Reborn back to 1986

Chapter 3
"Grandma, try it, this fire spoon is delicious, I won't lie to you." The little hand kept sending it forward.

No matter how strict the old man is, he will feel comforted when he treats his granddaughter with such filial piety. Wu Zhilan's perennially stern face is slowly cracking, and her rough and dry palms are rubbing against her clothes, and she is about to pick them up.As soon as he reached out his hand, it was cut off halfway.

"She won't eat your milk, bring it to me."

Li Yan turned her head to look at Cheng Yaojin who came out halfway, it was none other than her grandpa Li Wuchang, who was lazy with his mother's mouth, wandered from east to west when he had nothing to do, and messed with old ladies.

Li Wuchang ate the fire spoon snatched from his wife's mouth quite deliciously. When he returned to the east room, he took off his shoes and sat cross-legged on the kang. He asked Wu Zhilan, "When will I eat? I'm hungry."

Wu Zhilan gave him a blank look: "I've been wandering around all day, so I'm pretty hungry. Just wait, we'll eat together when Dazhong comes back later."

Li Wuchang felt that he was not as important as his son, and he was quite unhappy: "What are you waiting for him to do, he can't be sure, maybe he went to a restaurant with someone to drink."

"What kind of wine to drink? His wife has given birth to a baby, so he can't come back soon?"

Li Wuchang glanced towards the west room, knocked off the cigarette ash, and said: "It's not a kid after giving birth to a little girl, what's so fun about it."

His voice was not too loud, and he didn't mean to avoid Cui Yufeng deliberately. Wu Zhilan gave him a gouged look, and lowered his voice, "If Yufeng heard it again, can't you keep your voice down?"

Li Yan was also worried that her mother would be very sad when she heard it, so she hurried to the door of the west room, leaned her body and quietly looked into the room, but luckily Cui Yufeng was asleep and didn't hear it, so she opened the door gently with a sigh of relief. close.

Turning around and going back to the east room, she felt sullen in her heart, but knew that her mother was the last to be angry during her confinement period, and she had to suppress it no matter how unhappy she was, so she ran to the cupboard and took out two more fire spoons, and gave them to Wu Zhilan and Li Wuchang handed them one by one: "Grandpa, grandma, you eat. My mother said she bought it for us to eat, and she will pay for it after eating."

In fact, the fire spoon was originally bought by Cui Yufeng alone for Li Yan's casual food, but in the end most of it went into Li Wuchang's stomach.With this adult eating along, you have to buy it once every two days on average, ten at a time, and you get 18 yuan a month.At that time, she worked in a garment factory in the town and earned only [-] yuan a month. She had to spend [-] to [-] yuan just to buy a fire spoon, and she had to pay [-] yuan a month for babysitting. The cost is seven or eight, and there is less than ten yuan left.Li Yan's health was not very good when she was young, and she had to go to the hospital almost every month. If she got a seven-yuan bottle and bought less fruit, she would almost have no money.

Li Wuchang was still not happy about this, and asked Cui Yufeng to add more living expenses, otherwise she would not be able to babysit the child and let her take it back to her natal family.Cui Yufeng didn't give in. She just refuted it: "Father, is Yanzi's surname Li or Cui? If I brought her from her mother's house, she would have to be sent back, but she wasn't the one who died after I got married. Was it born in the Li family? Now that you’re talking about it, let me tell you, take it if you can, strangle it if you can’t, and I won’t pay half a cent in the future.” After that, I really didn’t pay any more.

The two sides are in a deadlock, and it is the children who suffer the most.At that time, Li Yan was five years old and already started to remember things. When Cui Yufeng was at work, she was playing alone at home. Children would inevitably be naughty. Knock her on the head with your finger and teach her loudly.Li Wuchang has no income every month, and even cigarettes have dropped from fifty-seven cents for Dazhong Jiuyi to ten cents for a box of Xige.This made him take his anger directly on Li Yan, beating and scolding her at every turn, and instructing her to ask Cui Yufeng for something if she was greedy.

No matter how ignorant children are, they will know who is good and who is bad after a long time, and gradually learn to look at each other. When Cui Yufeng goes to work, she quietly hides under the wall and plays by herself, waiting for her mother to get off work .

Every day when Cui Yufeng came home from get off work and opened the door, Li Yan jumped into her arms like a real little swallow, clamoring how much she missed her.Cui Yufeng asked her what she was doing today, and felt uncomfortable every time she heard that her daughter was beaten.But there is no way, Li Dazhong did not come back from migrant workers in other places, and the money he brought back has always been controlled by Li Wuchang, and it can't reach her. In order to support himself and his children, he has to go to work to earn money, knowing that his parents-in-law treats his daughter well. Not good, I can only pretend to be deaf and dumb, hugging Li Yan behind my back, I don't know how many tears she shed.It wasn't until another two years later, when Li Yan got older and went to school, that he got better.

More than half of the two fire spoons went down, Li Yan felt that it was almost time, so she sat on the edge of the kang and snuggled into it, and said to Li Wuchang: "Master, I heard that you used to go up and down the mountain to set a trap. Eat wild things, why don’t you go now? Is it because I’m too old to climb the mountain?”

"Who is it? I don't have to go there. If I go, I can still strangle wild animals."

"Come on, I'm old enough to still have that ability, so don't be so stubborn." Wu Zhilan wiped her mouth and was about to go down after eating the last bite of the fire spoon.

"Grandma, don't underestimate my grandfather. My grandfather is in good health now. Young lads don't change. It's not easy to run a mountain."

Just as Wu Zhilan was about to take a step, she stopped, and looked at Li Yan suspiciously: "You girl, why is something wrong with your film today, I just picked something nice to say, is there something wrong, hurry up and tell me?"

Li Yan chuckled: "My grandma is still smart, and I can't hide anything from your sharp eyes. Grandpa, grandma, let me tell you, I heard from a classmate in the class that he had an uncle who wasted his money. I just thought that my grandfather would also go up and down the mountain to trap, if I can get some wild things, wouldn't it be good to just peel off the skins and sell them?"

Wu Zhilan said: "Everyone knows that leather can be sold for money, and you are a child. It's less than [-] cents to sell a whole leather to the supply and marketing cooperative. It's not hard enough."

"No, my classmate said that a good yellow skin can be sold for more than ten yuan."

"How much? Say it again? More than ten yuan, is your classmate stealing money?"

"Really, grandma, I didn't lie to you."

"The child has learned to tell nonsense, see if I won't hit you." Wu Zhilan raised her hand as she spoke.

"Put your hands down." Uncharacteristically, Li Wuchang didn't add fuel to the flames, but asked Li Yan with a frown in thought: "You mean yellow skin. Weasel skin?"

Li Yan knew that people here were taboo to call this kind of animal by its name, some people even called them Huang Daxian, and offered two sticks of incense in the morning and evening.You Qilan's expression changed slightly from the corner of her eyes, she seemed hesitant to speak, and immediately swallowed back the words she had rushed out, and said instead: "I don't know what kind of skin it is, anyway, he said the price is quite high , and not only it has other skins, but if the fur is of good color and the skin is not ripped, it can be sold for several dollars."

(End of this chapter)