"Is the wheat in our village okay after this afternoon's heavy rain?"
"It's okay. Luckily, Ming and Qing brought some oil paper. Otherwise, it would have all been soaked by the rain and would have grown mold and rotted."
"It's good that it didn't get wet."
"When we passed by other villages on our way back to the village, we saw many people wiping their tears. They must have been caught in the rain because they didn't do their job properly."
"It's obvious that we're too late. The weather was so good that the wheat must have been spread out. The rain came too quickly, and we didn't have time to stack it, so we had to get wet."
Old man Li sighed.
It's not easy.
Fortunately, Li Mingqing took two large pieces of oil paper, otherwise most of the wheat in Lijia Village would have been soaked.
It hurts to think about it.
Li Mingqing held Niuniu in his arms and stood aside without saying a word.
Xiangdong yelled from the side: "Uncle is really amazing."
"What do you, a child, know?"
"It's true. Even Grandma Zhang praised you for saving the big guy."
"Just keep this to yourself at home. Don't tell anyone else about it, okay?"
"Yeah, even if I don't say it, others will."
Li Lizhu's three sisters-in-law brought the dumplings over.
"Come on, clear away the cups and get ready to eat."
Old Mrs. Li followed behind, carrying chopped garlic.
"Tonight's dumplings have six eggs in them. They must be delicious. Come and try them."
Li Mingyuan said, "My mother's cooking skills are still the best."
"Yeah, when we were little, we were all beaten by our mother for fighting over dumplings."
"When you were little, you were much more noisy than Xiangdong and the others."
The old couple said with a smile.
"Time flies by so fast. In the blink of an eye, the girl is getting married."
Upon hearing this, Li Mingqing smiled and said, "You are just a little girl, and she still needs to go to school for a few more years. If the villagers heard what you said, they would probably break down the door of our house."
"You'll be old soon."
Zhang Lihua said, "Someone actually came to me and proposed to me, but I rejected him outright."
In the past, she might have agreed.
But now that I have more experience and a broader perspective, I immediately refused without hesitation.
Old Lady Li said, "Yes, the children are still young. If they study well and behave well, they will definitely have a bright future."
After dinner, it was past seven o'clock and it was still not completely dark.
When Li Mingqing came out of the old house, he saw Zhang Chengming standing at the door.
"Cheng Ming, what's wrong?"
"I was wondering if you had any extra light bulbs at home. When I turned on the light, it suddenly flickered for a moment and then went out."
"There's a spare at home."
He said embarrassedly: "I brought money, but I was too busy with the summer harvest to go to the supply and marketing cooperative."
"It's okay, it's the same if you pay me."
As soon as I opened the door, I saw Wu Lili coming in without knowing when.
She approached Sun Jiaxue and said, "Niuniu is growing up so fast."
"Lili, why are you here?"
"I heard you were coming to the Li family, so I wanted to come over and take a look."
Zhang Chengming was afraid that she would suddenly go crazy, so he held her arm and waited at the door together.
Li Mingqing pulled Sun Jiaxue into the house.
"Brother Mingqing, I think Lili is much better."
"How could I not see that? Anyway, stay away from her, lest she go crazy and hurt you."
After he finished speaking, he took out the light bulb and went outside.
Zhang Chengming thanked him, "Thanks to you, otherwise I would have to go to the supply and marketing cooperative."
After saying that, he took out the money from his pocket.
When Wu Lili saw him taking the money, she said, "Why are we neighbors being so distant?"
"Don't talk." Zhang Chengming stopped him.
"I didn't say anything wrong. It's true. His family isn't starving, but we are."
Li Mingqing ignored her and took the money.
Wu Lili whispered, "The richer you are, the more stingy you are."
Zhang Chengming glared at her fiercely, then looked at Li Mingqing and said, "I'm so sorry to have made such a fool of myself."
After he said that, he hurriedly pulled Wu Lili away.
In just a short while, Niu Niu fell asleep.
Sun Jiaxue said: "Light bulbs really can't be disabled. Two or three of them have broken in our house. It might be my fault. Sometimes they break for no reason."
"Tungsten filament light bulbs are like this. Don't ban them, but don't let them get to you."
With electricity having been around for so long, I guess every household has had a light bulb break.
Old-fashioned tungsten filament bulbs are not only easy to break, but also produce a dim yellow light.
But it is still much brighter than kerosene lamps and candles.
Less than half an hour later, I heard someone knocking on the door.
As soon as I heard the voice, I knew it was Wu Lili.
When Li Mingqing and Sun Jiaxue came out, they saw her standing at the door in a rage.
"Are you guys thinking that we, the Wu family, are easy to bully and cheat us? I turned on the light bulb I bought from your house and it caused a power outage. Tell me what to do."
"Power outage? What does that have to do with us?"
"The power went out because I turned on the lightbulb in your house. The whole alley was without power."
Sun Jiaxue said, "Maybe the circuit breaker tripped. Just turn it back on."
Li Mingqing really wanted to slap her twice. It was terrible to be uneducated.
He looked at Wu Lili and wished that the power outage was due to a problem with the light bulb so that he could scam her and extort money.
Zhang Chengming ran over panting.
"What are you doing here? Go back!"
"Of course I'm here to ask for an explanation."
"What's that? Come back here right now. The circuit breaker is tripped and the phone is ringing."
Wu Lili asked in disbelief, "You're not lying to me, are you? How can you be so ungrateful? This is originally about the light bulb in Li Mingqing's house, and you must give an explanation."
She was being unreasonable and throwing a tantrum, so Zhang Chengming, who was such a good-tempered person, slapped her twice.
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