142 Unaccustomed of all kinds
No matter how Village Chief Li hinted, Yun Ying would not regret running to him to rewrite the contract. Out of the gate of Village Chief Li's house, Yun Ying went straight to the courtyard gate of Qiao's family, making Guan Ping, who seemed to be worried all the way, even more disappointed, and after thinking about it for a long time, he finally called her when Yun Ying was about to enter the door.
"What for?" Yun Ying turned her head, and there was no special expression on her face.
"Yunying, if you regret it, feel free to come to me, and I will discuss it with my mother." Guan Ping thought about what his mother said last night, although he knew that a Yun Ying was dispensable to him, but from the bottom of his heart, he still couldn't give up Yun Ying.
"Okay, if there really is such a day, Brother Guan Ping will not turn me away." Yun Ying didn't bother to explain to him what it meant to be "a good horse doesn't eat back grass", and she didn't want to give him an analysis of whether Guan Jiashi was suitable for her, Guan Ping was very good, but the world people who had been immersed in books seemed a little dull.
Thinking of Guan Ping and Jia's temperament, Yun Ying specially added another piece of advice: "If Brother Guan Ping still plans to live well in the village, go back and tell Xiaoma and Xiaoli to go to Anlan Bridge for two days." ”
It is not possible to rebuild the Anlan Bridge, which can accommodate two carriages passing side by side, but more than 40 families in the village have worked together to build a temporary bridge on the bridge in the past few days; The people of the entire Lijia Village have the money to contribute and the power to contribute, and Yunying and Man'er also burned herbal tea every day and sent it to the construction site when they were guarding filial piety at the bridgehead. However, the Guan family, who is the only slave and maid in Lijia Village, has not moved, and the time has passed. The people in the village are afraid that they will gossip.
Guan Ping heard Yun Ying's advice, just thinking that the village had received a lot of benefits from the Guan family over the years, Xiaoma and Xiaoli said that they didn't want to go, he didn't force it anymore, turned around and went into the study to study hard. Pony of course followed up and waited closely, while Pear pouted and took the sewing basket to the hall to start needlework with Jia.
It was getting late, Guan Ping in the study touched his flat abdomen, and reached out to carry the kettle on the table, but found that the water in the pot had been drunk by him for some time. Looking around, the pony shrank in the corner and slept soundly. Shook his head. Guan Ping had no choice but to resign himself to carrying the pot out of the study.
In the courtyard, it was cold and desolate, only the fresh air after the rain remained, and the ground was full of the stumps and fallen leaves left after the storm, making the courtyard dilapidated and desolate. He stood alone for a moment with a teapot. Guan Ping realized that it was already dinner time on weekdays. No wonder the stomach is empty.
Changed to the usual time when Yunying was at home. At this time, they are either in the hall or in the courtyard, and they are afraid that the hot meal has already been put on the table. Even if she's not there, Man'er's little figure will be busy.
Just thinking about it. Xiao Li hurriedly ran out of the hall, and almost hit Guan Ping on his body, Guan Ping was caught off guard and gave way to the side, but the teapot in his hand flew out, and the copper teapot fell to the ground A ping-pong noise sounded coherently, messy and harsh.
"Slaves and maids should die, slaves and slaves should be damned." Xiao Li realized that she was in trouble, and saluted Guan with a pale face, and bent down to pick up the copper kettle in her hand.
"What are you trying to do in a hurry?" Guan Ping frowned, snatched the copper kettle and turned around and walked to the kitchen. There is a small pot on the kitchen stove, and in the summer, Yun Ying will always prepare a pot of hot and refreshing tea in the small pot, no matter how long he reads, he only needs to reach out and carry the pot to pour water. Yun Ying is not here today, and Xiao Ma doesn't know that he has to drink at least two pots of tea every day, and he doesn't know how to help him continue after a long time.
"It's a slave who is not good, and I forgot that I haven't cooked yet." A few days after Xiaoli came to Guan's house, Yun Ying was worried about the daily meals, she just did chores on the side, handed over tools or something, and buried herself in embroidery in the afternoon and no one asked her to help, so she forgot the time; Just now, the wife looked at the sky and reminded her with a calm face that she woke up and what to do. When I came out, I ran in a hurry.
Guan Ping saw the cold pot and cold stove in the kitchen at this time, there was a pot of tea in the small pot, but there was a layer of dirt floating on it, and he didn't know which day it was the tea that was burned inside, his face was even heavier, and he threw the copper kettle in his hand on the stove, "Then don't hurry up and cook!" ”
Guan Ping remembered that even if Yun Ying and Man'er were guarding filial piety in Anlan Qiaotou Mourning Hall, they had returned to Guan's house to cook and make tea in the past two days, knowing that the sisters had come to move all the things in Yun Ying's room today before they had completely failed to continue working for the Guan family.
Turning around and walking out of the kitchen with his hands behind his back, he felt unbearably thirsty in his mouth, and saw a few green watermelons under the loofah shelf at a glance, thinking of the watermelons that Li Changhai's sisters and brothers ate on the day they came to the house to quench their thirst, they simply lifted their clothes and put them on their belts, stepped on the mud and got off the ground, and tore off a seemingly biggest habit and carried them into the hall.
"Ping'er, how did you get this rough work? What about ponies? Jia was angry at Xiao Li's laziness, and when he saw his son, who hadn't done rough work for several years, holding a big watermelon weighing at least ten catties, he immediately lowered his face and asked.
