After autumn.

The sun became shorter, and by six o'clock, it was already dark.

Cooked meals also cool quickly.

Chen Huiying said: "In the future, if the weather gets colder, you won't be able to eat outside." ”

Chen Huiying glanced at the three small houses, none of which could be placed on the Eight Immortals table on the ground for everyone to eat together.

After eating, Xiaoying and Shui Hua helped clean up the dishes and chopsticks, and Zhang Lin and Zhang Yun also helped.

After the children and women left the table, Lao Li suddenly said: "Duoyu, Yaoguo, Mingsheng, I'll talk to you about something." ”

Everyone sat on the side of the stone, Lao Li got a cigarette, and his brother-in-law Zhang Mingsheng hurriedly wiped a match for the old man to light it.

Lao Li first said to Li Duoyu and Li Yaoguo: "Two days ago, I received a letter from your eldest brother, saying that he would take your sister-in-law to the island for the New Year this year. ”

Li Duoyu said happily: "This is a good thing, if the eldest brother and sister-in-law also come back, this year's New Year will be lively." ”

Lao Li continued: "I also asked Xiaoying to help write a letter to Xiao Rong, asking her to strive to go home for the New Year this year. ”

"If Xiao Rong also comes back this year, then our brothers and sisters will be reunited, it seems that I need to buy some fireworks to celebrate."

Lao Li frowned and glanced at the fourth child: "If you can save it, you can save it, fireworks are so expensive, don't buy too much, you know if you don't." ”

Li Duoyu smiled.

After Lao Li finished speaking, he looked at his son-in-law Zhang Mingsheng and asked, "This year, how do you plan to arrange it, whether you want to be here, or go back for the New Year." ”

Li Shuihua, who was cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks, was stunned, she glanced at Zhang Mingsheng, and her brows instantly twisted.

Zhang Mingsheng didn't think that his father-in-law wanted to tell him about this, to be honest, he really didn't think about this problem.

Although I broke up with my family, I also received several letters from my hometown during the time I came to Dandan Island.

His father and mother are somewhat soft, his family is more special, five sisters and sisters, and he is a man.

So I lived with my father and mother when I was a child, and I used to celebrate the New Year together around the fireplace every year.

If he didn't go back, he and Shuihua's reputation in the village would definitely become even more stinky, and they would be called unfilial piety or something.

But when I think of the faces of those relatives, and remember what they said at the beginning, if they continue to give birth to daughters, they will give away or sell the children, and I feel that this place is very boring.

I don't know why, the poor people in his hometown are full of inheritance, and now he is the third woman.

If you go back for the New Year, you will probably be ridiculed to death by the villagers, and it is better to stay on Dandan Island than to go back to suffer.

"Dad, my whole family is here now, and the house is built here, so I may not go back for the Chinese New Year."

After hearing this, Lao Li shook off the cigarette ash and sighed: "When will your house be built?" ”

Zhang Mingsheng scratched his head: "My house is not big, it is relatively simple, and it will definitely be built a few years ago." ”

"That's good, you'd better stay in one more room, and before the New Year, ask your father and mother if you want to go to Dandan Island to celebrate the New Year together."

"Okay."

Although Zhang Mingsheng agreed in his mouth, thinking about his father, he should not dare to come to his in-laws' side.

Since returning to his parents' house after making a splash, his father-in-law and mother-in-law have learned how much grievances his daughter and two granddaughters have suffered in their village.

Zhang Mingsheng knew that they had been wronged, but he didn't know many details, and Shui Hua didn't tell him.

In the past few months since he returned to his parents' house, his two daughters felt "safe", so they were willing to tell him.

It turned out that every time he went out to sea to fish, his mother and those aunts began to behave as demons, often not giving Shui Hua and his two daughters rice, only sweet potato noodles for them.

And often don't let them eat at the table, saying anything, people who have not passed on the lineage are not qualified to serve on the table, and often beat the two of them with whips.

Once, he even wanted to secretly take the second child to someone else's house and sell it, but fortunately he was discovered by the splash, so he didn't succeed in selling.

And these things were all suppressed by the splash, and even told Zhang Lin and Zhang Yun that they couldn't tell their grandpa and grandma, as well as their brother-in-law.

is afraid that after knowing these things, the Li family will be impulsive and go directly to the door to ask for an explanation.

When he first heard these things, Zhang Mingsheng was really guilty, and finally understood why the somewhat heroic woman he liked at the beginning became timid and afraid after marrying him.

After living on Dantan Island for a few months, he really didn't want to go back, no matter what they said, my family just had a good life.

Next.

Lao Li said to the second Li Yaoguo:

"Xiuhua, you have to call back to know if it's okay, she's doing things outside, and you don't even contact her, and when she runs away with others, you don't know."

Li Yaoguo smiled awkwardly.

