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Chapter 648: A Cart Full of Food Li San Dies
Yang Yi, who was crying loudly in the house, had sharp ears. When he heard that his father would be back soon, he quickly jumped off the kang, ran out of the room in his slippers and shouted "Uncle Xu".

Xu Ning smiled and said, "Why are you crying? Your dad will be back soon."

"What time will it be? Uncle Xu, take me to find my dad."

Xu Ning thought for a moment and said, "Then get in the car, and we'll go straight to my house."

"My dad is at your house? Hey, what kind of dad is this? He doesn't even check on his son when he comes home..."

Yang Yi pouted and complained.

"Hahaha, that's enough, just sit on the guardrail."

He pulled Yang Yi to sit down, and then said to Pan Xiao: "You can prepare your own meal. They will be back in the evening. Remember to burn the kang in my old room."

Pan Xiao nodded: "Yeah, I know."

After that, Xu Ning drove Yang Yi to old Chang's house. Seeing Chang Danian bringing the bear meat into the house, he did not chat with Chang Danian for many words, then hurried to old Yu's house and old Du's house, and left after delivering the meat to the door.

But when he arrived at his father-in-law's house, he had to go inside and take a walk around. After chatting with Meng Quezi and Liu Fenfang for a while, he returned to his own home.

As soon as I entered the room, I saw Sun Lianfang and Guan Lei being intimate. She had an unconcealable smile on her face, while Guan Lei had a calm expression. He was not pretending to be a fool, but he didn't know how to express it. After all, that was just his personality...

Xu Laonian and Wang Erli were chatting with Yang Jun. When Yang Yi saw that his biological father was really at Old Xu's house, he immediately rushed over and hit Yang Jun twice. He loudly complained to Xu Laonian that Yang Jun didn't care about him when he returned to the village, which made the adults in the house laugh. Yang Jun showed some of his true feelings. Since his divorce, he felt more and more guilty towards Yang Yi.

It's not that Yang Jun had never thought about remarrying, but he was afraid that his stepmother would treat Yang Yi badly. The main reason was that he was ugly. People in Qingli, Qing'an and Taiping villages had a very bad impression of him. Although he had good conditions, there were almost no matchmakers willing to introduce him to a partner for fear of affecting his reputation.

Meng Ziyan helped Xu Ning wash his face and head, then went back into the house to change into clean clothes. After leaving, Xu Laonian asked, "Did you send it to Old Wei?"

"Well, he didn't stay at home. I gave him to his wife. His wife hasn't heard about what happened on the mountain yet, so I didn't say anything."

Wang Erli said with a smile: "Erning is a very tight-lipped person, he never says anything unnecessary."

"What's the point of saying that? It's not our own business. But Old Wei is a little too cocky. He must be angry after all the accidents. When I asked him to work in the field, he didn't want to move. There's nothing I can say about this guy..."

Xu Ning said: "It's good not to work in the Lengchang. After all, they are our neighbors. What if something happens in the Lengchang? What should we do?"

"It's not a big deal, let him do it on his own."

Yang Jun suddenly remembered something and said, "Oh, by the way, the forest farm has distributed some new and some old chain saws to the 28th Leng Farm, as well as two old winches. How should we distribute them?"

"You guys do your research, I won't bother with the nonsense."

Guan Lei said with a smile: "Brother, how can we study this? There are only two winches in total. If the 28-flute yard is left, what will happen to Brother Yong's 25-flute yard? The chainsaw is easy to deal with."

"Don't we have a tractor? We can move it wherever it's needed. Do you think the winch given by the forest farm is yours? It's lent to you by the forest farm."

Yang Jun frowned and said, "It may take six or seven people to move that big thing. It's too heavy!"

"Shen has no other ideas, so let's just do it this way."

That night, just after everyone finished drinking, around 7 o'clock, Da Laba and Li Feng came to the door.

Liu Lizhen saw that the two men looked exhausted and knew that they had not eaten yet, so she put the food in the pot to steam.

Da Laba and Li Feng didn't say anything polite. They sat at the table and ate their food, saying, "Brother, I heard you got a black blind man?"

"I was thinking about it, so you have to ask. A lot of meat has been given away, and the rest is in the basin. Wait until my mother finishes selecting, and then you can take it away."

Big Trumpet grinned and said, "Okay! Hey, Lao Wei was collecting pine cones on the mountain, and a man was scared by a black bear and peed his pants and fell from the tree. Did you know that?"

Li Fuqiang laughed and said, "How could we not know it when the three of us were right in front of us? One of us even fell and broke his chin. He fainted when he saw the blood..."

Everyone in the room laughed when they heard this, and the loud speaker said, "Why is Old Wei leading a bunch of old, weak, sick and disabled people? Oh my god, this is enough to make him angry."

After talking about Old Wei, Wu Qiuxia asked, "Feng, how is your father now?"

Li Feng shook his head: "I am almost dying. I haven't eaten for six or seven days. I just drank some sugar water, but this shouldn't make me full."

