nucmednet Chapter 38 Poor people must be hateful
Chapter 38 Poor people must be hateful
After the mosquito nets on both sides were hung, Lin Wanshu said, "The water is already hanging there. When she wakes up later, take her to pee and then make her some milk to drink."
She made an appointment with Ji Hualan to go wash clothes together later. Seeing that his leg didn't seem to be a big problem, Lin Wanshu didn't bother to be polite with him and directly assigned him a task.
Qin Yan listened to her detailed explanation without a trace of impatience on his face, and nodded seriously.
"okay, I get it."
Knowing that he was calm and reliable, Lin Wanshu had nothing to worry about.
After giving her instructions, she went out.
In summer, the sun rises early. It’s just past five o’clock and the sky is already turning white.
Lin Wanshu picked up the bucket of dirty clothes, took out a soap, and went out.
Ji Hualan told me that the place to wash clothes was in a small river near the staff quarters.
Although the family compound does not need to fetch water, everyone thinks washing clothes in the river is cleaner, and generally no one washes them at home.
Lin Wanshu came to Ji Hualan's door carrying a bucket.
But before she could shout, she saw Ji Hualan coming out of the shower room carrying a bucket.
"Wan Shu, why are you here so early? I was thinking of coming to see you."
She asked in surprise.
"I was afraid that if I arrived too late, there wouldn't be a good seat, so I got up early."
Generally, when you go to the river to wash clothes, you have to find a suitable stone, but there are limited stones, so you have to go early to get a good position.
Ji Hualan had obviously suffered the loss of not getting a seat, so after hearing what she said, she didn't say any more and walked out of the door quickly with the bucket in her hand.
"Come on, I know which position is the most comfortable for washing clothes. Let's go early while it's still early."
Lin Wanshu had just arrived and didn't even know where the river was.
I decided to stay with Ji Hualan the whole day.
The two walked side by side, talking and laughing, all the way to the back door of the family compound.
"Hey, Wan Shu, how did you make the egg cake yesterday? My two kids made a fuss all night after eating it, and they insisted that I make it for them today too."
She also took a small bite of yesterday's egg cake, and the taste was simply amazing.
Fragrant, sweet, soft and dense.
Not only do the children love to eat it, even she, an adult, is very greedy for it.
In this day and age when business is not allowed, anyone who has a special dish is basically willing to share it with others.
There's no loss anyway, and it can also bring you closer together, so why not do it?
Lin Wanshu naturally had no intention of hiding it.
She wasn't going to do business anyway.
"This is very simple. I'll teach you whenever you want to do it."
Seeing how generous she was, Ji Hualan liked her even more.
The two men are partners, and as family members, it would be best for them to have a good relationship.
Before she came to the family compound, Ji Hualan was a little worried that she would not be able to get along with her.
I didn't expect that he is so young but can be so thoughtful in everything.
In return, Ji Hualan naturally told her everything without reservation about the situation of each family in the family compound.
Before reaching the river, Lin Wanshu had a better understanding of the family compound.
The focus is on Huang Fengying, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law!
"They say there is always something hateful about pitiful people. We all advised her not to give the job to her sister-in-law, but guess what? She even accused us of trying to sow discord between her and her mother-in-law!"
She is a military wife in the city and still has a job. Marrying Zhou Tianzhu, who comes from the countryside, is already a step down. Why should she put herself in such a difficult position?
But she felt guilty and sorry for the Zhou family, and no matter how they persuaded her, she was determined to give the job to her sister-in-law.
She thought that by doing this, her mother-in-law would at least remember her well and treat her better.
However, she did not expect that after she lost her job and gave birth to three daughters in a row, she was either beaten or scolded by her mother-in-law every day, living like a young wife in the old society.
Lin Wanshu did not comment much on Huang Fengying's experience.
It's someone else's business anyway and has nothing to do with her.
After going out the back door, less than a hundred meters away is the small river where they usually wash clothes.
"Our land is right over there, and we draw water from here to grow vegetables. It's very convenient."
Ji Hualan pointed to the right.
Lin Wanshu looked in the direction of her hand and saw a large green vegetable field.
Looking at the green vegetables growing well, she felt itchy and wished she could open up a field of them soon.
"That's a paddy field over there. We'll be able to harvest the rice in a few days."
Ji Hualan pointed to the golden rice fields in the distance.
Both vegetable fields and paddy fields are on both sides of the river, so watering is indeed very convenient.
Ji Hualan was pointing out to Lin Wanshu the place where she would be farming in the future, when suddenly, a resentful voice came from behind her.
"Wan Wan, why didn't you call me when you were doing the laundry?"
When Ji Hualan saw that it was Yu Fangfang, a look of shock appeared on her face.
I don't know whether I was shocked that she came to wash clothes, or shocked that she called Lin Wanshu so intimately.
Unable to hold back, Ji Hualan asked, "Wan Shu, do you know Comrade Yu Fangfang?"
Otherwise, how could she, a person with high standards, be so good to Lin Wanshu?
Hearing this, Yu Fangfang rolled her eyes.
"We met yesterday. Why, you are allowed to be with Wan Wan, but I am not allowed to be close to myself?"
After saying that, she carried the bucket and stood on the other side of Lin Wanshu.
If you don’t know, you might think they are just jealous of each other.
Lin Wanshu felt somewhat helpless and somewhat amused.
"I didn't know you got up so early, so I didn't call you."
Hearing this, Yu Fangfang's face flashed a trace of discomfort, and then she straightened her chest and said, "That was in the past. I will get up very early in the future. Remember to call me when you wash clothes in the morning."
Ji Hualan: ...
Did she take the wrong medicine? Or is the sun about to rise in the west?
Who doesn’t know who Yu Fangfang is?
She said she liked to wash clothes at home, but in the end it was discovered that Feng Yandong washed her clothes secretly in the shower room at night.
However, even though she was shocked, Ji Hualan naturally would not refuse her request to wash clothes with them.
After walking through the winding path for a while, we arrived at the river.
The stream is fairly wide, the water flows gently, and both sides of the river are lined with large and small, irregularly shaped stones.
Those flat stones were probably washed every day, and their surfaces have become smooth.
When they arrived, there were already several military wives washing clothes on the rocky beach.
Huang Fengying was also among them.
I saw her sitting on a stone, holding a knife in one hand and a mallet in the other, beating the clothes in front of her. Her huge belly trembled with her movements.
"Fengying, what's wrong with your face? Did your mother-in-law beat you?"
Yang Zheng looked at her red and swollen right cheek and couldn't help but ask with concern.
Hearing this, Huang Fengying subconsciously turned her head away and stammered, "No, why would my mother-in-law hit me? I accidentally bumped into the wall last night."