The four members of the Li family returned to Yongning and wanted to live in their old house.
However, they didn't come back a few times this year. Several heavy rains in the summer washed up half of the wall, and the tiles on the roof became loose. When they looked up, they could see large and small holes. What fell in the house was not dust, but tiles and peeling soil, making it uninhabitable at all.
"What should we do now? Should we go to Changle?"
Li Wei's maternal grandfather's home is in Changle.
Li Minghua said: "I'm afraid this will be the case."
The family was preparing to go to Changle. At this time, Li Mingguo came and said to his brother: "Minghua, if you don't mind coming to our house to celebrate the New Year."
Facing Li Mingguo's invitation, the four of them were a little surprised. Because of Li Xia's incident, the two families had no contact with each other, but now an invitation was sent to their family. Li Minghua thought that after all, he was his own brother, so how could there be an overnight feud? Then he agreed wholeheartedly: "It's great if my brother is willing to take us in. It's a dream come true."
Liu Chunzhi didn't like Zhang Weihong and wanted to go back to her parents' home. It doesn't matter to Li Jianping or Li Wei.
In this way, the family of four temporarily went to Li Ming's country for a few days to spend the New Year first. There are three beds in Li Ming's country. Now that there are four more people, it seems a bit crowded. Li Wei, Liu Chunzhi, and Zhang Weihong squeezed into the bed where Li Xia used to live. The Mingguo brothers slept together, and Jian Ping naturally squeezed into the same bed as Jian Fei.
Zhang Weihong was a little unhappy about the people from the second room coming over, so she went to Li Mingguo to reason: "You are a kind person, and you took in their whole family to live in our house. Now you can't even turn over while sleeping. Do you know how much food you need to eat with four mouths?" "
Li Mingguo didn't like these paintings very much when he heard them: "They only live for a few days, how can they support our family? Of course our family has never been rich. But I said you should take a longer view. I told you before, Have you forgotten? Be polite to them and cook the bacon as it should."
Zhang Weihong was so angry that he took out the things in his hands, thinking that if it weren't for their family's fault, their Li Xia would not be lost. Axia is also disgusting. She has been gone for so long without even a single message. She doesn’t know if she will meet a trafficker or if something unexpected will happen.
Liu Chunzhi walked in and said with a smile on her face: "Sister-in-law, if you want me to help with any work, it's all from my family, so don't be polite."
Zhang Weihong thought, am I still polite to you? I will only be angry with you. She pointed out a bunch of jobs for Liu Chunzhi to do very rudely. People under the eaves have to bow their heads. Liu Chunzhi knew Zhang Weihong well, so she kept her attitude low. She was already diligent and could do these household chores very quickly.
"Your Jianping wants to marry Yulan from the Wang family?"
Does Zhang Weihong already know about this? No matter who said it, Liu Chunzhi did not deny it and said, "Yes, I am planning to go to their house to formally propose marriage on the third day of the junior high school. Jianping is not young anymore, so it would be better to make the decision as soon as possible."
Zhang Weihong opened her mouth, hiding a lot of words in her belly, but she didn't want to say it at the moment. She even said with a gloating smile: "You Jianping are really lucky. By the way, I also heard that Jianbo's mother came to pick him up. I left and gave your family a lot of money, right? "
Liu Chunzhi asked quickly: "Who did you listen to?"
"Isn't it being spread by everyone in the village? Don't hide it from me. I thought Jianbo could stay in this house for the rest of his life, but I think even if his mother hadn't come to pick him up, he wouldn't be able to stay. His heart would not be there. This family. It seems that the outsiders are not close to each other. You have worked hard to take care of me for sixteen years, but I am lucky to get another sum of money. I heard that Jianbo is very powerful and has connections abroad, so he should give you a lot. Otherwise, I don’t think the hotpot restaurant will be able to open.”
Zhang Weihong kept asking about money, which made Liu Chunzhi unhappy and refused to talk to him.
Seeing that Liu Chunzhi ignored him, Zhang Weihong turned around and asked Li Wei again. How Li Wei was willing to tell this aunt who only recognized money in her heart and eyes was unclear.
Li Minghua took the money and went out to buy meat and vegetables, and the whole family sat together and had a fairly prosperous New Year. When Li Minghua asked Liu Chunzhi to give Jianfei a new year's gift, the couple had a conflict. Liu Chunzhi gave Jianfei thirty, but Li Minghua thought it was too little, so he gave one hundred.
Liu Chunzhi was unhappy: "It's so easy to make money. Just ask for one hundred. How many dishes do we have to sell for one hundred? Have you ever thought about it?"
"What about a hundred? Can't we come up with this money now? You are just stingy. Don't think I don't know how much you gave Liu Liang. You have always only thought about your relatives. You have never been here. Don’t ask.”
The two quarreled again over money, and they didn't say a word for a day because of this. Li Wei noticed something was wrong with her two elders and asked her mother privately. Her mother said angrily: "It's not about money."
Fortunately, life went by very quickly. I went to my grandfather's house on the second day of the second year of junior high school. Liu Chunzhi returned to Changle and felt a little uncomfortable when she saw that her eldest brother was still walking with a slight limp and had not recovered after so long.
Li Wei was sitting in her grandmother's room eating snacks specially left for her by her grandmother.
Bai Li said from the side: "Wei Wei liked to eat the pretzels made by your grandma when he was little. Do you still like them now?"
Li smiled and nodded and said, "Yes." She then asked her grandmother, "Can grandma make wisteria cakes?"
Her grandmother had never heard of this name before and quickly asked: "What kind of cake is that? How is it made?"
"It's made with wisteria flowers and flour. I don't know how to make it. Before, I..." Li Wei stopped talking and smiled, "It has the fragrance of fresh flowers and tastes pretty good."
Her grandmother smiled and shook her head and said, "I've never heard of it. I've never seen the flowers you mentioned."
Bai Li looked at Li Wei and said, "I have grown taller, and I am now a big girl. When I saw you on the TV station, I thought I was seeing the wrong person. Will you be on TV again this year?"
Li smiled and shook his head and said, "I can't say for sure. It depends on the arrangements from above."
Bai Li smiled again and said to Li Wei and her grandmother, "Mom, do you think Wei Wei looks like her mother when she was young?"
"How could her mother be so energetic when she was young? She would shrink her shoulders and bow her back when walking. I taught her several times that she should not do this. At first, she was afraid that her father would look down on her."
Li Wei said: "My mother stopped doing that a long time ago."
Her grandmother said: "We Weiwei will definitely be successful in the future. Without Jianbo, we would still have Weiwei."
After returning from their maternal grandfather's house, Li Minghua and the others were going to the Wang family to formally propose marriage.
In order to look good, Li Minghua asked his eldest brother and sister-in-law to go there together, so that they could open their mouths when the time came.
Zhang Weihong was not willing to go, but Liu Chunzhi couldn't help it and gave Zhang Weihong a pair of leather shoes that had only been worn once. Zhang Weihong agreed for the sake of the leather shoes.
(End of chapter)