Not two days after Wang Xiaofu went, Liu Yi came to the door with his wife and children.

Several people are old acquaintances, Liu Yi is Song Haonian's eldest brother, Li Caifeng is the sister of the Lily Niang family, Liu Yi and Song Haonian talk about their livelihoods, and Li Caifeng takes his daughter Xing'er and Lily to gossip.

Xing'er is only four years old, she was sick a few days ago, and now she is better, her big eyes follow Li Caifeng, her parents love her smart, she is not timid when she sees people, and she is extremely lively.

Sometimes children are more sensitive than adults, for example, Liu Yi didn't feel that Lily had changed, Li Caifeng just felt that Lily was enlightened, and Xing'er said in a milky voice with big eyes: "Aunt Lily, you are different from before." ”

It stands to reason that when a woman marries, she follows her husband's name, for example, the townspeople call Li Caifeng "Liu Yi's family", and Lily is naturally "Danian's family".

However, Li Caifeng and Lily are sisters in the family, and they will call each other by their names on weekdays, and Xing'er thinks that "Aunt Lily" is much better than "Aunt Danian", so she refuses to change her words, and the adults go with her.

Lily touched Xing'er's hair: "Then Xing'er said, where is Auntie different from before?"

Xing'er tilted her head, unable to speak for a while.

Now Lily tidied herself up neatly, her hair was braided and coiled behind her head, and her clothes were shabby, but they were clean.

She used to never look at people with her eyes, and the expression on her face was evasive, which made people impatient. Now he loves to laugh very much, and his thin and ugly face is also a little pleasing against the backdrop of a smile.

Li Caifeng pulled the little tugs on Xing'er's head, and said with a smile: "She loves young girls when she is a child, and she was still breastfeeding at that time, and she would rather not breastfeed, but let good-looking people hug her." ”

Xing'er covered her head: "Mother, don't mess with me!" She is a little girl who loves beauty.

Lily smiled and said, "Then the apricot grows up quickly, and when you keep your head, Auntie will comb your beautiful braids." ”

That Liu Yi took out half a hanging money from his arms and put it on the futon, looked around, and saw that it was much cleaner and tidier than before, and felt a little satisfied: "Your mother-in-law will live now?"

A warm smile bloomed on Song Haonian's face: "She's fine." ”

Liu Yi grinned: "Don't get too used to her, your mother-in-law still has to be trained." ”

Li Caifeng has been married to him for seven or eight years, and he has only given birth to a daughter in Xing'er, and he has never seen him say a word.

Song Haonian knew this in his heart, and he didn't have to say it. Seeing him looking at the half-hung money, Liu Yi knew that his brother had great self-esteem, and he easily refused to accept the benefits of others, so he hurriedly said: "Last time, we sold goods together, this is your share." ”

Song Haonian said solemnly: "Big brother, I know that my brothers are willing to take care of me, but I didn't finish what I should have done last time, so I left my brothers and went home first, and I didn't want to go." This money was earned by the brothers, and I should not have taken as much as everyone else. ”

At that time, I heard that the big girl jumped into the river, he rushed back to Qingliu Town first, and the other brothers came back after selling the goods for more than half a month, and they contributed more than him, but now they want to get the same dividends, and he feels sorry.

Liu Yi said impatiently: "If you take it, you can take it, my own brother, who cares about this with you? If you don't accept it, will you treat us as outsiders?"

This was said heavily, Song Haonian's ears turned red, and he said after a while: "Big brother, then I will accept it, thank you brothers for me." If I have a job again, I will definitely do more. ”

Liu Yi patted him on the shoulder with a smile, and was relieved in his heart, and said: "Two months at most, half a month at least, there will be another business, you are so prepared." ”

With the food sent by Wang Xiaofu at home, the urgent need can be temporarily solved, and the money sent by Liu Yi can last for a while. Without the threat of starvation at any time, Song Haonian and Lily were able to calm down and think about their future livelihoods.

Lily carries a basket every day to the nearby fields to pick wild vegetables, such as the gray gray cabbage that cooked porridge before, the townspeople eat less, but everyone in Liushan Village eats it to survive the difficult days of food shortage.

When spring comes, all kinds of wild vegetables grow, and they are vigorous and grow better than grain. You can also get by eating porridge with half vegetables and half grains, but compared to the previous situation where you had meat to eat every day, it is far behind, not to mention that Lily is so hungry that her eyes are green, even Song Haonian feels quite difficult.

But there are only a few chickens left in the house, hoping to rely on them to lay eggs in the future, and they can't be killed and eaten again in any case, so they have to think of other ways to fight tooth sacrifices.

Song Haonian caught two hares in the mountains in winter, stripped and hung them under the eaves, and ate up the bits and pieces, so he dug a few more traps and laid a few more traps in the nearby mountains.

There are more than a dozen condoms, and there are always one or two that can catch the prey, the most common being hares, and occasionally pheasants. The pheasant is fast and can fly, which is particularly difficult to catch, but fortunately, Song Haonian's sleeve is strong and sensitive, so it can be trapped.

The pheasant is still alive, bring it back and sell it directly on the market, and there are often big families in the county on the road, and the official family passes by, and when they see the pheasant, they are more welcome than the fat chicken.

Half of the hare is killed and skinned, the meat is hung under the eaves as usual to dry, and the family eats it slowly, the skin is not good in spring, and the people in the city look down on it, and the rabbit meat is not very rare, and the big families in the town may want it.

Song Haonian is a well-known prodigal in the town - in the countryside, he thinks that farming is the right way, that is, at the door of Master Liu's house, there is also a plaque of "ploughing and reading heirlooms", but anyone who does not farm is called a prodigal. If you don't learn well, you will be called a scoundrel.

Song Hao also hung out with a bunch of scoundrels a few years ago, and his reputation has not been very good since then. Later, he didn't interact with those people anymore, but he didn't farm, he didn't have a home, and he was busy outside for many years, except for his brothers, there were not many people in the town who really looked up to him and were willing to like him.

So he took the rabbits he called to Liu's house and Zhou's house twice, but he couldn't sell them, but he ate a lot of ridicule. Of course, the old man refused to deal with him personally, and the people who ridiculed him were nothing more than the Liu family's family members, long-term workers, and neighbors who witnessed him being kicked out.

When the wind reached Lily's ears, she only pretended not to hear it to save Song Haonian's face in front of her daughter-in-law. But before Song Haonian planned to go out next time, she suddenly remembered something: "Our family is helping in Master Liu's house for the Spring Festival, I haven't seen her for a few days, I think strangely, I want to see her." ”

"Why don't I take these things along the way and show them them, and if they want them, we'll make some money." ”

Song Haonian felt that the people in Master Liu's family were not easy to deal with, so he said angrily: "I'm afraid you will be angry if you go alone, I'll accompany you." ”