This summer is much hotter than previous years, causing many people to get sick and several water resources to dry up. Even the water level of the lake near the village dropped several meters deep.
Soon after Pan Meijia left, Li Lingyun put the thick hemp rope wrapped in cloth on his shoulders and pulled the cart, while Li Chenmo and Dong Li pushed the cart from behind.
Despite their strength, transporting so much food at once was tiring for them. Fortunately, when they were a third of the way there, Zhang Ermu came driving his bullock cart and helped them transport the grain.
With half of the grains moved to his bullock cart, it was much easier for them to push Li Lingyun’s cart. Forty minutes later, they finally arrived at Li Lingyun’s home.
Unlike Li Chenmo’s house, there are only two new underground warehouses in his house, which were built by Li Lingyun and a few villagers after he moved in. One of the warehouses is used to store wine, sauces, and dry goods, and the other is used to store grains.
But at this time, the grain was not stored underground, but in warehouses next to the house. Since Li Chenmo had told them that someone would come to pick up their grains tonight, he didn’t bother to move them into the underground warehouse.
As for the higher quality grains, it will be delivered tonight too.
It took them more than half an hour to transfer the grain into the warehouse. When Li Lingyun closed the warehouse door, Pan Meijia came over with a tray of cool mung bean soup.
She handed them each a bowl and said, "Everyone, have some mung bean soup to relieve the heat."
It was rare for Zhang Ermu to eat this, so he took it and said, "Thank you, sister-in-law."
Li Chenmo and Dong Li already regarded her as a relative, so they just said thank you and finished the mung bean soup.
After that, they returned the bowl and left. Before leaving, Li Chenmo looked at Li Lingyun and said, "Second brother, will you go to our father’s house later?"
"Yes, I would like to send some meat," Li Lingyun nodded.
"My wife also wants to send some food and meat to Father. Second brother, can you help us send it over?" Li Chenmo asked.
"Sure," Li Lingyun agreed readily.
At noon, every household in Xie Village and surrounding villages can smell the aroma of meat, which is all due to the pigs slaughtering today. Despite the hot weather, the atmosphere was full of joy.
At the same time, at Li Chenmo’s house, Lu Jueyu was extracting lard from the fatty meat. While she was stirring the fat meat in the large wok, Dong Huang was tending to the fire and kept peeking into the wok.
Although she eats meat every day, she still loves crispy lard residue.
Noticing her little movement, Lu Jueyu smiled and said, "Xiao Huang, you have to be careful when tending to the fire. Mother will give you some lard residue later."
Upon hearing this, Dong Huang grinned and asked, "Mother, Ah Lin received less meat this year. Can I give him some lard residue?"
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