C30

"Hey, Mom, I remember."

Zhang Guihua could smoothly become a prostitute, but Liu Dao Xiang had done a great job in getting Liu Chunxiang to become fat and white.

The next day before dawn, Zhang Guihua came in from outside.

"Dao Xiang, what are you doing? Let's go."

Zhang Guihua was afraid of waking up the exhausted Liu Sangui, so she quietly walked to the back door and called out to her.

"Mom, I'm coming."

Liu Dao Xiang put the egg into her pocket, then quickly ran back into the house.

"Mom, let's cook some porridge first." Liu Dao Xiang was afraid that Zhang Guihua would not have any milk to feed his third sister.

Zhang Guihua quickly replied, "Where did all the food come from? You're still awake, aren't you?"

Unfortunately, she had no talent or money and brought two of her daughters to the streets. As a mother, she couldn't do more for the two of them.

"How about we bring two raw eggs for you and your sister to exchange for two red hair ropes?"

Liu Dao Xiang's heart warmed, she felt that this cheap mother was not bad, and replied: "Mother, don't worry about it, in the future, I will have a lot of hair strings, whatever color I want, I will have."

With that, she turned and went to the back to boil some rice white porridge.

Zhang Guihua wondered where Liu Dao Xiang got something to cook.

When he found out that she had cooked the rice porridge, he couldn't help but nervously lower his voice and ask, "Where did this come from?"

"Mother, just keep it in your heart, I, Liu Dao Xiang, will do my best, and will not steal or rob, when the time comes, you just need to eat, and we'll get an egg to exchange seats with Grandpa Wang, and Mother will carry Chun Xiang for a long distance, I'm afraid that I will be exhausted, not to mention I will need to carry 10 jin of pork with me when I return."

She thought that there were only nine eggs left at home. When she came back, she would be able to sell her chicken and exchange some silver for a ride home. At that time, she would find an excuse to coax Zhang Guihua.

Zhang Guihua said nervously, "Your Milk holds the rice in such tight, it's not that easy to steal it. It's just that, although our family is poor, we are still a clean family, not to mention, you will have to marry someone in the future. This rumor must not be spread."

Liu Dao Xiang already knew that Zhang Guihua and his wife were honest and did not like to go poaching.

"Understood, Mother. Don't worry, I really didn't steal it. I just took a handful of Wild Wood Ear and traded it for someone else two days ago. It's enough for our family to have a drink this morning."

He himself went back to his room and took the rice crumbs from Liu Dao Xiang's hands, and said: "It's still early, Your Milk just gave me the money and also gave me the embroidery work made by your aunt, and I just went to sleep now. It's cold and she won't get up so early, go and sleep first, Mother will cook porridge for you."

Liu Dao Xiang was feeling extremely sleepy, hence she decided to just drop the matter. She crawled back onto the brick bed in front of him and slept next to him.

"Second sister, why aren't you going?"

"It's too cold. When I wake up later, Mother is going to cook porridge. That day, I traded a handful of rice with someone else and used it to cook porridge."

"How come I didn't know that you had changed to Shattered Rice?"

"Heh, just you, big sis, I'm sure of it. As long as you trick Hu, your little face will be written all over. My family really has a small handful of crushed rice."

"Sleep, it's really cold. I'm just saying this. Every time I lie to you, you'll know it just by looking at your face." Sigh, his little sister was too honest.

Hmph, Liu Qi's family didn't like Liu Sangui, so she wholeheartedly wanted to suppress this room. She treated Liu Qi's family as a tool to sharpen her family, and made her sisters stand up straight. Hehe, when the time came, her family would be rich to the point that they would even take eight steps out of the house.

Liu Dao Xiang thought, and then with a pleased smile on her face, she went back to sleep.

"My daughter, wake up. Hurry up." Zhang Guihua reached out her hand to shake her. It sounded like the two of them were going to be thieves.

The white porridge could simmer easily, not to mention the crushed rice, which was easier to cook. Luckily, it was cooked with porridge, otherwise, wouldn't the fragrance from it wake Liu Qi up?

With something good, forget about Liu Dao Xiang, even Liu Qiuxiang got up from the brick bed in the blink of an eye.

Liu Sangui's snores had already stopped. From behind the bamboo wall, there came a rustling sound. Most likely, he was just getting up and putting on his clothes.

Liu Dao Xiang had three catties of rice in her space, and used a little too much of it to make the porridge, so the porridge was very thick, it was no longer the clear soup that people would usually see.

Ever since Liu Dao Xiang choked on the water that smelled like tobacco smoke, Liu Sangui carefully washed the bowls again. She even made a pot cover when she was free, so the smoke smell of the water was very light now.

