Except for the west wing where Lin Xiaoman and Lin Erhu live, the main house and the east wing have been demolished, and the stone foundation has been laid. The walls can be built after the newly purchased bricks have been soaked in water. House.

The excavated bricks and stones were piled outside the courtyard with whatever could be used, only to be used when the time came to make a fire bed or build a courtyard wall.

Shen Guihua and Lin Xiangxing were cooking sour plum soup in the simple kitchen they built, and the smell of sour plum and hawthorn floated in the yard.

People who work sweat a lot and have to drink several pots of water a day. Lin Erhu brought the sour plum soup dumplings, and Shen Guihua cooked one pot in the morning and another in the afternoon. In addition to the workers, there are also some in the village. Many children came to beg for help.

Shen Guihua boiled the remaining dregs twice more and gave them to drink, and the children drank happily.

One person distributed a few more pieces of oil residue. Some children ran away after eating, and some children left behind the firewood they chopped on the mountain.

Shen Guihua wrote down the names of these children and told Lin Xiaoman. Lin Xiaoman wrote down these children. If there is anything that children can do in the future, she will ask these children to do it.

"Aunt Osmanthus Osmanthus, I'm going to stew beans at home tonight, so you and Xiang Xing can't leave."

Shen Guihua was not polite, "Cheng, Xiangxing's father has been working in the city these days. Because I don't agree with the Fang family's marriage, the nose and face are not the same as the face when they meet us. We are too lazy to go back and serve."

Lin Xiaoman didn't expect that the young masters of the Fang family would be like that. Shen Guihua's husband's family still wanted to marry that family, but thinking about that family's face, it didn't feel strange.

Shen Guihua went into the kitchen to make soup. Lin Xiaoman saw that Lin Xiangxing seemed to have something to say to her, so he pulled her into the house, startling Lin Erhu who was lying in the closet surfing the Internet.

Fortunately, before Lin Xiaoman entered the house, he was afraid that he would not be able to see anyone, so he blocked Lin Xiangxing with his body. After entering the house, he kicked Lin Erhu and warned him with his eyes not to play with his mobile phone all day long.

Lin Erhu scratched his head, but his eyes fell on the door. He had always remembered to lock the door, but why did he forget this time?

Lin Xiaoman said: "Erhu, you go out first, I have something to say with your sister Xiangxing."

Lin Erhu oh-ohed twice, put the phone in his arms and ran out.

"Xiang Xing, what do you want to say to me?"

Lin Xiangxing bit her lip in embarrassment, "Xiao Man, I told Tie Zhu yesterday to ask him to come to my house to propose marriage. He promised to invite a matchmaker over tomorrow, but he also said that the past few years have been bad and the family still owes money. I have Master Liu’s money and food, but I have no money to give me as a betrothal gift. What do you think I should do?”

Lin Xiaoman somehow thought of Xiaomeng's scumbag boyfriend, who also had no money to give a bride price, but had money to buy a car worth more than 200,000 yuan.

The past few years have been bad, but Mr. Liu is not a bad person. As long as he is not lazy, I have never heard of anyone who owes him money.

She had met Li Tiezhu before, and she thought that the man looked honest and honest, and he seemed to be willing to do it, but after all, it was just a quick glance, and she didn't understand him as a person. What if he was also the kind of person Xiao Meng's scumbag boyfriend was, should she?

Advise Lin Xiangxing to kick him?

What's more, Li Tiezhu really wants Xiang Xing to be good to him, so he should have found someone to propose marriage a long time ago. Is it really because he can't come up with the betrothal gift that he keeps delaying it? Or is it because he has no fear of Xiang Xing?

"Tell me the truth, where are you with him? Have you ever been taken advantage of by him?"

Seeing Lin Xiaoman's serious expression, Lin Xiangxing was startled, but soon turned red, "Why are you asking?"

