Farmer's happy event

Chapter 12 Say Goodbye to Hunger
Lianzi drank the porridge in a few mouthfuls, washed the bowl with warm hot water, and happily said to Yang: "Mother, we won't have to drink porridge soon."

Yang Shi didn't take it seriously, and asked casually, "What's the matter?"

"Because the government will distribute food to us soon." Her eyes were shining brightly.

Yang was a little unbelievable: "What? What are you talking about?"

Lianzi repeated what she said just now, and finally added: "Brother Ke Yan said, I can't be wrong."

"Which Brother Keyan?" Mrs. Yang has never met Su Keyan, and Lianzi has never mentioned it to her, so she certainly doesn't know who Su Keyan is.

"It is the son of Lord Su, the county magistrate."

Yang lowered her head and thought for a moment. She knew that the county magistrate's son was studying with Mr. Liu in the village. His name was Su Keyan, but how did Lianzi know him?

Seeing that Yang was confused, Lianzi explained the cause and effect.

"It turned out to be him." Yang recalled that after bandaging Lianzi's wound in the hospital that day, she did see a child, but at that time she was so worried about Lianzi that she didn't pay much attention to it.

Thinking of Lianzi meeting him on the mountain later and often playing together, Yang said angrily, "Don't talk to mother about anything? The older you are, the more thoughtful you are!"

Lianzi smiled embarrassedly, rolled into Yang's arms and acted coquettishly.

Yang patted her with a smile, said a few more words, and took Lianzi's hand into the room.

She always felt that Lianzi was a little different after waking up after breaking her head.It seems that he is more sensible, more capable, and more tempered.But whenever she asked Lianzi about the medicinal materials, she would deal with it in a few words and said no more.

At noon the next day, Lianzi remembered that Su Keyan asked her to go to the school to find him yesterday.When she was thinking about leaving school soon, she told Yang Shi and went to the school.

When she arrived at the school, the school had just finished class.It was time for a lunch break, and Lianzi could see Su Keyan waiting on the rock she was sitting on yesterday from a distance.

Lianzi walked over quickly, and saw Su Keyan's fair face was flushed red from the cold.

Seeing her coming, Su Keyan quickly stood up and asked, "Have you eaten yet?"

Seeing Lianzi shaking his head, he said again: "It's just right, let's eat together." He said and opened the food box at his feet.

Lianzi only glanced into the food box, and all her appetite was instantly aroused.On the first floor were two bowls of white rice and delicate side dishes that were still steaming.One must know that Lianzi hadn't eaten anything other than porridge for a long time, and she knew Su Keyan well, so she was not too polite for a while, picked up a stone and sat down, and ate with Su Keyan.

Su Keyan heard from Lianzi yesterday that her family was out of food, so she planned to give her some emergency food.So last night, I told the boy to prepare lunch for the three of them at noon.It's just that he didn't see Hu Zi at a glance, so he slipped home to eat.

Lianzi's index finger moved wildly, and quickly ate more than half of the food.Su Keyan didn't eat much, but kept comforting Lianzi: "I'll bring it to you tomorrow."

Lianzi, who was eating deliciously, stopped suddenly. She looked at the little food left and the bowls and chopsticks that Su Keyan had put down, and said, "No, I can't eat them all."

Su Keyan knew what she was thinking, so he said: "There are some snacks underneath, you can take them home later, so you don't have to go hungry with your sister and parents at night."

Lianzi cast a grateful glance at him, said "Let's go", covered the lid of the food box, picked it up, and ran home impatiently.

It's not the same after eating a full meal, and I even feel more energetic when I run.

Lianzi looked in quietly at the door of the house, making sure that no one was at the door, and then ran into her house.

Yang Shi, Liu Jingren and the three elder sisters were all there, and when they saw her running in desperately, they hurriedly asked what was wrong.

"What did you take?" Yang asked, pointing to the food box in Lianzi's hand.

"Let me see." Li Zi had already moved over curiously.

Lianzi put down the food box, turned around and went back to bolt the door, and then closed the window tightly, then said: "Brother Ke Yan asked me to bring food back."

"Wow, it smells so good." Li Zi had already picked up a piece of ham with his hands and put it into his mouth. Although it was slightly cold, for people who haven't had enough food for several months, let alone meat, this is simply heaven. Big deliciousness.

However, Mrs. Yang was not happy, and said angrily, "How can you ask for other people's things casually? What did your mother tell you?" She said as she closed the lid of the food box, ignoring Lizi's eyes that were about to cry .

"Mother, Brother Keyan invited me to have lunch with him. It's not finished yet. There are snacks underneath, which he put in specially." Seeing that Yang's face still didn't ease, Lianzi said again, "Mother, I know the seriousness, besides, this thing is nothing to their family."

"It's nothing to them, but it's nothing to us!" Yang still refused, "Hurry up and return it."

"Mother." Lianzi called out.
"Mother." Li Zi called out again.