"Got it, she seems to be back in a few days, I'll tell her."

Actually, he wanted to say that the person who had the courage to kidnap her was definitely a man.

Lao Li finally looked at the fourth child with a hippie smile: "I am all the village director, stabilize the focus." ”

Li Duoyu cleared his throat and instantly became serious: "Captain Li, if there is something, you have to report to me." ”

Lao Li stretched out his hand: "Don't think that now that you have money, I won't dare to beat you when you become the village director." ”

"You didn't tell me to keep the point."

"Aren't you big or small?"

Lao Li sighed and said: "Your house, more snacks, how many times have you been there since you built the house?" ”

Li Duoyu smiled:

"Master Cao, I'm relieved to do things."

Lao Li said angrily: "Lao Cao is good, but the house was not built by him alone, if it weren't for me and your mother often helping you supervise the work, his two apprentices would have cut corners." ”

Li Duoyu thought for a while: "Then, this year, I will give the second elder a big red envelope." ”

Lao Li glared and said, "We're not old yet, don't call old all day long." ”

"By the way, I discussed with your mother, I still plan to live in the old house, but I don't go to live in your new house, and when the time comes, the one downstairs you will simply change into a guest room, so that when your eldest brother and sister-in-law come back, they will also have a place to sleep."

"No problem, if they come back for the New Year, they will live on the first floor."

"By the way, your sister-in-law seems to be pregnant, she is older, when the time comes, if you have that fish maw, it is better to leave a few for her."

Li Duoyu exclaimed: "It's been a few months. ”

Li Yaoguo and Zhang Mingsheng also had a look of surprise, and they all had very happy expressions.

"Jin Chuan said in the letter that it may have been three months."

"Okay, when the time comes, if I have to go to Rongcheng, I will visit my eldest brother's house alone, and bring some supplements by the way."

Lao Li emphasized:

"Now the belly, it's not four months, don't say it, let people hear, know if it's not."

"We know that."

Li Duoyu smiled very happily, tonight may be the most talked about by Lao Li in this month, and it is estimated that it is related to the pregnancy of his sister-in-law.

Li Duoyu knows very well that Lao Li has two hurdles in his life, and he has never been able to cross them.

One is to cut off the mother-son relationship with the old lady and him, and not let his brothers associate with him.

Although in the last days, the old lady seemed to let go, but the two did not speak for more than twenty years.

Another thing is that the eldest brother ran away from home in a bad mood, which also became a knot in his heart.

Fortunately, now the eldest brother is mixing well and is already married, although the eldest daughter-in-law is a second marriage and has a child.

But they didn't dislike it at all, the only thing they were worried about was that both of them were cadres in the factory, and in special circumstances like them, if they wanted to have another child, they had to get the approval of the leader and get the quota.

It seems that this time, the eldest brother is lucky, and the sister-in-law has been three months, so it should be a quota.

Lao Li has passed these two hurdles, and there are more and more children at home, and Lao Li often plays with the children, especially the two girls Zhang Lin and Zhang Yun.

And during this period of time, Li Duoyu can clearly feel that his father has become more talkative, and his personality is not so axial.

The whole family is moving in a good direction.

After talking to Lao Li about things.

Li Duoyu returned to the hut and found that Xiaoying had just finished bathing Xiao Tutu, and this little kid was bare-chested and running around the house, but he refused to put on clothes.

After running in front of him, he picked him up and gently patted his buttocks.

"You kid, you're getting skinny."

Zhou Xiaoying, who poured the bath water, asked, "Did Principal Zhu come to ask you for money?" ”

"Hmm."

Li Duoyu nodded and replied, "He wants me to take the lead in initiating donations to build a few classrooms for the school." ”

Zhou Xiaoying said: "If you really build it, it is impossible to build only a few, you don't want to be the wrongdoer, you know no." ”

Li Duoyu said: "If you don't cover it, you can only take classes in the open air." ”

Zhou Xiaoying snorted: "The open air is the open air, we didn't also take classes in the open air when we were children, and there are a lot of open classes in China, Tanjia Village in the next town, and Shanxi Village are not the only ones in our school." ”

Li Duoyu came behind Zhou Xiaoying and hugged him directly: "The main thing is that I feel distressed, and I'm afraid that I will tanned you." ”

"I don't believe it."

Zhou Xiaoying rolled her eyes, and then stretched out a finger: "If you really want to donate, you can't exceed this amount." ”

Li Duoyu exclaimed: "Ten thousand? ”

Zhou Xiaoying gritted her teeth and said, "It's a thousand." ”

Li Duoyu smiled: "Yingzi, will a thousand be too little, will it seem that I am stingy." ”

"If one thousand is too little, then eight hundred."

"Ah, why do you shout less and less."

