Rebirth in the leisurely life of the red age

In the afternoon, Li Yuan and Lou Xiao'e took the shuttle bus back to Qinjiazhuang to pick up their family members into the city.

What Zhao Yehong said is right, if you don’t sit well during the confinement period, not only the children will suffer and it will be difficult to support them, but the adults will be physically and mentally exhausted, and if you are not careful, you will be at the root of the disease.

The food and supplies that have been saved for several years, the whole family of dozens of people can't eat enough, and it is easy to cause trouble.

But there is no problem at all in supplying people who are in urgent need of care.

Unfortunately, various factors have contributed to the current tension.

Food shortage is such a strange word...

On the way back, as soon as I got on the bus, not to mention Li Yuan, even Lou Xiao'e felt that the farmer's emotions were not right.

The last time she and Li Yuan came back was before they got married.

In fact, it was less than two months.

But the autumn harvest had just been completed at that time, and the faces of pedestrians on the road could still be seen with joy.

Even though this year is far from a bumper harvest, as long as there is a harvest, there is hope for the future.

But now, everyone I met along the way had a heavy look on their face.

It seems that they have all encountered unspeakable sadness and suffering...

Probably, it has something to do with the excessive intensity of food collection...

The situation only eased when we got off the bus and arrived at Qinjiazhuang.

Although I didn't see many people, occasionally a villager passing by in a hurry, grinning and waving to Li Yuan as a greeting, then ran away in a hurry...

Lou Xiao'e wondered: "Did something happy happen in the village?"

The last time she saw them, there were so many people surrounding them that she was a little frightened.

But now she refused to even stand and say a few words, which made her feel a little uncomfortable.

Li Yuan smiled and said: "It's possible, I'm probably killing pigs..."

Lou Xiao'e giggled and said, "I've never seen a pig slaughtered before!"

Li Yuan said dotingly: "If there is a chance in the future, we will buy a pig ourselves and let you kill it."

"Ha~~"

Lou Xiao'e laughed in shock and said: "I don't want it! As long as I can eat it, it looks scary, and I want to kill..."

When he was about to arrive at Li's house, he met Qin Dashan, the village head of Qin's Village. His eyes lit up when he saw Li Yuan, and he laughed and said, "The youngest is back? I just came out of your house. Dad also wants your brother to find you."

Li Yuan reacted after hearing this and said: "Uncle Qin, has the pressure well been completed?"

Qin Dashan's eyes became more and more satisfied, he patted Li Yuan on the shoulder and said with a smile: "My youngest, thanks to you! After all, it is the young man who went out of our Qin family village, who became a cadre in the city and did not forget the village while eating commercial food! Your blueprint It’s all done, and if we follow suit, we won’t be able to dig a well, so we’ll all be pigs? When the water comes out, it’s the land behind, the one in front of Qin Sanzhu’s house. Youngest, Qin Sanzhu, do you still remember?”

Li Yuan laughed dryly and said, "Remember."

Qin Dashan laughed again, nodded to Lou Xiao'e who was not sure why, and then said to Li Yuan: "Today the brigade canteen killed two pigs, let's eat pig dishes together tonight! If your father disagrees, just tell me Yes! Your father is good at everything, but he is very rigid. For so many years, he refused to take advantage of the public. But you are not taking advantage. It is our Qinjiazhuang who took advantage of you !”

After Qin Dashan left happily, Li Yuan took Lou Xiao'e back home.

There are not many people in the Li family at home at the moment, just Mother Li and two sisters-in-law who are in confinement...

Maybe it was because the milk powder was hidden at home, so the daughter-in-law who gave birth took the baby to live in the old house.

Seeing Li Yuan and Lou Xiao'e entering the door, Li's mother was overjoyed and said in surprise: "Why are you back at this time?"

The second sister-in-law, with her head wrapped in a scarf and sitting on the kang covered with a quilt, also smiled and complained: "What will we do if there is no one at home if we don't tell you in advance?"

Lou Xiao'e called out with a smile, the fifth sister-in-law at the other end of the kang was sleeping, she woke up when she heard the movement, and seeing Li Yuan and his wife, she was also happy and said, "The youngest and Xiao'e are back?"

Li Yuan smiled and said: "Second sister-in-law, fifth sister-in-law, congratulations to you two." Lou Xiao'e asked: "Where is the child?"

Li's mother pulled Lou Xiao'e to sit on the kang, and said: "In that room, eat and sleep, sleep and eat, it's best to take it with you now." Then she said to Li Yuan: "The one you supported has recruited a spirit, this morning After the water was squeezed out, the whole Zhuangzi looked like New Year's. Your father discussed with Qin Dashan and killed two big pigs to eat. As long as there is well water, even if there is a severe drought and no rain next year, you won't be caught blind like this year. You Dad and your brother are watching the fun in the brigade cafeteria, I'll call you back."

