Reborn back to 1986

Chapter 4 White Lies
Seeing what she said had a nose and eyes, Wu Zhilan began to waver, turned her head and asked her old man: "Do you think this is true?" After living most of her life, she has never heard that leather is worth much, and that thing can't. When it is eaten as meat, at most it will fall under the body in winter to keep it cool.She really didn't believe that it could be sold for tens of dollars.

It's no wonder she didn't believe it. You must know that in those days, a good garment maker like Cui Yufeng only earned [-] yuan a month, and a piece of leather could cover her salary of more than ten days.The only people who can believe it are those who have lived a new life like Li Yan, who has experienced the experience of the previous life.

Li Wuchang lit another cigarette, puffed his eloquence, and said, "Well, I also heard people talking about the high price of leather. It seems that it is probably true. In this way, you will burn me two sheets tonight." Cake, I’ll go to the mountains tomorrow morning and set some more tricks to see if I can strangle two wild animals back.”

"If you want to go, it's fine, take Er Huzi with you, so I can take care of you on the way."

Erhuzi was Li Wuchang's apprentice when he went up the mountain. He learned how to mark footprints and set up tricks from him. He was also from Zhoujiabao and lived at the bottom of the mountain.Wu Zhilan was worried that Li Wuchang would make some mistakes when he was getting old, so she proposed to let him follow.

Li Yan didn't make a sound beside him. Li Wuchang had never broken a piece of skin when he went up the mountain in his life, let alone any danger.However, even if she said it now, she would probably be called unfilial, so she just kept her mouth shut and said nothing.

"Then you bake two more pancakes and take his share." Li Wuchang didn't object, but he had to leave early tomorrow morning, and he had to tell Er Huzi first.He put on his shoes, put his dark blue forward hat on his head, and went outside.

Wu Zhilan followed from the house and said, "When you come back, go to Zhou Sheng's house and see if Da Zhong is at their house."

"As for the two roads, I have to go to Qianjie Street. You let Yanzi go there to find it, and I won't go that way."

"Usually you are too idle to stroll around the castle, but when you are really looking for someone, you don't like to move. I am very unlucky to marry you in this life."

"What are you talking nonsense, old lady? Don't keep saying those words. I have to go up the mountain tomorrow. If you don't want to hear this, shut your mouth quickly."

Wu Zhilan opened her mouth, but finally didn't speak any more.Seeing Li Wuchang stepping out of the gate, he turned his head to Li Yan and said fiercely: "What are you doing standing there, go find your father and come back for dinner."

Li Yan nodded obediently, walked out of the gate, walked towards the little cat on the left, and walked towards Qian Street.

It was almost dinner time, and the chimneys of every household in the fort were emitting smoke, and the aroma of cooking wafted out from time to time.Zhoujiabao is not big, with only forty or fifty families. If you turn around the front and back streets, you will know who made what delicious food.

It is precisely because the place is small that even the slightest disturbance can't be hidden from the neighbors, and the whole fort will know it.

Residents in Qianjie are relatively concentrated and relatively lively. There is a well in the bungalow, which is a public well dug in the early years when we first started living in a large group.In the past two years, a small number of qualified families have been digging wells in their own homes, and most of the remaining families still drink the water here.

There is a hundred-year-old willow tree next to this public well. No matter it is spring, summer, autumn or winter, people will always run under the willow in their spare time. Whether it is to find a big rock nearby or move a bench from home, Zhang’s parents gather together. Li's family was frivolous, spanking, and chatting nonsense.

Zhou Sheng's house, where Li Yan was going, was behind the big willow tree. When passing by the edge of the well, she saw two men turning their heads and pointing at Zhou Sheng's house from time to time, muttering there, and stopped immediately when they saw someone coming.

"Hey, Yanzi, why don't you ask your dad to go back for dinner?"

Li Yan saw that the two men were Qian Guoying's man Zhou Jun, and the other was his elder brother Zhou Yi, and the one who spoke to her was also Zhou Yi who lived in the back street.

Cui Yufeng taught her children to call people loud and small when they met. Based on the good habits she developed, Li Yan greeted the two of them: "Yes, Uncle Zhou, Uncle Zhou, have you all eaten? Did you see me?" Dad?"

Zhou Jun lifted his chin and pointed behind him: "I see, I'm reporting to Zhou Sheng's house." After finishing speaking, he couldn't help laughing there, but Zhou Yi took his elbow and turned towards his stomach forcefully: "In front of children What are you talking about?" Then he smiled at Li Yanzi and said, "Don't listen to your Uncle Zhou farting, your father is there, hurry over there."

Li Yan lowered her eyelids, her eyes flickered, then raised her head and said with a smile: "Okay, thank you, uncle, uncle." He lifted his feet and continued walking, passing the willow tree along the well, and entered the open door of Zhou Sheng's house.

Zhou Sheng didn't have a dog at home, and Li Yan walked lightly, walking straight into the yard without disturbing the people in the house.He opened the half-closed door, and when he passed the outbuilding with the pots and stoves, he heard voices in the east room and walked in.

It is cold in the Northeast, and every household in the countryside is built with heated kangs. At that time, there were no floors and leather mats, and they were all mats.The mats that have been baked black by the heat, look like they are buried.

Zhou Sheng's house had three thatched houses, and the kang in the east room was not big, so it could hardly accommodate four people.When Li Yan entered the room, Zhou Sheng was sitting on the edge of the Kang and smoking a cigarette, his wife was sitting on the edge of the Kang, eating melon seeds, and Li Dazhong was half lying on the quilt at the edge of the Kang, watching a small [-]-inch black and white TV.

"Dad, it's time to go home for dinner."

"Hey, the swallow is here, come and sit on the kang." Zhou Sheng's wife Dai Guihua put down the melon seeds in her hand, got up and knelt forward to pull Li Yan who was standing on the ground.There is nothing wrong with her action itself, and for a child who is only eight years old, she is obviously too enthusiastic. As for whether she is doing it for adults to see, only she knows best in her heart.The question is whether her whole body is straddling Li Yan's father, Li Dazhong, or her waist and abdomen. Such an intimate act is not done by the couple, can it not arouse suspicion?
Li Yan had heard her mother Cui Yufeng talk about Dai Guihua's affair with her father Li Dazhong, and it was widely spread in the castle, but she never caught it herself.Because of this matter, the two quarreled a lot. Li Dazhong was a master who could argue without reason, and insisted that her mother put a shit bowl on her head.

At that time, Li Yan had grown up and couldn't remember clearly what happened when she was a child. There was no way to prove who was right between the two.After living again, seeing such a scene with my own eyes, I realized that what her mother said was right.

Li Yan, who has experienced her husband's derailment, can fully understand Cui Yufeng's anger and sadness as a wife, and really wants to rush over to tear off the hypocritical mask on Dai Guihua's face with her own hands.In the next second, when his eyes caught Zhou Sheng's deliberately staggered gaze, he immediately calmed down.Her husband knew that his wife was following one man after another, that the green hats on her head could be stacked high, and she could hold back her silence. Even if she broke it up in person, it wouldn't change much, but it would attract her father Li Dazhong. The beating is not worth the loss, and if you want to take revenge, there will be many opportunities in the future, so don't rush it for a while.

(End of this chapter)