Chapter 14: Quarrels
Father Tian smiled warmly, patted the head of his children, and said seriously: "Don't think too badly of people, I know you Uncle Xie well enough after decades of friendship."
He is as strong as me, and he also wants Yuezhou porcelain to regain its prestige, and he values Xie's reputation very much, maybe there is something difficult in it, or he is accidentally confused.
In this way, we will accept the money he sends over, see how he does it first, and then we will strengthen the verification and be more careful. ”
Tian Bing wanted to argue again, but Tian's father waved his hand to stop: "This matter is over here, don't mention it again, let's do this first." ”
"What are you talking about?" Xie finally realized that something was wrong and walked out of the house with a smile.
"It's nothing, Ah Bing asked me about the kiln." Father Tian brought it over in a few words and changed the topic: "I'm hungry." ”
Xie Shi didn't believe it, his eyes slowly swept over the faces of the three people, he didn't ask any more questions, and said sullenly: "It's time to eat." ”
The Tian family is not wealthy, except for special days, the daily living and eating are mainly simple, and the dinner is three dishes and one soup, two meat and two vegetables.
Shao Jing sat beside Tian Youwei very obediently, silently bowing her head to eat without making a sound, let alone picking up vegetables.
Father Tian saw that he was very restrained, so he sandwiched a large piece of fish meat and gave it to him: "Ah Jing is too thin, it's better to eat more." ”
"Ah Wei also eat more and grow up quickly." Xie Shi then sandwiched a large piece of fish meat to Tian Youwei, and then sandwiched a large piece of fish meat to Tian Bing: "Ah Bing has to study and work again, and he still grows his body, so he must eat more!" ”
One fish was half gone at once.
Father Tian didn't notice it, and smiled and sandwiched a piece of fish meat for Xie's family: "You are also very hard at taking care of housework every day. ”
Xie lowered his head and fiddled with the rice, unable to swallow.
"Ahem...... "Mrs. Gao coughed low and said with a smile: "This year's harvest is not bad, the master mother has been busy for many days, and the things in the field are done." ”
"Hard work." Father Tian said a hard time, and suddenly remembered: "Don't sell this year's wheat, Ah Jing is a northerner, loves to eat pasta, and will make more noodles and cakes for him in the future." ”
Gao Pozi's expression froze, and she quietly looked at the Xie family.
Xie lowered his eyes and put down his chopsticks, and said softly: "But I have sold them all today." ”
"All sold?" Father Tian was taken aback: "You just collected it, and you sold it all?" ”
Xie's eyes suddenly turned red, and he said aggrievedly: "Today, the village happened to come to collect grain, and the price of wheat is very good, so I will sell it quickly, otherwise everyone will collect it and sell it later, and the price will definitely fall." ”
Father Tian didn't speak, and his face was ugly.
Xie Shi was crying, choked up: "The expenses are too big these days, didn't you almost miss the tribute porcelain share last time, and took a lot of favors?" Wheat is 12,000 yuan a piece, and it's not something that our family can afford to eat......"
"Say no more!" Father Tian shouted angrily, the green tendons on his forehead burst out, he thought about it and endured it, and said sharply: "Eat!" ”
Xie covered his face and sobbed silently.
Shao Jing's head was almost buried in the bowl, Tian Youwei sighed, and quietly patted him on the back comfortingly.
It was skinny and bones, and the spine was like a string of beads, and it really couldn't be thinner.
In her previous life, when Shao Jing first came, she was young and didn't care about anything, she only remembered that wheat was very expensive, but she couldn't remember whether Xie also sold all the wheat in the family.
It seems that the quarrel between Daddy and stepmother still can't be avoided, Tian Youwei is a little worried.
"I'm done." Tian Bing gave Tian Youwei a look and told her and Shao Jing not to eat. The elders were angry and crying, and they were very uncomfortable in front of the juniors.
"I've eaten too." Tian Youwei saw that Shao Jing had finished cooking, and also put the dishes and chopsticks.
She wanted to persuade the Xie family and Tian's father, thinking that she didn't know what was going on between them, so she gave Mrs. Gao a look and took Shao Jing and Tian Bing out.
It was already dark outside, the osmanthus was fragrant, the insects were chirping, and the people were all hiding from it with interest, and it was quiet everywhere.
Tian Bing held Tian Youwei in one hand and Shao Jing in the other, and said with a smile: "You haven't eaten enough, have you?" I'll take you to something delicious. ”
Tian Youwei quietly looked at Shao Jing, seeing that he had been keeping his eyes down and not making a sound, knowing that he knew that the Xie family was targeting him, he must have felt very uncomfortable, and couldn't help rubbing his fluffy little head, and said with a smile: "Second brother hasn't taken me out to play for a long time, I'm all stained with Ah Jing's light." ”
"That's it, I won't take you crazy girl, only our obedient Ah Jing to play." Tian Bing sang and harmonized with her, just to make Shao Jing happy.
Next to the village was a large dry field, where the wheat had been harvested, and the moonlight shone on the stacks of straw, shining like silver.
Tian Bing found a leeward and flat place, grabbed wheat straw and lit a fire, and asked Tian Youwei and Ah Jing to sit.
Adou came panting, his clothes bulging, and he didn't know what was in it.
When he arrived, he loosened his clothes, grabbed a lot of chestnuts and threw them into the fire, and untied a few large strings of objects from his belt, and said, "You have a good mouth!" I took the village children to the fields for a day. ”
Tian Youwei leaned over to see that it was several large strings of grasshoppers tied with grass ropes.
She didn't suffer too much, and she was not sensitive to eating insects: "I don't want it, I'll just eat chestnuts." ”
Adou said: "Good girl, you don't know, this is delicious, it can save lives at a critical moment." At the beginning, the Tatar people came and robbed all the food, and I survived by this. Young Master Ah Jing must have eaten it too, do you think it's delicious? ”
A smile appeared on Shao Jing's lips, took a string of grasshoppers, and skewered them with a thin stick to roast: "It's really fragrant, Sister can taste it." ”
Tian Youwei looked at the grasshopper's green belly, thinking that she didn't know what was inside, and immediately couldn't help but shudder: "I don't want it." ”
"Coward." Tian Bing laughed at her, "Miss the delicacy in vain." ”
"Sister is not a coward, she is very brave." Shao Jing said very seriously: "It's nothing if you don't like to eat insects. ”
"Tsk! So protective! Tian Bing rubbed his little round head, "That's good." ”
As he was talking, the chestnuts in the fire "crackled" and exploded, spraying chestnut powder everywhere, and the smell of paste also came out.
"Adou, you idiot! You didn't cut the chestnut shell first? Tian Bing shouted, hurriedly pulling chestnuts out.
"I'm afraid that my family will know, so I'm busy, so I'm here......" Adou shouted Qu and followed forward for a while.
Tian Youwei and Shao Jing also went to help, and several people were busy, and their faces were covered with ashes without knowing it.
“…… I won a bet with someone the other day that I won a rabbit and told him to bring it to us another day to clean it and roast it during the night......"
Tian Bing didn't see an echo between Tian Youwei and Shao Jing, and when he looked back, the two little ones fell asleep for some reason - Tian Youwei was lying on the wheat straw, Shao Jing leaned on her, and her two hands tightly grasped the corners of her clothes.