Lin Lan nodded, put Xiaodouzi on the stool and sat down, looking at him with a smile: "Listen to the piglet meowing, Xiaodouzi, I'm hungry, hurry up and bring the pig food.
You eat obediently, and after eating, we will feed the piglets."
Xiaodouzi laughed: "Mom, my grandma and I fed the piglets together in the morning. The piglets ate a lot."
Wu Shufen brought the food to the table: "My good grandson will feed the piglets with grandma after dinner."
"Oh!" Xiaodouzi picked up the spoon, picked up his small wooden bowl, and started eating.
After dinner, Lin Lan took out the money from today's sale and smiled happily: "There are more orchid beans today than yesterday. They were sold out in less than half an hour. They sold for more than eight yuan in total."
Xiaodouzi looked at the money on the table with bright eyes: "Wow! We are rich."
Wu Shufen laughed: "Oh! Grandma's good grandson is very smart and knows how to make a fortune. Don't tell others when you go out. If you have money at home, thieves and bad guys will steal the money if they hear it."
Xiaodouzi nodded: "Grandma, I know. Grandma said the bad guys will take mom away."
"Mom, you were not idle at all at home. You cut so many leaves and planted these."
"Xiaolan, who are you bringing food to?" Wu Shufen asked.
Liu Jinbao leaned against the door frame with a sullen voice: "Liu Xia, what delicious food did you buy to see my mother?"
Wu Shufen pointed to the thick-skinned vegetables and taro: "They are all brought by the old lady. When the thick-skinned vegetables and taro stalks grow, break off the outer layer of old stalks, chop them into fine pieces, mix them in boiling water, cook them, and add the bran to form the leaves.
Feed the pigs and they will grow faster.
Wu Shufen sat under the eaves of the corridor to pick up the soles of her shoes. She would look up at her daughter and grandson with a smile from time to time.
Liu Jinbao glanced at him sideways: "We agreed that as long as you get started, you can let me play."
Lin Lan poured some hot water from the thermos bottle and soaked the beans.
Zou Zhonggui swallowed the potato in his mouth: "I have been picking shit for a day, and I am so hungry that my chest is pressed against my back. If I don't eat more, I won't be able to get through the morning."
Liu Jinbao rode to Zou Zhonggui's house and saw him squatting at the door holding a bowl full of potato stew and rice.
As soon as he walked out of the room, he heard the sound of the courtyard door opening. He walked to the door of the main room and looked around, and saw Sun Xiuhua and his sister coming back together.
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When Liu Jinbao returned home, he went to the kitchen to look around, then turned and went to Sun Xiuhua's room.
He also taught her to clean the pig pen every two days and change the grass that lines the pig nest.
He took out a stack of banknotes from an old flowered coat, counted a hundred yuan, took it out, stuffed it into his trouser pocket, thought about it, took out another ten yuan, and put the coat and key back to their original places.
In addition to feeding pigs with mulberry leaves, Lin Lan had done all the other tasks in her previous life and did well, but she didn't dare to reveal her secrets and could only listen carefully.
Liu Xia looked at Sun Xiuhua dissatisfied: "Mom~, look at the third child!"
Sun Xiuhua yelled at her: "I'll get rid of you with just one sentence, and don't come back if you can."
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Lin Lan woke up early and cooked sweet potato porridge, fried peas, salted vegetables, and boiled three white eggs.
Seeing the happy expressions of the old man and the young man, Lin Lan smiled even more happily: "Mom, I want to take advantage of the fact that they just paid out the bonus, add a ladle of beans and soak them in hot water, and fry them in an extra pot tomorrow."
Zou Zhonggui glanced at the bicycle at the door: "There are still twenty-eight laps."
The mother and daughter fed the pigs, and then caught the half-grown chicks into the chicken coop against the wall. They closed the door of the chicken coop and blocked it with wooden sticks to prevent rats from getting in and destroying the chickens.
She also taught Lin Lan to mix the finely chopped mulberry leaves into the chaff, knead the mulberry leaves and feed them to the pigs, and then feed them half a bucket of boiled and cooled drinking water.
Liu Jinbao patted his chest: "Don't worry, brother keeps his word." He glanced at him and said, "Did you go to Niubei Mountain to see that woman today?"
The two of them entered the house, and Liu Jinbao took out the money and put it on the table: "Fifty, and I'll give you fifty more when the deal is done!"
Liu Jinbao glared back: "That's nice to say. If you can, go find that woman and fight her back! She's stingy! After you get married, she comes back all day long to pick on her parents."
I came out, folded the mosquito net and clothes, and started sweeping the floor again.
Zou Zhonggui thought of Lin Lan's appearance, and his heart began to heat up: "It would be nice to have a family with a woman like that." The two stinky gangsters regarded Lin Lan as their prize.
Liu Xia glared at him: "Sister, if you don't shout, you know how to eat! I heard that you caused your mother to be beaten by that little widow Lin Lan, so I came here specially to have a look!"
Zou Zhonggui stared at him: "Only once! If she doesn't make trouble, you are not allowed to leave."
He opened the pillow and blanket, groped in the straw for a while, found a small key, and opened a red-painted wooden box.
After each person ate one, she scooped the remaining porridge into the enamel jar and rolled the remaining peas and pickles on top.
"Just give me the enamel jar when I go back. My mother said that the people from the Shilian Brigade have gone back."
"You are partial, let me see how nice the third child will be to you in the future!" Liu Xia said angrily and turned around to leave.
"Mom, I'm going to get something from the storage room." Liu Jinbao said and pushed the bicycle and ran away.
Wu Shufen sighed: "Why hasn't he left yet? The two on our team have already left!"
When I was carrying water, I saw that the backyard was already full of taro and pachyrhizus.
Liu Jinbao glanced at him sideways, smiled lustfully, stepped forward and elbowed him: "That woman has already captured your soul!"
"Lao Gui, the bowl is bigger than your head."
Sun Xiuhua rolled her eyes at her and then looked at her hands: "The third child is right. Look at the married people in the team. Who returns to their parents' home empty-handed like you?"
Liu Xia didn't even look back and left angrily.
Old Chen glanced at her gratefully: "Thank you, Xiaolin." He received letters from home yesterday afternoon and knew that some of them had gone home.
"Yeah! I took a look at it from a distance." Zou Zhonggui smacked his lips.
Wu Shufen nodded happily: "Okay, I'll scoop out the beans."
The two sat together and began to discuss how to deal with Lin Lan.
Now that there are more leaves on the tree and less pig food, you can cut some back, dry them in the sun and put them in sacks for later use."
Lin Lan nodded slightly and walked towards the foot of the mountain.
"Everyone is a debt collector." Sun Xiuhua muttered as she entered the yard.
The dim yellow oil lamp illuminated two dirty faces.
When Lin Lan was approaching the fish pond at the foot of the mountain with the basket on her back, she saw Lao Chen standing on the ridge feeding the fish. She took the enamel tank out of the basket on her back and handed it to him as they passed by.
Lin Lan told her about Lao Chen: "Mom, I think he is very pitiful."
"I don't know! I'm leaving!"
Time flies when you are busy, and in a blink of an eye it is time to call it a day.
Lin Lan took the ceramic jar when passing by the thatched shed and saw a dollar in it.
Old Chen whispered: "Xiao Lin, it's not easy for you either. You must accept the food and medicine money."
"I'll give it to you again tomorrow morning." Lin Lan said and left straight away.