Chapter 53: Fang Zi (2)
"You really see it clearly." Mrs. Chen asked Zhang with hanging eyes.
"I really see it clearly, it's as simple as that." Zhang glanced at Mrs. Chen with his eyes, unhappy with her skepticism.
Mrs. Chen thought about it for a long time, but still didn't believe it.
"If it's that simple, someone has already discovered that recipe, and is still waiting for Xue Jiao's girl to find out?"
"Oh, mother, it's because it's simple, so others can't find it. Ordinary people drink tea, who would have thought of boiling tea leaves with eggs. Zhang snorted coldly in his heart.
"Mother, why don't we cook a pot according to this recipe. Dad said that the money from the Dafang family selling tea eggs belongs to them, and they sell them in the village, so let's go to the town to sell them. "Zhang's mention yƬ to.
"You've been shrewd for a while." Mrs. Chen poked Zhang's forehead with her fingers.
Listening to this means that after agreeing with Zhang's construction, Zhang's face will shine. In the future, not only will there be eggs to eat, but also money to take, I see that you Xuejiao still dare to take Qiao in front of me.
Every time Xue Jiao made tea eggs, she would bring the stove into her house. Zhang came out of the upper room and walked into the pot house, wanting to take a few tea eggs, how could she bear that there was nothing in the pot house, so she gritted her teeth and scolded the big house family.
After Zhang went out of the upper room, Mrs. Chen sighed. If you want to say that she wants a prescription from Xuejiao's hands, she can also do it, but as an elder, she also has the posture of an elder, and she can't bow her head to Xuejiao and ask for a prescription, so she can only let the Zhang family peek.
She also has her bitterness, when she first got married, she also wanted to be good to the three children left by the Liu family in front of her, but the older generation in the village always compared her with the Liu family, and she gradually lost her balance in her heart.
She can't help suppressing the big house, who lets herself have three sons, fortunately, Chen Qilin of the second son's family is a good boy, he is smart when he is young, and he didn't hurt him in vain. She also counted on Chen Qilin to raise her eyebrows, the eyebrows and exhalation need to invest in silver, she squeezed the big house so much, what is the picture, the picture is to cultivate the eldest grandson Qi Lin to be promising.
The next day, Chen Xuejiao set up a stall at the door as usual.
The first business was the man who came to buy four eggs yesterday but only sold him two eggs. He said that the old lady was sick, and there was no taste in his mouth for anything he ate, and he seemed to be anxious about something. Yesterday he bought two tea eggs, the old lady liked it very much, boasted of the taste, and planned to buy more today.
"The old lady is old, there are no years to live, she just wants to eat the dragon in the sky, I dare to catch it back, if people live if they are not filial to their mother, is it still a person?" Customers pay as they talk.
In a simple mountain village, filial piety is an inherent quality and a leavening agent of simple culture. Chen Xuejiao was suddenly moved by this middle-aged uncle and gave him two more eggs.
"These are your two eggs from yesterday." Xue Jiao said with a smile.
"Then Nacheng, I didn't give more money, why did you give more eggs, how can you do this business." The middle-aged uncle waved his hand again and again.
Chen Xuejiao has been doing business these days, and there are also customers who have cheated on her, but after all, there are a few, and most people know that it is not easy for her to do a small business, and the price she asks for is fair and honest, so she will not bargain with her and will not let her give a few more because she buys more.
Chen Xuejiao knew that the middle-aged uncle was not only a filial person, but also a simple and kind person, and the goodwill in her heart rose a little.
"Just by virtue of the uncle's filial piety, filial piety is not as good as the money of these two eggs?" Chen Xuejiao looked at the middle-aged uncle and said sincerely.
The uncle was moved in his heart and thanked him again and again.
Xue Jiao also smiled, people in this era are still relatively generous. Although she lives in poverty and is often scolded by Mrs. Chen, and her parents are even more likely to affect her, Xue Jiao is a simple person who likes rural life in her previous life or in this life. Take Mrs. Chen as an example, everything is on her face, although she is very annoying, but Xue Jiao can handle it. If you really cross over to the prince's house deep in the courtyard, and live a life where you have to make a few turns when you speak, according to Xue Jiao's rectum, I am afraid that I will be depressed and crazy, or I will be destroyed by the opponent of the house fighting master.
"Sister, what do you want?" Qi Ping asked while holding Xue Jiao's hand.
"Nothing." Xue Jiao came back to her senses and cheered up.
"Sister, I just saw my grandmother and my fourth aunt go to the pot house and take out all the eggs in the cabinet."
