Chapter 519 - 517 Starving Fiercely
Wang Yongzhu gave her a cold glance, "Since you’ve said it yourself, being the Wang Family’s daughter-in-law and carrying a child, how could we let you work? I’ve watched with a cold eye, you can’t even wash radishes cleanly, it seems you didn’t do any work at the Sun Family either. We can’t bear the responsibility if you come to work for our Wang Family and something happens, wouldn’t people say it’s our Wang Family’s fault? I think you’d better—"
"Auntie! Auntie, I’m fine! My pregnancy isn’t even showing yet! Besides, we peasant women are not so delicate, what’s a pregnancy? It won’t hinder my work, I’ll go wash them now, I’ll wash them now—" Sun Shitou’s wife hurried back to the well, drawing water and starting to wash again.
Wang Yongzhu also knew that what Sun Shitou’s wife said was the reality for the vast majority of peasant women.
Peasant women still worked while pregnant, some even gave birth in the fields, and others carried water to the fields with big bellies.
After giving birth, few were able to rest for a full month, basically, if a woman could stay on the Kang for seven days, her in-laws were considered generous.
Even if she disliked the people of the Sun Family, she couldn’t bring herself to make a pregnant woman squat down to wash radishes. However, if she showed even the slightest hint of this thinking, it’s likely that Sun Shitou’s wife would take advantage of it and cause trouble.
Therefore, she could only endure it reluctantly, paying extra attention so that if anything really happened, she could protect her immediately.
Sun Shitou’s wife, oblivious to this, just felt that Wang Yongzhu was so annoying, singling her out when there were so many others, making it impossible for her to slack off.
She had no choice but to wash while muttering under her breath, "Pah! What’s so great about her, just because she has some stinking silver, she thinks herself a fine lady? She’s just a daughter raised by a stepmother, trying to act superior in front of me. If it weren’t for the chance to eat some meat at your house and scrounge some silver, not even an eight-bearer palanquin could get me to come to your place..."