Farmer's eldest sister becomes rich

Chapter 244 Severe Water Shortage

Wrap thin bamboo strips around the bamboo pole to form circles the size of eggs.

When making the silkworm frame, you cannot be too fast and you must not let go. Once you let go, the thin bamboo strips will fall apart and all your efforts will be wasted.

Ba Shi, who was lying on the ground with his tongue sticking out, suddenly stood up and called out to An Yue twice.

An Yue squatted down, touched Ba Shi's head, and asked, "Ba Shi, what's wrong?"

Ba Shi quickly ran to the gate of the yard and shouted outside.

An Yue asked doubtfully: "Do you want me to go out?"

Eighty wagged his tail and barked twice.

dong dong dong.

Sure enough, someone knocked on the door immediately.

It turned out that Ba Shi heard some noise outside the gate.

An Yue was still wrapped around the thin bamboo strips and asked loudly, "Who is it?"

……

No one answered.

At this time, Eighty was shouting even louder than before.

dong dong dong.

There were three more knocks on the door.

An Yue's hands moved faster and she asked again, "Who is it? Speak!"

"Yueyue, it's me." A voice finally came from outside the door.

An Yue carefully identified the voice of the person who came and found out it was her aunt Zhang.

"What's the matter?" An Yue asked loudly to Zhang outside the door.

"Yueyue, auntie wants to ask you something."

"Tell me about it." The silkworm rack in An Yue's hand is almost completed.

After a few breaths, no sound was heard and An Yue thought that Zhang had left.

Zhang suddenly said, "Yueyue, your elder brother, uncle, and grandfather have all been exiled. We three generations of mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are living in misery at home."

"Yes! We are the ones who have let you and your brother down and treated you so badly. Now, we are reflecting on ourselves and feeling ashamed."

After An Yue finished making the silkworm rack in her hand, she placed it aside, then she stood up and slowly walked towards the door.

When they reached the front door, An Yue did not open it.

An Yue stood behind the gate of the courtyard and said to Zhang outside the gate: "Aunt, we should stop pretending to be affectionate with each other. Just tell me what you want to say."

"Yueyue, it has been dry for several months now. All the villagers have dug deep wells together, but there are no men in my family, and they are unwilling to join us in digging deep wells."

"There has been no water in the paddy fields these days. We have been looking for water for three days and haven't found a drop of water. We are at our wits' end, so we came to you."

An Yue immediately replied: "Why are you looking for me? Shouldn't you look for the village chief if you have any difficulties?"

"We have been fetching water from the village chief's house for many days for the water we eat and drink."

"We went there again yesterday, and the village chief said that the whole village is short of water. He said he couldn't help us all the time, and that he also had to help several other families in need in the village."

An Yue no longer had the patience to listen to her sad story, so she asked directly, "So what? Why did Auntie come to my place today?"

"Yueyue, my aunt came here today and just wanted you to give us some water to cook rice and porridge." Zhang said and began to cry.

An Yue didn't say anything, but was just thinking about how to deal with this matter.

Thinking about their various expressions when she had just traveled through time, An Yue didn't want to waste any more words with her.

But then I remembered what my brother Anqing said to me when he was taken away.

Now that we are facing a natural drought, life in the village for the three of them, the mother-in-law and the daughter-in-law, is really not easy.

Zhang sobbed again and said, "Yueyue, your sister-in-law is pregnant now. She has severe morning sickness and vomits every day. It is very difficult for her to eat. She is bedridden every day and can only drink rice porridge or water to survive."

"Seeing the villagers digging wells together, your grandmother and I also tried to dig a well. But our bodies were weaker than ours, and we dug three feet deep but didn't find a drop of water."

After Zhang finished speaking, she covered her face with her hands and began to cry bitterly.

After hearing this, An Yue felt as if her heart was scratched by a cat. She was angry and hateful.

An Yue said coldly to Zhang outside the gate: "We don't have any extra water at home, please leave!"

When Zhang heard An Yue's decisive refusal, her hope was instantly shattered, and her sobs became louder.

An Yue watched through the crack in the door as her aunt slowly moved away, crying...

An Yue clenched her fists, feeling mixed emotions.

For An Yue, the fate they have now ended up like this is clearly revenge.

But for some reason, I still felt unhappy.

I just heard her say that my sister-in-law is suffering from severe morning sickness, has difficulty eating, and is bedridden.

An Yue thought to herself that Brother An Qing had always been nice to her and her siblings.

In addition, when he was taken away, he specifically told An Yue to help them appropriately.

But at this moment, the past came to my mind again, when the brother and sister were helpless and were ruthlessly kicked out of the house by their grandparents.

She clearly remembered that her uncle and aunt gave her and her brother two white flour steamed buns.

No matter what their mentality was at the time, it was indeed because of the two white flour buns to fill their stomachs that the brother and sister did not go hungry on the way to their grandfather's house.

An Yue thought about it, closed her eyes and took a deep breath, feeling uneasy.

So she opened the door and ran after him.

He called out to Zhang from afar, "Auntie..."

When Zhang heard An Yue's voice, she stopped moving forward immediately.

She turned around quickly and looked at An Yue running towards her. She seemed to see hope again and her eyes were rekindled.

An Yue ran to Zhang, put her hands on her waist, and breathed heavily.

She said, "My aunt just said that Sister Xiu'er is suffering from severe morning sickness?"

Zhang raised her hand to wipe the tears from her face and nodded repeatedly.

"When faced with this kind of drought, everyone in the village and outside is in danger."

"I can't help you and grandma. But Sister Xiu'er is in this condition now, and Brother Anqing is not at home. Please send her to me first and help take care of her!"

When Zhang heard what An Yue said, her tears immediately turned into a smile.

She thanked excitedly: "Okay, okay, thank you Yueyue, thank you..."

An Yue scratched her head and said calmly: "Go!"

"Okay, okay, I'll go right away!" Zhang responded, and ran towards their straw hut with a smile.

My aunt-in-law Zhang used to walk with steps as heavy as rocks.

At this moment, she was running as light as a swallow.

An Yue didn't know whether what she did was right or wrong.

Looking at the back of her aunt-in-law Zhang as she walked away, An Yue turned around and walked back.

She sighed and said to herself, "Alas... the situation you are in today is entirely your own fault."

An Yue walked into the yard, closed the gate, and continued to wind the cocoon frame.

——Half a quarter of an hour later.

Zhang helped Meng Xiu'er to the gate of Anyue's courtyard.

Zhang shouted loudly: "Yueyue, open the door..."