Rebirth begins with marrying an educated youth

Chapter 72 The Wang Family Stone

After walking out of the house, Ji Yuanhai wandered around the puddle not far away, and let the aquatic plants tie up a silver carp.

He casually fished out more than two kilograms of silver carp, and also fished out aquatic plants to use as a rope to carry the fish towards Liu Xianglan's house.

Before I got there, I found a small figure squatting under a big tree.

"Xiaohong, what are you doing?"

Ji Yuanhai asked.

Wang Xiaohong turned her head and exclaimed in surprise, "Uncle Yuan Hai!"

"I just saw a cicada monkey and it dug a little hole! I'm going to dig him out!"

"look!"

Ji Yuanhai went over to take a look and saw that she was digging into a mud hole with her fingers and was reluctant to let go.

The cicada monkey in the soil has not been dug out yet.

"Did you catch it?" Ji Yuanhai squatted down and looked at the entrance of the cave and asked.

Dirty Wang Xiaohong, wearing patched clothes, was very serious.

"not yet."

"Try again?" Ji Yuanhai asked.

"Well!" Wang Xiaohong stretched out her finger to clasp it again, and looked at Ji Yuanhai in surprise, "It pinched my finger, I took it out!"

The fingers were withdrawn slowly, slowly, and then a khaki-eyed monkey popped up with its eyes puffed out, but it let go of Wang Xiaohong's fingers.

Looking at the cicada monkey, Wang Xiaohong couldn't help but open her mouth and laugh. She quickly dug up the soil and dug out the cicada monkey.

Her saliva also dripped out, and there was a loud sound in her stomach.

Ji Yuanhai asked: "Why didn't you eat again?"

"The family doesn't have much food. My mother said that if I eat all of it now, I will starve to death in the future." Wang Xiaohong said.

This is also their old problem of orphans and widowed mothers.

"Let's go, I just caught a fish and I'm going to visit your house." Ji Yuanhai said.

"Is this fish for my family?" Wang Xiaohong asked.

"Well, it's for your family." Ji Yuanhai said.

Wang Xiaohong was so happy that she circled around the fish in the Era Sea Hand.

After going around twice, Wang Xiaohong thanked Ji Yuanhai: "Thank you, Uncle Yuanhai! I love eating meat!"

"Really? How does your mother cook and eat with you?" Ji Yuanhai asked, "Braised, or stewed?"

Wang Xiaohong was a little at a loss: "I know the stew, what is braised in soy sauce? Is it cooked with fire?"

Ji Yuanhai was a little dumbfounded: That's right. There are very few ways to eat in rural areas nowadays. Poor households like Liu Xianglan who lack oil, salt, sauce and vinegar can just cook it and eat it. How can there be anything else? What's the best way to eat braised pork?

Ji Yuanhai was holding the silver carp, while Wang Xiaohong was holding the newly caught cicada monkey and jumping around.

The two arrived at the door of Liu Xianglan's adobe hut, where Liu Xianglan was cooking.

"Mom, Uncle Yuan Hai is here and brought a fish for our family!"

"This fish is so big!"

"Ah?" Liu Xianglan turned her head in surprise, showing joy, and then quickly suppressed the joy, "Yuan Hai, why are you here?"

Ji Yuanhai reached out and handed the fish to her, and said, "I have something to do with you."

Liu Xianglan's heart suddenly became hot.

Fish, there is something, that is...

She quickly glanced at Wang Xiaohong, must the child eat early and go to bed early today?

"What are you cooking for dinner? Quickly add the fish and have a full meal." Ji Yuanhai said, "Every time I see the child, his stomach is growling with hunger. How can this be possible?"

Liu Xianglan nodded, with a smile involuntarily on the corner of her mouth.

Yes, you can sleep soundly only when you are full, Yuan Hai, I understand what you mean...

I will cook now so that the children can eat well and sleep soundly.

Liu Xianglan poured out the "porridge" that was not much different from clear water in the pot, and took the black sweet potato steamed bread aside, took the silver carp and began to kill the fish.

Ji Yuanhai was in no hurry to leave because he had to talk to Liu Xianglan about something today.

The porridge was really thin, so I just grabbed a handful of stick noodles and barely fed my stomach, and only got one steamed bun.

Ji Yuanhai also knew the reason why the cornbread turned black.

On the one hand, the sweet potatoes were a bit spoiled, and they were reluctant to throw them away. They were dried in the sun and then ground into noodles, which were still made into steamed buns for eating.On the other hand, the steamed buns are stored for a long time.

The steamed bread of Liu Xianglan's family is probably a combination of both.

I have eaten this kind of Wotou Jiyuanhai a few times in my memory. It is very bitter, comparable to the traditional Chinese medicine Coptis chinensis, but it can barely satisfy my hunger.

Ji Yuanhai once told Lu Heling that the noodles made from ground elm tree bark were quite edible, but that was compared to the bad sweet potato steamed buns that were extremely bitter in the mouth.

At least the elm bark ground into flour does not taste bitter.

There was no table or chair in the room, so Wang Xiaohong sat on the stone in front of the door and looked at Ji Yuanhai: "Uncle Yuanhai, sit down too."

Ji Yuanhai sat down and watched Liu Xianglan kill fish with her.

Except for gall and fish scales, Liu Xianglan was not willing to throw away anything, even the gills of the fish were not willing to dig out.

Ji Yuanhai reminded her: "Hey, Liu Xianglan, don't you throw away the gills and viscera?"

"It's all meat." Liu Xianglan replied.

"Even if the internal organs are edible, the water inside the fish's gills is much dirtier than the fish scales. If it's really inedible, it's better to dig them out." Ji Yuanhai reminded.

