Chapter 396: The 80s' 'Five Grains of Harvest' 5
Chapter 396: The 80s' 'Five Grains of Harvest' 5
"Gu Li, Gu Li, come out quickly, something happened in Yin Feng's family!"
Before the drowsy Gu Li could react, someone grabbed her wrist and pulled her up, stumbling forward.
Gu Li held her aching head and felt the burning pain from being scratched by the cotton stalks. She bit her lip and absorbed the memories of her original body.
She had just been playing hide-and-seek with her friends in a pile of cotton stalks. Perhaps because she hid far enough away, her friends didn't find her even when she was almost asleep.
In the countryside, children are free to roam. It is the harvest season in mid-October, and Gu Li and her peers from the same village are mostly running around happily in the fields.
After picking the cotton, the hardworking villagers pulled up the cotton stalks by the roots, tied them into bundles and hung them in the open fields to dry in the sun. These are good things for burning in the stove.
The girls, who couldn't catch fish or climb trees, spent more time climbing haystacks, crawling through straw, or looking for one or two melons left in the dead vines in the cotton fields.
"Gu Min, don't hold me, I can run by myself." Gu Li came back to her senses and shook off Gu Min's hand but failed to get rid of it.
This damn girl is so strong! She was dragged forward by Gu Min and almost fell down several times.
"Hurry up! Yinfeng's mother wants to beat Yinfeng to death. She's chasing her with a kitchen knife!"
"what?"
"What? Yubo, Dandan and Xiaoyun are all gone, but you are the only one who hid so far away. You didn't show up despite all the noise, so I am the only one who came out to look for you!"
Gu Li:-----
"What's going on?"
Wasn't Gu Yinfeng also playing hide-and-seek with them? Why was she suddenly being chased by her own mother with a kitchen knife?
Gu Min didn't even turn his head and explained the whole story in a few words.
In fact, the children in the village can only do half the work, and they rarely have the opportunity to go out and play openly.
In fact, the work in the fields in the village has basically been completed. The adults in the family are now busy with breeding and sowing, which gives the children time to run happily in the fields.
Usually they also have to help with farm work.
Pick up fallen wheat ears in the fields, pick cotton in the cotton fields, move straw stalks, etc.
Gu Yinfeng didn't want to play with them today. She said her mother wanted her to stay at home and wind cotton ropes. Everyone persuaded her that it would not be too late to play for a while before going back to work.
The busy farming season is exhausting, not only the adults are tired, but the children are also tired.
Almost every household in the village has taken on the task of winding cotton ropes, but during the busy farming season, the manufacturers will not push them too hard, so they can just play for a while, as it doesn't matter a moment.
Besides, tomorrow is Monday, so what’s wrong with playing for a while?
Gu Yinfeng couldn't resist the persuasion of her friends and went down the ridge to play with them.
It wasn't long before Gu Yinfeng's mother came out and shouted at Yinfeng in a loud voice, calling her a lazy bitch, a money-loser, and a cheap seller. She shouted all the way from the doorstep to the field. As soon as Yinfeng appeared, her mother grabbed her hair and dragged her home, scaring her friends so much that they ran out from all the hiding corners.
In the 1990s, rural people generally did not receive much education and their quality was just so-so. It was normal for them to swear when they got angry, but people like Gu Yinfeng's mother were indeed rare.
Regardless of his daughter's face and scalp, he grabbed Gu Yinfeng's hair and dragged her on the ground.
Gu Yinfeng was dragged back home by her mother like that.
Just as the friends were still talking, Gu Yinfeng's mother ran out again with a kitchen knife in her hand, cursing Gu Yinfeng viciously and shouting at her to come out, otherwise she would chop off her legs.
It turned out that not long after Gu Yinfeng was pulled back by her mother, she escaped.
Gu Yinfeng's mother's curses echoed throughout the village but she couldn't find anyone, so she went back cursing.
Gu Li followed Gu Min to where the friends gathered, but Gu Yinfeng had not been found yet.
Gu Yubo said: "I saw Yinfeng and her mother go back home, and her mother beat her with a cotton stick. She beat her really hard!"
Gu Yubo's house was right next to Gu Yinfeng's. She pretended to go home and passed by the gate of Gu Yinfeng's house. She saw Gu Yinfeng jumping around in the yard because of being beaten by her mother.
The branches of the cotton stalk are numerous and hard. Gu Li accidentally brushed against it just now and left several bloody marks on her face, let alone using the stalk to hit someone.
Gu Li raised her hand and touched the painful spot on her cheek, and couldn't help but take a breath for Gu Yinfeng.
Gu Dandan rubbed the non-existent goose bumps on her arms and said in disbelief: "Is Yinfeng her mother's biological daughter? Why was she beaten so hard?" It hurts so much just to hear that.
Gu Li also wanted to know this question.
Don’t say that there are no perfect parents in the world.
Don't be too confident.
All I can say is that the world is so big that there are all kinds of strange things.
Gu Yubo said pertinently: "It's a pity that Yinfeng is indeed her mother's biological daughter. Her mother asked a midwife to give birth to her at home. There is absolutely no possibility that she was taken away by mistake in the hospital."
It was obvious that she had wondered this question before, but the answer was not satisfactory.
"Then why is her mother more ruthless than her stepmother?"
Indeed, the stepmother knew to avoid being seen, but Yinfeng's mother didn't care at all when she beat and scolded her daughter, treating her daughter as her enemy.
And it's impossible to blame her.
It is natural for parents to educate their children. Who has the right to interfere in other people's homes?
A simple statement like "a good son is born under the stick" can make someone angry.
"I know something about this." After getting the attention of all the friends present, Gu Min raised her eyebrows, stretched her neck, lowered her voice, and talked as she walked, like the old ladies gossiping in the village.
"Yinfeng's father is eleven years older than her mother. Did you know that?"
Everyone shook their heads. They only knew that Yinfeng's father was very honest, so honest that he was a little dull, just like an old ox. He went to work in the fields before dawn, rode a tricycle to the city during the day, and came back at night to continue working in the fields.
Yinfeng's father is very busy, and the girls can only see him when they visit him during the Chinese New Year.
Several girls, holding the non-existent melons in their hands, followed the mysterious Gu Min to kick down a few bundles of straw, and sat down in a circle, ready to eat the melons.
Gu Yinfeng's grandmother's family is from another place and is very poor. They are so poor that the family can only afford one set of cotton clothes in winter.
After the reform and opening up, Gu Yinfeng's aunt followed the villagers to make a living and finally married into a carpenter's family in Gujia Village.
Then her aunt introduced her younger sister, Gu Yinfeng's mother, to marry in Gujia Village, and the two sisters married the two brothers in Gujia Village.
"I heard from my grandmother that Yinfeng's mother was originally unwilling to marry Yinfeng's father. She originally had a boyfriend in her hometown, but Yinfeng's father offered a large amount of money for the bride price, so Yinfeng's mother's family decided to marry her to our village."
Married to an old man who was eleven years older than her.
NFBE