Chapter 26: Zhu's Complaint
Widow Xie and Hu Liang had been busy for a long time, and now they were sitting on the stool, stunned at the fragrant food on the table!
Especially Hu Liang, when Ji Yu asked him to roll noodles with white noodles in the morning, he knew that he had to eat a good meal at noon, after all, it was rare at home to eat white noodles.
The oil residue that has just been dipped in salt and pepper and melts in your mouth is enough to have an aftertaste, but I didn't expect the real meal to come.
Widow Xie looked at the table of white noodles and the oily dish in the middle, and her heart twitched. She panicked for Ji Yu, this noodles and meat were bought by Ji Yu, why didn't she know anything that hurts, how could this be the material for life!
Seeing that she was about to speak, Ji Yu hurriedly greeted everyone: "Come on, come on!" Eat it while it's hot, it won't taste good when it's cold. It's rare to boil lard once, eat more, and I don't know when I will have to wait until next time. ”
Looking at the appearance of several children swallowing saliva, Widow Xie thought about it, how many times can she boil lard a year? Let's let the children happily open the second meat. He picked up the bowl and didn't say anything more, and ate with them.
Compared with the usual bustle of eating, today's dining table can be said to be quite quiet, only the sound of snorting and snorting one after another.
The smooth and firm noodles are full of spicy and fragrant mouths, and then a mouthful of fried shredded radish with lard residue is served with vegetables, and an unprecedented sense of satisfaction rises from the bottom of my heart.
They had never eaten so particular about Chinese New Year's Eve in the past.
After eating a meal, all the faces were red, and they rushed to clean up after eating, so that Ji Yu could sit aside and rest.
Hu Liang brushed the pot and washed the dishes, Hu Dacheng swept the floor, and Widow Xie went to the East House to feed the old lady, which Ji Yu specially made a light taste.
After Hu Ximei finished wiping the table, she secretly called Ji Yu into the courtyard, saying that she had something to tell her.
"Sister Xiaoyu, when we were boiling lard just now, I noticed that someone was peeking outside the window!"
Their stove room was built against the wall of the west courtyard, and the courtyard wall was not high, so that adults could see through the window on tiptoe, but no one usually hated it.
"Is it wrong to see that there is a layer of oiled paper on the window?" Ji Yu was busy at the moment, and she really didn't notice the movement outside the window.
Seeing that she didn't believe her, Hu Ximei pulled her to the root of the west wall outside the courtyard and pointed it out to her.
The oiled paper in the lower right corner of the window had been punctured, and there were broken bricks stacked on the ground against the wall, and half a large footprint was printed on it.
"Who do you see?"
Hu Ximei's eyes fluttered, and she didn't know whether to say it or not.
Seeing her reaction, Ji Yu had already guessed a rough idea: "Is it the Ji family?" ”
Hu Ximei didn't expect her to guess accurately, but she still nodded.
"I chased someone out when I saw someone peeking, and I saw your third aunt...... Ji Mingmao's mother ran around the corner from the alley. ”
Seeing that Ji Yu didn't speak, Hu Ximei hurriedly said: "It's really her, I'm not mistaken!" ”
Ji Yu patted her on the shoulder, expressing her belief in what she said: "Except for the Zhu family, no one is so boring." ”
She was just thinking about it, it's only been a few days since the days passed, what kind of demon does the Zhu family want to be? In other words, what the hell does the Ji family want to do.
Hu Ximei has another layer of worry: "Sister Xiaoyu, they ...... Are they trying to sell you again? ”
Ji Yu was stunned for a moment, and then smiled.
"Don't worry, no one will dare to sell me again in the future. The Ji family can't, let alone dare. ”
The Ji family is also eating, the rice is millet porridge and corn tortillas, the dish is a large pot of boiled cabbage, a pot of potatoes stewed beans, and a stack of green pepper fried sauce.
Ji Qingshan has big rules, so there is no one at the dinner table to speak.
After eating well, Mrs. Kang suddenly slapped her chopsticks on the table, pointed at Zhu's and said, "The third family, you get out of here!" ”
Everyone was taken aback, especially the couple in the big house, who hurriedly put aside their chopsticks and didn't dare to eat again.
Ji Mingfang looked at his parents, who didn't dare to breathe, sighed, and put down the cake he had just gotten in his hand.
But Zhu Shi looked out of the situation: "Mother, how did I provoke you again?" You can't shoot at me every day if you have fire in your heart, don't you just see people bully......"
It's good that she doesn't babble, and this opening directly put Kang Pozi's anger on the head.
"You still have the face to ask! When you eat at a table, I see you stretching out your paws to stir in this dish, and you stir up! Who should be the heart diaphragm? Whether there is gold or silver buried in this dish, do you still have old in your eyes! ”
Zhu smiled shyly: "I just want to see if there are any good dishes, and if there are good ones, they must be sandwiched for you and your father to eat, how can I not have ...... in my heart?"
"Whew!" Mrs. Kang didn't eat her set, "Don't give me that useless talk, I'll ask you, is it your turn to cook today?" Early in the morning, I don't see the figure of the bowl, the old man does the front foot and you enter the door with the back foot, and the strange will pinch the time! What's the matter, the two of us are not worthy of your meal, and you still think that I, an old woman, will serve you? ”
Ji Lianhuai saw Zhu Shi glaring at him, and said lazily: "Mother, look at what you said......"
"Third child, shut up for me! What kind of face do you have to speak, this daughter-in-law is what you are used to! Look at what kind of virtue she is now, what she can't do and what she eats, she knows how to go out to wave all day long, you know who she goes to all day long, and she doesn't panic! ”
Kang Pozi's scolding is not just scraping a layer of skin, that is, the bones can be cut off in half for you.
In front of the whole family, Rao is Zhu is thick-skinned and a little unbearable.
It doesn't matter if she pickles her, or that she spends all day long, if she doesn't have anything left, then she won't be happy.
She put the chopsticks on the table and pulled her face down: "What did I eat, mother, tell me what I ate?" It's either cabbage or potatoes all day long, and I can't even see an oily one, what else can I steal to eat? Even the mourning star can eat meat, but our mother and daughter are not welcomed! ”
Playing with the topic is Zhu's strength, she hugged Ji Mingmao, who was still stuffing vegetables into her mouth, and began to pretend to howl: "My poor son, look at the recent thinness...... They are all the children and grandchildren of the Ji family, and you picked them up! You can't even eat a piece of meat, you can't even compare to that cheap girl......"
Zhu's eldest daughter, Ji Xuechan, couldn't get used to seeing her mother like this, and even more so that her mother only had her younger brother in her eyes, she was angry in her nose, and she turned her sister with her elbow.
Ji Xuejuan lowered her head and fiddled with the two chopsticks, not responding to her mother's partiality and her sister's hints.
Kang Pozi's attention suddenly turned to something else: "What did you say?" Did that mourning star eat meat? ”
"Not really!" Zhu stopped crying, and moved the bench in front of Mrs. Kang, "...... Mother, didn't you see that a whole pot of lard was boiled, a big pot full of oil residue, and white noodles...... The fragrant ...... all over the yard"
She happened to pass by the alley next to Widow Xie's house today, and was aroused by the fragrance wafting outside the courtyard.
When you poke through the oil paper, you can see that the one with an apron tied to the stove is not the mourning star!