Chapter 268 Digging Shepherd's Purse
But this time Hua Xiali doesn't plan to do so, because she wants to return Hua Tiefeng to his mistress, let her take care of him until the end of his life, let her torture him, and make him regret and despair.
When a man looks back on his life before his death is about to end, he will feel endless regret. It will be interesting to wait until Hua Tiefeng is about to run out of energy and then tell him the results of the paternity test of his youngest son.
After visiting several uncles' homes, he went to his fourth uncle's home for lunch. After Huo Beixi went to his fourth uncle's home, he did not leave the yard again, so Second Grandpa Huo and Second Madam Huo did not know about this yet.
Hua Xiali understood what he meant. He also didn't want the two old men to disturb Hua Xiali, and Hua Xiali really didn't want to bother with irrelevant people, so it was a good thing for her not to see them.
Otherwise, what would happen if their grandchildren would cling to her like leeches? After all, the sons of mice could dig holes, and no one knew what their descendants would become.
Huo Beixi also did not tell everyone that Second Master Huo was his grandfather's younger brother, so no one knew about this. After all, Huo Beixi had not returned openly for many years. Even if he came back to give Second Master Huo something, he did so quietly and in a very low profile, and did not appear in front of everyone.
Even if my fourth uncle and aunt knew that there was a Huo Beixi in the village whom they were not familiar with, they would not associate the two together unless Huo Beixi himself said it.
In the afternoon, when the family went back, Hua Xiali and Huo Beixi did not go back with them. Instead, they took a car directly from the roadside below the fourth uncle's house to go to the city for a date.
When they were together in their previous life, they were in love for a while and went on dates in the city center many times. They went to almost all the fun places in the city.
But this life was different. They started with marriage, not love. Although they went on dates, they were very few in number.
Now it was the Chinese New Year, and Huo Beixi just happened to have some vacation time, so she went to the city to have some fun and eat some delicious food, especially the giant prawns. She really liked them, and they were not expensive now. In her previous life, the cheapest price was more than 30 yuan per pound, and when the price increased during the Chinese New Year, it was more than 70 yuan.
But it is not that expensive now. The chefs in big hotels prepare it for only a few yuan or a dozen yuan per portion. She can afford it.
After Zhang Yongfeng returned home, he started making halogen dishes again the next day. During the Chinese New Year, every household has to visit relatives, which means every household has to entertain relatives, so many people are willing to spend a dollar to buy a halogen dish.
Even though Hua Xiali was not at home and could not help much, the capital was provided by Hua Xiali, which meant that half of every penny earned by Luwei was hers. However, she did not take this income for herself, but regarded it as collective property. After the family debts were paid off, Hua Chunli's tuition was collected, and the major family matters were taken care of, the remaining money would be shared by everyone.
Hua Xiali and Huo Beixi had a romantic date in the city for three days. They returned home on the evening of the third day, which was the sixth day of the New Year, because Huo Beixi had to go to work.
He would not take leave unless there were special circumstances, because he wanted to save the opportunity to take leave for important moments. On weekdays, he only had one day off, so one day was enough for him and Hua Xiali to spend time together, because Hua Xiali was also at home, and they were together every day. It was not like other people who lived apart and did not have enough time to spend time together in one day or something.
Hua Xiali had eaten a lot of meaty food during the Chinese New Year and suddenly wanted to eat something light. Thinking that shepherd's purse was fresh and tender at this time of year, she took a basket and a shovel and went out to look for shepherd's purse.
The yard of Huo Beixi's house was very clean, without even a blade of grass, let alone shepherd's purse, so she went to the riverside. In the private plot by the riverside, the shepherd's purse was lush and fresh.
When Hua Xiali was digging shepherd's purse, she happened to see Lu Xiaozhi looking for freshwater clams on the dry riverbed, and there were already some piled up nearby.
He can still look for a few more months, so Lu Xiaozhi can still earn money for a few more months.
Hua Xiali greeted Lu Xiaozhi and squatted down to continue digging shepherd's purse. She didn't try to persuade Lu Xiaozhi, because it was useless. Lu Xiaozhi's grandparents would never let go. They were afraid that no one would take care of him, so they trapped Lu Xiaozhi. If Lu Xiaozhi wanted to have a new life, he could only wait until his grandparents passed away, because now they regarded him as a lifeline.
Moreover, the more people like this, the longer they live and the harder it is to die. Therefore, if Lu Xiaozhi wants true freedom, he will probably have to wait many years.
After all, he died at a very young age, but his grandparents lived for many more years!
There were only two of them, so Hua Xiali didn't dig a lot. He only dug a basket and went home. He poured the shepherd's purse into a basin, soaked it in well water, and waited for the mud to settle down so that it could be easily cleaned.
Afterwards, Hua Xiali fished out the freshwater clams that had been raised in the large water tank for some time. After being raised for such a long time, they could be used to extract pearls.
She rinsed the large water tank clean, then picked out the largest freshwater clams piled in the yard and placed them in the large water tank.
After a period of time, the pearls inside will change from strange shapes to round, lustrous, natural and beautiful pearls. Now there is no place to keep them, so this is the only way.
Although Huo Beixi transferred all the money in the passbook into hers, she still wanted to earn money with her own hands and didn't want to use his money.
At noon, Hua Xiali made salted fish and stewed it in a small iron pot over a small stove. She put washed shepherd's purse on the side. When eating, she could just put the salted fish soup and simmer it before eating.
The fresh shepherd's purse has a light sweetness, is very delicious, and can also help relieve greasiness!
In the afternoon, Hua Xiali woke up from a nap and found that Huo Beixi had already broken open the freshwater clams she had taken out and put them all in a wooden basin. Hua Xiali smiled, then took out the enamel basin and began to take out the meat and pearls. Then she went to process the meat. In order to eat it in the evening, she had to process it now.
Because clam shell meat is particularly time-consuming to process.
In the evening, Hua Xiali sent half of the clam shell meat to her own family in front. There were only her and Huo Beixi at home, and they couldn't finish so much. Sending half of it to her family could also add another dish to their table.
This thing is chewy and contains a lot of oil and salt. Huatiefeng can't eat it, and naturally can't come into contact with the spiritual spring water.
At present, only Hua Xiali and Hua Chunli in the family have been completely cleansed by the spiritual spring water. As for the others, they only came into contact with it a little when washing pig offal or eating salty food, but it was too little and there was no effect. Hua Xiali took his and Hua Qiuli's teacups into the room, scooped two cups of spiritual spring water from the large water tank, and after bringing them out, he added a little hot tea into it, and then went to Hua Qiuli's room with the two cups of spiritual spring water.