Chapter 16: Sensible
"Is this fabric really ours?"
Lu Xiaoyu turned over and looked at the white cloth in his hand, with joy in his eyes.
No one expected that Dong Quan was not dead, but came back with evidence and county police officers, and took the cloth shop back directly.
In order to thank the villagers for their generous help, the Dong family and his son took out all the cloth from the store and sold it at a low price. This white cotton cloth was originally going to be sold for 15 cents per foot, but it had two holes in it and was stained with mouse urine.
The Dong family only sells it for 5 cents per foot.
Lu Sheige's 17 cents was originally only enough to buy one foot of cloth, but Dong Quan gave him five feet.
Five feet of cloth was enough to cover a child like her, let alone Lu Xiaowu, a child who couldn't even walk yet.
This is also Dong Quan’s intention to thank Lu Xiaosi for helping his son stand out.
"Xiaosi, are you buying meat?"
Lu Xiaoli, who was looking at the door, was stunned when he saw Lu Shengge carrying a basket and Lu Xiaoyu carrying pig intestines.
Meat, I haven’t eaten meat for a long, long time.
But she was a little unhappy when she thought that the copper coins she had just received were spent by Xiaosi before she even touched them.
This mistress has such a big idea that she doesn’t even ask her parents what they think.
Even if you don't ask your parents, you should ask her and your eldest sister. They all earned this money together.
"Mom, dad, eldest sister, second sister..."
Lu Xiaoyu happily ran home, holding up the pig intestines in his hand to show off, "Look, pig intestines."
It costs nothing.
There is also cloth. They spent 17 yuan to buy five feet of cloth!
The pig's feet and bones were in the basket carried by Lu Xiangge, but there were only pig intestines. Lu Xiangge disliked the smell, so the little fish happily took it and carried it.
"pig intestine?"
Lu Xiaoli's eyes changed. Although pig intestines are from pigs, no one likes them. It's so smelly. Xiaosi actually spends money to buy it?
Lu Xiaoli almost wanted to cry when he thought that the coins they had worked hard to collect reed leaves to sell were used by Xiaosi to buy stinking pig intestines.
Didn’t we agree to buy meat?
"snort."
Lu Xiaoli didn't even want to see what was in the basket. She tossed her pigtails and ran into the house. She wanted to complain to her mother.
Next door, Li Guangguan's mother was lighting a fire at the door. When she saw that the two younger ones from the Lu family had bought pig intestines, she immediately smiled and bared her teeth at the Qiu family who had just left the house: "The Lu family, your family has become rich, so you are not willing to buy pigs."
Large intestine!"
Even though he said so, his expression was not like that.
Pig intestines are made from feces, and they are fishy, smelly, and noisy.
The Lu family is so poor that they even buy food for their dogs to eat.
Ever since the eldest son of the Lu family was brought back, his family was even willing to cook rice porridge, and her family was so greedy that she cried.
She was so angry that she murmured with the head of the house all night, and even went out fishing instead of staying with the Lu family.
He was so poor that his whole family couldn't afford enough food, yet they even had to cook rice porridge just for the sake of their son.
"No no……"
Mr. Qiu said with an honest face: "Isn't this pig intestine cheap?"
“It’s cheap and only costs copper coins,”
If it weren't for the work in her hands, Mrs. Li Guanggan could not wait to walk to the door of the Lu family's house to see what was in the basket in the hands of the Lu family's mistress: "You said it was not there, but I have heard it. Your family is suffering from pain every day."
Rice porridge, you still have to cook rice porridge if you don’t have money?”
"I don't stay up every day, just every few days...then, that's for me to breastfeed."
Mrs. Qiu didn't want to say that she was setting up a small stove for Xiao Si, so she could only use herself as an excuse.
"laugh……"
Mrs. Li Guanggan chuckled lightly, with the word "disgust" almost written on her face.
"From the Lu family, I'm not telling you, if you have the spare money to cook rice porridge for yourself, you might as well take your Xiaowu to see a doctor..."
