Chapter 404
Liao Fengmei’s cooking skills are indeed good, and she has made up her mind to prepare this meal tonight.
When Su Qingci came out, the thin girl named Xiaoyu was helping Liao Fengmei serve the dishes. When she saw Su Qingci, she shyly followed Sixiang and called her "sister".
A white-haired old lady in her sixties helped to set the dishes on the table.
There were six main dishes on the table: stir-fried oysters, steamed sausages, squid stewed with chicken, fried bacon, scrambled eggs with leeks, and kelp soup.
Seeing everyone coming out, Liao Fengmei quickly called out, "Go wash your hands! Scarlett has poured water in the basin by the door."
"Aunt Zeng, please sit there and don't move. I'll do it. Xiaoyu, sit next to your grandma."
"Lai Sixiang, you sit with mom, your brother and sister will sit over there."
After the group sat down, Xu Dasheng looked at the feast in front of him, which he might not even be able to enjoy during Chinese New Year, and said with a smile, "Sister-in-law's cooking skills are incredible. It smells so good, and there are so many dishes. This is really grand."
Liao Fengmei smiled and said, "These chickens and meat were all brought by my niece Qingci. I just contributed a little."
Su Changzhi was unusually interested. "Sigui, get Dad the bottle of sweet potato wine from under the bed. Dad and your Uncle Dasheng will have a drink together."
Liao Fengmei smiled and said, "Yes, yes, you must have a drink. Later, you must also drink tea instead of wine. I offer a drink to your uncle Dasheng."
Xiao Zengniang, Xu Dasheng's mother, knew that Su Qingci came from the inland, and asked Su Qingci about the news in the country with an anxious look on her face.
"Is it true now, as the rumors say, that all the land has been distributed to the people?"
“Are all people really equal?”
"Can everyone have enough to eat? Can the master not beat or kill the slaves at will?"
.......
Su Qingci was very patient and answered whatever Grandma Zengniang asked.
Xu Dasheng noticed the longing on his mother's face and felt secretly unhappy.
He was still young when he came here and had no feelings for the land there, but his mother had brothers and sisters, relatives and friends there.
After dinner, Xiaoyu and Grandma Zeng Niang helped clean up the mess, while Su Qingci and Xu Dasheng returned to the room and started dividing the money.
There were no entertainment activities in the countryside at that time. In addition, after a busy day, basically every household went to bed after eight o'clock in the evening.
Sigui and Xu Dasheng rode Su Qingci's bicycle and set off with Su Qingci's mountaineering bag on their backs.
The first one is the home of Da Niu in the next village.
Xu Dasheng wore a hat and a mask as Su Changzhi said.
In Daniu's house, the children and the elderly had already gone to bed, only Daniu's wife Lin Zhaodi was kneeling in the living room, guarding the thin coffin.
She went back to her parents' home this morning to raise money. You can tell from her name that her parents' home...
She bumped her head and bruised it, her lips were worn out, and she borrowed from everywhere she could, but she still couldn't raise enough money to buy the wood.
Some people even thought she was unlucky and refused to let her in. Most of them saw that her family had lost their labor force and were afraid that the money would be gone forever.
Fortunately, after paying for the hunger, there was still some money left from the thousand yuan that Da Niu took home last time.
The village carpenter felt sorry for her and only charged her a small amount of money. He then used the wooden boards that he had been drying to make bed boards to nail out a simple rectangular box for her and carried it back home as a coffin.
As soon as Sigui and Xu Dasheng entered the room, they saw Lin Zhaodi looking like a walking corpse in the dim candlelight, staring at the thin coffin on the bench with a numb face.
"Aunt~"
"Daniu's?"
Lin Zhaodi slowly turned her head back. At this moment, there was nothing to be afraid of anymore.
"Who are you?"
Sigui and Xu Dasheng looked at each other. They had a lot of places to go today and had no time to say anything more.
"We are from Daniu's family. We are Daniu's friends. We went out to sea with Daniu this time. Don't be too sad about Daniu's affairs. He was most worried about you and your family before he left."
