Yoshida Mii

Chapter 119 Dragon Boat Festival
"There is nothing to forgive or not to forgive." Gui Zhi turned his face away, not to look at him, wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, and said forcefully: "In the eyes of your family, I am a rebellious and unfilial person. It is exactly what they want, the two children will be brought here later, I can afford it! You go back to your house, don't stand at the door of the scholar's house, she is a good person, it is not appropriate for you to stand at the door of his house!"

"It doesn't matter what you look like in their eyes, as long as you look good in my eyes!" Darong said excitedly, "Can I still not know what kind of person you are?"

Guizhi covered his face and asked, "You still hit me if you know?"

Darong stared at Gui Zhi in a daze, then suddenly raised his hand and slapped his face hard several times, with crackling sounds, his face soon became red and swollen.

Dong Bao was stunned by his own ruthless hands.

Gui Zhi screamed, and quickly grabbed Darong's hand, "What are you doing?!"

When Mrs. Li heard the noise at the door, she ran over and was startled, and quickly pulled Dong Bao away, leaving space for the couple.

Darong said: "My mother told me to hit you. If I don't hit you, she and my younger sister will have to do it. I just pretend to hit you, and you know that. In the end, I am useless... I know what's in your heart. I feel wronged, and in the middle of the night, I have to go to the Xiucai’s wife’s house to grind beans to earn money. What I earn is hard money. My eldest sister comes home crying and poor, and I also bother her, but I can’t stop my mother from bringing her things and money.”

"You go back." Gui Zhi said in a dispirited manner, she had heard such words many times, so what's the point of saying them.

Da Rong summoned up his courage and continued, "If you don't want to go back, we won't go back. I'll go back and tell my mother to separate!"

Gui Zhi looked up at him with wide eyes, and asked in surprise, "Separation? You said separation?" She couldn't believe her ears.

"The Universiade is seventeen this year, and I am already an adult. My daughter-in-law will enter the house in the twelfth lunar month. Xiaohong will also marry next year. Our family should be divided. From now on, we will earn money and farm, and life will pass slowly. Wake up." Darong said, feeling a little bit of pain in his heart, after all, he was a family member he had lived with for decades, so if he said he would split up, he would split up, which made people feel uncomfortable.However, if there is only one choice between living together and his wife, he chooses his wife.What's more, what happened yesterday was the fault of his mother and sister.

Separating a family is a big deal, not just lip service.

Darong and Guizhi were originally a loving couple, if it wasn't for the money issue, they wouldn't have gotten into such a trouble, now that Darong finally realized that they were going to separate, Guizhi's anger disappeared.

The two split up, Da Rong went home to talk about the separation of the family, Guizhi went to the village head, Lin Fu's family and several respected elders in the village, and invited them to preside over the separation.

Gui Zhi respects Li Shi very much, and originally wanted Li Shi to be a witness of the separation, but Li Shi declined. She is a widow, and it is inconvenient to participate in other people's family affairs in such a high-profile way, so she only asked Gui Zhi to ignore her parents-in-law. No matter what you give them, you can't be as noisy as before, and you can't think about it.

In the afternoon, when Guizi came to pick out the tofu, the tofu hadn’t been pressed yet, so he wentssip with Mrs. Li and the others about the result of the division of Guizhi’s family. My sister-in-law is not a fuel-efficient lamp. After scolding her sister-in-law and her brother, if she was not dragged by several daughters-in-law, she would go up and scratch her. Tell her to go back to the house and stay there, she has no place to talk!

"Oh, auntie, you don't know, Uncle Darong's sister is really fierce!" Guizi was terrified, "His sister is famous this time, and everyone says she has learned a lot. Terrible, anyone dares to scold, anyone dares to beat her. Everyone secretly said that they don't know which unlucky guy is married to her, it's like marrying a scourge, there is such a troublemaker who can make trouble and fight, I will have a sad and peaceful life in the future."

Li Hongqin shook her head and sighed: "It's not all because of Da Rong's mother, who used to make her daughter lawless, and even her elder brother and sister-in-law don't pay attention to her. In the end, it's not her own daughter who cheated her? The in-law's family is not as easy as her mother's family."

Fortunately, the two daughters in the family are good, Xiuyu is well-behaved and quiet, but not without temper, Dongbao is smart and pungent, but not unreasonable.

"Then what will be given to Guizhi and the others in the end?" Shi Li asked.

Guizi laughed and said: "Actually, there is nothing to divide. Their house is big, and there is wasteland next to it. The two houses they live in now belong to them. Uncle Da Rong said that in the future, they will tidy up the wasteland in the west and build a yard. Here Just build a wall, and they are two families. The land was divided into two acres, and I didn’t listen to the rest, so I ran back.”

"It's only two mu of land?" Mrs. Li shook her head, "I'm afraid the grain harvested is not enough."

But this result is not bad, both of them are able to work hard, and Da Rong is strong, and they can open up a few more acres of wasteland, and they can live their lives slowly.

Now the busy farming season is not completely over yet. If the land is good and the family has enough fertilizer, after harvesting the wheat, they will have to plant another season of autumn grains such as sweet potatoes, sorghum, and bracts. After harvesting the wheat, we can only let the land rest for a while, slowly fertilize it, and plant grain again when the harvest is in autumn.

