Chapter 52: Fangzi
Xue Jiao thought that Mrs. Chen would definitely not stop selling tea and eggs, so she had to come and cover the water and earth, no matter what moths she gave birth to, she had to be careful.
Xue Jiao thought of separating the family again, as long as she didn't split up, she would be hindered from doing anything. If after the family is divided, some food, including money, is given to Mrs. Chen, which is filial piety, and if there is no separation, it is a matter of course.
Zhang sat by Mrs. Chen's kang with a smile on his face. The old lady said just now that if she can get Xuejiao's recipe for boiling tea eggs, she will be given a part of the money from the sale in the future.
The more Zhang thought about it, the more proud he became, according to Mrs. Chen's words, Zhang was a gluttonous who "can pick up a bean when he farts and stuff it into his mouth". Now the fragrance of tea eggs fills the yard, and the greedy Zhang looks out vigorously. When Mrs. Chen saw her like this, she was disdainful, thinking that she was worthy of being the daughter of Zhang Orion in the mountains, and she couldn't get on the stage.
On the day she decided to do the tea egg business, Xue Jiao boiled a pot of tea eggs and served it to the dinner table, and everyone ate one. Since then, in addition to honoring Mr. Chen and Mrs. Chen every day, tea eggs have never appeared on the Chen family's dinner table.
Zhang often walks by the stove where tea leaves and eggs are boiled, and sometimes wants to take a few to taste, but Chen Xuejiao can't stand by the stove and doesn't move, she doesn't know where to start.
Thinking of this, the resentment towards the Dafang family deepened.
The fragrance continued to linger, Zhang sniffed, couldn't sit still, lifted his butt and walked out. The disdain on Mrs. Chen's lips deepened.
Zhang spent the whole day wandering around the stove where tea leaves and eggs were boiled. Someone came to buy tea eggs, and Zhang greeted him attentively, snatching a spoon from Xuejiao's hand to help catch it.
Xue Jiao saw Zhang like this and knew that she wanted to eat it, but Xue Jiao pretended not to know.
"Xuejiao, can you sell it out every day?" Zhang asked Xue Jiao with his eyes open.
"Sometimes it sells out, sometimes it doesn't." Xue Jiao said lightly.
"What's the whole egg that can't be sold, and I haven't seen you serve it on the table, could it be that you threw it away?" Zhang looked at the heat in the pot, and she couldn't wait to swallow the whole pot.
"If you can't sell it out on the same day, you will continue to sell it the next day, and the eggs have been hanging in the stove, and they are all boiling hot, and they can be left for several days without breaking." Xue Ru beside her said.
"Xuejiao, you see that I have helped you sell eggs, you can give me a taste." Zhang's gluttonous swallowing saliva.
"Fourth aunt, I didn't ask you to help me sell tea eggs. Today I calculated that it was just enough to sell out, and the remaining two were for grandma, and the things that honor grandma had to be approved by grandma. Xue Jiao's eyes widened.
Zhang's heart was angry, but she knew that Xue Jiao was not easy to mess with, and with the instructions of Mrs. Chen, she didn't dare to take the elders' money in front of Xue Jiao.
"I'm just asking." Zhang smiled wryly, but thought in his heart, if I wait for me to get the prescription, see how long you can be proud.
"Xuejiao, how did you come up with this recipe, boil eggs with tea leaves." Zhang asked.
"It's just that when I was drinking tea, the tea accidentally fell into the pot, and it became like this when the eggs were boiled." Xuejiao played Tai Chi for Zhang's family, she still wants to make money with tea eggs, and Fang Zi can't give it to people casually.
When Zhang heard this, he pursed his mouth.
As he was talking, Zhao Yiming came.
He came to deliver his mother's work to the Li family today.
Li invited him into the house, and quietly served tea and osmanthus candy. In the countryside, only the more important guests or elders come to the house, and tea and fruit are entertained. Zhao Yiming blushed embarrassedly when he saw his wife so grand, which made the Li family pity him more and more.
“…… My mother said that these three pairs of insoles were for Mr. Chen, Qi An and Qi Ping, and these handkerchiefs were for my wife, Sister Xueru, Sister Jing Hao and Sister Xuejiao. Zhao Yiming said embarrassedly while drinking tea.
