On the eve of the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, a brilliant firework explodes from time to time in the fluorescent night sky.

Hearing the popping sound of the sky, the people outside couldn't help but look up for a while, even if they caught a glimpse of a bright and dark light, they would be amazed and delighted.

Some people rejoice and some people worry.

The atmosphere in the south courtyard is gloomy and weird, and it is not infected by the atmosphere of the festival, and the people in this courtyard have a bad heart, and life is naturally not going well.

As soon as dinner was eaten, Parsley plunged into the kitchen and peeled the mung beans that had been soaked for more than a day.

Peeling the beans was a heartbreaking process, but before the work was done, Parsley's heart was torn apart.

Parsley grabbed a handful of soaked mung beans from the vegetable washing basin, peeled off the skin, and threw it into the bottom of another basin.

If she doesn't move faster, she is afraid that in one night, she will not be able to finish the skin of this two-pound mung bean.

There was no light in the kitchen, and Parsley had a candle ready early.

The faint candlelight swayed in the wind.

Although Parsley had closed the kitchen door, a cold wind was still coming in through the cracks.

Stretching her hands into the cold water again and again, Parsley originally felt very cold hands, but gradually her hands had no sense except for the mechanical repetition of the action of peeling mung bean skin.

When you are alone, that's when you're most likely to get cranky.

A feeling arose spontaneously, she actually missed the days in the Li family.

Parsley couldn't help but smile bitterly and shook her head slightly, as if she wanted to strangle this feeling in the cradle.

She felt that she was so stupid, and she also felt that she was very ambitious, because whether it was in the Li family or the Duan family, she could not be satisfied with the status quo.

When she was in the Li family, she always wanted to get out of the sea of suffering.

When she was in the Duan family, she always wanted to stand on her own.

Before being reborn, because of the appearance of Hong Cheng, Parsley learned to look at the world around her from a new perspective. Hong Cheng invited her to his hotel as an apprentice, and Xiangqin thought that he was kind enough to take her in, even if she had no salary, she could endure the hard life with simple food and drink. However, the salary she earned every month was quietly taken away by Li Laosan. This is also acquiesced by Hong Cheng.

They were just using her as if she were a trading item, which made Parsley unbearable......

However, after being reborn, Parsley met Hong Cheng again. She finally went from a "tool for making money" to a special storage in Hong Cheng's eyes.

The one who had been seen as the initiator and culprit of human trafficking in her distant memories had now become a clingy pug.

In the past, watching him linger among the flowers, Parsley would feel heartache. Now that he has a soft spot, Parsley is still very uncomfortable.

After some comparison, Xiangqin couldn't help but wonder that before he was reborn, Hong Cheng had never been unruly to her, was that a form of cherishing her......

Suddenly, there was a burst of cannons, and Parsley's sanity was brought back to reality.

A cold wind slipped into her collar, and she snorted, and when she looked up, she realized that the kitchen door had somehow been blown open by the cold wind.

Parsley got up and stepped forward and closed the kitchen door again.

At this time, she heard the ringing of two bells from the hall.

Before I knew it, it was midnight, and it was two o'clock in the morning.

There are still some mung beans left in the pot that have not been cleaned up, and the parsley is about to touch, and it will take more than half an hour to peel off the skin of those mung beans.

Thinking that she didn't feel sleepy at all anyway, Xiangqin decided to make the Lantern Festival.

She put the mung beans aside first, took the pumpkins and purple potatoes she bought at the vegetable market in the city out of the kitchen, took them to the well and washed them.

She cut the purple sweet potato into thin slices, and after pulling out the pumpkin pulp, she also cut the pumpkin into thin slices.

Add some water to the pot, put a round metal grate with round holes on the parsley and close the lid.

After she lit a fire and added firewood, she continued to peel the mung bean skin.

After the pumpkin slices and purple sweet potato slices are steamed, the parsley has almost finished peeling the mung bean skin.

She picked up the pumpkin slices and purple sweet potato slices from the grate, and Parsley poured the peeled mung beans into the pot and boiled them while the water in the pot was rotten.

Parsley kneaded the pumpkin slices in the basin into a puree, added an appropriate amount of glutinous rice flour and a small amount of water, and kneaded it into a yellow dough.

In the same way, parsley is also kneaded into a puree of purple sweet potato chips, and glutinous rice flour and water are also added to knead into a dough.

Parsley scoops the boiled peeled mung beans into an iron bowl, and the water in the mung beans is relatively large at this time, almost paste. It takes a lot of effort to make mung bean paste.

Parsley is fried in a dry pan with some flour, and then the cooked flour is mixed into the paste-like mung bean milk paste, and the white sugar is mixed together to gradually form mung bean paste.

The next thing is to wrap the Lantern Festival, which is similar to making dumplings, but the Lantern Festival skin is pinched out by hand with parsley, not with a rolling pin.

