In the afternoon, Da Zhuang ran over and told his mother-in-law: let the five Li siblings come to their house for dinner.
The whole family had a lively dinner. Li Yuzhu, Li Yinzhu and Li Xiaonan went back first, while Li Jinzhu and Li Xuedong were left to talk by Li Shikuan.
Not long after, Li Jinzhu and Li Xuedong came back talking.
Li Yuzhu and three others hurriedly gathered around.
Li Jinzhu laughed before he spoke.
"My dear friend, I told you that it is really not cost-effective to build a new clan school. The clan is not well-off and there are not many children who want to go to school. It is best to jointly run it with other families." Li Jinzhu smiled.
"Is this what I mean? What about the other elders?" Li Yuzhu was surprised.
"My original words were: after everyone has discussed it," Li Xuedong said with a smile before Li Jinzhu could.
"Tang Wengweng also said: Xuedong, the patriarch of the clan, must learn to take care of the family affairs and come back often in the future. I have discussed it with Tang Wengweng. From the first to the fifth day of every lunar month, Xuedong and I will choose a day to come back.
Let’s take a trip to see what matters need to be discussed in the clan, and then see what the clan studies are like.” Li Jinzhu continued.
Li Yuzhu was surprised, and Li Xiaonan was also a little surprised.
This is a big step back for the clan, Tang Wengweng.
The Li family's Yueyang Preserved Egg Shop will open on the 16th day of the first lunar month. Early in the morning on the 15th day of the first lunar month, Li Jinzhu, Li Yuzhu and Li Wenliang's family of four set out to rush back to Pingjiang City.
Li Xuedong, Li Yinzhu, and Li Xiaonan lived there until the twentieth day of the first lunar month. They brought Li Xuemei with her in a full-sized apartment, a large cart to take people, and a large cart to load things. Li Xuedong rode a mule and hurried back to Pingjiang City.
Li Shikuan suggested that they take over Li Xuemei from the full house to take care of the housework. Li Jinzhu and Li Yuzhu discussed and discussed again, looked at each other quietly several times, and talked to Li Xuemei a few times, and Li Jinzhu nodded. p>
It is so difficult for A-nan to learn to do housework, so it is indeed the best way to take Li Xuemei home to take care of the housework.
After returning to Lijiaji for a month, Li Xiaonan did nothing but play. The first time she heard about Li Xuemei, it was a half-truth and half-false suggestion from the uncle. The second time, it was the eldest sister who told them to bring it with them.
Li Xuemei.
The cart stopped in front of Li Xuemei's eldest brother's house, picked up Li Xuemei, and left Lijiaji.
Li Xiaonan put her hands on her hands and carefully looked at Li Xuemei, who was huddled in the corner of the car door.
Tang Wengweng said she was thirty-three years old, but she looked like she was in her forties or fifties.
Slightly short, skinny, with hunched shoulders and shrunken head, lowered eyebrows and eyes, huddled in a corner, she felt uncomfortable, as if her whole body was superfluous, and no matter how she placed it from head to toe, or wherever she placed it, it would not be suitable. "Sit inside, it's cold at the door." Li Yinzhu greeted warmly.
"This is it, this is fine." Li Xuemei tried her best to shrink back.
Li Xiaonan patted Li Yinzhu, moved forward, got closer to Li Xuemei, and looked at her carefully.
Li Xuemei shrank until her whole body became tight.
"Cuiye said they all call you Sister Mei?" Li Xiaonan asked with a smile.
"Yeah."
"Then I will also call you Sister Mei. Sister Mei, what's going on on your head?" Li Xiaonan stretched her head over and looked carefully at the long diagonal scar on Li Xuemei's eyebrow. She had nothing to say.
"Hit."
"Who did it? The Zhang family?"
Li Xuemei’s former husband’s surname was Zhang.
"It's for giving birth." Li Xuemei said vaguely.
Li Xiaonan was stunned for a moment.
When she was a graduate student, she participated in a folklore project and heard about a method of beating people to induce birth.
"After this induction, you came back without getting pregnant?" Li Xiaonan asked slightly holding her breath.
"Yeah."
Li Xuemei, who had already huddled tightly into a ball, seemed to have shrunk into a ball again.
Li Xiaonan looked at Li Xuemei, who wished she could shrink into nothing, and opened her mouth, but could not speak.
Li Yinzhu was confused when she heard this. She looked at Li Xiaonan, and then at Li Xuemei, who was shrinking more and more tightly. Based on her intuition, she felt that there was something in her question. Looking at Sister Mei, this was not a good thing. Well, now
Can't ask.
The three of them didn't speak, and the atmosphere in the carriage became awkward. Li Yinzhu looked at the soles in his hands, and an idea came to him. He looked at Li Xuemei and said with a smile: "Sister Mei, will you accept the soles?"
Li Xuemei nodded immediately.
"Then if you accept this, we have to twist a few threads first."
