Bamboo Fragrance

Chapter 71 Progress
No matter how much Zhao Junyi doesn't want to be attached to him, and no matter how much he wants to be attached to Zhao Junyi.

As soon as the day dawned, Li Kongzhu had to pretend to be a serious person, and he had to be busy with business matters with a full belly.

After breakfast, Mai Ya'er, Hui Niang and the others came.

For the matter of going into the deep mountains to pick fruits, Zhao Mengzi brought his friends who used to hunt in a team together.

Li Chong went to help him to buy yokan and rock sugar and find a hunter to pick the fruit.

But these women and Zhao Junyi stayed at home, washing and cooking the fruits.

After the distribution was over, the two men were sent out of the hospital.

Mrs. Wang came first next to Second Aunt Liu.

When he saw Li Kongzhu, he smiled and said: "As you said, two people come here today. There are three other people. I will let them come tomorrow. In addition to the sister-in-law Yun you met last time, there are two other people from this village. Yes, they are all honest people. Is it okay for me to introduce you after the introduction time?"

"Of course it's done." Li Kongzhu let them in with a smile.

As soon as I entered, I started to clean and remove the pits familiarly.

Zhao Junyi's purpose is to stir the sauce when cooking, so he went out again without any business at the moment.

Because there were not too many fruits, the five women got all the fruits out in less than two hours.

Li Diaozhu still paid his wages all morning, and when he left, he took out a small bag of fruit peel as a thank you gift.

When Mrs. Wang walked out of the hospital with the money, she patted her hand and said enthusiastically that in the future, if there is anything to do, just call her. If you are from the village, you can do nothing else. It is appropriate to take care of things.

Li Kongzhu understood the meaning of this and sent her away.

Mai Ya'er muttered unhappily: "Her family is so rich, why are you still taking such small profits? Follow me to make money, and I didn't say to give up the position to others."

"Who can think that there is too much money?" Hui Niang stuffed a pitted fruit into her mouth, "Youdao is good to the king of Hades, but difficult for little ghosts. But it can be done with a few pennies. Why did you offend her?"

Li Kongzhu nodded, if he wanted to stay in this village, the first person he couldn't offend was the chief who was in charge of the general affairs of the village.

Although Mrs. Wang is a little cautious, her heart is not bad.I rushed there a few times, and they were all very talkative and helpful, and I will try my best to hold them back in the future.

Seeing that it will be noon for a while.Hui Niang suggested to make a pot first, she didn't know how to make that stuff, she was really curious.

Li Kongzhu shook his head and said that it is better to cook first, because the people who went up the mountain would have to come back soon.

Don't come back when people come back, they are still making sauce and not cooking, it will be bad if people are hungry.

After hearing this, Mai Ya'er spontaneously started to make noodles.

Xiangwu baked noodle pancakes, boiled egg soup, fried vegetarian cabbage, and mixed wild vegetables.

When it was done, Zhao Mengzi and the others came back with their baskets on their backs.

Li Kongzhu hurriedly took out the book that Hui Niang had brought over in the morning, and after asking Zhao Mengzi to weigh the weight of the fruit picked by the other two, he recorded it in the account, and promised to add up the weight of the fruits picked by the other two when they came back. .

After obtaining the consent of the two, they stayed at home for dinner.

Meanwhile, when Zhao Junyi came back, he let him accompany him.

The women started eating in the kitchen on the stove.

After they left after the meal, the remaining women and Zhao Junyi began to boil the hawthorn.

After working all afternoon, after the hawthorn was boiled and dried, a whole day had passed.

At that time, it was already dark, and when the meal was ready.Li Chong, who had been away for a day, also came back with a donkey cart.

During the period, the car also carried a lot of picked hawthorn fruits.

Because everyone is familiar with each other, when sitting and eating at the banquet, there is no distinction between men and women.

Sitting at the small table surrounded by a circle, listening to Li Chong talk about harvesting fruits while eating.

"A few year-round hunters in the Xiahe area helped to pick it, and they all know which deep mountains have the fruit. They all agreed to me, as long as they harvested the next day."

In other words, it will be the 29th day.

