Farmhouse vicious stepmother, she is super fierce

Chapter 264
It is said that the rice in the gegu is delicious. Originally, the Mu family ate a lot, and Mu Pojun brought back snacks from the town. Compared with other families in the village, they are much richer.

But smelling the scent wafting over from another house, the children in the family couldn't help sniffling.

Shen Jiayan changed into an old jacket of homely coarse cloth, so as not to be contaminated with oily smoke and various kinds of dirt.

I was rolling up my sleeves to work, and I saw a few children rubbing their hands at the door of the stove, poking their heads in from time to time.

It was a bit funny. After thinking about it, I simply gave them half a bag of chestnuts and asked them to carefully cut open the shell with a knife. They set up a stove in the yard and fried chestnuts to eat.

A steady boy like Mu Tianze blushed with excitement when he heard that they were asked to make it for himself.

Yelling, Da Zhuang and the others called together, bowed their heads to discuss for a while, and then dispersed.

Not long after, he was busy in the corner of the yard.

Find a tripod from the stove house, put it firmly in the yard, light firewood under it, and put the pot on it.

Rinse the black pebbles that have been fried with chestnuts before, and throw them into the pot to heat them up.

Next to the pot, each of them sat on a small bench, took a knife and scissors, and opened the chestnut shell.

The older kids have done it before, so they are considered skilled workers anyway.

Only Mu Tianrun, who was young and weak in strength, couldn't even hold a knife steadily, so he was afraid that he would accidentally hurt himself.

He was born stronger than him, and he felt that he was already an older child. How could it be so difficult to get him?
For the rest of his life, he wanted to force Mu Tianrun. If he couldn't hold a knife, he used his teeth to try to bite a gap in the chestnut shell.

Almost broke a mouthful of millet teeth.

Mu Yue still couldn't see it, so she poked a small hole in a few chestnuts with scissors, and asked him to go hard while holding it.

The pot was hot, and there was a sweet smell with a bit of burnt smell. The children couldn't wait, and threw all the open and unopened chestnuts in their hands.

Stir fry a few times, look at it, and stir fry a few more times...

Slowly, I smelled the unique sweet and glutinous fragrance of chestnuts, and the children couldn't help but took a closer look.

Just getting closer, I heard a bang, a chestnut flipped and jumped out of the pot, and went straight to the pots and pans in the corner with lightning speed.

It flew a long way, hit the pots and jars, made a popping sound, bounced a few times, and landed on the ground.

The children were stunned, not knowing whether to look into the pot or pick up the fleeing chestnut.

All of a sudden, there was crackling in the pot, and several chestnuts jumped out of the pot and scattered in all directions.

Da Zhuang and the others who were close were lucky to be crushed to the chest, but it only hurt a little.

Unlucky for Big Mouth, he was turning his head away when the chestnut fell squarely on the back of his head, causing him to kneel down with his head in pain, and shouted, "Who hit me?"

I saw the brothers around me, one after another, like a ghost chasing after them, scrambling around and running into the house one after another.

It was still Tie Dan who was loyal, and after running halfway, he held his head and came back and dragged him, stumbled into the house.

Shuddering, he closed the door and hid in the house, opened the window only slightly, and watched the crackling chestnuts flying in the yard.

Mu Pojun went out for a walk in the morning, and as soon as he came back, he heard firecrackers being set off in his yard from afar.

When he pushed the door suspiciously, several hot hidden weapons rushed towards him.

Even though Mu Pojun was very skilled, he covered his head when it happened suddenly, and rolled his body on the ground, and he rolled behind the tree.

Looking up, he realized that the hidden weapon that was coming towards him was actually a chestnut that had exploded in a pot.

First he breathed a sigh of relief before he felt the pain.

Looking down, he only protected his head and did not protect his hands, and there were several red marks on the back of his hands.

Immediately, his face darkened, and he looked around the yard, but there was no one.

Things were being fried in the stove, only Shen Jiayan was seen inside.

I still don't understand that the chestnuts that are fried everywhere in the pot outside are caused by the children at home.

I wanted to scold a few words, but it was already 29 years old.

As the saying goes, sparrows have three days of age, so it's not good to just reprimand children today.

I have to admit that I am unlucky.

Of course, the actual situation is that even if he wants to find out those naughty brats and beat them up, he can't make it through.

That pot of chestnuts was fried endlessly, just like a meeting.

I don't know how long I waited, but all the chestnuts in that pot were fried out of the pot, and there was no more crackling sound.

After waiting for a while, one by one, tentatively stretched out their heads from behind the tree and from the house to look.

There was no sound for a long time, and everyone had the courage to come out.

