Chapter 206: Order Watermelon
When Shen Lan got up the next day, the house was quiet, it seemed that Xu and Xiangling were no longer in the house, even Xiaoshi was not in her bed, it seemed that everyone had already gotten up, but she slept late alone, so Shen Lan was a little embarrassed, and hurriedly put on her clothes and pushed the door out.
As soon as I came out of the house, I saw Shen Wei and Xiangyun playing in the patio holding a stone, and when she came out of the house, Shen Wei greeted with a smile: "Sister, it's up." ”
"Hmm." Shen Lan responded and walked out quickly, "Are you two at home?" What about the others? ”
The sun has risen outside the house, and Shen Lan on weekdays also gets up at about this time, but in the past, in her own home, when she got up, she would not attract people's talk, but now after all, she is in her mother's house, Shen Lan is a little uncomfortable, if she lets people outside, I am afraid that she will be called a lazy woman.
"Mother and Xiangling went to the field to hug the grain, Mother Xu went to wash clothes, and the second sister went to the uncle's house to clean up the house, you are hungry, breakfast is hot in the pot." Shen Wei hurriedly told Shen Lan the whereabouts of the family, got up from the chair again, turned around and followed Shen Lan towards the house, it seemed that she wanted to eat in the morning, and Xiangyun, who was holding the stone, also got up and followed.
Shen Lan saw that her little sister and Xiangyun had followed, and hurriedly said, "What are you going to do if you follow up, just play with the stones outside, and I will serve the food myself." ”
"It's okay, I'll serve food to the eldest sister, you hurry up and wash up." After Shen Wei finished speaking, she said to Xiangyun: "You are playing outside with a stone, and the house is hot to death." Don't heat the stone anymore. ”
Xiangyun who followed up hurriedly replied, and went outside the house with the stone, the three maids around the Shen sisters usually take turns to hold the stone when they are fine, so the stone has also developed a habit, and he doesn't like to walk by himself. I just think the child is still young. Don't be in a hurry.
After listening to Shen Wei's words, Shen Lan didn't say much, she first rinsed her mouth with salt when she hit her, and then washed her face with water. Over there, Shen Wei rushed over with her hands and feet and came out with porridge. Brought the porridge and chopsticks out of the house. came back and brought the pickles and steamed buns left over from the morning, and took a boiled egg from the cupboard, it seems that this egg should be a small stove for Shen Lan. After all, yesterday's meal was just porridge, pickles and white flour steamed buns.
When Shen Lan finished washing, Shen Wei had already put the food on the table in the hall, Shen Lan took a look, thinking that it was cooler in the patio outside, so she took a bowl and added pickles to the porridge, and went out of the house with eggs.
Shen Wei saw her eldest sister carrying a bowl out of the house, and hurriedly moved a bamboo chair from under the eaves to come out, and beckoned Shen Lan to say, "Eldest sister, you sit." ”
Then he moved a small table out of the house, fortunately, the small table was not big or heavy, and there was nothing wrong with Shen Wei when she moved it, so she placed the small table in front of Shen Lan, and hurriedly went to the house to bring out the pickles and the bowl with steamed buns and put them on the small table, and only after doing these did she sit on the small stool on the side with a smile.
Seeing that her sister was so capable and thoughtful, Shen Lan couldn't help but say with some distress: "It's such a hot weather, and I'm so tired from working around, look, I'm sweating." ”
Shen Wei grinned, she didn't feel that there was anything wrong with taking care of her eldest sister, but she felt very happy, since the eldest sister moved to the new house, it was not her turn to do anything, there were always people below to do it, and she herself was also living with her mouth and clothes open, so there were not many opportunities to take care of the eldest sister like this.
"It's okay, isn't it just a little sweaty, eldest sister, I'll peel eggs for you." Shen Weile took the eggs on the small table, and gently knocked on the corners of the small table, and the eggshell broke a few cracks, and with these cracks, Shen Wei carefully peeled off the eggshell.
Seeing Shen Wei's self-satisfied appearance, Shen Lan didn't say anything, but the corners of her mouth were bent, she raised her hand and took a sip of porridge from the bowl of porridge, and took some pickles into her mouth.
Stretched out her hand to hand over the egg, Shen Lan put down the bowl and took the egg, then put it into her mouth, and took a bite gently.
