The Female Officer Became a Farmer After Getting Reborn

   Chapter 9 The Past

   After Li Yu and the others had eaten, Chen Yaohui went home and picked a straw to return to Li Yu's house. Together with Liu Changmin, they weaved a few straw curtains for the mattress to dry in the courtyard.

  The workers also arrived one after another in the afternoon. After everyone repaired the roofs of the wing rooms on both sides, two craftsmen began to repair the tiles of the main house. Chen Yaohui and the two began to repair the pigsty and latrine in the backyard.

Since the main house was being renovated and a lot of dust and **** fell from the roof, Li Mei had to pack up the unfinished bedding and put it on the bed, covered it with a mat, and went out with a **** with Liu Changmin to the courtyard outside the west courtyard wall. Vegetable field.

  Li Mei dug the vegetable field hard, looked up at Liu Changmin, "Zhao Di, her father, you go home first, I will help Yu'er and the others to settle down at her parents' house and go back."

   Liu Changmin hesitated for a while after hearing this, then looked at Li Mei and said cautiously, "Amei, originally when we came here today, my mother didn't know. If you don't go back to my mother's place, how can I tell her?"

After listening to Liu Changmin's words, Li Mei felt cold, thinking that the two concubines at home were protected by her husband, and her mother-in-law never dared to challenge them. Her man was honest and weak, and even her children and daughter-in-law suffered. If it wasn't because of the old man The goddess is vicious, how could Ah Shan entrust the child to that scumbag Zhang Defa.

   The more Li Mei thought about it, the colder her heart became, and she said coldly, "Whatever you want to say when you go back, you can't let your mother leave me when you go back!"

  Liu Changmin looked at Li Mei's icy expression and knew that Li Mei was really angry. After a while, he murmured: "Amei, don't be angry, I will go back and tell my mother that you are here with Yu'er and them for two days."

   Li Mei did not respond, but just digging the soil under her feet as if venting.

Li Yu started cleaning the wing room at home. After cleaning up the **** in the firewood room, he walked towards the right wing room with a broom. As soon as he reached the door of the wing room, he saw Li Qing walking from the right wing room with a bow and a long knife. When he came out, he shouted excitedly, "Sister, come and see, aunt took out father's bow and machete and put it behind the door."

  Li Yu took the long knife and held it in his hand. He felt that the heavy blade of the long knife was at least a foot long, the handle was slightly curved, the back was wide, and the blade was thin and gleaming.

  Li Yu looked at the long knife in his hand carefully and thought: This is probably a war knife. Did Father Li ever serve as a soldier?

   "Aqing, this knife is very sharp, you can't take it out to play with, it will be troublesome if you hurt someone." Li Yu told Li Qing.

  Li Qing nodded obediently, "Understood, sister, look at how heavy this bow is!"

  Li Yu put the knife on the corner of the wall, took the bow and put the string on it, tried to pull it and asked Li Qing, "Aqing, where is my aunt? Where's the quiver?"

"Sister, I'll take you there." Li Qing took Li Yu to the inner room on the right wing, pushed open the door and pointed to the leather quiver hanging behind the door, "Sister, do you think that's a quiver? ?"

  Li Yu looked at the long knife and the bow and arrow and thought to himself: This knife and bow and arrow are logically more valuable than those furs, why didn't Zhang Defa sell them for money?

"No, this is called a quiver." Li Yu reached out and took off the quiver. He counted about twenty arrows in it. Li Yu took off the bowstring, hung the bow back on the door, and hung the knife back. .

   pulled Li Qing into the house, "Ah Qing, let's go! Let's clean the house first."

"Sister, I'll clean this room." Li Qing took the broom and went to the outside room. Li Yu saw that there was a wooden granary in the inner wing. mushroom. Li Yu cleaned the granary and carried the warehouse board to the yard to dry.

   The two brothers and sisters had just cleaned the two wing rooms when Chen Yaohui and the other four came down from the roof. Chen Yaohui pointed to the roof and smiled at Li Yu: "Xiaoyu, we'll be back when the roof is repaired."

   Li Yu hurriedly stopped Chen Yaohui, "Uncle Chen, don't leave first, I'll give everyone the wages first."

  Chen Yaohui nodded and smiled, "Okay, fifteen yuan per person."

  Li Yu paid the money and bowed to a few people, "Thank you, uncles."

  An older uncle laughed, "You're too polite kid. Let us know if there is any water leakage after we have collected the money."

