A pleasant life in a courtyard

Chapter 154 The Great Harvest

From the moment Li Xiang entered the courtyard, he became the focus of attention.

Several neighbors, led by the third uncle, surrounded him in the front yard.

Those who had no eyesight would talk around him and not let him go.

Others were asking him how he was doing these days, but the third uncle and his family were staring at the package on the bicycle without blinking.

It's so obvious that it makes people panic when they look at it.

"Okay, let's let Li Xiang go home first. It won't be too late to ask after dinner." Aunt Wang quickly said something to let everyone disperse.

Hearing this, everyone stepped away.

Li Xiang also said politely, "Uncles and aunts, please come over when the time comes. I've brought some food back for everyone to try."

When he said this, everyone agreed.

The response from the third uncle’s family was particularly loud.

When we got to the middle courtyard, we were blocked again and delayed for a long time.

The same thing happened in the backyard. If Mother Li couldn't wait any longer and came out to welcome him back, the second uncle still wouldn't let go of Li Xiang's arm.

While the eldest sister and the younger brother were struggling to move things, Mother Li looked at her eldest son up and down with distress.

"Thin."

Li Xiang didn’t even spend the Chinese New Year at home this year.

Follow the choir, go to a party here today, and sing there tomorrow.

I was quite excited at first, but then I just felt tired.

After the performance, you cannot leave immediately. Each unit must be received by the leaders.

Even if it's the first show, I have to wait until the end just for those few words.

The daytime venue was okay, the meals were on time, and the food was okay.

But I suffered a lot during the evening show. For the sake of the show, I could only eat half full.

As a 19-year-old boy, it’s the time when you’re getting older and you’re prone to hunger.

But no matter how popular you are, I still don’t deserve to be treated like a late-night snack.

It's really frustrating.

Li Xiang is a tall man. To put it nicely, he is tall, thin and tall, but to put it badly, he is skinny.

After such a period of time, people become even thinner, and now they should be called thin steel bars.

"Mom, you have to make some delicious food for me. I've been suffering a lot for a while." Li Xiang said coquettishly to his mother.

"Okay, let's make do today, and then we'll kill the chicken for you tomorrow." Mother Li agreed simply.

The communication methods these days are still the most primitive ones, and she doesn't even know that Li wants to come back.

The food on the table is a little better than usual. This is because it is Saturday and I want to make up for the big sister who came back from school.

But because recently, everyone likes to run to their house, and they don't dare to get too good.

Just one extra plate of scrambled eggs.

The packages on the bicycle had almost been moved at this time.

After a while, people will probably start coming to the house.

Li Xiang took advantage of still some time, walked over and pointed at the pile of things and began to distribute them one by one.

"Mom, take this box of biscuits with you when you go to Guoqing's house in two days. He was acting weird just now and didn't want them. I don't want to fight with him on the street over this little thing. This big pack of fruit candies and these packs of cigarettes. , the neighbors will come later, let the man smoke a cigarette, the woman and the child each have a candy, this roll of cloth and this box of soap, when the uncle and the others come, let them take them back, and we will keep the rest for ourselves use."

"How many places have you traveled? Those units have given you so many things." Mother Li couldn't help but clicked her tongue as she watched each package being unpacked. "That's not all. I have already picked up a small part and sent it to the teacher's house."

The eldest sister stretched out the counted tickets in front of Li Xiang and asked, "Brother, these tickets alone must be worth hundreds of dollars."

Li Xiang glanced at them, shook his head and replied: "There are too many, I haven't counted them carefully. You can pick them and see which ones you need."

The harvest during this period is indeed rich. Every time I go to a unit to perform, it is a production unit, and they distribute the goods they produce.

If they don't use the product they produce, they will give it a ticket.

Next comes the administrative units, which not only give out tickets but also money.

Everyone has a share of the items, and the quantity is the same, but as the main member, Li Xiang, when it comes to money and tickets, the share given to him is several times greater than that of other chorus students.

Little Brother Li couldn't wait to peel off a piece of candy and smacked it in his mouth, admiring his eldest brother in his heart.

Who in this group doesn't envy him for having a good big brother.

"This gas stamp alone is enough for our family to live for two years." Mother Li calculated the amount of gas stamps and said happily.

Then her happiness dropped by a degree when she turned around and saw the candy in Li Xiaodi's mouth.

"It's time to eat later, why don't you give me some sweets here?" He said, patting Li Xiaodi's arm.

"Hey, so many candies, aren't they just for me to eat?" Li Xiaodi touched the beaten arm and argued wittily.

Today, Mother Li was in a really good mood. She just rolled her eyes and let Little Brother Li go.

If it were on a normal day, I might as well do it a few more times to see if he still dares to talk back.

But Little Brother Li is also used to watching the dishes being served. If his eldest brother and eldest sister were not at home, he would not dare to be so bold.

After things were put away, the family sat down to eat.

The only meat dish on the table was picked up by the three of them in turns, and most of it ended up in Li Xiang's bowl.

Li Xiang looked at the eggs that stood out and felt a little dumbfounded.

"You guys can eat by yourself and don't worry about me. I don't have time to eat when I'm out. It's not that I'm not eating well."

He each took a chopstick of the eggs in the bowl and divided them into bowls for three people.

The Li family always likes to make concessions at the dinner table, and after several rounds, the four of them started to eat with peace of mind.

But before half of the rice in the bowl was eaten, people started coming to the house.

The first person to report this must be Xu Damao.

Even if he caught Li Xiang and returned, he was not feeling well anywhere in his body because he had not been out in the field these days.

If Li Xiang didn't come back for a few more days, he wasn't going to wait any longer. He just wanted to go outside and have fun.

Xu Damao didn't come empty-handed. He held a piece of cured bacon in his hand and walked in with a smile.

He greeted Li Xiang affectionately: "Brother, I'm really looking forward to your coming back."

This tone made Li Xiang get goosebumps all over his body.

What is Xu Damao doing when he sticks to Dahu?

"Da Mao, have you eaten? Why don't you eat something here?" Li's mother greeted him in a meaningful way, but in fact she reminded him that it was not appropriate at this time.

Regardless of whether Xu Damao understood the meaning or not, he showed that he did not understand it anyway.

"Auntie, don't be polite to me. I just got a good piece of meat. I thought that now that the snow has just melted, there are no vegetables to eat. I just sent it to your house. There are many varieties on the table."

"It's better to keep such good meat for yourself. You've also seen the big and small bags our Xiang'er brought back. There's no shortage now."

Mother Li politely refused.

(End of this chapter)