"Mother, eggs, stones want to eat eggs." The stone sitting on Xiangyun's lap suddenly became restless, stretched out his body to get in front of his mother, if it wasn't for Xiangyun's eyes to catch him, he was afraid that the stone would fall to the ground all of a sudden.
After taking a small bite of the egg just now, she saw that her son wanted to eat it, Shen Lan immediately took the egg away with a smile, stretched it out to her son, and said in her mouth: "Got it, do you want to eat egg whites or egg yolks?" ”
Shi didn't reply to Shen Lan, opened his mouth and took a bite on the white and tender egg, although the teeth have not yet grown, but most of them. Milk. The teeth had already come out, so it didn't prevent him from chewing the egg at all, his small mouth was puffing and chewing the egg, and he swallowed the egg in two bites, Shen Lan handed the egg to his mouth again, opened his mouth and bit down, this time it was the egg yolk, just bite into the mouth, and a layer of yellow powder was left on the little lips of the powder.
"Little gluttonous cat, I ate an egg in the morning and robbed your mother." Shen Wei on the side couldn't help but tease, and stood up at the same time, "Eldest sister, I'll go and cook you an egg again." ”
While feeding her son, Shen Lan replied: "No, I just eat this porridge, so as not to start a fire again, this hot day, the fire is also hot." Shen Wei didn't listen to the persuasion, got up and was about to walk towards the house, Shen Lan saw it and hurriedly persuaded: "Don't bother, I really don't want to eat, just eat the porridge in this bowl." ”
Shen Wei glanced back at Shen Lan, looking at Shen Lan with clear eyes. said seriously: "Eldest sister, you are pregnant with a child now, and besides, your mother is not short of a few eggs." ”
"I know, anyway, don't be busy, I can't eat much on this hot day." Shen Lan stuffed the remaining eggs into her son's hand, and served the rice bowl and drank porridge again, her appetite was not very good in the hot weather, this porridge and salted beans were already okay, where to eat what eggs you wanted.
Shen Wei hesitated. Over there, Shen Lan had already drunk the porridge in the bowl. He said calmly: "Help the eldest sister bring the vegetable bowl in." As he spoke, he got up with the empty bowl and chopsticks and walked towards the house, to say that Shen Lan really can't eat much now, and the hot weather will naturally reduce people's appetite, but they want to eat some fruit. But it's been a long time since I've taken something out of the space to eat in front of people. After thinking about it, Shen Lan still gave up.
Shen Wei, who came in with the dishes, put the dishes and steamed buns back into the cupboard. Seeing that Shen Lan was about to find a utensil to bring out the remaining porridge in the pot, she hurriedly said, "Eldest sister, I'll come." Go sit outside. ”
How could a person as big as Shen Lan let a child do things and be idle by himself, so he shook his head and said, "You bring me a basin, I will beat the rest of the porridge, and it will not be good to cook rice when I put it in the pot for a while." ”
Shen Wei, who was already by the cupboard, opened the cupboard again, took a clay pot out of it, closed the door of the cupboard and trotted towards Shen Lan, and handed the clay pot to Shen Lan.
And Shen Wei carefully walked to the cupboard with a clay pot, put the porridge into the cupboard, and Shen Lan also washed the dishes, chopsticks and pots, so the sisters went out of the house, and Xu Shizheng, who came back from washing clothes outside the house, carried a large bucket of clothes into the yard, and saw Shen Lan and Shen Wei coming out of the house, and hurriedly asked, "Madam, get up?" Did you have breakfast? ”
"Eat." Shen Lan replied, Xu Shi was relieved after hearing this, and said with a smile: "Then the wife will sit for a while, the old slave will take the penny and go outside to cool the clothes, if the wife has any instructions, the old slave will come later." ”
Shen Lan nodded, Xu put down the wooden barrel in his hand, took a long penny from under the eaves and walked out, walked out of the courtyard Xu placed the penny on the branches of two big trees, this tree was planted by the Shen family in the early years, so it was very stout, and the branch was also deliberately left, it was very suitable for placing the penny, Xu put it on and did not waste any effort, after getting it, he went into the yard and lifted the clothes out, and then put them on the penny one by one to dry, and got these into the yard with empty buckets, At this time, Shen Lan and Shen Wei had already returned to the small table and sat down.
Shen Lan saw that she had finished her work, so she said: "Mother Xu, please go sell some meat and vegetables today, in addition to pork and fish, buy two more chickens and come back, and if you see a watermelon seller, let someone send a few watermelons over......
