Chapter 25.2

Translated by Aviana

After eating breakfast, the men would usually go to the fields to weed, fertilize and water the crops. The harvest season was just around the corner. At this time, the crops ought to be carefully watched over.

The Yang family actually didn’t own much land. However, they were also not few; roughly about ten mu. This she came to know when having a casual conversion with Yang Tiezhu after marriage. The men in the family do these sorts of stuff; as such, the womenfolk of the family need not go into the fields.

亩 (mǔ): classifier for fields, one unit area is equal to one-fifteenth of a hectare.

The only exception to this was Yao-shi. After finishing her work, she would always go into the fields to lend a hand.

During the first three days, when Lin Qingwan was a new wife, she always saw Yao-shi going to the fields with a hoe on her shoulder. Wang-shi and He-shi were both habituated to this.

She was unable to understand why Yao-shi would do all this work. Is she by nature hardworking, or is there some other reason? But then again, she thought, for everything, there is always a reason.

At home, the xifus do a lot more than just cooking. They not only had to do all the cooking, but they also had to feed the pigs and hens and also do a few other house chores such as picking beans, drying vegetables, and whatnot. As such, soon after men walked out, Lin Qingwan began to prepare all the stuff for the housework with the help of Yao-shi.

He-shi stood by the main room door with the support of doorframe and looked out.

“To feed the pigs, also you need two people, Yao-shi today you seem to be very idle?” He-shi admonished with a dark face, “If you are too idle, then go to the fields!”

Yao-shi lowered her head and explained in a low voice, “As it’s second sao’s first day working here and is not aware of the rules of the family, second brother had asked me to help her so as to not to make any mistake and anger mother. “

He-shi snorted, and without speaking, turned around before walking into the house.

Wang-shi stood by the doorway cracking melon seeds, watching both of them with amusement of taking joy in other’s misfortunes.

Without paying any heed to Wang-shi, Lin Qingwan looked at Yao-shi worriedly, and whispered to her, “Sorry third dimei, I have implicated you.”

Yao-shi appeased Lin Qingwan and smiled, “It’s okay, I’m used to it. “

Wang-shi spat out the melon shell in her mouth, snorted, twisted her hips, and went inside the room.

Lin Qingwan and Yao-shi together lifted the pig feed and carried it to the pigsty in the backyard to feed the pigs.

After hesitating for half a day, Lin Qingwan asked in a low voice, “Third dimei, popo… does she… do this often to you?”

Although she hadn’t been here for long, she can also see that He-shi doesn’t give Yao-shi a good face; her nose is not nose, and her face is not face. On the contrary, even when Wang-shi uses all sorts of excuses when He-shi asks her to do something, He-shi doesn’t treat her in this sort of manner.

Yao-shi stopped scooping the pig feed into the pig trough, hemmed and hawed as she said, “Popo…she’s…comparatively stricter with me.”

After a while, she probably also thought that her words might not be enough, so she slowly started telling in a low voice, “Popo… she… dislikes… dislikes me because I cannot lay eggs. “The voice was very small and very low; however, Lin Qingwan was still able to hear her choke in the middle.

Lay eggs?

Lin Qingwan was in a daze for half a day, before she was able to react. Does this mean that Yao-shi was unable to give birth to children?

Suddenly she somewhat realized as she remembered that Yao-shi only gave birth to two daughters. Those two little girls also seldom talk, just like her parents. Such a young age, yet they are quite sensible and almost had no sense of presence in the family.

Whereas the eldest branch had three sons.

Is this reason why Wang-shi always uses all sorts of excuses to avoid the things He-shi asks her to do? Because she has backing? Moreover, Wang-shi is always fond of pushing her work on to Yao-shi; Yao-shi, herself would also not protest, as if she didn’t have any temper always doing the work without saying anything…

Thinking as such, Lin Qingwan suddenly felt extremely uncomfortable. And could also not find any words to comfort Yao-shi . Thus she could only say, “Third dimei, don’t worry. There will always be a way.”

Valuing males and attaching less importance to female, this kind of thinking had been there since ancient times. Even in the 21st century this kind of thinking wasn’t eradicated completely, let alone in the present society.

Yao-shi lowered her and forced a smile, without saying anything.

After feeding the pigs, both of them then went to the front yard to feed the chicken.

Chicken food was quite simple, mince the wild vegetables and mix it with a few brans, that’s it.

These wild vegetables are usually dug up from outside by the Yao-shi’s two daughters, Yang Erniu and Yang Sanniu. Every day after breakfast, both of them would go outside hand-in-hand and would return each with a basket full of wild vegetables.

Thinking of Yao-shi’s two daughters, one was five years old while the other was just four years old. At such a young age, both of them knew to go out, dig wild vegetables to feed pigs and chickens. And there are also those few sons of Wang-shi, the eldest was ten years old, the second one was nine years old, and the youngest one was four years old. But they only know to play wildly outside every day.

But He-shi’s attitude was completely opposite. She would indulge them in playing every day, while towards Yang Sanniu and Yang Erniu, she was very strict.

Lin Qingwan became speechless.

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