There is also an ancestral shrine in the main room of Grandma Li's house. There is a long desk in front of the shrine. There are some benches, bamboo chairs, and a kotatsu table in the main room. There are also baskets and baskets filled with sweet potatoes and radishes in one corner.
Wooden ladder on the second floor.
The side rooms on both sides of the Li family's house are also divided into two rooms, and there are doors leading to each room from the hall door.
Because there is often a fire in the kitchen in winter, there is no brazier in the main room.
Brother Zhou followed the masters into the main room, handed the basket he was carrying to Granny Li, and sat down again.
Li Xiaoyan carried the bag into the house, ran to wash her hands, and poured a cup of sweet tea made with brown sugar for Uncle Zhou, grandma and mother.
The host and the guest drink sweet tea and ask each other whether they are healthy.
After drinking the sweet tea, it’s time to go to the kitchen to warm up the fire.
Brother Zhou went to charge the electric tricycle first. The car was fully charged last night. Because of the steep climb on the road and the power consumption, he was afraid that the electric tricycle would break down halfway when he returned.
Sister Meng helped find a charging socket connected to the fixed socket in the main room, and then placed the socket under the eaves. Brother Zhou connected the charging cable of the electric tricycle to the socket and the car.
The young man from the Zhou family was charging the car, and Granny Li took the opportunity to look at the gift the man had brought, and she understood that if nothing went wrong, good things could happen
The number of things the man brings is determined according to customs. There are eggs that symbolize perfection, glutinous rice that represents the emotional bond between the couple, fish, meat, and wine, which symbolize perfection.
The red envelope contains three thousand six hundred and sixty-six.
Seeing that the man's family was interested in Xiao Meng, Grandma Li felt relieved. She put her things aside until the young man fixed a charging socket for the car, and invited the young man surnamed Zhou into the kitchen to warm up by the fire.
The kitchen of the Li family is relatively wide. There is a door leading to the front room of the main room of the adobe house. There are wooden shelves in the kitchen for placing basins, baskets and other items, and a stove with kitchen cabinets is also built.
There is a large water tank next to the stove.
There is a fire pit dug in the middle of the kitchen, with firewood stacked in one corner. There is a small table next to the wall and a 17-inch old-style color TV set.
The wall was covered in dust due to years of smoke and fire.
Thick wood is burning in the fire pit, and a duck pot for boiling water is placed on the pot holder.
After sitting down, Granny Li brought melon seeds for the young man to eat.
After talking for a long time, Granny Li said she was going to pick vegetables and asked a young man to help.
Sister-in-law Meng also knew that her mother-in-law had something to say to Brother Zhou, so she and the girl did not go along to join in the fun.
Brother Zhou followed Granny Li around several houses and went to a vegetable garden.
Grandma Li actually went to the garden to pick some vegetables, and then took the young man to wash the vegetables. Along the way, she asked some trivial questions to understand the attitude of the adults in the groom's family.
Granny Li and Li Xiaoyan still don’t know that Brother Zhou is the uncle of Miss Le’s younger brother in Jiudaomei Village. They only know that he is from a village near Jiudaoxiang Street.
Since she didn’t know who the man was, Granny Li asked more carefully.
She asked questions carefully, and Brother Zhou also answered them one by one seriously, which made the old man feel at ease.
Granny Li is very satisfied with the young people of the Zhou family. The Zhou family does not mind that Xiaomeng has a daughter and is willing to help send the child to school. She does not object to Xiaomeng continuing to raise her after she remarries. This shows that the Zhou family is a kind family.
There was nothing dissatisfying with the young man. Grandma Li was very happy. When she got home, she took Xiaomeng to the back of the house and whispered a few words.
Sister-in-law Meng knew that her mother-in-law was very satisfied with Brother Zhou, and she felt a little nervous. She was also looking forward to meeting the husband's elders. She also told her mother-in-law that Zhou Xialong was not staying at Li's house, and she wanted to take her mother-in-law and Xiaoyan to Jiudao to eat with the Zhou family in the afternoon.
Meal.
