my grandmother

Chapter 82
In the afternoon, Da Zhuang ran over and passed on his mother-in-law's words: let the five Li family siblings come to their house for dinner.

The whole family had a lively dinner, Li Yuzhu, Li Yinzhu and Li Xiaonan went back first, Li Jinzhu and Li Xuedong were left by Li Shikuan to talk.

Not long after, Li Jinzhu and Li Xuedong came back talking.

The three of Li Yuzhu hurriedly surrounded him.

Before Li Jinzhu could speak, he laughed first.

"Tang Weng said that it is really not cost-effective to establish a new school for family studies. The family is not well-off, and there are not many children who have to go to school. It is best to cooperate with other families." Li Jinzhu smiled.

"Is this what Tang Weng meant? What about other clan elders?" Li Yuzhu was surprised.

"Tang Weng's original words are: After everyone discusses." Li Xuedong laughed before Li Jinzhu.

"Tang Weng also said: Xuedong, the patriarch, has to learn to take care of the family affairs, and he has to come back often in the future. I discussed with Tang Weng that from the first to the fifth day of every month, Xuedong and I will pick a day to come back. Let's go and see what the clan has to discuss, and then look at the clan studies." Li Jinzhu continued.

Li Yuzhu was very surprised, and Li Xiaonan was also a little surprised.

This is not a small step back for Tang Weng and his clan.

The Li family's Yueyang Preserved Egg Shop will open on the [-]th day of the first lunar month. In the early morning of the [-]th day of the first lunar month, Li Jinzhu, Li Yuzhu, and Li Wenliang's family of four set off for Pingjiang City.

Li Xuedong, Li Yinzhu, and Li Xiaonan lived until the twentieth day of the first lunar month. They took Li Xuemei, who was full of characters, with a cart for people and a cart for things. Li Xuedong rode a mule back to Pingjiang City.

Li Shikuan suggested that they take over Li Xuemei, who was in a room full of characters, to take care of the housework. Li Jinzhu and Li Yuzhu discussed and discussed, and then secretly looked at Li Xuemei a few times, and after a few conversations, Li Jinzhu nodded.

It is too difficult for Ah Nan to learn to do housework, and it is indeed the best way to take Li Xuemei home to do housework.

In the past month or so since returning to Lijiaji, Li Xiaonan has played besides playing. The first time she heard about Li Xuemei, it was a half-truth and half-false suggestion from Tang Weng. Li Xuemei.

The cart stopped at the gate of Li Xuemei's elder brother's house, picked up Li Xuemei, and left Lijiaji.

Li Xiaonan folded her arms and carefully looked at Li Xuemei who was huddled in the corner of the car door.

Tang Weng said that she is 33 years old, but she looks like someone in her 40s or 50s.

Slightly short, thin, with slumped shoulders and shrunken head, lowered eyebrows and drooping eyes, shrunk in the corner, feeling uncomfortable, as if her whole body was superfluous, no matter how she put it from head to toe, no matter where she put it, it didn't fit.

"Sit inside, the door is cold." Li Yinzhu greeted warmly.

"Just here, just here." Li Xuemei tried her best to shrink back.

Li Xiaonan patted Li Yinzhu, moved forward, got closer to Li Xuemei, and looked at her carefully.

Li Xuemei shrank until her whole body became tense.

"Cuiye said they all call you Sister Mei?" Li Xiaonan asked with a smile.

"Ah."

"Then I'll call you Sister Mei too, Sister Mei, what's the matter with your head?" Li Xiaonan stretched her head over, carefully looked at the slanted scar on Li Xuemei's brow, and was speechless.

"call taxi."

"Who hit it? The Zhang family?"

Li Xuemei's former husband's family name was Zhang.

"He gave birth to a beating." Li Xuemei said vaguely.

Li Xiaonan was stunned.

When she was in graduate school, she followed a folklore project and heard of a method of beating people to induce birth.

"After giving birth this time, you came back without getting pregnant?" Li Xiaonan asked slightly holding her breath.

"Ah."

Li Xuemei, who had already shrunk tightly into a ball, seemed to shrink into a ball again.

Li Xiaonan looked at Li Xuemei who wished she could shrink back to nothing, opened her mouth, but couldn't speak.

Li Yinzhu was confused, she looked at Li Xiaonan, and then at Li Xuemei, who was getting tighter and tighter. Based on her intuition, she felt that there was something in Ah Nan's question. Seeing Sister Mei like this, it is not a good thing to say, um, now Can't ask.

The three of them didn't speak, and the atmosphere in the carriage became awkward. Li Yinzhu looked at the sole of the shoe in her hand, had an idea, looked at Li Xuemei and said with a smile: "Sister Mei, would you accept the sole of the shoe?"

Li Xuemei nodded immediately.

"Then you take this, we have to twist a few threads first."

