Li Qinghe also invited so many people. A dozen or so people are really good at working. Those who can be seen by the naked eye can come out to work. It can be said that if you look at it every hour, you can find a large area.
Originally, those people were all on the opposite mountain, and they could be seen just by looking up. This is a rare thing in the village. When there are too many people watching, they will find something is wrong.
Those people are not like people who are used to farm work. He looked like a big and three rough, but he didn't do so much work. Anyway, it was not easy for the villagers to do it.
The weather is getting colder and colder. People in the village don't go out very much. The people next door are still working. Mother Zhou came this day.
She lives by herself this year, and at first she ate with Zhang Haiyao, but later she cooked and ate by herself, and occasionally came to visit Xiyu.
As soon as she entered the door, she asked, "Qing He, is your courtyard walled?"
Yes, there were so many strangers coming next door, and they seemed not easy to mess with, so Zhou Chengkang dug up thorns and planted a large area, and directly cut off the road between the Yang family. They came, but they also cut off their own way to the town, so they had to go around the village.
But this is only temporary, the Yang family can't support more than a dozen people for a long time, even Li Qinghe's dozens of acres of desolate forest can't afford more than a dozen people to work day and night for a long time. After those people leave, it's okay to remove the thorns.
It is also easy to remove, just chop it back and use it as firewood.
Seeing the two nodding, Mother Zhou breathed a sigh of relief, and said in a low voice, "I heard your aunt next door say early this morning that the Yang family had a quarrel yesterday, saying that those people were caught stealing the fish from the Yang family for roasting and were caught. .”
"I'm afraid they will come and catch your chickens." Mother Zhou sighed, "Those people are not easy to mess with at first glance. I don't know where the Yang family got them. It's not worth offending them for chickens. It's better to separate them."
At the end of October, it started to rain and it became even colder at home. The two pigs that Li Qinghe fed were already big enough to ask someone to kill them. On the last day at the end of October, the family slaughtered the pigs, and many people came to help.
Because it has been raining a lot lately, many people didn’t go to the town. Anyway, it’s cold, and it won’t hurt to buy more meat. Before noon, a pig was sold out.
There are still a lot of people who haven't bought it. Taking advantage of the fact that the butcher was still there and there were many people there, they simply asked them to help find the other end and kill it.
If one pig is not enough, there are more than two pigs, and most of them are left. In the afternoon, basically everyone bought pork and went home. Li Qinghe also started to ask the helpers to cook, Zhang Haiyao and Li Qingmiao, and Yu Yan behind, Li Fu and Zhao Dashan plus the butcher, there were quite a lot of people.
Everyone who was talking was talking, and those who were cooking were cooking, when another person came outside the gate.
The people who came were Xu Changjie and his second brother. Regardless of how close they live, the two families have no contact at all. He was dressed in a blue gown, and he still looked gentle, "Is there any meat left in your family?"
Zhou Chengkang greeted them, "There are still some, but our family needs to hire someone after the Chinese New Year, and those are all for bacon, so they won't be sold."
Xu Changjie was a little disappointed, and said, "Can you just sell it to me for two catties? It's really inconvenient to go to the town recently, and my family is also busy. The people who help us work hard. They left their homes, so we should feel pity for them. "
"Doesn't your family have a carriage?" Zhou Chengkang refused, "I really don't want to sell it."
Xu Changping frowned, "Don't be so narrow-minded, right? We're all in the same village, and we're still neighbors, so why can't we sell it? I think your family is targeting us..."
He was rude, and Zhou Chengkang was even more rude than him, "Just target you, so what?"
"I know, because our family digs fish ponds and grows medicinal materials. Your family thinks that we learned from you." Xu Changping folded his arms, "But in this village, there is no rule that only your family can raise fish and grow medicinal materials. !"
It should be because he himself knows that this is inappropriate, and he will take it to heart if he is a little unkind.
But in fact, Li Qinghe and the other two really didn't take these things seriously. The fish, even if there were ten fish ponds, it would not be enough for the people in the county town to eat. As for medicinal materials, it is even more ridiculous. There are so many people in the world, and there are many sick people, no amount of medicinal materials is enough.
Zhou Chengkang didn't even bother to talk to them about this kind of person, he just shouted, "Rhubarb!"
Rhubarb jumped out.
Xu Changping turned around and ran away. In fact, dogs generally don't bite people, especially Rhubarb is smart, but no matter how smart it is, it is still a dog. When it sees someone running, it subconsciously chases it, and immediately kicks it out.
Xu Changjie stood still, frowning slightly, "Brother Zhou, isn't this a little too much?"
Zhou Chengkang directly raised his hand to close the door, "I'm sorry, I have a guest today, so I can't tell you more here. That's it."
Rhubarb really drove him out of Erlidi, and bit Xu Changping before returning.
There were quite a lot of people having dinner, and there were two tables set up. At night, the crowd dispersed.
The next morning, it was still raining outside, and the window paper was covered with moisture. Zhou Chengkang got up and went to light the brazier to dry the house, and then he lay back on the bed. , let the dog bite, you don’t ask a doctor to bandage my man. This matter will be difficult!”
