pjbooks Chapter 51 Hurry up and have a second child
Chapter 51 Hurry up and have a second child
"Here, Chunsheng, this chicken leg is for you." Li Xiangyang knocked off the yellow mud covering the beggar's chicken and tore off a large chicken leg, handing it to Li Chunsheng.
He tore off another piece and started eating it, while Liu Xiulan chopped the rest into pieces and distributed them to everyone.
"Delicious, really delicious. I never thought chicken could be cooked like this." Li Xiangdong took a bite, and the aroma of the crispy chicken skin and the juicy, oily meat instantly filled his mouth.
He couldn't help but sigh, "Ah, following my brother is truly a blessing. I haven't eaten as much meat as I have in the past twenty-odd years."
Everyone else followed suit and started eating chicken nuggets.
They all exclaimed in amazement!
After taking a few bites, tears welled up in Wang Guiying's eyes, which she quickly wiped away with the corner of her clothes when no one was looking.
After wiping away her tears, she sighed, "Sigh, life is getting more and more unreal. It's only been a few days since Xiangyang suggested going to break the ice to fish...? This family seems to have undergone a complete transformation, inside and out, and in every single person."
"Of course! If we were back in the 1930s or 1940s, our family would definitely be labeled as landlords with our current circumstances."
Zhao Lijuan chimed in, "The cellar is overflowing with vegetables, and the kitchen has everything we need: rice, flour, cooking oil, fish, venison, rabbit meat... and now we even have roast chicken."
Even the gods would envy this kind of life!
Haha, everyone was amused by her.
dong dong...
dong dong dong...
Just then, the courtyard gate suddenly rang.
"Zhenshan...Zhenshan...Are you all asleep? It's me, Zhao Youcai."
"Zhao Youcai...?" The crowd exchanged bewildered glances. "What's he doing here?"
"Father, I'll go and chase him away right now."
Upon hearing that it was Zhao Youcai, Li Xiangdong immediately became furious and got up to go out and chase him away.
The Li family made it very clear to him last time that the Li and Zhao families should part ways and have no further contact with each other. What does it mean that they came to his door again now?
Or is it not enough that they don't hold Donkey Egg accountable?
"Sit down," Li Zhenshan called out to him. "Don't be so impulsive. Learn from Xiang Yang."
"Huh? Why are you copying me? I just didn't say anything because I didn't understand what he was trying to do."
"You little rascal, are you trying to sabotage your father?" Li Zhenshan swung his pipe at him, but Li Xiangyang dodged it.
"Mom, Dad hit me with his pipe again," Li Xiangyang complained to Wang Guiying.
"That old bastard, I'll settle the score with him later." Wang Guiying immediately stood up for Li Xiangyang.
Li Zhenshan ignored them, put the copper pipe away, and said, "Alright, alright... they're still waiting at the door! Xiangyang, go see what's going on."
"Mmm." Li Xiangyang nodded and went out the door.
Upon entering the courtyard, he showed no intention of opening the door, but instead asked Zhao Youcai through the gate, "Uncle Youcai, is there... something you need?"
"Hey... Xiangyang, I just wanted to ask you when you're going to go haul timber again?" Zhao Youcai asked in a low voice.
He was a little embarrassed; his face was burning with shame.
Li Zhenshan had just told him a couple of days ago that the two families should have no further contact, and only a few days later? He's already at the Li family's door again.
But he had no choice. The wood in his house was almost gone, and the little he had left had been taken by Donkey Egg, so he had no money to buy charcoal.
The news of Donkey Egg reporting the Li family eventually spread throughout the team. During the day, he wanted to go to cut timber with someone who knew the way, but no one would take him.
To say that Li Xiangyang discovered this deadwood stall and to take him there would be to offend the Li family.
"well,"
"Oh, is that all? How about tomorrow at noon? I'll have the brigade make an announcement before I go. You can come along if you're free."
Li Xiangyang said casually.
