Ordinary people's rice bowl

Chapter 141
Tian Cheng and old Mu were chatting and laughing, Xiuhua had already put the rice on the chopping board in front of them, Mu Bao ran over from the desk next to the kitchen that Mu Zhen used at home, and called Tian Cheng "Uncle" in a shrill voice, Then he sat down on the small bench beside Lao Mu.

Seeing Mu Bao sitting up, Lao Mu immediately greeted Xiuhua and said, "Let the child go to the kitchen to eat, and Tian Cheng and I will have a drink!"

Tian Cheng hurriedly stopped him and said, "Let the children sit down and eat, we won't drink anymore, just eat some food and talk about things, it feels more casual this way."

"I haven't come here for a long time, so why not drink something!" Lao Mu still insisted.

"I've caught a cold for the past few days, and it's just right for me to have a fever. The doctor won't let me drink alcohol, saying that it's not good for my health. It's better not to drink. Anyway, we are not far away. When I want to drink, I will come to you again!" Tian Chengyi When mentioning his poor health, Lao Mu immediately dared not persist.

"Then let's have something to eat, you have a high fever and you didn't say anything!" Old Mu complained a bit.

"It's just a small cold, why do you need me to talk, and you have to ask me?" Tian Cheng smiled, and then said: "The holiday is coming soon, and there are many things to do every day, so my body is a bit overdrawn, I can't bear it, take a rest It’s all right, why bother mobilizing people, it’s not good, don’t you think?”

"That's true, but you have to pay more attention to your body, and you can take a rest when you're tired. Once you collapse, wouldn't it be more troublesome?" Old Mu advised.

"Look at what you said, it sounds so scary!" Xiuhua, who was scooping up a bowl, continued.

"This is really not to scare people. Look at who the hospital is for. It's for those who don't pay attention to their health, overdrawn, and sick. It's really not a joke!" Tian Cheng was overwhelmed by what Lao Mu mentioned. The troublesome topic, associating with Lianying's embarrassment, immediately expressed his approval for Tian Cheng's topic.

"Eat, let's eat." Lao Mu said, and handed Tian Cheng a steamed bun.

"Oh, this steamed bun is so big, I really can't eat it!" Tian Cheng was a little amazed at the steamed bun that Old Mu handed over.

"Go on first, if you can't eat it, break it open and eat it, this is at home, don't be polite!" Lao Mu said and put the steamed bun in Tian Cheng's hand.

Mu Bao, who was on the side, saw that the two of them were still so polite in passing the steamed buns, and he stared at the scrambled eggs on the table so anxiously that he could only swallow his saliva. He hadn't eaten this sumptuous dinner since his family finished building the house. I have been here, and I always have cold cucumbers every day, or pickles mixed with soy sauce, which tastes tasteless at all. Just now when Lao Mu mentioned that he was asked to eat in the kitchen, Mu Bao was very reluctant. When Tian Cheng mentioned letting him sit down and eat, he felt so happy!
Old Mu politely let Tian Cheng serve food, and then said to Mu Bao who was at the side: "Don't just watch, ask your sister to eat together!"

Mu Bao stood up immediately, ran to the door quickly, and shouted to the kitchen: "Sister, hurry up and eat!"

"You guys eat first, I'll eat some pickles!" Mu Yan in the kitchen agreed while cutting pickles.

Hearing Mu Yan's response, Mu Bao didn't have time to speak, so he sat on the small bench where he had been sitting just now, picked up his chopsticks, and pointed directly at the plate of scrambled eggs on the chopping board.

Looking at Mu Bao's anxious look, Tian Cheng reversed the plate of eggs that Xiuhua put in front of him and the cold cucumber in front of Lao Mu, making it easier for Mu Bao to pick up vegetables.

When Lao Mu saw it, he hurriedly said: "You are polite, kid, don't worry about him!"

"Children need nutrition most, let him eat more!" After Tian Cheng finished speaking, he took a piece of cucumber and put it in his mouth.

"Thank you Uncle, for so many days, we only ate cucumbers, and they almost turned yellow!" Mu Bao said while eating eggs with relish.

"Children are talking nonsense!" Xiuhua pretended to be angry and said.

Mu Bao was eating the delicious eggs, but he still muttered, "You're telling the truth, don't let me tell you!"

