0p0 Chapter 62 Spreading rumors with one mouth
Chapter 62 Spreading rumors with one mouth
When Li Shi was halfway there, he saw his brother-in-law Lin Dajiang from a distance.
"Dajiang, why are you here?" Li Shi roared in a deep and powerful voice, and Lin Dajiang, who was ten feet away, could hear it.
Lin Dajiang walked over and said, "I'm here to pick up the child."
He wanted to take over the cart from Li Shi.
Li Shi refused. He didn't use much strength. He had plenty of energy anyway, so he decided not to let his brother-in-law get tired.
He waved his hand and gently pushed, signaling Lin Dajiang to move to the side.
After all, he is a hunter and has extraordinary strength.
Lin Dajiang couldn't keep his balance and took two steps back.
Lin Xiaoman felt like laughing when she saw that her father was still no match for her third uncle despite gritting his teeth.
Lin Dajiang discovered her and gave her a hushing gesture.
Lin Xiaoman could only whisper to Lin Jingzhe, "Are all the uncles so strong?"
Lin Jingzhe had an admiring look on his face, "That's right, even the skinniest uncle can lift a stone mill with his bare hands."
"Can you move it, brother?"
Lin Jingzhe looked at Lin Xiaoman as if he was a fool.
After a while, I realized that Xiaoman was indeed a fool before and probably didn't know what a stone mill looked like.
So he cursed himself for being an idiot and said in an unnatural tone, "Of course not!"
Li Taohua and Lin Dajiang, who were walking in front, said that there were more beggars in the town today.
Lin Dajiang didn't think much about it at first, he just thought that the work in the fields could be done later after lunch.
As he walked, he thought more and more that something was wrong.
"Taohua, we have to take good care of the child from now on." Lin Dajiang said with a serious expression.
Even Li Shi couldn't help but get nervous, "What's going on?"
"Dayi Town is one of the poorer towns in Jialin County, and Jialin County is a lower county in Lin'an Prefecture. If they were begging normally, they would definitely not come here."
Li Shi also realized something was wrong. "I felt something was wrong just now. Those little beggars came and went several times, but no one gave them food."
Li Taohua felt something was wrong but couldn't put her finger on it, so she told him what she had just heard in the town.
"Just now in the town, I heard from a guest that there was a severe drought in the north and the crops were completely destroyed. Maybe there were too many refugees heading south and they dispersed after entering Lin'an Prefecture."
Lin Dajiang knew his own abilities, and he just knew a few words.
But even so, they knew that the refugees had their own receiving provinces and could not stay in places other than the receiving areas for long periods of time.
"Maybe they are not refugees." Lin Dajiang said nothing more, "Anyway, keep an eye on the child."
Li Shi arrived at Lin's house, drank a bowl of water and was about to leave.
No wonder my brother-in-law and his family work so hard to make money. It turns out they even rent a house.
The tables and chairs in the house were wobbly, which showed that the family did not receive normal items after the division of the property.
They are all missing limbs.
"Third brother, since you are here, let Xiaoman make a bucket of ice cream and take it back to give to the children as a sweet treat." Lin Dajiang held Li Shi and refused to let him leave no matter what.
Li Taohua also followed suit.
"No, no, that's what you do business with."
Li Shi knew that his little sister didn't even have a good bench at home, and the bowl for drinking water was chipped, so he didn't dare to ask her to deliver anything.
Lin Xiaoman hurried to the kitchen with a smile on her face.
There are plenty of magnolia fruits, and many of them have not been picked yet.
She deftly scooped the cold boiled water that had been left in the pot into the bucket, took the magnolia seeds, wrapped them in gauze and began to rub and squeeze them.
By the time Li Shi got rid of Lin Dajiang and Li Taohua and ran in to stop his niece, Lin Xiaoman had already covered the bucket with gauze.
"Ice-cold, is it ready?"
Li Shi thought that when he entered the kitchen he would see his niece busy and exhausted, but he never expected that Xiaoman had already wrapped up the bucket.
Lin Xiaoman smiled, "Uncle, it's not ready yet. You have to wait a while before leaving. Otherwise, the ice will fall apart while you walk before it's formed."
