Lucky husband

After returning to Li's house from her second brother's house, Mrs. Li's mood did not recover. She helped Bai Xiuhe move the cleaned tables and chairs aside to dry, while thinking about the situation of Second Master Li's house, she couldn't help sighing.

In the courtyard of Second Master Li, Second Master Li waited for Mrs. Li to leave, and called his two sons into the house. He had something to say to them.

"Second and third, tell me honestly, what do you two think?" Old man Li wanted to hear the true thoughts of his two sons.

Li Chengdi thought for a while, and said: "Father, I haven't asked her what my daughter-in-law thinks now, and I will go and talk to her later, and let her know that it is not easy for the eldest sister."

"Father, my daughter-in-law can't always turn her head around. She really did something wrong with this matter today. I'll scold her privately later and let her know what's good or bad." Li Chengliang couldn't say like his elder brother, so he just said His daughter-in-law made a mistake and will change it later.

Second Master Li was a little dissatisfied with the two sons' evasive answers, and emphasized his tone: "I'm asking about your thoughts, not your daughter-in-law's!"

Under Li Erye's scrutinizing eyes, Li Chengdi and Li Chengliang made a promise.

"Just now when my aunt was here, I already said that I will treat my elder sister and Brother Qiu well in the future. The elder sister and Li returned to their mother's house. The third brother and I are her support. Brother Qiu has no father, and we will be uncles." You should treat him better."

"Yes, yes, the elder sister is our own elder sister. When she comes back to live with us, she is a family, regardless of comparison. As for Brother Qiu, our two uncles will treat him like our own child."

Second Master Li looked at them: "Remember what you said today."

"Father, don't worry." The two brothers said in unison.

At night, Second Master Li and Second Mistress Li were lying on the bed, neither of them could fall asleep.

Mistress Li was tossing and turning like pancakes. Seeing that her man was not asleep, she asked him in a low voice, "Old man, tell me, will Chengdi and Chengliang really treat Caoye and Brother Qiu all the time in the future?"

"I don't know." Second Master Li shook his head, people's hearts are fickle, and no one can be sure what will happen in the future.

"Let me tell you, when I think about today's events, I feel panicked in my heart, always worrying about the leaves of grass." Mistress Li sat up, "Now that our old couple are still awake, and we are still alive, our two daughters-in-law will be happy." Think carefully, in the future, we will be gone, and the grass leaves will be helpless, how will she live..."

As she spoke, Mistress Li couldn't help but covered her face and began to cry. She was thinking about this matter this afternoon and evening. She really didn't know what to do to make Caoye suffer less.

In the situation of their family, it is impossible to separate the family as cleanly as the eldest brother's family. Although there are fewer things to worry about and friction in the family will be reduced, once the family is separated, the old couple will follow the Chengdi family. What about the leaves of grass?

Although she can help her eldest brother Jia Chengzhi and the others sell rice noodles, but selling rice noodles costs ten yuan a day, which is only enough for her and Brother Qiu's daily rations. How to survive.

What's more, the rice noodle stall is not a very stable job, just like this year's drought, the rice noodle stall stopped for several months, and Caoye has no income in these months.

If the old couple wants to help Caoye and live with Caoye, how will the villagers think of Chengdi and Chengliang? Their palms and backs are full of meat. No matter how much they want their daughter to live well, it is impossible for them to do that. To that eccentric.

After expressing all her worries, she felt better, and with Second Master Li persuading her, Second Mistress Li gradually stopped crying.

Li Caoye also couldn't sleep. After today's incident, she didn't know what her two younger siblings would think about her in the future, and what the two younger brothers were thinking. Her heart was full of uneasiness and doubts. .

At this moment, she wished so much that she would have a house of her own, with two acres of land to plant, and not need to stay at her mother's house, watching the faces of her younger brothers and sisters.

The children didn't know everything that happened in the family. Apart from practicing writing on the sand with Li Mingjin these days, Li Qiusheng quietly slipped to the foot of the back mountain to find the herbal medicine that Xing Langzhong taught him last time. He dug up a plant and dried it in the sun. When it was colder and the soil on the ground was more difficult to dig, he would not run over again.

Time passed day by day, Li Caoye only felt that he had stayed at home for only two days, and December was here.

Bai Xiuhe came to find Li Caoye on the afternoon of November [-]th, and told her that she was going to sell rice noodles in the county, and remember to get up early tomorrow.

Li Caoye has always been the first one to get up at Li Erye's house, she is not worried that she will not be able to get up: "Sister Xiuhe, don't worry, I will go there early."

The days are short in winter, so Li Caoye washes up early and goes back to sleep after dinner.

Early the next morning, it was dark outside the window, and Li Caoye groped in the darkness. It was very cold in December, and she shivered when she got out of the bed.

