Li Junran wants to buy shrimp, and it is best to buy fresh prawns that are alive and well. It's a pity that although Yuezhen is in the south of the Yangtze River, it is not close to the sea. Therefore, there are only various kinds of fish in the market, and there are basically no fresh shrimp and crabs. Even if there is, in fact, it is not the turn of a small person like Li Junran, who has already been booked away by various restaurants or big families in the town. Li Junran's manor has raised some, not only river shrimp, but also large sea shrimp. It's a pity that in front of Li Cui's family, he can't take it out. In this regard, Li Junran had no choice but to touch his nose and give up.

It's painful to have something good and not be able to share it with others.

Subsequently, Li Cuishi took Li Junran to a grain store and bought some fine white noodles. As for vegetables or something, because there is a vegetable field at home, you can eat and pick whatever you want to eat, so naturally it is impossible to go to the town to spend money to buy it.

The second room of the Li family was originally owned by Li Cui's family, although the old lady Li and his wife left a lot of belongings to the second room, but Li Cui's lived a careful life, leased out the field belonging to the second room, and lived by collecting rent, and also raised chickens, vegetables, and ropes to earn some oil, salt, sauce and vinegar money. So most of the time on weekdays, like most people in Lijiatun, I eat coarse grains and cornmeal. Occasionally improve the diet, add some fine noodles to the cornmeal, or put less sweet potatoes and wild vegetables in the sweet potato vegetable porridge. White rice and white flour steamed buns or something, that is a benefit only available during the New Year.

Now because of Li Junran's words, Li Cui's is cutting meat and buying fine noodles, and after buying a lot of things, he repeatedly asked Li Junran if he had enough and whether he would buy some more. asked Li Junran for a while, and repeatedly reflected on whether he was too good at tossing.

Li Cuishi seemed to notice something, and hurriedly relieved: "Actually, the old woman just passed by that noodle restaurant when she was a child. smelled the fragrance, and hooked out the gluttonous worms in the old woman's stomach. Now the good granddaughter of the old woman will do it. Of course, it is more economical to do it yourself in your own home. That's it...... I don't know if the good granddaughter of the old woman can do it well, it's really so delicious. ”

Li Junran pouted. Unconvinced, he said: "Grandma, don't underestimate people. ”

"Okay, good, the old woman doesn't underestimate Liu'er, okay?"

Because I temporarily went to the market, I bought a lot of things. By the time Li Junran and Li Cuishi returned to the South City Gate, it was almost noon. Eat the so-called wonton noodles at noon, naturally it's too late. Li Cui's originally wanted to buy two meat buns for Li Junran, so he would pad them first, but he didn't want Li Junran to do a trick and turn out two radish shredded meat muffins from the inner pocket of his clothes.

"Grandma. You eat. ”

"Liu'er, this is ......" Li Cuishi was surprised to find that the radish shredded meat muffin in his hand was still hot, with a little residual warmth.

"I got up late this morning, and I didn't have time to eat, so I took the bread, and I planned to eat it when I was free." Li Junran only told half the truth to Li Cui's family.

Today, she did not catch up with breakfast because she got up late in the morning, and opened her meals regularly according to the rules of Chengfu. Not to mention the easy-to-carry food like shredded radish meat muffins. Even the vegetable soup will not leave a drop for Li Junran. It stands to reason that Li Junran has now been promoted to the level of second-class maid, and she will not be so miserable, but during this time, Bai Wei, who is the boss of the first-class maid, is manipulating her, and those mothers-in-law who are used to seeing the wind and rudder will naturally not let go of such a good opportunity to tie up with Bai Wei.

So these two shredded radish meat muffins naturally come from the kitchen in the manor's cabin.

Maybe I'm hungry. Li Cuishi finished the already small shredded radish meat muffin in a few bites, and even licked his tongue a little unsatisfied. Li Junran actually didn't eat enough, but unfortunately he couldn't take it out again. Otherwise, there really can't be an explanation.

"In the end, it is the food of a large family, and what is done is fine." Li Cuishi couldn't help but sigh.

