There is also an ancestral shrine in the main room of Grandma Li's house. There is a long desk in front of the shrine. There are some benches, bamboo chairs, and a kotatsu table in the main room. There are also baskets and baskets filled with sweet potatoes and radishes in one corner.

Ladder to the building.

The side rooms on both sides of the Li family's house are also divided into two rooms. There are doors leading to each room from the hall door.

Because there is often a fire in the kitchen in winter, there is no brazier in the main room.

Brother Zhou followed the masters into the main room, handed the basket he was carrying to Granny Li, and sat down again.

Li Xiaoyan carried the bag into the house, rushed to wash her hands, and poured a cup of sweet tea made with brown sugar for Uncle Zhou, grandma and mother.

The host and the guest drink sweet tea and ask each other whether they are healthy or not.

After drinking the sweet tea, it was time to go to the kitchen to warm up the fire.

Brother Zhou went to charge the electric tricycle first. The car was fully charged last night. Because of the steep climb on the road and the power consumption, he was afraid that the electric tricycle would break down halfway when he returned.

Sister Meng helped find a charging socket connected to the fixed socket in the main room, and then placed the socket under the eaves. Brother Zhou connected the charging cable of the electric tricycle to the socket and the car.

The young man from the Zhou family was charging the car, and Granny Li took the opportunity to look at the gift the man had brought, and she understood that if nothing went wrong, good things could come true.

The number of things the man brings is determined according to customs, including eggs that symbolize perfection, glutinous rice that represents the emotional bonding between the couple, fish, meat, and wine, which symbolize perfection.

The red envelope contains three thousand six hundred and sixty-six.

Seeing that the man's family liked Xiao Meng, Grandma Li felt relieved. She put her things aside until the young man had fixed a charging socket for the car, and invited the young man named Zhou into the kitchen to warm up by the fire.

The Li family's kitchen is relatively wide, with a door leading to the front room of the main room of the adobe house. There are wooden shelves in the kitchen for placing basins, baskets and other items, and a stove with kitchen cabinets.

There is a large water tank next to the stove.

There was a firepit dug in the middle of the kitchen, with firewood stacked in one corner. There was a small table next to the wall and a 17-inch old-style color TV set.

The wall was covered in dust due to years of smoke and fire.

Thick wood was burning in the fire pit, and a duck pot for boiling water was placed on the pot holder.

After sitting down, Granny Li brought melon seeds for the young man to eat.

After talking for a long time, Granny Li said she was going to pick vegetables and asked a young man to help.

Sister-in-law Meng also knew that her mother-in-law had something to say to Brother Zhou, so she and the girl did not join in the fun.

Brother Zhou followed Granny Li around several houses and went to a vegetable garden.

Grandma Li actually went to the garden to pick some vegetables, and then took the young man to wash the vegetables. Along the way, she asked some trivial questions to understand the attitude of the adults in the groom's family.

Granny Li and Li Xiaoyan still don't know that Brother Zhou is the uncle of Miss Le's younger brother in Jiudaomei Village. They only know that he is from a village near Jiudaoxiang Street with the surname Zhou.

Since she didn't know who the man was, Granny Li asked more carefully.

She asked questions carefully, and Brother Zhou also answered them one by one seriously, which reassured the old man.

Granny Li is very satisfied with the young people of the Zhou family. The Zhou family does not mind that Xiaomeng has a daughter and is willing to help send the child to school. She does not object to Xiaomeng continuing to raise her after she remarries. This shows that the Zhou family is a kind family.

There was nothing dissatisfying with the young man. Grandma Li was very happy. When she got home, she took Xiaomeng to the back of the house and whispered a few words.

Sister-in-law Meng knew that her mother-in-law was very satisfied with Brother Zhou, and she felt a little nervous. She was also looking forward to meeting the husband's elders. She also told her mother-in-law that Zhou Xialong was not staying at Li's house, and she wanted to take her mother-in-law and Xiaoyan to Jiudao to eat with the Zhou family in the afternoon.

meal.

