After a simple rebirth

Fu Ying was planning to continue studying after the exam, but was woken up by her mother.

Fu Ying was confused and asked Fu's mother what was wrong.

"Your second aunt's family has only one piece of land left today. It's right across from the Fu family. Your second aunt said that you have finished your exams and have nothing to do, so she wants you to go over and help her harvest the potatoes quickly." Fu's mother replied.

"I have things to do. I have to wash clothes for the next two days, and I also have to review high school knowledge!" Fu Ying said confidently. Why did she have to go? Sometimes, this was the reason why Second Aunt made Fu Ying a little irritated.

It was as if girls had to be diligent and work all the time. No matter whether Fu Ying worked at home or not, every time Fu Ergu went to the fields, she would come over and ask Fu Ying to help her. Fu Ying didn't want to go but couldn't refuse. Once she went, she would work non-stop like an old ox, working on one field and then the next, and she would not let go until nightfall.

"You haven't gone to help her family for so long since you came back. If you don't go, she will say that you are lazy and deliberately not helping her family." Fu's mother persuaded Fu Ying.

"I just don't want to help her family! Who said I have to help her family farm? If she can't harvest all the crops, she shouldn't plant so much! She always asks for help when she's farming, harvesting potatoes, and harvesting corn, and she doesn't let my second uncle go. Others have their own things to do!

I came back to study in high school. I need to study. If she asks me to go every day, I will not study anymore!"

Fu Ying became angrier and angrier as she spoke. Just because someone is not from your family, you can order him around as you please!

In the previous life, my second aunt's two grandsons had average grades but were quite spoiled. My second aunt never let them do any rough work since they were young. When they were in high school, my second aunt was already old, but she still waited for them to finish their evening self-study every day and cooked them midnight snacks, fearing that her good grandsons would be tired or hungry.

Seeing how angry Fu Ying was, Fu's mother knew that her daughter really didn't want to go, but she still had to persuade her.

"Just go this once, and help her once before school starts. After you start studying, I'll help you reject her. Now you don't even go once, it's unacceptable."

Fu Ying also knew what Fu's mother said. It was reasonable for her to go once and she couldn't escape it, but she was really angry.

And she also wanted Fu's mother to see her attitude clearly, because Fu's mother was sometimes soft-hearted and would agree to anything others asked her to do, regardless of whether this was particularly difficult for her family or whether it would make her family too hard.

This is also a problem that Fu Ying inherited from her mother. In her previous life, there were several times when Fu Ying and Zhang Zun had a cold war, and it was because of this that Fu Ying couldn't refuse work tasks and other people's requests, so she gritted her teeth and agreed. As a result, Zhang Zun had to wait for her for a long time, and sometimes even Zhang Zun would come to help.

Zhang Zun once told her about this problem, and she knew that it was not so easy to change sometimes. After a few quarrels, she became a little hardened. Or when she agreed, she made it clear that she would not bother others, after all, she would bear the hardship of her own promise.

Mother Fu nodded to show that she understood what Fu Ying said.

"Mom, don't take what I said too seriously. Just like my second aunt and uncle, if their grandchildren were admitted to high school, do you believe that they would not ask their grandchildren to do anything? They would definitely ask them to study hard and not worry about anything else. If he dotes on his own family so much, why would he ask others to work so hard for his family?"

After saying that, Fu Ying also got up and went to brush her teeth! !

When Mother Fu saw her daughter got up, she woke up her son as well. Her younger son was in junior high school and wasn't young anymore, so they went to work together so that she wouldn't have to worry about him being alone at home.

Fu Zhe was woken up for no apparent reason, as he had never been asked to go before.

"Your second sister and I are going to your second aunt's house to help. You should go too. The whole family should go, so that your second aunt won't say that we don't help her family."

After saying this, Fu's mother urged him to get up. Fu Zhe looked reluctant, but he had no human rights.

The family had to go to the second aunt's house to eat noodles, and then each of them took some tools and went to the second aunt's land with the helpers.

The piece of land was not far away, and it was also long rather than wide. Fu Ying's land was next to the second aunt's land, so both pieces of land were fully planted by the second aunt's family.

Fu Ying and Fu Zhe were the few children there. There were also two other girls, but I don’t know from which family they came to help and I have no impression of them.

Potatoes are the most important crop for the people in this area. Every household intercrops corn and potatoes, and the most important crop is green beans, which are called string beans in the local area.

Potatoes are high-yielding, high in starch, and durable. Corn needs to be broken off, its protective leaves torn off, and then stored in a granary for drying before being threshed. But potatoes only need to be dug up, carried home, and placed in a drier corner.

Potatoes can be cooked or fried directly, or processed into potato chips, potato flour, or even fed to pigs.

For various reasons, potatoes are the most important. You can choose not to plant anything else, but potatoes must be planted.

Potatoes are the last crops to be harvested. After harvest, some cabbage seeds will be sown, the kind used to make sauerkraut. This kind of vegetable can continue to grow until winter.

Second Aunt arranged for Fu Ying and Fu Zhe to pick potatoes. They did not pick up the scattered potatoes at the back of the crowd, but the ones that the adults picked up and shook off the potatoes by picking up the potato stalks after digging up the soil.

Fu Ying and Fu Zhe were responsible for picking up the shaken potatoes and putting them into the winnowing basket. When the basket was full, they would carry it to the backpack. When the backpack was full, they would ask someone to carry it back to the second aunt's granary, which was also a room specially used to store potatoes.

