Chapter 57: wasteland

By this time, everyone was actually hungry. Looking at the table full of delicious dishes, I can't stop swallowing. Li Qinghe has been helping in the restaurant for two years. Sometimes Chef Chen would say a few more words. If he watched every day, he would naturally get fried as he watched more.
Mother Zhou also prepared wine, and everyone poured a bowl. She didn't take the chopsticks, and the people below had to endure it if she wanted to eat it.
She coughed slightly, "Today is a rare occasion for a family to sit together during the Chinese New Year. Before eating, I have a few words to say."
Everyone looked up and looked at her.
The brothers and sisters of the Zhou family didn't say anything, the three new daughter-in-laws who entered the door did not dare to choke with Zhou's mother. No matter what he thinks in his heart, his face is always serious.
"I believe you have all heard about the Qian family the other day. I only hope that you don't grow up like that."
Everyone looked solemn and said in a hurry, "No."
Mother Zhou nodded, "I think you have had a good time in the past six months, so after this autumn harvest, each of you will give me 50 catties of grain each year."
The room was already quiet. After listening to these words, it was so quiet that the needles fell. Zhang Haiyao and Mei looked at each other, and Old Lady Liu had already frowned, "Sister, let me be fair. You are still young and start now. Isn’t it a bit too much to let the child respect..."
Mother Zhou raised her hand to stop her saying, "This is our Zhou family's family affairs. They are dissatisfied, and they should say it themselves." It is not your turn to be an outsider.
Hearing this, Liu Pozi looked ugly, "I thought I was sitting at this table, and you would treat me as a family. I didn't expect that I couldn't even say a word. In this case, then I..." She suddenly stood up. Turning around to go out, he was angry at first glance.
Just as she was about to step out of the threshold, Zhou's mother said, "You come to my house as a guest, and the boss is the one who provides you with old-age care. Either you are like me and let the boss give you 50 catties of food every year."
What is enough food for fifty catties?
Liu Pozi thought that Zhou's mother had opened her mouth to keep her, and said soft words to her down the steps, but she didn't expect to be so hard-hearted. I can't get off the stage, so I have to step out.
Seeing this, Mei eagerly said, "Mother." He got up and went after him.
She ran to the door, Zhou Mother said solemnly, "Sister Liu can go, that's because she is not my Zhou family, if you leave, take her out of my Zhou's house."
Boss Zhou hurriedly got up and patted Zhou's mother on the back, "Mother, don't be angry for the Chinese New Year."
Mother Zhou waved his hand away and said solemnly, "I raised you young, should you raise me old? Fifty catties of grain a year is not too much. You give me this trouble, go and go Yes, I thought that if people ran away, can this be avoided? If you follow them to live in the Liu's house, I will never ask you. Just like the second child, leave your land to me, and the food will not be needed. You handed it in."
"Hand in." Zhang Haiyao said suddenly, "Mother, we are willing to hand it in. It is right to give you the old age, and she must also be willing to take care of your younger siblings."
Li Qinghe nodded, "We are willing to hand it over."
In this way, it seemed that Mei, who was running outside, was particularly stingy. She looked ugly, "Anything that can be discussed for my mother to provide for the elderly? You all agreed, and I have no reason not to. It's just my mother who... …"
Po Liu asked for it!
After a long while, Mother Zhou said, "You give her a copy of the food on this table."
After this incident, the atmosphere on the dinner table was a bit dull, but fortunately the food was very good, and everyone concentrated on eating.
Seeing that the food on the table gradually disappeared, Zhou's mother suddenly said, "It's not that I want to bully her so mean, but that she stirs up like this, the boss's life is not easy."
Mei's head lowered, Zhou's mother looked at her, "You have to have your own ideas, and the days are your own. Isn't the boss inferior to the man you lead?"
Mei's face turned red at first, and then gradually paled. The first one, who had been sick and crooked all the time, was lying in bed to die or not. It took a few years before he left. She has served enough. Elder Zhou was kind and kind to her, and gave her all the money she earned. This is a very strange thing in the whole Wangcun. She lowered her head and seemed to be meditating. .
After a meal, Li Qinghe helped clean up the dishes before going home.
When the two returned home, it was getting late, and now there were not many fish in the pond, so they went home after being fed. The chicken next door had been fed a long time ago, so I don’t need to worry about it today.
After Zhou Chengkang entered the door, he lighted the brazier first, and the house gradually warmed up. On the night of the New Year's Eve, Li Qinghe took out the soles of her shoes, and the person on the opposite side helped her arrange her embroidery thread. It was warm, quiet and peaceful.
The night outside was getting deeper, so I listened to him asking, "Are you hungry?"
Not to mention, although there are a lot of dishes today, there are also many people eating. Li Qinghe didn't eat much. Besides, she was not very hungry at all. Now he asked, he was really hungry.
Zhou Chengkang smiled and said, "I'll cook noodles for you."
"Okay." Li Qinghe put down the needle and thread, "we are together."
The two went to the kitchen and kneaded the noodles to wake up. During the period, they also fried two small dishes. After half an hour, the two returned to the room with the cooked food and sat down in the warm room.
Li Qinghe was eating the noodles, looking at the person opposite, in a daze, "That afternoon meal is more like a Chinese New Year, but I think it seems that there is more New Year atmosphere now."
