Siheyuan: starting from prying the corner of the silly column

Chapter 63 Pickled Fish
After dinner, Qin Jingru asked Ma Hua what to do with the two carps.

Mahua explained that it would be ready if it was stewed tomorrow.

Qin Jingru felt that eating two carp a day was a bit wasteful.

"Why don't you eat one tomorrow and hang the other as dried salted fish?"

Ma Hua said: "It's fine, but you are not allowed to eat it. You can eat half of the stewed fish at noon tomorrow, and leave half for me."

Qin Jingru nodded, and took the carp outside to remove the viscera and gall.

Mahua got the fat hedgehog out: "Does he eat these things?"

The fat hedgehog didn't dislike it either, and started to eat at a leisurely pace. By the time Qin Jingru handled the internal organs of the fish, it had eaten them all.

Ma Hua washed the hedgehog to remove the smell before returning to the house.

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"Qin Jingru is killing fish!"

Jia Zhang's face was stuck on the window, muttering: "Qin Huairu, go, get her one!"

Qin Huairu remained silent.

Because she ate out yesterday and didn't bring any food back, she was scolded by Mrs. Jia Zhang's obscenities and hid in the cellar to cry.

Calling her again today, she definitely doesn't want to answer.

"Did you hear that? No ears? Qin Huairu?"

Jia Zhang chattered endlessly, and was about to start swearing again.

Qin Huairu had no other choice: "Mom, can you calm down for a while?"

"Tonight I brought Shazhu's lunch box again, and you and Banggen also ate a lot; what are you going to do with the fish from Mahua's family?"

"What are you talking about? Don't you have dinner tomorrow?" Jia Zhang said, turning back to stare at Qin Huairu with her fat face and small eyes, "Did you not know your last name after eating at Ma Hua's house? Turn outside?"

Qin Huairu's biggest headache is Jia Zhang's unreasonable troubles.

Obviously, she has been asking for pension money since she was in her 40s. If she doesn’t work, it’s Qin Huairu who supports her family; she always suspects that Qin Huairu is sleeping with others, and Qin Huairu is getting better with others, but she asks for money, food, drink, and painkillers herself, and never stops , not giving Qin Huairu the slightest chance of relaxing.

"Mom, all three children are here, where else can I turn my elbow?"

Qin Huairu said.

"Where to turn, you know!" Jia Zhang snorted coldly, "Are you going?"

"It's not easy to buy things from Ma Hua's house. It's not like you don't know. Even if I go, it's the same..." Qin Huairu was really helpless, this mother-in-law is really helpless.

"You don't go, I go!"

Jia Zhang immediately stood up: "Look at your useless appearance!"

While speaking, he opened the door and stood at the door: "Qin Jingru!"

Qin Jingru was walking into the house with the fish in hand: "Oh, auntie, what do you do?"

"The fish in your hand is quite big! Can the two of you finish it?"

Jia Zhang shouted.

Qin Jingru stopped walking, and replied with a smile: "We can finish eating! There is not enough food for our family!"

"Auntie, just when you were talking, I was actually looking for you!"

"Can you lend me two catties of noodles?"

"Mahua did a lot of shopping yesterday, and today I don't see each other at home!"

Jia Zhang's face suddenly sank: "Excuse me? My family doesn't even have one!"

Cursing again: "The two fish are still not full, why don't you starve to death!"

Qin Jingru didn't speak any more, and went straight home and closed the door.

Jia Zhang deliberately raised her voice and scolded: "You ungrateful bastard! Lost money! If it weren't for our family, you, a stinky girl from the countryside, wouldn't be able to come to the city!"

"I'm not willing to give even a single fish, and sooner or later your family will starve to death!"

Qin Huairu reminded her: "Mom, you should be more careful and don't get yourself involved."

"You are also from the country, and I am also from the country."

Jiazhang gave a bad mouthful, and cursed a few more words before calming down a little.

Fortunately, the lunch box that Sha Zhu brought back today was quite rich, and Jia Zhang's stomach was oily, so he went to bed after scolding himself to his heart's content.

Qin Huairu sighed again.

When will this day be over?

Fortunately, Jia Zhang's health is not good, and he often takes medicine, so he probably won't be able to survive for a few years.

It should be fine by then.

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"My sister and her mother-in-law are really interesting!"

Qin Jingru said to Ma Hua after closing the door.

"What's wrong?" Ma Hua asked.

"She asked if we could finish the two fish; I told him that not only could we finish the fish, but we were not full, and we had to ask her family to borrow noodles!" Qin Jingru was talking, looking at Ma Hua. , "You say I say this, okay?"

Ma Hua kissed her as a reward: "Of course! Why is my wife so smart?"

Qin Jingru quickly reminded: "I have fish in my hand, it smells weird."

Ma Hua smiled and sat aside, watching Qin Jingru pickle the fish with salt particles.

Qin Jingru hesitated before applying salt, and looked at Ma Hua: "Say, do you want to eat all the fish tomorrow?"

"My sister, her mother-in-law, Sticky, and that teacher Yan in the front yard... all like to take advantage of it. After the pickling is finished, hang it at the door, and I don't know what trouble it will cause."

Ma Hua said with a smile: "Our family's fish, you can eat it if you want it, and don't eat it if you don't want it."

"Even if they snatch it, we are not afraid. Just use salted fish to catch a greedy cat. They can't take advantage of it."

Qin Jingru nodded, and began to salt a fish and marinate it.

The other fish is also sprinkled with a little salt. When the fish is stewed tomorrow, the fish will have a taste, so that sometimes the fish will not taste.

After finishing his work, Qin Jingru asked Ma Hua when to wash his feet and rest.

Waiting for Ma Hua to wash his feet, Qin Jingru also cleaned up, and the two went to bed.

After lingering for a while, the two talked again, and Ma Hua teased Qin Jingru with stories.

"There used to be two neighbors, one surnamed Qi and the other surnamed Mao."

"These two people are both bachelors. One day, the surname Qi married a woman surnamed Qi. The bachelor surnamed Mao said sourly: "Brother Qi married Miss Qi, and they are just husband and wife during the day. Alignment (navel to navel)."

Qin Jingru didn't understand, Ma Hua explained, and she immediately laughed in Ma Hua's arms.

Ma Hua continued: "One day, the bachelor named Mao also got married and married a big sister Mao. The one surnamed Qi congratulated him and said, big brother Mao married big sister Mao, and at night Mao will be against Mao."

This time, Qin Jingru understood immediately.

Ma Hua teased her, played it again, and the two fell asleep.

Early the next morning, Ma Hua got up, washed and had a meal, then pushed his bicycle to work.

Qin Jingru stood at the door to see him off.

Just two steps away, I heard Xu Damao pushing his bicycle from the backyard to the middle courtyard, and greeted him with a smile: "Hey, Qin Jingru, good morning!"

Qin Jingru glanced at him and ignored him.

She remembered this man, who obviously had a wife, Lou Xiao'e, and wanted to talk to her during the movie.

I'm married, but I have to follow my man well. Talking to someone like Xu Damao is a stink.

Ma Hua's heart moved, he stopped, and looked back at Xu Damao.

"Xu Damao, good morning?"

(End of this chapter)