In the era when there is no large-scale industrial production of chemical fertilizers, it is not easy to achieve high yields.

Most of the land in Lin Shi's family is good. After harvesting the wheat, they have to plow the land and plow the land to plant it. Dong Bao discussed with Guizi. The amount of tofu in the afternoon is just to be distributed to Lin Fu to pick and sell, which was discussed with Lin Fu before.In this case, the tofu for Takako should not be as much as before.

Guizi readily agreed, selling [-] catties of tofu can earn a lot of money, but walking around the streets is very tiring, and even if there are few selling points, he can sell them out early and go home.

After Guizi picked out the tofu, a few people started making zongzi.

I bought a lot of glutinous rice this year, so I can wrap it as I like, and Mrs. Li plans to wrap a few as favors for the villagers.The zongzi in Tagouji are basically white rice zongzi, at most, red dates or peanuts are added inside, cooked, peeled off and dipped in white sugar to eat.

Dongbao didn't like to eat this kind of rice dumplings, she remembered the Jiaxing meat rice dumplings she had eaten in her previous life, that was delicious.First wash the rice a little bit, mix it with soy sauce and salt, then cut the diced pork belly and marinate it with soy sauce and other seasonings. After wrapping it, put it in water and boil it. The aroma of rice and meat will come out.

Under Dong Bao's command, Li made two wraps according to this method. In her opinion, they were both meaty and oily, so they wouldn't be unpalatable. She is still a girl with a flexible mind and can come up with fresh ideas.

After cooking the first two meat dumplings, several people ate them, and they all thought it was good, better than the original white rice dumplings.Mrs. Li decided that all the zongzi in the future would be wrapped into meat zongzi, so they could be given away as gifts.

Unfortunately for Dongbao, the water in the river has risen and the current is so fast that it is not easy to catch small shrimps. It is also very delicious to wrap dumplings with egg yolk and shrimp meat.

"How much does it cost to sell this zongzi?" Zhang Xiuyu murmured, then grabbed Dongbao's sleeve and asked, "Can this be sold? I tasted very delicious!"

Dong Bao looked at Zhang Xiuyu with a smile, and said, "Everyone says I've fallen into the eyes of money, and my cousin is the only one who has fallen into the eyes of money. After eating rice dumplings, I think of doing business!"

Zhang Xiuyu hummed and laughed, patted Dong Bao, and said with a smile, "I'm serious, shall we try to sell two tomorrow? I think it's just how much we want to sell, you have to add up. "

Dongbao is good at arithmetic, how much it costs, how much it sells, how much it can earn, she calculates it with a little brain, and the family believes in her on this point.

"The cost is not low." Dong Bao pondered, "Glutinous rice is ten cents a catty, almost catching up with the price of meat, and we are willing to put meat and seasonings... But if we sell it, the zongzi wrapped will definitely not be able to compete with it." It’s the same size now, one rice dumpling uses two or two meters, one tael of meat, plus seasoning for rice dumpling leaves, and the cost will not exceed four Wen, so let’s sell it for ten Wen each!”

Mrs. Li was stunned for a while listening, and said hesitantly: "Is ten Wen a little too expensive?" Even a bowl of bean curd for two Wen in the morning, I often hear people whispering about the price.

Dong Bao shook his head, "The cost of rice dumplings is high. If we don't set the price a little higher, it won't be enough for hard work. Besides, meat dumplings are a new thing for us. People who can afford meat dumplings must not care about the few pennies." .”

"I think what Dongbao said is right." Li Hongqin echoed, "Some people think it's expensive. Our tofu is cheap enough for two cents a catty. Isn't it because some people think it's expensive? Ten cents apiece, if it doesn’t sell well, let’s take it back and eat it for ourselves, we won’t be blind!”

After the agreement was made, Li Hongqin took Zhang Xiuyu to the town again while it was still early in the morning, planning to buy another fifty catties of glutinous rice back.The dinner was made by Li Shi and Li Hongqin, and Dong Bao was sent to wind up colorful silk threads, which would be tied to hands and feet tomorrow.Li's meals are also good, one is fried bean sprouts, one is fried tofu with oil residue, and one is winter melon pork rib soup.

The meal was ready, Li Hongqin and Zhang Xiuyu hadn't come back yet, Dongbao and Mrs. Li were sitting in the yard waiting for two people, when someone knocked on the door.

Second Aunt Song's voice sounded outside the door, "Sister-in-law, it's me, open the door for me."

"What's the matter?" Dong Bao answered with a frown.

"Sister-in-law, please open the door for me. I'll go in and tell you that my mother wants me to bring it here." Second Aunt Song shouted outside, and after a pause, she shouted again: "Sister-in-law, I'm pregnant with Mao Mao! , Standing for a long time makes my stomach feel uncomfortable!"

"If you don't like it, then go back, who cares about you coming!" Dong Bao snorted and muttered, I'm really fed up with Second Aunt Song pretending to be precious all day long with her belly up. Liancheng Diamond Egg!
(End of this chapter)