Chapter 19: The Autumn Harvest (Part II)

"Mother, we also need to spend money to cook. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info" Xiao Nan answered a little speechlessly.

"Silly girl, I'm just making an analogy, I don't really expect to save those few copper coins, we invite neighbors in the neighborhood, try to have a good relationship when you can build a good relationship, if you invite a foreign man, I am a woman who is inconvenient to entertain, I can only add a few dollars to let everyone go home for dinner, but in this way, although no one blames, but it will invisibly make everyone feel a sense of alienation."

"Now with your uncle and aunt, let's make the breakfast and lunch more sumptuous, everyone sees that although our family only has orphans and widows, but there is no mistake in hospitality, in the future, the idlers in the village want to find an excuse to arrange us when they can't find a conversation, as for your uncle and aunt, with the relationship between our two families, we don't have to worry too much, now they don't want to pay, wait for a suitable opportunity afterwards, let's send them something useful." Lin couldn't help but laugh dumbly when he heard this, reached out and gently tapped Xiao Nan's forehead, and tended to teach his daughter.

Xiao Nan was embarrassed to hear it, she was knowledgeable in her previous life, with a high IQ, and she was a monument in her professional field, but because she was dedicated to academics and had not yet started a family, she was a little lacking in the world, just like today, if it wasn't for the Lin family to take her to invite someone, I was afraid that she would offend her uncle and aunt who really treated her family, it seems that if she wants to be a qualified farmer, she still needs to learn a lot of things.

The wheat cutter pleased, in the morning Xiao Nan taught Zixiu to stand on the pile to box, in the afternoon into the mountain, when he came back, he brought back two rabbits, three pheasants, a porcupine, and three turtledoves weighing about half a catty, which can be described as a great harvest.

Because tomorrow's wheat harvesters will come to work, and the family has to prepare food, these things naturally can't be sold, when Lin saw the three fat turtle doves, his expression was quite struggling and hesitating, the turtle doves in Baiyun Mountain are rare, when Xiao Dalang was in the past, he could hunt four or five times a year, this thing and dried shiitake mushrooms and a few pieces of mountain ginseng are steamed together, which is very good for the body of the two children, although Lin is not a stingy person, but now when her eyes fall on those fat turtle doves, she is hesitant.

"Mother, what are you struggling with?" As soon as Xiao Nan looked up after putting down the prey, he saw the struggling look on Lin's face, and couldn't help but ask curiously.

"Cough, I'm hesitating whether these turtle doves will be taken out tomorrow to entertain guests, you know, this thing is rare in Baiyun Mountain." Lin coughed lightly and said a little uncomfortably.

"Oh, Grandma wants to leave the turtledove for me and Zixiu to eat? Mother, don't worry about it, although we don't have a lot of turtledoves, but there are also a lot of special rare, and we will always find them in the future, tomorrow we will add a pheasant and mountain mushrooms to stew soup together, so that all the people who come to our house will be supplemented, and everyone will be saved from going back to say that we don't have to worry about hospitality. Xiao Nan laughed dumbly when he heard this, and immediately helped the Lin family make a decision.

Xiao Nan is so generous not because of how noble her character is, but there is no better way to deal with it, there is no refrigerator at this time, although the weather in September is not hot, the dead turtledove will be eaten for a few days, and it will be bad, since it can't be placed, the family wants to treat her, and it is obviously not suitable for her mother and son to eat alone, in this case, it is better to be generous, take it out for hospitality, and get a good name for hospitality.

"Auntie is right, since it is hospitality, we must do our best to take out the food we have at home as much as possible to entertain guests, it is my mother who wants to help." Lin Shi was slightly stunned when she heard this, and then smiled, she was not a childish person, after Xiao Nan mentioned it, she immediately got rid of the tangle in her heart, and began to think about the meal of hospitality wholeheartedly.

"Mother, do we need to prepare any other dishes besides these?" The corners of Xiao Nan's mouth twitched slightly, she couldn't say that she was not as noble as her mother thought, and the reason why she suggested that the turtledove be used for stewed soup was because there was no place to store this thing, so she could only follow Lin's words.

"There are still a lot of vegetables in our vegetable garden, tomorrow your aunt and they are estimated to bring two fish, we just need to prepare some more tofu, oh, by the way, tomorrow your aunt's cousin Qiuyue and cousin Junpeng will come over, and you will go to the small store at the head of the village to buy a few snacks and come back." Lin said.

Early the next morning, aunt Xiao Yue and uncle Jiang Hanpu came to Xiao's house with their seven-year-old daughter Jiang Qiulan and five-year-old son Jiang Junpeng.

Jiang Qiulan and Jiang Junpeng were welcomed into the house by Zixiu as soon as they came, and a few small ones went crazy together, but Xiao Nan was startled, good guy, although the fish is not too expensive in this era, it also costs seven or eight wen a catty, how can the bucket of fish that Jiang Hanpu brought over be sold for more than 100 wen, people originally helped to cut wheat, but they didn't charge their own wages, not to mention sending so many fish over, tsk, tsk, no wonder my mother always said that Aunt Xiao Yue's relationship with her family was not ordinary.

"Sister-in-law, I'll put this fish in a pot for you to raise, and let Yueniang kill it when you do it." After entering the courtyard gate, Jiang Hanpu quickly took out a large basin from the kitchen, shook most of the water from the well, put the fish in the bucket in, and then found a lid to cover it, and then looked up and smiled honestly at the Lin family.

"Every time you come to the house, you bring so many fish, I can't help it." Lin looked at Jiang Hanpu and Xiao Yue, who had been busy in the courtyard since they entered the house, and felt that their hearts were warm and astringent.

"Sister-in-law, you can see the outside, if there is no help from the eldest brother, our family is only afraid that we will not even be able to eat enough, there will not be a house in the second and eighth classics, and my family Dalang will not have the opportunity to go to the county to study, compared to the help and care of the eldest brother and sister-in-law to our family, these fish we mentioned are nothing." Xiao Yue was holding a firewood knife in her hand at this time, sorting out some larger dry branches and firewood in the courtyard, and when she heard the sound, she couldn't help but look up at Lin with a slight resentment, and said.

Lin only smiled and didn't say anything, but Xiao Nan's eyes were slightly red on the side, it turned out that not all the relatives on his father's side were not all ungrateful best, Xiao Dalang was good to his sister Xiao Yue, Xiao Yue's family was kind and compassionate, and did their best to give something in return, she couldn't help but think of her family in her previous life, her brothers never seemed to think about gratitude and return in addition to constantly asking for her, let alone whether she needed the care and care of others!