Rebirth of Siheyuan: Starting from escaping famine in 42

Get off work in the afternoon.

Li Qingshan and Qin Dajun returned home and told their eldest brother Li Qingfeng about the conversation they had with his father on the phone.

Li Qingfeng took a puff of his cigarette and said, "If you don't want to come back, then don't come back. I'll find something and send it to our father in a couple of days."

Li Qingshan asked: "Brother, what are you sending?"

Li Qingfeng threw away the cigarette butt, stomped it out with his foot, and then said, "Just leave it alone."

Two days later.

Li Qingfeng took out two cured rabbits and two cured chickens, more than twenty boiled salted duck eggs, and a letter from the space and put them all in a sack.

I took some time to go to the post office and send it to his father.

Before leaving, Li Qingfeng bought several sets of stamps at the post office that he didn't have in his space.

Afterwards, Li Qingfeng went back to the police station to work.

Time quickly arrived and it was New Year’s Eve.

"Dad, when are you going to give us the firecrackers? You've been asking for days."

As soon as Li Weiguo and his four siblings finished their meal, they gathered around Li Qingfeng, pulling his cotton trousers and talking.

"Yes! Dad, when will you buy us the firecrackers?"

"Uncle, I want to set off firecrackers."

Li Qingfeng was annoyed by the five children, so he stood up and said, "I'll buy it for you now. You all stay at home and I'll be back soon."

"Got it, Dad."

When Li Weiguo and his five little kids heard that they would be able to play with firecrackers soon, they stopped surrounding Li Qingfeng and turned to make a snowman aside.

Li Qingfeng came to the kitchen and asked Wu Lirong, "Lirong, I'm going out to buy something. Do you need anything?"

Wu Lirong didn't even raise her head. While frying the meatballs, she said, "Buy some more peanuts, melon seeds, and candy."

"understood."

Li Qingfeng pushed his bicycle out of the yard, got on the bicycle and left. Whenever he met familiar neighbors in the alley, he would say some New Year greetings.

Li Qingfeng first went to his master's house and told him that he would have the New Year's Eve dinner at his house, and then went to his father-in-law's house.

Knowing that his father-in-law and his wife were going to their son Wu Dajun's house to celebrate the New Year in the evening, Li Qingfeng did not stay long and planned to come home to visit them on the second day of the New Year.

Finally, I went to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy peanuts, melon seeds, milk candies, fruit candies, several pairs of couplets and New Year pictures, and a lot of firecrackers.

After shopping, Li Qingfeng rode his bicycle around a corner and went to a quiet courtyard.

After counting the money traded by Zhao, Qian, Sun and Li in the room, they were all put into the space.

Then take out the supplies that the four of them are going to sell and put them in the house.

Then Li Qingfeng rode his bicycle home.

As soon as he returned home, Li Qingfeng was greeted by the shouting of Weiguo's fifth brother.

"Dad, give us the firecrackers quickly, we want to play."

"Wait a minute, I'll put my things away first."

Li Qingfeng parked his bicycle and put all the things he bought in the main room. Then he took out a string of firecrackers, unpacked them and gave them to Li Weiguo and five others. He smiled and said, "Play with these first. Be careful not to get your hands hurt."

"Got it, Dad."

Li Weiguo put the firecrackers in his pocket. When he saw that there was no fire, Li Weiguo asked, "Dad, where is the fire?"

"Wait."

Li Qingfeng went into the house and took out a stick of incense, broke it into five pieces, lit it with a lighter, and handed it to Weiguo's children one by one.

Then he gave them a few more instructions and went into the kitchen to help Wu Lirong fry something.

From the yard came the sounds of children's laughter and intermittent firecrackers.

When it was almost noon, Li Qingfeng stood at the kitchen door and called to the children, "Weiguo, take your brothers and sisters to wash their hands and come to eat."

Wu Lirong picked the dishes and said to Li Qingfeng, "Brother Qingfeng, you take the children to eat. I will go inside to eat with Huairu."

Li Qingfeng said: "Well, you should order more explosives."

"It's okay, just a little is enough. If you eat too much, your stomach will feel uncomfortable."

After saying that, Wu Lirong took the prepared food and went to find Qin Huairu for dinner.

Li Qingfeng and the children were having dinner when they heard his brother's voice.

"Brother, I'm eating!"

Li Qingfeng asked: "Have you eaten? If not, come and eat with a pair of chopsticks."

"I'm not full yet. I'm eating something, hehe."

Li Qingshan took a pair of chopsticks and two steamed buns, sat next to Wei Guo and started eating.

After dinner, Li Qingfeng was washing the dishes and asked his brother, "Qingshan, you don't have to go on duty this afternoon, right?"

Li Qingshan smoked a cigarette and replied, "No, I'm not going. Everything has been arranged."

Li Qingfeng said: "Huai Ru is about to give birth, Qingshan, you have to take leave in advance after the New Year."

Li Qingshan said, "I see, brother. When I go to work after the New Year, I will just ask for leave."

"My mother-in-law spent the New Year at home, and then followed the army into the city to take care of Huairu during her confinement."

"Ah."

After washing the dishes, Li Qingfeng took the couplets and New Year pictures and led his younger brother to start pasting them on the courtyard gate and the house door.

In the afternoon, Li Qingfeng asked Wu Lirong to go back to the room to talk to Qin Huairu. He went into the kitchen, put on an apron, and started chopping meat and preparing the meat filling.

My younger brother Li Qingshan helped to prepare vegetables and the like.

When the master came home in the afternoon, Li Qingfeng let the children play with the master and asked the master to look after the children.

Li Qingfeng saw that it was almost time, so he started preparing the New Year’s Eve dinner.

With his skillful movements, he cooked one dish after another. The aroma from the kitchen had already spread to the yard.

Li Weiguo and his five siblings smelled the fragrance and went into the kitchen early. They sat at the dining table, staring at the food on the table and swallowing their saliva from time to time.

When the last dish was about to be served, Li Qingfeng said to Li Qingshan, who was cooking on the side, "Qingshan, help your wife to eat."

Then he said to Li Weiguo: "Weiguo, call your mother and master to come for dinner."

"Got it, brother (father)."

Li Qingshan and Li Weiguo walked out of the kitchen one after another to call people to come for dinner.

Li Qingfeng took out a string of firecrackers from the utility room and set them off in the yard.

The firecrackers crackled extremely loudly.

After setting off the firecrackers, Li Qingfeng found a bottle of Fenjiu and poured some wine for his master, his younger brother and himself.

Wu Lirong, Qin Huairu and the children drank the juice produced by Li Qingfeng's space.

Li Qingfeng raised his wine glass and asked his master, "Master, don't you want to say a few words?"

"No need to talk anymore. There's no one here. Let's eat quickly! The children are hungry."

After saying that, Quanfu raised his wine glass and clinked it with the Li Qingfeng brothers.

Seeing this, Li Weiguo also raised his glass of juice and clamored to clink glasses: "Dad, then Grandpa, I want to clink glasses too."

"Okay, okay, clink glasses."

Na Quanfu and Li Qingfeng raised their wine glasses and clinked them with the adults and children at the table.

Then Li Qingfeng said, "Master, try it and see if my cooking skills have deteriorated?"

Quanfu tasted the braised pork, nodded and said, "Okay, not bad, keep up the good work."

Afterwards, those who were drinking ate and drank, and occasionally came over to chat.

There were only five children, eating quietly with their heads down, while their mother picked up the food for them.