happy event

Chapter 43

Mrs. Cao couldn't hear the answer for a long time, she looked up and saw the younger daughter's back, so she was so angry that she wanted to complain to the older daughter.They didn't want to reach out, but found nothing. It turned out that Mrs. Cao and his wife were bringing their two sons to eat around the pottery bowl full of meat.

Granny Cao was trembling with distress, she quickly reached out and snatched the pottery bowl, hugged it in her arms and cursed, "You heartless people, your father and I haven't touched the chopsticks yet, you've already eaten the meat!"

The two snot-nosed boys were eating deliciously, when the clay bowl was suddenly snatched by their grandmother, and they burst into tears, "I want to eat meat, I want to eat meat!"

Sister Cao also felt that she hadn’t enjoyed the meal, and she couldn’t help complaining to her mother when she heard her son crying, “Mom, it’s just a bowl of meat, why are you so distressed, I’ll just buy a piece of meat and return it to you someday! "

Mrs. Cao didn't like this, and said, "Since you married into the Chen family, let alone meat, I haven't even seen a vegetable leaf. Take the child back to cook, our family's food is also very expensive." Not much more, come to eat less in the future!"

Eldest sister Cao was ashamed by the words, she turned around angrily and dragged the child away.Chen Lao Er secretly withdrew his hands, saluted his mother-in-law salaciously, and hurried after him.

Sister Cao walked on the road bitterly, complaining about how unreasonable my old lady was.But she sang a one-man show for a long time and didn't see her man agreeing. Turning around, she found that her man and her two sons each had two fried fish in their hands and were eating them with gusto.She immediately exploded with anger, slapped her eldest son on the head, grabbed his fried fish and stuffed it into her mouth.

The eldest son was beaten and lost his food, so he cried as he dragged his neck.Chen Laoer is still considered a good father, he hurriedly stuffed his own fried fish into his son's mouth, and finally he was clean.Sister Cao glared at him and scolded, "You all know how to slap your own mouth, why don't you take two for me!"

Chen's second son laughed dryly and refused to respond, but the second son said while licking his fingers, "Mother is the most stupid, she only cares about quarreling."

Sister Cao couldn't allow her son to laugh at her, and she was about to take off her cloth shoes, and the second boy ran away in fright.

In the courtyard of the Cao family, Mrs. Cao was yelling at the empty fish plate, "These damned white-eyed wolves, when will the fried fish be taken away? If I catch you, I will break your legs! Oh, my fish! ah……"

She wanted to find someone to make the decision, but it was a pity that old man Cao was so angry that he left the house, and even the second sister Cao closed the door and window and refused to come out.

So, for a while, she was the only one left cursing in Cao's yard, and the birds on the big tree in the corner of the yard were tired of hearing it, and they spread their wings and flew away to find a better place to rest...

When Dong Rong returned to the mountain, Mr. Feng, his master and his disciples were already sat down drinking tea and chatting with each other after eating and drinking.Qingfeng tidied up all the dishes and chopsticks very diligently, and when Dong Rong came back, she moved a chair for her and put it under the grape arbor.

Dong Rong thanked him with a smile, then took the tea handed by Sha Zhu and drank it in one gulp.Her stomach was already empty, and the tea made her stomach rumble.Dong Rong quickly reached out to cover her stomach, and smiled a little embarrassedly, "I was so thirsty and drank in a hurry, Uncle Feng, don't laugh at me."

Old Master Feng shook his head with a smile and said, "I am a doctor, how can I laugh at such a natural thing. You haven't eaten yet, go and get some food for yourself, if you are hungry for a long time, the spleen and stomach will easily get sick .”

After hearing this, Silly Zhu unconsciously showed annoyance on his face, and asked, "You went to deliver food, didn't they keep you for dinner?"

No matter how disliked the Cao family, Dong Rong couldn't gossip in front of Mr. Feng, so she replied vaguely, "Mother didn't cook too much food, and I'm not too hungry, so I came back early." After finishing speaking, She refilled the old man's tea, then went to the kitchen to simply fill some rice and stuff her stomach with the leftovers.

Seeing that his disciple's face was very dark, Mr. Feng frowned slightly.As a superior person, the most taboo thing is to be easily manipulated by others.However, the disciple who is usually very cold-hearted today easily became angry just because of this woman's starvation, which shows that this woman is extremely important to him.It's a pity that this kid doesn't know it yet. If this goes on, perhaps he, a fool, won't be able to hide it for long...

The small ice yard outside the city was busy as usual from early in the morning, until all the buyers who came to the door were dismissed, and Wang Lu and his wife had time to sit down and rest for a while.Du Juan hugged the sewing basket and seized the time to sew small clothes for the baby in her belly.But the cloth brought to the Wang family when she got married was really rough, so she wondered if she should go to the street to buy a better fine cotton cloth.

Now the monthly salary of the couple is enough for them to improve their lives a little bit, but due to the frugal habits of the peasant family, she is not willing to spend it.

When she was so hesitant, she looked up and saw Dong Rong and Sha Zhu coming in from the door carrying big bags.She hurriedly got up to meet her and said with a smile, "Why are you here at this time, but you are in the city for business?"

Dong Rong hurriedly waved her hand to signal her to sit down again, and said angrily, "It's not that we don't have long hands, but we need your help wherever there are a few packages? You are serious about taking care of my little nephew quickly. If he gets tired, I won't forgive him." You."

