CHAPTER IX

After eating the cool skin, a few people sat in the courtyard to enjoy the coolness, the evening breeze in summer was much cooler than during the day. At this time, most of the people in the village sat at the door to enjoy the shade, talking about the shortcomings of the parents, and the children were running around at the door and playing games. Orange and Pear Blossom leaned back in their chairs, talking with one pair and one without another.

"Xing'er is going to marry in the town this month to be a concubine, and her mother was holding a gold bracelet given by Landlord Li a few days ago." Rika shook her fan, her tone very disdainful.

"I said you and I were together all day, how do you know so much? Xing'er Niang is a muddy, and her father doesn't talk about her mother? ”

"What do you mean? Even if her father loves Xing'er, he can't stand the amount of silver given by the landlord Li, and a girl gets back ten taels of silver, there is no such thing in our village. Pear Blossom took a sip of chrysanthemum water, "Sister Orange, do you still have a sore throat, and you still put so many chili peppers in the cold skin just now?" ”

"It's a lot of miles, I'm panicked if I don't eat spicy food, and I get angry when I eat it."

"I said, why don't you go home yet, it turns out that you are eating at Brother Chi's house." A female voice came, although the clothes were washed white, but they were clean, holding a male baby in one hand and a male baby in her arms.

"Niko, are you here?" Chen and Sun took over a child with one hand, "Have you eaten?" ”

"Eat." Erni sat in front of the green brick, "I'm looking for the child, his father hasn't come back, don't have anything wrong, don't you come out to look for it." ”

Qing Brick handed Erni a fan, "What can happen?" If you don't stay at home, it's easy to have an accident when you go out with two children. I drank some wine with Brother Chi and Brother Zhao, and then went home. ”

Erni smiled, "Got it." Chen took two bowls of sour jujube juice from the kitchen, "Erni, you drink." He handed another bowl of gourd, "Good baby, you can drink some too, it's sweet." ”

Hulu was only about three or four years old, and nodded obediently, "Thank you, auntie." After tasting it, he looked up and showed two small tiger teeth, "It's delicious." "When the orange looks at such a cute little Zhengtai, her heart melts. Touching his head, "Hulu, why are you so well-behaved?" ”

"Good what? is only so honest when there are people, no one watches him follow the village baby up the tree and dig the bird's nest all day long, or go down to the river to fish. I don't go home all day, and I'm very naughty. It's like a pine and cypress, and it's not okay to be sensible since childhood. Erni also tasted the sour jujube juice, "It's really delicious." ”

"You can be content, my pine and cypress haven't even spoken since he was a child, I want my son to find trouble for me all day long." Sun was holding the seven-month-old baby, "This small one looks like a green brick, and you see that these eyebrows and eyes are like carved out of a mold." ”

The pine and cypress had been sitting in the shadows and had not spoken, and the orange and pear blossom were playing with the gourd and the cucumber. After a while, the gourd yawned with his mouth open, and the cucumber had already fallen asleep in Erni's arms. The stars were dotting, the moon had risen high, and a few adults had nothing to say, so the green brick walked to the village with the gourd and the cool skin given by Chen.

The Zhao family also got up and went home, and Chi Dazhu drank too much wine and was nagged by the Chen family to take a bath. Orange yawned, her heart was happy, her road to wealth was about to open, and a better life was just around the corner.

"Orange, I heard that I taught you to make cool skin? Why didn't I know? Songbai went and returned, and Orange was startled and almost cried out, "Brother Songbai, why are you back?" ”

"Huh? You tell me? Songbai raised his eyebrows, narrowed his eyes, and his eyes were surprisingly bright at night, "It's so late, it's not appropriate for the two of us to talk alone, Brother Songbai, you go back to sleep first, and I'll talk about it later." "Orange has taken a step forward, and as long as he dodges today, he can dodge every day to come.

Songbai stretched out his arm and pulled the orange back, the two were very close, she could smell the smell of wine on his body, if this scene was seen by the Chen family, she would just wait for the door of the Zhao family to enter the Zhao family tomorrow.

"Brother Songbai, is there anything else?" Orange looked at his thin pursed lips, it seemed that there was no way to do things well today. There is a way that dogs that bite people don't bark, don't look at the pine and cypress who is silent on weekdays, she is afraid of him flatly. If she hadn't been asked by Qingzhuan at the time, why wouldn't she have been able to tell her that Songbai taught, even if she said that Pear Blossom taught her better than Songbai.

"Do you remember that time when you fell into the water when you were a child?" Songbai stared at the orange tightly, for fear of missing a trace of the expression on her face. Orange thought about it, and it seemed that there was really such a thing in her memory, she didn't know who was carrying the river, and then it was Songbai who saved her.

"It's the time when you sacrificed yourself to save me, why don't you remember, I remember that at that time, you could only swim with dogs, and I don't know which one of the killers pushed me down the river, and my mother couldn't let me go to the river to play for a long time."

Songbai's face gradually faded away, and his voice was a little hoarse, "Then how did you come up with the idea of making those foods?" ”

"Alas, Brother Songbai, you let go of my wrist first, it hurts to catch me." Orange waved her wrist in front of Songbai in protest, "You can say it first." The pine and cypress did not let go, but the strength was a little smaller.

"I said you can't sue anyone, you can't say anything to anyone." Orange still wants to get by, but Songbai doesn't eat this set at all, but narrows the peach blossom eyes even harder.

