Chapter 248: Hundred Family Meals
Mr. Tianji, who had never smiled in his impression, had a faint smile on his face, and the eyes that looked at the children were even more approachable than he had ever seen.
Wei Yan smiled knowingly, and began to play with the group of children.
Liu He did not participate in it, but walked under the big locust tree, found a stone slab, and sat on it and watched quietly.
After playing with the children for a while, Wei Yan also came over, sat next to Liu He naturally, and said with a smile: "Mr. also likes children?" ”
Wei Yan's behavior is obviously a bit rude for the identities of the two, but looking at those children playing happily, who cares about this?
Seeing that Liu He nodded, Wei Yan continued: "This group of children, some of them are from several surrounding villages, their parents are dead, so I brought them back, and there are some kind-hearted families in our village who have no children, so they adopted them. ”
Liu He didn't speak, the two of them sat quietly, and after a stick of incense, Wei Yan stood up, dusted off his body, and said with a smile: "Sir, let's go back to Jiangxia." ”
Liu He glanced at him and said softly, "Don't you go to say hello to the people in the village anymore?" ”
Wei Yan grinned widely, "What do you say hello, it's not that you won't come back." ”
Liu He stood up, but did not get on the horse, but walked towards the village.
Wei Yan frowned, and hurriedly followed, "Sir, this is?" ”
Liu He walked on this quiet country road with his hands behind his back, and said softly: "The people who leave don't care, but for those who are waiting, even if they take a second look, it's good." ”
The corners of Wei Yan's mouth twitched slightly, but he turned to a smile, "What Mr. said is true." ”
He strode to the front and shouted, "Folks, Wei Yan has come to see you!" ”
Liu He stopped, looked at the person in front of him with a heartfelt smile, and smiled with relief.
Hearing that Wei Yan was back, all the people in the village walked out of the house and surrounded them at once.
"You kid, don't say hello before you come back, my aunt will cook you something delicious." A kind old woman took Wei Yan's hand and complained, but her eyes were red.
Wei Yan clutched his stomach and said, "That's right, I'm still hungry, it's not too late to do it now." ”
"Okay, okay, I'll do it for you now."
The old woman turned around and was about to leave, but was pulled by Wei Yan, "Auntie, I still want to eat a hundred family meals." ”
The old woman was stunned for a moment, then nodded with a smile, turned her head and said loudly: "Folks, eat a hundred family meals!" ”
As soon as she finished speaking, she saw all the villagers running home, some carrying tables, chairs and benches, some carrying large and small bowls, and walking to a clearing in the middle of the village.
It seems that this hundred family meals are a local custom, every household is accustomed to it, and the action is also very skillful.
It is said that it is a dining table, but in fact, it is just some low tables, and the size of each family is different, so it is uneven and different in height.
The pots and pots placed on it, that is more of a family, the food inside, but it is much the same, it is certain that you can't see the meat, the average person is to boil beans, and the best is just a few flatbreads.
The old woman warmly beckoned Liu He to sit down, then turned to Wei Yan and said, "You kid, it's not too early to bring a friend back for the first time, at this time, you can only use these to entertain others, how rude." ”
Wei Yan looked at Liu He with some embarrassment, hugged his fists, and wanted to say something, but the gentleman's word "first" had just been halfway said, but Liu He raised his hand and stopped him.
"It's okay, mother-in-law, these are my favorite foods." Liu He said to the old woman with a smile.
The old woman smiled and nodded, looking at Liu He, as if the more she looked at it, the more she liked it, "This son is really handsome, has he married a daughter-in-law?" ”
Liu He smiled and shook his head.
"That's right, the girl in our family is also old enough to get married, or ......else," said the old woman, and looked to her side.
When Liu He saw it, he was so frightened that he almost turned around and ran.
The girl who sat next to the old woman weighed two hundred pounds, to say the least, and I really didn't know how much perseverance she had to achieve such a proud achievement in such a troubled world when she couldn't even eat enough.
What's even more terrifying is that the girl can't stop laughing at him, looking like that, she seems to be very satisfied with the old woman's arrangement.
"Mother-in-law, I won't tell you anything, although I haven't married a wife yet, my family has already set up a family affair for me." Liu He is serious.
The old woman blinked her eyes and said generously: "It's okay, you can't be a main room, and you can be a concubine." ”
"If you have ancestral teachings in your family, you can't take concubines." Liu He's face did not change, and his heart did not beat.
When the old woman heard this, she sighed in disappointment, "Hey, since that's the case, you can't force it, as the saying goes, the twisted melon is not sweet, it's just that the two of you have no fate." ”
Liu He couldn't stop nodding, and the expression on his face seemed to be in agreement.
I don't know if the twisted melon is sweet or not, but I have no fate with your daughter, that's for sure.
Inadvertently, Liu He and the sturdy girl happened to look at each other, but unexpectedly, the girl cried out with a "wow", picked up two nests and a large cake from the table, and ran away crying while eating.
Although he had no chance in this life, Liu He was in awe of the girl's dedication to eating.
"Look at this girl, she's just so ignorant." The old woman's face was obviously a little unbearable, "She is still young and has never seen the world, so don't take it to heart." ”
Liu He pretended to smile calmly and shook his head, and then quickly diverted the topic.
"Is this Baijia rice a custom in this area?"
When the old woman heard this, she smiled at all, "What kind of customs, these days, every family can't have enough to eat, and the people in our village have lived here for generations, so they naturally have to take care of each other, so there is such a rule." When there is a famine, the whole village will eat together, and those who have no food will not starve to death. ”
Liu He listened to the old woman's words, but frowned.
The food on the table was not only of a single variety, but also the food of the poorest at the bottom, and it did not look like they had just won a thousand taels of gold.
It stands to reason that if you get rich overnight, even if you don't have every meal of big fish and meat, you have to eat something decent, right? But these things in front of me are no different from those eaten by the poor people.
Liu He glanced at Wei Yan quietly, and after thinking about it, it seemed a little strange.
This hundred family meals were proposed by Wei Yan himself, if he didn't distribute the gold to the villagers, how could he expose it himself?