CHAPTER XXV
Du Qiyue shrunk his neck and folded his hands into the hall, closed the door and shouted at Liu Momo, who was chopping meat in the kitchen: "Liu Momo, cook some ginger soup, it's better to have Uncle Qing and Brother Huzi come back." ”
"Got it, don't go into the kitchen if you hurt your hand." Liu Mo Mo answered in the kitchen, and then shouted to Brother Liu: "Liu Er, come in and help Ah Mo light the fire, what are you doing in the hall?" ”
Brother Liu didn't respond as usual, and still lay on the table and didn't move. Du Qiyue walked over to take a look, only to find that Brother Liu didn't know when he had fallen asleep, and was frowning with his hands on his pillows and snoring faintly. He slept very soundly, and people were reluctant to wake him up, but Brother Liu was sweating just now, and sleeping in the hall on such a rainy day would definitely be cold.
"Brother Liu, wake up, you have to sleep in the house." Du Qiyue stretched out her hand and gently pushed Brother Liu'er's shoulder, wanting to wake up Brother Liu.
Brother Liu slept very uncomfortably, and when he was pushed by Du Qiyue, he pouted, and his whole face wrinkled to show whether he wanted to cry or not, but he didn't mean to wake up at all.
"Brother Liu, don't come over yet." In the kitchen, Liu Momo screamed again.
Du Qiyue looked helplessly at his hands wrapped in handkerchiefs, and said, "What, Brother Liu is asleep, come and take him to my room to sleep, I'll light the fire for you." ”
"Asleep?" Liu Momo walked out of the kitchen with his hands wiped on his apron, smiled dotingly when he saw Liu Ge'er falling asleep on his stomach, and then hugged Liu Ge'er in the posture of a princess.
Brother Liu was picked up suddenly, startled in his sleep, waved his hands and feet, and punched Liu Momo's shoulder, listening to the sound quite loud. Liu Momo slapped Brother Liu'er on the arm with the hand holding Brother Liu'er's arm, and seemed to be very disgusted: "This little brother, you sleep so badly, see if you marry someone in the future, you don't dislike it!" ”
"Brother Liu is still young, and his temperament is lively, so it's good to grow up a little more." Du Qiyue said, smiling and helping Liu Momo open the door of the hall.
Du Qiyue's current hand-kneaded dough is definitely not good, and he will definitely not do soup dumplings, so he plans to change it to minced meat pancakes. In such a wet and cold weather, eating hot minced meat pancakes with home-made hot hot sauce will definitely warm up the whole person. Thinking so, Du Qiyue went to the backyard with an umbrella to pick a large handful of green onions, and then found some flour and began to mix batter.
Liu Momo immediately went back to the kitchen after placing Brother Liu, and when he saw Du Qiyue doing it again, he went up to stop him, "Xiaoyue, don't do it, be careful that the wound on your hand collapses." ”
"It's okay, I'm careful, just mix some batter, it won't hurt your hands, and besides, the wound is not big." Du Qiyue said, and continued to stir the batter in the small basin quickly in his hand.
"So what do you have to do to help?" Liu Momo asked.
"Yes, help me wash the green onions on the table and cut them into minced green onions, and I'll mix the batter into it." Du Qiyue took out a free hand and pointed to the handful of green onions on the table that were still dripping with water and said.
Liu Momo knew at a glance that Du Qiyue went to the yard to pick it when he took Brother Liu into the house, thinking that Du Qiyue was so strong, he didn't say anything about him, and quickly washed a large handful of green onions and cut them into evenly sized minced green onions.
Du Qiyue poured the chopped green onion into the batter, added salt and a little chili powder to it, stirred it and put it aside, waiting for Liu Momo to chop the minced meat.
Liu Momo has been doing farm work all year round, and his strength is not small, and it didn't take long to chop more than half a catty of meat, pour some salt and soy sauce into it to marinate, Du Qiyue divided a small half bowl of minced meat from it, added water and stirred it up, and poured it into the batter just now and stirred well. Then he heats the pan, adds a little oil, pours in a small portion of the batter, and when the batter is spread out into a circle, he turns it over until it is golden brown on both sides.
"This bread smells so good." Liu Momo sniffed the scent of green onions in the kitchen and said.
"I put a lot of green onions, and they smell a little more fragrant." Du Qiyue said, looking at the golden and fragrant minced meat pancakes, he couldn't help but swallow his saliva.
