Lucky husband

April is passing day by day, and countless people are looking forward to the rain from God, but God may have fallen asleep and did not hear everyone's voices, and not a single raindrop fell.

At the beginning, in the middle of March, old man Li talked to Li Chengli alone about the crops in the field, and told Li Chengli to water more, don't go to the county town to find a part-time job every day, it's not good, the fields at home must be taken care of, can't The work in the fields was abandoned.

Because when the spring plowing just ended, Qian Xinghua always urged Li Chengli to go to the county to find a part-time job, so Li Chengli was busy with field work for a day or two, and then went to the county to do part-time work for a day or two.

Now that it doesn't rain, the crops in the fields need to be watered more diligently. Li Chengli has gone to the county less and less often. After old man Li told him, he simply stopped going to the county to find a part-time job.

Because of this, Qian Xinghua was very dissatisfied with Li Chengli. She felt that Li Chengli was out of his mind. It rains every year. It is impossible not to rain this year. The crops in the field don't need to be so meticulously cared for.

When it didn't rain until the end of March, Mrs. Li approached Li Chengli and asked Li Chengli to buy more food for storage at home.

Li Chengli took out the money in the money pot during the Chinese New Year without Qian Xinghua knowing about it to honor old man Li and Mrs. Li. Afterwards, Qian Xinghua hid the money in another place so that Li Chengli would not know where it was.

Therefore, Mrs. Li asked Li Chengli to buy food, and he had to change money to Xinghua to get the money.

Qian Xinghua listened to Li Chengli's request and jumped three feet high. Fortunately, the roof of their house was built high, otherwise, judging by her posture, she seemed to jump directly through the roof.

"Buy food properly and come back to do what, the food will be harvested in a few months, so there is no need to buy food back!"

Qian Xinghua was the one who did it when the family was separated and sold half of the family's food for money. After Li Chengli took the last piece of rice from the family and sent it to her natal family during the Chinese New Year, she had already bought rice once with a hemorrhage. Come back, this time it is impossible to spend unreasonable money to buy food.

Qian Xinghua's other side didn't make sense, so Li Chengli couldn't get the money to buy food.

At the beginning of April, people in the village began to buy food one after another to return to the village, but Qian Xinghua still didn't believe in evil, and she didn't even give out the money when she was killed.

Li Chengli had nothing to do with Qian Xinghua. He heard from his parents that there would be a drought if it didn’t rain, but he couldn’t get money from Qian Xinghua to buy food, so he waited until the old man Li took Li Chengzhi to exchange the rice seedlings in their paddy fields. After turning into sweet potatoes, he also tore up the rice seedlings in the field.

After Qian Xinghua found out, she found out about Li Chengli and made a big fuss. In the future, rice would grow white rice worth fifteen or six pennies a catty, while sweet potatoes would only cost two pennies or even one and a half pennies a catty. Mrs. Li did this kind of thing because she had been infused with ecstasy soup.

Mrs. Li heard the movement from the second room, she sneered and said nothing, anyway, Qian Xinghua would know what to do when she was hungry, and the second child could have a better memory, so don't be so pinched by the mother-in-law.

In mid-April, some people in the village couldn't sit still. Seeing the rice seedlings getting worse and worse, they followed Li's family and pulled out the rice seedlings and planted sweet potatoes.

Once someone starts something, others will follow suit. Everyone will feel that they are not the only ones doing this, and they will also feel that if they insist on planting rice, it is very likely that they will end up with nothing. The water harvest is reduced, and part of it can be harvested to fill the stomach.

It was at this time that Qian Xinghua suddenly took out two taels of silver from her money jar, and planned to go to the grain shop in the county to buy grain.

However, when she was willing to buy grain, she found out that the grain store in the county town was out of grain, or she could not buy grain from the grain store in the county town. Only the earliest people who lined up outside the grain store every day could buy food.

I used to think that spending money on food was a waste of money, but now that I can't buy food, I finally feel that food is important.

Qian Xinghua regretted it, regretted that she didn't listen to Li Chengli's words, regretted that at that time she always thought it would rain.

Li Chengli looked at Qian Xinghua who came back empty-handed, and he comforted dryly: "Xinghua, I have already replaced the rice with sweet potatoes like my father and elder brother. We can harvest sweet potatoes when the sweet potatoes are ripe in May, so we won't be hungry." Belly."

The problem is that Qian Xinghua doesn't want to eat only sweet potatoes all day long. She wants to eat fragrant white rice, pancakes baked from white flour, and soft steamed buns.

"Brother Li, tell me, can we go to our parents, they bought a lot before..."

Before Qian Xinghua finished speaking, Li Chengli quickly stopped her: "Our old Li's family has separated. As long as we still have a bite to eat, we can't go back to our parents. They have already reminded us that we didn't listen to them. , Xinghua, our own children are all grown up, we can't do something like that."

Qian Xinghua wanted to pinch Li Chengli a few times: "Can you listen to me, I mean buy! Use money to buy the grain in the hands of my parents, and my parents bought two or three carts of grain back and forth. It should be fine to buy a bag or two."

Qian Xinghua wanted to lick her face and go to old man Li and Mrs. Li for food. The question was, would she dare? Mrs. Li could scold her bloody by herself and become the laughing stock of the whole village.