Dababa put down his chopsticks, wiped his mouth, and said, "He has already gone to Old Tang's house to order funeral supplies and clothes. How much did it cost in total?"

"It's all in all, 25 yuan in total. Not bad, this time Old Tang was quite considerate and didn't ask for more. Last year my brother didn't have any, so he wanted 35... I bargained with him, but he was still a little unhappy."

Xu Laonian said with a smile: "Isn't this normal? Last year you stayed at home and did nothing, but this year you're walking around selling meat. Doesn't he need you?"

"Yeah, I heard that Brother Jun came to our village?" Li Feng turned his head and looked at Yang Jun and asked.

"Ah, I just moved here not long ago, living in my second uncle's old house. I usually live in Lengchang. Only my son and a little girl I hired stay at home."

The loud speaker said: "It's not easy for Jun'er either..."

Xu Ning continued, "Brother Jun, my brother has been spreading rumors about your divorce. Let's have a drink together when we have time."

"That is required!"

Da Loudspeaker grinned and said, "What a big deal! There is no news in Qing'an that I cannot grasp. Who doesn't know that I, Huang Guoxing, never lie and everything I say is true?"

"Hahaha...that's fine."

They chatted until 8:170. After Liu Lizhen picked out the bear meat, she weighed the remaining meat with bones. The total amount was 4 kilograms of bear meat and 210 bear paws. The two of them did not pay for it on the spot, but Da Laba delivered it the next evening. The total amount was yuan.

Xu Ning took the money and handed it to Meng Ziyan, then turned around and said, "You guys aren't going out tomorrow? Then come and help me with some work."

"Okay, what do you do?"

"The food I bought at the market has arrived. We have to unload it ourselves."

"Okay, I'll come over tomorrow morning after breakfast."

"Why are you still eating? Why don't you and my sister-in-law come over to eat? What is she doing at home?"

"I'm picking corn. I'm thinking of going to the street to grind some corn."

"No need to go to the street to grind. My brother will be back in a couple of days. I'll ask him to buy a grain grinder in the city, and we can grind it at home."

"Oh my god, you bought a grain grinder? Isn't this thing really expensive?"

"One machine and three belts only cost 220 yuan."

"Ah, I've been thinking about it for a long time..."

The next day.

Xu Ning, Li Fuqiang, Da Laba and others had been waiting at home since morning. In addition to drinking tea and chatting, they also chopped some firewood and cleaned the yard.

The old women were inside the house making quilts or cotton jackets and trousers, all preparing for the winter.

Meng Ziyan has a lot of work these days. She didn't have time to make clothes when she went to the city to buy cloth last time, so she started to work hard on the sewing machine since the day before yesterday. She and Wang Shujuan also studied two sets of clothes for children, and made a lot of diapers with red cloth...

Urine medium is diaper.

It was almost 11 o'clock before I saw an old Jiefang car slowly approaching.

Wang Yuanjun was sitting in the passenger seat. He pointed at the open space in front of Lao Xu's house and signaled the driver to stop.

Xu Ning and others went out to greet Wang Yuanjun warmly, and Li Fuqiang handed a cigarette to the driver. "It's 2500 kilograms in total! Almost a whole truck. A bag of wheat bran is not much heavier, and it is much lighter than fine bran."

Xu Ning was stunned and said, "Isn't it 2300 kilograms? How come there are 200 kilograms more?"

"The leader of our unit said that since they are all old grains, what's the harm in sending more? In addition to wheat bran and fine bran, there are also sorghum rice flour, corn flour... and I also brought the grain grinder that my brother-in-law asked someone to buy in the city. He said he can't come back this week because he went to the countryside with his third uncle."

"Ah, why did you buy it so quickly?"

"They said it was just settled last night, but they haven't paid yet. It will be the same if they pay later."

Liu Lizhen walked to the gate and called out, "Jun, come in and have a drink of water. Let Erning and the others unload."

"Hey, Auntie, it's okay. We drank on the road. We're not that tired. Let's unload together."

Liu Lizhen asked with a smile: "Have you set a date with your partner?"

"It's settled! We'll do it in the spring of next year, but we haven't decided on the exact date yet."

"That's great. You've all started a family in the blink of an eye. That's great! Then you guys go ahead and get married. I'll go into the house and prepare the food. You're not going back today, are you? Then have some more drinks with Erning and the others!"

"Hey, okay!"

Xu Ning felt a little distressed when looking at the full cart of grain, because after the grain was unloaded there, there would be no empty space in the lower house.

"Huzi, is there any room downstairs in your house?"

"There's room. It should be able to fit half of the car. The remaining half can be put in the second west room. No one lives there anyway."

"Okay! Let's build a barn next year, otherwise we will have nowhere to store the grain."

Then, they adjusted the position of the rear end of the car, and everyone began to unload the grain into the lower house and the second west house of Lao Wang's house.

With strength in numbers, it took more than 40 minutes to unload a full truck of grain, and it was stacked very neatly.

