Chapter Seventy-Nine: Doubts

Chen Xuejiao entered the upper room with a pie.

When she was eating in the upper room, Chen Xuejiao glanced through the curtain and saw that Cai and Xuewa were not on the table.

Old Man Chen was frowning and speaking: "...... The old men work in the fields, sow wheat seeds, and when they are tired, why do they have a bowl of pimple soup per person, and how can they eat enough without steamed buns and dry rice. When there was no separation, the boss liked to prepare meals at once, and he couldn't even eat at a time. ”

Ge Bar is the dialect of Xuzhou Mansion, which is an excellent meaning. When Old Man Chen said this, he gave the Li family the highest praise.

Old Mrs. Chen stiffened her neck, and Zhao and Zhang blushed.

The old man Chen didn't ask about the affairs of the inner house, but now he asked about the food, which shows that he is angry.

Chen Xuejiao lifted the curtain and walked in.

"What are you doing here, coming to see the joke?" Chen Xuemiao's eyes were sharp, and she found Xue Jiao at a glance, and her cold words came out.

Chen Xuejiao ignored Chen Xuemiao, in her heart, Chen Xuemiao was a spoiled child, not worth taking to heart.

"Grandpa, grandma." Chen Xuejiao stood in front of the table with the pie, "Our family has baked cabbage oil residue pie, and my mother asked me to send it to my grandfather and grandmother." ”

Old man Chen's eyebrows and eyes stretched, in the end, the eldest daughter-in-law is filial, and she still thinks about the old one after the family is separated, and she has to send it special if she has delicious food.

"You can just eat it yourself, why don't you send it over." Old Man Chen smiled kindly.

"My mother said that grandpa loves to eat oil residue, and these pies are specially put more oil residue for my grandfather." Chen Xuejiao's sweet flattery.

When Old Man Chen heard this, the sorrow just now was swept away, and he nodded again and again.

Mrs. Chen snorted: "Uneasy and kind things, why don't you say filial piety in the pot house just now." ”

Li took a few children to eat oil residue with laughter, and the picture was like a needle, and the old lady Chen who stabbed her liver hurt until now.

Chen Xuejiao didn't hear Mrs. Chen's words. continued to say sweetly: "Master, my mother said, if you have delicious food, you will follow your grandfather and grandmother first." ”

Old Man Chen's gaze at Chen Xuejiao softened.

Zhang stretched his neck. stared at the bread on the plate, eager to snatch it with his hand: "Why don't you bring these cakes." It's not enough to stuff your teeth, I saw you make a big pot in the pot house just now. ”

"My sister-in-law is a warm-hearted person, and she made cakes and sent them over." Zhao said with a smile.

Zhang was about to take it from Xue Jiao, but Xue Jiao avoided it.

"Master, this cake is for you and milk, uncle and aunt want to eat it, tell my mother, make more next time." Chen Xuejiao's words are explicit enough, this is for grandma. Don't think about it, don't think about it.

"Master, you eat well, I'm cooking it for you." Chen Xuejiao put the cake next to Old Man Chen and walked out.

After Chen Xuejiao left, the upper room was boiling, and they all stared at the cake eagerly.

Since the big house was separated, they haven't had a delicious meal in the past two days.

Chen Zichang stretched out his chopsticks without saying a word and wanted to hold the cake, but was blocked by Old Man Chen.

Chen Zichang and Zhao were stunned, and Mrs. Chen glared at Old Man Chen fiercely.

"This is the boss's filial piety to me and your mother, the eldest daughter-in-law is an example in filial piety to her father, look at what you are like. Even the boss who honors my mother will take it. Old Man Chen's voice was not loud, but everyone was nervous when they heard it.

It was the first time that Chen Zichang was slapped in public, and he couldn't hold it on his face. Disdainfully said, "Isn't it just a loaf?" ”

"Yes, it's just a loaf of bread, nothing. Let's eat, this cake and your mother can't live up to the filial piety of the eldest daughter-in-law. "Old man Chen took a bite of the cake, it was so fragrant.