Du Juan felt warm in his heart, but retorted, "They are all peasant wives, and they still have to carry water and cook the day before giving birth. They are not as delicate as you said."

Dong Rong didn't argue, she reached out to open a package, took out two pieces of fabric and a box of embroidery thread, and said to her, "I bought two pieces of muslin, my sister-in-law will make two sets of new clothes for my little nephew."

How could Du Juan be willing to accept it, and she refused repeatedly, "How can this be done? If I want to buy it, I will pay for it myself. How can I make you spend money?"

Dong Rong reached out and patted her, and quickly put all the fabric and embroidery thread into the sewing basket, "This is for my little nephew, not for you, don't make decisions for my little nephew."

Du Juan felt that it would be a bit unfair to push back, so he pointed to the remaining two pieces of fabric in the package and said, "Is this the material for making a long gown for Brother Ping, just give it to me to sew together."

"No, this is to make a coat for the pillars, I can do it myself." Dong Rong blushed a little, and quickly tied up the package.

Du Juan covered her mouth with a smile and joked, "Brother Ping is so pitiful, my sister forgot about it after only a few days in the academy."

"Sister-in-law, please don't provoke our siblings. Be careful that my brother Ping is serious about that honest boy. I just bought some meat, and I'm about to make some food to send to the academy."

"What are you going to do, I will help you!"

"No, I'll make the two snacks myself." Dong Rong rejected Du Juan's offer, went to the kitchen to knead the dough, and was busy preparing the stuffing.

Although there is a canteen in the academy, anyone who has eaten big pot rice knows that no matter how good the material is, it will be like pig food.Dong Rong was afraid that the fat her brother had managed to grow would lose weight, so she thought about making some delicious and easy-to-store shortbread to send over.Even if you don't like the dishes in the canteen on weekdays, grabbing a shortbread and eating a few bites is a hundred times better than going hungry.Besides, there is also poor child Xizi, eight or nine years old is the time to grow up, if you delay growing up, you will regret it for the rest of your life.

In her previous life, in order to pay her tuition fees, Dong Rong worked around in her spare time. One of the proprietresses pitied her for being helpless and took good care of her.Dong Rong reciprocated, and worked very hard, and the proprietress did not shy away from her when she did some technical processes, so she let her learn a lot.

This thousand-layer shortbread is the signature food in the proprietress's shop, and Dong Rong is also very familiar with making it.The fine noodles in the big basin were half scalded with water, and then half of them were mixed with warm water, then added vegetable oil and a small amount of salt and kneaded together until the surface of the dough was smooth before putting it in the basin to wake up.At this time, take another large pottery bowl and put more than half of the fine noodles, add only the fried vegetable oil and stir quickly, and finally get the oily noodles in the shape of sand.

As for the stuffing, the weather is hot in summer, so it’s not easy to add fresh meat. You can only choose icing sugar, sesame seeds, walnut kernels, prunes, vegetables and bacon.

Wait until the nuts are fried and smashed into fine pieces, and the dough wakes up.The rolling pin with the thickness of the arm is waved, and soon the dough becomes a large round cake, which is evenly sprinkled with oil and rolled into rolls, cut into small pieces with a knife, and then filled with fillings after pressing flat to seal the opening.Finally, it can be slowly fried in a frying pan.Until the water in the dough is completely dispersed, a golden shortbread is ready.

Needless to say, Sha Zhu was naturally the first taster.Dong Rong was afraid that he would be scalded, so she broke open a shortbread with preserved vegetables and bacon to dry for a long time before handing it to him.Silly Zhu swallowed it in two or three bites and then shouted yes, before Dong Rong could do it, he took another one himself.

After being praised for her craftsmanship, Dong Rong was inevitably in a good mood. She packed a few and took them out for Wang Lu and his wife to taste. After that, she buried her head and baked the rest of the dough, filling a large food box.

Du Juan is at the time when she is pregnant, and she will spit out whatever she eats, but this shortbread is just right for her appetite, and after eating one after another, she is reluctant to stop.Seeing his daughter-in-law's appearance, Wang Lu pushed the plate towards her.

Dong Rong changed her clothes and came out and smiled when she saw it, "It's not a good thing. Since my cousin likes it, I'll make more when I come back later."

Wang Lu looked happy and wanted to thank him, but he was clumsy and tongue-tied and didn't know what to say. In the end, he just strode forward to open the courtyard door for Dong Rong.

Silly Zhu also came out of the stove at this moment, reached out to take the food box in Dong Rong's hand very naturally, and then the two went back into the city side by side.

Since Sister-in-Law Liu guessed that Dong Rong was her boss, she acted more attentively than before.Originally, Dong Rong wanted to ask someone to ask about the private rules and taboos of the academy, but on the night of Dong Ping's admission, Sister-in-law Liu reported all the results of her busy day of inquiry.Dong Rong was naturally happy, and after giving her a lot of praise, she gave her a lot of food to take back to coax the child.

Sister-in-law Liu got to eat, and her mouth was almost crooked when she smiled, causing sister-in-law Qiu and others to gossip endlessly.Sister-in-law Liu was not annoyed when she heard this, but felt sorry for them being kept in the dark.

(End of this chapter)