The purser that had just been cut from the garden was so tender that it seemed to be dripping water, Tang Qing grabbed a handful in his hand, plucked off the broken leaves, and washed them in the wooden basin next to the well in the courtyard.

"I fried the shepherd's cabbage at noon today. Mei Niang took out a handkerchief embroidered with plum blossoms, wiped the sweat on her forehead, her slender wrist was lined with a wide bracelet of white jade, a black ankle-length cheongsam, the neck slightly exposed snow-white skin, the hot day, the buckle on the neck was tightly buckled.

"Ambiguous. Tang Qing nodded cowardly.

Mei Niang shook the handkerchief on her hand, didn't bother to look at the wooden expression on Tang Qing's face, and entered the house again.

After washing the dishes in the kitchen, Aunt Chen, who was helping with the work, came to Tang Qing's side and said, "Mei Niang used to be everyone's lady, Miss has a temper, don't care." ”

"Sister Mei has a good heart and took in our sisters, and I am grateful to her in my heart. "Tang Qing's work on his hands is non-stop. Before she fully understood the situation, she didn't dare to deliberately manipulate other people's words.

"It's good to take in you two sisters, but they're young, hehe. Aunt Chen didn't say anything more.

"Xiaoqing, I dug up the bamboo shoots and came back, and you can make them for Sister Mei and them to eat when I turn around. Wu Xinlian carried a small bamboo basket into the door.

"Yo, this bamboo shoot looks really good, and the bamboo shoot shell is still tender yellow. Aunt Chen took the basket in Wu Xinlian's hand, "The bamboo shoots in here are also firm enough, Sister Lian, you didn't dig it on the dirt slope in Xishan." ”

Wu Xinlian covered her mouth and smiled: "Auntie, I dug it up in Xishan, so I dug a little, and there are a lot of them there." “

"Which of you will help me look into the pot, I'll go out and relieve myself and come back. Aunt Chen took a basket in the corner and ran out.

After being moved out of the carriage that day, Tang Qing and the others were divided into black houses, and their three meals a day were only two black steamed buns thrown in from the window and a bowl of water.

Tang Qing and Qi Yu have been pampered since they were children, and they are very tossed in their stomachs when they eat this kind of black steamed bun. The first time they saw the black steamed bun in their hands through the window light, neither of them dared to eat, they didn't know what kind of food it was.

Wu Xinlian in the other room has no such scruples, and the buckwheat is ground into steamed buns made of flour, which are unpalatable but full. On the way to escape the famine in the previous life, it was luck to be able to get black steamed buns.

Counting the days for about three or four days, someone entered the dark room and brought Tang Qing and Wu Xinlian to Mei Niang. It is rare for the two people to have a tacit understanding to unify their words, they are sisters, they came out to escape the famine when they didn't have anything to eat at home, and they woke up in a dark house.

Someone next to her mentioned that they sold Tang Qing and them to the mountain people, and the two naturally begged bitterly, and later, Mei Niang spoke to arrange the "sisters" to work in the hardest place in the house: the kitchen.

After a few days, the stomachs of everyone in the house were conquered by Tang Qing.

"Xiaoqing, what are you going to eat tonight?" Da Mao's name is like his person, there is always a handful of disobedient hair on his head, and the sixteen-year-old man is only a head taller than Tang Qing, he is the person who admires Tang Qing the most in this house. When I meet people, I have to say that Tang Qing has a pair of "hands that turn decay into magic": no matter how ordinary the dish is, it can be turned into a delicacy in Tang Qing's hands.

"Sister Mei ordered to make shepherd's cabbage at night. Tang Qing lowered his eyebrows and said. These days, Tang Qing has been working diligently in the kitchen, never saying a word, full of a wooden statue that is not good at words.

On the contrary, Wu Xinlian has always been smiling, and the tall uncle who guards the door outside to the girls in the house can feel the door clearly, and every day she either goes out to dig vegetables with the aunts who work part-time, or she discusses facial masks and nails with the girls in the boudoir.

A well-behaved sister who never speaks loudly, a sister who is close and lovely and can help anywhere, the "sisters" have gained a firm foothold in the house.