Li Yuan smiled and said, "There's no need to run away. I just saw Uncle Dashan. Dad and the others will surely win his trust soon."

Mother Li nodded and said: "That's okay. Yuanzi, what's the matter with you and Xiao'e suddenly coming back?"

The second sister-in-law smiled and said, "I must be here to announce the good news. Xiao'e is pregnant?"

Lou Xiao'e's pretty face turned red, she shook her head and said, "I didn't."

After saying that, he looked a little disappointed.

In these days and months, if there is no movement in the second month after marriage, it would be somewhat unpleasant, even though you have worked so hard...

Li Yuan smiled and said: "It was my idea. The situation in the past two years will not be very good, so I told Xiao'e that there is no rush to have a child. Our family is now working together to bring the twenty-three children together. I have carried them through the past two or three years. What is the difference between these children at home and my children?"

It is not his style to do good deeds without leaving a name. For such a strong support to the Li family, the reward is on the one hand, and the investment in family affection is on the other.

Based on past life experience, we know that even close relatives need emotional investment.

Sure enough, after listening to Li Yuan's words, the second sister-in-law and the fifth sister-in-law were so moved that they wanted to shed tears.

Just as he was trying to persuade Li Yuan not to do this, Li Gui, seven brothers from the Li family, five other sisters-in-law, and several little Douding all came back.

Li Yuan and Lou Xiao'e both stood up to meet each other, and it was quite lively again.

The Li family's old house is not small, but there are too many people and it seems crowded.

Li Gui looked at his son and daughter-in-law and asked, "Why are you back at this time? Today is not Sunday. Shouldn't I go to work?"

Li Yuandao: "First, I came home to see how the pressure well is doing. The husband of our street director, Aunt Wang, is Deputy Bureau Song of the Chengdong Public Security Bureau, and you know him too. Bureau Song is very aware and worried. The country cares for the people. After hearing about this, I have been thinking about it and asked me to find out several times. Although he is from the security department, he is close to the higher-ups..."

A smile appeared on Li Gui's face and he said: "I'm out of the water!"

The boss Li Chi also nodded and said: "Now we need to build a few more wells before winter. The water output from one is still too little. We need to use steel pipes and cement. I don't know if the authorities will approve it."

Li Yuan smiled and said: "It will be decided by the higher-ups. We just have to do our job well. After Uncle Song brings people to see it, this matter will definitely be spread to the higher-ups. It will be much better than worrying about it ourselves."

He was not prepared to get involved in this good thing, let alone leave his name, so he hid it tightly without showing his face.

The person who is currently in charge of the overall work has problems even if he shakes hands...

But as long as the old Li family is low-key enough, someone will naturally snatch up this "great thing"...

Li Yuancha changed the topic and said: "Dad, brother, I came back this time to pick up my mother and my second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth sister-in-law, who went to the city with their children.

My master has an empty second-floor apartment in his house. She gave it to me to use for a few years, and then returned it to her when her son got married. It just so happened that my family could use it in the past two years.

No matter which sister-in-law is in confinement, she can go up and take care of her.

Even the stove at home is sealed, how can I have a good confinement period? "

Hearing what he said, Mother Li was startled and said, "What's it like for us people to come to the city? There is no big pot of rice in the city, and there is no food ration. How much food is enough?"

Li Yuan smiled and said: "You don't have to worry about this at home. I will find a way over there and it will be done properly. I haven't done anything else for more than a year. I just groped for food everywhere and hid some. It's enough for my mother and a few My sister-in-law has been able to enjoy her confinement for a while without having to use the food hidden in the cellar of the courtyard.

My second brother and the others have hunted so many wild animals and I have saved them. We can’t cook them here, so we can easily eat them in the city.

Children are the first to grow the fastest. This year has laid a solid foundation, making it easier to raise them in the future.

The same goes for sisters-in-law. How can they have a good confinement period by bringing back some whole grain cereals from the brigade canteen?

You still have to nurse the baby, and your body will collapse over time.

This is what I think. In our big family, no matter how old or young, no one can be missing.

And if the weather can be smooth next year, we will get through it..."

Li's mother was in tears and said to Li Gui: "The youngest and Xiao'e have discussed that they don't want children first, and they will raise the children in the family first."

As soon as these words came out, everyone in the room looked at Li Yuan and Lou Xiao'e who were smiling with emotion, and many of them had red circles in their eyes.

The three sisters-in-law, who were very pregnant, even pulled Lou Xiao'e, tears streaming down her face.

Li Gui frowned, looked at his youngest son for a long time, and then said: "Don't be brave!"

The boss, Li Chi, didn't agree very much, and said in a deep voice: "You are the youngest, and your health is not good after being brought up since childhood. Just live your own life and don't let us worry about it. Who has a baby these days without confinement at home? You give birth to your own child, why bother?"

