Chapter 11: A Good Meal
Under the mutual push of the two fathers, Sun Yue and Lao Cao's daughter went to the street with a few large cloth bags.
The attitude of the Cao family's daughter is a little better than before, but the corners of her eyes are still a little angry, and she feels fierce and not easy to get along with.
Sun Yue deliberately pretended to be tender and asked sweetly, "What's your name?" ”
"I don't have a name, there are a few names for the girls from poor families, my father calls me Nier, outsiders call me Cao Nier, you can call me Sister like my brother."
"Well, from now on, I will also call you sister, and you will also treat me as a younger brother."
Cao Nier smiled embarrassedly, gently touched Sun Yue's head, raised a large string of heavy copper coins in her hand and said, "If you want to eat something, my sister will take you to buy it."
"If you want to eat crabs, after a few days, you will not be fattened when the ice is bloomed."
"Crabs, there are few ones sold in Nancheng, let's go, lead you to Beicheng."
"Well, my sister is so nice."
In the end, it was just a teenage girl, Sun Yue deliberately pretended to be tender and coaxed her to be happy in a few words, and happily led Sun Yue to buy crabs.
There are many rivers in Bianliang, so the crabs are not too expensive, and the price of meat is not much different, but ordinary people are obviously more willing to eat meat when they have this spare money, so there is nothing to sell in Nancheng, so I went around and around, bought some meat and wine, and waited for more than half an hour to go home.
Lao Cao's youngest son seemed to run over, and salivated at a leg of mutton that his sister was carrying, Lao Cao hurriedly took it and went to the kitchen with Sun Chunming.
Sun Yue honestly went back to the house and spread out the cheap yellow paper, and tried to practice calligraphy with a brush, which made the Cao family kid who wanted to play with him for a while very disappointed, and then went to find his sister, and his sister was busy helping in the kitchen and ignoring him, so he could only watch Sun Yue practice calligraphy seriously.
In the kitchen, Lao Cao and Sun Chunming didn't know what they were talking about, they were actually quite happy to chat, and they laughed loudly from time to time, his wife was sleeping in another room, and she hadn't woken up yet, and unconsciously, the two families who were originally strangers slowly became harmonious.
After a while, there was a knock on the door outside, in fact, the door was not locked at all, and the knocker came in with the door, but it was the widow Zhang next door, holding half a pot of tofu in her hand, and shouted with a smile, "The Sun family, I sold the remaining little tofu today for you two to bring over and add a dish." ”
In fact, Sun Yue knows that she is using the name of sending tofu to rub rice, these days he and Sun Chunming every time they cook meat to eat, she will come to send tofu when she smells it, every time Sun Chunming has to keep her to eat, fortunately, every time she finishes eating, she will help them do some housework, and sometimes help them wash clothes or something, so this rice is not annoying.
As soon as I entered the door, I happened to see Lao Cao, and for a while, the two looked at each other, and their movements froze.
"You're back?"
"Ah, just came back, that... Leave a piece to eat. ”
Who knows, Widow Zhang, who has always been quite gentle, threw her tofu in Lao Cao's face with a shake of her hand, and said angrily: "Don't say a word when you leave, and don't come back to fart, what do you do with Lao Cao?" Even if it's Sister Yao, you should save some love after letting you sleep for so many years, you bastard! ”
The more Widow Zhang spoke, the more angry she became, she came up and stretched out her hand to beat, Lao Cao lowered his head and didn't hide, let the slap crackle in his face, a room of people ran out to see the excitement, and no one came to persuade her, until Lao Cao's dark face was red and shiny, and Widow Zhang was tired and stopped.
This trouble also woke up the old lady, the old lady was a little senile dementia, and shouted after waking up: "Son~ Oh no, the Khitans are coming~ Run!" ”
Lao Cao had to coax the old lady first: "Mother, it's okay, the Khitans have been beaten away by the child." ”
The old lady cried: "Woo~ daughter-in-law, daughter-in-law? What about the daughter-in-law? Son! The daughter-in-law was snatched away by the Khitans, and the daughter-in-law was snatched away by the Khitans. ”
Lao Cao hurriedly said: "No, no, the daughter-in-law is here, here, you see, isn't this the daughter-in-law." ”
As he spoke, he hurriedly brought Widow Zhang to him and made a pleading expression, Widow Zhang glared at Lao Cao fiercely, but still squeezed out a smile and said, "Mother, look, I wasn't snatched away, isn't this there." ”
"You're my daughter-in-law? Oh.... Okay, good, it's good that you're not robbed, quick, hide, don't let the Khitans see you. ”
The two cooperated tacitly, and after a while, the old lady was coaxed over, and after a while, he was happy.
Lao Cao still said the same thing: "That... Stay for a meal. ”
Widow Zhang hesitated for a while, maybe the smell in the kitchen was too gluttonous, but she nodded and said, "Okay, but I'm here for my aunt's sake, not for you." ”
"Okay, okay, yes."
Seeing this, Sun Yue couldn't help but want to give the old lady a thumbs up, is this really confused or pretending to be confused, such a big thing, just make a little fuss and forget it?
Otherwise, ginger is still old and spicy.
After laughing for a while, the meal was finally ready, fortunately, there were high tables and high stools at home, otherwise it would not be possible to sit so many people, Sun Chunming shouted: "Girl, put the dishes and chopsticks on the table." Seeing that Cao Nier did her job well, I don't know how the two of them got along so well.
In short, everything is very harmonious, the Cao family may rarely eat crabs, Sun Yue will also help their sisters and brothers peel it when they eat it themselves, anyway, the children have a small amount of food, and the workload is not big, Lao Cao clumsily gave Widow Zhang a shell, Widow Zhang glanced at him with white eyes, but Sun Chunming actually thought about peeling himself for Cao's mother before eating.
At the dinner table, it is natural to talk about each other's origins, their father and son are naturally still from that set of nonsense, there are too many official families that have been destroyed by the war in recent years, and it is not unusual to be reduced to asking for food.
Lao Cao's family is from Guanzhong, he himself was originally a soldier in the Later Han Dynasty, and he was still a chief, when Guo Wei mutinied, he and a few brothers noticed that something was wrong, ran away in advance, and used the money saved when he was a soldier to open this baked cake shop.
I heard him say that his father was killed by the Khitans when Yelu Abaoji went south, and their whole family, except for his mother, was taken away to the Khitans to build Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures, and the old lady raised Lao Cao alone, so now when he is sick, he will say that the Khitans are coming, and sometimes he will be so frightened that he will hide under the bed when he sees the Hu people.
As for Widow Zhang, she was originally the newly married daughter-in-law next door, and when she was newly married Yan'er, she was just in time for Guo Wei to slaughter the city ten years ago, and she was a well-known beauty at that time, so she was naturally reinvented.
may have killed all of his husband's family because she was an eyesore, but she survived after three days, and committed suicide several times without success, so she didn't want to die.
When she said this, she was quite calm, there were not 10,000 women like her in Kaifeng City, but 8,000, she was used to it, and there was nothing she couldn't say.
Their father and son couldn't help but have mixed tastes when they heard this, Sun Chunming picked up the wine bowl and said: "Come, everyone have a drink, send this damn past, I think this official family is different from the bastard of the previous five generations, I think he should be able to have a long term in the Song Dynasty, for the sake of the peaceful years in the future, do it!" ”
The hut is not big, after eating for a while, I feel that the house is full of crab roe, everyone is very happy to eat, for Lao Cao's family and Zhang's widow's family, this should be happiness.