Li Muwu and Wang Sufen have lived with Grandma Li for their whole lives. Grandma Li's vigorous and decisive character and impetuous style have become the spiritual pillar of the Li family. Li Muwu and Wang Sufen's admiration and trust in Grandma Li have reached a blind level. Seeing Grandma Li patting her chest and saying that everything is fine, Wang Sufen wiped her tears and pulled Mingdong and Guihua to laugh: "Oh, that's great, I was scared to death just now. Guihua, stop crying, your grandma said it's okay, you two kids just can't keep your temper, crying and wailing before the matter has even happened, not like your grandma at all."
Mingdong and his friends thought that the elders in their family didn't understand such matters, and they also said things behind their backs out of fear of scaring them. But when they heard what Old Lady Li said with details and logical analysis, they all felt more at ease.
Seeing Guihua still holding Mingdong's hand and crying, Old Lady Li took two puffs of her pipe and said, "Grandma knows you love Mingdong, but you can't go to Anbei with him now."
Seeing Guihua was about to retort, Old Lady Li held her shoulders and said firmly: "Listen to grandma, your background is not good. In our Beicha, no one will go to a poor peasant family to find a daughter-in-law. Besides, even if someone dares to do so, I will not forgive her. But it's different in Anbei." Old Lady Li let go of her hand and lifted her buttocks to the kang: "In Anbei, if Mingdong went to the farm for reform, you would definitely follow him, but according to what I said, Mingdong will be released next year. What if you can't get out? Who can save you then?"
Guihua was not a stupid person. She was frightened by what the brothers said just now, so she got stuck in a dead end. When Mrs. Li saw that she had calmed down, she said, "Just stay at home and take care of the meat buns and bean buns. Wait until Mingdong is safe before you go over. When the time comes, grandma will be at home to help you take care of the children. She will definitely not stop you."
Guihua looked at Mingdong reluctantly, and a string of tears fell as she blinked her eyelashes. Mingdong felt distressed and helpless, and reached out his hand to help wipe the tears away, but his grandmother, parents, and younger brothers were surrounding them, and even the younger sister who loved to follow behind and watch the fun also came in. Mingdong was too embarrassed to do anything.
Old Lady Li smiled, and finished the tobacco in her pipe. She knocked on the edge of the kang out of habit: "You two haven't seen each other for half a year. Go back to the room and have a private talk. Mu Wu and your wife go to the back room and bring the meat buns and bean buns over. Let them sleep in the front yard.
The family worked quickly as Grandma Li said. After the two little ones were settled, Grandma Li asked Wang Sufen to make a quilt. Last year, Zhenzhen found cotton seeds and planted a lot of cotton. Grandma Li was cautious and only replaced the cotton in the family's cotton-padded clothes with new ones. She was reluctant to replace the quilts. Listening to what Zhenzhen meant, Mingdong had to stay on the farm for a while. That place was definitely harder than school. He couldn't help with anything else, so he could only help make a thick quilt to keep him from freezing in winter.
Zhenzhen planted a lot of cotton last year, but this stuff takes up a lot of space. After picking it, the whole closet was filled with it, but there wasn't much left after making all the cotton-padded clothes for the whole family.
When Zhenzhen heard that Old Lady Li was going to make quilts, she quickly dragged her to pick cotton. After so many years of controlling plants, Zhenzhen had become a master at it.
When they came to the cotton field from last year, they could still see patches of dead branches. As soon as Zhenzhen came over, the dead branches turned green and sprouted new buds. Although Mrs. Li and Wang Sufen knew about Zhenzhen's ability, they were still shocked every time they saw it.
After swallowing, Mrs. Li opened the bag, and white cotton flowers like clouds flew out of the buds and fell into the bag that Mrs. Li brought. Before Wang Sufen could come to her senses, one bag was already full. Mrs. Li quickly pressed and tied the mouth tightly, and took out another clean sack.
After six sacks were filled, the cotton was finally picked. With a wave of the hand, the cotton branches returned to their previous dry state. Old Lady Li and Wang Sufen could not stay on the mountain any longer. They had to hurry home to make a quilt for Mingdong.
