Chapter 440 Hongjia Village 5
Hongwu was telling Yike about Hongxing's in-laws' family when the person concerned came in just as Hongwu finished his last sentence, as if he had estimated the time.
"Cousin, you're back. I heard you were picking up stones in the mountains? So you're back." Hong Xing shouted as he entered the door.
"Cousin, it's great that you're back alive. Uncle and aunt are very happy now." Hong Wu looked at Hong Xing and was truly happy for his cousin.
"Yes, it's great to be alive. Thank you, cousin, for helping me get justice." Hong Xing expressed his gratitude sincerely.
Yike discovered that Hong Xing had changed drastically after returning to Hongjia Village. He no longer looked timid, but instead exuded a confident glow all over his body, and his spirit was completely different.
"Hey, what are you doing standing at the door? Why don't you go in and help? No, why don't you introduce your savior to me." An old woman's voice sounded at the door.
Hong Xing hurriedly walked into the middle of the room, and a white-haired woman appeared behind her. As soon as the woman saw Yi Ke sitting at the table, she fell to her knees with a thud.
Yike was so frightened that he quickly dodged and reached out to lift up the kneeling woman. He couldn't help saying, "Hey, auntie, don't kneel, you can't kneel. How can you, an old man, kneel before a young and beautiful girl like me? It will make you look ten years older. I still want to be a beautiful girl every year."
"Okay, okay, I won't kneel, I won't kneel." Hong Xing's mother smiled and said, "Your words are interesting, but I can't help but express my gratitude. If it weren't for you, my daughter would have died somewhere this winter."
"Mom, Yike doesn't like others kneeling, so just pour a cup of water for Yike to express your feelings." Hong Xing said to her mother.
"Okay, I'll listen to you, girl." The woman hurriedly got the thermos and filled Yi Ke's cup with boiling water. Then, seeing the walnuts in front of Yi Ke, he slapped his thigh and said, "Hey, don't we have pine cones at home? My daughter, go find your sister-in-law and pack some pine nuts for your benefactor to eat."
Hong Xing agreed and went over without caring about Yi Ke saying "No thanks."
"Come, nephew, take these to the kitchen. These are the side dishes for the uncles and aunts to entertain our benefactors. They were originally sent to my house, and we were planning to entertain our benefactors. But you insisted on calling them over, so come on over." Hong Xing's mother handed the backpack filled with vegetables to Hong Wu.
Hongwu took it into the kitchen and came out, saying to Yike: "Sister-in-law, please sit down. I'm going to talk to Brother Ziyi."
"Okay, go ahead." Yike said.
"Benefactor!" Hong Xing's mother kept calling him benefactor. Yi Ke interrupted her and asked her to call him by his name.
"Okay, then I'll call you by your name." Hong Xing's mother finally stopped calling her a benefactor. "Tell my silly girl that her throat was burned by her mother-in-law and has been inflamed ever since. If you hadn't taken her in to work and given her treatment, I would have really been the last one to die. My hair has turned white because I heard that she starved to death and was abused at her husband's house."
Hong Xing's mother's eyes became wet again when she thought of the hard life her daughter had lived for the past ten years.
"Aunt, we have to look forward and let the past be the past. Hong Xing is living a good life now. You can tell from her face that she is not living a bad life, so you don't have to be sad. You have to believe that those who survive a disaster will be blessed in the future. She is living a good life now. She has food and meat to eat. She is starting to enjoy her life now." Yi Ke persuaded.
Hong Xing's mother was no longer sad. She nodded and said, "You are right. Her face has gained flesh and color. I believe you. She is living a good life now. I am relieved."
Hong Xing came in and put a bag of pine cones on the table, weighing about a few taels.
As she poured the pine cones out of the bag, she said to her mother, "I told you that I'm living a good life now, but you didn't believe me. Now that you believe me, don't ask me to take the things I brought back back. My family really doesn't need them."
Hong Xing said to Yike again: "Yike, try these pine cones and see if you like them. If you like them, bring them back when you go back. I see my mother has several kilograms of them. Mom, give them all to Yike."
"Okay, there are also pumpkin seeds. Do you like them? But pumpkin seeds are not as delicious as pine cones, so I didn't ask you to take them." Hong Xing's mother said.
"Is it dried or fried?" Yi Ke asked.
"They're dried. Who has the time to fry them?" Hong Xing's mother said with disdain. When she finds out that the pumpkin seeds she disliked can be sold for money, she will treat them as treasures.
"Do other people in the village have pine cones, walnuts, and pumpkin seeds? Do they have a lot? Do they have anything else?" When I thought about how fragrant and delicious the fried pumpkin seeds were, I was glad that I came to Hongjia Village.
"Yes, every household has it." Hong Xing's mother said, "Although rice and wheat here are not very productive, the pumpkins we grow are plentiful and big. We rely entirely on pumpkins, and we dry the pumpkin seeds and keep them. When we are hungry in winter, we can fill our stomachs."
"Have you planted the hairy broad beans (also called broad beans)?" Yi Ke suddenly remembered Kong Yiji's dish of mouth-watering beans and asked.
"Yes, there are a lot of them. Beans grow well on the mountain, so we plant a lot of them and then take them down the mountain to exchange for food. There are soybeans, mung beans, red beans, etc. This year, young man Tang Jianguo came to the mountain to collect mountain products. Everyone has food, so we can barely get through the winter, so we haven't sold the beans for food yet."
Yi Ke was very excited. She not only saw various ways of eating beans, such as boiled, stir-fried, and fried, but also remembered the taste of various sauces.
Since she came here, she has eaten a lot less sauces. It’s not that we don’t have money, but that we have money but nowhere to buy it.
Now there is a place that specializes in producing beans. If she doesn’t know how to make use of it, then her time traveling through time would have been in vain!
"Sister-in-law Hong Xing, go find Chen Dawang and tell him that I want to purchase various beans. Ask him to estimate the price, and then you two will be responsible for the purchase. Leave the purchases with Sister-in-law Yu Rui. I have other arrangements." Yi Ke said to Hong Xing.
"Okay, I'll go find Deputy Manager Chen right away." Hong Xing said and left.
"Wait a minute, ask Hongwu to come back, I have something to discuss with him." Yike said again.
"Okay, I understand." Hong Xing left, but her mother looked at Yi Ke with surprise.
"Aunt, please go and help Sister-in-law Yu Rui cook. Thank you for your hard work!" Yi Ke didn't want to delay the meal, but he didn't know how to tell her, so he just sent her away.
Hongwu returned soon, and Ziyi came back with him.
Sister-in-law, my cousin said you were looking for me, what’s the matter? "Hongwu asked.
"Sit down," Yike motioned for him to sit down, and Ziyi sat down next to Yike.
"Brother Hongwu, I want to open a workshop here. What do you think?"
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