Chapter 11: I want to make money
People who are hot are irritable, and the heavy mosquito nets make people even more breathless.
At this time, Li Yunlan missed the electric fan, air conditioner, and ice cream very much: "It's so hot!" ”
After she finished speaking, she slapped the fan a few times, her wrists became sore, her heart became more restless, and her body began to sweat.
"System, system? Are you there? People have gold fingers when they cross and wear books, what kind of universal space or something, can you give me one too? System? System? What answered her was the buzzing of mosquitoes outside the net.
Thinking about it, she thought of her parents, and Li Yunlan's heart began to pantothenic, and tears flowed down the wrinkles at the corners of her eyes into the straw mat pillow.
"Mom and Dad, you don't know that your daughter is now full of children and grandchildren, and she has directly realized your good wish of retiring and supporting your children and grandchildren...... Hehe... Oh, Mom and Dad, I miss you so much! ”
Li Yunlan slowly fell asleep with the thought of her parents.
Early the next morning, Li Yunlan sat in front of the mirror, looked at this old face and cheered: "New day, new beginning, come on." ”
In the past month or so, Li Yunlan has been repeatedly slapped in the face, not only to maintain the characteristics of the original owner, but also to change all the rules set by the original owner one by one, which really hurts her brain as a good student under the socialist quality education.
"Mother, get up, the meal is fine." Liu carried the pig food bucket to the backyard to feed the pigs.
Li Yunlan looked towards the second room.
Carrying a basket to his own vegetable garden, he cut a handful of leeks, and picked half a basket of long cowpeas, peppers, eggplants, vegetables and melons, and finally a large basket of vegetables, Li Yunlan found a small cucumber and rubbed off the tender thorns on it with his hands, and took a bite, crispy and sweet.
There were many women in the village who went to the vegetable garden to pick vegetables, and when they saw Li Yunlan, they only nodded from afar to say hello.
After eating the cucumber, Li Yunlan gritted her teeth and picked up the basket, and then leaned back home.
In this Xiaoliu Village, many families eat fresh vegetables, and then pickle some in small amounts, and feed all the pigs and chickens if they can't finish eating, and they don't have any awareness of being prepared for danger in times of peace.
Later, I learned that it was because salt was too expensive, a pound of coarse salt cost 20 wen, which was more expensive than meat, and the villagers might as well buy two catties of millet if they had this money.
It is no wonder that after the natural disaster came, some people soon ran out of food, and starved to death before they began to flee the famine.
Li Yunlan had nothing to do with a few children to pick honeysuckle, dig wild vegetables, and pickle cucumbers, vegetable melons, and cowpeas produced in the vegetable garden at home, pickle them if they can, dry them when they can, and even let go of sweet potato vines.
These are all learned from her grandmother and grandmother, such as pickles, her father is one of the masters, the pickled vegetables are moderately salty, sour and crispy, and there are many regular customers who come for the side dishes in the snack shop.
Chopped pepper sauce mixed with sweet noodle sauce is evenly spread on tender cowpeas and cucumbers, and it can be eaten in three days, and the taste is very crisp and crispy.
At first, a few children didn't understand, why did they buy so many salted vegetables, but now when the vegetables in the garden are officially harvested, there is no shortage of vegetables to eat, and finally Li Yunlan said loudly: "You can't eat poorly, you can't wear poor, and you can't calculate that you will be poor." ”
Although the two of them have never heard it, they always feel that the old lady's words are quite reasonable.
Seeing that the family's money was about to bottom out, Li Yunlan was worried, how could she change some money?
When I arrived at the door of the house, I met the two sons who came back for breakfast, and the eldest stepped forward to take Li Yunlan's basket and said, "Mother, just wait for Chengcai Niang to do these jobs." ”
"You want to exhaust your lady? On this hot day, it's good to rest as soon as possible. ”
Qiu Defu's mouth moved and he didn't say anything, he was embarrassed to say, he asked Chen to work, Chen only said that he had to take care of his body after giving birth to a child, and the cleaning work in the house was also assigned to Baoyu, thinking that Baoyu was tall and tall with a broom, he felt a fire in his heart.
After breakfast, the brothers still went to the field while it was not too hot, Li Yunlan took the children to pick vegetables, and Liu cut the vegetables and melons to scrape off the seeds, and put them outside to bask in the sun and pickle them at night.
There was a successful cry in the second room, and soon the voice of Chen scolding Baoyu also came.
Ryu glanced up, shook his head, and went about his work.
"Mother, there is not much salt at home, is this bean still soaked?"
Li Yunlan looked at it: "Boil some water and blanch it into dried vegetables." ”
Chengcai said to boil water, and Li Yunlan didn't stop it.
After a while, Baoyu staggered out with a basin, and Li Yunlan saw that it was a diaper.
Li Yunlan was really angry, Liu saw that her mother-in-law's face was dark, and she was so frightened that she hurriedly lowered her head to do the work of her subordinates.
"The second daughter-in-law ~ the second daughter-in-law... You come out for me, how old is Baoyu, you let her wash diapers, you come out for me. ”
Li Yunlan was shouting in the courtyard, and Qiu Defu heard it outside the courtyard, and entered the house with an arrow step.
