Li Yunshan said that the thunderstorm at night was very fierce. It was true. One night, the thunder was like exploding in the ears. It frightened the two children and cried all night. Mao Xiaosui and Mao Xiaosui were so noisy that they could not sleep all night.

It wasn't until she couldn't resist anymore that Li Yunshan hugged Li Ankang and lay down on the mattress on the ground, covering his ears to lull him to sleep.

Mao Xiaosui followed suit, and it took him a while to coax the room into silence.

When I opened my eyes again, it was still raining heavily outside and the thunder was loud, but it was not as scary as before going to bed.

Li Ankang fell asleep on the bed, and Li Yunshan was nowhere to be seen. Even the room was dark. She couldn't tell whether it was day or night.

She fumbled out of bed and lit the oil lamp. When she opened the door, she saw light in the kitchen. When she went to look, she found that there was white rice porridge cooking in the pot, with peeled shrimps and two halves of crabs in it. On the table There were unused beans from yesterday, but Li Yunshan was not there.

She cut the beans into half finger-long strips, took out the fire from the stove and put them into the stove next to her, and put oil in the pot for cooking.

The food was just coming out of the pot when Li Yunshan came in. She took two spoonfuls of the porridge and put it into the frying pan, then poured it into a basin and took it to the main room to eat.

Li Yunshan made another trip to move the table in.

Mao Xiaosui was serving porridge and asked him, "Is it dawn yet?"

"Probably." Li Yunshan said, "Anyway, I'm about to wake up. When I just went out to feed the chickens and rabbits, the people in the village didn't seem to be awake yet."

"This rain is too scary." Mao Xiaosui said, "I guess it's daytime." After all, she also woke up.

Li Yunshan: "Let's have a look again, just in case the sun comes up."

The two children woke up during the meal. Li Ruyi started to cry first, and then Li Ankang also cried.

Heizi kept shouting anxiously.

Mao Xiaosui hadn't finished eating yet but had to go feed the baby first. Li Yunshan went to the kitchen to clean up after finishing the meal. When he came back, he saw her changing diapers.

Li Yunshan asked her to go and eat first and then wash the diapers by herself.

Time passed little by little, and when Mao Xiaosui felt hungry again, she was sure that today would be a cloudy day.

Not only is she lazy, both children wake up less often.

Her waist was sore after lying down all day, so she asked Li Yunshan to lie down on the bed and look after the children while he went to the kitchen to cook.

I lit the oil wick in the wooden bowl, fished out a fish from the water tank, killed it and stewed it.

I also simmered millet rice and made steamed eggs with shrimps.

She didn't go back to the house when the meal was ready, she just waited on the stool and watched the rain.

The day passed in a blur, and the rain still didn't stop until the next day. The sky was much brighter than yesterday, at least you didn't need an oil lamp to see.

The diapers he changed yesterday were still wet, so Li Yunshan took them to the woodshed, lit the clay stove and grilled two fish.

The fish is freshly killed and grilled in the tank, so it tastes tender.

The child was still asleep, so there was no need to keep watching. Mao Xiaosui asked Heizi to watch and went to the woodshed.

In this weather, burning the stove was just looking for trouble. Li Yunshan couldn't bear it, so he took off his clothes and sat shirtless at the door.

Mao Xiaosui didn't go in either. He sat down on the threshold, looked at the small pot on the clay stove and asked, "What are you cooking?"

"Eggs." Li Yunshan said, "Eat roasted eggs."

Mao Xiaosui laughed and went to the kitchen to make two bowls of honey water.

There was a strong fire in the clay oven, and the diapers dried quickly when placed beside them.

Mao Xiaosui first brought warm water to the two children to wash and change them. After seeing that they were awake, he returned to the woodshed.

The eggs on the clay oven were already roasting, and Li Yunshan dug out a bowl of this year's new beans and roasted them on the side.

The new beans haven't been dried yet, so they taste soft after being roasted and not so chewy.

After eating and drinking all morning, Heizi screamed in the room. Mao Xiaosui immediately got up and walked into the room, holding them and feeding them before they cried.

Li Yunshan folded the dried diapers and put them on the bed, then sat on the bed and teased the baby with a rattle, "Ahh...".

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It had been raining for several days, and there was not much light. After sleeping and waking up, he found that the room was bright. Mao Xiaosui felt that the unhappiness in his heart was finally relieved.

The rain outside has stopped, the sun has not emerged, but the black clouds like pen and ink have dispersed.

The air was as fragrant as ever, and there were the sounds of children who had been playing and making noise for a few days.

She stood by the wall for a while and left after Yang Cui left the courtyard.

The beans set up on a shelf in the vegetable field were knocked all over by the rain, and the vegetable garden was also full of muddy water. Mao Xiaosui didn't help him, but stretched out his arm to pinch a handful of beans.

She didn't know whether it was dark or not at the moment, but she had been living in a blur these past few days, regardless of day or night, but she was hungry, so she planned to make a meal.

Wash and cut the green beans and fry them in oil until the skin wrinkles. Take them out. Pour the oil into a bowl and save it for next time. Sprinkle some salt on the side of the pot. Pour the fried green beans in and stir-fry over high heat. The remaining oil is used to fry eggs and fish for soup.

It was getting dark after dinner, and Mao Xiaosui realized that it was evening.

After sleeping for several days in a row, I didn't want to sleep at all. Li Yunshan and I were sitting on the bed chatting while holding a baby.

Mao Xiaosui said, "We haven't had much time yet and we have to go to work again. Can my cousin's house be built?"

"Xuan." Li Yunshan thought for a moment and said, "If we had started earlier, we would have built almost as much as the people in the village. If nothing else, the land preparation work alone would have been much faster."

"It's almost August now. If we cut down the wood we need, it can only build the walls of a room at most. We'll be harvesting the millet soon. After we finish harvesting the millet, we still have to get wood for the winter..."

Not bad, but I found out that I didn’t do any work at home, and only had to do help this year.

"You won't be free after the autumn harvest, will you? You need to clean up the wood."

"There is a lot of wood left at home. I originally wanted to catch fish and sell it for some money, but the rain also delayed it." Li Yunshan said, "If my cousin has to rush to clean up the house after the autumn harvest, I'm afraid I won't have time to catch it."

"Forget it." Mao Xiaosui said, "My aunt's family is also very good to us. Let's help first and see what they decide."

Li Yunshan nodded, "This year everything has come together so I'm a bit busy. Next year it will be fine."

Mao Xiaosui said "hmm".

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