Niu Juxiang, who had been hiding aside, waited until Liu Zhaodi returned to Lao Li's house before she came out from behind the door. It turned out that Niu Juxiang had just come out to look for Maodan and happened to see Liu Zhaodi and Zhao Pozi arguing with each other. In order to find out what was going on, she deliberately hid, and as a result, she discovered this big secret.
According to Niu Juxiang's previous behavior, she would have exploded on the spot and caught him red-handed, but this time she learned her lesson and deliberately watched the whole process without exposing herself at all.
She looked at Old Li's family fiercely, "Hmph, Niu Cuihua, just wait! I wonder how long you can keep up your high arrogance!"
At this moment, everyone in the Li family was sitting around the table waiting for dinner.
Niu Cuihua spoke slowly, "You all know the current situation. If your family comes to borrow grain, I can lend it to you, but the maximum is ten kilograms. If you don't want more, you need to sign, just like the third son's mother-in-law."
Zhang Xiuzhi, who had been somewhat dissatisfied, immediately smiled when she heard that her own family could also come to borrow grain. "Thank you, mother! A few days ago, my mother said that she had no grain at home and wanted to borrow some. I thought our family wasn't well off, so I didn't let her come. Now, if my mother knew that you could lend her grain, she would definitely be very happy!"
Niu Cuihua casually glanced at her daughters-in-law and said, "I see that everyone out there is too tired to work every day, so from today on, our family's rations will be reduced by half, so that you won't all be so rosy-cheeked and attract attention. We don't know when this famine will end. If I don't do anything, this whole family will starve to death sooner or later!"
After hearing this, everyone immediately became depressed.
Niu Cuihua glanced at the unhappy crowd and said, "Alright, stop being so rude and eat!"
After saying this, Niu Cuihua ignored everyone else and directly picked up the small bowl on the table, scooped up a spoonful of egg custard, and fed it to Li Mingxi in her arms, completely ignoring the eager looks of others.
Niu Cuihua could ignore these eager eyes, but Li Mingxi could not. When the spoon was placed to her mouth, she clearly heard the huge swallowing sounds around her.
Liu Zhaodi spoke first, "Mom, look at this egg custard, there's so much of it, Xiaoxi can't finish it all by herself, why not let Wumao have some too!"
Without waiting for Niu Cuihua to answer, she picked up Wumao, who was sitting on the bench eating rice with big mouthfuls, and pushed him next to Niu Cuihua. Everyone who was eating suddenly raised their heads and looked at this scene.
Wumao looked at Liu Zhaodi, then at the dark-faced Niu Cuihua, and burst into tears, "Ah, mother, why won't you let me eat?"
Liu Zhaodi gnashed her teeth and looked at her silly son. "I told you to eat egg custard. Didn't I tell you not to eat?"
Wumao looked at Liu Zhaodi in confusion, "What is egg custard? Mom, I don't eat egg custard, I want to eat!"
"Wu Mao, be good and go eat quickly. Your mother won't let you eat, but your grandma will!"
Wumao looked up at the kind grandma and said, "Okay, grandma, I'll eat well!" After saying that, he sat back down happily without caring about Liu Zhaodi's reaction.
Liu Zhaodi wanted to say something, but then she glanced at Niu Cuihua, who was glaring at her, and silently lowered her head. Seeing this, the others also quickly lowered their heads to eat.
Regardless of what others thought, Niu Cuihua continued to feed Li Mingxi, "Xiaoxi, ah, open your mouth wide, eat more, and grow fat."
Li Mingxi swallowed the egg custard subconsciously, thinking silently about what had just happened. Grandma was amazing. She shocked the whole family with just one look. And his cousin Wumao was really pitiful. He had never even tasted egg custard. Which child in a few decades would not have eaten egg custard? The weather was so bad now. If only it could rain a few more times.
After finishing their meal, everyone in the Li family prepared to go to work. Suddenly, a few dark clouds came down, and then more and more dark clouds gathered together, forming an momentum of dark clouds pressing down on the city.
Li Tieniu, who was usually quiet, looked at the dark clouds in the sky and said, "Old lady, I think it's going to rain. Don't go to work yet. Wait a while."
As expected, as soon as Li Tieniu finished speaking, it started to rain. The drizzle was as fine as cow hair, falling on the ground. For a moment, the entire Dongfeng Brigade was filled with cheerful laughter.
At this moment, a man with a sallow complexion ran out of the house excitedly, shouting, "It's raining, it's finally raining, there's hope!"
"Oh God, it finally rained. If it hadn't rained earlier, my family would have starved to death!" An old lady with white hair and a wrinkled face said while wiping her tears.
At this time, many members of the Dongfeng Brigade were rushing home in a hurry. In the crowd, an old man wearing a patched old blue jacket was seen trembling on a cane, muttering to himself as he walked, "It's raining, it's raining, there's food!"
Because it was raining, the team leader Li Tiezhu asked everyone not to go out to the fields to avoid catching a cold.
That afternoon, no one in the Li family, young or old, men or women, went out. The men chopped firewood, and the women mended clothes. The rain continued to fall until the evening.
That night, the entire Dongfeng Brigade was immersed in the drizzle. The rain lasted for two days and two nights. Brigade leader Li Tiezhu took some time to take a few people to the fields to take a look and found that the rain had fallen thoroughly.
"That's good! There's hope for a summer harvest. We won't starve then."
Li Dashu agreed, "That's right. My mother originally told me to go to my uncle's house to borrow some food in a few days, but now there's no need for that!"
Li Jianye, standing nearby, looked at the wheat seedlings in the field and said excitedly, "Dad, it's rained these past two days. I think mushrooms should be growing on the mountain. Why don't we let everyone go up the mountain for the next two days?"
Li Tiezhu raised his eyes to look at the mountain in the distance, "There's a lot of mud on the ground now, it's hard to walk on, let's all rest at home for a day, and then we'll organize a group to go up the mountain the day after tomorrow!"
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