sbdcsierra Chapter 1303 The Evil Wang Meilan
Chapter 1303 The Evil Wang Meilan
Chapter 1303 The Evil Wang Meilan
Li Ruhai is a child with many shortcomings, but it cannot be denied that he has never failed to do his job in the areas he is good at.
First, he angered Zhang Zhanshan; second, he slandered Dou Baoguo; third, he helped Zhao Youcai; and he also went to Yangjia Village disguised as beggars to find out the truth.
It can be seen that Li Ruhai is trustworthy when he is not making trouble.
Just like he was doing patchwork, supporting two families in the trade of mountain products, and dealing with those adults, no one could find fault with him.
If it weren't for the 1220 incident, which led to Li Ruhai's belongings being stripped and his business being destroyed, this kid might have become big and strong long ago.
"Son, your aunt's family still has four wild boar elbows. We'll feed them to the dogs someday... No, we'll eat them, no..." After a brief confusion, Jin Xiaomei simply stopped talking about the pork elbows and said directly: "See what else you can buy? Mom will give you money, you can pick the best ones!"
"Okay, let's buy a live roe deer." Li Ruhai counted on his fingers and said, "A few days ago, the old Xishan Youth Center caught two roe deer by catching them by the old-fashioned feet. I'll go buy one."
"It's so far, how are you going to get there?" Jin Xiaomei asked. Li Ruhai smiled and said, "I'll hire a sled and see if my uncle Wang is busy. If he's not busy, I'll let Aunt Wang look after the store and he'll give me a ride. It'll only take an hour or so to go back and forth."
"Okay!" Jin Xiaomei took out money from the kang cabinet and asked Li Ruhai, "What else can we buy?"
In the forest areas of Northeast China, supplies are really scarce, and there is no place to spend money!
"They also have big carp and crucian carp seeds." Li Ruhai said, "They are all in the early autumn, two days before the freezing weather.
After they caught the fish, they put them in the net and threw them into the bubble. In two days, the fish froze to the bottom, but they were still alive. I went there and asked them to shave the ice and dig them out for me.
"Pick it up!" Jin Xiaomei waved her hand and said, "Pick out four carps and eight crucian carp seeds. Pick the big ones!"
Li Ruhai was stunned. When Jin Xiaomei waved her hand just now, Li Ruhai saw the shadow of Wang Meilan in his mother.
"Mom, can we eat all that?" Li Ruhai asked in surprise, "How many tables will my aunt set up?"
There can be a dish of fish on the table, either a carp or two crucian carps on a plate.
These four carps and eight crucian carps mean eight tables, which are enough for weddings or funerals.
"We'll see how many tables we can set up when the time comes!" Jin Xiaomei said, "It's very stable. If you buy it and don't eat it today, we can eat it tomorrow. We have a few elderly people in our families, so we can't eat at your aunt's house every day!"
"That's right!" Li Ruhai thought for a moment and asked, "Mom, they still have sweet potatoes. Do you want some?"
"How come they still have sweet potatoes?" Jin Xiaomei asked. Li Ruhai said, "They have several special cellars, which are ten meters deep. They fill the pits with five and a half meters of sand from the bottom. They use them to store sweet potatoes."
"Oh my! These old hooligans are really good at it!" Jin Xiaomei raised her hand and said, "It's okay to buy thirty or fifty kilograms. Don't buy too much of this stuff, or we won't be able to store it ourselves."
"They also have Toads." Li Ruhai said this, and Jin Xiaomei said without hesitation: "Buy!"
Then, Jin Xiaomei stopped talking because she was checking the money.
Jin Xiaomei counted out twenty Great Unity notes, threw them on the table and asked Li Ruhai, "Is two hundred yuan enough?"
"No, no." Li Ruhai picked up the money happily. In fact, among the things Jin Xiaomei wanted, only the live roe deer was expensive, and the others were cheap.
Jin Xiaomei knew that Zhao Jun sold a live roe deer in Yongxing for one hundred to one hundred and twenty yuan, but the price in Mangliutun would be a little higher.
Add in fish, frogs and other things, two hundred yuan would definitely be enough.
Li Ruhai was looking at the money in his hand with a smile, when he suddenly heard Jin Xiaomei cough. Li Ruhai looked up at Jin Xiaomei and sat sideways beside her.
"Mom!" Li Ruhai said with a smile, "I'll get the remaining money back for you."
"You can do whatever you want." Jin Xiaomei said, "I have a lot of things to do today, so I don't have time to deal with you."
"Mom!" Li Ruhai moved closer to Jin Xiaomei and asked in a low voice, "Wasn't our family supposed to buy a TV for my elder brother Zhao Jun? This time, elder brother Lao Zhou bought one for him, so what should our family do?"
When Li Ruhai said this, Jin Xiaomei and Li Xiaoqiao looked at him in surprise.
Li Ruhai was startled, looked at Li Xiaoqiao who was sitting on the other side of Jin Xiaomei, stood up suddenly, and said angrily: "Mom, my little sister knows this, but my family is hiding it from me alone?"
