Because Old Man Chen promised to give Dafang ten catties of cotton, Mrs. Chen's eyes looked at Dafang even colder. She suddenly found that several children in the big house had grown up without paying attention, especially the second girl who had been arguing with her not once or twice.

These days, the old man doesn't know what is crazy, and he sleeps until midnight and runs to the waste kang outside to raise the corpse. Once, Mrs. Chen had a small relief in the middle of the night, and the urinal was placed under the waste kang, she just squatted down, and saw the old man Chen staring directly at the roof, so frightened that she didn't finish peeing and lifted her pants to probe the nose of the old man Chen, until she felt a hot breath in her hands and a heart fell to the ground.

Mrs. Chen got angry, pushed and shoved Old Man Chen, kicked and bit him to go to sleep on the kang in the inner room, but Old Man Chen was motionless like a demon.

Mrs. Chen returned to the inner kang and tossed and turned until dawn.

At midnight, Mr. Chen got up and went to the village to pick up dung. Old Mrs. Chen thought of the Liu family in front of Old Man Chen, and her heart knicked into a knot. Mrs. Chen has never seen Liu, and occasionally heard people in the village mention that she is a very virtuous beauty, especially Grandma Xianglian, an old woman who always stimulates her, and reveals how handsome Liu is in her words.

The old clay kang was slept on by Liu, and finally died on it after giving birth to Liu Wenying. Mrs. Chen thought that the old man had slept on it for three days in a row, thinking about the unlucky dead ghost. Last time, Grandma Xianglian sighed and said that Jing Hao looks like the Liu family in front of her, but Liu is a little more handsome than Jing Hao when she is young, if this is the case, then Liu is really a beauty.

Thinking of this, Mrs. Chen's heart felt like a ball of hemp rope was stuffed, and her blocked heart hurt.

Mrs. Chen fumbled to get dressed, shouting at Chen Zifu and Chen Zigui.

Before the brothers got up, they heard Mrs. Chen shouting and ran to the upper room in single clothes.

"The earthen kang outside, it looks like an eyesore, your brothers will pick it up now." Mrs. Chen sat on the kang and said with her eyes upright.

For this matter, he woke people up early in the morning, and Chen Zigui was dissatisfied.

"Mother, that kang has been fine for so many years, why do you want to pick it off now? I think I'll have to discuss this with my father. Chen Zifu said cautiously.

"You don't even listen to me? The north yard is missing a hole in the arch of pigs, and these days I always wake up in the middle of the night, afraid that a thief will come in and steal pigs, chickens, grain and cotton, and the bricks and stones on the waste kang can just make up for that hole. Mrs. Chen took a sip of hot tea and said in a calm tone.

"Mother, wait for my father to come back, what kind of kang is he picking up early in the morning, and he will call me up for this." Chen Zigui didn't think so, it was cold, and the frozen person shivered after walking from the yard in single clothes, and the words that came out of his mouth were also cold, "Aren't the things at home lost?" The gap in the north wall is so small, what else can get in except for dogs to get in, we still have dogs, who dares to steal it. I'll go back and get some sleep. ”

Chen Zigui said that he raised the curtain and was about to go out.

"Those who suffer a thousand knives, but in the future, the kang will be picked up today." Mrs. Chen pointed at Chen Zigui's back and scolded, "As soon as you say that you can eat, you will catch up, and as soon as you let you work, you will push back and block." ”

Chen Zifu hurriedly persuaded: "The fourth brother speaks like this, okay, listen to you, if you want to pick up the kang, let's pick the kang, now it's not appropriate, wait a while, and I'm picking it up after breakfast." ”

Old Lady Chen half-squinted her eyes and nodded.

Chen Xuejiao saw through the window lattice that Chen Zigui and Chen Zifu were recruited into the upper room by Mrs. Chen, and after a while, the two of them came out again, but their faces were not very good-looking.

Xue Jiao saw Xue Wa and Sandan lying under the window of the upper room eavesdropping, laughed secretly, and coughed. The two turned around, Chen Xuejiao beckoned to the two, and Xuewa and Sandan ran over.

"What are you listening to?" Xue Jiao asked, leaning at the window lattice.

"I don't sue you." The three eggs said sloppily with snot.

Xue Jiaole took out a jar and took out a piece of osmanthus candy from it.

