"No, when I went to borrow tongs before, Li Zheng mentioned it, and I gave it back." Qi Qizhu said.

"By the way, tongs, we have to buy tongs." Qi Jiuli said.

"Do you want to buy it, it's very expensive, in fact, I think the wooden one at the uncle's house is also good." Qi Shixiang said with a painful face.

"Brother, we have to return the tongs at Lizheng's house, we've borrowed them for a few days." Qi Jiuli looked at Qi Qizhu and asked.

"I have to pay it back, it's been a long time, it's not good." Qi Qizhu nodded.

"How much is a pair of tongs?" Qi Jiuli asked.

"Fifty wen." Qi Qizhu replied.

"Brother, then Ming'er, buy a pair of tongs when you come back." Qi Jiuli took out his purse and gave fifty Wen to Qi Qizhu.

"Okay." Qi Qizhu nodded.

"I really want to buy it." Qi Shixiang struggled.

"Look farther, a pair of tongs for fifty wen, we can earn back by selling more than four catties of charcoal." Qi Jiuli said.

"Then I'll make five pounds more tomorrow." Qi Shixiang said with high morale.

"Okay, okay." Qi Jiuli smiled helplessly.

On the second day of the second month of February, Qi Jiuli got up early in the morning, saw Qi Shixiang sleeping on the side, and proudly hooked the corners of his lips, he always got up early today.

Qi Jiuli gently lifted the quilt with his hands and feet, then tucked the corners of the quilt, carefully got off the kang, and slowly opened the door.

At this time, the sky outside the house was not yet dawn, and Qi Jiuli felt that it was four or five o'clock at most.

Starting the fire and burning the pot is already Qi Jiuli's handy work, of course, the main thing is that there is a good foundation of the original body, boiling the two stoves with hot water, and after the fire is stable, Qi Jiuli went to see the cupboard.

The cornmeal has bottomed out, and it is only one or two catties of weight, Qi Jiuli poured it all into the wooden basin, took the brown sugar he got from Qiu's house yesterday, put some in it, and then poured water to knead the dough.

Cornmeal is not fermented, and one or two catties of cornmeal Qi Jiuli also made six nests, but the amount is real.

Breakfast should be eaten well, Qi Jiuli has always followed this principle, put a bamboo grate in the boiling pot, and then put the nest head on it and cover it.

Qi Jiuli looked at the fire, and then hummed a song and went to the backyard, with a clear goal, that is, a shed for raising chickens.

"Goo-" Qi Jiuli approached and didn't forget to hum.

The chickens in the shed all got up and walked around, Qi Jiuli's eyes scanned for a while, hehe, good luck, didn't you see three eggs.

Qi Jiuli opened the doorrail of the shed, avoided the chicken poop and carefully entered, and picked up the three eggs.

When he returned to the kitchen with the eggs, Qi Qizhu was already there.

"Brother, get up, the pot is hot water, you scoop it up and wash it." Qi Jiuli put three eggs in the basin, took a clay bowl out, beat two eggs into it, picked up the chopsticks and broke them up neatly.

Qi Qizhu wanted to speak and stopped, looked at Qi Jiuli's smiling face, didn't say anything, took a wooden basin and a cloth towel and scooped hot water and went out to wash.

When Qi Qizhu came back from washing, Qi Jiuli scooped boiling hot water in it again, "These are for ten incense and eleven wash." ”

Seeing that the amount of hot water in the pot was appropriate, Qi Jiuli directly poured the beaten eggs in the pottery bowl, put several spoonfuls of brown sugar, stirred it quickly, and then scooped it into the bowl with a rice spoon, just four bowls.

"Wow, it's so fragrant, big sister, what did you do." When Qi Shiyi came out of the house, he happened to see Qi Shixiang rubbing his eyes and coming out of the house.

When Qi Qizhu got up, Qi Shiyi knew that he was a little earlier than himself, so the fragrance in the kitchen must have been made by Qi Jiuli now.

"It's all up, go wash up, and then you can eat." Qi Jiuli said with a smile.

"Wow, frangipani in sugar water." After seeing the contents of the pottery bowl, Qi Shiyi's eyes widened and he couldn't help but swallow his saliva.

Qi Shixiang, who was yawning, paused suddenly, looked at the pottery bowl in disbelief, and then looked distressed.

"Don't feel distressed, think about that basket of eggs yesterday." Qi Jiuli saw Qi Shixiang's expression, rubbed the top of her hair and said, "Can't the four of us eat two eggs?" ”

Yesterday's basket of eggs was not only exchanged for a roast chicken, two catties of brown sugar, two pastries, and fifty copper coins, Qi Shixiang thought about it, and his mood calmed down, my sister was right, I can still eat two eggs.

"Sister, I'm going to wash up."

Seeing that his second sister was so calm, Qi Shiyi gave Qi Jiuli a thumbs up in admiration, "It's still the eldest sister who is amazing." ”

When Qi Shixiang came back, he saw another pot of mist and mist appearance, and after seeing the cornmeal nest inside, he looked stunned again, "Sister, you used all the cornmeal?" ”

"Hmm." Qi Jiuli nodded, "There isn't much left, it's better to do it all at once, in the next few days, we will eat sweet potatoes, and then go to find wild vegetables." ”

After taking out the cornmeal nest and picking up the bamboo grate with chopsticks, Qi Jiuli put three bird eggs into the boiling water.

Six cornmeal nests, four people ate one, and then drank a bowl of brown sugar frangipani.

"Wow, it's delicious." Qi Shiyi licked his lips and tasted back.

"Isn't it delicious?" Qi Shixiang muttered, and then consciously cleaned up and went to wash the dishes.

Qi Jiuli put the brown sugar into the empty sugar jar, then wrapped a cornmeal nest with oiled paper, put the three bird eggs fished out of the pot into it, and handed it to Qi Qizhu, "Brother, take it to the private school and eat it separately with the eighth cousin." ”

"It takes a lot of brains to study, and you still have to pad it at noon." Qi Jiuli added, "The food you took yesterday is sweet potatoes and potatoes, which are all available at home, and we can't be hungry." ”

"Brother, the eldest sister is right." Qi Shiyi nodded in agreement.

"Okay, I'll take it, Eleven, if you encounter something that can't be solved, I'll go to the uncle and the aunt." Qi Qizhu explained.

"yes, got it." Qi Shiyi responded.

Qi Qizhu went to find Qi Basong, and took out the three hundred Wen and gave it to Qi Shan and Chi Lingmiao, "Uncle, uncle, this was borrowed before, and now there is ......"

"Qizhu, you're just irritating your uncle's face like this." Qi Shan didn't answer, "Your father and your mother are our own brothers and sisters, I didn't say that before, you don't take the money alive or dead, you can only say that you will lend it to you first, but we don't plan to ask you to pay it back." ”

Qi Shan said seriously, "If you want to repay this money, then we have to recalculate the silver money from selling charcoal yesterday, it was you who figured it out, what is the matter with us." ”

When Qi Qizhu heard this, he could only put away the copper coins.

"That's right." Qi Shan smiled and said, "Quick, let's have breakfast together." ”

"Uncle, I'll eat." Qi Qizhu was afraid that Qi Shan would not believe it, so he specially took out the nest head he was carrying.