There are so many birds in the countryside that you really need a child to watch over them.
It's not just their family, it's every other family's family.
In the evening, Mrs. Liu came to her house again to buy steamed buns, and she bought dozens of them at a time.
"I'm busy at home. I'm too old to do so much work. I'll just buy more steamed buns for meals to save trouble." She said.
As with other things, she hasn't been able to sell enough steamed buns these days.
"Xiaozhen, why don't you make buns recently?"
Ye Xiaozhen smiled and said, "I'm busy. Baozi is hard to make, but steamed buns are easier."
"This is it, but the buns make a lot of money, right?"
"Yes, but it's too much effort. I've almost finished all of Grandpa's pickled cowpeas and pickled vegetables.
After eight days of hard work, the food at home was almost harvested, and Xie Zhili and his wife came.
Ye Xiaozhen was speechless when she saw the two of them. She said that since the last fight was so tense, she thought they would hold a grudge and stop communicating with each other in the future.
But unexpectedly, this time when the family came back, they seemed to have completely forgotten the unpleasantness from last time.
Li Mei held Ye Xiaozhen's hand and called her in a very affectionate manner.
"My dear daughter, I know you are a blessed person, beautiful and capable, and you bring prosperity to the family. Lin An will have a smooth journey if he marries you. But our Xie family will be very disappointed if we can marry you."
Ye Xiaozhen calmly withdrew her hand, saying that she had not forgotten that Li Mei had despised her as a fool.
"They are all busy in the fields. I am the only one left at home. I can't make the decision. If you have any questions, go find Xie Linan."
Li Mei's smile froze. "Why can't you make the decision? As a woman, you should take care of the man and be the master of the house."
That's true, but she looks like a soft persimmon to me.
If Xie Lin An was easier to talk to, it would be strange for her to expect her nephew's wife to be the head of the family.
Xie Zhili said, "What are you talking about? What can we do? We know that it is not easy for the old man to farm at his age, so we come back to help him harvest the rice."
Li Meixiao said hurriedly: "Yes, yes, we came back to help."
Oh, what have you been doing so far?
They had been collecting the crops for eight days and were almost done when they arrived.
"Oh, is that so? Then you have to go quickly. I heard from Grandpa that the harvest will be over in a day."
"Ah?" The two were stunned and looked at each other.
"How come time goes by so fast?"
Ye Xiaozhen said calmly, "There are many years. I am at home, and my elder sister and I go to the fields with them. Besides, my first and third brothers have grown up. The boys in junior high school are different every year. Last year they were still children, but this year they have become strong men, so of course they harvest faster."
Xie Zhili had a gloomy face. He was more annoyed with Xie Li than why she collected the money so quickly.
Two more mouths.
"Why is Xiaoli still here?"
Ye Xiaozhen rolled her eyes at him and was too lazy to pay attention to him.
Li Meila pulled him and said, "Let's go, let's go to the fields first."
The two then left.
They came here with a good schedule. For example, it usually takes ten days to harvest rice at home, but they calculated that it would take eight days to come here, so they would help out for two or three days. Then they would take the rice in bags to be threshed into rice and then take it to the city, which would be enough food for their family for at least half a year.
Some people, after getting enough of the bargains, take them for granted and are ungrateful.
If one day you suddenly can't take advantage of him, you will feel that you owe him and are sorry for him.
Xie Zhili and his wife are not like this.
The Xie family's rice harvest was over, and Xie Zhili wanted to help pick the last load of rice, but was directly rejected by Xie Linan.
"I don't want you to get involved. Don't ever think of taking even a grain of rice from me."
"You're right. We are a family. I'm your uncle."
Can Xie Linan give him this face?
That can't happen.
"We have separated and are not registered under the same household registration, so don't get involved."
Xie Linan pushed him away and walked away carrying the rice.
Seeing that he was not moved by his soft and hard words, Xie Zhili went to his good old relative.
"Dad, I weighed out a pound of tobacco leaves for you. They're still at my house. I'll bring them to you in two days."
Xie Lin next to him said, "Why not bring it today, but in two days?"
Xie Zhili: “…”
"Uncle San wouldn't have bought nothing at all, thinking that if my son could get a bargain at home, he would take it in two days. If not, he would save money and not buy it."
"Hey, how do you talk like that, you little bastard? Is your third uncle that kind of person?" Li Mei said angrily.
"Uncle San is not that kind of person." He replied directly to Li Mei.
The two men followed them with gloomy faces and without saying a word.
The grains that were brought back were dried out in the village’s drying dams during the first sun, and then brought to the family’s yard to dry for another day or two before being stored in the granary.
Xie Linan carried the rice to the dam, wiped the sweat off his face, and picked up a rake to sort out the rice that had just been poured.
Then Xie Li came.
"Mom." Hongxia went forward.
Xie Li smiled, took the rake from Xie Linan and said, "Linan, you go back. I, Hongxia, will stay here to guard."
Xie Linan thought about how disgusting the couple was, and after thinking about it, he felt more satisfied.
Xie Zhili and his wife followed the old man all the way back, showing him all kinds of courtesy, one on each side.
Thinking that Xie Linan had gone to the dam and he was not there, he scolded the two little ones in a sad tone.
"You are fourteen or fifteen years old, you are old enough, you should be the ones taking care of the household, why do you still let your grandfather do the work? He should have been enjoying his life at his age, but he still has to work hard for you. Is that what your teacher taught you? You are such a traitor."
Ye Xiaozhen was cooking in the house and vaguely heard Li Mei scolding.
She quickly took a thick wooden stick and stuffed it into the stove.
"Stop talking, these kids are very filial. I just can't stay idle so I have to go to the fields with them."
"Hmph, Dad, you protect them."
Lin Xinghua said: "I'm telling the truth. Lin An hasn't asked me to do heavy work for several years. It's easy work for me to just cut a few handfuls of rice."
Li Mei snorted disdainfully and complained, "When you are able to do it, help them as much as you can. Don't wait until you can't do it anymore and then come to us for support. We won't allow that."
Xie Lin said anxiously: "Auntie, what nonsense are you talking about?"
Li Mei said, "Why am I talking nonsense? Am I wrong? Didn't your grandfather take care of you? Humph, he took care of you with so many grandchildren. How many days did he take care of Lin Chuan and Xiao Wen? They didn't have the care of grandpa. It's okay for them to eat some new rice from grandpa, right?"
After going around in circles, we are back to the same place.
Xie Lin sneered, "You're talking so much, but you don't want to take our rice. Why? You moved away a long time ago, the land is ours, the work is done by us, we won't give it to you."
Xie Zhili joined the battle, "On what basis? On Lin Chuan, Xiaowen and his grandson."
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