The movement of Li Caoye getting up was very quiet, and there was no sound, but Li Qiusheng fell asleep thinking about something in his heart, he stretched out his hand and rubbed his eyes, and looked at his mother sleepily: "Mom, I'm going out now. ?”

Li Caoye sighed twice, making sure that the hand was warm, then reached out and touched Brother Qiu's forehead: "Well, Brother Qiu will continue to sleep at home, mother will go first."

Li Qiusheng nodded, he continued to sleep with his eyes closed after the sound of closing the door outside the yard, until dawn, when he woke up again, rubbed his face, got up and put on his clothes one by one.

Now, most of the clothes of Li Caoye and Li Qiusheng's mother and son were sent by Bai Xiuhe and Jiang Zhiyun, and only a small part was newly made when Li Erye's family unified the clothes. Two coats and a spring shirt.

Because the food at Li Erye's house was better than that of Liang's, Li Qiusheng gradually grew a little taller than Li Mingjin, and the clothes given to him last year were already a little shorter, and Li Qiusheng's wrist and ankle were missing a little. Stopped outside, he shrank back and went out to find hot water to wash his face.

Now Li Qiusheng has long been used to being alone. As the weather gets colder and the herbs become harder to dig, he doesn't go to the foot of the back mountain anymore. Find something to do at home.

For example, wash the clothes that he and his mother have changed, find out the worn clothes, go to his grandmother for sewing, or help his grandmother with some things.

While doing these things, Li Qiusheng either silently recited the Three Character Classic that Li Mingjin taught him, or recalled the things related to herbs taught him by Dr. Xing.

At this time, the three of Li Chengzhi, who went to the county town to sell rice noodles, set off early. With the faint morning light, they pushed two trolleys with casserole, rice noodles, bowls and chopsticks, tables and chairs, etc., and they arrived at the county town smoothly.

During the drought, almost all the stalls failed to continue their business and closed. Now they have gradually recovered, and the stalls are still sparse. Seeing that the place where they sold rice noodles was still empty, Li Chengzhi directly put The trolley pushes through.

After setting things up, lit the charcoal fire at the bottom of the casserole, when the aroma of the broth began to come out, Li Chengzhi shouted loudly: "Sell rice noodles, delicious and delicious Lijia broth rice noodles, and delicious new rice noodles, pass by Don’t miss it, hurry up and try it.”

Before the drought, Lijia rice noodles were quite famous in the county. They were the first ones to start making rice noodles in the county, and the taste was not bad. People who lived nearby and opened shops knew it.

Li Chengzhi is a talkative person. At the beginning, when he and Bai Xiuhe came out to sell rice noodles together, he got to know almost everyone in the neighborhood. Those who had enough money at home and liked to eat rice noodles would often go to their shop Serve a bowl.

Today, Li Chengzhi and the others came over to start selling rice noodles again. When people who like rice noodles heard the sound, they couldn't help running over to see if it was the same taste as before.

"Boss Li, your family's high soup rice noodles are finally on sale again. It smells as attractive as before. I came here after breakfast. Now that I smell this smell, I still want to eat another bowl."

"Boss Li, what's in this pot is high soup, what kind of soup is in the pot next to it, why is it white?"

"The price of grain is now much higher than in previous years. Every family's food has increased in price. Has the price of your rice noodle changed?"

"Whether the price has changed or not, let's satisfy our cravings with a bowl of high soup rice noodles first."

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Everyone chattered, and Li Chengzhi smiled and explained one by one: "The taste of rice noodles in high soup is the same as before. The new taste of rice noodles is fish soup noodles. Its soup is whitish because we boiled all the fish in it." In the soup, it tastes different."

"Everyone knows that the price of grain is rising now, and the price of dry rice noodles sold in Fucheng has also increased a lot, so we temporarily increase the price of a bowl of rice noodles by one penny, and when the price of dry rice noodles in Fucheng comes down in the future, the price of our rice noodles Prices will come down as well.”

After Li Chengzhi wanted to start selling rice noodles again, he went to ask the small caravan that brought them rice noodles back. Now the dried rice noodles in Fucheng are the same as when the drought first started, forty yuan a catty, fortunately, the price has not been raised. too much.

Dry rice noodles used to cost [-] Wen per catty, and you can make ten bowls of rice noodles per catty, with three Wen per bowl.

In addition, the prices of pork bones and other ingredients that need to be purchased have also increased a lot, but Li Chengzhi feels that after the drought, the business may not be as good as before. If the price is set high, fewer people will come to eat.

Therefore, Li Chengzhi finally decided to re-sell rice noodles and only increase the price by one penny, earn less, sell as much rice noodles as possible, and let more people know about Li's rice noodles.

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