Chapter 60: It's not easy to ask for help
Entering the village, Han Tuo and Zhao Yunfei and Li Lanfang were separated at the entrance of the alley of his house, Han Tuo said that after dinner, he would take his homework to Zhao Yunfei's house, write homework together, and finish a good exercise, Zhao Yunfei meant to let Han Tuo go directly to his house for dinner, Han Tuo also knew that Zhao Yunfei was in an economic crisis now, although he also wanted to help him, but he couldn't do anything, so he was even more embarrassed to eat at his house. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Now that Han Tuo is also older and understands a lot of things, he didn't think about it so much when he was young two years ago, even if he drank porridge, he had to go to Zhao Yunfei's house to drink a bowl.
Zhao Yunfei took Li Lanfang to her door, Li Lanfang jumped out of the car, took the bicycle from Zhao Yunfei's hand, and said, "Or, you and Xiaoji will come to my house for dinner, right?"
Zhao Yunfei pointed back to his yard and said, "No, Xiao Ji is burning the fire, and he may have already boiled the porridge." ”
Li Lanfang looked up at the smoke coming out of the stove of Zhao Yunfei's house, and said with a smile: "This little girl is becoming more and more capable, you can save a lot of things in the future." ”
broke up at the door of Li Lanfang's house, Zhao Yunfei returned to his yard, and as soon as he entered the gate, he saw that Xiao Ji's little face had several strips of carbon black, like a little flower cat, holding a spoon in his hand to hold porridge, Zhao Yunfei hurriedly walked over and said, "Brother, come to Sheng, don't burn." ”
Xiao Ji looked at Zhao Yunfei, smiled sweetly, and said, "I'll give it to Ge Sheng." ”
"That's half a bowl, it's full and it's easy to burn your hands. Zhao Yunfei advised.
Xiao Ji has to do something within his ability, Zhao Yunfei is not too obstructive, the children of the poor are in charge of the house, and Zhao Yunfei himself came over like this.
Put down the schoolbag, wash your hands and face, after washing, Xiao Ji has already put the porridge and the pickles out, Zhao Yunfei couldn't help but have a smile on the corner of his mouth, and the trouble of the school to pay two hundred yuan for school uniforms seems to have been diluted at the moment.
The black pig in the pigsty has already grown in size, and in a few months it will be fat, and it will be slaughtered during the Spring Festival. At this time, the pig smelled the smell of stick porridge, and the "Xi'er, Xi'er" screamed without being dead or alive.
Zhao Yunfei yelled at the pigsty: "Don't scream, I'll cook for you right away." He turned back to Xiao Ji and said, "Throw a few pieces of vegetable leaves drying on the windowsill to the pigs." ”
Xiao Ji Yiyan took a few vegetable leaves and threw them into the pigsty, and said in a childish voice: "Eat, don't scream...... Call again, let my brother beat you. "When there was something to eat, the pig immediately stopped crowing.
Zhao Yunfei quickly scooped the porridge in the pot into the enamel basin, burned the stove, and boiled out the pig food in less than ten minutes.
Before he finished feeding the pigs here, he saw Han Tuo holding a large coarse porcelain bowl in one hand and two pancakes in his mouth, and entered the yard in a hurry.
Zhao Yunfei held the pig feeding spoon in his hand, straightened up and shouted to Xiao Ji: "Xiao Ji, go and pick it up." ”
Xiao Hei ran to Han Tuo one step ahead of Xiao Ji, jumping and jumping to bite the pancake in Han Tuo's mouth.
Han Tuo dodged in a circle, and shouted indistinctly in his mouth.
Xiao Ji hurriedly ran over and pushed Xiao Hei away, Han Tuo saw Xiao Ji coming, bent down, stretched his neck, and motioned for Xiao Ji to take the pancake first.
Those two pancakes had been held by Han Tuo for such a long time, and the saliva that flowed from his mouth had already flowed onto the pancakes.
With nothing in his mouth, Han Tuo was finally able to open his mouth to speak, first let out a long breath, and said loudly: "My mother boiled a lot of water, this bowl is a fat sausage, I can't put it down...... This bowl is a pork lard residue, which is salted and can be left for a few more days. As he spoke, he put the two bowls of meat on the small square table.
"You're done eating so quickly?" Zhao Yunfei finished feeding the pigs and walked over with a bucket.
"Isn't it fast to eat......? Ah, what a fragrant porridge, I'll have another bowl of porridge......" Han Tuo said with a sniff.
Xiao Ji raised his head and said to Han Tuo, "Brother, today is the porridge I boiled." ”
"Huh, really?" asked Han Tuo with a look of surprise.
Xiao Ji nodded proudly in acknowledgement.
Han Tuo patted the top of Xiao Ji's head and praised: "Yes, in the future, my brother will come over every day to drink Xiao Ji's porridge ......" As soon as he said this, he suddenly remembered that he forgot to bring his homework, and shouted: "Oops, I forgot to take the homework ......" As he spoke, he turned around and ran out of the yard.
Zhao Yunfei smiled and shook his head, and gave Han Tuo a bowl of porridge to hang on the table.
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Li Lanfang entered the house, and the food was already set on the round table in the north house, a plate of fried cabbage with shredded meat thickened with vinegar, exuding the fragrance of vinegar, a plate of fried tofu with shredded pork, a plate of scrambled eggs, and a plate of cucumbers.
