Li Ziyu walked to the gate of the courtyard, knocked on the courtyard door, and shouted: "Xiaoshan, I'm back!" Come and open the door! ”

As soon as the words fell, I heard a series of footsteps in the courtyard, accompanied by the sound of chattering for a while, and then arrived at the door.

The courtyard door opened, and Xiao Wu took the lead in rushing to the front again, like a small cannonball hitting Li Ziyu's body, hugging Li Ziyu's waist, and kept shouting: "Ahhh ”

Xiaohu followed closely behind Xiao Wu, ran with a red face, ran to Li Ziyu, saved Li Ziyu's left leg, raised a smile and smiled: "Sister, I want something delicious." ”

Xiao Wu also shouted: "I also eat delicious!" ”

Li Ziyu smiled and lowered her head and pinched Xiaohu's somewhat chubby face, patted Xiao Wu's head again and said, "Remember, snack goods." ”

Xiaolan, who was one step behind, hugged Li Ziyu's right leg quite aggrievedly, pressed her face against Li Ziyu's leg, and didn't speak.

Li Ziyu felt strange, so she bent down to pick up Xiaolan, and when she saw her little face bulging and tears in her eyes, she asked her, "What's wrong Lanlan?" Who upset us Lan Lan? As he spoke, he took Xiaohu's hand and walked into the yard.

Xiaolan had a pair of watery apricot eyes, glared at Xiao Wu and Xiaohu vigorously, and said angrily: "Fourth brother is bad!" Fifth brother is bad! ”

Xiaoshan and Xiaowen looked at each other and couldn't help laughing.

Xiao Wu touched his head embarrassedly and smiled.

Xiaohu also touched his head, his big eyes turned smartly and flashed with mischievous brilliance, and he couldn't stop laughing.

Xiaowen said: "Eldest sister, Xiaowu and Xiaohu are not waiting for her, Xiaolan is angry. As he spoke, he closed the door and slammed it shut.

Li Ziyu hugged Xiaolan and kissed her little face, saying, "Lan Lan is not angry, the eldest sister bought something good, and I will give it to Lan Lan to eat in a while, okay?" ”

"Well, Lan Lan eats first!" Xiaolan proudly hugged Li Ziyu's neck, raised her little head and laughed.

Xiaoshan reached out to pick up the bamboo basket on Li Ziyu's shoulder and said, "Eldest sister, why did you buy so many things?" ”

Li Ziyu dodged Xiaoshan's hand: "No need to turn it over again, and it won't sink." Well, the main thing to buy is the necessities. As he spoke, he walked into the house, asking, "Are you okay at home?" How is Brother Zhang? The fire in the two houses hasn't been extinguished, has it? Is the deerskin stirred? ”

"The deerskin is stirred, and the stove is burning." Xiaowen replied. When Li Ziyu was leaving, she told them to stir the deerskin, and as soon as her sister left, Xiaowen hurriedly stirred. As for the fire in the stove, it has not been extinguished day or night. Because there are now two stoves burning every day, the firewood burns quickly, and there is not much firewood at home. This is still Li Ziyu took the time to go to fetch firewood and came back, otherwise, the two kang shops burn firewood all day long, which is really expensive.

Xiaoshan also replied: "It's okay at home, I think Brother Zhang is much better than yesterday." ”

The sisters and brothers said and entered the hall.

Li Ziyu put Xiaolan down and put the bamboo basket on the ground.

Xiao Wu, Xiao Hu and Xiao Lan all gathered around the bamboo basket, looking at the contents of the bamboo basket with novelty.

Li Ziyu took out the pen, ink, paper, inkstone, and books on it first, so that everyone could see it clearly, and then said: "I went to the town today, in addition to going to the restaurant, the most important thing is to buy these things." In the future, we have to insist on reading and writing every day, and we can't stop. After the New Year, Xiaoshan and Xiaowen went to private school in the county, read books a year ago, and lay a foundation. ”

Xiaoshan took the things in his sister's hand very solemnly, and sent them to the wooden box in the West House with both hands. That pious and holy appearance infected everyone, and everyone restrained their smiles, and their faces were rare solemn and solemn.

In the west room, Jiang Junzhang lay on the kang, listening to the words of Li Ziyu's sister and brother who entered the courtyard, and was very envious of their sister and brother's feelings. In fact, he really wanted to fit in, but unfortunately the time was still short, and they couldn't fully open up to him yet.

At this time, when I saw Xiaoshan walking in with something in his hand, I began to understand them in my heart.

They are just a few helpless orphans, and it is really remarkable that they can go from starving to being fed and clothed in a short period of time, and then to being able to afford pen, ink, paper and inkstone. Think about yourself, if you don't have the strong backing of your father and the loyal subordinates around you, can you survive just by yourself? The answer is not to say no, nor to dare to say yes.

Li Ziyu didn't know about Junzhang's inner activities in the West House, she quickly put things away one by one, and began to make lunch.

Xiaowen washed the apples, gave one to each of the three small ones, and took two more to the general Junzhang of the West House, but he himself was reluctant to eat.

Junzhang took the apple handed over by Xiaowen, the small fruit was not comparable to what he ate in the palace, but it felt a different taste in his mouth. Here, he doesn't have to let the minions around him try it, and he doesn't have to worry about someone poisoning him, this feeling of peace of mind and warmth makes him sink and don't want to extricate himself.

Xiao Wu, Xiao Hu and Xiao Lan all climbed up to the East House Kang, sat on the hot Kang, and ate apples happily.

Xiaoshan squatted in front of the Westinghouse stove to light the fire and help Li Ziyu prepare lunch.

Li Ziyu first cleaned the set of water with hot water, except for the pork liver, put it in the north pot of Westinghouse, added water and boiled it to remove the blood. Then add clean water again, put the water that has gone to the blood and then put it into the pot, put the green onion, ginger, garlic, pepper, and various seasonings on the ingredients, add salt after boiling, and continue to burn on low heat until it is crispy. The sewer I bought this time is very clean, and I basically don't have to bother to take care of it, which is also what Li Ziyu is most satisfied with.

Li Ziyu planned to steam rice and rice for lunch, but did not plan to put sorghum rice today, and everyone also followed the patient to eat a fine meal.

She plans to make a clear soup venison meatballs for the patients, and they make stir-fried pork liver with cabbage. Fat meat is cleaned up after lunch, fuel consumption is very time-consuming, and it is not early now, so you have to cook first.

She first added water to the north pot of the East House, picked a pheasant from the outside wall, cleaned it and put it in the pot, put salt, green onions, ginger, garlic peppercorns, and large ingredients, and let Xiaowen boil the fire and then change it to low heat, boiling the pheasant soup.

Cook rice in the south pot of Westinghouse, and after the rice has been boiled a few times, put in the millet and boil it twice, then change it to low heat, and the rice in the pot will be fragrant after a while.

Cut a piece of venison from the pot of venison, chop it finely, add a small amount of salt, minced green onions, and minced ginger, stir water in it and stir it vigorously in one direction with chopsticks. Put the boiled pheasant soup, shredded green onions, and shredded ginger into the pot, and after the pot is boiled, the minced venison is grouped into small balls by hand, and put them into the pot one by one, and wait for the round milky white balls to float to the surface, and then add some cabbage leaves, add a little salt and get out of the pot.

Unfortunately, there is no starch, no eggs, and no cooking wine, but the aroma of the thick clear soup of pheasant and venison meatballs fills the space. The three little ones heard the fragrance in the house, ran out of the house, and gathered around Li Ziyu.