Chapter 5

Orange came back with a fish, and said to Chen that they would eat together in the evening, and Chi Dazhu was very interested, "I'll go to Lao Yang's house in the village to get some wine later, and have a good meal tonight." ”

Chen glared at Chi Dazhu with a smile, "I know how to fill horse urine." But he didn't stop it, and got up and quickly put away the dishes and chopsticks.

"Dad can drink if he wants, I'll clean up a few snacks for Dad." Orange helped Chen clean up, and the two went to the kitchen to wash the dishes and chopsticks.

"It's still a girl's caring." Chi Dazhu smiled, "Put some spicy food, it's enjoyable." ”

In the next day, Lihua asked her to go to the river to wash her clothes, and the two talked and laughed and walked out, the sun above their heads made their cheeks red, "Lihua, where did you buy your chicken?" "She hasn't forgotten the grandeur of raising chickens.

"My grandmother gave it, what's wrong? You're going to raise chickens. Rika wiped the sweat from her head, "It's so hot today, and there is not even a shade on the way." ”

"Well, I have this plan, raise a few chickens and have an egg to eat." Seeing that the river was clear, "It's okay to raise ducks, there is a river at our door." ”

"Well, then I'll ask my mother to ask you." The two of them washed their faces first, "I remember that your grandmother has a kind of egg." ”

"It's not that you don't know that person from my grandmother, my family was kicked out, otherwise why don't you live in the east of this village, there is no one to live."

"Yes, but our place is good, no one is crowded with laundry, there is a mountain in the back, a river in front, and our two families are also close." Rika nodded, "Sister Orange, you are not the same as before. ”

Orange panicked, forced himself to calm down and asked Pear Blossom, "What's the difference?" ”

"I just think you're better than before." Pear Blossom lowered her head to wash her clothes, and didn't notice the abnormality of the orange, "I haven't asked you, are you still uncomfortable when the Zhang family quits home?" ”

"No, it's all gone." Orange breathed a sigh of relief, she was really afraid that Rika would find out that she had changed too much and be suspicious.

"It's good if it's not uncomfortable, Brother Peng Fei has also been played by us since childhood, but his mother is really a muddy person, and he looks down on us when he moves to town." The river is splashing, wafting with the fragrance of acacia locusts, and the sun is not as sunny as just now, "Sister Orange grows so well, don't worry about finding a good family." ”

"What a pear blossom, why do you think about getting married all day long?" Orange said, "Do you have a sweetheart?" ”

Rika glared at the orange, took a handful of water and threw it at the orange, "Sister Orange, I thought you were a good mile, just as bad as my brother." ”

Orange also took the water and threw it over, "Why do you compare me to your brother." Alas, is Lihua's sweetheart Li Laosan? ”

"What are you talking about?" Not to be outdone, Pear Blossom splashed the water, the two of them made a fuss for a while, their clothes were wet, and the wind blew through the cool tight, "We are all fourteen, marriage is not a matter of urgency, my mother has begun to look for me." Pear Blossom and Orange continued to wash their clothes, "Xing'er in the village, the little girl of Uncle Wang Hammer's family, heard that her mother was going to sell her to the people in the town as concubines. ”

Orange recalled the appearance of the apricot, but it was really apricot eyes and peach cheeks, "Then her mother is willing to do it?" ”

"Reluctant, why not? Her mother said that the town is a blessed life. The two got up and held the wooden basin, "But my mother said that how can a concubine be so good, and powerful people will die sooner or later." ”

"Your mother has a point." Orange nodded, Chen is just her daughter, she should also plan for her, right?

"By the way, Sister Orange, what's the dinner at night? When you get home and dry your clothes, I'll help you. ”

"Let's make spicy fish and blanch a dish in it." When it comes to eating oranges, I am interested, and the fish caught by Songbai is quite big, and it is not bad to make a fish hot pot.

"Okay, I'll help you later." The two said goodbye at the door, and Chen and Chi Dazhu were packing up their food and were going to pay taxes in two days.

"Is the girl hot?" Chen's work kept going, "The kitchen gave you cold water." ”

"Alas, mother." Orange hung her clothes in the yard, "Mother, have you heard that Xing'er is going to be a concubine?" ”

Chen put down the work in his hand, "I heard, what's wrong with my daughter?" Chen thought that Orange wanted to be a concubine, "Being a concubine is not a joke, there are many dirty things in it, and the housewife can kill you casually." ”

Orange smiled, "Mother, I don't want to be a concubine." Why don't Xing'er Niang know? Also let the apricots go. ”

Chen breathed a sigh of relief, her daughter is kind-hearted, "Her mother is a muddy person, and I thought it was a good thing, but it's a pity that Xing'er is a good girl." ”

Neither of them spoke again, although Orange had not yet been in contact with Xing'er, she was a shy girl in her memory, and she had to ask Chen's family, but she was not a virgin, so she would not help Xing'er get out of the sea of suffering, and the province was considered to be full of food.

"Mother, I'm going to cook." Orange put on his clothes and went into the kitchen, and Chi Dazhu said with a smile: "Child, mother, I'm going to drink." ”

"Ugh." Chen responded, "There's still a piece of marinated meat in the kitchen basket." ”

In my previous life, Orange used to eat oden spicy tang and the like, but recently it was a little light in my mouth, and I almost wanted to make this fish into fish balls. But thinking about the spicy fish is not bad, when the time comes, I will put the noodles in the shabu-shabu, ** spicy food, heh, it must be very cool.

Both families can eat spicy, and when she ate fruit cakes, she saw that the pines and cypresses were smeared with a lot of spicy seeds. But it's a pity that there is no kelp here, but lotus root, potato, winter melon, lettuce, and tofu can be put in, and then press some vermicelli to eat after two days, and it is also good to be slippery.

