The Spring of the Peasant Woman of Transmigration

Chapter 9

Li Sanlin's parents and elder brother's family live in a seven-model house, with key heads on both sides and the courtyard wall, which is a four-box courtyard.

As soon as they entered the courtyard, the eldest sister Li Yuqin took the lead and called out: "Third brother, third sister-in-law!"

Li Sanlin asked: "Big sister, where's mother?"

Li Yuqin took the basket from the third brother's hand and said, "I'm helping you choose vegetables in the kitchen, where are Niuniu and Yaya?"

Lu Yumin answered, "I'm watching their dried red bayberry at home!"

Li Yuqin asked: "Third sister-in-law, I heard from second sister-in-law yesterday that you are teaching them to dry bayberry. Is that really delicious?"

Lu Yumin shyly said: "I'm not sure if it's delicious, some people may like it, and some people may not like it, because it's a bit sweet and sour."

Li Yuqin said: "That should be good! I'll pick some up tomorrow too, will you teach me how to dry it too?"

Lu Yumin nodded lightly: "You have to pick those half-red and half-green ones!"

Li Yuqin said happily, "That's fine!"

When his eldest sister went in, Li Sanlin asked Lu Yumin, "Where did you learn to make this dried bayberry?"

Lu Yumin thought, I can't say that I have done it too many times in my previous life, can I?So I made up a reason and said: "I saw it in a book before, and I didn't have money to buy snacks at home, but my mouth was very greedy. The food in the book could be eaten after drying, so I thought about trying to make it. It's done!"

Li Sanlin couldn't read a few big characters, so when he heard Lu Yumin talk about what was written in the book, he stopped asking and took her into the kitchen.

Li Sanlin walked up to a woman in her fifties and called out: "Mom!" Then she called out to another woman in her early thirties: "Sister-in-law!" The two of them were plucking chicken feathers.

Lu Yumin immediately followed up and shouted: "Mother-in-law, sister-in-law!" For this woman who was not satisfied with her and was unfamiliar, she really couldn't say the word mother!

Mrs. Cui gave a "hmm" with her nose, her face was expressionless, but the sister-in-law responded enthusiastically: "The Sanlin family is here? Didn't you call your second sister-in-law?"

Lu Yumin immediately said, "We didn't come by her house, we came directly up the field."

The elder sister-in-law Zhang Guihua is a powerful woman who likes to gossip and is stingy, so she deliberately stood up and patted her waist and said, "Oh, this person is too old to die. Just squatting for a while, his waist hurts and his head is dizzy!"

Lu Yumin understood what she meant, and immediately squatted beside the basin and said, "Mother-in-law, sister-in-law, let me fix this, you all rest for a while."

Cui gave Zhang a sideways look: "It seems that you are older than me!" After speaking, she stood up and went to the living room without looking back.

Zhang Guihua smiled brightly and said: "Sisters and brothers, mother-in-law has such a temper, don't worry about it!"

Lu Yumin said: "Sister-in-law, mother-in-law didn't say anything! You should really go and rest for a while, I'll fix it here!"

Li Sanlin looked at Lu Yumin suspiciously and asked, "Can you do it?"

Zhang Guihua jokingly said: "The third brother really loves his wife! Is it possible to poke a chicken feather?"

Li Sanlin said: "Didn't I see her do it? She's not as smart and capable as my sister-in-law. I'm afraid she won't do it, and I won't have anything to eat later in the evening!"

Seeing Li Sanlin's unnatural expression, Lu Yumin pushed him and said, "Go out, this kitchen is for women, go and talk to your father and brother."

Younger sister Li Yuxiang ran in and said, "Daddy has gone to the vegetable field, and elder brother is also busy. Third brother, you should accompany third sister-in-law to pluck chicken feathers!"

Li Sanlin said: "This is not something the elders did! I'll go to the vegetable field in the back room to see if there is anyone who needs my help. If not, I will go back first."

Lu Yumin said: "Then you go! After the sun goes down, help put away the dried red bayberry, and then bring the two children over for dinner."

Li Sanlin really left after saying "um", and his sister-in-law Zhang said, "Third brother and sister, I'll go have some tea first, and I'll help you later!"

Lu Yumin smiled and said, "Sister-in-law, you just have to go, I can do it!"

Seeing that sister-in-law took the opportunity to be lazy, Li Yuxiang wrinkled her nose and curled her lips before asking, "Sister-in-law three, can you eat dried bayberry?"

Lu Yumin smiled and said, "It's still not good, it must be soaked in the sun for three times, and then steamed before eating!"

Li Yuxiang: "Ah, sister-in-law three, it's so complicated!"

Lu Yumin said: "It's not complicated, it just needs to be submerged in the sun for a few times!"

Li Yuxiang knelt down and plucked the chicken feathers with Lu Yumin, and asked as they plucked, "Sister-in-law three, are you telling the elder sister how to dry it?"

Lu Yumin said, "Does little sister want to learn too?"

Li Yuxiang said with an embarrassed expression: "Sister-in-law San's words are so complicated, I'm afraid I won't be able to learn them!"

Lu Yumin encouraged her with a smile: "It's very simple, as long as you post it once, you will do it."

Li Yuxiang said: "Then I will go to the mountain with my second sister to pick red bayberries tomorrow, and my third sister-in-law will teach us."

The two sisters-in-law talked and laughed, and after a while Lu Yumin took the plucked chicken and asked Li Yuxiang to wash it off with water, then put it on the cutting board and asked, "Is it broken here?"

Li Yuxiang said: "Put the cutting board on the stone outside the back door, where it is broken, and the water is convenient there."

Lu Yumin took the chicken, Li Yuxiang lifted the cutting board, and led the way to the back door of the kitchen. It turned out that there was a small stone-built flat, a large water tank was next to the root of the mountain, and a bamboo pipe poured water from the mountain. , directly into the big tank, it is indeed much more convenient!

