The Spring of the Peasant Woman of Transmigration

Chapter 48

Li Yuxiang stared blankly at the third sister-in-law who was in a daze, what was this third sister-in-law thinking?Ask her nothing?Seeing the way Li Yuxiang looked at her, Lu Yumin woke up from her contemplation. She shook her head with a smile and said, "Second sister, I really don't know about this kind of thing! Back then, my father was in charge of money, so it's not my turn." A woman will take care of it."

Li Yuqin immediately nodded and said to her sister: "Xiang'er, what the third sister-in-law said is right, she is still a little girl! Third sister-in-law, hasn't your cousin gone to catch the exam for three or four years? How old were you then? How can adults let children take care of those big things!"

Lu Yumin didn't know that this cousin had been there for a few years, but it couldn't be said that she didn't know?I had to say vaguely: "Well, almost."

Li Yuxiang asked again with disbelief: "Sister-in-law, don't you know? Some people say that your cousin is in high school and won't come back after staying in the capital. Is this true?"

Lu Yumin shook her head and said, "I haven't seen my cousin since he went to catch the exam, so I don't know about these things. I'm a girl, and my father doesn't tell me anything. Say a woman asks about a man?"

Li Yuqin sighed and said: "Sister-in-law three, it's really hard to be a child of a scholar's family! You can't ask anything, what a miserable life it was!"

Li Yuxiang patted her small chest and said, "It's a good thing our family doesn't have a scholar! Otherwise, I can't bear to do this or talk about that all day! Sister-in-law, you must have had a bad time when you were young!"

Lu Yumin looked at the innocent sister-in-law with a smile and said, "That's how I came here! You'll be fine once you get used to it! In fact, it's good to just take care of things, so you don't have to worry about it."

Li Yuxiang felt that what the third sister-in-law said was very truthful, and she continued: "Well, what the third sister-in-law said is true. Third sister-in-law, if you make this pumpkin porridge, will this pumpkin porridge be really delicious?"

Lu Yumin asked strangely: "Have you ever eaten pumpkin porridge?"

Li Yuxiang shook her head and said, "We only cook vegetables for food. We never use it for cooking porridge."

Lu Yumin smiled and said: "The children and I can't do heavy work either. We cook some porridge in the morning and put some pumpkin in it. This way we can save some food and food."

Li Yuqin felt sorry for her and said, "Sister-in-law three, you can't afford to be so frugal. You see that you have lost a lot of weight after being sick for a few days."

Li Yuxiang joked: "Sister-in-law, if there is a strong wind, be careful to blow you away!"

Lu Yumin looked at the two friendly sisters and smiled: "Where am I thinner? I'm just a little less fleshy than you, but I don't feel thin! You don't think I'm slim like this?"

Li Yuxiang laughed "haha" and said, "You're still slender! You're as skinny as a stick!"

Lu Yumin was embarrassed: Is this skinny and beautiful?Besides, the places where people shouldn't be thin are not thin at all, it's because you don't appreciate it!

It was rare for a long time to talk and laugh so easily. After a few people chatted and laughed for a while, Li Yuqin remembered the purpose of this: "Sister-in-law, fifth brother said that the straw sandals you make are better than mine, and I also imitate your appearance Hit it, how could it be different?"

Lu Yumin explained: "Maybe everyone's hand gestures are different. My sister, your hands are heavier, and the straw sandals you wear are harder, and you feel a little bit squishy when you wear them!"

Li Yuqin asked again: "Sister-in-law three, can I learn from you again?"

Lu Yumin nodded and said, "Yes! There's nothing wrong with it. You are my sister-in-law, not an outsider. I tried to make a new type of straw sandals, but don't teach outsiders this way."

Li Yuqin said happily: "I see, the third sister-in-law is going to sell it in the town?"

Lu Yumin smiled and said, "Well, I have such an idea! I split the new-style straw sandals into two pieces, so that when it rains lightly, it won't get wet when I wear them outside."

Li Yuxiang's eyes lit up: "Sister-in-law, how dare you be kind! You have to know that if it rains when it's cold, you really can't get out of the house! If that's the case, then you can go out the door during the New Year's Eve!"

Li Yuqin patted her: "Xiang'er knows how to play! You are almost fourteen, and you are still so ignorant, what should you do!"

Lu Yumin also smiled and said, "That's right, our little sister is going to get married in two years!"

Li Yuxiang blushed and stomped her feet: "I'm still early!"

Li Yuqin said: "It's too early? Once you reach fifteen, you have to be engaged, and after sixteen, you have to get married. If you raise an old girl, I'll see you as an old sister-in-law!"

Lu Yumin smiled and said, "Yes, yes, you can see that my third sister-in-law is an example!"

Li Yuqin blushed: "Sister-in-law, I didn't mean you!"