Lin Zhaodi's eyes lit up and her mouth trembled as she wanted to say something.
Xu Dasheng went out to check and closed the door.
Sigui took out a paper bag from his backpack.
"Auntie, this is what Daniu asked us to bring to you before he died. He left a few words for you. He said he let you down and told you to take care of your child and live well. He will bless you in the afterlife."
Xu Dasheng continued, "You should save this money. Danniu told you not to tell anyone because the money didn't come from a legitimate source. If anyone knew, the family of the owner of the Ghana might come after you. This is the guarantee he risked his life to leave for you..."
"Remember, don't tell anyone, don't let anyone know that your family has money!"
Lin Zhaodi didn't come to her senses until the two men had gone far away. She opened the newspaper in her hand by candlelight, and a number of curved coins of considerable denomination came into her sight.
Lin Zhaodi's hands were shaking so much that she couldn't hold the money in her hands. She covered her mouth to stop herself from crying out loud, for fear of disturbing her sleeping child and blind mother-in-law. She stood up and threw herself on the thin wooden box, crying silently and heartbreakingly.
Daniu, Daniu, I will definitely raise Dagou and Ergou, and take good care of my mother until she dies. Don't worry, I won't tell anyone, I won't tell anyone. I won't go back to my mother's house anymore, and I won't tell anyone...
Panxi Cave, Haiyong’s home.
Hai Yong's father, who is sick all over, often can't sleep at night. Now that his daughter-in-law has just had such an incident, he is even more afraid to sleep.
He stood at the door with a cane, looking at the moon outside, his eyes dead.
Inside the house, the lame daughter-in-law heard the sighs outside, let go of the child in her arms and climbed up.
"Dad, go to sleep. How can your body endure if you keep watching over me like this? Don't worry, I was mistaken before. I promise you, I will never commit suicide again. I will definitely take good care of Da Shuanzi..."
Hai Yong's father looked at his daughter-in-law with a guilty look on his face. "It's our Liu family who has wronged you. Tell me what's on your mind. Don't worry, I'm here. I won't let you and Shuanzi starve. Tomorrow I'll go out to sea with them..."
"You are still young. If you meet someone suitable later and want to go back to another family, Dad won't stop you, as long as you don't do anything stupid..."
As soon as Xu Dasheng and Sigui arrived outside the yard, they heard sobbing from inside.
Haiyong was different from Daniu, his body was not returned.
Sigui stepped forward and knocked gently on the door, "Uncle, please open the door."
Hai Yong's father looked at the two men coming in the moonlight, and stood in front of his daughter-in-law with a determined look on his face, leaning on his crutches.
"Who are you? What do you want to do?"
Xu Dasheng's eyes warmed up. "Uncle, we are Haiyong's brothers. We went out with Haiyong this whole time. Before he fell into the water, he was always thinking about home. He was worried that you didn't have money to buy painkillers, and that you wouldn't be able to make it in time for your sister-in-law to give birth..."
Sigui took out a toilet paper roll from his backpack and said, "This is what Brother Haiyong left for you. He asked us to send it home. He told you not to be too sad. He feels sorry for you and wants you to live well..."
"He said he would protect you from below and told you not to tell anyone. He was afraid that if others knew about his family's wealth, they would have bad intentions, and he wouldn't be able to protect you anymore..."
After the two left, Hai Yong's father, who had always been strong, raised his rough hands and wiped his tears.
He said in a hoarse and trembling voice, "San San, hurry up and get the iron box on the cabinet, find the hoe, and hide it. Shuanzi is saved. Tomorrow Dad will go to town to buy malted milk and some milk-inducing medicine for you..."
Haiyong's wife covered her mouth and sobbed, "Dad, wuwuwu, Hai, Haiyong said when he left that he would buy you painkillers when he came back..."
"No, I'm old, it's okay to endure it, this is for Shuanzi, this is all for you and Shuanzi..."
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