At around five o'clock in the afternoon, villagers came one after another to sell mushrooms!
At present, Tang Xue is responsible for calculating and keeping accounts, while the second sister is responsible for weighing everyone.
Li Yi helped check the quality and moved it to the drying room to dry.
After being busy until seven o'clock in the evening, Li Yi and others returned to the old house after seeing off the last villager.
As soon as he entered the courtyard, Li Yi saw his third sister feeding the big red mule and black horse, while his mother was preparing dinner by the stove.
His father was sitting under the eaves, teasing Zhang Ning with some wild fruits.
When Tang Xue saw this, she immediately said to Li Yi: "I'll push the cart, and you go help Sister Na!"
"okay!"
After handing the bicycle to Tang Xue, Li Yi went to the yard to hold a bundle of grass and walked towards the big poplar tree.
When the big black horse saw Li Yi coming, he immediately neighed happily, and then rubbed Li Yi with his long big head.
Li Yi put the grass in front of it, couldn't help but patted the big black horse's head, and then returned to the eaves.
The second sister had already filled the water, and then asked Tang Xue and Li Yi to wash their hands.
After washing his hands, Li Yi immediately asked his father: "Dad, why is there a meeting in the village this afternoon?"
Li Shankui said without raising his head: "Uncle Feng said that the commune issued a notice in the afternoon, saying that some big leaders are coming to our village tomorrow, and the village members should be prepared to welcome him!"
"What kind of leader is this grand?" Li Yi asked curiously.
"I don't know, no matter who the leader is, we just need to cooperate and support your work, Uncle Feng!"
"Um!"
Li Yi didn't pay much attention to this matter. Nianzishan Village is neither the seat of a township commune nor a large administrative village. Its permanent population is only three to four hundred people.
No matter who the leader is, he is just going through the motions and will not stay here long.
And he was going to the city to deliver goods early tomorrow morning, and they would have already left by the time he came back, so this matter had nothing to do with him at all.
But what he didn't know was that tomorrow's protagonist was coming for him.
After dinner, it was already past eight o'clock.
The family sat around the kang and chatted about what had happened in the past few days, focusing on Li Yi's loan. After chatting until ten o'clock, they went back to their respective houses to rest.
West wing!
Li Yi hugged Tang Xue and whispered.
I haven’t seen you for a few days, and I really miss you.
Although Tang Xue was pregnant at the moment, the two of them couldn't do that at all, but it was still a happy thing to hug their wife.
"When are we leaving for Qin Province?" Tang Xue asked, grabbing one of Li Yi's arms.
Hearing this, Li Yi felt a little happy because he noticed Tang Xue's words just now.
She refers to going back to her parents' home as going to Qin Province. The difference between the two words "going" and "going back" is huge!
In other words, she now regards this place as her real home, and Qin Province is just her hometown.
Li Yi's hands wandered around Tang Xue's body while saying: "Wait until the loan comes out!"
Tang Xue patted Li Yi's arm gently and said softly: "Don't move, it's itchy!"
With that said, Tang Xue grabbed Li Yi's other hand.
She couldn't do it without scratching. This stinky guy's hands were not honest at all. He would scratch here and touch there, making her whole body itchy.
"Do you need to buy tickets in advance?"
"No, I'll call Captain Wang in two days and ask him to give me two sleeper berth tickets!"
Li Yi knew that it was difficult to buy sleeper tickets these days, even if he had money.
In recent years, in order to prevent rural surplus labor from flowing into cities, a series of policies have been introduced to restrict the outflow of farmers into cities. They have restricted rural population mobility by strengthening the household registration management system and stopping recruitment.
Even for population movement between cities, the employer needs to issue a letter of introduction or show a work permit. Otherwise, you will not be able to travel, buy train tickets and accommodation.
Therefore, in this day and age, being able to take a train is not an easy thing.
In addition to the cumbersome procedures, you can only buy tickets at the train station, and you usually buy hard seats in green cars.
If you want to buy a hard sleeper, you have to be older or have a relationship with your employer to find someone to buy it.
As for soft sleepers, they must reach a certain level before they are allowed to purchase them. Of course, foreigners coming to China can also purchase them.
If Li Yi goes out by himself, hard seats are not unacceptable.
But now that I am taking Tang Xue, a pregnant woman, out, a hard seat is definitely not possible.
First of all, there is no way to rest on a hard seat. It takes a day and a night to go to Qin Province, and I have to sit on a small seat for dozens of hours. Ordinary people can't stand it, let alone a pregnant woman.
Secondly, the ordinary carriages are crowded, and the environment is not good. The smell of sweat and feet is mixed with the smell of various foods. Just thinking about it makes me feel sour!
So Li Yi had thought about it from the beginning. When he went there, he must ask Wang Anguo to get him two sleepers, either a soft sleeper or a hard sleeper.
When Tang Xue heard that Li Yi wanted to buy sleeper tickets for them, she immediately said with some distress: "Sleeper tickets cost a lot of money!"
Li Yi smiled and said: "It's not much. I've already asked. It's only 12 yuan per ticket. We can afford it!"
"But a hard seat only costs three yuan. The two of us can save 18 yuan for a trip!"
"Haha, you can't save this money. Don't forget that you are a pregnant woman now!" Li Yi said.
"What's wrong with the pregnant woman? Look at Sister Yunxiang, she was still working the day before the baby was born. Look at Erdan Niang, she just gave birth to Erdan in the ground. I can do it too..."
Before she finished speaking, she felt Li Yi pinching a sensitive part of her hard, and at the same time said: "You can do whatever you want, they don't have the conditions, don't imitate them!"
"Our family is not short of three melons and two dates. You study and do calculations every day without going to the fields!"
"In addition, we will go to the county hospital every month to check your body and make sure you don't suffer any problems due to pregnancy!"
Hearing that Li Yi was so nervous about herself, Tang Xue felt a flash of sweetness in her heart.
It is said that men are afraid of getting into the wrong profession and women are afraid of marrying the wrong man.
Tang Xue felt that she had used all her luck in the past 20 years to find a man.
"It's not necessary. I go to the county hospital every month. People who don't know better think there's something seriously wrong with me!"
"It doesn't matter what others say, let's just live our own lives!" Li Yi said.
"There's really no need..."
"Be obedient, everything else is up to you, but you have to listen to me on this matter!"
It's not that Li Yi is being pretentious, but that he knows that this era is actually not friendly to women at all, especially pregnant women.
In addition to having no special right to rest during pregnancy, women in this era also have no conditions for pregnancy tests, and rarely even go to the hospital to give birth.
On the one hand, the conditions are not good, but the most important thing is that we are still poor.
Whether it's getting a check-up or going to the hospital to give birth, it all costs money.
The economic situation is so bad, these are all burdens.
The poverty of this era is engraved in our bones. Not to mention expenses such as going to the hospital for examinations and giving birth, which often cost tens or hundreds of dollars. Some families can't afford even a few dollars of tuition for a semester.
So now, whether in rural or urban areas, most women give birth at home.
The people who help deliver babies vary from good to bad, and those who are attentive tend to handle things better.
If you encounter someone careless, take a pair of rusty scissors and cut the umbilical cord with a click.
This has caused many women to suffer from problems after giving birth. What's more, it is not uncommon for the mother, the baby, or even both of them to die due to difficult labor.
Because of this, Li Yi was very concerned about Tang Xue's pregnancy. He didn't want any accidents to happen because of his negligence.
Seeing that Tang Xue couldn't defeat Li Yi, she could only nod in agreement!
Seeing that he had convinced his wife, Li Yi felt very happy, and then he hugged Tang Xue and closed his eyes comfortably...
