Su Qiqi got off the stool and poured the porridge in his bowl into the bowl of rice soup on the stove, and then divided it into three bowls before he called out with a smile: "Dad, mother, let's eat together." ”

Looking at her daughter's innocent smiling face, Liu Sanniang wiped her tears and called Su Ercheng with a smile: "Her father, my daughter gave us a meal, let's eat together." ”

Su Ercheng's heart was also filled with his daughter's behavior, and when he heard Liu Sanniang's shout, he immediately came up to the table: "Her mother, let's eat together, the food that my daughter gave to her father and mother must be better than the porridge in the past." ”

Three small bowls and one large bowl make the table look like a sumptuous dinner in this disaster year.

Su Qiqi picked up a pegroot ball and put it in his mouth, chewed it deliberately with relish, and did not forget to praise Liu Sanniang's craftsmanship: "Mother, how did you make this ball?" It's pretty tasty. ”

Liu Sanniang shed tears while eating, this wild grass root is bitter and astringent, if it weren't for the fear of starvation, who would eat this?

Su Ercheng was afraid of causing his daughter to be sad, so he comforted Liu Sanniang: "Her mother, Qiqi is not wrong, this ball is really good, if it weren't for your ingenuity, how could our family have such a delicious thing to starve?" The day before yesterday, the Li family at the head of the village went out to ask for food, and if the yamen did not distribute relief food, there would be more people who would flee the famine in a few days. We have this thing to live by, and it's much better than a few of them. ”

Liu Sanniang's heart was sour, and she choked up when she spoke: "Escape from the famine? Escape to which $ one $ book $ read $ novel (.( yb)(d)(u).) Go on? I heard that there was a disaster in the ten counties in the south, and I heard that we are still good, but there is a little harvest, and some places say that there is no harvest, and wherever we flee these years, we are hungry. It's difficult to go out everywhere, at least you don't have to run around to stay in your hometown, and you can still find tree roots to survive. If you go out and encounter heavy rain and snow and bandits, where will you still live? ”

Su Qiqi saw that her father and mother were in a very low mood, she immediately picked up a ball and said: "Mother, Qiqi don't go to escape the famine, I like to eat this root ball made by my mother, and I will learn to make it with my mother in the future." ”

"Okay, okay, let's not go to escape the famine, whatever Qiqi wants to learn in the future, my mother will teach you. Qiqi, hurry up and eat, it will be dark in a while, otherwise my mother will not be able to see the dishes. Liu Sanniang knew her daughter's thoughts, and immediately wiped away her tears and ate it.

"Something without conscience, if a family has something delicious to eat, you can eat it too? Did you pop out of a crack in the rock? I don't know if there's something delicious, think about my father? A thunderbolt came from the door, three steps and two steps, Aunt Su and Zhu Taohua rushed in with their children in their arms.

"Oh, the second brother and sister-in-law are really generous, there is soup and dry soup for this dinner, but it is not as good as our family, each person has to eat a multigrain steamed bun for one night. It seems that your life is still better. In the dim sky, Zhu Taohua stared at the few pegroot balls in the big bowl and thought it was something good, and began to add fuel to the fire.

After all, she is a mother-in-law, even if she breaks off the relationship, she can continue to cut off her blood. Liu Sanniang heard Aunt Su's sharp shout, immediately put down the dishes and chopsticks and stood up, and sighed her lips before saying, "Mother-in-law, there is really nothing delicious in our house, so I made a few multigrain dumplings to fill up." If your mother-in-law doesn't dislike it, then try it. ”

Zhu Taohua saw that the second sister-in-law didn't ask her to eat, so she said sourly: "Second sister-in-law, your little niece hasn't eaten a full meal for a long time, and since there is something delicious, you don't care about her child, right?" ”

Looking at the greedy face of her brother and daughter-in-law, Liu Sanniang, who got up to take the bowl, smiled bitterly and took out two pairs of chopsticks and said, "As long as my niece doesn't think it's delicious, let her eat it." ”

The balls in the bowl were still hot, Zhu Taohua had already put the child on the stool next to Su Qiqi, and as soon as she received the chopsticks handed over by Liu Sanniang, she forked it and sent it to her mouth, where was her daughter in her eyes.

