The grand lady who time-traveled became a hot mom

Chapter 66

Lin Xiaohua and Lin Taohua are two well-behaved children, and they are also very typical peasant children. They don't talk much, and they are quite shy when they meet the unfamiliar Lin Qiulai family.

"Come on, Xiaohua and Taohua sit down quickly." Fang Yumin waved to Xiaohua and Tiaohua who were standing beside He's in a somewhat restrained manner.He said with a smile: "These two children are afraid of life."

Fang Yumin said: "Our children used to be the same. Well, Xiaoming and Xiaoyang, you take your cousins ​​to the backyard to watch the rabbits before eating."

"it is good."

In fact, Xiao Ming is quite unfamiliar with this cousin, and he only met during Chinese New Year or grandpa’s birthday.Usually, his home is far away from the village, and he seldom goes out, and Xiaohua and Taohua also help the family with work, so they seldom meet each other.

Xiaohua and Taohua were very interested in fluffy rabbits at first, and they heard their mother said that they would raise rabbits to make money in the future, so when they saw what my aunt said, they happily followed Xiaoming and Xiaoyang to the backyard to watch the rabbits up.

"Second Aunt, come help me in the kitchen and let the two of them talk." Fang Yumin said to He Shi with a smile.

He looked at the brother who was silent at the side, and nodded hurriedly.

At this time, Lin Xia came to speak: "You need to drink some wine to chat. Qiu is here, let's go, let's go to work."

Fang Yumin hurriedly said: "You have all been tired all day today, take a break. You have to do it tomorrow."

"Brothers and sisters, this job is not a problem. You cook, and we will do it for a while. If you build the house earlier, you will pay less wages."

"Okay, let's go." Lin Qiulai also stood up.

Fang Yumin raised her eyebrows and stopped, and went into the kitchen with Mrs. He to cook.

It's easy for kids to mingle, and it's easy for men to hook up.Anyway, when Mrs. He was setting up the table and Fang Yumin went to order people to eat, I saw four children were already smiling and walking around the rabbit, and the two big men were working muffled and forcefully while recalling their childhood, bursting into hilarious laughter from time to time. sound.Fang Yumin couldn't describe the contented smile on Lin Qiulai's face, it was probably a brotherhood where blood is thicker than water.Fang Yumin thinks it's good to be like this now.

Fang Yumin raised her voice and shouted: "It's time to eat, go and wash your hands."

"Come on."

Fang Yumin went to the ear room and brought out a can of Shanren wine. Although the brewing time was a bit short, it might not be mellow enough.But there is only a small tank of wine in the house that is specially used for cooking.Fang Yumin planned to buy wine for everyone to drink when the house was completed, so there was no wine at home.

Lin Qiu came to remove the mud that was sealed on the jar, and the fruity aroma of Shanren wine wafted out immediately.Lin Xialai sniffed and said, "Although it smells a little sweet, it smells so good."

Fang Yumin also sniffed it vigorously, and said with a smile: "Well, if you want to drink it in Kaifeng during the Chinese New Year, it will be more fragrant and mellow."

"Is this smell like Shanmin?" Mrs. He asked after smelling it.

"Yes, our family went to pick them on the mountain when they were ripe some time ago, and made a lot of jams, but we've already eaten them all." Fang Yumin said with a smile. Dabao and Xiaobao, I don't know how they are doing now?

As soon as Lin Qiulai saw Fang Yumin showing such an expression, he immediately said, "Come on, let's eat. The children are hungry."

The meal was quite enjoyable, and everyone got closer to each other during the meal.Lin Qiulai and Fang Yumin gave their second brother Lin Xialai three litters of baby rabbits and two pairs of breeding rabbits with cages.The children also made an agreement to go to grass and feed the rabbits together every evening.

After another month of busy work, the sweet potatoes, soybeans, potatoes, and peanuts on the 35 acres of dry land have matured one after another.This time, there was no need to ask other people for help. The big men who helped Lin Qiulai and Fang Yumin build the house harvested all the crops on the 35 mu of land in one day.

Now soybeans and peanuts are piled up in the small drying yard at home, basking in the autumn sun, and the mud on the surface of sweet potatoes and potatoes is completely dry, and they are piled up in the sand pile in the ear room for storage.The young leaves of sweet potatoes became the rations of the rabbits, the stems and old leaves became the rations of six fat pigs, and the stems and leaves of peanuts and soybeans were all dried, so they could be used as firewood in winter.Simply nothing wasted.

At Fang Yumin's request, everyone dug up the 35 mu of land, dug up the cesspool behind the house, and picked up loads of fertilized manure to bury it.After a winter of recuperation on the fertilized dry land, sweet potatoes and soybeans will be planted on a large scale in the early spring of next year, and there will be a bumper harvest.