"Oh, your mother is really, bring something to the house." Li stood up, took the insoles and handkerchiefs and took a closer look, "The embroidery is so good, your mother is too polite." ”
"My mother said that thanks to Mr. Chen, I was able to study at a private school." Zhao Yiming smiled brightly.
"What's this, your master can't be the master of the private school, or Master Qin cherishes your talent, I heard Qi An say that you are the youngest in the private school, but you are the best at reading, seeing that you are only one year older than Xue Jiao, it is not easy to read so well." Li praised it.
Zhao Yiming smiled embarrassedly.
"I heard Qi An say that your father is not in good health......" Although Zhao Yiming never mentioned his father's illness, Qi An told Li Shi, and Li Shi couldn't help but ask.
Zhao Yiming was stunned for a moment, lowered his head, and quickly raised his head again and smiled and said, "It's much better." ”
Li sighed, nodded, and said, "It's good to be better." ”
After sitting for a while, Zhao Yiming got up and said goodbye. Li took osmanthus candy from the jar and wrapped it up, and quietly called Qi Ping to come in and take a few tea eggs.
"Osmanthus candy is made by your Xuejiao sister, I eat it well, your Xuejiao sister is too sweet, and this tea egg, you take it back to your mother and father to try it." Say hello to your father and mother, and just say what I said, you don't have to be so polite to send things in the future. Li wrapped the tea eggs and osmanthus candy separately, wrapped them in a small cloth and stuffed them to Zhao Yiming.
Zhang Yiming couldn't refuse, thinking that his wife was a solid person, so he had to thank him.
Chen Xuejiao saw Zhao Yiming come out of her house and talked to him with a smile. Qi Ping likes Zhao Yiming and pesters Zhao Yiming to teach him arithmetic.
After Zhao Yiming left, Li took out a handkerchief and gave it to Xuejiao's children, saying that it was given by Zhao Yiming's mother, and he couldn't help but sigh.
"Uncle, I see that the material of this veil is silk cloth, red and gorgeous, but like a wedding dress?" Jinghao has a natural sensitivity to embroidery, took the handkerchief and looked at it and said, "Because my mother's wedding dress is like this." ”
Li sighed.
"Mother, Brother Yiming's mother is a kind person, she wrung her wedding dress to make a veil for us, so it seems that Brother Yiming's family is really poor." Xue Jiao said.
"Our family has ten catties of cotton this year, and your grandma will send some every year, I saw that I made a cotton jacket for Yiming in winter." Li Shi made a decision after a little thought.
Xue Jiao thought that the Li family was always so kind, and would rather suffer herself.
Talking and laughing, it was evening, and the last customer was sent away, and Xue Jiao collected the stove of tea eggs.
The customer just now was going to buy four tea eggs, but Xue Jiao only sold him two, and the remaining two were filial to Mrs. Chen and Mr. Chen.
Today's dinner was made by Zhang, and Li would help her in the past, but after being brainwashed by Xuejiao's idea of "each doing his job", Li hesitated for a while and did not help.
Mrs. Chen vomited as soon as she ate the first bite, the wowotou was not cooked, and the vegetables were charred and black.
"What kind of food do you cook, you usually eat in a hurry, why is it your turn to cook, you can't do it." Mrs. Chen put down her chopsticks and pointed at Zhang's Xun.
"I used to cook without washing my hands, you said I am, but now when I cook and wash my hands, you say that you are not familiar with the nest." Zhang took a bite of the nest, frowned and put it down.
It was so unpalatable that she didn't want to eat it herself.
"You don't eat it yourself, and you expect others to eat it." Mrs. Chen pointed to the nest head that took a bite and scolded, "You are sloppy, lazy and greedy." ”
"In the past, my sister-in-law helped me do it, but today I made it myself and no one burned the pot for me, so it was like this, I don't know if the nest is familiar or not." Zhang quibbled and pulled Li into it again.
"Fourth aunt, my mother shouldn't cook today, I used to cook for you, my mother helped you, and it was my love to help you, and it would not be an exaggeration not to help you. My mother also has my mother's business, and my mother is giving grandpa and grandma soles all day today. Chen Xuejiao listened to Zhang's plausion of Li's family, and her heart was very unhappy.
Old Man Chen stretched his eyebrows when he heard this, winter has not yet arrived, and the eldest daughter-in-law has already begun to collect the soles of her shoes.
