When Li Yuan finished her porridge, she saw Mrs. Ling coming over with a quilt in her arms.
"Mother Yuan, my aunt came back late yesterday and didn't have time to tidy up the bed and bedding for you. No, after getting up this morning, she quickly made a bed for you. You can dry it in the sun and use it first, and when my aunt comes back to make new ones, Yes, I’ll bring it over and exchange it with you.”
"What are you doing now? It was borrowed from the eldest daughter's house yesterday, right? Give it to my aunt. Wash it. When it's dry, I'll have someone take it back for you."
Li Jun's family only has one bedding. If he were alone, he would have taken out his own and covered it with several women and children yesterday.
But there happened to be two brothers in his room last night. He and Yang Gaowu were fine, even if they didn't cover them, they would be fine, but Xie Yanzhi couldn't do it because he was weak.
Therefore, last night Li Yuan, mother and daughter covered the bed borrowed from Li Da Niu's family, while Wang Can, who was lying alone on a temporary bed made of wooden boards and stools, had nothing covered.
Afraid of the cold night, she unpacked her bags and put on a few more clothes.
Li Yuan immediately thought of quilts in her space, including summer air-conditioned quilts and winter silk quilts.
There are thick and thin winter quilts. The thick ones weigh eight kilograms and the thin ones weigh four kilograms. They are all large quilts of two meters by two and three meters.
If only she and her two children lived in the room, she could find a reason to take it out and put a plain quilt cover on it.
But with the addition of Wang Can, I have some concerns.
She felt that it was better for only herself to know about space, and there was no need for outsiders to know.
But since it's hard to take it out now, the problem with this quilt still needs to be solved.
Her aunt was willing to make her a quilt, and she thought it should be made according to the thickness of the quilt to keep out the cold in previous winters.
But this year is special, so we must do more.
Not only that, the family also needs to save more charcoal.
No, for snowstorms and cold waves, just using charcoal won't do the trick. You have to build a fire wall or a kang.
Thinking like this, Li Yuan also thought that it was already the end of September, and the snowstorm was in the winter months, so there was only more than a month left, and there was not much time left for her.
"Auntie, thank you."
Seeing that she was much more lively than before, Mrs. Ling felt relieved and a little sour at the same time.
In the past, this child could not stand up even if her parents were gone.
Unexpectedly, after getting married once, I would wake up.
Unfortunately, the price was too high, and I almost had to pay for it with my life.
"Silly girl, why are you so polite to my aunt? Okay, you can bask in the sun outside and don't blow too much wind. Then go inside and lie down later. My aunt is busy at home, so she will go back first."
"Your father said that your family will invite the clan members to dinner tomorrow. You don't need to buy anything for this rice and noodles. My aunt will bring it to your home tomorrow. After you put away your bedding later, my aunt will ask your eldest nephew to come and get it."
"Well, thank you, auntie!"
Although Mrs. Ling said you're welcome, to Li Yuan, they were already two families, so they still had to say polite words.
At least the people who helped her knew that she was grateful. It's not that when someone helps you, you take it for granted and don't even say thank you.
As soon as Ling left, Ma came over without much effort.
She was holding a baggage in her hand. When she saw Li Yuan sitting under the eaves and basking in the sun, she said, "Mother Yuan, my aunt has picked up some old clothes worn by the children at home. See if there is anything that the older girls can wear."
"As for what you're wearing, my aunt got some from your siblings, so you can change them first. I'll give them to you after my aunt makes new clothes in a few days."
Li Yuan has clothes to wear, but in this era, she can't take them out.
He was not polite when he saw this, and he didn't mind the tatters. He immediately opened the bag, flipped through it casually, and then said, "Thank you, aunt, these clothes are very good."
"The two girls you sent here can wear it. I thank you on their behalf. Also, my clothes are quite good, but they are a bit worn and don't even have a patch. As for my younger siblings..."
"It's okay, she has a lot of clothes. You put it on first, at worst I will pull the cloth to buy her new clothes at the end of the year."
After saying this, Mr. Ma sat down next to Li Yuan, then took her hand and said, "I still support my own family. I just came back to stay for one night, and my complexion has improved a lot."
"You girl, you don't even know how I felt after I saw you for the first time yesterday. At that time, I almost felt distressed to death."
When Li Yuan heard this, she lowered her head and leaned her head on her shoulder with a smile: "Thank you, aunt. If you hadn't come to support me and make the decision, I would be dead now."
Mrs. Ma only gave birth to a son and a daughter, and she had watched Li Yuan grow up since she was a child. She did not want her second wife to decline like this, so she immediately turned around and nodded her forehead angrily.
"I don't like hearing what you say. Don't say it again in the future. You have to know that you are the mother of two children. No matter what you do, you have to consider them."
"Now that you and Li are back, you can't rely on Junzi for everything in the future. You have to stand up for yourself. Junzi hasn't married yet and has children, so it's okay to help you, but he can't stay like this for the rest of his life.
"Mother Yuan, you should think carefully about what you want to do. Get married, or find a way to make money to raise two children? Just relying on the compensation from the Liu family is definitely not enough!"
According to Ma's opinion, if one of the two children is a son, it will be okay even if Li Yuan does not marry.
If a woman can make her own money to support the family and do everything by herself, what else will a man do?
Are you going to continue to serve men and children, and face a bunch of relatives and sisters-in-law, and then find a mother-in-law to take advantage of you?
But what she brought back was her daughter. This child will grow up and will get married in the future.
She can't wait until her child gets married and she is left alone, right?
In this case, it is better to leave the child here, and her family will help take care of it, while she finds someone to marry.
In this way, when the child grows up, she will marry whoever it is time to marry, and she will not be old, and there will not even be anyone around to bring tea or water.
"Auntie, I will consider this matter carefully. But at the moment, I don't really want to get married. Let's wait for a year or two before we talk about it!"
For Li Yuan, everyone will be busy escaping by then, so how can they still think so much?
Ma didn't know what she was thinking. She felt that it would be normal for her to reconcile and escape from a home like Liu's in a year or two.
"Okay, just think about it. If you need aunt's help if you need anything, just ask. Aunt has to go and go up the mountain. When she comes back, she will give you some fruits to try."
Thinking of collecting things from the mountain, Li Yuan was also a little ready to do something.
It's a pity that even if her health is better now, she doesn't dare to show her face publicly.
It was said that she was tortured by her husband's family until she could breathe. If she could go up and down the mountain the next day, and wait until the news reached Shuiyun Village, who knows what kind of trouble would have happened.
She had better settle down at home for a while and wait until Ms. Liu came over to make trouble.
Yes, Li Yuan was sure that Mrs. Liu would make trouble when she came back.
The main reason is of course not that he can't let her go, nor that he can't let go of the children, but that the Liu family has been evacuated!
The food in the cellar was gone, and the money the family had accumulated over the years was gone. Even the land deed is with her.
What's more, because of her, she still owed a foreign debt of twenty taels to the clan!
