take a wife to support the family

Chapter 382 Bald Butter Bibimbap

In the eyes of the little baby, everything is new.

Ruzhen is more than two years old, lively and active, and he explores everywhere with his eyes shining all day long. Even the grape trellis and crabapple flowers at home, he can play with relish for half a day, and he finds it interesting to watch every day.

He has always had a strong mouth, and when he was teething, he wanted to eat adults' food, and now he can eat by himself, and he wants to eat everything.Every time I eat delicious food, I squint my eyes and dance happily, as if there is nothing more happy.

He took Lily's hand and acted like a baby: "Mother, eat!"

He was born beautiful, pink and white, and everyone who saw him said that he was like a golden boy under Guanyin's seat. When his son acted like a baby, Lily's heart would melt. She happily opened a small pot of bald butter and gave her son bibimbap.

When the crabs came down last year, Lily was pregnant with Ruchun, but she couldn't eat it every day, so she saved a few cans of bald butter, which is a good time to enjoy the crab season.

Crab roe and crab paste are picked out, and then mixed with some clip meat, add fat powder, sauté with onion and ginger, pour rice wine and simmer thoroughly, and finally season with broth, top with lard and pepper, and seal it tightly in a porcelain jar Don't touch it, just take it out when you want to eat.

This rice is not local rice. Local rice is more glutinous. The steamed rice is soft, but it can't hold the aroma of bald butter.Huangzhuang also grows rice in the outskirts of Beijing and outside the customs. The yield is extremely low, but the rice grains are round, short and bright, sweet and elastic, and you can use a bowl of rice alone.

The rice grains are crystal clear, piled in a bowl like a bowl of white jade, pour a spoonful of slightly solidified bald butter, the heat of the rice gradually melts the bald butter, and the golden color flows in the rice, as if staring at it intently, I feel very surprised .

Lily mixed the rice with a small spoon and pushed it to Ruzhen. Ruzhen clumsily grasped the wooden spoon with his right hand, and fed a full spoonful of rice to his own mouth with only half a spoonful left, but he immediately laughed: delicious!

Lily squeezed his chin: "Eat slowly, don't spill it all."

Song Haonian also imitated his son and looked at his wife eagerly, Lily couldn't help but groaned, and reached out to touch his chin twice: "How old are you?"

Song Haonian just laughed but didn't speak, Lily smiled and said: "Okay, I'll mix a bowl of rice for you too." Add two drops of autumn oil to his bowl of rice to make it more delicious.

Lily itself holds a bowl of rice. The crab paste is delicious, luscious and plump, and the oily but not greasy bald butter is mixed with the sweetness of the rice. It is so fragrant that people almost want to swallow their tongues.

The weather is getting hotter, and the bald butter in the open can can't be kept for too long. Apart from bibimbap, it can also be mixed with noodles and steamed buns, all of which have a special taste.

A few days later, Qingsong came back with a letter, saying that he and Yueniang went to the capital smoothly, met King Xin and Wangfei, met Yueniang's brother and sister-in-law, and went to Beizhen Fusi to sell vacations.

He rented a small courtyard with two entrances near Chen Bin's house. This courtyard was originally owned by the Musan family, so the asking price was cheap. Otherwise, with his current salary, he would not be able to rent such a good house.

Qingsong's young couple lived in the second courtyard, Wenwa lived in the courtyard. During the day, the brothers went on duty, while Yueniang stayed at home or took care of the housework, or went out to see relatives.

When Yueniang married Qingsong, the dowry looked ordinary, but there was a land deed at the bottom of the box. It was a deed from a southern goods shop in the capital.

Relying on this shop, whether Yueniang is running the shop, or closing the shop and renting out the rent for individuals, it is a subsidy. The young couple was originally struggling in the capital, but now they are nourished again.

In the end, Qingsong excitedly said that he wanted to serve the court well and live up to the high expectations of the emperor, and he would go home after making some achievements. Lily read the letter to Mrs. Zhu, and Mrs. Zhu panicked: "Then he is going to fight ? Our family has only one single seedling!"

He also scolded Yueniang for not being able to persuade Qingsong, but instead urged him to go to a dangerous place.

Lily lowered her face slightly and said: "Don't say that Qingsong is Jin Yiwei, if it's not his turn to fight, it's his turn, he has the imperial salary, and he is favored by the emperor, shouldn't he go?"

She naturally loves her brother, but Zhu's short-sightedness is really irritating.

Mrs. Zhu couldn't hear anyone else, but only heard that it was not Qingsong's turn to go to the battlefield, so she relaxed again and said flatteredly: "Tell him to work hard and save up his family fortune to have a good grandson with me. I will go to the capital to babysit them go."

Lily didn't answer, and after a while, Song Haonian came in with a bundle and said to Mrs. Zhu: "This bag of tiger bones, you always take it back and make wine for the old man to drink."

Zhu said: "Hey, he is so poor, why should he eat such a precious thing, why not give it to me!"

Song Haonian suppressed a smile: "My father-in-law's legs and feet are not good. This is a tiger bone, which is good for legs and feet. I asked someone to find this before, and this time I brought it back with Qingsong's letter. I'm afraid you won't need it. .”

Zhu opened the bag and looked at it: "Hey, this is a tiger bone, why is it so thick, maybe it is bigger than a calf."

"The best tiger in the woods outside the pass has an order from the imperial court. Unless the tiger eats people, it is not allowed to be beaten indiscriminately. You can't get a few of them in a year." He has a white tiger skin, and the fur is very plump, so he doesn't need it. , Turn back to make quilts for Ruzhen's two brothers.