If you accidentally dig out the damaged potatoes, put them aside and use them first when eating.

After we finished digging at my second aunt's house, it was almost noon and an uncle who was carrying the waste back said it was time to eat.

The group of people filled up their tanks again and carried their tools back to eat.

As a closer relative of the second aunt's family, Fu Ying's family had to help take care of other people who came to help.

After washing her hands, Fu Ying couldn't just sit and wait for dinner. She had to help get the bowl. Fu Ma handed out chopsticks, and Fu Ying served the rice there. Fu Ma then brought it over, passing it to the guests one by one.

The second uncle was already sitting in the middle of the crowd like a guest, chatting with the older ones while eating. The second aunt was busy picking up the pot and adding coal, then bringing the washed vegetables in to cook, eating while blanching the vegetables.

Fu Ying rolled her eyes inwardly. Is Second Aunt tired? Anyone with eyes can see that she is tired. Second Uncle can't say that he didn't do anything, but after he finished cooking, he seemed to have completed his mission and didn't care about anything. Second Aunt was spinning around like a top. Relatives like Fu Ying's family or those who have a good relationship with her have no choice but to help Second Aunt.

Fu Ying was speechless about the way her second aunt's family got along, but as long as her second aunt was willing, it was fine as long as she didn't drag her in to be the scapegoat.

Fu Ying was finally able to sit down to eat, but Fu Ma couldn't. Fu Ma and Second Aunt were still standing to eat. Fu Ying wanted to give her seat to Fu Ma, but Fu Ma held her down.

"I can eat while standing. I need to add more food to the meal later. It's not convenient to sit down. Please sit down. I'll get you whatever you want."

Fu Ying took a look and found that just as Fu's mother said, many people wanted a second bowl.

Fu Ying did not choose to finish eating immediately and take over from Fu Ma, because she ate really slowly and Fu Ma was much faster than her. This speed was not something Fu Ying could catch up with even if she ate quickly, unless she skipped meals.

To be honest, Fu Ying always suspected that her second uncle was a cook, not a front-line worker, because his cooking was really delicious. When she was a child, she was very happy to eat the food cooked by her second uncle, but after the quarrel between the two families, Fu Ying held a grudge and would not come to his house to eat if she could avoid it.

Fu Ying picked up the dishes in front of her, and Fu's mother would occasionally pick up some dishes that she couldn't reach for her.

Sure enough, most people had finished eating, including Fu's mother, but Fu Ying was still eating.

"Fu Ying, eat faster. You finished your bowl in just a few bites!" Fu's mother couldn't help but urge her.

Fu Ying was speechless. When eating at someone else's house, she tried to eat less to speed up her meal, but she was still slower than others and had to be urged by Fu's mother.

The other adults smiled and persuaded Fu's mother to let Fu Ying eat slowly. Fu Ying stuffed the food into her mouth and went to put the bowl away.

We continued in the afternoon and dug the land of Fu Ying's family. It was faster in the afternoon and we finished it before five o'clock.

Fu Ying didn't care who cooked at her second aunt's house, she went straight home to boil water for a bath. Normally, she could barely endure it without sweating, but now she was covered in mud. Fortunately, it didn't rain today, otherwise it would be even more muddy.

Fu Ying asked Fu Ma and Fu Zhe to change their clothes. Fu Ma's clothes had been worn for two days and were covered with dirt, so she simply didn't change them. Fu Ying and Fu Zhe's clothes were also covered with dirt today, so Fu Ying took a bucket of water to rinse off the dirt first, and then sat down to wash the clothes of the past two days.

When it was time to dry the clothes, Fu Ying directly called Fu Zhe over and asked him to find something to do. Everyone had to do something.

At about 6:30, my second aunt came over and called for dinner. As usual, Fu Ying and Fu's mother went to help serve the food. In the evening, several people drank. My second aunt and several men drank white wine, while Fu Ying and her friends drank beverages. Fu Ying was the one who kept filling up people's drinks.

After finishing the meal, Fu Ying wanted to leave, but she didn't care about the few drunkards who hadn't finished eating. She was stopped by her second aunt, who said she had boiled water and asked her to wash the dishes first. She didn't need to worry about the drunkards, and she would wash their dishes tomorrow.

Fu Ying was speechless. I helped your family dig potatoes and take care of your guests, and now you want me to wash the dishes for you?

This is really hilarious, isn't it? Your eldest grandson is about to enter junior high school, and your granddaughter is in fifth or sixth grade of elementary school. You love your grandchildren, but you don't do it yourself and ask others to do it.

Seeing that Fu Ying was about to explode, Fu's mother patted her shoulder and told her to sit by the faucet to wash while she brought her hot water.

Fu Ying looked at Fu Ma, suppressed her anger, and walked over to sit down. There were chopsticks, bowls, and plates for more than a dozen people, plus a few pots, and the fire that Fu Ying had just put out almost got back on.

Fu's mother also came over, "Hurry up and go home, don't think about anything else."

Fu Ying endured it again and again, squeezed a bunch of detergent to wash the dishes, washed them quickly and put them in the kitchen without even putting them in order, and went out directly to call Fu Ergu.

"Second aunt, I've finished washing the dishes. I don't know where to put them. I'll put them on the table for you. I'll go home and study."

No matter what she said, I just ran home under the banner of studying.

When she got home, Fu's mother was sitting by the stove. She didn't say anything when she saw her come back. Fu Ying said something to her and went back to her room.

After the exam, Fu Ying felt a little relieved and decided to continue with her translation activities. Time passed quickly.