Second Marriage in the 1970s

Dong Jiahui lay on the bed for three days. Today, she got out of bed without feeling so soft and weak. For the first time, she saw the whole picture of Dong's yard.

There are five adobe houses, with the main hall facing south in the middle. There are two wing rooms on the east and west sides. The yard is neatly cleaned. There is an old well, a pomegranate tree and a peach tree. The corner is piled with thatch and firewood. On the other side There is a small vegetable patch with vegetables such as cabbage, leeks, green peppers, garlic, etc. There is a chicken coop next to the vegetable patch with three hens clucking.

This is a very rural courtyard. Such mud houses are rare even in rural areas in the 21st century. Dong Jiahui saw similar well-preserved historical relics when traveling with his parents to the revolutionary base when he was a child.

After breakfast in the morning, all the Dong's labor force went to the ground. The older children went to school, and the younger ones brought them to the ground. Dong Jiahui was left alone in the family.

"The Lu family is really wicked. Jiahui came back on the front foot, and they found a new daughter-in-law on the back foot. This new daughter-in-law is a powerful one. If you want to pick her up, you must first ask for a certificate. It's difficult."

"Hey, how can this marriage be divorced. It's not that Jiahui was too honest, and she was ruled to death by her mother-in-law at her husband's house. How much did the new daughter-in-law of Lu's family spend on entering the house?"

"Because of Jiahui's thing, their family's reputation is bad. They all say that Mrs. Lu is too good, and the new wife has to endure hardships when entering the house. Mrs. Lu gritted her teeth and gave thirty-eight yuan as a gift, thirty eggs, and five catties of soybean oil."

"Yeah, it's so generous! Back then, Jiahui only had a betrothal of twenty yuan when she came in."

"Hey, I'm sorry for Jiahui's daughter. Chen Guixiang guessed and knew that the new wife of Lu's family came in. She was busy finding someone for Jiahui for the past two days, but Huanghua's daughter is easy to find, and the one who has been married is always one step behind."

"No, it's not a poor bachelor, or a dead wife who is older. If the other reasons are gone, it's because of the inability to give birth to children. In these days, men marrying a wife is not just to have children and pass on the family line. Well, how can a man be willing to have a child? Can Chen Guixiang be willing to marry a girl to a foolish girl?"

"So it's a pity that I always look at the grown-up girls, and don't say what they look like, they are really good tempered."

"Women's house is like this, if fate can lead a good life, fate can only suffer for a lifetime."

"Okay, let's just talk a few gossips. Don't talk to the Dong family about bad things, especially Jiahui. She has a tender face and a serious mind. You can't listen to them."

"I know, I still need you to remind me? I have no grievances with her, why do I deliberately say nasty things in front of her, thinking that she has lived too long?"

Dong Jiahui was sitting in the yard basking in the sun, and unconsciously listened to the gossip about the original owner. The sound came from the side of the neighbor's yard to the east.

She didn't fully inherit the memory of the original owner after passing through, but only remembered some important people and things.

She is not the original owner, so naturally she doesn't care whether Lu Chengyuan finds a new wife. She only cares about herself. She wears the identity of Dong Jiahui as an abandoned wife. It is impossible for her to stay in her family for a lifetime without marrying. It is true that her brother and sister-in-law can't tolerate her.

But the reality is just like what the neighbor said, an abandoned woman is still unable to have a child, what kind of one can you find in this age!

She is not the original owner. She is not a native of this age who can satisfy her stomach by filling her stomach. She comes from the 21st century. She is highly educated, has ideals and pursuits, and has her own aesthetic for the other half. She can't imagine herself marrying an uneducated person. , Don't like to be clean, eat a mouthful, a man who smells bad when he opens his mouth, it would be better to jump in the river again to die.

Dong Jiahui was worryingly basking in the sun. Hearing the bell ringing ten times in the hall, Dong Jiahui got up and went into the kitchen to see if she could help with cooking.

When she was a child, her parents were busy with work. Every summer and winter vacation they would send her to her grandmother's house in the countryside. She often helped her grandmother burn the fire, so she could use the old stove in the countryside.

Dong Jiahui went around in the kitchen and found a rice jar with rice and sweet potatoes stacked in the corner.

In the past few days when she was here, the Dong family would always add some sweet potatoes to the rice when they were cooking. This year, eating rice is only available during Chinese New Year and ancestor worship.

Dong Jiahui copied half of the gourd rice with a homemade gourd scoop. He picked six sweet potatoes from the corner of the wall and washed them at the edge of the well. He cut the damaged areas with a knife and cut them into blocks for later use. After the rice was washed, the rice was washed. Put it into the pot with the sweet potatoes, add an appropriate amount of water and cover the pot.

The preparation work went smoothly. It was the time to start the fire, because it took some time to light the fire because I was not used to matches of this era.

After this incident, the bell rang again, and the time had passed by half an hour.

After cooking the rice, Dong Jiahui went to the vegetable field again, picked a cabbage from the vegetable field, pinched a half bamboo basket of leeks, and washed it with well water after choosing a good vegetable. She didn’t know that Dong’s usually was. How to cook, I was afraid that I could not handle it well, so I put the cleaned vegetables in the kitchen and waited for Chen Guixiang to come back to cook.