He would have given everyone the delicious food before, but this time he decided not to do so. The eldest son's position in his heart is at the bottom, but it is also his eldest son, except for Chen Zifu, the other two brothers made him feel cold in this separation. It's not too much to pounce on them.

Chen Xuejiao returned to her room and briefly explained the situation in the upper room.

Li still felt a little uncomfortable in his heart. The upper room is drinking pimple soup, while the big room is eating a pie filled with cabbage oil residue. So he said slowly: "Although it was sent over for your grandmother to eat, there are many people in the upper room, so I don't know what to say about us." It's also impossible for your grandma to eat it alone and let them watch. ”

"Mother, there are so many people in the upper room, how can we send it over, we just need to be filial to grandma, don't worry so much." Chen Xuejiao took a bite of the pie, her mouth was full of oil, it was really fragrant.

"Yes, mother, you see this pie is so fragrant." A few children stubble and gently lifted the conversation.

In the past, when there was no separation, cakes like this could not be eaten several times a year, even if they were delicious, they were eaten tightly by Mr. Chen, Mrs. Chen and the second room, and it was rare to fall into the stomachs of several children in the big house. Seeing a few children smiling with satisfaction eating cakes, Li's heart settled down a little, and it seemed that the division was right.

After the meal, Li fed Chen Xiucai medicine, and Chen Xuejiao and several children cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks.

There were still a few pieces of bread left in the pot, and there were still a few bowls of white rice porridge in the pot. Chen Xuejiao was cleaning up, and suddenly thought that she didn't see Cai and Xuewa when she went to the room to deliver the pie just now, it seems that the two of them haven't eaten.

Early in the morning, Mrs. Chen took the opportunity to play and gave Cai's a big facelessness, she was angry and didn't eat anymore, how could she survive.

Chen Xuejiao thought like this, picked up a few pieces of cake in the basin, filled two large bowls of porridge, and said to Li's: "Mother, I sent it to the third aunt, but she didn't eat." ”

Li nodded with satisfaction and said to Chen Xiucai: "Xue Jiao is a heart. ”

Before Xue Jiao was reluctant to send something to eat to the upper room, Li was also worried that Xue Jiao would eat alone after the separation, and it seemed that she was too careful. Li was ashamed in his heart, he was a mother, and he didn't believe in his daughter, and Xue Jiao was just helping her.

Xue Jiao went to the West Wing with cakes and porridge, and Chen Qiping also went with her.

"Third aunt." Entering the West Wing, Chen Xuejiao shouted.

Cai was lying on the bed, thinking of the idle air he had suffered in the morning, and his stomach was full of anger. Xuewa sat beside her and gently beat Cai's legs.

"Sister Xuejiao." Hearing Xuejiao's voice, Chen Xuewa stood up and lifted the curtain in the inner room.

Chen Xuejiao and Chen Qiping walked in, and Cai and Xuewa saw the food in Xuejiao's hands. The circles under the eyes are red.

"Xuejiao......" Cai's is about to get up.

"Second aunt, you lie down, the oil residue from my family's oil refining. Ginseng cabbage, made some pies. My mother thinks you have a body. I made some more, and let me bring it to you, it's still hot. Chen Xuejiao said this tactfully, only saying that Cai's had a body, and did not mention the idleness she suffered earlier, "Thinking that Sister Xuewa also likes to eat, I took some more." There are also two large bowls of porridge, japonica rice sent by my grandmother. It's fragrant. ”

Cai's eyes turned redder with emotion. The whole family, the big house is a kind person, it seems that it is right not to follow Mrs. Chen to spoil the big house like the second and fourth rooms, no, the whole family, he and Xuewa did not eat, and only the big house thought of it and sent food.

