Chapter 45: No one can reduce you to dust, except yourself

Huang Fengying came to her own vegetable field with a bucket on her shoulder and directed the three children to pull weeds.

“Pull them out cleanly, or your grandma will come and see if you haven’t pulled them out cleanly. You won’t get lunch.”

After saying that, she walked carefully on the ridge of the field with her big belly.

The porridge that the children had last night was watery and there wasn’t much rice and sweet potatoes. In the morning, they didn’t even have time to drink a sip of rice soup before they were driven to the field to work by Hu Yindi.

Now they were so hungry that they had no strength in their bodies, but they didn’t dare to complain. As soon as they arrived at the vegetable field, they pulled weeds skillfully.

They were afraid that if they didn’t pull them out cleanly, they really wouldn’t be able to have lunch later.

The summer sun was a bit scorching even in the morning. Several of them didn’t wear hats, and soon they were dizzy and dazzled by the sun.

The youngest, San Ya, was only two and a half years old, but she could already tell what was a vegetable and what was a weed.

She worked well.

Soon, Huang Fengying came back carrying two buckets of water.

The huge belly blocked her view. She couldn’t see the road under her feet at all. Every step was very difficult.

But when she thought of the baby in her belly, she was full of energy.

This child’s reaction was different from the older ones. It must be a son.

As long as she gave birth to a son, everything would be better.

With this belief, Huang Fengying came to the sweet potato field step by step.

She had watered the vegetable field yesterday afternoon, but it was late and there was no time to water the sweet potatoes. She could only come here to water them now.

The sweet potatoes can be dug in a month. It is not necessary to water them frequently. However, the weather has been a bit dry recently, and the sun is strong, so they need to be watered every few days.

After arriving at the sweet potato field, Huang Fengying carefully put down the bucket.

There was a slight pain in her stomach, but she didn’t dare to rest. She picked up the watering can and poured water on the sweet potatoes.

With that skilled posture, how could you tell that she had never been to the field before she got married?

After watering two buckets, Huang Fengying went to fetch water again.

After fetching water three times in a row, only half of the sweet potato field was watered.

Just as they were about to pick the fourth basket, Daya’s voice came from the side.

“Mom… I… We have finished pulling the grasshoppers. Can we go catch some grasshoppers and roast them?”

Most of the time, they were not full, so they could only find ways on their own.

Grasshoppers in the fields, fish, shrimps and crabs in the water were all food for them to fill their stomachs.

However, they always went to find them secretly and did not dare to tell Huang Fengying.

Today, they were really too hungry to bear it, so they came to ask in a low voice.

“Eat, eat, eat! You only know how to eat, why don’t you eat yourself to death? Useless things!”

Huang Fengying’s stomach was uncomfortable to begin with, and she was furious when she heard Daya’s words!

The hideous look immediately scared the three children and made them shudder.

San Ya shrank directly behind her eldest sister, fearing that she would be beaten up if she was not careful!

“Help me carry water after you have pulled the grass. No one can escape until the sweet potato field is watered.”

As she said that, she stuffed the bucket directly into Daya’s hands.

Daya is already seven years old this year, but she is obviously shorter than her peers.

Carrying a huge bucket in one hand, she didn’t dare to say anything, and went to the ditch to fetch water obediently.

Erya lowered her head, her whole body was wooden, as if she was a puppet without a soul. When her sister walked, she followed.

San Ya didn’t know what happened, and she just caught up with her two sisters by instinct.

Behind her, Huang Fengying touched her bulging belly, curled her lips and cursed.

“None of them is useful.”

Lin Wanshu, who was turning the soil not far away, saw this scene and felt an indescribable sense of powerlessness in her heart.

In this era of male chauvinism, there are more than thousands of girls like them?

Even she herself tried her best to climb out of such a quagmire, didn’t she sigh, retracted her gaze, and continued to dig her own land.

After a long time, Daya came back staggeringly with two and a half buckets of water.

She was not tall, and the buckets almost hung to the ground.

Occasionally, the bucket would trip over the grass on the ground, and her small body would tilt with it.

How could a seven-year-old child have any strength? But she gritted her teeth and carried the water to the sweet potato field.

Huang Fengying looked at the water in the bucket, but was not very satisfied.

“I’ve raised you to this age in vain, can’t you carry more?”

After glaring at her, she took the bucket and continued to water the sweet potatoes!

Yu Fangfang couldn’t stand it anymore!

“Huang Fengying, are you still a human being? How old is she, and you ask her to carry water! If you can’t carry it, can’t you ask your mother-in-law to come? If your mother-in-law can’t carry it, won’t she wait for your husband to come back to carry it? Why are you torturing a child like this?”

With her hands on her hips, she scolded!

It’s really unreasonable!

After being scolded by Yu Fangfang, Huang Fengying, who was showing off in front of several children, suddenly froze, and her face turned the color of liver.

After a long while, she squeezed out a sentence.

“You… you don’t understand. I do this for their own good. Girls should do more work so that they can have a good family when they grow up.”

Yu Fangfang: …

Lin Wanshu: …

“What is a good family? Like you? You have to fetch water to water the sweet potatoes when you are about to give birth, and your child is so hungry that he looks like a skeleton?”

Lin Wanshu couldn’t help but sarcastically said.

These words were like a thorn, piercing Huang Fengying’s heart!

The anger “boomed” and burned her rationality.

Huang Fengying stared at Lin Wanshu angrily.

“Why do you say that to me? Just because you married a good man? Do you know how difficult it is for me?

I gave birth to three daughters, and people looked down on me and laughed at me for not being able to give birth to a penis!

Do you think I want to live like this? Do you think I don’t want to eat well and dress well for my children like you?

You don’t know anything! What qualifications do you have to point fingers at me?”

Looking at the hysterical Huang Fengying in front of her, Lin Wanshu felt ridiculous and pathetic.

How could she not know?

In her previous life, she didn’t even have a child, let alone a daughter. Every day in the Red Star Brigade, she was laughed at and looked down upon.

Liu Juhua was not a good person either.

If she hadn’t been smart, she would have been tortured to death.

But even in such a quagmire, she never gave up struggling.

In the end, she walked out of the Red Star Brigade step by step on her own.

Looking at the strong and fragile Huang Fengying in front of her, Lin Wanshu said word by word: “No one can degrade you to the dust, except yourself.” You can never rely on others for your destiny at any time.

Mountains will fall if you rely on them, and people will run away if you rely on them.

If she hadn’t given up her job today, what would happen even if she gave birth to three daughters?

With a job and income, would she still worry about not being able to support herself and her children?

Lin Wanshu didn’t say this, but Huang Fengying stood there in a daze.

Looking at the skinny children, her mind suddenly flashed back to her former glory when she was at work, and her eyes suddenly turned red.

How did she… live like this?