Chapter 40 Algae Row.2

When Caixi arrived at the back of the house, he leaned into the sheep shed (this was his bedroom), grabbed a blue cloth belt from the plank, and tied it tightly around the waist. He felt much warmer.There hadn't been any sheep raised here for two full years—Xiusheng didn't have any spare money to buy lambs, but the characteristic anger of sheep was still there.Caixi likes to be clean, not only the upper plank where he sleeps is often taken out to dry, but also the muddy floor below where the sheep used to sleep is also cleaned very cleanly.But he did this not because of the remaining sheep's smell - he liked the weak sheep's smell, but because of the rotten moldy smell on the damp muddy ground.

Caixi thought about adding two bunches of dry new straw to the shop before it snowed.He left the sheep shed and walked towards the nearby haystack.He heard a humming sound coming from the haystack.He saw a pail full of water lying on the dirt near the haystack.Then he smelled a familiar smell that seemed to be faint sheep's whiff.He immediately understood who it was, and ran over, and sure enough, he saw Xiusheng's wife squatting beside the haystack. "What's wrong?" Caixi grabbed the young and strong woman, trying to pull her up.But when he saw the woman holding Pahang's big belly with both hands, he let go and asked anxiously, "Is it a stomachache? Is it about to give birth?"

The woman nodded; but shook her head again, struggling to say: "I'm afraid not,—it's still early! It's because I hurt my fetus. Just now, I brought a bucket of water, and when I mentioned this, my stomach hurts badly." Caixi looked back at the bucket of water as if he had lost his mind. "Last night, he got angry with me again," the woman said as she tried to stand up, "I scolded for a while, and I got kicked by him next to my belly. I'm afraid it hurt the tire gas. It hurt for a while. That's fine, but just now..." The woman groaned as if struggling, and squatted down against the haystack again.

But Caixi shouted angrily: "What? You keep quiet? Let him beat you? What kind of hero is he, worthy of beating you? What did he scold?" "He said, the child in my stomach is not his, he doesn't want it!" "Hmph! Fortunately, he has the face to say this! He is a man, and he can't do it by himself!" "He said that one day he would come in with a white knife and come out with a red knife. I'm afraid he will take it seriously..." Caixi smiled, "He didn't dare, he didn't have the guts." So Xiusheng's slightly swollen face that lost blood, and his arms that looked like dry sticks flashed in front of Caixi's eyes; He was convinced that such a strong woman, who was better at workmanship than similar boys, was really unworthy of this pair. There is no reason to endure the beating and scolding of the sick man's husband.

However, Caixi also understands why this woman endured her husband's abuse; she admits that she has something wrong with him, and she compensates his loss with hard work and submissiveness.But is this a good idea?Caixi was confused.He felt that he could only go on like this.After all, Xiusheng's weakness was not his own fault. Caixi sighed softly and said: "However, I can't let him kick indiscriminately. If he hurts the fetus, what should I do? Whether the child is his or mine, in the final analysis, it always crawls out of your stomach, always The seed of our family! - Well, it doesn't hurt now, does it?"

The woman nodded and wanted to stand up.However, like holding a big drum, her big belly made her movements inconvenient.Caixi grabbed her arm and pulled her. At this moment, the pungent and strong smell from the woman's body penetrated into Caixi's nose, and Caixi couldn't help but hug her tightly. Caixi carried the bucket of water into the house.