Jiang Wanbai knew that Tian Laosan was talking about burning the bottom of the pot, so she turned her head and asked Tian Laoer on the side, "You are responsible for this matter, which day do you think is good?" ”

Tian Lao Er thought for a while, and replied: "Five days is a bit too rushed, mother, I think so, our shrimp sauce is estimated to be finished in five or six days, otherwise, we will wait until twelve days later, when we finish making shrimp sauce, it will be more convenient, you see?" ”

Jiang Wanbai naturally has no opinion, even if the day of burning the bottom of the pot is so decided.

At night, the weather was hot, and everyone couldn't sleep too early, so I don't know who mentioned it, and everyone in the Tian family continued to make shrimp paste.

Two oil lamps were lit in the courtyard, and everyone sat in front of the oil lamps, and the dry was in full swing, and they didn't feel bitter at all, they didn't feel hot, but they felt very full.

It wasn't until the middle of the moon that Tian Chengyun and other children couldn't hold on for the first time, and while doing the work in their hands, they nodded their heads regularly, looking like they were about to fall asleep.

Jiang Wanbai was afraid that they would accidentally choke on the water basin or catch a cold, so she said to them: "You go back to the house and sleep first, and I will make food for you tomorrow." ”

Tian Chengyun was the oldest among these children, he glanced at Tian Laosan and his wife, who were still busy, and said very sensibly: "Let Chengbao and them go to sleep, I'm not sleepy." ”

As soon as he said this, Tian Chengbao and the others immediately sobered up, and scrambled to say that they were not sleepy and could continue to work.

Jiang Wanbai straightened her face, "You are still young, it is the time to grow your body, what should you do if you are tired." Listen to me, go back to the house and go to sleep. ”

Hearing Jiang Wanbai say this, Tian Chengyun and the others were a little at a loss, and in the end, Tian Chengyu was smarter, he scooped another scoop of water, and said to Jiang Wanbai: "Milk, the weather is so hot, we can't sleep when we go back, otherwise, will you tell us the story?"

Wen Yong said that the third uncle can tell stories, what kind of flower demon, what kind of Zhang Gong handles the case, every time I hear him say, I want to hear it. Milk, can you tell us about it too? After Tian Chengyu finished speaking, he rarely showed a pleading look, and used his hand to pull Jiang Wanbai's sleeve.

There has always been no entertainment in the countryside, especially at night, so the moon is the most popular thing for children, and so from generation to generation word of mouth, almost every old man will talk about it, but whether it is good or not, and whether you know more or less is different.

Children love to compare, than food, than wear, and this is also their favorite comparison, they will gather together, this said that my grandfather told me about the general yesterday, that said that your grandfather said that I have already heard it, or my grandmother is more powerful, she told me yesterday about the heavenly immortals, immortals, do you understand?

If the child receives the envy and longing of the other children, then the child will be very excited to tell the story he heard last night to the others.

Although what he said was not necessarily good, and there were many paradoxical points, the other children would still listen very carefully, and then bring it up when they found something very unreasonable, and finally two people or a group of children quarreled with red faces and thick necks, and they all swore to ignore each other again.

However, the next day, as if they had forgotten yesterday's vows, they all got together again and continued to talk about today's interesting events.

The old man of the Tian family died early, and the old lady Jiang came from the city, so these children of the Tian family have never heard their old people tell stories, so they can only silently watch other children pointing out the country there, saying disdainful words in their mouths, in fact, they are envious to death.

Now when they heard Tian Chengyu make this request, they were all excited, and looked at Jiang Wanbai pleadingly.

Jiang Wanbai was stared at by so many pairs of eyes that were brighter than stars and more sincere than diamonds, where could she still parry, and hurriedly said: "Okay, I'll tell you about it, but you have to say it first, and when I'm done, you can go to sleep." ”

The children nodded hurriedly, and even Tian Lao Er and the others were interested, pricking up their ears to listen to Jiang Wanbai.

Jiang Wanbai has been bombarded with so many classic stories in modern times, and there are really a lot of things in her head, but when she suddenly tells one, she really can't think of which one to tell for a while, as if she knows every story, but she doesn't remember the details of each story very clearly.

I glanced up at the sky, and saw that in the sky like a dome, the moon hung upside down like a hook, and countless stars were dotted with diamonds of all sizes, shining brightly, giving people the illusion that they could reach out to it.

