Reborn Scholar

Chapter 28

"What's the matter again, my little ancestor, what's his name again!" the aunt ran over and said again.

Grandma also looked concerned, "What happened?"

Xu Ning pointed to Meng Xiangfei who was eating egg custard, "Grandma, they steal eggs to eat!"

Grandma looked over immediately, and when she saw it, she knew what was going on.

Meng Xiangfei was eating stewed egg custard, the aroma was very strong.

Grandma's face darkened immediately, "What are you doing? Who told you to mess around with the things in the house? You can steal eggs, are you capable?"

"Thieves, they are thieves!" Xu Ning said while jumping from behind, pulling his mother's clothes while jumping, "Mom, I want to eat that egg too, it smells delicious."

The aunt's face changed, and she slapped Xu Ning's hand very loudly, but she knew it didn't hurt too much.

"What do you eat? You treat this as your own home, and you can eat whatever you want?"

Xu Ning started crying again.

Grandma was in a hurry, snatched the bowl from Meng Xiangfei's hand, and scolded Meng Shi face to face.

"Damn girl, you are not satisfied with your food, and you still want to spoil eggs here. You don't even know how to make a bowl of stewed eggs for Xiao Ning, and you only care about eating for yourself. You stole eggs when you were young, but you can still get it when you grow up? Nothing." I've seen such a shameless girl! She grew up just like your mother!"

Originally, Meng Shi just felt cold at the previous words, but when she heard the last sentence, she was completely angry.

Grandma is an elder, you can scold her, beat her, but she scolds her mother!
Meng Shi couldn't bear it.

In the past, her mother, Lu Gaixia, always liked to tell Meng Shi that when she was pregnant with Meng Shi not long after her marriage, she ate a bowl of stewed eggs in the morning, but she vomited out the eggs again because of morning sickness. Said: "Eat and vomit, spoil things, what do you eat?"

Meng Shi didn't feel much when he heard what his mother said.

But now hearing grandma speak like this, Meng Shi realized that such words were simply piercing people's hearts.

Meng Shi took a deep breath, and looked at grandma with a half-smile, "This egg, my mother brought it back from the town this morning, right? Why did I eat the egg my mother brought back? This is called stealing?"

Grandma's expression changed, and Meng Shi didn't expect Meng Shi to dare to talk back, "You damn girl, you still talk back, don't you? With your appearance, it's something you can't do when you grow up!"

"Wow"

Meng Xiangfei burst into tears.

After all, he is still young and has a soft personality. He was really frightened when he saw his grandma and sister being so tense.

Meng Shi quickly comforted Meng Xiangfei, he still listened to this sister more, after saying a few words, he stopped crying, but he was still sobbing.

Grandma grabbed Meng Xiangfei by the ear, trying to drag him out.

Meng Shi quickly stretched out his hand to block it, but Meng Xiangfei was frightened and cried again.

"Why are you crying? I'm not dead yet. I'm like a funeral star!" Grandma scolded angrily.

Meng Shi glanced at grandma and didn't want to say anything, so he dragged his younger brother and walked outside.

She is a child, and grandma is an old man who is almost 60 years old.

If grandma scolds her, she can't scold her back, and if grandma beats her, she can't fight back either.

Otherwise, in the eyes of everyone in the village, she would be unfilial, and it would make things difficult for her father.

Now, the most sensible way for her is to leave here first.

At this moment, Meng Shi was actually a little rejoiced that grandma and grandpa were separated, and the two of them lived and ate separately.

So she and her brother can hide in Grandpa's house now.

Originally, she and her younger brother were closer to grandma, and every time they came back, they ate and lived with grandma...

Pulling Meng Xiangfei all the way, he walked to the north of the courtyard.

Entering the old main room, there is almost no furniture in it, only a bed and a broken table.

The siblings were walking this way, but grandma was still cursing behind, "I really don't know what I did in my previous life to live with these two worry-free things."