He's almost two years old and can't walk yet. Is there something wrong?
If Xiaowu really can't walk, it's better to throw it away as soon as possible. Keeping it at home will be a disaster.
However, seeing Mrs. Qiu's expression change at this, Mrs. Li Guanggan didn't feel like continuing to speak.
Don't think she doesn't know that all the rice porridge cooked by the Lu family went into the stomachs of the four and five children of the Lu family.
She saw that the little carp and fish were so greedy that they even licked the porridge pot clean.
In the past, the Lu family had no sons, and it was said that the eldest son was raised by the Qiu family.
Others believe it, but Ms. Li Guingan definitely doesn’t believe it.
She and Grandma Chen personally helped Qiu deliver the baby. Qiu gave birth to a pair of twins. When the little fish fell to the ground, it was bigger than the boy and much stronger. It howled and cried as soon as it landed. The little cat was bigger.
The baby boy couldn't even cry. He was sent to the Qiu family before he was born. The Qiu family is not a wealthy family, so how can the baby be fed?
If they were really able to support themselves, the Lu family would never have interacted with their natal family in recent years, nor would the Qiu family have sent their children to the Lu family to see.
Last month, the Lu family’s mistress was sent here, but she never left the house as soon as she came back.
The Lu family prepares medicine every day, and the doctors come and go, and they have to make several trips a day.
Only then did Mrs. Li Cangan believe that the Lu family's son, who was as big as a kitten, was indeed raised by the Qiu family. However, the Qiu family must have sent the child to him because he was too sick and feared that he would not be able to feed him.
Otherwise, after so many years of not sending the child, the Qiu family will only send it to him when he is already old and can do things?
"Xiaowu can already walk and can move around while holding on to the bed."
Mrs. Qiu vaguely responded to Li Cangun's mother, took the pig intestines from Lu Xiaoyu's hand, and headed to the river. This stuff smells so bad that it can't be kept for a long time in hot weather. It needs to be washed out early.
Mrs. Qiu would not dare to accept what Mrs. Li Cangun said.
The rice porridge at home was cooked for Xiaosi, and Mrs. Qiu, who was breastfeeding Xiaowu, could not bear to take a sip. Xiaosi was weak, and the whole grains, mixed noodles, and wild vegetable dumplings that the family ate at home could not be eaten by Xiaosi. The rice was a waste of food, so boiling the rice
Congee Xiao Si doesn’t use much rice to eat alone.
After Xiaosi recovers, when he cooks rice porridge, Xiaosi will save most of it for Xiaowu to drink. Sometimes Xiaoyu and the three sisters can also share it.
She couldn't stop him even if she wanted to.
Probably rice porridge really feeds people. Xiaosi didn't take good care of himself, but Xiaowu gained a lot of weight and could already walk a few steps while holding on to the edge of the bed.
When Xiaosi can get out of bed, she will not allow her to turn on a small stove at home, saying that as a family, they should eat from the same pot.
Qiu was reluctant and had no choice but to sew a cloth bag and fill it with rice every now and then and cook it together in a vegetable pot. The rice in the bag was also for Xiaosi.
As for this, Xiaosi never eats alone, and always has to share it with several sisters at home before she is willing to eat it.
This child is so sensible that it makes people feel sad.
A drop of tear fell into the river. Qiu avoided her body and secretly wiped the tears on her face with her sleeves.
"mother."
Lu Xiangge returned to the house and followed him with a salt shaker and a small half bag of buckwheat flour: "Use this to wash it, it will wash it clean."
Mr. Qiu looked at the salt shaker and flour in the singer Lu Xi, with a strange look on his face.
Use salt and flour?
What a waste!
"Xiaosi." Qiu hesitated for a moment, then said, "You can also use plant ash to wash pig intestines."
"No, the plant ash is too dirty."
Lu Sheige placed the salt shaker at Qiu's feet and stood aside to watch Qiu wash the pig intestines.
In this posture, if you don't listen to her, she won't eat it after washing it.
Chapter completed!