Leisurely Farmer's Family: A Strong Man and His Broken Leg Son-in-law

The courtyard door of Li Dongsheng's house was opened.

A woman came out carrying a medicine bowl, wearing shabby clothes and looking crisp.

If not Widow Zhou, who else could it be.

"Sister-in-law, it's us." Liu Qing stepped forward and hurriedly said hello.

"Sister-in-law, how is Grandma Li's health now?"

Liu Yu also hurriedly said hello. The eldest sister would build a house here in the future. As the saying goes, distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors. Liu Meixiang had just arrived, so it was not appropriate to make enemies.

"It's just like that. Whether you can survive it or not depends on whether God is kind or not."

Widow Zhou spoke casually and looked at several people again.

"Why are you here playing here? The dog barked just now. I thought there was a thief in Qingtian Bairi's house!"

"Sister-in-law, did you grow the vegetables on that land? Sister Mei Xiang bought this homestead and was thinking of building a house. Take a look at these vegetables..."

Liu Qing was a little embarrassed. He hesitated and looked at Widow Zhou, whose expression turned bad. He didn't know how to make her calm down and pull out the vegetables.

"Sister-in-law, I won't build the house until spring. It will take a while to prepare the adobe. Once my sister-in-law has finished planting the vegetables, she will free up the land for me."

Liu Meixiang pointed to the green spinach nearby and said with a smile: "Such a juicy spinach is so pleasing to look at. My sister-in-law grew it really well. When I come here, I will ask my sister-in-law how to grow it so well!"

Widow Zhou originally thought that she would be asked to pull out all the vegetables now, with her hands on her hips, ready to scold Liu Qing bloody.

Damn it, from digging the ground to sowing seeds, watering and fertilizing, it was so easy for her to take care of such a big man, just because there were few vegetables in winter, she could sell them for a little money.

She had only seen some money in the past few days. If she had to pull it out, she would have to find someone to fight for it.

When I heard Mei Xiang say that these vegetables can be kept until spring, she was so happy that her anger dissipated.

"Okay, sister-in-law is not an unreasonable person. This homestead is yours. My sister-in-law will not delay your important events. She will keep it and free it for you early in the morning."

After thinking about it, I was afraid that the garlic would not grow well, so I added: "Let me know in advance when you are going to build a house. If there are still some on the ground, you don't have to ask me. You can just pull the vegetables and return them to me."

Liu Meixiang and Li returned home. They had been passing by the village entrance in the past few days and heard a few things.

They are all women. It would be better for this man with extraneous thoughts to die. If he dies, he can still miss him. I am afraid that the thought of this man who gave birth to an illegitimate child is disgusting.

For a moment, Widow Zhou looked at Liu Meixiang with sympathy.

Liu Meixiang felt a little uncomfortable being looked at, so she answered twice.

Liu Yu and the others felt relieved when they saw that Widow Zhou was still easy to talk to.

"Sister-in-law, if you have something to do, go ahead and do some work. Let's go around!"

"That's it, just take the vegetables from the garden home and eat them, they'll be fresh and tender!"

Others were kind to her and reciprocated kindness, and Widow Zhou did not hesitate to plant a few vegetables.

The area at the east end of Liweizi is neither big nor small.

As the clan leader said, the horizontal width was not wide enough. Liu Yu and others looked at the front and rear boundary stakes buried in the ground and found that there were still more than ten steps to the east from the side of Widow Zhou's house.

If Liu Meixiang builds another house, she will have to leave a few steps for water dripping from the eaves. If Widow Zhou expands to the east in the future, she will not dig the foundation of her house.

Liu Yu and Chang Sheng measured it with their feet, but it turned out that it was more than the clan leader said. There were five houses all the way to the water's edge.

Only the easternmost part is a ditch. It cannot be built to the water's edge, and a room and a half must be left empty.

Anyway, there is no problem in building three spacious houses.

Liu Yu took a look at the yard owned by Widow Zhou and Li Dongsheng, and found that they not only built a front yard, but also a backyard.

A backyard was built, and a manure tank was dug in the free space. Fermented manure was piled beside the tank.

It's cold now, but it doesn't smell like anything.

The inner wall is not too big, and unlike the imaginary frost-dried grass everywhere, the corners are neatly tidied.

The row of large locust trees behind the house will surely be full of greenery and white flowers next spring.

Bamboos are planted beside the ditch and water, protecting the soil. Unlike the big bamboos in the bamboo forest, the bamboos here are rarely very thick.

Most of them are clusters of small bamboos, and even the tips of the shoots that emerge are thin.

When they returned home, Nian and Liu Fusheng asked how they were doing.

"It's very good. It's clean and quiet. My sister-in-law seems to be reasonable and not as rude as the people in the village said."

Liu Yu put the shovel away and told in detail what she had seen and heard in Liweizi, so that Nian and Liu Fusheng could rest assured.

"That's good!" Hearing that Widow Zhou was not in trouble, Nian felt relieved and sighed again about Grandma Dongsheng's condition.

"It should be much better. My sister-in-law is also filial. When we went there, she had just finished taking medicine for the Li family's grandma!"

Liu Yu picked the one and gave it to Nian.

"It's all fate. I don't know if it's good or bad to suffer like this!"

This is also the reason why Nian didn't go today. She is getting older, and it is the worst thing to see her peers being sick and haggard, especially Li Dongsheng's grandma, who is particularly suffering from illness.

When I think of myself, I often feel unhappy for a few days, and then I simply disappear.

After Nian finished speaking, he looked at Liu Yan again and changed the subject: "I am getting married today, why didn't you go have a drink?"

Before they fell out with Tian Fugui's family, their family also had a friendly relationship with Tian Fugui's family. Liu Maozhi died that day, and Tian Fugui sent a memorial ceremony of eight cents.

Liu Yu and Changsheng got married, Tian Fugui and Shui Sanmei had a quarrel, and the two families had already broken up when they bought Changsheng.

However, Nian still took eight cents and asked Hesheng Niang next door to bring it to him as a return gift.

The other day, Shui Sanmei went around talking and telling his family to take advantage.

"My parents took Lu Ya and Brother Qi to have a drink!" Liu Yan chuckled.

"Grandma, it's a happy event for eldest sister to buy the homestead. Let's make willow leaf dumplings today to celebrate!"

Liu Yu was afraid that Changsheng would feel uncomfortable hearing about Tian Fugui's family affairs, so she quickly changed the subject.

"Okay, there are still some locust flowers dried in the spring, so we will wrap them with locust flower fillings. There are still some leftovers from the lard cooking some time ago. Put them in a bowl and it will be delicious!"

After Nian finished explaining, he turned around and saw Xiaoxue swallowing saliva greedily, and couldn't help but smile: "We Xiaoxue will have a full belly by then!"

When she heard that she could eat so much, Xiaoxue's eyes brightened and she nodded fiercely at Nian.

Liu Yu took over the job of making dough and rolling out the dough, and Changsheng went to the backyard to pinch green onions and chop the oily residue.

Liu Meixiang washed the dried sophora flowers carefully with water, drained and squeezed the water.

Liu Yanze went home to call Zhao Tianyu who was home alone.

Mix the sun-yellow sophora flowers with the browned oil residue and mix well, then sprinkle with salt, add a little vegetable oil, and finally add green chopped green onions.

The fillings for the willow dumplings are ready.

Liu Yu has quick hands and rolls out the dough to a medium size and thickness. Changsheng and Liu Meixiang make the dumplings.

Both of them have very skillful hands. In a short while, the small and evenly folded willow leaf dumplings were made to cover the curtain.