Xing Rui had good eyes and had long seen that the man was Xu Youcai, so she pretended not to see anything and left.
As soon as the people on Xing Rui's side walked away, Xu Youcai walked in like a ghost.
"Brother Youcai?"
Shui Lan looked at Xu Youcai in surprise. This man usually didn't dare to come to her house in broad daylight. What happened now?
"Shh! Don't make any noise,"
Xu Youcai ran over, took Shui Lan's hand and hid in the empty warehouse, and asked in a ghostly voice,
"I saw the silly lady coming to your place? Did she threaten you for food?"
Shui Lan was stunned, looking at the man in confusion and shaking his head.
"I gave her the food. What's wrong, Brother Youcai?"
When he heard that it was not a loan but a gift, Xu Youcai became even more anxious.
He grabbed Shui Lan's shoulders with both hands and said very nervously,
"Silly girl went to the back mountain last night, she should have seen the two of us."
"ah?……"
Shui Lan was surprised and stared at the man in front of her with her red eyes.
"Brother Cai, what should we do? Silly girl, she doesn't have a clear head. If she talks about it everywhere, what should we do?"
"She dares?"
Xu Youcai glared fiercely, and Shui Lan felt her heart sink for a moment, but she still smiled slightly and asked carefully.
"Brother Youcai, we can't keep things secret sooner or later. Why don't you just tell Hou Yufeng and let the two of us live together?"
"Nonsense."
Xu Youcai pushed Shui Lan out like a reflex.
"Don't come to me these days, so as not to cause any gossip.
Don't worry, silly girl, if she dares to say a word of nonsense, I won't beat her until she has teeth all over the floor."
Xu Youcai's words directly caused Shui Lan's heart, which was still warm, to fall to the bottom instantly.
This man never planned to marry her from the beginning to the end. He just treated her like all men like a plaything. How could he really like her?
"Okay, I'm here to tell you to stay away from the stupid girl from now on. If she takes the corn flour, just take it. Come on, take this."
Taking Shui Lan's soft and waxy hand, Xu Youcai patted ten copper coins on Shui Lan's hand.
His eyes swept outside, and when he saw no one was passing by, he hurriedly let go of Shui Lan's hand.
While running towards the outside, he whispered.
"Don't go looking for me these days, remember."
Crash...crash...the copper coins in his hand fell to the ground.
One by one they hit the ground, and they also hit Shui Lan's cold heart.
Looking at the gate where Xu Youcai disappeared, she smiled coldly.
"Xu Youcai, since you don't want to marry me, don't blame me for forcing you. Aren't you afraid that your stupid mother will tell you everywhere?
Well, let the silly girl go around and tell you, what will you do then?"
Xing Rui returned home with a bag of noodles in her hand and a bag on her shoulder.
As soon as she walked to the door, Liang Weiwei walked out of the house.
"Mom, are you back?"
Seeing what Xing Rui was carrying on her shoulders and holding in her hand, Liang Weiwei happily rushed over.
He rushed over to the corn flour in his mother's hand.
"Mom, I'm coming."
"Go, go, you have little arms and legs, how can you carry them? How are Zihe and your father?"
"Mom, you are so awesome. We have something to eat this time."
Liang Weiwei's heart and eyes were focused on the cornmeal in Xing Rui's hands. This was the first time in her life that her mother had brought back so much food.
"Dad is awake, eldest brother is still asleep."
"Okay, I got it, let's go in."
After taking the little guy back to the house, Liang Sheng, who was lying on the kang, was also surprised when he saw Xing Rui coming back with two bags of corn flour.
"Where did you get the grain?"
"Where did it make you ask? If you are sick now, don't worry about it. Recuperate well. Spring plowing is about to begin. I expect you to come and plant the land."
Liang Sheng was originally worried that she would snatch the food from Xing Rui again, but she didn't expect that Xing Rui would always tell him to get well soon and farm, and said coldly with a frown on his face,
"I forgot how to farm."
"If you forget, you can still learn. As long as you are not a fool, you can always learn."
Xing Rui put down the corn flour and first checked to see how her eldest son, Xing Zihe, was doing.
I reached out and touched my forehead. Fortunately, I didn't have a fever.
Wait until there is no one around at night, then drag him to the hospital for a good check-up.
Xing Zihe's sarcoma was resolved, but Xing Rui looked at the big pot at the door and felt a little confused.
Other people's kitchens and sleeping rooms are separated, but the one in my house is directly connected to the sleeping room.
And there was this big bed in front of me, where everyone in the family slept.
Let's sleep on the same bed with a few children. Xing Rui can still endure it with gritted teeth.
But she still couldn't stand sleeping on a bed with a strange man.
Thinking of the woman I met Zhao Chunhe on the road, I thought that she took off the adobe to build a house when she returned home. Shouldn't I follow suit and make some?
The house can't be built for the time being, but it can still be put up after making a small kang, right?
With this thought, Xing Rui raised her feet and walked outside again.
"Mom, what are you going to do?"
"mother……"
This time not only Liang Weiwei chased her out, but also Xiao Duoduo ran away.
"Weiwei, please take your sister to play in the yard. Don't go to the village today. Mom, go borrow a stroller.
Pull some soil, and we’ll also take out some adobe and build a small kang or something.”
"Mom, I'll go with you."
Liang Weiwei looked up at Xing Rui.
"Your mission is to take good care of your eldest brother and father, and to coax your little sister, do you hear me?"
"oh!"
Liang Weiwei nodded a little lonely.
Xing Rui smiled lovingly at her, turned around and walked towards the village again.
This time she went directly to Uncle Wang's house. If there was someone in this village who was kind to the silly girl, it was Uncle Wang.
"Uncle, put it down quickly, I'll come, I'll come."
As soon as I entered the yard, I saw Uncle Wang cleaning up the broken wood in the yard.
Xing Rui hurriedly walked over, took the broken piece of wood from Uncle Wang's hand, and placed it in a designated place.
With the strength of the original owner, he ate another meal of meat this morning. With food in his stomach, his strength became even more inexhaustible.
It only took a while to help Uncle Wang move a lot of wood.
"Silly girl, what's wrong with you?"
Uncle Wang was getting old after all. He was panting and sweating and looked at Xing Rui.
"Uncle Wang, I want to borrow the cart from you. I also want to take off the adobe and build a small kang or something."
"You kid, I've been telling you to take off your adobe before, but you just don't listen to me.
Okay, you go and pull out the soil, and my uncle will take a rest and remove the adobe for you."
"No, no, I can do it myself."
Seeing that Uncle Wang was so old, Xing Rui was really embarrassed to ask him to take off his adobe.
"You silly kid, what will you do if I don't go? Okay, you go pull the soil, I'll grab some hay and I'll be there in a minute."
