Chapter 334 Cui Shufen and Zhou Jiefang died on New Year's Eve
This scene made Zhou Kerou very angry. If Zhou Yong hadn't been in the kitchen, she would have definitely kicked Ma Yiyang a few times.
Zhou Yong nodded with satisfaction, and Li Caiyun put some pork belly, ribs and goose into the basin brought by Ma Yiyang.
Ma Yiyang went back happily with the basin. Zhou Yong glanced at Zhou Kerou, who was still angry, and called her to the living room.
She was criticized by Li Caiyun a lot for beating Ma Yiyang, but this girl continued to do as she pleased afterwards.
Zhou Yong severely criticized and educated Zhou Kerou, and said that if she dared to hit Ma Yiyang again, she would have to consider the consequences herself.
Zhou Kerou lowered her head and said nothing. Zhou Yong had a headache: "Did you hear what I said?"
"Yes."
Zhou Yong narrowed his eyes: "I'm warning you, Zhou Kerou, if you dare to ignore my words, you'll be beaten!"
Zhou Yong went to the kitchen after he finished speaking. Zhou Kerou muttered, "I'll be beaten if I want to. It's not like I've never been beaten before. How you beat me, I'll beat Ma Yiyang the same way in return..."
It is not difficult to see from Zhou Kerou's words that this little girl is a stubborn person.
Not only is she very stubborn, but she also holds a grudge. Although she is young, she is the most troublesome among the five children.
Zhou Kerou went to the kitchen to continue making the fire while muttering to herself, while Li Caiyun started scolding her little daughter again.
Zhou Kerou listened quietly without even a word of rebuttal. She looked very well-behaved, but who knew that she was thinking in her heart how to beat Ma Yiyang next time!
The next day, on the morning of New Year's Eve, all nine members of the Li family got up early.
The five children put on new clothes, everyone had a smile on their face, and they kept running in and out of the house.
Under the command of Li Baotian, five children hung up red lanterns and put up couplets and hanging flags one by one, and the house was filled with a festive atmosphere.
Li Caiyun and Zhou Yong were preparing breakfast. The aroma coming from the kitchen made Li Jingan drool.
Zhou Yong looked at his oldest son, smiled silently, cut off a piece of meat and handed it to him.
Li Jingan took it with his chubby little hand, took a bite of the meat with a smile, and muttered, "It smells so good."
Li Caiyun chuckled and brought breakfast to the dining table one by one. Then she asked Li Jingan to go to the yard and call her brothers and sisters into the house to eat.
A family of nine sat around the dining table, chatting and laughing while eating breakfast.
"It's still good to celebrate the New Year. There are so many delicious dishes for breakfast."
The Li family usually has steamed buns, steamed buns, flower rolls, rice porridge, millet porridge, two-grain porridge, and porridge for breakfast, with various pickles and eggs or salted duck eggs in rotation...
Isn’t today Chinese New Year?
There was a lot of stewed meat yesterday, so in the morning Zhou Yong made a twice-cooked pork and cut a plate of beef. Li Caiyun mixed a cold dish, cut a plate of pork skin jelly, stir-fried some pork intestines, and stir-fried some celery and pork shreds.
After listening to Li Jingen's words of emotion, Zhou Yong, Li Caiyun, Li Baotian and Zhang Guifang smiled silently.
Li Baotian smiled and continued, "When my grandfather was a child, he couldn't even eat dumplings during the Chinese New Year, let alone this table of dishes..."
When Zhou Kexin heard this, she hurriedly picked up some food and put it in her grandfather's bowl.
Li Baotian was not happy with his smile. Zhang Guifang curled her lips and said, "What did you do when you were a kid? What era was that? We couldn't even get enough to eat. How can we compare to now?"
"Do you think everyone can have enough food now? There are so many people who can't have enough food..."
Zhang Guifang opened her mouth and said, "Yes, even now, there are still families who don't have enough food to eat..."
