Chapter 25: Packing up your new home
Yan Zhen Wusheng noodles, Meng Zhen was responsible for adding the code and sauce, the two worked together, and soon the five big bowls of cold tao were placed on the big table of Hao Mengyun's family by Meng Hao.
Hao Mengyun and Xiao Mengqi were the first to get Leng Tao, and the colorful and delicious Leng Tao made people feel reveled when they looked at it, but neither of them immediately moved their chopsticks.
It wasn't until everyone was seated at the table that the two of them couldn't wait to take a bite of the slightly yellowed gluten noodles in their bowls.
It has been less than half a year since Xiao Meng Qi learned to use chopsticks, and his clumsy movements are very cute when he looks at them.
He first picked a noodle and began to suck it, and then took a cucumber shreds and chewed it carefully, the little chubby face was bulging one after another, and Meng Zhen had the urge to rub it a few times.
The five of them had a beautiful meal, and then Meng Zhen went to the kitchen to wash the dishes, Hao Mengyun and Yan Zhenwu packed up the things they were going to bring to the village tomorrow, and Su Shen coaxed little Meng Qimei to take a nap.
In the afternoon, Meng Zhen took Su Shen and Xiao Meng Qi to a ready-to-wear store, and the three of them each bought two sets of clothes and kept them to change them.
As for her and Su Shen, one of them wants to go into the mountains to hunt and support their families, and the other wants to learn kung fu from her to prepare for revenge, and it is a waste to buy muslin clothes, so they are all the most ordinary and sturdy coarse cloth clothes.
Su Shen has no opinion, he is a person who has pretended to be a homeless person and slept in the barren mountains and mountains, and he has been wearing coarse cloth clothes every day recently.
Besides, he is a "soft rice man" who only has ten taels of silver in his hand, and he relies on Meng Zhen to eat and drink every day.
Meng Zhen can think of buying clothes for him, he is already very grateful, where is he embarrassed to pick and choose dislike clothes that are not comfortable and advanced enough?
In addition to clothes, Meng Zhen also bought two small jars of wine and some bits and pieces that Hao Mengyun didn't expect, and the three of them had been wandering outside until sunset, and Meng Zhen returned to Hao Mengyun's house with a vegetable basket and a bunch of newly bought things.
Yan Zhenwu had already hired two carriages for them, and tomorrow he and Hao Mengyun would follow Meng Hao and the others to Yulin Village in Mujiaji Town.
One. There are no words in the night.
Early the next morning, Meng Zhen got up early, baked a few egg cakes for everyone, and cooked a pot of mung bean soup.
Yan Zhenwu got up earlier than her, and when Meng Zhen was cooking, Yan Zhenwu had already bought back a roast chicken, a package of braised pork, twenty baked cakes, twenty steamed buns, and twenty vegetarian buns.
"I see that the house you bought, the pots were taken away, and we are afraid that we will not be able to open the fire directly at noon."
Yan Zhenwu put a large pile of food he bought back into the wicker basket containing pots and pans, "When I go to Yulin Village, I will help you install the pot first, I have already brought the mud trowel, and I will keep it for you when the time comes, and it will not leak smoke at all." ”
Meng Zhen and the two houses they bought, the owner not only took away the cabinets at home, but also took away his own iron pots, kitchen knives, dishes and chopsticks, etc., so they had to buy all these things anew.
Yesterday, Hao Mengyun had the foresight to help Meng Zhen buy a complete set of cooking utensils and tableware, after all, iron products are very expensive these days, Hao Mengyun didn't expect from the beginning that the original owner of the house, which was also just ordinary people, would leave the pot and other things for his own use.
Now the only furniture that Meng Zhen and they lack is a cupboard, because this thing takes up too much space, so Meng Zhen has already thought about going to the village to find someone to make it.
If there was no carpenter in the village, then she would wait until she settled down in Yulin Village, and then take Meng Qi and Su Shen to the town to buy them.
Anyway, in the future, she will often go to the town to sell her prey, and she can just make money to buy both, which is perfect.
A group of five hired two carriages, one to carry people and the other to pull goods, and when they entered the village, Yan Zhenwu came out of the carriage and commanded the coachman to drive the carriage directly to the two houses in the innermost part of the village and closest to the big black mountain.
The coachman and Yan Zhenwu were old acquaintances, and not only helped pull things to the place, but also helped move all the things into the house that fell under Meng Zhen's name.
Yan Zhenwu settled the car money for them, and the two coachmen drove the carriage back to the county seat, while Meng Zhen and the others who stayed behind rolled up their sleeves and got busy.
Yan Zhenwu was responsible for firmly installing the big iron pot on top of the empty earthen stove, Hao Mengyun, who couldn't do housework, was responsible for taking care of Meng Qi, and Meng Zhen and Su Shen cleaned the room together.
The two tied a long broom and cleaned the walls and roof, and then took a small broom and began to clean the doors, windows, and ondol.
The two of them were busy, but suddenly there were three kinds of footsteps at the open courtyard door.
Immediately afterwards, the courtyard door of the Meng family was knocked twice.
Meng Zhen was standing outside the window to carefully sweep the dust on the window lattice, and immediately looked back when she heard the sound.
"You are the Meng family who bought this house, right?" At the gate of the courtyard, a middle-aged woman wearing a coarse linen dress with patches and patches, but the whole person was full of neat energy, asked Meng Hao with a smile.
Meng Hao bowed slightly, "Something is wrong with my aunt?" ”
"It's okay, just come over and say hello and see if you need me and my son and daughter to give you a hand." The woman's smile did not change, "My surname is Li, my husband's surname is Guo, this is my son Guo Yang, my daughter Guo Xing'er, and my house is next door to you." ”
Meng Hao hurriedly put down the small broom and shovel in her hand, and greeted her with a smile, "Aunt Guo is good, Brother Guo is good, and the Guo family sister is good." It's because I'm rude, and I didn't think to go to your house to say hello or say hello to you. ”
At this time, Aunt Guo had already looked at Yan Zhenwu, Hao Mengyun, Su Shen, and Meng Qi in the courtyard, her eyes were open, and even if she looked at it, she only glanced at it quickly, so it was not annoying.
Hearing this conversation between the two, Yan Zhenwu and the others also stopped what they were doing, and without Meng Zhen greeting them, they came over one after another and greeted each other with Aunt Guo's family.
said that it was a greeting, but in fact, it was nothing more than introducing their identities to each other, and then Yan Zhenwu would say a few words such as "Please take care of my nephews and nieces in the future".
It wasn't until she agreed to take care of Meng Zhen a few more times in a daze, that Aunt Guo realized it later, and finally realized the implied lines in Yan Zhenwu's words, she was very surprised, "What does Little Brother Yan mean that you, you and Sister Hao don't live here?" ”
Yan Zhenwu nodded, "Only my nephews and nieces live here, and Mengyun and I will occasionally come over to stay for a while." ”
Aunt Guo suddenly felt a heavy responsibility, her expression was serious, and she assured Yan Zhenwu with a solemn face, "Little brother Yan, don't worry, our family will definitely take care of these children." If there is anything, they just need to shout through the courtyard wall, and I or my Ah Yang will come over to help. ”