Chapter 7 Bamboo shoots are delicious
"Dad, you are so good. You are the best dad in the world. Look at our village. How many girls can study for so many years and have such a high level of education like us three sisters?"

Hua Chunli dropped out of school, but she is still the girl with the highest education in their Huazhuang village group.

Although it is already the 1990s, there are still many people who cannot afford to go to school. Many children in their village failed to get into junior high school and stayed at home for a few years. When they got old enough, they either went out to work or got married. How many of them could continue their studies like them?
Although Hua's father and mother were both from ordinary peasant families, their ideological realm is incomparable to ordinary people. Nowadays, which family doesn't think that girls are raised for other families and spending money to cultivate them is a waste of money?
But they never had such thoughts and only wanted to give them the best.

"So Dad, you must relax and don't think too much. Take good care of your health and watch how the three of us sisters bring honor to our Hua family and make our Hua family live a good life." Hua Xiali said firmly.

Now that she is back, and with the blessing of the spiritual spring water, she will definitely be able to make her family live a good life.

Hua Xiali had to say nice words to coax Hua's father, who was almost furious and crazy at the moment, otherwise the insults would not stop today.

Because he has so much energy, he can just rant for hours.

Hua Xiali first asked Hua's father if he needed anything. Seeing that Hua's father didn't need anything, he went to the backyard to feed the chickens and pigs.

Hua Xiali carried a wooden bucket and went out through the small door on the backyard wall. He went to the public well in the village and fetched a bucket of well water. He then added a teacup of spiritual spring water into the water and filled the drinking basins for the chickens, ducks and pigs with the water mixed with the spiritual spring water.

It’s okay if chickens, ducks and pigs grow bigger. If anyone asks you about it, just say you fed them diligently!
Afterwards, Hua Xiali carried a wooden bucket and went over to water the vegetables. He watered the vegetable stands, potatoes, garlic, and the fruits and vegetables that had just been planted in the spring.

After this place was demolished in the previous life, people had no place to grow vegetables and had to buy everything. Hua Xiali hadn't eaten the fruits and vegetables she grew for many years, and she missed the taste very much.

She missed her parents, relatives and everything at home. Now that she was reborn, she wanted to cherish every day.

After watering the plants, Hua Xiali picked all the vegetables, because if they were not picked, they would become old and inedible when they bloomed. She left a handful for lunch, and put the rest along with the basket into the Lingquan space. She wanted to see if this Lingquan space could store things. If it could, she would not have to worry about things going bad in the future.

Hua's mother and Hua Chunli came back at noon. The seedlings had been planted. There was not much to do for the time being. It was not so busy and they did not have to stay in the fields all the time.

At noon, when the mother, daughter and three of them were eating together, Hua Xiali said, "Mom, I'm going to go to my fourth uncle's house tomorrow."

Hua's mother asked curiously, "Why are you going to your fourth uncle's house?"

"Doesn't my fourth uncle have a lot of fruit trees? I went over and got some back. I want to plant some fruit trees in front of and behind my house. This way, when the fruits are ripe, I can sell the ones I can't finish eating, and it can also bring in more income for the family." Hua Xiali said.

Mother Hua thought about it and said, "Okay, the fruits will bear fruit in a few years. Even if we can't sell them, we can eat them at home. This way we can save money on buying fruits."

In the previous life, this place was demolished when Hua Xiali's two sons were in college. That means this place will be demolished in about twenty years, and everyone will have to leave.

Hua Xiali wanted to go to her fourth uncle's house, not only for the fruit trees, but also to find a suitable place for her family to live. Her fourth uncle's house was in the mountains, with a good environment and good air. She could move there in the future. She would grow tea and fruit there, and let her parents live there in their old age. It would be nice for the whole family to live together in an orderly manner.

Hua Xiali raised his eyebrows and spoke tentatively, "Then I'll go in the afternoon and stay at my fourth uncle's house tonight, is that okay?" Anyway, he had an appointment with Huo Beixi to get the money tomorrow night, so it had nothing to do with tonight!

"Sure, why not?" Hua's mother said helplessly, "Take the old hen that Su Weidong's grandmother sent over to your fourth uncle."

"Okay." Hua Xiali nodded with a smile. The family didn't have money to buy anything good, so she might as well take the old hen. How could she go to her relatives' house empty-handed, not to mention that she had to ask for help!
After dinner, the mother, daughter and two other members of the Hua family carried Hua's father out of the room, carried him to the yard and placed him on a prepared mat, letting him bask in the sun. Looking at his wife and daughter who were surrounding him and asking about his well-being, Hua's father's eyes were filled with hatred.

Hua Xiali didn't understand why her father looked at her and her like that. She always thought that her father was in a bad mood and his mentality was unbalanced.

But when she found out the real reason in the future, she regretted it so much that she wanted to slap herself to death.

After basking in the sun for about half an hour, Hua Xiali carried Hua's father back to the room, tidied himself up, put the old hen in a basket, and went out.

After walking for twenty minutes, I arrived under a poplar tree beside a wide road and stood there waiting for the bus.

Tall poplar trees are planted on both sides of the road, and large patches of green leaves rustle in the spring breeze.

They have minibuses for transportation here, so traveling is quite convenient.

After waiting for a while, they saw a minibus coming over with a cloud of dust. Hua Xiali hurriedly covered his mouth and nose with his hands. This is how dirt roads in the countryside are. When the weather is good, the road is dusty. When the weather is bad, the road is muddy and you can't even sit in the car. If you want to go out, you have to wear boots and go out.

The car stopped and the door opened. After Hua Xiali got on the car and paid the ticket, he found a seat in the back.

My fourth uncle's house is in the mountains and there is no direct bus. I have to take the bus to the bus station in the town first, and then take a bus that passes by my fourth uncle's house. After getting off the bus, I have to walk on a small road for half an hour to reach my fourth uncle's house.

That means it takes about an hour and a half to get from her house to her fourth uncle's house.

At around four o'clock in the afternoon, Hua Xiali appeared on the stone bridge in front of his fourth uncle's house. Under the stone bridge was a two-meter-wide river. The depth of the river depended on how much water there was in the river. At this season, the water level was only a few dozen centimeters.

Fourth uncle's house is a few meters away from the stone bridge. There is a well not far to the right of the door, and a bamboo forest to the left. Seeing the dense bamboos and bamboo shoots in the bamboo forest, Hua Xiali suddenly had a feeling of sudden enlightenment.

How could she forget about this?

Bamboo shoots are delicious.

(End of this chapter)