Chapter Ninety-Seven: Difficulties

Li Yihe has long had no idea about the people in the old house, to say something unfilial, in his father's heart, only the eldest son who can glorify his ancestors is a treasure, and the rest of the sons are roots.

It's Fu's, a woman, sometimes it's easy to be cautious and drill the tip of the horns.

Li Xiaoran took her mother's hand and said, "Mother is wrong, Dad has already seen it, and Dad won't be sad." Dad said it a long time ago, and he didn't look forward to the warmth of that home for a long time. As long as our family is good, it is better than anything else. โ€

These words are a bit unfilial, but they are Li Yihe's heart.

Fu Shi thought about it, leaned over to help her fix her hair, and said gently: "It's my mother who wants to go wrong." โ€

After she figured it out, she led her daughter to the banshan, loaded a few vegetables, especially meat dishes, and filled a small pot, picked up a few large steamed buns with white flour and cornmeal, and arranged for Li Xuefeng to send them to the old house.

The brothers went to the old house, Zhang sat in the yard and craned his neck to look out, and saw that his second son and Li Xuefeng's brother had sent food over, and he hurriedly stepped forward to take the basin in his son's hand, and said with a smile: "Oh, what is this?" Pork stewed vermicelli? Tsk, this, this meat is so much, the second child is really rich now, but he is really generous. โ€

Tian came out of the back room and said lovingly: "I said that I don't need to send food, why do you still bring so much, is there enough food at home?" โ€

Li Xuefeng said: "That's enough, these are pretended by my mother, saying that when the uncles and uncles who helped in the evening are gone, I will come to see my grandfather with my father." These foods are well replenished for grandpa. โ€

Tian Di's face was panicked when he heard this, and he took the pot of pork belly in his hand, "Sue your father, you don't need to come over, you are tired from working all day and night." Your grandfather is fine, just rest for two days. โ€

Li Xuefeng scratched his head with a humble smile: "Then I'll tell my father and mother." โ€

Seeing that a few children were gone, Qian Shi looked at Fu Shi and stopped, Fu Shi didn't see her tangled expression, and greeted with a smile: "Sister-in-law, brother and sister, let's come over and eat quickly." After eating, let's take a break. It's been a busy morning, and I've had to trouble everyone these days. โ€

"It's too polite to say this, so why don't you do it a little bit. You took care of us so much before, and we made a lot of money by doing those head flowers. โ€

The daughters-in-law loaded the dishes, and everyone gathered around the stove to talk and eat.

"The big guy eats hard, and there are so many dishes!" Fu smiled and asked everyone to eat more. In addition to the Hua family, it is the Qian family who can eat some good food in the town with the light of the two children. The rest of the people, except for the New Year's Festival, usually can't look at the meat star.

"Eat, eat, eat." The safflower lady ate with a mouth full of oil, and casually stroked her mouth with her sleeve, muttering in her mouth. "You also sit down to eat, you are not an outsider, don't be busy."

She kept gulping in her mouth. This wolf bรจi seems to be unhappy if people who are a little more particular about it, but these people have a good relationship with her. Knowing that she was very hungry, no one laughed at her.

Not to mention her, it's everyone else, who is not eating fast.

Honghua Niang was pregnant and couldn't come to work, but Fu had a good relationship with her, knowing that she couldn't eat anything good at home, so he called her to help, followed the fight, and could also fight tooth sacrifices.

Another twenty-six-seventeen-year-old woman, Jiang Chengniang, whose husband is Jiang Zhifa, is also full of mouths, pulled Fu Shi and said, "Sister-in-law also eats, don't worry about us, no one will be polite to you." โ€

Fu Shi let everyone go, and then sat down and said to Hua's: "I have already asked Ran'er to deliver food to Shu'er just now, sister-in-law, don't worry about it." โ€

Hua smiled: "What's the matter, it's not that there is no one at home." It's Ran'er, just let a few of them come over and eat together. โ€

Fu Shi looked up, just in time to see Jiang Qiniang secretly stuffing the steamed bun into her arms, she was stunned, Jiang Qiniang looked up, and saw that her actions made Fu Shi look right, her face turned red, and she snorted: "His aunt, I, I, I want to take it to the family for the children to eat, I'm not hungry, just eat a few mouthfuls of food." โ€

Fu Shi was sad, stood up and took a big steamed bun and stuffed it into her hand, and said in a low voice: "It's me who didn't think about it, sister-in-law eats first, I'll decorate some dishes, and everyone will take it back to order, so that the children in the family can also see the meat." โ€

Jiang Qiniang's eyes turned red, and she said embarrassedly: "Then how can I do it, you have helped me enough, how can I eat it and ......" She wanted to say how could she eat it and take it, but when she thought about her actions just now, tears of shame fell, "Xuefeng-"

Fu Shi also had red circles in his eyes and patted her hands, "I know, I know, sister-in-law, don't cry, I know it." โ€

Hua Shi also stood up, and she said loudly: "Okay, don't shed tears, I don't know, I thought we bullied you." I made a lot of this dish today, so I packed a bowl and took it home for the two children. โ€

Fu Shi filled a big bowl of pork stewed vermicelli, the vermicelli was less pork, and he took two steamed buns and filled them with her, "Sister-in-law, let's send it back first." โ€