Li Yunlan: Huh? What just passed?
Then she heard Chen's crying, Qiu Defu's beating and scolding, and said that she couldn't beat his wife, so she stepped forward to push the door and found that the door was plugged in by Qiu Defu.
Li Yunlan knocked outside: "Second child, second child come out for me and open the door for me." ”
After shouting for a long time, the door opened, Qiu Defu sat on a stool in the outhouse, Li Yunlan entered the room and looked, Qiu Chenggong was crying on the bed, Chen was sitting on the ground crying, his hair was scattered, and his face was red and swollen.
Li Yunlan turned her head and shouted at Qiu Defu: "How can you beat someone? She's your wife. ”
Qiu Defu stood up violently and said: "She should fight, she gave birth to a child and thought she was a concubine." ”
Li Yunlan hit him twice, went into the house and hugged Qiu Chenggong to coax, and then stretched out a hand to pull Chen.
Chen raised his head and glared at Li Yunlan fiercely, and opened her hand: "Pretend to be a good person, your family doesn't have a good thing." With that, he ran out.
Qiu Defu: "How can you talk to my mother-in-law!" You go out, out of this door, don't think about coming back, I'll send a letter of resignation to Chen's house. ”
Chen stood in the courtyard as if he was frozen, then turned around and crackled and cursed, and ran out.
Li Yunlan was afraid that something would happen to her, so she asked Qiu Defu to chase her, but Qiu Defu was unwilling, and in the end, Li Yunlan was angry and chased out.
"Iniquity! Mother*! Recruit whoever provokes whom, how old am I to be a bad mother-in-law. ”
Then he began to coax the hatred in his arms to succeed.
At this time, the Chen family had already arrived at his mother's house, and as soon as he entered the house, he hugged the old lady and cried, and the eldest brother of the Chen family shouted when he saw his sister's face and went to the enemy's house to fight for revenge.
You sat on the ground and scolded Li Yunlan for being a black-hearted old widow, although this old widow was not as grinding her daughter as before, she learned to play tricks, and she gritted her teeth with hatred.
Soon Qiu Defu also came to the door, and the eldest brother of the Chen family went up to fight indiscriminately, and the two soon fought together.
In the end, it was Chen's father who went home to stop it, and Qiu Defu told the matter like beans, and Chen's father's face was about to darken.
pulled the mother and daughter into the house, scolded them, and then came out to apologize to the son-in-law, and said that he really didn't have the face to see his mother-in-law, and prepared some things for the daughter and son-in-law to take back.
The Chen family followed Qiu Defu back to Qiu's house aggrievedly, entered the back room, and saw that Baoyu was already asleep, and his son was also sleeping sweetly in his mother-in-law's arms.
Then he knelt down and kowtowed to his mother-in-law, saying that he was wrong and would never be again.
Li Yunlan thought in her heart that she forgot it, but when she thought of the Liu family, she was the heroine's mother, she worked every day without any complaints, how did the Liu family treat her, this Chen family took people's kindness for granted, and relied on himself every day to give birth to a son, but the Liu family did not give birth to a son? No one owes you anything, so put the child on the bed with a straight face, and go back to his room.
Chen lowered his head and choked, thinking of his father's words: "Isn't your brain bad when you give birth to a child, you are also a person with a son, you are not afraid of retribution on yourself?" Where do you put our Chen family's face like this, if we all know that the daughters of my Chen family are all dominatrix who are unfilial to their in-laws and disrespectful brothers and sisters-in-law, will your nieces still get married? Don't shake off just because you gave birth to a son, and you are not the only one who has a son. What if you give birth to a son, if you are not filial to your mother-in-law, you can be divorced, and when you are divorced, you will be a sister-in-law yourself, don't blame your father for being ruthless, my Chen family is not only your daughter. ”
Chen knelt on the ground, and no one explored what she thought.
Because Wang Sheng came to report the good news, saying that Qiu Ruyi was pregnant.
Li Yunlan took out the last bit of money and asked Qiu Degui to buy some things and send them.
The sun was shining hotly, and he was screaming hoarsely when he knew it, and Li Yunlan couldn't calm down and think about any way to make a fortune.
"How can you make money, go through the three essential treasures: soap, ice, and refined salt. In the past, which can be said earlier, the refining of refined salt in the back is equivalent to sending the head to death, what else? Doing business, cooking and dreaming, Li Yunlan looked at the soap on the washstand, it seems that someone has already taken the lead, making ice for his own use is okay, and snatching food from other people's mouths is simply sending him to death. Li Yunlan turned over: "It seems that you have to go to the town or county to see if there is any small business to do." ”
Qiu Defu looked at the old lady who was sighing and talking to herself on the cool bed in the courtyard and said, "Big brother, what do you say is wrong with my mother, is she not feeling well?" ”
Qiu Degui shook his fan and said, "Is there one?" ”
"Why not, look at my mother's sad face over and over, big brother, you go and ask."
Qiu Degui turned his face to look at his younger brother and said, "Why don't you go?" If you want to go, you will be scolded and you will ask for it. ”
Qiu Defu: "......"
Since that day, Chen took the initiative to apologize to Liu's and began to take turns doing housework with Liu.