Qinglan smiled angrily, this old lady, the food is so unpalatable, even if it contains sand and mud, she still wants others to be grateful to Dade for eating, and her heart is so small that she can't even tolerate a two or three-year-old child. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info She kind of knows who the good second aunt inherits.

"She's not awake yet." Shu Lao Er smiled and continued to eat, but refused to feed Qinglan again. Just kidding, so much mud and sand, how weak the child's stomach is, fortunately he prepared a small snack for the two children.

Second Aunt Shu, who was sitting opposite, glanced at the father and daughter, and continued to bow her head to pick up vegetables.

After eating, the men went to the grave with the prepared things, and the women stayed at home to clean up. A large group of people walked away, and Qinglan exhaled a turbid breath and moved out of the dim room with her little short legs.

The sun was shining in the yard, Qinglan looked to the right at the grinding table, then to the left at the chicken pen, and walked to the edge of the pigsty to watch the pigs. The pigsty was not large, the fence was very high, and the stone trough was now placed outside, and a long wooden stick was standing next to it. One big, two small, and three pigs snorted when they saw Qinglan coming. The pigsty was very dirty, full of mud and urine and rotten hay, and it turned out that the feces and urine in the toilet next to it were also arched everywhere by pigs, and the smell was overwhelming.

Pig... Is this one good? It's not that the dog can't change the food... Is it? (What the hell are you thinking!) ）

Qinglan felt like she couldn't stay for a second.

She walked to the gate, sat down on the gate, put her hands on her cheeks, and looked boredly at the ditch and poplar trees outside, thinking that she would go home soon. She didn't dare to go to the toilet in front of those pigs!

Pan Erniang was not happy to see Aunt Shu in the house boasting about her man and son to Aunt Shu, and walked out with her son in her arms, and saw her daughter sitting on the threshold of the gate, her small back looking extremely lonely.

Pan Erniang was suddenly a little distressed.

"Why?" Pan Erniang walked through the courtyard and sat beside Qinglan with Mingyu in her arms.

"I want to go home." Qinglan pouted.

"I'll leave after going to the grave later." Pan Erniang doesn't like to stay here either, Aunt Shu's daughter-in-law is not a diligent person who loves cleanliness, and there is no place to put her feet in the house. Pan Erniang has always felt that there is nothing in the eyes of lazy people, and everything is work in the eyes of diligent people.

"How much does grandpa give my aunt's family every year?" Qinglan was curious.

"Shhhh What do you think when your aunt's family hears it!? Ask for your grandfather!? It's not your turn to ask for an account! What are you hanging! ”

"I'll just ask." Qinglan was speechless, why did she react so much.

Pan Erniang's buttocks moved towards her daughter, and then turned back and glanced at the doors and windows. "I heard your father say that twenty taels a year." Pan Erniang said quietly, paused, and said, "Give you ten taels for your third grandfather." ”

Yo, it's not even. "Why?" Qinglan asked, tilting her little head.

"Why, your grandfather and eldest aunt are the closest, and it was your eldest aunt who brought up your grandfather when he was a child. Later, your eldest aunt was widowed again, and the child was still young. Pan Erniang explained.

"Oh~~~ Then why is the eldest aunt's family so poor?" Qinglan was puzzled.

Pan Erniang was stunned by the question and fell into deep thought.

Why?

The eldest aunt was widowed when she was young, there was only one son in the family, her in-laws were long gone, and there were only two brothers left in her mother's family. Old man Shu used to earn little money, and it didn't count as three or five taels a year, but in the past ten years, he has given her family twenty taels a year! Originally, her family land was not much, but the old man Shu also gave his nephew a few acres of land, and the income of fourteen or five acres of land, there are only five people in the family, which should be enough to eat! When I got married, my father-in-law took money to build this new yard, and the two children at the bottom did not study, but helped the family do a lot of work, there were chickens and pigs at home, and Aunt Shu was also healthy, and her life should be serious. You can look at the family's dressing, the clothes collected on the big set, the patches and patches, and the eldest cousin is wearing a little neatly. I just ate...

Pan Erniang muttered in her heart.

"Why are their teeth that color?" Qinglan looked at Pan Erniang and didn't answer for a long time, and asked again. The old family's teeth are all yellow, brown spots here and there.

"Oh," Pan Erniang came back to her senses, "the reason for the water, the water they drink, makes the teeth become like that." Your grandfather came out early, or he is also that kind of tooth. ”

Xihenggou Village belongs to Gudi Town, most of which is saline-alkali land, and it is also an important salt-producing area, and the salinity of groundwater is very high. Qinglan had drunk their water just now, it was salty, and her teeth were very stained after drinking.

"Why is my father called the third grandfather and the third uncle, but the grandfather is called the third grandfather and the third brother?" Qinglan threw out another unreasonable question.

