The scorching sun in July ushered in Chen Xuejiao's birthday.

As soon as the day was bright, Li burned the stove early, made a big bowl of longevity noodles, this noodles Li made a lot of effort, this summer's newly harvested wheat grinded into flour, with natural flour, scooped two bowls into the basin, put water, salt and kneaded hard, when the noodles were kneaded and put on the board to wake up for an hour, the noodles swelled a circle and continued to knead into strips, Li is a good hand in making noodles, a piece of dough is kneaded into a thin noodle, and the zhang puts a long circle in the bowl. Catch a basket of eels in the Xiaohuai River at the door, use a knife to debone and shred, take a cut of bones to boil a thick soup, put a pot of vegetable oil, chili noodles and ginger shreds, pour the eel shreds into it and stir-fry out of the pot, mix the eel soup to make toppings, pour it on a large bowl of longevity noodles, fresh and tender, eat it into the mouth and melt, Chen Xuejiao holds the bowl and eats the soup with noodles in one breath.

Chen Qiping was drooling greedily on the side, and Li Shi stuffed the shredded eel into his mouth: "Today is my sister's birthday, this bowl of longevity noodles is for my sister to eat, and there are other noodles in the pot, I will cook it for you later." ”

Qi Ping nodded vigorously with dates in his mouth, and stared at the noodles in the pot and boiled the pot. Xue Jiao was wearing the garnet-red eight-piece Hunan skirt that Chen Xiucai sent home, and the whole person was like a pomegranate flower in summer, extremely delicate. Chen Qiping saw such a beautiful dress for the first time, and the golden silk saffron on it dazzled his eyes, and timidly reached out to touch the butterfly on the top of the clothes, but he didn't dare to stretch out his hand and just stared at Xue Jiao and grinned: "Sister is so good-looking." ”

Chen Xuejiao was dangling in the courtyard in a dress woven with gold and silver in the morning, and the stinging pain in Zhang's eyes fell on, she shrank into the pot house and smacked her lips to Mrs. Chen: "Good girl, the boss has made a fortune outside, haven't you seen it." The clothes on Xue Jiao's body are wrapped with silk threads, and one piece of clothing is enough for the crops to cover for a year. ”

Zhang even said with a gesture, accidentally stuffed a handful of wet wood into the pot, a handful of smoke erupted from the stove, and Mrs. Chen was eating rice, choking and coughing. Wait for a respite. With wet hands, he was about to twist Zhang's mouth.

These words pierced Mrs. Chen's heart, she also walks around the village these days, not to mention that Chen Xiucai has made a fortune. What's even more infuriating is that Old Man Chen walks around the village every day with a cigarette bag inlaid with gold and jade these days, which further confirms the statement that the eldest son is rich. The second eldest Chen Zichang and the fourth eldest Chen Zigui set up a shop in Xuzhou Mansion, and the old lady Chen and the Zhang family gave the same horn, and the whole village knew about the propaganda. Recently, many people asked the second and fourth children in person whether they bought her gold or silver, and she was angry and heartbroken, and she boasted that her two sons made more money than the big house.

"I've heard people. There is no good one who does business outside, either visiting the kiln or drinking flower wine, I think the eldest brother can read and write, and can write poetry. In the future, if you have money in your hand, can you still look down on your sister-in-law? I saw him carrying things into his house, but I did not see him coming to his house. I don't know where he is right now. Zhang's said sourly, seeing that Li gave Cai's a horse of good material and a hairpin. She was itchy in her heart, Li didn't give it to her, she tasted it, and she couldn't wait for Chen Xiucai to come to the house immediately and bring a little wife back to stab Li's heart.

"What are you talking about?" Mrs. Chen made a straight face, Zhang's is knocking everyone over, and her own man is also doing business outside.

Although Zhang is stupid, she is not so stupid that she can't look at people's faces, even if she can't look at the faces of others, she has been begging for so many years in the hands of Mrs. Chen, and her mother-in-law's face is cloudy or sunny, she can know at a glance. immediately described: "The second brother and my family were unlucky a few days ago, and fell into the trap of bad people, and when these days passed, a lot of silver was made in it, and then my mother took me to Xuzhou Mansion for a walk." ”

Old Mrs. Chen's face softened, and she crackled the knife: "That's not, I heard that the shop in Pan is bigger than our yard, and you can earn a few hundred taels a year without making money." ”

But no, a few days ago, he fell into the trap of bad guys, a big shop, relying on the power of Ding Mansion, it is difficult not to make money. Mrs. Chen thought beautifully, and drove Ming'er to go to Xuzhou Mansion by herself, and came back full of gold and silver, which also made the people in the village red-eyed.

"Your father is so confused, a cigarette pouch makes him so happy that he doesn't know what his surname is, and his own meat is not enough to eat, so let me send two bowls of meat to that hairy girl." Mrs. Chen gritted her teeth and chopped chicken legs.

Today is Xue Jiao's birthday, and early in the morning, Mr. Chen instructed her to make two more bowls of dishes for Xue Jiao, which is also the intention of going to the room. Mrs. Chen naturally refused in her heart, pretending to be generous on her face, and opened her throat and shouted: "Deserve, deserve, a whole chicken is called to take it." ”

The last time Chen Xiucai was killed, it broke the heart of the old man Chen, and the old lady Chen didn't dare to breathe these days, so she seized the opportunity to make up for it, and when she turned her back on the old man Chen's face, she scolded: "What's the matter, it's still worthy of eating my chicken." ”

Chen Xiucai is now developed, although she didn't see the Li family's boxes full of valuables, she also knew that she could no longer be as sloppy as usual. The second and fourth children are in Xuzhou Mansion, if they can climb the line of Chen Xiucai, they will not go to the Golden Brick Avenue. I heard that the boss didn't die, thanks to Xu Xiucai, this kid, who couldn't drink the poor rice soup at the beginning, even became a court official without dying, if Qi Lin climbed up to him in the future, wouldn't he be able to earn a bright future.