Li Chengli refused without even thinking about it: "I can't buy it, mother bought those grains, it must be considered good, there will be no surplus to sell to us, parents are old, it should be when we brothers are filial to them, When the sweet potatoes in the field are harvested, leave enough for our family to eat for a year, and I will send the excess to my parents, and remember to send it to my mother-in-law."

Li Chengli almost pissed Qian Xinghua to death, she really couldn't understand why Li Chengli didn't know how to think about their little family.

The two of them didn't talk about each other, thanks to the fact that Li Chengli was a man of few words, Qian Xinghua couldn't quarrel with him.

Qian Xinghua didn't believe in evil, so she followed the devil and wanted to buy food back. She ran around the county for several days, but couldn't buy it. Instead, she saw Bai Xiuhe's rice noodle shop.

For Bai Xiuhe, the elder sister-in-law, Qian Xinghua was not as afraid as she was when she faced Mrs. Li. She waited until the rice noodle stall was less crowded, and then walked to Bai Xiuhe's rice noodle stall: "Sister-in-law, so you and Sister Caoye are selling rice noodles here. , looks pretty good."

"Hey, it's the second younger sibling." Bai Xiuhe just sat down to take a breath, she was very happy to see Qian Xinghua who came here for the first time, "Why did you come to the county, have you had breakfast, do you want a bowl of rice noodles? You seem to have never eaten rice noodles, try it."

"Yes, I haven't eaten." Qian Xinghua smiled awkwardly, and said deliberately, "Sister-in-law, I came to the county to buy food, and I didn't bring extra money, so I won't eat today."

"It's hard for you to come to the county town. My sister-in-law treats you to a bowl of rice noodles, and you don't need to pay for it!" Bai Xiuhe sat down with Qian Xinghua, took out the soaked rice noodles and blanched them in the broth, and it was ready after a few strokes a bowl.

Qian Xinghua's saliva had already started drooling when she smelled the bone soup, so she was not polite, and started to eat the rice noodles sullenly.

When Qian Xinghua bloomed, Bai Xiuhe sat next to her and said, "It's not easy for you to buy grain in the county right now, and now the grain store in the county sells a little grain every day, and there's not enough people in the county to grab it. "

Bai Xiuhe recalled for a while and continued: "When my mother started buying food for the family, she reminded my second brother to buy food. What's going on? Have you finished eating your family's food? The second brother and sister are not talking about you, but this year's year. It must be something, you have to be careful not to eat too much, fortunately I heard from Cheng Zhi that the second brother also planted sweet potatoes in the paddy field, so you won’t be hungry.”

"Cough, cough, cough." Qian Xinghua choked on Bai Xiuhe's words. Hearing Bai Xiuhe's words, it was as if she Qian Xinghua had to eat a lot of food all day long.

Bai Xiuhe thought that Qian Xinghua was choking on eating too fast, and persuaded her: "Second brother and sister, don't worry, eat slowly, if it's not enough, I'll cook you another bowl."

If Bai Xiuhe hadn't said the phrase "save yourself and don't eat too much", Qian Xinghua would definitely climb up the pole. One bowl of rice noodles is enough for her to eat, but she can definitely last two bowls rice noodles!

But thinking of Bai Xiuhe's previous words, Qian Xinghua always felt that her sister-in-law was implying something, and shook her head very reluctantly: "Sister-in-law doesn't need it, one bowl is enough for me."

Qian Xinghua was a little anxious to eat in front of her, and she couldn't taste the taste of the rice noodles as if she swallowed them whole. She only slowed down to savor them after eating.

Reluctantly finishing the broth at the bottom of the bowl, Qian Xinghua put down the empty bowl and ate all the ingredients at the bottom of the bowl.

"Sister-in-law, your cooking skills are really good, and the taste of rice noodles is so good." After eating sister-in-law's rice noodles for nothing, Qian Xinghua still knows how to praise her, so that she can order another bowl next time she comes to the county.

Bai Xiuhe smiled when she heard Qian Xinghua's words, and said, "It's no big deal, the main thing is the broth, and the rice noodles taste as good as the broth."

When going out to do business, no one can disclose the recipe of the broth. This is what Li Chengzhi told Bai Xiuhe. When others praised the delicious rice noodles, she said that the broth is right.

After eating rice noodles, Qian Xinghua rambled a few more words, trying to get something out of Bai Xiuhe's mouth, where to buy food, or how much food the Li family has now.

Bai Xiuhe never asked about buying food, and she didn't worry about storing food at home. Since she started selling rice noodles, she at most helped Mrs. Li every afternoon when making dinner. She didn't know how to store food at home now. .

Qian Xinghua couldn't find out anything, so she left the rice noodle stall with a forced smile, and went to other grain shops in the city to have a look again.

Bai Xiuhe looked at the direction where Qian Xinghua left and shook her head. She felt that her second sibling was very strange. Every time her parents said something that was good for everyone, the second sibling always felt that her parents wanted to cheat her. What's the use of waiting for her to regret it later, why didn't she listen to her parents from the beginning.

If Li Chengzhi was here, he could understand Qian Xinghua's mentality: distrust and judge others by himself.

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