The days passed slowly, and the weather became colder every day.By the time the new house is raised and covered with roof tiles, jackets will already be worn. It is estimated that in ten or 20 days, the cotton jackets will have to be taken out.

Fang Yumin asked Lin Qiulai to buy more lime powder, and the new house had to be painted with lime water.One is to prevent moths, and the other is to prevent the ash from weathering, which is equivalent to an extra layer of protection measures.

After the ground was leveled, Fang Yumin still mixed concrete in proportion, but instead of using it to lay bricks, he poured it directly on the floor of the room or living room after mixing, and then smoothed it with wooden boards. It's like a concrete floor. Although it's not as smooth as a concrete floor, it's better than a dirt floor.

The four rooms of the main house and the outside of the living room are built with fire dragons connected to the earth pit, which can be used to burn firewood to keep warm during cat winter.

Although the winter here is not as cold as in the northernmost area, there will be a few heavy snowfalls.People who live here also know how to build fire dragons, so Fang Yumin's explanation is omitted.In fact, Fang Yumin had only seen it in the north, so she didn't know how it was done.

On the day the new house was built, Fang Yumin generously gave everyone an extra day's wages because everyone was really hardworking.Everyone was very happy to receive the double grain.

Lin Qiulai moved more than [-] loads of liquor to the new house, and Fang Yumin, Mrs. Hu, Aunt Chunhua and Xiaohong rewarded everyone with a hearty meal prepared in the kitchen of the new house.The banquet is also placed in the new house, which is a bit like celebrating the new residence.

"Xiao Lian, if you invite everyone to dinner at a banquet, shouldn't Li Zheng also invite him?" Aunt Chunhua reminded: "And your father-in-law and mother-in-law, it doesn't matter whether they come or not, but now you all want to come here all at once." Three or four tables have been set up, if you don’t invite them over for dinner, people will gossip about you.”

Fang Yumin felt a little disapproving, Lin Zhuxin didn't say anything, he was Li Zheng.But Lin Daniu and Zhang Cuihua started to build her house, and there was no sign of them.Now that you invite workers to dinner, you still have to invite them?
"Xiao Lian, it's better to call your father-in-law and mother-in-law." Seeing Fang Yumin's indifference, Mrs. He also persuaded her, "father-in-law is fine, but mother-in-law's mouth is worse than less."

"Okay, okay, please. I'll let Lin Qiu come and talk." Fang Yumin stood up reluctantly.If you invite Zhang Cuihua to dinner, don't you want to sit at the same table as her?

Finding Lin Qiulai who was busy moving tables and chairs, Fang Yumin told him to invite Lin Daniu and Zhang Cuihua over for dinner.Lin Qiulai was happy in his heart, but he was also afraid that Fang Yumin would be unhappy, so Fang Yumin, who was originally unhappy, couldn't help laughing when he saw his face changing from joy to sorrow.

Lin Qiulai scratched the back of his head, smiled at Fang Yumin and said, "Xiao Min, thank you."

"Thank you? No matter what they say, they are my in-laws." Fang Yumin clapped her hands suddenly, and said, "Qiu Lai, Uncle Gui bought pork for our family today, so go and invite Uncle Gui and Aunt Gui over for dinner."

To be honest, with your aunt here, if something really happened, there is also a personal certificate.But Fang Yumin naturally wouldn't tell Lin Qiu about these things.

"Okay, I'll take Xiao Ming there now." Lin Qiulai said with a smile.

Fang Yumin watched Lin Qiulai take Xiao Ming's hand and went out before returning to the kitchen.

"Little Lian, I really envy you. Look at how well-built your house is! It's big and spacious." Aunt Chunhua praised, "Have you spent a lot of money?"

After hearing this, He Shi and Xiaohong raised their heads and looked at Fang Yumin. Fang Yumin put on a sad face and said, "Yes, I almost spent all the money I earned before. Alas, making money is hard, but spending money is quick. "

"Look at what you said, earning such a big house in such a short period of time is considered capable. I think so too." Aunt Chunhua said a little worriedly: "Ah Sheng is going to marry him next year. If there is someone in the family A new house would be much easier."

"Aunt Chunhua, your house is quite big, so it should be fine to live together for the time being." Fang Yumin said, "Besides, you and Uncle Damin are such good characters, it will be your future daughter-in-law's blessing to live together. Besides, next year you may We can build a house."

"Okay, I'll accept your words." Aunt Chunhua laughed again after hearing Fang Yumin's words.