The aunt said good things on the side, "Okay, the two little children, just be greedy, their mothers don't educate, you should educate them well, learn to steal when you are young, and you can't go to jail when you grow up Ah. Isn’t there a saying that when you are young, you steal needles and when you are old, you steal gold, these kids, you have to teach them from an early age.”

Originally, Meng Shi didn't want to tear his face apart, after all, it was his own business, so it was really ugly to start arguing and cursing.

She is still not used to the menstruation of this kind of rural shrew, and she doesn't want to become the kind of shrew she hates the most.

Although she doesn't like grandma, she has a cold heart for grandma, but she cherishes this hard-won rebirth too much, and really doesn't want to alienate her relatives, so she works hard to make money, wants to live well, and let everyone be well.

It's just that the heart of an adult is different from the heart of a child.

When she was a child, she might not understand these words, or maybe she couldn't remember them, but she didn't take them to heart.

But now, with an adult heart, she was really shaking with anger when she heard such words again.

She is not a bun character, but she just doesn't want to be too ugly and make others laugh.

It's just her forbearance that makes some people more indulgent.

If you forbear this time, you will definitely get worse next time!
"Ah woo woo"

Meng Shi suddenly burst into tears, a real cry, ahem, very loudly, as if he was afraid that others would not hear him.

She took her younger brother and rushed out from the Long Gate in the north, and sat at the Long Gate crying loudly.

At this moment, it was almost noon, and the people working in the field had almost returned.

The surrounding neighbors and neighbors have also started preparing to light fires and cook.

At this time, every family lived very close to each other. The fourth uncle and fourth mother's house was opposite the door, and Meng Shi's family belonged to the same family.

Behind the fourth uncle and fourth maiden's house is the third uncle's and third maiden's house.

Behind Meng Shi's house is Meng Shi's mother's house (meaning godmother in dialect), and next to it are the houses of the second uncle, the fifth uncle, the eighth uncle, and the ninth uncle.

When Meng Shi burst into tears, he immediately attracted San Niang and Si Niang.

"Why are you crying all the time?"

"What's the matter, don't cry, don't cry, what's the matter?"

The third and fourth mothers all asked with concern.

Meng Shi choked up while crying and said, "My mother brought back a basket of eggs from the town in the morning. Auntie brought the children here just now. Grandma boiled a few eggs for the auntie and the children to eat. The little one Fei was greedy, but grandma wouldn’t give it to me. I went to cook three eggs for Xiao Fei. Grandma and aunt scolded me for stealing eggs, scolded me for turning back eggs now, and would go to jail when I grow up, and beat me. I didn’t steal egg"

Although he was crying, Meng Shi made it very clear that both Sanniang and Fourth Niang understood.

None of Meng Shi's words said grandma was bad, but just the facts, who wouldn't understand?

But who wouldn't think that it was Meng Shi's mother who brought back the eggs, and Meng Shi's siblings ate a few, and they were said to be stealing eggs. What kind of logic is this?Furthermore, even if the eggs were bought by grandma and eaten by grandchildren, why would they be called stolen?
"You damn girl lost your family star, why are you crying? Do you think I'm not dead?" Grandma walked over cursing and quickly, holding a thin bamboo strip pulled out of the broom in her hand.

"Ah..." Meng Shi immediately jumped up when he saw the thin bamboo stick in grandma's hand, pulled Meng Xiangfei to hide behind Sanniang and Siniang, and said as if hiding, "Don't hit us, don't hit us... ..."

San Niang and Si Niang hurriedly stood in front and stopped grandma.

"What's Aunt Hua doing? The kids are hungry and eat two eggs, why beat them? There's no shortage of them at home." Sanniang said.

"Get out of the way, get out of the way, these two little things are dishonest if they don't fight, they are crying there in broad daylight, I don't know how to treat them as mourners! They stole things at a young age, and if they don't fight when they grow up, it will be okay?" Grandma said angrily. Bamboo hit the ground, raising waves of dust.

As soon as these words came out, San Niang and Si Niang's faces became ugly.

