"Mother-in-law, mother-in-law, what's wrong with you?" Ning Xi hugged Granny Qin and shouted anxiously.

Jun Qianyu stretched out his hand to probe Granny Qin's pulse: "It's okay, it's just cold and hungry, and it's only like this when I'm stimulated for a while, I'll be warm up at home later, and I'll be fine if I eat something." ”

When he arrived at the entrance of the village, due to the weather, there were almost no people outside, Ning Xi couldn't wait, he didn't care about the rain, jumped out of the car and went to the farmer's house to knock on the door, asked about the location of Qin Xiaomei's house, and after several twists and turns, he finally found Qin Xiaomei's house.

To their surprise, the family that Qin Xiaomei married was so poor that they only had a mud house, which was washed down by the rain and a corner of the house, the house was narrow and damp, but fortunately it was cleaned up fairly clean, so that there was nowhere to put it.

Qin Xiaomei heard that something had happened to her mother, so she hurriedly greeted her with a big belly, and a young man also limped and jumped out. Jun Qianyu and the coachman helped carry Granny Qin in, put her on the bed and settle it, and Qin Xiaomei went to change her mother's clothes that were soaked in the rain.

Ning Xi lived in Ningjia Village for a period of time, and was used to doing housework in the farmer's house, so he was familiar with finding firewood and grass, and burned the farmer's big kang, but he didn't burn firewood for a long time, and his hand was a little raw, and the firewood and grass were damp, but he was choked by the smoke and coughed for a while. After a while, the room was obviously warmer, and Granny Qin's hands and feet were no longer so cold, Ning Xi asked Qin Xiaomei for some ginger and brown sugar, and prepared to make a bowl of ginger brown sugar water for Granny Qin to ward off the cold.

Qin Xiaomei's face was a little embarrassed and went into the kitchen to rummage for a long time, and finally only took out a piece of ginger that had dried up, but there was no brown sugar, Ning Xi couldn't, so she could only wash and crush the ginger, boil a bowl of ginger water, and ask Qin Xiaomei to help pour it into Granny Qin, and after a while, Granny Qin coughed a few times, and finally woke up leisurely.

The mother and daughter haven't seen each other for a long time, and when they first met, they couldn't help but cry again, Ning Xi couldn't bear to disturb them, so he pulled Jun Qianyu to sit down at the table, and patiently waited for them to say goodbye to each other.

After talking about the changes in the family, Granny Qin asked about the situation in Qin Xiaomei's house, looked at this four-walled house, and saw her son-in-law's inconvenient walking, and couldn't help but cry sadly.

Ning Xi listened to it for a long time, and he understood that this Huangjia Village is a poor and remote country, the land is barren, and the output is not much, so most of the young and middle-aged people in the village will go to work in Lezhou City, and Qin Xiaomei's husband, this man named Ah Ming, because the old mother of the family has been sick in bed, Ah Ming can't go out to work in order to take care of his mother, so the family has not been well-off, fortunately, there is also a family tradition of making tofu, and he makes tofu and sells it in several nearby villages on weekdays, and he can't make any money, so he can only make a living.

At the beginning of the year, Ah Ming's mother died, and the life of the young couple was slowly improving, and they saved some money to renovate the house, and Qin Xiaomei found out that she was pregnant again, and the young couple were even more happy.

In order to supplement the nutrition of the pregnant Qin Xiaomei, Ah Ming sometimes went up the mountain to hunt some small animals to cook to replenish her body, but when she went up the mountain a few days ago, due to the rain and slippery roads, Ah Ming accidentally broke her leg, and the family lost the main labor force, and the silver saved was used to treat his leg, and his life was suddenly embarrassed.

Ning Xi listened to it in his ears and secretly sighed, no matter what era, injuries and illnesses are a big mountain that weighs on the heads of the people!

In such a situation, Ning Xi was really embarrassed to immediately ask Granny Qin to help her, but it was rare that Jun Qianyu was also patient, so he didn't rush her, and kindly helped Ah Ming to look at his legs, and asked the coachman to give Ah Ming a bottle of wound medicine.

Or Granny Qin was thinking about Princess Qi in her heart, and took the initiative to ask about Princess Ningxi Qi's situation, Ning Xi didn't dare to make her sad again, only said that the princess was not worried about her life, but she had a loss of appetite, and if she could find the food she loved to eat when she was a child, it would probably help to mention the princess's appetite.

Granny Qin lowered her head and thought carefully: "Ah Yu has been a very well-behaved child since he was a child, he never picks his mouth, he eats whatever he wants, his wife died early, General Feng is fighting all the year round, and every qiē in the family is the general's step-room Zhao is in charge, Zhao is very long-sleeved and good at dancing, and he is very good at Ah Yu in front of the general, but when the general is not at home, he often deducts from the diet. Although the former lady left Ah Yu with Luohua Villa, but those are all rough people, I only see the surface of the General's Mansion is bright, where can I take care of it so finely, but pity us Ah Yu is so young, I can't say that we are bullied. The tone was low, full of sadness.

