sweet wife little confused

Chapter 15 Change Fish
"Xiu'er." Huang Pozi was wearing a blue gown, holding a basket in her hand, saw An Xiu'er sitting outside, shouted, and walked in.

An Xiu'er quickly put down her things, stood up, and said: "Grandma is free to come to my place today, hurry up and sit down."

An Xiu'er led Mrs. Huang into the main room, and poured her another glass of water. While drinking the water, Mrs. Huang looked around and said, "Xiu'er, this blind...it's really a blessing for my brother to marry you. Look at how neat and tidy the house is, Xiu'er, you were famous for your ingenuity in the village before, and looking at it now, it really is so."

"Grandma Huang has won the prize. You sit down. I'll mix a bowl of sugar water for you." An Xiu'er blushed, and didn't care about what Grandma Huang said just now. It's Mrs. Huang, whom she doesn't like very much, but she still treats her nicely.

"No, no, I'm just coming over to sit and sit, and I'll leave later." Mrs. Huang quickly refused.

"You're welcome." An Xiu'er stood up, went to the kitchen to make a bowl of syrup for Huang Pozi, and brought it over.

"Oh, Xiu'er, you are too polite." Although Mrs. Huang said this, she was also happy in her heart. Sugar is a precious thing in the countryside. For ordinary visitors, mixing a bowl of sugar water for you is already respecting you. .

An Xiu'er put a lot of sugar in this bowl, and this bowl of sugar water was so sweet, Huang Pozi gulped it down, thinking that An Xiu'er was a generous person who would entertain guests, and at the same time felt that she was extravagant and a bit wasteful.

Putting down the bowl, Huang Pozi wiped her mouth with her hand and asked, "Xiu'er, isn't your man at home?"

"He went out to fish." An Xiu'er replied, "I guess he will come back after dinner."

"Tsk tsk, your man is really hardworking. He just went out to work after getting married, so I don't want to enjoy the boudoir with you."

Huang Pozi's last sentence was a little ambiguous, and she raised her eyebrows and smiled ambiguously at An Xiu'er. An Xiu'er knew what she was talking about, and her face immediately turned red, but she just acted as if she didn't understand, and replied seriously: " My husband-in-law spent a lot of money marrying me, and now the family is poor, and if he doesn’t work hard, what will we eat.”

"Yes, but he is diligent, and you are so good at living, your life will definitely get better and better."

Although Mrs. Huang felt sorry for An Xiu'er, she thought that Zhang Zhen'an spent six taels of silver to marry her, and she knew in her heart that it would only cost two taels of silver for ordinary people to marry her. Daughter-in-law, you can get things done with a few tens of pennies. The dowry gift of six taels of silver is really expensive, and the blind Zhang Zhang is probably the only one in this village who can afford it.

The two chatted for a while, and then Huang Pozi explained the purpose of coming, and said: "I came today to exchange a fish with you."

"It's really embarrassing to say, you know the situation in my family, but my daughter-in-law has just given birth to a baby, and there is no milk, and the baby is screaming hungry at home every day, so I can only bring two bamboo shoots to exchange with you with a shy face. Fish." After speaking, Huang Pozi took her basket away and put two small bamboo shoots on the table.

These two small bamboo shoots are probably too small, but the children's arms are short, although they are tender, but after peeling off the shells, there may not be much left.

She is not the kind of person who doesn't know what to do. It is impossible for these two bamboo shoots to be exchanged for her fish. This Huang Pozi has always been the kind of person who likes to take advantage of petty gains in the village. Thinking about it, he also wanted to deceive himself that he was just married and had a thin skin.

But although she is thin-skinned, she is not stupid. Thinking of this, she also made a look on her face and said:
"Mother-in-law, don't talk about changing fish. It's a big deal for your daughter-in-law to breastfeed the child. As long as I can make the decision in this family, it doesn't matter if I give this fish to you, but in this family, I have always been the master. You know He has a bad temper, I don't dare to exchange this bamboo shoot with you privately, I'm afraid you will have to run away for nothing, why don't you come back at noon."

An Xiu'er's words were impeccable, and Huang Pozi couldn't say anything more, she also knew that what she exchanged for this thing was a little less, after thinking about it, she took two more bamboo shoots and put them on the table, saying: "Xiu Son, you should do me a favor and give me another fish, will you?"

"Mother-in-law, don't embarrass me. I'm a new daughter-in-law. I don't want to be beaten back by him when I go back tomorrow." An Xiuer still shook her head.

The old lady Huang had no choice but to take out the last two eggs she had prepared, put them on the table reluctantly, and said, "I originally wanted to go to the grocery store to change some salt for these eggs, but my daughter-in-law didn't." Grandma, for the sake of my grandson, I’ll just exchange you for fish.”

She originally planned to exchange these with her, but she just wanted to test it out, to see if this girl could be fooled well, and to see if she was not easy to fool, so she had to take out all these things.