Mrs. Zhu just nodded, she may not be shrewd in small things, but even more confused in big things, Lily saw this and said: "Even if you kill this thing, you have to sacrifice it. It's not your son-in-law, and you can't get it."

Only then did Zhu suddenly realize: "Thanks to my son-in-law for being so good!"

Mrs. Zhu went back with the tiger bone in her arms to make wine for Li Meijiang. Lily didn't see Xing'er for several days. She missed her and wondered why she didn't come: "I didn't hear that Xing'er was sick, so why didn't you come when she was fine?" gone?"

In the past, Xing'er stayed at her house all day long, and if she didn't come for a few days, Yuanyuan and Ruzhen both argued to find her sister.

Song Haonian said: "It shouldn't be a big deal, otherwise the eldest brother will let me know."

He went out to inquire about the situation, and came back after a while and said, "There is something wrong: the elder brother and his wife had a quarrel, Xing'er is listless, and doesn't like to go out."

Lily then handed Ruchun over to Mrs. Chang, and pulled Ruzhen and Yuanyuan out by herself: "We'll find you, Sister Xing'er."

Song Haonian followed out worriedly: "It's common for husband and wife to quarrel, so don't be mean to brother."

Lily glared at him: "Is that kind of person in your heart?"

Song Haonian laughed straight: Li Caifeng and Li Caifeng are as close as sisters, Liu Yi and his wife quarreled, without asking, they knew that Li Caifeng was definitely on Li Caifeng's side, and taking the children to visit now, isn't it to support Li Caifeng?

But Song Haonian thought, the elder brother is a man, so he should tolerate Sister Caifeng, and Sister Caifeng is not the kind of unreasonable person, it is good for the daughter-in-law to visit the door, lest their family close the door and get sulking. It's not beautiful.

When Ruzhen was walking, his eyes were staring straight ahead, and he wanted to run before he could stand still. Either his legs spread out and his upper body couldn't keep up, or he leaned forward, and his legs couldn't walk for a long time, and he was out of breath.

Yuanyuan was only one year older than him, and walked steadily without Lily holding her. She walked to the other side of Ruzhen, held Ruzhen's hand, and walked forward with Lily holding Ruzhen.

Ruzhen's left-handed mother and right-handed sister, her two short legs kept thumping, even if Lily slowed down on purpose, the two little ones were still terribly tired. When they arrived at Liu Yi's house, they shouted in tender voices: "Sister Xing'er!"

Xing'er heard the movement, and ran out quickly, Heizi followed her and wagged his tail, and quickly hid when he saw the truth: This child always wants to pluck the fur when he sees animals.

The black tiger suffered a lot before, and caught his big fat goose in the back to pluck its wing feathers. Who knew that the white goose was so fierce that even a dog dared to pounce on it. He ran away, and the goose kept chasing after him. It was the black tiger who rescued him, so he went to complain to his parents crying.

Since then, if he really didn't pluck the black tiger's tail, it can be seen that Heizi's hands are still itchy.Xing'er hurriedly led Ruzhen into the house, so as to save Heizi's fluffy and beautiful tail.

At home, Li Caifeng and Liu Yi hadn't talked much for several days, they looked very friendly and the atmosphere was very uncomfortable.Lily came with two children, and finally made the inside and outside of the house come alive, and ran in and out yelling, even Liu Yi couldn't help laughing looking at him.

There was a lot of envy in Liu Yi's smile, Lily originally wanted to ask why the two of them were bickering, but seeing this, there was no need to ask: it was still about her son.

It's strange to say that Liu Yi and his wife are both in good health, Xing'er is in her teens, and Li Caifeng has not conceived any of them these years.

Xing'er is smart, but Liu Yi still wants a son who can pass on incense.He convinced himself for a while that his daughter was so good, and it would be good to find a son-in-law for her as a stove guard in the future.Every few days, when I see other people's houses full of children, I envy them that they have sons and I don't have any.

Throughout the year, there is always such a scene.

Originally, Xinger was young and naive, but now she also understands the pain of not having a brother. When her parents quarreled, she felt very sad, so she didn't want to go to Lily's house to play.

Lily said: "If you don't go for two days, Yuanyuan and Ruzhen are arguing to find you, so I also want to ask you, have you missed your homework?"

Myolie's complexion is not very good: "I'm a girl, so what's the use of doing homework?"

Lily was taken aback: "Which foolish thing did you say to you?"

Xing'er bowed her head and wrung her fingers without speaking, Lily sighed: besides Liu Yi, who else could there be?Liu Yi couldn't listen to what she said, and Song Haonian had to persuade the elder brother later.

Lily asked Xing'er to play, and went to study at her home as usual, and told Li Caifeng an old saying: With a child as good as Xing'er, does it matter if you have a son?Look at Niu's good son, he is not as useful as Song Xiuxiu.

Li Caifeng wiped her tears and said, "Why don't I understand the truth?"

But she failed to give birth to Liu Yi's son, she was always guilty and short of breath, Liu Yi could be forgiven for wanting a son, so besides blaming herself, what else could she do?
No matter how loving a couple is, after passing away year after year like this, it makes people a little discouraged, Li Caifeng said: "If it's not because of Xing'er, or if your elder brother wants to divorce me, I will let him go."

Lily immediately changed color, covered her mouth and said, "What nonsense are you talking about!"

Looking back, Xing'er was watching Ruzhen and Yuanyuan having fun in the yard, she didn't hear her mother's words, so she let go of her hand, and said earnestly: "The friendship between you and elder brother these years, how can you just break up? Don't say that. If you're confused, I'll ask Da Nian to talk about your elder brother later - if he continues like this, this family will be ruined by him sooner or later!"

(End of this chapter)