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

Baolin stayed at home for only one day before taking the train to Pengcheng with Ergou.

Zhang Xiuhua packed her luggage and she left with the bag.

Once she leaves, she doesn’t know when she will be able to go home again.

Ten days later, Zhang Xiuhua received a call from Baolin, saying that she had returned to the sports team and he didn't need to worry about her.

In early April, Li Jianguo came back and got busy.

She was not the only one busy, the whole village was busy.

Every family has to plow the land and grow crops.

In Northeast China, only one crop is planted. Usually, the land is plowed starting in April and the seeds are sown in mid-April.

Zhang Xiuhua continued to plant vegetables on the remaining land, and planted radishes in the first half. However, the white radish seeds she planted this time were from her space, and the yield was very high. The white radish seeds they had were of very low yield.

Li Jianguo was plowing the land while she was transplanting and watering the land behind him.

After planting the land, they transplanted blueberries. They ordered blueberry trees from Japan. They ordered two acres of land, which is not a lot. The price is not low.

After finishing the planting, I started planting ginseng.

Li Xingjia and Li Jianguo had gone into the mountains to look at the soil there before and thought it was very suitable for growing ginseng. So they helped them find the most suitable place and fenced off an area of ​​about five mu for growing ginseng.

Zhang Xiuhua and Li Jianguo hired a number of skilled workers to help with weeding.

It is not necessary to remove all the trees for forest ginseng, as long as a certain gap is maintained. After sowing the seeds, the forest ginseng is allowed to grow naturally without transplanting, building a shed, applying fertilizer, spraying pesticides, weeding, or digging the soil. It is harvested in the mountains about ten years later.

Zhang Xiuhua was not in a hurry to harvest, so after clearing all the weeds manually, she sowed a lot of seeds according to Li Xingjia's instructions.

The seeds have already germinated, and holes are made in the ground and sown one by one. When sowing, pay attention to the row spacing, sow 1-2 seeds in each hole, and then cover with soil and fallen leaves.

The best ginseng to grow under the forest is American ginseng, which is not the same variety as the ginseng that Li Xingjia grows in his private plot.

Because it was her first year growing ginseng, Zhang Xiuhua didn't dare to plant more. She only planted five mu. The trees in this forest were as big as bowls and grew very straight. They were too thin at the time, so the lumber mill didn't want them. If they grow another ten years, they will definitely be able to sell for a good price.

It took their family a month to plant all the radishes, blueberries, fruit trees, and ginseng, and other families were almost done.

Li Jianguo had asked for leave and had to go back tomorrow. Before leaving, he wanted to visit his biological mother.

Zhang Xiuhua cooks at home and Zhuzhu lights the fire for her.

The meal was ready, but no one came back. Zhang Xiuhua was about to ask Zhuzhu to call for help when she heard the sound of a tractor outside.

Zhang Xiuhua was puzzled. It was almost dark, who would leave the village?

She walked out of the kitchen and saw Li Jianguo sitting behind the tractor, and Li Jiandang was driving.

"What are you doing?"

Li Jianguo said gloomily, "I'll be back soon."

Zhang Xiuhua was afraid that he was hungry, so she went back to the house and got him some steamed buns and some dried radish and stuffed them into his mouth.

The tractor rumbled along, and Zhuzhu asked from behind, "Mom, where is Dad going? Is he going to the county now?"

Zhang Xiuhua shook her head, "No!"

She just saw her mother-in-law in the car, could it be a follow-up check-up? But if she went for a follow-up check-up at night, the doctor would have gone off duty, right?

She was confused but didn't think much about it. After dinner, she let Zhuzhu go back to her room to sleep because she had to get up early to go to school tomorrow.

She studied with a book in hand, waiting for Li Jianguo to come back.

At 8:30 in the evening, the sound of a tractor was heard outside. Zhang Xiuhua put down her book and saw a dark figure jumping off the tractor. From the voice, it was Li Jianguo.

Zhang Xiuhua was afraid of waking up Zhuzhu, so she called out Li Jianguo's name.

Li Jianguo responded, "I'm hungry, is there anything to eat at home?"

It seemed that one steamed bun was not enough, so Zhang Xiuhua took him to the kitchen, made him a bowl of noodles, and reheated the dishes.

He was sitting at the table in the kitchen eating. Zhang Xiuhua looked at his expression and felt something was wrong. "What's wrong? Are the results of the reexamination not good?"

