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Chapter 654: You're not going to rush in? Do something big secretly!
Li Feng was certainly aware of the character of the Chang brothers. It had been two years since he and Chang Lihong got married. At first, the Chang brothers would send some meat to the Li family after they killed their livestock, but after a conflict with Li San, the Chang brothers stopped associating with the Li family. This was normal, after all, Li San's reputation was notorious in the village.

Moreover, the conflict was not the fault of the Chang brothers. It was all caused by Li San himself. The reason was that he borrowed the gun and did not return it, which indirectly killed Li Shan.

From Li Feng's perspective, he felt that his two brothers-in-law were quite nice to him, but sometimes he could also see that the Chang brothers were somewhat heartless and ungrateful due to an incident that had happened before.

Two years ago, he and the Chang brothers went into the mountains to hunt, and they hunted a black bear weighing more than 300 kilograms. The Chang brothers only gave him 30 kilograms of meat and a bear paw. As for the bear gall, they didn't even mention it!
Later, Chang Lihong asked for the money from her two brothers, but Chang Beifeng scolded her for not knowing which way the door of her parents' house was facing after she got married, which meant that she was betraying her parents. Gao Yanhong was sensible and gave Li Feng a share, but as soon as she got home, Li San took the money away...

"I know. I'll help them pull the animals. I don't want any money this time, because when my father was pretending to be crazy, didn't my wife and I take our children and my sister-in-law to live with them?"

Lao Wei nodded: "That's what I should do. We should help those who need help."

At this time, Liu Lizhen asked: "Feng, have you all moved back home?"

Li Feng shook his head: "I haven't moved yet. I'm thinking of moving in two days. It's only the 37th day of the lunar month. I'm afraid of scaring the child."

Wu Qiuxia interrupted and said, "It should be fine. If it doesn't work, ask your wife to ask Mrs. Zhang."

"Well, let her go and ask tomorrow."

Liu Lizhen asked in a roundabout way, "So your sister-in-law is still living with you?"

Li Feng was slightly stunned, and said, "Yes, we talked about this together. On the day my father died, he didn't even look at me. He told my sister-in-law where the money was hidden and asked her to use the money to support Tongtong's schooling."

"Oh my god, why didn't I tell you?" Wu Qiuxia said.

Han Fengjiao and others were a little confused and looked at Li Feng.

He just said, "They look down on me. It's been like this since I was a child. I'm used to it. But after my sister-in-law took the money down from the beam, she gave it directly to my wife. There were more than 400 yuan in total. My sister-in-law didn't keep a penny because she knew that more than half of the money was earned by me and my two brothers-in-law from hunting livestock in the mountains that year."

Liu Lizhen said with a smile: "This Cuiping is really sensible. She didn't even keep the money."

"It's not a big deal. She just didn't marry a good man. If she had married a good man, why would she have to live like this?"

Li Feng saw the old ladies talking about Sun Cuiping, and then he looked at Xu Ning with some doubt. He saw the eyes sweeping over him and said with a smile: "Didn't your sister-in-law say to find another old man? Li Shan has been gone for almost a year, and you can't let your sister-in-law take care of the child by herself."

"It doesn't count as her taking care of the child herself. I don't...ah!"

Li Feng suddenly came to his senses and leaned forward to ask, "Does my aunt have a suitable man to introduce to my sister-in-law?"

Liu Lizhen said with a smile: "That's a little bit true. Your father has only been dead for a few days."

"Whose old man is this? Is he married or divorced? Do he have any children?"

It was indeed a bit inappropriate for a brother-in-law to arrange a marriage for his sister-in-law, but Sun Cuiping had no family from her mother's family, and Li San, who could make the decision, had died. Only Li Feng was left. If he did not help Sun Cuiping, given her personality, she would remain a widow until her death.

When Xu Ning heard that his mother had revealed everything, he said bluntly, "My brother Jun!"

"Who?" Li Feng seemed not to hear clearly.

Liu Lizhen added: "Yang Jun! Didn't he just get divorced not long ago..."

Li Feng suddenly realized and said, "Yang Jun... Yes, he is about the same age as my sister-in-law, but he looks a little... Then I'll go back and ask? I wonder if my sister-in-law likes him. Is Yang Jun interested in my sister-in-law?"

Xu Ning said with a smile: "Brother Feng, this matter has not been decided yet. My brother Jun really wants to find another one, because he is usually busy in the Lengchang, and he has no way to take care of the children at home. If he finds another woman, he can relax a little, but he is busy in the Lengchang, and there is no elder in his family, so he entrusted this matter to my mother. Now my brother Jun doesn't know anything..."

Liu Lizhen said, "Originally I was thinking of waiting until Li Shan's anniversary was over and your father's 100th day was over before I talked to you about it, but today is not the right time to talk about it."

"Why wait for an anniversary? There's no need to wait for a hundred days. They are gone, but we have to continue living our lives, right? Auntie, I'll talk to my wife about this when I get back, and ask her to talk to my sister-in-law. Has my sister-in-law met Yang Jun?"