Grandma Li had no objection and agreed immediately.

Because Xiao Meng might have to remarry, she and her only granddaughter also relied on Xiao Meng and her husband to take care of her in the future. Before it was too early, Granny Li asked Xiao Meng to take Xiao Zhou to see the fields and land at home.

If Xiaomeng and Xiaozhou could really live together, the family's fields would naturally be managed by young people, and she wouldn't have to worry about it.

Sister-in-law Meng understands her mother-in-law's thoughts. Her mother-in-law has only met Zhou Xialong once and she hastily disclosed her family background. She is simply worried that the husband's family will be afraid that the Li family's descendants will be a drag. Her mother-in-law wants the husband to feel that she is sincere and will not drag her down in the future.

Her and Xiaoyan's back legs.

In order to understand, I felt even more sad. I didn't go against my will and asked Zhou Xialong to go to the terraces behind the house to see the fields and land of the Li family. By the way, I could see where the mountains and forests of the Li family were from a distance.

After Xiao Meng and Xiao Zhou went out, Granny Li took some meat and fruit and went to the neighbor's house not far away. She told the neighbor that her family was going to Jiudao in the afternoon and might not come back until tomorrow. She asked the neighbor to help feed the chickens in the evening.

Duck and pig.

Grandma Li raised a pig and bought piglets in May. She actually wanted to raise cattle, which cost no food, but she was old and could not bear the hard work of herding cattle every day.

Raise a pig, grow sweet potatoes and radishes, mix in some corn, and raise it for half a year. If you kill the pig during the Chinese New Year, you can sell half of it and save money for your granddaughter to study.

In advance, she asked her neighbors to help feed the livestock at night. Grandma Li went home and cooked another pot of pig food. She also packed rice grains for chickens and ducks and put them in the kitchen. When her neighbors helped feed the livestock, she could find them in the kitchen.

When it was past ten o'clock, the grandfather and grandson were cooking and chopped a pig's trotters into a pot to stew.

Brother Zhou followed Aunt Meng to the back of the house and walked around. He also climbed up the mountain to see an economic forest in the Li family. In that economic forest, his father sold the trees to save Li Xiaoyan. The saplings were planted later and the saplings also grew a lot.

How tall is the meter?

Every household in a small village has one or two economic forests where they plant fir, pine or tea trees. If the trees are valuable, they can earn an income of over 100,000 yuan by selling them.

Because the roads are far away and transportation is poor, the price of trees is generally one-third to two-fifths lower than in villages with good transportation. Therefore, villagers cannot make a fortune selling trees.

Grandma Li's house also had a pine forest, which was a bit far away. Sister Meng didn't take Brother Zhou to step on the boundary line, so she only looked at the approximate location from a distance.

The two went for a run outside and returned to the village after eleven o'clock.

Some villagers in the small village saw Mrs. Meng walking around with a man and thought she wanted to sell trees or land. When they met, they inquired about it but did not think about anything else.

Mrs. Meng returned home and took over the cooking chores. She chopped up the chicken her mother-in-law had killed in the morning and made chicken soup, braised fish, stir-fried three vegetables with meat, and stewed pig's feet, a total of six dishes.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Brother Zhou chatted with Granny Li, while Aunt Meng prepared the meal and ate hot pot in the kitchen.

It was a very enjoyable meal.

After the meal, after sitting for more than an hour, Mrs. Meng put away the things that needed to be packed away, put the meat that needed to be frozen in the refrigerator, and helped her mother-in-law bring a change of clothes and other things to Jiudao.

Li Xiaoyan was carrying her schoolbag and a change of clothes. Granny Li gave the return gift to Xiao Zhou and brought a gift herself.

The three women were riding in a tricycle, and Brother Zhou was driving.

The way home was mostly downhill, so it was much smoother. It only took more than an hour to reach Jiudaoxiang Street.

