Stepmother Reborn: Dad, my mom hasn't hit me for three days

The ginseng has brought huge economic income to the villagers in the past five years. Li Jianguo previously calculated that the annual income per mu of land was about 800 yuan, but in fact, his calculation was too low, because the price of ginseng has been rising in recent years.

Five years ago, the average profit per mu of ginseng was 833 yuan, but now it can be more than 1000 yuan. As the demand for ginseng is gradually increasing, the price of ginseng is also rising, especially the ginseng of good years and good appearance is in short supply.

Li Xingjia also made a lot of money from ginseng, and the villagers who followed him to grow ginseng also benefited from it. Each family planned to use all the remaining land to grow ginseng. As for the land that had been used to grow ginseng, they planned to grow other crops, such as soybeans, corn, etc.

With the money earned, the village is much more lively than before. Some families plan to build brick houses, some families plan to buy electrical appliances, and some families decide to find wives for their sons. Every family has happy events to happen.

Zhang Xiuhua and Li Jianguo often hear the villagers' laughter and joy as they walk on the road. In this cheerful atmosphere, there is something a little inconsistent. After collecting ginseng, the puppy's father went to look for his son, but found that his son had already gone abroad, and he returned empty-handed. When the puppy's mother heard the news, she fainted at the entrance of the village.

The villagers were shocked and immediately pinched her thumb and index finger. The couple supported each other and went back home.

Zhang Xiuhua saw their hunched backs and shook her head.

Aunt Wang said to Zhang Xiuhua, "You really guessed it right. The puppy won this time."

There is nothing to be happy about in winning. Zhang Xiuhua just understands human nature well enough.

When Zhang's father heard the news, he immediately perked up and stopped hiding at home. He ran to the door of the puppy's father and deliberately made indirect accusations against them, "Some people have eyes that are too big to see the shortcomings of others, and they don't even look at themselves. They obviously didn't teach their children well, and their situation is worse than mine, but they still scold my child for being unfilial. What a thing!"

The puppy's father was so angry that he gnashed his teeth and wanted to come over to fight with Zhang's father, but the puppy's mother stopped him firmly, "He's a scoundrel. Why are you fighting with him? Curse him back!"

So the two of them cursed at each other across the wall. Women are not always the only ones who are good at quarreling, men are sometimes no less capable.

The puppy's father was scolded by Zhang's father, but he didn't stop talking, and he deliberately stabbed Zhang's father in the heart, "I only gave birth to two children, and you gave birth to eight children, and all of them are unfilial! If there is an award for the worst father in the world, you will be second, and no one dares to take the first place. Compared with you, I am considered a good father!"

This made Zhang's father very angry. "How dare you scold me! At least my son didn't run away abroad. If I want to see him, I can go to Zhejiang Province anytime."

"What can you do in Zhejiang Province? Who will treat you as one of their own?" The puppy's father laughed at him for overestimating his own abilities. "Don't you think about your daughter in this county? Will she care about you? My son is not at home, but at least he didn't change his surname! He will still be surnamed Li in the future. Unlike you, you will be the head of a family that will be wiped out in the future!"

In the countryside, cursing the head of a family with no descendants is considered a very vicious curse. Zhang's father was so angry that he knocked on the door and asked him to come out. The two of them wanted to have a fight.

When the villagers heard the noise, they came out to persuade them, "It's a happy day, why are you two quarreling? Can you please stop it?!"

"He was the one who provoked me first?" The puppy's father was not convinced. "He came to my doorstep early in the morning to humiliate me!"

"It was you who went to my door and scolded me first. Now you are blaming me! Do you have any shame? Are you still a man?" Zhang's father didn't admit it. At most, he was fighting back, not deliberately picking a fight.

Li Jianguo was soon called over to administer justice. They were both given fifty lashes of the cane, which leveled the road to the entrance of their village. "The autumn harvest is about to begin, and you still have the energy to quarrel! You really have nothing better to do!"

After hearing what the village chief said, no matter how dissatisfied the two men were, they had no choice but to take their shovels and level the ground.

But the two families were at loggerheads. From time to time, you could hear them swearing at each other at the door. At first, some villagers went to stop them, but later, as the fights became more frequent, each family was busy harvesting crops and had no time to deal with them. Those who harvested crops harvested crops, and those who harvested vegetables harvested vegetables.

The villagers were busy harvesting food, and Zhang Xiuhua was not idle either. She had sold all her Gala apples, but she still had to harvest blueberries. The harvest started in September and was almost finished by October.

Xu Chunying was also forced to end her morning market business. Now it was autumn harvest time, and it was impossible for Li Jianshe to harvest all the land in the family by himself. Even if he had four hands, he would not be able to handle it all.

So Li Jianguo and Zhang Xiuhua helped them harvest corn. Aunt Wang thought they were really weird. "You have your own combine harvester, but now you have to harvest it manually. Isn't this suffering?"

Zhang Xiuhua sighed, "There's nothing we can do. Li Xing's family harvests from the south to the north. By the time it's our turn, the grain will have already fallen into the ground. My brother and sister-in-law can't wait that long. Besides, bad weather will also affect the harvest. We're still too far north."

Aunt Wang thought about it and said, "Is your sister-in-law feeling better now?"