The most expensive part of this house is the wages of the workers, and the total payment is almost 100 taels.Except for the lime powder that needs to be bought, the other materials are all obtained locally.As for the furniture, both Lin Qiulai and Lin Xialai are good at handicrafts, almost all of them were made in the yard after dinner.This house is actually equivalent to the money for a recipe, which is trivial to Fang Yumin.

Lin Qiulai asked Uncle Gui yesterday to help him buy half a pig and came back today. He caught ten fat chickens at home, and a dozen fish from the rice fields, plus all kinds of pre-made vegetables from his own vegetable garden. Zhuo Zhuo has more than enough.Forget about rabbits, they have been eating them almost every day for the past three months, and everyone is probably tired of eating them.

Cut out the pork ribs, put them together with the pig's feet in the sauce and cook them, and cut the rest into large pieces to make braised pork; the chicken is home-raised, fat and tender, and made into Cantonese-style white-cut chicken. It is very delicious to eat with ginger and scallion oil; as for the soup used to soak chicken, put down sweet potato vermicelli, carrots, various dried vegetables, and vegetables, it is a sweet first-class vegetable pot; and a red, fragrant and spicy one Boiled fish, in this autumn windy day, how refreshing it is to sweat all over the body!The hot and sour potato shreds are also a must, and everyone can't get tired of eating them every day.

After the menu was set, the four women were busy in the kitchen.Not long after, Aunt Gui also came to help, and the women really had a lot to talk about in the kitchen.As for Master Zhang Cuihua, Fang Yumin did not dare to expect that she would come to help.

Sure enough, when the table was about to be set for dinner, Zhang Cuihua brought Mrs. Hu and her three grandchildren over for dinner.Fang Yumin murmured cautiously: Obviously Lin Qiulai and Xiao Ming only invited her to talk to Lin Daniu in the past.But she also knew in her heart that since the second sister-in-law's family was eating here, it would be unreasonable not to invite the eldest sister-in-law.

As soon as Zhang Cuihua and Hu entered the new house, they looked around, and the more they looked, the more envious and jealous they became.

Fang Yumin looked at Zhang's triangular eyes, and groaned inwardly.This new house is under Fang Yumin's name, and if you want to enter this house, you have to go through the special thick gate first.The door chain was directly pressed on the wooden door by the carpenter in the village.The house is surrounded by high walls and thorns, and it takes effort to climb in.This is the effect of the high walls and deep courtyard that Fang Yumin wanted.

At this time, in front of everyone, Fang Yumin also smiled hypocritically and invited Zhang Cuihua to the table for dinner: "Mother-in-law, sister-in-law, please sit down, the food will be served soon."

Zhang Cuihua snorted and sat on it, Mrs. Hu wanted to sit too, but Mrs. Zhang yelled at her: "Why are you sitting? Didn't you see everyone busy serving dishes? If someone from another village sees it, call Chunlai." Where is the face?"

Hu had no choice but to curl his lips and walk into the kitchen to help.Unexpectedly, as soon as he entered the kitchen, he immediately screamed out of the fuss and led Mrs. Zhang into the kitchen.

"This, this, this," Zhang Cuihua asked almost out of tune, pointing to the pots of sauce-colored, oily and fragrant braised pork, white-cut chickens waiting to be chopped, and nests of spicy and tangy boiled fish. : "Qiu Lai's daughter-in-law, these, these are all taken out for them to eat?"

"Yes." Fang Yumin nodded.

Zhang Cuihua became impatient when she heard this, and opened her mouth to scold: "You prodigal, how much does it cost, huh?"

Fang Yumin's mouth twitched, and said, "Mother-in-law, how much it costs is my business. We invited you here for dinner. Besides, I can spend so much money to show that I can make money."

After speaking, Fang Yumin no longer looked at Zhang Cuihua's heartbroken look, and said to the aunt and the others: "The dishes are all ready, Aunt Chunhua, please help chop the chicken into pieces, and I will adjust the ginger and scallion oil. Aunt Gui, second sister-in-law, please You take out the braised pork, and after a while Qiulai and Asheng come over and bring boiled fish, that one is hot."

"it is good."

Everyone was busy with their own work, and Fang Yumin saw that Mrs. Hu was still standing there, so she said, "Sister-in-law, please take out the you meat too, just put one pot on each table."

Mrs. Hu looked at Zhang Cuihua, stepped forward, put two pots of pork ribs on a tray, and took them out.

Fang Yumin pretended that Zhang Cuihua was transparent, and adjusted the ginger and scallion oil on her own.The ginger has to be ground into puree, and the chives have to be finely chopped, mixed with salt, and then cooked with oil to give it a tangy aroma.

After a while, Lin Qiu came, Lin Xialai and A Sheng came in to serve boiled fish.

