Back to the 1990s: Holding the spiritual spring and striving for a well-off life

Chapter 406 What is missing

A few days later, Jian Nan came with several unmarried young men from his relatives' families. They drove two cars, and with Hua Xiali's car, there were three cars parked in the open space in front of Hua Xiali's house.

The summer sun is scorching, and the car is extremely hot. The temperature inside can reach as high as 50 or 60 degrees. Hua Xiali was worried that something might happen if the children sneaked into the car to play, so on the first day in the countryside, he set up a shade net in the open space in front of the door so that the car would not be so hot.

Although Hua Xiali was not familiar with the several unmarried young men brought by Jian Nan, he had seen them all before. Jian Nan told them that he was taking them to the countryside to swim and fish, but he did not say that he was coming to meet Hua Qiuli, so that it would not be too awkward.

Hua Xiali went to the market the day before and bought a lot of meat and vegetables and put them in the refrigerator. It's summer now, and the thing that every household has the most is vegetables, the only things that need to be bought are meat and vegetables.

In the morning, Hua Xiali, Hua Mu and Hua Qiuli began to busy themselves with preparing a sumptuous lunch. As soon as they arrived, they sat down to rest for a while, drank tea and ate watermelon to cool down, and then asked everyone to come to the table to eat.

Seeing the sumptuous meal on the table, several people were surprised and quickly said thank you for your hard work.

After all, it’s summer time, and cooking such a meal is really hot and tiring.

On the table there were crayfish with garlic, boiled fish fillet, spicy snails, braised eel, pork ribs stewed with cucumber, scrambled eggs with leeks, stir-fried water spinach, stir-fried pickles, chicken stewed with potatoes, shredded potatoes with vinegar, scrambled eggs with tomatoes, and pickled pork with preserved vegetables.

Twelve courses in total.

Almost all of Jian Nan's relatives have been to Hua Xiali's seafood restaurant and were impressed by the delicious food. So now, seeing so much seafood on the table, they couldn't wait to eat it. The taste was exactly the same as in those restaurants, and it was so delicious that they couldn't stop eating.

When everyone put down their bowls and chopsticks, Hua Xiali was surprised to find that all the onions, ginger and garlic used for seasoning on the plates had been eaten up cleanly. The charm of this spiritual spring water was truly too great.

A few people rubbed their round bellies and smiled embarrassedly.

In order to help everyone digest the food, Hua Xiali and Hua Qiuli took everyone to the river bend to go fishing. There were trees and shade by the river, so there was no need to expose the fish to the sun completely.

Hua Xiali mixed the fishing bait with spiritual spring water, and then everyone set off with wooden barrels and fishing rods.

Hua Xiali walked at the back with Hua Qiuli on his arm and asked curiously, "Qiuli, these people are all familiar to Jiannan and he knows them well. There shouldn't be any problems for them to be brought to us. Do you have any ideas about them?"

"Second sister." Hua Qiuli looked at Hua Xiali embarrassedly.

We had just met and hadn't even spoken a few words, how would she know all this?
Hua Xiali smiled and said nothing more. Hua Qiuli was only twenty-three years old, still young, so there was no need to rush and he could take his time choosing.

When they arrived at the river, everyone found a suitable fishing spot and sat down on the grass and began fishing. The bait was mixed with spiritual spring water by Hua Xiali, so soon someone had a fish on their hook.

Hua Xiali did not participate in fishing because she felt it was too slow. She had spiritual spring water, so she just released some of the spiritual spring water and easily caught a bunch of fish.

After so many years, the dam upstream of the river bend has been changed from the original sandbag to a concrete dam. The dam is two meters wide. People walking on it will not be in any danger as long as they do not go to the edge of the dam.

In the middle of the dam, there is a gate to adjust the water level of the river. Now it is the hot summer and the water level is not deep, so only one gate is opened. We can't let the lower reaches of the river dry up. After all, there are villages downstream that need water. Hua Xiali, wearing a hat, stood on the dam. In front of her was the deeper upstream, and behind her was the shallow downstream. She looked at the deep water area in front of her, a little absent-minded, as if she had lost something in her mind, but she couldn't remember it.

Jian Nan came over and said, "Wife, it's so sunny, what are you doing here?"

Hua Xiali pointed to the bamboo forest opposite and said, "I want to go to the bamboo forest and take a look. I remember picking wild grapes and poppies there when I was a child."

"What is Paozi?" Jian Nan asked in confusion.

"It's a kind of sour and sweet berry." Hua Xiali explained that the berry is eaten in May and June, and it is definitely not available now.

Jian Nan looked at the water ahead and said with a smile, "Wife, you were the one who saved me from here. If it weren't for you, I would have died long ago."

"So you're marrying me just to repay a favor?" Hua Xiali asked curiously. If that was really the case, there was no need to worry about that. After all, with his conditions, he could find any kind of wife he wanted.

"Of course not. If someone else had saved me, I could have given them money and arranged a job for them. But because it was you, I want to give my whole life to you." Jian Nan held Hua Xiali's hands and looked into her eyes very seriously. "Because I liked you first, and then I loved you."

After being married for so many years, Hua Xiali finally received a passionate confession. She smiled awkwardly, "But I..."

She could no longer remember the reason why she married Jian Nan, but she felt that it was to relieve the pressure at home and to have a better life.

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After all, in her previous life, she chose to marry Wang Liang in order to reduce the burden on her family and relieve the pressure.

"It doesn't matter, as long as you are willing to stay by my side, as long as you are willing to give me the chance to love you, this will be the greatest happiness for me." Jian Nan also knew that nothing is perfect in this world, so it is good enough for them like this.

After that, the two of them went to the bamboo forest opposite together. People often came in to cut bamboo to take home as firewood, so there were intricate and winding paths in the bamboo forest.

There was a gentle breeze and the bamboo leaves rustled in the wind.

Hua Xiali's eyes flashed with the image of Lu Xiaozhi helping her cut bamboo with his face flushed. Thinking of his life experience and experiences, Hua Xiali couldn't help but sigh.

"Wife, what's wrong?" Jian Nan asked worriedly.

Hua Xiali shook his head. "Nothing. I just remembered a little brother in our village. He should be about seven or eight years younger than me. He was the best-looking child in our village. But his grandparents were too cruel. They forced this child to death. He was only a teenager when he died. It was such a pity."

Thinking of Lu Xiaozhi's experience, Hua Xiali still felt extremely regretful. He really couldn't understand how there could be such grandparents in the world.

It was because they were afraid that he would grow up and become independent that they would ignore him and even did not allow him to go to primary school.