At night, Liang Xuetao and Zhou Cheng took advantage of the night to load dozens of bags of grain and more than a dozen barrels of edible oil into two trucks and transport them to Liang Xuetao's home.

After the two of them finished their work, they each wiped their faces with hot water, and when they returned to the hall, Wei Hongyu had already brought a large pot of stew to the table.

Zhou Cheng didn't drink alcohol, so she didn't mix cold dishes, but only made a pot of stew and two small stir-fries.

The staple food is dumplings.

A few days ago was the winter solstice, and Ota Village has the custom of eating dumplings every winter solstice.

Wei Hongyubao's pursed pork stuffed dumplings have thin skin and fragrant filling, not only Liang Dou loves to eat, but even Liang Wen, who always controls her appetite in order to lose weight, can't help but eat more than a dozen in a row.

Thinking that the children love to eat, Wei Hongyu packed a lot of them today, and there were about thirty leftover after dinner, which were just used to make supper for Liang Xuetao and them.

Zhou Cheng tasted one, and after swallowing it, he couldn't help but ask in surprise: "This is the stuffing of shepherd's cabbage, is there still shepherd's cabbage on such a cold day?" ”

Wei Hongyu said with a smile: "There are not many things in our village, but there are such things as shepherd's cabbage all over the mountain." In the summer, it is picked now, and it is clumped and frozen in the freezer, and it will not break for several months. After the earthquake, there was a power outage in the village, I thought that these vegetables would be spoiled, but fortunately, the weather was cold quickly, so I put these camellia in a bag, tied it tightly, and put it in the well, and when I wanted to eat it, I took it out to thaw it, although it didn't taste as good as freshly picked, but it wasn't much worse. ”

"It's really not bad, my sister-in-law's craftsmanship has nothing to say." Zhou Cheng said with a smile: "This dumpling skin still has a color, yellow, yellow, green and green, it looks good, and it tastes fragrant, I really don't see it, my sister-in-law is quite particular." ”

Wei Hongyu pursed her lips and smiled, she is not a particular person, but in order to make Liang Dou happy, she deliberately poured pumpkin juice and spinach juice on the flour, so that the rolled out dumpling skin is yellow and green, and it will definitely feel quite new when you see it for the first time.

The two chatted for a while while eating, and Zhou Cheng mentioned Liang Xuetao's fight against gangsters in the afternoon.

As a man, no matter what age or status he is in, he will probably have a kind of hero complex, looking forward to the day when he can be as brave as Xiang Yu - pulling out the mountains and covering the world.

Zhou Cheng was no exception, and after a sigh, he couldn't help but ask: "Brother Xuetao, I see that your strength is amazing, and your hands and feet are so powerful, have you learned from others?" ”

Liang Xuetao nodded, and replied that someone from outside the party had taught him some moves, thought about it, and mentioned the firmware technique by the way.

Zhou Cheng scooped up a chopstick bean sprout and put it in his mouth, and after eating, he asked casually, "Is that firmware technique you said very powerful?" My sister-in-law also learned, right? In my spare time, I heard one thing often discussed in the village, saying that you two didn't look so young before..."

"Your sister-in-law did learn a few lessons from me, but some changes in our appearance are not the reason." Speaking of this, Liang Xuetao paused slightly: "Once I took your sister-in-law to visit my master, and the old man boiled a pot of ginseng porridge as a meeting gift, and it became like this after we finished eating." ”

Zhou Cheng let out a dispensable "um", and then the conversation changed and talked about other things.

Early the next morning, Zhou Cheng deliberately went to Rongshui County, filled Liang Xuetao's Grand Cherokee, and when he came to return the car keys, he also brought two barrels of 100 liters of diesel as a thank you gift.

Liang Xuetao was not polite and accepted it on the spot.

Soon after Zhou Cheng left, Liang Xuejun suddenly came, saying that his father-in-law was going to the city and wanted to borrow Liang Xuetao's car for a use.

Liang Xuetao listened to it, and he was so angry that he almost didn't laugh out loud.

He Wei never gave an explanation for helping Duan Meifang build a bridge to spread the word before, let alone apologize, why, at this time, she had the face to say that her mother's family wanted to borrow a car?

He looked Liang Xuejun from beginning to end, up and down several times, and the other party who looked straight at him was furious, so he casually spit out two words: "Don't borrow." ”

Liang Xuejun was stunned: "Why?" ”

"During this time, you borrowed the car three times, and each time you drove until you ran out of gas and returned it. You also know that the diesel on the market is not easy to get nowadays, and it takes a lot of effort to rely on the relationship and stuff money, and it takes a lot of effort to do it......" Speaking of this, Liang Xuetao glanced at him: "Actually, it's not impossible if you want to borrow a car this time, but you have to promise me one thing first." ”

"What's the matter?"

"You have to fill up the tank when you return the car."

Liang Xuejun was hesitant, and he held back for a long time before squeezing out a sentence: "Second brother, aren't we a family, isn't it too foreign to say this?" ”

"Yes, you are my brother, we are a family, but what does this have to do with the He family?"

"He Wei is my daughter-in-law, and you are also your ......"

"Stop! That's what you think, your daughter-in-law didn't treat me as a brother, let alone your sister-in-law. ”

Liang Xuetao actually didn't want to say some things thoroughly, firstly, he felt that he was wasting his tongue, and secondly, he was also saving some face for his younger brother, but if he didn't pierce this layer of window paper, it was like picking up a cheap price for He Wei, pretending to be deaf and dumb, as if something had never happened, this practice was really hateful.

When Liang Xuejun heard him say this, his face suddenly turned red, and he stood stunned and didn't stay or leave, he wanted to defend He Wei for a few words, but he didn't know where to start for a while, and finally left without saying a word.

After lunch, Mrs. Liang asked someone to bring a message, saying that she had something to do with Liang Xuetao.

Liang Xuetao went to his mother's residence, and after entering the door, he found that the house was cold and swishing, and then he saw that the old lady was wearing a navy blue cotton dress with patterns, and a pair of Wei Hongyu's newly knitted cashmere wool pants this year, and the whole person curled up on the back chair, holding a hot water bottle in her hand.

Seeing this, Liang Xuetao got up without saying a word and added a few pieces of carbon to the coal stove, returned to the seat, wiped his hands with a towel, and said: "Mom, you can't live so frugally, how much can you save with a few pieces .......of coal, in case you freeze people, it will be more than worth the loss."

Mrs. Liang smiled wryly, afraid that he would hold on to this topic, so she hurriedly explained the purpose of calling Liang Xuetao over this time.

It turned out that Liang Xuejun couldn't borrow a car, and after being rejected by Liang Xuetao, he turned to his mother, and wanted to borrow Mrs. Liang's mouth to force Liang Xuetao to agree to borrow a car, the idea was very good, but unfortunately this time he and He Wei miscalculated.

Speaking of which, Mrs. Liang is different from the elders of other people's families, first of all, she never protects any of the five children in the family, and secondly, unless there are some life-related matters, she will order the children to reach out to each other to help, usually she only talks about things and does not care about people.

It's just that she is a fair and reasonable person, so when she saw Liang Xuetao, she didn't rush to be a lobbyist for her youngest son, but asked what was going on first.

Liang Xuetao said with an expressionless face that there was a shortage of diesel and gasoline recently, and the gas stations in the city and county did not sell oil to the public.

The old lady nodded, did not continue, and changed the conversation to talk about the recent weather.

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There will be a shift in a while, about ten o'clock.