Lu Yumin smiled and said: "I know you didn't mean me, and I was just joking, so don't worry about it. Let's go, my little sister will also come and learn. When you get married, I will make a few pairs for your husband-in-law. Then He hurt you to death!"

Li Yuxiang blushed: "Sister-in-law three!"

After a few days, her body finally recovered. Maybe it was a guilty conscience. Cui Shi never came to Lu Yumin's yard again. She felt that she had been taken lightly after getting sick this time!

Especially Li Sanlin, never came to force her again, even got up early every day, made breakfast for them, and when they got home at night, Lu Yumin remained silent except for what they needed to talk about.

But when Li Sanlin saw her, she always looked sullen, and always found some family topics to talk to her about, and gradually the two of them had a lot of conversations.

The autumn grain was harvested, and the fields were ready to replant rapeseed. Li Sanlin came back early that day, and put some pork belly in the cupboard: "Tomorrow, the clan will be cooking rice, and everyone will gather together on the large lawn in front of the ancestral hall to make tooth sacrifices. The old rule is that there are several dishes for several people in a family, and at least one meat dish is required, so save this pork belly and eat it tomorrow."

Lu Yumin was puzzled: "Do you want to make rice? Tooth-making festival?"

Li Sanlin was stunned: "Isn't the clan in your village happy to do this?"

Lu Yumin shook her head: "My house has long since run out of land!"

Li Sanlin was right after thinking about it, Lu Xiucai is famous, maybe he doesn't participate in these things, and it's not necessarily true!Therefore, he explained: "In fact, the clan took this opportunity to worship the heavens and ancestors, and everyone gathered together. This is usually done in harvest years. If there are natural disasters and man-made disasters, it will be cancelled! Everyone's harvest this year is counted. Not bad, so tomorrow I will make this according to the custom."

After listening to Li Sanlin's explanation, Lu Yumin nodded and said, "Then I know! I will get ready tomorrow."

Li Sanlin thought for a while and said: "You are not in good health, I will make it up tomorrow."

Lu Yumin shook her head and said, "You do it? No need! I really let you, a big man, do these things. If the people in the clan know about it, you won't be afraid of embarrassment, but I'll be afraid of being criticized!"

Li Sanlin looked embarrassed: "Then tell me, I won't go out tomorrow anyway, you can tell me what you want me to do, let's close the door, no one will know that I am doing it."

Lu Yumin thought about it for a while, and he really lacked physical strength, so he couldn't force him to do anything. If he was willing to help, it wouldn't be a bad idea, so he nodded: "Our family doesn't have much food, I'll soak some glutinous rice and rice, and then stir-fry it." Order soybeans and pockmarks, and you will grind them tomorrow!"

Li Sanlin nodded and said, "That's fine! I'll fry the soybeans and pockmarks later. It takes a long time to fry this stuff, so you can help me cook it."

Since someone volunteered to work, Lu Yumin thought: I'll give you a chance to show off!

Before noon the next day, Niu Niu ran back and forth a few times: "Mom, is our food ready? Huzi, Shitou, Brother Pingzi and many others, they all went!"

Lu Yumin looked at the gluttonous Niu Niu, and couldn't help laughing: "Okay, okay! It's not time yet, and we can't have dinner if we go early, why are you in a hurry! Is our table ready? "

Niu Niu happily yelled: "It's been set up a long time ago! Mom, Dad and I set it up together! I moved two stools."

Lu Yumin praised him: "Our Niu Niu is a capable and good boy! You go and see where your sister is, watch her, don't let anyone bump into her, and mother will bring the delicious food in a while."

Niu Niu turned around and ran out: "Mom, I got it! You get more, Brother Huzi and the others said they want to eat it too!"

Seeing him running, Lu Yumin said, "Okay, let's ask them to eat together later. Be careful!"

Li Sanlin just entered the courtyard gate, saw Sa Huaner's son running out and asked, "Daughter-in-law, why is this little fellow so happy?"

Lu Yumin replied with a smile: "We need to go quickly, he has set up all the stools!"

Li Sanlin then asked: "Daughter-in-law, have you finished the fire? How about we go there too? Many people have already arrived."

Sure enough, when Lu Yumin arrived with Li Sanlin, there were people coming and going on the Daping at the entrance of the ancestral hall. Niu Niu saw them coming from a distance and immediately shouted: "Mother, father, we are here!"

Everyone greeted each other along the way, the Li family sat together at four small tables, and the dishes from several families had already been served.

As soon as the vegetable basket was put down, the cotton towel covering it was uncovered, and a scent wafted out, which immediately attracted everyone to turn around to smell it. Aunt Li Wu was the first to ask: "Sanlin's, what makes your food so fragrant?"

