After Dressing Up As a Stepmother, I Transformed the Whole Family Into Working In the Fields Chapter 5

Chapter 5 Fetching Water

 Old man Liu knew that there were many sons in his family, and if they were not properly disciplined, the family would break up sooner or later, so he was very willing to put in effort and cruelty in disciplining them.

But this old man will run away if you hit him. If you scold him, he will point at your nose and yell at you. What's the use of being cruel?

 He was so angry that Old Man Liu turned gray all night long.

 A man in his forties with a head of gray hair who looks like he is sixty years old.

 Seeing that Liu Laosan was over fifteen and discipline was useless, Mrs. Zhang asked someone for a folk remedy, saying that shrewish women are good at killing mischief and are not stingy.

So Old Man Liu thought about marrying Liu Ji a capable daughter-in-law to keep him under control. After the marriage, the two of them would go out to live separately, and the family would be left alone, out of sight and out of mind. As a father, he was worthy of him.

The old couple put a lot of thought into choosing a wife for Liu Ji, and finally chose Mo, a fierce and capable woman.

I didn't expect that Liu Ji, a thug who was not stingy, would actually live in peace a lot.

 But no one could have imagined that such a good person would die in childbirth.

 Old man Liu was even more devastated than Liu Ji. On the day he sent his third daughter-in-law to the funeral, he cried all the way:

“My fate, this is my fate, Old Man Liu! I don't know what evil I did to Liu Ji in my last life, but in this life I'm asking him to come to my house to collect blood debt!”

At this moment, recalling the situation back then, Old Man Liu was only afraid that Qin Yao would leave the third son and his family and run away.

“If you from the third family have any difficulties, come to the old house and the whole family can discuss and make decisions together, but don't bear it alone.” Old Man Liu warned.

Qin Yao thought that Old Man Liu would hold her accountable, but she didn't expect that Old Man Liu would say this, and was a little surprised.

“Yeah, I know.” She nodded.

 Old man Liu thought that she understood what he meant and would come to him to borrow money to redeem Liu Ji, so he felt a little relieved.

The three Liu Bai brothers resented Liu Ji deeply. Seeing that Qin Yao agreed, they thought that even if they had to worry about themselves, it would be the second round. Their serious wife was here, so they urged Old Man Liu to go home for dinner first.

 Old man Liu looked at the five women in front of him, sighed, called Liu Ji a bastard, and called his sons to leave.

When leaving, the four father and son gave the elder man and son a wink, so that they could take a good look at your stepmother.

Although Qin Yao looks thin and doesn't look like she can run far at this time, considering the situation in the third child's family now, everyone wants to run away. Who can say for sure.

Qin Yao watched them go away, then looked back at the four brothers and sisters standing in front of the door, "Are you hungry?"

 The four brothers and sister nodded honestly.

After a busy morning, Qin Yao had already digested the eight taros she had eaten in the morning, and she was also hungry.

Qin Yao took out the four still warm taros from her pocket and handed them to the four brothers and sisters, "One for each person, let's eat some to fill our stomachs first."

Qin Yao has just looked through this shabby house. There are only beds made of wooden boards in the two rooms. There is no visible color bedding on the bed. Let alone hiding money, there is no place to hide when the rats come.

 There was only a stove and an iron pot, but the water tank was empty, so I couldn't have a serious meal, so I could only continue roasting taro.

Qin Yao saw a small pile of firewood beside the stove. They were all broken branches. Dalang or Erlang should have picked them up at the foot of the mountain.

Qin Yao found the flint, cleaned the stove, and lit the fire quickly.

The four brothers and sisters stood behind her, looking at the fragrant taro in their hands and swallowing hard. In front of the food, they had already forgotten about their **** father being carried away by a debt collector.

 Emotional, but not much.

Saburo and Si Niang were young and could not control their instincts. They put the taro under their noses and sniffed, licking their lips and looking at their two brothers.

