Volume 1: Reborn in the 1980s, selling lunch boxes with my mother Chapter 6 The first lunch box is being delivered
Wang Chunmei was shocked when she saw her daughter-in-law staring at her with red eyes.
She, the eldest daughter-in-law, has always been honest and obedient. How come she suddenly became like a different person?
Hu Qiongfang is indeed honest and obedient, but this kind of person also has a good advantage, that is, once she decides to do something, she will stick to it to the end.
Her daughter had just fainted in the yard due to anemia. She didn't want to think about anything else now. She just wanted to find something nutritious to cook for her daughter.
It just so happens that my mother-in-law hasn’t gone to bed yet.
Hu Qiongfang asked her mother-in-law for something without hesitation.
"Mom, I remember you went to the street to buy dates and brown sugar for your uncle last time. Isn't your uncle not back yet? Give some to Tiantian first."
"Why? I bought that for my second child!"
"Then give me the money! I'll go to the street to buy it myself tomorrow morning!" Hu Qiongfang did not give in.
It didn't matter how hard she suffered, but her daughter fainted due to anemia, which was obviously caused by malnutrition.
Hu Qiongfang knew that her mother-in-law had money and a lot of good things hidden in the house. She saved them little by little, waiting for her brother-in-law to come back during the holidays so that she could take them to school to eat.
She could pretend not to see all this.
But the mother-in-law spent the money they earned to let her brother-in-law eat lavishly, while her own daughter suffered from anemia due to hunger!
Wang Chunmei's partiality finally touched Hu Qiongfang's bottom line.
Jiang Tian never expected that her mother, who usually looked like a punching bag, could be so terrifying when she exploded.
She lay on the bed and pretended to be weak for a while, but then she heard her mother yelling at the old woman like a firecracker -
"I've had enough! You want to starve my daughter to death? Fine! I'll go buy some rat poison tomorrow and poison your son to death! Both of them!"
"Either you give me money! Or you get me something!"
"Otherwise we'll split up!"
Oh shit!
Is this still her biological mother who always accepts everything?
Wang Chunmei was almost scared to death by her daughter-in-law who suddenly went crazy.
No one expected that Hu Qiongfang, who was usually quiet, would become like a majestic tigress when she got angry!
He actually thought of buying rat poison and poisoning both of the old woman's sons?
Once an honest person gets ruthless, even desperate criminals will be afraid of him.
What's more, Wang Chunmei is a bully who only bullies the weak and fears the strong!
When Wang Chunmei heard that Hu Qiongfang was going to buy rat poison, she was afraid that this crazy woman would really do it. She actually took a gourd ladle from her room and filled it half with dates, and took a small enamel water pot and filled it with brown sugar.
After thinking for a while, he rummaged around in his pocket, took out two dollars and handed them to Hu Qiongfang.
With a look of pain on his face, he said, "Take it! Here are two dollars. Go to the market tomorrow and buy two pounds of pork liver. Stew it for this girl to nourish her."
Hu Qiongfang didn't answer.
"Mom, give me ten yuan. I'm going to the health center to buy a bottle of blood-replenishing tablets for Tiantian tomorrow."
When Wang Chunmei heard this, she almost jumped up.
"What kind of family buys a whole bottle at a time?"
"Don't health stations sell them separately?"
There are many people suffering from anemia in rural areas these days. The health stations sell special blood-replenishing tablets. A bottle costs 8.5 yuan and contains 100 tablets, which can be used for a long time.
However, some people are reluctant to buy such expensive blood-enriching tablets.
Therefore, the health station would split the whole bottle of blood-enriching tablets and sell them separately, with a pack of ten tablets for only 85 cents.
Villagers usually buy this kind of bulk. Who would be willing to buy a whole bottle?
She was even reluctant to buy blood-enriching tablets for her youngest son.
Wang Chunmei was about to start scolding, but when she saw Hu Qiongfang's expressionless face, she couldn't help feeling a little scared.
After struggling for a long time, I saw Old Mrs. Wang reaching her hand into her waistband with great heartache.
