Scumbag Handbook

There are five rooms in this house, a utility room, a main room, the east wing room, the main room and the kitchen room.

The houses are quite big, among which the main room and the east wing are the largest, and the yard is also well tidied up, but there are some days when no one lives there, and there are some fallen leaves.

It was already 05:30 in the afternoon when Xiao Le and Mo Cheng cleaned up the house. Fortunately, there were a lot of firewood brought back by the old man at home, which was also presented to them.

Mo Cheng lit the fire, and Xiao Le took out the water noodles he bought and boiled them. Once the crispy and tender vegetables were put in, and the peppers were splashed, they were ready to eat.

When they were eating noodles in the main room, they heard the voice of an old man scolding a child.

"The sound came from the direction of the chaifang," Xiao Le said to Mo Cheng after listening to it, "the people living in that direction are Li Hongbing's family."

And the small road on the east side of the room is not far away, which is Li Laosan's house.

Their home is right in the middle.

"Just here, don't rush."

"know."

Xiao Le buried his head and continued to eat. The nights in midsummer are always very hot, and there are many mosquitoes. The sound of frogs in the surrounding grass is very interesting in summer.

Mo Cheng had just washed the dishes and chopsticks when he heard Xiao Le talking to people in the yard. After a while, Xiao Le came into the kitchen with his order, "The apricots sent by Brother Li are such a big basket."

As he spoke, he showed Mo Cheng the fruits in the bamboo basket in his hand.

It was full, and just as Xiao Le shook it, the apricot on the top slipped down. Fortunately, Xiao Le had quick eyesight and quick hands, and caught it.

"I can't finish eating so much, how about making apricot jam for storage?"

There are beds, wardrobes, tables, chairs, benches, even TV cabinets and farm tools, but there are no electrical appliances.

They also have to buy refrigerators, televisions and washing machines.

"Okay," Xiao Le picked out a dozen apricots and ate them directly, and washed the rest before bringing them to the kitchen.

The firewood in the stove door was rattling, if it was winter, this would be the best place, but now it was midsummer, it was already terribly hot, sitting in front of the stove door now was even hotter.

Fortunately, once the fire went up, they didn't have to keep guarding until the sweet and sour apricot jam was out of the pot, and the two of them cleaned up the stove together. Then they took some fruit and went to Li Laosan's house together with a bamboo basket.

Li Laosan is the third eldest in the family, with two older sisters above and a younger brother at the bottom. The older sisters were married long ago, and after the younger brother got married, the old man also decided to divide the family.

Li Laosi's house was right next to Li Laosan's. They were all brick bungalows. Seeing them coming, Li Laosan, who was enjoying the shade in the yard, hurriedly asked his youngest son to bring two stools to invite them to sit on.

After thanking them, they brought some fruit and said some kind words, and the two went back.

After they left, Li Laosan talked with Li Laosi about going to work, "You just listen to my brother and go out to work together. Li Hongbing didn't go out because his parents wouldn't let him go, and he was an elm. Can you still be like him?"

Fourth Li scratched his head, "If I go out, what will our parents do?"

"Let's take care of it!"

Sisao Li patted her thigh, looked at Li Sansao and said in unison.

"Look, look, this is a family," Uncle Li nodded with a smile, "It's not like that family, just watch, something will happen sooner or later!"

He pointed at Li Hongbing's family with his old hand.

At this time, Li Hongbing dragged his tired body back home. He didn't go home to eat at noon, and it was his youngest daughter who sent him to the field.

At this time, Li Xiaomei was cooking in the kitchen while sobbing. Li Hongbing frowned and entered the kitchen, "Naughty again?"

Li Xiaomei wiped away her tears fiercely, and replied in a low voice, "No, I don't get scolded for a day, my skin itch."

Li Hongbing's brows were wrinkled even more by these yin and yang words, and finally he said, "Your mother will be back tomorrow."

Li Xiaomei's eyes almost turned red when she thought of her thin mother. She would rather her uncle and the others keep her mother for a few more days.