Li Yinzhu handed to Li Xuemei the shoe sole with just a few stitches in her hand, leaned over to take the needle and thread bag, and took out a bundle of thread, Li Xuemei hurriedly picked it up with the needle, and the two of them pulled one by one and rubbed it together, and soon they rubbed a dozen threads Line, Li Yinzhu and Li Xuemei put together a shoe sole.

Li Xiaonan stepped aside and looked at the two of them.

While holding the soles of the shoes, Li Yinzhu was chatting gossip about how my daughter’s feet are light and don’t need shoes, and the elder sister’s feet are the most expensive, and Li Xuemei has something to do, so she gradually relaxes and occasionally picks up a sentence It's half a sentence.

Both carts used two healthy mules, trotting all the way, the sun was still high, and a group of people entered Cailian Lane.

Li Jinzhu and Li Yuzhu were not at home, Li Yinzhu touched the key and opened the courtyard door, and the two coachmen moved their things to the corridor and rushed back to Lijiaji overnight.

The field is already busy, so I have to hurry back.

Li Xuedong went to Fuxue to have a look.

Li Yinzhu and Li Xuemei hurriedly packed their things.

Li Jinzhu had told Li Yinzhu to vacate the room next to the kitchen for Sister Mei to live in.

Together with Sister Mei, Li Yinzhu moved out the sundries in the house, carried in the canopy bed that had just been unloaded from the cart, cleaned and scrubbed it, and spread out bedding.

Li Xiaonan helped by boiling a pot of water and making a pot of tea.

After tidying up Li Xuemei's house, I packed up the new year's goods and a bunch of things I brought from Lijiaji. It was already dark, so Li Yinzhu went into the kitchen and hurriedly cooked.

Li Xuemei followed Li Yinzhu into the kitchen, Li Yinzhu took the basin, Li Xuemei quickly snatched the basin from Li Yinzhu, "I'll do it!"

Li Yinzhu wiped the chopping board again, Li Xuemei hurriedly grabbed the rag, "I'll do it!"

Li Xiaonan, who was sitting by the stove, laughed, "Sister San, don't compete with Sister Mei, you sit here, tell Sister Mei to do it."

"I'm fine..." Before Li Yinzhu could finish speaking, seeing Li Xiaonan waving at her non-stop, she stuffed the rag into Li Xuemei's hand, looked at Li Xiaonan and asked, "What's for dinner?"

"Steamed sausage, stewed pork with cabbage, eel and squid..."

"Steamed sausage, stewed small Su meat is enough for two meats, and stir-fried vegetables are enough." Li Yinzhu cut off Li Xiaonan's words.

"Then cut some salted eggs." Li Xiaonan said angrily.

Li Yinzhu rolled her eyes at Li Xiaonan, looked at Li Xuemei and said, "Cook the salted eggs first, wait for Eldest Sister to come back and ask, Eldest Sister said to cut it first. You cut the sausage, and I will steam the rice."

The meal had just been prepared when Li Jinzhu and Li Yuzhu came back one after the other.

Li Xiaonan and Li Xuedong cleaned the table and took the small bamboo chairs. Li Yinzhu brought a plate full of oily and transparent steamed sausages, a large bowl of cabbage stewed with soy meat, and a plate of fried shredded radish. Li Xuemei brought over several bowls of rice.

A few people sat down, Li Yuzhu watched Li Xiaonan pointing out five bowls of rice, and hurriedly signaled to Li Yinzhu, "Ask Sister Mei to come over for dinner."

"Miss Mei!"

Li Yinzhu shouted loudly and entered the kitchen. After a while, holding a bowl of rice in one hand, she pulled Li Xuemei into the main room with the other.

"I eat in the kitchen, but always in the kitchen..." Li Xuemei was very flustered.

"We are all one family." Li Jinzhu sat down by Li Xuemei.

Li Yinzhu put the bowl into Li Xuemei's hand and sat down beside Li Xuemei.

Li Xuemei was all over cautious, holding the bowl, lowering her head, holding the bowl to her mouth.

Li Yinzhu took a piece of small Su meat and put it in Li Xuemei's bowl,

"Sister Mei, eat by yourself. If you don't want to eat, then I'll take a bite for you."

Li Yinzhu took another piece of sausage and put it in Li Xuemei's bowl.

"I eat, I eat..." Li Xuemei's throat choked.

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Explain that beatings lead to birth: the ignorant past, a bad habit in many places, the daughter-in-law married and failed to conceive, the husband's family was in a hurry, and would invite young children from the clan to cover their faces or cover the head and face of the daughter-in-law and beat them with sticks , indescribable things happen in turn, everyone understands.Afterwards, if the daughter-in-law becomes pregnant, it means that it is not the daughter-in-law's fault. The child will be raised as her own after birth. If she does not have a son, or feels that one son is not enough, she will come again or several times.If the daughter-in-law is not pregnant, she will be divorced, or, once again, she will be killed directly and remarried.

　I was very happy to write a metaphysics story today.

　　I owe one more and make up tomorrow.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)