Chapter 4: Tragic Woman 4

In her previous life, on the day the original owner was arrested, Ding Chunli suffered a miscarriage due to shock and heavy bleeding, resulting in the loss of both mother and child.

At that time, the autumn harvest had just finished. Ding Chunli had been so exhausted that she had disturbed her fetal qi, which was why she miscarried after being startled, losing both her own life and her child's.

"The easy work is done by the village elders and the children. I am physically strong; how could I compete with the elderly and children for work?" Ding Chunli said.

She didn't want her father-in-law to make things difficult for the village chief, and she was also afraid of the villagers gossiping. After all, there were several pregnant women in the village; if the village chief arranged light work for her, what about the other pregnant women?

It wasn't inequality people feared, but injustice. If that happened, it would surely cause an uproar.

"Yuan Chun, take the porridge to the main hall. I'm going to the kitchen to get the steamed corn buns." Ding Chunli turned and entered the kitchen.

Yuan Chun carried the wild vegetable porridge into the main hall.

Staring at the steaming wild vegetable porridge, Yuan Chun helplessly swallowed her saliva.

How long had it been since she had tasted the flavor of grain?

By the third year of the apocalypse, grain had gone extinct.

Plants had also mutated, and they were all poisonous.

The only things edible were the meat of ability beasts.

She had gnawed on meat for seven years, and even that meat wasn't tasty; it was tough and hard, like chewing on tree bark. When swallowing it, it felt like it would scrape a layer of skin off her throat.

Heaven knows how long it had been since she had eaten grain.

But no matter how much she craved it, Yuan Chun endured.

"Sister-in-law, where has everyone gone?" Yuan Chun left the main hall reluctantly and ducked into the kitchen.

Ding Chunli was currently picking the steamed corn buns out of the pot and into a bamboo tray.

Looking at the steaming corn buns, Yuan Chun's saliva increased even more, flooding like a disaster.

"Everyone went to the private plots to water the crops. Grandma said that before the autumn harvest, we need to water the potatoes, radishes, and Chinese cabbage with manure one more time to encourage them to grow a bit more so we can eat more."

"The children also went to the fields to pull weeds."

Ding Chunli took a piece of gauze, shook it out, and covered the corn buns. "Yuan Chun, take the buns to the main hall. I'll boil some more hot water so that when Grandma and the others return, they can wash up."

While swallowing her saliva, Yuan Chun quickly delivered the buns to the main hall and then bolted out the front door. "Sister-in-law, I'm going to the private plots to help!"

She couldn't stay any longer.

It was too torturous.

Being able to see but not being able to eat was simply the most painful thing in life.

The Feng family was running low on food, and the corn buns were made in specific portions. If there were fewer, people would know she had been stealing food.

No matter how much she, Yuan Chun, craved it, she couldn't steal it. How would that affect her reputation?

Would a big shot lose face by stealing food?

...

The Feng family's private plots were not far from the village; it only took Yuan Chun five or six minutes to walk there.

The Feng family had borrowed a large manure bucket from the brigade. The whole family was busy carrying manure water, watering, and pulling weeds in a feverish atmosphere. Yuan Chun walked over, took the water bucket from her biological mother Liu Qingqiu's shoulder, and said, "Mother, let me carry the water. Go and rest your feet for a bit."

The original owner's mother was among the first batch of educated youths to go to the countryside from the south. She was knowledgeable, cultured, and possessed a delicate, petite beauty. In her second year in the countryside, she was saved from falling into the water by Feng the Second.

Because of this, the two were married.

After marriage, the honest and dutiful Feng the Second doted on his wife, and Grandma Feng was also a reasonable mother-in-law. Although life was a bit hard for Liu Qingqiu in the Feng family, she had never suffered any grievances.

"Everyone is working; how can I go and rest? I'll go pull weeds," Liu Qingqiu said, rubbing her aching shoulder as she went to join her mother-in-law in weeding.

Grandma Feng looked up, and seeing that her eldest granddaughter had arrived, she scolded, "Yuan Chun, you brat! Where were you playing just now? The whole family is out working, but there's no sign of you."

(End of Chapter)