The happiness of rebirth is knocking on the door

Chapter 10

Li Xiaohong knew that her mother had finally passed this test, so she just smiled and said nothing.

I went to Chen Xiang’s house and pulled half a plate of tofu according to the agreed terms. In order to make it easier for them to carry it, I also lent them a plate to hold the tofu. of.

On the way back, Li Xiaohong didn't ask her mother to pull the cart. Since she agreed to do it herself, she did everything by herself.

In fact, half a plate of tofu is really not heavy, and there is a belt on the front of the shelf cart that can be draped over the shoulders, so that the cart can be pulled forward with all the strength of the whole body.Li Xiaohong only uses the belt when the road has a slight slope, and at other times when the road is smooth, he naturally walks forward with the car on his back.

Seeing how relaxed Li Xiaohong was all the way, Zhang Meiying finally let go of her worries.

When he got home, Li Xiaolu had woken up and was playing in the neighbor's yard.Seeing Li Xiaohong and her mother, she jumped over happily: "Mom, sister! Hug!"

After thanking the neighbor, Zhang Meiying carried her back home.

Seeing the tofu on the shelf cart, her eyes lit up, and she put her finger in her mouth and swiped it.

"Tofu! Tofu!"

"Want to eat?"

"eat!"

"If you want to eat delicious food, don't instigate your hands next time."

Li Xiaolu nodded obediently.

"Also, look at your little black hands, wash them before you can eat them."

Scooping some water from the big water tank in the yard, Li Xiaolu stretched out her little dirty hands obediently, washed them and ate the tofu.

"Is it tasty?"

"Delicious, more."

"After eating this small piece, you can't eat any more, or your stomach will hurt."

Speaking of stomach pain, Li Xiaolu held his stomach and pressed it down, looked at his sister puzzled, and said, "My stomach doesn't hurt".

Seeing her tender and fair face, Li Xiaohong was filled with joy, squatted down and looked at her and said, "Did you forget the pain in your stomach last time? If you eat too much, it will hurt."

Li Xiaolu was warned not to eat by his sister, but his black eyes were still staring at the tofu on the car.

"Back then, my sister fried it for you. You can't eat the raw one."

Only then did Li Xiaolu agree.

Seeing that the eldest daughter and the younger daughter were doing well, Zhang Meiying let the two of them stay at home. After unloading the tofu from the cart, she took the cart to the field.

Let Li Xiaohong yell like a tofu seller, she tried it, but she was really embarrassed to yell.After thinking about it, she took a toy ball for her younger sister to play with, and wrote a few notices with a brush, explaining that she had tofu at home, and then planned to post one in every lively place in the village.

She walked forward with a few blank sheets of paper in one hand and a paste bowl in the other, followed by Li Xiaolu like her sister's little tail.

Along the way, Li Xiaohong greeted each other with a sweet smile. At this time, many people who had left the field came back to have breakfast, so they asked, "Xiaohong, what are you sisters doing here?" She asked with curious eyes. Scanned the things in her hands.

When someone asked, Li Xiaohong just stopped to introduce her family's business.

"Sister-in-law, you are going to go to the field. My family has imported tofu from Lingcun. No, I am planning to post a notice to let everyone in our village know about it. Come to your family. This tofu is fresh and tender. You After eating it, after a long time, the skin will be white, tender and smooth like this tofu."

The sister-in-law laughed: "How did Xiaohong have such a small mouth? You can talk like that. How do you sell the tofu?"

"Fifty cents a catty, you can exchange it for beans without money, a catty of beans for a catty and a half of tofu."

As he said that, a few people surrounded him: "Lao Li's daughter is promising, and she can sell tofu at such a young age."

"What's the future? I can't do the work in the field, so I can just exchange for two pocket money."

"How old are you? Do you know scales?"

"My mother specially tested me, so don't worry, Auntie, I guarantee that the scale will be enough."

Then he turned his head and asked the other: "Uncle, you should come too. You will be more energetic after eating tofu, and you are still very hungry. You just need to work a little longer."

