Chapter V: Exhortation
86_86276 "Xia Lao Er, do you want to eat?" Xia Mingming angrily closed the kitchen door, hated it, and knew that he bullied her child and let her work alone.
Xia Ruo rubbed his sour eyes, put down the electronic piano basic tutorial in his hand and looked out the window, the sky had gradually darkened, an afternoon had passed so quickly, and when he saw his sister in the courtyard who was coming in his direction with a calm face, his heart blossomed, and he couldn't deal with a foodie.
"Burned? I'll make you something to eat. Just one sentence made Xia Mingming's unhappiness disappear like a punctured ball, and grabbed the corner of Xia Ruo's clothes like kraft candy: "What is delicious to eat, isn't there some bread in the pot?" ”
In her impression, only fish and meat are delicious, and there is usually something delicious about pastries, but these days, Xia Ruo's cooking skills have obviously jumped to the first place in the family, and there is still a certain credibility in speaking.
"Who said bread can't be made delicious?" Xia Ruo washed her hands and lifted the lid of the pot, and the originally thin dough became more and more smooth and soft in the steam.
This is also often made when there are no steamed buns at home, and there is another kind of oil cake, but Xia Ruo is not very good at making that, and every time he makes the oil cake that should be soft into a fried one, it is more convenient to say this.
Actually, it's just about making some delicious sauces.
Xia Ruo took out the dough cake and put it outside to dry, the sweet potato rice cooked inside has already exuded fragrance, bowl by bowl waiting to cool, Xia Ruo took out a small half bowl of soybeans pickled from the jar, and washed the green peppers picked from the vegetable garden and shredded them and put them on a plate, put soy sauce, vinegar and salt to adjust it, it is a refreshing side dish.
Peel the shell of a boiled egg and put it in water to cool it, smash a few garlic cloves with a garlic pestle, put half an egg and half a dish of soybeans together and mix well, pour it into a small white porcelain bowl, and look at it very appetizing.
Put the remaining half of the egg into the mouth of the little sister who was watching with her eyes, the child was growing up, and they always gave her as delicious and nutritious as possible.
"Sister, actually, I don't want to eat eggs, I want to eat bread." Xia Mingming habitually swallowed the eggs in his mouth, and at the same time looked at the dough and the prepared dipping sauce greedily, it was really delicious.
"Yes, you can eat one first." There was the sound of a bicycle passing behind the kitchen, and I thought it was my sister who had returned, and my mother should have also returned.
Sure enough, Zhao Lan and Xia Na almost entered the door with their front and back feet, and when they saw the two children looking at the kitchen door, they couldn't help but laugh: "Ruoruo has something delicious to eat, and the gluttony is obviously going home to eat on time so much." ”
Xia Ming pouted unhappily: "Mom, what are you talking about, I also helped cook." ”
"It's my mother who said the wrong thing, our family is obviously the most capable, my mother and eldest sister are going to wash their hands, you can help your second sister bring the food to the hall." Zhao Lan smiled and pressed a few times of water at the well, and washed her face from the basin that received the water.
Maizi saw that it was about to ripen, and called her husband to hear that she could come back to harvest the wheat, Zhao Lan's heart was also a little relieved, her husband did not come back last year, and she still asked her sister and brother-in-law to help, although people didn't say anything, but she couldn't say anything in her heart.
By the time they had washed up, Xia Ruo had already set up the dishes and chopsticks with Xia Mingming, and the TV had been tuned to Xia Mingming's favorite cartoon as usual.
"Don't watch TV all the time, hurry up and finish your meal and do your homework." Xia Mingming is already in the first grade, and because of his good academic performance, he is always reluctant to do his homework, and he has to be urged every time to complete his homework before the start of school.
"Oh, I see, that's verbose." Xia Mingming pouted and was unhappy, his grades have always been the first, those questions would have been done a long time ago, and his mother was always annoying about it, which was really a headache.
"How do you talk, do you want to eat anymore?" As soon as Xia Ruo stared, he didn't like her problem, and the family couldn't say a word.
"People have been busy for so long, and you all say that I won't eat them." Xia Mingming had suffered this grievance, and as soon as he threw his chopsticks, he ran outside, pulling his throat as if he had been wronged.
"What do you kid say she's doing, you don't know what's wrong with her." Zhao Lan was in a hurry to chase after her, seeing that it was getting dark, although the moonlight was quite bright at night, she was just a child, and she didn't know where she was going, so she must be uneasy.
"Mom, don't leave her alone, don't teach her a good lesson, sooner or later she will get used to a problem." Xia Ruo grabbed Zhao Lan, saw that she was restless and restless, and stood up helplessly: "Where else can she go, the cartoon will start soon, she must have gone to my aunt's house to watch TV, I'll go to her and come back, you guys eat first." As far as Xia Mingming's mind is concerned, she doesn't have to guess to know, how can she run to a place where she can't find it.
"You tell her well, don't quarrel." Zhao Lan told her uneasily, the second daughter's stubborn temper was the most sorrowful, and she was afraid that she couldn't help but fight with the two.
