Chapter 0019: Conflict in the Mourning Hall (1)
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Early the next morning, Leon takes Tinker Bell to the river. After a night of rain, the river was full of water, and Li Ang searched carefully by the river, but he couldn't find even a footprint, so he had to give up.
The diligent Hua Xiaomei, the first to take the clothes to the port to wash, she is dressed plainly, but her small appearance is very beautiful, the cute image of the standard little sister next door.
"Brother Li, what did you come to the river early in the morning to find?" She put down the tub and asked curiously.
Li Ang smiled: "Isn't it that everyone brings clothes here to wash, I'm in a hurry, in case someone doesn't clean up the money when they change their clothes, and they fall here when they do laundry, won't I pick them up?" It's called the early bird getting the worm. ”
Hua Xiaomei suddenly smiled and bent over: "You want to be beautiful, who has the money and still ends here, I am the first to come to the laundry every day, and I haven't picked up a single money, so don't think about it." ”
Li Ang quipped: "Little sister, you are so diligent, but you can't grow fat, be careful that you can't find your in-laws in the future." ”
The wonderful Tang Dynasty is a paradise for fat girls, the whole country regards fat as beauty, and many women's life's career is to gain weight and fatten.
However, usually girls have a strong metabolism, and eating too much does not necessarily lead to gaining weight.
What's more, although this is the prosperous Tang Dynasty, the food with a lot of fat is far less abundant than that of later generations. Ordinary people, it's good to have meat to eat from time to time, but if you want to get fat, you have to suffer from hereditary obesity.
When it comes to her life's events, a little girl is always a little shy, Hua Xiaomei took a sip of Li Ang, then squatted down to wash his clothes, and ignored him.
Leon saw that when she was washing her clothes, she took out a handful of black things from a small clay pot, put them in the soaked clothes, and beat them with a smooth mallet. Li Ang suddenly became interested.
This is the Tang Dynasty, there is no soap, there is no Liby that does not hurt your hands, there is no tide that leaves no traces, what kind of mysterious detergent is in Hua Xiaomei's crockpot?
Leon hurried up, picked up the broken crockpot and looked at and sniffed, and almost tasted it. Hua Xiaomei giggled and said, "Brother Li, what do you see, this is crumpled plant ash, what's so beautiful?" ”
"Grass and wood ash? It's amazing! Do you usually use this for laundry? ”
"What else can you use without this? Soaphorn is expensive, and our family can't afford it. ”
"What is soap horn? What does it look like? ”
"I've never seen it, that's something that only rich people can afford."
Li Ang looked at this cute little sister, patted his chest and said: "Little sister, don't worry, Brother Li promises to let you use soap horns in the future, and in the future, I promise that our family will eat meat at once, and I will raise you to be chubby." By the way, is there any meat to sell in the village, so I'll go sell some meat and come back. ”
"There is one in the west of the village, but"
"Don't do it, I didn't ask you to pay for it, you just need to eat." After Leon finished speaking, he took Tinker Bell and went straight to the west of the village. It's okay to say, but Tinker doesn't eat meat, people are wolves, not dogs, wolves travel thousands of miles to eat meat, don't want to poop and send people away.
Of course, Li Ang didn't plan to suffer himself, his grandmother's, the prince was gone, couldn't he eat meat all of a sudden? If you can't even do this, is it still called a traverser?
When passing by the entrance of the village, he saw Gao Laoli sitting in a car and went straight to the county seat, and Li Ang also stood on the side of the road and bowed to Gao Lao. Old man Gao raised his voice in the car and said to him: "Eldest nephew, don't worry, your business is on Lao Yu, and I will handle the household registration matter for you today." ”
"Thank you Gao Lizheng, hard work Gao Lizheng, the kid is really sorry."
"Go back, go back, don't send it, just wait at home for the good news of old age."
Dare to be affectionate, Lord Li Zheng thought that Li Ang had come to see him off. Li Ang smirked, cooperatively showing a look of looking forward to the stars and the moon, and watched the old man's car disappear at the entrance of the village.
Li Ang went to the west of the village to buy ten catties of mutton, and when he returned home, the diligent Hua Xiaomei had already finished washing her clothes and was making breakfast, and it was gluttony. The so-called dumplings are actually noodle soups. The method is to knead the dough, then pull it into thumb-sized dough sheets by hand, add water, oil and salt to the pot, and then put the dough sheets in and cook them together.
In the era of lack of seasonings, it is easy to imagine how the noodle soup made by this tastes, but this is a more common breakfast staple food of the Tang people.
Li Ang saw that Hua Xiaomei's noodles were about to be put into the pot, and hurriedly shouted: "Little sister, wait, wait!" Let Brother Li come. ”
Speaking of eating, Li Ang's action was called a mally, scooped out the water from the water tank, washed the mutton in his hand, cut off most of the catty with a knife, and threw it directly.