Tian Cheng was startled when he heard this, and immediately understood that because of the construction of the old Mu's house, he might not even have the money to improve his life, but he didn't want to say it out, so as not to embarrass the old Mu and his wife, so he made Mu Bao happy: Vegetables are good, farm food, we can eat whatever is in the field, you don’t know, when we were young, there was a vegetable garden in the team, and the winter squash planted in the village had a bumper harvest that year, and the winter squash was shared every day. It’s still disgusting to see winter squash now, but now I realize that winter squash has really helped the whole village, if there is no winter squash, I’m afraid I wouldn’t even be able to eat vegetables at that time?”

When Mu Bao heard Tian Cheng talking about winter squash, he stared at Tian Cheng with wide eyes and asked, "What's the taste of winter squash? Why haven't I eaten it?"

"Are you eating too little?" Mu Yan, who came in with a pickle bowl, asked.

"If you haven't eaten it, you haven't eaten it!" Mu Bao said again.

"We were still eating last month!" Mu Yan said with certainty.

"He's going to say he hasn't eaten it yet, and I'll go to the market tomorrow to buy some for you!" Xiuhua continued Mu Yan's words.

"Hey! By the way, I was only talking about it just now. I brought some big bones with meat in the back of my car. I left two for you to make soup for the children." After Tian Cheng finished speaking, he put down the chopsticks in his hand and was about to Walking out of the house, Xiuhua grabbed him and said, "No, you take it back and give it to Xiaojing and her mother!"

"Look, you're being polite again. Just now I was afraid of being shabby, so I didn't have the nerve to take it out. Just now I heard the child said that he had eaten enough cucumbers, so I thought of making soup with the bones first to relieve the child's gluttony." Tian Cheng said apologetically.

"Sit down and eat, we don't lack food here, don't listen to the children's nonsense!" Lao Mu stood up and persuaded.

"If you don't let me stay, it's because you think my sincerity is not enough, or my things are not good. We old man, how can we be so polite, and if you are polite, I shouldn't be eating here today!" Tian Cheng said persistently,

After hearing what Tian Cheng said, the old Mu couple stopped insisting, let Tian Cheng go out the door, opened the storage box at the back of the car, took out a bag of bones, brought them into the house, and put them on the table behind the chopping board.

Tian Cheng who sat down said while picking up the steamed buns: "In two days, I will send some meat to Mu Bao to eat. When children grow up, they should eat better!"

"Don't take it, you have to take it, don't blame me for being angry with you!" Lao Mu said a little seriously.

"I won't take it for you, I will take it for the child. If you ask me to take it for you, I won't take it for you, will I? Mu Bao." Tian Cheng said to the old Mu and his father.

"Yeah!" Mu Bao agreed while eating. In his heart, he felt that he was a good uncle if he had meat to eat.

"You're just a snack!" Xiuhua pointed at Mu Bao's forehead and said with a smile.

"Hey!" Mu Bao made a face at Xiuhua, didn't say much, and kept holding the bowl of scrambled eggs in front of him.

"You're still a kid, tell the truth!" Tian Cheng said after taking a sip of porridge.

The five people at the dinner table chatted with each other, and soon the two bowls of food were eaten up, and even the last pickles that Mu Yan brought were not left.

"Look, this meal didn't even satisfy you!" Xiuhua said apologetically.

"What's good? Sister-in-law was joking. There's no standard. We don't necessarily eat delicacies from mountains and seas well. If we eat bran, we will be happy with pickles. Which one do you call good?" Tian Cheng's words immediately made everyone at the table laugh.

"I really can't lift you up, and I don't know if you're full?" Xiuhua stopped laughing and asked.

"Just half of your steamed buns are full, so there's no reason not to be full!" Tian Cheng's half-serious, half-joking words caused the whole room to laugh again.

After Mu Yan cleaned up the bowls and chopsticks, Tian Cheng and Lao Mu chatted casually again, got up and said goodbye, the silvery moonlight made Tian Cheng feel that time really flies, last year's Mid-Autumn Festival, he was just like this year's old Mu's family , eat simple food, no spare money to improve life, but this year's Mid-Autumn Festival, how to eat is not a problem, the season has not changed, the market has not changed, so what is the change?Tian Cheng thought hard, thinking of the terms in "Political Economics", and came to the conclusion: what changes is the economy.

(End of this chapter)