By this time, everyone was actually hungry. Looking at the delicious dishes on the table, I couldn't help swallowing. Li Qinghe has been helping in the restaurant for two years, and sometimes Chef Chen will say a few words, and if he reads it every day, if he reads too much, he will naturally be fired.
Zhou's mother also prepared wine, and everyone poured a bowl. She didn't take chopsticks, and the servants had to bear it no matter how much they wanted to eat.
She coughed lightly, "It's rare for the whole family to sit together during the Chinese New Year today. Before eating, I have a few words to say."
Everyone looked up and looked at her.
Not to mention the brothers and sisters of the Zhou family, the three new daughters-in-law did not dare to choke with Zhou's mother. No matter what he thought in his heart, he had a very serious look on his face.
"I'm sure you've all heard about what happened to the Qian family a few days ago. I just hope that you don't grow up to be such bastards."
Everyone looked solemn, and hurriedly said, "No."
Mother Zhou nodded, "In the past six months, I think you have been doing well, so after this year's autumn harvest, each of you will give me fifty catties of grain every year."
The room was already quiet, but after hearing this, it was so quiet that Zhang Haiyao and Mei Shi looked at each other, while Mrs. Liu over there frowned, "Sister, let me be fair. You are still young, start now." Is it a bit too much to ask children to be filial... "
Mother Zhou raised her hand to stop her words, "This is a family matter of our Zhou family. If they are dissatisfied, they should say it themselves." It's not your turn to be an outsider.
Hearing this, Mrs. Liu's face turned ugly, "I thought I was sitting at this table, and you all regarded me as a family. I didn't expect that I couldn't even say a word. If this is the case, then I..." She suddenly got up, turned around When he was about to go out, he looked angry.
Just as she was about to step out of the threshold, Zhou's mother said, "You are a guest at my house, and the boss will take care of you. Either you are like me and let the boss give you 50 catties of grain every year."
What can fifty catties of grain do
Mrs. Liu thought that Zhou's mother would keep her and say soft words to let her step down, but she didn't expect to be so stubborn. If you can't get off the stage, you have no choice but to step out.
Seeing this, Mrs. Mei said eagerly, "Mother." She got up and was about to chase after her.
She rushed to the door, and Zhou's mother said in a deep voice, "Sister-in-law Liu can leave because she is not from my Zhou family. If you leave, take her out of my Zhou family."
Boss Zhou hurriedly got up and went to pat Zhou's mother on the back, "Mother, don't be angry when it's Chinese New Year."
Zhou's mother waved his hand away and said solemnly, "I raised you young, so you should raise me to be old? Fifty catties of grain a year is not too much. You make trouble with me, go away Yes, I thought people ran away, can this matter be avoided? If you follow them to live in Liu's house, I will never ask you for it. Just like the second child, leave your land to me, and the food will not be used You hand it in."
"Hand over." Zhang Haiyao said suddenly, "Mother, we are willing to hand over. It is right to give you a pension, and there are siblings, she must be willing too."
Li Qinghe nodded, "We are willing to pay."
In this way, it seemed that the Mei family who ran out was very stingy, and she had an ugly face, "The matter of providing for mother's pension can be discussed, you all agreed, and I have no reason not to agree. It's just my mother... "
Mrs. Liu asked for it herself!
After a while, Zhou's mother said, "You give her a copy of the food on this table."
After this incident, the atmosphere at the dinner table was somewhat dull. Fortunately, the food was very good and everyone concentrated on eating.
Seeing that the food on the table was getting less and less, Zhou's mother suddenly said, "It's not that I want to bully her so meanly, but because she interferes like this, the boss' life is hard."
Mrs. Mei lowered her head, and Zhou's mother looked at her, "You have to have your own thoughts, and your life is your own. Is the boss not as good as the man in front of you?"
Mei's face turned red at first, and then gradually turned pale. The one in the front had been sick all the time, lying on the bed dying, and it took several years before he left. She has served enough, Mrs. Zhou is kind, treats her well, and gives her all the money she earns. This is a very rare thing in the whole Wang village. She lowered her head and seemed to be thinking. .
After a meal, Li Qinghe helped clean up the dishes before going home.
When the two returned home, it was already late, and there were not many fish in the pond, so they went home after feeding them. The chicken next door has already been fed before going, so don’t worry about it today.
After Zhou Chengkang entered the door, he lit the brazier first, and the room gradually warmed up. On the eve of the New Year's Eve, when there was a vigil, Li Qinghe took out the soles of her shoes, and the person opposite helped her with her embroidery thread. It was warm and quiet, and it was peaceful.
As the night outside gradually deepened, I heard him ask, "Are you hungry?"
Not to mention, although there were a lot of dishes today, there were also a lot of people eating, Li Qinghe didn't eat much, and besides, she wasn't very hungry at all, so when he asked now, she really felt hungry.
Zhou Chengkang smiled and said, "I'll cook noodles for you."
"Okay." Li Qinghe put down his needle and thread, "Let's go together."
The two went to the kitchen, kneaded the noodles to wake them up, and cooked two small dishes during the process. Half an hour later, the two returned to the room with the cooked meals, and sat facing each other in the warm room.
Li Qinghe ate the noodles, looked at the person opposite, a little dazed, "The meal in the afternoon was more like Chinese New Year, but I think it seems to have more Chinese New Year atmosphere now."