But at this moment, Xu Ning chased after him and shouted excitedly, "Hit, hit, kill them both, and tell them to steal eggs!"

Si Niang has a hot personality, and she can't see it, "Aunt Hua, what do you think? What's wrong with the children eating a few eggs, and it's not that they can't afford it. Besides, it's not at your expense that her mother bought it."

"You don't care about our family's affairs. It's not your turn to intervene if you teach the two little things."

As he said that, he wanted to raise the bamboo stick to beat people again.

"What's the matter, what's the matter, I heard crying just after I came back from the field?"

At this time, Meng Shi's godmother also came.

In fact, the godmother is the eldest aunt in this big family. She should be called Da Niang, but her parents asked her to call her Da Sao.But because of his good relationship, Meng Shi worshiped his godmother.

Seeing someone coming again, Si Niang hurriedly repeated what Meng Shi had just said.

After hearing this, the godmother frowned, but after all, Grandma Meng Shi was an elder, and they all wanted to call her Aunt Hua, so it was really not easy to quarrel.

The godmother picked up Meng Xiangfei, and took Meng Shi's hand, "Come on, go to godmother's place for dinner. The candy that your little Bo brother sent back from the south is delicious."

Grandma was so angry that she yelled at her godmother, "Put them down! The two little ones will die without being beaten, and they have learned to sue."

Si Niang hurriedly pulled San Niang to block grandma's way, "Look, Aunt Hua, you don't let the children eat eggs, and if the godmother takes the children to eat, you still have to stop them. Could it be that only grandchildren are allowed to eat, and grandchildren are not allowed to eat eggs?" On the contrary, it's far away? Aunt Hua, haven't you heard a saying that a grandson is raised by someone else? It's a fool's errand. When you get old, won't you rely on your grandson and enjoy the blessings of your grandson? You Why don't you get the hang of it?"

Grandma's face turned white and red, but she still said with a stiff neck, "I don't care about the grandchildren, these two little things will never see a visitor, and they will kill the visitor."

Meng Shi was dragged away by her godmother, and her grandmother's voice behind her was very clear.

She couldn't help but look back, that person and that scene were so strange.

When we arrived at the godmother's house, the godmother dug out a plastic bag from nowhere. The bag was empty, and about four or five candies were poured out. The packaging was beautiful, which was different from the candies in the countryside.

"Eating candy, this is what your little Bo brother sent back from the south last time. It's delicious."

Meng Xiaobo is the youngest son of his godmother and works outside.The godmother has three sons and one daughter. The eldest son just got married and the couple both work outside the home. The second son, the third son and the daughter also work outside the home.The godmother and godfather are farming at home.

Meng Shi stuffed all the sweets to Meng Xiangfei, she is not a real child, so she doesn't want to be greedy.

Unexpectedly, Meng Xiangfei picked the most beautiful candy, peeled off the candy wrapper, and insisted on stuffing the candy into her mouth.

The sweetness that melted in his mouth made Meng Shi feel more bitter in his heart.

She couldn't help crying again.

The godmother sat across from her, "Oh, why are you crying? Stop crying, we are always so pretty, but we don't look good when we cry."

Meng Shi nodded and wiped away his tears, but the tears became more and more, and he couldn't stop no matter what, she was so angry that she stomped her feet.

"Okay, okay, cry for a while if you want to cry, it's your grandma anyway, just listen to you. Anyway, you live in Zhenshan now, and you rarely come back, so it won't be like this every time you come back, right? ?” The godmother explained, her eyes were full of pity.In many cases, blood relatives are not as good as non-blood outsiders.

Meng Shi covered his face with his hands and cried for a while before finally stopping his tears.

I ran to the self-pressurized well in the yard, pressed some water to wash my face, and then returned to the house.

"Godmother, I'm fine, you cook. Ask Xiaofei to stay with you first, and I'll go home."

"What's the matter? What are you going to do when you go back? Let's eat here at noon. Sesame leaf noodles are very simple. I have mixed the noodles, and it's done in one press."

