Chapter 31 My Aunt Visits the Sick
If you ask Pan Wuniang why she has been humming a little song happily lately, she will definitely tell you with a smile that she has been living so comfortably these days! Even if she falls asleep after a tired dinner every day, her inner happiness is something that others can't experience. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
First of all, because of her niece's illness, Pan Wuniang finally didn't have to go to that Lao Shizi's private school anymore - she always felt that as long as she could read and write, it was enough, "What kind of sour poems do you want to chirp!?" ”; And her father and mother are worried about the marriage of the fourth sister, and she has no time to care about her, she can play with her nephews and nephews every day, and she really has a happy year.
In February, the second sister's restaurant opened, and she followed her father to help in the store every day.
Every morning, Shu Lao Er and Pan Erniang would get up at four o'clock on time, pack up everything before half past five, prepare the materials that should be prepared, and start burning on time at half past five. Poon Kee Restaurant is the only place around that sells breakfast with a storefront, and it sells a lot of thin stuffing, delicious and inexpensive, and the business is good. After eight o'clock, the number of people eating breakfast decreased one after another, and Shu Lao Er went to work in the bookstore, and at this time, Mr. Pan also brought Pan Wuniang to help.
Old Man Pan's main task is to take over from Shu Lao Er to make fire, and steam dumplings in the drawer at noon. At noon, Mr. Pan was responsible for running the hall to greet guests, collect money and clean up the tables and dishes. And Pan Wuniang is skillful and plays smoothly, so in addition to helping Pan Erniang every day, she is also mainly responsible for making wontons and stews in the kitchen. At this time, the store was the busiest, and even Mingyu, who took care of Brother He, came out to help after running, and Shu Laoer, who was on a lunch break, rushed back to wash vegetables, wash dishes, and clean up in the yard.
Wait for the noon guests to leave, the restaurant will end the day's business, in the afternoon Shu Lao Er goes to work, the Pan family begins to prepare the next day's ingredients, before the unitary time, Pan Lao Lao will take Pan Wu Niang away.
Fortunately, with the help of Old Man Pan and Pan Wuniang, otherwise the two of them would not have been able to handle it at all. It's the first time for them to start a business on their own, and there's a lot of knowledge in it!
After a month, the overall income of the restaurant is very good, and Qinglan and her mother are on the kang, one is reading the account, and the other is planning.
"Mother, a total of sixty-three two seven hundred and thirteen texts!" Qinglan finished counting the total number and happily reported to Pan Erniang.
"Has your aunt's salary gone?" Pan Erniang looked at the abacus and reconciled the ledger.
"Go!" Pan Wuniang came to the store to help, and Pan Erniang took the initiative to pay her salary. At first, Pan Wuniang said that she didn't want anything, but Pan Erniang scared her and said, don't come if you don't want it, hurry back and embroider the dowry! was so frightened that Pan Wuniang snatched the silver on the spot and put it in her arms. Hehe, in addition to reading, what Pan Wuniang is most impatient to hear is embroidering dowry, because she can't sit still, so she hates doing needlework.
I didn't expect restaurants to make money like this! Pan Erniang breathed a sigh of relief, more than 60 taels a month, plus the Xianggong, there are almost 80 taels, and there can be a small 1,000 taels in a year! One of the advantages of dry water food trading is that it costs almost no money to eat, and after a few years, several children will not have to worry about going to school and taking exams. It's my mother-in-law... The Shu family has already given nearly three hundred taels one after another, and those medicines are really not cheap, but fortunately, the mother-in-law's situation is really much better.
Pan Erniang put sixty taels into the money box and pushed the change to Qinglan, "Buy snacks for you and your brother." ”
"Mother is the best~~~" Qinglan happily put the silver money in her pocket and gave Qian Shenma the most intimate.
"What's so good about your mother?" Shu Lao Er has been back for a while, and he was washing his hands outside just now.
"I won't tell you!" Qinglan deliberately covered the small money bag.
"I know it even if I don't say it, little money fan! I don't know who to follow! Shu Lao Er scratched her little nose.
"Follow my father~~~ Mother comment, how is my abacus!" Qinglan cocked her little tail, oh no, small breasts.
"Half a bottle is not satisfied, and you dare to wander there!" Pan Erniang saw her daughter's proud little appearance, and opened her mouth to strike.
"Mother~~~" Qinglan is dissatisfied, forget it, I will slip away ~ Qinglan grabbed a small money bag and went down to the kang to put on shoes, and went to find her brother to buy candy~
At the end of May, the county school was on vacation, Qinglan helped in the restaurant every morning, went to Shu's house to take care of Mrs. Shu after dinner, and then went back to her house after lunch to help Pan Erniang clean up the kitchen and clean the shop. It can be said that with Qinglan here, it really makes Pan Erniang a lot easier, and Mingyu can also have more time to read and study in addition to taking Brother He.
As the weather got hotter and hotter, Mrs. Shu and Qinglan became more and more sad. Mrs. Shu's leg is almost healed, but she still has to lie on the kang, and she needs to wrap the boiled herbs every day without interruption. It was a hot day, and there were prickly heat on my back and chest, and my legs became more and more itchy.
