Chapter 17 Look how scared the child is

Chapter 17 Look how scared the child is

"Mom, do you think my eldest sister can lend some money to my second brother?" Gu Taohua asked.

"Then who knows."

Tong Huaqiong found this difficult.

In Tong Huaqiong's memory, Gu Baishuang awakened after the funeral of the old man of the Gu family. He was completely disappointed with Gu Dashu and others, and cut off contact with the Gu family from then on.

But it’s okay, let Gu Dashu vent his anger on Gu Baishuang.

"Mom, don't you care at all about Yaozu being sent away?"

"Then what do you say? How about you go for her?"

Gu Taohua shrank her neck in fear.

"Grandma, aunt."

A soft, sweet voice was heard, and Maner walked in with a small basket on her back full of grass.

"Man'er went to cut the grass again."

Tong Huaqiong sighed imperceptibly.

Children from poor families have to grow up early, and those born in poor families with vicious grandmothers have to bear the responsibilities from an early age.

"Cut grass to feed the pigs." Maner ran to the pigpen, took off the backpack, and called out a few times.

A four-month-old pig grunted and ran to the trough.

Tong Huaqiong strode over, grabbed the backpack and poured the grass into the pig trough.

"Maner is really capable." Tong Huaqiong said.

The pig in the pigsty was bought by Gu Dahan, and is usually fed by Maner who cuts grass for it.

At this time, the piglet was eating happily in front of the trough.

Braised pork, sweet and sour spare ribs, braised pig's head... the pig in front of her turned into a plate of delicious dishes. Tong Huaqiong wanted to eat meat so much that she went crazy.

However, when Tong Huaqiong thought about the fact that pork in this era had a fishy smell that could not be suppressed even with spicy spices, she wanted to slaughter the pig she raised.

But she doesn't know how to castrate a pig, and if she kills it, that would be a big problem.

After all, it costs a lot of money to buy a pig these days.

Who knows how to castrate a pig these days? Tong Huaqiong plans to find time to ask the knowledgeable village chief.

"Grandma, when this pig grows up, we can sell it to support my uncle's education." Maner interrupted Tong Huaqiong's thoughts by blinking her big, blinking eyes.

Suddenly remembering that his grandmother had stopped his uncle from studying, he changed his words and said, "I will use the money from the sale to buy cakes and lamb legs for grandma."

My grandmother loves to eat mung bean cakes in town. My uncle buys them for her every time he goes home. Maner remembers it.

Tong Huaqiong touched Man'er's head and said, "You are so good. Grandma doesn't want it. Use the money from the sale to make Man'er a flowery dress."

The child's clothes are too shabby.

Maner smiled happily when she heard that Tong Huaqiong wanted to make a flowery dress for her.

Just like the flowery dress her aunt was wearing, pink with butterflies on it, she wanted it too.

Tong Huaqiong saw that Maner's forehead was covered with sweat and looked very tired, so she wiped the sweat off Maner's forehead and went into the house to pour tea for Maner.

When I came out with the tea bowl, I saw the diligent Maner squatting in front of the washtub, rubbing clothes.

A pair of small hands rubbed Tong Huaqiong's clothes vigorously, the double buns on her head rose and fell with the rubbing movements, and her little face was covered with sweat. Tong Huaqiong was so distressed that she pointed at Gu Taohua who was sitting in the yard to rest and scolded: "How can you be an aunt like you? You just watch your niece rubbing clothes, and your butt is stuck and you can't move, right?"

Gu Taohua: “…”

Why am I being scolded again?

These days, mom has been like a firecracker, ready to blow up the three siblings at any time.

She also worked, following her mother to the town to sell dry biscuits for half a day. She carried the basket of dry biscuits. She worked from morning to mid-afternoon and ate four bowls of porridge in the morning.

She looked in the mirror these two days and found that she had lost weight due to hunger!

"Mom, I'm hungry and tired now." Gu Taohua looked aggrieved, raised her buttocks and sat down again.

"Tired? Hungry? I'm not tired and I'm not hungry. I work hard to support my family, and you still expect me to serve you. Go and cook for me." Tong Huaqiong put her hands on her hips and drove Gu Taohua into the kitchen.

Tong Huaqiong took the opportunity to move the bench that Gu Taohua was sitting on next to Man'er and said to her, "Man'er, put it down. I'll wash the clothes."

Man'er shook her head and said, "Man'er rub it."

Kid, you don’t have to be that sensible!

Tong Huaqiong sighed and rubbed clothes with Maner.

Life is so hard!

Although Tong Huaqiong grew up in a town, her parents ran a factory and her family had always lived a good life. There had been a washing machine at home since she was a child, and she had hardly ever washed clothes by hand.

When she was in high school, her parents' factory went bankrupt and she thought they would have to live a hard life, but her house was demolished right around the same time the factory went bankrupt, and the compensation made the family even richer.

