Li Qiuyue said hurriedly, "Mom, you don't know, they are like glutinous rice balls cooked in a teapot, only taking in but not giving out. They called us back to visit the graves, they definitely have bad intentions."
Li Laoer felt that Zhou's mother was still polite. "Aunt Nian, look at what Qiuyue said. No matter how wrong we are, we are still her brother and sister-in-law. How can we have no good intentions when we ask her and them to go back and visit the old man's grave?"
He thought that he had never gained any advantage from Li Qiuyue over the years, and was ridiculed by her every time, which made him lose all his face. If it wasn't for Hongxing's need to find a wife and send a sedan chair, he would not have come to find this cunning girl who didn't recognize her relatives.
Mother Zhou smiled faintly, "Second brother-in-law, don't worry and go back. Qiuyue and the third brother will go back to visit your parents' graves tomorrow."
Li Lao Er looked at Li Qiuyue and the other two who looked reluctant, and said gratefully: "Aunt Nian is sensible. No wonder your family is getting better and better."
"They are willing to work hard." Zhou's mother smiled faintly, "I still have something cooking in the pot, so I won't accompany my second brother-in-law."
"You're busy, you're busy, I'm going back too." Li Laoer said as he glanced at Li Qiuyue. Seeing her standing aside without saying anything, he felt embarrassed to stay here and said to her, "Come early tomorrow."
"You don't need me to tell you. I know what's going on." Li Qiuyue saw that he was still standing there and refused to leave. "I've already promised you that you would go. Why are you still standing there?"
"Just go!" Li Laoer rushed out angrily, turned around and spat at the door. Which brother-in-law in the world was as cowardly as him? He was kicked out after entering the house without even a sip of water.
The smell of meat in the kitchen aroused my appetite. It seemed that Qiuyue's life was really getting better!
The images of his two older sisters and another younger sister flashed through his mind, and he felt that this cunning girl was living a good life.
Li Qiuyue looked at Li Laoer who left after saying that. She was stunned for a moment and chased him to the door. Seeing that he really left, she went back to Zhou Huaishan and said, "He really left. Did he only talk about visiting the grave? Didn't he tell you anything else? Didn't he mention borrowing money or things?"
Although Li Laoer is a gigolo in the Li family, he is also a very tough guy. You have chased him away, so how can he not leave?
"No." Zhou Huaishan also found it a bit strange. "She said that her family earned some money by picking red mushrooms and digging truffles, and renovated the house. She also said that Li Hongxing started looking for a wife in the second half of last year, and he looked at several girls, but they were not very satisfied with any of them."
After hearing this, Li Qiuyue suddenly realized, "No wonder he is so honest. I don't think they are dissatisfied at all. They have seen several of them and none of them are satisfied."
Nowadays, mountain products can be sold for money. As long as you are diligent and hardworking, you will not go hungry. How many families would sell their daughters even though they know that the Li family is a disaster?
Li Hongxing, that lazy bastard, will have a hard time finding a wife in the future.
Zhou Huaishan glanced at her sideways, "You also know that marrying Li Hongxing is like jumping into a fire pit! Then why are you still thinking of raising your son to be like Li Hongxing?"
"As a grown man, do you think it's fun to bring up old grudges?" Li Qiuyue rolled her eyes at him and went to the kitchen with the vegetable basket.
Sister Yang Chunyan stayed by the pond for a while before going to Zhou Huaishan's house with garlic sprouts and onions. As soon as they arrived at the gate of the courtyard, a yellow puppy ran out from the kennel behind the door, wagging its short tail at them.
Yang Dongmei touched the puppy's furry head and said, "Sister, I also want to have a dog. Can your Wangcai and Laifu have puppies?"
Yang Chunyan smiled and said, "Wangcai and Laifu are both male dogs and cannot give birth to puppies. If you want to raise one, go to the mountains and pick one up later."
Yang Dongmei thought of the row of new houses, which still had no one living in them. "If I could get a smart one like your Wangcai and Laifu, I wouldn't be afraid to be alone at home when Wang Zhen goes to buy supplies."
Yang Chunyan: "Laifu and Wangcai were picked by your brother-in-law. Ask him to help you pick one when the time comes."
When the two sisters walked to the kitchen door, they smelled the aroma of steamed pork ribs with rice flour and saw steam rising from the steamer in the big pot.
Zhang Xiuxiang and Zhao Huifang were pounding pumpkin paste and mixing it with flour, Li Qiuyue was chopping meatballs, and Zhou's mother was sitting in front of the stove making a fire.
"Mom, where's Jiuer? It's time for her to eat rice porridge."
"Your grandfather fed him and took him to the sunbath to watch people play chess." Zhou's mother smiled at Yang Dongmei, "I asked Jiaming to go to Guanyin to pick up Mina and her brother to have a meal together. Several children followed him. I don't know if they will come."
The three children of the Zhao family are so sensible that it makes people feel distressed. She wants Jiaming, Xiaoqian and others to spend more time with such children and learn from them.
Yang Chunyan pulled a chair for Yang Dongmei to sit down. "Mina is a polite child. Go call them. They will definitely come."
Zhao Huifang rubbed the flour on her hands and shook her head. "Jia Ming and Jia Liang sometimes make me so angry, but I never thought of abandoning them. What on earth is the Zhao family made of?
Such good kids, but they just abandoned them without any care for several years and didn't come to visit them or worry about them being bullied. I'm afraid Mina and her brothers hate them to death."
