Chapter 9: Honorable
Mu Yunxue glanced at Mu Shanshan, who had been looking for clothes, thirteen-year-old Mu Shanshan had gradually faded away from the girl's youthfulness, tall and tall, with a slender waist, although she looked very thin, but it was not like Mu Yunxue, who was as thin as dry wood caused by long-term malnutrition, but the kind of thinness with plump pink skin.
"Yes." Mu Yunxue responded, although she didn't want to do it in her heart, but she thought that she had forgotten what Mu Shanshan had told her before, and then Mu Shanshan complained to the Li family, but the Li family not only asked Mu Yunxue to tell that things had been done, but also punished Mu Yunxue for kneeling in the courtyard for two hours, and was not allowed to eat for a day.
In order to avoid such a punishment for herself, Mu Yunxue still chose to endure first, anyway, according to what she heard outside the main house just now, the people in the big house came back to separate the family this time. If this division is proposed by the third and fourth rooms, you don't have to think about it, but if it is proposed by the big house, then there is a big possibility of this matter, after all, the second elder of the Mu family listens to the words of the big house the most, and chooses unconditional support and belief in everything that the big house says.
found a rag and a basin of water from outside the house, and Mu Yunxue squatted and began to mop the floor after getting a basin of water.
It's really good, this is a bluestone slab floor, and it is so smooth and flat that it has to fight with the current floor tiles.
Mu Yunxue sighed while wiping the ground, thinking of the thatched mud wall land house where she lived, this was simply a heaven and an earth.
By the time Mu Yunxue had finished wiping the floor of the entire house, it was already dark, and it was time for dinner.
Dinner was served in the main house of the Mu family, and there were two tables, one table for the men of the family to sit, and the other table for women and children, and there was no difference in the dishes of the two tables.
Mu Yunxue sat with the third brother Mu Zhiyi and Mu Xiaoyu, sitting in the lowest and worst position, while the Li family took the eldest daughter-in-law Zhou and the second daughter-in-law Liu to sit in the top position, and next to them sat Mu Ruxia, Mu Shanshan, Mu Yiyi and Mu Zhiwu in turn.
"Mother, you are tired all afternoon, drink a bowl of chicken soup before you come to eat." As soon as he sat down, Zhou first served Li a bowl of chicken soup.
Li Shi was naturally very satisfied with Zhou's little courtesy, his wrinkled face was full of smiles, and then he made a look that he thought he was very decent, picked up Zhou's chicken soup and took a sip of satisfaction.
"Mother, try my fried chicken, you will definitely like it." Seeing that Zhou's easily won Li's favor, Liu's heart was full of disdain, after he was busy in the kitchen in the afternoon, he was scolded by Li's old beggar, why didn't I see you come to the kitchen to help, now come to please who to see!
Li drank the chicken soup and then took another bite of the chicken that Liu had sandwiched for himself, and the smile on his face became deeper and deeper.
"Grandma, try this fish, I've already picked out the bones for you." Mu Yiyi gave a chopstick fish meat to Li's and said sweetly.
"Okay, we're the most well-behaved." Li smiled and ate the fish meat that Mu Yiyi had sandwiched.
"Milk, this green vegetable tastes good." Mu Shanshan also followed closely behind Mu Yiyi and gave Li a chopstick of green vegetables.
"Okay, grandma eats it all." When Li saw Mu Shanshan serving vegetables for herself, the smile on her face was even bigger, and her eyes were full of satisfaction.
And Mu Yunxue, Mu Zhiyi and Mu Xiaoyu, who were at the bottom, lowered their heads and pulled the rice full of sweet potatoes in the bowl, and the dishes were only the nearest stack of pickles, and the rest of the dishes were not only far away, but they also did not dare to clip.
Mu Yunxue swallowed two mouthfuls of sweet potatoes, this is the best meal she has eaten since she crossed, it is usually a coarse grain that is difficult to swallow, and this sweet potato is only available to people in the big room when they come back, cooking is steamed sweet potato rice, and the white rice is naturally eaten by the second elder of the Mu family, Mu Ruxia, and the big room and the second room, and the people in the third and fourth rooms only eat sweet potatoes.
The dishes on the table are also fixed, because the location is fixed, so things like chicken and fish are generally placed far away from the people in the third and fourth rooms, and the third and fourth rooms only eat pickles.
Once Mu Zhiyi also had the courage to pick up the meat of a chopstick, but he was beaten by Li on the spot and scraped on the spot, and was punished to kneel in the courtyard and think about it for a day.
Ay! Mu Yunxue originally wanted to eat chicken and fish, but thinking of Li's awesomeness, she thought about it for her own sake.
The two elders of the Mu family and the big and second rooms ate happily at one meal, while the people in the third and fourth rooms became air.
Mu Yunxue finished eating the sweet potatoes in the bowl, and then left the main house and went back to his thatched house.
"Mother, what are you doing, lie down and rest!" As soon as she entered the house, Mu Yunxue saw the Chu family sewing and mending clothes.
"Yunxue is back, and your father left something for you in the haystack." Chu looked up at Mu Yunxue and smiled, but he didn't stop what he was doing.
Left something? Mu Yunxue was puzzled at first, but quickly reacted, and said how did she feel that something was missing at the dinner table today, it turned out to be that, it seems that because of today's incident, grandma has broken her father's heart, but this is okay, my father was too filial in the past, so he listened to grandma in everything, and his wife and children also suffered.
Mu Yunxue thought like this, stopped walking to the side of the haystack in the house, and then rummaged through the haystack and found a sealed jar, which was originally the jar where Sister Xiaoyu gave herself hot water during the day, but now the jar is much lighter, Mu Yunxue opened the jar, and immediately a tempting smell of barbecue came to her nose.
Wow, so much meat, how to say there is also a small half jar.
Mu Yunxue looked at the meat in the jar, swallowed her saliva, then wiped her hand on her clothes and unceremoniously took out a piece of chicken leg from the jar and gnawed it.
The barbecue is only salty, but because it is game, it is still delicious.
"Mother, did you leave these for me?" Mu Yunxue walked to Chu's side and sat down holding the jar, gnawing on the pheasant leg in her hand very unimaged, while watching Chu's sewing clothes.
"Mother, the light of this oil lamp is so dim, why don't you make up for it tomorrow, so as not to hurt your eyes." Mu Yunxue looked at the clothes in Chu's hand, the clothes were very old, and they were also full of patches, but Mu Yunxue could still see that this was a men's clothes, which meant that this was Mu Jingze's clothes.
"It's better to make it up quickly, your father went hunting in the mountains without telling your grandmother, and accidentally scratched his clothes, if you don't make it up today, it won't be good for your grandma to see it another day." The Chu family was inevitably a little nervous about doing things without telling the second elder of the Mu family for the first time, and he also withheld the prey he had hit, so many things were quite complicated.
"Mother, what's this, Dad has to do so many things every day, isn't it common to tear clothes." Mu Yunxue said, and then put aside the clothes that had escaped Chu's hand, and persuaded Chu's to rest quickly.
"Mother, now that you are pregnant with your little brother, it is time to rest more, so don't do these things in the future, isn't it just to mend clothes, and I will make up for my father tomorrow." Mu Yunxue comforted Chu Shidao.
"But," Chu glanced at the clothes that Mu Yunxue had put aside with some unease.
And just when Mu Yunxue still wanted to persuade the Chu family, the door of the thatched house was opened.