The mud houses in the village were dilapidated after a few months of inhabitation.

Song Haonian said: "I haven't lived in anyone's house for a few months, and I don't know what kind of rain leakage and insects are there, don't worry, I'll go repair and repair, and then ask the second elder to go back." ”

At the beginning, Li Mingjiang fell very hard, and the Zhu family also came in a hurry, and he didn't care about tidying up the house, even if Li Caifeng's brothers helped take care of it for a few months, the house could not be occupied.

The next day, Song Haonian and Lily went back to Liushan Village to take a look, and sure enough, the house was full of spiders, the roof was leaking in a few places, the ground was full of puddles of water and weeds, there were seven or eight mouse holes in the kitchen, and the rice, noodles, eggs, and meat in the cabinet were rotten terribly, and there was a stench.

The husband and wife glanced at each other, rolled up their sleeves and worked, first threw out all the rotten things, wiped the boxes in the air, and put them under the sun to dry to remove the smell.

Song Haonian climbed on the roof to fill the loopholes, and the Li brothers came to help when they saw it, and quickly wiped the roof, and helped sweep the spiders, cut the grass on the ground, and dig a few baskets of loess to pad the ground and tamp it down, and the house returned to a flat state.

Song Haonian lit a thatch handle in the kitchen, stuffed it into the mouse hole to smoke the mouse, and finally plugged the hole with stones and yellow mud.

The house must be popular so that it will not be dilapidated, as long as Li Mingjiang and the Zhu family come back, the house will be lively, and there will be fewer snakes, insects, rats and ants.

The mattress cover has long been so bad that the rats are unusable, so I grabbed it and shook it, shaking out several catties of rat feces. Lily endured the nausea and rolled up the futon and dragged it to the door, Song Haonian carried it with one hand and threw it outside.

Lily said: "A lot of things have to be replanted, it's like moving." ”

Song Haonian said with a smile: "These things in the house are very old, it's better to use new ones, just to move." ”

Rao is two people are young, quick hands and feet, and with the help of the Li brothers, the work in this house is still worthy of doing a whole day, and both of them are tired enough, especially Lily has come to a small day in the past two days, and always feels the pain of falling from the waist.

There is a little tail left to come back tomorrow, Song Haonian can't wait to carry Lily on his back, and Lily pushes him hard: "You are also tired of a day, what are you doing with me?"

Her little bit of strength, beating people is like tickling, and she can't push it, Song Haonian insisted on carrying her for a difficult road, and only put it down when she was relieved, and the two of them walked home slowly.

In the past few days, Lily has the heart to teach Song Haonian arithmetic, she said: "I can read and read, I dare not teach you, if you want to learn, go to learn from Qingsong every few days." Just settle the account, I'm no worse than Qingsong, and you have to learn too. ”

Song Haonian has no interest in learning these things, but he is smart, and he has some arithmetic background, and Lily taught him to memorize the ninety-nine multiplication table, and he can understand it when he listens to it.

In the past two days, I have memorized to sixty-four, and while I was walking, Lily taught the mantra of nine, as long as I can memorize the multiplication table, I am better than most illiterate people in the world.

Song Haonian only thought that this thing was to please his daughter-in-law, anyway, he didn't have to work hard, Lily was willing to teach, he was willing to memorize, but he was not interested in learning to read and write with Qingsong, and Lily didn't force him.

When he got home, Song Haonian was already able to stumble from nineteen to ninety-nine to ninety-eighty-one, and Lily smiled: "You have to memorize it to the extent that you can answer it when I ask casually, and then you can calculate the teacher's mile." ”

She taught Lamei to calculate accounts, Lamei riveted and learned for half a month to learn the multiplication table, Song Hao was young and easy to learn in a few days, even Lily had to sigh, some people are born smart.

Before entering the house, he smelled the aroma of food, Lily looked at Song Haonian in surprise, and Song Haonian smiled: "I think my mother-in-law is cooking?"

Zhu's four bodies have not been diligent for many days, waiting for her daughter to serve her, and now it is rare to be diligent, rolling out the noodles and stir-frying some slurry soup, just waiting for the daughter-in-law to come back and eat on the slurry water.

Lily only felt that the sun was coming out in the west, and said, "Mother is diligent today." ”

Zhu said angrily: "I'm lazy, the food and clothes you used when you were a child were all carried to you by the old sparrow?"

Zhu is not the kind of person who has no conscience, although she is unwilling to go back to the village, but she always has to accompany Li Mingjiang, and if Li Mingjiang wants to go back, she has to go back.

Although the daughters are not very intimate, the eldest daughter and her son-in-law ran all the way to clean up the house for them, and the Zhu family also knew that they would cook well and wait for them to come back, otherwise people would be chilled when they came home and saw the cold pot and cold stove.

On the second day, Lamei knew that Li and the old couple were going back, so she came over with Wang Xiaofu to help go back to the village to clean up the house.

Zhu said: "You don't recognize me as a mother, why are you running?"

Lamei was not angry: "I still recognize my father!"

