Chapter 67 Qin Huairu borrows grain again
The onlookers saw that the two families did not fight or curse at each other, and said "huh" in their hearts. There was no fun to watch now.

"Okay, stop gathering here." Yi Zhonghai stretched out his hand to disperse the crowd.

"Thank you, young man. It's all thanks to your advice." Xia Zhihao's grandmother saw Li Shengli dispersing with the crowd and came up to him to thank him.

"Oh, don't be so polite." Li Shengli didn't care. This was also for the sake of his own peace of mind. Besides, seeing that Xia Zhihao's grandmother took the initiative to come and apologize after Xia Zhihao got into trouble, Li Shengli would try his best to help.

After hearing this, the onlookers looked at Li Shengli differently. What a scheming guy! Yi Zhonghai also looked at Li Shengli with a higher opinion. He then understood why Xia Zhihao's family followed the steward and brought gifts to apologize.

Qin Huairu also looked at Li Shengli with complicated eyes. She didn't know whether to thank Li Shengli or scold him. After all, Li Shengli avoided a little trouble for her family, but at the same time, he was also regarded as a joke by the people in the courtyard.

Li Shengli didn't care at all what Qin Huairu thought, he just did what he thought he should do.

Li Shengli hummed a little tune and returned home happily.

Bang Geng was sulking but was persuaded by Qin Huairu to go back home.

"Oh, my little ancestor, don't be angry. This is the jujube cake that they gave me back." Jia Zhang felt a little distressed when she saw Banggeng's expression. "How about grandma go to their courtyard and scold them again?"

"Mom, please don't be like this. This old man has finally managed to mediate this situation. Don't go and make more trouble." Qin Huairu frowned and couldn't help but say, why make more trouble now?

"Oh, they are allowed to scold my grandson but I am not allowed to scold him. Qin Huairu, whose side are you on?" Jia Zhang looked at Qin Huairu with dissatisfaction.

"Mom, we have finally suppressed this matter, can you please not make more trouble?" Qin Huairu was a little anxious. If this matter got out of hand, how would Banggeng go to school in the future? As soon as he arrived at school, others would tease him about this.

"Grandma, that's not necessary." Banggeng thought about it and thought that when he went to school in the future, all his classmates would talk about this matter to him. How would he survive in school in the future? Thinking of this, Banggeng stopped Jia Zhang from helping.

"Okay, okay, I'll just listen to you." Jia Zhang muttered.

"It's okay, Banggeng, let me take another look at your face." Qin Huairu looked at the redness and swelling on Banggeng's face, which had improved a lot after applying the medicine. "Okay, the swelling has gone down a little. It will be fine in two days. Try not to go out in the next two days."

Banggeng sniffed and nodded. What a joke! If his classmates saw him in this state, they would be so amused that they would die.

"Oh, that's good. I'll go cook first." Qin Huairu nodded and looked at Bang Geng with satisfaction.

Time passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye a week had gone by. One day Qin Huairu returned home and looked at her rice jar and felt a little worried. The ration of rice in this rice glutinous rice was small but the rice appetite was large, so there was not enough noodles in the house.

"Mom, we're running out of noodles at home. I have to go borrow some." Qin Huairu shouted to Jia Zhang in the room.

"Where can you borrow it? It's the end of the month and no one has enough food." Jia Zhang was also an experienced person. At the end of the month, few families in this compound could store anything.

"I'll go check on Sha Zhu first." Qin Huairu thought about it and thought that only Xu Damao's family and the two cooks, Sha Zhu and Li Shengli, might have food in this courtyard.

"Shazhu, do you have enough food? Can you lend me some corn flour?" Qin Huairu walked out of the door and went straight to Shazhu's house. When she arrived at Shazhu's house, she pushed the door open and went in without knocking.

"Hey, Qin Huairu, why don't you knock on the door? What if I'm shirtless at home?" Seeing Qin Huairu, Sha Zhu couldn't help but tease her a little. "Why, are you afraid of being seen? Don't forget that I cleaned your room for you." Qin Huairu was not afraid of Sha Zhu teasing her like this, which showed that she was very charming. If she wanted to take advantage of him, she had to give him the benefits first.

"I'm asking you, do you have any extra food at home?" Qin Huairu rolled her eyes at Sha Zhu. Sha Zhu's heart trembled when he saw Qin Huairu rolling her eyes.

"It's gone, really gone. My food coupons were all taken away by the rain. The most I can give you is a pound of corn flour." Sha Zhu couldn't bear it anymore and turned his gaze away from Qin Huairu.

Qin Huairu felt a little proud in her heart, with the corners of her mouth raised, but when she thought of the bag of flour in her kitchen, Qin Huairu's face returned to normal.

"What should we do? This amount is not enough." Qin Huairu was a little worried.

"There's really nothing I can do. This is all I have." As he said that, Sha Zhu took out a bag of flour from his kitchen.

Qin Huairu took a look and found that it was not much, but Sha Zhu was a cook, so he could just taste a little while cooking and be full.

After a while, Qin Huairu returned home with a pound of corn flour given by Sha Zhu. This was enough for one meal.

"Mom, please cook the meal first. I'll go to the front and back yards to check." Qin Huairu put down the grain bag and planned to go out to borrow some more.

"Okay, I'll do it first, you go and take a look." Jia Zhang knew the importance of food to a family, not to mention that her own good grandson could not get enough to eat.

Qin Huairu came to the front yard somewhat embarrassedly and knocked on Li Shengli's door. At this moment, Li Shengli had just finished his meal and was resting. When he heard the knock on the door, he was a little surprised who was looking for him at this time.

"Qin Huairu? Is there something wrong?" Li Shengli looked at Qin Huairu in front of him strangely.

"Shengli, I want to ask you a favor." Qin Huairu no longer had the ease and grace she had at Sha Zhu's house. Qin Huairu also wanted to have a good relationship with Li Shengli, but every time Li Shengli would slip away.

"You say." Li Shengli asked in a light tone. It's the end of the month, and Qin Huairu's family should be out of food.

"Shengli, I want to borrow some food from you." Qin Huairu felt a little embarrassed because she had never returned the food she had borrowed before.

"Qin Huairu, you must have borrowed a lot of food from me before." Li Shengli sighed, his guess was correct.

"This is the last time. You don't have to pay back the money you borrowed before. I'm not running a charity. If you borrow from me every time and never pay me back, no matter how much grain I have, it won't be enough to sustain the production. I won't lend you money again in the future." Li Shengli took two kilograms of corn flour from home and handed it to Qin Huairu.

Qin Huairu always borrows grain but doesn't return it. I can't lend her grain in the future. If this loophole is opened and other people come to borrow grain, I won't be able to lend it to them. If I don't, these people will gossip about it.

Qin Huairu took the bag from Li Shengli's hand with a sad look on her face. At this moment, Qin Huairu still had to save some face, and even though she was thick-skinned, her face turned red when Li Shengli said that.

Qin Huairu blushed, said thank you, turned around and left, her figure seemed to be escaping.

Li Shengli shook his head. Qin Huairu was just spoiling the child too much. If he were like the third uncle's family, exchanging fine grains for coarse grains, and coarse grains for sweet potatoes, there would definitely be enough food.

(End of this chapter)