  Chen Yaohui told Li Yu: "Xiaoyu, in case of trouble, you can go to your aunt, and I will go to the county to find work tomorrow. "

   "Okay, thank you Uncle Chen." Li Yu responded and sent Chen Yaohui away to the back of the house. He saw that there were three huts, a pigsty, and a toilet and bathroom behind the house against the courtyard wall.

The pigsty and the bathroom are paved with bluestone slabs. There is a small door next to the pigsty. Li Yu opened the door and saw a large wasteland outside the courtyard wall. The wasteland was covered with weeds as high as one person. The wasteland used to be In a lush bamboo forest and bushes, Li Yu turned his head and saw that there was a large cesspool outside the courtyard wall behind the pigsty, and the cesspool was full of weeds.

Li Yu turned around and went back to the yard. He went back to the house and started cleaning the main room. After cleaning the main room, he took out the gauze and compared it to the size of the window. He cut it out and locked it. He went out and picked up a few pieces of bamboo. Then, I pulled two pieces of lake blue cloth, folded it in half and sewed it in half, then tied it with hemp rope and tied it to the nails at both ends to make curtains.

After the curtains were hung up, Li Yu looked at the quilt on the bed and found that Li Mei was using coarse cloth. Li Qing came in with the straw curtain and put it on the bed, "Sister, I'll go back and chop some firewood, let's go home with Chai Shaowan. The rain won't burn."

   Li Yu instructed: "Don't go too far, just chop in the bushes behind."

   "Got it!" Li Qing responded loudly and went out with the machete rope.

  Li Yu took out the muslin to compare the width and length of the quilt, and cut a few pieces of muslin to start making the quilt.

   Li Mei entered the room and looked at the muslin that Li Yu had torn off, with a distressed expression on her face, "Yu'er, what are you doing with the cloth? What a pity!"

   Li Yu explained with a smile, "Aunt, I use it as a quilt cover so that it can be easily removed and washed later."

   "Oh! That's good too," Li Mei laughed at the muslins and laughed at herself, "My aunt has been stingy with that stingy old woman all these years, and she has become stingy."

   Li Yu couldn't answer, thinking of the knife and bow and arrow, and asked Li Mei, "Aunt, why didn't Zhang Defa take the knife and bow and arrow at home to exchange money?"

"Do you think he doesn't want it?" Li Mei was furious, "After your father was buried, he came to ask me about your father's bow and arrow and the long knife, and I told him that the knife and bow and arrow were buried with your father before he died. Come on, come with me."

   Li Mei took Li Yu to the other bedroom, pointed to the beam and said, "After your father left, I hid the knife and bow and arrow on the beam. The knife and bow and arrow are treasures passed down by the Li family and will be passed down from generation to generation.

Yu'er, your father has a generous nature and soft ears and easy to trust people. Your mother has always disliked people in the Zhang family, saying that their eyes are not right and their mouths are sweet and bitter. Your father just doesn't believe it. It was not two years after your mother left, and your father was still slapped by Zhang. He coaxed you to betrothed to Zhang Guisheng, look at how his fox tail has been exposed after only a few years! "

   Li Yu now understands why Li Mei hates guarding Zhang's family so much. It turns out that Li's mother doesn't like them. It seems that the relationship between her aunt and Li's mother should be pretty good.

  Li Yu saw that it was getting late, and smiled at Li Mei: "Auntie, I'm going to cook, and I will hand over the sheets and quilt to you to lock them."

   Li Mei replied briskly: "Okay, you don't need to be your uncle's meal, he has already gone back."

  Li Yu was stunned for a moment, then looked back at Li Mei, "Aunt, why don't you let my uncle eat before leaving?"

   "Don't worry about him, aunt has had enough all these years," Li Mei looked up at Li Yu and sighed, "Alas! You are young and you don't understand even if you tell me, go and cook!"

  Li Yu felt that he didn't understand the reason for this, and he didn't say much. After all, he was only a teenage girl now.

Li Yu nodded and turned to the stove. After blanching the pig lungs and washing them, he fry the water dry with high heat, put some **** slices and aniseed in it, scooped two scoops of water and poured them into it to start stewing pig lung soup. , wait for it to boil, then put the steamer on it to steam a pot of rice.

  When the pork lung soup was almost ready, he cut the radishes into pieces and put them into the pork lung soup. Li Yu felt that it was the most convenient to cook rice on the stove. After cooking, the rice was steamed. Sitting in front of the stove, Li Yu felt like she was back in those days when she was a child, living in the countryside. Although those days were hard, they were also her most carefree time.

  Li Yu looked at the fire in the stove with a lot of thoughts. He didn't know his selfish brother and sister-in-law's family. He was sad or relieved to learn that the old aunt who couldn't marry has finally left.

   (end of this chapter)