The Role of Women in Novels
Chapter 72

The Lao Li family had newcomers, and according to custom, red eggs were distributed to the team members.

Chen Zhaodi prepared the eggs a long time ago, when Li Yuhu was at home lately, she boiled them in two large pots and asked him to deliver them to the villagers in a door-to-door team.

This red egg was not light, and the basket on his back was quite heavy. Chen Zhaodi looked at Li Yuhu's back almost ready, and waved to Li Yufeng and said, "You can deliver it to the two houses that pass through the irrigation and drainage stations on the embankment.

" It was far from Lao Li's house, and there were only two families, Zhao Guodong and Chen Adai. Chen Zhaodi's job setting was to let Li Yufeng personally deliver the red eggs to Zhao Guodong!

Li Yufeng was always used to eating and was lazy, besides, Li Yuhu could carry a basket of eggs with her heart, so why couldn't she bring a dozen eggs? Li Yufeng felt a little embarrassed, and Chen Zhaodi's intentions were too obvious.

"Mom, I'm not leaving. Guodong had to go to Xu Ergou's house today."

The rice production team had been sown, and now a line of green seedlings had been pulled out of the fields. Towards the end of the 'month, the production team will be busy planting rice seeds. Zhao Guodong rarely had the time of these few days, and went to Xu Ergou's house as an apprentice every day.

"This girl!" Hearing this, Chen Zhaodi had no choice but to criticize Li Yufeng: "I just asked you to send a red egg, what are you talking about Guodong? Wouldn't you go if Guodong wasn't home? That's also your future husband's family."

Li Yufeng felt embarrassed because of this, and she was even more embarrassed when Chen Zhaodi said: "Then, can I go later?" "

Gone later? Wait for Guodong to come home?" Chen Zhaodi could not help but laugh and said: "After all, don't you just want to see Guodong?"

Li Yufeng felt that he was really not Chen Zhaodi's opponent. After all, he couldn't defeat her, so he just pouted and said, "Just go." !”

Anyway, leave early and leave late, there will be days!

Chen Zhaodi looked at Li Yufeng, a shy girl, shook her head and said with a smile: "Tomorrow, I'll ask your third brother to take you to the county town to deliver a red egg to my aunt. If you see Guodong in a while, ask him if he wants to take her with you." Brother, let's go together?"

Li Yufeng immediately recalled that the last time he mentioned to Chen Zhaodi that Zhao Guodong wanted Zhao Jiadong to study in the county, it seemed like Chen Zhaodi remembered him. If Zhao's old family could have such a talented person, then Li Yufeng would marry in the future, and she would be directly respected.

“Then I still have to wait for Guodong to come home!”

Li Yufeng was grateful in her heart, but she replied with no forgiveness, and without waiting for Chen Zhaodi to reply, she hurriedly took the basket containing the red egg, and went to go out.

To be honest.this was the first time Li Yufeng had gone to Zhao Guodong's house.

Li Yufeng's house was at the entrance of Chen's house, but Zhao Guodong's house was further away.After passing through the irrigation and drainage station on the embankment, there was flat land near the back mountain of the village, where his house was built.

Although the house looks simple, the surrounding environment is very neat, and the weeds in front and back of the house have been removed cleanly. Cucumber vines creep on the bamboo fence, and some ripe cucumbers hang there, already yellowed by the sun.

Li Yufeng had yet to reach the door when she was found by Chen Ah-dai from next door.

Old man Chen Duan rarely took care of him. When an adult in the family goes to work, he is usually the only one at home. Grandma Zhao would help watch over him and prevent him from running around.

When Chen Duan saw Li Yufeng approaching, he rushed out of the fence excitedly, his eyes as bright as the stars in the sky. To Chen Ah-Dai, Li Yufeng's appearance represented something scrumptious. He couldn't even hold his saliva back from dripping through his missing teeth.

Li Yufeng immediately laughed, stretched out his hand to touch Chen Ah-Dai's forehead, lowered his head and kissed him, his little head rotten again, and he did not know how long he had not shampooed.

Chen Duan seemed to know that Li Yufeng disliked him, frowned, lowered his head and scratched the back of his head, and stood there obediently.

"This egg is for your family. Did you know that my sister's family has a sister?" Li Yufeng asked him.

Chen Ah-Dai nodded excitedly. As long as someone on the team had a younger brother and sister, he could eat red eggs. For Chen Ah-Dai, it was also a deep memory.

Li Yufeng counted six red eggs from the basket, asked Chen Duan to lift them up, and said to him: "Dai can't eat them all, I should keep two for your parents." Chen Duan nodded, holding the red egg carefully

“Who's outside?”

The movement outside the fence quickly startled Grandma Zhao who was sitting near the mouth of the well and washing clothes. Their place was far away, and there were usually not many people passing by, let alone someone at his doorstep. He could not speak, so when he heard the voice, he inevitably asked one more question.

Li Yufengs heart skipped a beat, it was natural that the daughter-in-law was nervous when she saw her mother-in-law, not to mention that Granny Zhao was still her mother-in-law, so she would become even more groggy.

“Grandma, it's me, I'm Yufeng!” Li Yufeng took a deep breath and pushed the wooden fence of Old Zhao's house.