As soon as Qi Ping's words fell, he saw Zhang holding a basket and sitting next to the well to wash eggs. Mrs. Chen sat at the door of the pot house, looking at Zhang with motionless eyes. These eggs are all laid by the chickens at home, and they are the lifeblood of Mrs. Chen, and usually no one can eat one except her and the second room. Mrs. Chen looked at Zhang's because she was worried that Zhang's gluttony would directly drink raw eggs, and she hadn't done such a thing. "Sister, do you say that milk should also be sold as tea eggs?" Chen Qiping looked at Zhang worriedly.
"What can I do?" Xue Ru and Jing sat by the stove embroidering, and looked at Xue Jiao worriedly.
"It's okay, they can't make it like ours." Xue Jiao said confidently.
Yesterday, if you mix tea and eggs together and boil them to make tea eggs, wouldn't everyone know it. Even in the previous life, tea eggs were so popular, and not everyone could cook them. The reason why Chen Xuejiao's boiled tea eggs are delicious is also because in her previous life, she cooked them in the university dormitory for four years before getting the taste.
Li was twisting the soles of his shoes in the house, and saw Zhang washing eggs through the window, and he understood after a little thought. Rao is a generous Li family, and he also has a little grievance in his heart, which is not for himself, but for a few children. A few of my own children have never eaten good and worn good clothes when they were young, and now they are trying to find a way to earn a few pocket money, but they don't want to be tolerated by Mrs. Chen.
She walked out and glanced at Xue Jiao a few times uneasily, and Xue Jiao turned around and gave Li a soothing smile. Li knew that Xue Jiao had an idea, so he settled down slightly.
"Sister-in-law, you are in the house, I thought you had been in the field all morning. I'm embroidering clothes for the child in my belly, I'm not good at needlework, and I want to ask my sister-in-law for some guidance. Cai stood in the west wing and shouted at Li, Cai's belly became bigger and bigger.
"It's inconvenient for you to do the work with a big belly, why do you do it yourself, you squeak, I will help you do it with Xue Rujing." Li walked towards the west wing, looked at Cai's stomach with his eyes, "The stomach is pointy, I think it's a kid." ā
When Cai heard this, he smiled toothlessly.
When Mrs. Chen heard this, she turned her head and stared directly at Cai's stomach.
Cai saw that Zhang was washing eggs and knew that they were trying to rob Chen Xuejiao's business, Cai couldn't help but snort coldly. Cai's mother's family is to open a sesame oil mill, and there is a sesame oil mill in Cai's family in ten miles and eight townships, and people in the countryside go to Cai's house to grind sesame oil. Cai's inherited the shrewd mind of Old Man Cai, and he had long wanted to open a sesame oil mill in Maoshan Village, but because there was no separation, even if it was opened, it belonged to the public middle school.
These days, Cai's heart is full of life when he sees Chen Xuejiao's business of selling tea and eggs booming. She also wants to do some business, nothing else, just to make some money to plan for the child in her belly. It is said that the child in the belly is a male baby, and Cai's heart has long been holding back when he sees Qi Lin Qi'an reading, they are also the children and grandchildren of the Chen family, and their own sons also want to study.
She told Chen Zifu about this idea, Chen Zifu shook his head again and again and said: "Xue Jiao is a little trouble, earn a few pennies as pocket money, if you open a sesame oil mill is a lot of money, who will come out, and the money will be in the public, I think it is better to farm and live a stable life." ā
Cai's and Chen Zifu were angry, she originally wanted to follow the words and split up, but Chen Zifu didn't answer, and she looked like a little family.
Yesterday, I heard that Mrs. Chen was going to take back Xuejiao's tea and egg business as a public school, she thought that the Li family was a clay man and had a three-point earthy nature, and she would definitely be aggrieved and sad at this time, so why not take advantage of this to win over the big house and talk about the separation.
Dividing the family is good for the big house and the three rooms. Cai's looked at it coldly for a while, the second girl in the big house has an idea, and I heard Xuewa say that Xuejiao also mentioned the matter of dividing the family to her sister-in-law, if the sister-in-law's way is not clear, then talk to Xuejiao.
"Fourth brother and sister, it's hard for you to wash eggs and want to do business, aren't you fighting with Xuejiao?" Cai sarcastically said to Zhang.
She said this also to arouse Xue Jiao's dissatisfaction, but she didn't think that Xue Jiao didn't reply, and continued to entertain guests with a smile. is a successful child, Cai's heart is upside down.
"What's the matter, only she is allowed to make money, not me." Zhang's pouted his ass and washed the eggs.
"What a mouth, don't wash that egg, it's not easy for me to raise a few chickens." Old Lady Chen glanced at Zhang dissatisfiedly.
These chickens are the chicks that Mrs. Chen paid for, but they are all fed by the Li family, but the eggs laid are not the Li family's.
Zhang washed the eggs and brought them into the pot house, and Mrs. Chen followed her to the door of the pot house, carrying a stool and guarding the door.