"I'm in a hurry to use it now, can I go tomorrow night?" It's really too urgent, and I have to leave on the 29th at the latest.If you really go to collect it at 29, how can it be too late?
"Don't worry about that, I've told them that they will go and take it back tomorrow!" Li Chong nodded to reassure her.Of course, he also thought about this, "I mean the next day, the day after I've been busy!"

"I'm impatient!" Li Kongzhu nodded his head and said.

"I'll go with you tomorrow!" Zhao Junyi, who had been silent all this time, opened his mouth.

It was the words of going with you again, Li Kongzhu turned to look at him.

But I heard him say: "Go with me!"

All right!She cares too much!
After dinner, no one was idle.

Because it was too late, and I sent so many fruits back today.Li Kongzhu simply went to find Wang again and asked her to bring in some other people as well, saying that they were working night shifts.

"Although I am a little tired at night, I will pay more. I just don't know if they are willing!"

"Why don't you want to?" Wang smiled with bright eyes, saying that she just needs to rest assured.

While speaking, he hurried to find the women who had agreed to come over.

When Li Diaozhu met, they were all very responsible women.

He nodded and asked them to follow them back to the yard where they lived.

After entering, they began to arrange for everyone to clean up quickly.

Although there are a lot of fruits, it is better because there are many people. It only takes two hours to wash all the fruits.

Li Diaozhu counted it for half a day, and he paid [-] Wen for one of them, and gave hawthorn sticks as usual.

When sending them off, he asked them to come over early after dinner tomorrow.Change the time of fruit washing during the day to evening.

When everyone got the letter, they all said yes and left.

After the people left, the few people who felt that it was still early discussed again, and cooked a few more pots.

After being busy until late at night at Haishi, all the people dispersed in exhaustion.

In this way, from the 27th day, I was busy day and night, and finally on the 29th day, all the goods were fully loaded.

The water haw jelly weighs 120 catties in total, and the rest of the hawthorns are nearly [-] catties each.

If the cost is removed, almost 300 taels of silver can be made.

Li Kongzhu looked at the donkey cart going away, his eyes couldn't help but glow with golden light, after so long, it's finally time to harvest!
Mai Ya'er and his wife also looked at the donkey cart going away, unable to recover from their excitement for a long time.

Zhao Junyi was the calmest person. Seeing that the car had gone far away, and the few people were still staring at him like this, he said calmly, "Do you want to sleep?"

Since she was busy last night until now, she hasn't closed her eyes for a moment. Can she bear it if she suffers like this?

Li Kongzhu, who looked back, nodded hurriedly, "Sleep!" Today is 29, and when the bell rings, you have to start boiling water for a bath, ready to welcome the New Year.

While thinking about it, he waved his hands to tell Mai Ya'er and his wife to go back quickly, "You two will come back soon, tomorrow will be the new year. Let's have a happy new year first, after leaving my mother's house on the second day of the new year, our New Year's Eve Go find Hui Niang in the third day of junior high school!"

"Hey!" Mai Ya'er blushed a little excitedly and rubbed her hands, "That sister-in-law, let's go!"

"Let's go!" Li Kongzhu waved them to hurry up.

After seeing them off, he turned around and prepared to go back to the hospital with Zhao Junyi.

The courtyard door next door rang, and Li Kongzhu turned his head to take a look. Seeing that Zhao Miaoer was peeking at them, he waved his hand and said, "Come here tomorrow, Third Aunt is tired today!"

"Okay!" Zhao Miao'er, who got the letter, nodded her head and said, "Third Aunt, you are tired, go back to sleep! I will come over tomorrow!"

The little adult's tone made Li Kongzhu amused, and waved her to go home quickly, "Understood! Third Aunt Ming'er is waiting for you to come over."

The little man who got the letter hurriedly closed the door, and ran back to the courtyard and said to his second brother Zhao Niqiu: "Third aunt let Minger go there!"

"Yeah!" Zhao Niqiu nodded obediently.

It's been a horrible two days at home.The mother's mouth was cut into a three-petal rabbit shape, and the flesh was turned over, which scared him to tears several times.

After being beaten a few times, he no longer dared to look at his own mother's mouth, and even his eldest brother has been quiet for the past two days.Now listening to them explaining that they went to the third aunt's place, those who didn't respond just played with mud eggs under the eaves.