Seeing that everyone was very curious, Lu Yumin explained with a smile: "Aunt Wu, there's nothing unusual, just made a bowl of water bubbles (the rice cracker is the rice cracker)!"

Fifth Aunt Li asked puzzledly: "Which family's water bubbles are so fragrant?"

Familiar people gathered around: "Yes, yes! My family makes water bubbles more than once or twice, but it has never been so delicious!"

Lu Yumin explained with a smile: "Actually, the fragrance is the fragrance of the spices! I fried some soybeans and pockmarked seeds, ground them into powder, added brown sugar, and then soaked the water and mixed them together. Come and taste it!"

Everyone was talking and laughing for a while and would definitely try this new recipe. At this time, a burst of firecrackers rang out, the elders of the clan stood in a row, and the men of each family also lined up behind the elders. After offering sacrifices to heaven and earth, they began to eat happily !

Lu Yumin has never had such a dinner party. From the east house to the west house, people who are close to each other come to try each other's dishes. An old man named Taigong in the clan is an old man without children. Today, as the elder of the clan, he even He was so happy that he had been drinking with an old lady in his generation.

The two elderly people ate the water soaked by Xiaojing Li's family and exclaimed that it was delicious!This ancient rice is not very delicious, and it is even more unpalatable if it is added with miscellaneous grains. Lu Yumin made this soaked water, not to mention soft and fragrant, but also very delicious, so the old man will eat it more happily!

Hearing that the two elders were shouting delicious food, several tables gathered around, so Li Sanlin had to divide the big bowl of soaked water into two parts, and sent one part to the table next to the grand ceremony for everyone to take it by themselves. .

Li Yuxiang curled her lips and said, "This little is not enough for my family, this time it will be even less!"

Li Yuqin tapped her with chopsticks: "You are not a child anymore, and you still say such things, be careful not to be laughed at by your uncles! Niuniu, Yaya, Huzi, Meiqing and others don't say anything!"

Li Yuxiang squeezed her nose: "I'm telling the truth! It's not that I don't want others to eat!"

Knowing that this thing was liked by everyone, Lu Yumin also smiled happily, while her mother-in-law Cui's expression changed several times.

Walking back with the basket in hand, Lu Yumin was chatting with Wang Dafeng: "Second sister-in-law, this idiot also said that I didn't have enough water soaked today, and I still have some seasoning, come and get some, and give it to the child when you have time." Get something to satisfy your hunger!"

Wang Dafeng was about to speak, when suddenly there was an exclamation from the front: "Grandfather, grandma, did you fall somewhere?"

The two approached and saw that the two old men had drunk too much and rolled into the field by the roadside!
The grandfather got up with everyone's help, his whole body was wet, his feet were slipping, and he kept saying, "Old sister-in-law! It's a good day this year! It's God who takes care of us! There is such a bountiful harvest!"

Grandma is also half-body muddy, and her speech is also slurred: "Boss, yes! Take care of us today, and life will be better! But once a year, you can eat the soaked water just now!"

The grandfather's tongue is already big: "It's delicious to soak in water, it's delicious!"

Everyone persuaded them: "You two old men drank too much, go back and change your clothes! You can talk again when you have energy."

The two old people shook their heads again and again: "No, no, no! We are not drunk! We are happy today! We are happy! God is good, we have such a good life..."

It wasn't until the juniors from the two families came to help them go away that Wang Dafeng shook his head and said, "I'm really happy to see these two drinking happily!"

Lu Yumin covered her mouth and smiled: "These two elders are really interesting!"

Wang Dafeng smiled and said: "These are the two oldest and senior elders in our clan! Every family presents a portion today, no wonder they are having a good time eating today! How can there be any good food and drink in normal times?" ! There are times when you don’t have enough to eat.”

Lu Yumin smiled and said, "It's still a small thing to eat, and the old man is right, they are happy! But as long as the sky takes care of them, as long as everyone works hard, there will always be enough to eat!"

Wang Dafeng teased her: "You are a good man! This Sanlin has picked up a treasure and returned!"

Lu Yumin said embarrassingly: "Second sister-in-law is laughing at me! I can still be a treasure just like me, as long as I don't be treated like a grass!"

Hearing Lu Yumin's negative words, Wang Dafeng said seriously: "Third brother and sister, the second sister-in-law is a few years older than you, but let me tell you a few words of truth, you must not underestimate yourself! What you should listen to is Listen, if you don't want to listen, just ignore it, don't embarrass yourself, live with Sanlin well! You are here, this family is really like a family! You are a good woman!"

Lu Yumin said emotionally: "Second sister-in-law, I will remember everything you said! You are the only one who treats me as a real sister-in-law in this family, thank you!"

——If I have the ability, Wang Dafeng, I, Lu Yumin, will do my best to help in the future!Just for you today, tell the truth!

(End of this chapter)