peasant young lady

Chapter 31
Just in time, I saw Dahua's clumsy body sliding towards the vegetable field on the east side of the yard, and this fall directly overwhelmed a small half of the green vegetables. The big flower stood up.

However, the ground was wet and slippery. Cheng Xia just supported Dahua to get up, but Dahua's foot slipped, and she fell into the vegetable field with Cheng Xia.

Mrs. Zhang wailed when she heard the movement, and started hitting Dahua, "You fat woman, you can't do this well. You don't know how heavy you are, my food, you crush me Halfway through, why am I so unlucky to add a daughter-in-law like you."

Liu Jingzhong ran out after him, and laughed when he saw the two people who had fallen on the ground, "Damn fat woman, you should be so rude to me, you should fall to your death."

Cheng Xia turned her head and glared at him, "If you dare to swear, I'll make you dumb." Then she helped Dahua up again, and hurried to a slightly dry place. Dahua itself is heavy, so a fall is not a trivial matter, and Because the fat center of gravity is unstable, it is easy to fall again, and Dahua should have considered this when she was about to pull the onion by herself.

"Pick up the broken green onions and vegetables, or I will beat you." Mrs. Zhang said cursingly, and entered the door with Liu Jingzhong, who wanted to fight.

"Who is it!" Cheng Xia muttered and quickly looked at Dahua, "Did you fall somewhere?"

"I'm fine," Dahua waved her hand embarrassingly, "I let you be scolded because of me."

"Hi," Cheng Xia smiled, "Mother just wants to find trouble, and she will scold you even if you don't do anything."

Cheng Xia really doesn't understand Zhang's thoughts. Looking at a child like Liu Jingzhong who is full of swear words, do you still expect him to be the champion of filial piety?
Forget it, anyway, she doesn't want to care about the child, but Dahua is so fat, she still needs to lose weight, otherwise she will never be able to have a child, and she will be tortured by Mrs. Zhang.Moreover, there is no girl who doesn't love beauty. Dahua's facial features are very delicate, but her eyes and nose are squeezed together by the flesh all over her face.

"Sister-in-law, don't be angry if I take the liberty to ask, were you also so fleshy when you were young?"

Dahua smiled nonchalantly, "I've been so fat since I was a child, no matter how little I eat, I won't lose weight. People eat like me, and they've already become skinny, but look at me," Dahua tugged at her belly Round after round of thick swimming rings, "I don't even know where this meat came from."

Cheng Xia nodded, took Dahua's hand and touched it, it was very cold, and then looked at her face carefully, not to mention the dark yellow, the skin on the face was a little loose, "Sister-in-law, can you sleep well at night?" ?”

Da Hua shook her head, "I'm always dreaming, and I wake up sweating from time to time."

"The monthly event?"

Da Hua's face turned red immediately, and she mumbled, "Very rarely, sometimes only once every two or three months."

Insomnia and dreaminess, hot flashes and night sweats, irregular menstruation, big flower is a deficiency of both Qi and blood.There are many troubles caused by women's qi and blood deficiency, and it is very laborious to adjust, not to mention some slightly hard-to-find medicinal diets, such as stewed duck legs with tangerine peel, Polygala jujube porridge, stewed quail with Radix Pseudostellaria, egg yolk juice and glutinous rice barley Ren porridge, even Mrs. Zhang would not give it to Dahua.

Cheng Xia had an idea in her heart, so she patted Dahua's hand with a smile, "Sister-in-law, let's get rid of the crushed green onions and spinach, or mother will have to find trouble later."

The two of them were sitting next to the pressurized well, chatting while washing the onion and garlic. Cheng Xia kept looking at the second aunt's yard out of the corner of her eyes, but she didn't see anyone, so she was a little disappointed. She really wanted to see that Qian Pan.

"Grind, haw, wash the vegetables for a long time, and let your eldest sister do all the housework. I have raised two aunts." Zhang's voice floated out from the kitchen window, Cheng Xia curled her lips, her mother It's really an automatic choice to ignore all the bad things about the big sister and big brother-in-law, and then automatically block their good things, no matter what you say, it doesn't work.

From now on, stay away from this home if you can.

Cheng Xia rubbed her sore waist, took a bowl of clean spinach and walked into the house, when she saw Qian Pan leaving the door, Cheng Xia quickly stopped and looked towards her second aunt, and saw Qian Pan was holding a backpack in his hand, as if he was about to go out.

This is nine months pregnant, why run outside?
Qian Pan closed the door, as if sensing it, suddenly turned back to look in Cheng Xia's direction, Cheng Xia smiled at her, Qian Pan was taken aback, quickly lowered his head, and quickly walked out of the second aunt's yard with a basket on his back.

"Second Aunt doesn't seem to be at home?" Cheng Xia asked Da Hua who was following behind.

"Second aunt took Cheng Qiu back to her mother's house. Second uncle went to the field and didn't come back at noon. Cheng Guang didn't know where he went." Dahua said concisely.

"It's already noon, and it's still raining lightly, not to mention she's about to give birth, what are you going to do now?" Cheng Xia watched Qian Pan disappear on the road in the village from a distance.

"Hey, I think the second aunt locked up the food again when she returned to her mother's house. Qian Pan had to go to the field to deliver food to the second uncle at noon, but there was no food to send. Maybe Qian Pan went out to dig wild vegetables again." Dahua With a sigh, he crossed the process and Xia entered the room.

Qian Pan's figure had disappeared, and Cheng Xia shook his head and followed into the door.

Mrs. Zhang and Cheng Shang were cooking, and Da Hua started to help. Cheng Xia moved to the side and Cheng Shang seemed to be facing an enemy. Cheng Xia simply moved a small bench and sat at the door connecting the kitchen and the main room, listening to the conversation in the main room. The elders talked with eloquence.