And Qinglan's work of serving patients is not easy to do, such as scrubbing Mrs. Shu, she has little strength, and often after wiping Mrs. Shu, she looks like she has just been fished out of the water; Another example is that every day you need to boil herbs to put on Mrs. Shu's legs, and wrap gauze to fix them, usually change them once every two or three days, but now the herbs must be changed frequently, or the taste of fermented medicine is very rancid. Even if it is not fermented, the smell of the herbs is very pungent, and Qinglan will not eat lunch after washing the medicinal gauze.
As for the retired old man Shu, he goes out for a stroll after breakfast every day, and he doesn't come back until he eats, so he doesn't help at all.
Qinglan wrapped the gauze of the herbs layer by layer, and immediately a rotten smell came to her face. Qinglan was a little angry, this medicine looked like it was wrapped by herself yesterday morning, and no one changed the medicine for Mrs. Shu last night!
"Milk, didn't the second aunt come yesterday?" Qinglan frowned and continued to carefully clean up the residue on Old Lady Shu's legs.
"I came, stood at a stand, and said that Ji Chun was sick, and I hurried back." Mrs. Shu is not partial to her daughter, but she just doesn't want the care of the two families to be more deadlocked, especially after the second daughter did something like that.
Qinglan didn't say a word, she was angry and pitiful to Aunt Shu in her heart, angry that she would only be in her mother's nest, and there was pity for her hateful people.
Qinglan looked at the darkening skin on Mrs. Shu's legs and felt a little distressed, grandma's legs were thinner, and they were blackened by herbs, and she didn't know when she would change back.
In June, after the end of the farming, Aunt Shu's family came to the county seat again, this time, accompanied by the newly married daughter-in-law of the tiger's cousin, Wang Juhua.
After Aunt Shu's family went back, they had to face the reality that they had no money to marry Wu Fuhu's daughter, and it happened that Wu Fuhu made a noise to choose a son-in-law, and promised to accompany his daughter to a dowry of 500 taels, that is, without 1,000 taels, he could not marry his daughter Wu Qianqian.
Aunt Shu immediately made a decision, transferred the title deed of Old Man Shu to her son's name, and found a matchmaker to go to Dawangzhuang to propose marriage. The wedding date is also near, just on June 12, when the farming season is over, and there is just time to recognize relatives and relatives.
For the tiger head cousin to become a relative before the age, Qinglan expressed puzzlement.
"The countrymen don't care about that, and the county government can't check them one by one, just go to the village chief and talk about it when you are old." Old Mrs. Shu explained to Qinglan.
Of course, Aunt Shu didn't come just to visit relatives, she learned to be obedient this time, and only talked to Old Man Shu alone, and the sisters and brothers muttered in the house behind closed doors.
"I'm not talking about you, the family has no money, why do you let your younger siblings take such expensive medicines!" Aunt Shu's expression was very dissatisfied, and she could see that she was very angry that her younger brother had no money to marry her grandson, but she spent money on such expensive medicine for her daughter-in-law.
(Qinglan: Did you show off...) )
Old Man Shu's expression was very unnatural, for failing to give his sister enough money, he felt that what he was doing was very wrong, and he was very concerned about the friendship between his sister and brother, so he quickly explained: "I really don't have any money, they are all children..."
"How did you do this father!" Aunt Shu didn't wait for her younger brother to finish speaking, and interrupted impatiently: "The child can do whatever he wants, this doesn't turn the sky upside down!" No wonder even a granddaughter can climb on top of you! Aunt Shu said this because she was dissatisfied with the lunch brought by Qinglan today, Mrs. Shu took medicine, and some food was taboo, so Pan Erniang didn't prepare at all, Aunt Shu watched her family accompany her family to eat Mrs. Shu's meal, and the first Buddha ascended to heaven and the second Buddha was born.
"Then again, that is, your sister and I love you, you see who still thinks about you!" Aunt Shu poked her younger brother, this habit was developed when she was a child.
Old Man Shu hurriedly nodded yes.
"This money can't be spent in this way, you don't feel sorry for a few children, I can't see it!" Aunt Shu first made a foreshadowing for the next words, "I'm here today, one is to come to see my younger siblings, and the other is to bring my children to recognize the door, but the most important thing is for you, I'll tell you..."
"Does that really work?" Old Man Shu is not particularly acceptable.
"Is that okay, I can still lie to you!?" Aunt Shu raised her voice.
For Aunt Shu, Mr. Shu is 100% trusted, but for such an amazing...
"Let me tell you, this is not as simple as saving money, if you can't say it, you can..."
"That's... How do I tell the kids..."
Aunt Shu glanced at her younger brother angrily, "Are you Lao Tzu or are they Lao Tzu!" This is a good thing, and others can't ask for it! You and Xiao Yong have a good talk, as long as he agrees. ”
Old Man Shu nodded knowingly.
I don't know if it's because the drug is really effective or Mrs. Shu's desire to survive is strong, or for other reasons, in short, Mrs. Shu is getting better day by day, and during the Mid-Autumn Festival, she can already walk on crutches.
