Chapter 1526: Rise and Fall

Qin Jingru felt that she must be dreaming.

No, even in my wildest dreams, I would never have dreamed of such a beautiful and noble place.

She stopped Huaihua and Xiaodang who were about to run in. Looking at the jade-white floor tiles, she felt that she had to kneel down to enter this house.

Her heart was pounding, but she didn't dare to look anymore.

She turned off the light, closed the door, dragged Xiaodang and Sophora japonica and walked to the outhouse.

"Let's go and eat! I'll make dry food for you."

"Oh, auntie, don't eat dry food, there are delicious ones!" Xiaodang broke free from Qin Jingru's hand, ran to the chest of drawers, opened the top drawer, and took out a pack of snacks from inside.

"Daoxiang Village!" Huaihua's eyes immediately lit up when she saw the packaging box, and she hurriedly broke away from Qin Jingru and ran over.

"Sister, I want to eat! I want to eat!"

"Don't worry, just wait until I open it!" Xiaodang Meizi put the snack on the chair and was about to open it.

"Hey, hey, hey! What are you doing, kid!" Qin Jingru was startled, hurriedly stepped forward, grabbed the snack box, and shouted sternly: "Who told you to touch other people's things? What did you say when you came here? This Can things be dismantled at will?”

Xiaodang hurriedly explained: "Uncle Yuanchao asked me to dismantle it. He whispered to me that there were some snacks in the top drawer of the chest of drawers and asked me to take them out to eat. He also said that there were eggs under the chopping board and asked auntie to help us. Eat poached eggs."

"I want to eat poached eggs!" Little Sophora Flower immediately started drooling again.

"Real or false?" Qin Jingru was doubtful.

She did see Su Yi whispering to Xiao Dang, but she didn't hear anything.

"Really!" Xiao Dang stamped his feet anxiously, "I lied to you, I'm a dog!"

"I'm a dog too!" Sophora japonica said hurriedly, "Woof woof woof!"

She thought she could eat delicious food as a puppy.

"Oh, I said liars are dogs, but we didn't lie!" Xiaodang corrected his sister.

"Auntie, we didn't lie, we are not dogs yet." Huaihua listened to the advice and immediately changed her tune and said seriously.

"I'm telling you, Xiaodang, people kindly gave up their homes for us to stay. We must not steal other people's things or steal other people's things, otherwise we will be ungrateful!" Qin Jingru taught her two children, "No matter how good their things are, We absolutely can’t eat without someone else’s consent. Look at this, your eldest brother has been arrested and jailed, right? If we steal other people’s food, the police will also arrest and jail the three of us!”

"Auntie, Uncle Yuanchao really said it, I really didn't lie to you!" Xiaodang almost cried.

Qin Jingru put the snacks back into the chest of drawers, looked at them reluctantly, swallowed secretly, then closed the drawer, turned around and took out the dry food from the bag, and said: "I can't do it, if I really want to Give , then you have to tell me as an adult, what's going on with you kids? If you hear wrongly, and they come to me but not to you, where can I go to compensate them for lunch? Solid food, don’t think about anything else.”

"No, I want some snacks!"

"I want to eat Daoxiangcun!"

Both little girls got into a fuss.

Qin Jingru said with a serious face: "I won't do it if I say no! I'm going against you! Why are you acting like your mother at such a young age? I'm not taking advantage of you! You haven't even dismantled the things you bought with money, so why do you eat them? He It’s not your biological father! Just eat solid food! I tell you, don’t cry, I will slap anyone who cries!”

The two younger ones were really afraid of Qin Jingru. With tears in their eyes, they endured their grievances and suddenly did not dare to say anything.

Qin Jingru went to the chopping board to get a bowl, broke open the dried steamed buns and soaked them in the bowl. I went to place a thermos bottle again, and found that there was still boiling water in it. I immediately became happy: "Hey, I can still have something hot to eat!"

Soon, three bowls of steamed buns soaked in boiling water were freshly baked.

Although the two little girls didn't want to eat this and were still thinking about the box of snacks, they came out of the countryside early in the morning without even drinking a sip of water. They were both riding in the car and walking. They were really hungry, so they picked up the bowl and ate it. stand up.

After the three of them had eaten, Qin Jingru quickly put away the dishes and chopsticks, looked at the clean sink, hesitated, and still didn't dare to use it.

"I see there is a faucet in the yard, right?" She turned to ask Xiaodang.

"Yes, auntie, our family always uses water from the yard." Xiaodang replied.

"Come on, you all come out with me, I'm going to wash the dishes." Qin Jingru said.