"Oh, your grandfather and your third grandfather are twins, originally your grandfather was old, but your third grandfather is old, and the people in the village joked that your grandfather called him the third brother, and then he got used to calling and screaming, and he also mixed up and shouted, how can the people in the village be so particular." Pan Erniang patiently explained.

It's really messy, Qinglan pouted, if Pan didn't say that she hadn't seen it, it was actually a twin.

The bright sun shone on her scalp and was a little hot, Qinglan leaned against the door, hiding in the shadow of Pan Erniang, talking with no match. Pan Erniang estimated the time, and it was time for the grave to come back.

The first to run back were Ji Dong and Shu Dalang, shouting that they would weed the fields of Aunt Shu's house, and ran out after speaking. Shu Ergu grabbed her son, handed him a bowl of water, and told him to be careful while wiping his face with a handkerchief. Ji Dong took a sip and refused to drink again, broke free from his mother, and led the boys to run away without a trace.

The men came back one after another, and everyone gathered together again to talk for a while, and prepared to go back. Aunt Shu was busy loading vegetables for her younger brother, but was stopped by Old Man Shu, and instructed her son and daughter-in-law to load it.

Old man Shu loves to eat shepherd's cabbage and bitter cabbage seeds. The herbs are very fragrant when mixed with garlic after passing through the water, and the bitter cabbage seeds can be eaten raw or in wraps. It's good that it's tender, and the roots of the old bitter cabbage seeds are very hard and bitter, but they can be tolerated when dipped in sweet sauce, and Mr. Shu likes it very much.

"Get off the fire", Mr. Shu explained. I don't know where he gets so much anger every day.

It seems to be full of two large bags of dishes, but it is actually not heavy. After putting the dishes away, everyone got into the car one after another, and the old man Shu showed reluctance in his eyes, and repeatedly told his sister and brother to take care of their health, and come to the county to find him if they had something, and then reluctantly got into the car.

The return trip was obviously much faster than when she came, and even Wang Yufen didn't have a moth.

When I got home, it was not yet dark. Aunt Shu started, Mrs. Shu cooked, and the main dish was garlic mixed with shepherd's cabbage and bitter cabbage seed dipping sauce, and Old Man Shu ate the most. After eating, everyone went back to their respective houses, and Aunt Shu also took her son away.

Back in her room, Qinglan asked another question that Pan had not answered.

"Hey," Shu Lao Er explained to Pan Erniang and Qinglan: "The eldest cousin has no father since he was a child, and in order not to be bullied, he loves to follow the Lai Han people in the village." Later, when I got older, I played with them twice when I had nothing to do. ”

It turned out that the son of Aunt Shu likes to play with money.

Bet... Qinglan and Pan Erniang remembered Master Pan at the same time...

For the first time, Qinglan felt a little sorry for Old Man Shu, the Shu family who grew up like this, the Pan family, and herself.

May is approaching, but the atmosphere of the Dragon Boat Festival in Weixian County is not obvious, and there are very few people who sell zongzi. Qinglan loves to eat jujube dumplings, and pouts Pan Erniang bags all day long. Pan Erniang was impatient to pack one by one, and in order to coax her daughter, she promised to steam a big zongzi, and gave it a nice name, called "mille-feuille cake". It is said that it is a mille-feuille cake, but there are only seven layers inside and out, and the soaked glutinous rice and jujube are stacked layer by layer with a cage cloth, compacted, and steamed in a drawer pot, about five or six hours.

Pan Erniang didn't dare to steam at home (for fear that Mrs. Shu would talk about her waste), so she quietly took it to the small kitchen specially equipped with the white case in the restaurant to steam, and didn't go home during the lunch break, so she waited next to the stove.

Shopkeeper Zhou has always been a gourmet, following the fragrance of red dates and glutinous rice, and entered the small kitchen.

Because it was for the child to eat, Pan Erniang carefully peeled the jujube core, afraid that the rice of the cake core would be sandwiched, and she was adding water.

"What does it smell like?" Shopkeeper Zhou walked behind Pan Erniang and asked with a smile.

Pan Erniang was startled by the shopkeeper Zhou who suddenly appeared, swallowed her saliva, wiped her sweat and said, "Mille-feuille cake." "This name was called casually by Pan Erniang, in order to perfunctory her daughter (mother, you finally admit that you are lazy).

Shopkeeper Zhou thought it was a cake made of dates and noodles, and left in high spirits.

Because this cake should be eaten cold, it should be cooled after steaming, so that it will be sticky and glutinous when eaten. The next morning, Pan Erniang lifted the cage cloth to see how the cooled jujube cake was steamed.

The appearance is average, Pan Erniang is a little dissatisfied with her appearance, but it doesn't affect it, and she can't see it when she cuts it into thick slices later. So I tasted it, well~~~ It's not bad, re-wrap the cage cloth, and prepare to take it back when I work in the afternoon.