Mrs. Chen pondered carefully for a while, but only gave the hairy girl two bowls of meat. Okay, don't wait for it, Wen Yan will come to the house in a few days, keep the lean one for the girl, pick up the chicken neck, chicken skeleton, chicken shoulder chop out, mixed with dried bean sauce two bowls out.

"You take it and send it." Mrs. Chen stood on the board and went to the bowl to add soup, making a sharp gesture.

When I raised my eyes, I saw that Zhang took the chopsticks to grab the chicken in the pot, took a bite and swallowed it, chewed the sauce on the head of the chopsticks, and beat her cheek a few times with a rolling pin: "Go!" ”

As soon as breakfast was eaten in the north wing, Zhang came to the door with two bowls of dishes.

"On Xue Jiao's birthday, my mother asked me to send two bowls of chicken." Zhang's eyes swept over the dining table, half a plate of shredded elbows with sauce, crispy cucumbers with raw sauce, large meat buns with stuffing exposed, and hot rice porridge.

Li and Chen Xuejiao glanced at each other, it was the first time that the upper room took the initiative to send something to the north wing, the sun didn't hit the west today, since the things were sent, there was no reason not to accept it, Li took the dish with a smile: "I still let my mother work so hard to cook, where is the villain's birthday so expensive." ”

Eyes swept towards the dish, except for a little meat on the neck of the chicken, the rest was soup and beans singing the leading role.

Mrs. Chen was kind at this time, and she would not be able to pull it out in the future, so she poured two bowls of vegetables into the basin, one bowl with sauce elbows, and one bowl with shredded eel, and let Zhang take them back together.

There are a bunch of things to take care of at home, freshly pickled duck eggs, last year's winter clothes are turned over, beans are picked to make Chen Xiucai's favorite dried vegetables, and one by one Li is not idle at all, and everything must be done. Because today is Xuejiao's birthday, Li deliberately didn't let her do any work, wearing such delicate clothes to do farm work, and if she didn't pay attention to it, she would be hooked, and a good dress would be gone.

Chen Xue Jiaole's idle day, waiting for the sun to set, walked to the Xiaohuai River, sat on the rattan chair, the water vapor came to the face, the night breeze together, blowing the cheeks moist, the flowers on both sides of the bank bloomed fragrantly, people were drunk.

The family in the east is playing dolls, and the family in the west is calling her husband, and the family can see it clearly, a vivid fireworks scene.

She went down to the bank of the river, pinched a lotus flower, and dyed the red juice in her hand.

In the distance, a scholar wearing a long shirt carrying a basket of vegetables carrying a fish, and an old woman with a basket full of flowers and gray hair passed over the bridge one by one.

Suddenly, in the distance across the three bridges, a large piece of bright pink lotus floated in, shuttling along the torrent in the blue lotus leaves of the river.

Wait for the drift to get closer, only to find that the small bamboo row is full of lotus flowers one by one, the pink and glamorous bamboo row surrounded the formation of a big lotus, wait closer, see the bamboo row in the middle of the light of a dead wind lamp, the lotus flower is more and more delicate.

"What a chic mind." Chen Xuejiao sighed, only to see that the big lotus flower floated in front of Chen Xuejiao and suddenly stopped, and after taking a closer look, she found that the bamboo row was held by a rope at one end.

Chen Xue raised her head delicately, and followed the rope to see a young man standing on the bridge next to her, wearing plain clothes, looking towards her, so far away, she could still see the person smiling.

The red glow dyed half of the sky, the lotus leaves and pink lotus flowers all over the river, Chen Xuejiao looked at the young man, and the young man became more and more handsome in the glow.

"Your brother said that today is your birthday, and I thought about it for a day to come up with this method." Zhao Yiming's voice floated in the evening breeze.

Chen Xuejiao nodded with a smile, took off her shoes, and ran towards the bridge with the corner of her skirt, the blue hairband on her head swaying in the evening breeze. When she walked to the bridge, she pulled the rope with both hands to the shore, and when the lotus full of bamboo rows was pulled to the shore, she ran to the shore barefoot, and she didn't care about squatting down with her wet skirt to pick the lotus flowers on the bamboo row, Zhao Yiming spent a lot of thought, just picked up the big and bright lotus and tied it to the bamboo row, Chen Xuejiao picked up the largest and most colorful flower and inserted it on her head, her eyes smiled and turned her head to ask Zhao Yiming: "It's hard to pick so many lotus flowers for you." ”

Chen Xuejiao's face was bathed in the sunset, and her small face emitted ten thousand golden lights, setting off her round face more and more beautifully, she just happened to be wearing a pomegranate red dress, and the whole person seemed to be glowing. Zhao Yiming was still in the heat of filial piety, dressed in plain clothes, he hadn't seen Xue Jiao for two months, he smiled when he saw her at this time, saw her wearing the lotus he picked, and smiled: "I know you like chic things." (To be continued)