Li Shi had no choice but to stay.
The lunch consisted of cold noodles and black ears, which made him so shocked that his jaw dropped.
"Can these black ears be eaten?"
"Taohua, we brothers and sisters should stop being so polite. What kind of white flour do you think we should use to entertain our brothers? Just use black rice paste. Save the white flour for the children. They are all growing!"
Li Taohua said nothing and asked Li Shi to eat quickly.
After eating, I dried the black ears and told him that they were non-toxic, so that my brothers and sisters-in-law could go into the mountains to pick some black ears, so that they could use them to fill their stomachs when there was a shortage of food.
After eating the flour, Li Shi always wanted to exert himself and walk around. When he saw the bricks piled up in the backyard, he felt relaxed all over.
In addition to hunting, Li Shi is also good at building houses and plastering walls.
Building a rabbit nest was not that difficult. He, together with Lin Dajiang and Lin Jingzhe, worked hard and built the rabbit nest.
The three of them were sweating profusely. They scooped a few spoonfuls of water from the water tank to wash themselves down, and then they felt alive again.
Lin Xiaoman brought out three bowls of ice-cold food to entertain the three people.
The drink she soaked in ice water was so cool that after a few sips, the heat in my body subsided a lot.
After eating the iced jelly, Li Shi looked at the sun and said, "Little sister, I should go now."
Li Taohua did not force her to stay, as it took two hours to walk from Shanglin Village to Shadi Village.
It was almost dark by the time my third brother got home.
Li Taohua took a shoulder pole and filled a basket with dried black ears for Li Shi.
Li Shi thought about the harsh words that Old Lady Lin had said before, and now she really hit the nail on the head.
He brought both iced and frozen food and black fungus. If he comes a few more times, wouldn’t Taohua’s house be completely emptied?
Li Shi blushed and waved his hands hurriedly, "No, no, there are plenty of them in Black Ear Mountain. Once it rains, they will all come out. You can save them and eat them."
If they weren't hungry, who would try black ears?
If you don’t taste the black ears, how can you know that the dried black ears are not poisonous?
Li Shi imagined in his mind a scene of Taohua's family crying out for food while wolfing down Black Ears. He immediately picked up Bingliangdong and ran away, as if there were jackals, tigers and leopards chasing him from behind.
"Third brother, third brother! Why are you running?"
Li Taohua ran out of the door, but Li Shi had already run about 20 to 30 feet away.
Chen Xinghua, the most gossipy leper in the village, was walking by with a basket and happened to see this scene.
She curled her lips, not expecting that Lin Dajiang's family was so poor.
Didn’t you see that your mother’s family couldn’t stand it anymore and ran away?
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Before it was completely dark, the news that Lin Dajiang had been scolded and despised by Taohua's family for asking his brother-in-law to borrow money spread throughout Shanglin Village.
"What? You said Lin Dajiang was beaten by his wife's brother?"
A group of women and servants gathered under a crooked tree in the village to enjoy the cool air.
"Yes, Lady Laizi saw it with her own eyes."
"Didn't Lin Dajiang just get some money from the family division? Why would he borrow money from his brother-in-law?"
"Haven't you seen that lazy fellow pulling a cart out to do business every day? How can business be so good these days? Look at Li Mazi, the peddler in the village. If he could make money, how could his mother die without waiting for the money for medicine?"
Aunt Wang remembered that the last time she went to town, she ran into Lin Dajiang's family. The silly girl in the Dajiang family said she wanted to go to her uncle's house for a good drink.
He also said that Lin Dajiang brought wheat bran to his uncle, saying that he was tired of the white flour in the town and liked to eat wheat bran because it would make his throat dry.
Who would believe that? I'm afraid he's just borrowing money and food to extort money.
Aunt Wang had a bad habit of keeping secrets, so she blurted out everything she knew. Feeling the gossipy and curious looks from the other women, her vanity exploded and she became more and more excited as she spoke.
Real and fake mixed together.
Soon, the news that Lin Dajiang lost money in business and was beaten for asking his two younger brothers for money and borrowing money from several older brothers-in-law became more and more serious.