Chapter Seventy-Eight: Gossip
Breakfast was served in the East House. After the weather gradually cooled down, Qin Wu and Mrs. Wang discussed letting Qin Lao Neng make two boilers.
The countryman's boiler is simple, made of fine yellow clay and good billet, then dried, and the barrel-shaped boiler is tightly hooped around with thick hemp rope several times.
This hemp rope is also particular, first of all, you have to choose the strongest thorn skin, and then rub the strips into a rope shape. For this, Qin Lao Neng took Qin Ergouzi on a special trip to the back mountain.
The carbon in the boiler was warm, the kettle on the stove gurgling, and the white mist made the room even more smoky.
Mrs. Wang took down the boiling hot water, and then took out two smoking sweet potatoes from the boiler.
Tong Shuangxi and Tong Shuangshuang sat on the bed in cotton jackets, took the sweet potato in the hands of Mrs. Wang, and were so scalded that they grinned and were reluctant to put it down, who made the fragrance of this sweet potato so attractive.
"When I was a child, my mother roasted sweet potatoes, baked beans, and baked potatoes for our sisters and brothers to eat!"
Seeing Tong Shuangxi and Tong Shuangshuang's sister and brother eating sweetly, Mrs. Wang couldn't help but recall.
"Auntie, let's eat the pot at noon!"
Tong Shuangxi knew that Mrs. Wang's father and mother were dead, and the remaining brothers were also unable to move around because of Mrs. Wang's reputation, so she deliberately diverted the topic and said.
Really.
"It's cold, it's best to eat pots, and it just so happens that cabbage, pork, tofu, and vermicelli are all ready-made at home."
As soon as Mrs. Wang heard that Tong Shuangxi wanted to eat the pot, she immediately came to her senses.
"I've heard it all, saying that it's about eating a pot at noon, and the listener has a share!"
At this time, Qin Wu's voice came from outside the house.
Mrs. Wang and Tong Shuangxi felt that it was rare, the snow outside the house had not stopped, why did the Qin Wu family come to the house at this time.
Mrs. Wang hurriedly opened the door, only to see Qin Wu standing in front of the door wearing a hat and a thick layer of oiled paper wrapped around his feet.
"Quick...... Come on in, you're freezing to death! In such weather, what are you wandering around, your old man also lets you go out. ”
When Qin Wu entered the house, Mrs. Wang helped her pat the snow on her body while nagging.
Qin Wu's face was suffocating, and he said with a smile: "It's not cold when it snows, it's cold when it snows, it's not like I haven't eaten at home, so I'm here to eat at your house!" ”
Qin Wu's words were naturally a joke.
If you don't talk about other places, let's talk about this Liuli Village, as soon as it enters the winter, every household begins to prepare food for the winter.
In winter, there is nothing to grow in the field, so the people in the village are idle, and the idle people want cats to spend the winter at home.
Qin Lao Neng and Qin Wu are well-known and capable people in the village, although they have no children at such an old age, but their lives are no worse than anyone else's, if you want to say that the Qin family has no food, no one will believe it.
"The two of them are taking someone to the house again?"
Mrs. Wang saw that Qin Wu was joking, but there was no joy on her face, and she had counted it in her heart, so she asked.
Qin Wu pursed his lips, and then he went into the steaming east house.
It's still warm in this room, and I just want to eat baked beans, so let's roast the beans and eat them!
Qin Wu and Tong Shuangxi, Tong Shuangshuang sisters and brothers are familiar with each other, and when they talk, they are as casual as their own family.
"Good! All right! I said that I would eat baked beans, but my sister didn't let me, not that it was easy to stink when I ate that thing, but that it was this snowy day, and the windows, doors and windows were closed, and no one should be smoked to death! ”
Tong Shuangshuang is still a child after all, and when it comes to eating, he is most interested.
Tong Shuangxi was annoyed, raised his fist and rushed towards his younger brother.
The two sisters and brothers were laughing and playing, and Mrs. Wang and Qin Wu also grabbed a handful of beans and gossiped while roasting the fire.
"I see that my old man was burned by the silver, and since he took the more than ten taels of silver from Shuangxi, he began to be a brother and a brother."
"You said that on weekdays, he pulled a cloth for the children of each family to buy a snack, I said nothing, I didn't say anything, but what kind of people are these four families, that is the master who wants to pluck the hair on the rooster, you send things to others at two ends in three days, and what you say is yours, yours is mine, they are all a family!
"I'm not dead yet, if I really close my eyes and kick my legs one day, then don't talk about it, the hearts of the two people in the fourth child have been fed, don't you have to rely on it.
"It's okay now, the four of them will live with the whole family, isn't this really a family!"
Qin Wu was simply a stomach full of complaints.
"What about the second dog, he is also the same as his father?" Mrs. Wang asked indignantly.
"The fourth family, and the second dog child knows some personnel, he was afraid that his father and mother would find the two of us because of the silver money, so he gave him the father and mother after dividing the four taels of silver from his second uncle, but who knows that this person's heart, greed, always feel that we have made a lot of money, and run home twice in three days."
"The second dog persuaded and persuaded, pulled and pulled, and was anxious, but that was his father, what else could he do as a son, these days, that family, and the second dog did not go to the house to eat and drink every day."
Speaking of these, Qin Wu really wanted to scold his mother.
"Forget it, don't talk about it, don't talk about it, have you heard about it from the Tong family?"
After sighing for a while, Qin Wu turned his head and asked Mrs. Wang.
Mrs. Wang and Tong Shuangxi's sister and brother were confused.
After Tong Shuangshuang's incident, the list of conscription was in the hands of Li Zheng, and Tong Shuangshou, the second son of the Tong family's big house, was obviously on the list.
Tong Zhangjia and Zhu's family blew up at that time, and said that it was impossible, saying that Li Zheng made a mistake.
Li Zheng was not happy when he heard this, but in the end, he still went to the town, and Tong Shuangshou, the second son of the Tong family, was indeed on the list.
Now, the Tong family is stupid, didn't they say that as long as there is one person, how can this be repaid?
Because of this incident, Tong Zhangjia took his eldest son Tong Shuangfu to the county, and said to Mr. Qian that the family had already sent someone into the palace, why did he still have to send someone to be a soldier!
As soon as Mr. Qian heard the words of the father and son, his face darkened, and he drove the father and son out.
Tong Zhangjia and Tong Shuangfu didn't know what was wrong, so they stuffed silver into the doorkeeper, but they stuffed a lot of silver, but they didn't inquire about it.
Coincidentally, at this time, someone said about Tong Shuangxi's sister and brother, and Tong Zhang's family was excited, and he took his two sons to find Mrs. Wang.
Sure enough, the Tong family saw that Tong Shuangshuang was staying at Mrs. Wang's house.
"No wonder, it turned out that you little bastard ran away!"
Tong Zhang's family exploded when he saw Tong Shuangshuang, and he pulled Tong Shuangshuang to send people back to those fathers-in-law.