Hearing this, Zhou Chengkang stretched out his hand to hold her hand, "That's because we are the ones who have been with each other the longest."
Li Qinghe came back to his senses, smiled and said, "You're right."
The first year after the two got married passed like this. On the first day of the first lunar month, the two of them slept until noon, and they were going back to their mother's house today.
In the afternoon, Li Qinghe went to Li's house with Zhou Chengkang with the New Year gift that he had prepared long ago. This year, Mrs. Qian was lying in bed during the Chinese New Year. Li Fu probably had a bad year. He didn't know how to cook, and he didn't know what he ate yesterday.
When Li Qinghe arrived, Hu Yanxi had already arrived, bringing Zhao Wanwan with him.
Li Fu really didn't know how to cook. When his two daughters came back with their son-in-law, he was a little embarrassed, and even ran in to see Mrs. Qian several times, probably to urge her to get up and cook. But Mrs. Qian still didn't get up. In the end, Zhao Wanwan went to the kitchen to cook. There were meat and vegetables. These were prepared, and Li Qinghe also went to help.
In the kitchen, the two sisters cook together, which was very common before they got married. Zhao Wanwan secretly looked at her several times, "Sister, mother, hasn't she got up all this time?"
"I don't know." Li Qinghe said calmly, "Don't look at me close, I don't go home often."
"Are you still going to the county seat after the Chinese New Year?" Li Qinghe asked.
Zhao Wanwan nodded, "Go, there will be a county examination after the Chinese New Year. I quit my job at the inn. I will go back after the Chinese New Year to take care of Yan Xi."
Li Qinghe asked in a low voice, "Is he really a concubine?" He was really curious.
Zhao Wanwan smiled and shook her head, "No, it's just that the girl likes him and often sends him something, but she can't refuse. When I go next year, it should be fine."
Li Qinghe was dumbfounded. If a man wanted to reject a girl, there was nothing he couldn't refuse. Girls are thin-skinned, say a few harsh words, or simply ignore people, is she really shameless
She glanced at Hu Yanxi who was talking to Zhou Chengkang in the yard, but she didn't expect him to be this kind of person.
This is just curiosity, Li Qinghe still has business to do, "By the way, she gave your father the money and asked your father to give it to you. When your father came back, he said that he found you and had a good life, and that he would bring money for you in the future. This matter do you know?"
Zhao Wanwan was surprised, she shook her head and said, "I don't know, that's why you asked me if I saw my father that time?"
Li Qinghe spread his hands, the reason why he said this was because he didn't want their mother and daughter to continue to be deceived, the main reason was that Li Fu raised her anyway, and he did his best, don't let her father look for her, and go to Xiaojing's side, money is not a big deal , I'm afraid he will be sad.
The two sisters cooked and went back to their respective homes after eating.
In the first month of the lunar year, the two went to buy fish fry and put them in the pond, and then went to the fields. Seeing that spring plowing was about to begin, Li Qinghe originally planned to cut down another two acres of those wastelands, and wait until next year to set aside one acre for feeding chickens. The rest are all picked up and farmed.
But last winter came too early and it rained for so long. Not to mention them, even in the village, many people's fields were not cleaned up. Before the tenth day of the first lunar month, people could be seen going to the fields with sickles and hoes.
The two of them are no exception, the main reason is that there is no one to help, Li Fu's side, Qian Shi is still lying down, probably going to lie down in spring. He can't clean up his own land, let alone help, it's good for both of them not to help him. Not to mention the Zhou family, it would take many days for Zhou's mother to plant those lands by herself, and it would take many days to clean them up and down. Except for the second brother, those few brothers probably can't count on them.
The two of them hacked for a whole day, and Li Qinghe still had blisters on his hands, so he gritted his teeth and paid someone for money!
When the news was released, many people came to Li Kui. Li Qinghe asked Li Kui to help find people for all the work in the field. From wasteland to building houses, his family was very quick to give money, and many people came to the door.
Li Kui took Li Xingwang's family, and seven or eight people invited outside, but within a few days, not only cleared up last year's land, but also cut down two acres of weeds on the side. Seeing this, Li Qinghe didn't want to keep it anymore. Cut out all the pieces over there.
It took nearly half a month, and Li Qinghe paid more than one or two yuan of wages, but the results were gratifying. Of the ten acres of wasteland he bought, only a little more than one acre was left on the side where the chickens were raised, and the remaining eight acres were all poverty-stricken. land.
Good or bad, two years will be fine.
When she bought the foot of this barren mountain before, most people thought she was wasting money without saying anything, but now that the land is cut out, such a large area is hers, and many people are envious when they see it.
No one's land has ever been so neat and tidy. Although it is thinner now, it has been planted for ten or eight years, and it is almost the same as here.
So, someone put the idea to the wasteland around Wangwang Village, bought it with money, and took a little effort to clean it up, and then there will be a harvest every year from then on.
In the past two days, many people have quietly gone to the village chief's house.
When Li Qinghe first measured this land, he measured the most flat part of the wasteland. On the left was the path leading up the mountain, and on the right, he could still leave the village.
A few days later, in the area on the right, the village head brought the yamen to measure five acres.
Surprisingly, the person who bought the land was the Yang family. They were the same as in their previous life. After their business was calculated, the shops and houses in the town disappeared. After moving to the village, they kept a low profile. They never expected to have money to buy land.