Liu Xianglan hesitated for a moment, but listened to him and dug out the gills and threw them away.

Liu Xianglan sprinkled a few large grains of salt on the pot, put the fish in, added some water, and started to boil the pot.

Just as Ji Yuanhai expected, her family's oil, salt, sauce, and vinegar only contained salt, and she even ate all the vegetables she grew at home.

Add another firewood to the hot pot, and the fish will be cooked soon.

It was also dark.

Liu Xianglan asked Wang Xiaohong to eat the fish first, and when Wang Xiaohong was full, she began to eat the rest of the fish, sucking the fish bones by the way.

Drink the porridge, and save today's corn bread.

While eating, Liu Xianglan occasionally glanced at Ji Yuanhai, which was not far in front of her, and felt at ease in her heart, with a little bit of joy.

After dinner, Liu Xianglan washed all the dishes and chopsticks, and Wang Xiaohong was already yawning from sleepiness.

After all, I have eaten enough and can sleep peacefully.

Now it's the beginning of autumn, and the daytime is still quite hot, but the night is a bit cooler than the scorching heat.

Liu Xianglan asked Wang Xiaohong to sleep in the house and arranged it.

The millstone-like buttocks were sitting next to Ji Yuanhai. The smell from the busy work just now was slightly strong, and it hit his nostrils, full of pheromones.

Her throat was a little dry and she couldn't say anything.

After stopping for a while, when my heart became hot, I mustered up my courage.

He grabbed Ji Yuanhai's hand and put it under his undershirt.

Yuan Hai, come on, this is how I can make you feel better.

she thought so.

After a while, she pressed Ji Yuanhai's hand: "You can't go any further, I'm unlucky!"

Ji Yuanhai knew that she couldn't pass the test in his heart, and he just didn't intend to come for it, so he didn't force it.

"I have business with you today."

Liu Xianglan was a little confused: "Huh? Is there anything else?"

Ji Yuanhai couldn't help but smiled: "You think I'm looking for you just for this matter? It's really something."

Liu Xianglan was a little embarrassed: "Yuan Hai, I didn't just think about that, I was..."

"What are you?" Ji Yuanhai asked.

Liu Xianglan stopped talking, she was embarrassed.

"Let's talk about things..." Ji Yuanhai said.

Liu Xianglan asked what was the matter.

Ji Yuanhai told her that he and the Wang family were not dealing with each other, and that the Wang family was holding back their energy and looking for trouble.

Liu Xianglan couldn't help but shed tears when she heard this.

Ji Yuanhai was surprised: "I've just finished my story, why are you crying?"

"If you weren't for our wives, you wouldn't offend Boss Wang and Boss Wang, and the Wang family wouldn't make trouble with your family." Liu Xianglan wiped her tears and said, "Yuan Hai, I'm really unlucky, really unlucky, this Something bad has happened to you again!"

Ji Yuanhai sneered directly: "The Wang family deliberately spread the idea that you are unlucky. If I believe this, then I might as well just listen to the Wang family and stop going against his family!"

"I don't believe you are unlucky."

Liu Xianglan only felt warm in her heart after listening to it. She forgot to say anything for a moment, and her mind was filled with the good things about Ji Yuan Hai.

After Ji Yuanhai said the reason, he also said what he wanted to do. Simply put, he wanted to ask Liu Xianglan about any problems in the Wang family, including what the Wang family said and did sometimes.

Liu Xianglan was also a little embarrassed when she heard this, and couldn't think of it for a while.

"Yuan Hai, it's been a few years, I have forgotten many things, I have to think about it..."

Is there anything about the Wang family that Liu Xianglan knows that can be used as a clue or a flaw?

"A few years ago, when Wang Jinsheng was still alive, he once said that his third uncle Wang Laosan would give the Wang family more work points. Does this count?"

Ji Yuanhai nodded: "It's okay to say."

"However, it is very difficult to catch him. Even if the secretary of the brigade wants to catch him in this regard, it is not easy to clear up the old score, and it is not easy to carefully check the work points. It is difficult to say that he has a problem."

"Anything else?"

Liu Xianglan thought hard for a long time, and then said: "Wang Laoer's family sometimes makes offerings to a statue and kowtows, does that count?"

"The commune won't allow these superstitious things, right?"

Ji Yuanhai understands that this certainly counts, but it is no longer ten years ago.

Firstly, it is impossible to rush into Wang Laoer's house to look for superstitious items, and secondly, it is impossible to go online again.

The communes and production brigades only have the afterglow of two or three years.

Therefore, it is difficult for this incident to really hit the Wang family. At most, it is to scare their family with superstition and more work points.

"One more thing. It was last year. I couldn't bear it anymore. I went to ask the Wang family for sweet potato noodles."

"I had just walked to the hall and not yet entered the courtyard. I heard several people from the Wang family saying that they needed to dig out more stones. They said it was an excuse to build a pig pen. In fact, they could make some money by selling the extra stones dug out somewhere."

Liu Xianglan said.

After hearing this, Ji Yuanhai was slightly taken aback: "Selling stones? Can you still make money?"

Does the Wang family actually have such a way?

No, why doesn’t anyone in the village know about this?

Ji Yuanhai suddenly remembered one thing—beside the ditch outside the village, that strange stone in his memory made him injured and even limped.

Why did the stones of the pigsty built by the Wang family appear there?Still so heavy and huge, it’s not easy to carry?

Because that's not the stone used to build a pigsty at all!

The Wang family clearly transported stones from the mountain to the outside of the village bit by bit and sold them quietly!