Just as Li Xiaohong guessed, during the busy season of farming, everyone would like to eat some good toppings, and they could exchange beans for tofu. Anyway, they were grown in their own fields, so they would not lose money if they ate them.

After a while, when Li Xiaohong finished posting the notice, more than half of the people in the village who hadn't landed in the village basically knew that Li Zhi's family was selling tofu, and the tofu was sold by his eldest daughter who was just seven years old.Two-thirds of the tofu was sold out quickly, so don't worry about the remaining tofu. There are still many people working in the fields with their families. Judging by the situation, they will probably be sold out by noon.

As expected, the big clock at home has not pointed to 12, and the tofu has been sold out. If Li Xiaohong hadn't put a piece in advance, there would be nothing to eat at home.

After thinking about it, my mother is coming back for dinner soon, so I might as well make a big stew for lunch. Even soup and water, paired with steamed buns made by my mother, is also a good meal.

Just doing what she said, Li Xiaohong went to her vegetable field outside the courtyard. In the vegetable field, she planted a row of peppers, a few tomatoes, a row of cabbage, and some green onions, all red and green, very beautiful.

Because the vegetable field is next to the village, it is convenient to eat vegetables at home, but some villagers don’t pen up their own pigs, and they might go around the vegetable field and spoil the vegetables.

No way, Zhang Meiying planted a circle of pepper trees around the vegetable field. After several years of growth, the branches and leaves are lush.The Zanthoxylum bungeanum is not high, and it starts to fork from a low place, and the whole becomes a natural fence.Li Xiaohong went in through a small door specially reserved, pulled out a small handful of green onions, picked up a few cabbages, and came out from the vegetable field.
Come, cover the wooden board blocking the door back to its original position, and pick some peppercorns.

When I got home, I washed the green onions and cabbage, and picked the garlic I planted from the eaves.The local garlic cloves are not big, but the taste is very strong. After peeling, wait until the oil is seven minutes hot, put the onion, garlic, and peppercorns together and fry them, then put the boiled Chinese cabbage into the stir fry, and then add hot water.I went back to the big house and took out the scissors, found the wide vermicelli that I kept for eating at home, cut some off, washed it, and put it in the pot together with the fried golden tofu.

When the vermicelli is almost cooked, a little more sesame oil is dripped in, and a tempting fragrance floats up.

Li Xiaolu smelled the scent coming, clutched his stomach and cried hungry.

"Okay, let's call mom back for dinner in a while, and we'll eat together when mom comes back."

Li Xiaohong put a small stool under her feet, took the vegetable pot off the stove, took another deep breath, and then reluctantly put a large pig food pot on it, and then scooped water into the pot.Otherwise, put water in the pot first, Li Xiaohong tried it himself and couldn't move it at all.I also poured the soaked sweet potato dregs into the pot, covered the lid, poked the coals in the stove with pliers to make it burn more vigorously, and then closed the door and came out.

The place is not far away, Li Xiaohong took Li Xiaolu's hand and arrived there in six to seven minutes.

"Mom, it's time to eat!"

"Okay, let's go home with a load of sweet potatoes!" Zhang Meiying replied with a smile on her face, brimming with joy of harvest.

"Hey, sister-in-law, your Xiaohong is really capable, she can even cook for you."

The adjacent land belonged to Li Xia's family. Seeing sister Li Xiaohong coming, she smiled and praised her.

"Xiaohong is great, but I can't help it. There is no one else at home. Fortunately, she is helping with the cooking, otherwise I would be really overwhelmed."

Zhang Meiying spread out a fence made of dried tobacco poles and circled it around the shelf cart. Li Xiaohong supported it with her hands to prevent it from falling down. Strapped to the handlebars.

Today's harvest is good, and the weather is good. Each sweet potato seedling is as big as a fist, and it is neatly placed in a row.

