1983 Small Island, Starting From a Large Farmer

Chapter 421: No way, then I will find a way to go in

 After autumn.

The sun becomes shorter, and after six o'clock, it is already very dark.

 The cooked food also cools down quickly.

Chen Huiying said: "In the future, if the weather gets colder, we won't be able to eat outside."

Chen Huiying glanced at the three small houses, and none of them could place the Eight Immortals table on the ground floor for everyone to eat together.

 After finishing the meal, Xiaoying and Shuihua helped put away the dishes, and Zhang Lin and Zhang Yun also helped.

 After the children and women had left the table, Lao Li suddenly said: "Duoyu, Yaoguo, Mingsheng, I want to talk to you about something."

Everyone sat on the stone strip, Lao Li got a cigarette, and his brother-in-law Zhang Mingsheng quickly struck a match and lit it for his father-in-law.

 Lao Li first said to Li Duoyu and Li Yaoguo: "Two days ago, I received a letter from your eldest brother. He said that he would take your eldest sister-in-law to the island to celebrate the New Year this year."

Li Duoyu said happily: "This is a good thing. If the elder brother and sister-in-law come back too, the Chinese New Year will be lively this year."

If you go back to celebrate the New Year, you will probably be laughed to death by the villagers. Instead of going back and suffering, it is better to stay on Dandan Island.

 “It’s not you who asked me to stay calm.”

"I know, she seems to be back in a few days, I will tell her."

Li Yaoguo smiled awkwardly.

“If Xiaorong comes back this year, we brothers and sisters will be reunited. It seems I have to buy some fireworks to celebrate.”

They were afraid that after learning about these things, the Li family would be impulsive and come directly to ask for an explanation.

“That’s good, you’d better leave an extra room. Before the New Year, ask your parents if you want to go to Dandan Island to celebrate the New Year together.”

 Lao Li finally looked at the playful and smiling Lao Si: "You have become the village director, so be careful."

“Dad, my whole family is here now, and my house is built here. I may not go back during the Chinese New Year.”

"OK."

Zhang Mingsheng didn’t expect his father-in-law to tell him this matter. To be honest, he really hadn’t thought about this issue.

 Li Duoyu smiled.

 “Aren’t you too big or too stable?”

Zhang Mingsheng scratched his head: "My house is not big and relatively simple. I can definitely build it years ago."

Li Shuihua, who was putting away the dishes and chopsticks, was startled for a moment. She glanced at Zhang Mingsheng, and her brows instantly furrowed.

Zhang Mingsheng knew that they had been wronged, but he did not know many details, and Shui Hua did not tell him.

 Lao Li stretched out his hand: "Don't think that now that you are rich and have become the village director, I won't dare to beat you."

After hearing this, Lao Li shook the ashes from his cigarette and sighed: "When will your house be built?"

 Actually, he wanted to say that the person who had the guts to abduct her was definitely a man.

 Next.

His parents are somewhat submissive. His family is quite special. He is the only male among the five sisters.

 Having returned to her parents' home for just a few months, his two daughters felt "safe" before they were willing to tell him.

After Lao Li finished speaking, he looked at his son-in-law Zhang Mingsheng and asked, "What are your plans for this year? Are you going to stay here or go back to celebrate the New Year?"

But all these things were suppressed by Shuihua, and even told Zhang Lin and Zhang Yun not to tell their grandparents, and their uncle.

Moreover, they are often not allowed to eat at the table, saying that people who have not inherited the family line are not qualified to serve at the table, and they are often beaten with whips.

 Lao Li frowned and glanced at Lao Si: "Save it if you can. Fireworks are so expensive. Don't buy too many. You know?"

If he didn't go back, his and Shuihua's reputation in the village would definitely become worse, and they would be said to be unfilial.

　　When Zhang Mingsheng first heard these things, he felt really guilty, and finally understood why the somewhat heroic woman he liked at the beginning became timid and timid after marrying him.

 So I lived with my parents since I was a child. In the past, we would celebrate the New Year together around the fire every year.

 Lao Li continued: "I also asked Xiaoying to help write a letter to Xiaorong, asking her to try to go home for the New Year this year."

After living on Dandan Island for a few months, he really didn’t want to go back. No matter what they said, my family just wanted to live happily.

Li Duoyu cleared his throat and became serious instantly: "Captain Li, if you have anything, please report to me."

It turned out that every time he went out to sea to fish, his mother and aunts began to behave like monsters. They often refused to give Shui Hua and his two daughters rice, and would only give them sweet potato noodles.

I don’t know why, but the people in his hometown are always thinking about carrying on the family line, and now his third son is also a woman.

Although Zhang Mingsheng agreed, thinking about his parents, they probably wouldn’t dare to come to his in-laws’ place.

Although I broke up with my family, during the time I came to Dandan Island, I also received several letters from my hometown.