Dalang watched Qin Yao bury the black lump in the rattan pocket into the fire, wait for a while until it was cooked, then pull it out, tear open the skin, put the thing into his mouth, and then nodded to his younger brothers and sisters who couldn't bear it. . "It smells so good~" Sanlang took a bite and his eyes lit up.

 “This is taro, which is very fragrant.”

Qin Yao's voice suddenly sounded, and the four brothers and sisters who were chewing taro all froze.

Erlang's face changed slightly. He heard from the villagers that taro is poisonous. If you eat it, you will get strange diseases. Your whole body will be extremely itchy, and people will die from skin ulcers because of scratching!

 Qin Yao just saw them carefully observing their actions, and thought they knew this was taro, so they were so cautious.

 It turned out that I didn't know it at all.

Qin Yao chuckled lightly, put all the taros on her hand into her mouth, patted her **** and stood up, came to the four brothers and sisters, grabbed two taros, and explained:

“The mucus of raw taro will make it itchy if it touches the skin. Just rinse it with water. This problem will not occur with cooked taro. Feel free to eat it.”

After that, he buried the taro in his hand into the ashes and continued to roast it. He pulled out the roasted taro and piled it beside the fire. He raised his chin to Dalang and said, "Where is the bucket? I'll get some water and come back. Let's put it in the house." Do some hygiene."

 Life kissed her with pain, but she still responded with songs.

Qin Yao can't fix this dirty house in just one night!

Dalang hadn't eaten decent food for a long time. Dalang paused for a moment before he realized what he was doing. He finished the taro in his hand in two bites, walked into the room, and took out a heavy wooden barrel from the dark corner.

 Although children from the countryside are thin, they have been helping the family since they were young and have considerable strength.

Dalang carried the bucket and said to Erlang, "My stepmother and I are going to fetch water."

Erlang nodded. Although his family is poor, not all the villagers are kind-hearted. Some people will bully you the more they see you in ruins.

There were originally two barrels and a pole at home, but they forgot to hide them in the house when they went to the mountains to collect wild fruits. When they returned home, the poles were missing and the barrel was missing.

 The eldest brother went to the village to look for it, but no one said he saw it, so in the end nothing was done.

Qin Yao followed Dalang to the village well. When Erlang saw her walking away, he immediately rushed to the fire and gave the pile of roasted taros left by Qin Yao to his younger brothers and sisters. He also took one and told them both while eating. : "Eat slowly, don't choke."

Saburo and Si Niang's cheeks bulged out like hamsters, their mouths moved, and they nodded vaguely, “Yeah!”

 Soon, the small pile of taro was eaten by the three brothers and sisters.

Erlang asked Sanlang to watch the taro buried in the fire to prevent it from burning. He sat down on the threshold, leaning his head against the door frame, rubbing his own belly with one hand, and rubbing Siniang's bulging belly with the other.

Brother and sister, you looked at me and I looked at you and laughed. It feels so good to be full.

On Qin Yao's side, she followed her step-eldest son with a wooden bucket, and the two of them walked towards the village in silence.

Qin Yao was not a talkative person, and Dalang was not familiar with his stepmother. He didn't know what to say to her, so he could only stay silent.

There is a well in the village, and the water in the well is clear and sweet. The villagers collect water here.

If you are starching and washing clothes, you go to the entrance of the village, where the river is intercepted and gathered into a small pond, where cattle, horses, pigs and sheep can be used in one place, as well as washing vegetables and laundry.

Since it is living water, it is not dirty, but even those who are not too far from the village well will not go to the pond to get water for consumption.

Liu Ji was ostracized in the village. After being separated from the Liu family's old house, he built a house on a low **** in the north of the village. The family lived upstream of the river, and it was close to getting water from the river.

 But Dalang brought her to the village well. She was new to the village and didn't know much about the village, so it was better to follow him first.

 (End of this chapter)

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