Chapter 51: Gossip
Sprinkle a little salt, the dish is out of the pot, then fry two vegetarian dishes, and cook a bowl of soup, make up three dishes and one soup on the table, with meat dishes it is particularly exciting.
Bai Mingwei and the others were already salivating over the plate of pork fried bitter gourd at the dinner table, and couldn't wait to start the meal.
took out a few wine glasses and filled them with rice wine one by one, and Daddy Bai started the meal with a knock of his chopsticks.
Tao and Bai Lao Niang stretched out their chopsticks to the plate of pork fried bitter gourd almost at the same time, and the chopsticks were too eager to pick up the vegetables and accidentally bumped into each other. This is serious, but it is not filial, how can there be a daughter-in-law who grabs food with her mother-in-law?
The white lady glanced at her coldly, considering that it was not easy to speak on the festival, and she was also used to Tao's virtues, so she gently let it go.
But Tao didn't care, as if he didn't notice this at all, and put a large piece of meat into his bowl, and then put two chopsticks of meat into Bai Mingxin's bowl, and then continued to hoard meat in his bowl, and waited until she noticed the white eyes of Bai Lao Niang before stopping.
Bai Mingxuan didn't notice this, she concentrated on tasting this rare delicacy, her mouth hadn't tasted meat for several months, and now seeing meat was like a wolf seeing food, and her eyes were green.
The pork stir-fried with enough lard is just right, and the fried meat slices are slightly rolled up with oil, blending with a slight bitter gourd fragrance, neutralizing the greasy meat, and a shallot fragrance erupts in the mouth, which makes people want to stop.
Bai Mingxuan unconsciously ate several slices of meat, came back to her senses, and found that it was a bit too much to eat again, smashing her mouth and stretching her chopsticks to the bitter gourd in the bowl.
While eating, she thought about how to inquire about the young man who gave her bayberry that day, but the old lady Bai only said that the young man lived in the mountains, and nothing else was clear, and she wanted to know more or ask others.
Looking at the family in the room, no matter what conflicts there are on weekdays, eating in harmony at this time makes Daddy Bai can't help but be happy, so he raises his glass and drinks with his sons, and talks.
From time to time, Bai Da gave vegetables to the Wang family, who was embarrassed to eat, and also took care of his little daughter, who was far from being able to pick up vegetables. Everyone was satisfied with a meal......
When the Bai family started to eat, some people were still rushing home after finishing their day's farm work.
The slanting sun shone on the ground and pulled people out of a long shadow, and the old woman who was talking to Bai Lao Niang just now walked home with a bamboo basket.
The woman in Tsing Yi, who was carrying a hoe to the house, saw her coming, slowed down and greeted with a smile: "Auntie, are you going home?" Why is it so late today? Is there a lot of farm work in the fields? ”
"Hey, it's not those things that we farm every day, we can't make a few dollars from the beginning of the year to the end of the year, and we can't do it if we are not busy, and we can only drink the northwest wind if we don't have a harvest!" Seeing that it was someone she was familiar with, the old woman walked a few steps forward to talk.
As the saying goes, things gather like people and people are divided into groups, and people in Peach Blossom Village can always be related to each other, but they are also familiar with those who are not familiar with each other, and these two people are acquaintances who often talk together.
"Alas, who says it's not, there are many people in our family, both old and young, how dare we not work? The men in the family are unreliable, and they know to go out to play all day long, and if I don't work anymore, I'm afraid that the family will starve to death! The woman in Tsing Yi agreed, frowned and spit out her bitterness at the old woman, and flattered the old woman, "It's still the little aunt's life is happy, the son at home is diligent, the daughter-in-law is obedient and filial, and when the grandson grows up, he will enjoy the blessings!" ”
"What blessings do I enjoy? There are many things in the family, I have to worry about the big ones and the small ones, work hard, this life is an inexhaustible heart! Having said that, there was a hint of pride on the old woman's face.