Zhenzhen had already gotten over her sleepiness, and seeing the bright sun overhead, she didn't want to go down the mountain. Old Lady Li tied two sacks together with a hemp rope and put them on her shoulders, looking at Zhenzhen helplessly: "What's so fun in this mountain? You're not home all day."
Zhenzhen smiled and said, "This mountain is full of treasures. I feel comfortable all over as long as I stay here."
Wang Sufen could only say: "Go home early, don't play so late like yesterday, you scared your grandma."
Zhenzhen nodded quickly: "I know, I will go back after hunting some wild animals today. I will give my brother some meat to eat during the two days he is at home so that he can have a good rest. When we return to Anbei, at most he can have a piece of meat in the dishes during the New Year and other festivals."
When Old Mrs. Li heard this, she sighed, remembering that the piece of beef Zhenzhen brought back at noon weighed at least four or five pounds. She had originally been thinking of stewing some in the evening and marinating the rest and stewing it whenever she wanted to eat it.
But when she heard that Mingdong would have no meat to eat after returning to Anbei, Old Lady Li no longer cared about the meat and quickly said to Wang Sufen, "Go home and let the flour rise. Use pure white flour. We'll steam beef buns tonight. Make them the same way that Zhenzhen bought them from the hydrolysis plant last time."
Zhenzhen thought of the beef buns she had eaten last time. The skin was thin and the fillings were large. It was full of gravy. Her mouth immediately watered. She swallowed and told Wang Sufen, "Put more green onions and no vegetables. I want to eat all the meat."
Wang Sufen pinched Zhenzhen's chubby face and smiled until her eyes were narrowed into slits: "She's as fat as a piglet and she eats meat-filled buns."
"This is called being blessed." Zhen Zhen puffed up her cheeks in dissatisfaction and turned to ask Old Lady Li: "Grandma, do you think I look blessed?"
Old Lady Li likes this granddaughter the most. She is so white and tender and so cute. Seeing Zhenzhen pouting, Old Lady Li nodded quickly: "That's right. Our Zhenzhen is the most blessed. No one can catch up with us."
Zhenzhen hugged her chubby face and laughed foolishly, "My grandma knows me best.
After watching Mrs. Li and Wang Sufen go down the mountain, Zhenzhen entered the space. After entering and exiting the space dozens of times yesterday, Zhenzhen finally understood the location of the space. In the past, when she teleported, she was so fast that she never understood why she could appear anywhere thousands of miles away at will. But this time, she found out a little bit of the trick. It turned out that she only needed to go through a passage about one meter long to reach any place within the range of her consciousness. It was a bit like a portal.
However, the two sides of this passage are not walls but light curtains. Passing through the light curtain is her space. Now Zhenzhen is using the left side, and the right side is still idle and of no use for the time being.
Thinking about the big buns in the evening, Zhenzhen hurriedly went to the space to get a wicker basket and put it on her back. She picked a basket of wild vegetables, caught two pheasants, and caught a fish after going down the mountain. With her hands full of things, Zhenzhen felt like she had a good harvest.
Zhenzhen returned home early today and met many people going up the mountains and down the river on the way. The neighbors knew that the Li family could hunt, but when they saw that Zhenzhen could also catch a pheasant, they immediately poured out nice words to her, which made Zhenzhen blush.
After running a few steps, he ran into a neighbor who lived not far away. When he saw Zhenzhen, he grinned with envy: "Oh, the girl from the Li family is so capable. She can catch pheasants at such a young age. She is better than my son." He just finished praising Zhenzhen, turned around and slapped the back of the head of the 17 or 18-year-old boy next to him: "Look at you, you said you would catch a rabbit hat for your mother two years ago, where is your rabbit?"
Zhenzhen smiled apologetically at the neighbor brother, and ran very fast with a chicken in one hand and a fish in the other. But she met someone again after just two steps. The man nodded at Zhenzhen: "The Li family has successors. The little girl has such ability at such a young age. She won't have trouble getting married in the future." Zhenzhen frowned: "Uncle, you are thinking too far ahead."
The man laughed and said, "Not far away. I have a kid who is two years older than you. Aren't you in the same school? Right?"
Zhen Zhen's face was filled with black lines, thinking of the big, stupid guy in her class: "Is it Wang Da Zhuang, my classmate who was held back for three years?"