Jin Xiaomei frowned and said, "You have such a big mouth that even your mother can't say anything to you. If we were to tell you this, wouldn't you have leaked it all out?"
Upon hearing this, Li Ruhai pulled up his trousers with both hands and sat down on the edge of the kang angrily.
Jin Xiaomei smiled and asked, "Son, how did you know that?"
"Ha!" Li Ruhai stiffened his neck and said proudly, "What's the matter? Can you hide it from me?"
"No, son?" Jin Xiaomei suddenly said in surprise, "You already know everything, why didn't you say it?"
When Jin Xiaomei asked this question, Li Xiaoqiao nodded repeatedly.
Li Ruhai twitched the corner of his mouth. He never thought that he would have such an image in his family's mind.
"Mom!" Li Ruhai's eyes suddenly turned, and he said, "You gave me money to buy these things, is it because our family didn't buy a TV for my brother Zhao Jun?"
"Not at all!" Jin Xiaomei slapped her thigh, looking unhappy, and said, "Son, you see, our families are together every day. They all buy things for us, but we don't..."
"The Lingdang family didn't buy anything either!" Li Xiaoqiao interrupted. Jin Xiaomei pushed her aside and said, "We didn't even tell the Zhang family at the time. It's not enough to go around. What will happen if we add his family into the equation?"
"Mom, everyone else is buying refrigerators and color TVs." Li Ruhai said to Jin Xiaomei, "How can those things be placed there and be the same as the food and drinks you buy? Once everyone makes something of it, it will be gone. If you put things there, you can always see them and say who bought them."
"What should we do?" Jin Xiaomei said, "You haven't been home these two days, and I have discussed it with your father and your brother."
Hearing Jin Xiaomei's words, Li Ruhai rolled his eyes and asked, "So what did you guys come up with?"
"We haven't come to any conclusion yet!" Jin Xiaomei said, "If we were to come to an agreement, then we'd have said whatever we wanted!"
"Mom, how about we buy a watch for my brother Zhao Jun?" Li Ruhai was not like Zhang Yuanmin who liked to beat around the bush, so he directly expressed his thoughts.
"Oh!" Jin Xiaomei's eyes lit up when she heard his words.
Jin Xiaomei reached out and pulled Li Ruhai over, patting his arm and laughing, "It has to be my old son!"
"Ha!" Li Ruhai raised his head and said, "Three cobblers are no match for me, Zhuge Liang."
"What else is there to say? My son is the smartest!" Jin Xiaomei, feeling relieved, touched Li Ruhai's head with a smile and said, "Son, when you finish shopping, put the remaining money in your pocket. I'll give it to you."
"Thanks, Mom." Li Ruhai smiled when he heard that. Jin Xiaomei also smiled and touched Li Ruhai's face, looking like a loving mother and a filial son.
"Mom!" At this moment, Li Xiaoqiao, who saw the wind change, spoke up and said, "Please return my brother's clothes to him. My brother looks very smart in them!"
"Okay!" Jin Xiaomei, who was feeling happy, immediately turned to the kang cabinet to look for Li Ruhai's cool outfit.
Li Xiaoqiao smiled at Li Ruhai and blinked.
Li Ruhai curled his lips. He had just asked the little girl to speak for him, but the little girl didn't say a word.
At this time, she even did a favor!
Seeing Li Ruhai looking at her, Li Xiaoqiao moved her small hands down along the collar, meaning to tell Li Ruhai not to forget the down jacket he promised her.
Ten minutes later, Li Ruhai, wearing a marmot hat, military boots and a Zhongshan suit, walked out of the house.
As soon as Li Ruhai went out, he saw Wang Meilan making pine torches at the gate of the courtyard.
"Auntie, do we want to light the signal smoke?" Li Ruhai asked with a smile. Jie Chen was not here today, so he and Wang Qiang took the commuter bus to the forest farm.
They also participated in catching the tiger and went up the mountain to record the video today.
Since Jie Chen was not around, Wang Meilan had to do the job of lighting the pine cones herself.
"No need for you, Ruhai." Wang Meilan glanced at Li Ruhai and waved her hand, saying, "You are wearing something sleek and slippery, so don't mess with you."
"Hey, Auntie, I'm leaving now!" Li Ruhai put his hands behind his back and walked slowly towards the store.
The pine torches will catch fire and a wisp of black smoke will rise with the wind.
Wang Meilan turned around and went into the house. There were large and small basins filled with meat in the field outside the room.
Under the wall of fire, there were four bear paws piled up.
"Wang! Wang!"
Suddenly, she heard two dogs barking outside the house. It sounded like a familiar face. Wang Meilan turned around in surprise and asked, "You came so soon?"
Wang Meilan thought someone came because they saw the smoke signal she lit, but it was Yang Yufeng who came in.
"Feng'er, why did you come here by yourself?" Wang Meilan saw that it was Yang Yufeng and didn't think much about it. She just asked, "Did you bring Lingling here as well?
A TV station came to film today, saying they wanted to film our dog, but I thought of inviting them to dinner. I'll discuss with them and let them film us all."
"Aunt, that's unrealistic." Yang Yufeng said, "We watched TV, and they were interviewing my brother about his big claws. How could they insert a segment about us?"
