Riding the bullock cart was much faster, and it took less than two quarters of an hour to arrive at the door of Li Yu's house.

After Butcher He helped move the things down, he pointed to the yard about ten feet away to the west of Li Yu's house and said, "Xiaoyu, that's my home. I have a girl about your age, come and play with her. !”

Li Yu smiled and responded, "Okay, thank you, Uncle He."

Butcher He smiled heartily, "Why are the neighbors so polite?"

Li Qing heard voices at the door and ran out, "Sister, you're back! Did you buy so many things?"

Li Yu smiled and said, "I was too lazy to run away, so I bought everything I could think of." The siblings were busy moving things into the yard.

Li Yu saw Chen Yaohui and a few people helping to repair the roof and walls in the yard. Mrs. Li had already gone home.

Li Mei took the cotton from Li Yu's hand and said, "Yu'er, have you bought a mosquito net? There are a lot of mosquitoes at night."

"I bought them all." Li Yu handed the cotton and cloth to Li Mei, "Aunt, I'll wash out the pots and dishes and leave these to you."

Li Mei looked at Li Yu's neat look and nodded happily, "You put it in the house. I bought one stone of rice and two stones of millet. Aunt Chen also gave me some vegetables. You still have more money." , I went to the bamboo craftsman’s house to buy some bamboo mats and spread them on the ground to make bedding, which I can also use to sleep on.”

"Okay, you can figure it out!" Li Yu moved the things into the kitchen, took the pot off the basket, took the wooden basin and the bucket to the well to get water, and soaked the pig lungs and oil in the water. I took the iron pot and went to the kitchen.

When Liu Changmin saw Li Yu taking the pot to the kitchen, he hurriedly brought some yellow mud in and smiled gently, "Xiaoyu, leave the iron pot to my uncle to install it, in case the rim of the pot is not installed properly and smoke will come out." "

Li Yu glanced at this honest man and smiled, "Okay, I'll bother uncle."

"Uncle, I don't have the ability to cause you to suffer. I'm sorry for your siblings and your parents' entrustment." After Liu Changmin finished speaking with a red face, he started working quickly.

Seeing his self-blame, Li Yu didn't know what to say to this honest man. He turned around and went to the yard to wash the pig lungs and oil. He took the kitchen knife and cutting board to the kitchen and saw that the pot had been placed. There is also a circle of yellow mud on the bottom edge.

Li Qing came back from outside with a bundle of firewood on his back. After handing a small bundle of dry firewood to Li Yu, he looked at Li Yu and asked, "Sister, where is our rice field? I heard the uncles said that we should start planting rice fields." The rice fields are full of water."

"That's right! The water is about to be released. The two fields by the ditch at the door are ours. Come and take a look, Sister Shaohuo."

Li Yu quickly went to the courtyard gate and saw Liu Changmin draining water in the rice fields. Li Yu turned around and went back to the house and said to Li Qing: "Ah Qing, my uncle is already in the fields. Why don't you also go and see and learn from me?"

"Oh!" Li Qing added two pieces of firewood to the stove and left.

Li Yu tore off two pieces of oil skin and pressed them with a spatula, then spread the oil evenly into the hot iron pot. After the iron pot had absorbed the oil thoroughly, let it cool and then clean it and start boiling the oil.

Li Yu saw the vegetables Li Mei had brought back on the small table, including green onions, coriander, a large winter melon, a bundle of rapeseed, radish, eggplant, green beans, cowpeas and peppers.

Li Yu thought for a moment and soaked the pig's lungs in the water, then took the kitchen utensils he bought to the well, washed them, and started cooking.

Li Yu planned to steam rice and make a cowpea soup, stir-fry a green bean with rotten meat, fry a piece of pork with green pepper and salt, and stir-fry a piece of rapeseed greens. After thinking about it, he got busy quickly.

After Li Yu finished cooking and came out, the people who repaired the roof had left. Only Liu Changmin and Chen Yaohui were still using yellow mud to paste the courtyard wall. Li Yu shouted to them: "Uncle Chen, uncle, the rice is ready." Come on, come in and eat first."

Chen Yaohui shoveled a shovelful of yellow mud and put it on the wall. He turned back to look at Li Yu and said loudly: "That's it. I'll help you paste it and go back to eat."

Liu Changmin smiled cheerfully, "Brother Yaohui, the fish is ready, you can eat some right here."

"Yes! Uncle, just eat some!" Li Yu looked at Chen Yaohui and said.

After hearing this, Chen Yaohui smiled cheerfully and said: "Okay, I'm not polite. Let's try and see if the fish's dishes are delicious."

