Chapter 57 57 Premonition of Drought

   Li Yu hunted two wild goats and three roe deer soon after going up the mountain. Li Yu put the prey into the space, and hunted some pheasants, hares, and turtledoves along the way, and also hit a badger.

  Li Yu walked towards the ravine in the mountain col, and when he reached the bottom of the mountain col, he found that the water in the ravine was also shallow, the stones in the ditch were exposed, and small fish and shrimp were jumping on the exposed stones.

  Li Yu's heart squeaked with worry, and he hurriedly walked towards the water pool downstream.

   When he arrived at the water pool, Li Yu saw that the water in the water pool was also shallow. After seeing it, Li Yu believed that there was a high possibility of a drought, and Li Yu's mood became dull for a while.

Li Yu looked at the pool glumly, and saw a few big fish emerge from the water. Li Yu took out the net bag from the space, scooped out a few nets for the fish, knocked them to death and put them in the space. He also had no intention of hunting. I took some dandelions, houttuynia cordata, motherwort and mugwort on their backs to the ditch in front of the house, washed the herbs in the ditch before returning home.

  Li Mei saw that Li Yu came back with a bag of herbs on his back, and smiled: "Yu'er, didn't you say you'd go home in the afternoon? It's just past noon!"

Li Yu glanced at Li Mei who was full of joy, swallowed the words in his mouth, forced a smile and said, "After I went up the mountain, I saw two hunters also going up the mountain, so I picked some herbs and came back. "

   "Yeah! I'll just say it! Today is a good day, you should stay at home," Li Mei looked at Li Yu lovingly, "You're tired! Aunt will make you something to eat."

  Li Yu didn't see the Zhao Di sisters after looking around, and asked strangely, "Where are the two cousins?"

  Li Mei pointed in the direction of Butcher He's house, "Xiaoyu from Butcher He's house called them over and said that there was a new trick for Zhao Di."

   Li Yu always felt a little pain in her stomach after eating, it felt like when her aunt was coming in her previous life.

Li Yu quietly cut some muslin cloth and tarpaulin to overlap, and made a dozen menstrual belts. He also used cotton wool to make a stack of sanitary napkins on the muslin cloth. He took a shower with boiling water, and it came when it was dark. After seeing my aunt, Li Yu rushed to work overnight and made two more tampons, which made him feel safe.

Early the next morning, Li Yu cut all the **** moss in the field, put it in the space, and went to the town pharmacy to buy various pills and herbs for storage, and then went to the seed store to buy some rapeseed, cabbage, and radish seeds. Scatter on the ground, ready to collect some leaves for storage.

The official matchmaker hired by the Zhou family ran several times in succession before the marriage was settled. When the Zhou family carried dozens of dowry gifts to the Li family, Li Mei and Li Qing carried the wedding cake to the village. It was distributed, and the villagers in the two villages were discussing that Li Yu, the eldest girl of the Li family, who was divorced by the Zhang family, and Zhou Xiucai, the young master of the Zhou family from Dongshan Village, were engaged.

Two days later, the news of Li Yu and the young master of the Zhou family getting married reached Zhang Defa's ears in Qingshan City, Zhang De was so angry that he threw the bowl, "This cheap hoof, I don't know what kind of tricks he used, but he even threw it away. The young master of the Zhou family also hooked up."

   After hearing about it, Zhang Guixiang didn't want to believe what she said, and was so angry that she cut up the embroidered cloth in the room and threw it on the floor.

Chen Zhaodi looked at the embroidered cloth, picked it up distressedly, looked at Zhang Guixiang and blamed: "Look at you, such an old girl, and she lost her temper and cut the embroidered cloth. This is what my mother asked for you from your sister-in-law. ."

   Zhang Guixiang screamed, "I don't care, mother, I'm dying of anger, why doesn't that **** Li Yu die?"

Chen Zhaodi looked at Zhang Guixiang, thinking that in order to marry Zhu Qiaoyu, she drove away Li Yu's sister and brother, and spent all the money she had saved at home. The family still owed a lot of foreign debts, and now she has to support Zhang Decai's family. son.

The more Chen Zhaodi thought about it, the more angry she became, she slapped Zhang Guixiang in the face with a "slap", pointed at Zhang Guixiang and scolded: "It's all your fault, if you hadn't pushed her into the tub, she wouldn't have given up on your brother. , ask your father to pay back the money, you are still complaining here, I think it is you who should blame the most."

