Rebirth of the farmer's daughter-in-law

Chapter 82: Meeting the old friend in the town (3)
Hearing this, Sanchun had no choice but to accept it, and thanked him again, and then put away the things.

"Your Excellency, Jingui, shouldn't have kept food, but it's just in time for the meal, so I'll ask you to see who can barely eat it and take a bite. There's no food at home, so it's not thoughtful." Meng Da got up and apologized.Lin Zhuang replied with a smile: "Who doesn't eat whole grains? I think that during the years outside the Great Wall, adults didn't even eat serious rice noodles. Cooking wild vegetables with that rice bran, there is no meat or fish, and it is so cold that it still falls A whole body of faults. You only enjoy the blessings as officials, honor your ancestors, don't you know the difficulties."

"Talking!" Lord Lin scolded after hearing this, "I dare not mention hard work when working for the emperor. To share the emperor's worries and do some practical things for the people is the essence of being an official. The people can't afford to eat or wear clothes, just watch Officials eat and drink arrogance, extravagance and lust, not only will this official not last long, but even the country and society are in danger!" After finishing speaking, he asked Meng Da to just serve the food.

Meng Duo arranged the meals, and set up a table in the West Room, and invited Lin Zhuang and his followers to have dinner.She took Sanchun and Siya to eat in the back kitchen, leaving only Meng Da waiting in the room.

Lord Lin asked him to sit with him, "I'm hungry and you're hungry, how can I eat my chopsticks? I don't have to be waited on by others when I eat. Sit down and have a bite with me. I can eat more."

After hearing this, Meng Da confessed and sat aside. This Master Lin is really not talking nonsense, and he can recognize one or two of the wild vegetables on the plate.It turned out that Mr. Lin also came from a poor background, he was often hungry when he was a child, and he also lived a life of eating wild vegetables and drinking rice soup.

Seeing that he really could eat simple food, Meng Da felt more and more admirable.Those who can let go of their official airs, are willing to think about the people, and can endure hardships are the parents and officials that the people want to see!
Meng Duo cooked four dishes, stewed pheasant and hare with sauerkraut, a big pot smelling fragrant.Pickles with radish sticks, crunchy with a bite.Vinaigrette slices of cabbage with thinly sliced ​​bacon.There is also a plate of tender wild vegetables blanched in water, which is the most refreshing when dipped in miso.

Master Lin was most interested in this plate of wild vegetables and ate half of the plate.He said with a smile: "When I was a child, my mother would make sauce every time around Qingming. She took out the cubes of sauce that had been stored for the next year, and picked a couple of days to clean the small tank. I would help when I had nothing to do. The taste of the sauce is different. I have forgotten the taste of my mother’s sauce for so many years, but I have never tasted the same. The taste of your sauce is somewhat similar, which reminds me of my deceased mother.”

Meng Da listened to a few words of relief, and when he had time, he asked Meng Duo to find a clean jar to pack some sauce at home, and put it away for Lin Zhuang to take home.

Master Lin sat for a while after eating, Lin Zhuang came over to ask for instructions, and then he got up and went back.

In the past half a day, Meng Da has not seen Wu Fu, secretly asked Meng Duo, but Master Lin overheard him.

"The five blessings you are talking about are the young people I met when I came here? Seeing that there are some predestined relationships, they can't be relatives?" He wanted to ask a long time ago, but because he only saw a profile and missed something, he forgot for a while.

After hearing this, Meng Da hurriedly told the origin of the five blessings, "He should have been asked to salute the adults, but he has a childish temper, and I don't know where he went to play."

"It seems that there is no fate, see you next time!" Master Lin did not force to meet each other, got into the carriage and left.

For a moment, Wu Fu got out from nowhere, and his body was covered with dirt. Meng Duo told him to wash his hair and face and come over to eat, but he didn't understand when he asked him what he was doing.

During the Ching Ming Festival, there was a drizzle in the sky, but it was in line with the poem "There is a lot of rain during the Ching Ming Festival, and the passers-by on the road want to die".The Meng family went to the grave with sacrifices early in the morning, first burned paper for their ancestors, and finally went to Meng Er's grave.

The two elders of the Meng family passed away many years ago. Although they felt sad but could restrain themselves, they couldn't help their eyes moisten seeing the new soil on Meng Er's grave and the spirit banner that had not yet turned into wind and smoke.Only Wufu didn't know what to do, and ran back and forth around the grave, uprooting weeds and catching grasshoppers.

"You guys go back first, I'll sit by myself for a while." Meng Da drove Meng Duo and the others away, and sat beside him, stroking the loess on the grave with his hands.

He stared at the loess, and murmured: "Second brother, I brought you rice and stewed meat, all made by my younger siblings! Our family couldn't afford it when you were alive, and now life is getting better every day. , It's a pity that you are not here. I think back then, when your parents died young, they handed you all over to me before they left. Unexpectedly, I couldn't protect you and asked you to go down to meet your parents early. My parents must blame me. More than half a year, I have never given up on my dreams. I am incompetent as a big brother, and I am really ashamed of my parents and you. I will apologize when I get to Jiuquan in the future. You will do your filial piety for me underground, and I will take good care of my younger brother and younger sister. If you have younger siblings, don't worry. I will marry a wife in the new year and continue the incense for the Meng family. There are three major unfilial acts and no descendants. No matter what the future life of the Meng family will be, the descendants will be passed on from generation to generation. Siblings and sisters are poor people. She was abducted by kidnappers when she was a child. I don’t know how many beatings and hunger she suffered. If she was bought by a rich family, she would be able to eat and drink with less suffering, but she was sold to a poor family like us. She wants to guard you for the rest of her life, but we can't delay her for the rest of her life! I think that after three years of filial piety, and she is getting older, she will find a good man to marry and become the girl of our Meng family. I think you must be willing, even if you don't want to, it's settled like this, if you have any grievances, just come to me. When the day comes, we brothers will meet in the open and settle the score together."

Meng Da talked to himself in front of the grave for a long while, and saw the sun rise before Lao Gao got up.As soon as he reached the intersection, he saw Sanchun and Siya coming to look for him, saying that the mayor and several famous elders in the village had all gone home.

What happened?Meng Da frowned when he heard this, and Sanchun saw it and said: "It must be something good, the mayor's attitude is very gentle. The faces of those grandfathers smiled like chrysanthemums, and the creases became more and more. I am used to their serious faces. , you will be shocked when you see it unexpectedly!"

chrysanthemum?Meng Dawen couldn't help laughing, he patted Sanchun on the head, and cursed: "Your mouth is already sharp, but now that you've been studying for a few days, your cursing words are becoming more and more sinister."

The three brothers and sisters returned home, and as soon as they entered the yard, they saw Meng Duo standing under the porch looking around, and there were a few shadowy people sitting in the room.

Meng Da went in and saw the mayor sitting in the middle, and the elders of several other clans were sitting around.There are tea bowls and teapots on the kang table, and the room smells of tea.

"You can be regarded as coming back, let Mayor Chen wait for a while."

"It's okay, there's nothing else to do today anyway." The mayor smiled kindly, and let Meng Da sit down next to him, "The people of Chenjia Village have always been simple and honest, and the villagers have lived and worked in peace and contentment since I became the mayor. Who would have thought In this peace and happiness, since there are tigers and wolves hidden, doing good on the surface and harming the villagers secretly. This is all the fault of my negligence, which makes me regret it. So these days, I did not easily re-elect the village chief, because I was afraid of making the same mistake again. "

(End of this chapter)