Lin Xiaoman's heart skipped a beat. It was no better here than there. If Lin Xiangxing really slept with Li Tiezhu, she really couldn't say anything for Xiangxing to think about again.

"If you ask me, just say, I will help you see if Li Tiezhu is worthy of your trust."

Lin Xiangxing murmured: "I...I held hands with him."

Lin Xiaoman let out a long breath. It wouldn't matter if he just held hands. As long as no one saw it, he didn't have to admit it. "What else?"

"Also...and...he suddenly came over to kiss me yesterday. I didn't avoid it, and he kissed me on the face."

Lin Xiaoman's eyes flashed with displeasure. This place is not more open than the other side. A man and a woman who are not yet married are kissing in private. If outsiders see it, the woman's reputation will be ruined. Even if a man marries her and enters the house, he will be criticized.

Point, could it be that Li Tiezhu wanted to ruin Xiangxing's reputation and force the Lin family to marry her off?

"Besides these, think about it again, does he have any tokens you left in his hand?"

Lin Xiang's head almost dropped to her face, but she still shook her head, "That's not true. I also know that we can't give or take things privately. Yesterday, he suddenly came over to me, and I was kissed by him without any precautions."

Lin Xiaoman felt relieved, "Remember, no matter when, if his family makes a fuss about the fact that you two kissed, you can't admit it."

Lin Xiangxing's face suddenly turned pale, "Brother Tiezhu wouldn't do that, right?"

Lin Xiaoman sneered, "Then I don't know, it still depends on his performance. Invite the matchmaker over tomorrow, right? I will go to your house to accompany you."

Lin Xiangxing's already uneasy heart became even more uneasy after hearing Lin Xiaoman's words and her attitude. She always felt that she had done something wrong.

In the evening, he ate the canned braised pork and beans stewed that Lin Erhu had been craving for, and also simmered a pot of white rice.

Shen Guihua and her daughter also praised her repeatedly after eating, "Xiaoman, your cooking skills are better than your mother's, no wonder you can open a restaurant in the city."

"It's not a restaurant, it's just a shop. Aunt Guihua, when you and Xiang Xing go to the city, don't eat out. I'll treat you to hot pot chicken."

"Okay, I'll let you know when I go to town one day."

During the meal, except for Lin Xiangxing, who had a worried face, everyone else ate with gusto.

When going back, Lin Xiaoman wanted to bring some oil residue back to Shen Guihua, but Shen Guihua refused, "We can't eat it even if we take it back. If you want to eat it in the future, you can come to your house to eat it."

Lin Xiaoman didn't give in anymore, just wondering if there was any business suitable for the two of them. They couldn't eat meat themselves, but the people closest to them couldn't even drink soup.

When she got up early the next day, Lin Xiaoman did not go to the city, and asked her to take away the things she wanted to take to the city today. She went to Lin Xiangxing's house after dinner.

Lin Xiangxing's family is not too large. There is a grandmother, a widowed aunt in the middle, a six-year-old nephew and an unmarried uncle. Shen Guihua and his wife have a son and a daughter. The eldest daughter, Lin Xiangxing, is sixteen. When he was 14 years old, he also had a fourteen-year-old son named Lin Wang, who was sent to be an apprentice in a carpenter shop in the city.

When Lin Xiaoman arrived, she heard Grandma Xiangxing nagging in the yard, "Young masters from the Fang family don't want it. Do you have eyes and a head? The Fang family has given a lot of betrothal gifts. I can still marry the third child by then." My daughter-in-law is back. It would be better for you to push the marriage aside just because you said you would. We will see what kind of family you, Lin Xiangxing, marry into later."

Shen Guihua returned in the room, "I've already said that Young Master Fang is not a good person. I heard that he was also infected with a variety of internal diseases. How could a nurse push his own granddaughter into a pit of fire?"

"How do you know Mr. Fang has a heart disease? How did you see it? You can't just believe what others say."
Chapter completed!