Shopkeeper Zhou happened to get up late this morning and came without eating, and suddenly thought that Pan's made jujube cakes yesterday, and thought that he would be a steamed bun cushion. Pan Erniang was speechless, so she had to take it out, cut it into a cake slice one inch long and one centimeter wide, and brought a plate to Shopkeeper Zhou.

Shopkeeper Zhou was very surprised, he thought it was...

I saw that this cake was as clear and white as mutton fat and white jade, and the jujube was dotted like agate, and the sweet jujube melted as soon as it was gone, mixed with the sweet jujube fragrance and the unique aroma of glutinous rice milk, and it was slightly Q bomb when bitten. Then, there is no then.

On that day, Lingjiang Pavilion launched a Dragon Boat Festival special - white jade agate, which was sold out immediately, and some people packed it, but only one per person. Shopkeeper Zhou saw the rising numbers on the account, his eyes were smiling, and he wanted to write a letter to the owner immediately, so that the capital and the provincial government would also take action!

Of course, he didn't forget about Pan, gave her a long salary, and encouraged her to create more new products. Pan Erniang couldn't cry or laugh, now that gluttonous girl is going to make trouble~

However, Qinglan is not really an ignorant child, and after the initial disappointment, she is still quite happy for Pan. Since then, the two have often gotten together to study and eat, which has caused Shu Lao's second child to frequently roll his eyes, which is not to be mentioned later.

After Pan Erniang was busy with the Dragon Boat Festival, she specially made two white jade agate and gave them to her family to taste. Old man Shu was very disdainful: "Isn't this just a zongzi with more rice and dates?" It's also called an agate. After saying that, he cut another piece. Shu Dalang secretly hid a piece and wanted to go to the school to show off, but was found out by Shu Boss and scolded, "Are you going to eat or go to school!" "Wang Yufen loves jujube cakes so much that she came to Pan Erniang to ask for them after eating, of course, Qinglan didn't hear her say anything she didn't like.

Pan Erniang pitied her for being poor since she was a child, she hadn't eaten anything good, and she was pregnant, and every time she brought soup and snacks to Qinglan and Mingyu from the restaurant, she would share her share. The Qin family thinks that this is Pan Erniang's favoritism and disdain for her (when you were pregnant, people didn't marry in, okay), she Wang Yufen has a job in the silver building, so she is a cut above her? Pan is a snob! But because of Mrs. Shu, the Qin family didn't dare to say anything in front of the Pan family, but it didn't prevent her from complaining in front of Boss Shu and Second Aunt Shu.

Shortly after the May Festival, it was the fifty-fifth birthday of Mr. Shu, and Mr. Shu meant that he was going to do a big thing this year.

On the day of his birthday, there were really a lot of people from the Shu family, and some old men who usually didn't dare to say hello when they saw the old man Shu also sent people to give him gifts. Old Man Shu was beaming with joy and smiling like a very bright chrysanthemum. But Qinglan felt that so many people did not come simply for Old Man Shu, but for Zhao Bingsheng, the eldest son-in-law of the Shu family, who was sitting in the hall drinking tea and rarely appeared.

Counting it up, this is the first time Qinglan has seen Zhao Bingsheng. Zhao Bingsheng comes to Shu's house twice a year: on the second day of the Lunar New Year and on August 16, but Qinglan went to her grandfather's house early on these two days, so she saw her for the first time today.

Qinglan heard her father mention this uncle, and her words were full of reverence, so she was also a little curious about Zhao Bingsheng. It happened that Uncle Pan was going to the thatched house, and Qinglan slipped off his lap and walked to Zhao Bingsheng.

Zhao Bingsheng gave Mr. Shu a painting of Zhuzi's family motto written by everyone in the previous dynasty calligraphy today, which is now hanging in the hall, and Mr. Shu is commenting with several other old gentlemen. Zhao Bingsheng looked around while drinking tea, and suddenly heard a crisp child's voice: "Are you my eldest uncle?" ”

Zhao Bingsheng looked down and saw that it was a little girl, with big eyes flashing, looking like the female version of Shu Lao Er, but her facial features were more exquisite, and she knew that this was Shu Lao Er's eldest daughter. laughed: "I'm your uncle." ”

Qinglan looked at Zhao Bingsheng, with a round black face, **** eyes, good facial features, friendly and easy-going, and faintly revealing some official authority.

Zhao Bingsheng also looked at Qinglan, what a smart little girl, the Shu family can still give birth to such a girl! He lowered his body and asked her with a smile, "I heard that you can recite poems?" When he came home from work one day, he heard his sister-in-law say to his wife: "Pan's must be a blessing that can't be kept, and the girl can recite two lines of poetry and show it everywhere." Zhao Bingsheng didn't like his sister-in-law's family very much, but he was a little curious about Qinglan.

Qinglan nodded.

"And what's your favorite poem?" Zhao Bingsheng asked with a smile again, his teeth white and neat.

"Go to the poor place of the water, and sit and watch the clouds rise." Qinglan replied seriously.