"No, no, my aunt's family is here, and grandma wants to cook for them. My parents and uncle are watering the fields, and they have to bring food and water to them. Godmother, I'm afraid my grandma doesn't have any food for them. Me, I looked in my grandfather's stove just now, and there is no food. Give me the long beans, I'll go home and make steamed noodles, and then boil a pot of water and send it to me." Meng Shi sniffed and said .

"How can you cook? Let me do it. You can also make steamed noodles, as long as I make the noodles thinner."

"No godmother, I will do it, don't worry."

Meng Shi said, without waiting for the godmother to say anything, he ran out the door with a handful of long beans on the table.

Meng Xiangfei just sat there obediently, his sister asked him to stay here, and he was right here, he couldn't help his sister, but he was obedient, as long as he didn't make trouble for her.

When Meng Shi ran home, there was nothing unusual on his face.

After thinking about it, she still went to grandma's place.

"Grandma, it's already noon, have you cooked yet? I'll deliver food to the field." Meng Shi asked.

Grandma glanced at Meng Shi, "You can cry and run, you can't cook. How can I have time to cook here! Your uncle is here, and your mother can't even cook, and you still count on me..."

Hearing this, Meng Shi didn't want to listen anymore.

She turned around directly and went to grandpa's kitchen.

In the noodle tank, there are noodles, and there is half a tank of water in the water tank.

Take a basin, dig two high bowls of noodles, add water, mix well, and put it aside to wake up.

Then remove the tendons from the long beans brought from Gan He's house, cut them into small pieces of about five centimeters, and soak them in half a pot of water.

These beans are all grown by the farmer's own, and it's not a rare vegetable, so when Meng Shi asked for it from his godmother's house, he was not polite. If it was expensive, such as meat or something, she would definitely not want it.But if you have to carefully consider whether you want even this little dish, it is no longer polite, but alienated.

After soaking the beans, Meng Shi took the bowl of mixed noodles and went to Si Niang's house opposite.

Si Niang's family has a noodle making machine, and she is going to make noodles.Not every household in the village has a noodle press. The family in Mengshi town has one, but the old house doesn't have one.

When we arrived at Siniang's house, Siniang was also making noodles.

"Shishi is here, are you okay?" Si Niang asked.

"It's okay, I'll roll some noodles and make steamed noodles." Meng Shi smiled.

"Okay, okay, I'll make it right away." Si Niang speeded up, and finished the noodles in a few strokes, "Why did your grandma tell you to make noodles? Do you know how? Otherwise, let me help you make noodles?"

"No need for Si Niang, I will make it, and I made it myself in the town. Grandma is cooking for my aunt and the others. I don't have time. I will make some steamed noodles and send them to the field for my parents."

"What, you do it? Your grandma also cooks for your elder girls, and she doesn't know how to cook more, and asks you to do it alone!" Siniang was a little annoyed.

"It's okay, I can do it very quickly." Meng Shi smiled and started to rub the noodles.

The current noodle press machines are all manual. It’s okay to press for a while. If the time is long, or if the noodles are mixed unevenly, you have to press many times, which is very tiring.

But Meng Shi's noodle mixing skills are pretty good now, the noodle is just right when it's dry and wet, and she doesn't work like a real kid, she works hard, she presses it slowly without being too tired.

But no matter how leisurely she was, until the noodles came out at the end, she had no energy left.

However, the noodles are finished in one pass, and the handle of the noodle press is turned by changing hands, and finally all the noodles are given out.

The noodles are made very thin, because they are made for steamed noodles, and the thinner ones are easier to steam.If it is boiled noodles, if it is so thin, it will be boiled as soon as it is put in water, which is not good.

"Here's some celery. I've got a lot of celery. I can't finish it. Take some back. The celery smells bad. There's also some chili, so you can take it back too. There's nothing in your grandfather's kitchen. Vegetables." Without any explanation, Siniang grabbed a handful of celery and a handful of hot peppers.

