The soft white moonlight of the paranoid gangster at 80

Chapter 27

Facing Fu Haixia's inquiry, Ruan Xiuxiu immediately denied it, "Which nonsense do you listen to, you don't owe that much."

After denying it, Ruan Xiuxiu hurried away with her things under the pretext that it was too hot, forgetting to ask Fu Haixia why she returned to the village at this time.

It is not easy to go out to work, and the ticket alone is a big expense. Generally, people who go out to work will go out at the beginning of the year and return to the village at the end of the year.

After entering the village entrance, I met more villagers on the road. Everyone seemed to greet her with a smile as usual, but their eyes and expressions were strange, especially the women and aunts. They got together and set up a dragon gate array.

Even if she doesn't have eyes on her back, Ruan Xiuxiu can still feel that everyone is talking about her.

Ruan Xiuxiu didn't know that the fact that her family owed Ruan Dahai more than 7000 yuan had already spread throughout the village.

Whether it's working in the field, meeting on the road, or when the villagers gather in the threshing ground to play tricks after dinner, they all talk about it.

There are no entertainment programs in the rural areas of this era. Gathering with a bunch of people in the free time is the most common and cheapest pastime.

After several days of heated discussion and fermentation, the villagers have basically unified their thoughts and views.

That is, the brother Ruan Dahai is a kind and honest person, and the elder brother Ruan Dajiang is a villain who only knows how to lie on his brother and suck blood.

The word of mouth and popularity of Ruan Xiuxiu's family in the whole Tongxin Village have been rotten.

Ruan Xiuxiu didn't know anything about this, and it was impossible for the villagers to tell her about it.

She quickened her pace and rushed home, secretly annoyed that the people in the village looked down on them. When she went to college and had food after graduation, she would not come back even if this poor village begged her to come back!

There are four teams in Tongxin Village. Ruan Xiuxiu's home is in the relatively remote 4th team. The back is against the mountain, the left and right sides are sloping fields, and there is a hollow land in the middle.

There are four grades of private houses in the village, the last is the mud embryo house, the second is the brick and tile house, the second is the one-story house, and the highest grade is the small building.

Ruan Xiuxiu's house is a tile-roofed red brick house, which would have been quite enviable in the 70s.

However, over the past ten years, brick houses, bungalows, and even small buildings have been built in the village one after another. The brick house of Ruan Xiuxiu's family has not changed at all, but has become dilapidated day by day. Cracks appeared on the brick wall due to the subsidence of the foundation. , the gray-tiled roof is also in disrepair for a long time, and it leaks whenever it rains, the courtyard dam on the mud floor is full of chicken and duck droppings, and the smell of pigsty is wafting in the air.

All this familiarity made Ruan Xiuxiu feel extremely tired and fled.

"Grandma? Grandpa?"

There was no one at home, so Ruan Xiuxiu had no choice but to put down her things and search in the ground.

The scorching sun was in the sky, and Li Yulian and Ruan Hongfa were busy breaking buds in the field.

Now it is all contracted land, and the number of people in the household registration book will be allocated as much as the contracted land, and the public grain will be paid every year according to the number of acres of contracted land.

Ruan Dajiang and his wife went to the city to start a small business, and the family's contracted land can only be cultivated by the two elders.After getting married, Ruan Dahai found a relationship and moved his household registration to the city, so there is no land contract under his name.

Even though the two old people are almost 120 years old together, they are good at farming.

Corn corn, sweet potato, rice, wheat, soybeans, rapeseed, cotton, spring and spring are planted in an orderly manner, and the two granaries at home are full to the brim.

Ruan Xiuxiu originally wanted to ask Li Yulian to call it a day and go home to cook, but Li Yulian called her to help break the corn.

Although she was very unhappy in her heart, in order to please Li Yulian, Ruan Xiuxiu still rolled up her sleeves, put on the strap on her back and worked hard to break off the corn.