"Milk, let Dad and Fourth Uncle pick up the kang." Xuewa said.

Chen Xuejiao handed the osmanthus candy to Xuewa, and the three eggs stared at the jar in Xuejiao's hand with drooling. Xue Jiao looked at him innocently, didn't tease him, handed him a piece of candy and said, "Is it a milk kang?" ”

"No, it's the waste kang outside, the kang where things are put outside." Xuewa said.

"That kang is not good." Sandan said as if he didn't understand, "I heard my mother talking to my father yesterday, saying that it was the kang where your grandmother slept on, and my grandfather missed your mother, and I slept on it these days, and my milk was sad." ”

Chen Xuejiao was sweating when she heard this, Zhang's is really a mouthful.

Xue Jiao handed each of them two pieces of osmanthus candy. This osmanthus candy is made of osmanthus picked by Chen Xuejiao from Master Qin, because the osmanthus is not fresh when it is dried, Chen Xuejiao tried to make it according to the recipe in her memory in her previous life, and it is not very delicious.

Chen Xuejiao slipped into the pot house and told Li that Mrs. Chen was going to pick up the waste kang.

Li Shi pondered for a long time and sighed: "...... That's the kang where your grandmother slept on, and I heard your second aunt say that your grandmother gave birth to your second aunt when she was on it...... It would be sad if I did get rid of your father. The second aunt in Li's mouth is Grandma Xianglian, Xue Jiao understood, and her grandmother left after giving birth to her second aunt on the kang back then.

These days, Mrs. Chen's complaint that Mrs. Chen ran to sleep on the waste kang at night reached the ears of everyone in the family, not that everyone took the initiative to listen, but that Mrs. Chen's voice was too loud.

At breakfast, Mrs. Chen really proposed to Mr. Chen to pick up the waste kang, the reason was still that the north wall was arched by pigs, and she was worried that someone would come in and steal things.

"That gap is so small, who can get in." Old Man Chen and Chen Zigui said the same.

"You like to worry and ponder all day long, and if you have that spare time, you might as well make me two pairs of shoes." Old Man Chen actually reprimanded Old Mrs. Chen.

Mrs. Chen couldn't hold her face, and it was the first time she reprimanded her in front of many children. It wasn't said early in the morning, Mrs. Chen was in charge of everything at home, and now she has to look at his face when she picks up a kang.

Old Mrs. Chen's face sank.

Old Man Chen didn't look at his wife's face, but said to Jing Hao: "These days, you have also learned the rules with your eldest aunt, I see that you sometimes eat lunch at Master Qin's, and from now on eat at home, the province makes people laugh that the Chen family can't even afford a mouthful of food." Yesterday, Jing Hao accepted a pair of shoes and gave them to Mr. Chen, the pattern was exactly the same as what Liu had made for him before, and Mr. Chen's eyes softened when he looked at Jing Hao. Before, Old Man Chen listened to Mrs. Chen's words, and he was angry that Chen Wenxiu and Xu Xiucai were involved, and he didn't even like Jing Hao, these days he thought of Liu's family, and he felt a little pity for Jing Hao, who looked like Liu's.

Jing Hao listened to Old Man Chen's words, and was shocked, and was stabbed in the arm by Chen Xuejiao, before answering yes in a panic.

Old Mrs. Chen put down her chopsticks, her face cold.

Jing Hao is Baozhu's daughter, and Mrs. Chen thought of Baozhu and Chen Zichang to go to Fireworks Lane together. In the days when Chen Zichang was beaten, no one else in the Wang family came to visit except for his distant nephew Baoshan. Baozhu's mother, Mrs. Chen's sister-in-law, went to the Zhao family's uncle's butcher shop to cut meat, and coldly said that Chen Zichang had damaged Wang Baozhu. Mrs. Zhao asked someone to bring this to Mrs. Chen, and she fell down angrily, looking at Jing Hao more and more unpleasant, and often pointed at Sang and scolded Huai during dinner, saying that there were too many people in the family and wasting food.

Now Old Man Chen has also begun to protect Jing.

"Pa Kang, I said Pa Kang, what are you doing so much?" Old Mrs. Chen snorted coldly.

"The kang is good, what are you doing with it. Zifu and Zigui still have to go to the cotton field to carry cotton firewood, how can they have kung fu. Old Man Chen said.

