Travel through the farmhouse leisurely

Chapter 12 Lin's Dinner
"Miss Xiaoqiao, you are diligent. She came out to dig wild vegetables before her injury healed."

"Has Xiaoqiao healed from his injury? Why don't you rest at home more? Children, you must take care of yourself."

"Oh, Miss Qiao just woke up yesterday, and she came out to help the family today, she is really sensible."

For the greetings from these simple folks, Lin Xiaoqiao didn't say a word, but responded with a sweet smile.Thinking of the so-called elders in the family, whose attitude towards her was not as good as these enthusiastic folks, and who had never shown a single bit of concern for herself from yesterday to today, Lin Xiaoqiao didn't know what it was like.

In fact, these folks are simply expressing their kindness, and they don't really care whether Lin Xiaoqiao responds to them with the same enthusiasm.Regarding Xiaoqiao's silence, in the eyes of these aunts, she has become well-behaved and sensible, and does not complain, and they are even more sneering at Zhou's actions in their hearts.

Feeling the care of the villagers all the way back home, Lin Xiaoqiao's mood is no longer the uncomfortable and aggrieved before.

The two young ladies happily returned to the small courtyard of the Lin family, put down the bamboo baskets, and went to find Mrs. Li to help her prepare the Lin family's dinner.At this time, in the kitchen, Mrs. Li was wearing an apron, pouring the washed coarse rice into the pot and preparing to add water to make porridge.Seeing the young ladies' flushed cheeks due to excitement, Mrs. Li tapped Lin Xiaoqiao's forehead affectionately, and said with a smile: "You naughty one, if you don't tell me to go, you insist on going with your sister. Does your head hurt now?"

Lin Xiaoqiao replied with a playful smile: "Mom, my sister and I dug up a lot of wild vegetables, we can add more vegetables tonight." Then he took Mrs. Li to see the fruits of their labor all afternoon.

"Hehe, it's really quite a lot. Mom, I'm going to wash up and cook at night."

So Mrs. Li quickly washed the wild vegetables, blanched them with water, added some oil and salt, and mixed two big pots of cold wild vegetables.Lin Xiaoxi slapped Li Shi neatly on the side, and Lin Xiaoqiao also joined in the fun and insisted on lighting a fire for Li Shi.Soon a dinner was completed with the cooperation of Li's mother and daughter.

The men who plowed the fields also came back exhausted with farm tools. The Lin family was relatively poor and couldn't afford cattle, so manpower was used to plow the fields.

While they were washing their hands, a few half-grown young men walked into the yard laughing with disgrace.The big guys seemed to be counting the time one after another, as if rushing back for dinner, the small courtyard of the Lin family suddenly became lively.

Lin Jiang, Lin Hai, Dafang's Lin Shan, and Lin Shu brothers all carried a lot of things in their pockets, and the boys all ran back to their rooms to put down their things before coming out to wash their hands and faces.

As soon as Lin Hai washed his hands, he ran to Lin Xiaoqiao in a hurry, and said mysteriously: "Little sister, today the second elder brother beat you a lot of wild fruits, and even took out four bird eggs, which I didn't have." Let Lin Shan and the others eat, and bring them back to you."

Lin Xiaoqiao looked at his eagerness to ask for credit, laughed in his heart, but still acted very moved and said: "Second brother is the best for me, I will definitely eat them all by then."

Lin Erlang heard his sister's words, and said embarrassedly: "Little sister, if you like to eat, second brother will make it for you in the future."

"Enen, my mother is going to cook me something delicious, and my brother will eat it with me later." The brother and sister whispered privately together affectionately.

The men in the room all sat down in their seats, and Zhou Shi, Liu Shi and others also came out one after another.

After Lin Dalang washed his hands, he consciously ran to the kitchen to help Mrs. Li carry the bowl and chopsticks. Mrs. Zhou came to the kitchen and wandered around as if on a routine inspection. Mrs. Liu and another woman also came to the kitchen to wander around.

Mrs. Liu just took a look, and finally took a pot of wild vegetables and left, while the other woman asked Mrs. Li loudly: "Second sister-in-law, do you want me to help? You have been busy all day, are you tired?" If there’s anything else you haven’t done, just tell me, I’ve forgotten how long it is to make insoles in the house today, and I’ll definitely come out and cook for you tomorrow.”

Lin Xiaoqiao knew that this was her little aunt Zhao. She was wearing a patched gray coarse cloth dress like Li's. Wearing an old wooden hairpin, thick face, dull complexion, under the thick eyebrows there are a pair of bright round eyes.

For this little aunt Zhao, Lin Xiaoqiao had neither a good nor a bad impression. Although she could be seen to be a bit shrewd, at least she didn't look very mean.Being able to say those few words at least proves that she still knows how to sympathize with Mrs. Li, and she doesn't take Mrs. Li's hard work for granted like Mrs. Liu and Ms. Zhou.

After saying that, Mrs. Zhao helped Mrs. Li fill up two large bowls of porridge, and took the dishes to the main room.Mrs. Li, Lin Xiaoxi and others also carried pot vegetables to the main room.

Li originally wanted Lin Xiaoqiao to go back to the house to rest by herself first, and cook some food for her after the Lin family had finished eating.But Lin Xiaoqiao planned to have some dinner with everyone tonight, so that he could get used to the real atmosphere of the Lin family eating with a large family, and by the way get acquainted with the people who are familiar with this large family.Besides, she also wanted to taste the fruits of her own digging all afternoon.

The Lin family has a large population, so meals are eaten at two separate tables, the old and the young men sit at the same table, and the Zhou family leads the daughter-in-law and the girls at the same table.Before stepping into the main room, I heard the commotion inside. Seeing the food being served, everyone sat down and prepared to eat.Lin Xiaoqiao also sat next to her sister Lin Xiaoxi.

The meal at night is actually the same as the meal at noon.The meals on the two tables were the same, each with a large bowl of porridge, a large bowl of shredded potatoes, a large bowl of stewed cabbage, a large bowl of cold wild vegetables, and a large bowl of shredded pickles.When all the dishes were served, Mrs. Li went to the men's table first and filled them with a bowl of gruel, and they started eating.On the women's side, Mrs. Zhao, under Mrs. Zhou's supervision, will serve each of them a good meal. Of course, the first bowl must be given to Mrs. Zhou.Moreover, Lin Xiaoqiao could see clearly that the bowl that Mrs. Zhao gave to Mrs. Zhou was scooping the bottom of the basin vigorously before serving it to her.Lin Xiaoqiao cursed from the bottom of his heart, hey, women in ancient times had no status, and women who were the daughter-in-law of the Lin family had no status even more!After the porridge was served, Mrs. Zhou said: "Let's serve!" Everyone picked up their bowls and drank, maybe the wild vegetables tonight are considered as extras, Lin Xiaoqiao took a sip of the porridge and raised his head before lifting As for the chopsticks, half of the pot of cold wild vegetables has been wiped out, but there are still many other vegetables.Seeing their exaggerated eating speed, Lin Xiaoqiao quickly picked up his chopsticks. The taste is really good, it is indeed a pure natural green food, and the taste is refreshing.

(End of this chapter)