Inside was a clean and tidy courtyard, with chopped firewood piled up on the wall, and shelves laid out in the courtyard, and dried bamboo shoots, pickled vegetables, and, and pickled melons are dried in the sun on bamboo curtain shelves.

At first glance, it was a family that lived a very prosperous life.

During this period of time, Li Yufeng occasionally heard Chen Zhaodi mention the Zhao family.Their ancestors lived in Chen's house, but after they opened a pharmacy in the county town, the, they haven't come back in years. Later, when the Cultural Revolution began, their pharmacy also became the tail of capitalism.If Zhao Guodong's grandfather was not a doctor who cured diseases and saved lives, he would suffer more.

Later, the Zhao family was beaten back to where it came from, but it turned out that the ancestral home of the Zhao family had been confiscated by the team, so Mr. Zhao chose another place and built all three of the huts, instead of the other one, and finally the family has it. No matter what the place was, the people in Chen's house accepted them and allocated their private land to their families, allowing them to live their lives. Of course, Mr. Chen, who made a baby kiss for Yufeng and Zhao Guodong, also contributed a lot.

Grandma Zhao suddenly heard this crisp sound, but she did not react for a while. He was old, his ears were good and bad, and his eyes were even worse, it took him a long time to recognize him.

Moreover, he had bound feet, and his usual activity was their old Zhao home courtyard plus the private land behind the house, and he rarely saw outsiders.

In Grandma Zhao's mind, Li Yufeng was still a child! Although I recently heard that Zhao Guodong was dating her, but now that such a big girl was standing in front of her, she really did not dare to recognize her ... "really

... Is it really Yufeng?" Grandma Zhao said with her overcast eyes Her son looked at her from top to bottom, raised his hand from the wooden basin to shake the water droplets, stood stooped, and looked at Li Yufeng twice, as if sighing: "They were so big, no wonder they could be with him. "Guodong is in love."

This made Li Yufeng a little embarrassed, she blushed and said nothing, but Granny Zhao continued: "Get in and sit down, Guodong is not home today, and Jiadong also went to his grandmother's house. .

Zhao Jiadong's grandmother lived in the adjoining commune, so she usually didn't have time to take a walk, just during the summer vacation .

"Grandma, I'm here to deliver the red eggs." Li Yufeng handed the basket over, only to realize that this basket was the last time Zhao Guodong gave her the vegetable cattail. He gave the vegetables a cattail and left his basket. Now that he had brought the red egg and the basket, they sent him back together.

“Isn't this my bed?” Grandma Zhao recognized him at a glance, frowned and said, “I just said that there is a lost basket in the house, so it's in your house, and I forgot to bring it back when I delivered something." "Grandmother Zhao said like La Jiachang, and brought Li Yufeng into the main hall.

There was a long table in the middle of the main hall, where the father-in-law was worshipped, which was the custom of the people here.

"I'll get you a glass of water." Grandma Zhao was busy again as she spoke, walking out with her waist down, her legs tied a little unbalanced, and she had to hold on to the wall wherever she went. Li Yufeng felt a little unbearable., hurriedly stopped her and said: "Grandmother, don't be busy, I'll sit down and go ..."

But Granny Zhao immediately came out, and when she returned, she held the enamel cup in one hand and the transparent glass jar in the other.

"This cup is a gift given by Guodong this year as an advanced member of the team. I haven't used it yet. I washed. You can use it in the future," Zhao Granny said, and pushed the glass jar

to Li Yufeng .dan continued: "This is the wild honey he bought for me when he climbed the mountain this year. There were no sugar tickets at home, so he couldn't buy sugar. She's afraid my mouth will taste bad." ... "Grandmother Zhao could only move her mouth as she spoke. He smiled, "Guodong is a good, devoted child, and willing to endure hardships ..."

After he finished speaking, he felt a little embarrassed, as if he was selling melons and boasting, seeing that Li Yufeng did not speak, he continued: "I It's not that you're dating her that you purposely praise her like this. You will know him after a long time with him. .. It was all because of an accident at home, and he was very wise because he had a lot of difficulties. Yeah." yeah."

Although it was just Lala's usual words, Li Yufeng's nose felt a little sore when she heard it. He didn't do it. I don't know what kind of person Zhao Guodong was at first, but the more she got along with, the more she understood that such a man would sincerely treat himself well, Li Yufeng now even felt that although Zhao Guodong was poor in this matter of life and could not make much money, he would not regret following her.

"Grandmother, I know ..." Li Yufeng was a little confused, but her heart was filled with emotions, she thought for a moment and said, "I will follow her in the future, I will treat her well, she said, and I won don't let him suffer or suffer. It doesn't matter if you're poor or rich, I'll follow you."

This was what Li Yufeng said in her heart, but she could not say it in front of Zhao Guodong, if that person listened to her, I do not know how to be ashamed! He wanted him to listen to her for the rest of his life, and he could not make her proud, so he could only tell Granny Zhao these words.

But what Li Yufeng never expected was that a dark shadow suddenly appeared in the brightly lit main room just now.Before Grandma Zhao was able to understand what Li Yufeng said from the bottom of her heart, he stood up with a smile and looked behind Li Yufeng's back the Human said: "Guodong, why did you come back so quickly today?"