He knew what he had in his mind. When Li Yuan was fifteen years old, he suffered a serious illness. The doctor who brought him said that the small loss had exhausted his body and he couldn't survive it.

Unexpectedly, he got through it, but since then, Li Gui, as a father, has always wanted Li Yuan to get married early, so as to preserve his bloodline and make a splash...

It's just that in front of so many eldest daughters-in-law, it's not good for an old man to favor the younger son too much, so he, the eldest brother, can only say so.

The sister-in-law laughed loudly at the sisters-in-law, especially Lou Xiao'e and said, "Your eldest brother loves the youngest more than our father! Sometimes I get jealous, and I'm not so nice to Li Kun."

The sisters-in-law also laughed, but they couldn't say anything about the elder brother.

Li Yuan was actually in a dilemma. If he really encountered a group of relatives who climbed up poles to suck blood, it would be easier. He had many ways to deal with them and get rid of them.

However, the Li family's family style is upright, it is clearly a peasant family, with so many people, it is not chaotic at all...

It just doesn't make sense.

The more this happened, the more pressure he felt...

Gradually, I began to think of them as real relatives.

I have to admit that such a family atmosphere is really easy to move people...

Li Yuan smiled and said: "Brother also said that I am not in good health, so I want to bring together so many nephews and nieces. After ten or twenty years, Li Kun and the others will have grown up. Among the ten nephews, there must be a few who are filial to my eighth uncle, right? I can also retire early and take good care of my body."

Li Chi's complexion didn't look much better at all, and the second child, Li Jiang, couldn't figure it out: "Are there only a few filial children out of twenty or thirty? Are the others raised as livestock?"

Several sister-in-laws were also shouting: "Whoever dares not be filial to their eighth uncle will be beaten to death directly."

Li Yuan laughed and said: "I'll just say that... The main reason is that the current situation is really bad. You can't see meat when you are in confinement, right? Now there is no cooking at home, and there is no way.

Go, go, go as soon as you say.

My master's place is fully furnished with bedding, so I don't need to bring anything except a change of clothes. You have to live there for a month first to try it out, right? No matter what, you have to finish your confinement well. "

Li Hai touched his head, grinned and said, "It's good to have a good confinement period, but I'm afraid it will trouble you and your sister-in-law." He also felt sorry for his wife.

Lou Xiao'e said hurriedly: "I'm fine."

Li Yuan also said with a smile: "Trouble me, there is a single-family courtyard house over there. I will find a way to quietly send in all the food and drink, and the rest will be up to my mother and sisters-in-law. Xiao'e and I I have to go to work, so I can’t wait here.”

The third sister-in-law smiled and said: "It's not born together. We can take care of ourselves. The rural people are not so delicate. How many of them were just working in the fields to earn work points, and then gave birth in a blink of an eye. They were raised at home for two days Throw the child on the kang, tie it with a rope, and go out to earn work points. But there are also accidents, such as the children of Qin Deshui’s family. They tie the child and put it on the kang. The adults go out to work in the field. The edges of the Kang are all purple..."

Lou Xiao'e was frightened, her eyes widened and she said, "Sister-in-law third, what happened to the child?"

The third sister-in-law laughed and said: "It doesn't matter! If you say that the rural people are strong, the child will be taken to the medical center to be pushed by the doctor and he will be relieved. So there is no need to worry at all. Now it is not busy with farming. In addition to eating and sleeping, we are afraid that we will sit on our own. Can’t have confinement?”

Lou Xiao'e warned seriously: "Third sister-in-law, you must never tie up your child like this!"

The family laughed and became more and more fond of this simple and kind little daughter-in-law.

There are few sisters-in-law who don't care about calculations. They worry not about the scarcity but about the inequality. Sometimes they are either rich or not, or they are annoyed by unfairness.

Lou Xiao'e's performance was beyond their expectations. They originally thought she was a spoiled young lady, but who knew she didn't care at all and was so kind...

The third sister-in-law laughed and nodded in agreement: "I will listen to you and don't tie up the child!"

Lou Xiao'e laughed sheepishly...

Li Yuan said: "Then hurry up and pack up and leave. There is a shuttle bus now. You have to pack up when you go. The third sister-in-law, the fourth sister-in-law, and the sixth sister-in-law have not yet given birth, so they can leave by themselves. The second brother and the fifth brother will go with them. Help the second sister-in-law and the fifth sister-in-law. Let’s go faster. In the evening, I have to treat Aunt Wang’s daughter-in-law. Her uncle Song is the deputy bureau of the Chengdong Public Security Bureau. It’s a coincidence that the public security bureau is located in Xinsi Hutong. Next door, you can ask someone to help take care of it."

Without this relationship, he might not dare to bring so many family members to the capital.