"Enough Si Niang, enough, I can't take it anymore." Meng Shi smiled and gave way.

But Si Niang still stuffed all the vegetables into her arms, her eyes were full of distress, "A little food, why not let it go, just take it back and eat it, there are so many in the field, it's worthless."

Returning to grandpa's kitchen from Longmen in the north, Meng Shi started cooking and steaming noodles.

The beans are almost soaked, and the purpose of soaking is to soak out the bugs that may not have been selected to get into the beans.

Take out the soaked beans and set aside, then choose the celery, wash off the sediment, cut into sections and set aside, and cut the chili into slices with an oblique knife.

Then onions and garlic.

After all the materials were prepared, Meng Shi started to light the fire.

Behind the pot and stove, there are some corncobs, as well as dried corn stalks and peanut seedlings.

Use flammable firewood such as peanut stalks and corn leaves to start the fire, and then put in the burn-resistant corn cobs to make the fire flourish.

The big iron pot has been heated.

Meng Shi poured a ladle of water into it, and the water quickly heated up. She swiped the pot with a dry loofah, scooped out the cleaning water, and washed it again, and it was ready for use.

Heat a pan and pour in a tablespoon of peanut oil.

Then add chopped green onion and stir until fragrant, then add chili, stir until fragrant, and then add garlic.

After frying, add the celery.

In fact, if there is pork belly, fry the pork belly first, then add celery, the taste will be more fragrant.

It's a pity that this is not an era where you can often eat meat.

Families with slightly better conditions eat meat once every ten days and half a month, and those who are close to seeing meat once a month and who don't eat meat for three or four months are not in the minority.

Actually, there is meat today. Mom bought a catty of meat for grandma to cook for lunch.

After all, watering is also a very tiring physical work, and the uncle came to help, so it is normal to cut some meat back.

But how could this meat be given to Meng Shi? She didn't even bother to ask for it.

Stir-fry the celery, and soon, the charming aroma will hit your nostrils.

Then pour in the beans, stir-fry for a while, add soy sauce, thirteen spices, salt, and add a scoop of water.

Use a spatula to spread the beans and spread them around the pot, then put the pressed noodles in the middle, cover the pot, and steam over high heat.

In fact, steaming is equivalent to boiling.

The taste of the vegetables is boiled in the water, and the water is absorbed by the noodles spread on the vegetables, so the taste of the vegetables enters the noodles.

The noodles are thin, and it only takes 10 minutes. The water in the dish and the water she added to the pot will be absorbed by the noodles.

Turn off the heat, stir the noodles up and down, mix the vegetables and noodles evenly, and a steaming pot of steamed noodles is ready.

Take out the steamed noodles and put them in a basin, cover to keep warm.

Then scrub the pot, add a pot of water, boil it, and put it in a thermos bottle.

Take five bowls, five pairs of chopsticks, and two wheels of garlic, put them in a basket, put the thermos bottle in the basket, hold the basket between your arms, and hold a plastic basin covered with cloth in both hands, Meng Shi went like this Send food in the field.

In fact, there is only less than one kilometer from home to the field watered by parents. For adults, it will be there soon.

But for children with short legs and little strength, it is really far away.Especially, with so many things in hand.

He took a deep breath from home and walked to the edge of the wheat field in the north of the village. About 300 meters away, Meng Shi was exhausted and had to take a rest.

Then I walked another 200 meters. When I arrived at the Liyuan, my mother probably couldn't wait any longer. When she came back, she happened to see Meng Shi, holding a basin in her arms and a vegetable basket on her tiny arms.

Seeing that Meng Shi was so tired (also tanned) that her face was flushed with sweat and her hair was wet, Lu Caixia's complexion suddenly changed, and she hurried over to take the rice bowl and basket from her.

As soon as she took it, she hurried to see the heavy weight of the basin and basket, and Lu Caixia's face was very ugly.

"Why are you here alone to deliver the meals? Where's your grandma? What do you do if you're exhausted carrying so many things by yourself!"