"You won't repeat a grade this year. You don't need to take exams to get promoted. You will still be in the same class next year. Hey, Li Mingzhen, why are you running away?" The man looked at Zhenzhen and saw her disappear in the blink of an eye with a look of regret on his face: "This girl runs really fast. I can see that she will be a capable person in the future."
After running a few hundred meters, Zhenzhen saw that there was no one around, so she stopped, put down her things, and wiped the sweat off her face. After living in this neighborhood for so many years, Zhenzhen basically knew the personalities of each family. For example, the two people just now were very sincere, but they were too enthusiastic when they met, and Zhenzhen couldn't resist every time.
Taking out a military canteen from the basket of wild vegetables, Zhenzhen unscrewed the lid and gulped down two mouthfuls when suddenly a strong force rushed over and almost knocked Zhenzhen down. Looking at the water spilled on her clothes, Zhenzhen raised her head with a fierce face. The one in front of her holding a pheasant and looking proud was Zhang Yunhong, the eldest son of the Zhang family, who was described by Guihua as "a man whose face was licked by a dog".
Zhenzhen couldn't help but sneer at him, looking at him like a bully. Zhang Hongyun turned around and spit at Zhenzhen, then turned around and laughed arrogantly. Suddenly, the weeds under his feet grew longer and tightly wrapped around Zhang Hongyun's ankles. Zhang Hongyun fell to the ground without warning.
Zhenzhen walked over slowly, carrying a basket and holding the fish. When Zhang Yunhong was about to get up, Zhenzhen suddenly stretched out her little feet and stepped on him hard.
Although Zhang Yunhong is only 14 or 15 years old, he is big and strong. Although he is not big, he is even worse than his father. He not only likes to snatch candies and biscuits from other children, but also steals New Year's money from nearby children during the Spring Festival. Every time he steals something, he beats it up as a threat. In recent years, many people have come to his house to complain, but Zhang Yunhong's father Zhang Defu is also a scoundrel. People in the neighborhood can't do anything about the father and son, and can only tell their children to avoid them when they see them.
Zhenzhen didn't usually play with the kids around, so she had never come face to face with Zhang Hongyun. To be honest, this was the first time Zhenzhen had her things stolen since she was a child. Seeing the water pouring down her body, she couldn't hold back her temper.
Zhen Zhen stepped hard on Zhang Hongyun's back with one foot, patted his head with a cold smile, "You are quite capable, and you dare to come out and rob things? If you have the ability, why don't you go up the mountain and grab them yourself? Isn't it shameful to rob other people's things all day long?"
Zhang Hongyun felt as if a huge rock was pressing on his back, and he couldn't lift it up no matter how hard he tried. He arched his back with all his strength, but his upper body was less than ten centimeters off the ground, and he fell back heavily. Originally, Zhang Hongyun thought that he was the toughest among the kids in this area, but he never expected that he would hit a wall with Zhenzhen today.
Zhang Hongyun was lying on the ground, a little scared, but he couldn't open his mouth to apologize to such a little girl. Zhang Hongyun didn't believe that Zhenzhen could press him down so hard that he couldn't get up. He thought that he might be stepped on a vital part and that's why he couldn't use his strength, so he tried to reach out and grab Zhenzhen's ankle.
Zhenzhen sneered, stepped on Zhang Hongyun's foot and pushed down hard, while the other foot was suspended in the air for a moment before stepping on his hand quickly, fiercely and accurately.
Zhang Hongyun was almost vomiting blood because of her stepping on him. He tried to pull his hand out, but Zhenzhen's foot stepped on him firmly and Zhang Hongyun couldn't move at all. Only then did Zhang Hongyun get a little scared, and his voice was a little fierce: "Let me up quickly, or I'll tell my dad to kill you."
"Go ahead, ask your father to come to my house and let's see who is stronger, my father or your father!" Zhenzhen looked around and saw that there was no one around. She glanced at a birch tree on the side of the road, and a branch as thick as a baby's arm fell silently from the tree into Zhenzhen's hand.
Zhenzhen broke off the extra branches and leaves and threw them aside, leaving only the thickest part. Zhenzhen then raised the foot that was stepping on Zhang Hongyun's wrist, squatted down, and hit Zhang Yunhong's butt hard twice: "Tell me whose things have you stolen?"