Du Qiyue didn't eat breakfast, and did another job, and at this time he was already so hungry that his stomach was growling, and he couldn't wait to make the remaining minced meat pancakes, so he took this one and prepared to eat. He took out the sweet sauce and hot sauce from the cabinet, smeared some on the top of the minced meat pancakes, then rolled it up and cut a small piece and stuffed it into his mouth and tasted it, "It tastes good, the minced meat is fragrant when you bite into it." ”
Saying that, Du Qiyue cut another piece down, and took the chopsticks and gave it to Liu Mo, who was burning the fire. Liu Momo rushed to the field as soon as he got up today, he didn't even have time to drink his saliva, and when he smelled the fragrance of pancakes, he also felt very hungry, looking at the small pancakes in front of him, he immediately took a bite into his mouth.
Du Qiyue has always mastered the heat of dim sum, this pancake is fried on the outside and tender on the inside, and the taste is also well adjusted, that is, Du Qiyue brushed a little too much hot sauce, and Liu Momo's eyes were red after eating, and he took a few breaths before he eased up, wiped his eyes and said: "Xiaoyue, how much chili sauce have you put here!" ”
"I didn't put much!" Du Qiyue swallowed what was in his mouth and said, he was already eating the third minced meat pancake, and he didn't feel spicy at all, and the hot sauce mixed with some sweet sauce somewhat neutralized some of the spicy taste, and he felt quite enjoyable eating it himself.
Liu Mo didn't believe it, and looked at the half-rolled minced meat pancake on the table, the inside of the pancake was painted red, which made people feel spicy when they looked at it.
"You kid, I didn't see much spicy food when I was a child, how can you eat it so much now!" Liu Momo said with some doubts.
Du Qiyue didn't answer, and concentrated on eating the remaining minced meat pancakes. The one Liu Momo said that he couldn't eat spicy was the original owner, but Du Qiyue was a complete foodie, as long as it was delicious in the world, he loved to eat it, and he definitely couldn't miss such a good thing as chili.
Although it was very spicy, the taste of the minced meat pancake was really good, Liu Momo couldn't help but eat another piece cut on the side, and then took a breath and took the minced meat that was marinated just now and poured it into the pot that Du Qiyue had just finished using and was still hot and fried. While frying, he instructed Du Qiyue to beat three eggs and bring five bowls.
There is meat at home these days, so Du Qiyue didn't eat much eggs, but saved some of them. He took four eggs out, beat three, stirred them with water, salt and chopped green onions, and divided them into five bowls, and then beat the remaining egg into one of the bowls, stirred it, and put it aside.
Liu Momo fried the minced meat and saw it with his spare eyes, and knew that this bowl was made by Du Qiyue for Brother Liu, so he said: "Xiaoyue, don't get used to Brother Liu, if he gets used to his temperament, he will go to the house to uncover the tiles." ”
"It's just an egg, where you get used to it, Brother Liu works so hard today, you have to be rewarded." Du Qiyue said that Brother Liu is a cute and sensible little brother in his heart, and he is quite happy to get used to such a younger brother.
After the minced meat was fried, Liu Momo scooped a spoonful of each of the five bowls with a spoon, three of which were particularly scooped, and at a glance, he knew that it was for Du Qiyue, Liu Ge'er and Huzi to eat.
At this time, the vegetable soup that Liu Momo was cooking in another pot was almost ready, so he quickly took a tic-tac-toe-shaped bamboo steaming rack and put it in that pot, and then put five bowls of steamed eggs with minced meat on the steaming rack, and added a straw handle to the stove after covering the pot. In this way, when the vegetable soup is cooked, the five bowls of steamed eggs with minced meat will be steamed just enough to meet the heat in the pot.
Chen Youqing and Huzi came back after Liu Momo and Du Qiyue finished cooking, although the two wore robes and hats, they were still drenched in cold rain. Liu Momo hurriedly poured hot water to wipe their faces, and poured two bowls of ginger soup for the two of them before asking, "Xiaoshan's field has been harvested, why did you come back so quickly?" ”
"Several families have gone to help, and when we rushed over, there was only a little left, and now we have taken it back to Xiaoshan's house, and his mother is lighting the stove to dry! Although there are some losses, but they are not big, you don't have to worry. Chen Youqing wiped his neck and said.
"It's good if it's not a big deal, but if it is ruined a lot, their lives will not be easy." Liu Momo was relieved when he heard it.
The clothes of the two of them were wet and sticking to their bodies, and Du Qiyue couldn't look at it, so she found two sets of Du Fugui's clothes before his death and came out for the two to change into. In the countryside, the family died and the clothes and shoes were reluctant to throw away or bury them, as long as they were useful, everyone would continue to use them, so Chen Youqing and Huzi recognized Du Fugui's clothes, and there was nothing taboo about them, so they took it and went to the small storage room in the kitchen to change it.