As soon as Cai Shi was excited, he said to Xue Jiao from the bottom of his heart: "Xue Jiao, you are a good boy, if you are a boy, you will definitely be able to support the portal." It's right for you to divide it, and I don't know when we can divide it out. ”

Chen Xuejiao smiled silently.

Watching Cai and Xuewa eat. Chen Xuejiao took Chen Qiping back to her house.

There were still a lot of pies left at home, and the Li family was warm-hearted, so he told Chen Xueru to take a few and send them to the Xianglian family next door. Xianglian's family has always taken care of their family. With delicious food often delivered, there was no family in the past, and they couldn't take out anything to give to others, but now they are separated from each other to give gifts.

The rest was left for Chen Qi'an to eat.

Since the split, Chen Xuejiao has thought about continuing to look for opportunities to make a fortune. Chen Qi'an wants silver to study, a family to eat and drink silver, Chen Xueru Wang Jing is better in a few years, it is time to say that he wants silver when he kisses, and the whole family will not wait for Chen Xiucai to get up and sit in the museum to make money, even if Chen Xiucai goes to the museum now, the money earned can make them live well. However, it is very difficult to achieve prosperity.

These days, the family is busy, and the tea eggs have not been sold for several days. Chen Xuejiao plans to pick up the tea egg business. Thinking that her pickled salted duck eggs had been well received, she calculated in her heart. Several restaurants in the town and red and white ceremonies in villages near and far all use salted duck eggs, why not pickle more than a dozen jars to sell, this is definitely a way out.

Uncle Li Yuntian sells dry goods outside and goes to many places, last time Chen Xuejiao quietly asked him, he said that not far from this in the Weishan Lake area of Shandong, there are many duck breeders, and there are many duck eggs, but they are not pickled and eaten as Xuejiao said.

Chen Xuejiao decided to go to her grandmother's house in the next two days and asked her uncle to take her to Weishan Lake to collect duck eggs.

For such a big matter, it must be discussed with the Li family and Chen Xiucai.

Thinking so, Chen Xuejiao walked into the back room, next to the bed, and told Chen Xiucai and Li about it, with sincere words and confidence.

Li hesitated, can a girl run so far away?

Chen Xiucai pondered for a long time, because he had experienced the hardships of life since he was a child, he did not have the sour atmosphere of ordinary Xiucai.

Sure enough, Chen Xiucai thought about it for a while and nodded: "Although you are a girl's family, you can have your own charter to do things, my father is happy, and it is good to go out and see the world." Let your brother go with you, the so-called reading thousands of books is better than traveling thousands of miles, taking this opportunity to go out for a walk is very beneficial to his reading. Your uncle has traveled from south to north since he was young, and he is a proper person. ”

Chen Xuejiao knew that Chen Xiucai would agree, but she didn't expect Chen Xiucai to agree so happily, and the corners of her happy eyebrows and eyes were overflowing with sweetness, and she couldn't wait to go to her grandmother's house immediately.

Seeing that Chen Xiucai agreed, Li Shi was worried that Xue Jiao was young, but he thought that the man's family must be more knowledgeable than himself, and he had his brother to help, so he immediately put down his heart and said with a smile: "It also depends on when the uncle will go out, I don't know if the barley at grandma's house is sprinkled, let the students of the private school bring a letter to the uncle, and go back when grandma's house is done." ”

Chen Xuejiao agreed, Chen Qiping heard that he was going to go, and was recruited by Chen Xiucai. These days, Chen Xiucai is lying in bed, Chen Qiping often laughs with him, the child is cute, Chen Xiucai likes this young son more and more, often teaches Qi Ping to read and write, and sees that Chen Qiping is interested in arithmetic and teaches him to plan the plate.

Chen Xuejiao was very surprised that her father knew how to abacus, didn't she say that ancient Xiucai only read books and didn't touch abacus and farm tools? My father knew how to do farm work in the past, after all, he was born in the countryside, so he even knew how to calculate.

seized the opportunity to ask Li, Li was silent, and Chen Xuejiao was even more puzzled. (To be continued)

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