peasant girl wedding

Chapter 131 Boiled Peanuts

The sun has long since lost its shadow, and the sky is full of stars.

Tong Zhixin's family was a little anxious.

"Why haven't Zhi'er and the others come back?"

Fang Cuiwei looked anxious.

Tong Zhixin comforted her and said, "Perhaps we are on our way back, so don't worry."

After half an hour, Tong Zhi'er and the three still didn't come home, Fang Cuiwei couldn't hold back anymore.

"No, I have to go find them!" Fang Cuiwei opened the door and went out.

Tong Zhixin got up and followed her, "I'll go with you."

"There is only Duo'er in the family, so how can it work? I called my second sister-in-law over and asked her to be with Duo'er."

After calling Luo Shi here, Fang Cuiwei and Tong Zhixin went out in peace.

Under the shallow starlight, three figures slowly walked towards this side.

Fang Cui stopped slightly, and asked tentatively, "Zhi'er?"

"mother--"

Three different voices answered Fang Cuiwei.

Tong Zhixin and Fang Cuiwei walked over quickly, and Tong Zhi'er, Tong Zhu'er and Tong Zhaofu gradually saw their faces clearly.

"Why did you come back so late?"

Tong Zhixin noticed that the backs of the three of them were all bent, "Give me all the panniers." He walked behind the three of them and took off the panniers one by one.

The three panniers were full and heavy, no wonder they came back so late and their backs were bent like that.

Five people go home.

"Father, mother, the three of us got three baskets full of peanuts this year."

Tong Zhu'er said with a grin.

Fang Cuiwei was taken aback, "So powerful?"

"Well. Not only us, but also children from other families."

Fang Cuiwei was puzzled. According to previous years, the children picked up three or four catties of peanuts, and all of them filled their baskets. There were not many cases like this.

"Mom, I took care of their peanuts and pulled the peanuts and didn't plan them!"

Tong Zhi'er's words answered Fang Cuiwei's doubts.

Fang Cuiwei didn't say anything, but she was a little worried, the old lady, I'm afraid something will happen again.

……

Fang Cuiwei guessed right, the old lady was indeed in trouble.

Early the next morning, the old lady went to her six-acre peanut field after eating.When she found out that her peanut field had been planed by others, the old lady was furious and kept cursing.

But what's the use of scolding?She couldn't catch anyone, even if she knew it was the children who did it, she couldn't catch anyone, so she couldn't go door-to-door to make trouble!
She can't go to other people's houses to make trouble, but this mouth grows on her body. Walking all the way back, when passing by every house with children, people listened to the pointing and cursing.

However, no one paid any attention to her.

Let her scold.

Anyway, the old lady didn't name anyone, so she can say whatever she likes!
……

The old lady suffered from the loss of the six acres of land. After scolding, she moved the quilt from home and went to another eight acres of peanut fields. She planned to set up camp there and see who dared to mess around under her nose!
"It's not good, it's not good. The old lady of the Tong family moved the quilt and guarded her eight acres of peanut fields. It's hard for us to find an opportunity to start."

Guozi and his friends heard the news and immediately told the other children.

Everyone, you look at me and I look at you, but there is no good idea.

Someone said, "Why don't we let it go and pick other peanut fields."

"Yes, yes, the old lady of the Tong family is so powerful, if she catches us, she will definitely go into a rage."

"Pot, what do you say?"

Guozi lowered his head and thought for a while before saying, "Let's leave the eight acres of land for the old lady of the Tong family aside, and pick up the peanuts from other places first."

Everyone took their back baskets and small shovels and walked to other fields.

The pot called a little friend to stop.

"Huzi, let's keep an eye on the old lady of Tong's family. She is too old to sleep outside. She must not be able to bear the heavy exposure. Then we will have a chance."

Hu Zi chuckled twice, clenched his fist and hit Guo Zi's chest, winked and said with a smirk, "You have so many eyes!"

The pot slapped his hand off, and said in a deep voice, "Do you want to do it?"

"Of course I did. Last night we got several baskets full of peanuts from the six-acre peanut field of the old lady of Tong's family. We picked up peanuts in other's fields and didn't lose much. It's better to guard the old lady of Tong's family now, and when she can't bear it anymore, we will act secretly."

"Okay, let's go!"

The two of them carried their baskets on their backs and walked to the eight acres of peanut fields in Tong's old house that hadn't been visited yet.

……

"Second Sister, shall we not pick peanuts today?" Tong Zhaofu asked Tong Zhi'er.

Tong Zhi'er smiled, "No hurry, let's wait a few days before going." She dumped all the peanuts in the basket in the yard and spread them out so that the dirt on the peanuts would fall off.

When eating last night, Tong Zhixin looked at the peanuts and said that many of them could be used to make seeds.

She asked Tong Zhu'er to go to the house to get another bag, and the two of them picked out the big, plump peanuts together.

After Fang Cuiwei finished washing her clothes, she also came to help.

The mother and daughter, the three of them, spent half an hour picking out the peanuts that could be used as seeds.However, this kind of seeds is not enough. Her family has 150 mu of land, and she will have to buy some peanut seeds by then.

Fang Cuiwei took the peanut seeds aside to dry, while Tong Zhi'er took a dustpan, grabbed half of the peanuts in the dustpan, and spread the rest evenly so that they could bask in the sun.

"Second sister, should we cook peanuts now?"

Tong Zhu'er and Tong Zhaofu asked at the same time.

"Ah."

Several people went to the kitchen, scooped up water, and washed the peanuts.Then put it into a clean pot, add water to cover it, Tong Zhier puts salt, pepper, scented bark, garlic, ginger in it, and then starts to add firewood to cook peanuts in the stove.

Tong Zhu'er and Tong Zhaofu didn't leave, so they waited in the kitchen with her, chatting and gossip.

The time passed quickly while chatting, and the fragrance seeped out from the crack of the pot lid along with the white mist, and floated into the nose and mouth, making Tong Zhu'er and Tong Zhaofu swallow their saliva.

Turn off the fire, let the residual heat simmer the peanuts for a while, Tong Zhier felt that the time was almost up, so he lifted the lid of the pot.

The thick water vapor dissipated, and the cooked peanuts exuding an attractive aroma lay in the pot one by one.

Tong Zhu'er gave Tong Zhi'er the sieve she had prepared a long time ago, so that she could scoop the peanuts into it for easy draining.

"Pearl, Ah Fu, try it."
Tong Zhi'er scooped up a spoonful of peanuts on the spatula, and handed it to the two who were staring anxiously at the slobbering pot.

Tong Zhu'er grabbed one first and blew it to cool, but handed it to Tong Zhaofu, then took one and put it in her hand, blew on it, peeled it off, fed it into her mouth, and squinted her eyes in satisfaction.

(End of this chapter)