Zhang Hongyun suddenly felt that the burning flesh on his buttocks had thickened by half an inch. He screamed heartbreakingly and kept swearing. Zhenzhen sneered and knocked twice more: "When you keep your mouth clean, you won't be beaten."
Zhang Hongyun immediately suppressed his curse and hummed with a trembling voice: "I didn't steal anything."
"You're not being honest with me?" Zhenzhen shook the stick in her hand: "I'm telling you, I'm good at dealing with all kinds of disobedience. If you tell a lie, I'll hit you. When you behave yourself, that's it." Zhenzhen shook the stick in front of Zhang Hongyun's eyes and added with a smile: "Maybe you don't know, I went up the mountain with my father to hunt wild boars since I was a child. When I was five years old, I dared to swing the stick at wild boars. Think about whether your skin is thicker than that of a wild boar."
Seeing Zhenzhen swinging the stick in her hand again, Zhang Hongyun was so scared that his legs softened and a stream of heat flowed down his crotch. Zhenzhen quickly covered her nose when she smelled a foul smell, and retracted her foot that was stepping on her back in disgust, and quickly stepped aside: "It's so embarrassing, you're already a teenager and you still wet your pants."
Zhang Hongyun's face flushed as he climbed up from the ground. He didn't know whether to cover his front or back with his big hands. Seeing that he had no fighting power, Zhenzhen decided to let him go. After all, it would be better to send the pheasant home quickly than to waste time with such a scoundrel. She wanted to eat beef buns and drink chicken soup in the evening, so she really didn't have time to waste time with him.
With a disgusted pout, Zhen Zhen pointed at him with a stick and said, "Next time I hear you stealing other people's things, I'll chop you to death."
Throwing the stick to the side of the road, Zhenzhen picked up the pheasant and the fish and walked home humming a tune. Zhang Hongyun looked at Zhenzhen's back unwillingly, then glanced at the stick on the side of the road, with a hint of malice in his eyes. He raised the stick and ran towards Zhenzhen quickly. When they were still one meter apart, Zhang Hongyun swung the stick at Zhenzhen's head.
Zhenzhen had long been accustomed to constantly watching everything around her with her consciousness. She had long seen Zhang Hongyun's little movements. When Zhang Yunhong used all his strength to smash down, Zhenzhen seemed to have only taken a light step to the side but was one meter away in an instant. Before Zhang Yunhong could come to his senses, he was kicked out fiercely by a huge force and fell to the ground again.
"Cough cough..." Choked by the spit, Zhang Yunhong coughed, and suddenly a fishy-sweet taste came out of his mouth. When he opened his mouth, a front tooth was revealed.
After beating up Zhang Hongyun, Zhenzhen ran back home. Guihua was chopping beef in the yard. Zhenzhen quickly put the pheasant and fish aside and said, "Sister-in-law, let's make some soup tonight so we don't have to choke on just eating buns."
Guihua pursed her lips and looked at Zhenzhen, laughing: "You're still choking when eating steamed buns. If you tell others about this, people will say you're corrupt." Guihua looked at Zhenzhen while chopping beef: "You've never eaten sweet potato flour pancakes. That stuff is really choking."
Zhenzhen chuckled, took a washed cucumber from the basin beside her and took a couple of bites: "Sweet potatoes are better roasted. Put them on the grate and they will be roasted until golden brown and juicy in just half an hour. Oh, I can't say anymore, I'm drooling."
Guihua looked at Zhenzhen's greedy look and laughed: "Since you love to eat so much, I'll save some for you after the sweet potatoes are harvested in autumn. Now you should think about making dumplings." Guihua looked at the rising dough with a smile on her face, pressed a finger into it, and seeing that it was still a little undercooked, she brought the meat filling into the house, boiled a pot of hot water, and took a kitchen knife to kill and pluck the chicken.
Guihua had just bled the pheasant when Zhang Defu and Zhang Hongyun arrived. As soon as they entered the yard, they shouted, "Where's Li Muwu? Come out here and look at what your daughter did to my son! Pay me money!"
Old Mrs. Li heard the noise in the house and hurriedly got off the kang, muttering, "Zhenzhen, is this Zhang Defu's youngest son having a fight?" Wang Sufen was also confused and hurriedly followed him out.