Shen Lan mainly instructed the Xu family to buy some food and vegetables and melons and fruits to come back, and after getting the order, the Xu family went to the house and took a piece of broken silver from Shen Lan's money box, and then went out with a big vegetable basket.
Maybe there is something to do, time does not pass so slowly, after a few rounds Xu picked the basket and brought people back, Xu bought a lot of vegetables, one person can't take a lot, Shen Lan and told her to buy a few watermelons back, this watermelon is big and occupies space, Xu simply asked the person who sells watermelons, would you like to help send it to the door, people asked how few, if there are many of them, but I don't mind sending them to the door, Xu thinks that there are many people in the family, and they want to eat watermelon at noon and night to relieve the heat, and they are all big men, I had to buy about six anyway, so I opened my mouth and asked for six.
The watermelon seller heard that it was a big business, and immediately agreed to send it to her, the watermelons at this time were very large, but not the round small watermelons of later generations, they were all oval big melons, one almost had more than ten catties, and six watermelons could not fit in Xu's basket, so it was not too much to ask people to send them to the door, so the watermelon seller naturally agreed, and followed Xu into the hospital at this time.
"Madam, you bought all the vegetables you ordered, and on the way I met a seller of early peaches, the old slave thought that you like to eat fruits, so I bought some back, and I will wash a few for you and put them in the yard to eat." The Xu family's advanced courtyard greeted Shen Lan, and responded without raising his head, "Got it, you can bring the dishes in." ”
The person who delivered the watermelon over there carried the basket into the yard, looked around, and then looked at the Shen sisters who were having fun, and asked honestly: "Mei Niang, where is this watermelon?" ”
Shen Mei hurriedly raised her head when she heard the voice, and when she saw that it was an acquaintance, she put down the stone in her hand as a chess piece, stood up from her position, and said politely with a smile: "It's Uncle Chi, let's put this melon under the eaves, but it's troublesome for Uncle Chi to send melons to my family, this year's rain is enough, Uncle Chi's melon harvest is okay?" ”
"It's okay, this is your eldest sister, I haven't seen her for a while, and I can't recognize it." Yu Chi showed a far-fetched smile at Shen Lan, and when Shen Mei stood up, Shen Lan and Shen Wei also got up, and when they saw this melon seller talking to themselves, Shen Lan naturally shouted politely: "Uncle Chi." ”
Yu Chi nodded, and sent the watermelon to the eaves to rest, Shen Mei followed and said, "Uncle Chi, you wait a while, I'll take a basket out and replace your basket." ”
"Okay." After speaking, Yu Chi stood at the door, and didn't say much, Shen Lan didn't actually know this person, but it didn't seem to be good to ignore it, so Shen Lan found a topic to talk about.
"How many watermelons does Uncle Chi grow at home?" Shen Lan asked casually.
Yu Chi glanced back at Shen Lan, and saw that she was dressed as a rich person, and felt a little resistant, but still replied: "It's not much, it's only four or five acres of land." ”
It's been more than a year since I've been here, and Shen Lan roughly understands how much land there is in an acre, so she nodded, and then asked: "This year's rain is enough, the growth of watermelons should be good, and it hasn't rained these times, this melon must be sweet, but I don't know how Uncle Chi sells this melon?" ”
Hearing Shen Lan praise her melons for their sweetness, Yu Chi immediately showed a smug smile, and he didn't care about Shen Lan's previous rudeness, but nodded and said: "Of course my melons are sweet, and they are sandy to eat, and most of them are good melons." ”
Shen Lan followed up and praised the watermelon again, and asked again this time: "How do you sell Uncle Chi's melon?" ”
"Two pennies a pound, not expensive." Yu Chi honestly quoted the price, Shen Lan felt that the price was acceptable, so she said: "The family is busy with farming these days, and my friends have brought people to help, so I can't treat people badly in this food, why don't Uncle Chi send me a few watermelons to the door in the past three days, okay?" (To be continued......)
PS: The second dish version is really powerful, and it can be released at 3 or 4 o'clock in the morning, so good
A few days ago, the writing collapsed.,I'm embarrassed to ask for votes.,The result keeps dropping.,Forget it.,When the book is finished.,Probably it will be changed.,The main thing is that it's not synchronized in the past few months.,It's going to be troublesome to edit it.,So the plan is synchronized and then changed.