Chapter 2 (2/2)

Back home, Wang Guiying was picking beans. Guo Xiang found a small bench and sat down. He asked Wang Guiying how to pick it and helped him pick it up.

”Never done it at home before?” Wang Guiying asked.

”Er... In the past, I was confused. I just sat in the room and couldn't do anything...” Guo Xiang smiled shyly.

”No wonder it looks so white.” Wang Guiying nodded. It seemed that she had never worked on the ground, so her skin was dazzling white, but it was really beautiful. She didn't look like a countryman at all, but like a city man.

Seeing that she is good-natured and willing to learn to do housework, Wang Guiying is still very happy. As long as she is willing to learn, she won't learn if she doesn't.

After picking beans, Wang Guiying put them on a dustpan to dry. She was ready to put them into a pickle jar to make sour beans.

Almost every family in southern Hunan can make kimchi and soak everything. Beans, peppers, radishes and garlic moss have no taste in summer. A sour radish can eat a bowl of rice.

However, few families can eat rice at this time. Almost every family eats sweet potato, either sweet potato porridge or sweet potato rice. Some even don't have rice and only eat sweet potato. Fortunately, sweet potato can top hunger, otherwise I don't know how many people will starve to death.

The place where Gu's family is located is a famous poor county. The land is not fat and the river is not wide. The mountains are full of limestone, overgrown with weeds and not even a tree.

Other places depend on mountains and rivers. There is nothing to rely on here. There is little land. One person has three or four thin fields. For example, the four members of the family have less than two mu of fields and have to pay public food. They can't eat enough every year. They would have starved to death if there were sweet potatoes.

Originally, Gu Zhennan had a better salary than other families, but a few years ago, his father was ill and owed a lot of debt. Later, he died of illness. This has just finished paying off the debt. Who knows that the Guo family has owed hundreds of yuan after being blackmailed. Even if they have a salary, they can't stand such trouble.

However, Wang Guiying is not worried, because her son is an oil worker, whose salary is twice that of ordinary workers. She can repay her debt as long as she works hard for a year or two.

But she knows that her son is very hard, the work in the oil field is dirty and tired, and she is not home all year round, otherwise she can't be so much more than others.

In the past, the Gu family was so poor that they owed a lot of debt and had younger brothers and sisters to support, so Gu Zhennan didn't get married in his twenties. Later, he became an oil worker with a salary of more than 70 yuan. The villagers didn't know how much envy. The proponents were about to break the threshold, but he was cut off by the Guo family.

The family with surplus has become heavily indebted again. Fortunately, Guo Xiang is normal now, otherwise Wang Guiying will really cry to death.

After drying the beans, Wang Guiying carried a hoe to the field behind the yard and was ready to turn over and plant some pepper seedlings. When it was hot, there would be pepper to eat.

”Mother, what are you doing?” Guo Xiang asked curiously that she had never lived in the countryside before, and everything felt very fresh.

”Dig the ground, plant some pepper seedlings, and there will be pepper in a month.” Wang Guiying said.

”I'll come!” Guo Xiang took over the hoe.

”Will you?” Wang Guiying looked at her suspiciously.

”... you teach me.” Guo Xiangxiang smiled.

Wang Guiying nodded, took the hoe and demonstrated it first. Guo Xiang understood and she came to dig.

He took the hoe and dug into the ground. A hoe dug a big pit, which frightened Wang Guiying. His daughter-in-law was very strong.

”Don't dig so deep, just... Half a palm deep.” Wang Guiying was illiterate and didn't know how to use the unit of measurement, so she compared it in her own hand.

Guo Xiang looked at her palm, about five or six centimeters long, nodded, raised his hoe and continued to dig.

After a few times, the depth became even. As soon as Wang Guiying saw it, she did a good job. Her daughter-in-law was not only not stupid but also smart. She found the treasure.