Lucky husband

Looking at Qian Xinghua's attitude, Ma's eyes rolled, and he remembered the rumors that had been circulating in the village for a while at the beginning of the year: "Back then, Bai Jiachen had contact with your girl Chun, and someone in the village said something, why didn't you see me?" What idea did you have at the time, and you ran out and scolded everyone."

"What do you think? You made it clear!" Qian Xinghua's eyes widened immediately, and she looked at Ma Shi.

"It's nothing, it's nothing, I'm going to take these taro home." Ma Shi covered her mouth, and she realized that she had said the wrong thing.

At that time, Qian Xinghua made a fuss in the village, and Mrs. Ma still remembered the scene where Qian Xinghua fought against several daughter-in-laws alone.

Mrs. Ma left with her back strap on her back, leaving Qian Xinghua sitting there alone, thinking.

As soon as that incident got out, she didn't know what was going on, so her mother-in-law and husband-in-law immediately scolded her and asked her to clarify the rumors in the village.

Thinking back, Qian Xinghua suddenly understood Ma Shi's meaning in a flash of inspiration. Why was she so stupid at the beginning, and gave up the opportunity to give it to her.

When Bai Chen met her own Miss Chun, she could definitely let the Bai family marry Miss Chun, so that she wouldn't have to spend money to support Miss Chun, and she would get the dowry money early!

Qian Xinghua slapped her thigh: "Ouch!"

Li Chengli was digging the taro a little in front of her, and when he heard her yell, he thought she had touched the taro, and looked back at her: "Xinghua, what's wrong with you?"

Before Qian Xinghua could figure out what to do with Miss Chun, she waved her hand: "It's okay, you dig yours, I just stepped on my foot."

Li Chengli believed it was true, so he turned around and continued digging taro.

When the two sisters, Li Mingchun and Li Mingxia came back with empty backpacks, Qian Xinghua looked at Li Mingchun carefully.

I didn't pay much attention to it before, but now I find that Li Mingchun's facial features are actually pretty good. The looks of the two sisters are more like Li Chengli, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, unlike Qian Xinghua's small eyes and collapsed nose.

Looking at it again, Miss Chun has grown a head taller than Girl Xia. Apart from her darker face, her stature is still relatively flat, and the skin on her hands is a bit rough, there is nothing wrong with her.

The dark face was caused by her taking the two sisters out to pick wild vegetables every day some time ago, and it will turn white after a period of care.

The flat stature has not yet developed well, and it will develop in two years, not to mention the lordosis and the back warping, it should be visible.

As for rough hands, that's not a problem. There is no daughter-in-law in the country who doesn't do rough work, except for her lucky third sibling.

After thinking about it, Qian Xinghua felt that she was really screwed up by Li Chengli and Mrs. Li. If they hadn't forced her to go to the village to clarify the matter, she could have directly asked the Bai family to give Li Mingchun to her. Marry away!

The more she thought about it, the more she regretted it. Qian Xinghua didn't even want to clean up the taro, and she became angry when she thought of Li Mingchun.

At night, Qian Xinghua tossed and turned in the bed, unable to fall asleep, her heart was frizzy, and thinking about that incident made her feel extremely uncomfortable.

Maybe it was because she thought about it day by day and dreamed about it at night. Qian Xinghua dreamed that she married Li Mingchun to the Bai family, and received a gift of several taels of silver. She was so happy that she couldn't stop smiling from ear to ear.

As a result, she laughed too loudly and woke her up from her dream.

At this time, the sky outside was slightly bright, and it was already morning.

After waking up, she still couldn't sleep. With the light coming in from the window, Qian Xinghua looked at the room where the two sisters, Li Mingchun and Liming Xia, slept, thinking about how to marry Li Mingchun as soon as possible.

It's not easy to think about it. In the current drought, which family is willing to raise an extra mouth for no reason, and insists on marrying Miss Chun, and the bride price will definitely not be received.

Putting this matter aside for the time being, Qian Xinghua took an inventory of the taro and grain piled up at home, and was quite satisfied with what the two girls had done these days.

There are many taro beaches by the river in the village, but when most people in the village believe that taro is edible, no amount of taro can be dug up. However, in just five or six days, everyone dug up almost enough taro.

At the Li family's side, the Granny Li's stockpile has filled the dug cellar and an empty room, and even used a room in the left wing for storage. A meal will only be six or seven percent full.

It's better now than before. Before, Mrs. Li only fed everyone four or five cents full.

This is because although there is enough food in the family, it is a drought. Every family has tightened their stomachs to live, and everyone has lost a lot of weight than before. It is impossible for Mrs. Li to make such a mistake by telling others clearly whether their family has enough food.

Now that there is one more kind of food that can be eaten - taro, Mrs. Li's worries have been slightly reduced, and every household can eat a little bit more. It will not be obvious that the Li family eats more.

In the past few days, the Li family has nothing to do at home after digging the taro. Mrs. Li and Bai Xiuhe have already researched several ways to make taro, and the best one is roasted chicken with taro, but unfortunately they only ate it once.