Aunt Li was still busy in the kitchen of the Westinghouse, Li Lanfang put her schoolbag on the chair, washed her hands, and also came to the Westinghouse, shouting, "Mom, how do you cook so many dishes?"
Aunt Li said: "Isn't it the first day you go out of the village to go to school, you go to the backyard and call Yunfei and Xiaoji over to eat together, and I will make another egg soup." ”
Li Lanfang said: "I just let it, Yunfei said that Xiao Ji has already boiled the porridge, so he won't come." ”
"Then you take a plate of dishes out and send them over......," Aunt Li said as she was busy.
"Got it......" Saying that, Li Lanfang suddenly hugged her mother's waist from behind, and said, "Mom, please do something......
"You can't get down to business, go ahead, I'm busy here......" Aunt Li was used to her daughter's coquettishness and said.
Li Lanfang hugged her hand and said, "You promise me first......"
"What's the matter?" Aunt Li couldn't be entangled, so she had to ask.
"School...... Let me pay 200 yuan for the school uniform ......," Li Lanfang said.
"Filial piety, your principal has passed away, why did the principal pass away just after the school started, do you still have to pay for it?" Aunt Li was surprised.
"What...... Li Lanfang smiled coquettishly: "Where do you want to go, the school uniform is the school's school, and it is the uniform clothing of the students." ”
"Oh, I said, how can it be so expensive if you dress the dead in filial piety......" Then Aunt Li took another breath and said, "But this uniform costume is not cheap, two hundred yuan...... Let's hand it over, others wear school uniforms, then let's wear ...... too"
"The teacher said that in addition to a school uniform, he will also be given a schoolbag, all of which are from the 200 yuan. Li Lanfang added.
"It sounds like we're still earning, so we'll have to pay it even more. Aunt Li said while cutting tomatoes. Li Lanfang hugged her waist in the back, which made her very uncomfortable.
"Hmm...... And also...... Well, Yunfei's ......" Li Lanfang finally said the key point in a hurry.
Hearing this, Aunt Li'er stopped chopping vegetables, thought about it, straightened up and said, "The school uniform can be worn or not, does this money have to be paid?" For Li Lanfang's family, two hundred yuan spent on Li Lanfang is not too much, and it must be spent, but if another two hundred yuan is added, it becomes four hundred yuan, it will be a bit much, ordinary old farmers earn hard money, and Aunt Li has to hesitate, after all, she still has to live.
Li Lanfang heard the meaning of her mother's words, and was reluctant to take the money, so she quickly explained: "The school said that the money must be paid, and besides, you think, there are so many people in the whole school, and all the students wear the same school uniforms. ”
Hearing this, Aunt Li lowered her head and pondered for a moment, and asked, "Is Yunfei borrowing money from you?"
"No, his character, how can he borrow money from me......" Li Lanfang categorically gave a negative answer, she couldn't help but be a little angry at the question raised by her mother, and her tone also brought out the taste of anger, and the hands holding her mother's waist also let go.
"I didn't borrow money from you, so what are you bothering about? Maybe someone else can come up with this money. Aunt Li pushed Li Lanfang aside, bent down and continued to cut tomatoes.
Li Lanfang frowned and defended: "You don't know about their family's affairs, a hailstorm smashed all the crops in the field, and just got 900 yuan of disaster relief money, but it was stolen again, and Xiaoji spent 250 yuan to go to kindergarten two days ago, where is the money?"
"Hey, I said you girl, can you talk to the elders 'you, you'? It's so big, it's getting more and more unruly......" Aunt Li said to Li Lanfang.
"Aren't I in a hurry?" Li Lanfang pouted.
"I'm in a hurry, I can't talk to my elders like this in a hurry. Aunt Li finished cutting the tomatoes, took a green onion, sat on the small bench by the stove and peeled it.
"Am I wrong...... I said 'you', okay, are you satisfied?" Li Lanfang deliberately stretched out the pronunciation of the word "you", although she was admitting her mistake, the expression on her face was very annoyed.
Aunt Li peeled the green onions, glared at Li Lanfang, and forgave her for her language mistakes, and then continued what she said just now: "You said that Yunfei has no money in his hands, I see that he has not been idle, he has been loading cars in the brick factory to earn money, and there is still food at home, and he gave him fifty yuan last time Xu Xianglin's wife was hospitalized, how could he have no money?"
Li Lanfang hurriedly said: "You don't know, how much money can he earn even if he is tired of loading cars in the brick factory? And I heard Han Tuo say that there are people in the brick factory who make it bad, and many people who pull bricks dare not use him...... His family has little land, not much food, and he still has to keep rations, and the grain is not valuable, how much money can he sell? The money for Xu Xianglin's wife, Yunfei was also raised by you, you still don't know his character? I'd rather suffer yourself than look down on others......
Aunt Li was busy making soup, and was so annoyed by Li Lanfang that she said, "Go and go, you have nothing to do when you are full, Yunfei won't come over and say by himself if he is short ......of money? Why don't you hurry up and serve the dishes to their brothers and sisters?"
Li Lanfang saw that her mother had not let go, and she begged in a low voice for so long and dared to beg in vain, at this time there was already a crying in her voice, and shouted: "You forgot that Xiao Ji was sick, he would not borrow even if he was short of money, he would rather sell blood and homestead......" After speaking, Li Lanfang angrily slammed the door and went out of the kitchen to return to the north house, did not serve vegetables, and cried directly on the kang.