Li Donglai put the walnuts in his trouser pocket and helped Li Xiaomei spread the mattress.
He slept in the outer room, and Li Xiaomei slept in the inner room.
Although Li Xiaomei was reluctant, she couldn't defeat her brother.
"Go to sleep. I will find time to go to the school tomorrow and ask if I can let you be a transfer student." Li Donglai covered Li Xiaomei with a quilt and was about to go back to the room to sleep when he suddenly heard Li Xiaomei exclaim: "Brother, brother, mouse,
Big mouse!"
Before he had time to react, Li Xiaomei had already jumped up from the quilt and ran towards the corner.
A furry gray mouse climbed up the wall to the base of the window, rolled its gray little eyes, glared at Li Xiaomei, and then got out through the gap under the window.
When Li Xiaomei saw the mouse running away, she stamped her feet in annoyance.
"It ran away, it ran away! What a pity."
Rats, meat and vegetables, burn them on the fire and peel off the skin. The meat is all inside, and the oil is sizzling and fragrant.
Li Donglai said with a smile: "The rats in the city are different from the rats in our Qinjiagou. The rats here like to get into the sewers and are stained with dirt. Don't catch rats to eat in the future!"
"Sewer? Then I won't eat it. What a pity..." Li Xiaomei was a little frustrated.
In Qinjiagou, whenever autumn comes, my brother will take him to the fields to dig out mouse holes.
There are peanuts and wheat in the mouse holes. If you are lucky, you can catch mice and roast them.
That was the only meat available.
"Okay, go to bed. You have to get up early to cook for your brother tomorrow." Li Donglai saw Li Xiaomei staring at the roof with her big black eyes, not showing any signs of drowsiness, so he could only scare her.
"Well, well, I fell asleep." Li Xiaomei closed her eyes tightly, her face wrinkled.
Li Donglai turned off the light bulb and just opened the door when Li Xiaomei's startled voice came from behind: "Brother, is our stainless steel pot not coming back?"
He smiled bitterly and shook his head, but did not answer.
Qin Huairu had been avoiding him and didn't even have a chance to speak. Why did he ask her for a stainless steel pot?
...
In the early morning, a faint light spread across the capital, and the whole city came to life again.
Li Donglai brought a bowl of stick noodle porridge and slurped it to the door of Jia's house.
"Cousin, are you at home?"
Qin Huairu, who was changing Xiaodang's diaper, felt a thump in her heart when she heard the call.
After she came back yesterday, she heard that Banggeng had injured Li Xiaomei, and she immediately felt something bad.
She knew Li Donglai's temper very well. He was like an old scalper on weekdays and wouldn't say anything when he was bullied, but he was very protective of his sister.
One time, the captain's son accidentally pulled out a strand of Li Xiaomei's hair. When Li Donglai, who was hoeing in the field, heard about it, he came to the door with a hoe.
The captain's wife was a bastard. Not only did she not apologize, she also called Li Xiaomei a child who was born with parents but not taught by her parents.
This angered Li Donglai, who raised his hoe to hoe off the captain's wife's head.
The captain's wife ran away, and Li Donglai chased her behind.
After chasing most of Zhuangzi, the brigade branch secretary finally came forward and asked the captain to apologize to Li Xiaomei and pay half a catty of soybeans, and the matter was finally settled.
Qin Huairu was standing in the crowd at that time and saw with her own eyes that the captain's wife was so frightened that her crotch became wet.
Last night, she stared at the roof all night without closing her eyes, just because she was afraid that Li Donglai would attack in the middle of the night.
"Huairu, your cousin is calling you at the door, why are you dawdling?" Jia Xudong had just brought a bowl of gruel to Jia Zhang when he saw Qin Huairu holding a diaper and standing by the bed.
"Didn't you see that I just finished serving Xiaodang?" Qin Huairu tucked the diaper under Xiaodang's butt, turned her head and glanced at Banggeng, who was stuffing the bun into his mouth, and shook her head helplessly.
This child was spoiled by her grandmother.
Last night, Qin Huairu wanted to clean up the stick, but was stopped by Jia Zhang.
In Jia Zhang's words, Bangge is the only male member of the Jia family, and Li Donglai is just a rural man with dirt on his feet. How can Bangge apologize to him? He is not an insult to the old Jia family.
Qin Huairu wanted to continue talking, but Jia Zhang began to curse her for favoring her cousin.
Qin Huairu could only give up.
...
Qin Huairu was thinking about how to extinguish Li Donglai's anger, and walked slowly to the door. When she looked up, she saw a simple and honest smile on Li Donglai's uniquely masculine face.
"Cousin, Xu Damao gave me some walnuts yesterday. I thought Bangge would like to eat them, so I took some."
As he spoke, he opened his palms and looked at the two walnuts in his palms. Qin Huairu was startled for a moment, and then felt a little moved.
Brother Donglai is still as honest and honest as ever.
Maybe it’s because Brother Donglai still has lingering feelings for me that he’s so nice to Banggeng.