In an instant, Jiang Wanbai thought of a story about the stars, "Do you know, a long, long time ago, so long that I don't know when it was, there was no moon and stars in the sky, so whenever the sun disappeared, the earth would be shrouded in darkness, pitch black, and nothing could be seen." ”

Jiang Wanbai's words immediately attracted everyone's hearts, and they tried to relax the movements in their hands as much as possible, so that the surroundings became quieter, listening to Jiang Wanbai's long words.

"In a remote mountain village, there was a little boy who lived with his father. Every day, when the sun was rising, the boy's father would go out to work and would not return until long after the sun had set.

The little boy stood at the door every night waiting for his father, but it was too dark, and there were strange noises around him, and the little boy was frightened and wanted to run back into the house, but he couldn't.

He was afraid that if he didn't wait for his father there, his father would get lost and disappear into the darkness and never come back, so he insisted on waiting there every day, but fortunately, every time he could wait for his father until this day.

On this day, it was darker than usual, and it was bitterly cold, and the little boy stood at the door shivering, waiting for his father to return, as usual. But he just waited, waited, I don't know how long, and his father never returned.

The little boy was so frightened that he began to cry loudly. As he cried, he thought that his father must have been lost, and that if only the night had been as bright as the day, his father would have returned soon.

Just when he cried more and more sad, and the tears he shed had accumulated into a small pool, something magical happened.

The tears he shed fell in the small pool, and the splashed tears flew to the sky and became shining stars, and the small waterhole became the moon in the sky.

Immediately the night brightened, and there were hazy mountains, lakes reflecting the light of the water, and a way home, and the boy's father followed that path and finally returned home, and lived happily with the boy again.

It was from that time that there were stars and moon in the sky, so that people in the dark could find their way home. ”

As soon as Jiang Wanbai's voice fell, the courtyard was quiet, only the unknown insect next to it was hissing.

"Alright, the story is over, go to sleep!" Jiang Wanbai urged.

Only then did everyone come back to their senses from the story just now, Tian Chengyu grabbed Jiang Wanbai's hand and said hurriedly: "Milk, is the story you told true?" ”

"I don't know, because I wasn't born yet." Jiang Wanbai said with a smile.

"It must be true." Tian Chengbao affirmed.

The rest of the children also nodded, how could such a beautiful thing not be true!

Of course, Jiang Wanbai knew that this was not true, the stars and the moon were just other planets, but she wouldn't say it, wouldn't it be better to let the child have a good wish in his heart, "Go to sleep, we said okay, sleep after listening to the story." ”

All the children, you look at me, I look at you, they all understand the meaning in each other's eyes, and they don't want to leave. In the end, as if they had discussed, they all squeezed to Jiang Wanbai's side, this one shook his hand, the other pulled his clothes, and begged Jiang Wanbai to tell them one more, just one.

These children are really becoming more and more afraid of Jiang Wanbai, Jiang Wanbai was rubbed by them, so she said: "Then talk about one more, but if you don't go to sleep after this is finished, I will really be angry." ”

All the children nodded, and then sat back obediently and listened to Jiang Wanbai.

Jiang Wanbai sighed, looked at the sky, and saw that the Cowherd Star and the Weaver Girl Star that symbolized love were there, so she pointed to the star and told the story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl.

The night was a little deeper.

When she finished speaking this time, she no longer urged, but looked at the children with her eyes. When the children received her eyes, they obediently said goodbye to Jiang Wanbai and the elders, and happily went back to the house to sleep.

Come to think of it, they can have a good dream again tonight.

The next day, Jiang Wanbai opened her eyes and found that the sun had risen quite high, which made her a little speechless, not that the average elderly person had less sleep, four or five o'clock, five or six o'clock or something, why didn't she feel it at all, she still slept until three poles in the morning.

Get up and go out, Wang and others in the courtyard have already started to make shrimp paste, Wang saw Jiang Wanbai coming out, and hurriedly said: "Mother, the food is in the pot, I'll get it for you now?" ”

Jiang Wanbai blushed a little, "No, I'll just get it myself." By the way, the second one, they went to catch shrimp again? ”

Wang nodded.

Jiang Wanbai's face turned even redder, and while comforting herself that after all, she was old and couldn't compare to a young man, and went to the stove to open the pot to get food.

