She gave birth to three daughters in a row, and was kicked out by her mother-in-law who favored boys

Time passed quickly and it was late July. A rainstorm soaked the cicadas in Niutoushan Village. After the rain, the cicadas disappeared, and the dog days of summer disappeared along with them.

The breeze in the morning and evening brings a hint of coolness on the body. Laziness is blown away at this moment, and both adults and children in the family become full of energy.

In the afternoon, after the children got out of school, Gu Qingqing, with her slightly pregnant belly, walked towards her one-acre cornfield with all the children in the family.

On the way, Gu Qingqing met the village chief and the county official who were recording something in the fields. She smiled at them as a greeting.

The civil servant often wandered around the fields during the heading period of crops, and the children did not feel unfamiliar with him. When they saw him, they jumped and shouted, "Hello, Grandpa Wu, Hello, Mr. Guan" and so on.

Wu Shan smiled and waved at the children.

Chen Wenrui was also good-natured and would say a few words to the children in the village, "Are you guys out of school? What are you going to do?"

The Wen family girls just smiled and let Li Xin come forward to reply respectfully, "Let's go to the cornfield and see if there is any black rice."

"We need to see. Otherwise, if the virus spreads, it will affect the grain harvest. Go!" Chen Wenrui said and waved at them, ending the conversation.

When the children were about to catch up with Gu Qingqing, Wenrou asked in confusion, "Brother Daxin, why did you lie just now?"

Li Xin was so scared that he turned around and saw that the county official was far away from him. He was relieved when he couldn't hear Wenrou's words. "I didn't lie. When we came out, didn't my aunt say she would take us to find Wu Mi?"

Seeing that he refused to admit it, Wenrou said angrily, "No, mother said to take us out to pick corn, and then see if there is any Wumi. So we went to the field to pick corn, and you just said to find Wumi."

She heard it with her own ears when she came out.

Li Xin sneered, and then explained to her in a serious manner, "Wenrou, remember this. Those people asked just to know what we were going to do, and they didn't really care whether we were picking corn or looking for Wu Mi. But picking corn and looking for Wu Mi are two different things for them to hear."

Wenrou seldom saw Li Xin speak seriously, so she turned her head with a tense face and looked at him. Although she didn't say anything, she looked at Li Xin with a pair of inquiring eyes.

Gu Qingqing, who was walking in front, raised the corner of her mouth slightly when she heard this. She also wanted to know what Li Xin was going to say next.

Li Xin didn't let Wenrou wait any longer. His voice was not loud in the fields. "We are working to find Wumi. If we say we are picking corn, it would mean that Auntie is greedy. We just picked up some corn while looking for Wumi."

"Ah! So that's it!" There was obvious surprise in the gentle tone.

Even Gu Qingqing who was walking in front couldn't help laughing. She didn't realize that when did Daxin become so talkative?

They arrived at the cornfield following the chattering of the three children.

Gu Qingqing looked at the thick stalks in the field. Perhaps because they were well fertilized, each stalk had two big corn cobs with golden silk on them.

"Wow, mom, the corn cobs were not as big as my hands last time we came here, how come they are so big now." Wenrou looked at the corn cobs high above and made exaggerated movements with her hands. If she followed the movements of her hands, wouldn't the corn grow thicker than the buckets at home?

Wen Xin came to see us a few days ago, but Wen Rou didn't come that time. The last time she came to see us, the corn cobs were about the same thickness as her wrist. Now, as she watched the corn cobs grow bigger and bigger, her eyes were filled with reluctance. She walked up to Gu Qingqing and said, "Mom, look how well the corn is growing. Why don't we not eat it?"

Gu Qingqing was a little hesitant as she looked at the corn in front of her. Her family had enough manure on the ground and enough water, so the corn cobs were growing really big. If the corn kernels were to mature and harden, wouldn't they grow even bigger?

The next second, "Forget it. If we don't eat it this year, we'll have to wait until next year. If it tastes good, we'll plant more next year. If it doesn't taste good today, we won't cook it in the future. Come on, let's go into the field first. You will be responsible for finding black rice later. I'll pick the edible corn when I find it. Daxin, give me a basket." Gu Qingqing said as she took the bamboo basket from Li Xin's back and left it to him.

"Wenrou, you are short, so you follow Sister and Daxin. I will be right next to you. There are soybeans in the field, so be careful not to step on them. If you find black beans and don't know how to pick them, call me."

"I know mother."

"I'll watch, auntie."

"Go, into the ground."

As Gu Qingqing assigned the non-bean planting tasks to the children, the four of them entered the cornfield.

The corn leaves would feel itchy and painful when scratching the face and arms, but the children were very excited at the time and didn't feel any pain.

Wenrou was the shortest of the four, but this was an advantage. She could run in the ridges by just bending down slightly, so she was running in the front and soon saw that a corn cob on the corn stalk above her head seemed to have bloomed, but the flower was not pretty.

There was a piece of white film that was broken somehow, and black powder leaked out.

She quickly turned around and waved to her elder sister who was not far behind her, "Sister, come here quickly, look, there's one here, I can't reach it." Wenrou said this while standing on tiptoe to signal Wen Xin.

Wen Xin, who followed closely, pushed her to the side and had to stand on tiptoe to get the black rice.

Gu Qingqing, who was sitting two rows away, slightly pulled apart the corn leaves and looked at the black mold that Wenrou mentioned.

Black corn, also known as black mold, is actually corn infected by smut fungi carried by insects during its growth process. They will spread rapidly in young meristems such as leaves, nodes, male and female ears, and secrete a substance similar to auxin to promote cell division. When it reaches a certain extent, it becomes black corn.

Simply put, Umi is edible.

It tastes sweet when eaten raw, and has a unique flavor when fried.

Then, as the children screamed and shouted that they had found it again, Gu Qingqing's heart was bleeding. One corn cob after another was gone.

There were no pesticides in this era, and the only way to solve the problem was to break the black rice off the corn stalks, which almost solved the problem.

This is what Umi is all about.

When their mother and the other three came out of the field, there were at least a dozen stalks of black rice in Daxin's basket.

In the bamboo basket that Gu Qingqing brought out, there were only five black corn cobs, and the remaining dozen or so were all good corn cobs.

"Mom, are we going back?" Wen Xin asked.

Gu Qingqing looked at the corn in the bamboo basket and said, "Wait for me, I'll pull some grass to cover the corn in the basket."

When the younger ones heard that they were going to use grass to cover the corn in the bamboo basket, they all squatted down to pull out the weeds.

In just a blink of an eye, the bamboo basket was covered tightly by green grass.