The scorching sun made people's skin slick and oily, and sweat dripped down her forehead, back, and neck. Soon Ruan Xiuxiu's chest and back were soaked, and the skin exposed outside her clothes was cut deep by the corn leaves. There is a light red mark, itchy and painful, and people are dizzy from the sun.

Even if Ruan Xiuxiu was like this, Li Yulian's old couple was getting older, and it was even more difficult.

"Xiuxiu, you will come back once you break the strap again. Your grandfather and I will go back to cook first."

"got it."

Ruan Xiuxiu said yes, and as soon as Li Yulian and his wife left, she immediately dropped the bag and ran to the side of Baogu to rest under a big tree.

Guessing that Li Yulian was about to finish cooking, Ruan Xiuxiu patted her butt and went home with the bag on her back.

As soon as you enter the door, you can smell a strong burnt aroma, which is the smell of pumpkin stewed rice.

Ruan Xiuxiu put down her backpack and went into the stove, picked up a ladle to drink water from the water tank.

After drinking enough water, Ruan Xiuxiu went to look at the stove, only to find that there were only chopped eggplants and peppers, not a single bit of meat, and she couldn't help feeling very disappointed.

"Grandma, fry an egg, I haven't eaten eggs for a long time."

Li Yulian looked very unhappy with a wooden face, but she still turned her head and touched two eggs from the cupboard.

Ruan Xiuxiu sat behind the stove to light the fire, and asked Li Yulian if she had seen the sugar cake she bought.

Li Yulian complained about her wasting money indiscriminately, but she could tell from her expression that she was happy in her heart.

A bowl of pumpkin rice is basically pumpkin. There are not a few grains of rice in sight.

A piece of scrambled egg is so salty that it is bitter, and you can only eat two mouthfuls of pumpkin rice to hold it down.

If you think that Li Yulian put more salt because of her old eyesight, you are too naive. This is Li Yulian's unique secret to saving money.

Whenever she cooks meat dishes, she puts salt desperately, one is to save food, and the other is to facilitate storage.

In this weather, the vegetables will go bad before the night, but if you add enough salt and put them in a water tank to keep them cold, you can put them in the next day or even the third day.

No, two eggs are scrambled to make half a bowl, and after three people have lunch, there is still half of the half bowl of eggs left, which can be saved for cooking noodles at night or with porridge tomorrow morning.

After eating, Ruan Xiuxiu tidied up the dishes and the stove, and then went into Li Yulian's room.

On the wooden frame bed covered with summer mats, Li Yulian was drowsy, wearing a homemade fine cotton sweater, shaking a cattail fan in her hand.

Seeing her granddaughter coming in, she moved her body to the side of the bed, leaving half of the bed free.

Ruan Xiuxiu took off her shoes and lay down on the bed, took the cattail fan from Li Yulian, and vigorously beat the wind.

"Milk."

"what."

Li Yulian closed her eyes and snorted.

"You can talk to my second uncle for me again. I want to go to university. I will be assigned a job after studying in university. I might be able to share a house in the future. When I have a house, I will take you and my father to the city to enjoy the blessings. "

Li Yulian didn't say a word.

Ruan Xiuxiu continued to draw big pancakes, and the paintings were fragrant, big and round, so that Li Yulian smacked her lips and let go, saying that she would go to the city to find Ruan Dahai when the corn at home was harvested.

Ruan Xiuxiu was both happy and depressed.

I am happy that there is hope for my studies, but there are still three or four acres of Baogu land at home, and it will take at least several days to finish breaking it.

After much deliberation, Ruan Xiuxiu decided to ask someone for help.

Taking advantage of Li Yulian's afternoon nap, Ruan Xiuxiu quietly went out and went to Xinmin Village five miles away under the scorching sun.

Besides brothers Ruan Dajiang and Ruan Dahai, Li Yulian also had a daughter named Ruan Zhen who married into Xinmin Village.

Ruan Xiuxiu plans to ask her aunt Ruan Zhen to help harvest the corn.

(End of this chapter)