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"Ning Ning, have you cooked all the flat food we just wrapped?" Gu Huai'an was holding a large white porcelain bowl, and when he was about to take out the boiled flat food from the pot, he suddenly realized that something was wrong, and asked his sister who was cleaning up the stove on the side with a frown.

"Huh? It's all over, it's all in the pot...... Why do you ask that? Gu Changning's heart jumped suddenly, his eyes wandered to look elsewhere, and asked secretly.

"Really? How do I feel like it looks a little less than the bag......" Gu Huai'an looked at the pot on the stove suspiciously.

"How is it possible, it must be brother, you are wrong." Gu Changning turned his back to Gu Huai'an, his weak mood calmed down a lot, and he said in a tone that was not unusual, "This flat food looks like a lot when it is put one by one, but after getting out of the pot, this pot is so big, so it will naturally be lined less." ”

Gu Huai'an frowned, it didn't feel like what his sister said, this flat food did look like it was missing.

However, after thinking about it, he felt that it was unlikely that he was hiding by his sister, and even though he felt that he was making a big fuss, he began to eat from the pot without saying anything.

Gu Changning saw that his brother didn't ask any questions, and he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and he couldn't wait to escape from the place where the crime occurred, "As soon as the pot is cooked, I'll go and send it to my uncle and grandmother first." ”

"Hmm."

"Ning Ning, are you going to deliver food to the sixth aunt?" At this moment, Yang Huiyun happened to put the food for worshipping her ancestors, looked back, and saw that her daughter was going out, so she hurriedly shouted loudly.

"yes." Gu Changning was stopped by A-Niang, turned around, and raised the rice bowl in his hand.

"Wait, let An'er make another bowl, and you can send this one to Uncle He."

Gu Changning was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and the next second he immediately understood A-Niang's intentions, and nodded in response: "Okay, I'll go and ask my brother to get another bowl." ”

She knew why A-Niang sent a bowl to Uncle He, it should be to express her gratitude to Uncle He for the pheasant he sent before.

The way people in the farmhouse express their gratitude is more realistic, and they don't like to say those polite polite words, usually when the other person needs help, they go over to help, or send some fresh food or things to the other party at home.

Although flat food is a holiday food, every household will prepare it.

But because this thing is stuffed with meat, it is rare for farmers to eat it several times a year, so it is also a relatively rare food.

Only on days like the New Year's Festival, the Midyear Festival, etc., will they be willing to cut a large piece of meat and come back to make it into a trap for the whole family to share.

After all, in normal days, meat is eaten only by the labor force and boys in the family, and girls and women can basically eat some meat scraps.

This time, Yang Huiyun was willing to send a bowl of flat food to Uncle He's family, and she had to thank Gu Changning for bringing back the ten taels of silver before.

With these ten taels of silver, the family situation is a little more comfortable, and Yang Huiyun still continues her previous habit of eating, making a few meat dishes every once in a while.

It's just that she avoided gossip from the villagers before, and this meat could only be eaten behind closed doors in her own house, and she didn't dare to take it out openly, let alone send it to Uncle He.

And the Midyear Festival is a day when the whole village can buy meat and eat in the open, so Yang Huiyun will think of sending a piece of food made at home at this time, as a return gift from the pheasant.

But in this way, Gu Changning needed to send two copies, and it was difficult to send them with only his hands, so Yang Huiyun took the food box to pack, and Gu Changning went out with the food box.

When she went out, Gu Changning couldn't help but rejoice, fortunately, she let her brother roll out enough dough, although she hid some of it in advance, it seemed that the amount was just enough.

Gu Changning carefully held the food box, because their house was relatively close to the sixth uncle's grandmother's house, Gu Changning first went to give it to the sixth uncle's grandmother to reduce a little weight, and then carried the food box to Uncle He's house.

On the way to Uncle He's house, Gu Changning also met several villagers sitting in front of his house chatting.

Although today is a festival, everyone should stay at home to worship their ancestors and make food.

However, not everyone has to crowd into the stove room and not leave, like those big men who have nothing to do, just walk back and forth in front of their own homes.

Occasionally, when I feel bored, I will go to the neighbors to chat, and everyone will sit at the junction of the two families to talk.

Therefore, when Gu Changning passed by, he saw them from afar.

Those people also felt strange when they saw Gu Changning passing by, and they continued to squat and didn't get up, but they waved their hands at her from afar, and said curiously: "That little baby of the Gu family, where are you going?" ”

"I'm going to bring Uncle He some flat food that our family makes themselves." Gu Changning smiled back at them when he heard this, but the steps under his feet did not slow down at all because of them, and he had no intention of staying for them at all.

When those people heard that she was going to bring food to Old Man He, their eyes widened in surprise.

But seeing her in a hurry, they didn't chase after her.

Anyway, people will have to pass through here when they come back, so just ask when the time comes.

