Qingliu Town is a big town, there are cloth shops, garment stores, and restaurants and inns where merchants rest, most of them are on both sides of the road, and the rent of those shops is not cheap.

Lily was busy for several days, and finally settled the trouble caused to the girl due to Zhu's stupidity and short-sightedness, and from then on, Lamei officially lived in the town.

Taking advantage of the set, Lily took Lamei to the cloth shop to pull the cloth, and came back to sew the sheets and quilts by herself, which was cheaper than the finished product.

The mattress is something that every family has, but most of them are used tightly to the head, and there are fewer and more, at this time, the Tao master they don't beat the mattress, and the six-pound thick quilt that Lily had beaten before is not suitable for this time, she is worried about Lamei's bare bed board, and she has no idea for a while.

Fortunately, Song Ermei sent a set of bedding and pillows: "I just thought that you don't have any extra at home, this is what my sister used when she was at home, she can't use it anymore, Lamei only works." ”

The bedding and pillows are all old, dismantled and washed cleanly, soft and fragrant after the sun, Lamei just said thank you with red eyes, where is the meaning of half disgust?

Lily also said: "I'm in a hurry to get to the room here, thanks to you, otherwise I don't know what to do." ”

Accepted the futon, and put a basket of cabbage beans to Song Ermei, her family is a butcher's family, eat more meat, less farming, some grain is produced, vegetables have to go out to buy with people every day, lilies are sent to her family's heart.

At one point, Lamei's house was cleaned up: a low bed, dry straw mats, old but clean bedding. There is a small window in the west, and a table and a stool under the window are all.

This room is so simple that it is not good, but it is unprecedentedly good for Lamei, no longer have to be beaten and scolded by her mother, and she is not worried that she will be sold to the house of the mother-in-law, even if she is asked to live in the pigsty of the grass building, she is also willing, let alone such a good room.

She looked at the room with a smile on her face, thinking that she would make some more money by going back and pasting a New Year's picture here and adding a box there

Since then, Lamei has helped Lily wholeheartedly, tidying up the house, taking care of the vegetable patch, cooking and laundry, she is diligent and can endure hardships, and every time Lily persuades her to rest, she is willing to relax a little.

Lily didn't want to ask her to do work for herself, so she discussed with her: "Give you sixty dollars a month, do you think it's okay?"

Lamei shook her head violently: "I don't want money!"

The eldest sister pulled her out of the fire pit, it was natural for her to work for the eldest sister, how much money did the eldest sister spend for her, and she still wanted the eldest sister's money, so what kind of person did it become?

Baihe advocated that girls should have some savings in their hands, "You fell out with our mother, she will definitely not prepare a dowry for you when you marry in the future, you don't plan for yourself, who else plans for you?"

It's good to say it, and finally said that he would give Lamei thirty dollars a month. Lamei worked hard, and Lily had the heart to save a dowry for her sister-in-law, but she didn't tell her first, lest she think too much. In a few days, the sweet potato harvest on the grange, Mr. Liu rented ten acres of land to plant this thing, the eyes of ten miles and eight towns are staring, if it is planted well, many people will follow the trend next year, if it is not planted well, things related to Mr. Liu are always a talking point, used to show that they are well-informed

Fabulous.

The two Lily sisters were selling vegetables at the market, only to hear people coming and going talking: "Ouch, I went and saw with my own eyes, such a big nest out of the ground!"

"An acre of land has to have thousands of catties, this thing can really grow!"

"I don't know if it's delicious"

"Hey, what the court calls for planting, can there be anything bad? Next year, my family will also plant it!"

Lamei was dizzy when she heard this, and hurriedly asked Lily: "Sister, do you think that sweet potato is really edible?"

"The sweet potatoes are still planted in my field, and since they have been harvested in these two days, they will be delivered back in two days, so you can wait and see. Lily said with a smile, she thought back to it, sweet potatoes are treasures, and she really can't think of how it can be made to be delicious.

Lily expected to be good, within two days, Liu Zhong sent someone to send the Song family's share to Lily, originally said that it was a good yield, even Liu Sheng did not expect that the yield of this sweet potato per mu could be thousands of catties Note 1, ten acres of land divided into 100 catties, not to mention 2,000 catties.

Liu Sheng had to ask a few tenants to pull a cart to bring it to Lily, and specially asked someone: "Do you have a way to deal with these sweet potatoes?"

Lily was very happy, and asked the tenants to pile up the sweet potatoes outside the cellar, and busily poured water to make tea for the people, and asked them to bring a message to Uncle Sheng: "Thank you Uncle Sheng, I have a few ideas, but I have to try it first to know." ”

Now Lamei knows what her eldest sister's big cellar is for, the cellar is cool and damp, and the sweet potatoes like a hill are piled up in it, and they will not wilt and spoil for months.

Her eyes straightened: "So much, how can you finish eating." ”

Lily laughed: "Are you afraid that you will have too much food?"

Lamei carried sweet potatoes to the cellar on the ground, Lily stood in it, and then piled the boxes into the corners, fortunately the gloves were prepared in advance, otherwise the palms of her hands would have peeled.