"How could I not have seen it? When Erning got married, Cuiping prepared food for Yang Junsheng! I was standing at the door of this room at that time and saw it clearly!" Wu Qiuxia said while gesturing.

"Hahaha, you are quite observant! What didn't Sun Cuiping say at that time?"

"What can I say? Yang Jun already had a wife at that time..."

Hearing this, everyone burst into laughter. Maybe someone would ask why they always laugh? It's not that they have a low sense of humor, but the topic makes people want to laugh from the bottom of their hearts!

After laughing, Li Feng pinched his cigarette and said, "Then I'll ask when I get back. Auntie, can you also ask Yang Jun?"

"Okay! Let Erning go to Lengchang to find him tomorrow..."

At about 10:4, Wang Hu rode his donkey upside down to send Lao Wei home, took four sacks of pine cones from his home, each weighing more than kilograms, and two small bags of peeled hazelnuts, and hurried back. Then Xu Ning, Li Fuqiang, Chen Hedong and others picked pine nuts when they had nothing to do.

This variety of pine nuts is very good, with thin skin and large fillings. However, in the process of peeling, my hands are covered with pine oil, which is sticky and difficult to clean.

Li Feng rode another donkey and took Lao Wei to Taiping to find Da Laba. He had to tell the two of them about helping the Chang brothers run mountain runs, so he couldn't sell meat with them.

In fact, the mountain people are very happy after the snow. As the saying goes, auspicious snow means a good harvest. Even though the snow this year came a little later than in previous years, it still makes people happy, because snow means they can spend the winter at home, and in their spare time they can go to the river to break ice and catch fish, or go into the mountains to hunt if they have guns.

But Da Laba and Lao Jiang are a little worried because winter is coming and the meat-selling business will become the off-season.

Scarcity makes things valuable. Selling meat in the summer makes money because not many people go into the mountains to hunt livestock in the summer, while in the winter more people go into the mountains to hunt livestock, so the price of meat is naturally much lower. Some people even pick out the meat and sell it at a low price, disrupting the market environment.

At noon, the three of them were drinking at Da Laba's house. They looked worried and were thinking about what to do. Zhang Guifang was sitting at the end of the kang sewing pants. She looked up and said, "You three are all wasting your time. What can you come up with? Why don't you just ask me directly? Isn't my brain much better than yours?"

Hearing this, Loudspeaker slapped his thigh and said, "Oh my god! Why didn't this old woman say so earlier!"

Lao Jiang laughed and said, "We should really ask Er Ning what to do. The way we sell meat was Er Ning's idea."

"I just went to his house this afternoon. How about going again tomorrow? Oh, that won't work. He's going to the theater tomorrow..."

"Let's go after dinner."

Li Feng said: "Then I have to go home first."

"What are you going home for?"

"There's something... Oh, don't ask me. If I tell you, everyone in the two villages will know about it the next day."

Zhang Guifang smiled and said, "If you don't tell him, he won't be able to sleep tonight."

"Haha, it's better if I can't sleep. You two can just be busy."

"Get lost. I don't want to mess around with him. If I want to mess around, I'll find a good man!"

Da Loudspeaker curled his lips and said, "You'll never find a good man like me in your next life, and you're still bragging to me."

"Tell me another one?" Zhang Guifang glared at him, and Daba immediately retracted his neck and stopped talking.

Seeing that he didn't say anything, Zhang Guifang turned around and asked, "Brother Jiang, how is your relationship with your girlfriend?"

Lao Jiang blushed and nodded: "It's good, but it's a little far. I took Xiaoqiu to her house for a drink a few days ago. We thought about finding a day to invite relatives and friends to have a meal together and get the business done."

Loudspeaker said, "Oh my god, you are a quiet person who is always doing something special! You went to her house to drink, so you must have made up your mind, right?" "Yeah."

Lao Jiang was a little embarrassed when he spoke, because he had been single for a long time. Although he had been in contact with old women in the village, he was not the kind of person who would just find any woman to do things with. To express it in a verb, it means being a little fierce! To describe it in the words of later generations on the Internet: Then you have to be aggressive.

Zhang Guifang said with a smile: "Brother Jiang, you are a grown man, but you blush when you talk about this..."

The loud speaker waved his hands unhappily: "You bitch, you know nothing. Brother Jiang got drunk and his face turned red!"

"Haha..." Li Feng couldn't help laughing.

Zhang Guifang patted the loud speaker on the back and said, "Is that what I meant? I mean, there aren't many people at Jiang's house. If you want to entertain or do something, you must find someone to help."

"Yes! Brother Jiang, if you want to get things done, you must find people. You should first decide how many people you want to hire."

Lao Jiang said, "There are probably less than 30 people from our village, and more than 10 people from her family will come."

"So even if there are fifty people, we need at least four tables, but four tables sounds awkward, how about five? When are you going to invite them? We also have to buy cigarettes, alcohol, food, etc."

"There's no date set yet. It's not easy for an old man like me to go look for Mrs. Zhang."