As soon as he heard Sister Mei's instructions, Da Mao's eyebrows slowly shrugged down, and his lips were pursed into a line: "When there was not much shepherd's cabbage, there was a smile on his face again: "Shepherd's cabbage is good, it's good to eat shepherd's cabbage, people outside have nothing to eat, we don't have to worry about eating and drinking in the house, we want to save it." ”

Tang Qing was amused in his heart, but his face did not move at all. At this time, Wu Xinlian frowned slightly.

Da Mao couldn't stay idle, he was touching east and west in the kitchen, lifting the lid of the pot for a while, looking at the stove for a while, and going around Tang Qing.

"Brother Mao, if you have nothing to do, go out and get busy, Sister Mei will have to be served at any time. Tang Qing sat down on the small bench and added a few handfuls of firewood to the stove.

When Brother Da Mao walked away, Wu Xinlian stood at the door of the kitchen for a while, and did not cover the door, so she walked to Tang Qing's side, leaned into her ear and said, "I have inquired, Qi Yu came out of the small black room yesterday, and is now locked in the left ear room in the backyard." ”

Tang Qing stirred the pot with a spoon, and threw the soup spoon on the stove, and one or two drops of hot soup splashed out of the soup spoon: "Sister Xinlian, I know you are worried about Brother Qi Yu, but if you ask others directly like this, will you startle the snake." My mom and dad don't know when they'll find us, and if they want to escape on their own, they need to have a good plan. ”

"I also said it when I was chatting with them, Xiaoqing, there is no one at this time, I want to ask you, what do you think in your heart? Is everyone looking for a chance to escape together, or who will run to report the news first?" Wu Xinlian wiped away the smile on her face, and her face tightened.

"Sister Xinlian, it is certain to escape, but we must prepare the escape route and dry food on the road, and we have to find the best time. It's still too early to say this, you can wait patiently for a few more days, you can rest assured, the three of us will definitely be able to escape from this place. Tang Qing stretched his eyebrows, and there was even a little smile in his eyes.

"If you have an idea, just tell me what you need me to do. Wu Xinlian patted Tang Qing on the shoulder, poured a bowl of buckwheat noodles from the sack, and raised the noodles.

Tang Qing's hands became more and more brisk, first cut the cooked bamboo shoots into small pieces, soaked the shepherd's cabbage with boiling water, and then took out the shepherd's cabbage and put it in cold water to shower, squeeze out the water, and cut it into coarse pieces. In the kitchen, a soy sauce bottle with the label peeled off contains peanut oil, which is so yellow that when you open the cap, there is a fragrant peanut smell. Every time he cooked, as soon as he poured oil, Tang Qing was hungry for the peanut milk he used to love, and the peanuts were beaten into batter and poured into the pot with whole milk to cook, which was simply delicious in the world.

Tang Qing, who is the "general agent" of the kitchen, will smuggle the ingredients in the kitchen into the space every day, but a rare thing like peanut oil only dares to pour a little at a time, and it is poured into the gap enamel cup that Tang Qing has been drinking.

In the ring space, time does not flow inside the temple. Tang Qing piled all the collected grain high in the temple hall, and deliberately set aside a piece of land outside the hall for Tang Dad to install a stone mill.

Only Mei Niang's house sends two eggs every day, and everyone else eats egg foam mixed with other small fried eggs once every three or four days. Once, Wu Xinlian came back from outside and took out two eggs from the inner pocket of her clothes and gave them to Tang Qing.

Tang Qing, who had already guessed that Wu Xinlian had a space to carry around, was still shocked, and it was also very generous to give others two raw eggs this year.

Tang Qing didn't eat the two eggs, and put them in the space that night. When he got up the next day, Tang Qing felt that there was something else in the space, and entered the space to check it while Wu Xinlian was out of the door.

The vegetables and wheat grown in the space were plagued by two chicks, either trampled a few times or gnawed off a few leaves. Tang Qing was also happy and angry, dismantled a winter coat in the space, laid a thick cotton nest, and locked the two fluffy chicks in the nest.