Looking at the big brother who was quietly playing with mud eggs, Zhao Nixiu stepped forward with some hesitation and asked: "Brother, I'm going to the third aunt's house tomorrow. What do you want to eat? I'll bring you some back then, okay?"

"Get out!" Zhao Tiedan raised his hateful eyes sharply, and yelled at him.

Zhao Niqiu was startled by the roar, and when he stepped back, he accidentally stepped on the frozen skating.

With a "plop", he fell on his back.

Zhao Niqiu, who was hurt by the fall, couldn't help crying.

At this time, the people in the room who had been silent all this time began to howl, "Damn is howling. Call again, tell me to be careful, grandma will kill you son of a bitch."

The person shouting and cursing had a rough voice and could not speak clearly, but from the aggressiveness, it could be heard that it was undoubtedly the Zheng family.

Zhao Niqiu, who was crying with his head up, immediately didn't dare to cry anymore, and twitched there with his mouth closed, for fear that his mother would really come out and beat him.

Mrs. Zheng, who was provoked in the room, felt irritable. After she didn't hear the child crying, she seemed to have nowhere to vent her anger.

Especially when she yelled, the wound with the medicine on her mouth started to hurt again, "Ah~"

Finally, Mrs. Zheng couldn't bear it anymore, and started to grab the kang table fiercely, and beat the kang in the room non-stop.

While falling, he howled in his mouth, "ah~ah~~ah~~ah~"

Hearing the howling like crazy in the room, followed by the constant pounding of the kang.

Zhao Niqiu, who was still sitting on the ground, turned pale with fright, hurriedly got up from the ground, and walked towards the second room of the west wing with short legs.

"Second Aunt, Second Aunt!"

Mrs. Zhang heard him calling in the room, and opened the door with a flash of eyes.

Seeing that he wanted to rush into the house, he quickly stopped him and asked, "What are you doing?"

"I, I want to play with Miao'er!" Zhao Niqiu didn't dare to say that he was hiding from his mother, so he thought about saying that he was playing with Zhao Miao'er.

Mrs. Zhang pushed him out and said, "Miao'er is going to sleep, you can look for it later! Go back to your house quickly, your second uncle is still awake!"

"Second Aunt!" Zhao Niqiu cried.

Mrs. Zhang still pushed him unmoved.

"Boom~" Finally, the small kang table that Mrs. Zheng held and beat was torn apart.

She was especially puzzled by her hatred, and started kicking the door like crazy again.

The loud sound of dong dong dong scared Zhao Niqi into tears, and his little head looked at her pitifully, begging for him to go in and hide for a while.

He is really scared that his mother will go crazy!
There was a flash of calculation in Mrs. Zhang's eyes, and she said with a smile, "Why don't you go to your third aunt's house? It must be because you haven't slept yet. Your second uncle has a bad temper, and he will wake you up later. I must beat you!"

Zhao Niqiu also felt that the third aunt was a better person.

Hearing her words, he hurriedly wanted to walk out of the courtyard.

Zhao Tiedan, who had been playing with clay eggs under the eaves, saw it, and immediately yelled into the room, "Mother, the second brother is going to the third aunt's house again!"

"You son of a bitch, how dare you go! See if I can't beat you to death!" The woman, who was so vented that she had nothing to hit, immediately remembered the incident of her own lip being inexplicably cut a few days ago after hearing the elder son's words.

If it wasn't for that bitch trying to rob her son, how could there be lip cutting?
Thinking of this, she kicked the door fiercely and ran out quickly with a vicious look in her eyes.

Zhao Niqiu, who was about to open the door to hide next door in the yard, saw his mother come out with a fierce face, and couldn't help crying with frightened legs, "I didn't, I didn't!"

"I heard it all. Just now the second aunt asked you to go to the third aunt, so you ran to open the door!" Zhao Tiedan, who didn't think it was lively enough, stopped playing with mud eggs, and hurried over to grab his mother's clothes and said : "Mother, Niqiu wants to go to the third aunt's house. Just now I told me that I want to go!"