Zhang Guifang said, "I will go to see Mrs. Zhang tomorrow morning. Please write down your birthdays on a piece of paper later."

"Okay, thank you for troubling my sister-in-law."

"Why are you being so polite? When you get things done, you will definitely tell my aunt, right? You will have to ask her for help."

"I have to find it. I'm thinking of making some time to go there..."

"I'll tell you later. Er Ning happens to be at home."

After saying that, he poured the wine in the cup into his stomach and then stopped pouring more.

After sitting on the kang to sober up, Zhang Guifang had just finished cleaning up the outer room, so they drove and rode their donkeys to Qing'an.

However, Li Feng jumped out of the car at the fork in the road and went home, and the three of them went to Lao Xu's house first.

Li Feng walked into the house quickly and shouted, "Wife! Sister-in-law!"

Chang Lihong hastily lifted the door curtain, put her hand on her lips, and said through gritted teeth: "Keep your voice down! He just fell asleep, don't wake him up!"

Li Feng nodded and whispered, "Where's my sister-in-law?"

"I'm picking corn in the house. What's the matter?"

"I have something to do. Didn't I go to Old Xu's house this afternoon? Erning told me that he wanted to introduce a guy to my sister-in-law, so I wanted to ask her if she was willing."

"Introduce someone? Who?" Chang Lihong was a little curious, and her eyes immediately lit up.

"Yang Jun!"

"Oh my god, why is it him? How can my sister-in-law like him? He really doesn't look very attractive..."

"At this age, why do you still care about appearance? Yang Jun has good qualities except for his bad looks. He has a 17-lane field and a 28-lane field with Er Ning. Although his divorce has spread all over Qing'an, it's not his fault!"

"That's right. He has been raising someone else's child for more than ten years. It's good enough that he didn't kill that old woman."

Li Feng nodded: "Ask your sister-in-law? Hurry up! I still have to go to Old Xu's house. Uncle Jiang and Brother Huang are both there."

"Let's go downstairs together. The child is asleep, so it shouldn't be a problem."

After saying that, the two of them thought about going downstairs, and when they opened the door, they saw Sun Cuiping holding two corn stalks in her hands and rubbing them against each other.

"Sister-in-law, take a break!"

"I am not tired……"

"Hey, let me tell you something."

Sun Cuiping put down the work in her hands and said, "Go ahead."

"That's what happened. Have you met Yang Jun?"

She nodded: "I have seen it."

"Sister-in-law, what do you think of Yang Jun? He is divorced now..."

Li Feng pulled Chang Lihong and said, "Hey, you can't even understand a message. Sister-in-law, Yang Jun is divorced now. With his conditions, he will definitely find another one. Besides, you two are of similar age. He can have a son and you can have a daughter. Isn't this perfect?"

"I went to Old Xu's house this afternoon and heard Erning and his mother mention that Yang Jun wanted to remarry, so I thought you two were a good match. Sister-in-law, although Yang Jun looks a little ugly, he has a good personality..."

Chang Lihong continued, "His personality and character are both good. He has raised other people's children for more than ten years, but he never slapped that old woman. And look at those who get along well with the Xu family. Which one has a problem with character? In addition, Yang Jun is rich and has two businesses. He earns more every year than Li Feng does by selling meat! If you get together with him, you will really enjoy a good life in the future."

Sun Cuiping was a submissive person. She just blinked and nodded while listening to the couple's chatter, without saying anything in reply.

Li Feng said: "Sister-in-law, I think Yang Jun is very good, what do you think?"

Sun Cuiping lowered her head and said, "You have to ask Tongtong, I can do anything..."

"Why ask her? What does a child know? Sister-in-law, just tell me whether you are happy or not! You are not bad looking, and you are more than a good match for Yang Jun. You have a good personality too, and you can do any work at home..."

Chang Lihong glanced at Li Feng and said, "Sister-in-law, if you agree, I'll give you three hundred yuan after you two get the job done! I haven't discussed this with Li Feng because he just told me about it, but he definitely agrees."

Li Feng nodded: "I have to agree! Sister-in-law has suffered so much in my house for so many years. After she gets married, this will be your mother's home. We should give it to her!"

Sun Cuiping's eyes turned red when she heard this, and she cried, "I can do anything."

She knew that she couldn't raise her child and live with her brother-in-law and sister-in-law for the rest of her life, so she had to find another one. Gao Yanhong and Zhang Yan also talked to her about this when she was living in Old Chang's house.

Chang Lihong said, "Sister-in-law, if you agree, I will ask Li Feng to pass on the message, and we can settle the matter as soon as possible. Although Yang Jun's appearance is not good, his family is rich. If the news spreads, there will definitely be a lot of people who want to introduce him to a partner."

Li Feng smiled and said, "Sister-in-law has already nodded, so I should go?"

Sun Cuiping looked up and said, "Dad is only 37 days old, it's not good to say it now..."

"What's wrong with that? We live for ourselves. They are both buried. Why are you still thinking about them?"

Li Feng continued, "As a son, I don't care. What are you afraid of? It's settled. I'll go tell them now."

(End of this chapter)