Liangyue Farm Gate

Chapter 25 Newlywed Yaner
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The next morning, Li Xin woke up very early.When I was at Li's house, I had already developed a habit. It was about six o'clock at this time, and the sky was gray.

The pair of red candles were still burning, leaving only the bottom of the candle, and the candle tears on the bedside table softened a puddle.

The man beside him let out a steady breathing sound, with one arm around her shoulder and the other around her waist.Both of them were naked, and their legs were entangled under a quilt.

Li Xin blushed suddenly, and carefully moved his arm away, but Guan Wen woke up as soon as he moved.

Their eyes met, the beauty of last night came back to their minds, they both dodged and avoided, but it was Guan Wen who said first: "Are you awake?"

"Well, yesterday's banquet probably hasn't been packed yet, I'll get it done, and I'll serve tea to father-in-law and grandpa later."

Li Xin pretended to be calm and quietly moved her body, and was about to find her obscene clothes to put on, but Guan Wen suddenly hugged her.Li Xin was taken aback. Could it be that Guan Wen was so strong in the morning and wanted to fight again?
Guan Wen just put his arms around her waist, gently stroked her back with one hand, and said softly: "Daughter-in-law, thank you..."

Li Xin was taken aback for a moment, and then said: "There is nothing to thank, marrying you is naturally part of your family."

While speaking, Li Xin gently pushed his hand, and said with a smile: "Go to sleep a little longer, the kitchen is not a place for you men to stay." While getting dressed, he said to Guan Wen: "General fathers and grandpas When did it start?"

"It's still a while." Guan Wen didn't sleep anymore, he took the initiative to pick up his clothes and put them on. The ties on the outermost blouse were complicated, so Li Xin went up to help after getting dressed.

Guan Wen looked at the woman in front of him. Although she was petite, she was not a timid person.He is a man, and there has never been a woman around him to take care of his daily necessities. This is the first time a woman has helped him organize his clothes so carefully...

Li Xin patted his clothes and smiled, "Okay, since you're not going to sleep, why don't you show me our future home first?"

Hearing the word "we", Guan Wen's heart warmed up, he nodded slightly, and took Li Xin's little hand out of the room.Li Xin blushed slightly, but did not struggle.

The Guan family was still quiet at this time, and it seemed that the Guan family was tired from entertaining guests yesterday.Guan Wen walked very lightly. Li Xin walked lightly in the first place, but Guan Wen felt that she was imitating himself and didn't want to wake up her family.

After the two of them washed up briefly, they got into the kitchen.

Compared with the Li family's kitchen, the Guan family's kitchen is bigger, but it is very dirty and messy.This is certainly because the family was busy yesterday and didn't have time to tidy up, but Li Xin still feels that the cleaning work in the kitchen is not much better.

Fortunately, after I came here, most of the three meals a day will fall on me.Take your time and get a good makeover.The most urgent thing now is to clean up the leftovers from last night, wash and dry the pots and pans that the Guan family borrowed from the villagers, and send them back.In addition, the relatives have to hurry up to get the breakfast for the family members.

Just do it, Li Xin rolled up his sleeves, put the bowls and basins that had been vacated in one place, then looked at those leftovers, took them to his nose and sniffed them, and poured them down when he felt that the taste had changed. In the bucket of soaking water, the same dishes that have not changed are poured together. Farmers don’t like to waste them, and it is impossible to pour them all out.

Seeing that she was scooping up water to wash the dishes, Guan Wen quickly rubbed his hands and asked her, "Daughter-in-law, the well water is cold, do you want to boil water for washing?"

"No need, just get some more water and wash it twice more." Li Xin is [-]% willing to use hot water to wash dishes, and it's better to sterilize and remove oil.But it takes a lot of firewood to boil water, so it's better not to waste it when you come to Guan's house.

Li Xin washed the dishes, soaked up the water with a cloth, folded them together, and asked Guan Wen which items belonged to which company.Guan Wen said one by one, and Li Xin put the bamboo baskets aside one after another, took a broom and swept the floor, and scooped up the vegetables and meat that fell on the floor with a dustpan.

"Do you have chickens and ducks at home?"

Guan Wen shook his head, "I only fed four big pigs. I have raised chickens before, but they are not big enough."

Hey, it seems that the Li family has no women, so they really don't know how to live.Pour the contents of the dustpan into the slop bucket, these things can only be cheap pigs.

"What kind of output does the family rely on?" Li Xin was purely curious, raising four pigs alone, and killing them once during the Chinese New Year would be enough to earn two or two taels of silver.These days, one tael of silver is equivalent to 2000 yuan in modern times, and the purchasing power of money is quite high.She just gave the Li family 25 taels of silver with a wave of her hand, which is almost [-] cash in modern times!And those gold ornaments and jade ornaments, one of which also has two or three taels of silver, right?At that time, Guan Wen earned only a few taels of silver, which can really be called an absolute high salary.

Guan Wen gathered the bamboo baskets, listened to Li Xin's question, and was silent for a while before saying: "Before I left the darts, my family fed two extra pigs, and my family has six paddy fields, one mu of mountain land and two mu of sandy land [Note 1]. I can grow food. I live on these every year. After I left the darts, I mostly lived on the wages I earned. The mountainous land was not good for growing things, so it was abandoned. The sandy land was not cultivated because it was far away. Only paddy fields remained. I planted them. Then... I came back and picked them up again. Today I still live on these two.”

Li Xin nodded knowingly, with a guilty look on his face, after all, he mentioned his sad things inadvertently.

But I heard Guan Wen say: "Daughter-in-law, marry me, I have wronged you..."

