Chapter 1026 Youcai Sells Ginseng, Zhao Jun Inspects the Goods
In the past month or so, Zhao Youcai and Li Ruhai have been helping each other.
Li Ruhai helped Zhao Youcai resolve the serious injuries caused by rumors, while Zhao Youcai provided Li Ruhai with a certain degree of military protection.
Just like the last time Li Dayong wanted to beat Li Ruhai, it was Zhao Youcai who arranged it for him.
Li Ruhai was so grateful that he made all kinds of promises. Most people will just think this kid is talking nonsense when they hear the words "It's like a dog and a horse."
But is Leader Zhao an ordinary person?
Even if what you tell is a lie, as long as you tell it to me, you have to admit it.
Isn't it unreasonable for you to tell Zhao Jun about such a good thing but not to me?
At this time, Li Ruhai didn't know that he had offended someone again. He followed Li Dayong and asked with a smile: "Dad, you have been working all day, are you tired?"
"This kid is in trouble!" Zhao Youcai suddenly had a guess in his mind when he saw this scene. As for how I guessed it, it probably comes from experience.
"Huh?" Li Dayong was stunned by Li Ruhai's question. After recovering from the surprise of Zhao Jun shooting three lynxes, he felt something was wrong.
Just when Li Dayong was at a loss, he only heard Zhao Youcai cough lightly.
Li Dayong hurriedly looked at Zhao Youcai. When he saw Zhao Youcai touching his neck with his free hand, Li Dayong reacted instantly.
"Not tired." Li Dayong smiled at Li Ruhai, making Li Ruhai laugh too.
"My old son knows that he feels sorry for his father." Li Dayong said, raising his arm and passing it through Li Ruhai's back, and gently put his big hand on Li Ruhai's shoulder.
Li Ruhai smiled, opened his arms and hugged Li Dayong's waist. The father and son hugged each other's neck and waist, it was so warm.
Seeing this strange scene, Li Baoyu was so shocked that he almost threw the soda box away.
Fathers these days don't know how to express their feelings. Li Dayong is usually relatively gentle with Li Xiaoqiao at home, and he yells at them both. He, Li Baoyu, has never enjoyed this kind of father's love when he has grown up.
For a time, Li Baoyu felt mixed feelings in his heart, including jealousy and loss.
Zhao Jun, who was following behind, saw clearly. He shook his head slightly and secretly said that Li Ruhai would not be able to escape this beating. Jin Xiaomei didn't beat the boy today. Firstly, because the child was older and Jin Xiaomei couldn't beat him. Secondly, Jin Xiaomei wanted to wait for Li Dayong to come back and discuss how to calm Liu Tiezui's anger, and then beat him after they had discussed it.
If Li Ruhai was lucky enough to hide in Zhao's house and be protected by Zhao Youcai, he might still be able to escape disaster if he didn't return to his own house.
But now...
Soon, the group arrived home.
Li Baoyu and Jie Chen, who were moving boxes, walked quickly in front of them. Lin Xiangshun, who entered the Zhao family yard at the same time as them, trotted to the Zhao family door and opened the door for them.
Li Dayong, who was walking behind, saw the lights on in his house and turned around and asked Zhao Jun: "Nephew, what is your aunt doing at home?"
"The big goose is stewed." Zhao Jun said with a smile: "Today Jie Niang killed two more geese."
"Ah!" Li Dayong said, "Then I'll go back and see your aunt."
With that said, Li Dayong took Li Ruhai in his arms and walked home.
"Huh?" Although Li Ruhai didn't know yet, his father had already become suspicious of his strangeness after being reminded by someone thoughtful. But Li Ruhai knew that if he went home with Li Dayong, Jin Xiaomei would definitely file a complaint, and a severe beating would be waiting for him.
Thinking of this, Li Ruhai dropped his hand around his father's waist, and after taking it back, he tried to push Li Dayong away.