"Eh, my wife, how come there's porridge today?"

In front of him was a small table with two bricks on top of a long piece of wood. On top of the table were four bowls of white porridge.

Even so, Liu Sangui was genuinely happy from the bottom of his heart.

"It's fine if you have to eat, why do you care so much?" Zhang Guihua did not intend to tell Liu Sangui where the porridge came from.

Four bowls of rice porridge were placed quietly in the dim room under the light of the firewood in the brick bed. It was an especially attractive sight to behold.

Liu Sangui secretly reached out his hand to pinch his thigh, but the result was him grimacing in pain, causing the three mother and daughter to cover their mouths and chuckle.

His simple and honest face was filled with a smile. So it wasn't a dream.

The fire in the kang crackled, and a faint, cheerful smile lingered in the room.

Liu Sangui only felt that his chest had never been this relaxed and regretful before. For a long time, the burden that had been placed on his shoulders had seemed to gradually lighten after his daughter had smashed his head.

He began to have some hopes for the future.

As soon as the bowl of hot porridge entered his stomach, his cold and icy stomach immediately warmed up. The coldness on his body also lessened by a bit.

Liu Dao Xiang saw that there was still a bit left in the pot, but it was not enough for four people to eat, so she said: "I'm full."

Liu Qiuxiang obediently put down her chopsticks. "Mother, I'll come wash the dishes later."

Before Liu Qi got up, he had to eliminate all the evidence. In her second sister's words, he had to cut off the landlord's tail, so as to prevent Liu Qi from going berserk.

Zhang Guihua was a very virtuous woman. "I'm full too. Third Young Madam, I'm afraid you'll have to do another day's work today. Eat more."

Liu Sangui was the pillar of the family. Only when he was full would he have the strength to work, and only then would he not fall sick.

"Let the girls eat, they are still growing. They can't be full all day, how can eating sweet potatoes alone be enough?"

He felt that he had let down her daughters and couldn't provide them with a better life. He could only watch them eat and dress well.

He picked up the iron pot with the missing mouth, took the bamboo ladle and carefully scraped the white porridge off the pot.

"Dad, eat with elder sister. Mom and I have to go. If you don't go now, Grandpa Wang's oxcart won't wait for you."

To reach Lianshan Town within the fifteen kilometers of a village, it would take two hours, which was equivalent to two hours in the modern era.

Hence, Liu Dao Xiang opened his mouth to urge Zhang Gui Hua. She was not a match for Liu Qiuxiang, senior had never eaten anything cooked with broken rice before.

Seeing her second daughter already walking to the other side of the bamboo wall, Zhang Gui Hua immediately stood up and carried Liu Chunxiang, who was fast asleep, up from the brick bed.

Seeing three daughters, who had clearly gained a lot of weight, Zhang Gui Hua's eyes became moist. She felt that her second daughter must have been sent down by an old deity from the heavens, otherwise, how could she be so intelligent?

Ever since she had taken control of the family, her days at home had become more and more chaotic.

As for her body, it was fortunate that there were still red sugar, red dates, and eggs hanging in the air all the time. She had almost finished raising all of them, and the rest still needed to be nurtured slowly.

Her second daughter said something like that. There would be money, eggs, and even white rice.

When Liu Dao Xiang reached the entrance of the village, there were already a few women sitting on the carriage. Li San-mei and Li Cuihua were also sitting there, upon seeing Liu Dao Xiang, they immediately shouted at the top of their voices: "Dao Xiang, come sit over to my side. My mother was afraid that I would get cold, so she even prepared a small stove."

She was afraid that Liu Dao Xiang would not believe her, and raised the blanket on her knees.

Liu Dao Xiang glanced at the sparks that were off in the distance. She really wanted to sit beside her.

"Ai, what is the meaning of this?" An old woman's face tightened in displeasure.

"What do you mean? Just based on the meaning behind those words? " Liu Dao Xiang could not help but roll her eyes, thinking that she did not see that this old lady also wanted to get close to Li Cuihua's side to get warm.

"You … "Stupid little girl, you don't know how to be the first to arrive!" The old granny cursed as she approached Li Cuihua, lifted up her blanket, and then smiled towards Li San-mei: "Three batches of his wife, are you bringing Cui Hua to the town to see his father?"

Since they were all from the same village, Li San-mei naturally did not want to make a ruckus with them. He only nodded and replied, "Yes, although it's a little cold in the spring, his father and brother are forging iron in the town and the heat is earlier than others. He had made a new set of undergarments and sent them to the market as well."

Li Cuihua frowned, she glared at the old granny beside him, fuming.

She had already said that she would let her partner sit down, but why was this old woman still so shameless?