CH 65.4

Chen Si and his fulang went back, and Liu Xianglan arrived at the tea shed. The family needed to harvest millet, and the husband and wife must be too busy, so they figured it out somehow, and decided to hire someone this year.

She heard that Zhang Fangyuan had just slaughtered a pig, so she came to the tea shed to buy meat to serve as an entertainer.

When she arrived at the tea shed, Liu Xianglan couldn't help complaining.

Xu He was sweeping the floor in the tea shed. He straightened up and glanced at Liu Xianglan, before pouring someone a bowl of tea.

Ever since he became pregnant, Liu Xianglan had been coming to the tea shed frequently, walking around every now and then, drinking a bowl of tea and eating melon seeds, talking about the family's fields, or talking about how her second brother-in-law's family was not human.

Xu He was busy with his own affairs, If he didn't talk to her very much, she could talk by herself for a stick of incense, and then went home when she cooled down.

Occasionally there were a lot of leftovers, so Xu He would give her two pieces of dried tofu, a bowl of tofu flower, or a small dish of stewed pork.

It seemed to seek a favor, but at least no one yelled at him anymore.

Xu He was a little surprised that today Liu Xianglan didn't yell at her sons-in-law to help her harvest the millet. Presumably, she knew that the elder son-in-law couldn't lift his shoulders and resist, and couldn't do farm work, while the younger son-in-law was vicious and busy with his business, so she didn't dare to ask.

"Cousin and our Xu family are also relatives, and the fertile water didn’t flow to outsiders."

[翻譯. 英語：lit. don't let one's own fertile water flow into others' field fig. keep the goodies within the family]

Liu Xianglan took a sip of tea and cocked her mouth: "He is still not a person from our family. It's a pity."

Xu He said: "According to this, the craft can't be taught to other people."

"Why can't he teach it to your father?"

"You still let him learn this skill to slaughter pig when he is so old?"

Liu Xianglan also knew that what she said was unreliable, but she felt it was really a pity that Chen Si could learn the craft.

"I won't sit any longer today. I have to rush back to cook after buying some meat."

After saying that, she stood up and wanted to go out. She glanced at Xu He who was still busy in the room, and said involuntarily, "

Why don't you go out and choose meat for me?”

Xu He took two pieces of dried tofu from the kitchen and put them in Liu Xianglan's basket: "Ayuan is outside, he knows what kind of meat you want."

Liu Xianglan pursed her mouth in dissatisfaction. She was afraid of Zhang Fangyuan, but Xu He refused to go with her, so she had no choice but to go on her own.

"It’s the busy time for farmers, in the past I should have helped to cut the milet, but the business is really busy. Take these two pieces of pork liver and eat it, and there is still half of lungs."

What Zhang Fangyuan said was only pig offal, but there was also two catties of pork belly thrown into Liu Xianglan's basket. Liu Xianglan, who was originally stern, immediately looked better.

"You come to have dinner at home with He ge’er when you are free."

Zhang Fangyuan replied, and Liu Xianglan returned with a basket in her arm, smiling happily with the people in the same village.

After dealing with the villagers who bought the meat, it happened that the watermelon farmer came to deliver the watermelon, so he called Xu He to pay for it, and he picked the small one, broke it with his fist, and ate it with relish.

Xu He gave the money for watermelons and looked at the person who was squatting on one side and munching on watermelon, anhed said with a smile, "Are you so thirsty?"

Zhang Fangyuan took the middle part of watermelon, removed the seeds and gave it to Xu He: "People in the village like to ask questions about this and that, and they like to go around for the price, my mouth is dry because of talking too much. It's not going to be too hot this day, and it will cool down quickly when it rains after autumn. "