The rice in the pot is still steaming, below is sweet potato porridge, and above is a screen drawer made of bamboo, on which is a bowl of egg custard and a white flour cake, at first glance, it is specially reserved for Jiang Wanbai, it is estimated that even Tian Chengyu and they have not eaten it, which makes Jiang Wanbai even more guilty.

However, now is not the time to be hypocritical, what she has to do now is to work hard to make money, and when she has money, this egg custard can not be steamed in two bowls, eaten in one bowl, and poured in one bowl!

Hurriedly eating breakfast, Jiang Wanbai came to the courtyard to help, but as soon as she sat down, she saw a wooden frame in the opposite corner.

The wooden frame, which was about a man high, was fixed to the wall, and four holes were dug above the wooden frame, and now, the four pots of orchids are neatly placed in the holes, and they are no longer afraid of being touched by others.

"That's what the third child did when he got up in the morning." When Zhang saw Jiang Wanbai looking at the wooden frame, he explained.

"The third child is really thoughtful." Jiang Wanbai said.

Zhang nodded lightly, Jiang Wanbai praised Tian Laosan, and praised her more than she made her happy.

"By the way, how did you embroider the screen with Liu'er?" Jiang Wanbai asked Zhang while working. She agreed to sell flowers for Mr. Zhang, if Zhang's screen could also be embroidered together, it would naturally save a lot of trouble to do the two things together.

Zhang nervously held the pestle in his hand, "I'm a little busy these days, and the screen is just half embroidered." Mother, I will embroider it soon, and Liu'er's, her small screen will be embroidered immediately. ”

Jiang Wanbai knew that she had misunderstood herself as soon as she heard it, and quickly explained: "I'm not urging you, you embroider slowly, don't worry." It's just that I want to go to the capital in two days, thinking that it would be better if I could stop by.

I've been busy at home these days, I know. ”

Zhang breathed a sigh of relief, but she still pursed her lips tightly, and decided to sleep a little later tonight so that she could embroider the screen as soon as possible.

Jiang Wanbai didn't know that her words made Zhang's stay up late again, and she was planning when to enter Beijing at this time.

Beijing, she has long wanted to go and see it, and how to sell this orchid is also a problem.

In the eyes of ordinary people, it is worthless, but in the eyes of confidants, it may be a thousand dollars, and what she needs to do now is to find the confidant who doesn't know where she is and sell the flowers to him.

After thinking about it for a while, Jiang Wanbai decided to wait for the shrimp paste to be finished and the family was fine before entering Beijing, it was only a matter of the past few days.

continued to bury her head in making shrimp paste, and at this moment, there was suddenly another person next to her. The man was wearing black cloth shoes with mille-soles, gray trousers, and although the heel trousers were not new, they were spotless, and at first glance he was a neat man, and he was a man.

When I looked up, I saw the third uncle standing there looking at her with interest, "Are you making Zizhi sauce?" It turns out that this Zizhi sauce is made of small shrimp, no wonder they go out to make up shrimp every day. ”

"It's the third uncle here, sit down." Before Jiang Wanbai's words fell, the Wang family put a small bench for the third uncle, and the third uncle was not polite, so he sat down.

"It's made of this shrimp, in fact, this Zizhi sauce can also be called shrimp paste." Jiang Wanbai said with a smile.

She admitted so bluntly, the third uncle ancestor was a little surprised, "If you sue me like this, aren't you afraid that I will learn secretly." I heard that this shrimp paste is quite expensive, but the shrimp is white, what a big profit in the middle! ”

"I can't trust anyone, and I can't trust you, third uncle, if it weren't for you, how could our family live such a good life now, and how could we make money."

Jiang Wanbai's words were really beautiful, and the third uncle ancestor was very comfortable, "Why are we talking about this, it's all right." ”

Jiang Wanbai smiled, "By the way, the third uncle is here now, is there something wrong?" ”

Hearing Jiang Wanbai ask about this, the smile on the third uncle's face slowly dissipated, and his voice was a little low, "I just came back from Wen Ji and them, so I came to sit with you by the way." ”

Incidentally? The third uncle ancestor is far enough by the way, Wen Ji's family is in the north of the village, and their family is in the east of the village, no matter how smooth it is, it can't be smoothed by them!

