Chapter 406 What is Lost

A few days later, Jian Nan came with several unmarried young men from his relatives' families. They drove two cars, and with Hua Xiali's car, there were three cars parked in the open space in front of Hua Xiali's house.

The summer sun is scorching, and the car is scorching hot. The temperature inside can reach 50 or 60 degrees. Hua Xiali was worried that something might happen if the children sneaked into the car to play, so on the first day in the countryside, he set up a shade net in the open space in front of the door so that the car would not be so hot.

Although Hua Xiali was not familiar with the several unmarried young men brought by Jian Nan, he had seen them before. Jian Nan told them that he was taking them to the countryside to swim and fish, but did not say that he was coming to meet Hua Qiuli, so that it would not be too awkward.

The day before the summer ceremony, Hua went to the market and bought a lot of meat and vegetables and put them in the refrigerator. Now it is summer, and the thing that every household has the most is vegetables, the only thing that needs to be bought is meat and vegetables.

In the morning, Hua Xiali, Hua's mother and Hua Qiuli began to busy themselves with preparing a sumptuous lunch. When they arrived, they sat down to rest for a while, drank tea and ate watermelon to cool down, and then asked everyone to come to the table to eat.

Seeing the sumptuous meal on the table, everyone was surprised and quickly said thank you for your hard work.

After all, it’s summer now, and it’s really hot and tiring to cook such a big meal.

On the table there were crayfish in garlic sauce, boiled fish fillet, spicy snails, braised eel, stewed pork ribs with cucumber, scrambled eggs with leek, stir-fried water spinach, stir-fried pickled vegetables, stewed chicken with potatoes, shredded potatoes with vinegar, scrambled eggs with tomatoes, and pickled fresh vegetables.

Twelve courses in total.

Almost all of Jian Nan's relatives had eaten at Hua Xiali's seafood restaurant and were impressed by the delicious food. So when they saw so much seafood on the table, they couldn't wait to eat it. It tasted exactly the same as in those restaurants, and it was so delicious that they couldn't stop eating.

After everyone put down their bowls and chopsticks, Hua Xiali was surprised to find that the green onions, ginger and garlic used for seasoning in the plates had been eaten up completely. The charm of this spiritual spring water was truly too great.

A few of them rubbed their round bellies and smiled sheepishly.

In order to help everyone digest the food, Hua Xiali and Hua Qiuli took everyone to the river bay to go fishing. There were trees and shade by the river, so there was no need to expose the fish to the sun.

Hua Xiali mixed the fishing bait with spiritual spring water, and then everyone set out with wooden buckets and fishing rods.

Hua Xiali walked at the back with Hua Qiuli on his arm and asked curiously, "Qiuli, these people are all familiar to Jiannan and he knows them well. There shouldn't be any problems for those who can be brought to us. Do you have any ideas about them?"

"Second sister." Hua Qiuli looked at Hua Xiali embarrassedly.

We had just met and hadn't even spoken a few words, how would she know all this?

Hua Xiali smiled and said nothing more. Hua Qiuli was only 23 years old, still young, so there was no need to rush and she could take her time to choose.

When we got to the river, we found a suitable fishing spot and sat down on the grass and started fishing. The bait was mixed with spiritual spring water by Hua Xiali, so soon someone had a fish on their hook.

Hua Xiali did not participate in fishing because she felt that fishing was too slow. She had spiritual spring water, so she just released some of the spiritual spring water and easily caught a bunch of fish.

Over the years, the dam upstream of the bay has been transformed from sandbags into a cement dam. The dam is two meters wide and there is no danger for people walking on it as long as they do not go to the edge of the dam.

There is a gate in the middle of the dam to adjust the water level of the bay. Now that we have entered the hot summer, the water level is not deep, so only one gate is opened. We cannot let the lower reaches of the bay dry up, after all, there are villages downstream that need water.

Hua Xiali was wearing a hat and standing on the dam. In front of her was the deeper upstream, and behind her was the shallower downstream. She looked at the deep water in front of her, a little dazed, as if she had lost something in her mind, but she couldn't remember what it was.

Jian Nan came over and said, "Wife, what are you doing here in such a bright sun?"

Hua Xiali pointed to the bamboo forest across the street and said, "I want to go to the bamboo forest and take a look. I remember picking wild grapes and poppies there when I was a kid."

"What is Paozi?" Jian Nan asked in confusion.

"It's a kind of sour and sweet berry." Hua Xiali explained that the berry is eaten in May and June, so you definitely can't see it now.

Jian Nan looked at the water ahead and said with a smile, "Wife, you were the one who saved me from here. If it weren't for you, I would have died long ago."

"So you married me just to repay a favor?" Hua Xiali asked curiously. If that was really the case, there was no need to do so. After all, with his conditions, he could find any kind of wife.

"Of course not. If someone else had saved me, I could have given them money and arranged a job for them. But because it was you, I want to give my whole life to you." Jian Nan held Hua Xiali's hands and looked into her eyes very seriously. "Because I liked you first, and then I loved you."

After being married for so many years, she still received a passionate confession. Hua Xiali smiled shyly, "But I..."

She could no longer remember why she married Jian Nan, but she thought it was to relieve the pressure at home and to have a better life.

After all, in her previous life, she chose to marry Wang Liang in order to reduce the burden on her family and relieve the pressure.

"It doesn't matter, as long as you are willing to stay by my side, as long as you are willing to give me the chance to love you, this will be the greatest happiness for me." Jian Nan also knew that nothing is perfect in this world, so it is good enough for them the way they are.

After that, the two of them went to the bamboo forest opposite. People often came in to cut bamboo to use as firewood at home, so there were intricate and winding paths in the bamboo forest.

The breeze blew and the bamboo leaves rustled in the wind.

Hua Xiali's eyes flashed with the image of Lu Xiaozhi's flushed face as he helped her chop bamboo. Thinking of his life experience and experiences, Hua Xiali couldn't help but sigh.

"Wife, what's wrong?" Jian Nan asked worriedly.

Hua Xiali shook his head. "Nothing. I just remembered a little brother in our village. He should be seven or eight years younger than me. He was the best-looking child in our village. But his grandparents were too cruel. They forced this child to death. He was only a teenager when he died. It was such a pity."

Thinking of Lu Xiaozhi's experience, Hua Xiali still felt particularly regretful. She really couldn't understand how there could be such a grandpa and grandma in the world.

It was because they were afraid that he would grow up and become independent that they ignored him and even did not allow him to go to primary school.