"Auntie, we don't know how to wash dishes." Huaihua said hurriedly.

"You are not allowed to wash, but you have to come with me so that you don't steal other people's snacks when I go out." Qin Jingru said.

Xiaodang's face turned red and he defended: "I won't steal it! Uncle Yuanchao really told me to eat it!"

"I told you, wait until he comes back and ask him in front of me!" Qin Jingru couldn't help but hold the bowl and chopsticks in one hand, and pushed the two girls out of the door with the other.

The rural girl worked quickly. She washed the dishes and took the two little girls back to the house.

The three of them stared at each other in the house for a while. Qin Jingru played a game played by rural children and played with the two of them with great interest.

In the afternoon, Huaihua was so sleepy that she nodded, and Qin Jingru carried her into the back room to sleep.

Xiaodang rolled around on Su Yi's bed for a while and fell asleep.

After watching the two children fall asleep, Qin Jingru quietly got up. She walked around every corner of the inner and outer rooms and touched every piece of furniture.

She looked at everything in this house with almost obsession and greed, imagining the scene where she was doing housework, resting, working, and waiting for her husband to get off work.

This is her dream city life.

Eating commercial food, you no longer have to earn work points or live a hard life.

The reason why the family entrusted her to send Xiaodang and Sophora japonica back to the city this time was because the rural rations were limited. With two extra mouths, the family had to tighten their belts and save everyone's share of food for the children. Now is the spring plowing season, and adults, regardless of gender, have to work in the fields. If they share the food with their children, how will they have the strength to survive the whole day?

The second reason is that the elderly people in rural areas think too much. When Qin Huairu, the great stalker, was taken away by the police, will these two little girls be "smashed" in their hands? This is not okay. No one can bear to have two more mouths to eat for nothing. Therefore, the two little girls must be sent back to the city. If no one really cares about them, they should be given to the government and let the government take care of them. In short, they cannot be taken back again.

The reason why she was sent, Qin Jingru, was because she was young and a girl. She earned the least centimeters for her work, but she didn't eat less. Keeping her in the countryside was too cost-effective, so she was sent as a gift.

On the other hand, she also fantasizes about whether Qin Huairu's family's troubles can be solved and she can find her a husband's family in the city and let her stay in the city.

In this era, girls raised in rural areas are indeed a burden with low or even no return for a family. This is a very real problem.

When girls get married, they are not often given sky-high betrothal gifts like in later generations. These days, they are not called betrothal gifts, but betrothal gifts, which usually cost a few yuan or more than ten yuan. In Qinjia Village, the betrothal gift is usually four yuan plus two pounds of sugar.

The value of such a betrothal gift is obviously not comparable to the cost of raising a daughter for more than ten years, so marrying a daughter in rural areas is often one of the ways to reduce the family burden.

As for whether a girl will feed her mother's family back after she gets married, it is of course one of the important considerations for her mother's family when marrying a girl.

The Qin family has always had the "dream of going to the city," or in other words, most rural people now have the dream of going to the city. When Qin Huairu got married in the city, the Qin family was full of longing, hoping that after Qin Huairu established a foothold, she could help the family and bring them all to the city to eat commercial food and enjoy happiness.

But they didn't expect that after Qin Huairu entered the city, not only did she not bring any benefits to the family, but she would often ask her family to provide her with mountain goods for her mother-in-law and husband to try. The Qin family thought that they could not bear to let go of their children, so they endured the sacrifice, but Unexpectedly, Qin Huairu died soon and the man became a widow. She had to raise her mother-in-law and raise three children by herself, and her life was very difficult.

After being "harvested" by Qin Huairu several times, the relationship between the Qin family and Qin Huairu began to become very tense. Later, when nothing could be harvested, Qin Huairu rarely returned to her parents' home. This time it was still sometimes I went back for the first time in two years.

The dream of entering the city was shattered by Qin Huairu, but he did not give up on Qin Jingru. One of the two most charming girls in the old Qin family was dead, but there was another one waiting to bloom, so they put their hope of changing their destiny in Qin Jingru.

It can be said seriously that Qin Jingru's visit to the city also carries the hopes of the whole family.

For Qin Jingru herself, her first task is not to take care of her two nieces, but to find a suitable husband for herself.

She thought she had found it.

At around five o'clock in the afternoon, Qin Jingru, who was lying on the table with her chin in her hands and fantasizing, was awakened by the sound of the door opening. She jumped up like a frightened rabbit. She thought that the person who came in would be the person she had fantasized about all afternoon, but she didn't. I thought it was a woman.

A tall and fair woman.

