Peasant woman

Chapter 9

On the third day, it was time for Xu Cao to return home. The two of them got up early in the morning. Xu Cao made breakfast. After everyone had finished breakfast, they hurriedly cleaned up the kitchen. They saw Fugui was outside putting eggs one by one. put in the basket.

Xu Cao pursed her lips and smiled, wiped her hands, and stepped forward to help, "I'll come, go and see what else you need to bring, we won't come back at noon, why don't you go and take Miao Miao with you. "

Fu Gui grinned, "Sure, then I'll go and bring Miao Miao over."

The three of them went to Xu Cao's natal house in this way, carrying a basket of eggs, and a mountain jump that Fu Gui had beaten the day before yesterday. The wild rabbit was fat and big, weighing eight or nine catties.

This is the first time for Miao Miao to go out, it is very strange, lying on Fugui's arms and looking around.

But after they left, Mrs. Niu stood in the yard scribbling for a while, seeing that no one was paying attention to her, she sneaked into Fu Gui and Xu Cao's room.Just about to open the door and go in, I heard Shen's voice behind me, "Third siblings, I don't think you should pay attention to those honeycombs and rock candies. It's not like you don't know how big brother is and how precious sister-in-law is. Those things are useful to sister-in-law. If you are stolen and the eldest brother gets angry, we can't help you."

As Shen said, she laughed sarcastically, and she didn't know what happened to the third brother, why he fell in love with such a lazy woman.

Mrs. Niu's face turned blue and white after being told by Mrs. Shen, turned around and gave Mrs. Shen a hateful look, but knowing she was wrong, she walked out the door angrily without saying anything.

Heizi and Xiaobai lay outside the yard, and the two dogs glanced at her.Niu was so angry that she glared at Heizi and Xiaobai. She dared not provoke Heizi, but she was not afraid of Xiaobai.Niu was angry and felt that everything was Xu Cao's fault. If her elder brother hadn't married Xu Cao, all those good things would be hers.

The more she thought about it, the angrier she became, and she kicked towards Xiaobai.Except for his master and Heizi, Xiaobai is not afraid of anyone. When he saw something kicking towards him, he bit it without thinking.Heizi on the side raised his eyelids and closed them again.

Xiaobai's bite was so hard that Niu cried out in pain.Called out all the Yang family members.

Niu's tears were full of pain, and when he saw his husband coming out, he limped over and began to cry, "Sister-in-law, you have to make the decision for me, the dog brought by this sister-in-law actually bit me. Me, this biting dog can’t be kept in our family, I think it’s better to kill this dog, otherwise what will happen if it bites a passer-by?”

Hearing the words, Mrs. Chen also echoed: "Father, what's the matter with this old man? The biting dog was not killed earlier, and it was brought to our house. I think it's better to take the dog away while she is away. Kill it."

The whole family of the Yang family didn't speak, Shen gave Niu a look, and said: "Mother, this dog can't talk, we can't wrong it, I clearly saw that it was the third sibling who kicked the little white dog first." of."

As soon as these words came out, Yang Datong, the youngest of the Yang family, was a little displeased. He frowned and glanced at Niu, and said, "Tui'er, this is your fault. Why are you making trouble with a dog? If you let eldest brother If my sister-in-law knows, what will they think? I will be embarrassed too. Let’s forget about it today, and I will accompany you to the town to get some medicine later, and I can’t let my elder brother and sister-in-law know about this. "

Everyone in the country knows that the watchdog cannot be provoked casually, and besides, no one dares to kick the watchdog casually.

Upon hearing this, Niu burst into tears.

Shen Shi glanced at Niu Shi, only to think that this woman is really stupid.

Father Yang also frowned and waved his hand, "It's all gone, let's go to the field to break corn soon, third child, you take your wife to the town to see, such an inconspicuous thing is not easy. It’s really confusing to do it.”

The big guys just left, and Yang Datong also borrowed an ox cart, and took his confused daughter-in-law to the town.

They were all from the same village. Xu Cao and the others soon arrived at Xu's house. Mrs. Xu was squatting at the door. When she saw her girl and son-in-law, she hurriedly stood up and shouted into the house: "His father, His father, come out quickly, the daughter is back."

After that, Father Xu and the second and third girls of the Xu family also came out.Seeing my sister, Erya Sanya rushed over.

Several people entered the house, Mrs. Xu hurriedly poured some bowls of boiled water over, and said to Fugui with a smile: "Fugui, you are thirsty, drink water quickly."

Fugui grinned and was not polite, picked up the big bowl and drank it all in one gulp, "Thank you mother, I am not thirsty anymore."

Seeing his naive look, Xu Cao couldn't help laughing again.

Miao Miao came here for the first time, she was very nervous, looked around, Xu Cao thought that the hill was about the same size as Miao Miao, so she carried Miao Miao into the back room and let the two children play on the kang.

