The father is not a stingy person, and the second aunt is not a hypocritical person, the two catties of pork used as a thank you gift were slightly pushed, and they were brought into the kitchen by the eldest sister who came back from picking pigweed, plus the small fish that Li Jiaming touched back, the fried tofu and pig's head meat bought by his father, etc., became everyone's lunch dishes together.

In this year, in addition to the Chinese New Year, it is a luxury for rural people to eat fresh meat. After memorizing the book and dictating the pinyin words, the full sister smelled the smell of meat and pulled the little sister to lie in the kitchen without moving the nest, for fear that the meat would disappear as soon as they walked away.

The eldest sister in charge of cooking and stir-frying will not listen to the third uncle, she will fry all the more than two catties of meat, she fried half of the other half and left, ready to let the younger siblings who have not seen meat for a long time eat two more meals, and the same is true for fried tofu and the like. After a period of busy work, the eldest sister scooped up the fried chili fried meat from the pot, sandwiched two pieces with salty chopsticks, stuffed them into the mouths of the full sister and the little sister who were guarding the stove, and said with a smile: "Is it delicious?"

The smiling Manmei nodded again and again while chewing the slices of meat: "Well, the meat is the best, it's better than sugar!

The little sister next to her also nodded again and again, and echoed: "It's delicious!"

"Then study hard, as long as you are admitted to university, you will have meat to eat every day!"

As soon as I heard that I had to study hard to have meat to eat every day, the little face of the full sister who was eating happily wrinkled, and the second sister and the third sister who helped to help him covered their mouths and smiled, so that the eldest sister glared at her and immediately turned her head and laughed.

"As long as you are admitted to university, there will be a lot of fun things, and a lot of beautiful flowers. If you can't get into college, then you can only be like the eldest sister, picking pigweed and feeding the pigs every day. ”

The eldest sister's white lies revealed utilitarianism, which made Li Jiaming, who had just packed up the small fish and entered the kitchen, smile, and echoed: "If you hadn't memorized the text today, and you were not right in pinyin and new words, the meat at noon would definitely not be eaten for you two! The student's task is to study, and if he doesn't even study seriously, what qualifications do you have to eat meat?"

As soon as Li Jiaming squeaked, the man sister, who was struggling with reading, immediately fell silent, staring at the two large bowls of chili fried meat and drooling, and looked at the fifth brother with a bowl of chili fried meat, bitter gourd scrambled eggs, fried tofu, pig's head meat and other good dishes with great dissatisfaction.

"Wenwen, send it to Uncle Chuanzu's house. ”

"Oh", the little sister who was smiling just now also frowned, took the full bowl and held it carefully, for fear that it would fall off, and walked towards Uncle Chuanzu's house, which attracted an approving smile from the eldest sister. Others may not know, but the eldest sister knows that Uncle Chuanzu and Aunt Cha Ju are very good to Li Jiaming's brothers and sisters, and they usually have a small rice bowl for any good dishes.

"Mingya, why don't you send it yourself?"

"Wenwen is timid, let her practice her courage. ”

"Oh"

The eldest sister smiled and continued to stir-fry, and when Li Jiaming went out, the full sister was dissatisfied: "Eldest sister, the fifth brother's words don't count, and Jin Mei doesn't study, how can she eat chili fried meat? There are also fried tofu, pig's head meat, and scrambled eggs!"

This question was asked by the eldest sister, and it took me a while to find a reason to come out, "The fifth brother has a conscience, and Aunt Cha Ju will remember him and Sister Wen if she has anything to eat." ”

After a while, the eldest sister fried all the dishes, and her father asked Li Jiaming to call someone for dinner.

The eldest sister who had just finished frying the dishes was stunned, she only counted the number of people from the three families and did not count the uncle's family.