Sweet potatoes are big, fresh and contain a lot of water, one has two or three catties, the largest has four or five catties, the two sisters took turns to move all day, only to be able to move most of them into the cellar, the remaining more than two hundred catties are still piled outside, Lamei is worried: "What can I do?"

Lily looked at the sky, the clouds were scarce, and it didn't look like it was going to rain for a while, "You don't need to move these in, call the black tiger to guard it at night, and Ming'er will give it to Sister Caifeng." ”

Because they moved sweet potatoes for a day during the day, both of them had sore arms and couldn't lift them, so they had to cook sweet potatoes and millet porridge for dinner.

Peel a few sweet potatoes with a knife, cut them into small pieces, wash them, put them in the millet porridge that has been boiled to six or seven maturity and continue to simmer, until the rice grains bloom and the sweet potatoes melt into it.

Lamei smelled the aroma of sweet potatoes, and her saliva was about to come down: "Why is it so fragrant!"

Paired with a sour and refreshing kimchi, the rice is simple but very tasty, the sweet potato is sweet, and the millet is thick, the combination is surprising.

Early the next morning, Lily and Lamei went around calling people: "You can also taste the new sweet potatoes from yesterday, and bring a memorization." ”

At one time, Li Caifeng, Aunt Wang, Daddy Liu, Song Ermei and others all came, and when they saw more than 200 catties of sweet potatoes, their eyes were straight: "This thing can grow so much!"

Lily said to them as she quickly filled the sweet potatoes in her back basket, "It is excellent to eat boiled porridge after peeling, and it is even better to roast it in the ash heap with the skin on." It can also be mixed with pumpkin and flour to make pumpkin sweet potato cake. ”

This is all a simple approach, as for the sweet potato vermicelli, Lily herself has not figured it out, and it is inconvenient to teach others for the time being.

Just these insights are enough for others to look at her with admiration, Li Caifeng said: "My family has been running outside for many years, and I still think I am a knowledgeable person, but compared to you, I have become blind." ”

Lily said casually: "You say that I am clever every day, this is my skill!"

She has hundreds of years of knowledge more than others, and some things are the first time she has seen them to others, but she is too familiar with them to know them anymore.

A few people carried back a basket, there was still a lot left, Lily called Lamei to take it to the kitchen for the time being, and after two days Li Mingjiang came to the town to sell bamboo utensils and asked him to take it home.

When she heard her father, Lamei was very unhappy, reluctantly agreed, and walked to the kitchen with a black face.

Lily hurriedly said to her: "Mother did something wrong, Dad didn't say anything to us, what are you like?"

"If it weren't for my father, would my mother be like that?" These days, Lamei has been pondering over and over her own affairs, and the more she thinks about it, the more she feels that Li Mingjiang is also at fault, if he can take out the money of the head of the family to control the Zhu family, where will these things happen?

Lily sighed: "Dad is like that, if he wasn't like that, can we beat him and ask you to follow me?"

Two days later, Li Mingjiang brought Qingsong to the market, and usually they were tired and had to go to Lily to rest their feet and drink saliva, but this time they went straight to the market, not Lily looking for them, and they didn't come at home.

What is the reason, Baihe thought about it and understood, so he had to persuade him with good words: "Dad, how can the family have an overnight feud, Lamei doesn't complain about you, you don't go to me, people who don't know are still far away from me and Lamei." ”

Li Mingjiang's nose was blocked: "I'm useless, I can't even protect my daughter." "On that day, a few men from Guo Jiapo went to rob people, and if Lamei hadn't run away in advance, they would have robbed them.

The latter things are also handled by Baiyi's hands, he, who is a father, has no effect at all in it, no wonder Lamei resents him, and the Zhu family also says that he is troublesome.

Every time he saw Qingsong, he was a little longer than the last time, Lily stretched out his hand and gestured, this kid grew taller again, and couldn't help laughing: "Tall is growing so fast." ”

Qingsong remembered that his mother said to him: "Light is tall, but not heart." Those three money-losing goods are turned out one by one, you don't have a snack, how can you live in the future!"

Qingsong's face turned red and said to Lily, "Sister, I'll help you." ”

Lily has the help of Lamei, and he doesn't need green pine for a while, but the sweet potatoes at home want him to bring, so he takes him home, and by the way, he gives him a steamed sweet potato left over from breakfast. Lamei hid out early, but she made up her mind not to see her father and brother, Lily searched for a circle and didn't find anyone, no way, so she had to give Qingsong relief: "When I saw my father, I said that your third sister is all right, and I slowly persuaded her, and I will never ask her to remember your hatred." When you go back, you can reason with your mother and call her

Don't be foolish again. ”

Qing Song nodded heavily, he knew the severity. Since the beating mother wanted to sell the third sister, his sister has been gone.

In the past, Li Mingjiang had a soft temperament, and most of the things in the family were decided by the Zhu family, and Qingsong felt that his mother was powerful and was willing to listen to his mother. Now I know that it doesn't matter if it's powerful or not, my mother's temperament has gone astray to the wrong path, and she wants to harm others and herself. Unless he becomes the master of the house in the future and makes up for Lamei, Lamei will never forgive the Zhu family, forgive this brother who doesn't have to do anything, just because he is a son, he can enjoy everything.