In her previous life, Ding Chunli suffered a miscarriage and severe bleeding on the day the original owner was arrested, a
shock that claimed the lives of both herself and her unborn child. The autumn harvest had just ended, and Ding Chunli was exhausted, which caused the miscarriage .
"The easy work is done by the village elders and children. I'm strong; how can I compete with them for work?" Ding Chunli said.
She didn't want her father-in-law to make things difficult for the village chief, and she was also afraid of gossip. After all, there were several pregnant women in the village. If the village chief arranged an easy life for her, what about the other pregnant women? She
wasn't afraid of unfairness, but rather of inequality; otherwise, there would be a commotion.
"Yuanchun, take the porridge to the main room. I'll go to the kitchen to get some cornbread," Ding Chunli said
, turning and going into the kitchen. Yuanchun carried the wild vegetable porridge into the main room.
Staring at the steaming porridge, Yuanchun shamelessly swallowed.
How long had it been since she had tasted the flavor of grain?
In the third year of the apocalypse, food became extinct.
Even the plants mutated, becoming poisonous.
The only edible food was the meat of mutant beasts.
She had been eating meat for seven years, but it wasn't even palatable; it was hard and tough, like gnawing on tree bark, and swallowing it felt like scraping a layer of skin off her throat.
Heaven knows how long it had been since she had eaten any real food.
But no matter how much she craved it, Yuan Chun endured it.
"Sister-in-law, where has everyone gone?" Yuan Chun reluctantly left the main room and went into the kitchen.
Ding Chunli was picking up steamed cornbread from the pot and putting it into a winnowing basket.
Looking at the steaming cornbread, Yuan Chun's mouth watered even more, practically overflowing.
"They've all gone to water the plot of land. Grandma said she wants to water the potatoes, radishes, and cabbages in the plot with manure again before the autumn harvest to help them grow bigger so we can eat more."
"The children have also gone to the field to pull weeds."
Ding Chunli took a piece of gauze, unfolded it, and covered the cornbread with it. "Yuanchun, take the cornbread to the main room. I'll boil some hot water so Grandma and the others can wash themselves when they come back."
Yuan Chun swallowed hard as she quickly carried the cornbread to the main room, then dashed out the door. "Sister-in-law, I'm going to help out at the private plot." She
couldn't stay any longer.
It was too torturous.
Being able to look but not eat was the most painful thing in life.
The Feng family was running out of food, and the cornbread was made in rations. If there was less, people would know she was stealing some. No
matter how much she craved it, Yuan Chun couldn't steal any; it would be too embarrassing.
A big shot stealing food—how shameful!
...
The Feng family's private plot wasn't far from the village; Yuan Chun arrived in five or six minutes.
The Feng family had borrowed a manure bucket from the brigade, and the whole family was carrying manure, watering, and weeding, working hard. Yuan Chun went over, took the bucket from her mother Liu Qingqiu's shoulder, and said, "Mother, I'll carry the water. You go and rest."
The original owner's mother was one of the first educated youth sent to the countryside from the south. She was educated, cultured, and petite. In her second year in the countryside, she was rescued by Feng Lao Er after falling into the water.
The two then got married.
After marriage, the honest and dutiful Feng Lao Er doted on his wife, and Grandma Feng was a reasonable mother-in-law. Although Liu Qingqiu's life in the Feng family was a bit hard, she never suffered any grievances.
"Everyone is working, how can I rest? I'll go weed," Liu Qingqiu said, rubbing her sore shoulders, and went to her mother-in-law's side to weed.
Grandma Feng looked up and saw that it was her eldest granddaughter, and scolded, "Yuan Chun, you brat, where did you run off to play? The whole family came to work, and you were nowhere
to be seen! "