Then he fished out a handful of one- and two-dollar bills from a sewn inner pocket.
He counted three times before counting out ten yuan, and handed it to Hu Qiongfang with a painful look on his face.
Perhaps because she was afraid that her daughter-in-law would ask her for something again, Wang Chunmei didn't dare to act like a troublemaker anymore.
He covered his head and said that he had a headache because of the wind. While crying , he ran back to the room and went to sleep.
The room fell silent.
Through the thin summer quilt, Jiang Tian heard the footsteps of her mother approaching. A moment later, a small and rough hand patted her through the summer quilt.
"Don't get up. Mom will make you some red date and egg soup."
Jiang Tian's tears suddenly gushed out.
Hu Qiongfang went out for a while and came back with a large steaming bowl.
The bowl contained bright red brown sugar water with chopped red dates floating in it and three white, soft-boiled eggs.
"Eat, and go to bed early after eating. Anemia requires eating good food and getting more sleep."
Hu Qiongfang caressed her daughter's little head lovingly, her voice full of nasal intensity.
"Yes! Mom, bring me a bowl. I can't finish all this. Let's share it."
In her previous life, Hu Qiongfang died of illness early. It is hard to say whether it was not because of long-term malnutrition. Coupled with the tragic deaths of her husband and son, she completely lost the will to live under the successive blows.
In this life, she must not let her mother leave her at such a young age!
Knowing that Hu Qiongfang would definitely refuse, Jiang Tian immediately added: "If you don't want to eat, then I won't eat either."
Hu Qiongfang had no choice but to go to the kitchen and get a small bowl. She took out the smallest soft-boiled egg from the large bowl that was as big as Jiang Tian's head, scooped half a bowl of brown sugar water, and pushed the rest in front of her daughter.
“Eat it!”
"Hey~" Jiang Tian drank a big sip of brown sugar water with relish.
At that time, there was no technology or hard work involved in making brown sugar, and since sugarcane was also grown locally, brown sugar was made from sugarcane juice, and the boiled brown sugar water was particularly delicious.
She ate a soft-boiled egg, half a bowl of brown sugar water, and some red dates, leaving half a bowl. Jiang Tian said she had eaten too much in the evening and couldn't drink it anymore, so in the end it all went to Jiang Cheng, who had just returned from doing homework at his classmate's house.
Early the next morning, Jiang Tian took Hu Qiongfang to collect the eel fishing hooks.
Hu Qiongfang looked embarrassed: "The clothes at home have not been washed, and the pigs have not been fed. If they all leave, who will do these chores?"
Hu Qiongfang is a hard-working person. She has elderly and young people in her family. She gets up before dawn almost every morning, 365 days a year, to boil water and then cook porridge for the whole family to eat in the morning.
Then I feed the pigs and chickens, sweep the floor, wipe the table, and do the laundry. After finishing the housework, I have to go to work in the fields.
Jiang Tian just doesn't want her mother to work hard for the family, so she wants to ask her to accompany her to collect eels, okay?
Seeing that Hu Qiongfang was still thinking about all these things at home, Jiang Tian frowned and looked at her mother pitifully——
"Mom, please accompany me to collect the eels first. There are snakes in the fields and I'm afraid of them."
When Hu Qiongfang heard the word "snake", his hair stood up.
My daughter is like her, she is extremely afraid of snakes. In fact, if she had no other choice, she would not even dare to catch eels, which look very similar to snakes.
She, an adult, was scared, let alone a daughter?
Hu Qiongfang went out with her daughter to collect eels.
As usual, Wang Chunmei slept until the sun was high in the sky. She slowly got up when she thought her daughter-in-law had finished her work.
Unexpectedly, as soon as I opened the door, I was knocked to the ground by a big pig that jumped out of the pigsty out of hunger.
All she heard was a scream of "Ah!", and the starving pig, weighing more than 200 pounds, stepped on Wang Chunmei.
The old woman only had time to scream before she rolled her eyes and fainted from the pain.