  Zhang Guixiang covered her face and looked at Chen Zhaodi, whose face was ashen, she didn't dare to shout anymore, she twitched her lips and called out sadly, "Mother, don't you want me?"

  Chen Zhaodi looked at Zhang Guixiang and at her own hands. She couldn't believe that she would hit her precious daughter. Chen Zhaodi hugged Zhang Guixiang who was crying, and the mother and daughter cried together.

The Zhang family is the most happy about Li Yu's marriage, only Zhang Guisheng's daughter-in-law Zhu Qiaoyu, when he heard that Li Yu was engaged, Zhu Qiaoyu happily pulled the nanny Jiang, "Nanny, that girl in the Li family is finally engaged, he should give up his heart now. Come on!"

Jiang Shi looked at Zhu Qiaoyu and sighed, "Miss, you really don't need to take the Li family girl seriously, he Zhang family repented and married you, and the Zhang and Li families have already formed a grudge, not to mention involving a previous The grievances of the generation!"

  Zhu Qiaoyu retorted displeasedly: "Nanny, Xianggong said that those were fabricated by the Li family. It was Li Hunter who was greedy for money and was injured by the bear and lost his life."

   Mrs. Jiang was also angry with Zhu Qiaoyu, who was tricked by Zhang Guisheng, "The uncle said that he and the girl of the Li family have broken off their marriage, and they will never have anything to do in the future. Why don't you believe it?"

   "I, I..." Zhu Qiaoyu looked at Jiang, and should be speechless.

Jiang Shi looked at Zhu Qiaoyu, sighed secretly in his heart, and persuaded bitterly: "Miss, you can't do this anymore, you are the daughter-in-law of the Zhang family who is married to the Ming media, you don't have to think like this every day, there will be so long in the future. , how are you doing?" Zhu Qiaoyu lowered her head and said nothing.

  Li Yu didn't know that she was engaged, yet she was able to make the Zhang family so angry that she would have laughed three times if she knew.

Li Yu spent half a month's night quietly taking out the pheasants, wild ducks, rabbits, turtledoves, fish, and roe deer in the space, cleaned them up, smeared them with salt, put them in the space, and put wild sheep and wild boars. All the wild deer and deer are taken out, smeared with salt and aniseed, steamed, dried and stored in the space.

   Zhou Jia bought a cow and two big green mule carts in the city, and then went to someone to make a few big wooden barrels and took them home, filled them with water and put them in the cellar.

Li Yu prepared the meat and vegetables, and started to brush the burlap with tung oil. According to the tent in memory, he made a dozen tents with double-layer tung oil cloth, and then used a layer of muslin cloth and a layer of tung oil cloth. , made a dozen sets of raincoats according to the approximate size.

  February is fleeting, and in the blink of an eye, it is the Qingming Festival in March. In previous years, these two months should have been spring rains, but this year, from the twelfth lunar month to the present, not even a drop of rain has fallen.

   Li Mei's family and Li Yu sister and brother saw that the water in the ravine had dried up when they went to the grave. The villagers they met when they returned home were talking about it, and Li Mei also felt that it was really going to be a drought.

   On the way, Li Mei saw that the villagers were talking about whether it was going to be a drought. Everyone looked at the sky and worried. Only then did Li Mei and his wife think of storing food.

When    went home, Li Mei took out the money and said to Li Yu, "Yu'er, talk to Aunt Zhou and ask him to help buy some grain in the city. There are only a dozen or so grains left at my aunt's house."

Li Yu took Li Mei back to the house, "Aunt, don't worry about you and my uncle! I have already stored the food in a secret place, don't make any noise, and the vegetables in the field, Let's wait for them to grow thicker while there is still water, pull them all out and scald them with water to make dry vegetables and store them."

Li Yu smiled strangely: "When did your child start to survive? We don't know at all, I was thinking a few days ago that those vegetable moss are about to bloom, what did you cut them for? So you were at that time. I started to prepare, my aunt is really useless, she has lived on her own for so many years, she is not as good as a junior like you."

   Li Yu said with a smile: "It's not the same when I save you! Why should you worry about it!"

  Li Mei looked at Li Yu's full heart, "Yu'er, thank you aunt's family."

   (end of this chapter)

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