Chapter 370: Remarriage will bring shame to the children
Li Ming responded with a smile. Zhou Yong finished eating a cucumber and rode his bicycle to the chicken farm to inspect the work.
"Village head, two thousand hens have been eliminated from the chicken farm. If the township vegetable market wants to buy them, they need to be sold on credit. I was thinking of asking the village head for instructions. Fortunately, the village head is here, so I don't have to go to the brigade..."
On credit?
Zhou Yong immediately shook his head. In 1985, except for grain, the purchase restrictions were not lifted, and the era of coupons would be gone forever. This was the so-called great disintegration. When the vegetables were contracted out to the society, Huaixi Village Chicken Farm would never get the money back.
"It's just two thousand chicks. We digested it internally."
The Chinese New Year is only two months away, and every family will store some frozen food to entertain guests or to eat at home.
"Village Chief, why didn't I think of this solution?"
Zhou Yong smiled faintly: "You load the chickens onto the truck and take them to the team..."
"Okay!"
Zhou Yong went ahead and arrived at the brigade on a bicycle, and then called on villagers who were interested in buying chicks to come through the radio.
Before the chicks were delivered, the team was already overcrowded. Zhou Yong kept twenty chicks for himself, Sun Qing also kept twenty chicks, and the siblings Li Hongjun, Li Hongliang and Li Caixia also reserved a few chicks.
The main reason is that chickens are cheaper than pork. If you have guests at home, you can make a very good dish of chicken stewed with mushrooms and serve it on the table.
In a household with many people, if you buy too few chicks, there will not be enough to eat.
At this time, we can see the living standards of every household in Huaixi Village. In the past, even during the Chinese New Year, few families were willing to cook a whole chicken to eat. Nowadays, the minimum number of frozen goods to be stored is five chicks, which shows how rich every household is.
Carriages loaded with chicks arrived at the brigade, and the villagers stood in the cold wind, talking to each other and queuing up to buy the chicks.
Zhou Yong transported twenty chicks home on a bicycle, and Li Caiyun was stunned.
"Why did you buy so many chicks?"
Zhou Yong smiled and said, "Save it for food. It doesn't matter what you eat."
Li Caiyun glanced at Zhou Yong and curled her lips, while Jiang Yue'e and Guan Shuqing boiled water to kill the chickens.
Zhang Guifang couldn't get out of bed, and she was anxiously lying on the kang. Finally, she called Li Caiyun into the house and asked her to save some chicken feathers so that she could make some feather dusters.
The chickens were slaughtered one by one and frozen in a large vat. In the evening, the Li family stewed two chickens, stir-fried chicken offal, and paired them with two vegetarian dishes. The eleven people had a very good meal.
The five children were eating with their mouths full of oil and smiling happily. Whenever Zhou Yong saw this scene, he always felt that all his hard work was worth it.
"Dad, can we make boiled fish for dinner that day?"
At the Li family, if you want to eat something delicious, you have to tell Zhou Yong. If you tell anyone else, you will definitely be scolded.
Without waiting for Zhou Yong to speak, Li Caiyun glanced at her eldest son and said, "You look like boiled fish."
Li Jingchu chuckled, and Zhou Yong continued: "We will have boiled fish tomorrow."
Several children cheered, and Li Caiyun smiled bitterly and said, "Just spoil them!"
Zhou Yong said confidently: "My child, of course I have to spoil him. Besides, they are not the only ones who eat boiled fish, don't we eat it too?"
Li Caiyun couldn't win the argument with Zhou Yong, so she picked up a piece of chicken and put it into her man's bowl, trying to shut his mouth with the chicken.
The five children looked at their loving appearance and smiled. Li Baotian frowned and said, "Be careful of the impact. The children are watching us!"
Zhou Yong: “…?”
Wasn’t it just Li Caiyun picking up a piece of chicken for him?
What's the bad effect of this?