When Old Lady Li came out, she saw Zhang Defu and his eldest son, who was a famous bully, standing in their yard. However, his bully son was different from his usual arrogant appearance. This time he looked particularly cowardly and hid behind Zhang Defu, not daring to look up.
Seeing that the person being beaten was this bastard father and son, Old Lady Li sneered and took out her pipe from her waist: "What? Are you ready for another fight?"
When Zhang Defu was young, he liked to steal vegetables from Old Lady Li's house, so he was often beaten by Old Lady Li with a pipe. So when he saw Old Lady Li's movements, he subconsciously took two steps back. It was not until he bumped into Zhang Hongyun that Zhang Defu came back to his senses. He sneered: "Old Lady Li, you don't have to scare me. Do you think you are in your forties? I tell you that you can't beat me now!" He looked at the women in the yard and sneered: "Now Li Muwu is not at home because he is at work. The four boys in your family just went out, and even your dog went out to play. I want to see how capable the women in your yard are."
Looking at the fat pheasant that had just been bled in the basin, a greedy look flashed across Zhang Defu's face: "My son had his teeth knocked out by your wild girl. You must compensate me five dollars for medical expenses today. You also have to give me these two chickens and a fish as nutritional supplements for my son." As he said that, he reached out to take the pheasant in the basin.
Guihua took the kitchen knife in her hand and chopped Zhang Defu's wrist without hesitation. Zhang Defu was so scared that he quickly withdrew his hand and shouted at Guihua with a frightened face: "Are you crazy? Are you really going to chop it?"
Guihua sneered: "If you dare to take it, I dare to chop it. I tell you, Guihua has never been afraid of anyone. My father is not at home, so what should I be afraid of? I am more resistant than my father. Come here and let's have a try."
Zhang Defu looked at the kitchen knife in Guihua's hand and swallowed his saliva in fear. He silently took two steps back and shouted with a lack of confidence: "Are you going to pay or not?"
Guihua stood up holding the kitchen knife and said word by word: "No compensation!"
Zhang Defu wanted to say something when suddenly a black wolfhound rushed in from the door and roared fiercely at Zhang Defu.
Li Mingzhong from Li Muwu's family was a well-known capable dog. Everyone in the area knew about it. They all said that the Li family's dog had killed a wild boar. Zhang Defu's legs went weak as soon as he saw Li Mingzhong coming back. He dragged his son out and ran. Li Mingzhong chased him for two miles with his teeth bared, until both of them lost their shoes, and then he came back triumphantly.
Seeing the angry faces of her family, Zhenzhen said on the way back: "That big guy never beat me, and he even lost his front teeth. Did you see that he didn't dare to open his mouth? He was afraid of making a fool of himself."
Old Mrs. Li quickly defended her and said, "I said it was definitely not our Zhenzhen's fault. If it wasn't for his Zhang Hongyun picking on her, would our Zhenzhen have beaten him up?"
Wang Sufen looked helpless. The mother-in-law was capable, the daughter-in-law was capable, and the daughter was even more capable. She was the only one who was too honest. Seeing her daughter was so soft and tender, why was she so fierce when she beat people? Wang Sufen touched Zhenzhen's head and said, "Don't fight with others when you go out to play. It would be bad if you don't know the seriousness of the matter and cause trouble."
Zhenzhen responded, and Old Lady Li and Wang Sufen hurried back to work. Zhenzhen saw that it was still early for dinner, so she found a deserted place and entered the space.
Entering the Yanglou of the Meng family, Zhenzhen resigned herself to opening the box and taking out the antiques one by one and placing them on the treasure cabinet in the study. Zhenzhen's knowledge of antiques was limited to the various programs about collecting and identifying antiques that she watched on TV back then. Every time she waited nervously for the experts to determine the authenticity, she would be so happy if a genuine item worth a million yuan was produced, as if it was hers.
Now these treasures are really more valuable than hers. Zhenzhen took a soft cloth and wiped each antique bottle and jar one by one. After finishing the work, she thought about moving the antique calligraphy and paintings from other buildings to make it easier to count. Zhenzhen worked for four or five days before emptying all the things. Zhenzhen also dug out the boxes under the ground on the mountain.