"Sister Orange, you've done it all." Lihua came over with a pot, "This is the shrimp and yellow eel that my brother just touched, as well as the loach, didn't you say you wanted to eat it last time." ”

As soon as the orange heard that there were yellow eel loaches and shrimps, they were even more happy, and the yellow eel could be braised alone, fried in sauce, steamed, minced garlic, marinated, and boiled into soup, and the taste was delicious. Pear Blossom didn't dare to look at the yellow eel, "Sister Orange, the yellow eel looks like a snake, I don't dare to kill it." Is it really that delicious to make? Won't it smell earthy? ”

"You'll have a taste later." Orange doesn't think the yellow eel is terrible, not to mention that it looks like a snake, even if it is a snake, she also loves to eat it. There are also shrimp, which is also a good thing, but the shrimp in the river are not big, and she plans to stir-fry them with the shell, and the shrimp shell can also supplement calcium. Loach She plans to make a loach tofu soup, which is delicious and nourishing.

The rest of the Zhao family came over before it was dark, and it was only two steps away from the full, and the summer evening was exceptionally cool, and the wind was mixed with the fragrance of wheat and flowers, and the two families moved a table in the courtyard. Five people sat down around the table, the spicy fish hot pot was steaming, there were hot vegetables inside, braised yellow eel, spicy river shrimp, sorghum rice under the steamed pork, stir-fried beans, cold cucumber shreds, garlic lotus root slices, and old vinegar peanuts with wine, and finally loach tofu soup, everyone was beaming, even the corners of the pine and cypress mouth were more upturned than in the past.

"Oranges, why do you cook all these dishes? I have an appetite just looking at it, and today I have a good mouth. Sun pinched a chopstick yellow eel, "You have nothing to say about this skill, yellow eel can be made so delicious." ”

"She's just messing around." Chen tasted the river shrimp, the deliciousness of the shrimp meat spread in his mouth, and the shrimp shell had a spicy taste, "The taste of the shrimp is okay." But the corners of his mouth smiled happily.

"Come, brother, let's have one." Zhao He had already drunk with Chi Dazhu, and by the way, he brought the pine and cypress, the peanuts and rice rattled loudly, mixed with the aroma of spicy fish hot pot, and several people were sweating all over the body, which was particularly refreshing in summer. The sorghum rice under the tamales is mixed with the aroma of pork belly, and it is lubricated with a hint of oil, which is not greasy or oily. The garlic lotus root slices are also crunchy to eat, even the tofu in the loach soup is tender and juicy, and when the dishes in the fish soup hot pot are almost eaten, the oranges are hand-rolled into it. Chi Dazhu went to the kitchen to get the pot by himself halfway through eating, "The pot is delicious when soaked in fish soup." ”

"Poof" Chen couldn't help laughing, "I know you love to eat pots, soak in it." ”

Unconsciously, the moonlight climbed up the treetops, the stars also blinked, a few people sat on the bench after eating a good meal, and the orange came out with sour jujube juice, I didn't find sour plum when I went to the mountain last time, but sour jujube juice can also relieve the heat, and the taste is not bad.

Zhao He and Chi Dazhu were talking about the crops in the field, and Chen and Sun were talking about the men and women in the village, and the three of them listened with relish, and talked about the fact that Orange wanted to sell tofu brains.

"I said brother, the child can do it if he wants, and the craft of oranges is also counted." Zhao He took a sip of sour jujube juice, "Just this sour jujube, who of us doesn't pick it and eat it, and makes it into sour jujube juice for children, don't talk about children, even we adults love to drink it." ”

Sun also echoed: "I am also the same, oranges are capable and smart, and I don't have to worry about not being able to sell them." I tasted the shrimp paste, which was better than what I made as a person who has cooked all my life, and when did I make tofu brain for my aunt to remember to taste. ”

"Okay, auntie, you'll have to point me out when the time comes." Orange grinned, and Pear Blossom also smiled on the side and echoed: "Mother, didn't my father say just now that the cooking skills of oranges are outstanding, you are not inferior." ”

"Dead girl, even your mother is joking." Sun made a gesture and slapped the pear blossom, and several people were amused and laughed.

Songbai, who had not spoken, coughed lightly, and his voice slowly came from under the stars, "I don't know if the tofu brain is good or not, but the fruit cake made by the orange noon is a seller." Everyone calmed down and listened to Songbai's words, "Wharves, markets, temple fairs, and places with a lot of people are easy to set up stalls, and it is easy to do, and there are many tricks." ”

"What Songbai said makes sense, people who have read books are different." Chi Dazhu nodded, and recognized what Songbai said, he watched Songbai grow up since he was a child, steady and sensible. He was also very tempted by what Sun said that day to let Songbai marry Orange, and his mother-in-law muttered to him for a long time at night, but he didn't seem to look down on Orange when he looked at Songbai, so he stopped thinking. He is a baby with oranges, and it is good for Songbai to be her eldest brother, and after he and his mother-in-law leave, Songbai will not ignore oranges.

Orange pouted secretly, "Then how do you know that tofu brains are not easy to sell?" I made secret □□, some salty and sweet, and I sold them in the streets. ”

I couldn't see Songbai's expression clearly by the moonlight, but my intuition told her that he must be looking at her in secret, otherwise she had goosebumps?

"It's not simple, let's go to the market and see what sells well, it's not a market." Rika put down the bowl in her hand, "Let's go to the morning market in the morning, and then go to the dock at noon." ”

"Isn't that the reason, tomorrow the three of you will go, let's talk about it when we come back." Sun took Chen's hand, and the latter patted it gently.