Granny Li bought fruits and candies on the rural street before getting in the car again.

Li Xiaoyan only knew that the person her mother was talking to was introduced by Principal Yin, who said he lived not far from Xiang Street. She also didn't know that Uncle Zhou was from Meicun.

When the tricycle entered the road of Meizijing Village and saw the words Meizijing and arrows with directions written on the wall beside it, she reacted belatedly and almost blurted out: "Mom, Uncle Zhou is from the Zhou family in Meizijing Village."

?”

"Yeah." Mrs. Meng nodded.

Li Xiaoyan: "..."

"Xiao Zhou is from the same village as the Golden Phoenix in our province?" Grandma Li was illiterate and didn't know what was written on the wall. She was extremely surprised when her granddaughter mentioned Meizijing Village.

The name of a person is the shadow of a tree. Fang County in Ebei Province produced an Olympic champion and donated hundreds of millions to Jiudao School. She also knows Meizijing Village and the Le family in Meizijing Village.

Many people don't even call the Lejia girl in Meizijing Village by name, they always say she is a golden phoenix.

Grandma Li remembered that the stepmother of the golden phoenix who flew out of Jiudao seemed to be named Zhou?

"Yes." Mrs. Meng responded calmly again.

Granny Li Li Xiaoyan: "..." Don't tell them that they are from the same clan as the girl from the Le family, the Zhou family!

Brother Zhou drove to the ground in front of the village office building and saw that the door of his uncle's house was closed, so he didn't go to find his aunt. He turned onto the main road of the village and arrived outside Uncle Man's house. He saw that the door of Uncle Man's house was also closed.

Yes, I guessed that my cousins ​​might have gone to his house, so I went straight to my house.

He drove his car to the door of his house, heard the voices of uncles and aunts talking in the small hall, and called out: "Mom, I'm back."

Aunt Zhou Man, the head of the village, had long known what day Zhou Xialong would go to his partner's house and what day he would bring him to Meicun. On that day, they would go to his cousin's house after lunch.

My nephew wanted to bring his partner back to meet him. Zhou Papi went to the construction site in the morning and moved bricks for a long time. He didn't go in the afternoon and went to his nephew's house to help.

Several people slaughtered chickens and ducks, fried fish, pig's trotters, pork liver and other dishes, and also prepared glutinous rice liqueur early.

Several elders who were waiting for someone to return lit a brazier in the main room and set the table.

Hearing Zhou Xialong's shout, several neatly dressed elderly people stood up, responded and trotted out of the alley to greet him outside.

A few people ran to the gate and saw a young girl and a middle-aged woman standing next to the tricycle. They knew that they were Zhou Xialong's partner and her daughter.

The middle-aged woman did not appear to be a mean-spirited person. The head of the Zhou family quickly glanced at her and had a good first impression of the middle-aged woman.

"Xiao Meng, Xiao Li, you guys are here."

"Xia Long, where is the eldest sister of the Li family? Didn't we talk about it together?"

"Hey, big sister, please give me a trip. Thank you for your hard work."

Several men and women from the Zhou family hurriedly crossed the threshold while talking, and then they saw a middle-aged woman helping an old woman come out of the carport, and they immediately started laughing.

Aunt Pa ran quickly, ran down the steps, and went to help Mother-in-law Li: "I heard from my nephew that you are two months younger than my family. I also asked you to call you big sister. Big sister, come on.

It’s good if you get it, what else can you take, it’s so out of sight.”

When Granny Li handed a basket to her to help the master collect, Aunt Pa took it in her hand, gave it to her nephew Zhou Xialong, and helped Granny Li to her cousin's sister-in-law's house.

As he walked, he introduced: "This is my sister-in-law, the biological mother of my nephew Zhou Xialong. The one next to my sister-in-law is my brother Man's sister-in-law. The one wearing a dark red down jacket is my brother Man. The one wearing a black jacket is my brother.

That mouth."
To be continued...