Farmer's daughter is also self-improvement

Chapter 66
Li Shasha didn't understand what stealing autumn was at all, so she asked, "Brother, I really don't remember stealing autumn? What is stealing autumn?" Li Xianzhi patted his head and said, "Hey, I always forget that you don't remember the past Stealing autumn means that on the night of August [-]th, the children in the village can steal all kinds of melons and vegetables grown in any family, so it can also be called stealing melons. The stolen melons can be roasted and eaten together. They will also secretly put the largest winter melon they have stolen in the village without children, because the adults say it indicates good luck in the family and more people will import it.”

"There are so many details!" Li Shasha said in surprise.Li Yulan smiled and said, "Let me tell you this. According to legend, in the mountains in ancient times, there was a couple who were over half a hundred years old. After hearing the virtues of the old man being kind and helping the poor, he left one of his children in the melon shed and ordered the mountain people to give it to the old man. So the mountain people quietly sent a pumpkin shaped like a doll to the old couple. On the bed of the couple, the old man broke the pumpkin when he was going to sleep, and suddenly a lively and lovely doll jumped out of the pumpkin. The old man was so moved that he burst into tears, and then spent his old age happily. It is." Li Shasha sighed: "So it is like this!"

Li Xianzhi went on to say: "Let's talk about this again. On the second day after stealing the melon, the person who steals the melon waits for the scolding of the person who was stolen. The more scolding, the more auspicious the person who steals the melon. Cursing and bad-tempered people go to steal, and make a mess of their vegetable fields, so that the owner will be angry and scold when they see it. Hehe, we usually go to our old neighbor’s house. Scolding, this scolding is even more fierce for stealing, wouldn't we all be lucky!" After speaking, he himself laughed again.

Li Shasha also clapped her hands and smiled and said, "This is fun, I want to go too." Li Xianzhi pointed to her and said, "Every year you dare not go, especially next door. Grandma will never let go. But her house has become more and more strictly guarded in the past two years, and we can't steal it. In the past two years, I like to go to Uncle Zhusheng's house to steal, because his Aunt Osmanthus is the loudest in our village. , and the sharpness of cursing is also one of the best."

The two were having a lively conversation, when Li Yulan brought out a plate from the kitchen, on which was a golden fried rice cake, and she also put some sugar on the rice cake, which looked so attractive.

Li Yulan took two pairs of chopsticks, handed one pair to Li Shasha, took the other pair in her hand, and picked up the poop, cut it in half, and signaled Li Shasha to eat.He handed the chopsticks in his hand to Li Xianzhi, but Li Xianzhi didn't take it: "Auntie, I have eaten a lot in the past two days, and I don't want to eat it yet. You can give it to grandma! Sister, you are lucky. We used to It would be great to have a baked cake, but now my aunt is frying it for you, so go ahead!" Li Shasha smiled at him appreciatively.

Li Yulan handed the chopsticks to Wang Shi again, Wang Shi was in a very good mood today, seeing the brother and sister talking and laughing, she was also happy to see her teeth but not her eyes.Li Yulan handed her the chopsticks, and she waved her hand: "Yulan, eat! I don't feel hungry today!"

Li Yulan joked: "You are a person who is in good spirits on happy occasions. Seeing your brother, sister-in-law and Zhige is more effective than eating any delicacies." She did not refuse, and ate with Li Shasha with chopsticks.Li Shasha put the paba to her mouth and took a small bite. She felt that the outside was burnt and the inside was glutinous, and it was delicious, but the inside was a little hot, and it took a long time to eat it.However, this did not hinder Li Shasha's eating speed, and she swallowed the half of the poop in three or two bites.

After they chatted for a while, Mrs. Wang asked Li Shasha to take Li Xianzhi to his room to rest, while Li Yulan and herself went to the kitchen to work on dinner.When it was time to prepare dinner, Mrs. Wang asked Li Shasha to call Li Xianzhi first, and then the siblings split up.Li Shasha helped the old lady to the main room, and Li Xianzhi went to see his parents.

When they arrived at the main room, Li Shasha saw that Li Xianzhi and Lei Guozhen's eyes were red, and Li Zonghui's expression was a little unnatural.The old lady was also very happy to see her grandson, granddaughter-in-law, and great-grandson come back, and the family had a lively dinner.

Li Zonghui and Lei Guozhen ate those dishes for the first time, and they felt that they were very novel, so they ate more.Li Zonghui put down his chopsticks and asked Wang: "Mother, is the dish for dinner today the rapeseed that uncle gave?" "Yes, thanks to the seeds they gave, otherwise our big house would not be able to be built." Wang Still according to the original rhetoric.

Li Shasha was afraid that Li Zonghui would continue to delve into this topic, so she came up and interrupted: "Grandma, father and mother have rushed back, shall we invite grandpa's family and several aunts to come over for the festival on August Festival, and warm our house too?" ! By the way, I also want to invite my brother’s master to come over for a drink or something.” Wang thought for a while and said: “Well, let’s go there that day!”