"Okay, don't say a word, let's make do with this meal." Old man Chen picked up the chopsticks and took a bite of the nest head, this bite, his face changed abruptly, and the sweat on his forehead turned out to be the beans in the nest head to the back molars, and he wanted to scold his mother in pain.
"You" Old Man Chen covered his cheeks and pointed at Zhang's "you" for a long time, but there was no "you" to speak. Originally, Mr. Chen wanted to scold Zhang, but when he thought that it was inappropriate for his father-in-law to scold his daughter-in-law, he stopped talking.
Zhang also panicked, and said loudly: "I can't eat this meal, Xuejiao, don't you have tea eggs, take them out and eat them, you can't watch the family starve." ”
Xue Jiao was speechless about Zhang's logic, and said lightly: "There are two left, those who are filial to their grandfather and grandmother." ”
When Qi Ping heard Xue Jiao say this, he pushed the tea egg in front of Old Man Chen and Old Lady Chen: "Master, milk, you eat." ”
Old Man Chen looked at Qi Ping appreciatively. Xue Jiao saw Xue Yao and Xue Miao staring at each other disdainfully.
Mrs. Chen waited for Li to peel tea eggs for her, raised her eyes and said, "I have no objection to the boss's family doing business, anyway, they are all from the same family, and the money earned is also public." ”
Xue Jiao heard this, and suddenly pointed at Xue Yao and said innocently: "I heard that Sister Xue Yao has a monthly case, why haven't I seen it, since the milk said that the money we earn belongs to the public middle school and is a family, how come I have never spent Sister Xue Yao's money." Then he turned his face to Xue Yao and said sweetly, "Sister Xue Yao, is it not that your money will be spent on me in the future, I want to make a new dress, and make a new dress for my mother and my sister, Sister Xue Yao, do you say it's okay." ”
Xue Jiao's words made Xue Yao's face stagnate.
"Your Sister Xue Yao earns hard-earned money, and your Brother Qi Lin is studying in the White Horse Academy, and you have to spend money everywhere." Old Mrs. Chen's chest rose and fell angrily.
Unexpectedly, Xue Jiao cried.
"Sister Xueyao earns hard-earned money, but what I earn is not hard-earned money, my sister and brother and I get up early and boil eggs and sell eggs, which one is not hard. My brother also studies, why can Brother Qi Lin go to the White Horse Academy, but my brother cannot, they are also the descendants of the Chen family. I couldn't understand this matter when I thought about it, so I hurried to ask the older people in the village, and they must have understood why they were well-informed. ”
Xue Jiao's words made everyone look at each other.
Cai Shi secretly rejoiced when he heard this, they were all the descendants of the Chen family, why could Qi Lin go to the White Horse Academy to study, and the family would save food and clothing for him. said that Xue Yao used money to supplement the family, but she didn't believe it, she hadn't seen a cent of Xue Yao's silver.
"Okay, Xue Jiao earns hard-earned money, and the boss's family earns hard-earned money, so you can keep it for pocket money, it's not considered a public school." Old Man Chen opened his mouth.
Mrs. Chen glanced at Old Man Chen, this old man is getting better and better to the old man now. She held her breath in her heart, and she couldn't come out, she used to be playful, but now Xue Jiao comes to this trick in advance every time, but she has no way to start.
Everyone ate silently, frowning, and reluctantly ate dinner with nausea.
After dinner, Xue Jiao began to make tea eggs.
Because she didn't eat dinner well, Xue Jiao thought about filling up the eggs for each of her family members first.
Zhang entered the pot house and said to help, his eyes glanced straight into the pot.
Xue Jiao was picking up tea leaves with Xue Rujing.
Zhang's has been sticking to herself all day long, always asking Xue Jiao about the practice of tea eggs openly and secretly, and now she appears in the pot house and stares, Xue Jiao knows that she wants the recipe for tea eggs.
Xue Jiao deliberately disrupted the steps. If you want to make the tea eggs delicious, you need to add ginger, peppercorns, white wine, fennel and other ingredients. In order to create an illusion for Zhang's, Xuejiao did not add these spices at first, only added a handful of tea leaves.
"Fourth aunt, you see, it's not difficult to boil tea eggs, just add a handful of tea leaves, put the eggs in and boil them one more time, just sprinkle salt with the taste." Chen Xuejiao said innocently.
Zhang felt that Fang Zi was in the house, thinking that there was something difficult about this, and he went to the upper room as if he was happy.