Knowing that the third uncle ancestor must have come here for Tian Lao Wu's business, Jiang Wanbai nodded and staggered the topic, "It's almost noon soon, since the third uncle loves to eat the food I cook, he must stay for lunch today." ”

Jiang Wanbai said very politely, but he never asked what the third uncle saw just now, why he came, and who the third uncle was who he was, he immediately understood Jiang Wanbai's attitude.

Knowing that Jiang Wanbai didn't want to hear it, he should have stopped at this time, but after all, he was a little relieved in his heart, and the third uncle sighed, and didn't answer Jiang Wanbai's words, but continued to talk about what he wanted to say before.

"I think you've also heard about Wen Ji and that Ma Xiaocui, and I've been there with them all morning this morning.

The Xu family was crying and making trouble, and they had to punish Ma Xiaocui according to the clan rules, but the fifth child had been expelled from the Tian family, and that Ma Xiaocui had not yet married the fifth child, even if he was married, I had no power to control it.

What's more, that Ma Xiaocui didn't admit that she had anything to do with Wen Ji at all, and Wen Ji too, didn't admit it at all.

Catch thieves and dirty, catch traitors in pairs, and now there is no evidence at all, and they don't pay attention to everything they say. When the third uncle said this, he paused for a moment, as if waiting for Jiang Wanbai to find out his opinion.

"That's what the third uncle said." Jiang Wanbai answered meaninglessly.

The third uncle had no choice but to continue to take care of himself, "I saw the fifth child at Ma Xiaocui's house, and he is very bad now." ”

The third uncle ancestor finally got to the point, Jiang Wanbai had expected it, so she didn't show anything abnormal, but the Wang family and the others stopped what they were doing and looked at the third uncle ancestor.

"The fifth child was injured and couldn't move, that Ma Xiaocui didn't take good care of the fifth child at all, when I saw the fifth child, he lost a lot of weight, his mouth was full of old skin, and no one gave him a sip of water to drink.

Even ......" the third uncle hesitated for a moment before continuing, "He was eating and drinking Lazar on the kang, and the wound on his back began to suppurate again, and he couldn't see his personal appearance anymore." ”

As soon as the third uncle thought of the smell in Tian Lao Wu's house and Tian Lao Wu's pitiful appearance, he was angry and unbearable, mourning his misfortune and angry with him. It was precisely because of this that he knew that Jiang Wanbai didn't want to mention this topic, but he also wanted to talk about it.

As soon as the third uncle's voice fell, the Wang family and the others all exclaimed, they didn't expect Tian Lao Wu to do this.

Jiang Wanbai's action of stirring the shrimp paste was also a meal, and after a while, she looked up at the third uncle, "Third uncle, you told me this, what do you want me to do?" ”

The third uncle was choked by Jiang Wanbai's words, yes, what did he want Jiang Wanbai to do?

Go to Ma's house to pick up Tian Lao Wu and take good care of him like before? Tian Lao Wu almost killed Jiang Wanbai at the beginning, and the Tian family was almost cornered, and finally left the Tian family voluntarily, such a person, he couldn't open this mouth to let Jiang Wanbai do this.

But if this is not the case, it really doesn't make any sense for him to sue Jiang Wanbai, of course, except to make Jiang Wanbai and the people of the Tian family even more sad and sprinkle salt on their wounds.

After the third uncle and ancestor figured out this, he was also a little annoyed, how could he make such a mistake when he was wise!

"It's not right for me." The third uncle apologized to Jiang Wanbai.

"Third uncle, what did you say this, I know that you are for our good." Jiang Wanbai said politely, "Stay for dinner for a while, and I'll cook you two specialty dishes." ”

Having said that, where did the third uncle stay for dinner, and said a few words to Jiang Wanbai that were not salty or light, and hurried away.

As soon as the third uncle left, the Wang family and the others all looked at Jiang Wanbai, as if waiting for her to say something, but where did Jiang Wanbai have anything to say, she just wanted to ignore what was going on outside the window now.

"Once you've finished this jar of shrimp paste, let's start cooking. It's not too early, do it now, the second child and they came back just in time to eat. Jiang Wanbai didn't want to say anything, but seeing that Wang and the others had been waiting, she said this.

The Wang family and the others hurriedly agreed, and lowered their heads to do the work in hand, and the courtyard of the Tian family was quiet again, but I don't know if the hearts of these people in the Tian family are as peaceful as this courtyard.

