Chapter 17: Sharing Food
"It's all bad mothers, mothers are useless, and they almost let people sell their daughters...... "This time, Zhang's "bad" is completely different from what he used to say, "not good", in the past, Zhang's felt that he was not good enough, and even his children were not taken seriously. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info felt that he had been blinded by lard this time, and only wanted to be a qualified daughter-in-law in Cui's eyes, but he neglected his own children and made his children suffer great grievances.
As he spoke, Zhang's tears rained down, and he even cried.
"Mother, don't cry, your injury is not healed yet, what if you cry again and break your body?" Xu Qiuyi hurriedly took a handkerchief to wipe Zhang's face, and patted Zhang's shoulder softly while wiping it.
The brothers and sisters talked a little bit and finally persuaded Zhang.
Originally, Zhang's was still very weak, and after suffering another blow and crying, Zhang's energy was a little weak, and the four brothers and sisters said a few words together, and then went back to the house to rest.
After sleeping until he woke up naturally, Xu Xiangwan got up energetically, and it was already dawn at this time.
Because the family has been separated, from this morning, Xu Xiangwan's family needs to cook alone.
There is only one kitchen at home, and Xu Xiangwan's family needs to stagger the time to make breakfast and go to the room, so Xu Xiangwan didn't get up very early today.
When the family was separated yesterday, everyone had already helped Xu Xiangwan move the divided things to the east wing, and now they are placed in the small hall of the east wing.
The things that were distributed were a lot more than Xu Xiangwan expected, and this must be the credit of Old Man Xu. Old man Xu is a face-loving person, even if he is biased in his heart, he will not show it too obviously, and he will not do anything criticizing in such a thing as splitting the family.
What's more, Zhang's injury and Xu Xiangwan's sale were somehow known to the people in the village, and someone asked about it when Old Man Xu went out yesterday. On the cusp of this storm, Old Man Xu will not do anything bad to the second room.
Even so, the total amount of grain distributed by Xu Xiangwan's family is only ten catties, and the rice has just been beaten down, and it is still being dried, so it will take at least half a month to get the rice.
However, Xu Xiangwan was already very satisfied.
"Mother, why did you get up by yourself?" Xu Xiangwan went to Zhang's room after freshening up, but saw that Zhang's had already dressed and walked outside.
Zhang's face was still very yellow, but he seemed to be in good spirits a lot, and he smiled when he saw Xu Xiangwan: "You kid, my mother hurt her head, not her legs, why can't you get up?"
Seeing that Zhang's spirit was good, Xu Xiangwan was also very happy, and walked two steps quickly to Zhang's side, hugged Zhang's hand, and carefully led her out of the door.
The sun had risen, illuminating the gray East Wing.
"Mother, you should rest more, what are you going to do when you get up?" Xu Qiuyi brought a big bowl of hot rice cooked in bone broth, and when she saw Zhang's up, she couldn't help but blame.
There was still half a bowl of white rice left by Xu Xiangwan last night, and Xu Qiuyi still cooked it with bone broth, adding pork liver and some lotus white leaves bought the day before yesterday.
When Zhang saw it, he was about to get up to pick it up, but was stopped by Xu Xiangwan: "Mother, you have a good rest in the past two days, and when you get better, there are things for you to do." Leave these simple things to us, and you will be responsible for recuperating with peace of mind. ”
The daughters are still young, but they are already so sensible, and Zhang's heart is both relieved and sad.
"Sister, did you go to the kitchen to cook?"
Xu Qiuyi sighed and said helplessly: "They don't let me use water, even firewood." If it weren't for Ah Gong's words, I'm afraid I wouldn't even be able to use the stove! This bowl of hot rice is still the firewood that our brother is picking up now, and my brother is now going to fetch water, and people don't let him use the bucket, so he still borrows it from the next door. ”
Xu Xiangwan was in a good mood, but after listening to Xu Qiuyi's words, it disappeared in an instant, and those people in the upper room did too much, they were relatives, not enemies.
There was no smile on Zhang's face, and he obviously didn't expect those people in the upper room to do such a great job.
