A young woman who had been standing under the locust tree for some unknown period of time came over from a distance.
"How expensive! You bought so many things. Tsk tsk tsk tsk..."
The woman let out a light sigh and looked at the things Hua Shi and the others were holding with a sour look on her face.
Hua Shi raised his eyes and looked at the person who came.
She recognized this young woman. She was Xiao He, the young wife of Aunt Hua from the next door house. She heard that she had only been married for less than two years, but she had already had many conflicts with her mother-in-law and sisters-in-law because of her narrow-mindedness.
When Mrs. Li was still alive, besides the constant sound of her cursing coming from her own house, one could also always hear loud cursing from Aunt Hua's yard next door.
So, the impression of flowers is quite deep, and I know a little bit about them...
Hua Shi signaled with his eyes that Hua Yu and the others who were carrying the things should go back to the house first.
Hua Yu glanced at it and didn't want to pay any attention to it. He carried the heaviest bag of soybeans and staggered into the house.
Hua Xiao also held the cage of chicks and pulled Hua Li into the yard.
At the gate of the courtyard, in the blink of an eye, only Hua Shi and Xiao He were left standing opposite each other.
Little He stood on tiptoe and stretched her head to look inside the open courtyard door behind her. Her eyes were wide open with undisguised curiosity, as if she wanted to see something to pieces.
"Sister-in-law, are you out for a walk?"
Hua Shi ignored her first two sarcastic remarks, changed the subject, and asked in a casual manner.
Although they are neighbors, the courtyards of the two houses are actually not close to each other. Just look at the area at the gate of the courtyard, there is a large empty space.
On the left side of the Hua family courtyard, looking around, there is only Aunt Hua's family. On the right side is a sparse forest, and further back is a mountain path.
Right in front of the door, about twenty or thirty meters away, you can see a few families with thatched houses built next to each other in the distance.
Looking to the left of Aunt Hua's yard, it was about ten meters away before the gray-yellow thatched roof and walls could be seen again.
The Hua family courtyard is the most remote one in the village, and is closest to the foot of the mountain. Because of this, there are not many nearby houses around it, and they can be counted on one's fingers.
Little He hummed softly, and when she looked at Hua Shi's eyes, she felt that the nose was not a nose, and the eyes were not eyes. She didn't like anything about it.
"Why am I strolling around? I just heard a noise outside the house and came out to check it out."
Her words were still somewhat sarcastic, and she continued with a strange tone, "Didn't three people just die in your family? How come you still have so much money to buy all that stuff?"
It can be seen that Xiao He is indeed very gossipy about this.
Hua Shi knew that she was suffering from pink eye and couldn't bear to see others doing better than she did. He said in a somewhat mournful tone, "Where can we get the money? We can barely make ends meet. If we hadn't saved a little, we wouldn't have saved any money until now, let alone be able to afford these chicks. When my grandmother was still alive, she would buy a dozen to raise in the yard. Now I can only buy those few..."
"By the way, little sister-in-law, I heard that your husband has been working with Mr. Hua to collect apples and sell them in town. He's earned five taels of silver in just two or three months. Why don't you lend us some money so we can buy some rice..."
Hua Shi suddenly changed the subject and said these words.
Little He's expression, which had been calm and composed, suddenly changed. She managed to keep her composure straight, "Oh, that's not true. Five taels of silver? Where did you hear that?"
Her husband worked very hard for others outside for nearly a year and only earned three taels of silver. Where did the five taels come from? She never told anyone this, so how did the little girl know about it?
"Oh, so that's it. If not five taels, then three taels is at least possible, right?" Hua Shi nodded and continued.
Xiao He's expression changed and she immediately got angry. Her thoughts turned around and around, and she had a lot of random thoughts.
Afraid that Hua Shi would continue to chase him to borrow money, he quickly found an excuse and ran back to his yard.
Hua Shi looked at her back as she ran away, and laughed in his heart. He turned around and saw Hua Xiao lying on the door frame, staring with big eyes, and peeking out curiously.
"whee……"
When Hua Xiao met Hua Shi's eyes, he suddenly smiled at her twice, turned around and ran back to the yard.
She didn't know if it was her imagination, but Hua Shi seemed to see a look of sudden enlightenment and a look of learning on Hua Xiao's face...
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"What are we doing?"
In the backyard, in front of a large open space in the bamboo forest, Hua Li squatted on the ground with a shovel in his hand, knocked on the hard sand, and asked in confusion.
After lunch at noon, Hua Shi led them to the backyard. Each of them had a small shovel or iron hoe and dug the soil bit by bit.
"Loosen the soil and plant some vegetables. What else can I do?"
Hua Shi said without raising his head, and swung the hoe, hitting it loudly.
Hua Li was even more confused. He stood up and pointed at the dilapidated fences standing in groups not far away and asked, "But why don't you plant the vegetables where you planted them before? Why come here and loosen the soil and plant again?"
Although the land here is wider than the previous one, it is already behind the bamboo forest and too far from the front yard. Not only is it inconvenient to go back and forth, but it also requires re-loosening the soil and leveling the ground, and then building a fence, which is so troublesome.
Hua Li's idea was very simple. She pointed to the small vegetable patch left by Li last year and looked at Hua Shi with curiosity and confusion.
After hearing him mumbling a bunch of confusing words, Hua Shi straightened up, stopped what he was doing, and wiped the sweat from his forehead.
"Do you see that?" Hua Shi pointed to the north, a large dry and sunken area of land with weeds and thorns growing on it and a vast expanse of empty space.
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