I saw chestnuts rolling all over the yard, steaming and smoking.

Mu Tianrun cheered: "The chestnuts are all fried—" he was about to reach out to pick them up while holding the small basket.

Mu Yue squeezed the chestnut out of the pot, and dared to take it with his hands, wouldn't he be afraid of breaking the soup?
I went to the stove and brought out a few pairs of chopsticks, one pair for each person, looking for chestnuts all over the yard with my head down.

Even Mu Pojun was stuffed with a pair.

He muttered a few words, took the chopsticks with a sense of integrity, and then searched the yard with his head buried.

After finding two of them on the pile of firewood that few children didn't find, he threw the annoyance of the idea just now into the sky, and deliberately showed it off to several children.

For a while, laughter and noise came from far away in the yard.

Mu Pojun smiled and was stunned.

A complex look appeared on his face. How many years had he not smiled so carefreely?
He couldn't help but look at Shen Jiayan who was busy in the kitchen. Although he was wearing an old cotton-padded jacket made of home-made coarse cloth, it was probably because his life was better and his body was recuperating well after taking the old doctor's medicine.

In the past half a year, Shen Jiayan has not only grown taller, but also grown some meat, plus he hasn't worked in the fields, so his lips are red and his teeth are white.

The hair is also black and smooth, and for the convenience of work, the cuffs are rolled up, revealing a part of the wrist, the head is lowered, the curve of the neck is beautiful and natural, the fire in the stove is reflected on the face, with a little yellow halo, there is a An indescribable taste.

Mu Pojun's Adam's apple rolled for a while, swallowed his saliva, and didn't dare to look away.

Shen Jiayan felt someone staring at him, turned his head to look outside, but only saw laughter in the yard, shook his head, and ignored it.

But Mu Pojun's uncontrollable hot eyes fell into the eyes of Mu Tianze behind him.

Although Mu Tianze didn't understand much, but he always felt that this look made people feel a little uncomfortable. He lowered his eyelids, and soon he walked to Mu Tianrun's side as if nothing had happened, and whispered a few words.

Mu Tianrun was carrying a basket of steaming chestnuts, tiptoeing it to Mu Pojun: "Father, let's taste the chestnuts we fried ourselves—"

Mu Pojun was overwhelmed.

Although these little brats are not reliable in their work, their filial piety is still good. At least after picking up these chestnuts, they are the first to give filial piety to themselves.

Immediately, he picked up one happily, and peeled off the slightly sticky chestnut shell on the outside, revealing the yellow and soft chestnut kernels inside.

I don't care that it's still a little hot, and when I put it in my mouth, it's fragrant, sweet and glutinous. Although it's a little hot, it looks even sweeter.

After eating one, Mu Pojun was an adult, and he would never argue with children, so he stopped.

Mu Tianrun watched eagerly from the side: "Father, is it delicious?"

Mu Pojun nodded, and patted Mu Tianrun's head: "It's delicious, sweet and fragrant! It's the best chestnut Dad has ever eaten—"

Mu Tianrun immediately cheered, turned around and ran away with a small basket in his hand: "Father has eaten, it's all right! We can eat—"

There was a long paragraph of words lamenting the deep love between their father and son, all of which were choked back to Mu Pojun's throat.

He took a few deep breaths before resisting the urge to strangle him to death.

The main reason is that his two naughty sons and one naughty girl, none of them paid attention to him, and they were all focused on grabbing chestnuts and eating them.

I had no choice but to snort coldly, find the steps for myself, and rushed into the stove room angrily.

When Shen Jiayan saw him coming in, she didn't take it seriously, she had seen him laughing with a few children earlier, although she tried to keep a straight face when she came in, it could be seen that he was in a rare state of relaxation.

When Mu Pojun entered the stove house, he didn't know what he could do for a moment, but he was a little at a loss.

But soon he calmed down, sat down in front of the stove, and helped add firewood to the stove.

Shen Jiayan was happy to have someone to help, so he let him go.

Seeing that Shen Jiayan didn't speak, Mu Pojun didn't speak, and only looked up at her occasionally.

In his memory, in the first year before being drafted into the army, although his mother was busy, she was always full of complaints, complaining that he and the second child only knew how to run around and didn't know how to help.

It's useless to complain about Mr. Mu, other people's families can have enough food and some meat during the Chinese New Year, but their family can't even eat a meal of pure white rice all year round.

Crying for his own life, marrying such a worthless man, this life is over.

Father Mu is an honest man who doesn't like to talk. Whenever this time comes, he will squat outside the stove, with his head tied in his crotch, smoking a cigarette.