Lu Yumin found a piece of ragged clothes and tied it around her waist, picked up a kitchen knife and aimed it at the chicken's stomach and blew it down, but her strength was too weak, and she didn't cut off the chicken's skeleton after a few chops!

Just as she was about to chop again, a big hand took the kitchen knife in her hand and pulled her to stand beside her. She staggered and was about to fall to the ground. Li Sanlin hugged her in his arms.

Li Yuxiang said with a smile: "Sister-in-law three, seeing how much third brother likes you, I won't see you for a while, so I want to hug you!"

Lu Yumin blushed, Li Sanlin scolded the younger sister and said: "Girls are so mean, what are you talking about hugging and hugging! Be careful, I will tell mother!"

Li Yuxiang was born to her mother-in-law Cui Gao at the age of 36. She is just [-] years old and has a lively personality. Her older brothers dote on her very much. She is not afraid of the third brother, so she laughed while running, "The third brother just knows how to talk. Me, are you clearly hugging Sister-in-law San?
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Seeing that the little girl was gone, Li Sanlin pulled Lu Yumin aside, picked up the kitchen knife, and chopped off a chicken with one stroke. After turning it over a few times, he wiped the chicken clean. Seeing Lu Yumin Dazed, he said: "Why are you in a daze! Get some water and wash it!"

Lu Yumin immediately; "Oh, oh, I'll come!"

When the blood on the chicken was washed away by the water, Li Sanlin immediately cleaned up the internal organs of the chicken: "Stand away a bit, and when I divide it into pieces, be careful not to splash on you! It's so small, and I want to separate such a big one!" Chicken, I think you want to toss yourself in! Don’t you know how to call someone if you can’t cut it? You’re still tossing around!”

Lu Yumin stood two steps away from him holding a water spoon: "Didn't you say to visit your father? Why didn't you go? There is no man at home, they are all women, which one do you want me to call?"

Li Sanlin said: "Father went to the back mountain to cut small bamboos. During the summer harvest, the bamboo baskets have to be repaired. The bamboo craftsman will come in a few days. Let the older sister do this in the future. She is bigger than you!"

Lu Yumin said: "How can I do that? If my mother-in-law finds out, she won't like me even more. You can go back later, the two children are still at home! In fact, they don't need to be guarded, they just want to Just keep playing."

Li Sanlin looked at Lu Yumin and said: "Let them go by themselves! After a while, they will find it boring, so they will run away naturally! Don't take the children too seriously, or they won't know the hardships of this life."

Lu Yumin bit her lip and said, "I'm just a servant, I can't control the children's education! If I don't value them, I won't be pointed at the backbone!"

Li Sanlin stared and asked: "What are you talking about? You are a servant? You don't care about your children's education? It seems that you don't remember your identity. Let's see how you deal with you at night!"

Li Yuqin picked up good vegetables under the shade of the trees in the yard and went into the kitchen. When she saw Li Sanlin coming in with the cutting board, she asked, "Hey, why is the third brother doing it? Isn't it mother and sister-in-law who are doing it?"

Lu Yumin came in just in time to hear Li Yuqin's words: "Mother-in-law and sister-in-law are both tired, I'll let them rest for a while!"

Li Yuqin curled her lips and said, "These sisters-in-law are really nice! The eldest sister-in-law always says she's tired! The second sister-in-law and the fourth sister-in-law are both busy, so aren't you busy, third sister-in-law?"

Lu Yumin knew that it was her sister-in-law who was complaining, so she smiled and said, "What can I do? Anyway, I can't do anything. Second sister, how do you cook this chicken?"

Li Yuqin saw that Lu Yumin was on a business trip, so she followed the topic and said, "Put it in the casserole and stew it together with the white beans in the pot! Third brother and third sister-in-law, you can go to work too, my sister and I can make it here." of."

Lu Yumin said: "Second sister, I'll help you. Your third brother goes back to see the two children. Come and tell me, what are you going to do now?"

Seeing that Lu Yumin was really willing to do something, Li Yuqin said, "Let's wrap the zongzi first, and then wash and cut the vegetables when the zongzi is cooking. When the zongzi is cooked, we can cook!"

Lu Yumin asked, "How many zongzi should I pack?"

Li Yuqin said: "You don't need to pack much, the ones that went to my uncle's house were delivered yesterday, and today we will pack a few bunches for our own food."

It was only then that Lu Yumin remembered that this place was the same as her hometown in the previous life, and she would go back to her natal family to give gifts on three festivals a year!She frowned and thought, is there anyone else in her body?

The glutinous rice for making zongzi has been soaked long ago. Some zongzi leaves are placed on the side of the basin, and there are some soaked red rice beans in the glutinous rice.

Lu Yumin asked: "Second sister, do you put red beans in this rice dumpling?"

Li Yuqin was surprised: "Then just put red beans, what else?"

Lu Yumin said: "Don't put oil, salt, soy sauce or sugar?"

Li Yuqin said, "I've never heard of these being used to make zongzi!"

Lu Yumin said, "I've packed these things before, so I'm asking you like this."

Li Yuqin said, "Sister-in-law three, let's try packing some? Half of it is the same as before, and half of it is the stuff you said."

Lu Yumin said: "Okay, you take a big bowl and divide half of the glutinous rice, and I'll put the oil, salt, sauce, and sugar in the bowl, and see which one tastes better!"

Li Yuqin divided half of the glutinous rice into bowls as promised, and after Lu Yumin mixed the seasoning, he began to wrap it.

Having not made zongzi for many years, Lu Yumin's hands were a little stiff, so she made them into mini zongzi, and Li Yuqin burst into tears from laughing!
(End of this chapter)