"Grandma~~~" Qinglan opened the door and shouted sweetly, seeing Mrs. Shu bending over to pick vegetables, she hurriedly stepped forward, "Grandma, I'm coming." ”
"No," Mrs. Shu was very happy to see her eldest granddaughter, "Why didn't you go to school so early today?" ”
"Well, there's a holiday in the Mid-Autumn Festival." Qinglan took the vegetable basket from her grandmother's arm. "Milk, what's wrong with you? Don't hide where you're not feeling well. "Mrs. Shu never said that she had a headache and brain fever on weekdays, and she boiled some medicine soup to deal with it.
"Grandma is fine, just look at my eldest granddaughter." Old Mrs. Shu straightened her waist and looked at Qinglan, well, she has grown taller again.
"Then I'll come to you every day after school in the future, so that you can take a good look." Qinglan deliberately interrupted.
"I can't help it, it's serious to study, and you can't play after school, complete your husband's homework well, and if you still have time, you can preview and preview later."
"Milk~~~ You are stricter than Mr.~~~" Qinglan coaxed the old lady to be happy, turned around, and saw a little bean Ding staggering to her. Big eyes, long eyelashes, a round little black face, and a garlic nose that takes up a third of the face.
Old Mrs. Shu also saw it, and beckoned to Xiaodouding: "Ranran, this is my sister, call my sister quickly." ”
Shu Mingran was just about to leave, and she was not very neat, she smiled at Qinglan, saliva flowing from the corners of her mouth.
"I'll come," Qinglan squatted down before Mrs. Shu, picked up Ming Ran's bib and wiped her saliva. After wiping his saliva, he took out a piece of candy from his small purse and stuffed it into Ming Ran's mouth.
Mingran held sugar and followed behind Qinglan, and Mrs. Shu laughed at her: "Little gluttonous cat, a piece of sugar will buy you!" ”
Qinglan also smiled, and stretched out a finger to let Ming Ran hold on to herself.
"Where's your father?" After Mrs. Shu was able to go down to the ground, the rotation ended.
"In the shop, there are a lot of people today." Qinglan pulled Ming Ran and slowly walked to Mrs. Shu's side.
"Then why don't you help out in the store."
"I miss grandma~~~" Qinglan hugged Mrs. Shu's arm and coquettishly, and before she knew it, she was about to catch up with Mrs. Shu. In fact, Qinglan got up very early today, and the group of guests came over in the morning after helping Pan Erniang do her work.
Qinglan took Mrs. Shu and walked into the room, "Where is my grandfather?" ”
"I'm going to catch the big set, and I don't know what to see." Mrs. Shu complained to her granddaughter that the old man didn't feel that the old man used to go to work every day, but after retirement, she couldn't stand it anymore when she looked at the old face with her nose and eyes at home every day!
"I love to go to the big market." Qinglan couldn't pick the etiquette of the elders, so she had to change her tone and ask, "What about Ming Zhuang?" ”
Mrs. Shu's face changed slightly, and she sighed: "Ask your third aunt to send him to his grandmother's house." ”
Qinglan changed the subject, "Grandma, what do you want to eat at noon, I'll make it for you?" ”
Mrs. Shu smiled and said, "Okay, try my granddaughter's handiwork." ”
In the morning, Qinglan chatted with Mrs. Shu, and kept telling jokes to make her happy, the patient was actually most afraid of being lonely, and Qinglan had a deep understanding of this.
At noon, Hariran burned an eggplant with the soy sauce she brought in the morning. Mrs. Shu praised it, "How do you do it, it tastes so good, the key is that you don't add water, you don't put more oil, how can you still burn it so soft?" "Eggplant is not easy to burn, less oil will paste the pot, but it is not delicious when added water.
"Actually, it's nothing, cut the eggplant and sprinkle it with some salt, marinate it and then fry it." Qinglan didn't dare to take credit, this is what she saw from the Internet.
"We're smart." Mrs. Shu summed up with a smile.
In the afternoon, Aunt Shu and Second Aunt Shu came, and Qinglan was puzzled, didn't she leave her mother's house on August 16?
After dinner, a few children feed the fish in the small pond in the west courtyard. Qinglan noticed that the three daughters-in-law were cleaning up in the room, and the others were in the main house and did not come out.
"Big brother", Mingyu tore off a piece of the earthworm's body from Shu Dalang's hand (the earthworm is still alive) and asked, "Who raised the fish?" ”
"Master, who else can there be?" Shu Dalang said casually.
"Why do you raise fish?" Mingyu was puzzled.
"The master said that I would be dazzled after reading for a long time, and asked me to read a book and fish for a while." This is to prevent myopia.
"Oh." Mingyu remembered it in his heart, and when Ming'er caught up, he also went to the big set to buy two fish and put them for his sister to see.
I don't know what the adults talked about, anyway, Shu Er's face was very bad when he came out. After the family said goodbye to the Shu family, they walked home in silence. Qinglan didn't say anything or ask, Shu Lao Er was obviously absent-minded, and often walked a long distance with his head down alone only to find that his wife and children hadn't followed. When she got home, Qinglan couldn't hold back anymore and asked what had happened tonight. (To be continued.) )