Chapter 129: Don't Be a Blood Bag of Your Mother's Family
In the past, the family relied on Gu Dahan and Chen Sufen to harvest wheat.
Other people in the family also worked, but they were not doing their own work. Instead, they were sent by Tong Huaqiong to her mother's house to cut wheat for her.
This year, Tong Huaqiong brought a few bamboos to the fields, which on the one hand reduced the burden on Gu Dahan and Chen Sufen, and on the other hand accelerated the wheat harvest.
Two days after Tong Huaqiong arrived home, her wheat was almost harvested. The harvested wheat was spread out in the threshing floor, waiting to be threshed with stone rollers, dried and stored.
After two days, Tong Huaqiong was so tired that her waist and legs ached.
Farming work is really tiring, especially in the era when there were no modern tools, it was even more tiring.
Tong Huaqiong leaned on the recliner, Yaozu and Maner massaged her back and legs, and the small punches made her feel sore and refreshing. Tong Huaqiong lamented that if she could go back to her time, she would suggest anyone who advocated the pastoral idyll before the construction of the new countryside to do farm work for a few days before expressing her feelings.
She was so tired just from harvesting the wheat, and she hadn't even gone to the threshing floor to push and pull the stone roller to thresh the wheat.
She is the "old" ancestor of the family and she has the right to rest.
Others have to work around the clock.
For example, Gu Dahan spent all his time in the wheat field, and his face and neck were sunburned and peeled off.
In any era, in our group, farm work is not easy and farmers work very hard.
Tong Huaqiong was thinking that when the family had more land in the future, she would rent it out or hire someone to work on it.
"Mom, Uncle Tong sent someone to bring a letter."
Gu Dashu came home from the wheat field to have dinner and brought news about the Tong family to Tong Huaqiong.
In fact, Tong Huaqiong didn't want to know any news about the Tong family. She was not Tong Dajiao, and the Tong family was not her mother's family.
She didn't want to be the blood bag of the Tong family like Tong Da Jiao.
Seeing that my mother didn't say anything, Gu Dashu continued, "My uncle asked someone to let us go to Heilong Village tomorrow. He said that he needed help to harvest wheat at home."
Heilong Village is the village where the Tong family lives.
This village does not belong to Yanguan Town. It is not easy to get there by climbing over two mountains to reach Qinghe Bay.
Tong Huaqiong sneered. In the past, during the wheat harvest season, Tong Da Jiao would send Gu Dashu and Gu Dahan to work for the Tong family without anyone from the Tong family coming to urge them. It was always their turn only after they finished the Tong family's work.
Tong Da Jiao would also help with cooking.
Not only that, they would even bring their own dry food to their mother's house.
No one from the Gu family went this year, and the Tong family became uneasy, so they started asking people to send messages to ask people to go to work.
What Gu Dashu didn't say was that what his uncle asked someone to say was not pleasant to the ear. He had refined and summarized it into good words because he was afraid that his mother would be disappointed after hearing it.
"What if we go just because he asks someone to do so? Are all the people in the Tong family dead? And they still need us to help harvest the wheat? No, we won't go." Tong Huaqiong said.
"If we don't go, how can we visit the Tong family as relatives in the future?" asked Gu Dashu.
"Then don't visit relatives." Tong Huaqiong said bluntly.
The last time Tong Huaqiong asked Chen Sufen to sever ties with the Chen family, she also expressed that she would sever ties with the Tong family.
When Gu Dashu found out, he thought Tong Huaqiong was just saying that out of anger, but now it seems like she is serious.
In the past, Gu Dashu didn't understand why his mother was so domineering at home and always had the upper hand, but when she came to the Tong family, she would be so humble. She would sell all the good things at home to the Tong family, and would interfere in everything the Tong family did. During the busy farming season, she would chase them to the Tong family to work.
He treated Tong's uncle like his own father.
Tong's eldest uncle is already old, and he has studied all his life but is still just a student. However, he regards himself as a scholar and does nothing. Until now, he still stays in and out of the house all day long, and all he does is talk about the country and lament his bad fate.
Even though my mother has given so much to the Tong family, she can't get a single word of praise from them.
According to Gu Dashu's idea, the Tong family should have been severed eight hundred years ago.
He had mentioned this to Tong Da Jiao before, but before he could finish his words, Tong Da Jiao started throwing a tantrum and rolling on the ground, scolding him for being unfilial.
He is helpless too!
Now that I'm finally awake, how can Gu Dashu not be happy.
"Mom, you've finally come to your senses. Based on the way you treated the Tong family in the past, you almost wanted to give our shop to them." Gu Dashu said to Tong Huaqiong.
