Xia Xiang couldn't help but shudder when he recalled the scene that day.
After the New Year, Li Dashan's family must have a lot of good wine and food left, so he thought about going to his buddy's house to get some food. The main reason was that his mother-in-law was too picky, and she had to eat twice a pound of meat in total. It's gone before you even taste it.
But he was reluctant to let Xia Xiang spend money, so it was normal for him to go to Li Dashan's house to eat and drink.
After all, he has now woken up from the arrival of Mei'er. Li Dashan can enjoy spicy food now, and that is the credit of his daughter.
If his daughter hadn't married that boy Wang Tiezhu and became a sister-in-law with that girl from the Jin family, and had the opportunity to make a move, Li Dashan might have just watched the little yellow croaker and ate the chaffy vegetables.
So early on the morning of the 24th, Xia Xiang knocked on Li Dashan's door, preparing to make breakfast.
Unexpectedly, his hands were almost swollen, and there was no movement in the yard. He thought that the family had died from sleep, and he screamed a few more times, but there was still no movement in the yard.
Xia Xiang was surprised, "Are you sleeping like this? Are you still out?" But Widow Li should be at home, right?
Li Dashan's family consists of seven people, including Li Dashan and his wife, his son, daughter-in-law, granddaughter, grandson, and a blind old woman, known as Widow Li.
This Widow Li is not a bad person. If she heard someone knocking on her door like this, she would have scolded her long ago. Now even she has not moved. Maybe the whole family has gone out.
Xia Xiang didn't think much about it. He just regretted that he couldn't make a living, so he went home, beat his wife up with the soles of his shoes, and forced her to use her personal money to go to the town to buy a pound of pork head meat, and gave her two slices to her grandson. , gave one piece to his son, he made the rest himself, and the taste was so good.
But the old boy was quite stubborn about taking advantage. He kept listening to what was going on in the Li family, and just waited for Li Dashan to come back, then he would go there and enjoy the meal.
But until it got dark, there was still no movement next door... The twenty-fourth passed, and on the twenty-fifth, no one from the Li family came back. This time, Xia Xiang felt something was wrong.
He and Li Dashan grew up naked. Except for the few years when Li Dashan was away, he didn't know much about the rest. He didn't dare to say that he knew everything about the Li family, but he was pretty close. Because of the reputation of Widow Li, the Li family had many relatives. It was cut off early.
No, it's impossible to go there to visit relatives, but if it wasn't to visit relatives, what did the whole family, including Widow Li, do?
Thinking of what Li Dashan had asked his wife to tell Sini, Xia Xiang's first reaction was, "What Sini did was exposed, and Li Dashan ran away."
But when he thought about it again, he felt that he couldn't do it.
First, Zhaodi should be exposed if she wanted to be exposed. She hadn't heard anything about it. Li Dashan was just a matchmaker. Why was he running?
Second, Jin Shunxin did indeed die in childbirth. Even if the stubborn girl from the Wang family said it rightly, it was Zhaodi who stimulated her, and it was the old lady of the Wang family who asked the midwife to deliver Zhaodi first, which caused her mother to have a dystocia. . Yes, what she said was true, but who would admit it?
Giving birth to a child is inherently dangerous. Many wives in the village died in childbirth. She, Jin Shunxin, died. It was because of her bad fate that Zhao Di could not be condemned because of this.
Xia Xiang didn't have great wisdom, but he was a bit smart. The more he thought about it, the more he felt there was something wrong with it.
Then he asked his son Xia Gang to climb over the wall to see next door. As for why he didn't climb over, the main reason was that he had old arms and legs, and he was a little concerned about his life.
The Xia and Li families were neighbors. In the past, the yard was only blocked by a fence made of tree branches. It was clear what was going on next door.
Therefore, the four girls of the Xia family are getting older and older, and the son of Li Dashan's family, who is just waiting to die and only nibbling on old age, always takes advantage of the situation. This makes a group of old ladies in the village say that The words really don’t sound good.
Xia Xiang is a shameless person, and Li Dashan's family doesn't have a daughter. Anyway, it's his son who takes advantage, so he can just say what he says.
To be honest, the "friendship" between these two people really made the entire Sanyetun crowd speechless.
It wasn't until the Li family's son married his daughter-in-law that a two-meter-high wall was built using clay bricks at the strong request of her daughter-in-law.
Xia Gang was holding the ladder for his son Xia Gang below. Xia Gang looked like he had not woken up and said angrily: "Dad, what are you doing? If that guy Li Dapang knows that I jumped over the wall of his house, He won’t be polite to me.”
Big Fat Li is Li Dashan's only son. He has been fat since he was a child. Even during the three-year famine, he didn't lose much weight. At that time, as soon as he went out, he was eaten by hungry people with green eyes. Staring at it, Big Fatty Li wanted to cry: Do you know what it means to gain weight even if you drink cold water?
But fat is better than fat. Like his wife, she took a fancy to his fat body. What conditions are there to raise a child like this these days! Preliminary judgment is that there is a mine at home, which is fine!
Xia Xiang looked at his son with a tangled look on his face, "Tell me, my brain is so good, why did I give birth to such a bad guy like you? There is no one in the Li family. Our family won't talk about this matter. What's wrong with him, Fatty Li?" Can you know?"
Even if his father said so, Xia Gang was unwilling. The wall was so high and he was afraid.
"Dad, there is a ladder at our house. I can go up, but how do I get down?"
"You don't like to hear that you are a tough guy. There is a pigsty over there for your Uncle Shanzi. You just followed it and went down, even using a ladder."
When Xiaxia Xiang saw his son, he still wanted to say something. He took off his shoes and started to slap him with the soles of his shoes. "Hurry up and get up there. If you talk nonsense again, see if I don't slap you. Don't worry, I helped your Uncle Shanzi build that pigsty. Up there." They are all wooden purlins as thick as a bowl, and they won’t kill you if they fall.”
Xia Gang muttered, "My mother won't steal my life, right?" and then quickly ran up the ladder, making Xia Xiangren's head hurt with anger.
Xia Gang lowered his head and stepped on the pigsty tremblingly, then jumped into the yard while talking about the low wall of the pigsty.
"Dad, I'm coming!"
"Go over there and open the door for me quickly. Why don't you wait for me to write you a letter of praise?"
Xia Gang pouted. If he didn't dare to enter the house, he wouldn't have let you in.
When Xia Gang opened the door, Xia Xiang suddenly patted his head and his expression changed, "I'm such a pig, Gangzi, something must have happened. You go home now and I'll go in and take a look."
At the critical moment, Xia Xiang still cherishes his son who has given birth to four daughters.
Xia Gang was a little confused, "Dad, how did you know?" He paused behind his father with a scared look on his face.
"Look at this door, it's locked from the inside. If your uncle Shanzi and the others are going out, they should be locked from the outside. I just want to make a living, and I don't think about this at all."
Xia Xiaxiang's expression was really not good.
Xia Gang exclaimed, "Is it possible that something happened to Grandma Li?"
Xia Xiang looked at the main room and pushed Xia Gang, "You go home, I'll go take a look!" He always felt something was wrong.