Seeing that the eldest girl was getting along with her son-in-law quite happily, Mrs. Xu secretly pulled Xu Cao into the kitchen, and whispered, "Eldest girl, is he treating you well? It should be quite honest."

Xu Cao smiled and said, "Mom, he is very kind to me." As she said that, she hurriedly handed the basket in her hand to Aunt Xu, "Here are the wild eggs he picked up on the mountain, and he brought them back for you to eat. That wild rabbit, you also keep it and eat it, to nourish Erya Sanya and Xiaoshan, don't take these things to the town to sell again."

Aunt Xu glanced at Xu Cao, and muttered: "It's not that I don't know, don't worry, I will save it for Xiaoshan and the others to make up for my body, and I won't sell it in the town."

Xu Cao said again: "Don't always give Xiao Shan all the good things to eat, and treat Erya and Sanya better."

"You damn girl, you even talked about teaching my old lady." Aunt Xu couldn't bear it, and wanted to grab Xu Cao's ear, but she put her hand down when she realized that her son-in-law was still outside, "Come on, I already know, You don't need to remind me. By the way, big girl, what are you doing to Fugui's daughter so well? It's not your own. Besides, if you give birth to a doll in the future, what will you do with the doll? Hey, if you don't have this delay How nice an oil bottle."

Li Shi said and sighed.

Xu Cao hurriedly said: "Mom, what are you talking about, Miao Miao is very good and cute, I treat her as my own daughter and love her. I love her, and she will treat me well in the future."

Aunt Xu, Mrs. Li burst out laughing, nodded Xu Cao's head, and said with a smile: "You damn girl, how old are you, you are still your own daughter, and you are not shy when you talk."

Xu Cao chuckled, "I'm already married, why should I be ashamed?"

Aunt Xu also laughed, as long as the son-in-law treats her daughter well, it will be fine.

At noon, Fu Gui and Xu Cao stayed for dinner. Aunt Xu's craftsmanship is really amazing, a scrambled egg with chives, and a stewed hare with mushrooms.Xu Cao, who was eating, lamented that the old lady was eccentric, and she was always asked to do the cooking instead of cooking with such a good cooking skill.

However, Xu Cao's cooking skills are not bad either. He has learned from Xu's old lady since he was a child, and with the addition of those recipes from his previous life, there are many ways to cook and the taste is good.

After dinner, Xu Cao wanted to go back early to get her grape jam, so she told Mrs. Xu and Mrs. Xu, and the three of them went back first.

After returning home, Niu was alone at home. Seeing her limping, Xu Cao worriedly asked, "Third brother and sister, what's wrong with you?"

Niu couldn't tell, so he glared at Xu Cao and said angrily, "Is it possible to accidentally fall? You don't need to pretend to be kind!"

"Chengcheng, I don't care about you." After saying that, she carried the sleeping Miao Miao back to the room, covered Miao Miao with a quilt, and Xu Cao came to the kitchen with a big bag of grapes.Fugui didn't have anything to do today, so he walked up to Xu Cao, "Daughter-in-law, do you want me to help?"

"Then help me wash these grapes."

Fugui was puzzled, "Daughter-in-law, is this thing called a grape? We all call her Ziguozi."

Xu Cao was also very puzzled. The place she traveled to had no historical records. There were still common vegetables and crops here, but there were no fruits.It's just that there are some wild grapes, wild pears, wild peaches and other fruits in the mountains.But they all have no names, everyone calls them wild fruits.

Seeing his daughter-in-law in a daze, Fugui hurriedly asked again.Only then did Xu Cao come back to her senses, and said with a smile, "I read it from a book, so I ordered it. Alright, hurry up and help me wash all these. Let's make jam later."

The two worked together to wash out all the wild grapes and peel off all the grape skins.The wild grapes are all ripe, and when squeezed, the grape skins are separated from the grape pulp.

Xu Cao hurriedly boiled the grape skins in a large pot with water, and waited until the juice in the pot turned purple, then turned off the fire, fished out the grape skins, and squeezed out the juice inside.The grapes have thick skins, otherwise they can be added to make jam.

Then pour the grape pulp and purple juice into the pot and boil it. When it boils, the pulp inside has almost melted. Xu Cao quickly fetched a clean white gauze and filtered the grape seeds inside. .Then it started to cook again. After boiling, the fire in the stove was turned off, leaving only a small fire. Add rock sugar and honey into the pot, and then keep stirring until the sauce is thick.

The first pot of grape jam came out. Xu Cao found a clean porcelain jar and put it in. She tasted it, and it tasted sweet and sour. It tasted much better than the one she ate in her previous life, probably because grapes and bees are natural. Yes, without any pollution sake.

Fugui also took a bite, and praised his wife's delicious food.

Xu Cao kept two bowls for his family to taste, and sealed the rest.After working all afternoon, only two earthen pots of grape jam came out of the sack of wild grapes.

As soon as the second pot was out of the oven, Niu limped in cheekily and sniffed, "Brother, sister-in-law, why do you ask, it smells so good?"

(End of this chapter)