Li Shasha went on to ask: "Is that why we also invite the family of the great-grandfather and the family of the great-aunt? And the shopkeeper Qin also invited, he gave us several boxes of mooncakes." Wang smiled and said, "Yes, yes. Yes, it's just the day of the festival, I wonder if I can spare some time to come?" "Then daddy will write an invitation and hand it over to brother Xiao Shunzi to bring to shopkeeper Qin tomorrow, so it's better to invite formally like this." Li Shasha looked at Li Zonghui said.

Li Zonghui was feeling strange in his heart that the child in his family, who was usually not very talkative, became so eloquent after seeing him for more than two years. It seemed that she was the one who made a lot of decisions in the family!When Li Shasha asked him, he didn't hear it, but Lei Guozhen nudged him and shouted: "Sister!"

Li Zonghui pondered for a while and said: "Since shopkeeper Qin is an important guest of our family, I will definitely write an invitation to invite him to come over for the festival." Lei Guozhen waited for Li Zonghui to finish speaking, and asked: "I am going today Our hut is very useful, who thought of it?" Li Shasha said with a smile: "Grandpa and I figured it out together."

Lei Guozhen was very happy when she heard this. She used to think that her daughter's character was not like her at all, but she was like her mother-in-law who was like glutinous rice balls.Today, seeing that she spoke clearly about the family affairs, and also dared to speak out, and heard her mother-in-law said that she was the most responsible for selling things, she smiled even more.

Lei Guozhen suddenly thought of something again: "Mother, don't we invite uncles over for August Festival?" When it comes to this, Wang, Li Yulan and Li Shasha are a little unnatural, always saying that they gave the rapeseed, but when it comes It would be shameful not to invite them when you were entertaining guests.Mrs. Wang said: "Your uncles, I will go in person, our family would not be able to live a good life without them." Li Shasha admired her grandma more and more, she is good at adapting to the situation!
Next, it was decided that Li Shasha would invite someone to Li Dehai's house, Li Yulan would invite someone to my aunt's house, and Li Xianzhi would go to Lei Zhengtang's house to invite someone. The room is rested.

On the second day, several people went to the house where they wanted to invite someone. Except for Li Xianzhi who came back later, the others came back without much effort.Li Zonghui also used his own study room for the first time, and wrote a sincere invitation letter respectfully, inviting shopkeeper Qin to come to the banquet at that time.Li Shasha saw that the regular script on the invitation was very neat, the font was thin and sharp, and the style was simple and smooth, so she couldn't help but look at that awkward father with admiration.

On the third day, which was the thirteenth day of August, Li Shasha gave the letter to Xiao Shunzi, and solemnly invited shopkeeper Qin to come over for dinner on the August Festival. Xiao Shunzi put the invitation in her arms and promised to deliver it. I will write back tomorrow.

The day before yesterday, Mrs. Wang invited butcher Zhang to come to her house to kill a pig. Li Shasha was very happy this time. There were a lot of stick bones in the house to make soup, and she could also see what it was like to kill a pig in ancient rural areas.

Just when Chen arrived, Zhang Butcher and Zhang Erlang came over with a pig butcher. Li Shasha saw that Zhang Erlang was carrying a long wooden box like a coffin. On the other hand, he was carrying a large pannier with all kinds of knives in it.

The last time I went to Daliang for a treat, I asked Xiao Shunzi to buy a clean butchered pig from the town. This was the first time she saw a pig slaughtered with her own eyes.Butcher Zhang told Mrs. Wang to boil a large pot of water, and then he and Zhang Erlang went to the pigsty behind and dragged a big fat pig out.The pig didn't want to come out at all, and it took a lot of effort for the two of them to drag it from the pen to the front yard.

Seeing the pig struggling desperately, Li Shasha couldn't bear it. Although she likes to eat pork, she couldn't bear to see the pig's pitiful appearance.She didn't dare to watch any more, she made an excuse and went back to the room, only Li Xianzhi watched them kill pigs with relish.Li Shasha was not clean in the room. The pig kept howling, screaming, which made her feel very uncomfortable.

When the outside finally became quiet, Li Shasha walked out of the room and went to the front yard.The coffin-like long box in the front yard has been filled with boiling water, and the lifeless pig has been blown up and placed in the long box emitting white smoke.Li Xianzhi next to him smiled and said, "This pig has had a nice hot bath today!"

When Li Shasha saw this, she felt uncomfortable again, and walked back to her room after a few steps, and never came out again.It wasn't until Butcher Zhang and Zhang Erlang were about to leave that Li Yulan came in to find her wages for butchering a pig. Li Shasha took copper coins from the wooden box and gave it to Li Yulan, and followed her to the front yard.

(End of this chapter)