"Bullshit, I'm not that stupid." Tong Huaqiong cursed.
The one who could do such a stupid thing was Tong Da Jiao, not her Tong Huaqiong.
Gu Dashu was scolded by Tong Huaqiong, and he went into the kitchen to eat with a smile.
No matter how much he scolds, it will be fine as long as he is not allowed to go to Heilong Village to help the Tong family work and have to obey his uncle's wishes.
Tong Fusheng, the eldest brother of the Tong family, who was decided to be cut off by Tong Huaqiong, was so anxious that he scolded Tong Da Jiao. All the wheat in the village had been harvested, and only the Tong family's wheat had not been harvested. If it rained, the whole family would be left starving.
"Your sister is really something. She knows that the wheat won't wait for anyone, but she still doesn't come to harvest the wheat for us at this time." Tong Da Jiao's sister-in-law Wang joined in the scolding.
"Don't worry, I have already sent a message to Qinghe Bay. They will definitely come tomorrow, the day of Dashu." Tong Fusheng looked confident.
He knew his sister well, so she must have been troubled by something, otherwise she would have come to Black Dragon Village a long time ago.
But even if he was troubled by something, he would still have to give him a scolding tomorrow.
What big thing could delay his family's wheat harvest?
"Dad, Mom, I heard that my aunt is doing business in Yanguan Town, selling cakes." Tong Dajiao's nephew Tong Zhijie said, "Just because she made money, she is disrespectful to our family."
Wang curled her lips and said, "What kind of business can she do? She doesn't have that ability."
Tong Fusheng said: "Even if your aunt runs a business selling cakes, the money she earns must be given to our family."
Wang thought for a moment and asked Tong Fusheng, "Have you sent a message to your sister, asking her to bring some chicken, duck, fish, meat, etc. to nourish Zhijie when she comes?"
Tong Fusheng nodded and said, "I've got the message. Don't worry, my sister will definitely bring some meat and vegetables tomorrow."
Wang and Tong Zhijie laughed.
The Tong family was destined to be disappointed. Tong Da Jiao had become a completely different person from the heart to the brain.
Even if they waited until the wheat sprouted in the field, Tong Huaqiong would not show up at the Tong family.
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In the evening, Tong Huaqiong went to the threshing ground.
She didn't go there to work, but to show off.
It is a coincidence that enemies often gather together. Tong Huaqiong's family has an acre of land right next to Yan Pozi's land, and now the threshing ground is also a neighbor of Yan Pozi's land.
Needless to say, Yan Pozi had suffered two losses at the hands of Tong Huaqiong, and the wheat that she had planted on two extra feet of land in the spring was harvested by Tong Huaqiong. Yan Pozi and her family would definitely think of ways to take revenge.
The main force in the family's wheat field is Gu Dahan.
Gu Dahan was well-known for his honesty, so Tong Huaqiong was worried that in a few days the other evil bamboos would follow her to the town, and that Mrs. Yan and her group of evil bamboos would plot against Gu Dahan.
Tong Huaqiong came to the wheat field and saw Gu Dahan, Gu Dashu and Gu Jingzhe threshing the wheat with a stone roller.
This is hard work and the three brothers were sweating profusely from exhaustion.
Especially Gu Jingzhe, this is the first time he has done this job in more than ten years of his life.
"Third brother, you should go and take a rest. You have been working for a long time." Gu Dahan said to Gu Jingzhe.
These days, Gu Jingzhe not only worked diligently, but also respected his elder brother Gu Dahan very much. Although Gu Dahan's resentment towards Gu Jingzhe's intention to exchange Maner for his future has not disappeared, it has been alleviated.
His attitude towards Gu Jingzhe gradually returned to that of an elder brother.
"No need, I can still do it." Gu Jingzhe said after wiping the sweat off his forehead.
Tong Huaqiong felt a little complicated when she saw the scene of Gu Dahan and Gu Jingzhe being so friendly and respectful to each other.
To be honest, if she were Gu Dahan, and her daughter was almost sold, she would definitely not forgive Gu Jingzhe.
But the society nowadays is not like the later generations where brothers can just break up without affecting their lives. Here, clans and families are used as units to fight against the outside world. Once the brothers of the Gu family break up, it will inevitably affect the development of the entire family.
She could only do her best to compensate the first wife's family according to Gu Jingzhe's request.
I just don't like the rift between brothers to continue to widen.
Tong Huaqiong collected her thoughts and thought about the purpose of coming to the wheat field. She looked around and saw Yan Pozi and her family.