Everyone looked at her distant back and continued to chat.

When Gu Changning walked to the northeast corner of Xinghua Village with the food box, there was no one on the village road here, and it was very clean.

At the same time, there is a clear contrast between the endless voices of the houses and the cheering of children, but there is no one in sight.

In fact, this is normal, it is dinner at this time, everyone has already gone home and is looking forward to the meal, how can they continue to squat at the door and chat.

Gu Changning arrived at Uncle He's house in less than a quarter of an hour, and the door was still open when she arrived.

Normally, the door will not be closed when there are people in the house, so she didn't care, and walked directly into the door of Uncle He's house, calling inside: "Uncle He, are you at home?" ”

As soon as the words fell, she stopped suddenly, blinked and looked at the strange three people who appeared in the courtyard, and she was very surprised.

In the courtyard were two adults and a child who looked to be about three or four years old, she had never seen before, and was very sure that they were not villagers of Xinghua Village.

Could it be from the next village? But at this time, if you don't stay at home to worship your ancestors, why did you run to a neighboring village instead?

Gu Changning was puzzled.

A man and a woman who appeared in the courtyard also looked at her with a dull expression, and the two stood still for a moment, as if they were frightened by her sudden incoming, and the air froze.

After a while, their faces changed instantaneously after they came back to their senses, and the strange woman glared at her and asked sharply, "Who are you?" How to casually enter someone else's house! ”

"I'm ......" Gu Changning was stunned by her reaction, and only reacted for a second, and said with a little lack of confidence, "I, I'm here to find Uncle He......"

"What's going on?"

While they were talking, Old Man He heard the voice and walked out of the stove room on the side, and the moment his eyes fell on Gu Changning, he was stunned, and involuntarily glanced at the two people on the side, instantly retracted it, and hurriedly said to Gu Changning, "It's Ning Ning, why are you here?" ”

As he spoke, he gave the woman in the courtyard a look and motioned for her to hurry up and take the child into the house.

A man and a woman standing in the courtyard received this look and hurried to take the child back to the house.

The boy was unwilling, and when he saw them approaching him, tears immediately welled up in his eyes, and he was about to cry.

As a result, the woman grabbed him directly in her arms, held him with one hand, covered her mouth with the other, and was about to go to the house.

The child struggled desperately, and the man stepped forward to restrain him.

"Oh, I'm here to thank Uncle He for the pheasant he sent to our family a few months ago, and specially sent our family to wrap their own flat food today to give you a taste......

For some reason, after seeing this scene, Gu Changning always felt that the atmosphere in the courtyard was a little strange, and she said quietly, but in her heart she thought that there was a problem here, she couldn't stay for a long time, and she had to go back quickly.

"So that's the case, you and Uncle are too polite, but it's just a pheasant that can't be eaten, it's nothing, where is it worth it for you to send food." Uncle He laughed.

The next second after he finished speaking, a cold voice suddenly came from the room.

With the appearance of the owner of the voice, it was clearly transmitted to the courtyard.

"What pheasant?"

Aunt He looked at the scene in the courtyard with a gloomy face, and finally put her eyes on Gu Changning, at that moment Gu Changning felt as if she was being targeted by a vicious poisonous snake, and she felt a chill all over her body.

In her previous life, she didn't think there was anything wrong with Aunt He, but now that she has a lifetime of experience, Gu Changning obviously noticed that something was wrong, and secretly became vigilant in her heart.

This is not like what an ordinary village woman should look like.

Thinking of this, Gu Changning hurriedly lowered his eyes and made a panicked look, so as to lower the other party's vigilance.

When Old Man He saw his mother-in-law come out, he was worried that she had missed her mouth, and when he saw that Gu Changning seemed to be too frightened by her to speak, he secretly frowned and replied first.

"It's such an old woman, do you remember that Gu Shan kid who lives in the west of our village? It was the one who had helped me, an old man, dig several deep traps before his death, three months ago when the news of his death came back to the village, I went to the west mountain that day, passed by their door, remembered that Gu Shan left early, and the two children were still young, so I gave them a pheasant that I hunted. ”

"I was thinking that we wouldn't be able to eat that pheasant anyway, and there was nothing to change, and I couldn't sell it for a few dollars when I took it to the restaurant, so I thought it was a return for Gu Shan's previous care for me, an old man."

Aunt He was looking at Gu Changning with vague eyes, listening to the words of her old man, turning her eyes to him again, staring at him for a long time, before she let out a lukewarm "hum" from her nose, indicating that this matter was over.

Old man He breathed a sigh of relief at this point, and hurriedly smiled at Gu Changning, who was standing in place and didn't dare to move, and said kindly: "Frightened, right? Although my wife looks cold and indifferent on the outside, she is actually very good-hearted, don't be afraid, this way, your flat food has also been delivered, so go home early to eat, you shouldn't have eaten this point, right? ”