Qin Jingru's heart began to sink.

A woman who came in casually, what is her relationship with Su Yuanchao?

Yu Li looked at Qin Jingru in surprise and asked, "Who are you? Why are you here?"

She sounded like a hostess.

Disappointment, grievance, depression, jealousy, anger...

It's hard to describe Qin Jingru's current mood. She stood up in a panic and answered almost instinctively: "I, I am Xiaodang and Huaihua's aunt. I, I was asked to be here by the uncle, and the two children are sleeping in it."

Her words were incoherent, and she didn't even know what she was going to say.

Yu Li looked at Qin Jingru, smiled and said, "Huairu's sister? Is it the kiss or the cousin?"

"My dad is her third uncle." Qin Jingru said.

Yu Li nodded: "Okay, you sit down, I will clean up the house for Yuan Chao and prepare to cook for him."

"Oh..." Qin Jingru responded vaguely, her heart sinking to the bottom.

Only her mother-in-law cooks for her men, and all her fantasies for the afternoon were shattered.

Qin Jingru sat blankly at the table, watching Yu Li take a piece of honeycomb briquettes with a pair of tongs and go to the other side, and soon came back with a piece of red-hot coal.

She watched Yu Li boil water and start wiping the chopping board and noodles. Then she stood up in shock and asked, "How can I help?"

"It's okay, just sit down." Yu Li said without turning around.

"Oh..." Qin Jingru sat down blankly.

But he quickly stood up again and walked quickly into the back room.

Qin Jingru woke up Xiaodang and said that the master of the house was back.

The stunned Xiaodang immediately woke up when she heard this, and said in surprise: "Is it Uncle Yuanchao? That's great!" She almost couldn't wait to put on her shoes and ran out of the outhouse. When she saw it was Yu Li, she suddenly became disappointed: " It's Aunt Yuli, I thought it was my Uncle Yuanchao."

Yu Li said with a smile: "Then you are looking forward to the return of your uncle who aided the imperial court? Did he promise you something delicious?"

"Uncle Yuanchao asked me to eat the snacks in the drawer, but my aunt refused to let me!" Xiaodang pouted.

Qin Jingru stood at the door and hurriedly explained in embarrassment: "Don't take the child's words seriously. I really didn't hear your man say that. Maybe the child heard it wrong."

Yu Li was startled and said: "My man?"

"We met him in the factory today. I didn't hear what he said to Xiaodang." Qin Jingru continued to explain.

"In the factory?" Yu Li was stunned, but she quickly realized, "Are you talking about aiding Korea?"

"Ang..." This time it was Qin Jingru's turn to be confused, otherwise who could I say?

"Uncle Yuan Chao is not Aunt Yu Li's man. Auntie, you are mistaken!" Xiao Dang heard something was wrong and covered his mouth and laughed.

"Ah?" Qin Jingru felt that the blood all over her body was drawn to her brain instantly. She was surprised and happy, and she hurriedly asked in disbelief: "No? Xiaodang, this eldest sister is not from this house? She is not the same as the Su Yuanchao we met. "Kouzi?"

"Aunt Yu Li and Uncle Cheng are the couple. They live across the street." Xiao Dang explained.

"Then why did you..." Qin Jingru still couldn't believe it, pointing to Yu Lizhen's hand that was making noodles, "Why did you come to this house to cook?"

Qin Jingru didn't have much money, and with such surprise on her face, even a fool could guess her thoughts.

Yu Li's expression turned cold.

"Yuanchao lives alone and has no one to take care of him. I come over to clean up the house and cook for him when I have nothing to do." Yu Li said calmly.

Qin Jingru's eyes widened and she said, "Sister, if you don't cook for your own man, you come to cook for other men? Is this appropriate?"

Yu Li's expression showed displeasure: "What does it have to do with you whether it's suitable or not?"

"This...isn't..." Qin Jingru was a little confused and didn't know how to answer for a moment. Seeing that Yu Li didn't want to talk to her and turned around, she blurted out: "Then aren't you so shameless that you broke your shoes?"

Bang!

Yu Li slammed the basin, turned around and shouted with cold stars in front of her eyes: "Who do you think is shameless? People who came to Yuan Dynasty paid me to cook for him, why am I so shameless? You little girl can't do anything. I don’t know, you talk nonsense when you open your mouth, haven’t your adults taught you how to behave and speak?”

"No, don't worry!" Qin Jingru was dumbfounded, "I just said that, why do you take it seriously..."

"You can't speak wisely? Is it okay for you to break shoes?" Yu Li was furious, "How can you, a little girl, do this? Who do you think you are?"