Zhang began to light a fire, and after lighting firewood a few times, he couldn't light it, the pot house was full of smoke, and the old lady Chen coughed. Originally, Mrs. Chen wanted the Li family to help make the pot, but when she thought that she was robbing Xuejiao's business, how could she let her come.
"You useless goods, you can't cook well, you can't make a fire, what do you want you to do." Mrs. Chen tiptoed into the stove, and she wanted to make a fire herself.
Xue Jiao looked towards the pot house, only to see Xue Yao walking out of the upper room and getting into the pot house.
"Milk, I'll make a fire, how can I let you make a fire, you are so old, if there is a mistake, my mother and my father should be distressed." Xue Yao covered her mouth with a handkerchief and coughed twice.
Old Madam Chen's face softened.
Before, Xue Yao thought that Xue Jiao's boiled tea eggs would not be on the table, but since she tasted it once, she felt that the aftertaste was long. She thought of Uncle Dingfu and the old lady of Dingfu, she was tired of eating the delicacies of the mountains and seas every day, so she liked to eat a fresh solution, why not take this opportunity to learn the recipe, and wait until she went back to please them.
Xue Yao lit a fire, the pot was boiled, Zhang boiled the eggs according to Xue Jiao, and put in a jar of salt and a handful of tea leaves, the tea leaves were still Xue Yao's, and the old gentleman's eyebrows were rewarded by the old lady of Dingfu.
"Will this work?" Xue Yao asked suspiciously.
It's as simple as that, tea leaves and salt can make delicious tea eggs? The last time she ate one, there was not only the smell of tea leaves, but also other fragrances.
"Tea eggs, tea eggs, what do you use without tea?" Zhang said disdainfully.
Chen Xuejiao was entertaining customers by the stove, business was exceptionally good today, and Chen Xuejiao thought that it would be better to go to the town to sell business.
Xue Ru agreed with this idea and said, "There are more people in the town, so it will be better to sell." I also thought that I would go to town and sell my embroidery together. ā
"But if you go to the town to sell it, people from all over the country can only go to the town to buy tea eggs if you want to eat them, which is very troublesome." Jing Hao frowned and said.
Xueru told Jing Hao these days to go to the town to sell embroidery, but Jing Hao always avoided it. Xue Ru whispered this to Xue Jiao, and Xue Jiao thought that she met Wang Baozhu last time she went to the town to sell embroidery, which made Jing Hao feel embarrassed, so she was reluctant to go to the town.
Xue Ru is not reluctant.
The tea eggs were sold out in the morning, and Xuejiao closed the stall, planning not to sell them in the afternoon, so she had a good rest.
In the pot house, Zhang's boiled tea eggs were also baked. Mrs. Chen couldn't wait to peel off one and eat it, only the saltiness and the bitterness of the tea leaves, how could there be the rich aroma of Chen Xuejiao's tea eggs that honored her, and the aftertaste was endless.
"Didn't you say there was a recipe? This tea egg is also called a tea egg? There is no taste at all. Mrs. Chen said with a calm face.
Zhang grabbed an egg and peeled it off and stuffed it into his mouth, and said with a smile: "I think it's delicious." ā
"If you pick up a stone on the ground, you can stuff it into your mouth and smash it with relish, you are a glutton, and everything you eat is delicious, and there is nothing you don't think is delicious." Mrs. Chen pointed at Zhang and scolded, "I wasted thirty eggs in vain." ā
"What's the matter, who can cook it like Xuejiao at one time, I heard that she also cooked it several times before it tasted. Where are these thirty eggs wasted, I will eat them in my stomach and see if they can be wasted. Zhang reached out and grabbed two more eggs.
Mrs. Chen angrily took a rolling pin and hit Zhang's hand.
Xue Yao came up and pulled Mrs. Chen, she said casually: "I don't blame the fourth aunt, it was Sister Xue Jiao's sister who gave the recipe at that time, I'm afraid that Sister Xue Jiao didn't finish the recipe in her heart." ā
Zhang followed Xue Yao's words and defended: "Yes, yes, Xue Jiao's girl is hiding adultery. ā
It just happened that Xue Jiao hit the door of the pot house, and coldly glanced at Xue Yao and Zhang's and said: "Only those who hide traitors in their hearts say that others are hiding traitors, and the fourth aunt wants to learn my recipe and didn't learn it, so you can blame me." It's the same as cooking, the same food made by my mother is delicious, and the food cooked by the fourth aunt can make my grandfather's teeth bleed. ā
Xue Yao and Zhang were at a loss, not daring to look directly at Xue Jiao's gaze.
Mrs. Chen was angry and lost thirty eggs in vain. Seeing Xue Jiao's rhetoric with a gun and a stick, she held back the fire in her heart, and she was bound to boil tea eggs, she could endure anything else, but she couldn't stand the foolery of the juniors.