Thanos's biological daughter in period fiction
Chapter 98 Spring begins
This is the advantage of standing high and seeing far. After all, he was on his mother's back. Standing up, he could see everyone on the threshing ground, and even the expressions on their faces.
Actually, people could earn work points in the spring, and with work points they could get grain, so everyone was still very motivated. After standing in the crowd for a meeting, he learned that those villagers who looked like opium addicts had too many relatives, and one by one they came to borrow grain from them. Some even resorted to robbery on the spot.
Most of the grain stored in their cellar was stolen, and in order to save food during the lean season, they ate only sweet potato soup once a day for the entire winter.
It's fair to say they deserved it. To queue up to buy grain, they actually sent their lazy, good-for-nothing youngest son to town to find their in-laws and ask them to send someone to buy it. But halfway there, the son slipped away to the widow's house. By the time he returned, the grain was almost sold out. His daughter-in-law lived quite far away; it would take a whole day to walk there to find her.
By the time the daughter-in-law realized what was happening and returned from her parents' home, Liu Fangmei and the others had already packed up and gone home.
The in-laws were unreasonable; because they had many sons, they simply robbed their house. Before the villagers could react, they had already run away after looting, and the young wife kept stopping people from chasing after them.
The young wife wasn't afraid of their family at all. After all, they were capable of deleting things, had some martial arts skills, and were extremely aggressive. They had initially coveted this young wife because she was strong and could earn 10 centimeters. In the end, they suffered a loss, but even if they were taken advantage of by their in-laws here, they wouldn't dare say anything. This was because they would only dare to scold their in-laws or prevent the young wife from eating.
This young wife can cause endless trouble for their family. If she doesn't cook for him, the whole family won't have anything to eat.
During the winter hibernation, the whole family had been engaged in a battle of wits with this young wife. In the end, they still couldn't outwit her. When Mao Wang Dong came out, although he wasn't as fair-skinned and tender as before, his overall mental state was worlds apart from the rest of the family.
She listened to gossip about this matter all morning from a group of mothers and grandmothers, and managed to piece together this conclusion with great difficulty.
Today is the first day of spring in the fields. The skinny old ox was pulled out of the cowshed early in the morning so that he could get some exercise and be ready to work tomorrow.
Xia Yutang looked at the old ox, whose ribs were very thin, and then at the skinny calf next to him. She carefully approached and picked a handful of fresh, tender wild vegetables from the ground in her own space.
The old ox sniffed the grass, and its eyes suddenly widened when it smelled it. Xia Yutang quickly put the grass in her hand on the ground, and the old ox began to eat the wild vegetables with a ravenous gait.
He went down to the fishpond to check that no one was around, then quickly picked some more fish and placed them next to the calf. He didn't know exactly how much a cow should eat, but he didn't dare take any more if someone came.
Wherever she went, the two cows followed. The villagers found it quite amazing; this little girl wasn't even as tall as a cow's leg, so how could she have won over those two cows so much?
Since the two cows had been following Xia Yutang, his two older brothers took on the job of herding the cows before the start of the school year, earning five work points a day.
Liu Fangmei thought it was a good idea. The two boys weren't old enough to go to school yet, and she couldn't bear to see them working in the fields, so she decided to let them herd cattle. Since they weren't participating in the farm work, there weren't any pigs in the village's pig farm, so the children didn't need to gather pig feed to earn work points.
The cattle herding work used to be done by Grandma Wu's eldest grandson, but on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, he slipped and fell while fetching water and broke his leg.
He's still in bed recovering. The village head had originally planned to find some of the village's children who weren't in school to help out for a few days. But all the children who weren't in school had difficult elderly relatives, and the village head didn't want to cause trouble. He was even thinking of having his youngest son help look after them for a while.
Unexpectedly, on their very first day of work, these two oxen had already become attached to Xia Jixuan's little girl. They decided to visit the third son's house to see what his wife thought.
With two sons, both capable of herding cattle and playing with their little girl, Liu Fangmei felt it was acceptable; once it was time for her to start school, it would be time for her to go. Thus, a verbal agreement was reached, and early the next morning, the two boys took their sister up the mountain to herd cattle.
The old ox was supposed to work today, but the village chief saw that it was so thin it was practically skin and bones, and worried it wouldn't be able to work and would get too tired. So he simply let the two young men take it up the mountain to eat some wild grass. It was only early spring, and the grass hadn't even sprouted yet; they didn't know what they could find to eat.
Actually, the siblings had already discussed it at home yesterday. There were no wild vegetables or herbs on the mountain, but there were plenty on the mountain near Qingyu Residence. When they left this morning, each of them carried a basket on their back.
These baskets have lids, so if you put the grass in the baskets and cover them, no one can see it. Xiaoyu took Tangtang to the cowshed and brought out two cows. Whether it was because of Tangtang or something else, the two cows followed Tangtang obediently without needing to be led by a rope.
This was Xia Yutang's first time experiencing the joy of herding cattle. When she first went up the mountain and didn't see anyone, her older brother carried her onto the back of a cow.
Xia Yutang was a little scared when he rode on the back of a cow for the first time. He had ridden camels and horses when he traveled before, but he had never ridden a cow.
Moreover, this ox was untrained and without a saddle; it couldn't even sit still.
After walking a short distance, she calmed down. The old ox walked very steadily, without any bumps or swaying, so it was okay even without a saddle.
They led the cows to a secluded spot, tossed some grass from their baskets, and let the two cows graze there. The siblings were nearby, with Xiaoyu and Shitou teaching Xia Yutang to read.
If the two boys start school in the spring, they will be in fifth grade. At this time, the school system consists of five years of primary school, two years of junior high school, and two years of senior high school.
To their disappointment, the school still hadn't announced any plans to reopen even after the spring planting season ended. Liu Fangmei visited the school twice, but it was deserted; even the gatehouse was covered in a thick layer of dust.
After returning from her trip to the school, Liu Fangmei sat down, took a sip of water, and sighed, "School probably won't start this year. There's no one at the school, and the gatehouse is covered in a thick layer of dust. I didn't see the principal or any of the teachers. I'll go to town to check after the spring planting is finished in a few days."
She didn't want her two sons' education to be interrupted. Last year, they had already been out of school for almost a year due to a lack of food, and if they were to be out of school again this year, it would be two years.
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