After Chen Youqing got dressed, he walked out and said, "The little good family is fine, but something happened to the good family, I'm afraid it will be a mess for a while." ”
"What's wrong with Liangsheng's family, has their family started arguing again?" Liu Momo didn't care much and asked, Du Liangsheng's family had a small quarrel for three days and a big quarrel for five days, and Liu Momo was used to it.
"This time it's not as simple as a quarrel, the child in Brother Hua'er's belly is gone!"
Liu Momo was taken aback, and hurriedly asked, "What, Brother Hua has only been pregnant with one for so many years, how did it flow?" ”
"A few days ago, Brother Hua felt uncomfortable and didn't go to the ground, their eight acres of rape were harvested by Liangsheng alone, he got up early and received three acres of land confiscated today, just now when it rained, their family didn't explode. Liangsheng and his mother scolded Hua Ge'er for being lazy and not working, and the rape in the family was rained, and Hua Ge'er was usually so honest that he didn't know what was wrong today, so he replied, and was slapped by Liangsheng and his mother into the ditch, and he became red on the spot. Now Liangsheng has gone to call the doctor, but Hua Ge'er has shed so much blood, the child will definitely not be saved. Chen Youqing sat on the stool and sighed.
Liu Momo sighed when he heard this, and said: "How can this be, Brother Hua has been married to Liangsheng for five years, and it is not easy to conceive this...... How sad he is! No, let's hurry up and eat, and I'll go see him after eating. ”
Du Qiyue listened to the conversation between Chen Youqing and Liu Momo while carrying the dishes and chopsticks with Huzi, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart. Du Qiyue and this Du Liangsheng are also cousins when they are carefully calculated, but Du Liangsheng has a lot of family affairs, and Du Qiyue's family has no contact with them in the past. But Du Qiyue is very clear about the affairs of Du Liangsheng's family, because the affairs of their family are also famous in these ten miles and eight towns, and it is not okay to be unclear.
Du Liangsheng is the eldest in the family, and there are three brothers below, and his father and mother have always favored the three younger sons because there was a fortune teller who said that he was destined to take the Shak family. The couple always took their three youngest sons to eat and drink spicy food, but let Du Liangsheng eat bran vegetables alone, and let him take care of the whole family's work. Du Liangsheng's three younger brothers don't have much ability, but one is more calculating than the other, when they grow up, instead of helping the eldest brother, they oppress Du Liangsheng with their parents, and Du Liangsheng is left to do all the work outside the house, and he only knows how to eat and be lazy.
If others grew up like Du Liangsheng, they wouldn't have been able to wait for adulthood to stand on their own, but Du Liangsheng was honest and stupid, and he was stunned and never complained. Later, Du Liangsheng married Brother Hua, this Brother Hua and Du Liangsheng are exactly the same disadvantaged character, and they were called and oppressed by the Du family, a good brother in his twenties, who looked like a person in his thirties and forties, and he didn't even complain.
In this way, these two people have never been said a good word by their families, and if the work is a little unsatisfactory to the family, they will be scolded, but Du Liangsheng and Hua Geer just don't have the slightest intention of separating the family, so they just survive every day.
I don't know how many people in the whole village looked at them, and they were sad and angry in their hearts, but even if they wanted to help, they couldn't intervene in this kind of family matter, and they really couldn't see it, at most, they helped Du Liangsheng and Hua Ge'er on weekdays.
The original owner felt that Du Liangsheng and Hua Ge'er were not worth helping, and it was useless for such a person to help, but it made him angry. Du Qiyue also had this opinion, but Du Liangsheng and Brother Hua were also pitiful, so they said to Liu Momo: "Mo, when you go to see Brother Liangsheng's husband later, help me bring some eggs, I won't go to see it if it's inconvenient." ”
"I'm afraid that the raw eggs you give won't reach Hua Ge'er's mouth, so you give me the eggs later, and I'll go home and help him cook sugar water eggs and bring them to him." Liu Momo said.
"Why, I think you can cook it here, it's raining outside, so you don't have to run an extra trip." Du Qiyue said.
"According to the custom in our village, it is enough for a family to give five eggs, and I will go back to my own house and take five eggs, boil them together and give them to him." Liu Momo said, while holding a rag and bringing out the five bowls of steamed eggs with minced meat stewed in the pot, he chattered: "Brother Liu, why hasn't you gotten up yet, Huzi, you go and call him up." ”
"Where is Brother Liu?" Huzi asked.
"Sleeping in Xiaoyue's room, I just fell asleep on the table, I really didn't care at all." Liu Momo said, and began to serve the vegetable soup in the pot again.