Li Yinzhu handed Li Xuemei the shoe sole that had just received a few stitches, leaned forward and took the sewing bag, and took out a bunch of threads. Li Xuemei hurriedly picked it up with a needle, and the two of them pulled and rubbed each other, and soon they had rubbed a dozen threads.
Li Yinzhu and Li Xuemei each collected the thread with one sole.
Li Xiaonan stepped aside and looked at the two of them.
While Li Yinzhu was holding the soles of her shoes, she was chatting about some gossips about grandma having light feet and not needing shoes, and elder sister having heavy toes and needing shoes. Li Xuemei had a job in her hands, and gradually relaxed a little, and occasionally answered a few words.
That’s half a sentence.
Both carts used two strong mules, and they trotted all the way. The sun was still high in the sky, and the group entered Cailian Lane.
Li Jinzhu and Li Yuzhu were not at home. Li Yinzhu took the key and opened the courtyard door. The two coachmen moved the things to the porch and rushed back to Lijiaji overnight.
The fields are already busy, so I have to rush back.
Li Xuedong went to Fuxue to have a look.
Li Yinzhu and Li Xuemei quickly packed their things.
Li Jinzhu has already told Li Yinzhu to free up the room next to the kitchen for Sister Mei to live in.
Li Yinzhu and Sister Mei moved the sundries out of the house, carried in the canopy bed that had just been moved from the cart, cleaned and scrubbed it, and put on bedding.
Li Xiaonan boiled a pot of water and made a pot of tea, which was considered a help.
After tidying up Li Xuemei's house, she also gathered the New Year's goods and a bunch of things she had brought from Li's home. It was already dark, and Li Yinzhu rushed into the kitchen and hurriedly cooked.
Li Xuemei followed Li Yinzhu into the kitchen. Li Yinzhu took the basin. Li Xuemei quickly grabbed the basin from Li Yinzhu's hand, "I'll do it, I'll do it!"
Li Yinzhu wiped the chopping board again, and Li Xuemei hurriedly grabbed the rag, "I'll do it, I'll do it!"
Li Xiaonan, who was sitting at the stove, smiled and said, "Sister San, don't compete with Sister Mei. You sit here and say, let Sister Mei do it."
"I have nothing to do..." Before Li Yinzhu could finish her words, she saw Li Xiaonan waving at her, stuffed the rag into Li Xuemei's hand, looked at Li Xiaonan and asked, "What should we have for dinner?"
"Steamed sausages, cabbage stewed with sour pork, eel and fish..."
"Steamed sausages and stewed pork with soy sauce are just two meat dishes, and then stir-fried vegetables are enough." Li Yinzhu interrupted Li Xiaonan's words.
"Then cut some salted eggs." Li Xiaonan said angrily.
Li Yinzhu rolled his eyes at Li Xiaonan, looked at Li Xuemei and said: "Cook the salted eggs first, wait for the eldest sister to come back and ask, the eldest sister said to cut them first. You cut the sausages, I will steam the rice."
The meal had just been prepared when Li Jinzhu and Li Yuzhu came back one after another.
Li Xiaonan and Li Xuedong wiped the table and took out small bamboo chairs. Li Yinzhu brought up a plate full of oily and transparent steamed sausages, a large bowl of cabbage stewed with sour pork, and a plate of stir-fried shredded radish. Li Xuemei brought over several bowls of rice. A few people sat down. Li Yuzhu watched Li Xiaonan point to five bowls of rice and hurriedly motioned to Li Yinzhu, "Call Sister Mei to come over for dinner."
"Sister Mei!"
Li Yinzhu shouted loudly and entered the kitchen. After a moment, he held a bowl of rice in one hand and pulled Li Xuemei into the main room with the other.
"I eat in the kitchen, always in the kitchen..." Li Xuemei was very flustered.
"We are all a family." Li Jinzhu pushed Li Xuemei to sit down.
Li Yinzhu put the bowl into Li Xuemei's hand and sat down next to Li Xuemei.
Li Xuemei was very reserved, holding the bowl, her head lowered, and held the bowl to her mouth.
Li Yinzhu took a piece of Su meat and put it in Li Xuemei's bowl.
"Sister Mei, you can eat it yourself. If you don't want to eat it, then I will take a bite and give it to you."
Li Yinzhu took another piece of sausage and put it into Li Xuemei's bowl.
"I eat, I eat..." Li Xuemei's throat choked.
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Explain the origin of beating: In the ignorant past, there was a bad habit in many places. If a daughter-in-law married but did not get pregnant, the husband's family would invite the younger members of the family to take advantage of the darkness, cover their faces, or cover the daughter-in-law's head and face, and beat her with a stick.
, indescribable things happen in turn, everyone understands. If the daughter-in-law becomes pregnant later, it means that it is not the daughter-in-law's business. The child is born as her own. If a son is not born, or one son is not enough, he will do it again or several times.
Second time. If the wife does not get pregnant, divorce her, or, if she does it again, kill her directly and marry her again.
