Li Deyou and Li Xinhe had already rushed to Li Shengyi's house and Li Shengli's house respectively.

Li Shengyi's family rarely lit the oil lamp, and the family, the man was sharpening the knife, and the woman was sorting out the back basket. Like a fire, the momentum is violent, and they are all ready to do a big job.

Li Deyou said the patriarch's order: Don't reveal everything about the eucommia tree to others.

Li Shengyi, who is in charge of the house, replied neatly, "Okay, Deyou, we know, you can go back!" I am busy today, so I will not leave you. ”

"Hmm." Li Deyou took a trip, there was no difficulty, and after entering the threshold, he turned around and went back.

The men of the Li family have no opinion on Li Shengyi's decision, and several daughters-in-law of the Li family have complicated expressions, and they all have their mothers. But the patriarch's order, the old man in the family spoke, and the women had no right to speak.

Compared with Li Deyou, who saw Li Guiqian's family with high momentum and worked together to prepare to make money tomorrow, Li Xinhe's Li Shengli family, who went to inform, had a too dull atmosphere.

Although Li Xiannan is sharpening his knife and the women in the family are also cleaning up the back basket, the atmosphere is not completely elated, but vaguely strange and awkward.

But no matter how strange it is, Li Xinhe won't say it, he only directly and clearly said the instructions of the patriarch and the third uncle, anyway, no one can ask him, and if there is any objection, he will find the patriarch.

As soon as Li Xinhe's words fell, Li Xiannan's eyes instantly lit up: he had been thinking about it for most of the day today, and the more he thought about it, the more desperate he became.

In their family's woodland, because his mother didn't like it, there wasn't a single eucommia tree.

According to her mother's statement: neither flowering, nor fruiting, but also a strange smell, not as good as pines and cypresses, can only be used as firewood.

At that time, they all thought, just one kind of tree, cut it down, why make the mother unhappy.

In fact, Li Xiannan vaguely knew that his mother didn't like this kind of tree because his father's original partner Luo Che liked the taste of this tree very much. Back then, a lot of it was planted in his father's woodland, but later his mother found various reasons to cut it down and burn it.

But...... However, who would have thought that this kind of tree could turn over and be worth a lot of money.

How I didn't like it at the time, and how much I regret it now: once the trees in his father's woodland have grown, they have grown up in thirty or forty years, and one tree can peel off the bark of at least two pennies.

One tree and two dollars.

Therefore, when Li Xiannan went home and said the news, the Li family's old house fell into silence: the contest between the Chen family and the Luo family, the Chen family's dislike of the eucommia tree, and really didn't even like to cut it back for firewood.

After all, it can't be compared.

At that moment, this thought more or less suddenly popped into everyone's mind.

But no one dared to say it.

Therefore, when Li Xinhe came, the atmosphere of the Li family was so strange.

After Li Xinhe said the patriarch's decision, Li Xiannan was the first to react: in this way, their family would be one step faster than other villagers, and they could harvest more eucommia trees first.

"Dad, the others know too late, so we can harvest more eucommia first." Li Xiannan couldn't help but say happily.

Li Shengli's face finally showed a little joy, "Well, our whole family must seize this opportunity as soon as possible." Tomorrow, one counts as one, and all of them go up the mountain, and together they go to find the eucommia tree and cut the bark. ”

After speaking, Li Shengli looked around, and then changed his words, "Ye, you have a big belly, so you stay at home and do housework." and Cairong, it is inconvenient for you to ask Zhu Xiucai for leave, so you don't need it. ”

"Yes, grandfather."

"Yes, Dad."

Ye Shi and Li Cairong responded together.

At this time, Chen came back to his senses.

No, Li Shengli can't be allowed to blame himself for this.

Chen's head was lowered, and his face was sad, "Xiannan, Xianxi, it's my mother who is sorry for you, and it's me who is sorry for you." ”

"I know that I am a stepmother, I am naturally inferior to my sister, go underground, I serve my sister tea and water, I serve my sister. I am...... I just want these decades of this world, I just want these decades of this world to belong to me. ”

"I'm just too greedy, I'm obsessed, I just want us to be fathers and mothers, and our children won't be inferior because I am a stepfamily."

"I'm sorry for you. I just thought, I just thought that a hundred years later, when I go underground, you and Sister Luo are the original couple, and my heart is like being cut out. ”

"I'm sorry for everyone, I'm in charge, I'm sorry for you, I went underground, I kowtowed to Sister Luo and confessed, I will be a cow and a horse to serve her in the next life, it's all my fault, it's all my fault."

