Bai Dashan still nodded, "Yes, I teamed up with my wife to catch a pheasant."
Everyone knows how difficult it is to catch pheasants. He can't let people think it's easy for them to catch pheasants. What if they ask them to help catch pheasants in the future?
They just want to live a good life and don't want to be a good person.
When Bai Dashan and Li Chengcheng came down the mountain and no one was around, several villagers gathered together and started whispering.
The male villager who had just greeted Bai Dashan made a loud noise, "This Bai Dashan caught a pheasant and didn't know how to invite me to their house for a meal. He deserves to live a hard life."
In the past, Bai Dashan worked hard to raise his younger brothers and sisters, and finally saved some money, but ended up using it to marry a wife. Now the family is so poor that they can't even eat. If you ask him, he shouldn't have spent so much money to marry the Li family.
Li Chengcheng, why wouldn’t he marry someone in the village with fifty yuan? This would leave him with more than two hundred yuan, so why not?
Another person looked at him with disdain, "Does Mr. Bai know you? Inviting you to my house to eat pheasant? You think too highly of yourself."
"After all, I am his elder. Isn't it right to treat me to a meal?" the man retorted, his face red with anger and his neck thick.
"According to what you said, the older people in the village are all your grandparents. Why haven't I seen you as a younger generation honoring them?" Others sneered. This man is really lazy and greedy. He wants to eat pheasant.
If you go into the mountains to catch it yourself, why are you staring at the pheasants in other people's hands? Is it easy for others to catch a pheasant?
When Li Chengcheng and Bai Dashan were about to arrive home, an aunt saw them and frowned and said, "Why did you dig up so many unpalatable things and come back?"
"We don't have much food at home, just dig some and bring it back to last until the food is distributed." Bai Dashan didn't explain that much.
You don’t need to let outsiders know how your own conditions are.
"Your wife is a woman. How can she maintain her health by just eating these things? Women must take good care of their bodies, otherwise they will not be able to have children in the future. What do you think your family will do? My family has planted a lot of sweet potatoes on their private land this year. I will give you a few kilograms in a moment.
How about sweet potato coming over and letting you hold on till you share the food?" Auntie said with a concerned look on her face.
Li Chengcheng originally wanted to refuse, but when he thought that he now lacked help in digging Houttuynia cordata and winter bamboo shoots, he nodded and agreed, "Then thank you, aunt. When we get through the difficulty, we will definitely thank you."
Get in touch first, then get to know her. If the person is okay, it's not impossible to bring her into your camp. After all, there are not many people who sincerely help them. The concern on this aunt's face does not seem to be fake, and in her eyes
Full of sincerity.
"Okay, then you go home first and I will bring it to you later." After the aunt said that, she turned and walked away.
Back home, Bai Dashan processed the pheasants, while Li Chengcheng peeled some winter bamboo shoots. The winter bamboo shoots were round and strong, different from the slender bamboo shoots. It was just the two of them who ate them, two winter bamboo shoots.
That's enough, but Li Chengcheng wants to make two dishes.
Li Chengcheng blanched the winter bamboo shoots and took them out of the steaming pot. He was planning to soak them in cold water before cutting them, but then he heard a knock on the door, so he hurried over to open the door and saw the aunt just now.
Li Chengcheng came over carrying a sack, which contained at least ten or twenty kilograms of sweet potatoes. Li Chengcheng felt a little moved.
"Auntie, why did you take so much? The food will be distributed in a few days!" Li Chengcheng was a little embarrassed.
"Our family has harvested a lot this year, which is enough to eat. You can eat it, especially you, girls. You must eat more and keep your body strong so that you can have children in the future." The aunt patted Li Chengcheng's hand.
Shoulder.
Li Chengcheng brought the sweet potatoes into the kitchen, divided the pheasant that Bai Dashan had cut into half, put it into a small basket in a clean bowl, and then brought it out to the aunt, "Aunt, I brought you a few pieces of chicken. You
Go back and add more water and stew a pot of chicken soup so that everyone in the family can have a bowl."
The aunt refused, "You managed to catch a pheasant, and you just keep it for yourself to eat and supplement nutrition. What are you going to do for me? Our family can eat enough and there is no shortage of nutrition."
"Auntie, if you don't want it, then I don't want your sweet potatoes either. You can just take them back later!" Li Chengcheng said seriously with a hard face.
"Okay then!" The aunt took it over reluctantly, feeling embarrassed. Would others think she was here just for the pheasants? She really didn't know they had pheasants here!
"Auntie, I don't know how I should call you?" Li Chengcheng asked. If he doesn't know your name, how will he interact with her in the future?
"I am Zhao Juanjuan's mother. My name is Sun Sumei. You can call me Aunt Zhao or Aunt Sun." Sun Sumei said.
Li Chengcheng was surprised. Sure enough, kindness is contagious, because she gave the little girl Zhao Juanjuan an income, and now the little girl's mother came to help him again.
Zhao Juanjuan and Li Hongmei helped her pick wild fruits, which cost a penny per kilogram. Picking dozens of kilograms a day cost just a few cents. After such a long time, the two of them also made a lot of money. When their family conditions were better, they wanted to
Help people with worse conditions, and such people can communicate.
"Then I'll call you Aunt Zhao!" Li Chengcheng said with a smile.
Sun Sumei nodded, "Okay."
"Aunt Zhao, if you are free tomorrow, come to my house. I have something to ask you." Li Chengcheng said softly.
Seeing Li Chengcheng's mysterious look, Sun Sumei was really interested, but she didn't ask so much, but nodded, "Then I'll come over when I'm free tomorrow. Have you been at home?"
"Yes, I'm at home." Now she just goes to sell Houttuynia cordata with Bai Dashan every morning. When the winter bamboo shoots are dug, the Houttuynia cordata is also dug, so she doesn't need to do much.
"Okay." Sun Sumei nodded, turned around and looked around, then quickly left with the basket in hand. She was here to help Li Chengcheng, but she couldn't cause any trouble to Li Chengcheng.
Li Chengcheng came to the kitchen and opened the linen bag. The sweet potatoes inside were all round in size, with a smooth appearance and no insect holes. Sun Sumei must have picked the sweet potatoes specially for her.
Bai Dashan came out of the bathroom and saw Li Chengcheng squatting on the ground studying sweet potatoes, and asked, "Is this what the aunt sent here?"
"Yeah, I didn't expect that she would send so many, so I gave her half a pheasant," Li Chengcheng said.
Bai Dashan put the sweet potatoes into a large vat, then closed the lid and left them outside where they could easily become food for rats.
The news that Bai Dashan and Li Chengcheng caught pheasants on the mountain soon spread in the village because of that lazy and greedy man.