Liu Jingren, who was silent on the sidelines and had been smoking a long pipe, said: "Ms. Gu, since it was given to us by Young Master Su, let's keep it." He looked around and saw several children staring at him eagerly. Food box, said: "Let the children eat first, let's thank him some other day."

Unexpectedly, Mrs. Yang still refused to let him go, and spat: "Thank you for your size, his house doesn't lack anything, what should we thank him for?"

Liu Jingren was choked, took two puffs of smoke and stopped talking.

Lianzi didn't expect to encounter such a situation at all, and didn't know what to do for a while.Besides, isn't it just a meal?Why did Mrs. Yang persist like this?Lianzi only knew that Mrs. Yang was very principled before, but she did not expect that she was also stubborn.

Seeing that the food in his mouth was about to fly away, Lizi burst into tears and cried, "Mother, I don't want to die, I don't want to starve to death like Er Gouzi."

Yang's heart trembled when she heard the words, and she couldn't hold on any longer.

She wiped away the tears from Li Zi's face, and coaxed softly: "Eat, eat, the mother who should pay it back will pay it back."

In this way, everyone in the family ate some, which was regarded as a temporary relief from hunger, and left some snacks to eat after dinner.

Yang hid the rest of the things, handed the food box to Lianzi, and asked him to return it to Su Keyan in the afternoon.

In the afternoon, Lianzi was going to return the food box to Su Keyan, when he suddenly heard the sound of gongs and drums outside the door.

"Grain has been distributed, food has been distributed!" Lianzi pricked up her ears to listen, but before she could hear what the people outside were shouting, she saw Mrs. Li running out of her house, yelling.

Although Lianzi was also very excited in her heart, she still despised Mrs. Li for a while, and she was able to know so quickly, she really deserved the talent of spreading rumors.

At the same time, Yang Shi and Liu Jingren also came out of the house and listened carefully to the movement outside. Yang Shi suddenly burst into tears and said, "Father, did you hear that? Food has been distributed, and we finally have something to eat!"

Excitement also flashed across Liu Jingren's simple and honest face, and he nodded repeatedly and said, "I heard it, I heard it".

All of a sudden everyone rushed out of the house, and Lianzi saw a tall, thin, middle-aged man with a mustache beating the gong on the street, shouting loudly: "The government has issued rations, the government has issued rations, According to the head, each person will get a bucket first, and quickly take the belongings to the ancestral hall to get it."

Lianzi didn't know this man, but later she found out from people around her that he was Liu Baoliang, the village chief of Liujiazhuang.When the famine became more and more serious, he lived in seclusion until the government issued food before bubbling.

This man did not affect Lianzi's overjoyed mood at all, and the food box was not returned for the time being, so she ran back to the house to get her belongings, and followed her parents and sister to the ancestral hall to collect food.

Seeing that Yang's family had brought back so much food by head, Mrs. Li was jealous for a while, and sneered several times.

The grains brought back were handed over to Shen for safekeeping. In order to celebrate that night, Shen made an exception and added several handfuls of extra rice to the porridge for dinner. Finally, the porridge was so cooked that no one could be seen.

Originally, Mrs. Li wanted to cook rice, but she was scolded by Mrs. Shen: "I don't know what your surname is when you cook something? How much more rice can you eat? You should starve to death after eating the rice." Isn't it?"

Li Shi, who was choking on a few words, stopped talking and left angrily, scolding her mother-in-law in her heart.

With food, the whole family finally relaxed.

It's the 26th of the twelfth lunar month, and it's time to buy new year's goods.The school had already been on vacation, and Su Keyan also returned to his home in the town.

Yesterday evening, Mrs. Zhao made an appointment with Mrs. Yang to go to the town early this morning to buy new year's goods.This time, of course, Zhou Wenwen's family took the ox cart, and Shen Shi was happy that his own cattle were free, so he let Yang go.

Li Shi also wanted to go with her in the car, but when Yang Shi heard that Li Shi was going, she hurriedly brought all four daughters of the family with her, and the car was full.

Mrs. Zhao didn't like Mrs. Li at all, so she directly rejected Mrs. Li under the pretext that there were too many people to sit down.Li frowned, watching Yang and her four daughters get into the car happily, and left with Maizi.

Guzi, Douzi and Chestnut have never been to the town before, so they are very happy to hear that they will be brought with them this time.Especially Li Zi, who got up before dawn, put on her favorite pink jacket, and specially asked Yang to tie two red-headed ropes that she had been reluctant to use on her little bun.

Mrs. Yang came out this time mainly to buy new year's goods, but Mrs. Shen only gave her a small amount of money.When Lianzi left, she brought all the medicinal materials she had made recently, and planned to sell the money to buy something for each of her parents and sisters, so as to make this year more pleasant.

In addition, she has another task, which is to help Liu Jinglin find a channel to sell handicrafts.She thought to herself that it was the end of the new year, and such things should be in short supply.Therefore, before going out, I deliberately took a sample from Liu Jinglin's house.

(End of this chapter)