Granny Li had no objection and agreed immediately.
Because Xiao Meng might have to remarry, she and her only granddaughter also relied on Xiao Meng and her partner to take care of her in the future. Before it was too early, Granny Li asked Xiao Meng to take Xiao Zhou to see the fields and land at home.
If Xiao Meng and Xiao Zhou could really live together, the family's fields would naturally be managed by young people, and she wouldn't have to worry about it.
Sister-in-law Meng understands her mother-in-law's thoughts. Her mother-in-law has only met Zhou Xialong once and she hastily disclosed her family background. She is just worried that the husband's family will be afraid that the Li family's descendants will be a drag. Her mother-in-law wants the husband to feel that she is sincere and will not drag her down in the future.
Her and Xiaoyan’s back legs.
In order to understand, I felt even more sad. I didn't go against my will and asked Zhou Xialong to go to the terraces behind the house to see the fields and land of the Li family. By the way, I could see where the mountains and forests of the Li family were from a distance.
After Xiao Meng and Xiao Zhou went out, Granny Li took some meat and fruit and went to the neighbor's house not far away. She told the neighbor that her family was going to Jiudao in the afternoon and might not come back until tomorrow. She asked the neighbor to help feed the chickens in the evening.
Duck and pig.
Granny Li raised a pig and bought piglets in May. She actually wanted to raise cattle, which cost no food, but she was old and could not bear the hard work of herding cattle every day.
Raise a pig, grow sweet potatoes and radishes, mix in some corn, and raise it for half a year. If you kill the pig during the Chinese New Year, you can sell half of it and save money for your granddaughter to study.
In advance, she asked her neighbors to help feed the livestock at night. Grandma Li went home and cooked another pot of pig food. She also packed rice grains for chickens and ducks and put them in the kitchen. When her neighbors helped feed the livestock, she could find them in the kitchen.
At about ten o'clock, the grandfather and grandson cooked rice and chopped a pig's trotters into a pot to stew.
Brother Zhou followed Aunt Meng to the back of the house and walked around. He also climbed up the mountain to see an economic forest in the Li family. In that economic forest, his father sold the trees to save Li Xiaoyan. The saplings were planted later and the saplings also grew a lot.
How tall.
Every household in a small village has one or two economic forests, where they plant fir, pine or tea trees. If the trees are valuable, they can earn an income of more than 100,000 yuan by selling them.
Because of the long distance and poor transportation, the price of trees is generally one-third to two-fifths lower than in villages with good transportation. Therefore, villagers cannot make a fortune by selling trees.
Grandma Li's house also has a pine forest, which is a bit far away. Sister Meng didn't take Brother Zhou to step on the boundary line, so she only looked at the approximate location from a distance.
The two went for a run outside and returned to the village after eleven o'clock.
There were also villagers in the small village who saw Mrs. Meng walking around with a man and thought she wanted to sell trees or land. When they met, they inquired about it and did not think about anything else.
Mrs. Meng returned home and took over the cooking chores. She chopped up the chicken her mother-in-law had killed in the morning and made chicken soup, braised fish, stir-fried three vegetables with meat, and stewed pig's feet, a total of six dishes.
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Brother Zhou chatted with Granny Li, while Mrs. Meng prepared the meal and ate hot pot in the kitchen.
It was a pleasant meal.
After the meal, after sitting for more than an hour, Mrs. Meng put away the things that should be packed, put the meat that should be frozen in the refrigerator, helped her mother-in-law bring a change of clothes, and took her things to Jiudao.
Li Xiaoyan was carrying her schoolbag and a change of clothes. Granny Li gave the return gift to Xiao Zhou and brought a gift herself.
Three women were riding in a tricycle, and Brother Zhou was driving.
The road home was mostly downhill, so it was much smoother. It only took more than an hour to reach Jiudaoxiang Street.
Granny Li bought fruits and candies on the rural street before getting in the car again.
Li Xiaoyan only knew that the person her mother was talking to was introduced by Principal Yin, who said he lived not far from Xiang Street. She also didn’t know that Uncle Zhou was from Meicun.
