The Dong Liang Niang in the stove room was busy boiling the big pot and began to pour the small pot, the sesame leaves fried last autumn went through a winter, and then a spring, so dry that they were so loud that they had to boil the water to toss and cook. She first added a few scoops of water to the small pot and boiled four duck eggs into it.

I haven't really done the job of scrambled duck eggs with sesame leaves, and I don't know what it will taste like when fried. There is also sesame leaf to the cabbage, which I have never eaten like this before, so I will eat it blindly tonight. While thinking about this, she was still worried about the things in the hall, just now the child who seemed to be a pillar came back, and she didn't know what the child would think in her heart. Thinking of this, she couldn't help but stretch out her head and greet Chen Dongliang to the hall.

Chen Dongliang listened to his mother's greeting and came to the stove room. As soon as she entered the stove room, her mother asked anxiously, "Child, what are you thinking?"

"You just tell Dad, you two to do it. Chen Dongliang sat next to his mother at the door of the pot, looked at his mother and said.

Dongliang Niang looked back at the stove, and the burning stick in her hand poked the firewood and grass that was about to fall out, and said: "I think Mahua's girl is very good, according to her mother's wishes, they are all living, and you are not too young, so let's settle this matter." ”

Chen Dongliang didn't answer his mother's words, lowered his head and reached out to grab a handful of firewood and grass in front of him and filled it into the stove of the small pot.

"Son, this person will have to take this step sooner or later. Marriage, I can't afford to delay, it's better to be early than late. If you can't settle your affairs in another two years, you can make me and your father crazy. Dong Liang Niang continued to add firewood to the stove and said, "After this age, it will be difficult to find, who is willing to marry their daughter to a person who is much older than their own daughter." When this matter is settled, the hearts of my mother and your father will also be settled, even if we postpone getting married for a few years in the future, my mother and your father will have a bottom in their hearts. ”

"As long as you and your father are satisfied with this, you and your father will do what you and your father want. Chen Dongliang didn't expect that Lai Baoqing would come here tonight to mention his relatives, let alone that Lai Baoqing was going to tell him about Ma Hua, and he still feels that he has no hysteria like in a dream.

When Dongliang Niang saw her son say this, her heart suddenly bloomed like a flower in May in the bright sunshine. She asked Chen Dongliang to help take care of the fire in the stove, and then got up and began to bend the hot sesame leaves.

Chen Dongliang sat down on the pier where his mother was sitting just now, and began to beckon to add firewood to the stove.

Dong Liang Niang took down the bunch of sesame leaves hanging on the wall, looked back at the small pot and pondered to untie the four handfuls of sesame leaves, and then hung the bunch of sesame leaves back on the wall.

The water in the small pot was whirring.

Dong Liang Niang found a basin and put it on the pot table, took the sesame leaves and put them in the basin, lifted the lid of the pot, scooped out a scoop of water from the pot and poured it on the sesame leaves in the pot. Suddenly, the sesame leaves in the pot collapsed suddenly. She tried to pinch the sesame leaves in the basin with two fingers and turn them twice, hurriedly retracted her hand and put it to her mouth and blew it a few times, and then tried to turn the sesame leaves in the basin back and forth with her hands.

Chen Dongliang burned the fire in the stove to a small size, and the fire in the stove still reflected his face as if he had been smeared with a layer of butter.

"Child, this matter has been decided, wait for a year or two for us to marry her back, and my father and mother's hearts will be put down. Dong Liang Niang tossed the sesame leaves in the basin, and said the words in her heart without a sentence in her mouth, "Our small family is talking about eating and living, whether it looks good or ugly, as long as you can eat three meals a day, the days of this day will be over." Besides, Ma Hua's daughter is also good-looking, and her father is the head of our village, so if we marry her, we won't suffer. My mother also pondered in her heart, after the two of you get married, our two families will have two children, and the two families will live in the same village. ”

Chen Dongliang listened to his mother's words, and kept blinking his eyes and biting his lip to think about something.

Dongliang Niang saw that the sesame leaves in the basin were scalded softly, so she scooped out a scoop of cold water from the water tank and mixed it into the basin, and then began to scrub the sesame leaves in the basin with both hands.

"Mother, this is the matter, I want to stop for two years and get married. Chen Dongliang pondered for a while, raised his head and looked at his mother and said.

Dong Liang Niang was stunned, and the sesame leaf in her hand was thrown into the basin again. Why does this child always think differently from other children? Other children are all thinking about finding a daughter-in-law, but their own children are good, they are all 22 years old, and they are not in a hurry to get married. Looking at other people's twenty-two-year-old children, they all hugged their descendants. Is there something wrong with this child?