Zhou Yong's eyes swept across his father-in-law's face. Jiang Yue'e and Guan Shuqing were both trying to hold back their laughter.
He didn't feel anything special about their actions, but in the eyes of others, Zhou Yong and Li Caiyun were not only very affectionate, but also a little bit affectionate.
With a creaking sound——
Ma San and Liu Juan pushed the door and entered the house.
"Three, have you two eaten?"
"Brother Zhou, we've already eaten, you guys can eat now!"
"Then you guys take your seats, I'll finish my meal soon."
Ma San responded, but the couple did not sit down. Instead, they went into the house to see Zhang Guifang.
"Auntie, how is your leg recovering?"
Zhang Guifang had finished her meal. She was very happy to see Liu Juan and Ma San coming.
"It's much better now."
Liu Juan nodded, and Ma San reached out to take away the dishes and leftover food.
"Three, just leave it there, they'll clean it up in a while."
Ma San smiled and said, "Aunt, it's just a matter of convenience."
Zhang Guifang was about to speak but stopped herself. Liu Juan smiled and said, "Aunt, it's just cleaning up the dishes. It won't tire him out."
"Auntie knows that it's not three days of hard work, isn't it mainly because there are people in the family who do these chores?"
Liu Juan started chatting with Zhang Guifang with a smile, and after a while Li Caiyun, who had just finished her meal, came over.
"Juanzi, why are you two here? Where's Yuanyuan?"
"Yuanyuan was taken away by her eldest brother. I don't know where they went..."
Li Caiyun responded, and at this time Li Caixia came, and the four of them were chatting animatedly in Zhang Guifang's room.
After chatting for a while, Zhang Guifang said to Li Caixia, "Caixia, are you going to live like this from now on?"
Li Caixia was stunned for a few seconds. When she came back to her senses, she bit her lip and said, "Aunt San, the children are all grown up now, and my life is getting better. Let's just leave it at that!"
Last winter, Wu Jun died on the day of the Chinese New Year due to excessive drinking. Since then, Li Caixia has been relieved.
Zhang Guifang sighed, and Liu Juan continued: "Sister Xia, you are only in your early forties, and you have a lot of life ahead of you. If you don't find the blackheads, it will be too late to find the whiteheads..."
Li Caixia also thought about these things. She smiled bitterly and said, "Forget it. Even if I have this intention, the children may not be willing..."
Li Caiyun said: "That's not necessarily true!"
Li Caixia's first half of life was hard enough, as she had always been taking care of her children. By the time her children all found their homes, she was left alone and pitiful, so everyone advised her to remarry.
"Caiyun, I know in my heart that if I want to take a step forward, the children will not stop me. But they may not be able to accept my remarriage from the bottom of their hearts..."
Li Caiyun held Li Caixia's hand and said, "Sister Xia, have you talked to the children about these things?"
Li Caixia shook her head slightly. Li Caiyun smiled and said, "This is incredible? You haven't even talked about it. How can you determine what the children think based on your guesses?"
Liu Juan agreed: "That's right, and your children are sensible, they won't stop you from remarrying..."
Li Caixia sighed softly: "That's what I said, but I'm already this age, and remarriage will bring shame to my children."
Zhang Guifang said, "If they really cared about you as a mother, would they care about those things?"
Li Caixia opened her mouth, but swallowed the words back.
Li Caiyun was about to speak when Ma San pushed the door open and walked in.
"Let's go home!"
Before she knew it, it was almost eight o'clock. Liu Juan got up hurriedly when she looked at the time.
"Aunt San, I'm going back too."
"Go back and have some rest. You still have to go to work tomorrow."
Liu Juan and Ma San greeted Zhang Guifang respectively, and the couple walked out with Li Caixia one after the other. Li Caiyun followed closely behind them to see them out.
As soon as Ma Sanyi pushed the door open, Ma Yiming bumped into him.
"Why are you so reckless, kid?"
Seeing clearly that it was his son, Ma San couldn't help but frown and blame Ma Yiming.
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