Rebirth of the poor elder sister-in-law

Chapter 45 The Hospitable Old Man Li ([-])

This old lady is really hospitable, this soup almost sweetens Liu Man'er to death, it is really too sweet.

After she drank a few sips, she pushed it to Ye Yuan again, "Okay, Ye Yuan, I'm full, you can eat."

Ye Yuan didn't dislike Liu Man'er either, after he drank all the sugar water in the bowl, he pushed the bowl with one egg left in front of Liu Man'er: "Man'er, you eat."

"I won't eat, you eat." Liu Man'er pushed the bowl back again.

"Stop pushing, let Uncle Li and aunt watch the joke." Ye Yuan pushed the bowl away from Liu Man'er again.

Liu Man'er really doesn't like to push this food around here, isn't it just an egg, so poor.

However, she still pushed the egg to Ye Yuan, "You have worked hard all day today, so it's good to eat an egg to supplement your nutrition."

Seeing that Ye Yuan was about to push back, Liu Man'er said, "Stop pushing, I'm afraid I won't be able to walk again tomorrow." She winked at Ye Yuan as she spoke.

What she meant was that she wanted Ye Yuan to recite it tomorrow, so giving this to him today was not because of being kind to him, but as a reward for him.

Seeing her like this, Ye Yuan shook his head helplessly, but he ate half of the egg white, and pushed a round egg yolk and half of the egg white to Liu Man'er, "Eat more, and your legs won't hurt anymore."

"No, I just want leg pain." Liu Man'er turned her head to one side.

The old woman on the opposite side heard it, and hurriedly said, "Girl, your leg hurts, what's the matter? I have medicinal wine here, do you want you to rub it?"

"It's all right." Liu Man'er heard the woman say this, she shook her head in embarrassment, and said, "I'm a lazy person. I walk too much and my legs hurt."

The old woman also shook her head, she also only drank the soup and left the egg to Old Man Li, and then Old Man Li did the same thing as Ye Yuan, maybe he got inspiration from Ye Yuan's way.

While pushing the remaining eggs to the old woman, he shook his head and said with some dissatisfaction, "Look, this woman is a small family in her work. If you beat two more eggs, isn't it okay?" Is everyone in the province pushing around like this?"

"It's my fault." The old woman said with some guilt, but there was a smile in her eyes.

After all, he was the one who supported each other for most of his life, and she knew that he was a knife-mouthed and tofu-hearted person.

"By the way, where are the two guests from?" After the woman finished eating, she asked Liu Maner and the two of them.

"Dawan Village is more than 30 miles away." Old Uncle Li replied from the side. He had already asked Ye Yuan these questions on the road just now.

"Oh, that's indeed quite far away." The woman nodded, and didn't ask any more questions, she just said, "Okay, old man, didn't the girl just say that she wanted to eat loquats, you quickly lead her to pick them up, wait It's going to be dark."

"Okay, I know." Old Uncle Li stood up and was about to call Ye Yuan and Liu Man'er to go out. When he reached the door, he stopped and said, "Make more rice, not enough to go to the village chief." Borrow some."

"No, no, no, we can eat whatever we have." Liu Man'er said quickly, but she wanted to laugh a little bit in her heart. The people in this mountain, the village head/district head, are just like those who run a grocery store. If there is anything missing, they will borrow it. go.

He followed Old Uncle Li all the way to the loquat garden. Old Uncle Li told Liu Man'er that their village relied on this loquat tree. When they picked loquats every year, they would pick them to sell in the town, or they would pick them up at home. The money earned from making loquat paste is exchanged for some oil, salt, sauce and vinegar.

When Liu Man'er heard his words, she felt a little embarrassed, but she heard the old man Li say, "Girl, you are welcome, anyway, we have a lot here, even if we sell it, we can't sell it all, even if we do it Loquat paste will rot every year, alas..."

Speaking of this, Old Man Li sighed. As a farmer, he felt uncomfortable seeing food being wasted like this, but there was nothing he could do. This world is difficult.

Liu Man'er looked at it, and felt that the main reason for this was the inconvenient transportation here, and there were no refrigerators in this ancient time. After these loquats matured, they would not last long, no wonder they would rot.

But it's really a pity.

Of course, when she came to this loquat garden, Liu Man'er's heart became happy. What she liked most was seeing so much food. Uncle Li took Liu Man'er to his own land, put down the basket, and let the Liu Man'er went to pick it.

This loquat tree is very big, about [-] centimeters in thickness. Of course, it is not thick compared to those timber trees, but as a fruit tree, it is considered very large.

Liu Man'er also went to the farmhouse to pick loquats before, but the loquat tree was only ten centimeters long.

Fortunately, although the loquat tree is big, there are quite a lot of branches on it. Liu Man'er tried it and found that she could climb it, so she climbed up it very unimpressively.