Because of Mrs. Li's careful planning, the Li family can eat meat every few days. Although they don't eat too much every time, no one makes trouble. Even the youngest Li Mingyue is obedient. She would eat as much as she scooped, and at most she would go to her father to bake a small taro or sweet potato for her when she was hungry.

Two days after the taro near Shanghe Village was hollowed out by everyone, a group of people came from outside the village. They walked along the Qianshui River to the vicinity of Shanghe Village, holding hoes, cloth bags and other items in their hands.

Looking at the empty river beach in Shanghe Village, this group of people showed disappointment. They are all from the county seat.

After going through many publicity campaigns, people finally believe that taro is edible, but it was too late, and almost all the taro on the riverbanks on both sides of the river in Changping County had been scooped up in a short period of time.

Someone approached the village "surreptitiously". People in Shanghe Village would naturally feel that something was wrong when they saw it. Someone immediately went to Village Chief Bai to tell him.

When Village Chief Bai led his people there, the group of people were discussing whether they should continue to look at the lower reaches of the shallow river. Maybe there would still be taro left on the river beaches between the villages that no one would dig up.

When he got closer and saw the things in the hands of those people, Village Chief Bai immediately understood what they were trying to do, and he still asked, "Who are you? What are you doing in Shanghe Village?"

Now the drought is getting worse and worse. When Li Chengshi came back last time, he specifically told Village Chief Bai that there were many people from the north running to the south. The details of these people were unknown, so he had to be careful for the safety of the village.

One of the group of people came out and said: "Brother, we are from Changping County. We have nothing to eat at home. We heard that taro can be eaten. We went out to dig some taro, but we couldn't find taro anywhere. There is a way."

As soon as he heard the accent, he knew that they were indeed from Changping County. Village Chief Bai relaxed his vigilance a little: "No, there are no more around here."

After chatting for a few words, Village Chief Bai finally knew what the situation of the people in the county was like.

It’s okay for big families. Ordinary people don’t have the habit of storing food. First, there are grain stores to buy when they go out. Second, they are too shy to hoard food.

In such a disaster, after the grain store could not buy grain, the ordinary people living in the county suffered. The grain they ate was decreasing day by day, and everyone was trying to find a way to get grain.

A young man cried while talking: "My daughter-in-law has just given birth to a baby. The adults have nothing to eat and no milk. The baby is so hungry that he has no energy to cry. I have traveled to many places, and I can't buy it at several times the price. When it comes to food, I occasionally hear people saying where to buy it, and it’s already sold out when I run there.”

It is said that men don't cry when they have tears, not that they really don't cry, but that they don't reach the point of sadness.

Village Chief Bai showed sympathy when he heard what they said, and saw that they had been starving for several months, their faces were yellow and emaciated, and if they weren't well-dressed, they might have regarded them as escaped from the north.

Apart from Village Chief Bai, several other men also felt that the lives of people in the county were a bit miserable, so they dragged Village Chief Bai to discuss it later.

Finally, everyone made a decision: "Are you together? I am the village head of Shanghe Village. I will ask people in our village if they would like to sell some taro or sweet potatoes to you. Taro fifteen cents a catty, sweet potato Ten cents a catty, do you think it will work?"

Normally, a catty of sweet potatoes costs two cents or even less, but village head Bai raised the price to ten cents per catty, which is a five-fold increase. But taro has never been sold before, and no one knows the price of taro. Village chief Bai thinks taro is better than sweet potato , and also fight hunger, so he set a higher price for the taro.

The eyes of this group of people lit up immediately, and they nodded without hesitation: "Okay, okay, we are willing."

Seeing that they had no doubts about the price, Village Chief Bai left a few young people with more flexible brains to watch them and prevent them from entering the village. And sweet potatoes are sold.

Ten cents a catty of sweet potatoes, fifteen cents a catty of taro, people who heard this price were a little moved. After all, people in Shanghe Village hoarded grain at the beginning, and later some people followed Li's family to pull out rice and plant sweet potatoes. I dug a lot of taro by the river and went home, and the food was still enough to eat.

Most people take [-] or [-] catties of sweet potatoes or taro directly from the room. This amount will not reduce the family's food much, and it can be sold for a sum of money. Everyone thinks it is acceptable.

After listening to Village Chief Bai's words, Mrs. Li asked the other people in the village how much food they had brought out, and they only took a bag of [-] catties of taro.

After hearing this, Qian Xinghua next door took two hundred catties of taro and offered to sell it, which made Village Chief Bai frown.

Mrs. Li was worried that she would do this, so she came out and scolded her for being crazy about money. They don’t have much food in their family. There are five people, and they finally have more taro to eat. Do you want to sell so much? Starve people to death.

When Li Chengli heard the voice, Mrs. Li stopped talking to Qian Xinghua, and told Li Chengli directly that he should sell it up to fifty catties.

So, Li Chengli obediently took three bags home, leaving only one bag at the door, and Qian Xinghua kept rolling her eyes in anger.

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