Chapter 267： Deliver meals

"Mother knows, mother will never be confused again..." Leng wailed, "Huzi, my tiger doesn't even recognize mother anymore."

She saw Huzi once before and wanted to talk to him, but Huzi didn't recognize her at all and said that his mother's name was Lu Yanru and she was not an old woman like her.

Yingbao saw that the two mothers and daughters still had something to say, so she had no choice but to lead the pony to deliver the food.

Coming to the cotton field, he shouted: "It's time to eat!"

People who were working came one after another. "Hey! It's Xiao Yingbao who's here to deliver the food today."

“Yes, I cooked fish today.”

She brought out all the dishes, including braised fish, pork and cabbage stewed, cold garlic courgette, a bucket of leek and egg soup, and a large bucket of white rice.

He also took out a pile of pottery bowls and served food to everyone.

More than a dozen hired workers gathered around, each carrying a large bowl of white rice, and squatted at the head of the field to eat.

Among these hired workers, there are also teenagers aged fourteen or fifteen. They are all children from poor families in other villages. They come to Dongchen Village with the adults to earn some money.

Not only can you make money, but you can also have two meals a day, both of which include meat dishes.

Soon, everyone ate up the large bucket of rice, leaving no vegetables at all. They even drank up the leek and egg soup.

Everyone had enough to eat and drink, walked around for a while, and continued to pull cotton stalks in the fields.

Ying Bao packed up the rice pail, put the dishes and chopsticks into the basket, and asked the pony to carry them back.

The fields are covered with all kinds of wild grasses and flowers, which in her eyes are all herbs.

Yingbao took out the small medicine **** that he had prepared long ago and started digging. He picked out some that could be used as medicine and put them into the cave.

Going to the place where Erni and Mrs. Leng met, Mrs. Leng had already left, and Erni hugged her knees and squatted on the ground crying.

Seeing Ying Bao, she wiped her tears and stood up, silently walking back.

“Yingbao, my mother is so pitiful. I want to bring her to our village.” Erni said with tears in her eyes.

Yingbao was speechless.

It's hard for her to express her opinion on this matter.

Erni added: "I want to build a hut over there in the wasteland. A bamboo shed is also fine. Let her live there and it will be convenient for me to take care of her."

Jiang Erlang also bought some wasteland, which is a bit far away from the village, and has not yet taken the time to organize it.

Yingbao turned around and asked, "If you get married, who will take care of her?"

Is it possible to let Huzi take over?

If that's the case, where will the second uncle Yanru be placed?

Erni’s tears fell, she paused for a moment and said, “Then…then I won’t get married in the future.”

Ying Bao sighed slightly and stopped talking.

Actually, if Leng didn't do it in the first place, it would have been a good idea to live with a man named Zuo.

She and the man already had two children, one of whom was a boy. For the sake of his son, Zuo Cheng could not abandon Leng.

Walking to the pond, Erni took off the rice bucket, soup bucket, bowls and chopsticks from the pony's back, and squatted by the pond to wash them.

After washing, I rinsed my face with water, and then I went home with Yingbao.

In the next few days, Erni often went out to meet Leng and gave her cloth and money.

After Mrs. Leng got the cloth, she would make clothes and shoes for Erni and Huzi, but she herself always wore rags.

Sometimes, Yingbao would see the mother and daughter sitting on the rocks in the orchard, sewing and talking. Erni would also secretly bring delicious food from home to Mrs. Leng.

Fast to October, the last batch of mushrooms this year has begun to be harvested.

The village became busy again, even Chu Chu, who had a big belly, was busy drying mushrooms.

She and her husband also built a mushroom shed next to the house and planted a lot of golden ears in it. This was the third harvest, with a total of 400 golden ears.

Dry them all, and you will probably get about ten kilograms of golden ears. If you sell them to Guanshi Zhou, you can get thirty taels of silver. Second Aunt Wang passed by Zhang Meng's house and saw Chu Chu still busy with her big belly. She smiled and asked, "Hey, she's almost full term. Please hurry up and ask her mother-in-law to come and take care of her."

Chu Chu’s husband Zhang Meng is not a local, so it is impossible for her husband’s family to take care of her during the confinement period.

Chu Chu smiled: "I can do it myself."

She has no natal family.

After my father planted mushrooms and saved a lot of money, he soon married a second wife.

The step-sister is young and was diagnosed with pregnancy last month, so how can she take care of herself.

Second Aunt Wang clicked her tongue a few times, shook her head, and went to the pond to do laundry with her basket in hand.

Zhang Meng also heard Aunt Wang's words, came out of the room, and looked at his wife worriedly, "You should ask someone to accompany you."

He goes to the martial arts training ground to teach his children how to practice martial arts every day. He is busy for several hours and cannot spare any time to take care of his wife.

And now is the most critical period. Even the Wen Po in the town said that someone must watch her, because Chu Chu is approaching her due date and may give birth anytime and anywhere.

Chu Chu shook his head: "No, Ying Bao often comes to check my pulse recently, and everything will be fine."

Ying Bao did come to check her pulse every day, in the morning and afternoon.

Seeing that she had a bad appetite, I brought her some juice.

So Chu Chu was not worried about what would happen to her.

On this day, as soon as Yingbao gave Chu Chu the fetal sound, she heard someone outside shouting: "Is Chu Chu at home?"

Chu Chu quickly put on her clothes, got up and walked out of the house.

I saw several women coming outside, including a beautifully dressed girl.

Chu Chu saw the person coming clearly and frowned slightly.

Among these women were her young stepmother Xiao Sun, Chu Man's biological mother Sun Erniang, and Mrs. Chu, the wife of the Chu patriarch.

And the eldest girl, eighteen or nineteen years old, turned out to be Chu Man.

"Grandma, why are you here? Come in and sit in the house." Chu Chu asked several people to enter the house.

Mrs. Chu looked at Chu Chu with a smile, and asked with a smile: "Are you about to give birth?"

“Well, the due date is the ninth day of October.” Chu Chu asked a few people to sit down, and then went to use the charcoal stove to make tea to entertain the guests.

Mrs. Chu: "Stop working, let's take a look and go back soon."

The old lady looked at the Chu Chu family and nodded: "Chu Chu, you have found a good husband. Look at this family, everything is lacking."

Sun Erniang echoed: "Yes, our Chu Chu is like chaff falling into a rice vat. We don't have to worry about food and clothing in this life. Oh, Chu Chu, you have to thank your great grandfather. If they didn't send you here, where would you be?" Can you marry so smoothly?"

Chu Chu lowered her eyes and her face gradually became colder.

Yingbao picked up the receiver and was about to go home, when the old lady asked: "Who is this girl?"

Chu Chu took Ying Bao's hand and said, "She is Jiang Cunzheng's daughter and my **** sister." Chu Chu recognized Chun Niang as her godmother and Jiang Sanlang as her godfather, so Ying Bao was naturally her **** sister.

“Oh, she turns out to be Jiang Cunzheng’s daughter. She is such a handsome girl.” Mrs. Chu smiled and touched Ying Bao’s head.

Sun Erniang also smiled and said: "That's right." She looked a little embarrassed.

Chu Chu's stepmother looked honest and dull, not good at words, and only smiled slightly at Ying Bao.

Chu Man was different. She glanced at Ying Bao unkindly, sat down on a bench, and looked at the environment of the room by herself, with disdain on her face.

Chu Chu had no reason to resist these people, and whispered to Ying Bao: "Ying Bao, don't leave yet."

Yingbao nodded and sat down on a small stool.

These people obviously came with bad intentions, and she wanted to see what they wanted to do when they came to Chu Chu.