1987 My Era

Chapter 12, Wisdom

Chen Xiaomi called from behind: "Sister-in-law, wait for me, I'll go with you."

Seeing his mother and aunt go out, Chen Zitong blinked his big eyes and stared at his father's ugly face.

Chen Gaoyuan thought for a moment and said to his little daughter, "Don't tell your sister about this."

Chen Zitong pouted: "Dad, it's useless for you to just tell me, my aunt and mom will definitely fan the flames in front of my sister.

If you don’t believe me, just wait and see.

This is a great opportunity to exaggerate, stir up trouble, and cause trouble in various ways."

Chen Gaoyuan, who seems to be doing very well outside, feels overwhelmed when it comes to family matters. He is troubled by everything at home.

As for what his wife and sisters were thinking, Chen Gaoyuan knew it very well. They just wanted to completely stop his eldest daughter from having any thoughts about Li Heng.

...

Opposite door is Mr. Li’s house.

Thinking about how she and her husband had been eating meat for several days in the Chen family, Tian Run'e began to feel sorry for her children. So she took a kitchen knife and climbed up to the stove, planning to cut some bacon for dinner and stir-fry it with garlic sprouts and tofu to help the two siblings improve their lives.

But when she looked up, huh? She realized something was wrong. Why were the pork leg and pork belly swapped?

Also, why is the pork belly shorter?
Tian Run'e was a very meticulous person. She always knew how much rice was in the rice jar, how long the needle and thread were at home, how many cabbages were in the field, etc. She had never made any mistakes in all these years as the head of the household.

What's more, it is one of the few bacon in the house that can be exchanged for money. It is her lifeblood. How could she not remember it?
Her eyes wandered between the two pieces of bacon for several times. After a while, she switched the kitchen knife in her right hand to her left hand and used her right thumb to cut the cross section of the pork belly.

Sure enough, after wiping off the ash from the pot, a fresh white cut was revealed inside.

Staring blankly at the shortened piece of pork belly, Tian Run'e suddenly felt upset. She then went to the stove to get some ash and restored the bacon to its original shape.

Arriving at the backyard, Tian Run'e quietly asked Li Jianguo, who was feeding water to the cows: "Jianguo, did you touch the bacon?"

"What bacon?"

Li Jianguo turned around, reacted and asked anxiously: "Is the bacon at home missing?"

Tian Run'e shook her head and immediately recounted her discovery.

After listening, Li Jianguo fell silent.

After a long while, he said sadly: "Erbao must be too greedy."

Tian Run'e holds the same view.

The couple did not think it was theft, because if it was done by a thief, it would not be as simple as throwing away a piece of bacon, it should be thrown away whole pieces.

The dinner was unexpectedly sumptuous, with river shrimps with leeks and fried tofu with yellow on both sides.

There is also a flat bowl of cured pork ribs.

Phew! These are all Li Heng’s favorites. He scooped a bowl of rice, put a few chopsticks of river shrimp and tofu on top, and started eating with big mouthfuls.

We are all family, so there is no need to be too particular. Just be as comfortable as you want. I ate two big bowls of sweet potato rice in one go, filling my stomach to the brim.

This was the most enjoyable meal he had ever had since his rebirth. His round belly felt so solid.

Unfortunately, the only flaw is the sweet potato rice. He really vomited it and really didn’t like it. It would be better if it could be replaced with white rice.

After more than 20 days of hardship, he now recognizes the truth. Even if he doesn't face the sea, as long as he has white rice and meat every meal, it's like spring. After dinner, the second sister magically took out a dime-a-pack of spiced melon seeds from her pocket. She just glanced at her brother, didn't call him, and just sat on the doorstep and started eating them by herself.

Honestly speaking, if Li Heng hadn't been behaving well these days, she wouldn't even glance at him. She was used to eating alone.

At this time, Tian Run'e suddenly asked Li Jianguo, "Jianguo, did you drink sweet wine? Why are there two bowls of sweet wine missing?"

Two dishes missing?
Didn’t my second sister only secretly drink a bowl of sweet wine that night? When did she secretly drink another bowl?
Li Heng subconsciously looked at his second sister.

Receiving his gaze, Li Lan turned her head away expressionlessly, but her right hand did not stop and continued to put melon seeds into her mouth.

I saw her upper lip and lower lip touch each other, pia! A melon seed shell was spat out on the ground.

Pia! Another melon seed peel fell neatly to the ground.

Seeing Manzai's eyes, Li Jianguo understood everything. He knew that his wife was trying to scare Erbao and warn him not to drink sweet wine anymore for fear of a recurrence of stomach problems.

Li Jianguo smiled and agreed: "I didn't control my mouth for a moment and ate a little too much."

Before the first thing was over, Tian Run'e brought up another matter: "The 20 yuan under the pillow disappeared. Did you take it too?"

Hearing this, Li Heng's gaze moved down to his second sister's palm, and landed on the spiced melon seeds.

Li Lan ignored him, turned her head away a little, and cracked melon seeds as if nothing had happened.

Li Jianguo glanced at his second daughter and continued to cover up: "When I was making the bed this morning, I found 20 yuan on the floor. I picked it up, but I was busy with Grandma Chun's affairs and forgot to tell you."

As he spoke, he counted out two 10-yuan bills from his underwear pocket and handed them to his wife.

Tian Run'e took the money and put it in her pocket, then said to her husband, "We just finished dinner. I'll take a walk with you. You can't sit for a long time."

"Eh, okay."

For a moment, the couple, who were deeply in love, left and went for a walk along the road.

Li Heng did not think of himself as an eyesore and went up to the single room on the second floor to continue writing "To Live".

I’m only 600 words away from words, and I must finish it today.

When she came back from a walk in the evening and saw that there was no one in the living room, Tian Run'e immediately went into her bedroom and looked through the pillow.

Sure enough, just as she expected, there were two big beds lying on the bed.

The banknotes were a bit old, with blue ballpoint pen writing on them, indicating that they had passed through many hands.

Bending down to pick up the money, Tian Run'e told her husband who followed her in, "A few days ago, Erbao said he liked a set of clothes and told me he wanted to buy it for 16 yuan.

I thought that the two siblings would need to pay a lot of money to go to school, and I didn’t have enough money, so I didn’t agree.”

At this point, she paused, her eyes suddenly filled with tears, "Erbao once complained to me that all the girls in her class were dressed up beautifully, but she was the worst dressed..."

As she was talking, Tian Run'e couldn't continue. Her heart ached and she sobbed on her husband's shoulder.

Li Jianguo held his wife in his left hand and gently patted her back with his right hand. While comforting his wife, he couldn't help but felt tears in his eyes.

At this moment, he felt extremely unhappy, full of sadness, guilt, and secretly hated himself for being useless.

Not only did he let down his beautiful wife, who became a yellow-faced woman from the sun and rain, but he also let down his three children, who had poor food and clothing and suffered with him.

ps: The rural block has come to an end, the early stage of the foreshadowing is almost done, and a new journey will begin soon. (Please read it, and try to push it on Sunday. Reading it again is related to the fate of this book. Please help me, big guys)
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