As soon as Zhang Cuihua saw Lin Qiu coming, she wanted to howl with him and complain about Fang Yumin.Who knew that Lin Xialai also came in, so she couldn't howl.

"Mother, the kitchen is crowded. Go out and sit for a while, and we'll be eating soon." Seeing Zhang Cuihua's expression, Lin Qiulai knew what she wanted to do.

"How about I serve a bowl for my mother-in-law first?" Fang Yumin said seeing Zhang Cuihua staring at the braised pork and swallowing her saliva.

"Okay, mother is really hungry." Zhang Cuihua rolled her eyes and said.

Fang Yumin smiled, and picked up a big bowl to serve rice, but Mrs. Zhang stopped her: "You don't need to fill it with rice, just give me braised pork."

"Mother, eating only meat will make you tired." Lin Qiulai tried to dissuade him.

Fang Yumin still had a smile on her lips, and without saying a word, she filled a bowl full of braised pork for Zhang Cuihua: "Grandma, do you want to eat in the kitchen or outside?"

"Eat out." Zhang Cuihua took the bowl carefully and walked out immediately.

Lin Qiulai said worriedly, "Mother will get into trouble if she eats like this."

"Don't worry." Fang Yumin said calmly: "Your mother won't eat that bowl of braised pork, she just took it home. You don't have to worry about whether she will eat the whole bowl of braised pork at dinner later. "

"Huh?" Lin Qiulai and Lin Xialai glanced at each other, this is indeed what their mothers would do.

When Zhang Cuihua returned to the kitchen, all the dishes and wine were served, and the four tables were full.

Lin Qiulai held up a bowl of wine and said, "Qiulai and Xiaolian are here to thank everyone. They helped us build the house in such a short time. Let us live in the new house before the New Year, thank you. Here , when autumn comes, drink first as a respect!"

"Good! Drink and drink."

Once the wine is drunk, everyone is free.Originally, they met every day for lunch and got along with each other for more than three months, and they were already very familiar with each other.

Drinking in big bowls and eating meat in large pieces, everyone chatted with red faces after a while.

"Qiu Lai, you are so lucky to marry such a capable wife! Look at how well this dish is cooked, it tastes better than the big restaurants outside."

"That's right. Do you know what the biggest profit in the past three months is? It's lunch made by my sister-in-law. It's so delicious."

"Yes, yes, you eat such good food every day, Qiulai, I envy you."

Everyone, let me say what you said.

After praising Fang Yumin, everyone started to talk about the past three months, just reminiscing about it bit by bit.Kind of like a graduation dinner.Lin Zhuxin listened with gusto, and looked at Lin Daniu who was eating sullenly from time to time.

Satisfied with food and drink, everyone touched their bellies and left.Before leaving, I repeatedly told Lin Qiulai and Fang Yumin that before moving in, I must use the new kitchen to cook for a few more days, and connect it with a fire dragon. The house is more alive.

Dozens of big men had dinner, and Fang Yumin prepared well, fearing that there would not be enough food.Now there are some chicken and pork ribs left, and a big pot of hot and sour potato shreds.

Fang Yumin divided the leftovers into four portions, one each for Aunt Gui, Aunt Chunhua, Second Sister-in-law and Elder Sister-in-law.

Zhang Cuihua was dissatisfied, and asked directly: "What about me? What about my share?"

"Sister-in-law's share is enough." Fang Yumin pointed to Hu's pot of vegetables.

Zhang Cuihua stared at Fang Yumin: "What about your sister-in-law?"

"..." Fang Yumin also stared at Zhang Cuihua, so angry that she didn't know what to say.

"How about I give you this." Aunt Gui couldn't stand it any longer.

"That won't work." Zhang Cuihua didn't dare to ask your aunt, so she quickly refused.

"Mother-in-law, you live with sister-in-law. Have you cooked separately?" Fang Yumin pretended to be surprised and asked, "Sister-in-law, didn't you cook for father-in-law and mother-in-law?"

Hu's face was almost disfigured. If he said no, it would be unfilial; if he said yes, he could only take one.Mrs. Gui and Mrs. Chunhua were both there, Mrs. Hu hated Zhang Cuihua to death, so she could only sneer and say, "Well, of course my father-in-law and mother-in-law are eating with us."

"Oh, I already knew that elder brother and sister-in-law are very filial. Well, it's getting late, everyone go home. I also have a lot of things to do." Fang Yumin said with a smile.

"Okay, thank you Xiaolian."

"Walk slowly."

Fang Yumin sent everyone to the door and waved.Seeing Zhang Cuihua reluctantly, seeing Hu's dark face, she felt very happy!
(End of this chapter)