He looked at the old woman's face, which was so thin that it looked like a paper doll wrapped in skin on a skeleton, and pursed his lips.
Then he opened his mouth and said calmly: "Eat less, there is not much food left at home."
Then he pulled Old Lady Wang's hands off the table.
Looking at the heartless Old Man Shen, Old Lady Wang immediately screamed and hit him with her hands.
Old man Shen glared at Li Xiang and said, "Why don't you drag your mother back?"
Li Xiang could only lower her head and drag Old Lady Wang back, and whispered to her: "Mom, I will cook a little more for you next time, just bear with it!"
But is Old Lady Wang such an honest person?
Since she couldn't reach Old Man Shen, she took her anger out on Li Xiang.
Hair, face, back of hands, whatever he could get his hands on.
Li Xiang didn't dare to fight back and could only let her vent.
Until the whole family finished their meal, Li Xiang, who had been busy all morning, didn't even have a sip of water.
On the other side, Hu Lili, who had left Shen's house early in the morning, came to Liu Changshan's house again.
She came to urge the village chief again about the matter of the educated youth center.
Hu Lili now urgently wants to move out of the Shen family.
She was very clear about the current situation of the Shen family, and she was worried that one day when the Shen family reached the end of their rope, they would harm her at night.
So now she lives in fear every day.
Visit each household during the day and avoid going home if possible.
Liu Changshan also felt that Hu Lili was indeed no longer suitable to live in the Shen family.
He took Hu Lili with him and, despite his old age, started looking for someone to build a kang for the educated youth.
He called a few men in the village and asked all the educated youth to help, and then started to mix the clay and make the mold.
It is easier to get things done with more people. The adobe bricks were made in one day. All that was left was to wait for them to dry before starting to build the kang.
In order to work faster, Hu Lili took the initiative to take over the job of watching the adobe bricks bake over firewood.
As for the firewood, she bought it from someone else's house for 50 cents.
In this way, more than ten days had passed from drying the adobe bricks to building the kang.
The kang has not yet completely dried, but Hu Lili has already begun to look forward to life after moving out of the Shen family as soon as possible.
As for the Shen family, Old Man Shen still couldn't come up with any good solution after thinking about it for so many days.
He no longer had the means to exchange Shen Siyue for money, and now two more people were down at home, which made him so worried that he couldn't sleep all night.
The fire in his pipe was always on, and the room was filled with smoke.
Even the Shen family members who were used to Old Man Shen smoking tobacco could not stand the choking.
Especially Shen Weimin, he complained to Old Man Shen: "Master, can you smoke less? This room is almost smoked by you! Can you let me sleep?"
Old man Shen blew out a puff of smoke in annoyance, and worried in the dark night with his eyes open: "Do you think I want to smoke? All you do is eat every day. Who has ever worried about this family?"
"Dawei, you've grown up now. You can't just eat and sleep all day long!"
"Hey, I wanted to find you a wife after the New Year, but now you can't even take care of your meals."
Old man Shen felt weaker and weaker as he spoke, and could only hold his pipe and smoke hard.
When Shen Weimin heard about marrying a wife, he couldn't help but think of Hu Lili who lived in the west room, and muttered a little decadently: "What's the point of marrying a wife when there's so much famine? Who would marry into our family? Once they marry in, they have to pay off their debts?"
Old Man Shen couldn't bear to hear his depressing words: "You are so young, why are you so cowardly? If you owe money, just think about paying it back. Are you not going to marry a wife just because you owe money?"
At this time, Shen Qiushu said faintly in the darkness: "It would be nice if I didn't have to pay back the money I owe Hu Zhiqing."
Shen Weimin sneered: "What good things does Sanbai have in mind? What does he have to do with us? Why don't you want us to pay back the money?"
The unintentional conversation between Shen Weimin and Shen Qiushu made Old Man Shen narrow his eyes.
If I make Hu Lili a member of my family, does that mean I don't have to pay back the money I owe?
This idea sprang up like bamboo shoots after rain, and took deep root in Old Man Shen's heart, making him unable to sleep well all night.
In the past, he looked down on Hu Lili, thinking that city girls were too pampered and not suitable for their rural family.
But now that my home is like this, what else can I choose?
Besides, Hu Lili looks healthy. Although she has never done farm work, she has nice breasts and a nice butt. She looks like she can give birth to a son.
If she and the eldest grandson were paired together...
Thinking of the benefits of doing this, Old Man Shen couldn't help but fall into deep thought.
The next day, when there were few people in the room, Old Man Shen took Shen Weimin's hand and asked him quietly: "Dawei, let me ask you a question, what do you think of Hu Zhiqing?"
Old man Shen knew that his eldest grandson had a crush on the educated youth Hu, and he always hung around that girl in public.
But recently, he saw that his eldest grandson seemed to have no interest in that girl again, so he asked this question.
Shen Weimin didn't understand what Old Man Shen meant at first, and asked in a daze, "What?"
Old Man Shen looked at his grandson's silly look and couldn't help but pat him in the face with amusement: "What do you mean? It's just like a man looking at a woman. Tell me the truth, do you still care about her?"
Shen Weimin's face turned red when asked by Old Man Shen, his eyes began to wander, and his mouth stammered and couldn't speak.
Old man Shen is not a fool. How come he can't see that his eldest grandson is shy?
He smiled and said to Shen Weimin: “Then let’s ask her to be your daughter-in-law, okay?”
Shen Weimin looked at Old Man Shen with some doubt: "She...can she look down on me? After all, our family is so poor..."
Old Man Shen said unhappily, "Why don't you like her? How are you inferior to her?"
"She has no relatives here. When she gets married, there won't be anyone to help you. If it weren't for the fact that our family is in such a difficult situation right now, I wouldn't even look down on her!"
Old Man Shen’s confidence did not dispel Shen Weimin’s doubts. He knew that Hu Lili’s vision was a bit high, so he said to Old Man Shen: “Master, I don’t think she will agree to marry me!”
Unexpectedly, Old Man Shen looked calm and composed: "Don't worry about this. Just tell me, do you want to marry her?"
Shen Weimin hesitated for a long time, thinking about Hu Lili's beautiful face and comparing it with those girls from the countryside, he felt that he still liked Hu Lili from the city better.
Shen Weimin nodded heavily at Old Man Shen: "Yes, I wanted to marry her since the first time I saw her, and I still want to now."
Old Man Shen looked at his grandson's crazy look with amusement, knowing that he was attracted by Hu Lili's face, and knocked on his head with his hand: "In this case, Grandpa will find a way to make your wish come true."
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