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

Li Fengjiao asked the children to go outside and play so as not to disturb the adults while they were talking about business.

So the children rushed out.

Zhang Xiuhua talked about her business of selling tofu and her plan to make fans in the spring.

Li Fengjiao's eyes lit up, "Second sister-in-law is really talented, she can even make fans."

Zhang Xiuhua smiled and said, "It's not difficult. Everyone over there can do it."

After chatting with them for a while, Zhang Xiuhua and Xu Chunying left the main room and went to the kitchen to prepare lunch.

Xu Chunying glanced outside and saw no one following. She curled her lips and said, "You don't know yet, do you? Fengjiao's father-in-law is in charge of logistics. You should have asked him for help just now."

Zhang Xiuhua was slightly startled, then smiled and said, "No need. I am too busy right now. If I ask them to help, Fengjiao will definitely owe them a favor. I'm afraid she won't have an easy life at her husband's house."

This is true. Xu Chunying doesn't know the idiom "齐大非偶", but she knows that her sister-in-law's parents-in-law are not easy to get along with. Apart from other things, the two children look down on rural people openly and secretly, which must have been taught by the old couple.

"It's better to stay away from them, so that they won't look down on us." Xu Chunying snorted.

Zhang Xiuhua guessed that she was angry and must have been disliked by them before. She didn't want to expose her scars, so she pretended not to know.

She didn't ask, but Xu Chunying seemed to open up, "When Fengjiao got married, we were the bride's relatives and went to see her off. The in-laws looked down on us and despised us because we were from the countryside. They also told us that there was a man in their family compound who married a country girl and always came to ask for money. Who couldn't hear what she meant? She just wanted us not to come to their house. Bah! Who would be willing to go to their house! The whole family is crammed into that 40-square-meter little house. If I turn over, I'm afraid I'll knock down the wall. I don't want to go to their house!"

Nowadays, workers in the city live in welfare housing allocated by the factory. Fengjiao and her husband have only worked for a short time, so their family lives in the welfare housing allocated by her parents-in-law. People thirty years later will find it hard to imagine how a family of six can live in 40 square meters.

"When we went there, they just gave us cold water." Xu Chunying clapped her left hand and right hand, "You know how they do things? They didn't even boil water for our relatives to visit. They are so stingy!"

The more she thought about it, the angrier she got. Then she thought of Fengjiao again, "If Fengjiao hadn't remembered her mother-in-law and brought back some good things every New Year, I wouldn't have entertained their family of four."

Zhang Xiuhua: “…”

She changed the subject, "Does Fengjiao have a job in the city?"

"Yes. If there is no job, would the old couple of the Sun family be happy for Sun Guangming to marry Fengjiao?" Xu Chunying sneered and looked down on the couple.

Zhang Xiuhua has already become immune to this. "How can Fengjiao, a country girl, find a job in the city?"

"Fengjiao has always been a good student since she was young." Xu Chunying sighed and told the story of how her mother-in-law broke several sticks in order to force Fengjiao to study.

It is the nature of children to love playing. Li Jiandang and Li Jianguo are boys, so they are very hardy and always like to fish and catch shrimps. They are not good at studying. Liu Shujun has received education and knows the importance of studying. She doesn't want her daughter to marry a rural man and face the loess and back to the sky all her life, so she forces her daughter to study.

When Fengjiao was young, she was ignorant and hated her mother for not loving her and always forcing her to study. When she grew up, she went to high school because of her good grades. It happened that the steel plant in the county was recruiting workers and needed accountants. She was good at math since she was young, so she applied for the job and worked as a temporary worker for two years before being promoted to a regular employee. Later, she understood her mother's good intentions.

"My brother-in-law was able to join the army thanks to Fengjiao who was studying in the county town. She saw the notice and asked for leave, then came back to inform my brother-in-law to apply for the exam. At that time, we rural people had no idea about this." Xu Chunying described the situation to Zhang Xiuhua in vivid detail.