After Zhenzhen's organization, the Meng family's original 60-square-meter study now has more than a dozen rows of shelves. The earliest porcelain on them is from the Song Dynasty, there are also a few pieces from the Yuan Dynasty, and the majority are from the Ming and Qing Dynasties. As for the ones from the Republic of China, Zhenzhen took them to the living room and used them as vases.
Zhenzhen still knows little about antiques, so she's thinking about finding a time to go out for a day. That way, she can try to teleport continuously and should be able to go to the imperial capital and buy some books.
But Mrs. Li is usually at home, so it is very difficult to find such a time. Zhenzhen had just finished thinking about this matter when she realized that the opportunity came so quickly.
Old Lady Li and Wang Sufen made a quilt for Mingdong. Not only was the quilt very thick, but even the mattress weighed four pounds. After it was made, Old Lady Li was afraid that the quilt was too thick and someone would snatch it away, so she came up with the idea of using two layers of quilt covers, and adding Ula grass in the middle, so that people would not hesitate to take it once they touched it.
Zhenzhen was stunned by Mrs. Li's idea and admired her creativity. Ula grass is a good thing that is called the three treasures of Northeast China along with ginseng and mink fur. Unlike the first two things, which are very valuable, this is what poor people need to survive in winter. Those who don't have money to buy cotton to make quilts and mattresses can use Ula grass as cotton by drying it in autumn. It is light and warm. If you don't have money to buy cotton shoes, you can put Ula grass in your shoes. With it, your feet won't be frozen all winter.
But it is still summer, and the Ula grass is still at its greenest state, so it cannot be used for heating. Zhenzhen saw that no one else could do this except herself, so she quickly helped to ripen the Ula grass to the state of hay, and directed them to weave themselves into straw mats. Seeing this, Mrs. Li gave Zhenzhen a thumbs up: "You are smart enough. No matter how you touch it, it is Ula grass, and it will not be exposed."
When Li Muwu and Wang Sufen came back carrying a few soft straw mats, Mingdong thought they were going to some relative's house to ask for them and kept saying that it was too much fuss.
In a blink of an eye, it was only two days before Mingdong was leaving. Although Mrs. Li patted her chest and promised that day, she still felt uneasy without having been to Anbei. After asking Mingdong and knowing that his school was relatively stable, Mrs. Li patted her thigh and decided: "Your parents and I will send you to Anbei. Guihua will stay at home to look after the meat buns and bean buns. We will tell you in detail when we come back. Second brother, go get a letter of introduction, and then quickly buy a train ticket."
Li Muwu listened to his mother the most. He immediately got off the bed, put on his shoes and left. Mingdong was anxious and tried to stop him: "Dad, no need! I'm already so old, why should you send me a gift?"
Li Muwu walked away without looking back: "Listen to your grandma!"
"Grandma, why are you doing this at your age?" Mingdong looked at Old Lady Li helplessly: "Your bound feet are inconvenient."
"Why is it inconvenient? I can go up and down the mountain just by strolling." Old Lady Li raised her chin and glanced at Mingdong with disdain: "Besides, I'm not old. I'm only in my sixties. I'm still young. In the past, there were people over a hundred years old in the village where I came from. Our feng shui is good."
So when Mingdong got on the train again, he had no choice but to carry not only a mountain of bedding, but also his grandmother and parents.
Compared to Mingdong's helpless tears, Zhenzhen was almost going crazy with joy. She could finally have fun without staying at home.
The author has something to say: This chapter is very fat. Although Kaka resigned, it will take at least a month to complete the process because it is a central enterprise. However, I am very happy when I think about regaining my freedom. Hahaha, I really don’t want to write those endless speeches. To be honest, sometimes I have to have three meetings a day. For example, today is a statutory holiday. I originally wanted to get together with my colleagues, but I ended up having a day-long meeting. I have no choice~~~
It’s too late today. The red envelopes for the first few chapters will be sent out tomorrow morning.
small theater:
Old Mrs. Li: Our daughter Zhenzhen loves to stay in the mountains so much. Is she the reincarnation of the mountain god
The mountain god’s legs went weak and he knelt down: Ancestor, I’ll send you a wild boar, please don’t cheat me!