Chapter 19 Extraneous branches
But it was said that after the Spring Festival performance, the village said that the leaves were not crooked. But things are always divided into two, when women praise Yezi, their thoughts are also complicated, there are praise, jealousy, vigilance, and even jealousy, even when you are a noble baby, you can't avoid a few half-sour and sweet ridicule. Slowly, some gossip spread about which man Ye Zi was close to in the troupe.
The speaker has no intention, but the listener has the intention. As the days passed and I listened to it a lot, the precious baby's mind gradually changed, from happy to proud, and then to worried. But I didn't notice any clues, and I couldn't say anything. If this man is awkward in his heart, he will find fault, and when he can't find it, he will start to sour, and he will start to sneer in front of Ye Zi without a word. What about the leaves? Just pretend to be stupid, and the right to be a husband is really joking, and don't take it to heart, so as not to get angry.
On this day, the Liang family's mother-in-law's birthday, Ye Zi's sister-in-law Tao'er and her family came to Yunling. Ye Zi specially filled the hot pot, fried a plate of small stir-fry, that is, fried cabbage and shredded pork, cut a plate of dried tofu, and put a plate of cold lotus root slices and a plate of cold bean sprouts and radish strips. The cold lotus root slices and cold bean sprouts and radish strips were made a few days ago, and they were just served and eaten.
Cold lotus root slices are very common cold vegetables in the persimmon bay area, the lotus root melon, scrape off the skin with the back of chopsticks, cut into very thin slices, scald it in boiling water, take it out, quickly spray it with white vinegar, the lotus root slices become snow white and crispy, cool and cool, adjust salt, sesame oil, sprinkle with green onions, you can eat. As for the cold bean sprouts and radish strips, it is the same method, but it is not sprayed with vinegar. There are white radishes and carrots, so they look good and taste good.
For the old mother's birthday, Tao'er is also more formal, not only brought gifts, but also the couple brought the baby. The whole family had a lively meal. But when she was about to finish eating, Guiwa said, "This little stir-fry is too light today." The leaf said, "You eat heavy salt." If you don't like it, just sprinkle a little salt on your side. Tao'er interjected and said, "You can eat it, it's not light." "Oh, it's light. Her mind was no longer above that. Who knew that Guiwa suddenly raised her voice and said. "Hehe, take the salt, don't eat people properly. Ye Zi said with a smile.
"Oh, it's terrible for people to sing a play, where do you have the heart to stay in this house. Guiwa continued. Ye Zi heard the voice and retorted: "Who's mind is not in the house?What are you talking nonsense?" "You, who is it? There is still less gossip outside?" "The forehead is not afraid of the shadow crooked. What do you dare people say?"
"It's our mother's birthday, what's wrong with you two?" Tao'er said to her brother: "Okay, let's talk about it first, eat it quickly, if you don't eat for a while, it will be cold." The mother-in-law of the Liang family also pressed Guiwa and said: "Ghost style." Xian Dan, can you be hungry if you eat two less bites?" "If you don't eat, you're full of gas." Guiwa slapped the chopsticks on the small kang table, got off the kang, put on her shoes and went out.
Ye Ziqiang pretended to smile and said, "It's better if he doesn't eat it, hehe, let's eat two more bites." The mother-in-law of the Liang family also said: "Don't worry about him, let's eat ours." In this way, everyone ate again, Tao'er helped clean up the small table, and Ye Zi washed the pots and dishes, and the big guy still talked and laughed.
It's just that before Tao'er rushed back, she ran to the house at the other end of the leaf and whispered to her brother and daughter-in-law: In the future, if you can sing less in that play, you can sing less, and it is not good for my wife's family to show up more. No, Guiwa already has an idea. Ye Zi also sounded a little reasonable, so he didn't say anything more.
Actually, Ye Zi didn't take these trivial things to heart, and now she is anxious about two things, one is the child in her belly, and the other is the matter of returning other people's houses. According to the eyes of the head of the family, thinking about it, she felt that this child still couldn't be wanted.
At this time, family planning had not yet been implemented, and I didn't know where Ye Zi heard the method, so I went to the consignment point and bought a handful of incense. When he returned home, he knelt in front of the tablet of the ancestors of the Liang family, lit all the incense, and kowtowed three times. When the incense was finished, he put the incense ashes into a bowl, poured some warm boiled water, stirred well, opened his mouth, closed his eyes, drank all the fragrant ash soup in one go, and coughed nauseately for a long time. Whether it works or not, she can't control it.
But right now, the most important thing is the house. Ye Zi thought, either roll the kiln, or build a house. One side of the water, one side of the people. Loess is a good thing, beaten into adobe, rolled kiln cave that is croaking. However, the rolling cave has to pull soil to beat adobe, and it takes a lot of adobe, and it is not enough to beat it for a year and a half. And you have to pull some bricks and tiles, then the whole project is big, and the precious baby will definitely not be able to endure that hardship. As for building a house, you also need some adobe and bricks, but the amount is much less. After thinking about it, Ye Zi felt that the only way to go was to build a new house.
