It was already past noon when I got home. Most people in the village didn't have the habit of having lunch, so they all ate early and late. Li Qiusui has a big appetite and gets hungry easily. Since she returned home, the kitchen at home has been turned on at noon and she has started cooking seriously. There is no set time, generally anyone who wants to eat can just go and have some.
This morning, I was in a hurry to go to my old house, but I didn't even have a good breakfast.
Li Qiusui was now so hungry that his chest was pressed against his back. As soon as he came back, he went to the kitchen and asked, "What's there to eat? Get some quickly, I'm almost starving to death!"
Hongying brought over a plate of snacks and said with a smile: "I know, girl, you must be hungry! Aunt Zhou has already gone to set the meal. This is a snack made from the leftover lotus roots from yesterday. Please take a few bites first."
"Ah, is it glutinous rice lotus root?" This is good, it can be used as a dish, snack, or as a filling meal. "Why does it smell like sweet-scented osmanthus?" Li Qiusui hurriedly picked up a piece with chopsticks and put it in his mouth. It's so sticky that it's hard to just grab it.
"This, this is sweet-scented osmanthus glutinous rice lotus root, of course there are osmanthus!"
Where is the osmanthus? This year’s sweet-scented osmanthus hasn’t bloomed yet! Li Qiusui didn't have time to speak and asked with his eyes.
"It's the dried osmanthus that Miss Chu gave you! You have some leftover for making osmanthus wine, so I'll use it." Hongying's stuttering problem is no longer obvious.
There's nothing wrong with this girl's tongue. It's just her personality that she stutters when meeting strangers or when speaking in long sentences.
Li Qiusui deliberately reminded her to talk more and things would get better gradually.
"Well, I remembered..."
It was during the Chinese New Year that she wrote to Miss Chu saying that she had made wine at home, but it was a pity that it was not the season when osmanthus was in full bloom. Otherwise, she would have made some osmanthus to make rice dumplings. Unexpectedly, Miss Chu dried the osmanthus and asked Li Changan to bring it to her. Come back in a pack.
Seeing the girl eating happily, her red eyes turned into crescent moons as she smiled, "This year we will pick more sweet-scented osmanthus flowers and dry them in the sun. It will be delicious for making snacks."
Li Qiusui nodded yes.
There is an osmanthus tree planted in the backyard of my home. It was planted in the past two years. The tree is three or four years old. It only started blooming sporadically last year.
I didn't expect that I didn't do anything secretly while picking osmanthus flowers.
With a plate of sweet-scented osmanthus, glutinous rice and lotus root in his stomach, Li Qiusui sighed happily and had some free time to joke, "Hongying is so awesome, the food she makes is getting more and more delicious, and she even uses sweet-scented osmanthus to make snacks! Then let's do it Let the sweet-scented osmanthus tree bloom more flowers this year.”
Hongying blushed at the praise, pursed her lower lip and whispered: "Osmanthus can make a lot of snacks! We can make moon cakes for the Mid-Autumn Festival. Osmanthus cakes alone have many flavors. When the osmanthus blooms, I So I went to pick a lot of sweet-scented osmanthus and made dishes and snacks for the girl to eat."
After the little girl said this, Li Qiu Sui became hungry again and eagerly motioned to Hong Ying to bring over another plate of sweet-scented osmanthus, glutinous rice and lotus root.
Hongying likes to feed her girls very much. She is not picky about her good appetite and will praise others.
How could she bear this look, "Girl, then, then eat another plate?"
When Zhou Ping's family came over to call for dinner, they heard Hong Ying's words and saw that Li Qiusui already had an empty plate in his hand.
If you eat too much of this stuff, you will easily accumulate food. He said hurriedly: "Girl, the master and his wife are waiting for you to serve dinner! This noon, we have braised carp, beef eggplant box, fried wild eggs with wild onions..."
With such delicious food, Li Qiusui ignored the sweet-scented osmanthus, glutinous rice and lotus root. He stood up and walked out without forgetting to say, "Hongying, make some delicious snacks and bring them to the house for me!"
Seeing Li Qiu Sui's back, Hongying covered her mouth and smiled, giving a thumbs up to Zhou Ping's family, "Auntie is still awesome!"
The one from Zhou Ping's family tapped her forehead and said, "Hey, if the girl praises you a few times, you will be confused! It's time to eat soon. The girl is only more than ten years old, how come she tastes so delicious but has so many things that are difficult to digest?"
