When Li Yunshan arrived, no one in the village had woken up yet, probably because they were awake and their eyes were red.

As he walked towards the stone roller, he replied to her, "The door is open, you can go back to sleep."

Mao Xiaosui got up and left. When he got home, he went to the kitchen first, scooped out a ladle of water from the water tank and poured it into the basin. As soon as he grabbed the bowl and chopsticks, he suddenly felt itchy. He glanced at it subconsciously, and his scalp suddenly became numb. .

The bowls and chopsticks at home were originally made of wood and were dark in color. I didn’t notice them at first, but when I looked closer, I found they were densely packed with ants.

Not just bowls and basins, but also on the stove and panel.

She suddenly didn't know what to do with it, so she threw the bowl back into the dustpan, stared at it for a while, and finally threw it to the door along with the dustpan, then took out a basin of ashes from the stove and sprinkled it on it.

The ants on the stove came from the basin. She also sprinkled a handful of ashes on the place where the dustpan was placed.

At this moment, the villagers were still sleeping, so she also took a squint.

She couldn't sleep well with things in her mind. She woke up after there was a noise in the village.

I went into the kitchen and took a drink of water. The ants on the stove were gone.

She didn't bother cleaning, locked the door and went directly to the venue.

The straw had already been picked up. Li Yunshan saw him and said quickly, "You clean up first, and I'll pull the grass back."

There is very little wheat in one acre of land. There are barely four bags of wheat packed together with the dregs. After removing the dregs, it is estimated to be only one and a half bags.

Li Yunshan had to take everything back home. He ran back and forth several times. When he finished, the sun was still high and it was still very early.

Li Yunshan put a roof on the pole at the door, and Mao Xiaosui entered the kitchen carrying the lunch bowls and chopsticks.

I washed the dishes and chopsticks, and swept the kitchen inside and out.

Boil water in a pot, put the lard on the wooden stand in and melt it, soak some mugwort leaves in the boiling water and soak them again, wash the hands and go to the main room to unpack the bedding.

He took off the bedding and carried it outside to the yard, and said to Li Yunshan who came in from the door, "There is hot water in the pot. You can take a shower and rest. I'll do the laundry."

"Wash tomorrow afternoon."

"It's still early."

The main person who was tired today was Li Yunshan. She didn't do much work, and since the work was done now, she would still feel uncomfortable if she didn't take a shower.

Li Yunshan said nothing more, blocked the courtyard door, went into the kitchen, picked up a bucket of water, stood in the courtyard and started washing.

Mao Xiaosui found a stick to beat the dust on the bedding. When he saw this, he said, "Wash your hair carefully. It is full of dirt and cannot be washed away."

Li Yunshan responded. After rinsing, he went into the main room and put on some pants. After coming out, he went to the kitchen to get a basin of hot water to wash his hair.

Mao Xiaosui also brought a basin of water to the main room to scrub. After washing, he tied his wet hair with a cloth tie. After getting dressed, he picked up the dirty clothes and walked out.

When she arrived at the door, she went to feed the chickens some grass, but found that she didn't have any eggs today.

She shouted to Li Yunshan and left with the basin.

It was so hot that her hair was mostly dry when she walked from home to the river. Li Xiaoru and Liu Xiaoxia were cutting grass near the river, but she didn't care. She walked to the ground where she usually washes clothes and squatted down.

First, wash the cloth sewn on the bedding. After washing, wash it and fold it together and put it on a stone to bask in the sun. Then you start to wash the other items.

Liu Xiaoxia came over at some point and was busy behind her.

She glanced back, and then she saw her eyes dodge, and she knew she hadn't held in her fart well.

She said calmly, "If you want to take a bath in the river, try it."

Liu Xiaoxia glanced at Li Xiaoru and whispered back, "I didn't want to do anything. I just wanted to ask if what you said before is true?"

Mao Xiaosui turned back and replied to her while washing his clothes, "It was said by people in her village. I was not the only one present at the time. There is no need for me to lie."

She asked again, "What has Uncle Wang been doing now?"

"I don't know, I haven't been back since noon."

"Why are you asking this?" She felt strange.

Liu Xiaoxia hesitated and said, "I'll just ask."

"Wang Dong asked you to ask?"

She nodded, "Dad has been refusing to give up because of this matter. Wang Dong thought you were talking nonsense and said he wanted to find out."