Qin Huairu was in a trance for a while, but was soon woken up by Jia Zhang.
"Walnuts are a good thing. They cost 30 cents a pound in the supply and marketing cooperative. The stalks are growing, so Li Donglai, you know some etiquette." When Jia Zhang heard about the walnuts, she hurried out of the house.
Li Donglai smiled and said: "Grandma Jia, Qin Huairu is my cousin, our two families will be relatives from now on, this is as it should be."
Mrs. Jia Zhang pouted, "Aren't they just two walnuts? Are they worth talking about over and over again? Rural people are just bumpkins and have no knowledge at all."
She turned around and entered the room, leaving Qin Huairu awkwardly facing Li Donglai.
Qin Huairu pursed her lips: "Donglai, after you enter the city, you will become a city resident. After a while, my cousin will find you a daughter-in-law and live a peaceful life."
Li Donglai said while sucking the porridge: "Then I'll trouble my cousin."
After delivering walnuts to the Jia family, Li Donglai stood under the big locust tree at the entrance of the courtyard and waited.
When he saw a young man wearing a brown-green cotton-padded jacket walking forward with his head lowered, he walked up and walked side by side.
"Yuzhu, go to work?"
"Qin Huairu's cousin?"
"My name is Li Donglai, let's go together."
Li Donglai and Shazhu walked side by side and chatted about their respective jobs. The young people were high-spirited and soon started to compare.
Silly Zhu: "I am the successor of Tan's cuisine and an eighth-level chef."
Li Donglai: "I am a barefoot doctor and I will treat people."
Silly Zhu: "The factory leaders like the food I cook, and I can bring leftovers every day."
Li Donglai: "Master treats me very well. I can become a full-time employee next month."
Silly Zhu: "I cooked for the leaders of the ministries and commissions, and they all praised my skills."
Li Donglai: "I have delivered babies to women, and they also praised my skills."
Shazhu:...
"You're cruel!" Si Zhu, who was killed, extended his thumb.
Li Donglai is not bragging. In this era, there is a shortage of doctors and medicines in rural areas. Barefoot doctors are equivalent to all-rounders in the medical field. They can deliver babies at first and cure diarrhea at worst.
However, the scene of delivering the baby was not as beautiful as imagined.
As they approached the rolling mill, the two of them had become familiar with each other.
Being able to make friends with a man who has delivered babies is something worth showing off.
"By the way, Yuzhu, there seem to be a lot of rats in our compound. My little sister was awakened by rats in the middle of the night. Can't you think of a way?" Li Donglai asked worriedly.
"Rat?" Silly Zhu stopped and smiled bitterly: "You just moved in and you don't know the situation. Our courtyard is the residence of a Tatar official. It has a history of more than a hundred years. It has been in disrepair for a long time and the walls are in disrepair.
It's a mouse hole."
"At Liu Dazhi's house in the backyard, the couple went to work and asked the old lady to take care of the child. The old lady was old and took a nap on the bed. When she woke up, she found that half of the child's ear had been bitten off."
"Aware of the rampant rats, we also arranged the task of eradicating the four pests on the streets and distributed some rat poison. However, there are too many children in the compound. If the children of that family are greedy and eat rat poison, it will be troublesome.
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"To this end, the sub-district office also issued an announcement that a rat tail can be exchanged for 2 cents."
Li Donglai was surprised: "This is a good way to make money."
Silly Zhu shook his head: "A good way? The rats in our compound are very smart. Even if rat poison is mixed into the stick noodles, they can smell it."
Li Donglai: "Not even a mousetrap?"
Silly Zhu stopped and raised his eyelids: "I've never tried a mouse trap, but it's too expensive."
Li Donglai smiled and said: "Expensive? I can do it. I used to go up the mountain to hunt wolves, and I made a trap for catching wolves."
"Wolf trap? That's a good idea." Silly Zhu's brows knitted into knots, thinking about his plan to make money.
A rat tail is 2 cents, ten is 2 yuan, and one hundred is 20 yuan.
There are at least hundreds of rats in the courtyard, and now they have become rich.
only....
Silly Zhu came close to Li Donglai and whispered: "Brother Donglai, can you make me some wolf traps?"
"It's okay, but I don't have the materials." Li Donglai shook his head.
"The materials are easy to handle. I am the chef of our steel rolling mill. Which workshop dares not to give me face." Silly Zhu looked proud, "You tell me what materials you need. I promise to get them for you today."
Li Donglai smiled faintly and said nothing.
"I understand, don't worry, Brother Donglai, when we catch the mouse, we will divide the account 28-20, and I will divide the account 80-20." Shazhu suddenly realized, but he did not expect that this rural boy has thick eyebrows, big eyes, and a lot of tricks.
Li Donglai made a shooting gesture: "Divide the accounts between four and six, six for me and four for you."
"Deal!" Shazhu said happily.
Anyway, the materials cost nothing, and you don’t have to do any work yourself, so the money is free.
Besides, it's not up to you to decide how many mice you catch.