"Even when I was sick, I always dreamed of an old man, who accepted me as an apprentice and told me how to cook a lot of vegetables, and that's it." Orange originally wanted to make up an apprentice who I was originally the owner of Penglai Island, and I was afraid that Songbai would burn her directly.

"Orange, what are you doing, you can't come to sleep yet." Chen shouted, and Orange answered, "This is coming", turned to Songbai and said, "Brother, I'll go back first, don't tell others." When I sell fruit cakes, do I listen to you for everything? ”

Songbai let go of her wrist and stepped into the night. Orange secretly snorted twice, what an old fox. Uncle Zhao and Aunt Sun are both honest people, why did they give birth to such a fox as him?

Songbai was lying in his own room, tossing and turning and couldn't sleep, closing his eyes was the misty eyes of the orange before, following him softly called him "brother", and after a while, it was the eyes of the strange elf now, calling him "Brother Songbai" one by one.

A dreamless night.

Erni came over two days later and called Orange and Pear Blossom to help, and the two of them picked up and passed. Qingzhuan's younger brother Qingwa is nineteen years old this year, and his mother Zhou is also very anxious. Erni led them to the kitchen, "I'll trouble you two today, and your Grandma Zhou and I will help you two." ”

Orange likes this, no one restricts her to cook anything, she can cook whatever she wants. In addition to meat, rice, noodles, vegetables, a fish, a pheasant, a hare, and a pot of sesame seeds, her family has never grown sesame seeds, which is a good thing, and she wants to make sesame candy to pass her addiction.

"Auntie, have you eaten all these fish and rabbits?" Orange pointed to the kitchen, not sure if it was all done. Erni nodded, "It's all made to eat, it's all from Qingwa hunting in the mountains, and it's very appropriate to give him a façade." ”

The mother of the green brick heard the movement and came out of the back room, "This is the orange and the pear blossom?" He is really handsome, and he is so capable, he is really a good boy. I tasted a bowl of the cold skin that I got back that day, and hey, I still want to eat it. ”

Orange and Pear Blossom called "milk", Qing Brick is only in her early twenties and is the same generation as Chi Dazhu, she can't do it if she doesn't shout milk, even if this milk is not a few years older than her mother.

"You two are busy, if you don't have anything, tell your aunt that you can use whatever you want in the kitchen, as long as you do it with pomp and circumstance." The green brick lady went back to the house to continue to clean up, making sure that the woman felt that his house was clean and tidy, and wanted to end this family business.

Hulu walked into the kitchen with his little feet and pulled the hem of Orange's clothes, "Sister Orange, eat something delicious." Orange looked at the natural cute gourd comrade, and his heart was always soft, "What do you want to eat, my sister will make it for you." ”

"The gourd is so small that I know that you can make it delicious, you should make it delicious for the gourd, otherwise I won't let you enter his door next time." Pear Blossom chattered while burning the fire, "Sister Orange, it's still early, do you want to cook later?" ”

"Let's do it now, or make sesame candy for the gourd? It's oil and sugar, but if the woman's family has children, it will look good. Orange asked the gourd to play, the kitchen is not a fun place, but the gourd listened to the sesame candy and clamored to eat the sesame candy.

Erni heard movement outside and came in to hug the gourd, and the gourd muttered about eating sesame candy in his mouth. The green brick lady responded in the house: "If you want to eat the gourd, you can make it, our family is not short of that little thing." ”

Orange chatted apologetically, "It's all my nonsense to let the gourd hear it...... Erni waved her hand indifferently, "It's nothing, I didn't say it before, I thought you wouldn't be able to do it, it's better, it looks pompous." At that time, when Qingzhuan asked to marry me, my family still bought candy from the town, and I didn't bother to buy it this year. ”

Sesame candy can strengthen the spleen, and in ancient times, it was a snack that adults and children were willing to eat, mainly because things were ordinary and very easy to make. She and Pear Blossom fried sesame seeds, and the other made peanuts crushed, and she still came to boil sugar, and she couldn't wrap the sesame seeds when she boiled it, and the sugar would be bitter when the fire was too big.

After boiling the sugar, you must be fast, otherwise the sugar will solidify and you will not move. The sugar made is crispy and sweet, bright in color, crystal clear, sandwiched with the fragrance of sesame seeds and crushed peanuts, and the fragrance is full of teeth.

The gourd smiled happily with the cut sugar, and Erni tasted it, "Not to mention, the craftsmanship of the oranges is good, and they are better than the ones bought in the town." Why are you so skillful? ”

"My aunt patronizes Sister Orange, I want to eat it, and I'll eat more to relieve my anger later." Pear Blossom smiled and added a handful of firewood, although she said that it tasted good, but she really didn't take it to heart.

Saying that he listened intentionally, when there were only the two of them left, Orange took Pear Blossom's hand, "Pear Blossom, from today onwards, my sister will teach you to cook, and I promise to let your future in-laws look down on you." She cherishes her friendship with Pear Blossom very much, but she doesn't want to make her heart feel pimple because of this little thing, girls are sometimes small-minded.

"Okay, haven't I been learning to cook with you, even my dad said that what I make is better than usual."

Orange originally planned to make another sesame stick, but after thinking about it, he gave up, it still matters if he cooks the main meal, and the rabbit and chicken have not been killed. The guests should be here in a while, and you can't let people come in to help with the cooking.