At eleven o'clock, Chen Guixiang returned from the field first. There was also a time for the production team to go to work, from eight in the morning to 12 noon.

When Chen Guixiang came back to see her daughter got up from the bed, she cooked meals for everyone. She was afraid that the daughter would not be able to perform well, and she was also happy for her thoughtful and sensible daughter.

"I'm still coming back in a hurry, are you making a meal?"

"I'm done with the meal, but there is no food yet. I will wash the dishes and wait for my mother to come back to make them."

Chen Guixiang opened the lid of the pot, and saw the white rice mixed with sweet potatoes in the pot. The appetite was not too much and it was not good. He nodded in satisfaction.

"Very good, you're done, I'm quick to fry."

She turned around and took out a small bowl of river prawns from the cupboard. These were cooked prawns that had been oiled, and put them in when they were about to fry the leeks.

In addition to the shrimp, she also took a small clay pot, which was filled with lard. She bought suet and boiled it. There was only half a pot left.

"The Chinese cabbage was fried with some lard. There is no oily residue at home. If there is oily residue, it will be greedy."

Dong Jiahui has seen the power of lard. When she was a child, her grandmother used to make lard noodles for her. She was such a small person and could eat a whole bowl every time. Grandma liked to watch her eat and talk to her. Everything you eat becomes more fragrant.

When Chen Guixiang was cooking vegetables, Dong Jiahui burned the fire, and secretly observed Chen Guixiang's cooking techniques, and planned to follow her to learn, so that he would show his feet in the future.

The old stove started to cook very quickly, the pot was hot, and the dishes were cooked in two times. The fragrant smell spread in the air. After cooking, Chen Guixiang took two more eggs from the cupboard and beat them. After adding some chopped green onion and salt, put the bowl directly in the rice pot and steam it.

For today’s meal, the dishes were grown in my own land, and the shrimps were fished from the river by my own net.

Daewoo Village gathers water in front of it and backs on the mountain, which is a very suitable place for survival.

As the old saying goes, "Relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, relying on the water to drink water", although the rice is not full, the fish and shrimps in the river, and the game from the mountains can make tooth sacrifices from time to time.

Therefore, the most valuable part of this meal is the two eggs. In these years, the eggs can be exchanged in price. The supply and marketing cooperatives have specialized in collecting eggs. Five cents per egg is the money that rural people can get by themselves in addition to work points. Very precious.

In the memory of the original owner, the conditions of the Lu family, eating a bowl of white rice and a bowl of scrambled eggs are also excellent, which makes the villagers envious of life. Of course, even if the Lu family has white rice and scrambled eggs, the original owner is not treated. The daughter-in-law I saw couldn't eat it, otherwise, how could the original owner be skinny and skinny, even in the seventies when everyone could not have enough to eat.

Nearly twelve o’clock, the Dong family came back from the ground one after another. Tian Niu and Xiao Man were hugged by the eldest and third child, wearing thick cotton-padded coats. Their faces were red on the plateau and Xiao Man seemed to have a cold. The snot hung under the nose, sucking and sucking like two green cabbage bugs.

"Jiahui is getting up, is her health better?"

The question was Dong Jiahui's sister-in-law Zhou Yindi, who was Dong Jiahui's eldest brother Dong Aihua's wife.

Zhou Yindi gave birth to his eldest nephew Huzi and Dong’s only girl, Tianniu. She has a square face and a very angry temper. She is Chen Guixiang’s most proud daughter-in-law. Shot.

When the people are all together, they will eat. The men have a big appetite and work hard. Each person has a large bowl of rice and sweet potatoes. Women's bowls are smaller, and children's bowls are smaller.

Chen Guixiang took a spoon and dug a spoonful of steamed eggs for Tianniu and Xiaoman, and a spoonful for Dong Jiahui.

After three spoons were dug out, there was nothing left in the bowl. Chen Guixiang handed the bowl to her husband Dong Dagui. Dong Dagui shook his head. Naturally, his son and daughter-in-law were not embarrassed to grab the remaining steamed eggs, so Chen Guixiang scraped the corners of the bowl. , To the youngest grandson Xiaoman.

Liu Xiuyun, the second daughter-in-law, felt a little uneasy. Her two sons, Hammer and Junzi, went to school and were not at home, which means that today's eggs are cheaper than those of the boss and the third.

Even if my child didn't eat the eggs, Liu Xiuyun was extremely frustrated.

In fact, Dong Jiahui had some thoughts in her mother's Liu Xiuyun's heart, but she kept suppressing the careful thoughts in her heart.

At first, she felt that the divorced woman who was kicked out by her in-laws was very pitiful. She sympathized with her sister-in-law. Later, Dong Jiahui jumped into the river again and was dying to be carried back. Liu Xiuyun's sympathy for her reached its peak.

However, everything in this world follows the law of "things must be reversed, and when they are full, they will lose." After this sympathy reaches its peak, it begins to decline a little bit.

Even if she pretends to be generous for the time being, she still cares about it in her heart. What Liu Xiu sits in her heart is thinking about why she can’t eat an egg, Dong Jiahui, an aunt who has been married once. Not only did he lie on the bed all day and didn't do anything, but he also had to provide delicious food. Even the sixteen production brigade of the Victory Commune did not say that.