While Li was talking, she quickly filled a large bowl for everyone, and also filled a lot of stew for Xie Baotian, Xie Baoshu, and Xie Tianlin.
Although they were all here to help, Xie Baotian and the other three were considered in-laws, so Li took special care of them.
Xiao Yi also told Xie Baotian and the others to eat first. Xie Baotian knew that if he couldn't move his chopsticks, others wouldn't be able to move either, so he immediately picked up the bowl and took a big bite.
"Yeah! It's delicious, juicy, smooth, and fragrant. I haven't had such good food in two years. Everyone is going to eat it!"
After hearing this, everyone else also ate it!
At this time, men and women were sitting at different tables. Qu Xiaodie, Li Shi, and Hu Mei refused to come to the table to eat. They were too reluctant. Not only did Li Shi and the others feel uncomfortable, but Xiao Yi and the others also felt uncomfortable. Xie Yushu He didn't force it, he simply reassembled the table with big stone slabs, and gathered around the table with Qu Xiaodie and others.
After eating rice bran grass roots for more than two years, this meal of ordinary glutinous rice noodles made the Li family burst into tears and choked with sobs.
"A few days ago, I thought I couldn't survive it. Who thought I would be able to eat glutinous rice noodles!"
Xie Yushu advised
"As the saying goes, if you survive a catastrophe, you will be blessed later. The hard days are over, and we will definitely get better and better in the future!"
Xiao Haitang and Hu Mei also said
"That's right, uncle, look, so many people are starving to death, but we survived. It shows that we are blessed. We have to be happy, and we can't cry away our blessings!"
After hearing this, Mrs. Li wet her sleeves with tears and smiled.
"That's the truth. Alas! I just think about the past two years. It was so difficult! I don't know how I survived!"
"You've finally got through it, but let's think about the future! What are your plans? I see there aren't many rooms in the old courtyard. Don't you plan to build a wing?"
"Why don't you want to cover it up? Brother Bo is already fourteen, and it's time to kiss him!
But the parents didn't let go. They said that the fourth child just finished building a house and married a wife. All the money was spent. Then there was a two-year drought. Not to mention no income, and a lot of money was spent selling grain. I guess dad had a lot of money. We really have no money!
We only had one, two or three coins in hand, and we had to keep it to buy some food for the winter. We only had 500 copper coins to move around, and dad also gave the fourth child some money to spend on studying. "
"Didn't he just squander ten taels of silver from Yushu yesterday? Why are you squeezing the little copper in your hands?"
Qu Xiaodie said angrily after hearing this.
"Lao Si said that I need to make friends and see more of the world."
Li said helplessly.
"As long as my parents are alive, we will keep adding to this bottomless pit!
I was envious of you at first. No matter what, after we finally separated, at least we no longer had to worry about this bottomless pit. But now and see, even if we separated, we still haven't stopped living. Just watch, it won't be long before the old man and the old lady are still together. I have to come and do it for you! "
Xie Yushu said indifferently
"I lent him money this time to silence the tribesmen. They won't have a chance next time!
As for you, I think you have two choices at the moment. One is to build the wing first regardless of whether the old man or the old lady allows it. Even if she doesn't agree, the worst she can do is scold you and tear down the house!
After all, Brother Song is also her eldest grandson. If it were Xiao Yi and us, she would really come and tear down the house, but Brother Song, she can't.
The second way is, you can just buy a new piece on the spot and let Brother Song move out to live there, which will save your wife and children from being scolded in the future! "
The old courtyard has three main rooms, two wing rooms and an east wing room. They are all tile-roofed houses, which are much more elegant than Xiao Yi’s thatched cottage!
In the middle of the middle room is the kitchen and living room. The old man and lady live in the east room, and Xiao Yan lives in the west room. Farm tools and other items are stored in the east and west rooms, and the other is a grain house. Nowadays, people eat their own food, and they have enough left in normal years. A year's worth of food must be saved year after year. Families with a surplus will save more to cope with famine.
It turned out that the east wing room belonged to the fourth child, Xiao Yuanhang. Xiao Yan lived with Mrs. Xiao and his wife in the east room. Xiao Dayong and his family lived in the west room. Later, Xiao Yuanhang built a new house next door, a large blue brick house with a separate courtyard. Xiao Yuanhang moved away, and Xiao Dayong's family lived in the east wing.
But seeing that the child is getting older, you can’t just squeeze in with your wife after you get married!
These words were said to Mrs. Li's heart. Mrs. Li thought about her life at home. No matter how good she was at work, she would get up early and work late every day, but the old lady would still find fault with her and yell at her at any time. Except for the fourth child at home, With Xiao Yan, others can hardly see the old lady's smiling face.
Even though Brother Song and Brother Bai are their biological grandsons, they usually only have enough to eat and can't taste the good things. The first place is always the fourth child, followed by Old Man Xiao, Mrs. Xiao and Xiao Yan!
Over the years, their family has not dared to breathe at home. Although they have a son and a daughter, they are somewhat confident, but under the hands of the old lady, they are still living a miserable life. How can they let their son live like this for half his life? ?
When will this kind of day end?
Although Li was moved by Xie Yushu's proposal, she couldn't make the decision. She only said that she would go back and discuss it with Xiao Dayong.
Xie Yushu didn't say anything else. She could only give some advice. In the end, they had to live their own lives. In the meantime, Xie Yushu went over to add food to Xie Baotian's table, but was stopped by Xiao Yi and said
"You go and eat your food, I'll take care of this!"
Xie Baotian was very satisfied. This son-in-law was considerate after all.
Since they cooked a lot of food, everyone was full and fat, with two or three bowls left. Thinking of the Huya brothers and sisters coming to help, his grandma was still at home without eating. In order to save food during this period, almost every family ate two bowls. One meal of porridge. Some families with little land would have two meals of porridge almost every day during their free time. Only during busy farming days would they be willing to add a meal of solid food at noon.
Anyway, the rest of the evening meal was not very satisfying, so Xie Yushu filled a bowl with some marinade and asked Xiao Haitang to deliver it to Grandma Huya.
There were also some that I planned to put away in the kitchen and let Xiao Yi clean in the evening, but after a while Xiao Song, Xiao Bai and Li's daughter Tao Hua came over, and it was just right for the three of them to share the food.
The three people were scolded by Mrs. Xiao because they planned to take forty taels of silver from Xie Yushu, but ended up taking ten taels and wrote a bullshit IOU and a letter of guarantee.
I know that Xiao Dayong sold two wolf skins. Although he bought grain and cloth, he should still have one, two, two, three, or three coins in his hand. Asking them to give Xiao Yuanhang a tael, the two of them kept their mouths shut like river clams, refusing to let go, and even hid the money.
This is tantamount to touching Mrs. Xiao's skin.
Ever since Xiao Dayong and his wife didn't come over in the morning, they had been scolding them all morning for being a white-eyed wolf, an unfilial son, etc.
Xiao Dayong and his wife came out and began to scold the three children again for being freeloaders and other things. They scolded them in a hurry and slapped them twice.
Xiao Taohua's face was still swollen when she came over.
Xie Yushu really couldn't understand how there could be such a weird lady as Mrs. Xiao!