"Grandma. When my brother is admitted to the examination and becomes an official, grandma can also eat these fine foods every day. ”

"Uh-huh. The old woman is waiting for Brother Nian. Li Cuishi reached out and touched Li Junran's head, looked at Li Junran's immature little face and nodded again and again, "When Liu Er returns home, the family will be reunited." ”

Not long after eating the cake, Li Cuishi took Li Junran to the ox cart that had been waiting for a long time. The driver was an old man with half-white hair, and there was a lady who looked to be forty or fifty years old on the ox cart.

After Li Cuishi helped Li Junran climb into the ox cart, he put the bamboo basket and noodle bag away, and then climbed into the ox cart with his hands and feet.

"Yo, Aunt Cui, what good things did you buy? Big bags and small packets. Before Li Cuishi could sit down, the eldest lady sitting on the ox cart couldn't help but ask curiously.

When Li Junran went back to Lijiatun last time, he hadn't seen this person, and Xiao Qiliu didn't have this person in his remaining memory, so he naturally didn't recognize it. However, looking at the slippery eyes of the lady in front of her, and even thinking about reaching out to lift the bamboo basket and noodle bag, Li Junran didn't have much affection for her.

"It's nothing good, but I cut some meat and bought some white noodles." Li Cuishi was very good-natured and took the initiative to lift the floral cloth head covering the bamboo basket, revealing a basket full of pork and bones, "Tie Danniang, you also know that the daughter-in-law of the old woman accidentally lost the child a few days ago. ”

When Tie Danniang saw that Li Cui's bamboo basket was full of pork, her originally half-squinted eyes suddenly widened a lot, and she stared at the pork in the basket like this. Until Li Cuishi covered the bamboo basket with a small floral cloth, Tie Danniang's eyes were still staring at the bamboo basket.

Because she couldn't see the pork, Tie Danniang turned her attention to Li Junran.

"Yo, what a handsome girl, her aunt, this is ......" Tie Danniang only felt that Li Junran looked familiar, but she didn't think much about it.

"This is the old woman's little granddaughter, Liu'er. Liu'er, she is an iron egg who lives at the west entrance of the village, you can call Aunt Zhang. After Li Cui's introduction, Li Junran knew which Tie Dan Niang was.

The family of the iron egg lady Zhang Lin is not a native of Lijiatun, but a Lijiatun who fled to a foreign country, and then settled down. Male surname chapter. He was working as a junior captain at the Northwest Barracks. When Li Junran returned to Lijiatun half a month ago, she was just in time for Tie Danniang to take her three sons all the way to the northwest military camp to visit her family. So if you don't meet it, you naturally don't know it.

At this time, Li Junran didn't know that the Zhang Lin family in front of him, who was in a relationship with Li Cui's family, and Li Zhao's family, the fourth room. That is, Xiao Qiliu's former second aunt has a close relationship. On weekdays, these two people always smell like each other together, and they calculate others in the east and west. This time, the three mothers-in-law and daughter-in-law of Li Xiaofeng, who were in the fourth room of the Li family, suffered such a big loss, especially the Li Zhao family, which has always had a good reputation, also lost his reputation all of a sudden, which really made Zhang Lin's family startled. Of course, what surprised Zhang Lin even more was that the four members of Xiao Qiliu's family had become the descendants of the second room of the Li family, and they had nothing to do with the fourth room of the Li family.

If you want to talk about the heir of the second room of the Li family, Zhang Lin's eyes have also been warm. Because she gave birth to three children in a row to her man Zhang Chengzi, and each of them was a boy with a handle. There are many sons in the family, so naturally I have a hard waist. But there are many sons. The burden is not light. Especially those half-grown children, but they have to eat poor parents. In addition to being able to eat, he will have to marry a daughter-in-law in the future. If you want to marry a daughter-in-law, you naturally have to have a house...... To put it bluntly, you have to have silver.

