Otoharu

Chapter 79 Happy Time
After being praised a little by her granddaughter, Mrs. Li felt better, and said with a snort, "You have to look like me. When I was young, I was the most handsome girl in ten miles and eight towns. Otherwise, your short life Why did my grandfather fall in love with me, my old lady, and hang around in front of my house all day long, unable to drive me away no matter how hard I try.

Li Meier looked at Mrs. Li's wrinkled old face, and was skeptical of her words, thinking that her grandfather must have bad eyesight, so she fell in love with her grandmother. Although she had never met her grandfather, judging from her aunt's appearance, Grandfather should be born quite upright, so why can't he think about marrying grandmother.

The grandfather and grandson chatted for a while, and the dinner was already on the table. Today is the holiday, and the food is naturally much richer than usual. In addition, Mrs. Li has made some money these days, so she is very generous with the ingredients. A big fish weighing five catties alone occupies half of the table.

Li Meier's belly was round after eating, and she only ate two bowls of rice. If Jiang Shi was not afraid that she would overeat, she could cook another bowl.

Seeing her eating like this, Mrs. Li couldn't help nagging at the side, "Oh, eat less, girl, who has a big belly like you."

Li Mei'er rubbed her stomach, and said indifferently: "I call it a blessing to be able to eat. Don't you always say that being fat is a blessing? If I am like this, it must be a lot of blessings."

Everyone was amused by her words, and Li Yan even touched her head and said: "Our Mei Meier has been blessed since she was a child, and you can't eat it, dad can eat more than you when I was young. "

"That's true." Mrs. Li nodded and confirmed, "Ayan has had a big appetite since he was a child. Even if he didn't have any food, he could eat three big bowls of white rice. He was still fat when he was a child. It’s a pity that his family was not so good when he was a child, and he can only eat a meal of meat during the Chinese New Year, otherwise Ayan must be stronger now.”

"It's very good for Xianggong to be like this now." Mrs. Jiang liked to hear about Li Yan's childhood very much, and after listening to it with relish, she looked at Li Yan and said with a smile.

Li Yan grinned foolishly, and the husband and wife crazily sprinkled dog food.

Li Meier's teeth were a little sore, she quickly jumped off the stool, pulled Jiang Shi and said, "Mother, it's getting late, let's dye our nails quickly."

Jiang asked people to take down everything on the dining table, put on the balsam flower juice she had prepared a long time ago, and began to help Li Meier dye her nails.

Nail dyeing is actually very simple, that is, apply crushed impatiens juice on the nails, and then wrap it with a damp cloth or wet paper, and when the wrapping paper dries, the nails will be dyed red.

The color may be a little light when dyed for the first time. If you want a strong red color, you can dye it several times. The nails dyed in this way cannot be washed off even with water, and generally can last for several days.

Jiang's movements were very fast, and she dyed ten fingers for Li Meier in a short while. While Li Meier was waiting for the wrapping paper to dry, she saw Jiang Shanqing who was doing nothing, so she got a bad idea and pulled him over.

"Mother, help Brother Shanqing dye his nails too."

Jiang Shanqing's face suddenly changed, and he quickly refused, "I don't want it!"

Jiang Shi also became interested, and said with a smile: "There is still a lot of Impatiens flower juice, so it's okay to try Shanqing, this thing is insect repellant, if you apply it, you won't be afraid of those centipedes and mosquitoes."

"I'm not afraid of centipedes." Jiang Shanqing was resisting all over his body. If Li Meier hadn't pulled him, he would have run away immediately.

"Come on, come on, you see we are all infected, there is no reason for you not to be infected." Li Meier smiled evilly, and she was about to use the juice of the impatiens.

"Uncle is not infected!" Jiang Shanqing made the last struggle.

"I also dyed it when I was young, but now that I'm older, it doesn't look good. After all, I still have to teach the children." Li Yan said with no intention of saving Jiang Shanqing.

Jiang Shanqing was desperate, and in the end he couldn't resist, so he could only let Jiang Shi help him dye his nails.

Li Meier was overjoyed. Comparing her dyed nails with Jiang Shanqing's, she commented, "Brother Shanqing, your hands are whiter than mine, and they look better with red nails."

Jiang Shanqing looked hopeless, and made up his mind not to talk to Li Meier for a few days.If you die a girl, you will know to frame him.After everyone dyed their nails, it was already dark, so Jiang moved a long table to the yard, took out many five-color silk threads and silver needles, and planned to thread needles against the moon in a while.

Threading a needle against the moon is also a custom of the Qixi Festival, which means praying to Zhinu for ingenuity.

Li Mei'er is still young at the moment, Mrs. Jiang doesn't let her sew, but let her watch from the sidelines.

Li Meier watched Jiang shi pass the silk thread through the seven silver needles very quickly, and couldn't help clapping her hands.

"Mother is really amazing, she was dressed in no time."

Jiang put the needle and thread aside, and said with some pride: "It's much slower now, when I was a girl, that's called wearing fast, and none of my friends can dress faster than me. "

"When I was a girl, I was very good. Unfortunately, now that I am old, my eyes are useless." Mrs. Li put aside the needles and threads that hadn't been worn through, remembering her youthful years.

Li Mei'er felt that Mrs. Li was talking too much, because according to his father, when he was a child, his grandmother would often make his and his aunt's clothes with one sleeve long and the other short, and the needlework was very sloppy.

"Ma'am, you are not old. No one out there will tell you that you look only in your forties." Mrs. Lin casually put the needlework aside, this is the hidden master.

Chuan'er fiddled with the needle and thread for a long time, but he didn't get a single thread in. He looked at Mrs. Lin with some discouragement, "Nurse Lin, please teach me, why is this thing so difficult."

"It's not difficult if you master the trick." Mrs. Lin began to teach Chuan'er how to lift it, but unfortunately Chuan'er was very clumsy and couldn't learn it no matter what.

Li Yan came out with watermelon and Qiaoguo at some point, and secretly fed Jiang a mouthful of watermelon. Jiang took advantage of Mrs. Li not paying attention, stretched out her hand and slapped Li Yan lightly.

Li Meier also went to get a piece of watermelon, and by the way, she also took a piece for Jiang Shanqing who was still sulking. While eating the watermelon, she looked at everyone and giggled.

"Brother Shanqing, I feel very happy now."

"Silly girl, if you dare to trick me again next time, I'll be rude to you!" Jiang Shanqing took a bite of the watermelon, his cheeks bulging.

Seeing his appearance, Li Meier couldn't help laughing and fell into his arms.

(End of this chapter)