And he was always helping Mrs. Mu with trepidation and adding firewood.

Even if it is so, I will always be scolded. Sometimes it is said that the anger is too big, and sometimes it is said that the anger is not. Anyway, there is no right time.

At that time, he was looking forward to the New Year's Eve, and on this day, no matter how much his mother complained and dissatisfied, on the [-]th and the first day of the first month, he had to pretend to be happy.

Otherwise, it will be unlucky, and the luck in the next year will be even worse.

Now when he saw Shen Jiayan, her hands were so light and delicate, and he didn't see how she chopped chicken, duck and fish with a fierce face, but they were broken into pieces or pieces according to Shen Jiayan's wishes.

A large square piece of meat is boiled in water, then turned over, the pig skin is fried in oil pan until browned, the pig skin still contains water, put into the pan, and the oil blossoms explode, Shen Jiayan didn't move his eyebrows, his hands were steady.

It is quickly fried and picked up, and then cut into pieces. This is to make braised braised pork.

Each piece of braised pork is sandwiched with a slice of thinly sliced ​​tofu skin, with homemade pickles laid under it, poured with the prepared juice, steamed in a pan, and the braised pork is steamed so that it melts in the mouth, and the pickles and gravy are delicious. When it gets into the tofu skin, it is very fragrant.

Shen Jiayan put the pork that was [-]% lean and [-]% fat on the chopping board, and chopped it into minced meat with two kitchen knives. The knives chopped on the chopping board with a special rhythm.

Mu Pojun was itching to see it, so he took the initiative to ask for help.

Shen Jiayan couldn't wish for it, this is to be used to make pearl balls, the meat should be minced into velvet, the finer the better, the better the taste.

Add various seasonings and green onions to the minced meat and mix well, then squeeze out a small dumpling from the mouth of the tiger with your hands, scoop it with a spoon, and a dumpling is formed, then wrap it with glutinous rice that has been soaked for a long time, and steam it in a pan Cooked and steamed thoroughly, children love it most.

Except for these two things, Shen Jiayan didn't need to do anything else. They were all the dishes prepared by Mrs. Huang that day, and they were frozen in the jar outside. Take them out and heat them up tomorrow, and it will be a very good reunion dinner.

After such a busy meal, Shen Jiayan was clean and refreshed except for a little sweat on his forehead, and he didn't have the unkempt and slovenly look common to country women.

And after she finished everything, she cleaned the used knives, chopping boards, pots and pans, and after finishing everything, the stove room looked clean, unlike ordinary people's stove houses. .

After these tasks were over, Shen Jiayan washed his hands and left the kitchen.

When Mu Tianrun saw it, he rushed over, took out a handful of peeled chestnut kernels from his bosom, and stuffed them to Shen Jiayan: "Damn it! Ah Run peeled it for you! It's so sweet!"

Fuck is just one word, you have to say it countless times!Mu Pojun gritted his teeth!

Shen Jiayan ate one with a smile, and then stuffed it to Mu Tianrun, telling them to eat less, as they still have to eat later.

All the children agreed, and sure enough they put away all the chestnuts.

Mu Pojun was getting more and more upset. People outside the family saw him as the head of the family, but in fact he had no status at all, so pitiful!

But looking at the children in this yard, Mu Pojun felt that he was actually not that pitiful.

That night, the children slept soundly.

At dawn, Shen Jiayan got up and went to the kitchen to start working.

Da Zhuang heard the movement and they all got up to help.

They can't help with cooking or anything, but they are already very good at cooking, so they go to wash rice and help light the fire.

Every household is lively.

When it was almost noon, some people had already started to set off firecrackers, and after the firecrackers were set off, the family reunion dinner was about to begin.

Well-off families will buy firecrackers to set off.

Families with no money want to make a fuss. They will cut a kind of tree leaves from the foot of the mountain. When this kind of tree leaves are burned, they can also make a sound of thunder, just like firecrackers.

Most of the villages burn the leaves of this tree.

The Mu family bought firecrackers a long time ago, and Mu Pojun held the firecrackers in one hand and the firecracker in the other. After lighting them, he deliberately put them in his hands and blew them up for a while before throwing them in front of the door.

Mu Yue covered Mu Tianrun's ears and secretly looked outside in the yard.

The boys were more courageous, clapping their hands and dancing around the firecrackers.

After the firecrackers were all set off, they leaned over and carefully pulled them on the ground to see if there were one or two fish that slipped through the net and were not lit, so they could pick them up and show them off to other children in the village after the New Year's meal.

It wasn't until Shen Jiayan called out that the meal was ready and asked them to come in to eat, that she was reluctant to come in.

(End of this chapter)