　　After returning to her parents’ home from playing water, his father-in-law and mother-in-law realized how much injustice their daughter and two granddaughters had suffered in their village.

 Once, I even wanted to secretly take the second child to someone else's house and sell it. Fortunately, Shuihua discovered it and the sale failed.

But when I think about the faces of those relatives and what they said at the beginning, if they continue to have girls, they will give them away or sell them, I feel that this place is particularly boring.

Lao Li said to his second son, Li Yaoguo:

"Xiuhua, you have to call her back to see if she is there. She is doing things outside and you don't even contact her. She will run away with someone else later and you won't even know."

 Lao Li sighed and said: "That house of yours, please give me more treats. How many times have you been there since you built the house?"

Li Duoyu smiled and said:

 “Master Cao, I can rest assured when doing things.”

Lao Li said angrily: "Lao Cao is a good man, but he didn't build the house alone. If your mother and I hadn't often helped you supervise the work, his two apprentices would have cut corners."

 Li Duoyu thought for a while: "Well, this year I will give my second boss a big red envelope."

 Lao Li glared and said, "We are not old yet, so don't call us old all day long."

"By the way, after discussing with your mother, I still plan to live in the old house, but I will live in your new house. When the time comes, you might as well change the room downstairs into a guest room, so that when your elder brother and sister-in-law come back, they will also have one. Sleep somewhere.”

“No problem, if they come back during the Chinese New Year, they will be accommodated on the first floor.”

"By the way, your sister-in-law seems to be pregnant. She is older. If you have any fish maws by then, it would be better to leave some good ones for her."

 Li Duoyu was surprised: "It's been a few months."

Li Yaoguo and Zhang Mingsheng also looked surprised and happy.

“Jinchuan said in the letter that it may have been three months.”

"Okay, if I go to Rongcheng by then, I will pay a visit to my eldest brother's house alone and bring some supplements with me."

 Lao Li emphasized:

"It's not even four months old yet. Don't tell anyone. Let others hear it. Do you know?"

 “We understand this.”

Li Duoyu smiled quite happily. Tonight was probably the most talkative time that Lao Li had talked in this month. It was probably related to the fact that his sister-in-law was pregnant.

Li Duoyu knows very well that Lao Li has two hurdles in his life that he has never been able to overcome.

 One is to cut off the mother-son relationship with the old lady and not allow his brothers to have contact with him.

　　Although the old lady seemed to have let go in her last days, the two of them had not spoken for more than 20 years.

 Another incident, the incident when his eldest brother ran away from home in anger, also became a knot in his mind.

 Fortunately, the eldest brother is doing well now and is married, although the eldest daughter-in-law is from a second marriage and has a child.

But they didn't dislike it at all. The only thing they were worried about was that both of them were cadres in the factory. In special circumstances like theirs, if they wanted to have another child, they had to get approval from their leaders and get a quota. .

It seems that this time, the eldest brother is lucky. The eldest sister-in-law is already three months old, so she should get a quota.

Lao Li has finally overcome these two hurdles. Since there are more and more children at home, Lao Li often plays with the children, especially doting on the two girls Zhang Lin and Zhang Yun.

 During this period of time, Li Duoyu could clearly feel that his father had become more talkative and his personality had become less axial. The whole family is developing in a good direction.

 After talking about the matter with Lao Li.

Li Duoyu returned to the hut and found that Xiaoying had just finished bathing little Tutu. The little kid was running around the house naked but refused to put on clothes.

 After running in front of him, he picked him up and patted his **** gently.

 “You kid, you are getting more and more naughty.”

 After pouring the bath water, Zhou Xiaoying asked: "Did Principal Zhu come to you to ask for money?"

"Um."

Li Duoyu nodded and replied: "He wants me to take the lead in donating money to build several classrooms for the school."

Zhou Xiaoying said: "If we really build it, it's impossible to build only a few rooms. Don't be the one who takes advantage of us. Do you know?"

Li Duoyu said: "If it is not covered, you can only have classes in the open air."

Zhou Xiaoying hummed: "Open-air is open-air. We also had open-air classes when we were young. Besides, there are a lot of open-air classes in China. Tanjia Village in the next town and Shanxi Village are not the only schools in our school."

Li Duoyu came up behind Zhou Xiaoying and hugged him directly: "The main reason is that I feel bad and I'm afraid I'll tan you."

 “I don’t believe it.”

Zhou Xiaoying rolled her eyes, and then stretched out a finger: "If you really want to donate, you can't exceed this amount."

Li Duoyu was surprised: "Ten thousand?"

 Zhou Xiaoying gritted her teeth and said, "It's one thousand."

Li Duoyu smiled and said: "Yingzi, isn't one thousand too few? Doesn't it make me look stingy?"

 “If one thousand is too little, then eight hundred.”

 “Ah, why do you shout less and less?”