"I'm so lazy! Just say a few words about her and she will cry! Boss, what kind of daughter do you think you gave birth to? Our family shouldn't have married that bitter face back then, but you insisted on marrying her! Look at what time it is." Well, the food is not on the table yet!"

"If it was at the second child's house, the children would have served meals long ago, and invited the two of us to eat."

A chubby old lady pushed open the kitchen door, pointed at Li Xiaomei, scolded Li Xiaomei, and then scolded Li Hongbing who was helping cook.

I went through old accounts for a while.

Li Xiaomei looked at Li Hongbing, who was silent with downcast eyes, and bit her lips tightly to keep herself from crying again.

Early the next morning, Mo Cheng and Xiao Le boxed together in the yard. After breakfast, Mo Cheng went out with money to buy electrical appliances.

Xiao Le wandered around the village, and finally came to the path in front of Li Hongbing's house.

There is no such good-looking young man in the village. Mrs. Li narrowed her eyes and looked at him. Xiao Le greeted him with a smile.

"Hi, I just moved here. My surname is Xiao."

As soon as Mrs. Li heard that she had just moved here, she thought of the house of her elder brother's house. She had a bad face, because she thought that the house was her brother's, and her elder brother went to the city to enjoy the blessings. Their house, but the eldest brother sold it!

"Surname Xiao? Where did you come from? How did you come to buy a house in our mountain?"

The tone was not very friendly, and Xiao Le didn't care. He walked into their yard familiarly, and the yard was tidy.

"We are from Dongshi. My parents want to find a place to recuperate. No, my friend said his hometown is nice, so we asked him to look at the house."

Xiao Le said briefly.

Mrs. Li felt sour when she heard this. The people in this city are so rich, and they even came to rob them of houses.

"How much did you pay for this house?"

She asked.

Xiao Le stretched out a hand to gesture.

Mrs. Li gasped suddenly, "Fifty thousand?"

"Well, I think the house is very nice. It has just been repaired. I don't see many houses that are so cheap."

Xiao Le looked like he didn't know the sufferings of the world.

Sure enough, Mrs. Li frowned and shook her head at him, "You guys are fooled, the bricks of that house are from the old house, and the walls were simply painted on the outside, which looks good, but it hasn't been hit by wind and rain for a few years. It won't work!"

"is it?"

Xiao Le took out his mobile phone and called Uncle Li's son's name angrily, "I'll call to find out! What's your last name, I have to tell him that I have a witness!"

Mrs. Li originally wanted Xiao Le to check out and leave. If the house could not be sold, it would naturally fall into their hands. Seeing that he was going to call again and ask her name again, she immediately panicked.

"Then what, I also heard people say that such a house is not good, but whether it is good or not, the people who live in it have to feel it themselves. If you live well, then this house is not bad, right?"

Sure enough, Xiao Le frowned, put his phone away and nodded, "Ma'am, what you said is good, we will be neighbors in the future, if you need help, just say it."

"That is, that is."

After Xiao Le left, Mrs. Li rolled her eyes and called out Li Xiaomei, who had just come back with pigweed, "You, go to your grandpa's house and see how many people there are."

Li Xiaomei didn't know that the owner of the house had changed. She didn't dare to disobey Mrs. Li's words, otherwise she would scold or beat her.

Dad will only say that he is disobedient, and only disobedient children will be beaten.

She put down the basket numbly, and just walked towards Xiao Le's house.

When I arrived at the gate of the courtyard, I saw such a good-looking little brother standing in the courtyard. She was already 14 years old, and at the age of the second year of junior high school, she naturally knew beauty and ugliness.

"Which family are you from?"

Xiao Le smiled and waved at her.

Li Xiaomei hesitated on the ground, with her head half down, her eyes fell on her dirty clothes, and she whispered back, "I belong to Li Hongbing's family, what about you?"

"We just moved here, come in and sit?"

Li Xiaomei immediately understood that Grandpa's house was sold to them, and upon hearing this, she quickly shook her head, then turned and went home.