The well in the village is about a mile away from Xu's house.
As he spoke, Gorou came back with two buckets of water.
Since Gorou is still young and his nutrition can't keep up, his figure is a little thin, and even though the ropes that hook the two ends of the flat pole have been received at the shortest, the two buckets are still grazing the ground, and it doesn't look like he is carrying water, but like he is hanging on the flat pole.
Stumbling all the way, there was only half a bucket of water left in both barrels.
Zhang was distressed, and his eyes turned red.
"Goro, come and rest. Zhang put down the hot rice and hurriedly walked towards Goro.
Although he is short in stature, he still has the strength to work in the fields because he often works.
"Mother, don't come here, don't bump into you. Gorou said breathlessly as he carried the water.
Under the eaves of the east wing, there is a broken clay pot, which I don't know how many years it has been placed, and it has not been thrown away, and it is just used to hold water at this time. The clay jar has been cleaned by Xu Qiuyi, and she is waiting to fill it with water.
Xu Qiuyi and Xu Xiangwan stepped forward together to help Gorou pour the water in the wooden bucket into the water tank, the water tank was not big, and it was filled with so much water, just on the edge of the broken tank.
"Brother, wipe your sweat. After pouring the water, Xu Xiangwan wiped Gorou's sweat with his own handkerchief.
Seeing the three brothers and sisters doing these things with difficulty, Zhang's heart couldn't tell what it was like, so he secretly swore in his heart that he must take care of his body and not drag a few children back.
Zhang took five pairs of chopsticks from the house, carefully poured the hot rice in the big bowl into the small bowl evenly, and ate a small bowl himself.
"There are four bowls of hot rice here, and you brothers and sisters drink one bowl. I know you're all pointing to me to get better quickly, and I ate a bowl too. When you are all growing up, if you don't eat better, what will you do in the future?" Obviously, the Zhang family has made up their minds to let Xu Xiangwan's brothers and sisters eat hot rice.
Hearing the movement in the house, Xiao Jiu also woke up.
seems to know that Zhang's illness and his brothers and sisters are busy, Xiao Jiu has been extremely obedient these days, dressing himself, washing himself, playing by himself, and sometimes following Xu Xiangwan and Xu Qiuyi to help them, without adding chaos at all.
Xu Xiangwan glanced at Gorou and saw him nodding, so he had to sigh. Zhang has always loved children the most, if it weren't for the fact that she was really weak, she would definitely not even eat a little.
There is not much hot rice, and the family eats so much to cushion the stomach first.
"Since we don't let anything go to the room, we don't have to make breakfast. It just so happens that the steamed buns given by Mrs. Chen haven't been touched yet, so why don't we divide the steamed buns and eat them? Xu Xiangwan said.
Everyone ate a lot of food in the first few meals, no one shouted that they were hungry, and the steamed buns given by Aunt Chen the day before yesterday were still there, and now they are just taking them out.
The Zhang family nodded in agreement.
Aunt Chen gave six big steamed buns, and the family divided one and left one, and the brothers and sisters all tacitly left it to the Zhang family.
"I can't eat so much, you guys eat more. "The Zhang family only gnawed half of it, and let the Wulang brothers and sisters divide the rest.
The steamed buns made by the villagers themselves are very solid, and the steamed buns are very large, although they are not as soft as those sold in the town, but they are strong and hungry.
"Mother, you eat more to have strength. Xiao Jiu raised his head and said with a smile.
Wulang and the others naturally nodded, and Xu Xiangwan also touched Xiao Jiu's longevity peach head approvingly.
Everyone humbled each other for a while, but Zhang still insisted on dividing the remaining steamed buns into four parts and giving them to the four brothers and sisters.
This is the first time the family has eaten alone, and the Zhang family is still a little unaccustomed to it, but seeing that Gorou and the others are eating with relish, everyone is talking and laughing, the room is full of warmth, and the trace of loneliness in his heart has disappeared.
After eating, Gorou said that he would go to the town to buy some oil and salt and other necessities.