Zhou Xiaoying frowned and said, "It's true that you made some money, but there are a lot of things you need to spend money on at home. I haven't bought the furniture for the new house or your toilet.

Recently, we are digging eel ponds and reclaiming the sea. Do you have that much money? "

 “It really does.”

 Li Duoyu took out the bankbook directly from the box and showed it to Zhou Xiaoying.

When Zhou Xiaoying saw the balance in the passbook, her expression froze on the spot: "You have done so many projects, how come you still have so much money left."

Li Duoyu pretended to be cool on the spot: "Look at how much money your men have made this year. In this year, it is quite difficult to spend almost 200,000 yuan."

Zhou Xiaoying frowned and thought for a while: "Even if you have money, it can't exceed one thousand at most. If you donate too much and let them know that you are rich, they might catch you alone in the future."

 “That makes sense.”

Li Duoyu hugged Zhou Xiaoying again and stretched out his hand from under his clothes. Unexpectedly, he got an unexpected surprise.

 “Get started, I’m so annoyed!”

Zhou Xiaoying slapped off his dog's paws, with a look of disgust on her face: "He just came here the day before yesterday."

 “Energetic and fiery, it’s not enough at all.”

"Don't say such nonsense. Little Tutu is still looking at it. If he learns it later, we will be embarrassed."

Li Duoyu glanced at Xiao Tutu with disgust and said, "Go to bed quickly. Your mother and I have something to discuss."

 “Humph, sleep with mom.”

Zhou Xiaoying quickly pushed Li Duoyu out of the room: "You go out first. If you are here, little Tutu will not be able to sleep at all."

"By the way, I thought you were too tired recently, so I killed a chicken for you and stewed it in the kitchen. You can go and eat it yourself."

“No wonder I felt the aroma as soon as I entered the house. Don’t stew chicken for me next time. It would be more practical to get a few more oysters.”

Li Duoyu ate some chicken and drank part of the chicken soup, then sat in the kitchen and picked his teeth.

 Almost, half an hour later.

 Zhou Xiaoying came out of the room and started to get hot water to take a bath.

 “Little Tutu fell asleep.”

 Zhou Xiaoying nodded.

Li Duoyu smiled mysteriously and said, "Comrade Xiaoying, I have good news to tell you."

 Zhou Xiaoying frowned slightly: "What good news."

“By the way, let me ask first, how have you been learning English recently? What level is it at?”

 Zhou Xiaoying was stunned when asked by Li Duoyu. She really didn't know what her current level was.

 “I don’t know what my level is either.”

 “Can you have a conversation in English?”

Zhou Xiaoying said: "I should be able to speak a little bit, but I rarely communicate with others, so I probably don't speak very well."

Li Duoyu thought for a while: "How about this? I speak Mandarin and you answer in English. Let's try to communicate."

Zhou Xiaoying shook her head and said, "Why are you suddenly testing my English? Your good news is related to English?"

“Hurry up, if your English is good enough, I will tell you the good news.”

 Zhou Xiaoying was very reluctant, but she didn’t know how to start the conversation, so her first sentence was:

 “Howareyou?”

"I am fine."

After hearing this, Zhou Xiaoying was surprised and said: "I haven't even started to translate it for you. How do you know what this sentence means?"

Li Duoyu smiled awkwardly and said: "I always hear you reciting it, and occasionally I steal a sentence or two, but it's just one or two sentences."

 Zhou Xiaoying next spoke to Li Duoyu, first in English and then in Mandarin.

The whole conversation, although a little stiff, was at least coherent. It was definitely not as good as those with foreign language majors, but simple daily chatting should be no problem.

Li Duoyu smiled evilly and said, "Then, can we do that tonight?"

 “Noway.”

"no way."

"If there is no way, then I will find a door to go in. Next, don't get too excited about what I am going to say."

 Li Duoyu no longer pretends to be secretive: "This time I went to the city for a meeting, and the leader wanted me to go to Hong Kong Island to attend a party together."

Zhou Xiaoying was surprised: "Ah, you are going out again. Do you want me to teach you English?"

 “Don’t interrupt, okay? Just listen to what I have to say first.”

Li Duoyu continued: "Then, I told the leader that my English is very bad. Can I bring someone with me who can speak English? Now you understand."

Zhou Xiaoying was stunned. She understood, but she also became very nervous. She frowned and said, "I am not good at English, so I can't be your translator."

"You are thinking too much. We are small people like us. How can the big people in Hong Kong communicate with us? Our first purpose is to find your relatives, and maybe we can also find your grandma."

After hearing this, Zhou Xiaoying was so happy that her eyes were red: "You have been better to me in the past two years than in the previous twenty years combined."

 “Then is there a way now?”

“I’ve had classes outside all day today, and my whole body smells sour. I’m going to take a shower first.”

 “Together, I’m very good at rubbing my back.”

 (End of this chapter)