Qin Xiaomei forced a cheerful face and comforted: "Sister Ah Yu told me that she was very happy to be cared for by her mother back then, and she also hummed a song to me, saying that her mother liked to hum and coax her to sleep the most!" ”

"Yes, yes!" Granny Qin had a slight smile on her face, "That song is called "Cai Hongling", your sister Ayu loves to listen to it the most, every day I have to hum before I am willing to sleep, by the way, her favorite food is water chestnut porridge, that year Ayu was playful, heatstroke, and the heat started at night, Zhao refused to let people ask for a doctor, so the old body made her a bowl of water chestnut porridge, put aside a little brown sugar, sweet and silky, Ayu ate cutely. In the future, every time I feel uncomfortable, Ah Yu will always ask me to make water chestnut porridge for her, some seasons can not buy fresh water chestnut, the next year I took advantage of the water chestnut market to buy a lot of air-dried and saved, Ah Yu when she wants to eat I can make it for her. ”

Granny Qin's mind returned to that long memory with the words, and with a trance smile on her face, Ning Xi took the opportunity to ask: "Then Granny can tell me, how is the water chestnut porridge made?" ”

"It's just the practice of ordinary people, the water chestnut is peeled and washed, steamed first, cut into fine dices, boiled with glutinous rice, boiled into a sticky bowl, plus some brown sugar, it tastes moist and sweet and glutinous, just suitable for children to eat, our people here are in the season when the water chestnut is ripe, they like to boil this porridge for children to eat."

"Yes, I ate a lot of it when I was a child, and it was really delicious." Qin Xiaomei said.

Ning Xi said: "Sister Qin, I can borrow your kitchen to make a water chestnut porridge, can you please taste the same taste as the one you ate when you were a child?" ”

Qin Xiaomei hurriedly said: "This is naturally possible, but at this time, where can I buy water chestnuts?" ”

Ning Xi's gaze turned to Jun Qianyu: "Fifth Master, can I ask you another favor?" ”

Jun Qianyu opened his mouth: "Add three more dishes, a total of thirteen." ”

Although Ning Xi was angry that he took advantage of the fire to rob, but at this moment, only he could do this, so he could only simply agree, Jun Qianyu beckoned, asked the coachman to come over, and commanded a few words in his ear, and the coachman answered and went out quickly.

Taking advantage of her free time, Ning Xi asked Granny Qin to sing her the favorite song of Princess Qi back then, Granny Qin said that she was too old to sing, so she let Qin Xiaomei sing, and Qin Xiaomei didn't twist, so she cleared her throat and sang: "The two of us rowed the boat to pick red lings, how happy my sister is, how happy my sister is, it's like two horned lings, born from the same root, and we have one heart." "It's also a cheerful folk tune.

Ning Xi pulled Qin Xiaomei to the room next to her: "Good sister, you teach me to sing!" ”

Qin Xiaomei happily agreed, and taught it sentence by sentence, but she didn't expect that such a simple few words of the tune could be understood by ordinary people after listening to it twice, Ning Xi actually stumbled to learn it more than a dozen times, and she didn't sing it well.

This is also the reason why Ning Xi had to drag her to another room to learn, whether it was in her previous life or in this life, she was born with incomplete pentatonic tones and no sense of musicality at all, so she never sang in front of people, this time in order to help Princess Qi restore her appetite, it was considered to be out of the way.

It's just that what she didn't expect was that the hearing of people who practice martial arts was already sharper than ordinary people, and the sound insulation of this room was not good, and her singing voice that was completely out of tune had already been completely listened to by him, and it took a lot of effort to endure it without laughing.

Granny Qin is old, her ears are not very easy to call, but she didn't hear it, and she chattered with him a lot of past events, Jun Qianyu asked her why she hadn't moved around with the princess for so many years, Granny Qin sighed, and told him that her son Qin Da was the nurse of General Feng's mansion back then, and she bullied people outside and almost made a big accident. She knew her son's virtue, and if she kept in touch with Princess Qi, these two sons would definitely cause trouble for the princess, so she had been deliberately estranged all these years.

After Qin Xiaomei taught Ning Xi to sing, she saw that it was almost noon, and hurriedly went to the kitchen to prepare to cook and entertain guests, Ning Xi wanted to follow in to help, but was pushed out alive by Qin Xiaomei, so she had to go back outside to talk to Granny Qin.

It didn't take long for Qin Xiaomei's husband Ah Ming to drag his injured leg into the kitchen, and then faintly heard the two arguing in a low voice, Ning Xi and Jun Qianyu glanced at each other, worried that Qin Xiaomei and his wife were making something unpleasant because of their arrival, Ning Xi pretended to be unintentional and slowly paced to the kitchen door.

I only heard Ah Ming say: "No, this silver hairpin is the last piece of jewelry you have left, or it was handed over to you by your mother-in-law when you got married, and I can't let you exchange it for food." ”

Qin Xiaomei said angrily: "The two people who came from the house are A-Niang's distinguished guests, but now in addition to this bowl of brown rice that can be used to make porridge, I can't even make a bowl of dry rice, you don't let me change it, what can the guests eat at this time?" ”

Amin said, "Then, I'll go to someone else's house to borrow it." ”

"You don't have to go, you can borrow everything you can borrow, and if you go again, you will be humiliated, don't say anything, take my hairpin in exchange, I have the final say in this matter!"

Ning Xi rolled his eyes and saw that there seemed to be two plates of tofu in the corner of the house, so he deliberately said loudly: "Sister Qin, do you still have unsold tofu at home, great, I like to eat tofu the most." ”

Qin Xiaomei hurriedly rushed out: "This tofu can't be eaten!" ”