Hongying was not shy in front of Zhou Ping's family, "Otherwise, I would say that my aunt is the most powerful. I know that eating too much of that food is not good, but I can't think of a good way to reject the girl!"
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The family had dinner and the family held an ancestral hall in the afternoon. The female relatives of the Liu family did not need to follow in and out. Brothers Li Sanzhu and Li Changshan were both men. They had many things to do before opening the new ancestral hall, so they put down their chopsticks and were busy with this.
To Li Qiusui's surprise, several other Li family members actually separated, including Li Changgen's family.
Li Changgen was also a scholar. It is said that it was Li Changgen's grandfather who made the decision, which almost made Li Guangping angry to death. There are only two talents in the clan, and they are both young people. They can make further progress just by seeing them. I was laughing in my heart before, Li Guangmao's family only had two taels of stinky silver, so they didn't know how high the sky was outside. He was a scholar, a farmer, an industrialist, and a businessman. The status of a businessman was at the bottom of the list. He was not a good student, urging his children and grandchildren to study and make progress. He was just messing around with the seeds in the orchard. He thought that this family would start a business sooner or later.
It took Li Guangping a long time to calm down his anger when Li Changgen's family came over.
Li Changgen's grandfather was the same generation as Li Guangmao and he was an honest man. Unless Li Changgen was born in the family, no one would take this family seriously.
"Brother, please think about it carefully. Have you taken a closer look at what Li Guangmao has been doing in the past two years? The court has explicitly banned officials from doing business. Your parents don't want to go to college at all?"
Li Changgen's grandfather was an old smoker. He had been doing farm work all his life. He had already become hunched over, so he relied on a puff of dry smoke to stay energetic.
Li Guangping talked to him, and he kept squatting. He kowtowed a pipe of cigarette ashes and took out another pipe of tobacco leaves. "Guang Ping, your brother, I have always spoken outright, so don't be as knowledgeable as me."
Li Guangping had no choice but to squat down and listen to him.
"I don't understand the matter between you and Guangmao's family, and I don't judge who is right or wrong. I just accept my own reasons. My parents just went to a private school to know each other, and they said It would be great if you could find a job as an accountant in the town! Four or five years ago, you came to my house and said that there was an opportunity for the family to send three of their children to study in Fucheng. My parent was one of them, but you said that I had to follow You go together to persuade Guang Mao. To be honest, I was secretly happy at that time. People say that my parents are good at studying, but the family can't open the door. We can't starve a few people and send him to study. That's all. A good opportunity is like pie in the sky, how can I not be happy?"
What he didn't say was that at that time, his parents were all looking for good jobs in the town. It was only when Li Guangping came to talk about it that they started thinking about it again.
"The little girl of Sanzhu's family was sent away, and his wife cried so hard that I felt bad at that time. You should persuade me that the child will return home in two years. In the future, if there is a capable person in the family, she will Haosheng takes care of me. I made a wish at that time. My family owes that child. When he grows up and becomes successful in the future, he will be her brother."
These words were like a slap on Li Guangping's face, and he left without saying a word.
Li Guangmao was very happy to know this. He didn't expect that Li Changgen's status as a scholar would bring any benefits to his family, but his family's life was getting better day by day. Not to mention the people with other surnames in the village, even many people in the Li family were jealous.
When Li Guangping said he wanted to exterminate his family, he asked Li Sanqian. Li Sanqian helped him with a few words, and then his family went to see him at home. Why can't I see any trace of the clansmen next to me? Just like Lao San said, his family had done a lot to help the clan members in the past two years, so he became discouraged and focused on splitting up the clan.
Li Changgen's grandfather came over to talk to Li Guangmao. The two old men squatted together, smoking cigarettes with their heads touching.
"The various things going on in your family... Well, we even said we would go to Guangping to talk to each other. How come this has led to the division of clans? My parents can't read at all, so they have suffered a lot from your little girl. The favor will be shared with your family."
Li Guangmao smiled so much that his mouth almost reached his ears.
"Guang Mao, don't hold your anger in your heart! We are so old and have suffered a lifetime, and the root of the disease has long been left on our bodies. If we don't feel sorry for ourselves, we will not be able to enjoy the blessings of these younger generations in the future."
Li Guangmao nodded, "I listen to my brother! Alas, there is finally something to look forward to these days. We have to take good care of ourselves."