He didn't have many thoughts about Zhao Youcai, such a pitiful old man. Anyway, he was going to take people there tomorrow, so he could go along if he wanted.
If you want him to take him there personally, that's impossible!
Li Zhenshan has spoken, and the Li and Zhao families will no longer have any connection; he cannot disobey.
"Okay, okay, thank you... thank you, thank you so much, Xiangyang." Zhao Youcai, with his back hunched, quickly bowed and expressed his gratitude.
Perhaps it was just a small favor for Li Xiangyang, but for Zhao Youcai it was a life-saving act.
"Uncle Cai, it's nothing, you should go back early too!" Li Xiangyang said before turning around and going back into the house, not caring whether Zhao Youcai heard him or not.
Having lived for decades in his previous life, he understood one thing:
There's always a reason why someone is pitiful; don't easily get involved in other people's karma!
Seeing that Li Xiangyang had left, Zhao Youcai didn't dare to complain at all.
He took a few deep breaths near the spot where Li Xiangyang had just been standing, his throat bobbing as he muttered something to himself, before turning away shakily.
"The Li family is really different now. When I came here a couple of days ago, they were eating meat, and I guess they're eating meat again today."
The smell on Li Xiangyang just now was clearly the smell of meat.
Ugh......
If one day Donkey Egg could be even a tenth as capable as Xiangyang, then my Zhao family would be incredibly lucky.
After Zhao Youcai left, the Li family also turned off their lights and went to sleep.
Since the Li brothers, Li Xiangyang and Li Xiangdong, brought back a large truckload of timber a few days ago, the Li family hasn't been so short of wood.
So the kang (a heated brick bed) in the east room where Li Xiangdong's family lives was also heated tonight.
"It feels so good... It's so good to sleep in my own room." Zhao Lijuan lay on the kang (a heated brick bed) coaxing Li Chunsheng to sleep, and suddenly felt a little sentimental: "Xiangdong, bring back more wood tomorrow, so we can all sleep in our own rooms this winter."
"I know, it's all thanks to you, brother." Li Xiangdong sat on the kang (a heated brick bed), rolling cigarettes by the dim light of a kerosene lamp.
"Yes...yes, I know, it's all thanks to Xiangyang."
"Good to know. You were saying you wanted to separate from him after the New Year, thank goodness you didn't."
"Um... why are you bringing this up now?" Zhao Lijuan was a little embarrassed by what she was being told.
"The past is the past, and the present is the present. Back then, Xiangyang didn't work all day. If something had happened to Dad after that fall, and we hadn't separated the family, could you have supported seven or eight people by yourself?"
Seeing that Li Xiangdong did not respond, Zhao Lijuan continued:
"I'm doing this all for this family, for our poor little Chunsheng."
"Sigh," Li Xiangdong shook his head without replying.
He took off the kerosene lamp shade, put a cigarette in his mouth, and leaned over to light it.
His silence spoke volumes about his attitude.
After a moment, seeing that Zhao Lijuan didn't say anything more, Li Xiangdong added, "Anyway, don't bring up the matter of dividing the family property again."
"I know that. With such a capable brother-in-law, only a fool would suggest dividing the family property," Zhao Lijuan said with a smile, turning around to put the sleeping Li Chunsheng down. "By the way, what did Mom say to you in the kitchen at noon? She was so secretive."
Li Xiangdong paused for a moment, "Oh, I almost forgot about that." He stubbed out his cigarette, darted into Zhao Lijuan's bed, and chuckled, "Mom's urging us to hurry up and have another one."
"Oh, this!" Zhao Lijuan's earlobes immediately turned bright red with embarrassment. "No, no way."
"...? No, what do you mean?" Li Xiangdong was a little confused.
Zhao Lijuan was so shy that she didn't know how to answer: "Yesterday...yesterday, I started bleeding."
A moment later, the door was pushed open.
Li Xiangdong went straight outside to smoke; he wanted some peace and quiet...