When the tricycle entered the road of Meizijing Village and saw the words Meizijing and arrows with directions written on the wall beside it, she reacted belatedly and almost blurted out: "Mom, Uncle Zhou is from the Zhou family in Meizijing Village."
?"
"Yeah." Mrs. Meng nodded.
Li Xiaoyan: "..."
"Xiao Zhou is from the same village as the Golden Phoenix in our province?" Granny Li was illiterate and didn't know what was written on the wall. She was extremely surprised when her granddaughter mentioned Meizijing Village.
The name of a person is the shadow of a tree. Fang County in Ebei Province produced an Olympic champion and donated hundreds of millions to Jiudao School. She also knows Meizijing Village and the Le family in Meizijing Village.
Many people don't even call the Lejia girl in Meizijing Village by name, they always say she is a golden phoenix.
Grandma Li remembered that the stepmother of the golden phoenix who flew out from Jiudao seemed to be named Zhou?
"Yes." Mrs. Meng responded calmly.
Granny Li Li Xiaoyan: "..." Don't tell them that they are from the same clan as the girl from the Le family, the Zhou family!
Brother Zhou drove to the ground in front of the village office building and saw that the door of his uncle's house was closed, so he didn't go to find his aunt. He turned onto the main road of the village and arrived outside Uncle Man's house. He saw that the door of Uncle Man's house was also closed.
Yes, I guessed that my cousins might have gone to his house, so I went straight to my house.
He drove outside his house and heard the voices of uncles and aunts talking in the small hall. He called out: "Mom, I'm back."
Aunt Zhou Man, the head of the village, had long known what day Zhou Xialong would go to his partner's house and what day he would bring him to Meicun. On that day, they would go to his cousin's sister-in-law's house after lunch.
My nephew wanted to bring his partner back to meet him. Zhou Papi went to the construction site in the morning and moved bricks for a long time. He didn't go in the afternoon and went to his nephew's house to help.
Several people slaughtered chickens and ducks, fried fish, pig's trotters, pork liver and other dishes, and also prepared glutinous rice liqueur early.
Several elders who were waiting for someone to return lit a brazier in the main room and set the table.
Hearing Zhou Xialong's shout, several neatly dressed elderly people stood up and responded while trotting out of the alley to greet him outside.
A few people ran to the gate and saw a young girl and a middle-aged woman standing next to the tricycle. They knew that they were Zhou Xialong's partner and her daughter.
The middle-aged woman did not appear to be a mean-spirited person. The head of the Zhou family quickly glanced at the middle-aged woman, and his first impression of the middle-aged woman was good.
"Xiaomeng, Xiao Li, you are finally here."
"Xia Long, where is the eldest sister of the Li family? Didn't we talk about it together?"
"Hey, big sister, please give me a trip. Thank you for your hard work."
Several men and women from the Zhou family hurriedly crossed the threshold while talking, and then they saw a middle-aged woman helping an old woman come out of the carport, and they immediately started laughing.
Aunt Pa ran quickly, ran down the steps, and went to help the Li family's mother-in-law: "I heard from my nephew that you are two months younger than my family. I also asked you to call you big sister. Big sister, come on.
It’s good if you get it, what else can you take? It’s so out of sight.”
When Granny Li handed a basket to her master to collect, Aunt Pa took it in her hand, gave it to her nephew Zhou Xialong, and helped Granny Li to her cousin's sister-in-law's house.
As he walked, he introduced: "This is my sister-in-law, the biological mother of my nephew Zhou Xialong. The one next to my sister-in-law is my brother Man's sister-in-law. The one wearing a dark red down jacket is my brother Man. The one wearing a black jacket is my brother.
That mouth."
Grandma Li was supported by her husband's aunt, and she was flattered. She greeted several elders of her husband's family one by one.
Aunt Pa went to help Granny Li, and Grandma Zhou and Grandma Zhou Man took Aunt Meng and the girl from the Li family and walked home affectionately. Of course the men were behind to get things.