At that time, being a soldier was very popular, and every family wanted their children to be selected. In order to ensure that their children were selected, many people did not notify their parents and only let their children apply. This is the role of information.

The two sisters-in-law were chatting animatedly, while Li Jiandang was entertaining Sun Guangming in the main room.

Li Jiandang was not very good at speaking, so he asked about his brother-in-law's work.

Sun Guangming asked Li Jiandang about the quilts. They lived in the county town and couldn't get any quilts, but they didn't expect that there were quilts in the countryside. You know, cotton is not grown in the Northeast, so where their quilts came from is worth discussing.

Li Jiandang couldn't give Zhang Xiuhua away, as the matter had to be kept secret, so he said, "I asked someone to get her from another place."

Sun Guangming wanted to ask more questions, but Li Jiandang's mouth was like a gourd with the mouth sawed off, and he said nothing.

The two were talking about quilts, and Liu Shujun was also talking about quilts with her daughter.

The two of them were talking in private in the inner room. Li Fengjiao secretly gave her mother 20 yuan. She managed her and her husband's wages. She gave her parents-in-law 10 yuan for food every month. She had saved a lot of money. When buying things for the New Year, her mother would definitely not be willing to spend money, so she gave her mother money as pocket money.

Then the mother and daughter talked about the quilt, because Liu Shujun was now covering herself with a new quilt. She was very kind to her daughter and even bought one specially for her daughter.

The reason why she didn't send her eldest son to the city was that she was worried that her eldest daughter-in-law would be unhappy, because to go to the county town, she had to spend money to take the bus, and the ticket was not cheap, costing several cents for one trip.

Chunying is good in every way except that she is a little narrow-minded. If she suffers a loss, she will nag about it over and over again for the rest of her life.

When Li Fengjiao learned that the quilt only cost twenty dollars, her eyes widened. "So cheap? Why don't you buy more?"

"Not that much. I brought it all in one shipment, or I asked for a favor." Liu Shujun couldn't tell her daughter that the money she gave to her every year was spent by her, right? Apart from other things, she also added some money to the tile house at home and the construction of the tile house.

Li Fengjiao stuffed another twenty yuan into her mother's pocket and said, "Next time something like this happens, you have to think of us!"

"Don't worry. You are my daughter. If I don't think about you, who else should I think about?" Liu Shujun took a bag and put it in the bag. Since her daughter gave the money, she could also give an explanation to her eldest daughter-in-law.

Compared to the little thoughts of adults, children are much simpler.

Qiaoling and Weiguo discovered that people in the country did not live a hard life, so they started playing with Youcai and the others.

Youcai heard the team leader's family setting off firecrackers, so he led the children to rush over to pick up the firecrackers. Unfortunately, he arrived too late and didn't pick up many.

Instead, Weiguo took a few out of his pocket and said, "I have them! My grandma bought them for me."

So a few children threw firecrackers at the door.

Weiguo probably wanted to show off, but he didn't expect his aim was bad and the firecrackers set fire to the pile of corn stalks in front of the captain's house.

With so many children gathered at the door, they couldn't escape. Qiaoling and Weiguo were so frightened that their eyes went wide and they couldn't move.

When the adults saw the fire, they rushed out of the main room and each looked for tools to rescue the corn stalks.

The corn stalks were very dry and caught fire easily. In the middle of winter, it was difficult to get water and it was not easy to put out the fire with water, so we just had to grab as much as we could.

The pile of corn stalks was all on fire, and the flames were rising into the sky. The surrounding villagers smelled the smoke and all ran over to help.

Zhang Xiuhua and Xu Chunying heard about the fire and rushed over to put it out. They were relieved to see that the children were fine.

But the next second, when Xu Chunying heard that it was Weiguo who set the pile of corn stalks on fire, her face turned green.

Is this kid stupid? He actually threw firecrackers at the pile of firewood.

Although many villagers came forward to help, half of the corn stalks were burned.

Li Jiandang had no choice but to negotiate with the team leader and transport his own corn stalks over.