In addition, her parents spoiled her and never treated her badly in terms of money.

Therefore, the word "hard times" does not exist in her life dictionary.

I didn't expect that after traveling here, even though I have many children and grandchildren, I still have to live a hard life.

Tong Huaqiong frowned, and in Maner's eyes it seemed that her grandmother was angry again, so scary!

"Grandma, will you always be nice to Maner like this?" Maner raised her eyes as big as black grapes and asked timidly.

Look how scared the child is.

The shadow cast by the old woman Tong Da Jiao on the children was too great. Even though she became kind, she would still scare the children from time to time.

Tong Huaqiong relaxed her brows and said kindly, "Of course I will always be good to Man'er. Not only will I always be good to her, but I will also be even better."

"Grandma will also let Maner live a good life, with meat for every meal and new clothes to wear every day." Tong Huaqiong said.

Maner smiled happily.

Since her grandmother said so, she believed it. A few days ago, her grandmother came back from the county and brought her buns and cakes, which she loved eating.

"Grandma, I like the way you are now." Maner said with an innocent look on her face.

Tong Huaqiong wanted to hold her forehead with her hand. Who would like the Tong Da Jiao of the past?

"Grandma likes Maner too." Tong Huaqiong scrubbed the clothes vigorously.

So, after Chen Sufen got the sieve from Aunt Qin and returned home, she saw her mother-in-law and her daughter sitting together washing clothes.

The big and the small were talking and laughing.

It's quite cozy.

The love between grandparents and grandchildren under the setting sun made Chen Sufen want to cry. She never thought that she and her daughter would be able to see the moon at the end of the tunnel one day and win the favor of her mother-in-law.

She heard the conversation between the grandfather and grandson.

When my daughter goes to bed at night, she would ask her grandmother if she would change back to normal.

Although she comforted her daughter by saying that her grandmother would get better, she was still unsure. She was always afraid that her mother-in-law would become as domineering as she was in the past and abuse her and her daughter to death.

But from now on she no longer thinks about it. After all, every day her mother-in-law becomes better is a gain.

"Mom, this is the egg pancake Auntie Qin gave me. Eat a piece of the egg pancake to fill your stomach first."

Chen Sufen was skillful and usually sewed shoe soles for Aunt Qin. Aunt Qin felt sorry for her being bullied by her mother-in-law and would give her food whenever she saw her.

This time is no exception.

Tong Huaqiong smelled the fragrance of the egg pancakes. When she was in the town, she had tried hard to restrain herself from thinking about the fragrant smell of the dry pancakes. At this moment, she really couldn't stand the attack of the fragrance of the egg pancakes.

As a person at the top of the pyramid of the Gu family, she ate the egg pancakes that Aunt Qin gave to her daughter-in-law, which showed that she respected her daughter-in-law.

But now she couldn't bear to save face and eat alone, even Man'er had nothing to eat.

"Taohua is cooking. I'm not hungry. You and Maner can have the omelettes." Tong Huaqiong said.

"Mom, take a rest. Put the clothes down and I'll wash them for a while." Chen Sufen thought that her mother-in-law had been selling dry biscuits in the town for most of the day and was tired. She couldn't let her wash clothes.

"There is only this last item left. After washing, you can boil and grind the mung beans with me to make mung bean cakes and mung bean pastries." Tong Huaqiong said.

Chen Sufen nodded, then handed the omelet to Maner and said with a smile, "Maner, you and grandma can eat the omelet together."

This is a determination to be filial.

Maner took the omelet, and the aroma from up close made Tong Huaqiong's will collapse completely.

So when Maner put a piece of omelet into her mouth, she ate it without hesitation.

It's so fragrant!

"Mom, Yaozu's matter..."

"Don't worry about Yaozu's affairs." Tong Huaqiong interrupted Chen Sufen.

Chen Sufen didn't dare to mention it.

"Oh, by the way, mother, I just heard at the village entrance that matchmaker Wang came to propose marriage to Chen's Xiaoyan. Will she gossip about our family outside?"

Matchmaker Wang was not an easy person to get along with, and Chen Sufen was worried that she would spread bad things about her mother-in-law outside.

After all, the mother-in-law’s action of going to the Zheng family to cancel the engagement was too explosive!

If matchmaker Wang talks nonsense, it will damage my mother-in-law's reputation.

"What did she say? That I'm an old man who's lusting after young girls and the eldest son of Mr. Zheng? She can say it or not, I'm not afraid. Anyway, my reputation has always been bad." Tong Huaqiong said she didn't care.

Since her mother-in-law doesn't care, Chen Sufen has nothing to worry about.

So I turned around to collect the soaked mung beans.

What Tong Huaqiong and Chen Sufen didn't expect was that the news brought by Wang the matchmaker almost frightened their second daughter-in-law Liu Yue'e to faint!