Chapter Twenty-Six: The Four Girls Are Coming
"Chunhua, are you in the house?" Chen Chunhua was holding the wooden basin and was sitting in the house picking soybeans, the soybeans bought back were not clean inside, they were cheap after all, and it was hard to say anything. Hearing the sound outside, he put down the tub, patted the dust off his body, and got up and walked out of the house.
"In the house!" When I walked out of the house, I saw that this was the second aunt coming, followed by a little girl wrapped like a ball. After a few glances, Chen Chunhua felt very familiar, and she didn't see who it was.
When Siya saw Chen Chunhua, she immediately ran over, threw herself into her arms, and said. "Third sister and third sister, I miss you!"
Chen Chunhua listened to this voice and looked down, who is this not Siya? "Siya, why are you here?" As he spoke, he looked out of the courtyard. "You're here alone?"
"No, I just went to the field to work, and I saw this little girl walking around, I asked her a few words, and then I realized that this is the little girl from your mother's house." The second aunt said, quickly put down the basket in her hand, and said. "Chunhua, I'm still busy working in the field, so I'll go first."
"Alas, thank you second aunt!"
"Thank you, talk to the little girl!" After saying that, he left.
Chen Chunhua looked at Siya's face flushed, picked up the basket on the ground, and led her into the house. "Siya, you came alone?"
"Yes, I don't know where the third sister's house is, I went around outside for a long time before I met the aunt just now."
Siya said, uncovering the cloth covering the top of the basket, which contained eggs and some dough cakes. "Third sister, this is prepared by the eldest sister-in-law and the second sister-in-law."
Seeing Siya, Chen Chunhua's heart softened. "Siya, why aren't you afraid, you want to come to see the third sister, ask someone to bring a message, and I'll go back to pick you up."
"What did the third sister say, my mother said, the third sister can't go back to the house, the fourth sister is not afraid, this is not looking for it." Siya said, sat down, looked at the beans in the room, didn't say a word, and got busy.
Chen Chunhua took the beans in Siya's hand and led her into the kitchen. "Siya, don't be busy, it's hard to come here."
"Third sister, why are you alone in the house, brother-in-law?" Siya entered the house, but she didn't see anyone else, and before she went out, she didn't need what her mother ordered.
"Your two brothers-in-law have gone up the mountain, and one of your brothers-in-law has gone to other villages to help, and it is estimated that you will be able to work well at night, and stay here for one night at night?"
"No, my mother said, let me send something over and go back quickly." Siya hasn't seen her third sister for a long time, and she misses it strangely, she originally wanted to follow her sister-in-law and second sister-in-law, but the house was busy and no one could leave.
"Cheng, sit down first, I'll make a fire to warm you up, and I'll make something to eat for you later!" Chen Chunhua sat in front of the stove, started a fire, hugged Siya, and the two of them nested together.
After waiting for a while, seeing that the water was boiling, and the cold and red little hands of the four girls were warm, Chen Chunhua stood up and took out sweet potato flour and an egg from the cabinet.
Siya looked at Chen Chunhua with big eyes and said curiously. "Third sister, what is this?" She hadn't seen it yet, so it was a strange thing to look at.
In the end, it is a child, Chen Chunhua beckoned to her. "Siya come here, I'll tell you, you remember what this is doing, wait for you to go back, I'll let you bring some back and let the people in the house taste it."
"Alas!" Siya stood beside Chen Chunhua and stood on tiptoe watching her movements.
"This is called potato and melon flour, look at it, boil some boiling water first, wait for the water to boil, decorate this potato and melon flour with cold water in a bowl, and look, just like I am now!" Chen Chunhua crushed the sweet potato flour and put it in a bowl and stirred it with her hands.
Siya nodded. "I remember!"
"Well, when it's done, pour it into the pot and stir it with a spatula." Chen Chunhua looked at Siya and asked her to bring a small wooden stool in front of the stove to stand on it.
