Farm girl is busy making money

Chapter 67

Chapter 67 Poor

Mrs. Xu hadn't seen her sister-in-law Zhao Shuangxi for a long time, and she couldn't say she was very affectionate, so she just said "Come here" lightly.

The children who saw Zhao Shuangxi were not afraid of him, and were slightly surprised. Which child in the village turned his head and ran away after seeing him, and called her a "monster", thinking that maybe she had frightened the children petrified, so he just Turned around and walked into the house.

"Sister-in-law, wait!" Zhao Shuangxi called out.

She and He Jinyi took out the gifts they brought from the back basket on the bullock cart.

A piece of fat and thin pork belly, with a hole in the middle of the meat, tied with a straw rope.

There are also twenty catties of threshed rice, a cured fish, ready-made, Zhao Shuangxi is afraid that the live fish will die on the road, and a piece of cured meat, which is made from the prey Gu Liuyun hunted back then.

There is also a box of dim sum filled with shortbread, which was bought when passing through the town. He Lanshan and the others have tasted it. It is filled with sweet fillings, but it smells like green onions. Although it doesn't go well with it, it is delicious.

"Why did you bring... so many things..." Xu raised her head in a daze, reached out and took it.

"It's almost Chinese New Year, what do you buy these for, and don't keep some money in your hands. If there is something urgent, you must have just built a house. Take it back, take it back." Zhao Yao stretched out his hand. He took what Xu was holding and wanted to put it back on the bullock cart, but Xu just refused to let go.

The couple just looked at each other, and neither of them would let go.

He Lanshan saw that the Xu family was also greedy, so she was really rude, but the gifts she prepared were for them, and they didn't need to return them.She grabbed Zhao Yao's sleeve and said, "Uncle, I'm tired, why don't you invite me in for a sit down?"

Looking at the big twinkling eyes of his little niece, Zhao Yao let go of the grabbing hand from Mrs. Xu, and hugged He Lanshan up, "You have a funny way of speaking, like a little grown-up."

As she spoke, she raised her fingers and scratched He Lanshan's nose.

Sure enough, the relationship between nephew and uncle is very close. Although Zhao Yao has never met He Lanshan, it is very natural to make this kind of intimacy. After talking, he hugged He Lanshan and entered the room.

"My brother is a good man, sister-in-law, you can take it and put it away." Zhao Shuangxi comforted Mrs. Xu, and followed Zhao Yao with her three sons.

It wasn't until He Lanshan was carried into the house that she realized what a family was like. She suddenly understood Xu's a little bit.

The roof of the thatched house, the muddy walls, and the pillars made of a few big moso bamboo poles, the house seems to be shaking slightly when a gust of wind blows outside.

There is only a bed, a table, and a cage in the room. Simple things are fine.

Although the house was simple, it was cleaned very neatly by Mrs. Xu, and there was not even a single thatch on the ground. It stands to reason that such a thatched house is the most likely to lose thatch.

"I'm laughing." Zhao Yao looked at his sister-in-law He Jinyi and said, "I haven't eaten yet, my mother hasten to cook."

"I'm going to light a fire for my sister-in-law."

"I'm going to help too."

Zhao Shuangxi and He Lanshan went to the "stove room" of Zhao Yao's house one after the other. They said that the kitchen room didn't even have a stove. Grass shed.

He Lanshan looked all over, and saw a small bag of sweet potatoes and a jar filled with salt.

"Sister-in-law, let's eat noodles today. I remember there is a noodle seller at the entrance of the village. I'll go buy some." Zhao Shuangxi finished speaking in a crackling voice, and left before Mrs. Xu could finish speaking.

It was quite embarrassing to leave He Lanshan alone with Mrs. Xu.

Mrs. Xu looked at the back of Zhao Shuangxi leaving in a hurry, but didn't call her to stop. If Zhao Shuangxi was stopped, then what can they eat for this meal? Serve them with sweet potatoes?

Her eyes slowly narrowed and fell on He Lanshan in front of her, she said softly: "I will scare you like this, let's go into the room."

Xu's voice was actually a little soft, unexpectedly pleasant.

"I'm not afraid of my aunt, I'll help my aunt!" He Lanshan felt that she had wrongly blamed Mrs. Xu just now, and said that Mrs. Xu was greedy. If anyone was in such a family that couldn't get enough to eat, they would naturally not refuse the things sent by others .

"Then cut some meat and give it to you as shame." Xu said.

She cut a piece of meat the size of a child's palm from the piece of pork belly that He Lanshan and the others brought, and after thinking about it, she cut another piece of this size. From Xu's subtle expression, it can be seen that this is already an extremely painful thing. son.

The meat was chopped into thin shreds, and a fire was lit on the clay stove. Mrs. Xu used the cut fat to boil some oil in the pot, and then put the shredded meat in to fry.

Stir-fry over high heat and add a little salt, the shredded pork is already fragrant.

He Lanshan watched the fire in front of the clay stove, saw Mrs. Xu took a deep breath of the aroma of the pork, saw He Lanshan looked at her thinking she was greedy for meat, and said: "Children can't be greedy, wait until the table is ready to eat."

"Aunt is greedy, but I'm not." He Lanshan smiled and lowered her head.

That half of Xu's pretty face was flushed, just at this time Zhao Shuangxi came back, carrying a basket with a lot of things in it, including noodles, a Chinese cabbage, and about thirty eggs.

"It's expensive to buy so much." Xu reached out to touch the Chinese cabbage, then touched the egg, and subconsciously swallowed a mouthful of saliva looking at the snow-white noodles.

"It's okay, it's a rare time for our family to get together, so we need something to eat." Zhao Shuangxi stuffed something to Mrs. Xu, talking about his eldest nephew, and went to look for it after hearing Mrs. Xu said that he was hunting pigweed.

He Lanshan helped watch the fire, but couldn't help feeling that this family is really too poor.

Mrs. Xu got busy, looked at the eggs in the basket and hesitated several times. At first, she only cracked two eggs, but after thinking about it, she picked up another one, and after thinking about it, she picked up another one.

He Lanshan didn't know the torment in Xu's heart, this was the appearance of cherishing the food she never had.

A total of four eggs were beaten, and there were nine people eating, so Mrs. Xu broke up the eggs and made them into fried eggs, and shared a piece with each person.The snow-white noodles came out of the pan, with cabbage leaves, sprinkled with chopped green onion, a slice of fried egg, and a little shredded pork.

He Lanshan's stomach growled, it was already afternoon, it was normal for her to be hungry.

"Let's go inside and eat!"

He Lanshan followed Mrs. Xu into the house, Mrs. Xu brought nine bowls of noodles over one after another, maybe she had never eaten white noodles before, and she kept half of it, and the one for the adults was a shallow bowl, and some for the children. It's just a small bowl.

"Since we separated, I have been sick, and I have a cough. The things in the field are also thanks to your sister-in-law, so this day is getting worse every day...cough cough." Zhao Yaozheng was talking to He Jinyi about these years There were tears in his eyes, but he smiled freely.

"Uncle has eaten noodles."

"Uncle is not hungry yet, eat in a hurry, I'm afraid you still won't be full, take some from Uncle's bowl later." Zhao Yao looked at his own small bowl, the nephews were all grown-ups.

As the saying goes, a half-grown boy eats a poor old man.

"There are still some noodles, I'll go get some more." Xu's beautiful face was full of embarrassment, and she ran away in a hurry. She was used to her family eating half full every day, but she couldn't even count the normal portion. up.

(End of this chapter)