Chapter 54: The Smell of Chili Peppers
Shen Shuang's words made Xiao Wan's eyes glare, and he stretched out his hand and pointed at her tremblingly, "You, you dead fat pig just don't have a good heart." ”
Shen Shuangcai didn't have time to deal with the troubles that came to her all day, so she found a few dustpans to separate the Chaotian peppers in the back basket and pour them into it to dry, preparing to get some dried chili peppers and mash them into chili powder when the time came.
Xiao Wan was naturally unhappy when she saw that she was being ignored, and when she saw Shen Shuang walking out of the kitchen, she stared at Xiao Shan, who was gnawing on small fruits in the kitchen.
Xiaoshan watched her walk towards him, got up and cowered in the corner, and looked at her with a pair of dark eyes with fear.
Xiao Wanshi saw that the fruit he was carrying in his arms looked quite fresh, so he snatched it all, "Hey, you little dumb, how can you find such fresh fruits every day?" Quite capable! ”
Saying that, she took advantage of Shen Shuang's failure to come back, so she rummaged through the big basket she carried back, and found that they were all unattractive wild vegetables.
However, she found some yellow-green river clams with a round bottom and a triangle, and she picked them up curiously to take a look, and she had also seen them in the stream.
Of course, there were people in the village who used to fish and eat it, but after eating it, they said that this thing was very bad, so she didn't pay much attention to it, and she couldn't help but wonder what Shen Shuang was doing when she picked up these things.
When Shen Shuang dried the peppers and walked back to the kitchen, Xiao Wanshi was no longer there, but it was obvious that her back basket was turned over, Xiaoshan still drooped her head when she came in, and Shen Shuang saw that the fruit in his hand was gone, guessing that Xiao Wanshi came in to find food and snatched the small fruit of a child of a few years old.
She touched Xiaoshan's head and comforted, "Xiaoshan is fine, my sister will take you to pick fruits tomorrow." ”
The little radish head was also easy to be comforted, nodded when he heard the words, and ate the last fruit left in his hand, feeling that the taste was very sweet, and of course his heart was also sweet, he had eaten the most delicious thing in the world today.
Shen Shuang asked him to go out to play, this kid followed her all day to help with the work, but after all, he was a child, and she was reluctant to always enslave him, and taught him several games that he could play by himself.
Because Xiaoshan couldn't speak, the children in the village didn't want to play with him, and they knew from what happened on the big haystack before, so Shen Shuang didn't let him go far.
She picked up vegetables from the back basket only to find that there were a lot of clams at the bottom of the back basket with leaves, and they were all very large, obviously the little gourd hunter took advantage of her inattention to secretly put in the clams he had worked so hard to catch.
Shen Shuang was very helpless, but she was grateful to him in her heart, she poured the river clam into a wooden basin filled with water and poured some raw salt into it, planning to get a chili pepper fried river clam for the family tonight to taste.
When Xu came back, Shen Shuang was already lighting a fire in the kitchen, and she was not idle today, because she didn't have to beat pigweed, and after delivering the meal, she went to the mountain to pick up firewood and find wild vegetables.
"Mother, you're back, you can make wowotou with noodles in a while, and let me make other dishes."
"Hey, okay, this is the wild vegetables that my mother picked up in the mountains, you can make a wild vegetable soup in a while, and you have found so many wild vegetables today? What are you going to eat? ”
A few days ago, Xu was very worried that Shen Shuang would not be able to adapt to life in the farmhouse, and finally saw that she seemed to accept her current situation, and yesterday she made a fuss about her mother-in-law selling her daughter to an old man.
For this matter, Xu couldn't sleep at all last night, although he knew that the child's father said that he would discuss it with his mother-in-law, but he didn't come back to the town, and she was still panicked all day, especially today when her daughter offended her second brother and sister.
Shen Shuang was talking about what she planned to cook for her family tonight, but before she finished speaking, she saw her mother wiping her eyes and crying.
Shen Shuang looked confused, and hurriedly put down the things in her hand and walked over to help her sit down, "Mother, don't cry first, what's wrong?" What happened? ”
Xiaoshan, who was helping Shen Shuang choose vegetables, walked over inexplicably, tiptoed and reached out to pat his mother's back, and Shen Shuang gave him an approving look.
Xu felt depressed, and the more he looked at it, the more reluctant he was to let this daughter who had just come to the house, for fear that she would really be sold.
"Xiaoshuang, my mother is sorry for you."
Shen Shuang felt inexplicably sad when she saw Xu Shi say this, thinking of her parents in modern times.
In fact, her parents divorced when she was very young, but her parents were busy with work and no one wanted to take her, and she grew up with her grandmother since she was a child.
Not long after the divorce, the two formed a new family and had their own children, except for her grandmother, she lacked father's love and mother's love since she was a child.
In addition, her grandmother died of illness when she was in junior high school, she broke into the entertainment industry alone after graduating from college, desperately receiving announcements and filming in order to make money, the agent treated her as a machine, and the assistant treated her as a high-ranking boss, in fact, after so many years, she has almost forgotten what it feels like to be cared for by her relatives, and even the warmest care comes from fans who like her.
