Chapter VIII

Tomorrow is the Chinese New Year's Eve, there are still many things to prepare, the health grandma at home has been cleaned the day before yesterday, today is mainly steamed and fried.

Grandma Chen is a native of Lianghu, and she has been in northern Xinjiang for two years, and she also prepares to steam some sticky bean buns and big steamed buns, as well as tofu balls and cloth balls from her hometown, and steamed pork and steamed pork ribs should also be steamed in advance.

There are even more things to fry, turning dumplings and magnolia slices, fried meat and fruit and fried fish pieces, fried lotus root and fried radish balls......

The marinated vegetables are a little simpler, adjust the marinade, and put the beef, chicken, and lotus root, kelp, and thousand sheets that have been prepared in turn to cook, and press it down every once in a while.

Before the name of the dish that Grandma Chen was going to prepare was finished, Zeng Xiao's saliva was overflowing, and the meat standing on Zeng Xiao's shoulder incognito was even more saliva. Zeng Xiao despised it in his heart: "Aren't you elves only drinking nectar and dew? If you don't eat these, what kind of saliva will you droob! ”

"But it tastes good!" Rourou begged, "Wait a minute, give me a taste!" A little bit is fine! ”

Zeng Xiao snickered in his heart: "Okay, you go and ask the elf if you can eat it first!" ”

After breakfast, the grandparents and grandchildren were busy, washing vegetables, making noodles, steaming glutinous rice, chopping meat filling, three stoves were turned on together, steaming and boiling, and when the old man Chen came back after a circle at noon, the yard was already wafting with the tempting aroma of vegetables!

The lunch on the table in the hall has been set, this meal is the family recognition meal of the three grandparents, you can't be sloppy!

In the hot pot in the middle of the table, there are stewed pork ribs with lotus root, freshly baked steamed pork, brine platter, fried cabbage, and Grandma Chen's specialty dish: sour and delicious steamed eel, Zeng Xiao really misses the chili pepper in his hometown, and made a preserved egg chili pepper by himself.

The meat waited next to it for a long time, and the peppers didn't dare to eat it, and the other Zeng Xiao secretly fed it everything, and went back to sleep satisfied!

After eating lunch and brushing the bowls, Old Man Chen said that he would take Zeng Xiao out to eat first, which made Grandma Chen laugh and poke her directly: "You are going to show off your new granddaughter, right?" ”

The old man didn't argue with him, and she took Zeng Xiao out with a blank look.

At the end of the year, people who were away rushed back, and every household was lively, and everyone greeted each other warmly!

Old Man Chen happily introduced Zeng Xiao to his neighbors: "This is my granddaughter Xiaoxiao, who came to accompany us for the New Year!" After the neighbor praised Zeng Xiao, he said "where, where", and went to the next family in high spirits!

Zeng Xiaoying and Grandpa Chen greeted others, but he couldn't help but feel sour in his heart, Grandpa Chen's only son died in the army twenty years ago, and the newlywed wife had not had time to give birth to a boy and a girl, and later Grandma Chen asked her daughter-in-law to remarry, leaving only the old couple to live a difficult life. If it weren't for my son's comrades-in-arms, I don't know what the situation would be now! When he was just eating, Zeng Xiao inadvertently mentioned his nickname, which made Grandma Chen think of her son's past when he was a child, and she was sad!

Old Man Chen showed a circle, and walked back with Zeng Xiao with satisfaction. Before I had gone far, there was a sudden noise in front of me, a group of people gathered in a circle, and there was crying and scolding! Grandpa Chen hurriedly pulled Zeng Xiao and squeezed in!

At noon in the crowd, two men pressed a young man in his early twenties, a woman in her forties and fifties was crying loudly, and the young man's black cotton clothes were soaked with melted snow, lying on the ground and struggling desperately!