"Little bastard in the word, see if you don't beat Ni to death!" Mrs. Zheng strode over with her sleeves rolled up, and grabbed Zhao Niqiu, whose face was pale with fright. .

"Clap clap clap!"

The big palm fell down unceremoniously, and Zhao Nixiu was beaten so hard that he burst into tears immediately.

"Little bastard, I won't tell you whether you're close or close, and I won't tell you if you're close or close, how dare you, ah~ still dare?" Mrs. Zheng kept patting Zhao Niqiu's ass with crazy red eyes.

The medicine on the three-parted lips turned fleshy because of her non-stop yelling, she kept losing face there.

The more she beat, the more she yelled, the more her lips hurt, and she wished she could strangle her son who was still crying, making her even more irritable.

"Howling, shut up for Lao Niang!"

"Wow... woo~~" Zhao Niqiu, who had been frightened by the beating, quickly closed his mouth after being told to shut up.It's just that after crying for too long, his nose was blocked, and when he shut up, his face was flushed so red that he was almost breathless.

The little snot and tears all over his face were paired with the twitching crying, not to mention how pitiful he was.

Seeing that he stopped crying, Zheng had vented enough, so she threw him to the ground and snorted, "Next time, be careful that he breaks your leg."

Zhao Niqiu was still smoking.Hearing what she said, he just kept nodding his head, for fear that she would change her mind and hit herself again.

Covering her distressed lips again, Mrs. Zheng gave her youngest son a hard look, and then walked towards the house again.

Her lips were cut, and I still don't know what happened. Zhao Jinsheng said that he took her to the town to see a doctor, but he thought the medical fees were too expensive, so he only found her a doctor. Barefoot Doctor.

Now that the medicine has stopped the bleeding, but she has to live with such a three-petal mouth for the rest of her life, how can she go out and meet people in the future?

Thinking of this, Mrs. Zheng couldn't help getting angry again, and when she went back to close the door, she slammed the door again.

The couple in the second room started to talk after hearing that the crying finally stopped.

Zhao Yinsheng stared at his mother-in-law very dissatisfied, "You know that you are not easy to mess with now, why are you going to pick something? The disturbance is earth-shattering, and my head hurts when I hear it."

"Auntie is so fierce!" Zhao Miaoer on the side also nodded her head in fear.

Mrs. Zhang gave her man a blank look, "What do you know! Didn't you see another big cart pulling away today? Can those people not see it these days?"

"So what if you see it?" What can I do if people don't pay attention?

Several times when I went up the mountain and met Zhao Junyi, I talked to him as if I didn't hear him.After posting cold butts a few times, it really made him feel unworthy.

"Tell our girl to come over tomorrow!" Mrs. Zhang touched her little girl, "Seeing that she is getting up step by step, I have to plan something, and I can't get ready-made ones. Let's look farther, isn't there still Girlfriend!"

Zhao Yinsheng stared at her, "I know that, didn't you tell me earlier? What does this have to do with getting that kid over there beaten?"

"Huh!" Mrs. Zhang glanced away at him, nodded his head with her fingertips and hummed, "Why do you eat and sleep all day, so you can't use your brain? Boss is not stupid, we can imagine, he Unexpected? Didn’t I see that during the commotion that day, he pretended to be like that at first, and then changed his mind and took care of his own wife when he heard that someone opened a shop? If he didn’t think he could make something better, he would be able to do that Do you want to go?"

The thing about beating Zhao Mengzi first, if he feels uncomfortable, can he tolerate himself to tease his sister-in-law?That man is shrewd inside.

Zhao Yinsheng looked at her and said, "You don't want the two children over there to go to the third room with our daughter?"

"The benefits are all for the family. How can there be any reason to share with others?" Mrs. Zhang gave him a sideways glance, "Combined with my sister-in-law's unscrupulous temperament, there will be a small quarrel every three days, and a big quarrel every five days. It's so noisy that people don't want to deal with it. If you only hate their room, it's fine, but if you hate our room too, wouldn't the gain outweigh the loss?"

Zhao Yinsheng nodded, and then lay down again without bothering to talk.

Mrs. Zhang saw that he was lazy again, so she directly pulled him up to get up, "The boss now knows that he has gone to the town to find a job. I said you can't make a living? Lazy on the bed all day, Like what?"