That shouldn't be the case. Before the autumn harvest, my mother-in-law was able to walk in the fields. Although she could only walk for a few minutes at a time and her walking was not very smooth, she had improved a lot compared to when she first fell.

Li Jianguo ate half a bowl of noodles and was about 70% full before he finally spoke, "I found that my mother had bedsores on her back."

Zhang Xiuhua's eyes widened. Bedsores? If you lie in bed for a long time without turning over or taking care of yourself, you will develop bedsores. Especially now that it's spring, the temperature is higher than before.

She sighed, "Every household has been very busy recently, and it's not really my brother and sister-in-law's fault."

Farm work is very hard. When I get home, I fall asleep as soon as I touch my pillow, and it is normal that I can't take care of my mother-in-law for a while.

"They have learned their lesson this time and will definitely correct themselves. Just talk to them, don't really quarrel with them!" Zhang Xiuhua was afraid that he would lose his temper, so she scolded his elder brother and sister-in-law. He vented his anger, but who would take care of his mother-in-law?

Li Jianguo listened silently without saying a word.

Zhang Xiuhua thought he had heard her, and was about to get up and go back to sleep, but she heard Li Jianguo say, "It's not just this month. In fact, they rarely turn mom over."

Zhang Xiuhua's eyes widened, "No way?" This couple is so diligent, how could they not even turn over on time? !

"Why not?" Li Jianguo looked up at her. "My sister-in-law has raised 20 pigs this year and many chickens at home. She has to cook three meals a day, wash clothes, and clean. She thinks my mother is too heavy and it takes a lot of time to move. It's normal for her not to want to move."

Zhang Xiuhua looked at him steadily and sat down directly. He had laid out so much groundwork, what exactly did he want to say?

Li Jianguo opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but he looked up at her and closed his mouth again. Zhang Xiuhua just looked at him, neither speaking nor interrupting his thoughts.

Li Jianguo held it in for a long time, but finally spoke, "I want to discuss something with you."

Zhang Xiuhua nodded, motioning him to continue.

She wanted to see if he could keep his promise.

Li Jianguo pursed his lips, clenched his fists, then unclenched them. After struggling for a long time, he finally spoke. What he said surprised Zhang Xiuhua.

"I want to quit."

Zhang Xiuhua frowned, "When you retired from the army, you didn't ask for a retirement allowance, and you wanted to transfer directly. Now you resign, but there is no compensation."

He resigned for personal reasons and the company did not provide any compensation. Besides, he had a stable job, but he just quit like that. What a pity.

Li Jianguo certainly knew this, but he had his own reasons.

"Actually, you don't have to do this. My brother and sister-in-law will definitely learn a lesson from this. If your sister-in-law can't move the things, you can ask your brother to do it. It will be noon when he comes back from selling vegetables. It will be nice to carry your mother-in-law out of the house and let her bask in the sun." Zhang Xiuhua was afraid that he would do something stupid and really resign, so she still had to persuade him.

Li Jianguo shook his head. "No! I took my mom to see a doctor today. He said that my mom's condition is more serious than before. Her calves are also starting to shrink. My sister-in-law is busy with housework and no one is giving her a massage. If she is not well taken care of, her condition will most likely get worse. She will have a stroke and won't even be able to speak clearly."

He was very angry. His elder brother was just a hands-off boss, letting his elder sister-in-law do everything. His elder sister-in-law was busy with household affairs and neglected to take care of his mother. She only took care of the three meals a day, cleaning her body, and washing clothes, and didn't care about anything else.

He had scolded his eldest brother, but he was not sure whether he would change. He only had this one mother, and since his eldest brother was unreliable, he had to take on the responsibility of supporting her. Anyway, he could not pretend to be deaf and dumb any longer.

Seeing that he seemed to have made up his mind, Zhang Xiuhua stopped trying to persuade him, "Since you have made up your mind, let's do it."

Li Jianguo thought for a moment and said, "The two of us will earn much less if we farm at home. Why don't I talk to the leader and let you join the Railway Bureau?"

This direction made Zhang Xiuhua unable to react for a long time, "Can I do it?"

Li Jianguo nodded. "You definitely can't be a train police officer. Your size won't intimidate the batters. But you can be a salesperson."

The salespersons on the train are there to sell products. Zhang Xiuhua had encountered this before when she was on the train. The prices of the products were very high and many people could not afford them.