Zeng Xiao watched for a while, and he probably knew what happened: the middle-aged woman Sister-in-law Wu had lunch just now, went out and ran down the door, and when she came back, she found that the 20,000 yuan hidden in the bedroom was gone, and the neighbor's child who was playing at the door said that she saw Lin Ziye coming out of Sister-in-law Wu's house just now, and Sister-in-law Wu hurriedly called her husband and son to go out to find Lin Ziye together. Finally hold him down here!

Lin Ziye shouted while struggling: "Which little rabbit cub said that Lao Tzu stole it?" Although Lao Tzu is not a good person, Lao Tzu will never deny that it was done by Lao Tzu, and if he didn't do it, don't want to plant it on Lao Tzu's head! ”

Sister-in-law Wu blew her nose and scolded, "Who else is it not you?" You're the only one in the whole village who has been loitering all day, and you've never done a single serious job! Why do six or seven-year-old dolls frame you? Why don't you frame someone else? ”

Lin Ziye said angrily: "You call that little rabbit cub over to me to confront me!" Is it the little cub of Lin Laosan's family? I just passed over there and teased him a few words! Turning his head and framing Lao Tzu! Lin Laosan! Did you instruct it? Lao Tzu has no grievances with you, why do you want to harm me? You're a ****! ”

Zeng Xiao frowned, she felt that this Lin Ziye was wronged, but she couldn't be sure!

She leaned into Old Man Chen's ear and asked in a low voice, "Grandpa, what do you think is going on?" ”

Old Man Chen shook his head: "Although this Lin Ziye is usually not doing his job properly, he is also a principled person!" It's not like he'd do it! ”

While speaking, there was another commotion in the crowd, and a man in his thirties squeezed in with a six or seven-year-old boy, and scolded Lin Ziye as soon as he came in: "Why did Lao Tzu wronged you?" Dare to be a bad seed that you don't dare to recognize! Then he turned to the little boy and said, "Don't be afraid, say whatever you see!" As long as Lao Tzu is here, no one can do anything to you! ”

The little boy's face was flushed with fright, trembling slightly, and he turned around and hugged his adult's legs, not daring to raise his head.

Sister-in-law Wu cried loudly: "You are a thousand kills! The old lady stole half a year's hard-earned money, so you can't spend it if you steal it! As soon as the words fell, a line of words appeared above Sister-in-law Wu's head: "Help Sister-in-law Wu recover 20,000 yuan, and you can get 3,000 points for completion"

Zeng Xiao's eyes widened, 3000 points!!

She looked at the little boy who was trembling all over, and asked Old Man Chen in a low voice: "In your opinion, who took this money?" ”

Old Man Chen pinched the short beard on his chin and pouted in the direction of the little boy: "This is going to ask the little rabbit cub!" ”

Zeng Xiao had a plan, secretly took out the chicken feather arrow from the space sticker, followed the prompt, stared at the little boy attentively, and silently thought in his heart: Quickly say where the 20,000 yuan is! After reciting it for the third time, the chicken feather arrow in his hand turned into a golden light, flew towards the boy, and disappeared directly in the little boy's body!

Zeng Xiao looked around nervously, as if no one had noticed the golden light, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief!

While a group of people were arguing, the little boy suddenly raised his head and shouted, "I took the money, and I hid it in the snowdrift behind my house!" ”

For a while, the audience was silent!

"What nonsense are you talking about! You dare to say it again! Lin Laosan slapped his son on the head.

"That's what I took! I was afraid that others would find out, so I said that Uncle Ye took it, and I hid it in a snowdrift! The little boy covered his mouth in horror, but he couldn't help but shout!

"What are you arguing about? Just take a look! Hurry up and let go of Lao Tzu! Lin Ziye, who was still lying on the ground, shouted!

So, a group of people followed the excitement again! Sure enough, the 20,000 yuan was taken out in the snowdrift behind Lin Laosan's house!

Zeng Xiaoxizi's listening to the latest points progress of the meat report: 3000 points + 836 points before + 272 points obtained by being a helper for Grandma Chen in the morning, and now there are a total of 4108 points!

She breathed a sigh of relief, she only needed more than 800 points, and there was no pressure at all!