"Wenwen, you go and call the uncle, the second aunt, and the fourth uncle to dinner. ”

The father outside the door felt that something was wrong, and immediately said, "Mingya, you go by yourself." ”

Hearing his father's words, Li Jiaming, who walked under the eaves, smiled and explained: "Ye Ye (Dad), Wenwen is timid, and he has to practice. ”

"Oh", as if it were the case, and my father didn't think much of it, turned around and went back to the hall, and continued to plank the boards. Now the bed that Xiaomei and Manmei sleep in is the eldest niece, and he, who is an uncle, is a carpenter, and he really watched the three nieces squeeze into one bed?

The eldest sister listened to the movement outside the kitchen, and when the third uncle left, she hurriedly called Li Jiaming in, and whispered: "Mingya, there is less fried vegetables." plus the four of them, one table will definitely not be able to sit down. ”

Li Jiaming didn't expect his father to call the uncle and them over for dinner, how many times the uncle's family had delicious food, but he never called a few brothers, even a few nephews and nieces, and he didn't even have a chopstick.

"Easy to do! Second sister and third sister, you can wash the dishes in the cupboard and put the same dish into two plates. ”

"Is that okay?"

Li Jiaming smiled and whispered: "Didn't I ask Wenwen to call? You said that Uncle is such a face-saving person, I sent me to call, he doesn't care, he will come if he doesn't even go with me?"

yes, the eldest sister, they chuckled. In the countryside, when people are invited to dinner, it is usually the male host who invites them, so as to show respect for the guests. If the man is too busy, or if the two families are close, he will send his son to invite, and rarely send his daughter to invite someone to dinner. Daughter, the water spilled by the married daughter, if there are many guests during the New Year's holiday, the daughter will follow her mother to deal with a few mouthfuls in the kitchen.

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The timid little sister went to call the second aunt, the fourth uncle, and the fourth aunt, and they were fine, but they were always a little afraid to call the uncle and aunt, and stood at the door of his kitchen for a long time before he mustered up the courage to walk in with a red face, and stammered: "Auntie, my brother and brother called me to come, please go to dinner." ”

As soon as she finished speaking, the red-faced little sister didn't care whether the aunt agreed or not, turned around and ran away, making the aunt who was burning the fire laugh.

"Chuanjian, you see that Sister Wen is so timid, when she studies in the future, she still dares to ask the teacher? Ming Yan taught them to read, why didn't she teach them to practice their courage?"

"You know a!"

The uncle of the city government scolded in a low voice, put down the teapot in his hand and thought about it, and finally went out of the kitchen and called to the attic, asking the two sons to go to the third uncle's house for dinner. The sound of reading on the mountain that day seemed to still linger in the ears of the uncle, 'I'd rather bully the pulsatilla than the poor youth'.

The fourth aunt, who was changing clothes in the room, heard the uncle's voice, and exchanged a piece of Jinjiang wine of eight cents in the fourth uncle's hand for a piece of bulk wine of two cents and a pound, and the fourth uncle frowned and said in a low voice: "Jinhua, it's not necessary, is it?

"What do you know?"

The fourth aunt, who was gentle outside, was the master who could rub the fourth uncle round and pinch at home, so she glanced at him and whispered: "Your eldest brother doesn't care, we don't ask him for anything, your little nephew is not an ordinary person." He would rather fall and bleed and chop wood than your help, and I panicked when I saw it. ”

The fourth uncle was happy when he heard it, and he didn't care: "Why are you panicking? No matter how capable Jiaming is, he is not my nephew?"

"What do you know, I'm afraid that you treat him as a nephew, and he only treats you as an ordinary relative! Don't you see that he doesn't come to call us for dinner, but only sends Wen Mei? He just doesn't want his eldest brother and sister-in-law to go, so he sends Wen Mei here. ”

Li Jiaming has been looking for various opportunities to train his sister's courage, and the fourth uncle, who knew about this, laughed and said: "Impossible! I have watched him grow up since I was a child, and he is stubborn, but he is still quite conscientious." Don't you know, yesterday Ming Yan also asked Wen Mei to stand in front of Sister-in-law Cha Ju and Jin Mei and recite ancient poems in Mandarin. ”

When the fourth aunt saw her husband so mad, she finally got angry, pinched him, and scolded in a low voice: "Such a big person, you don't want to do anything with a big brain? Don't you remember, the last time the third brother beat him, it was because the third brother wanted to help you build a house base, and he wanted the third brother to do carpentry work to pay off the debt!"