The current street aunts are no joke...

…

Two hours later, at 5:10 p.m., Li Yuan brought a large group of family members to Dongxinsi Hutong and opened the door of Courtyard No. 13 with the key given by Sun Da.

The reverse seat, wing room, moon door, north room, etc. are all in order.

Although it is not as luxurious as the front porch and back building of No. 5 Beixincang Courtyard given by Lou Zhentao, it is still very good, and the Li family is very satisfied.

My sister-in-law also came over to take a look. She felt relieved after seeing the courtyard and said with a smile, "Mom, this courtyard is really not bad!"

Mother Li shook her head and said: "It's not bad, it belongs to someone else. The golden nest and silver nest are not as good as their own doghouse. Their sisters-in-law will go home after confinement here. They have lived here for a long time, and their spirits are getting weak."

The sister-in-law nodded and said: "That's right. Don't eat too much here, otherwise you won't be able to bear it when you go back."

Lou Xiao'e smiled and said: "Sister-in-law, why don't you come and live here too? I'm not busy in the winter, so I'll go back in the spring next year."

The sister-in-law took Lou Xiao'e's hand and said: "We sisters-in-law, you are the kindest. No one else would be able to do this. Good boy, don't worry about us. We are already such old people, and you are not the first." How can you still take care of yourself after giving birth to a baby? You and Yuanzi should have given birth to your baby. After the baby is born, when mom comes to take care of your baby, I will come and stay for two more days."

Li Yuan took his second brother Li Jiang and fifth brother Li Hai. They walked around the yard and then went out on their bicycles. Li Jiang and Li Hai took their mother and others to divide the bedrooms and settle the baby. .

Before they were done, Li Yuan had already returned with large and small bags and went straight to the kitchen.

When Li Jiang, Li Hai and others heard the commotion and rushed over, they found that the two noodle tanks in the kitchen already contained half a tank of white noodles and stick noodles. In the cupboard, there was actually a dried chicken, two pieces of bacon and a piece of rice noodles. Crucian carp that looks fresh!

Lard and sesame oil are also placed in place, and cabbage and potatoes are piled in the corner...

Without giving them time to ask more questions, Li Yuan gasped and said: "That's it for today. Mom, sister-in-law, second brother, fifth brother, Xiao'e and I have to leave quickly, and we have to go to Mianmian Hutong to find Wang I beg you to ask Uncle Song to help you say hello to the street here, otherwise the black man's family will come to your door before the day is over.

I still have some tickets and money here. After exiting the alley, turn east for a few steps and you will reach the grocery store. If you are short of anything, let Fifth Brother buy it.

Sister-in-law, I won’t see you off today. "

The elder sister-in-law patted Li Yuan's arm and said to Li's mother: "Although I am the sister-in-law, I still raise the youngest child like a child. When I was a child, I cried every day and was as squeamish as a little girl. My mother and I were still worried. , I don’t know if I can stand upright when I grow up... In just a blink of an eye, I have grown so big that I have become the mainstay."

There were tears in his smiling eyes.

In such a difficult time, the youngest in the family stood up and supported the family. How could we not be moved?

Mother Li sighed with emotion and said with a smile: "It's time to get married, we are all married. Youngest, please leave quickly. You don't have to come here every day, you have to do business."

Li Yuan smiled and said: "What is more important than family matters? It's okay, Mom."

Lou Xiao'e also smiled and said: "Mom, you and your sisters-in-law have a good rest here. We will come back tomorrow."

After the two said goodbye, they rode their bicycles to Beixincang Hutong. They cooked a portion of braised chicken and rice with Liubiju's pickles, and then rode their bicycles to Mianmian Hutong...

Lou Xiao'e couldn't help but asked: "Yuanzi, are we really not in a hurry to have a baby?"

Li Yuan winked and said with a smile: "There's no rush. I haven't taken any measures. If I get pregnant, it's a surprise. If I don't, it's because we have contributed to the family."

Lou Xiao'e reacted for a while before she fully understood. Her eyes were like sticky syrup, stuck to Li Yuan and couldn't be moved away...

…

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Many book friends think that they have run out of things to write and have been nesting dolls. This is not true. There are too many things to write. But when I was immersed in writing, I only wanted to write about funny things in the courtyard, so I went too far. .

I have scrapped so many saved manuscripts, my heart is bleeding, but there is nothing I can do.

As for why you keep teasing the Jia family and the first uncle... who makes them the biggest bosses in the courtyard?

This book cannot be regarded as a pure period novel. It is written in a light-hearted and joyful direction. It is inevitable that some book friends will feel that it has no serious main line and that it has no serious plot, but there are also some book friends who find it funny.

I slowly adjust and improve, trying to balance the two. For a book with more than a million words, I wrote it with all my heart and strived to live up to the support of my book friends.