"Brother-in-law will definitely go to Qiu Wei High School, and we will enjoy the blessings at that time, hehe." The simple and honest voice belonged to her elder brother Cheng Zuo.

Cheng Zuo was nearly eight years younger than Cheng Shang, and ten years younger than Liu Wen, but the farmer looking at the wind and sun was older than the thin-skinned and tender-fleshed Liu Wen.Listening to him talking flatteringly to Liu Wen now, and even calling him brother-in-law, it sounds awkward no matter what.

But Liu Wen was quite satisfied, nodded in satisfaction, and then looked at the silent Yang Dalang with deep meaning, "I heard from my younger sister that my brother-in-law is also well-read in poetry and books, why don't you try to be a scholar?"

Cheng Xia also listened with anticipation. She also wanted to know that she heard Yang Dalang recite Zhao Kuangyin's poems this morning. Zhao Kuangyin's poems were really not good poems in the Northern Song Dynasty when there were many people.Yang Dalang knew such a biased poem, and Cheng Xia guessed that Yang Dalang was definitely not superficial.

Yang Dalang smiled, "I'm very clumsy, and I can't pass the exam as a scholar."

Liu Wen who said this was even more elated, smiling from the corners of his eyes and brows.

Cheng Zuo echoed and said, "No, no chicken, duck, cat or dog can be a scholar. My brother-in-law is a dragon and a phoenix, so naturally he is not an ordinary person."

"That's a good statement." Father Cheng was obviously satisfied with what Yang Dalang and Cheng Zuo said. "In August of this year, Liu Wen will be able to become an official after passing the provincial examination and he will be no ordinary person."

"Father, you're being polite," Liu Wen forced a modest smile. He is bound to win this year's Qiuwei exam.Not the No.6 Yakui, nor the third, fourth, or fifth place Jingkui, not even the No.2 Yayuan. His goal is to be the No.1 Jieyuan in this autumn. The last step.

Thinking of this last step that failed, Liu Wen looked at Yang Dalang with some resentment. If the younger sister hadn't been a hindrance, he would have got it now. It's good now, and it's still 15 taels of silver.

"My brother-in-law and my younger sister have a very good relationship, but the family in Benggeng Village insisted on marrying my younger sister, and you and my younger sister didn't exchange gifts. Even my younger sister couldn't let go of her brother-in-law, which shows that there is deep affection."

Yang Dalang still had that unbreakable and decent smile, "Yes."

As Cheng Xia listened, a mouthful of old blood almost spewed out.

Liu Wen saw that Yang Dalang asked and answered each sentence, and he didn't say a word of nonsense, and suddenly he couldn't help it. "I heard that my brother-in-law is not in good health, but he is better now."

"Ah."

Cheng Xia suddenly wanted to raise her head and laugh out loud, why didn't she know that this husband had such a side, he would never say two words if he could solve it with one word.

The student Cheng Zuo was so honest and dull that he didn't know how to read people's faces, and he said smartly, "Brother-in-law doesn't like to talk, so tell me, brother-in-law, I can."

Liu Wen quietly rolled his eyes, if it wasn't for the last step of the matter, and he still had to ask the Cheng family, he wouldn't bother talking to these vulgar people.

"Cheng Xia serves the dishes." Mrs. Zhang yelled loudly, and Cheng Xia habitually responded, clapping her hands and about to get up.

But looking at the empty hand, I couldn't laugh or cry.

When she was at home in the 21st century, Cheng Xia always habitually ate melon seeds while thinking about problems. At that time, her mother, like Zhang, always called her to serve dishes, and Cheng Xia patted the melon seeds that accidentally fell on her body. shell, and then ran to the kitchen to serve the dishes.

But now, where are the melon seeds?

The common sunflower seeds are native to Mexico in the southwestern part of the Americas. They were introduced to my country's Yunnan from Vietnam in the [-]th century, and were widely planted later.

Right now, it's not that there are melon seeds, but there are also watermelon seeds.Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica" said in the "Watermelon" article: "The seeds are burst to get the kernels, which are good for eating raw or fried." Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of this dynasty, liked it and baked fresh watermelon seeds with salt.

Oh, by the way, Li Shizhen was born in July 1518, and his parents are not yet born yet.Thinking about it, Cheng Xia suddenly felt that she was very good at wearing clothes. At this time, there were acquaintances everywhere.

Cheng Xia couldn't help but smack her lips. When there are watermelons in summer, she must make the most delicious melon seeds to satisfy her hunger.

"Cheng Xia, you lazy girl, where did you go if I asked you to serve a dish." Zhang's voice became louder.

Cheng Xia curled her lips, if she said that oil and salt should not be taken in, she still had to obey her mother, she has been acting so vicious these past two days, her mother acted as if nothing had happened, she didn't feel embarrassed when she met her, she should continue to be her boss.

Cheng Xia responded and brought out the prepared dishes one by one. Cheng You was already bored sitting among several big men. He also helped Cheng Xia serve the dishes at first sight, but was reprimanded by Cheng Xia, "How about you You're useless, don't meddle in what women do."

Mrs. Zhang came out of the kitchen and called Dahua to bring a small table over and put it in the middle of the main room. She was about to put a few simple dishes on the small table. Cheng Xia understood at a glance that this was a separate table for men and women.

Women are busy but can't eat at the table with men, so they can only move a small table to eat together.

Seeing Mrs. Zhang's actions, Father Cheng quickly stopped him, "Today is special, we are all eating at the big table, I have something to say."

(End of this chapter)