The three old brothers were discussing matters here, and Xie Chengshu and the others were also quietly listening, not daring to make any loud noises. Even the children who were holding the White Rabbit toffee in their hands www.biquge.info quietly leaned on their mother's legs, occasionally licking the toffee with a little candy paper peeled, naughty eyes at each other, grinning silently.

Originally, the three brothers of the Xie family didn't plan to leave this nephew's family, but they didn't expect to be mistakenly hit by Chengshu to come to the door and bring back such good news. After arranging for several families to send corn down the mountain to exchange for rice, the three old men turned their attention to Xie Chengshu: "Ershuzi, did your cousin and aunt say that you want something else?"

"No, my cousin-in-law gave us a few salted ducks and salted geese to taste, and if you think it's delicious, you can bring dried rabbit meat and dried mountain chicken from home, and go over to change." She said that the wild things in our mountains are rare to them, and if they exchange them for food, I am afraid that it will be easier than corn for food. ”

"Hey, nothing else, you don't want as much pheasant and hare as you can get!"

The third master said this in a bit loud tone, but it was not exactly bragging. In the deep mountains, there are many pheasants and hares, and there are many wild boars, robes, and turtledoves. Especially when it snows heavily, the pheasants often fly to the backyard in groups of three or five to find food. There are even more turtle doves, the snow is too deep, there is no place to find food, they go from the air window under the eaves to the attic where the corn cobs are stacked at home to find food and hide from the cold, and they are so stupid that they only know how to get in but do not know how to get out. When someone goes upstairs to catch them, they run around one by one, and in the end they can only become a meal on the plate.

One year the snow was so heavy that the snow was up to the knees, and everyone was at home, not even going out. In this way, there is no shortage of fresh meat to eat, and there is no big plate of braised turtledove on the dinner table one day. Otherwise, take some down the mountain, the people under the mountain will definitely like it, you must know that this turtle dove is more delicious than a pigeon (there is a saying in this place: a turtle dove, two pigeons, three chickens and four ducks, which means that the first delicious is the turtle dove, the second is the pigeon, the third is the chicken, and the fourth is the duck).

Xie Shounanniang, who was close to the door, and a few concubines were also listening to the old men discussing things, she had already heard her son say last night, and the relatives under the mountain invited them to go down for a walk, and she really wanted to go. Although her daughter found an in-law at the bottom of the mountain, she never went down to see it. First, they don't even dare to go through the procedures of their children getting married to each other and asking for a dowry, and they blindly follow the current way of free love -- acquaintances introduce each other, and two young people chat, and they think it's okay! Second, they stay in the mountains all the year round, and they don't know what kind of rules are under the mountain, for fear that they will show the man's family a joke, and they will not be able to marry this family, or in the future, the daughter-in-law will marry and be looked down upon by the in-laws.

Now that she has this opportunity, she really wants to go out with a few concubines to have a look, and she doesn't have to worry about losing the rules and losing people. When I think about it, it's a little urgent. Ignoring the fact that the elders of his grandfather were still talking, he whispered to the eldest granddaughter-in-law of the second grandfather's family who was standing beside him: "Chenglu's family! My cousin-in-law also invited us to go down the mountain to have a look, do you want to go? If you go, after lunch, you will go to the mountain with me to go up and down the mountain, I want to bring a few live rabbits and pheasants to my cousin's house!"

Xie Chenglu's daughter-in-law didn't hear back for a while, not because she didn't want to, but because she was more eager than Shou Nanniang thought.

At this time, people looked at their relatives much more seriously than many years later, except that the gifts brought back by the daughter-in-law from her mother's house would be received in their own house, and then according to the degree of closeness, they would give a little to the people they were willing to give. Even if you don't even give it to your parents-in-law, no one will gossip and accuse you of being unfilial. However, all gifts brought back from the father-in-law's family, as long as the family has the closest blood relationship with this relative, must be more or less shared, and cannot be swallowed by one family alone. Otherwise, he will be blamed by his relatives, and he will not hand over anything to this person and his family in the future.

For this reason, early this morning, Shoubei (Shounan's younger brother) rushed to her house with the cakes and salted duck eggs that were distributed to the second master's house, and when he left, he also called her and several of her children away, saying that they were eating delicious together. Chenglu's daughter-in-law was also curious, and when she saw that the corn dregs porridge in her pot was almost boiled, she threw away her hand and followed her to see what was good to eat, and called a few families with so many children? !

There are really a lot of delicious foods, and the table is full. There are two pots of glutinous rice dumplings, one of which is spicy and made with rolled sauce. (This rolling sauce is not the kind of fried sauce in old Beijing, the rolling sauce here is to chop the red pepper, and then put three taels of minced ginger, half a pound of garlic particles, half a pound of sun-dried soybean paste, and a little salt.) Put a few things together and stir them, put them in a jar and seal them for pickling, and they can be opened and eaten for more than 20 days. After opening, if you dry it for a period of time, the taste will be more fragrant, and it is the best condiment for local fish. ）

Another pot of glutinous rice cakes is made of diced bacon meat, and the salted pork glutinous rice cakes. (The glutinous rice here is also different from the famous Yunnan glutinous rice cake, which is glutinous rice boiled with a little salt to make rice.) Then according to the taste you want to make, add ginger, garlic, chili, bacon and other foams as seasonings, knead them into a round ball, and then pat them into flattened ones with the palm of your hand, and put them in the oil pan to fry. It's similar to making meatballs in some places. ）

Three pots of pumpkin poop, one is sweet, one is spicy with rolled sauce, and one is made of salted meat. A pot of egg cakes from oil stalls, a basket of steamed buns, salted duck eggs with egg yolks and oil, and yellow and shiny pickled cowpeas, these are all foods that are difficult to get in the mountains. There were a few things she didn't know what they were, and some she knew but hadn't eaten them.

Don't look at the table full of people, there are more than 30 children in the three families, these meals can only be broken apart, although each child can only be divided into half of the break, but they can also add up to a big bowl. But the children were reluctant to eat, and their two children followed their cousins and cousins, pecking a little bite, so beautiful that their little eyes narrowed into a slit, and they couldn't see the light. Seeing that his mother was next to him, he would also put a small piece of glutinous cake in his hand and stuff it into her mother's mouth. The child is filial, and she, as a mother, wants to do more for the child.

When she heard that her cousin-in-law had invited them to come too, she was thinking about taking her two children with her. She is not greedy for that bit of food, mainly because she wants the children to go down the mountain for a long time. Her self-esteem is very heavy, and she doesn't want people to feel that she is taking her children to play the autumn breeze, so she always has to bring good things that they can look at. If you are like the sister-in-law in the lobby, if you send rabbits and pheasants, you will not be attentive enough and lack a little affection.