Rebirth of Siheyuan: Starting from escaping famine in 42

Li Qingshan came home from school and pushed the door, but it didn't open. He knocked on the door and shouted, "Brother, watch the door."

"Brother, open the door."

After an unknown amount of time, Li Qingfeng was awakened by the sound of knocking on the door. He wiped the saliva from the corner of his mouth and shouted, "I'm here, stop knocking."

"I'm coming." Li Qingfeng walked to the door, opened it, and went to the kitchen to cook.

As soon as Li Qingshan entered the yard, he saw the clothes hanging out to dry in the air. He followed his eldest brother and asked, "Brother, are these the clothes you washed?"

Li Qingfeng rolled his eyes at his brother in anger and scolded him with a smile: "Nonsense, I didn't wash it, so did you wash it?"

After hearing this, Li Qingshan scratched his head with a silly smile.

Li Qingfeng continued, "Okay, stop standing there like an idiot. Go to the yard and pull up some onions."

"Oh! Oh! Got it, brother." Li Qingshan left the kitchen and came to the vegetable patch in the yard. He plucked two shallots, plucked the yellow leaves, cleaned them, returned to the kitchen, put them next to his elder brother, and said, "Brother, I'll put the shallots next to you."

"Got it. Go and have fun first. I'll call you when the meal is ready." Li Qingfeng took the green onion, chopped it into small pieces, and sprinkled it evenly on the dough that had been smeared with oil and salt. He rolled it into a long strip, formed it into a circle, and finally rolled it into a round cake with a rolling pin.

Heat oil in a pan, control the size of the fire well, and a scallion pancake will be out of the pan in a short while.

Li Qingfeng baked four large scallion pancakes, boiled four salted duck eggs, and made a pot of tomato and egg soup.

When the meal was ready, Li Qingfeng shouted directly from the kitchen: "Qingshan, come and eat."

After a while, my younger brother's voice came over: "I know." He also trotted in and said, "Brother, you cleaned up at home this morning."

Li Qingfeng nodded and replied, "Yes, all the rooms have been cleaned up. Qingshan, don't make your room so messy in the future. Your room is not easy to clean up."

Li Qingshan nodded and said, "I understand, brother."

"Let's eat first!" Li Qingfeng served two bowls of tomato and egg soup, pushed a bowl of egg soup in front of him and said.

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Early the next morning.

After breakfast, his younger brother had gone to school for a while. After Li Qingfeng cleaned up the dishes and the kitchen, he was about to go for a walk on the street when he heard another knock on the door.

Li Qingfeng was a little confused. Who could come to see him so early in the morning? So he shouted, "Here they come! Here they come!"

Then he walked to the door, opened it and saw that it was Uncle Qin who had traded the rabbit for food last time. There was also a young girl carrying a basket next to him. He didn't look at her carefully, but felt that she looked familiar. Without thinking too much, he smiled and said to Qin Dezhu: "It's Uncle Qin! Come in first."

"Okay, okay, Huairu, let's go into the yard." Qin Dezhuo, carrying a backpack, led the girl carrying the basket and slowly walked into the yard.

Li Qingfeng didn't pay attention to their conversation. He led them into the main room, asked them to sit down, poured two bowls of sugar water for them, placed them in front of them, and said with a smile: "Uncle Qin, and this sister, you drink some sugar water first."

"Okay, okay." Qin Dezhu took the syrup, took a sip, and put it on the table, looking as if he wanted to say something but hesitated.

The young girl next to her picked up the sugar water, took a sip, and her eyes suddenly lit up. She thought, people in this city drink water that tastes sweet, and then she drank the whole bowl of sugar water in small sips.

She reluctantly put the bowl on the table and began to look at everything in the house. She liked everything she saw. It was much better than the mud and thatched houses in the village.

Seeing Qin Dezhu's hesitant expression, Li Qingfeng handed him a cigarette and asked with a smile, "Uncle Qin, just tell me what you want to say!" After that, he struck a match and lit a cigarette for himself.

Qin Dezhu heard this and said embarrassedly: "Little brother, do you still count what you said at the entrance of the vegetable market last time?"

After hearing this, Li Qingfeng quickly recalled what was going on in his mind, trying to find out what was going on. It turned out to be a matter of exchanging prey for other things! This was easy to explain, so he smiled and said to Qin Dezhu: "Uncle Qin, it's a matter of exchanging prey for other things! What I said still counts."

When Qin Dezhu heard Li Qingfeng's confirmation, he immediately murmured excitedly: "It's good that it counts, it's good that it counts!"

After hearing this, the young girl standing by looked at Li Qingfeng excitedly without blinking.

Li Qingfeng felt the attention he was attracting and began to look at the young girl, but why did she seem more familiar the more he looked at her?

After a while, he thought of something. Isn't this Qin Huairu? She is only about twelve or thirteen years old now, about the same age as his brother Li Qingshan. Her eyes are clear and bright, and her face is full of collagen. She really doesn't look like a rural girl at all.

Body shape? Cough! Cough! Cough! ... ...

A 12- or 13-year-old's body has grown into that of a 16- or 17-year-old. Is growth so fast in rural areas now? Li Qingfeng thought to himself.

After figuring out who this young girl was, Li Qingfeng still wanted to confirm whether his guess was correct, so he asked Qin Dezhu next to him: "Uncle Qin, who is the girl next to you?"

Hearing this, Qin Dezhu exhaled the green smoke from his mouth, then smiled and replied: "Oh! I forgot to introduce you. This is my eldest niece, Qin Huairu."

He turned to Qin Huairu and said, "Huairu, this is Li Qingfeng, you can just call him Brother Qingfeng."

Qin Huairu blushed and said softly, "Brother Qingfeng."

"Hey! Sister Huairu." Li Qingfeng replied, and then looked carefully at the young Thirteenth Aunt, Qin Huairu, who was wearing a thin long gown with floral patterns, gray pants, and single-layer black cloth shoes on her feet. Even though her clothes and shoes were patched, it couldn't hide Qin Huairu's youthful beauty.

The Qin Huairu of today is no longer the white lotus Qin Huairu of the past.

Now she is still full of the aura of a young girl, especially her big, clear and bright eyes, which blink and disturb his mood.

I wondered, at such a young age, her eyes were already so alluring? Or was her alluring look natural? If so, that would be incredible.

Li Qingfeng didn't look at Qin Huairu for long, he was just curious about her.

Then Li Qingfeng turned to Qin Dezhu and asked with a smile: "Uncle Qin, what are you planning to exchange for by bringing Sister Huairu to your home? Food or something else?"

When Qin Dezhu heard this, he perked up and said, "Qingfeng! There is no food in the countryside now, so the village organized people to go hunting in the mountains, hoping to exchange the prey for food."

"The villagers knew about the food exchange last time, so they asked me to bring the prey in the basket to have a look."

After saying that, Qin Dezhu reached out and lifted the prey from the backpack, then pushed the basket forward so that Li Qingfeng could see it more clearly.