"Seeing that this color is not there, it has become like this, it's okay, and then put some coarse salt in it, don't put too much, this thing will be eaten in a nest and swallowed very much!" Seeing that the sweet potato soup was about the same, Chen Chunhua beat an egg and put it inside.
Then he took out the pot, extinguished the fire in the stove, and served the bowl with it.
"Siya, taste it, see if it's delicious!" After Chen Chunhua finished speaking, she handed her chopsticks. Siya pursed her lips, embarrassed. "Mother said, don't let me eat the food in the third sister's house, I'm afraid of beckoning!"
"What do you say, I'll let you eat it!" Siya is very sensible, and it is not clear whether this Chen said this for her good or not.
Siya looked at the bowl in front of her, she wanted to eat very much, and looked at Chen Chunhua with her eyes, and said. "Then I'll eat it!"
"Let's eat!"
"Alas!" Siya is still a child, and when she sees delicious food, she naturally feels itchy, after all, it is no one else in front of her, but her third sister is very close.
Seeing the joy of Siya's eating, Chen Chunhua smiled. "Eat it slowly, it's hot!" After saying that, he took the basket and ordered the eggs inside, exactly ten, and ten dough cakes.
Chen Chunhua thought about it, this thing still couldn't be completely collected, took out the dough cake inside, left the eggs in it, and then went into the kitchen and took some sweet potato flour from the cabinet and wrapped it in a cloth and put it in the basket. There are no good things in this house, and there are ordinary things in every house, so I'm embarrassed to take them back.
Looking at the contents of the basket, Chen Chunhua remembered a few pieces of tofu that she had left in the morning, and put them in the basket in a sea bowl, and carried them, and the weight was okay.
Siya ate the sweet potato soup and laughed and burped. "Third sister, it's delicious!"
"It's delicious, I'll take the potato and melon powder back, and let my mother make it for you to eat!" Chen Chunhua said so, take this thing back, how much Siya can eat, she knows in her heart.
"Third Sister" Siya looked at Chen Chunhua, and her eyes suddenly turned red. "Third sister, Siya can't bear the third sister."
"Siya, why are you crying, if you are reluctant to give up the third sister, when the third sister is free, go back to see you, is it okay?"
Siya sobbed and nodded. "Really?"
"Well, the third sister is serious!" It's really true, but I don't know when the road is.
The two sisters didn't talk for long, and Chen Chunhua sent Siya out of Zhaojia Village and went back to the house. It takes half a day to go back and forth, and she also wants to stay with Siya for a while, but if she stays longer, it will be too late to go back, she is a little girl, but she is not at ease.
At the time of dinner, when the third child came back from his busy work, Chen Chunhua told him that Siya had been here.
"Why don't you leave her in the house for the night?" The third child listened, and looked up at Chen Chunhuadao. "The eldest brother also told me a few years ago that he had a trip to Chenjia Village a year ago."
"It's not going to be this year, it's going to be next year!" She can't take care of herself, where can she take care of others. The person she married, since the Chen family said that she didn't need to go back, then she didn't have to go back, and in the current situation, don't say anything.
"Cheng, when the daughter-in-law says it is, it's the time!"
After dinner, I washed my face and feet, the third child laid out the futon, Chen Chunhua got into the quilt, and saw that the third child was still not on the kang, and said. "Third brother, what's wrong?"
"It's okay, I'm going to help in the next village today, and I got ten sons, you can take it!" The third child said, took out ten copper coins from the hidden pocket of his coat and handed them to Chen Chunhua.
Chen Chunhua took the copper coin and happily put it away, who doesn't like money, think about it, it's not easy to make this money, and if you go out for a whole day, it's only ten copper plates.
"Daughter-in-law, rest early, the beans are all done in the afternoon, and you are tired today." The third child went to help. I still think about the house in my heart, and I want to come back early after finishing my work early, who knows that there will be some leaks after the worst, and I will not arrive at the house until dinner.
"Well, it's over!" Sending Siya away, she grinded soybeans by herself, and used all the strength of an afternoon, which is okay, maybe she has eaten well these days, and her strength is a lot greater.