The woman in Tsing Yi changed the hoe to one shoulder, and saw that the old woman was very useful for her flattery, but she leaned in with disdain and said, "Ouch, you are too modest! How many people in this village have a better life than your old man? The husband loves others and the son is filial, and the daughter marries a good family in the town. Auntie, if you want me to say that your old man's blessings are still to come! ”
That's right, can a husband not hurt people if he is a wreck? The son is like a daddy, and he is also a useless poke and move, the daughter-in-law was treated obediently by her, and the daughter was a concubine for the lord of a big family in the town, and she hasn't gotten a little benefit yet, isn't the blessing just behind! She wasn't wrong.
The old woman was relieved when she heard this, and a smile appeared between her eyebrows, but she still didn't dare to respond carelessly, "Alas, don't you dare to say that, this peach blossom village has a lot of good life!" What am I? ”
"What? In this Peach Blossom Village, except for the rich people in the family, who else has a better life than you, auntie? The woman in Tsing Yi pursed her lips secretly, looking down on her face and the hypocrisy of being modest in her mouth.
The chief is in charge of the taxation and servitude of Peach Blossom Village, and is considered the richest family in Peach Blossom Village, and his relatives are also living better than ordinary people.
"Who else? It's the Bai family I passed by just now. The bamboo basket was changed to a hand, and the old woman grabbed her sleeve and wiped her sweat.
"The Bai family? Didn't their eldest daughter borrow a large amount of money to treat her uncle's injuries during the Chinese New Year? I heard that after borrowing money, they can't even afford to tie their grandson's shackles, how can they have a good life? ”
"Who knows? I just saw with my own eyes that their family bought several catties of pork during the Dragon Boat Festival and went back! Mrs. Bai personally told me that their children wanted to eat meat during the festival, so they bought it. I see, their family must not know where to get rich, and now rich children eat meat if they want to. ”
"This ...... It's weird......"
Gossiping, the two soon arrived home.
At dinner, the woman in Tsing Yi looked at the no meat and fishy food on the table, and couldn't help but complain to her concubine after eating, and by the way, she added oil and vinegar to the Bai family, and spit out bitterness that she had married to this family and couldn't eat a meal of meat during the holidays.
She is a concubine who loves to gossip more than her, she is a famous big mouth in Peach Blossom Village, what she knows is equivalent to the whole village knows, after hearing this, she took this as a talking point when she washed clothes the next day.
Anyone who has played the game of passing on the word knows that some words change their original meaning when they are passed on, not to mention the words that have been exaggerated?
Within a few days, almost the entire Peach Blossom Village knew that the Bai family was developed.
Soon someone thought that Bai Mingxuan and Chunhua often picked strange flowers and plants in the mountains, and then took them to the town to sell, and after some investigation, they finally learned the Bai family's "wealth code" - selling medicinal herbs.
Bai Mingxuan often went to Dr. Wang's house to help, although he said that it was to help pay off debts, but he must have learned a lot of things, such as digging medicinal materials to sell.
Selling medicinal herbs must be very profitable, and Chunhua's neighbors confirmed this, because the Bai family had already begun to hire Chunhua to work. So the Bai family must have made a fortune by selling medicinal herbs!
I have to say that the power of the masses of the people is great, and this association has guessed the truth without leaving ten, except for the fact that the results are somewhat exaggerated, and the others have been guessed about the same.
Rumors always have a big characteristic, that is, things are getting more and more outrageous, but the people who are in the rumors are often the last to know.
On this day, Tao, who had just come out of her mother's house, was stopped by the little daughter-in-law of the Tao butcher's family, and the woman who had a bad attitude in the past changed her face and greeted her gently.
"Ah Chun, come in and sit down?" The little daughter-in-law smiled and beckoned to her.
Tao thought that there was nothing to do, so it was better to go in and sit down, and by the way, see what she was going to do today, could it be that there was something to ask her?