Mrs. Zhou carried the newly-acquired food back home, as if she was in a dream all the way.
She thought that the three of them were going to starve to death, but she didn't expect her family to get a lot of food this time.
Just now I returned 30 catties of grain in the village, and the rest will be returned slowly. The remaining grain this time is enough for the three of them to save money until the next wave of grain comes down.
Speaking of it, I really want to thank the reservoir in Niuluo Village. If Niuluo Village hadn't asked them to build the reservoir and exchanged grain for water, she wouldn't be able to get so much grain now.
When Mrs. Zhou returned home, the three of them had just had lunch, and when they saw the person who came to the door, they were taken aback for a moment.
It turned out that Zhou's mother brought her two brothers and nephews to the door.
When she couldn't solve the problem at home, it's not that she didn't go back to her natal family for help, but her natal family kicked her out of the house, saying that she had severed the relationship, and it didn't matter whether she lived or died.
It's been three or four years, right?
Coming to the door now, wouldn't Mrs. Zhou be stunned.
But soon, Mrs. Zhou came back to her senses and signaled the three children to call out. Of course, the son who is less than one year old will definitely not call out.
When Zhou's mother came and sat down, she first looked at her daughter's current living environment like the two sons, and then contempt flashed in her eyes, and then she asked Zhou to cook.
"Hurry up and cook. Your two brothers and nephews and I came here early in the morning. We haven't had lunch yet."
She didn't even ask if she was okay, but she called for food. Seeing that eight people squeezed into her small house, Zhou's teenage nephew even drove her Xiaocui and Xiaofang away. As he went, he claimed that there was no place to sit for the money-losing goods, and the touch of emotion and happiness in Zhou's heart disappeared in an instant.
"Mother, our family has already had lunch. We ate steamed buns with wild vegetables. Our family owes the village more than two hundred catties of grain. I don't know if the village will divide our grain this year. Where can we find rice for cooking?"
"Don't lie, I saw your pot just now, it's obviously brown rice, not wild vegetables and steamed buns." Brother Zhou's eyes widened: "Your wings have grown hard?"
As soon as he entered the door, he lifted the lid of the pot.
The second elder brother of the Zhou family said softly and softly: "Mother and we have traveled a long way to see you. Even if you don't cook for us, you have to get something for your mother and your nephews, right? Where? If your natal family comes and you don¡¯t give food, if you spread the word, how will you behave in the village.¡±
Zhou Shi: "It's not that I don't want to cook, it's that there is no food at home to put into the pot. We just finished eating the wild vegetables we picked in the morning."
With such a natal family, she will not be able to hold her head up.
She can't keep silent anymore.
When the youngest daughter was kicked, the eldest daughter went to work with her younger brother on her back to earn work points. It was not long after eating, but the meal without two grains of rice made the child cry hungry in no time, and he was so hungry that he didn¡¯t even have the strength to speak
All of this made Zhou feel guilty and distressed. She knew that the people from her natal family came here only when they heard that Xiaxin Village had harvested grain.
Now that the drought has not passed, if the people in her natal family know that she can get food for cooking, they will be soft and hard, and even the two elder brothers will take the food away.
It's fine if she's hungry, but the three children can't be hungry.
Zhou's mother clapped her hands and ordered angrily: "If there is no food, you can borrow it. Do you want your old mother to starve to death!? You are an unfilial daughter!"
Borrow food?
Zhou's heart ached. Didn't she see the current situation in her home?
Don't need to repay the borrowed food?
Given the situation in her family, would the villagers be willing to lend her food?
Mrs. Zhou didn't see any distress in the eyes of her mother and brothers, but only saw calculation and plunder.
It is said that being a mother is strong. She loves her three children, and her daughter and son love her, but her mother seems to only like her brothers. If the third brother hadn't entered the city today, she would probably come with her, right?
"Mother said it seriously. There are two elder brothers here, how could you starve to death? If you say starve to death, it must be our mother who starved to death."
As Mrs. Zhou said, she hugged her daughter who was pushed by two nephews and nearly fell to her side, and continued: "Mother's voice is so loud, but I didn't realize that she was hungry. Mother, if you are tired, sit down and rest for a while." , drink some water if you are thirsty."
Before her mother and brother got angry, Zhou continued.
"Speaking of filial piety, didn't my mother say before that she wanted to sever the mother-daughter relationship with me? I just want to be filial, and there is no place for me. Besides, what can I do to be filial to my mother, can't my mother see it?"The second elder brother of the Zhou family frowned: "Little sister, the family doesn't speak the same language, and the bones are still connected to each other. Mother just said it because she was angry at you for being disobedient. Why do you take it seriously?"
Brother Zhou agreed: "That's right, you should admit your mistake to your mother!"
Zhou's mother snorted coldly at the side: "Forget it, I can't bear it, she didn't take me as a mother seriously. I shouldn't have given birth to her"
When Mrs. Zhou heard this, a look of sadness flashed across her eyes. She shouldn't have been born. When she was born, her mother said she was going to drown. If Grandpa didn't stop her, she would still be alive.
It's just that her grandfather, who still loves her at home, left when she was less than six years old.
Mrs. Zhou sniffed, grabbed the corner of her clothes, and continued to muster up her courage: "Our three mothers are still worrying about dinner, and it happens that mother and brothers are here, can you lend us some food? Mother, look , your granddaughter and grandson are all skinny."
Zhou's natal family came here to ask for food, and now when they heard that Zhou wanted to borrow food, their domineering expression immediately changed.
Brother Zhou: "Where can we borrow food, how hungry is your nephew?
Mrs. Zhou looked at the nephews on the side. Although they were not fat, they were definitely not hungry and thin. On the contrary, it was her eldest daughter, who was obviously eight years old, and she was so thin that she looked less than seven years old. Not to mention the younger daughter.
Sensing the meaning in Zhou's eyes, Zhou's eldest brother said without any shyness: "The boy will look stronger, but he really hasn't eaten. I haven't eaten since yesterday."
Zhou Shi didn't speak any more, she knew it was useless to say anything.
A group of people were still shouting for dinner and asked Mrs. Zhou to cook, but Mrs. Zhou pretended to be dead and stood still at the door. As for not going in to sit, she was afraid of being beaten.
Yes, her mother and elder brother would beat her if things went wrong. Now that she refused to cook with the food, if she got closer, she would be beaten.
Seeing that Zhou's oil and salt were not allowed in, her two elder brothers got up from Zhou's mother's order, and immediately got up to dig through the rice vat in the kitchen.
At this time, Mrs. Zhou was very fortunate that she brought back the grain and immediately locked it under the bed in the house. Otherwise, with this posture, there would be no way to keep that little rice.
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