They first picked up the sweet potatoes into a big basket, and after picking up most of the basket, they dumped it into the car.Seeing his mother and sister picking up sweet potatoes, Li Xiaolu also stumbled and picked one up to pass to them.But the ground was full of pits dug out by planing sweet potatoes, and she accidentally fell down. Seeing that everyone was busy, she held it up with her hands.
He got up on the ground, but his face and mouth were covered with dirt, and he vomited two mouthfuls of "Bah bah".

"Lulu has become a little cat, are you ashamed?"

Everyone laughed and shamed her.

Li Xiaolu looked around, saw everyone laughing at her, and burst into tears "Wow".

Li Xiaohong squatted down and hugged her, and wiped the mud on her mouth with another small handkerchief on her clothes: "Lulu is so good, she will help mother and sister with work, don't cry, be good. When I go home, my sister will I'll give you something delicious to eat."

Li Xiaolu pointed at the person who laughed the loudest and said, "Bad guy! Hit him!"

"Okay, he's a bad guy, who made him laugh at us Lulu?"

Li Xia held back her laughter and said, "Your uncle is a bad person, and even laughed at our Lulu, look at my aunt beating him." As she spoke, she pretended to slap her husband Li Dashan's ear twice with both hands.

It turned out that my sister didn't suffer when I was young, Li Xiaohong thought.

After coaxing again, Li Xiaolu stopped crying.

Talking and laughing, soon, the car was full of sweet potatoes.

Zhang Meiying put the belt on her shoulders, gripped the handlebar with both hands, her veins were exposed, her waist was bent, her entire back was almost parallel to the ground, like a bow, she was struggling forward.Li Xiaohong also pushed hard from behind, but the ground where the crops had been planted was soft.The car moved but failed to move.

"Cough, sister-in-law, don't say a word! Wait for us! Dashan, go and give Mei Yingsao a push."

With Li Dashan, a great labor force behind him, the car moved forward easily, and soon reached the main road at the head of the land.

"Okay, it's enough to get here. The road is hard and I can pull it. Thank you!"

"Thank you for helping me. Besides, I have used your farm tools so many times. How many times do I have to thank you?" Li Dashan said naively, clapping the dirt on his hands.

Panting heavily, Zhang Meiying put the rear end of the car on the road, ready to take a breather before leaving.When walking again, she pressed the handlebars with both hands and jumped up, using the weight of her whole body to push down the handlebars, and the tail left the ground.

Li Xiaohong pushed hard from behind, and started to move forward with the car.

Under normal circumstances, it is more strenuous to move at the beginning, but when you really move, you have a forward inertia, which is easier, so the speed of the two is faster.Li Xiaolu couldn't keep up behind, he was a little anxious and cried out.

"Lulu, my sister and mom are going to pull the cart, you can walk slowly behind, and I will pick you up later." Maybe she is used to the family being busy all the time, and she wants to be alone, so Li Xiaolu nodded obediently.

Along the way, standing behind the car, I could hear my mother's panting. Li Xiaohong thought, it's no wonder that her mother always wanted a son. In the countryside, women's strength is still too weak.The summer harvest and planting are fine, but in the autumn harvest, there is not enough strength.Moreover, this is not the most tiring time, and the strength is weak, so you can pull it home with a little less pulling at a time.But when it comes to grinding flour and making vermicelli, it is really difficult to do, and the strength is weak, and sweet potato starch can't be mixed with noodles.I don't know how my mother persisted in previous years. No wonder she was so old a long time ago, and she was tired from working like this.

Walking all the way forward, without looking, Li Xiaohong also knew that her mother must be sweating profusely.

She couldn't help but her eyes were sore. Her mother worked too hard, and later she hunched early and suffered from a protruding lumbar spine. When she was a little tired, her waist hurt as if it was broken. She was wearing plaster all year round, and she always lied to herself fine.She is such a person who can't stay idle. In fact, the conditions of her family are good and there is not much land, but she is in the countryside. I just want to earn more money for my sister and buy a house to live in.Why am I so stupid, I don't know how to take my mother away.

It takes a few minutes to get home soon.

After unloading the sweet potatoes in the car, Li Xiaohong went to pick up her sister, only to find that she was almost home by herself.

(End of this chapter)