At noon, Tian Lao Er and the others returned with a full load, and the Wang family also welcomed their respective husbands with twice the enthusiasm than before, and then they eagerly whispered, as for the content of the whisper, Jiang Wanbai knew if she didn't listen.

The adults of the Tian family have their own thoughts, but the children of the Tian family are obviously much happier, Tian Chengbao ran to the house and hugged the black beans out as soon as he came back, and Tian Chengyu and others obviously also liked the black beans very much, and they were all there to play with the black beans.

I don't know who grabbed a walnut-sized little Wang Ba and threw it in front of Black Bean, Black Bean was staring at the little Wang Ba with round and swarthy eyes at this time, and the little Wang Ba seemed to be very curious about Black Bean, and was raising his head to stare at Black Bean.

Jiang Wanbai watched from the side, thinking that the legend said that Wang Ba looked at the mung beans and looked at each other, but what about the black beans, did he also take a fancy to the other party? Thinking of this, she had a smile on her face.

Just when Jiang Wan was thinking about something, the black bean moved, it staggered to the side of Xiao Wangba, and then stretched out its paws and grabbed Xiao Wangba.

Xiao Wang Ba was frightened and quickly shrank into the shell, but the black bean seemed to find the fun in it, and flicked Xiao Wang Ba with his paws, turning Xiao Wang Ba over, turning his belly to the sky and his back to the bottom.

Fiddle with it again, and the little Wang Ba was like a yo-yo on the ice, and it was pulled far away.

Tian Chengbao and the others let out an exclamation, and then burst out laughing, and some people were even saying that they should let the black bean catch the little Wang Ba.

The black bean seemed to feel the encouragement of the little master, and happily ran to the side of the little king, and used its claws to play with the little king, and when it found that it couldn't catch the little king, it even used its teeth to bite.

Although the black bean's teeth have not fully grown, they are much stronger than this little Wang Ba, who is still smaller, and after a while, the little Wang Ba was tossed and covered with blood.

Black Beans are a lot of fun to play, and the children are also happy to watch, but no one thinks that this game is actually quite cruel, at least for this little Wang Ba.

Jiang Wanbai watched from the side, and suddenly remembered her conversation with her college classmates in modern times.

That time, somehow, they talked about how happy they were when they were children, but now they think about it and feel cruel.

Many people say that they abused frogs when they were children, others say that he once tied a rat to a firecracker, and the rat exploded into the sky, and some even said that he once skinned a snake.

What Jiang Wanbai remembers the most is that there is a boy who said that when they were young, their family was poor and they loved sweets, so they were popular to eat honey, but this honey was not bought, but after catching the bees, they could tear the bees apart and eat the honey in the bees' stomachs.

Of course, this is skillful, I still remember that the classmate also described his unique skills vividly, and everyone was disgusted and almost vomited.

In fact, when it came to the future, that classmate also felt a little sick to his stomach, and sighed a little, how could he do it when he was a child, how could he use his mouth!

Young and ignorant? Wet behind the ears? Young people are fearless? Perhaps, children don't know anything about what they do, so they don't think much about it, so they do the most cruel thing in the world with the most innocent heart and smile.

Jiang Wanbai was full of wit. Looking towards the field, I saw that at this time, the little Wang Ba had been dying from playing with black beans, she hesitated for a moment and walked over to pick up the black beans and handed them to Tian Chengbao, "It's about to eat, you guys hurry up and wash your hands." ”

When Tian Chengbao and the others were growing up, they were already hungry, and as soon as they heard Jiang Wanbai's words, they immediately ran happily to wash their hands and prepare to eat.

After they left, Jiang Wanbai looked down at the little Wang Ba, who obviously couldn't survive, and decided to give it a good time.

After disposing of Xiao Wangba's body, Jiang Wanbai also washed her hands and prepared to eat. At this time, everyone in the Tian family was in the house, but there was silence, they all looked at Jiang Wanbai, and even those children noticed the strangeness in the air and stopped talking.

"What are you doing watching me eat?" Jiang Wanbai said.

Everyone glanced at each other and picked up chopsticks to eat, but the room was still quiet.

After the meal, the atmosphere was still weird, Jiang Wanbai knew that it was not a matter to go on like this, so he said, "If you have anything to say, you can say it." ”

As soon as she said this, everyone, you look at me, I look at you, and it is clear that no one wants to be the first to say it.