Chapter 10: The Past (6)
"Mom, you're mistaken!"
Seeing that Yuexiang was just about to explain, she listened to Wang Dahua beside her pour beans, and crackled and shouted: "If you don't do bad things, will you be afraid that others will say bad things about you? If you are a strong old woman who does not come to carry water, but sends your soft and weak little daughter-in-law, what is not a vicious mother-in-law with a bad heart? Do you only allow others to say it? Everyone has eyes and mouths, if you are afraid of being said ill by others, then don't do bad things all day long!"
Liu Fang was so angry that her eyes were red: "The daughter-in-law of the Tan family, what you said, who is not a soft and weak little daughter-in-law? My wife Liu was born to be an old woman, and she was born to carry water? I have been carrying water for the family since I was a daughter, until I became a daughter-in-law and a mother of children, and now the child has also taken a daughter-in-law, I still have to carry water, I deserve to pick water for a lifetime?"
As soon as these words came out, Wang Dahua was stunned.
Liu Fang is only in her forties, with white hair on her sideburns, her face is yellow and black, her wrinkles are stacked, she looks like a person in her fifties and sixties, and her hands are full of yellow calluses, looking like a woman who has lived a hard life for a long time.
But what pair of calloused hands did not come from the soft and tender little hands?
Seeing that Yuexiang's heart was soft, she put aside her shoulder and stepped forward: "Mom, you have worked hard, since I have married Jiang Wen's daughter-in-law, this work will be mine from now on, you can rest and enjoy the happiness!"
"Don't be pretty!" Liu Fang wiped her eyes, and her ruddy eyes suddenly turned pale again, "You woman, one thing in front of you and one thing behind your back, pretending to be filial in front of me, and talking bad about me outside, it's not a good thing!"
As soon as Jiang Wen opened his eyes, he heard a commotion outside, which made his brain hurt.
Putting on his clothes and going out from the courtyard, he saw Liu Fang and Jian Yuexiang standing opposite each other, and there was a woman with a round face standing next to her.
Jiang Wen frowned, his face sank, and he opened his throat and scolded: "What are you arguing about early in the morning! I don't have to let the neighbors see the joke!"
As soon as Liu Fang heard that Jiang Wen was coming, her face turned around, and she actually cried in front of Yuexiang and Wang Dahua: "The good daughter-in-law you married, you don't want to lose the face of our Jiang family, you talk nonsense everywhere with your mouth open, and splash my dirty water!"
"Mom, you really misunderstood me......" Seeing Yuexiang hurriedly said, before she finished speaking, Jiang Wentie blushed, put aside the two of them, and went straight out without saying a word.
Jiang Wen didn't know what was going on, and he didn't want to figure out what was going on, so he just felt embarrassed, so it was better to leave and save himself from staying here and listening to the two arguing.
Liu Fang pulled up her sleeves to wipe her tears, and shouted at Jiang Wen: "You don't eat breakfast?"
Seeing that Jiang Wen didn't respond, Liu Fang glared at Yuexiang, turned around and went back to the house.
Seeing Yuexiang pick up the flat pole again to carry water, Wang Dahua said embarrassedly next to her: "Sister, blame me, blame me for talking too much, and make a noise about your man, he won't be angry with you, right?"
"No, it won't. Seeing Yuexiang smiling at Wang Dahua, "He is very good to me, and he is reluctant to be angry with me." ”
Wang Dahua relaxed her heart, stroked her chest, and spoke loudly again: "Then blame me, let me help you carry water today." ”
Anyway, I'm going to grab the burden of seeing Yuexiang.
Seeing Yuexiang take two steps back, stand still, and shake her head firmly, she slowly spoke: "You can't help me pick up water for a lifetime, if you want to help me, let me come by myself, pick a few more times, and I'll be done." ”
This time, seeing Yuexiang was much better than the first time, plus Wang Dahua was guarding her, seeing Yuexiang crowded into a group of women, she quickly got water, and when she went home with half a bucket of water, the time was still very early, Jiang Wen was not at home, Liu Fang didn't let boiled eggs, and saw Yuexiang cook a pot of pumpkin porridge, and fried a plate of side dishes, and served it to the table.
Liu Fang deliberately didn't think that the dishes fried by Yuexiang were not fragrant, and she didn't mind seeing Yuexiang, and when she finished picking and choosing, she went to clean up the table and wash the dishes, and hurriedly cleaned the house, changed the water for the vase on the table, and re-dried the clothes that were put into the house last night into the yard, and then went out with a bamboo basket on her back.
Jiang Wen still didn't take the money from home, and saw that Yuexiang went to the city and sold the jade pendant that he hadn't handed out last night, and also sold the red coral earrings and a jade bracelet he brought from home by the way.
These jewelry are inconvenient to wear, and it is better to sell them for some money to subsidize the family by pressing the bottom of the box.
With money, seeing that Yuexiang bought tiles, and planned to collect a basket of radishes, although she had money in her hands now, she knew in her heart that this was the last time she could exchange things from her mother's house for money, and this time she would be completely empty, except for the painting...... But unless that painting is a last resort, Tsukika doesn't want to touch it.
In order to buy the cheapest radish, it took two more hours and seven miles more to walk from the southern suburbs to the northern suburbs, and what she saved was just the small cup of milk she added when she drank coffee in the past, but it was the current Jiang family's vegetable money for a week.
When I returned to Jiang's house, I was busy making lunch, and while Liu Fang was eating, I saw Yuexiang pouring the radish into the dustpan, sitting in the yard to fetch water to wash them one by one, and divide them into three parts.