But it hasn't come out of the New Year yet, the ground is still frozen, and it hasn't opened, so nothing can be done. It was also because of the awkwardness with Guiwa that Ye Zi went back to Liuwan's mother's house. On this day, after dinner, the mother and daughter sat on the kang and chatted: "What's the case with Daddy?" "That's it, so old, and when I saw that I didn't see it every day, I swept the yard of the Finance Bureau, saying that the director praised him." "It's also to keep his job. "Ah, that's what to say. Alas, it's a shame at the root, and I don't have the face to go out for the New Year. ”
"What's wrong with my brother?" "I criticized others at the brigade meeting again. "Because of what?" "Just after the fifth day of the first month (the fifth day of the first month), I went out of the village to do private work. "Oh. He will stick to the urn. "To make two more bucks. "There are a lot of children, and the situation is tense. "Alas, what do you want so many babies for?" "What you said, you gave birth, dare to ask for it." "The big ones suffer, and the small ones also suffer. ”
"It must be which one sued. "Before the end of the year, Gen'er left the village in the second half of the morning and came back when it was dark; On that day, before dawn, I came back. "Someone must have been targeted. "As soon as he arrived at the entrance of the village, he was intercepted by the chief of justice. "That thief is not a human being, he is a man who has been baring his teeth and claws at a sky-high price. "People are red in the village. "God is blind. ”
"You're here, why don't you bring the dog baby?" "It's troublesome to bring the baby, we can't even say a word when we come." "That's it. When I came, I thought it was noisy, and if I didn't come, I felt that I was a widow. "Man is a cheap bone. Ye Zi smiled and looked at his mother.
Inadvertently, seeing the complexion on her daughter's face head-on, Ye Zi's mother couldn't help but ask in disbelief: "Why do you dare to get pregnant again?" "Ah, what can you say, what is the way?" "What do you want so many babies to do in your house? "I don't know, what is the way. "This precious baby is not sensible. "Hehe, but if you want to have a daughter, you have a wish. When I get old, my daughter can also take care of my forehead. ”
"Ah, people say that the daughter is her father's little padded jacket. But your father always feels that he owes you. Over the years, so many things have happened, and you have been carrying the ...... alone" "Mom, it's all over, what are you going to do?" "This precious baby is so much older than you, she is a lazy person to do it all the time, and you suffer the sin of death...... "Mother Ye couldn't help but shed a few tears.
"Alas, one life for one person, this is the life. Mom, in the future, when Guiwa comes, I'll talk about him again. First, this disposition is difficult to change, and second, you keep talking about it, and the forehead and face are not good-looking. No matter how hard and tired I am, I admit it. I hope that my children will grow up and give a share of the burden. ”
Hearing her daughter's words, Ye Zi's mother was also quite helpless and said, "I know." Sometimes it's not human. I won't talk about it in the future. You can take care of yourself. "Hmm. Don't you just cough? It's an old problem, so don't worry. Now that I'm pregnant, I can't take medicine. Wait for the baby to be born, and then eat it. "This asthma is tuberculosis, you can't be tired, you can't catch a cold. "Yes. ”
In the afternoon of the next day, Guiwa came to Liuwan to pick up the leaves. Ye Zi's mother made "Zhenzi noodles" and entertained her son-in-law. This is a local delicacy for entertaining guests, first roll out the noodles by hand and cut the noodles a little shorter. Then cut the tofu, carrots, white radish, cabbage and other sauces into dices, then cut some diced meat, kelp shreds, as well as green onions, ginger, garlic shreds, if possible, and then cut some diced squid or something, and together, put salt and five-spice powder, sweet noodle sauce and other seasonings together in the pot and fry, add more boiled water, boil into a thicker soup and water, and then put some frangipani on top, this "cheek" is also the "topping" is done. Roll out the noodles with clean water, scoop up some noodles in a small bowl, and pour more "noodles" on it. The noodles taste fragrant and fresh, and the meat and vegetables are matched, and the nourishment is rich.
After eating the noodles made by her mother-in-law, Guiwa felt more comfortable in her heart. When she was about to go out, Ye Zi's mother repeatedly told her son-in-law: Don't let Ye Zi be tired anymore. The noble baby said and laughed and agreed, got on the bicycle, and took the leaves back to Yunling with a smoke.
After the second day of February, Ye Zi led Guiwa to start pulling soil to the house one by one. Pull the soil first to get down to the soil, a work from the team, the leaves are like a Han family, and Guiwa a three-toothed pickaxe, cut soil under the high cliff, and Guiwa with a small flat car to pull the soil. When they were almost ready, they invited their neighbors and built a wall around the homestead. When the earthen wall in the southeast corner is built to the height of more than one person, let the house put a section of half-cut rafters. Wait until the wall is built to the second or third height, that is, after the wall is built, dig a door hole more than one person high under the half of the rafters, and install a firewood door made of tree strips, which has a slight door, that is, the courtyard gate.
Just when the courtyard wall was about to be circled, the leaves were misproduced. It was only at this time that the mother and son of the Liang family knew that Ye Zi was pregnant again. Needless to say, the mother-in-law of the Liang family counted her son, and she thought that the work of her daughter-in-law was too heavy. But Guiwa not only did not comfort her daughter-in-law, but she didn't tell him about Ye Zi, blaming Ye Zi for being careless. These are all gossip, so I won't go into details.