. Zhang Xiuhua suddenly sat over and immediately attracted a lot of attention. The familiar aunt started chatting with her.

Zhang Xiuhua explained, "I am Li Jianguo's wife."

The aunt also introduced herself, "My name is Xu Cuihua, and we both have the character hua in our name."

This aunt is in her sixties, but she is very efficient.

After Xu Cuihua finished her introduction, she became curious, "Why are you picking peanuts? Why don't you go to the fields? You can earn more work points by picking peanuts."

She thought Zhang Xiuhua was new and had been tricked by someone who deliberately sent her here to earn low work points.

Zhang Xiuhua couldn't say that she looked down on these work points, and she couldn't say that she was lazy, so she made an excuse, "I have many children at home, and I'm afraid they won't behave and run to the river to play. I have to take them all with me. Picking peanuts is fine. It doesn't matter if I earn less, my children are the most important."

Rural people, especially those at this time, really don’t take their children so seriously. Every household has several children, and adults can’t do anything if they have to watch them all day. Xu Cuihua was stunned for a moment and slapped her thigh, “Let them play. You, as a mother, are too concerned about your children.”

Zhang Xiuhua sighed and told him about how Jidong was stolen by human traffickers. "Three years. I searched for Jidong for three years before I found him. I was really scared."

Xu Cuihua was stunned for a long time. It was rare for families to lose children here, and her eyes widened.

The two of them were chatting animatedly, and the lady next to them came over and asked, "What's up? What are you talking about?"

Xu Cuihua immediately exaggerated the story of Jidong being abducted by human traffickers. Zhang Xiuhua had not mentioned that Jidong was bullied by his adoptive parents, but she could imagine it on her own and described Jidong as a little cabbage who got up earlier than a chicken and ate less than a pig. It was as miserable as it could be.

Then more aunts came over and denounced the human traffickers, saying they were hateful and should go to hell!

Zhang Xiuhua also received a wave of sympathy. No one thought that she was making a fuss about her child. Instead, they all felt sorry for her.

"You have a good heart. You are willing to adopt your brother's child." Some old ladies also praised Zhang Xiuhua for her good character.

Some people also think Zhang Xiuhua is stupid. "You have two children of your own, why do you still want to raise your eldest brother's child? His mother has remarried, she is not dead. Be careful that when you raise him up, he will go back to his mother. Then you will lose everything."

"That's right! You are causing trouble for my brother Jianguo."

When they were talking just now, many people in the village were listening in blatantly. When they learned that this was Li Jianguo's new wife, they winked at each other.

Before, families with daughters in the village had their eyes on Li Jianguo. After all, he was a soldier, and people thirty years later would have a soldier filter, not to mention now.

Besides, he has a fixed salary every month, so his life is pretty good.

Xu Chunying had previously said that her mother-in-law wanted to find another wife for her brother-in-law.

Many families were interested and took the initiative to approach Liu Shujun to arrange this marriage.

But they never expected that Li Jianguo would come back but he had already married a wife.

Xu Hongmei in front of us is one of them. She has always wanted to marry a soldier who defends the country since she was a child. She finally got the chance, but was snatched away by someone else. Naturally, she felt depressed and spoke bitterly.

Zhang Xiuhua seemed not to understand her complaints and sighed helplessly, "My sister-in-law remarried and just had a baby. She also has a paralyzed mother-in-law in bed. She has a lot of responsibilities. In our place, there is little land and little food. We can't get enough to eat. Jidong suffered a lot in the past. I wanted to bring him here. I heard that our Northeast is good, with a lot of land and food, and wild fruits in the mountains. As long as you work hard, you will never starve to death."

She was sincere in her praise. Who doesn't like nice words? Even if she wasn't praising them but this place, it made everyone proud. Even Xu Hongmei, who was jealous of her, was all smiles, not to mention the others. Everyone was grinning until their teeth were exposed. "Our place is really good. There's an old saying, 'You can hit a roe deer with a stick, scoop up fish with a ladle, and a pheasant will fly into the rice pot.' That's our Northeast."

Zhang Xiuhua also laughed, "If you ask me, besides the good food, there is another good thing about your place."

The ladies looked at her with sparkling eyes, waiting for her next words.

"It's good to have someone else." Zhang Xiuhua explained mysteriously.

When everyone heard this, they were even happier, slapping their thighs and boasting, "That's right. We in the Northeast are kind-hearted."

Zhang Xiuhua continued to praise, "You are all kind-hearted. Warm-hearted and open-minded. I like to get along with people like this. It's not tiring!"

"Yeah, yeah. That's who we are."

Baolin held the freshly washed peanuts in his hand, picked up one and put it in his mouth, chewing it while watching his mother praising people over there, praising these aunties and grandmas so much that they were at a loss for words.

A black lady enthusiastically pulled her mother aside and insisted on teaching her how to store vegetables for the winter.

There was an old lady named Hong who wanted to teach her mother how to sew shoe soles, saying that putting ula grass in shoes could keep warm in winter.

There was an old lady named Hua who wanted to teach her mother how to go into the mountains to pick wild fruits, which she guaranteed would be red and sweet.