Meng Shi shook her arm, a deep red mark had already been strangled by the vegetable basket on her arm.

"Let's go, grandpa, dad and uncle are probably starving, let's talk while walking. Mom, hold the basin, I'll lift the basket, it's inconvenient for you to carry it like this."

"Okay, it's okay, I'll take it myself." Lu Caixia refused.

Meng Shi had no choice but to stop grabbing it.

On the way, she said that her aunt and uncle's family were here, but she didn't say anything else.

Lu Caixia didn't think much about it, and said directly, "At this time, I must be asking for wheat again. Last time I asked your father to give them, and your father sent two bags, which weighed two hundred catties. I really can't say them!"

Meng Shi smiled and didn't mention what happened at home.She also didn't want her mother to run back and make a fuss in a fit of anger.

However, things cannot be hidden after all.

When I was eating, I saw that they were steamed noodles, but after looking through them, there was not even a piece of meat, and Lu Caixia's face changed.

What she did today was tiring work. She cut the meat specially, but where did the meat go?
There are only steamed noodles, no vegetables, that's all, but there is no meat in the steamed noodles, what is this for?
Sighing, Meng Shi had no choice but to tell the truth, and immediately, Lu Caixia flushed with anger.

Dad was smoking a cigarette on the side, his face was ugly, and he couldn't speak a word.

This is a family matter of sister and brother-in-law, Lu Yingpeng listened, but couldn't say anything.

And grandpa never participated in the topic of grandma.

Lu Caixia was already crying, "What's the matter! Meng Qingshan, take a look, look, every year hundreds of catties of grain are given to them to eat, and if they don't mention it, we don't want it. But you Look at what is raised here? We work in the field, we don’t even cook a meal, how old is Shi, let her cook all these meals by herself, and send them to the field. You didn’t See, when I went to the Liyuan and met Shishi, she was so tired! How big is she, carrying all these things by herself! I can’t, I can’t take it anymore, I have to ask her aunt, what’s the matter? What the hell did you come back for!"

After she finished speaking, Lu Caixia stopped eating and got up to go back.

Meng Shi hurriedly pulled her back, "Mom, it's okay, you eat first, I haven't eaten yet, I'm hungry."

Hearing what Meng Shi said, Lu Caixia had no idea, it didn't matter if she was hungry, she couldn't let the child be hungry.

Lu Yingpeng also hurriedly persuaded, "Sister, let's talk about it after dinner first."

The five people ate the rice in the field. After eating, they poured the boiling water in the thermos into four bowls.

Mom didn't know what to think of, and started to cry again.

"Hey, don't cry, what are you crying for?" Meng Qingshan sighed.

Lu Caixia seemed to be lighting a firecracker, and immediately shouted: "Why am I crying? I am crying for my daughter, who is sitting in the office with that pen in her hand, and now she is cooking and delivering food. Look at me!" Look at her arm, the red mark has not gone down until now! We are exhausted from working in the field, not to mention asking your mother to help, can you send some water to make a meal? Really... I really don't know what sins I did in my previous life to live with such a mother-in-law in this life!"

Meng Shi couldn't help but touch his forehead.

She just didn't want this to happen, it was really a headache.

"Mom, I'm going back first, Xiaofei is still at godmother's house." Meng Shi put the bowls and chopsticks and the steps to cover the basin when he came back into the basket.

"I'll go back with you!" Lu Caixia stood up and said.

Meng Shi was helpless, but he had no reason to object.

But after walking a few steps, Lu Caixia suddenly stopped, "Shishi, you take the things back and put them in the kitchen by yourself. Go and pick up Xiaofei and bring them to the field. I won't go back."

Meng Shi was puzzled, why did Lu Caixia change her mind again?
"Hmph, what am I going to do when I go back, let them tell me they want wheat? I won't go back, I want wheat, but ask them to come to the field to ask for it, try it!" Lu Caixia said angrily.

Meng Shi... understood in seconds!
(End of this chapter)