The more Chen spoke, the more sad he became, and Li Shengli was helpless when he cried.

What Roche looks like, Li Shengli almost forgot it. I only remember that at that time, Luo brought his own dowry to marry, and his temper was very bad, and he had disputes with himself from time to time, and he would complain to his father and mother, which made Li Shengli feel that he had no face at all.

If Li Shengli is allowed to choose by himself, he will also choose Chen, Chen has a good temperament, although he is a little careful about himself, but he focuses on himself in everything.

Men are women's heavens, that's right. Chen's reason for this is also because he takes himself too seriously. Thinking of this, the anger in Li Shengli's heart also dispersed.

"Forget it, get up, half a lifetime of husband and wife, I don't know you yet."

So, this matter passed like this, Chen stood up with Li Xiannan's hand, and said with tears, "Master, I'll bring you foot water." ”

"Hmm." Li Shengli waved his hand and entered the room.

Only Li Xiannan and Li Xianxi's daughters-in-law were left, and they secretly gritted their gums: they were obviously wives, but they were like concubines. The mother-in-law is like this, and she marries in by herself, and she doesn't even have the status to speak loudly, let alone get a good man. It's a grievance to be alive.

It's just that the two of them grit their gums, and this family is like this. Especially the men of the Li family, one or two, from old to young, all eat this. What's the solution?

Li Xiandong's family didn't know about the wrestling in the old house, and even if they knew, they probably wouldn't be happy.

What's the matter with them, isn't it fragrant to make money!

It's so fragrant, it's just a little tired, the three of them just finished eating at the moment, and the fatigue in the day has been dissipated by food and clothing, and the whole person doesn't want to move.

No, this is not possible, Li Xiaohan raised his energy: "Dad, we are going to clean up a batch of eucommia peels tonight and soak them in salt water." In this way, we can try to concoct eucommia bark by tomorrow evening, and we can go to the hospital early the day after tomorrow to ask if it is possible. ”

"If we could, we wouldn't sell fresh Eucommia ulmoides skins, we would all make dried skins and make more money. And the dried skin can be concocted slowly, and you don't have to go to the city every day, and the time saved can concentrate on going to the mountains to cut the skin of eucommia. We have few families, so this work can be arranged. ”

"If not, our family has only wasted two days of effort, and the fresh eucommia peel has not lost a lot of weight."

Li Xiandong thought about it, this is the truth.

So, Wang went to clean up the dishes and chopsticks to prepare for tomorrow's breakfast and lunch, and Li Xiandong and Li Xiaohan poured water to clean the eucommia peel. Fortunately, there is still half of the water left in the tank, otherwise Li Xiandong would have to go to the village well in the dark to fetch water. It's just that there is no well at home, so it is not so convenient after all.

The water was poured, Li Xiandong faced this basket of eucommia peel, he had no bottom in his heart, desperately recalled the treatment method that Master Shi of Renhetang said, holding the eucommia peel in his hand, but he didn't know which step to do first, and he didn't know where to start.

On the contrary, Li Xiaohan picked up the eucommia peel and looked at it, directly threw away the rag given by his father, went to the tool room to get a firewood knife, and disliked the weight of the firewood knife, so he went to the kitchen to get two kitchen knives, and then took two brooms made of straw poles, and then sat down in front of the basin, brushing and preparing to dry.

"Dad, look at me." Li Xiaohan is small, his voice is crisp, but his whole image is very reliable.

I saw that she first used a kitchen knife to peel off the rough old skin on the outside; Then he took the straw broom, and instead of using the soft end, he used the thick end of the pole to clean all the gaps in the skin of the eucommia; Next, cut the whole eucommia peel into uniform size and soak it......

Li Xiandong watched his daughter's smooth operation, and couldn't come back to his senses: he didn't dare to do it, why did his daughter do it like that?

"Dad, look, don't be afraid, if you do it badly, you will treat it as the tuition fee for learning a craft, think about it, this eucommia peel is cut back from the mountains without spending a penny, and we have so much waste, and we will be able to earn more money if we succeed."

Li Xiaohan can always speak to his father's heart, anyway, it doesn't matter if it costs money to come for free.

Li Xiandong thought about it, this is the truth, nodded vigorously, stabilized his mind and began to work. Later, the Wang family, who hurriedly finished the kitchen work, also joined them.

The family is a good worker, and when they stay on the branches of the moon, they finally wash and soak this part of the eucommia bark and fall asleep with peace of mind.

The moon rises in the middle of the sky, and then sets, and the night fades away, and a red sun slowly rises in the east.