Damn old man, Mrs. Chen glanced at Jing Hao's beautiful face, and thought of the rumored Liu family.

"I know your thoughts, you just think about the dead ghost in front of you, I heard Grandma Xianglian say that the one in front of you will die on top, and I will pick it up if it is unlucky." Mrs. Chen shouted regardless of it, "You have been sleeping like a ghost in the middle of the night these days, you said that you are going to meet your dead ghost, you want to be angry with me, you are so old, your children and grandchildren are so old, you still think about what you have." ”

Mrs. Chen's eyes were cracked.

"What nonsense?" Old Man Chen was a little weak-hearted, "The children are so old, and they are not afraid of jokes when they say it." You don't let people talk well, I think you have old cold legs, and you have a terrible attack in winter, and the kang stays there to warm up in the hot house in winter, which is good for your legs. Old Man Chen slowed down his voice.

Mrs. Chen was stunned.

"I went there to sleep in the middle of the night, why did I go there to sleep, Zichang slept on our kang, there is just such a place, am I not afraid that I will sleep at night and turn over and press him?" Old Man Chen's face turned red.

Mrs. Chen didn't say anything, she touched the handkerchief from her arms and wiped her eyes.

"Dad is right, my mother is afraid of the cold in winter, and it is better to keep that kang to burn a fire or something. In saying that, in winter, the kang burns prosperously, and everyone comes in to play cards, which is lively and saves the firewood in their respective houses. Li actually said such a thing.

Xue Jiao looked at the Li family, and saw the Li family smiling. It turned out that Li was not afraid of Mrs. Chen, her bun behavior was the general knowledge of this era, but when it comes to children, Chen Zichang, she will come out.

Mrs. Chen snorted, took a bite of the dish, and said, "Today's dish is salty again." "I walked into the back room.

Li Shi lowered his eyebrows and responded with a pleasing sentence in the back: "Next time I will put less salt." ”

The kang didn't need to be picked, and Li Shi breathed a sigh of relief. In private, she said to the children: "It's good to leave a thought for your father and your aunt, in previous years, when your eldest aunt and second aunt came back, she knew that your grandmother didn't like them to go to the house, but she still went to the room, in order to sit on the earthen kang." ”

Chen Xuejiao and Chen Xueru sighed for a while after listening to it, and Jing Hao remembered her mother's tears.

Because of the cotton harvest, Xue Jiao has not gone to the town to sell tea eggs for a long time, she made zuò seasoning once without success, and made zuò osmanthus candy once without the delicacy she imagined. She sighed and wondered, could it be that her luck ran out, and she could only make two dishes, "Twenty-four Bridge Bright Moon Night" and tea eggs.

When drying cotton at home, two people from the next village came to buy tea eggs at home, saying that they were to take them to the field to eat, and they could eat steamed buns when they could suppress hunger and serve as vegetables.

Xue Jiao's heart moved, her own cotton harvest was finished, but there were still many people who had not finished harvesting cotton. When the farm is busy, every household can't care about cooking, and directly brings hard dry food to solve the problem in the field, and they can go to the field to sell tea and eggs.

Xue Jiao discussed it with the Li family, and the Li family always felt that this girl had a big idea, and discussing it with herself was just a sue for herself. Her own eggs are the lifeblood of Mrs. Chen, so Chen Xuejiao went to the village to collect eggs, and the people in the village were also willing to sell eggs to Xuejiao.

Because she didn't know the sales volume, Chen Xuejiao only made more than 20 pieces.

After cooking, Chen Xuejiao put the eggs in jars and went to the fields with boiling water to sell.

When the farm is busy, everyone is not too stingy to eat, as long as there is time, they will cut two catties of meat to make up for it, only if they eat well can they have the strength to work. Seeing Chen Xuejiao selling tea eggs, she didn't care about the small money, many people who didn't have time to cook bought a few sandwiched in steamed buns to eat, and some people also bought and ate the eggs that they heard from others.

On the first day, twenty eggs were sold out in one afternoon, earning three cents.

Everyone said that the tea eggs were delicious, and even relatives from the village came to the house to buy tea eggs to eat. Chen Xuejiao simply boiled a big pot, hung it on the stove, and put it hot at the door, whoever came to buy it would scoop it out, anyway, the tea eggs could be put on the hot stove for three or five days.