Chapter 62: The Last Day
"Well, this time the wild boar, I basically replaced it with white noodles, but the other party can't take out so much for a while, and I'm going to give it in installments.
At present, I have left a hundred catties at home, and after eating, I will go and get it again.
There is still a hundred catties, and I asked Brother Da Kui to bring it back to my second uncle.
By the way, this is the money given by the second uncle. ”
Li Weidong said, taking out a hundred yuan from his pocket.
In this era, communication was largely based on letter writing.
So Li Weidong is fooled with both ends, and he is not afraid of being exposed.
Even if you wait for the Chinese New Year to get together, because of the time difference, you won't show your stuffing.
"You kid, how can you ask for your second uncle's money?" Zhang Xiuzhen said.
"I didn't plan to ask for it, but the second uncle didn't give it to me, so I simply gave him a hundred catties of white noodles, and I will use white noodles to offset the account in the future." Li Weidong explained.
"It's okay, I was still thinking about getting some white noodles to help you exchange some money."
When Zhang Xiuzhen said this, she was a little speechless and stopped.
"Mom, if you have something, what else is there to be embarrassed about with me?"
"Weidong, you said there will be white noodles next month?"
"Definitely, I brought back 400 catties of wild boar meat this time, and I left about 20 catties at home, and the rest, at your disposal, was replaced with white flour.
According to one pound of wild boar meat and two pounds of white noodles, it must be almost 800 pounds.
In the future, we will take 200 catties back every month, and we will share 100 catties with the second uncle's family. ”
Li Weidong snapped his fingers and calculated an account.
Although Zhang Xiuzhen had expected it, she was still a little dizzy when she heard the 800 catties of white noodles.
Even if only half of it is left at home, it is still 400 catties.
If you eat it openly, it will definitely not be enough.
But the question is, in these days, who can eat white noodles openly?
Don't talk about white noodles, even if it's stick noodles, you have to save it.
After a while, Zhang Xiuzhen said with some embarrassment: "Weidong, my mother wants to buy twenty catties of white noodles from you, don't worry, just follow the price you bought from the black market." ”
Without waiting for Li Weidong to ask the reason, Zhang Xiuzhen explained: "Two days will be Xiaobin's grandmother's birthday, and in the past, it was difficult at home, so I didn't say anything, and I never followed over there."
But since you came, life at home has been getting better and better, and thanks to you, I have also been a lot lighter.
I know ......"
Before Zhang Xiuzhen finished speaking this time, Li Weidong interrupted her.
"Mom, don't say it, it's just twenty catties of white noodles, I'm out. You don't have to mention anything to me about money or not, it's all a family, and you say that this one is outside. ”
When it comes to this, Li Weidong naturally won't, and it is impossible to refuse.
Otherwise, the character he had built up with great difficulty before would have collapsed directly.
Although, the girl who got married spilled the water.
But it doesn't mean that the mother's side will be cut in two.
After all, it's a place where you grew up.
In the case that you can't eat enough at home, you must first take care of your own small family, which is what a wife and a mother should look like.
But if your family is rich, you still have the energy to spare, and you have caught up with your mother's birthday, if you haven't said anything and go empty-handed, then you can't say it.
So Zhang Xiuzhen's thoughts, Li Weidong can understand.
Anyway, it's not that kind of Voldemort, his family is almost poor and can't open the pot, and he is still moving things to his mother's house.
And as Zhang Xiuzhen mentioned her mother's family, Li Weidong also turned out the situation at the original owner's grandmother's house.
Grandma and grandfather have passed away a long time ago, leaving only an uncle and an aunt.
The aunt followed her husband to the northwest and almost cut off contact with this side.
And that uncle is not a worry-free master.
Not to mention Li Weidong, even if he is the original owner, he may not be able to see each other in a year.
It's called an uncle, but it's actually no different from a stranger.
So usually, Li Weidong doesn't think about it at all.
As for Zhang Xiuzhen's mother's family, in fact, it has nothing to do with him, and the reason why he is willing to give out these twenty catties of white noodles is also for Zhang Xiuzhen's face.
For her sake, she is dedicated to working hard for this family.
But this kind of thing must not be repeated, and he will not rush to curry favor with that side.
"No, the money has to be given to you."
Zhang Xiuzhen is very resolute.
After all, Li Weidong is just her stepson, unlike Li Weibin, he does not have this responsibility.
"Otherwise, I will lend you these twenty catties of white flour, and wait for next month, how about you buy grain from the grain and oil station with the grain book, and then return it to me?"
Li Weidong thought of a seemingly reasonable solution.
But in fact, these white noodles are still those white noodles, one or two will not be less, but they have changed their names.
"This ......"
Zhang Xiuzhen didn't know what to say all of a sudden, and she didn't turn a corner.
"Mom, what do you think, you bought the white noodles from the grain book, and the shares are all you, Xiaobin Xiaoru, and my father, it has nothing to do with me, right? It's yours, how you use it, it's up to you. ”
"Forget it, I don't know where you got these crooked reasoning, Bai Mian will be borrowed from your mother, and I will pay you back later."
Zhang Xiuzhen shook her head.
I thought that when I went back to my parents' house this time, I didn't have to suffer the white eyes of that snobbish sister-in-law anymore.
When she went out, Li Weidong also came to the courtyard, and first went to the east house to take a look.
Today is the third day, and the roof looks like it has been renewed.
Because of the shortage of cement and the fact that I don't want to make it too public, I just use cement to wipe the brick joints evenly to ensure that there will be no water seepage and air leakage.
And inside, it has changed a lot.
The beams are all reinforced with wood, and although they are a bit ugly, they will definitely have a suspended ceiling in the end.
The easiest way to do this is to put up a few sticks of wood and paste them with newspaper, and if the picture looks good, then replace it with white paper.
The walls inside had long been unsightly because of the firewood that had been piled up, so they were all shoveled off, re-plastered, and finally had to be painted with lime powder to make the walls white.
And this, in the eyes of ordinary people, is already very luxurious.
After all, pasting newspapers on the walls is the mainstream now.
As for the ground, it will definitely not be as Li Weidong thought at the beginning, it is marble floor tiles and wooden floors, and it only needs to be smoothed with plaster.
The windows have been hit by a carpenter, but they are not yet good.
Li Weidong's current concern is undoubtedly the bathroom.
This is also the largest project of the house.
Because it was necessary to dig a ditch in the yard and put a pipe to the sewer on the street outside.
Although the amount of work is a bit large and a little eye-catching, this is undoubtedly Li Weidong's last insistence.
Even if this bathroom is only three or four square meters.
But at least in the winter evenings, or in the early morning, he doesn't have to run to the public toilet in the alley.
In fact, people who live in the courtyard will put a urine jar in the house or at the door at night and wait for the morning to pour it.
But Li Weidong really didn't get used to that thing.
Besides, with a bathroom, in the summer, get a tin bucket and put it on the roof, pour water into it for a day, and then you can take a happy bath at night.
After reading it from the inside out, I made a few small requests.
Li Weidong carried the recliner to the sun and began to lie flat on the last day.
Because starting tomorrow, he's going to report from the prison.
I don't know what's going on there.