"Bah, bah, bah..." Before the pill on Aunt Su's chopsticks was sent into her mouth, she was splashed with Zhu Taohua's saliva. As soon as she threw her chopsticks and glared at her little daughter-in-law, she scolded: "Are you blind? Spit it on my hands! ”

Zhu Taohua, who was full of stammer, ran to the water tank and rinsed two mouthfuls of cold water before speaking: "Mother, I didn't mean to. Second sister-in-law, you deliberately let us eat, right? It's so unpalatable and so delicious, did you see me and my mother come in on purpose? ”

When Aunt Su heard this, she immediately looked at Zhu Taohua suspiciously: "Peach Blossom, what did you say?" Can't eat this thing? ”

"Mother, the second sister-in-law doesn't know if she is deliberately showing poverty, although she gave you the field this year, but he didn't harvest less grain last year, and now he actually got this pig food for dinner, isn't this deliberately making you feel that it's you, and his family is poor?"

Zhu Taohua's provocative words made Liu Sanniang angry: "Fourth brother and sister, what do you mean by this?" What do I eat at home, do I go to the village and ask for it? Do you think it's not delicious, so I'll invite you to eat it? Where did our family offend you and let you sow trouble like this in front of your mother-in-law? ”

Su Qiqi looked at this lazy and immoral mother-in-law and daughter-in-law with a look of contempt, but she was a junior, this old lady Su was Su Ercheng's mother after all, and this trumpet flower was more or less an elder of her, so Su Qiqi was angry in her heart, she couldn't say anything excessive. So she deliberately picked up a ball and put it in her mouth while eating, and said: "Mother, this ball is so delicious, my mother's craftsmanship is the best." Mother, eat quickly, you can't swallow the balls when they're cold. ”

Seeing that her grandson ate so with relish, Aunt Su hesitated, could it be that her little daughter-in-law secretly made something delicious, and she felt that the things in this bowl were not delicious when her stomach was full, right? She didn't have anything to eat in her stomach, to eat or not to eat?

Zhu Taohua obviously didn't believe her when she saw Aunt Su's eyes, so she said aggrievedly: "Mother, when did your daughter-in-law lie to you?" Qiqi starved ghosts reincarnated, so they can eat such unpalatable things with relish. I don't know what kind of weed the second sister-in-law is made of, so I won't talk about the green smell, and it is bitter and astringent. ”

As soon as Zhu Taohua's words fell, Aunt Su finally threw away the chopsticks in her hand: "Second daughter-in-law, what are you cooking in this bowl?" ”

In the dim light, the three of them seemed to be Aunt Su and Zhu Taohua did not exist, and bowed their heads to eat dinner in the bowl. Liu Sanniang heard Aunt Su's question, and said lightly: "Last year, in order to donate some incense and silver to the temple, I didn't have much autumn grain, and I could get through it with some sweet potato shreds, breaded grains, etc." I thought that there would be one acre of paddy field this year anyway, and I would be able to receive it when the new grain came out. To this day, even if the fields are flooded, our families have run out of food. But the stomach always has to be filled, and the two of us can stand hungry, but Qiqi is a child, and he can't follow us next to each other. There is really no way to think about it, a few days ago, our family dug up some fern roots by the river embankment and washed some powder, which is the contents of this bowl. ”

After Liu Sanniang finished speaking, Aunt Su left without saying a word. Su Qiqi thinks that Aunt Su sees that her family is already eating wild tree roots, and as a mother-in-law, she will have a little conscience. Didn't the people of the world say that they pity the hearts of the parents of the world? At the very least, coarse grains will be sent to their families to live, right? But when she saw that Aunt Su was still looking casual a few days later, she swore that she would let this Aunt Su kneel and beg her in the future!