People say that an ugly daughter-in-law meets her parents-in-law. The person she was talking to was meeting the closest relatives of Zhou Xialong's family for the first time. She was extremely nervous. Even though the elders of the Zhou family were always friendly, she couldn't let go and was very restrained.
The restrained Sister-in-law Meng always calls the male elders of the Zhou family uncle and the female elders aunt.
Li Xiaoyan was even more nervous. She called people "Grandpa Zhou and Grandma Zhou" and stood close to her mother, passively being pulled away by the two elderly people.
Brother Zhou took the things out of the car and carried them into the house with his uncles.
When we got to the main room and sat down in the brazier, Aunt Pa asked her aunt to talk to the guests while she went to buy fermented rice dumplings cooked with sweet rice wine, and then served a plate of fruits and dried fruits and melon seeds.
After eating fermented rice balls and nibbling melon seeds for a while, Mrs. Meng managed to get used to it and spoke more fluently.
Talking about the relatives of the Zhou family, Grandma Zhou was afraid that the Li family would think that her son-in-law did not come back, so she did not pay attention to them, so she explained first: "Xia Long's sister came to talk in the morning, and Leshan also had to study two clocks in the afternoon. She and Yueqing
I just brought Leshan over for dinner in the evening."
"?" Li Xiaoyan's eyes suddenly widened as if struck by lightning, what did Grandma Zhou say, Le... Yueqing? The Yueqing Grandma Zhou said was the Yueqing she knew, right?!
"Le's surname?" Granny Li was also shocked: "Sister-in-law, your uncle's surname is Le?"
In Meizijing Village, or in other words, the entire Fang County and entire province, one family has the surname Le!
Now in Meizijing Village, the mother of the young man from the Zhou family mentioned that the surname is Le. Who else could it be besides the Le family?
Grandma Li thought maybe her ears were bad and she heard wrongly.
"Yes, my uncle's surname is Le." Grandma Zhou looked at her son, and it seemed that Grandma Li didn't know which Zhou family his family was.
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Granny Li and Li Xiaoyanlu were so shocked that their mouths opened wide.
Mrs. Meng smiled sheepishly at the Zhou elders: "I only told my mother and Xiaoyan that Xiao Zhou was from Jiudao Township Street, but I didn't say that he was the biological uncle of the younger brother of the Lejia girl from Meizijing Village. In this way, everything would be wrong.
If it fails, the two parties involved, Zhou Xialong and I, will know who the other party is and no bad words will be spread."
Village Chief Zhou and the others had a better impression of Mrs. Meng. The woman knew that the man Zhou Xialong was the uncle of the Le family girl's younger brother, but they did not take the opportunity to build momentum. This shows that she is not that snobbish.
The accident was like a typhoon, it came so fast. Grandma Li Li Xiaoyan still couldn't accept the jaw-dropping fact. The Le family girl was in the prime of her life, and her brother's maternal grandfather's family was the envy of many people.
The Zhou family’s daughter-in-law divorced Zhou Xialong, she must be out of her mind.
Li Xiaoyan found it incredible.
Granny Li's worries became even more serious. Her family was already poor and couldn't do much to help. Xiaomeng's family had no hope of help. How could it be possible if she didn't belong to the right family?
She was worried in her heart, but she was too embarrassed to say it out loud. It took a lot of effort to calm down. Now, she was no longer embarrassed to ask her husband what kind of work he did to support the family, his family's land, his income, and other household matters.
It’s hard to ask how the Zhou family’s grandson is doing.
Aunt Pa was worried that the little girl from the Li family was impatient to listen to the elders' nagging, so she took her to see the living room in the lower house and the guest room on the third floor, and asked her to do her homework or watch TV if she had any homework.
Li Xiaoyan also really didn't get along with the old people, so she went to the living room of the lower house and wasted some data on the news, looking for news about the girl from Jiudao Lejia in Fang County.
School teachers always use Jiudao Le's girl as a role model to encourage students to work hard. A few days ago, the school's provincial and county media unanimously reported the news that Miss Le was invited to a ball of celebrities from all over the world. In terms of time, what kind of ball would it be?
Held this weekend.
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