CHAPTER IX
With my help, the meal was quickly ready, but I really didn't dare to compliment the meal. The people who did the work came back one after another, and my aunt and I hurriedly put the food into the hall, because we were doing heavy work today, so we had a lot of food, at least we could eat it openly today.
Soon everyone arrived, the old man said a word to start eating, and immediately began to eat, as a result, soon someone had a bad face, "What's going on with this meal, it's all raw, and there is a mushy smell." The little aunt complained angrily. Grandpa also tasted a bite and didn't eat, looked at the eldest aunt and sighed and said, "Old man, you can go to work with me this afternoon, and the meal will be made by the second child." After listening to grandpa's words, the eldest aunt didn't say anything, and it is estimated that she also knew that the food she made herself was particularly unpalatable, which annoyed grandpa. When everyone sees such a result, there is nothing to complain about. Just continue to eat, after all, people are iron and rice is steel, no matter how unpalatable it is, you have to swallow it.
After eating, everyone went back to the room to rest, and my mother didn't need to do farm work this afternoon, so my mother had to clean up the dishes and chopsticks. My mother and I cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks together, and when we were done, everyone got up one after another and got ready to work. I suddenly found out that Lin Hong was also going to work, and Lin Hong's mother didn't cook tonight, so of course she had no reason to stay at home. Sure enough, when she saw me, Lin Hong showed resentful eyes, look at it! Anyway, there won't be a piece of meat, I'm in a very good mood.
When everyone went out, I also carried the bamboo basket and prepared to leave, and today I have finished beating pigweed in the morning, so the task in the afternoon is to pick up firewood. When I went to the mountains, I picked up the fallen branches of the trees, put them in order, tied them with ropes, and put them in a bamboo basket. After finally getting the wood fire right, I quickly began to find a place where no one was there and release my spiritual abilities. Suddenly, I noticed a small stream five hundred meters away from me in the southeast direction, and the water was flowing loudly, and there were many palm-sized fish in it, and I quickly ran over with a bamboo basket on my back.
In the past, when hunting, if the prey caught was eaten secretly, it was very likely to be discovered, but the fish is different, after stewing into fish soup, who will find out after drinking, if you feel less, just more water. After figuring this out, I quickly took the back basket down, poured out the fire, put the back basket in the water, and slowly used my spiritual ability to trick the fish into the back basket, and soon more than a dozen fish entered the back basket, and quickly took the back basket out of the water and poured the fish on the ground.
I looked at it and found that all the fish were the size of the palm of my hand, and it was also in the depths of the jungle, so no one could run here, so the fish here were so big. I hurriedly skewered the fish with fine grass, and after the wood was cleaned up, I hurried home with the bamboo basket on my back. When I got home, I found that my mother was ready to start cooking, "Mother, look at my fishing." I raised the fish in my hand. Li Shi saw my fish and said, "It's so good, the dishes in the evening have fallen, I'll clean up the fish, you hurry up and sell a piece of tofu and come back, and then sell Erliang meat back." After saying that, he gave me five cents. It's either that my mother is stingy, or the Wang family gave my mother five pennies and told my mother to be more good. What can you buy for five cents, you can only buy half a catty of meat, and you can't eat a piece of meat for one person. Fortunately, there is a fish I caught, otherwise my mother would have been scolded again today.
Tofu was a penny a piece, I bought two pieces, and I also bought three taels of meat, when I went to buy meat, I was shy to death, but fortunately, the butcher who sold meat didn't say anything.
After the things were bought, my mother and I hurriedly cooked, first stir-fried cabbage with pork, although there was little meat, but it still had to have a meat taste. Soon, the fish began to be fried, and the oil was the oil that had just been squeezed from the fried meat. When the fish is browned on both sides, add water and ginger slices and simmer over low heat. Soon the fish soup became milky white, and the aroma filled the whole room, so I quickly presented two bowls, put in another scoop of water, and only after the fish soup was boiling hot again, did I put the tofu away. Li Shi saw my movements, but didn't say anything, I picked up the bowl and drank it, and then picked up another bowl and said, "Mother, you drink too." My mother looked at me and said, "Drink, my mother is not hungry." "As soon as I heard it, I didn't do it" Mother, you drink, if you don't drink, I won't drink either. With that, I put the bowl down.
My mother couldn't twist me, so she picked up the bowl and drank it, and I quickly picked up the bowl and drank it. After drinking, my mother and I quickly rinsed our mouths with water, afraid that others would find something.
After a while, soon the grandparents and grandmothers returned, and my mother and I hurriedly carried the food into the hall. When everyone started to cook and saw the dishes on the table, their eyes straightened, after all, there were two whole meats! When the old man said to start eating, everyone began to rush wildly, and the whole table was like a battlefield. Fortunately, my mother and I have made fish soup, and we have robbed it like this.
Soon the fish and meat were all snatched up, and everyone smashed their mouths with satisfaction, still reminiscing about the taste of the fish and meat just now. "Lee, where did these fish come from? I remember that I just gave you five cents, it is impossible to buy so many things, are you secretly hiding private money? Wang suddenly asked Li sternly. When my mother heard this, she hurriedly replied, "No, mother, this fish was caught by Xiuxiu in the river today." I hurriedly echoed, "Yes, grandma, I caught this fish in the river today, don't believe me, look at my sleeves are still wet." After saying that, I raised my half-dry sleeves, and sure enough, Wang listened to what we said, and his face improved, "Hmph! You don't do it, you have to know that Lin Yi goes to school, but it costs a lot of money, you can't ask your uncle and uncle to raise it, you will chill the heart of the big house and the third room. ”
My mother and I didn't dare to refute, so we could only say yes again and again. I don't know if it's going to be cold and generous, the heart of the three rooms, anyway, my heart is completely cold, my father's salary is more than enough for my brother to go to school, this old lady is putting our second room or something, the other two rooms can have private money, why can't we, it seems that I have to quickly find a way to let my father and mother separate, but will they let my father and mother go? Looks like I'm going to have to plan it well.
This meal, my mother and brother and I ate absent-mindedly, and after finally packing up everything, my mother and I hurried back to the room, "Mother, you also saw it, grandma didn't treat the second room as her own family at all, what do you say in the future, will you always serve this group of vampires." When my mother heard my words, she hurriedly shook her head and said, "It can't be like this, but filial piety comes first!" "Mother, why don't we split up." I gave my mother a suggestion: "No, your grandparents will not agree to it at all." "After listening to my mother's words, my brother and I are very sad, when will we get rid of this group of vampires! In this way, everyone slept with a lot of worries.