Li Qiuyue took over and said, "How can I not hate him? If I am bullied by an outsider, I can fight him. Just like my family, my eldest sister and second sister were sold by my grandmother. My mother and husband dare not even fart. My eldest sister and second sister can't even find a place to reason."
Zhao Huifang: "Qiuyue, your two sisters have never returned to their parents' home since they got married?"
Li Qiuyue said sadly, "My sister came back after giving birth to her eldest sister and told my mother that the family beat her and wanted them to help her. My mother said that every day was like this and told her to just bear with it and it would pass."
She recalled the time when her eldest sister went back to her parents' home to complain and was scolded by her parents. Her sister went out alone, carrying her child on her back, under the scorching sun, and sat on the hill at the entrance of the village for a long time.
She probably hoped that her mother and brothers and sisters would chase her out to show some concern for her, right? But no one went out, and they watched her leave with the child on her back. After that, the eldest sister never came back.
Next it was the second sister's turn. She was afraid that she would follow their old path, so she worked very hard and tried her best to please her mother and husband, and that's why she didn't marry into the mountains.
Mother Zhou glanced at her and said, "No matter how wrong they were, they were your parents who gave birth to you and raised you. Now that they are gone, it is your responsibility to go back and visit their graves. Don't forget that you are also a mother."
After hearing this, Li Qiuyue said hurriedly: "I understand. I will go back with Huaishan tomorrow."
She also wanted to go back and see her eldest sister, second sister and youngest sister. She hadn't seen them for so many years and didn't know how they were doing.
At this time, Zhou Jiaming and others came in with the Zhao siblings. Zhao Meina was holding a big rooster, two bottles of wine, and two handfuls of noodles.
Yang Chunyan was very happy to see her siblings wearing new clothes and standing there in high spirits.
Zhao Meina and her brother greeted everyone with a smile, "Grandma Zhou, Aunt Zhao, Aunt Zhang... Happy New Year."
"This child, so young yet so polite!" Li Qiuyue hurriedly took the things from the siblings and walked towards the backyard carrying the big rooster. The heavy rooster reminded her of Li Laoer who came home empty-handed, and she felt disgusted again.
Mother Zhou looked at the children and said to Zhao Meina in a chastised tone, "Girl, why are you bringing these things here just to have a simple meal?"
Zhao Meina said embarrassedly: "It's nothing. The rooster was raised by Xiaochuan, and the noodles were given by Aunt Yang during the Chinese New Year!"
Zhou's mother rubbed Zhao Xiaochuan's head and said, "Xiaochuan is really capable." Then she said to Jialiang and Jiakang, "You should learn from Xiaochuan. Look how sensible and capable he is."
Zhou Jiakang and his brother nodded, "Grandma, Xiaochuan picked snails and clam shells from the ditch and brought them home to feed the chickens. The chickens love them."
Mother Zhou slapped the two of them and said, "I don't know what you want to do. You just want to go play in the water every day."
Zhou Jiakang and the other man pulled her arms and swung her around, "Grandma, let's go to the ditch behind the mountain to catch snails and clams to feed the chickens and ducks."
Zhou's mother patted the two of them and said, "Don't go to the back mountain. Go cut some fishing rods and go fishing in your father's pond."
"Fishing?" Zhou Jiaming hurriedly said, "Grandma, we don't even have fish hooks or fishing lines at home, what can we use to fish?"
Zhou Jiakang chimed in, "Grandma, let's wear our rain boots and go to the back mountain. We won't get our new clothes and pants dirty."
Zhang Xiuxiang, who was kneading dough, glanced at him and said, "It's Chinese New Year, and you're making a fuss about it. Your skin is itching again, right?"
Zhou Jiakang thought of the power of the yellow vitex and did not dare to retort, "We also want to fish, but what's the point of having no place to buy fish hooks and fishing lines?"
"They're available at the agency." Zhou Huaijun carried the fish into the kitchen, "Go buy some fish hooks and fishing lines, and Dad will go cut some bamboo to make you fishing rods."
Zhou Jiakang pulled him and said with surprise: "Old man, you can even make a fishing rod?"
Zhou Huaijun rubbed his head and said, "What's so special about making fishing rods?"
"You are so awesome!" Zhou Jiakang said admiringly.
Zhao Xiaochuan looked at the father and son with envy, but when he thought of the blurry figure, he felt sad again.
"Hurry up and buy fishing line and fish hooks, I will come back and make them for you." Zhou Huaijun proudly went back to get the machete and went to the mountain to cut bamboo.
"Oh! Let's go to the agency store to buy fishing lines and fish hooks." Zhou Jiaming and his two brothers grabbed Zhou Xiaochuan and ran out.
"Xiaochuan," Zhao Meina hurriedly chased after him and took out five cents from her pocket and handed it to him, "Money to buy fish hooks and fishing line."
Zhao Xiaochuan didn't answer, "Sister, I don't know how to fish, I just watch Brother Jiaming and the others fish."
"Buy one, we'll go too later." Zhao Meina knew that he also wanted to fish, but he just wanted to save money. It might be because he was too poor in the past and was reluctant to spend even a penny.
I don't know who he learned this from, but when his pencils ran out, he wouldn't buy new ones even if I gave him money. Instead, he would run to the garbage dump behind the school to find pencil stubs thrown away by others.
When Zhao Xiaochuan heard her say that they also wanted to go fishing, he happily took the money and went to chase Zhou Jiaming and his three brothers.
When Zhao Meina returned to the kitchen, Zhou's mother asked Zhou Xiaoqian and her sister to take them to the main hall to eat melon seeds, peanuts, and read comic books. (End of this chapter)
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