As soon as he left, the smile on Xiao Le's face faded a bit.

If you guessed right, this little girl is Li Hongbing's youngest daughter. She doesn't even have an official name. Both the book title and nickname are called Li Xiaomei, because this name is often bullied at school.

Later, Mrs. Li felt that a girl’s family didn’t need to study so much, so she told Li Hongbing not to let her go to high school. After graduating from junior high school, she went to work. Later, she was assigned to work in an electronics factory, but because of improper operation, she became disabled.

"How is it, how many people?"

As soon as Li Xiaomei appeared at the end of the small road, Mrs. Li raised her voice and asked.

She didn't answer right away, but went into her yard, and said to the anxious old lady Li, "Just one."

"Where are the others?"

"...didn't see it."

"Useless stuff! You can't do this well!"

Mrs. Li picked up the broom against the wall and was about to hit Li Xiaomei. Li Xiaomei dodged skillfully, "I'm going to feed the pigs."

After speaking, he ran away.

No one was hit, and Mrs. Li also threw the broom in the yard. Old man Li came out with a hoe, and saw her like this, "Little sister is disobedient again?"

"This useless thing, what can you do, it's the same as her parents!"

When Xiao Le received Mo Cheng's news, he got up and went to Li Laosan's house, and asked Li Laosan's brother to help carry the household appliances across the creek.

"Two are definitely not enough, I'll find a few more."

Li Laosan picked up his second-hand mobile phone, called the two people who came back together yesterday, and then set off with Xiao Le.

"I bought meat and fish, and I have to work hard for you at noon."

Mo Cheng handed the dishes to Xiao Le to take them back first, Xiao Le gave him a hammer, "You're so polite, is that my elder brother?"

"Then you go back quickly, it's hot today," Mo Cheng waved at him with some disgust, Xiao Le gave him another slap, and then hurried home with the vegetables.

Since asking someone to help, it is natural that we should cook a good meal to entertain the other party.

The place where Li Hongbing worked was near the creek, so he was naturally pulled by Li Laosan to help.

Li Laosan thought that the three families lived close together, so he took this opportunity to get closer to the neighbors.

By the time they delivered the appliances home, Xiao Le was already cooking the last dish.

"I also bought beer."

Mo Cheng came in with a box of beer in his arms, "It's a pity that the refrigerator just arrived, and the beer is not frozen."

"You can drink it too. You can eat it for a long time. You can freeze a few bottles right now," Xiao Le said, and Mo Cheng did the same, and then helped to carry the bowls and chopsticks.

"Come and come, don't be polite, sit down and eat."

"We're not polite."

The electric fan whirred, bringing a gust of wind. The sun outside the house was warm, and the cicadas on the trees kept chirping. Inside the house, people were eating food, blowing the wind, and drinking beer. The atmosphere was good.

Li Hongbing finished his meal in two or three strokes, then got up and said he was going to work.

"It's such a hot day, let's take a rest."

Mo Cheng looked at the sun outside, it wasn't even a little bit at the moment, it was the hot time.

"Yeah, look at you, you are obviously two years younger than me, but you look a few years older than me," Li Laosi held him back and refused to let him go.

"The work in the field does not wait for anyone, and I will definitely talk with you some other day."

Li Hongbing smiled and waved to everyone, hurriedly walked towards the scorching sun, Li Xiaomei was just about to bring him food, when she saw him coming out of the yard, she froze there.

"Take it back, I've eaten it."

Li Hongbing waved his hand at his little daughter, and then walked towards the creek. Just as he reached the fork in the road, he met a thin woman.

The other party looked tired, with a sallow face, and was still coughing at this moment.

"You're back? Little sister! You bring the food here, and take a hoe by the way, your mother is back!"

After Xiao Le had a good meal, he heard this as soon as he walked to the railing of the yard. He looked at his task target, which was Li Hongbing's wife Zhang Lijuan.

Listen, is this human?

Seeing that people's health is not very good, in such a big sun, they don't let people go home to rest, they just take the food and want to work together.