Li Yu went to the house and called Li Mei and Li Qing. They brought the tables and benches to the verandah. Li Mei looked at the cleaned yard and sighed, "The old yard was in tatters and now it looks decent again."

Chen Yaohui wiped his hands with a cloth and replied with a smile: "Yes! No matter how good the house is, there must be people living in it. It will not be damaged easily if it is popular."

Li Yu put the dishes on the table and smiled politely, "Uncle, aunt, uncle, thank you for your hard work today."

Li Mei looked at Li Yu angrily and said with a smile: "You kid, why are you so polite to your own family?"

Liu Changmin smiled honestly, "Eat, eat, look at how well the fish cooks!"

"Okay, let's not be polite. I'll start eating first." Chen Yaohui picked up the bowl, picked up a chopstick and put the fried pork with green pepper and salt into his mouth and chewed it for a few times. After swallowing, he gave a thumbs up and praised: "Fish The stir-fry is pretty good."

"Second Uncle Chen, my sister's cooking is the best." Li Qing looked at Li Mei with a smile and said.

Li Mei looked at Li Qinghuang's thin face with a distressed look on her face, "It's delicious but you're still so thin."

"The Zhang family didn't even give us enough to eat. We were so hungry that we screamed at night." Li Qing looked at Li Mei aggrievedly.

"Don't feel wronged! From now on, you can eat whatever you want at home." Li Mei put a chopstick of meat into Li Qing's bowl and comforted Li Qing softly.

Here, Zhang Defa returned to Qingshan County. Chen Zhaodi hurriedly greeted him and helped lead the cattle to the cowshed and tie them up. Zhang Defa unloaded the cattle cart with a sullen face and returned to the house without saying a word, lying down on the bed to rest.

Seeing Zhang Defa's gloomy look, Chen Zhaodi did not dare to ask, so she went to Zhang Guixiang's room quietly. Seeing Zhang Guixiang lying on the bed, sleeping with her arms stretched out, she sighed secretly: Guixiang seems to be a bit spoiled, but women have always been You are most comfortable as a girl in your mother's family. Who will pamper you when you get married? After taking care of the old, you still have to take care of the young. There is no leisure time.

Chen Zhaodi sighed and shook his head, picked up the dirty clothes on the ground and went to the well.

Zhang Defa was lying on the bed, thinking about the money, and felt a pain in his heart, and thought to himself: After paying back the money, I don't even have the money to buy goods. I don't know how much dowry gift Mr. Zhu's daughter will need? Damn it, it's all because that bitch Li Yu broke off the engagement honestly and went back to the village to embarrass herself in front of so many people. No, she had to find a way to get the money back.

Zhang De was so angry that he rolled over from the bed and sat up. He walked to the yard and saw Chen Zhaodi washing clothes by the well. He asked with a sullen face: "Where is Guixiang? Why don't you let her wash the clothes? Do you know how to be a mother? My daughter is so old. If you don’t teach her how to do housework, will you help her with the laundry when she gets married?”

Chen Zhaodi thought to herself: If you are angry outside, you will take it out on me when you come back. But he replied carelessly: "I didn't see Guixiang's face swollen like that, I was afraid that she would come out and let the people next door see her!"

"Forget it, forget it," Zhang Defa waved his hand impatiently, "I remember you mentioned that your cousin also escaped here, right?"

Chen Zhaodi glanced at Zhang Defa, lowered her head and rubbed the clothes in the basin vigorously, and replied unhappily: "Since you talked about me last time, I haven't had any contact with her."

Zhang Defa recalled, "I remember that her son Chun was very handsome and very similar to us. I wonder if he has a wife."

Chen Guixiang thought of Qi Chunsheng and spat in disgust, "Bah! How can her son compare with our Guisheng? A teenager who is just a teenager does everything for food, drink, prostitution and gambling. Why do you think of him?"

Zhang Defa looked at Chen Zhaodi, told her everything that happened in Xishan Village, and said angrily: "After the money was returned to that bitch, we didn't even have the money to buy goods. Didn't that girl have her heart set on Guisheng? Let him pretend to be a noble student..."

Chen Zhaodi looked at Zhang Defa doubtfully, "Is this okay?"

Zhang Defa had a ferocious smile on his face, "If it doesn't work, we won't suffer a loss! You tell him that if the job is done, we will give him twenty taels of silver."

"Okay, I'll go find him after I finish drying my clothes."

Zhang Defa felt a twinge of pain in his heart when he thought of the white money, "You should hurry up! Don't let that bitch spend all the money by then."

"Can't I just go right now?" Zhang Defa watched Chen Zhaodi leave the yard, as if he saw Li Yu crying and bursting into tears. He suddenly felt that he couldn't sleep even though he was awake, so he went out and walked towards the grocery store.

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