Chapter 5: friendly neighbor
Chapter 5 Friendly Neighbors
The people who were exiled here, when they first came, which one was not scrawny, dirty, embarrassing, or even dying? The Zhao family is not.
Zhao Liya observed the words and expressions, and knew that her words had worked, and her tone became more confident: "We have no grievances or enmities, why do you bother to cause trouble, right? Now that we are here, we just want to stay in peace , Waiting for the news, if someone causes trouble, hum, we are not easy to pinch! At that time, we would rather fight to the death than give in, if anyone wants to try, then try!"
Hu Ling waved his fist like a demonstration: "Yes! Don't think we are easy to bully! We are not afraid of you."
The punks are so angry and aggrieved, they just want to take advantage of it and get some benefits, as for it? As for it!
"Three please, we won't send it away!"
How dare the punks ask them to give it to them? He ran away in a desperate manner.
Zhao Liya and Hu Ling breathed a sigh of relief.
Zhao Liya said: "I don't know if we can scare them, soldiers come and cover the water with soil. No matter what, we have to stand firm here and live well."
"Well, let's be more careful in the future."
"Yes! Let's go, let's clean the house quickly."
"good!"
Take one step at a time, if you can’t avoid it, you can only go head-on. There is always a way.
Of course everyone in the house heard the commotion outside, Zhao Lixiang and Zhao Lin rushed up when they saw him coming in: "Brother and sister beat all the bad guys away? Brother and sister are amazing!"
If it wasn’t for their parents holding them back and covering their ears, they would have gone out to watch the excitement long ago.
Several adults laughed, "Well, brothers and sisters will protect you, we are not afraid of bad guys."
Zhao Xiang and Deng Shi glanced at their daughter and adopted son in a somewhat complicated mood, feeling a little complicated.
This girl didn't like piano, chess, calligraphy and painting since she was a child, but preferred to practice martial arts. She thought she was just playing around. If she thought about exercising, she let her go. did not expect
I don’t know whether to sigh or be grateful.
The house still needs to be tidied up, Zhao Liya said: "My brother and I will go to a nearby house to borrow some cleaning tools, hands alone can't do it."
Zhao Xiang and Deng Shi nodded and agreed, and they went out.
Two hundred meters to the right of their home, there was a house surrounded by a yard with a yellow mud wall, separated by a vegetable garden surrounded by a fence. They couldn't see the situation clearly, so the two decided to go and have a look first.
Knocked on the courtyard door, a woman who was nearly forty years old with a round waist and thick shoulders held the door with both hands and looked them up and down vigilantly: "Who are you?"
"Hello, aunt," Zhao Liya said with a smile, "We are new here, and we plan to temporarily settle down in the house on the left side of your house, can aunt lend us brooms, shovels, hatchets, and dustpans for cleaning? "
The woman became a little interested with a "huh", her shrewd eyes were shining, she looked at them a few more times, and gossiped: "Newcomers, hey, there are newcomers in our village! Are you from Where did it come from? What did you do wrong?"
Zhao Liya and Hu Ling: "."
Although Zhao Liya didn't feel that these things should not be said, she was still a little caught off guard when asked so bluntly.
Seeing this, the woman sneered, disapprovingly: "When we get to this place, what else is there to worry about? It's not ashamed to say it! It's all like this, so there's nothing to lose. I think you're a pretty good girl, so let me borrow you. We will still be neighbors in the future!"
Zhao Liya was overjoyed, and laughed quickly: "Thank you, auntie!"
The woman sized up the two without any trace, "Wait!"
She said and closed the door, and went back to get things.
Widow Qu quickly brought the things over, and said with a smile: "You can just call me Aunt Qu, I don't lend you money for nothing, so you two will have to work for our family for a few days."
Zhao Liya and Hu Ling looked at each other, nodded and agreed: "It should be, I'm busy these days, can I wait a few days?"
"OK!"
With the tools at hand, the whole family went into battle and began to clean the inside and outside of the house. Even Zhao Lixiang and Zhao Lin helped pull weeds.
Zhao Liya and Hu Ling used shovels and hoes to eradicate the lush and wild weeds in the yard. The yard was not small, and it was sweating under the fiery red sun, and it was exhausting.
The blades of the grass had sharp edges, and they scratched a line on the back of the hand without paying attention. After cleaning up, there were countless red marks on the back of the hand and wrists.
After clearing the weeds, the yard looks much neater and more pleasing to the eye, which is worth it.
There is a lychee tree growing in this yard, with a lot of green fruits hanging on it. There is also a plum tree, which is full of branches and leaves, but there are no fruits, but a pumpkin vine climbed up, and it also bore two. A pumpkin weighing about five or six catties was hanging in the air. It was so green and cute, which made Zhao Lixiang and Zhao Lin stare at it for a while.
Zhao Liya kept the pumpkin vine when cleaning the weeds, it can still grow, and maybe it can produce a few more melons.
There were also a few beans that were tangled on the weeds. Zhao Liya also carefully untied their vines and kept them. Later, she gave them a stick to climb. The beans can be cooked as a vegetable.
The fallen fence The four adults worked hard together to help it up, and drove down the pile again, and the long dogtail grass was twisted into a rope to fix it.
This fence is just like that. Many of the branches used as fences are full of insects, or are withered and brittle, and they will break if they are broken. It is an expedient measure right now, and it must be replaced.
Zhao Liya wiped the sweat that flowed down her cheeks, and exhaled, there is still a lot to do.
When I was working, the time passed very quickly, and the inside and outside just looked a little better. When I looked up, the western sky was already full of sunset glow, and the golden crow was gradually sinking.
Zhao Lixiang ran over and gently tugged on Zhao Liya's skirt, the little girl said softly, "Sister, I'm thirsty, I want to drink water."
"Drink water." Zhao Liya licked her scorched lips. She didn't feel it before, but when the little girl said it, she immediately felt smoke coming from her throat.
Looking at the same parched lips of the little girl again, I couldn't help feeling pity, the little girl must have been too thirsty to tell her. She gently stroked her slender and immature shoulders: "Wait obediently, sister will find water for you."
Zhao Lixiang smiled sweetly, and nodded vigorously with curvy eyebrows: "Yes!"
Not bothering the two masters, Zhao Liya had no choice but to go to Widow Qu's house again.
She thinks that Widow Qu is very straightforward, and she is the nearest neighbor, so it is necessary to establish a good relationship. She wants to ask her about the situation in this village later.
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(end of this chapter)