Quick Wear: Men Farming and Women Weaving

Chapter 173 Yi Zhonghai's Son 28

There are also several boxes filled with antiques. I don’t have the skills to identify whether they are real or not, so I can only select a few antiques based on my own feelings and wait for an opportunity to donate them to the National Museum in the future.

Yi Yongkang was looking at the things he had collected these days, full of grains, dried goods, vegetables, and meat. Yi Yongkang nodded with satisfaction. These foods were enough for his family to survive the coming famine. He suddenly thought of something and turned around and walked into the space not far away.

There, there is a piece of cultivated land. Yi Yongkang has been trying to grow various crops. He finally succeeded in growing some drought-resistant and high-yield crops.

He carefully collected the seeds and prepared to take them outside to sow. Yi Yongkang believed that these seeds would become the hope for their family's future. Yi Yongkang took the seeds to the outside of the villa and found a piece of land suitable for sowing. He carefully dug holes, sowed seeds, and covered the soil, doing every step very carefully.

After sowing the seeds, Yi Yongkang did not leave immediately, but sat quietly by the field, looking at the land that had just been planted with hope. He seemed to see the future, with green crops swaying in the breeze.

Yi Yongkang stood up with a smile, his heart full of expectations. He knew that the efforts during this period would not be in vain, as long as he waited patiently, these seeds would surely take root, sprout, and grow vigorously.

After being busy for a while, I had digested all the food and felt a little hungry.

Back in the kitchen of the villa, Yi Yongkang began to prepare dinner. He took out fresh ingredients from the space and planned to make several delicious dishes. Chopping vegetables, frying vegetables, and cooking rice, everything went on in an orderly manner. After a while, the kitchen was filled with tempting aromas.

Yi Yongkang brought the prepared food to the table and started to eat it ravenously.

After cleaning up the mess, I took a hot bath and felt so relaxed. Bathing is a luxury nowadays. It is impossible for you to take a bath every day. You have to go to a special bathhouse to take a bath, which is inconvenient because of the crowds.

Yi Yongkang went to bed early. The night was very quiet with only the occasional sound of the wind.

The next morning when I got up to have breakfast, I saw two middle-aged men patting each other on the shoulders excitedly.

Yi Yongkang looked at Aunt Yi curiously, with questions in his eyes.

"He is your brother Zhuzi's father." Aunt Yi called her son to go up and greet him.

Yi Yongkang walked up and greeted He Yuzhu's father politely.

He Daqing looked at Yi Yongkang with loving eyes.

"When I left, the baby was still very small. I didn't expect that he has grown so big in just a few years." He Daqing said with a smile.

Yi Yongkang also smiled, "Hello Uncle He, have you been doing well these years? Sister Yushui misses you very much."

"A cook will never starve anywhere, as long as he works as a cook in a factory," He Daqing recalled his life over the years.

"Xiaobao, go and have breakfast quickly." Yi Zhonghai saw that he wanted to say a long speech and didn't want to delay his son's meal.

"Lao He, is there anything that brought you back this time?" Yi Zhonghai asked.

"I heard about the situation in the south, so I came back to take a look," said He Daqing.

He Daqing sighed, "Alas, this world is in chaos. I heard over there that there are famines in many places. People are so hungry that they even eat tree bark. It rarely rains in various places."

"But you don't have to worry too much." He Daqing comforted, "Our place is fine."

Yi Zhonghai shook his head. "It's not so good. The workers don't have enough to eat and don't have the energy to work. But at least they still have something to eat."

Yi Yongkang was drinking porridge at a table not far away, and he sighed, "It seems that the situation is very difficult everywhere..."

"I came back this time because I was worried about my two children." He Daqing wanted to hit his eldest son with a stick when he thought about his stupidity.

"Lao Yi, I want to rent a back house in the front yard"

"My son has grown up, so I'll leave the wing room for him to use as his wedding room. And since it's raining heavily, I'll leave the small house next to it for her."

Yi Zhonghai agreed immediately. It was originally a small storage room, so he just needed to notify the director of the street office, who was an acquaintance from the previous courtyard house.

The two of them talked and pulled each other there, and finally Yi Zhonghai stuffed a small cloth bag into his arms.

Yi Yongkang watched the scene with twitching eyes and helped his mother clean up the dishes in silence.

Soon it was time to go to school, so I said goodbye to my family and went to school with Yan Jie Di.

"Xiaobao, I heard my dad say that it's hard to buy food in the countryside." Yan Jiedi was walking in the alley, kicking the pebbles on the road in a bad mood.

"Do you have enough food at home?" Yi Yongkang thought about how their family of six had to rely on one person's salary to support them.

"My father has traded all the fine grains for coarse grains. Now my brothers follow him to the river whenever they have time to catch fish, worms and dig wild vegetables."

Yan Jiedi touched her stomach and felt uncomfortable because of hunger.

"Take it"

Yi Yongkang watched her movements and knew that she had not eaten enough in the morning. He pretended to take out a cornmeal bun from his cross-body schoolbag, which was as big as an adult's fist.

Yan Jie Di looked at the steamed bun as big as her face and held it in both hands. The aroma of corn wafted into her nose and her stomach made a sound. She opened her mouth uncontrollably and took a big bite.

When she came to her senses, she had already eaten most of it. Her face was red and she didn't know how to start speaking.

"Xiaobao, food is so precious now, how can you give it to me?"

"It's okay, and you are not someone else." Yi Yongkang saw that she was full and asked her to save the rest for lunch.

The atmosphere in the courtyard is very lively at this moment.

The news of He Daqing's return spread throughout the courtyard.

Zhang, who was sewing insoles at the gate of Jia's house in the middle courtyard, sewed stitch by stitch as fiercely as if she were treating an enemy, and shouted towards the inner room in a bad mood.

"Why don't you take out the clothes to wash? Do you still want me to treat you?"

When Qin Huairu heard her mother-in-law's voice, she hugged her daughter with a bitter heart.

"I got it, Mom."

"Look at your sad face, it's really unlucky." Zhang was furious and looked at her daughter in her arms and said, "You lost my good grandson, you money-loser. What are you looking at instead of working?"

"Mom, the child is still young and cannot leave without someone by his side"

When Zhang heard this, she immediately put down her insole, pinched her waist, pointed at her nose and scolded her.

"If it weren't for the fact that you gave birth to a grandson for my son, I would have asked my son to divorce you a long time ago."

"Slutty vixen, don't even think of asking me to show you that money-losing thing"

Qin Huairu was insulted in various ways by her mother-in-law and felt so aggrieved that she wanted to cry.

The He family across the street heard the noise and opened the door of their room.

"Zhang Guihua, have you cursed enough?"

He Daqing had just returned home for a while when he heard the voice of that damn woman coming from the other side.

"What are you arguing about so early in the morning?"

Zhang saw He Daqing walking into the yard with an unhappy look on his face, and she confronted him with a look of dissatisfaction.

"I'm minding my family's business, what does it have to do with you?"

"He Daqing, you eloped with someone else, why did you come back?"

Zhang said gloatingly, "Could it be that your lover has also died a long time ago?"

"You look like a widower. You deserve to be a widower."

I don’t know what words made He Daqing angry.

What he heard made him so furious that he ran up to her and slapped her several times regardless of the fact that she was a woman.