What?What aggrieved her!Li Xin was puzzled, turned his head to look at Guan Wen, and suddenly realized that he was talking about their family being poor.Li Xin smiled lightly and said, "I have nothing to be wronged about. The days are getting better and better. If you don't have money now, it doesn't mean you won't have money in the future." As he spoke, he threw away the broom and started to clean the pot, saying while cleaning the pot : "What do you do for breakfast? Do you eat the leftovers from yesterday in the morning or at noon?"

"Let's fix it in the morning. Although the weather isn't hot these days, the stuff hasn't been stored for a long time, and if it breaks, it's still used to feed the pigs."

Poor pig!

Li Xin quickly cleaned up the pot. There was no dish soap, so he could only wash it with hot water.

The kitchen of the Guan family is on the far left facing the house, with a chimney erected above it, and under the chimney are two large pots, one for cooking Guan’s family’s three meals a day, and the other for pig food. The two pots are still side by side.The stove is dark, and behind the stove is a small cabinet, which contains seasonings such as oil, salt, sauce and vinegar.In front of the stove is the fire place, a row of benches made of wood look down, and firewood is placed behind it.

There is an open space facing the stove, Guan Wen said that Axiu, Amei, and the original Sun family ate in the stove, and they, the elders, ate in the main room.

Looking at what was left yesterday, it was nothing more than two large pots of fried cabbage, some bits and pieces of chicken and chicken bones, and a small plate of fat meat.The chicken soup is enough, and the taste has not changed, but that's not to mention the level of cooking skills.

When the rice bowl was opened, there were only about ten bowls of rice left in it. After counting the Guan family, there were six men and three women. Women eat less, but men eat more!Or a man who is going to work in the fields...

Li Xin was a little worried, and thought about how to clean up all the ingredients and ensure that the whole family had enough to eat. It was really troublesome.

At this time, Guan Wen had already started to light the fire. Li Xin scalded the pot with water and then poured water into it to brush it again. He asked Guan Wen, "Is there any taro at home?"

"Yes." Guan Wen said hesitantly, "but the taro is too hard to cook, so grandpa can't eat it."

It doesn't matter, just cook more.Li Xin poured the chicken soup into the pot, "Find some for me."

While the chicken soup was hot, Li Xin cleaned up the "seasoning cabinet" behind him, and seeing that it was all dirty, he couldn't help but sighed again.

Guan Wen brought back the taro, and his fifth younger sister, Axiu, came with him.Li Xin smiled and said to Axiu: "Woke up so early?"

"Sister-in-law!" Axiu called "Sister-in-law" willingly. Once she entered the kitchen, she obviously felt different, it was too clean!Coupled with the previous impression of Li Xin, Axiu was not at all ambiguous when she called her sister-in-law.

"I found the taro, I'll go wash it." Guan Wen took the taro and washed it on the sink outside the kitchen, feeling warm in his heart.

Axiu came over to help Li Xin, Li Xin said: "Then sit and watch the fire for me, it will be all right in a while."

Axiu nodded with a smile, and said shyly: "Grandfather and father are about to get up now, so when they get up as sister-in-law, you should serve them tea?"

"Well, after serving tea, you can be regarded as the daughter-in-law of the Guan family." Li Xin smiled softly, "After a while, I will find a husband's family for Axiu."

"Ah... sister-in-law!" Axiu blushed and buried her head.

"Don't be shy. When the time comes, my sister-in-law will help you find out, and I will definitely ask your opinion first. Marriage is a woman's lifetime thing. Even before I got married, I even visited your elder brother."

"Ah?" Axiu was curious, "When?"

"Coincidentally, that day was the day when your second elder brother made a fuss about divorcing your second sister-in-law. I was watching from the crowd." Li Xin stirred the soup, scooped up a spoonful of it to taste, felt it was weak, and added a spoonful of salt Go in, "I see everything your elder brother says and does, that is, because I saw it with my own eyes, I married here with confidence."

"Did sister-in-law... marry herself?"

Axiu looked up, puzzled and surprised, Li Xin put the cutting board and kitchen knife to wash, then nodded slightly, "I agreed, and then my parents and brothers also agreed, so this is the marriage. .”

Axiu blinked her eyes, "Brother's life is so good, why is sister-in-law willing to marry brother?"

"Huh?" Li Xin was stunned for a moment, and smiled, "It's too false to say that you like something. Your elder brother is a very stable and reliable person. I just think that living with him must be very safe and secure. .”

Axiu let out a "puchi" laugh, and said with an annoyed smile, "Brother, brother, how long are you going to hide and listen?"

Li Xin hurriedly looked back, Guan Wen was standing on the edge of the threshold, neither advancing nor retreating.Li Xin's surprise flashed by, and he said with a smile, "Is it all washed?"

"Well, it's done."

Li Xin took the pot he was carrying, cut the taro into small pieces and threw it into the chicken soup, mixed some water into it, covered it, and waited for the taro to cook.Axiu asked curiously: "Can taro be boiled in chicken soup?"

People here don't know why, they don't eat mixed dishes.For example, braised pork is just a lump of meat, chicken soup is just a soup made of chicken, and the dishes are just a single dish.Didn't the stewed chicken soup with mushrooms and red dates that she made last time get a lot of compliments from Aunt Li?

While tidying up the used things on the stove, Li Xin said, "Why can't we cook it? It tastes better this way."

Axiu still didn't believe it, Guan Wen also hesitated to speak, but he didn't stop her.After all, taro is also edible, and it will be good for the brothers to solve it by then.

[Note 1]: In this article, 1 hectare = 100 mu, and one mu is equivalent to 666 square meters.

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