"He has two sons to raise, so I'm just a girl, what kind of work are you looking for? If you give me another son, I will go to work as usual after the farm is slack!"

Here it comes again, Mrs. Zhang glanced at him, "You pretend I don't want it!"

It's been almost three years since this seedling was born, and there is still no movement, she is also in a hurry.

When Li Kongzhu went back to his room and was about to go to sleep, he heard the cries of the baby and Zheng's roar from the courtyard next door.

He couldn't help but shook his head, whoever wants to have such a mother, it's really miserable enough.

In the past few days, I haven't slept for a few hours. Now that I relax, I can't stand it anymore.

He stared at the man who was making the bed, thinking about the means he had presented that night.

For some reason, there is always a little reconciliation in my heart.

Clearing her throat, she purposely said in a loud voice: "Master! This time I can help you make panties that are big enough for you!"

The man didn't make a sound, he pulled the mattress and shook it in the air.

Li Diaozhu saw that the pavement hadn't been finished yet, so he hurried to the closet, took out the big red cloth, smiled and waved to him: "Come on, come on, I'll measure and cut this time, I'm sure it will be done. "

While speaking, she stretched out her hand to touch his waist.

The man turned around and shook the mattress he was carrying towards her.

"Bah, bah, bah!" Li Diabolo, who was shaken into a mouth full of ashes, didn't care after a few mouthfuls.Still smiling, he stepped forward and said: "I'll measure it again, what are you doing, it will be fine in a moment, hurry up, give me a hug, oh no, it's measuring!"

The man was a little speechless, he just felt that she was really too lazy to do it.Seeing that the outstretched hand was about to get away again, he quickly turned around again and spread the mattress on the kang.

He said lightly, "I'm tired, go to sleep!"

"Cough!" The woman squinted at his handsome side face, "I'm not tired! It's a woman's duty to make clothes for her own man, how can you say you're tired!"

"I'm tired!" The man looked back and stared at her very seriously.He stretched out his hand to pin a strand of hair that was blown tousled by the wind when he was shaking the ashes for her, and pinned it behind her ear, "Stop making trouble!" He could hardly stand it anymore.

Li Kongzhu heard that Don't say a few words, thinking that he finally got tired of him.

My heart was a little sour, but I shrugged my shoulders pretending to be calm and said: "I'm not making trouble, I really want to make you a personal thing that I made! Just let me measure it!" It's as if he is cheating and reaching out to hug him.

"Diabolo!" The man suddenly called her.

The woman's heart trembled when she heard it, and her outstretched hand stopped in mid-air.

It was the first time she heard him call her own name, the very faint and soft rustling voice made her heart beat unconvincingly.

When I looked up at him, I saw that his eyes were very bright and dark, "Stop making trouble!" The outstretched palm couldn't help but want to touch her beautiful face lightly, and then seemed to think of something , stopped in mid-air and wanted to shrink back.

Li Kongzhu was startled by his action.In the next second, a light flashed in his eyes that had never been seen before.

Seeing that he was about to withdraw his hand, he quickly stretched out his slender fingers to grab it, and involuntarily placed it beside her fair and smooth face, staring into his eyes with a radiance that could melt everything .

"Okay! I won't make trouble!" After the woman finished speaking, she grinned happily.

The man's heart throbbed uncontrollably for a moment, feeling the warmth and smoothness under his hands, and some frustration spontaneously arose in his heart.

Secretly sighed in his heart, and gently twitched half of his lips to her, "Sleep!"

"it is good!"

The woman nodded obediently and let go of his hand.Then she took off her shoes and got on the kang, lying on the mattress he made for herself, still grinning happily at him.

The man quietly hid his clenched hands in his sleeves, and saw that she was already lying down.

Then he took off his shoes and went to the kang.Going into the already warm bed, he lay flat and closed his eyes.

When Li Kongzhu was on the kang, he immediately turned over.

Turning sideways, watching him lying flat on the kang, sucking evenly.For some reason, a little excited, the quilt slipped over his head bit by bit, and his heart was sweeter than ever before.

This round, it seemed that she had won by just a little bit!
look!He can still be warmed by himself.

(End of this chapter)