It was a shrill female voice, and after hearing it clearly, one could tell it was Xu Changping's daughter-in-law without looking. A person who can live in his sister-in-law's house with peace of mind for so long, can he still expect her to be a reasonable person
If the reasoning doesn't make sense, there's no need to talk about it. Zhou Chengkang went out, opened the door a crack, Rhubarb jumped out again, and then the woman's screams became farther and farther away.
Seeing people run away, Zhou Chengkang called Dahuang back, closed the door again and went back to sleep.
Li Qinghe listened to the commotion outside, couldn't help but twitched the corners of his mouth, and said with a smile, "People should say that after you become rich, you look down on people and let dogs bite people."
Zhou Chengkang covered the quilt, "Not everyone bites rhubarb. We have raised it for so many years, and we haven't bitten a few people in total."
For the two of them, the two brothers next door were the people they hated the most, not one of them.
After this incident, the already unfamiliar relationship between the two families can now be said to be bad.
The two families had no contact at all, and the relationship was bad. In the winter moon, there was snow in the sky. At this moment, no one really went out to work, including the dozen or so people invited from the next door.
In fact, even if they eat sweet potatoes, because there is no oil or meat, those people eat more and more as time goes by. Even if you don't work, you still need to eat.
Li Qinghe never went out, and occasionally heard someone say that Xu's mother complained that they ate too much.
In the afternoon of this day, someone came to the door. The person who came was Li Qinghe's eldest brother from the Li family, named Li Qingsong. Both husband and wife came, and Li Fu was with him. It was said that the old man in the family was sick and very sick, so I wanted to ask them if they had any medicinal materials, and I took them home to boil for the old man to drink.
"Qinghe, we're not saying that we won't hire a doctor for him, but the doctor has already said that my father's illness is just staying up for a long time, and he said that he will leave in autumn... Now that the weather is so cold and it's getting worse, we really don't want it. He seems to take too much medicine..." His eye circles were red, "I haven't had any water or rice for several days. You can just bring me some medicine that is not bad, and I will boil it for him when I go back. Maybe he thinks that he is sick after drinking medicine. It doesn't hurt anymore."
If the water and rice have not been eaten for several days, this person should be dead. To put it bluntly, I just want a psychological comfort.
Li Qinghe turned around and entered the door, grabbed the herbs and gave them to him, saying, "This medicine will be pitch-black once boiled, so you don't need that much."
After seeing off the husband and wife, Li Fu entered the door, "I came here specially to ask me to come with me, just because I was afraid that you wouldn't take medicine."
Someone did come to Li Qinghe's door to ask for medicinal materials earlier, but can this stuff be given to anyone casually? She is not a doctor, what if someone eats her up? Even if it is not bad, it will delay the illness. Therefore, no matter who came to ask for medicinal materials, they all refused, and if they wanted to take medicine, they went to the doctor.
"The third brother was very kind to me at the beginning, but I didn't expect it to be... only these two days." He shook his head, "A lifetime is really meaningless." As soon as the words finished, Xi Yu entered the door.
Li Fu's face immediately burst into a smile, and the corners of his mouth were grinning behind his ears, "Xi Yu is here, do you miss grandpa?"
Judging by his happy appearance, it doesn't seem like life is boring.
Sure enough, two days later, when there was snow in the sky, Li Qinghe's uncle disappeared.
No matter how cold it is, if there is a funeral in the village, everyone still has to come to help. Naturally, Li Qinghe would also go. Speaking of which, she was a very close person. Her grandfather Li Kui's cousin was the grandfather of that day's eldest brother.
Li Kui sent off his cousin a few years ago, and now he sent off his nephew, which is quite sad.
Funerals are always sad. Even if there are good things in the family, they will not be too happy at other people's funerals.
Generally, the funeral lasts for more than two days, and the food is the same as usual in each family at the beginning. Only the food will be better on the day of the burial.
Everyone here is tying up the coffin and preparing to send it up the mountain, and the feast is about to begin over there. At this moment, a group of people came to the door.
All of them were tall and rough, and looked fierce, they were the group of people who lived in the Yang family.
Everyone knows that the Yang family has recently invited many people to live in their home, but these people don't usually come out, they go to work in the mountains when they come out, and they don't know the people in the village at all.
This was probably the first time that people had come into contact with them at close range. As soon as they arrived, they immediately went to the table and yelled for food to be served. If you observe carefully, you will find that they are not the strong laborers of ordinary farmers. Where did it come from... Robbers
Everyone couldn't help but stay away from them, especially this group was all men, and the big girls and the young wives all hid in the kitchen and couldn't come out.
Seeing this, someone quietly went to the host's house to find out whether the food will be served to them or not, and they have to bring out a charter. At first they didn't help. Second, just sit down when you come in, it doesn't look like you are going to send a funeral.
Li Qingsong was helping to put ropes on the coffin. This was very important. Generally, the coffin could not fall to the ground if the coffin was not carried, otherwise it would be unlucky. Therefore, the rope had to be strong, and it had to be tied so that it could not slip off. It was a laborious task. On a very cold day, there was a fine layer of sweat on his forehead.
Hearing this, he looked at the people outside and frowned, "Well, help me to ask the Yang family what it means? Let them come and take my people away."
The person who came to report the letter was not an outsider. Hearing this, he turned around and slipped out of the yard to the Yang family.
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