Chapter 25: Eating

"Brother Wen, don't you really come out to see your new clothes and delicious sugar?"

Zhao Jijiao has been standing outside the house, talking inside, not noticing that her father-in-law and her father, the two big men, are not good at words, and after saying two words, they each do their own work.

"Hmph, I don't want it, you take it!"

Zhao Huiwen sat on the edge of the bed, puffing out his cheeks angrily, responding to Zhao Jiwen's words.

"Don't you really want to? The clothes are beautiful, but the friends in the village don't have them, and this sugar, um~ It's so fragrant, do you want to eat me? ”

Zhao Jijiao was holding a piece of pastry bought yesterday, which contained peanut candy and rice cakes, which are children's favorite types. Zhao Jijiao deliberately made the sound of the oil paper wrapped in the pastry very loud, so that Zhao Huiwen inside could hear it.

"Hmm~ It's really fragrant, I can't help but drool, wow, Brother Wen, you really don't want it, then my sister will eat it!"

Zhao Jijiao has been paying attention to the movement in the house, and as soon as she heard the footsteps, she immediately picked up a piece of peanut candy and stuffed it into her mouth.

"You are not allowed to eat, you said that you bought it for me, then it is naturally mine, you are not allowed to eat, I haven't forgiven you yet!"

Zhao Huiwen opened the door, and as soon as he saw that the sugar was about to enter Zhao Jijiao's mouth, he hurriedly stepped forward and snatched the sugar in Zhao Jiao's hand, and held it in his arms, as if he was afraid that Zhao Jijiao would rob him.

"Okay, good, it's all yours, my sister won't rob you. However, my mother is already cooking, we have an early meal today, can you eat sugar, wait until you have eaten and then eat, okay? ”

Zhao Jijiao looked at Zhao Huiwen, who was not much higher than herself, and deepened her heart again to supplement her own nutrition, these two people went out, looked at their figures, and they were completely the same age.

"Hmph, I want you to say, 'What about my new clothes?'

Zhao Huiwen was holding an oiled paper bag with pastries, and her arrogant little appearance was really cute. Zhao Jijiao really seemed to pinch Zhao Huiwen's face, in fact, Zhao Jijiao really pinched it.

"Wow, our brother Wen is so cute, the clothes lady has already put it away for you."

"Oh, sister, sister, sister, you let go, my face is pinched by you!"

How could Zhao Huiwen know that Zhao Huiwen would suddenly pinch his face, it seems that his sister has not pinched him like this before, in the past, his sister rarely spoke, and was always quiet alone, which is a little different from the sister in front of him now, but he prefers his sister now, and will buy him candy to eat.

"Brother Wen, my sister pinched your face if she liked you, but if you changed someone else, my sister wouldn't bother to pinch it. Let's go to the backyard and see what the milk is doing. ”

Zhao Jijiao asked Zhao Huiwen to put the sugar away, and the two went to the backyard, and Zhao Grandma happened to be killing 'several'.

"Yo, why are you here?"

Grandma Zhao grabbed 'several' with one hand, held a kitchen knife in the other, and neatly stabbed 'several' neck, and the 'several' blood flowed straight out, but fortunately, Grandma Zhao had prepared the bowl early, and all the 'several' blood flowed into the bowl.

"Milk, we're here for you to help."

In Zhao Jijiao's memory, 'several' is almost Zhao's grandmother's life, not to mention taking care of her carefully on weekdays, it is rare to kill a 'several' all year round, but today in order to entertain her and Li Ruchang, she killed the old mother who had been raised for several years, Zhao Jie's wife couldn't tell the taste in her heart, and she only felt that her nose was a little sour.

To say that this family is not good to the original owner, but at this time, the daughters of poor families are basically like this, when the year is good, they can still eat at home, but when the year is bad, the family almost can't eat, and naturally what the family has to eat is the labor force at home first.

"Milk, it's okay, you take your brother to play, and when your mother cooks, come back to eat."

Grandma Zhao actually felt guilty about her eldest granddaughter, especially when her eldest granddaughter broke her head that day, her first thought was not to send her to the doctor, but to hurriedly throw Zhao Auntie in an empty thatched house, and perfunctorily touched a pot for Zhao Auntie and left, whether it was life or death was not clear.

She has never done anything with no conscience in her life, only this matter has always been pressed in her heart. But there is no way, the whole family is waiting for food, for three years in a row, either drought or flood, and there is no harvest in the field almost every year. Selling Zhao Jijiao to Li Ruchang is really a helpless thing!

Fortunately, it's all good now, and in her heart, she can be regarded as being able to put down a big stone.

It's a pity that Grandma Zhao and the Zhao family will not know that their real granddaughter, daughter, and sister have already died under the big locust tree that day.

Now this one is just a lonely soul who came after a thousand years.

"Hey, that's okay, if you want anything, just call me. Then I'll take Brother Wen to play first. ”

Zhao Jijiao saw that there was really nothing she needed her help with, and she didn't shirk the front yard that she brought Brother Wen to again, Zhao's father was still sitting there weaving baskets, but Li Ruchang had already chopped all the firewood and was putting the firewood away.

"Xianggong, I'm here to help you too."

In this world where there is no TV, no mobile phone, and no Internet, Zhao Jijiao is not looking for something to do, and she really feels that the day is difficult.

And Zhao Huiwen also stepped forward to help when he saw it, but the troublemaking component was greater than helping.

"Uncle, let's come over for dinner."

While bringing the dishes prepared in the kitchen to the table, Zhao's mother called Zhao Jiaojiao and Li to come over for dinner as usual, of course, her man and son did not forget to shout. And Grandma Zhao followed behind Zhao's mother, holding a stack of rice bowls in one hand and a handful of chopsticks in the other, full of energy.

On the table is a big bowl of chicken soup, there is half a 'several' in it, and there is half a 'several' fried with red pepper next to it, and then there is a big bowl of fried meat with chili peppers, these are the three meat dishes on the table, and the meat is still brought by Zhao Jijiao and them. Then there are three bowls of green vegetables, a sour radish and fresh radish fried, all cut into cubes, one bite down, sour and refreshing; One is Chinese cabbage, and the last dish is cucumber slices; There are traces of oil in the three green vegetables, which should be the meat sent by Zhao Jiaojiao by Zhao's mother first, fried in oil, and fried it.

At this time, the seasoning was only salt, and the oil was reserved for the wealthy.

Zhao's mother can make such a table of dishes, which is also a good cook, the taste is not as delicious as that of later generations, and it is not as heavy as that of later generations, but this also just retains the taste of the dish itself, which is also a taste.

The five of them ate a table of dishes cleanly, especially Zhao Huiwen, who ate a round of belly, and only called her stomach ache, and Zhao Huiwen wanted to cry and laugh.

In later generations, except for some extremely poor areas, which child did not grow up eating big fish and meat? Not to mention that every meal is meat, but there are three meals a day, and at least one meal is with meat; But here, all year round, not to mention children, adults rarely eat meat.