After unloading the food, they squatted in the yard to smoke and chat. Wang Yuanjun said, "We still have a lot of food in our warehouse. Contact me when you finish eating this food."

"Well, I estimate it will last for more than half a year... Well, that's not certain. Next year your aunt will have to raise chickens, ducks and geese, and my second aunt will have to raise pigs."

"Then I'll eat faster..."

At noon, everyone had a drink at Old Xu's house. The driver who came with Wang Yuanjun felt a little awkward because they were drinking Wuliangye and eating bear meat. After taking a look at the houses of Xu and Wang, it seemed that anyone who came here for the first time felt a little hesitant.

"Oh my god, look at my memory! Brother Du from the city government asked me to bring over a photo of Hu Zi before his wedding. I'll go get it from the car."

"Why are you in such a hurry? Let's go after we finish drinking..."

Sun Lianfang stood up and said, "I'll go, I'll go! Is the car door unlocked?"

"It's not locked. There's just a red bag on the passenger seat."

After Sun Lianfang trotted back to get the photos, the old ladies gathered together to admire them carefully. The photos of Xu Ning and Guan Lei's wedding had been delivered a long time ago, but Wang Hu got married late and it happened to be the October 1st holiday, so there were a lot of negatives piled up in the photo studio, and the developing process was much slower.

Guan Hua felt very happy looking at the photo of herself and Wang Hu. After all, this was also a memory. When she had children in the future, she could tell them what the scene was like when his parents got married and what interesting things happened.

In the afternoon, around three o'clock, Wang Yuanjun and the driver drove away.

Just as Xu Ning was thinking about what to eat in the evening, a sharp shout suddenly came from the gate of the courtyard.

"Li Feng! Li Feng!"

The person sitting in the reception room stood up and turned around, only to see Chang Lihong walking in quickly.

Li Feng looked at his wife's anxious look, and immediately felt a pang in his heart. He rushed out and asked, "What's the matter?"

"Your father is dying..."

Li Feng paused, frowned and said, "Take the child to your brother's house and let sister-in-law... I will go to pick up Li Tong. After you send the child off, go find Old Tang..."

At this time, Chang Lihong had already walked to the front of the platform, and everyone in the room heard the conversation between the two.

But he didn't say that Li San deserved it, after all, he was Li Feng's father.

Da La Ba walked out of the house and said, "Feng, you go home first. I'll go find Lao Tang."

Liu Lizhen pushed her oldest son's back and asked, "Why don't you lend a hand?"

In fact, Xu Ning did not struggle in his heart. Although he would not help Li Feng to arrange Li San's funeral, he could still do the errands.

He walked out of the house and said, "Brother Feng, don't worry. Let me ride my donkey to the school to pick up Li Tong, and let my eldest brother and the others go to find Lao Tang to see if there is anything he can help with..."

Li Feng turned around and said, "Okay! Then I'll go back first..."

"Wait a minute, do you have any meat at home?"

"There aren't many left. I didn't think he could hold on today."

Xu Ning said: "Huzi, go to the cellar and take out the remaining half of the yellow-haired bear, and then take two pieces of bear meat."

Liu Lizhen said, "Lihong, is there anyone to cook for you? No, I'll go over and help out."

"No need, auntie, my sister-in-law and I can handle it. There aren't many people coming to eat anyway..."

This is the truth. Li San's reputation in Qing'an Village is terrible. Everyone dislikes Li San. Although he is a dying man, it is impossible for the villagers to forgive him!
Even Xu Ning didn't say that he forgave him. He just ran to the school to pick up Li Tong for Li Feng's sake. He wanted Xu Ning to help keep vigil? Unless there was a pie in the sky!
Immediately, Xu Ning rode his donkey to the school, while Da Laba, Li Fuqiang and Wang Hu first delivered the meat to Li Feng's house and then went directly to find Lao Tang.

After Xu Ning arrived at the school, he found Li Tong in Class 2 of Grade One. He first explained the situation to the class teacher and then took Li Tong out. When she came out, she was a little confused. Why was Xu Feng's second brother looking for her?

"Your second uncle asked me to pick you up. Go home and see your grandfather."

Li Tong understood immediately and nodded: "Is he dead now?"

"do not know."

Seeing that there was no expression on her face, Xu Ning knew that Li Tong didn't have much feelings for Li San, and even felt a little disgusted with him.

"You sit in the truck bed and hold onto the guardrail."

Li Tong nodded and asked casually, "When will Xu Feng come back?"

"What are you doing? Are you two going to fight?"

"No, we don't have much hatred. It's just that after she left, I felt very bored in school."

"I'll be back on vacation."

Li Tong looked back at him and suddenly said, "Uncle Xu, I didn't expect you to come pick me up."

"What's so unexpected about this? Your second uncle and I are buddies. Although I don't have a good relationship with your grandfather, I have to give face to your second uncle."

Li Tong nodded, not quite understanding.

After Xu Ning arrived at the village on his donkey, he saw many villagers had gone out and were standing on the street chatting with each other. The topic was naturally Li San.

(End of this chapter)