Hua Xiaomei and Xiaoqiu were dumbfounded. God, it's usually difficult for everyone to eat a meal of meat, and this feeding dog is half a pound of meat at once, Xiaoqiu suddenly has a strong urge to become a dog
When they came back to their senses, Li Ang slashed the dragon for a while, and the mutton turned into a finger-sized strip of meat, which was very even, "Xiaoqiu, go find some cloves, cinnamon, star anise, bay leaves, grass fruits, tangerine peel, and Huaishan." Little sister, you go to find green onions and ginger, and let you taste Brother Li's craftsmanship. ”
Old man Hua came out to take a look, and immediately pointed at Li Ang and said, "You are a loser, you are clearly a loser!" It's early in the morning, who's busy tinkering with delicious food, you can look all over the village! ”
Li Ang divided one-third of the mutton, poured it into the pot, and turned around before saying to the angry old man Hua: "Old Hua, if you don't want to bear the notoriety of this loser, why don't you hehe, wait for you to eat noodles, and we will eat meat slices?" ”
"You, you look, I won't kill you, a loser!" Old man Hua looked left and right, and in a hurry, he snatched the crutch in Aunt Hua's hand and was about to step forward to clean up Li Ang.
"Aye!"
"Ah Gong!"
Xiaomei and Xiaoqiu hurriedly came up to stop them, and at this time, Aunt Hua, who was suffering from cataracts, yelled at the sky: "Stop, stop, what is the trouble in the early morning, old ghost!" Look at you, like words? ”
"Hehe, it's still the eldest lady to be reasonable, eldest aunt, wait for you to eat meat together."
Li Ang was smiling, so angry that the old man Hua couldn't fight anywhere, Hua Xiaomei couldn't help but laugh secretly when she saw him blowing his beard and glaring, only Xiaoqiu was honestly afraid.
After a while, the pot was filled with the aroma of meat, and the fragrance wafted across half of the village. Old man Hua is not authentic, he keeps saying that he is a loser, he grabbed the spatula first, scooped a full bowl, mostly meat, just a few pieces of noodles, and sat under the eaves and ate happily.
After breakfast, Old Man Hua burped with satisfaction, and said to Li Ang: "Today, the Fang family has a funeral, and you go to the Fang family with the old man to mourn." ”
"I'm too tired to move today." Leon touched his stomach and hummed lazily. Old man Hua just wanted to go crazy, Li Ang's heart moved, and he had already changed his words: "Don't worry, old Hua, I'll go with you." ”
Fang Tongliang was okay with the neighbors of Shangxi Village before his death, but now that something like this has happened to the Fang family, the people of the same village are going to mourn on the day of the Fang family's funeral.
Li Ang had just arrived in Shangxi Village, and he hadn't settled down yet, so he was too lazy to go, but after thinking about it, he still decided to take a trip. Maybe in the Fang family, there will be some unexpected gains.
Li Ang followed Old Man Hua around the small lake, and when he came to Fang's house, there were already a lot of people in the village, everyone was dressed plainly, behaved solemnly, and usually nodded when greeting each other.
Old man Hua was afraid that Li Ang didn't know etiquette, so when he entered the door, he carefully explained some of his condolences etiquette: for example, when offering incense, he can raise his eyebrows; Except for members of the immediate family, it is generally sufficient for those who bow to the court; After greeting the deceased, how to accept the family's return and return the gift, etc.
"Remember?"
"Hua Lao rest assured, he has written it down. Besides, isn't there you in front, just follow along, kid. ”
"Well, that's true, let's go inside."
Fang's family is a big family with a high door, there is a courtyard in the four entrances, the door eyebrows are a piece of vegetarian, the white lantern in front of it is written with a black word of laying, the front yard is several acres wide, dozens of Taoist priests are still doing things, and the sound of gongs and drums rises and falls.
Li Ang followed the old man Hua to the spirit to finish the incense, and next to him was a pair of mother and son who knelt in linen and wore filial piety to answer the salute, and the male was the young man holding the spirit card that Li Ang saw on the road, about seventeen or eighteen years old. The woman was in her thirties, and she looked very pretty, anyway, at first glance, she gave Li Ang the feeling that she was pretty, but her eyes were red and swollen.
While giving Leon a salute, the woman suddenly fainted and fell to the ground, "Mother! The young man was shocked and hurriedly helped him. At this time, a middle-aged man in his forties walked into the mourning hall with two teenagers, followed by a very beautiful girl.
As soon as she entered the mourning hall, she saw the woman falling, and the girl rushed up, held the woman and asked, "Auntie, what's wrong with you?" What's wrong? ”
Seeing the woman wake up slowly, Old Man Hua and Li Ang thought it was caused by fatigue and sadness, and the two withdrew from the mourning hall. I never thought that they had just withdrawn, but the middle-aged man who had just entered the mourning hall suddenly came out and shouted: "Fang Tongxing, ask Fang Tongxing to come to see me, it's too unusual!" ”.