The fourth uncle remembered Li Jiaming's stubborn eyes last time, and his heart was also a little tight, so that the third brother was bloody, and he didn't even hum, how hard is that little guy's heart?

"Have you figured it out, I don't think your nephew is an ordinary man, if he has a future in the future, in your house, he will only treat the second brother and the ancestral brother as uncles, and you and the eldest brother will not be in his eyes!"

"And you're still there?"

The fourth aunt sighed, she went out to work after graduating from junior high school, and she had been tossing and turning in factories, restaurants, and supermarkets for seven or eight years, and she had never heard or seen anything? When she was working as a waitress in a high-end restaurant, she even met the local Taoist elder brother, secretary, and town mayor.

But she had never seen the kind of eyes in Li Jiaming's eyes when he was beaten, there was no anger, no resentment, only resolute stubbornness. From that moment on, the fourth aunt concluded that this little nephew would definitely have a future when he grew up.

"When you take bottled wine, you have the meaning of being a guest, and when you take the bulk wine you usually drink, it is to eat with your own family, understand?"

The fourth uncle laughed dumbly, and teased in a low voice: "You have too many eyes, as for it?"

"As for whether it is or not, I don't know. I only know that Jiaming is not an ordinary man, he wants to be an adult, so I will treat him as an adult. I don't expect him to help us much after he has a chance, I just hope that he knows that I, as an aunt, have never treated him badly, and have always treated him as his nephew. After eating, you tell the third brother that we will not decorate the house for two or three years, and help him pay off those debts first. ”

That's what the fourth aunt said, but the fourth uncle knew that it wasn't exactly that, the money lent to the third brother would be repaid as long as he had it on hand in the future, and lending it to the eldest brother was a matter of the Year of the Monkey and the month of the horse;

The wife has so many hearts, although the fourth uncle doesn't think so, he can't help it, so he has to go to the third brother's house for dinner with bulk wine.

It's a pity that Li Jiaming, an extraordinary girl in the eyes of the fourth aunt, didn't look at the wine brought by the fourth uncle at all, and didn't even care what the adults thought.

When everyone entered the hall, they looked at the table in the hall and were stunned, there were no outsiders for dinner today, and they could sit at a large round table, but there was a table of eight immortals and a small square table in the hall. The dishes on the two tables make everyone look at each other, and the table is not the kind of bowl that usually serves food during meals, but a plate for hospitality during the New Year. These plates were still bought by the deceased third sister-in-law on the street when my father had loose on his hand.

If that's all it is, it doesn't matter, it's just that the dishes on the Eight Immortals Table and the Small Square Table are too abrupt, and there is a vegetable bowl in the middle of the seven or eight plates?

That's right, the bowl of chili fried meat that was divided into half for Aunt Cha Ju's family was placed on the adults' table, and the bowl was full of children's tables. What's even more excessive is that the only plate of fried small river fish is also placed on the children's table, and the adults don't even have half a fish scale on the table of the eight immortals.

In the countryside, there are rules for eating, when one table of eight immortals cannot be seated, the guests and the elderly sit at the table of eight immortals, and the rest of the people crowd into the other table to eat; good dishes must be eaten by the guests, the elderly, and the strong laborers of the family first.

If there were only the second aunt and the fourth uncle today, the father would definitely not care, but there was an uncle who usually rarely had a meal together, and he frowned and glared at his son unhappily. Knowing a son is better than a father, how can he not know the little bit of caution of his stubborn son?

That's right, Li Jiaming did it on purpose, it was rare for the uncle and them to come over for dinner, and it was rare for his brother and sister to go to his house for a meal, otherwise he would not have sent his little sister to call. Some things are not that you are stingy, but that if you are not stingy, others will treat you as a fool and think that he should be cheap.