But at this time, Li Dayong's hand holding Li Ruhai tightened, his big hand firmly clasped Li Ruhai's shoulder, and his strong arms instantly trapped Li Ruhai.
"See you in the picture!" Li Ruhai, who has read a lot, immediately sensed the crisis.
"Old son!" Li Dayong said in a stiff tone: "Come back with me to see how your mother's goose stew is doing. When it's ready, bring it over."
"Dad, there are two of you, so let's send them off." Li Ruhai struggled under Li Dayong and tried to escape into Zhao's house.
"Come over here!" Li Dayong stopped pretending to be kind. He held Li Ruhai in one hand and grabbed the collar of his cotton-padded jacket with the other. At this moment, Li Ru was lifted up and arrived at the door of Li's courtyard.
"Brother, help me!" Li Ruhai shouted something that felt wrong, so he quickly changed his words and shouted: "Brother, help me! Master! Master!"
As Li Ruhai was dragged into the Li family yard, Li Ruhai kicked his legs and shouted: "Uncle, you can't just die without saving me!"
Originally, when people came home, the dog in the yard kept barking. At this time, Li Ruhai was calling for help again, and the dog barked even more intensely.
The little flower's anxious screams changed, but even if it was not restrained by an iron chain, it would not help Li Ruhai bite Li Dayong when it rushed over. It was just anxious because it didn't want to watch the family fight.
"Xiaohua, save me!" In desperation, Li Ruhai shouted anything.
At this time, the door of Li's house was pushed open from inside, and Jin Xiaomei looked at Li Dayong with surprise.
"Hey!" In the Zhao's courtyard, the Zhao family's father and son stretched their necks to look toward the wall. When they saw the Li family's door closed, they all looked away and sighed heavily.
"Here you go!" Zhao Youcai handed the lunch box to Zhao Jun, then waved to him and said: "Here are the eggs, take them in!"
"Hey!" Zhao Jun took the lunch box and walked to the house, while Zhao Youcai went straight to Erhei.
After all the rare things, Zhao Youcai was ready to favor each one from the outside to the inside.
Next is the white dragon, then the green tiger.
But since Zhao Jun returned to the house and Zhao Youcai was the only one left in the yard, the green tiger couldn't get out of the kennel.
Zhao Youcai stood in front of the kennel and called for him for a long time, but Qinghuo said nothing.
Zhao Youcai had no choice but to extend his evil hand to Qinglong and Heilong again.
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If there was unrest in the Zhao family yard, there would be unrest in the Li family house.
About fifteen minutes later, the door of the Li family next door opened, and Li Dayong and Jin Xiaomei each came out of the house holding a basin. Li Dayong's basin contained goose stewed with dried potatoes; Jin Xiaomei's basin contained steamed flower rolls.
The couple went to the wall and placed the basin on the top of the wall. After climbing over the wall, Zhao Youcai happened to have finished with the dogs in the yard.
He went to the front of the house and opened the door. Li Dayong and Jin Xiaomei came in with food.
When Zhao Youcai came in last, he saw Wang Meilan frying pickled cabbage noodles in front of a big pot.
"Lan!" Zhao Youcai smiled at Wang Meilan and said, "You've worked all day, you must be tired... eh?"
Before he asked the last word "right", Zhao Youcai was suddenly startled, remembering that Li Ruhai had been suspected because of his diligence before, and he had not appeared again until now.
Thinking of this, Zhao Youcai hurriedly observed Wang Meilan's expression carefully.
"Not bad." Wang Meilan was only busy cooking, not even raising her head.
Feeling that Wang Meilan had no suspicion, Zhao Youcai let down his guard and immediately stretched out his hand to Wang Meilan and said, "You are tired, you go in, I will cook this."
"No need for you." Wang Meilan still didn't raise her head, and the hand holding the spatula dodged to the side while turning the dishes, saying, "You go in and change your clothes."
"Hey!" Zhao Youcai responded with a smile and walked into the inner room.