Xia Ruo agreed and walked out, leaning on the outer wall of the aunt's house behind him for a while, and sure enough, he heard the voice of the fourth aunt greeting Xia Mingming: "Obviously here, have you eaten, do you have more food in our house?" ”
"Auntie, I've eaten, I'll come to play with Yuanyuan." If you die, you have to save face and suffer the crime, but your own family is angry, Xia Mingming will not let others know that she is so unreasonable.
Xia Ruo smiled silently, and went back to his house along the outer wall to report: "I obviously ate at my aunt's house, and I said that I would come back after playing for a while." "She just didn't go to her to see if she would come back today.
Zhao Lancai put her mind at ease, picked up the bowl and took a sip of soup: "Your father can stop her in our family, wait for your father to come back and talk about her." ”
Xia Ruo snorted indifferently, and her mother thought so, once Xia Mingming's habit was formed, it would be difficult for anyone to speak. Now, because my father is not at home all the year round, I feel a little scared if I am not familiar with it.
"My dad should be back in a few days, right?" Xia Na is about to take the junior high school entrance examination, and she was delayed for a year because she helped Zhao Lan take care of her family, and she can't repeat her studies in the third year of junior high school.
Zhao Lan also knew that she owed her eldest daughter, and if it was not necessary, she would not let her ask for leave to help at home, so as not to delay her studies. "It's only been a few days."
Xia Na has also been a little entangled recently, she belongs to the kind of person who has a bad brain, although part of her energy is allocated to housework, but she is also very serious about learning, she will review the course of the day several times a day, and will do a lot of practice questions to consolidate, but the grades are only average, and occasionally a satellite can not enter the top ten, so she is very confused about the high school entrance examination, whether to go to high school according to her parents' expectations, or choose a technical school to work early.
Xia Ruo knows that Xia Na is really diligent and can make up for her clumsiness, her perseverance is what she admires and lacks, but as the eldest in the family, what she needs to bear is only her own studies.
"Sister, which high school do you want to be admitted to, do you want your father to come back and give you a reference?" There are two public high schools in the county, the key and the first high school, if the strength is better, but the focus is on science and light literature, if you want to choose liberal arts, it is more appropriate to choose a high school, but Xia Ruo knows that Xia Na is unwilling to choose a high school, so it also has the meaning of guidance.
When you grow up, you will understand how rare it is to do what you like according to your heart, so no matter what happens in the future, Xia Ruo hopes that Xia Na can choose according to her heart, and don't give up again and again because of how her family is.
"You can take any test, it's the same anyway." Xana was a little absent-minded, and her heart was tangled. Zhao Lan's worried eyes are very guilty, everyone has a dream of military uniform, she is no exception, I didn't think before, a few days ago she learned from a friend that there is a military school admission, and suddenly felt that the dream is much closer to herself, if you go to the test yourself, can you also be admitted? However, if she chooses a military school, not to mention that she is far away from home, how can Zhao Lan, who has to take care of the fields and the two children at home, hold on, which is also the reason why she has been entangled.
"I heard that you can be admitted to a military school, doesn't my sister want to be a policeman, how good it is to be admitted to a military school." Xia Ruo excitedly broke the news to Zhao Lan, and was not surprised to see a surprised expression on Xia Na's face, it seemed that she already knew.
"What's so good about a good girl being a policeman, it's hard and tiring to take the military academy exam and it's not safe," is related to the future of her eldest daughter, Zhao Lan can't let it go.
"I think it's very good, how majestic it is to wear a military uniform, and the eldest sister can endure hardships, she must have a future." Xia Ruo tried his best to instigate it.
"What kind of future, what kind of future do you know from a child's family," Zhao Lan glared at Xia Ruo, "Adults talk, children don't intervene, go to sleep." ”
Xia Ruo stuck out her tongue, she was not a child, but seeing that her mother was obviously angry, she quickly flashed, anyway, there is still time, just talk slowly.
Without Xia Ruo gaging next to her, Xia Na is obviously a little cramped, she is not a person who is good at expressing her thoughts, for so many years, helping her mother do housework, because she knows that the family is hard, she is even more sensible to hide her thoughts, at this time, Xia Ruo's mind was inadvertently exposed outside, and naturally she didn't know what to do.
"Nana, no parent's family wants their children to have a good future, but mother also hopes that you will have a safe life," Zhao Lan looked at her daughter and said earnestly, she naturally hopes that her children will have a good future, but how hard it is to be a soldier, her husband was a soldier in his early years, and he was not at home all day, although he is not at home now, but after demobilization, he no longer has to worry about it. He didn't want his daughter to suffer this hardship, not to mention that she had suffered enough.
Xia Na hurriedly smiled and said, "Mom, what do you want, you also believe what Xia Ruo said, who wants to go if it's so hard to be a soldier." It's just that the dream that I thought was within reach a second ago immediately left me, maybe it was my own luxury from the beginning