Thinking of the previous things, Shen Shuang's eyes were a little hot, it turned out that she didn't miss it, but she was afraid of missing it, but fortunately, when she came to the Shen family, she once again had someone who really cared about her, and someone she was willing to work hard to protect.
Thinking of this, Shen Shuang took a deep breath and squeezed out a smile, "Mother, what do you say, you are really very good to me, compared to my mother, no, I said that I am much better than that Mrs. Zhang." ”
Shen Shuang took over the memory of the original owner, and in her memory, Mrs. Zhang really disliked her fat girl, thinking that she always liked to eat like the daughter of the official family, thinking that she couldn't play the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and was simply a waste, and felt that her going out to meet people not only made her embarrassed but also made her faceless.
So Shen Shuang hasn't actually been out of the gate of the house since she was a few years old, and the front and back yards just let her stay in the backyard, and the husband she invited to teach her that she didn't want to study and scolded her for being a waste, and she was never allowed to participate in any guests at home.
Occasionally, at a few banquets, Shen Shuang, who had never seen the world, lost face, but no one sympathized with her, and everyone laughed at her, thinking that she was embarrassed, including Mrs. Zhang and Master Zhang at that time.
When Xu heard this, she wanted to ask, but she was afraid that she would be sad so she changed the topic, she remembered that Mrs. Zhang at that time directly left her daughter who had been raised for more than ten years, and she didn't hesitate at all, so she knew that she was not a rare Shen Shuang, but Xu was different, the more she looked at it, the rarer Shen Shuang.
"Xiaoshuang, my mother knows that you are a sensible child, and my mother hopes that you will be well. But can you promise your mother one thing? ”
Shen Shuang nodded, "Mother, you say." ”
Xu patted Shen Shuang's hand and said with a serious face, "Mother hopes that you will not disobey your milk in the future, in case your mother really wants to sell you under this excuse, what can you do with your mother and your father." ”
A few black lines fell off Shen Shuang's forehead, don't disobey her milk? She estimated that she would die sooner and be sold more quietly!
However, in the face of a worried person, she could only half-coax and half-comfort her, and directly change the topic.
"Mother, you are too careful, she is afraid that I will collapse the old Shen family, and it is a big deal that I will eat less in the future to lose weight by the way. Besides, if she wants to sell me, it depends on whether I am willing or not, and whether the other party and my father are willing. Now everyone in the village knows about it, but they are all looking at our family. ”
Xu Shi sounded like this, and when she went out today, she was asked by the woman in the village if her daughter was really going to be sold, otherwise she wouldn't have to worry so much.
Seeing her frightened appearance, Shen Shuang said again, "Don't worry about it, don't say anything else, just say that my third uncle is still studying in the town to take the imperial examination, in case my grandmother really does something to sell her granddaughter, my third uncle's reputation will be ruined, and my grandmother is just scaring me." ”
Xu looked at her suspiciously, "Really? ”
Shen Shuang nodded firmly and said yes, but Xu Shi thought of it this morning, "Then you promise your mother, don't talk back to your father and your second aunt in the future, okay?" Playing pigweed and washing clothes are all small things, it's okay for the family to do more, if you make trouble like this, your father is not happy, your second aunt will definitely be unhappy, and when the time comes, the family will be discordant, and your grandmother will definitely anger you again. ”
At this time, Shen Shuang naturally said everything was okay, but she coaxed Xu's well, she went to clean the pigsty and chicken pen, Shen Shuang stayed in the kitchen to cook, and it was not completely unreasonable to think about her mother's words.
Shen Shuang is not stupid, she knows that Wan Shi said that he was going to sell her, there must be a plan, yesterday, the old man who sold wontons wanted to buy her and failed, she went to the town in a hurry, she must have gone to another buyer to sell her, and it is estimated that this matter is not related to her third uncle or sister-in-law.
People sit at home, and evil comes from all directions.
When Shen Shuang was in the entertainment industry, it was common for her to be splashed with dirty water at home, so she didn't pay much attention to this kind of petty fight, and she was also very open-minded, knowing that some disasters could not be avoided.
Although her brain is not particularly good, it is enough to deal with her grandmothers, and to be honest, she is not worried about being sold at all.
The Shen family's dinner was very rich, Shen Shuang fried a dish of river clam meat fried leeks with river clam and leeks cut by her mother in the vegetable garden, and the rest of the river clam meat was fried with chili pepper as the main ingredient A large plate of fried river clams, and the toon sprouts picked were taken from the basket and cut into small pieces and stir-fried together, in addition to cold spring shoots and wild vegetable soup, plus a large plate of wowotou.
The man of the Shen family came back from the field and smelled the fragrance before he got close to the yard and knew that there was something delicious today, and when he got home, he found that there were really a lot of new things, while Xiao Wan and Shen Cuini were choked by the smell of chili peppers all over the yard and did not dare to come out for a walk.