Chapter 268 Digging Shepherd's Purse

But this time Hua Xiali didn't plan to do so, because she wanted to return Hua Tiefeng to the mistress, let the mistress take care of him in his old age and let the mistress torture him, making him regret and despair.

When a man is about to die, he will recall his life with great regret. It will be interesting to tell Hua Tiefeng the results of his youngest son's paternity test when he is about to die.

After visiting several uncles' homes, he went to his fourth uncle's home for lunch. After Huo Beixi went to his fourth uncle's home, he did not leave the yard again, so Grandpa Huo and Grandma Huo did not know about this yet.

Hua Xiali understood what he meant. He also didn't want the two old men to disturb Hua Xiali, and Hua Xiali really didn't want to bother with irrelevant people, so it was a good thing for her not to see them.

Otherwise, what would happen if their grandchildren would haunt her like leeches? After all, the sons of mice would dig holes, and no one knew what would happen to their offspring.

Huo Beixi also did not tell everyone that Second Grandpa Huo was his grandfather's younger brother, so no one knew about this. After all, Huo Beixi had not returned openly for many years. Even if he came back to give Second Grandpa Huo something, he came back quietly and was very low-key, and did not appear in front of everyone.

Even if Fourth Uncle and Fourth Aunt knew that there was a Huo Beixi in the village whom they were not familiar with, they would not associate the two together unless Huo Beixi himself said it.

In the afternoon, when the family went back, Hua Xiali and Huo Beixi did not go with them. Instead, they took a bus directly from the roadside below their fourth uncle's house to go to the city for a date.

When they were together in their previous life, they were in a relationship for a while and went to the city center for dates often. They went to almost all the fun places in the city.

But this life is different. They started with marriage, not dating. Although they went on dates, they were few and far between.

It was the Chinese New Year and Huo Beixi had some time off, so she went to the city to have some fun and eat some delicious food, especially the prawns. She really liked them and they were not expensive now. In her previous life, the cheapest price was more than 30 yuan per pound, but during the Chinese New Year, the price increased to more than 70 yuan.

But it is not that expensive now. The chefs in big restaurants prepare it for only a few dollars or more than ten dollars per portion. She can afford it.

After Zhang Yongfeng returned home, he started making braised food again the next day. During the Chinese New Year, every household has to visit relatives, which means every household has to entertain relatives, so many people are willing to spend one dollar to buy a portion of braised food.

Although Hua Xiali was not at home and could not help much, the capital was provided by Hua Xiali, which means that half of every penny earned from the braised food belonged to her. However, she did not take this income for herself, but regarded it as collective property. After the family debts were paid off, Hua Chunli's tuition was collected, and the major family matters were settled, the remaining money would be shared by everyone.

Hua Xiali and Huo Beixi had a romantic date in the city for three days. They returned home on the evening of the third day, which was the sixth day of the New Year, because Huo Beixi had to go to work.

He would not ask for leave unless there were special circumstances, because he wanted to save the opportunity to take leave for important moments. He usually had one day off a day, and one day was enough for him and Hua Xiali to spend time together, because Hua Xiali was also at home, and they were together every day. It was not like others who lived apart and did not have enough time to spend together in one day or something.

During the Chinese New Year, Hua Xiali had eaten a lot of meat and suddenly wanted to eat something light. Thinking that shepherd's purse was fresh and tender in this season, he took a basket and a shovel and went out to look for shepherd's purse.

Huo Beixi's yard was clean, without even a blade of grass, let alone shepherd's purse, so she went to the river bend, where shepherd's purse grew abundantly and tenderly in the private plot. When Hua Xiali was digging shepherd's purse, she happened to see Lu Xiaozhi looking for freshwater clams on the dry riverbed, and there were already some piled up next to him.

He can continue looking for a job for a few months, so Lu Xiaozhi can still earn money for a few months.

Hua Xiali greeted Lu Xiaozhi and squatted down to continue digging shepherd's purse. She did not try to persuade Lu Xiaozhi, because it was useless. Lu Xiaozhi's grandparents would never let go. They were afraid that no one would take care of him, so they trapped Lu Xiaozhi. If Lu Xiaozhi wanted to have a new life, he could only wait until his grandparents passed away, because now they regarded him as a lifeline.

Moreover, the more such people are, the longer they live and the less likely they are to die. Therefore, if Lu Xiaozhi wants true freedom, he will probably have to wait many years.

After all, he died at a very young age, but his grandparents lived for many more years!
There were only two people eating, so Hua Xiali didn't dig a lot. He only dug a basket and went home. He poured the shepherd's purse into a basin, soaked it in well water, and waited for the mud to settle so that it would be easy to wash.

Afterwards, Hua Xiali fished out the freshwater clams that had been raised in the large water tank for some time. After being raised for such a long time, it was time to extract the pearls.

She rinsed the large water tank clean, then picked out the largest freshwater clams piled in the yard and placed them in the large water tank.

After a period of time, the pearls inside will change from strange shapes to round and shiny natural and beautiful pearls. Now there is no place to keep them, so this method is the only option.

Although Huo Beixi transferred all the money in the passbook into hers, she still wanted to earn money with her own hands and didn't want to use his money.

At noon, Hua Xiali made pickled fish and stewed it in a small iron pot over a small stove. He placed the washed shepherd's purse on the side and could just blanch it in the pickled fish soup before eating.

The fresh and tender shepherd's purse has a light sweetness, is very delicious, and can also relieve greasiness!

In the afternoon, Hua Xiali woke up from a nap and found that Huo Beixi had already broken open the freshwater clams she had taken out and put them all in a wooden basin. Hua Xiali smiled, then took out the enamel basin and began to take out the meat and pearls. Then she went to process the meat. In order to eat it in the evening, she had to process it now.

Because clam meat is particularly time-consuming to process.

In the evening, Hua Xiali sent half of the clam meat to her own home. There were only her and Huo Beixi at home, and they couldn't finish so much. Sending half of it home could also add another dish to their table.

This thing is chewy and contains a lot of oil and salt. Hua Tiefeng can't eat it, and naturally can't touch the spiritual spring water.

At present, Hua Xiali and Hua Chunli were the only two people in the family who had completely accepted the washing of the spiritual spring water. As for the others, they only came into contact with it a little when washing pig offal or eating braised food, but it was too little and there was not much effect. Hua Xiali brought his and Hua Qiuli's teacups into the room, scooped two cups of spiritual spring water from the large water tank, and after bringing them out, he added a little bit of hot tea into it, and then went to Hua Qiuli's room with the two cups of spiritual spring water.