Zhou Xiaoying wrinkled her brows and said: "It's right that you made some money, but there are many places to spend money next at home, and you haven't bought the furniture of the new house and your toilet.

Recently, it was digging eel ponds and reclamation, do you have that much money? ”

"Really."

Li Duoyu took out the passbook directly from the box and showed it to Zhou Xiaoying.

When Zhou Xiaoying saw the balance of the passbook, her expression froze on the spot: "You have done so many projects, why do you still have so much money left." ”

Li Duoyu pretended to be forced on the spot: "Don't look at your man, how much money he has earned this whole year, in this year, it is still quite difficult to spend almost 200,000 yuan." ”

Zhou Xiaoying frowned and thought for a while: "Even if you have money, it can't exceed 1,000 at most, if you donate too much and let them know that you have money, they may catch you alone in the future." ”

"Makes sense."

Li Duoyu hugged Zhou Xiaoying again, and stretched out his hand from under his clothes, but there was an unexpected surprise.

"Get up, it's annoying!"

Zhou Xiaoying slapped off his dog paws, with a look of disgust: "The day before yesterday, I just came." ”

"Energetic, angry, completely insufficient."

"Don't talk about these nonsense words, Xiao Tutu is still watching, and when he learns it, then we will be ashamed and die."

Li Duoyu glanced at Xiao Tutu with disgust and said, "Hurry up and go to bed, I have something to talk about with your mother." ”

"Hmph, sleep with Mom."

Zhou Xiaoying hurriedly pushed Li Duoyu out of the room: "You go out first, if you are here, Xiao Tutu will not be able to sleep at all." ”

"By the way, A-Niang thinks you've been too tired lately, so I killed a chicken for you again, and it's stewed in the kitchen, so you can eat it yourself."

"No wonder as soon as I entered the house, I felt very fragrant, don't give me chicken stew next time, it's more practical to get a few more oysters."

Li Duoyu ate some chicken, drank some of the chicken soup, and sat in the kitchen picking his teeth.

Almost, half an hour later.

Zhou Xiaoying came out of the room and began to fetch hot water to prepare to take a bath.

"Little Tutu is asleep."

Zhou Xiaoying nodded.

Li Duoyu smiled mysteriously: "Comrade Xiaoying, I have good news for you. ”

Zhou Xiaoying frowned slightly: "What good news." ”

"By the way, let me ask first, how have you been learning English lately, and what level have you been?"

was asked by Li Duoyu, Zhou Xiaoying was stunned, and she really didn't know what level she was at now.

"I don't know what level I'm at."

"Can you communicate in English?"

Zhou Xiaoying said: "I should know a little, but I rarely communicate, so I shouldn't be very good." ”

Li Duoyu thought for a while: "Then otherwise, I speak Mandarin, you answer in English, let's try to communicate." ”

Zhou Xiaoying shook her head and said, "Why did you suddenly test my English, your good news is related to English?" ”

"Hurry, if you have enough English, I'll tell you the good news."

Zhou Xiaoying was very reluctant, but she didn't know how to start the conversation, and the first sentence she said was:

“How are you？”

"I'm fine."

After hearing this, Zhou Xiaoying was surprised: "I haven't even started translating for you yet, how do you know what this sentence means." ”

Li Duoyu smiled embarrassedly: "I always listen to you there, and occasionally I secretly learn a sentence or two, but there will be one or two sentences." ”

Zhou Xiaoying's next, while talking to Li Duoyu, first spoke a sentence of English, and then a sentence of Mandarin.

The whole conversation, although a little stiff, but at least coherent, certainly not as good as those foreign language majors, but a simple daily chat should be fine.

Li Duoyu smiled evilly: "Then we, can we come to that tonight?" ”

“No way。”

"No way."

"If there is no way, then I will find a door to enter, and then, don't be too excited about what I want to say."

Li Duoyu also stopped selling guanzi: "This time I went to the city for a meeting, and the leader wanted me to go to Hong Kong Island to attend a party together. ”

Zhou Xiaoying exclaimed: "Ah, you're going out again, do you want me to teach you English?" ”

"Don't interrupt, okay, you listen to me first."

Li Duoyu continued: "Then, I told the leader, my English is very bad, can you bring a person who can speak English with me, now you understand." ”

Zhou Xiaoying was stunned, she understood, but she also became very nervous, and said with a wrinkled brow: "I can't speak English well, so I can't be your translator." ”

"You think too much, just small people like us, how can those big people on Hong Kong Island communicate with us, our primary purpose is to find your relatives, maybe, we can find your grandma."

After hearing this, Zhou Xiaoying was so happy that her eyes turned red: "Your two years have been even better to me than the previous twenty years combined." ”

"Is there a door now?"

"I've been in class outside all day today, and my whole body smells sour, so I'll take a shower first."

"Together, I'm rubbing my back very well."

(End of chapter)