Chapter 37 I want to go to her mother-in-law's house to borrow food
Tonight, some of the people in the Jia family finally had their fill.
Although Ma is a person, his cooking skills are not very good. But she came up with a lot of crooked ideas.
The half-catty pastries that the girl brought back were all put in the pot by her and cooked in one meal.
She added half a catty of sorghum seeds, five catties of wild vegetables, and one catty of mustard to the pot, and after boiling everything into a paste, she distributed it to everyone spoonful by spoonful.
However, Jia Xiaolan and the seven children she gave birth to did not get a spoonful.
Ma said to Jia Xiaolan with a smile, "Xiaolan, don't blame your mother. ”
"It's really ,...... Our family really can't open the pot! We can't support ourselves, how can we live, you still have you children? ”
"By the way, didn't you just show off to us that your mother-in-law is very generous? You've been eating good oil cakes lately. We are all poor families, and we don't have a good life like you! I can't afford to eat that ......."
Jia Xiaolan looked at her mother like this, and saw her eldest brother and sister-in-law, second brother and second sister-in-law, all looking at her with that kind of anti-thief eyes, and she was angry at that time.
She snorted coldly in her heart, thinking, if you don't eat, you won't eat, do they still think I'm rare?
knows that what his wife said is also true. Her life as a mother's family is indeed not easy. Therefore, after Jia Xiaolan endured it for a long time, she finally held back a sentence.
"Mother, I know, you can eat your first. You don't have to worry about us......"
After speaking, Jia Xiaolan raised her head again and said angrily, "Anyway, I see that you are all fine, so I am relieved." …… Early tomorrow morning, I'm going to go back. I just got mad at that man and I don't know what to say to my mother-in-law when my man goes back......"
Hearing these words, Ma Shi stopped doing it at that time.
"Girl, didn't we say okay? When the rain stops, you're going to take us to your mother-in-law's house to borrow some food?" ”
When Jia Xiaolan heard this, she frowned and said with a tangled face.
"Mother, I thought about it just now. I think my man just lost his temper,...... It seems like it's really me, and I've gone too far. If you want to borrow food, don't you take so many people with you? ”
"Daddy, to put it mildly, I think if you bring so many people over, my in-laws will not only not welcome it, but will not agree to lend you food?"
"Besides, in fact, I don't know how much food my parents-in-law have hidden......
Seeing his daughter like this, Ma's expression changed.
She turned her head and glanced at her man. I found that he was constantly giving himself a look. In addition, her three sons were also there and said, "Mother, third sister, she is right." ”
"If we go to borrow food, we should not go to too many people. After all, if we all go out, the things in this house will be stolen by others. ”
"Mother, although you have hidden all the valuable things, there are too many idlers in our village! We walked on the front foot, and they ran to our house on the back foot. If we really listened to what the third sister said before, and hid in the cave with her mother-in-law's family, then when the rain stopped, we went down the mountain, and the loess wall of our house, the loess stove, and the beams on the roof, the roof tiles and straw would all be stolen by others. ”
"Yes, mother, the eldest brother is right. Yesterday at noon, when I went out quietly, I found that the widow's house at the end of the village was sitting in the rain crying for her father and mother, saying that she was still at home, and someone was stealing her firewood and clothes. Think about it, if all the people in our family go out, and there is only one man left in the house, or only a few women left, then the people of other people's families will come and bully them in groups......"
When Ma heard her sons say such things, she thought about it and nodded at that time.
"Okay. Then let's not follow your three sisters and run up the mountain! ”
"Let's assign five or six people to go up the mountain to your mother-in-law's house to borrow some grain."
Hearing this, Jia Xiaolan nodded lightly, sat there with a few children, and stopped making a sound.
Seeing that her mother's family was eating deliciously, and Jia Xiaolan, whose belly was already hungry, quietly swallowed a mouthful of saliva.
Jia Xiaolan gave birth to 5 sons, almost all of whom were about eleven or twelve years old. The oldest is 12 years old. The youngest is only 8 years old this year.
When they saw that the Jia family, except for those little girls, everyone else was eating, and they couldn't help but swallow their saliva.
Jia Xiaolan's eldest son has been very naughty and bold since he was a child. His name is Big Sheep.
Seeing that they were eating with relish, he just hugged Jia Xiaolan's waist and cried quietly, "Mother, I'm hungry, I want to eat......"
As soon as Wu Dayang finished saying this, several of his younger brothers also began to howl.
"Mother, I'm hungry, I'm hungry, I want to eat too......"
Seeing that these children were about to make a fuss, Jia Xiaolan had a headache.
These sons are her future dependence. She couldn't chill their hearts.
Jia Xiaolan's eyes rolled, and she said to her mother with a flattering face.
"Mother, why don't you give us a few and give us a bowl of mush? 6 of us eat a bowl, okay? ”
Before Ma heard this, Jia Xiaolan's sister-in-law Wang said it extremely unhappily.
"Third sister, were you deaf just now?"
"Didn't you hear our mother say that our things have bottomed out? We are all starving to death, and you still have to go to us to beg for food,...... You're too thick-skinned, aren't you? Do you want to starve your father and your brother to death? ”
Jia Xiaolan didn't want to quarrel with her sister-in-law.
Because once she quarrels with her, her own father and mother, her eldest brother, will talk about her together.
After Jia Xiaolan held her breath for a long time, she said to her children, "You guys are more sensible, okay?" ”
"Tomorrow morning, when we go back, you will be able to eat the oil cakes made by grandma. You shouldn't be used to eating the mushy vegetables cooked by your grandmother. And those things aren't tasty......"
Hearing what she said, Jia Xiaolan's sons still made a fuss.
Because they're really hungry right now, they're dying of hunger.
My stomach was already rumbling with hunger.
They have to eat now.
These sons have always been Jia Xiaolan, the most precious treasures in their hearts.
Jia Xiaolan was entangled by them, and there was really no way to do it. She thought about it, and now she could simply take them back.
Jia Xiaolan decided to leave, and Ma was a little entangled in his heart. But soon, she figured things out.
I took my eldest son and younger son to her mother-in-law's house to borrow food as soon as possible, and these people in my own family were also relieved.