"This is sister-in-law, right? Sister-in-law, come in and eat!"

Xiao Le ran down enthusiastically, regardless of Li Hongbing's refusal, not only pulled away the stunned Zhang Lijuan, but also brought Li Xiaomei into the yard.

The food was still very hot, Mo Cheng heard the sound and went to serve the food, Li Laosan and the others also warmly greeted the mother and daughter.

Zhang Lijuan's hospitality was hard to refrain from, so she had to sit down with the reserved Li Xiaomei. The mother and daughter didn't talk much, and they hung their heads while eating.

After eating, Zhang Lijuan and Li Xiaomei also helped clean up the kitchen.

Xiao Le took the opportunity to talk to them.

He looked tender, Zhang Lijuan asked his age, Xiao Le said, "Just turned twenty."

Zhang Lijuan looked at him in surprise, "I thought you were seventeen or eight."

"Sister-in-law's words sound beautiful to me," Xiao Le kept laughing, "My eldest brother is only 23."

"You brothers are all handsome," Zhang Lijuan said a little more than when she was in the main room, "You call me sister-in-law, and I think I'm taking advantage."

She is ten years older than Xiao Le.

"Nonsense," Xiao Le retorted solemnly, "If you don't say it, I thought you were only thirty."

Both Zhang Lijuan and Li Xiaomei smiled.

They worked quickly and packed it up in a few clicks. Xiao Le took out apricot jam and stuffed a bottle for Li Xiaomei.

Li Xiaomei took a look at Zhang Lijuan, saw her nodding, and then accepted it.

And after Zhang Lijuan and Li Xiaomei left, she didn't go home, but went to the field, and Li Xiaomei returned home with the untouched food box.

She didn't say anything, Mrs. Li and the others had already gone to take a nap after dinner.

Under the scorching sun, Li Hongbing and his wife buried themselves in their work.

Li Hongbing complained a little, "Little sister has brought the food, why are you going to eat at someone's house?"

Zhang Lijuan was already suffocated in her heart, and it was this anger that made her accept Xiao Le's kindness. At this moment, she was so rebuffed, she immediately threw down her hoe, her eyes were red and she trembled, "Why should I go to someone else's house to eat?" ? I want to go home to eat, will you let me? Don't your parents talk enough?"

"Why are you talking about this again?"

Li Hongbing also put down his hoe irritably, looked at Zhang Lijuan and said, "Isn't it normal for them to chatter when they are old?"

"Just nagging?"

Zhang Lijuan took a deep breath, looking at the vicissitudes of life in front of the man, she felt even colder in her heart, "Seeing that my son will take the college entrance examination next year and go to university, I asked you to go out and find some work, but you just didn't listen. I said I would go out, even if it was to wash dishes for others, but you wouldn't let me!"

"What's the deal with the tuition? Have you thought about it?"

"Isn't it still early? Don't you have any money at home?"

"Money? Leave it to your mother! Have we ever gotten a point? Cough cough cough..."

Under Zhang Lijuan's excitement, she coughed again and again.

"Why do you say you are so excited? Sit down and rest."

Zhang Lijuan cried out of anger.

Li Hongbing was at a loss. At this moment, Xiao Le's voice came from the side of the road.

"What's wrong with sister-in-law? Did you feel uncomfortable after being bitten by bugs?"

Zhang Lijuan quickly wiped away her tears, but her chest was heaving so badly, she still felt uncomfortable at first glance.

"It's okay!" Li Hongbing quickly returned to Xiao Le, "Little brother, it's okay, just, just bitten by an ant!"

"That's really unlucky. This kind of ants should be deep-fried and eaten with chili! Sister-in-law, don't be soft-hearted. If you are soft-hearted, you will harm yourself."

There was something in Xiao Le's words, which made Zhang Lijuan feel better immediately. She glanced at Li Hongbing who didn't know why, and left with a hoe on her shoulder.

"Take it easy yourself! I'm going home."

"what?"

Li Hongbing looked puzzled, what's the matter?

Why are you angry again?

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