An Xiu'er looked at the things on the table, there were some bamboo shoots on the mountain, anyone could dig them, such small bamboo shoots were not worth anything, and the eggs were worth two pennies, but she was at a disadvantage.

It's just that Mrs. Huang has always been stingy in the village. These should be all that Mrs. Huang can give, and if she is asked to take them, she would definitely rather not change them.

It is true that her daughter-in-law just gave birth. Thinking of this, An Xiu'er made up her mind: "Oh, I heard you say that, mother-in-law, why am I so hard-hearted." She looked towards the door again as she spoke. After looking at it, he said: "Come on, let's go, even if he beats you up today, I will catch you a fish."

After speaking, she picked up Mrs. Huang's basket, walked to the kitchen, and caught a small crucian carp for her.

"Here, this fish is the biggest fish I have chosen. You take it, but don't tell others. If my husband-in-law finds out, then I will be in trouble." An Xiuer handed the basket to Mrs. Huang, Don't forget to tell her.

"Don't worry, I won't let others know." Huang Pozi took the basket, thanked An Xiu'er, and left.

After she left, the worried expression on An Xiu'er's face disappeared, and she showed a smile, worrying that she didn't have any food for lunch, now she can have bamboo shoots.

Gather the things in the backyard, put the eggs in a special jar, take out two bamboo shoots, peel off all the skins on them, and then remove the roots. Sure enough, there is only one small bamboo shoot left, but it is white and tender. It's cute too.

After peeling two bamboo shoots, she cut them into thin slices, shredded them, and soaked them in salt water. The fresh bamboo shoots will have an astringent taste, so An Xiu'er doesn't really like eating wet bamboo shoots, but she still likes to eat dry ones. Bamboo shoots and sour bamboo shoots.

But it doesn’t matter, it’s okay to eat once or twice occasionally, besides, after soaking in salt water, the astringent taste will be much less, and later put more oil and more dried chili, the taste must be good.

While soaking the bamboo shoots, she washed the rice and cooked. She moved swiftly. When Zhang Zhenan came back, the food was already on the table. He washed his hands and came out with the rice ready. An Xiuer handed him the chopsticks. After receiving it, looking at the simple soup and dishes on the table, I feel that such a day is not bad.

"Do you want some wine?" Zhang Zhenan put a jug of wine on the table. On his way home today, he met an old man selling wine, and bought a jug from him by the way.

"Then give me some." An Xiu'er doesn't know much about drinking, but she didn't want to reject his enthusiasm. She took a cup and handed it over. Zhang Zhenan glanced at her, opened the bottle, and poured it into her cup. Just poured a little for her, she shouted to stop, "Enough is enough."

Zhang Zhenan stopped in good time, and he didn't say anything when he saw that the glass was almost full of wine, An Xiu'er took back her own glass and said, "I'm not very good at drinking, just drink a little with you, Otherwise, if you drink up all your wine, you will have to buy it again."

"It's okay." Zhang Zhen'an had no expression on his face and his voice was calm. He raised his wine glass and took a deep breath on his own.

An Xiu'er imitated his appearance, and took a sip of the liquor. She entered the mouth and flowed down her throat to her stomach. She felt her whole heart burn, her whole face was wrinkled, and she opened her mouth not knowing what to do.

It took her a while to recover, fanning her mouth slightly with her little hand, panting slightly: "Huhu, it's so spicy."

"You really don't know how to drink." Zhang Zhenan glanced at her, then picked up the cup and took another big sip.

"I don't know how to drink, but I'm afraid it's not fun for you to drink alone." She picked up a large chopstick of food, suppressed the taste of the wine in her mouth, and then dared to pick up the cup and sip it lightly. what could.

"Why do you like to drink alcohol?" An Xiu'er tasted it again, but still felt choking, she said: "This wine is bitter, but not sweet, and it still burns when you drink it, you should drink less in the future .”

Zhang Zhenan has never considered this question, why does he like to drink?Now that I think about it, the taste of this wine is indeed bitter, but the ancients said: Du Kang is the only one who can relieve his worries. He is used to the contents of this cup.

An Xiu'er saw that he didn't speak, so she didn't try to persuade him, she just said: "If you like to drink, we will be rich later, I will go to the market to buy some glutinous rice, and I will make some rice bar for you, that is Sweet, much better than this."

rice wine?He hadn't drunk it.

"If you don't speak, it will be considered as your agreement." An Xiu'er raised her head to look at him, her eyes were full of water, revealing a refreshing purity, with some anticipation, which made people's hearts move.

Zhang Zhen calmed down and had no choice but to reply: "It's up to you."

"Okay." An Xiu'er smiled happily like a child who was satisfied, her eyes when looking at him became softer, and she kept picking up food for him.

Didn't I just ask you to make rice wine?Can you be so happy?Zhang Zhenan said that he didn't understand very much, but he let her go, seeing her smiling like a flower, he felt a lot of joy inexplicably.

(End of this chapter)