She was also a little curious about what these small vendors walking through the streets were selling.

She had never seen it before. She had previously thought that there would not be such people selling things in the streets and alleys in remote rural areas. Unexpectedly, there really are such people, just not many. Hua Xiao and others said that these vendors only come once in spring.

Over the past half month, she took Hua Yu and the other two to clean the house thoroughly inside and out, especially the room where Li slept, which was filled with smoke and had an unbearable stench.

A few days ago, when a few people just walked in and started to clean, although they were mentally prepared, they were still choked by the unbearable stench that hit them in the face, and their faces turned blue.

Everything inside was thrown away during the flower season. The quilts, mats, chairs, cabinets, boxes... almost all of them were smelly and rotten, and most of them were even covered with white larvae.

Those wet and soft bugs, which only grow in the corners of pits filled with feces and urine, actually covered an entire wall in Li's house.

As soon as I pushed open the two tightly closed window frames, I saw white insect larvae floating and wriggling on the walls, chairs, stools, kang beds, etc., which made my scalp tingle.

When Hua Li saw it, she vomited on the spot.

Even Hua Yu, who was usually indifferent, couldn't help but frown and look grim.

Hua Shi immediately ordered several people to work together to throw all the things into the open space in the bamboo forest in the backyard, lit a fire, and burned everything.

After two days of cleaning together, they finally managed to clean the messy floor and walls.

Hua Shi even asked Hua Yu to use a hammer and a shovel to pry up the two kang beds in the room and move out all the broken pieces of loess before he stopped.

At present, Li's house has been cleared out, with nothing left, but the stench that has been lingering for years has not dissipated for a long time.

Now, Hua Shi and Hua Xiao sleep in the same room, and the remaining three brothers sleep in Hua Ciyuan's room. The roof of the room they slept in originally had not been repaired in time, so no one lived there anymore.

In the room, Hua Shi fumbled to take out the purse that had been hidden away, and counted the remaining change and copper coins.

"... eleven, twelve... thirteen taels, over three hundred coins."

Hua Shi thought for a while, counted out three hundred coins, put them into his purse, and hid the rest back in the hole in the corner of the wall at the end of the kang bed.

At the gate of the courtyard, Hua Yu and Hua Xiao also walked out.

At the far entrance of the alley, Hua Li ran over happily, chattering something. After a while, he pulled the sleeve of a small vendor and came back to the Hua family yard.

Looking at his worthless smile, Hua Xiao knew his little thoughts...

Hua Shi is not milk. In the past half month, they have hardly been short of food, steamed meat, stir-fried meat... They have eaten it four times in these few days alone.

Before, they wouldn't even dare to think about it. They were very satisfied with just a bowl of clear soup and porridge, and they didn't dare to ask for anything else...

Hua Li also saw Hua Shi's gentle nature and knew that she would not be reluctant to let go, so she looked forward to it eagerly, and was so excited that she almost danced with joy...

"Come on, come on, our family wants to buy some."

As I got closer, I heard Hua Li's noisy voice.

The peddler looked to be nearly fifty years old, with gray hair on his temples. Even though Hua Li was pulling him, he didn't have a sullen look on his face. He looked somewhat happy, but his pace wasn't much faster as he slowly pushed the cart towards them.

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