Li Caiyun glanced at the man beside her affectionately, knowing full well that without Zhou Yong's efforts, Huaixi Village would not have been as prosperous as it is today.
I'm afraid that all the villagers are still living a life of digging for food in the soil, and every household is still extremely poor.
Li Caiyun was thinking about these things as she picked up some food and put it into Zhou Yong's bowl.
"You've lost weight, eat more meat."
Zhou Yong smiled and said, "I lost weight? Didn't you feel it?"
After staying in the provincial capital for more than two months, Zhou Yong ate in the cafeteria every day, eating the same few dishes over and over again. How could he not lose weight?
Zhang Guifang looked at her son-in-law and replied, "You have indeed lost some weight."
Li Baotian also echoed, and Zhou Yong chuckled: "I didn't feel it myself."
"If you feel that you have lost weight, how thin do you have to be?"
Zhou Yong nodded, feeling that what his mother-in-law said made sense.
After breakfast, the five children went out to play, and Zhou Yong and Li Caiyun cleaned up the dishes.
As soon as they finished cleaning up here, the couple over there were busy preparing lunch.
"Give mom the dumpling filling. Mom and your dad will make dumplings."
The old couple made dumplings, and Li Caiyun stewed the pork ribs and goose in the pot. After waiting for the two dishes to come out of the pot, she stewed the chicken and duck.
Cooking on two stoves at the same time is not slow, but it is more time-consuming to stew too many dishes.
After cutting the dishes one by one and placing them on the plates, Li Caiyun counted them: "There are sixteen dishes now."
Zhou Yong glanced at the dishes neatly displayed on the chopping board and said, "These are the dishes for lunch. We'll make a few more dishes for dinner."
Li Caiyun responded and left the kitchen to go to the living room to make dumplings, while Zhou Yong watched the two stoves burning at the same time.
The five children returned with blank expressions. Li Caiyun, who was rolling out dumpling wrappers, frowned slightly: "What's wrong with you?"
Li Jingan ran to Li Caiyun, leaned over and whispered in her ear: Mom, my grandparents are dead. “
Li Caiyun was stunned. Zhang Guifang was wrapping dumplings and asked in confusion, "What happened?"
"Mom, Gang Pao said his grandparents are dead."
Zhang Guifang widened her eyes in surprise: "How is this possible?"
When she went out for a stroll yesterday, she saw Cui Shufen on the road. She was fine at the time. How could she die suddenly?
Li Baotian paused while making dumplings and said, "Goudan, is what your brother said true?"
Li Jingchu nodded, and Li Jingen said, "I heard that my grandma was hanged, but as for how my grandpa died, I haven't heard about it."
After confirming that what was said was true, Li Caiyun quickly put down the rolling pin, clapped her hands full of flour, and hurried to the kitchen.
Zhou Yong was making a fire when Li Caiyun told him what had happened.
"Let's go over and take a look!"
Zhou Yong tightened his grip on the fire poker and stared straight at the fire in the stove.
Seeing that he didn't get up, Li Caiyun couldn't help but go forward and pull him: "Let's go?"
Zhou Yong stood up, but his legs felt extremely heavy.
Li Caiyun sighed: "The dead are the greatest, no matter what, they are your parents, let's go and take a look!
Besides, it is said that mom was hanged and dad’s cause of death is unknown. As the village chief, you must go to the scene to take a look…”
Zhou Yong's outstretched hands clenched into fists at some point, tears blurring his vision.
He raised his head, looked at the kitchen roof, and tried hard to hold back his tears.
Zhou Yong took a deep breath and held back his tears. Li Caiyun looked at her man and hugged him with heartache.
"If you want to cry, just cry. Why hold it in?"
Zhou Yong slowly closed his eyes, his voice choking with sobs: "All the grudges and grievances are gone."
Li Caiyun felt as if her heart was being cut by a knife. She looked up at Zhou Yong, held his shoulders and said, "I know you feel bad, but they are gone now. Let's go and see them off so that we don't have any regrets..."
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