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Li Baofu has been frail since childhood, raised on a steady diet of medicine.
Afraid no one would look after him after her death, his mother hired an honest, decent man named Zhao Zhuangsheng to be her son's sworn husband.
And so the two began their life together through all four seasons in their little courtyard.
In spring, they eat refreshing shepherd's purse stir-fried in lard, fish-head tofu soup sprinkled with fennel and scallions, and rice with fermented mud crab sauce.
In summer, beneath the trees, they have crispy mud crab and cold jellyfish with a bowl of sweet potato congee. Then they take a bite of sea worm jelly mixed with lard, black vinegar, and scallions. Cicadas chirp as the evening sky fills with sunset clouds.
After Mid-Autumn, they steam rich, plump crabs, remove the shells, and reveal golden-orange crab meat. With a pot of yellow wine, autumn is right there before them.
In the bitter wind of Minor Cold, a delicious soup of winter bamboo shoots and salted pork simmers over the charcoal fire. As steam rises, pork steamed with fermented mud crab sauce fills the room with a savory fragrance, while Pu'er tea washes away the chill of winter.
[Reader's guide]
* No golden finger, political intrigue, or children. This is simply a short farming story the author wrote to relax.
* Not much happens in the way of dramatic plot twists. It's just a story of three meals a day and family life.
Theme: Work hard, live well, and earn money to support your family.
It is a very special farming novel. It does not have the protagonist who is a little bit cheated like ordinary farming novels. It only has the daily life of two ordinary people working hard together. It is very warm and down-to-earth. The deputy CP Xue Xu is also very cute, but the Jinshan couple is a little bit sad... The most important thing is that the hard work during the day is well written, and the happiness at night is also well written [Cai Dog]
Finished spreading flowers! It was clearly written about two men, but I saw a lot of women's tragedies. Like Li Duofu, it's not that she couldn't get pregnant, she was pregnant with two and miscarried in the field. After giving birth to a daughter, her mother-in-law favored her and said she was a loser. Like the sister-in-law of the Chen family, she was the one who was tortured when she couldn't give birth to a son. When she was pregnant with her son, her daughters' lives got better. A woman's confidence seems to be so easily hijacked by "can she have a son?" And "do she have brothers?" Like Shen Yu, she had to go through confinement to give birth to a daughter for her first child. She immediately became pregnant with her second child as soon as she was out of confinement, and her second daughter was immediately drowned. Like Xue Yun and Li Taotao, they are girls and they cannot survive with their biological parents. There are also Qi Shanmin and Jin Sheng. They are working very hard to reconcile their family relationships. It is obvious that life is slowly getting better and they must have a son. Son, son, I don't know what I think is my lifeblood. I don't have a royal title in my family. I have so many children and can't afford to support them. What are you asking for? The scary thing is that this situation still exists today. The ancients did not have effective contraceptive measures, so they gave birth again and again. Modern people obviously can, but they have to have children again and again just for the sake of a son. I am from the village myself, and I have heard too many things like "I gave birth to three children but not a son." "Two daughters, then one more son will make everything perfect."... I have to have this son.
From the beginning, I thought that Yang Er was not very good, and my brother-in-law was okay. I didn't expect that in the end, it turned out that he was not as good as Yang Er. No one wants to be separated by a blood-sucking daughter-in-law and a daughter. This brother-in-law is so confused that he is so confused. Fortunately, my sister is very sober.
People who are too gentle always think more about others and less about themselves. If there is an afterlife, live more for yourself.
No matter which life he is in, he is not the same person after all.
Oh my god, I cried to death after reading this chapter. I must give you a sweet side story. Don't write about modern times, just write about the mountain people being reborn before Jinsheng threw himself into the river. I'm really sad, such a gentle Jinsheng????
I saw the teacher's title written about abuse, but I didn't expect it to be Jinshan 😭
It's really incomprehensible. Five out of ten households in this place are contracted, and they are still so patriarchal. There are fewer and fewer women. Why can't the men find wives? If they have committed so many sins, even if the incense is passed down, God will not bless them.
Baofu and Zhuang Sheng gave their sister the courage to reconcile. Let's write a side story about the decline of the Chen family.
Even though I knew the real purpose of this article from the beginning, it was still quite sad.