Hearing this, Zhou Chengkang stretched out and held her hand, "That's because we are the ones who have been with each other the longest."
Li Qinghe returned to his senses and said with a smile, "You are right."
The first year after the two got married, it just passed. On the first day of the first lunar month, the two of them did not get up until noon, and they are going back to their parents' home today.
In the afternoon, Li Qinghe went to Li's house with Zhou Chengkang with the new year gift he had prepared. This year, Qian was lying in bed for the New Year. Li Fu probably had a bad New Year. He didn't know how to cook. He didn't know what he ate yesterday.
When Li Qinghe arrived, Hu Yanxi had arrived, with Zhao Wanwan.
Li Fu did not know how to cook. The two daughters came back with his son-in-law. He was a little embarrassed. He even ran in to see Qian's several times, probably urging her to get up and cook. But Qian did not get up. In the end, Zhao Wanwan went to the kitchen to cook. There were meat and vegetables. These were still prepared, and Li Qinghe also went to help.
The two sisters in the kitchen are cooking. This is a very common thing before they get married. Zhao Wanwan secretly glanced at her several times, "Sister, hasn't she gotten up yet?"
"I don't know." Li Qinghe said calmly, "Don't look at me near, I don't go home often."
"Are you going to the county seat after the Chinese New Year?" Li Qinghe asked.
Zhao Wanwan nodded, "Go, there will be a county test after the New Year, I quit the job at the inn, and I will take care of Yanxi after the New Year."
Li Qinghe asked in a low voice, "Did he really accept a concubine?" I was really curious.
Zhao Wanwan smiled and shook her head, "No, it's just that the girl is pleased with him, she often gives him something, but she can't refuse it. When I go next year, it should be fine."
Li Qinghe was dumb. If a man wanted to reject a girl, he couldn't refuse. The girl’s face is thin, she puts a few harsh words, or just ignores people, is she really shameless?
She glanced at Hu Yanxi who was talking to Zhou Chengkang in the yard, but she didn't expect him to be this kind of person.
This is just curiosity, Li Qinghe still has business affairs, "By the way, she gave your father the silver and asked your father to give it to you. Your father came back and said that he found you and had a good time. He said that he would help you bring the silver in the future. do you know?"
Zhao Wanwan was surprised and shook her head, "I don't know, so you asked me if I saw my father?"
Li Qinghe spread his hands. The reason why she said this was that she didn’t want their mother and daughter to be deceived. The main reason was that Li Fu raised her for a certain period of time. She was still doing her best. Don’t look for her father when the time comes. , I'm afraid he will be sad.
The two sisters cooked a meal and went back to their respective homes after eating.
In the first month, the two went to buy the fry and put them in the pond. After that, they went to the fields. They were about to plow in spring. Originally, Li Qinghe planned to cut down another two acres of the wasteland. After next year, he set aside one acre to feed the chickens. The rest will be cleaned up for farming.
But last winter came too early and it rained for so long. Not to mention them, many people in the village had their land confiscated. Before the tenth day of the first lunar month, people could be seen walking down the ground with sickles and hoes.
The two of them were no exception, mainly because there was no one to help. On Li Fu's side, Qian was still lying down, and it was estimated that he would lie down in Spring. He couldn't clean up his own land, let alone help, it would be good if neither of them helped him. Not to mention the Zhou family, it would take many days for Zhou's mother to plant those land alone. Except for the second elder brother, the brothers probably couldn't count on it.
The two of them chopped for a day, and Li Qinghe had blisters on his hands, so he gritted his teeth and asked someone for money!
When the news was released, many people found Li Kui. For all work in the field, Li Qinghe asked Li Kui to help find people. From wasteland to man-made houses, their family was very happy to give money, and many people came to the door.
Li Kui took Li Xingwang’s family and the seven or eight people invited outside, but within a few days, he not only cleaned up the land from last year, but also cut two acres of weeds on the side. Seeing this, Li Qinghe didn’t want to keep it either. Cut out all over there.
It took nearly half a month before and after Li Qinghe sent out more than one or two wages, but the effect was gratifying. Of the ten acres of wasteland he bought, only one acre was left on the chicken farm, and the remaining eight acres became poor. Ground.
Good or bad, a variety of two years will be fine.
When she bought this barren mountain in the past, although most of the people didn't say anything, they thought she was a mess of money, but now that the land is cut out, so much of it belongs to her, and many people look at it.
Nobody's land has been so neat and tidy. Although it is thinner now, it has been planted for ten or eight years, and it is almost the same as here.
So some people put their ideas on the wasteland around Wangwang Village, bought the money, took some effort to clean them up, and then harvested them every year.
A lot of people went quietly to the village chief's house in the past two days.
When Li Qinghe first measured this piece of land, he measured the flattest section of the wasteland. On the left is the path up to the mountain. If you go to the right, you can still leave the village.
A few days later, in the area on the right, the village chief took the ya chai to measure five acres.
The person who bought that piece of land was surprisingly the Yang family. They were the same as in their previous lives. After the business was calculated, the shops and houses in the town were gone. After they moved to the village, they kept a low profile. They didn't expect to have money to buy land.