Chen Dongliang saw his mother staring at him, smiled at his mother, and said, "I want to get married this time, and there will be more things." ”

"What's the matter? Isn't it just work, eat, and live? It's the same for everyone to get married, and it's a lot of trouble if I don't hear anyone say that they dislike getting married. Dong Liang Niang was stunned at this time, picked up the sesame leaves in the basin again, and said, "You kid, you just want me and your father to follow you for the rest of your life, just like now, you don't have to interfere in anything." Child, this matter is settled, you just stop getting married for another ten years, or are you like this, going to work, finishing work and eating, what else can you do?"

"Mother. Chen Dongliang glanced up at his mother, wanted to say something, and closed his mouth again.

"This kid, tell your mother what you want to say. Why do you still have a hot eggplant in your mouth?" Dong Liang Niang rubbed the sesame leaves in her hand, squeezed out the water with both hands, and looked at her son.

"I just want to marry her in two more years when our family's life can ease, and then life will not be so tight. Chen Dongliang looked down at the firewood in the stove and said, "In the current days of our family, it will be even tighter if we add one more person to eat." ”

"Silly boy, when will the days be relaxed, last year like this, this year like this, and next year will be like this. People like ours are like this, don't expect any big relief, which year can be considered a good year if you can divide two more buckets of grain. ”

"It's not going to go on like this. Chen Dongliang pulled the burning stick twice in the stove.

"What else can I do?" Dong Liang Niang put the dried sesame leaves in her hand on the board, sighed and said, "It's not bad now, compared to when I was a child, the years are much more moisturized, and it will be nice to be able to live like this." ”

Chen Dongliang listened to his mother's words, and stopped squeaking.

"The current life is much better than before, when I married your father, your father married me in a nunnery. The shed of the hermitage, surrounded by straw walls, was covered with a layer of mud inside and out, and it was ventilated on all sides. Your grandmother died early, and your grandfather didn't take it seriously, didn't you come here too?" Dong Liang Niang was busy with the work in her hands while talking to her son, "Later, your father built these three houses by himself, and he lived there for more than 20 years. At present, Daddy's mind is on you alone, and when you get married and start a family, Daddy and Niang are dead, and you can close your eyes, and you can go to see our ancestors. If you drag it like this, if one day I and your father leave, I won't even be able to see the face of my ancestors. Today, Lai Baoqing came over and said that he wanted to tell you about his family, and his mother's heart was more comfortable than eating a white mask. ”

Chen Dongliang's heart has always been sour.

"Besides, Ma Hua's daughter, not to mention that she is good-looking, you have been playing together since you were a child, who has what temperament, what temper, you can figure it out, and you can take care of each other in the future. My mother also pondered, that is, to find a daughter from a living family, what kind of temper and temperament would the girl be, and the family couldn't figure it for a while. How good is this, Ma Hua didn't come to the door, we know what kind of person our daughter-in-law is in the future, we have a bottom in our hearts, and we don't worry about getting along in the future. Dong Liang Niang washed the scalded sesame leaves back and forth a few times, and then used a kitchen knife to stop back and forth on the board a few times, then turned around and cleaned the small pot, and asked her son to add firewood to the stove.

Chen Dongliang followed his mother's words and burned the fire in the stove of the small pot.

Dong Liang Niang picked up the gourd-sized oil jar from under the board, and the small grape lifted a grape of oil and put it in the small pot, and then she looked into the oil jar again, wondering if there was still half a catty of oil left in the oil jar, and the oil in the oil jar had to be eaten by the family until the autumn, and then the sesame seeds in the field could add oil to it. She wiped the two drops of oil on the outside of the jar with her index finger, then licked the oiled fingers with her tongue, and then put the jar back under the board, turned around and hurriedly used the spatula to pull the already smoking oil paste in the small pot twice, and poured the chopped sesame leaves into the pot with a snort. Suddenly, the whole stove room was filled with the smell of fried vegetables in oil.

After Chen Guozhong and Lai Baoqing discussed, they decided to ask Ma Lao Er to set a date for the two children to talk together. Just as they were happily pouring half a pot of loose wine left over from Chen Guozhong's New Year, they suddenly heard someone outside scolding something with a long throat and blood.

Chen Guozhong listened to his ears for a while, sighed and said, "The woman with the old smoking gun scolds the chicken!"

"This broken mouth ......," Lai Baoqing also sighed.