"That man is in Tugou Village, go and ask him. If he really wants to ask, he can follow Uncle Wang's example and go to Li Xiaoru Village and ask him."

"Besides..." She laughed, "I'm not Li Xiaoru, I won't make things out of nothing."

Liu Xiaoxia said nothing more, but she intuitively felt that Mao Xiaosui was not lying.

These days are not only sad for Li Xiaoru, they are also having a hard time. They used to be able to eat enough, but now they are not even allowed to take more than two bites of food. Wang Dong is beaten and scolded for every word. Life is really hard...

As the sun was approaching sunset, Li Xiaoru went back first. Mao Xiaosui put the washed clothes into the basin and planned to go back. When he looked up, he saw Wang Huacheng and Ding Wenxiu coming down the slope one after another.

She naturally knew that Ding Wenxiu and Lu Xiaoxia were carrying wheat today, so she didn't care, picked up the basin and left quickly.

When she got home, Li Yunshan had already filled in the potholes in the yard. She hung her clothes to dry, and when she entered the house, she saw someone lying on the bare wooden bed asleep.

She went out quietly, burned a pole and put it into a pot to boil the plant ash water. After the water was boiled, she poured it into a bowl and left it. After washing the pot, she went to the side room to dig out a bowl of white noodles.

While pouring water and kneading dough, there was a sound at the door of the main room. Li Yunshan walked out and stood in the yard, glanced at the kitchen, then carried the quilt into the house, and walked in again after a while.

"What do you want to eat?" He glanced at the noodles in the basin, and then saw the ash water on the stove, and asked, "Make soap?"

"I smell almost it."

Li Yunshan saw that the water was still turbid, so he said, "You cook, and I'll go to the mountain."

"It gets dark quickly in the forest. It will be the same if we go there tomorrow."

"Soon." After saying that, he picked up the bucket and left.

Mao Xiaosui kneaded the dough, rolled it out and cut it into noodles. He sprinkled some millet flour on the surface to prevent it from soaking. Then he took the dried cloth in the yard and went to the main room to sew a quilt.

Li Yunshan came back really quickly. There were seven or eight fat fish in the bucket, and he also dug up some fungi as usual.

Mao Xiaosui spread the quilt on the bed, picked the four largest ones from the bucket, looked at Li Yunshan and said, "You can return them to my aunt's house."

Li Yunshan didn't say anything about giving back four or anything like that. He hooked his fingers into the fish's mouth and lifted it out of the door.

She didn't want to make fish soup today, so she killed two pepper fish.

Put a little lard in the pot, add a handful of Sichuan peppercorns and fry until the fish is fragrant, then fry the fish until both sides are brown, add water to the pot, season with a little salt, then cover the pot and simmer.

Boiling water in the pot next to her, she went to the backyard to pick some green vegetables and onions. When she came out, she saw Li Yunshan coming up from the slope.

The smell of peppercorns was so strong that Li Yunshan couldn't help but frown as soon as he walked in.

She ignored it. After the water boiled, she scooped out a ladle and put it in a wooden bowl to melt the lard.

Put the noodles into the pot, wash the vegetables and throw them in. Add two drops of sesame oil to the noodles, beat two eggs and add salt.

The pepper fish has been cooked and smells numb. Sprinkle a handful of chopped green onions on top and cook it the same way.

Li Yunshan took a sip of it doubtfully, and it tasted the same as the smell, numbing with a bit of saltiness and the meaty aroma of lard.

"There are too many peppercorns." Li Yunshan hurriedly took a sip of the soup from the bowl.

Mao Xiaosui chuckled, "I put too much on purpose."

"Ma." He said this without stopping with his chopsticks, and the two fish were finally eaten clean.

After dinner, Mao Xiaosui washed the pot. Li Yunshan poured the precipitated plant ash water into the lard, followed her example and threw in a little salt, and then asked her, "Do you want to put honey?"

"Just a spoonful will do."

Li Yunshan had no choice but to add a small spoonful of honey, and then began to stir. Mao Xiaosui chopped up the moxa leaf residue and threw it in.

Not much lard was made, and not much soap was stirred out. Li Yunshan poured it into the small wooden box he made at the beginning and placed it in the side room to solidify.

After finishing their work, it was getting dark, so the two of them went back to the house to sleep after washing up.

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