Hearing Yang Yufeng say this, Wang Meilan was startled and said with a smudge of her eyes, "Not really."
Seeing Wang Meilan's expression, Yang Yufeng gave her husband Zhang a thumbs up in her heart.
"Mom, then we can't be on TV?" Wang Meilan could accept the reality, but Zhao Hong refused.
"Of course, Hong!" Yang Yufeng smiled and said, according to what Zhang Yuanmin taught her, "I came here today just for this matter!"
"Feng'er, what did you hear the other day?" Wang Meilan asked. Yang Yufeng replied, "My brother just came to my house. He told us all about this. Then my son Lingdang's father asked me to come."
Wang Meilan immediately understood what Yang Yufeng meant and asked hurriedly, "What did the aid workers say?"
Wang Meilan felt something was wrong when she said this, so she corrected him, "What's his big brother Zhang's plan?"
"Hahaha..." Yang Yufeng and Wang Meilan smiled at each other. Yang Yufeng said, "My daughter Lingdang's father said that if we try to squeeze in with the crowd, it won't work. But we can let the TV station see the new look of our forest people!"
As she spoke, Yang Yufeng gestured toward the outer room and said, "Aunt, you prepared so many delicious dishes that even the TV station would be stunned.
After that, we can say that life in our forest area has improved and earth-shaking changes have taken place. Wouldn’t it be great to record this? If not…”
As Yang Yufeng spoke, she stretched her hand toward Wang Meilan and rubbed her thumb on the tip of her index finger twice, making a gesture of counting money.
"I understand!" Wang Meilan raised her head slightly and said, "I'll prepare a good meal today, okay?"
At this time, Wang Meilan saw the box that Yang Yufeng took out of her pocket.
"What is this?"
"I went down the mountain that day, old lady." Yang Yufeng said to Wang Meilan as she opened the box, "I bought a watch for my brother and one for my future brother and sister-in-law."
As she spoke, Yang Yufeng opened the box and pushed it in front of Wang Meilan.
Seeing this, Zhao Hong and Zhao Na came over from the left and right.
"Oh my!" Although Wang Meilan had never bought a watch, she had been to the store more than once, and she could tell at a glance that this watch could not be cheap.
"Feng'er, you've spent a lot of money, haven't you?" Wang Meilan asked, "That day your uncle Li came back and said you seemed to be out, so you bought this?"
"Yes!" Yang Yufeng stuffed the box into Wang Meilan's hand and said, "My brother took the men's watch away. As for this one, you take care of it, old aunt."
"I'm sorry to have cost you so much this time." Wang Meilan smiled and said, "My Zhao Jun is also very lucky. He originally only had an older sister, and now he has an older brother and sister-in-law."
"No way, old lady, we are blessed." Yang Yufeng said with emotion: "Sometimes I wonder, what would happen to our family if my brother was not there?
With a father like our Lingling, he would be kicked by the black bear, right? "
"No, no!" Wang Meilan grabbed Yang Yufeng's hand and shook it, saying, "This time they have a job. The three of them are together, and your uncle is watching over them. From now on, the aid workers won't have to go to the battlefield to find work."
"That's right." Yang Yufeng said with a smile, "He has to be my brother!"
Wang Meilan smiled when she heard that. She suddenly remembered something and looked at the watch in her hand. She said to Yang Yufeng, "Feng, you guys bought something for Xiaojun. Those families must be thinking about it. Don't they have to buy something for Xiaojun too?"
After hearing what Wang Meilan said, Yang Yufeng smiled but said nothing. What she was thinking was that those families had all been bought out, and now the only one left was Old Li's family.
Just then, the dog outside the house suddenly barked twice.
"Who's coming?" Wang Meilan said, looking outside.
After just one look, Wang Meilan stood up instantly.
Her eldest daughter came back with the child!
Wang Meilan hurried out and welcomed Zhao Chun into the house.
"Walked back, girl?" Wang Meilan asked anxiously, "Why didn't you tell me? Ask your brother to pick you up!"
Wang Meilan spoke as she unpacked the child's package.
"What are you picking up? My brother is busy all day." Zhao Chun untied her headscarf and said, "Isn't this how girls go back to their parents' home?"
Wang Meilan rolled her eyes at Zhao Chun, untied the quilt, and revealed Zhou Tao's sleeping face.
Zhao Chun was not stupid and would not let his son freeze, so he wrapped him in three layers and put an IV bottle filled with hot water inside.
"Feng'er, look how fat my eldest grandson is." Wang Meilan's face was full of smiles as she looked at the child. Zhao Hong and Zhao Na also came over to look at their little nephew.
At this time, Zhao Chun pointed out the window and said to Wang Meilan, "Mom, who is so wicked as to light a fire outside our door?"
As soon as Zhao Chun said this, he saw Zhao Hong, Zhao Na, and Yang Yufeng all looking at him.
This chapter is to make up for yesterday's. Today's chapter will be posted a little later, around 1 o'clock. Brothers, if you are sleepy, go to sleep first and read it tomorrow morning.
Let's all take care of our bodies and live well
(End of this chapter)