It's this mother she doesn't want to admit very much, in the end, she has to give birth to her, and she has to have filial piety, she Li Lamei is not such a person who has no conscience.

Within two or three days, the house was cleaned up and all kinds of bedding were ready, and the family sent Li Mingjiang back.

The mountain road was rugged and difficult to walk, and the car could not be erected, so Wang Xiaofu borrowed a mule, laid a saddle, and helped Li Mingjiang to sit on it, so that the two people supported him behind him so that he would not fall down and fall again.

The mule is a cross between a horse and a donkey, and it has strong endurance and good temperament, and can carry weight for long distances. People in rural areas who could not afford to raise horses often kept a mule as a coolie. Several baskets were tied to the sides of the mule's belly, and newly bought rice, flour, oil, salt and other things were placed in them. Wang Xiaofu and Song Haonian each carried a large basket, which was full of fragments, and the bedding was rolled into a roll and tied with hemp rope on the top. Lamei and Baiyi supported Li Mingjiang left and right, and also carried them on their arms

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Zhu's age is not as old as Lily, and he was really afraid that she would be tired, and it would be troublesome to turn around, so he simply told her to be empty-handed.

It is when the sun is hot, and the sun shines directly on the body, and the skin aches through the clothes. Rao is everyone is wearing straw hats, and the mountains are a little cooler than the town, but his cheeks are still red from the sun, and sweat is rolling.

At this time, Zhu Shi became sensible again, and when he rested, he took the water bladder from the mule, and beckoned his daughters and sons-in-law to drink water.

Li Mingjiang sighed: "I am a wasted person, I just drag you down." ”

Lamei said: "Dad, you are always good, eat and sleep well, and you will show us the children in a few years." ”

She was just newly married, and when she said these words, she couldn't help laughing: "Okay, I'll look at your dolls in the future." ”

Speaking of her grandson, Zhu was also greedy, and when Lamei got married, her eyes rolled to Lily's waist: "Big girl, when can you get pregnant." ”

Lily stared at her mother for a while, and hurriedly said: "What are you in a hurry, fate will naturally come." ”

Zhu said proudly: "I conceived you in the first year I came to this house, and I jumped out one by one in the future, which one doesn't say that I am the hero of the old Li family?"

Lily thought to herself: You only had to give birth to a girl before, even the two who died young were also girls, and it was easy to give birth to a green pine, and you went crazy.

Of course, she is not a patriarchal person, but the Zhu family has been patriarchal for decades, and it is really funny that she will talk about her birth to a daughter.

When the woman's family talked about childbirth, the three men blushed a little, pretending to look into the distance and not speak, as for what they were thinking, only they knew.

After resting for two or three breaths on the road, and finally arrived at Liushan Village, Song Haonian and Wang Xiaofu went into the house to put down the basket, and then rushed out to put Li Mingjiang from the mule on his back and send him to the shade of the hall to sit.

Lily took Lamei to the bedroom to make the bed, cleaned up the house, and then helped Li Mingjiang in and lay down.

Li Mingjiang said: "The original mattress is old, and it can still be used in the sun." ”

His original bedding was even worse than the bed he had married to Lily, and if he had been ruined by the mouse, where could he still use it? Lily said: "Now you can use the new one, and you don't need those things anymore." ”

"You're big!" Zhu said, touching the new and soft futon and not letting go.

When she lived in her eldest daughter's house, she was most reluctant to have these good bedding. Fortunately, the big girl still has a little filial piety and knows how to honor them.

A few people inside and outside the house have already been asked to clean up, a few points neater than before, Zhu has looked around, and feels that although it is not as spacious as the eldest daughter's house, in the end, the house that has lived for decades has feelings, and his heart is also a little satisfied.

The water tank in the kitchen was empty, and Lamei called Wang Xiaofu to carry the water.

In the mountains, you don't eat well water, but there is a mountain spring in the north of Liushan Village, the spring water is sweet, warm in winter and cool in summer.

It is necessary for the people in the mountains to take enough water for eating, drinking, and washing every morning, and when Lily and Lamei were at home, they did not miss carrying water.

Wang Xiaofu and Lamei were very sticky, and Lily didn't make trouble very much, and it just so happened that her husband was also sticking to her.

People say that the golden nest and the silver nest are not as good as their own kennels. The old couple went back to their own home, very comfortable, especially Li Mingjiang, no matter how comfortable they lived in their daughter's house, they also felt that it was their daughter's house, not a long-term place.

When he returned, he was in good spirits, and it wasn't long before he came out and sat down on crutches. He made himself a rocking chair with a big bamboo two years earlier, and he was comfortable to sit at this time.

Li Mingjiang said to Song Haonian: "When I am better, I will go to the forest to dig bamboo shoots for you, you have not eaten the bamboo shoots this spring." ”

He fell when he was cutting bamboo, and Lily was shocked when she heard this, and said, "Then you have to go again, and you can't fall again." "That being said, it is not known whether Li Mingjiang can really get all right.