Today, the Zhao family had to set up two tables for dinner, so the same dish had to be divided into two portions. At this time, Jin Xiaomei and Yang Yufeng were picking goose meat into two large plates, while Xu Chunyan was picking flower rolls into two small helmets.
So no one saw that when Zhao Youcai walked to the door of the west room, Wang Meilan, who was cooking, suddenly turned around and looked deeply at Zhao Youcai's back.
After frying the sauerkraut vermicelli, Wang Meilan fried peanuts.
So today's dinner was iron pot stewed goose, goose stewed potatoes, sauerkraut fried vermicelli, steamed goose blood, fried peanuts and sugar mixed with rock sugar shredded radish.
Six dishes, cold and hot, meat and vegetables.
In the east room, beer was poured in front of the women, and the children were holding soda bottles to drink, laughing and talking, and the noise was more lively than those men in the west room.
Li's west room.
Under the dim light, Li Ruhai sat on the kang, rubbing his left thigh hip with his left hand and his right leg calf with his right hand.
Li Ruhai lowered his head, his tears had stopped, but he was sobbing.
"Hmm... uh..." This grunt was not made by Li Ruhai, but by Hei Hu who was lying on the side.
But it was not comforting Li Ruhai, nor was it saying it felt sorry for Li Ruhai, but there were two plates on the wooden table against the wall under the kang. One plate contained flower rolls, and the other contained goose meat.
According to Jin Xiaomei's idea, Li Ruhai would not be given any food tonight, but Li Dayong refused, saying that it was too much, after all, he had to be given food even if he had to sit in the fence.
At this time, Li Ruhai not only felt pain in his body, but also in his heart. Because Li Dayong said that from now on, as long as Li Ruhai rested, he had to help with the work at home. Except for the Zhao and Li families and the toilet outside, he could not go anywhere else.
For Li Ruhai, isn't this the same as sitting in the fence?
Li Ruhai couldn't eat, and the group of people in the Zhao family next door were eating a lot.
After eating, Xie Sun, who was sitting on the kang, took the small broom used by the Zhao family to sweep the floor, picked off a piece of sorghum millet from it, put it into her mouth, and said to Zhao Chun, who was holding the child, while picking her teeth: "We can't be stingy when it comes to meat. Wait a few days, when your child's father comes, auntie will catch three geese and kill them, and we will have a big meal!"
Since Xie Sun and Wang Meilan were sisters, Xie Sun insisted that Zhao Chun call her auntie.
"Auntie!" Zhao Chun hurriedly said, "Don't kill them, auntie, we have all kinds of meat, what can't we eat? There are not many left after you bought that young man, you have to keep two, and go home to give them back to my sister-in-law in your family after the New Year."
"Your sister-in-law..." After being muttered by Zhao Chun, Xie Sun suddenly thought of her daughter-in-law. After being out for so long, Xie Sun really missed Liu Lanying, but she didn't want to go home at this time, so she waved her hand and said, "Don't worry, after killing the young master, there is still the female one, right?"
Zhao Chun: "..."
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After dinner, the women helped Wang Meilan clean up the leftovers, tables, chairs, and bowls, and they went home one after another.
When there was no one in the room, Zhao Youcai, who was sitting on the kang smoking, raised his leg and kicked Zhao Jun lightly. When Zhao Jun looked at him, Zhao Youcai pointed to the wall and said, "I bought the club for you. It's in the pocket of your clothes. Go get it (qiǔ)."
"Ah?" Zhao Jun was stunned. Although he had heard Zhao Youcai say that before, he really didn't expect Zhao Youcai to be so efficient.
Zhao Jun got up from the kang and went over to take out the butter paper package from Zhao Youcai's cotton jacket pocket.
Zhao Jun opened the butter paper package, dug out the ginseng seedling from the moss inside, and then he held the ginseng in front of his eyes by the reed head.
After just one glance, Zhao Jun frowned.
There is another chapter at 6pm.