After going up, he asked Ye Yuan to hand her the bamboo basket, she hooked it with her feet, hung it on the tree, and leisurely picked up the loquats.

Just now I felt that I was pretty good, very good, and enjoyed it very much, but I saw that old man Li had a vigorous figure, and he jumped up the tree in two or three strokes, and then picked up the scissors behind him and started picking loquats.

Compared with his speed, Liu Man'er felt that she was really here to play.

But this old man Li didn't urge Liu Man'er, he just picked the loquat happily.

But while he was enjoying himself, he suddenly sighed again. Liu Man'er saw it and asked, "Old man, why are you sighing?"

"My loquats are going to mature soon, and my son and daughter-in-law are not at home, so I won't be able to finish picking them." Uncle Li said, he got off the tree again, poured out the loquats in the basket, and then climbed up another tree. tree.

Liu Man'er looked up, the loquats here are a little yellow, some are still a little green, but this fruit has always been ripe very fast, presumably it will turn yellow soon.

"How many trees does your family have, old man?" Liu Man'er asked after climbing down the tree.

"Take the surrounding stones as a line, and the loquat trees in the middle are my family's loquat trees. There are 55 trees in total." Uncle Li replied, jumping off the tree.

"So many?" Liu Man'er was also a little surprised, and asked again: "When will the harvest be?"

"They will be harvested one after another." Uncle Li looked up at the loquats on the tree, both happy and worried, "After ten days, these loquats will be ripe."

"Well, Ye Yuan and I will come to help you in ten days." Liu Man'er smiled, "It's just that we may bother Uncle Li's house again, please don't dislike us, Uncle Li."

"How could it be? It would be the best thing for you to come to help." Uncle Li was delighted when he heard Liu Man'er say this, and said:

"I shouldn't bother you about this matter, but to be honest, at that time, I really needed your help. At that time, every household in the village would be busy picking loquats. I couldn't find anyone to help, and my son , I hate picking loquats for not earning a little money and being tired, so I won’t come back at all.”

"As long as the old man doesn't dislike us for being slow." Liu Man'er said with a smile, "As for your son and daughter-in-law, old man, I'm not good at evaluating them. They are all people who do great things."

Hearing Liu Man'er talking about his son and daughter-in-law, Old Uncle Li became very interested, "That's right, my son works in a shop in the county seat, and I heard that there is a dime a month, so he took his wife and my grandson with him. Live in the county seat."

"Ah..." just said the old man sighed again.

Liu Man'er asked, "Old man, why are you sighing?"

"It's nothing, I just miss my son and grandson. I went to the county town last year to give them loquat paste and met them. During the Chinese New Year, my son didn't come back either, alas..."

When Liu Man'er heard the old man say this, she knew that the old man must be missing his son, and it was true, the old man Li's house was indeed lonely with only the two of them at home, and it was reasonable to miss the child.

But Liu Man'er didn't know how to comfort him, she just said: "They may be busy, when they are not busy, they will naturally come back to see you."

"Yes, yes, yes." Uncle Li claimed yes, and then continued to raise his neck and cut off those yellow loquats.

Time passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, the sun went down, and Liu Man'er and the others were ready to go back.

Old Uncle Li got down from the tree and gathered the loquats that had just fallen on the ground. There was even a basket on his back. Ye Yuan carried the basket on his back and Liu Man'er carried her basket. The two followed the old man and came out again. Many villagers who went home from work.

"Hey, Uncle Li, your son and daughter-in-law are back?" Someone greeted Old Uncle Li from a distance. The son and daughter-in-law have gone.

"No, this is a distant relative of my family." Uncle Li replied.

"Oh." The man walked in with Uncle Li, seeing that Ye Yuan and Liu Man'er were a little strange, he said, "Your relative has never been here before, right? It looks a little strange."

"Yes, this is my distant nephew, and this is my nephew's wife. They live in Dawan Village." The old man Li introduced Ye Yuan and Liu Man'er with a smile.

Liu Man'er and Ye Yuan didn't refute Old Uncle Li's words, they just greeted this man warmly.

"Not bad young man." The man praised, and then passed Liu Man'er and the other three.

"Don't blame you two, I really want to make friends with you two." After the man left, the old man Li explained to Ye Yuan and Liu Man'er, "I don't mean anything malicious, I just want to see you two The younger generations are all honest and good people, good men and good girls, although we met by chance, my wife and I like you both very much."

"It's okay, being able to recognize a distant relative is also fate." Ye Yuan said, "Maybe we were really a family 300 years ago."

"It's good that you can think like this." The old man was very happy when he heard Ye Yuan say this, and said, "Come on, let's go home quickly, I have to tell the good news to my old lady."

Liu Man'er and Ye Yuan looked at each other, well, now we have another relative, if we come to this mountain again next time, we can also come here for a sit down.

(End of this chapter)