Li Jiakang covered his face, as if he couldn't believe that someone had slapped him.
His dull eyes became bright, and his gaze gradually focused on Li Xu's face.
Just as he was about to get angry, Li Xu said, "Dad, hurry up, wake up my mom. I can't do it."
Everyone was stunned and looked at Li Xu, thinking, how could he even do that to your dad?
Li Xu was still urging, "Dad, hurry up, look how effective this is, otherwise what if Mom gets sick from crying for a long time?"
Li Jiakang came back to his senses and said through gritted teeth, "You little bastard, just wait for me." Then he walked up to Sun Xiu and slapped him in the face.
Five handprints appeared on Sun Xiu's face.
Li Xu smacked his lips in surprise, thinking, this is much more ruthless than my own. Didn't you see there aren't any handprints on Li Jiakang's face?
I have to say that this method is effective. After a few seconds, Sun Xiu stopped crying and her eyes became bright again.
It would be better if he ignored the slap mark on his face and stared at Li Jiakang.
Seeing this, Li Jiakang said tremblingly, "Xiu, stop crying. What if you get hurt? The most important thing now is to solve Mom's problem."
When Old Lady Sun was mentioned, Sun Xiu became cheerful and didn't care about the slap.
Seeing this, everyone helped Sun Xiu up and let her sit on the stool. Only then did everyone start asking them why they said that.
Although Sun Xiu was still grieving, she took the lead in speaking, "Ever since my family bought a house in the county and our lives have improved, we would visit my mother's house from time to time and give her some money and food. But now that we have no vacation time, and the year is not good, we haven't been there for a long time.
At most, we can ask someone to bring some money and food over."
At this point, Li Jiakang continued, "Some time ago, I asked someone to bring some money and food, but your grandmother said there was enough food at home, so she didn't take it. We didn't think much of it. After all, your two uncles are very filial."
Li Jiakang sighed again and said, "We never thought it would come to this!"
Li Jiakang really cared about Old Lady Sun. He heard that when Sun Xiu married him, her family was very poor, but Old Lady Sun didn't despise her. Later, when they had several children, they sometimes needed Old Lady Sun's help.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the couple left their children at home with Li Jiafu and his family and went to work in the county's hemp spinning mill. The salary at the time was not low, and the couple saved money for several years before buying a house in the county and later brought their children over.
Later, the couple caught up with the trend of the times and got stable jobs with official positions, which made their living conditions even better.
Therefore, Li Jiakang was grateful to Old Lady Sun from the bottom of his heart, and Sun Xiu was also grateful to the Li family.
Hearing this, Sun Xiu's tears started falling again.
Li Xu saw this and said hurriedly, "Mom, don't cry yet. If you take a day off tomorrow and go see grandma, you'll know what's going on."
Sun Xiu's eyes lit up, and she cried as she said, "Yes, yes, I'm going to ask for leave tomorrow to go there."
Li Jiakang also said, "I will also take a leave tomorrow and go with you. Xiaoping, when you go to work at the factory tomorrow, please ask for leave for both of us."
Li Ping nodded in agreement.
Li Xu added, "I didn't expect this to happen when we went today. Mom and Dad, please bring more food with you tomorrow."
Li Jiakang and his wife nodded.
After everyone persuaded them for a while, the two men finally regained their spirits.
Then everyone had dinner in an extremely depressing atmosphere.
There is no way. No matter how sad the thing is, you can't do without eating some food to fill your stomach.
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Early in the morning, Sun Xiu hurriedly ate a few mouthfuls of rice and took 10 kilograms of food to take Li Jiakang away.
Li Xu also handed them five pounds of fine grains and 20 eggs, saying that he had gotten them last night and asked them to take them to their grandmother's house.
It’s not that Li Xu doesn’t want to send more, but there is not much fine food left from signing in these days, so he can only wait for a few more days of signing in before sending some more.
The couple did not refuse and reached out to take the food and eggs.
No one else had any objection to this.
At this time, Li Ping suddenly spoke.
"Dad, today is Qiangzi's wedding day. Are you two going?"
Li Jiakang slapped his head when he heard this. He was so affected by what happened yesterday that he had forgotten about this matter.
After a moment's silence, he said, "If there's still time, your mother and I will go. If not, we won't go. Xiaoxu can go alone. Go early today to see if there's anything you can help with. Bring a pound of coarse grains for dinner, as your second uncle's family isn't doing well either."
After Li Jiakang finished speaking, Sun Xiu took out another two yuan and handed it to Li Xu, saying that it was a gift money.
Li Xu nodded when he heard this and took the two yuan.
Nowadays, there are very few people who can afford to give two yuan as a gift, most of them only give twenty or thirty cents.
After saying that, Li Jiakang and Sun Xiu left in a hurry.
Li Xu also took a pound of food and went to the Qinghe Brigade.
When I arrived at Li Jiafu's house, only Second Aunt Duan Xiaoyun was busy packing things. Everyone else had gone to work, and she was the only one who had taken a day off and didn't go to work.
Seeing Li Xu coming, Duan Xiaoyun warmly entertained him. Apart from anything else, the food Li Xu's family gave was worth her doing so, not to mention that Li Xu brought another pound of food to her this time.
Li Xu couldn't stand such an enthusiastic attitude and quickly waved his hand and said, "Second Aunt, please leave me alone. I'm just here to see if there's anything I can help with."
Duan Xiaoyun said embarrassedly, "You came all the way here, how can I ask you for help?"
"Look at what you said, Second Aunt, we are all family, why are you being so polite? As a younger brother, I can't help with anything else for Brother Qiang's wedding, but I can still lend a hand."
After saying that, Li Xu ignored Duan Xiaoyun's obstruction and started to busy himself.
Seeing this, Duan Xiaoyun could only ask Li Xu to help her with some easy work.
Otherwise, if Li Xu was so busy, she would have to spend time cleaning up.
In this way, Li Xu and Duan Xiaoyun spent the whole morning cleaning the house. Although the house that Li Qiang was going to use for his wedding still looked empty, it seemed much cleaner and tidier.
After Li Xu had lunch with Li Jiafu's family, he started working again in the afternoon.
This time, there was a lot to prepare because there was no meat. Old Mrs. Li thought she couldn't be too stingy, so she used the money to buy some salt. Two days ago, when the school was on vacation, she asked Li Jianguo and his brother to catch fish for two days, and prepared to make some fresh fish soup for everyone in the evening.
Then, sweet potato flour and corn flour are made into steamed buns, which are then steamed and cooked near the time of the wedding.
Li Xu was not good at cooking and could only help out on the side.
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