Jiang Qiniang blushed and said in a low voice, "Thank you." โ€

Fu Shi pushed her, "Sister-in-law, let's go, go home and rest for a while and come over, we are still waiting for my sister-in-law to come over and steam dry food, if you want to say that this steamed dry food, we can't compare to my sister-in-law." โ€

"It's not as good as you say." Jiang Qiniang's face turned even redder when she was praised, and she said in a low voice: "I'll come back when I go." โ€

When she left, the tears that Honghua Niang had been holding back fell, and Jiang Chengniang scolded: "She is a widow from a family, life is difficult, why are you crying?" โ€

Jiang Qiniang's maiden name is Li, the older of these people is thirty-three years old, her husband was seriously ill five years ago, and the originally solid family foundation was hollowed out, but her husband still gave up, leaving a ten-year-old son Jiang Qi and a seven-year-old daughter Jiang Min.

Now, the son is fifteen years old, and it will be time to say goodbye in two years, although the Li family worked in the Fu family before and earned a few pennies, but where would she use the money to improve the food, the family of three is yellow and thin.

She looked at these sumptuous dishes, thinking that the two children in the family were eating hard and unstoppable dead dough cakes, so she wanted to bring her back to the children to eat, but she didn't expect to be seen by Fu, and she also filled her with several more steaming steamed buns and a bowl of meat and vegetables, which made her lonely heart more warm all these years.

Li brought a bowl of steamed buns to the house, and saw that his son was making a wooden stool at home, and his daughter was carrying a bowl of cabbage soup and two hard dough cakes on a small wooden stool in the courtyard.

"Mother, why are you back?" When Jiang Qi saw her, he hurriedly put down the work in his hand, ran over to take the big bowl, and asked in surprise, "Where did the meat come from?" Did Aunt Li give it? โ€

"Well, your Aunt Li asked me to bring it back for you to eat." Li closed the courtyard door, took out the steamed buns, and said gently: "Eat it, this meat is a three-layer pork belly inside, but it is fragrant." โ€

Jiang Min swallowed his saliva, broke a piece of steamed bread and handed it to his mother, then broke another piece for his brother, and kept the smallest piece for himself, "Mother, brother, eat." โ€

Li took it, first put a big piece of fat meat in a bowl for a pair of children, and then took a small sip of cabbage soup and drank it, there was not a drop of oil in the cabbage soup, with a slight astringency, she drank and drank, tears fell down, and she hurriedly wiped it off with the back of her hand.

Jiang Qi ate silently, and when he saw his mother crying, he put down the bowl and said: "Mother, I think about it, I want to go to the town and ask where to accept apprentices, I am so old, our family only has two acres of land, and if this continues, the family will only get poorer and poorer." Now that I'm older, my sister is older, and in the future, I'll have more places to use money. โ€

Jiang Min looked at his brother in surprise, then at his mother, bit his lip and said, "Brother, will you be too old to be an apprentice now, and will people be willing to ask for it?" โ€

"You've got to try."

"Otherwise, go and ask Uncle Ye to let my brother follow him, or go over to be an apprentice." Jiang Min whispered.

Li Shi listened to the words of his children, smiled bitterly, and said: "This matter, I will talk about it in a few days, my mother promised you Aunt Li, and I will help during the time when she is building a house in her house, I will think about it again." โ€

Jiang Qi looked at the Li family and said seriously: "Mother, in fact, there is nothing wrong with following Uncle Ye, you look at the two families who followed him, now they don't have to worry about food and clothing, and our family is not the same as before, if you still hold the shelf of a scholar, I'm afraid you will really not be able to eat and drink." โ€

Jiang Qi's father is also a scholar, but he has no talent for reading, and he didn't even pass the examination as a child, so he sold a few acres of land in his family in order to study, but he fell ill and died, and the family was really poor.

Jiang Qi has a lively brain since he was a child, and his reading is much better than his father, seeing that the family is really poor, he discussed with the Li family, and wanted to go to the Ye family to do long-term work, the Li family didn't want his son to become a slave, and the short contract was not successful, thinking that he should study, but how could the family have extra money for him, so he has been stumbling so far.

Fortunately, Jiang Qi is a good person, and he learned some handicraft work from the half-hung carpenter of his neighbor Uncle Zhang, although his hands are not good, and no one is looking for him to do work, but the tables and stools that the family needs, he went up the mountain to cut wood, dragged it home to do it himself, and did not need to spend money to buy it, but also saved a fortune.

The family relied on the output of these two acres of land and a few chickens raised by the family to barely make a living. A few days ago, he turned fifteen years old, and he was grinding all day long that the Li family wanted to go out to work to make money to support the family, and the Li family only had this son and a daughter, and he didn't want him to go far, so he hesitated.

Jiang Qi sighed in his heart, since his father was gone, his mother was afraid that his brother and sister would make a mistake, and he refused to let them leave home, now that he has grown up, he can't live his life in front of his mother like this!

Li returned to the construction site where the Li family built a house with a lot of heart, and happened to meet Li Xiaoran who was sitting on a big stone with a bowl and a few brothers eating Zhengxiang.

"Aunt Li is back." Li Xuefeng said hello to her, "Brother Jiang Qi is at home, I still want to ask him to help me make a climbing plow!" (To be continued) R655