"Forget it, mother, I didn't have anyone before, and I didn't do rough work. Besides, the two subordinates in the family are still from the Li family, let's not call to death, and when the son has the ability to buy a few real subordinates, then whatever the call can be. Guan Ping put the watermelon on the table, remembered that he didn't cut it with a knife, and hurriedly turned around and went to the kitchen again.
In the kitchen, Xiao Li's face was disgraced and messy just by lighting a fire, the fire was burning below, but there was nothing in the pot above, if it weren't for Guan Ping looking wrong when he took the knife, he scooped a scoop of water and put it in the pot, maybe the bottom of the pot was burned out, and this girl couldn't see it.
As a last resort, Guan Ping said two more words, and then he still lingered and returned to the hall with a kitchen knife, and on the way, the pony who woke up came forward to apologize guiltily, and was sent by Guan Ping to help in the kitchen.
The courtyard is not very wide in total, and the Jia family, who has come and gone, can also hear it clearly, and shouted at the kitchen: "What time is it, when the meal is ready, I'm afraid it will be dawn tomorrow, let's cook dumplings." ”
Dumplings are the most popular food in the Guan family, leeks are in the small vegetable garden at the door of the kitchen, and there is also bacon at home, although the taste is not as good as fresh meat, but it is better than nothing. Guan Ping's eyes lit up when he heard this, and the action of cutting the watermelon was a little faster. The sky was a little dark, and the light in the house was not as good as outside, Guan Ping's mother and son did not find that the color of the watermelon was not as bright as the red and bright that Yun Ying cut a few days ago, and even the watermelon seeds were only milky white.
Xu was hungry and thirsty, Guan Ping ate the small half of the watermelon in one go, and even the Jia family ate two more pieces of dumplings because he didn't wait for a long time for Xiaoli to bring out the pot dumplings, and the huge watermelon, the mother and son wiped out nearly half of it.
Touching his stomach that was a little overwhelmed, Guan Ping burped with satisfaction: "Mother, the effect of this watermelon is really good, this piece has never been iced and eaten so refreshingly." ”
Jia Shi frowned and took the crutches on the side: "I'll go and see what's going on with this girl Xiaoli?" It's all procrastinating to make dumplings, do you want our mother and son to eat dinner as a supper? ”
This can't be blamed for people's small pears can't be eaten for half a day. As mentioned earlier, the "dumplings" are the taste that Jia brought to Lijia Village from the capital, if it weren't for the fact that Yun Ying had a soul in his body, who would know what dumplings were. Xiao Li came to Guan's house to see Yun Ying do it once in the past few days, and the approximate steps were kept in mind, who knew that it was not easy to really get started.
After countless times of adding water and adding dough repeatedly, a large pot of dough enough for ten people was kneaded out by Xiaoli and put aside to wake up.
Cutting leeks, cutting ginger and onions, washing bacon, cutting bacon, ...... this series of work is not from the kitchen, Xiaoli said Alexander, fortunately, Xiaoma felt sorry for her and took over most of the work, but Rao is so, when Jia Shi entered the kitchen on crutches, the two of them had not yet begun to roll the dough, let alone make dumplings.
The pony is a small house, and the boy has caught up with the fact that there are many things to do in the past few days, and the level of personal hygiene is a little unable to keep up; When Jia Shi entered the door, he was just in time to see the pony pulling the dough for a while and wiping the snot under his nose, the cuffs of the green coat were full of oily black stains, and suddenly, he felt nauseous, "You get out of the way for me." ”
Xiao Li, who was watching from the sidelines, was scared that one Buddha ascended to heaven and two Buddhas went out of her body, although her body deed was held in the Li family, but Li Yinfeng told her truthfully that the Jia family was her unique master, if she made the Jia family unhappy, not only would her life be difficult to protect, but her father and mother and brothers and sisters in the family would be implicated.
"Madam, why are you here?" Xiao Li hurriedly stepped forward and eagerly helped Jia Shi sit down on the bench by the stove, "You wait, the dumplings will come later." It's all slaves and maids who are too slow to eat, delaying the wife and son's meal. ”
Jia Shi remembered what Guan Ping said, and forcibly suppressed the anger in his throat: "If you don't know how to do it, just say it, I will let you pick it up and do it, why waste time and food here." ”
Xiao Li's face turned red, and she took over the position of the pony and clumsily pulled out a few small pieces of dough, took the rolling pin on the side and began to roll the dough.
In order to prevent himself and his son from starving to death, Jia had to endure his anger and hummed: "Give me the rolling pin, you can bring the filling and wrap it in." ”
With Jia's hands, the Guan family's dumplings were finally served on the table in the middle of the moon. However, although the things were barely on the table, the appearance was 108,000 miles different from the past, and Guan Ping, who had been hungry for a long time, didn't care about looking at the appearance, so he began to eat it.
At the beginning, the two didn't feel anything because they were too hungry, but the second one ate and ate a strange smell, and the taste of bacon was obviously wrong." Wow" spit out: "What does this smell like?" ”
The Jia family also spit out the dumpling filling on the table, and shouted outside the door: "Little pear, you come in for me!" ”
If there are still people living near the Guan family, they will find that this is the first time that the Jia family has come to Lijia Village to have such a loud voice! (To be continued......)