Wearing eighty books, the little widow turns into a rich woman

224 Chapter 226

After Lin Lan and Li Xiangyang woke up and washed up, they stood in the dam of the Zhou Family Courtyard, looking at the clouds of mist floating in the air. In the morning mist, they could faintly see the houses on the hillside in the distance, extending down like terraced fields. Looking from a distance, it looks like a fairyland.

There are unknown birds singing on the dead branches beside the vegetable field. The garlic seedlings in the vegetable field under the courtyard dam are curved. Two or three spores.

Lin Lan felt that the vegetables that had been beaten by frost had a sweet taste when cooked.After a while, marinated bacon and bacon, stuffed sausages, green vegetables and children's vegetables are used to cook bacon, sausages and twice-cooked pork are the best.

Li Xiangyang saw that she was wearing a small flowered jacket, and the tip of her nose was red from the cold. Thinking of being dragged away by Lin Guoliang first, then waking up from the cold, and then being hugged by Lin Guoliang as his wife last night, Li Xiangyang felt a little distressed, and asked in a low voice: "What happened yesterday?" Is it cold at night?"

Seeing that he was not wearing a jacket, Lin Lan said, "Why don't you put on a jacket, it's much colder here than down the mountain."

Li Xiangyang smiled and shook his head: "It's not cold. When I used to feed pigs in the mountains, I would wear a coat over my spring and autumn clothes when it snowed and it wouldn't be cold."

Lin Lan smiled and gave him a sideways glance: "You need grace, not temperature!"

"See if I want style and not temperature!" Li Xiangyang said, looking around, seeing no one around, he reached out to hold Lin Lan's hand, and looked at her with a smile on his face, "Be warm, let's keep warm in the future." It's cold, I'll warm your hands specially for you."

Lin Lan's cold hands were wrapped in his warm hands, and she suddenly remembered the hand warmer of later generations, and looked at him with a smile: "Yes! I accept this energy-saving hand warmer."

Li Xiangyang looked at her smiling face and held her hand tightly.

"Hey! You are cousin Qiaohui and her cousin's husband, right? Look, people in the city are different from those in our mountains. Their faces are as white and tender as eggs that have been peeled off their shells."

Lin Lan and Li Xiangyang hurriedly let go and turned their heads, seeing Aunt Wednesday and Zhou Qiaoyan standing outside the fence at some point.

Zhou Qiaoyan glanced at Li Xiangyang who was standing side by side with Lin Lan, blushed and lowered her head, thinking that the men in the city are really good-looking, if she can enter the city, she would be happy to find such a man.

"Who are you?" Lin Lan glanced at herself and Li Xiangyang's mother and daughter as if they were mascots, and felt that they were Zhou Qiaoyan's mother and daughter that Wu Shufang mentioned last night.

Aunt Wednesday unceremoniously opened the fence door, and walked in with a smile: "I am Third Aunt Qiaohui, and this is my daughter Qiaoyan!" Last time I came late, Lin Guoliang took Qiaohui away early in the morning. The next time she brought Qiaoyan early, they would have nothing to say!

"Oh!" The mother and daughter Lin Lan's eyeballs rolled around didn't like it, "I heard from my aunt that you want your daughter to help me. Sorry, my family has enough people."

Auntie looked at Lin Lan on Wednesday and said, "Cousin Qiaohui, my Qiaoyan works very neatly. As long as you promise to take her out, we don't need wages. I just ask you to help her find a husband's house in the city, so that she won't have to live in a mountain nest." suffer in the nest."

Lin Lan refused straight away: "That's impossible. Others will accuse me of exploiting the working people and buying and selling people, and I will be arrested and reformed." Even if Wu Shufang didn't say hello, she would not agree to take Zhou Qiaoyan home. The girl's eyes are not right .

When Wu Shufang heard Aunt Wednesday's voice, she hurried out of the kitchen and told Lin Lan and Li Xiangyang to go back to the house. She turned her head and said to the mother and daughter, "You heard him, Third Aunt, so go back and don't embarrass my niece."

Seeing Lin Lan and Li Xiangyang entering the house on Wednesday, my aunt looked at Wu Shufang jealously, and pointed at her nose: "You must be provoking inside, Cousin Qiaohui didn't agree to bring Qiaoyan."

"You are afraid that your ugly girl with a small nose and small eyes will be robbed by my Qiaoyan. You wait, my mother will not believe that Wang Butcher is dead, so she will eat pigs with hair." After finishing speaking, Zhou Qiaoyan took a step angrily. , Zhou Qiaoyan, who turned her head three times, left.

Wu Shufang also returned to the kitchen angrily, and said to Xu Hongju: "From now on, you are not allowed to tell your third aunt about the family affairs. Look, it's annoying or not!"

Xu Hongju looked at her aggrieved: "Mom, you clearly know that the second child said it, why are you angry at me?"

Wu Shufang was stunned for a moment, and then said softly: "I'm just saying, Xiaolan wants to collect dry goods, you can go back to your mother's house later, and ask Qiao'e to sell the dry goods to her cousin for some money. "

Wu Shufang had four children, two sons and two daughters. The second daughter came back in exchange for Xu Hongju.

Xu Hongju and Zhou Qiao'e were swapping marriages. People in the mountains are not easy to find wives, so they can only swap marriages with similar families.

"Mom," Xu Hongju looked at her and asked in a low voice, "Cousin really lent us so much money? Isn't she worried that we won't pay her back? What's the use of the old pumpkin?"

"Beans and pumpkins don't pick the ground, and they can be planted in every corner. The pumpkins grown by dozens of households in the Shishanling brigade are as high as mountains. Will she use up all the beans?"

"What do you know?" Wu Shufang gave her a reproachful look, "I keep all the money, I warn you, go back to your mother's house and keep your mouth shut."

"I'm not a melon!" Xu Hongju answered and looked at Wu Shufang again, "Mom, I'm going back to pass by my younger sibling's parents' home, should I tell my second cousin that her cousin is here?"

Wu Shufang frowned and shook her head: "Don't tell him!"

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law took out a few eggs from the rice pot and put them aside, scooped out the porridge cooked in the pot, washed the pot and fried a pot of pancakes mixed with corn noodles and white noodles.

The white flour was brought by Lin Lan, but there was some in the wheat mountain, and they were all used for public rations, and the leftovers were shared with each family, and then ground and mixed with corn flour, it was rare to eat it once.

The eldest grandson came out of the room with his younger siblings rubbing their eyes, saw Wu Shufang's eggs in the basin, and looked at her with bright eyes: "Grandma, I want to eat eggs."

Wu Shufang looked at her two youngest grandchildren lovingly, leaned down, and whispered to them, "Good boy! This is for your cousin, aunt and uncle. There are pancakes fried with white flour and old Bacon, can you eat it in the kitchen later?"

The two younger ones said obediently: "Okay, give it to my uncle and aunt, and my aunt will buy us candy to eat."

Wu Shufang nodded sadly, turned around and took out a handful of sauerkraut from the sauerkraut jar, fried it with the old bacon that Lin Guoliang sent last time, and also fried it with garlic sprouts, bean drums and green vegetables.

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law brought the food to the main room, and said to Lin Lan, Li Xiangyang, and Lin Guoliang, "You eat first, and your uncle and cousin are going to inform those in the team who have mountain goods."

Lin Guoliang smiled and said: "It's okay, we are not hungry yet, we will eat together when Uncle and Cousin come back."

(End of this chapter)