The second room of the Li family is left with a lonely old woman of the Li Cui family, who originally needed her son to inherit it, and then changed it to a little grandson because of Li Cui's age. Zhang Lin's family has three more sons, and he is close to Li Zhao's family in the fourth room of the Li family. Naturally, he also wanted to pass on one of his sons to Li Cui's family, whether it was a son or a grandson, as long as he had money.

It's a pity that no matter how well the abacus is played, it is useless. Who made her whole family not surnamed Li.

The heirs of the side branches of the Li clan still have a little blood relationship. You have nothing to do with the foreigner, what kind of fun are you making around? Don't say that Li Cuishi disagrees. Even the elders of the Li clan in Lijiatun did not approve of this matter.

For this. In private, Zhang Lin complained a lot about Li Cui's ignorance. But on the bright side, it is not revealed at all.

This time. Zhang Lin only left Lijiatun for more than half a month, and when he came back, he found that something happened to Lijiatun.

"Liu'er? It was sold to Cheng Fu as a maid...... That Seven Willow Girl? After being reminded by Li Cui's like this, Zhang Lin naturally remembered which one Li Junran was. Zhang Lin was quick for a while, but he didn't realize that he had inadvertently made Li Cui's very unhappy.

Thinking about it, because of the frequent contacts with Li Zhao's before, Zhang Lin's family naturally saw Li Junran, of course, it was still Xiao Qiliu at that time. For Xiao Qiliu, Zhang Lin's only impression is that she is a thin little girl, very timid, always hiding behind her brother Li Jialiulang, even if she is bullied by the first few cousins, at most she only knows how to cry, but she never dares to resist.

Li Junran, who was also sitting in an ox cart, didn't know that the Zhang Lin clan in front of him had beaten the idea of his predecessor Xiao Qiliu, but he felt that Zhang Lin's gaze was becoming more and more enthusiastic.

In fact, in Zhang Lin's eyes, a timid daughter-in-law who is afraid of things, even if she is bullied by her older cousin and cousin, she doesn't know how to resist, is really easy to handle. If it weren't for the fact that Li Zhengmin was not treated well by the old couple in the second room of the Li family, there might not be much dowry in the future, and Zhang Lin would have taken down this super easy daughter-in-law. Even so, Zhang Lin's still regards Xiao Qiliu as his spare daughter-in-law, if the family's money is really not rich in the future, he will take out some copper coins, as long as he gets Li Xiaofeng's family, he can marry someone into the door. It's just that whether Li Zhengmin and Li Xu's parents are willing or not have been ignored by Zhang Lin's family.

Zhang Lin stared at Li Junran up and down for a long time, and unexpectedly found that the little girl in front of him had completely lost the thinness and timidity in his impression, his immature little face was white and red, he was wearing a well-fitting powder blue short skirt, and he wore a pair of embroidered shoes with pink peach blossoms on his feet. At first glance, it really looks like the jade girl sitting down in the temple of Guanyin Bodhisattva in the New Year painting.

This time, Zhang Lin's mind, who was already with bad ideas, was even more active.

"Aunt Zhang is good." Although Zhang Lin's eyes looked at him with an obvious taste of picking goods, Li Junran still took the initiative to say hello in a low-key spirit and didn't want to cause trouble.

"Hey, in the end, it's the water keeper of the big house, look at the face of the willow girl...... And this little hand......"

Zhang Lin wanted to grab Li Junran's hand very enthusiastically, but he didn't want Li Junran, who had been on guard, to hide without a trace. But even so, he still couldn't resist Zhang Lin's enthusiasm. Li Junran suddenly had the taste of a weasel giving a New Year's greeting to a chicken.

Fortunately, Zhang Lin's got off the ox cart when he arrived at the entrance of Lijiatun Village, which finally made Li Junran breathe a sigh of relief.

"Girl Liu, come and play."

"Grandma, Aunt Zhang is too enthusiastic, a little ......" Looking at the back of Zhang Lin's farther and farther away, Li Junran couldn't help but complain.

"Not well-intentioned?" Li Cuishi took Li Junran's words with a smile.

Li Junran looked up at Li Cuishi in surprise.

"Then I'll hide a little bit." (To be continued......)