"Go back! Go back and roast some sweet potatoes."
Xiaohong said happily.
night.
Li Mingqing took out the things he brought back from Shanghai.
The whole family worked together to clean up and put everything neatly in the cupboard.
Take out some and take it back home tomorrow.
"Okay, you guys have to get up early tomorrow, go back to your room and sleep."
The three children quickly got up and went back to their rooms.
After not seeing each other for more than ten days, Sun Jiaxue didn't know what to do when they suddenly found themselves in the same room.
Li Mingqing smiled when he saw her helpless look.
"Wife, how come you feel so distant after not seeing each other for a few days?"
"No, it's not strange, I'm just a little embarrassed."
Her face turned red as she spoke.
"A short absence is as good as a new marriage. If you don't know, you might think it's your wedding night."
He said and pulled her over to sit on his lap.
Sun Jiaxue leaned on his shoulder and whispered, "Finally, you're back. I always feel lonely when I'm alone at home."
She said and rubbed her cheek against his.
It tickled his heart like a kitten.
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The family returned to Lijia Village.
The sun is shining brightly, but the temperature is still a little low.
The villagers were cleaning the well in front.
The well was filled with dead leaves and mud washed in by heavy summer rains.
It accumulates more and more, until the bottom of the well is full of it.
Zhao Hongbin was the first to see Li Mingqing and his family and shouted, "Uncle, Mingqing and the others are back."
Old man Li came out of the crowd carrying a bucket of water.
"grandfather!"
"Hey, my dear grandson. Mingqing, take them home first. It's very cold outside."
"Dad, with my thick cotton-padded jacket and the sun shining, it's not that cold. Is the well almost cleaned?"
"Just clean up the muddy water at the bottom of the well."
Li Mingqing moved closer and saw a pile of black rotten leaves next to the well.
You can tell at first glance that it was just taken out of the well.
No wonder the well didn’t seem deep before.
All the mud, sand and rotten leaves were made into two large piles.
Now looking at it again, it is really deep.
Lin Yan and Li Mingfu used a scoop to scoop muddy water from the well into buckets.
You can see water bubbling out from the bottom of the well.
A trickle of water seeps out from between the cracks in the rocks.
When the cleaning was almost done, the two of them climbed up the ladder.
Fortunately, I was wearing water shoes, otherwise I would have been very cold.
Dazhu's mother complained, "Why are there so many dirty things? To be honest, I don't want to drink the full water tank at home."
"It's all living water, not dirty."
"Yes, let the water from the well settle overnight, and it will be ready for drinking tomorrow."
The old village chief persuaded.
"The well is cleaned once a year, so what's so dirty about it?"
"You're right. You haven't seen the wells in other villages. They're almost filled with mud."
Out of sight, out of mind.
Maybe some naughty kids peed in the well.
Last time, two naughty kids urinated next to the well and were seen by Old Lady Wang, who scolded them severely.
The spring water that seeps out from the ground is very clean.
"Why did Mingqing come back? I thought you had forgotten about Lijia Village. You haven't been back for more than ten days. We walked around the streets every day but never saw you come back to the village."
Zhou Xiaoshuang said sarcastically.
Zhou Jingli, with a bruised face and nose, leaned on a wooden stick and said, "Once people have made it big, they forget their fellow villagers. They are so ungrateful."
Li Mingqing looked at him several times.
It’s really because his look today is too unique.
"If you hadn't said anything, I would have thought a beggar had come to the village. What bad things had you done to deserve being beaten like this? I think the beating was too light. You can still say something."
Zhang Cuihua immediately said, "It's still too light a beating."
Zhao Youcai pulled Zhou Jingli towards the educated youth center.
All the educated youth in the village could not hold their heads up because of him.
No one expected that Zhou Jingli would set his sights on the little girl.
The day before yesterday.
He went to Zhang Jinong's house on his own and said he wanted to marry Zhang Chuner.
Without saying a word, Zhang Jinong took an iron rake and beat him, sending him running all over the village.
If the villagers hadn't pulled him back, someone might have died.
After they found out what Zhou Jingli had done, they scolded him severely.
Aroused the anger of the villagers.
Zhao Youcai and his companions felt ashamed and speechless in front of their fellow villagers.
Zhou Jingli was so desperate that he even dared to go out for a walk with a wooden stick.
"I need to have a serious talk with my daughter and ask her to stay away from Zhou Jingli."
"How shameless."
"He's so old and still wants to marry a girl of seventeen or eighteen."
"If I were Zhang Jinong, I would have broken his legs. Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to vent my anger. It's too disgusting."
"Mingfu, quickly tell the town to get Zhou Jingli out of here."
"I'm really worried about so many girls in the village."
"A beast in human form."
Li Mingqing didn't expect to hear such explosive news as soon as he returned to the village.
Now Zhou Jingli has nowhere to go in the village.
What a stubborn person.
He even dared to go find Zhang Jinong on his own.
Yu Huaizhi brought his children to greet him.
"Yu Zhiqing, I happened to run into your parents when I went to Shanghai a few days ago."
He asked in disbelief: "How did we meet?"
"I happened to know Yin Li. I met him when we had dinner together," Li Mingqing explained.
"I didn't expect that we would run into each other by chance in such a large market like Shanghai."
"Auntie said she missed her grandson and might come to see him after the New Year."
"Oh, I hope I can return to the city soon. To be honest, the old couple are old, and I am really worried about not being with them."
He said a few simple words and left.
Li Mingqing went back and took half a bag of coal from the new house and brought it to the old house.
"Winter is coming soon, mother. Burn charcoal to keep the house warm in cold weather."
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