A drained water is cut into radish strips without peeling, put it in a clean basin without oil and water, sprinkle with salt and marinate for half an hour, wait for the radish to come out of the water, and then grab the water, add millet pepper, wild pepper, white vinegar rock sugar, put it in the jar and stuff it into the lid to pickle it into sour radish.
The second radish is cut into shreds, poured into a large pot with a layer of shredded radish and a layer of salt, put it overnight, and then put it in the yard to dry it into dried radish the next morning, and make spicy shredded radish with chili oil.
Put the third portion in the vegetable basket of the stove room and make fresh radish soup.
Three ways to make the same radish, and then change countless ways to eat from three patterns, see Yuexiang is learned from Wang Dahua, with the least money, do the most things, so that the days of poverty are also colorful.
After washing the radish in the yard, when I got up, I saw that Yuexiang's eyes were dark, and I held on to the courtyard wall for a while, and then gradually came back to my strength, Liu Fang had just finished eating in the house, put the bowl aside, and shouted at the yard: "After washing the radish, come and wash the dishes, don't be idle." ”
Seeing that Yuexiang pinched the tiger's mouth, cheered up, and turned into the hall like the wind.
Seeing that Yuexiang didn't have time to eat lunch, after climbing on the roof to pick up the remaining broken tiles, she was full of sitting on the roof and blowing the wind, and in the evening, the sunset was slowly falling, and the pink glow reflected her whole face flushing, looking around, all around were bright black tiles, one after another, and I don't know what kind of story each tile has under it.
Seeing that Yuexiang didn't want Jiang Wen to come back, she saw her sitting on the roof again, and saw a figure walking in the alley from a distance, so she quickly slipped off the roof.
Jiang Wenti brought back a duck.
Seeing that Jianyuexiang seemed to have completely forgotten the unpleasantness of the morning, she took her into her arms with a smile: "You were drenched in the rain last night, and I specially got a duck to come back to make up for you." ”
After speaking, he added: "Don't worry, this duck didn't cost money, I won it back by playing chess,"
Seeing Yuexiang, she laughed, but she wouldn't kill ducks.
Jiang Wen called Liu Fang out, threw the duck to her, and pulled Yuexiang into the back room, seeing Yuexiang's face flushed, thinking that she was hot, he reached out to touch her face, and said: "What are you doing, it's so hot that your face is as red as the sunset, don't be tired." ”
As soon as his hand was pasted, he was startled: "Why is it so hot?"
"It's okay, maybe it's a fire. Seeing Yuexiang, she didn't want Jiang Wen to worry, so she lied.
Jiang Wen was suspicious, and stretched his forehead over, against the forehead of Jianyuexiang, it was still hot.
But if you resist it, your hand will not be honest.
The ducks outside the window kept calling, and seeing that Yuexiang's face was even redder, she hurriedly twisted her body and got out of Jiang Wen's arms, and said shyly: "In broad daylight, you rest first, I have to help my mother." ”
"Why don't you help!" Jiang Wen was unhappy, but he couldn't stop seeing Yuexiang, and before the words fell, he saw that Yuexiang had already opened the door and ran out.
Jiang Wen shook his head and said to himself: "Why did this woman change everything as soon as she got married, she lost her charm and charm, and she was full of about firewood, rice, oil and salt!"
In the yard, Liu Fang plucked the duck feathers, handed the slippery duck to Jianyuexiang, and pouted dissatisfiedly: "You have to learn, there is no daughter-in-law who can't kill chickens and ducks." ”
"Good. Seeing Yuexiang, she immediately responded obediently, took the duck and fished out some of the pickled radish at noon, and made a pot of sour radish duck soup.
The remaining duck blood and chili peppers were fried in blood, and the fragrant table made Jiang Wen also shocked for a moment.
"Yuexiang, you are cooking so well now!" Jiang Wen sandwiched a chopstick sour radish, the radish was crispy on the outside and soft on the inside, sweet and sour, and soaked in the oil and aroma of duck meat, so that he hadn't swallowed it in one bite, and was busy picking up the second chopstick.
Seeing that Yuexiang's face overflowed with a satisfied smile, after finishing the meal for Liu Fang, he also sat at the table, this meal was made to Jiang Wen's appetite, Liu Fang couldn't find a mistake, and when he saw Yuexiang, he felt that his hard work was all worth it.
This is the result of what she wants to work on, a good wife, a good mother, and a good daughter-in-law.
After eating, Liu Fang didn't let Jianyuexiang wash the dishes for the first time, and cleaned up the table by herself, but Jianyuexiang couldn't sit still, so she cleaned up together, and snatched the dishes and washed them.
I was busy all day, and it wasn't until I finished dinner that I had time to rest, and I saw Yuexiang enter the back room, and fell asleep as soon as she fell on/covered her head on the bed.
When Jiang Wen came in, he saw Yuexiang still lying on the bed in her outer clothes, and her face was not washed/her feet were not washed.
Jiang Wen's brows were furrowed like a mountain, he couldn't imagine how the young lady who was so particular about seeing the family in the past, and the teacher who was so elegant, became like this now.
How good is the food? He Jiang Wen is not a cook!
"Yuexiang, don't sleep, get up and wash up. Jiang Wen pushed to see Yuexiang.
When I saw Yuexiang turn over, I found that I was asleep, tired for a day, my body was sweaty, and I was uncomfortable, so I got up and went out to wash again, and when she finally finished washing and returned to the house, Jiang Wen had already blown the lamp and fell asleep.
He slept in the middle of the bed, snoring slightly.
Seeing that Yuexiang felt sorry for Jiang Wen who was tired during the day, she couldn't bear to wake him up, so she went to bed lightly, couldn't even cover the quilt, shrunk by the bed, and fell asleep in a daze in the sound of snoring.