Pull off a small piece of dough from the dough, knead it round and then knead it flat into a cake shape, then add mung bean paste filling, wrap the filling and then roll it into a round shape, and a Lantern Festival will be formed.

Use up all the mung bean paste, and there are still some pumpkin dough and purple sweet potato dough left. Parsley used the leftover dough to make pumpkin pie and purple potato pie.

These wrapped Lantern Festivals cannot be boiled in water, and if they are not cooked well, they will become mush.

Parsley added water to the pot, set up a grate on the pot, and then stacked the round Lantern Festival neatly on the grate, and added fire to make a steam.

By the time this is done, the sky is already dim.

Xiangqin's face was tired, and a heavy sleepiness welled up, making her head dizzy. She dragged her heavy body and went to sleep in the back room.

I don't know how long it took, there was a knock on the door, louder and louder, and Parsley frowned until she opened her eyes and the knock stopped.

Duan Wen stood at the door of the east room and said to the parsley lying on the bed: "The Lantern Festival left for you, hurry up and eat." ”

"Eat it, I won't eat it." Parsley is like a gossamer.

Duan Wen seemed a little reluctant, and the expression on his face was not very pleasant, "The sun is shining on the buttocks, hurry up, your mother and your grandmother are both working in the yard, and they will be reluctant to stop for a while." ”

As if her whole body had been filled with lead, Parsley struggled to sit up from the bed, her eyes sour, astringent and painful.

Dou Shi and Duan Qiuping are rare and diligent, and the two have their own division of labor, one washes the toon leaves, and the other cuts the toon leaves.

If they are not diligent at this time, how can they appear that Parsley is lazy?

Xiangqin washed her face in the yard and listened to Duan Qiuping complaining: "I finally fell asleep, even if it was a pig, I got up earlier than you!" ”

Dou blamed her, "You still want to raise the bar, don't you, if you don't speak, no one will treat you as a mute." ”

Duan Qiuping laughed twice in a weird way, and intensified, "Didn't you listen to what the people in our village said, our family should offer parsley as an ancestor!" Serve her well! ”

"Can you keep your mouth shut, after two days of work, it's not you!" The Dou family didn't want to cause another senseless quarrel and provoke Duan Wen to anger, so no one would have good fruit to eat.

Duan Qiuping was not convinced, "She's my daughter, can't I talk about her?" ”

Xiangqin threw the face towel into the basin, stood up straight and looked sideways at Duan Qiuping, "Don't treat me as your daughter in the future, you should treat me as if you never gave birth to me, I will cut off the relationship with your family now, and I will also cut off the mother-daughter relationship with you in the future." After speaking, she glanced at the south courtyard and clasped her hands expressionlessly. At this time, Duan Yongyuan was busy working in front of the stone mill, and Duan Wen was washing soybeans. While everyone was there, she wanted to figure out some things last night and tell the big guys, "When you were in the hotel that day, what your uncle and grandfather told you, I think okay, I'll move out of here in a few days." ”

The people of the whole courtyard stopped what they were doing and looked at Parsley with shocked faces.

The first to react was Duan Qiuping, who suddenly smiled, "Are you going to Hong Cheng's house?" ”

"I'm not so shameless, and don't blame me for being ruthless. No matter whether this family can tolerate me or not, whether you can tolerate me in your heart, no matter how good I am in front of you, to you, I will always be a foreigner. "After one night, it was as if parsley had been reborn. The thought of not having so many restraints around her made her feel a lightness in her heart, like a bird flying freely in the sky.

"Parsley, what my uncle said is, what are you doing with him as a thing!" Duan Yongyuan felt uncomfortable in his heart, he knew that Xiangqin could make such a decision, it was all forced by them.

Xiangqin faced Duan Yongyuan, "I don't want to take him seriously, but who in this family can really not take him seriously?" Brother Yongzi, I told you the other day that I wanted to open a small shop, but I wasn't joking with you. ”

"You want to open a store, where do you get the money to open a store?" Duan Yongyuan asked, just the one or two thousand yuan in Xiangqin's hand, even if it is to open a vegetable shop, I'm afraid it won't be enough!

Parsley chuckled, "I can't open a shop now, I can be like Damin, invest a small book of a few hundred yuan, and open a small stall." ”

Duan Yongyuan's expression was ugly, he glanced at the silent Duan Wen, and his heart was anxious.

At this time, except for him, no one in the family opened their mouths to keep parsley.

It's not that Duan Wen doesn't want to stay, he wants to hear Xiangqin finish telling her thoughts.

Duan Yongyuan said again: "Xiangqin, if you move out, you let the whole village say that our family is good!" ”

Glancing at Duan Qiuping, Parsley gently raised the corners of her mouth, with a slight disdain in her expression.

There are a lot of pests in this house, and before you know it, parsley has also become a black sheep.

"Anyway, this family is like this, everyone can talk nonsense in front of us, and you are afraid that people will poke our backbones behind our backs?" R1152