Zhang Xiuhua nodded, "Much better, but she was very anxious before. Now her business of selling early-morning products is much better. She used to be reluctant to eat and wear good things, but now you can see she is eating and wearing good things. She even came to me to buy blueberries the other day. Blueberries are so expensive. In the past, she would not have been willing to buy them no matter how cheap they were."

Blueberries have always been very expensive fruits, more expensive than strawberries. But after Xu Chunying fell ill, she may have figured it out and decided to eat and drink as she pleased. Although she owed money, she couldn't treat herself badly. Moreover, after she fell ill, in order to pay back the money, Li Jiandang and his wife stopped supporting their sons and kept all the money for themselves.

Aunt Wang felt that when you are sick, you age very quickly. Xu Chunying was only ten years older than Zhang Xiuhua, but now she looked like she was twenty years older. Zhang Xiuhua was the youngest woman of her age in the village.

After seeing that the youngest member, Zhang Xiuhua, had only done farm work for a few days, he realized that he really couldn't stand it, so he suggested to Li Jianguo that they find someone to harvest the crops.

Li Jianguo had money on hand and he also wanted to be lazy, so he found a dozen strong laborers from the county town to help with the harvest.

Li Jiandang was a little embarrassed. "This is too much trouble for you. I will pay for it. I can't let you pay for it yourself."

Li Jianguo did not refuse. It was farm work for his family. "Brother, you are already sixty years old. You should take care of your health. Harvest the crops first. We will have better days in the future."

Li Jiandang nodded, "You are right!"

Although they hired someone, Li Jianguo and Zhang Xiuhua did not just sit there and do nothing. They helped with some light tasks, such as transporting the corn home.

There are machines that are specially made for husking corn. You just put the corn cob into the machine and the corn kernels fall out. The corn cob doesn't break into pieces. It can be used to start a fire. Unlike a combine harvester, these things are all broken up and used to fertilize the land.

By the end of October, all the grain in the fields of Lijiatun had been harvested.

In early November, small snowflakes began to float in the sky, and the villagers officially began to hibernate.

In the past, people preferred to stay indoors because they didn't have enough clothes and their shoes weren't warm enough. But now it's different. With money, every family has new clothes and shoes. Children come out to play snowball fights.

The adults were willing to burn coal, bringing it home ton by ton. They started heating the kang after the first snow. On the warm kang, they would think about new food together.

"I heard that the price of shrimp has dropped this year. I'm going to buy two pounds at the market tomorrow to try it out."

"I've heard that, too. I've eaten Xiuhua's dry pot shrimp before, and it was delicious."

"Dry pot shrimp? How are they made?"

"There are a lot of seasonings in it. Let's go buy some on the street later and put them in. It will be so fragrant."

Just at this moment, a small incident occurred.

Li Jianguo didn't know about it at first. It was Aunt Wang who told Zhang Xiuhua first.

Zhang Xiuhua was growing bean sprouts at home, and she had nothing to do anyway, so she decided to find something to do.

Aunt Wang Er came in from outside and said to her mysteriously, "Guess who I bumped into at the door just now?"

Zhang Xiuhua had no idea, "Who?"

"Big crutch!"

Zhang Xiuhua had never heard of him. "Who is he?"

When Aunt Wang found out that she didn't even know this person, she immediately told her about his life.

It turned out that this man had been in prison before. He might have been in a fight and his leg was broken. After he was released, he walked with a limp. That’s why people nicknamed him “Daguai”.

He has a very bad habit. He likes playing cards and is addicted to it.

Zhang Xiuhua frowned after hearing this, "You mean he gambles?"

"Yes!" Aunt Wang also heard that he had gambled with someone and caused him to lose everything. "Don't look at his lame leg, but he is not a good person. He has a group of brothers who specialize in lending money."

This is actually a rural version of loan sharking. But they are lending money for gambling debts. If someone doesn't pay back the debt, they will go to the house and steal the food.

The legal awareness in rural areas is weak, and most people do not want to leave their hometowns, so they will not go to court to sue these people.

Zhang Xiuhua heard people gambling and walked around the hall several times, "Our village has made money, this will attract attention!"

Television stations have been advertising one after another, and so many people come to buy ginseng seeds. Seeing that they are living a good life, many people are jealous, but they are just jealous. But some people will take action.

They lived in the same village, and Li Jianguo was still the village chief. If their village became a gambling den, Li Jianguo would not be the village chief for long. She didn't want this official position, but she felt it was shameful.

She felt that this matter could not be allowed to continue. "Whose house did Daguai go to gamble?"

Aunt Wang sighed, "Who else could it be? It could be Daxi and Erxi!"

Zhang Xiuhua still remembers them. Zhang Sanxi and Zhang Sixi were both married into the family. Later, Zhang Sixi divorced and married another woman. Zhang Sanxi's father-in-law treated him very well and rarely returned to the village.

Zhang Daxi and Zhang Erxi have a problem that they have had for more than ten years: they like playing cards. In the past, when they played cards in the village, the stakes were relatively small, and it was considered entertainment, and no one in the village reported it.

But Daguai is different. What he wants is for the gambler to lose everything.

Zhang Daxi and Zhang Erxi have money. Their son and daughter-in-law have been married for several years and have grandchildren. If they gamble away all their money, their family will be finished.