Mingyue's sympathy was overflowing, and she took the initiative to pick up the soup spoon and handed it to Yu Jiayan, "Eat quickly, eat a bowl of heat, and sleep on a hot spot, you will definitely be fine." ”

Yu Jiayan waved his hand again and again, "I'll just eat wild vegetable dumplings." Sister Mingyue, you should eat this porridge, you just fell yesterday and need to make up for it. I—I've already spent a lot of money on your family. When I'm ready, I'll go and chop wood, dig wild vegetables, dig herbs, catch fish, and I, I'll pay back. ”

The little man tilted his head, and the blood vessels and green tendons on his thin neck made people see it at a glance, and he said nonsense without logic, wanting to express his gratitude and determination to repay his gratitude.

Not to mention Mingyue, who came from later generations and basically didn't suffer much in terms of material, even Mrs. Ming and Xie, who were born and raised and knew that life was difficult, were also moved to tears by this child's pitiful appearance.

Mrs. Ming sat on the edge of the kang and patted Yu Jiayan's thin shoulder with a loving face, "Our Jiayan is a good boy, but the Zhao family has made a big sin." ”

Xie wiped the tears on his face with the hand that didn't serve the bowl, "Who says it's not, this kid is too painful." ”

"Okay, let's not talk about that." Mrs. Ming raised her hand and touched Yu Jiayan's little head, which only had a few yellow hairs, "Good boy, you will eat it if you give it to you, and your grandmother Mingyue will make it for her." ”

Mingyue also nodded in agreement, "I ate a big bowl in the morning, and I'm not hungry at all now." ”

The three of them talked about it, and Yu Jiayan finally raised his hand and took the coarse porcelain bowl containing the porridge.

Xie Shi was afraid that he would be weak and unable to hold the bowl, so he simply moved the kang table over, "Jiayan, put it on top and eat it." ”

Yu Jiayan was very well-behaved and obedient, and while thanking Mrs. Ming and Xie Shi, he carefully put the porridge bowl on the kang table.

The three women of the Ming family were not good at staring at him to eat, so Mrs. Ming drove Mingyue back to her room to rest, and then she also went back to the living room of the East House where she and Old Man Ming lived, leaving only Xie's aunt to take care of it in the West House.

Because it was still early, after confirming that Yu Jiayan was okay for the time being, the men of the Ming family were led by the old man Ming to work in the fields - spring was coming, and they had to prepare for spring ploughing.

Although the Ming family is not the main labor force, although they don't have to follow the adults in the family to work in the fields, they are impatient to stay at home honestly, so after the old man Ming and they went out, Ming Erlang also led a few younger brothers out into the wild.

Tao and Zhou, who went out to dig wild vegetables, returned home two hours later, and only then entered the house, and Zhou, who was holding back his words, couldn't help but pull Mrs. Ming, who happened to come out of the yard to feed the chickens, and asked in a low voice, "Mother, how did I hear that my father brought Jiayan's child back to our house to raise?" ”

Mrs. Ming sighed, "Your father can't help them." Zhao's poisonous woman, she hated that the child would die in front of her eyes immediately, so she felt relieved. Feng's dead mother-in-law blocked the door of her house and didn't let Jia Yan in, your father can't watch Jia Yan die in front of his eyes. He just saved our little Mingyue. ”

Zhou knows that her in-laws are kind-hearted people, although she doesn't agree with raising Yu Jiayan like this at home, but in front of her in-laws, she never dares to reveal her true thoughts.

Tao has never had her own ideas, she listens to her in-laws when her in-laws make decisions, she listens to her husband's decisions, and her daughters listen to her daughters when they are stubborn.

The Zhou family doesn't look down on the soft dough-like character of his second sister-in-law, but Tao has been magically like a fish in water in the Ming family.

Not only does the second child of the Ming family take good care of his wife, but Mingyue is extremely filial to his mother, and even the old man Ming and Mrs. Ming look up to her - and on the premise that she failed to spread the branches and extend the heirs for the Ming family.

Zhou was quite unaware of this, and occasionally remembered that she could only explain Tao's situation with Tao's good life and marrying a good family.

The two of them have their own thoughts, but their hands and feet are the same. They first picked the wild vegetables again, and then washed them carefully with cold water.

Mrs. Ming went to the east of the village under the big willow tree to find Ming Erlang to go home, and asked him to go to the town to buy a catty of pork belly and two catties of plate oil.

“… If it's cheap, buy a pair. Before Ming Erlang left, Ming Lao gave him ten yuan, "If you can't buy it, ask Butcher Zhang to build you two stick bones, and then go to the grocery store next door to his house to buy some candy cubes and bring them back." ”

It was not the first time that Ming Erlang had helped Mrs. Ming run errands, he took the money, and under the stimulation of oil, meat, and sugar cubes, he rushed towards the town like a gust of wind.

Saburo and Shiro, who were as hungry for food as him, immediately followed, but Goro, the youngest, had to stay at home because of his short legs.

Mrs. Ming coaxed him, "Gorou will go play for a while, and let your second brother call you when you have eaten." ”

Gorou's little head shook into a rattle, "I want to eat meat." ”

Mingyue felt as if she heard Gorou snorting.

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At the end of the Shen Shi (around five o'clock in the afternoon), the old man Ming returned to his house from the field with his three sons and his eldest grandson, and they were greeted by fragrant dumplings with wild vegetables and pork stuffed dumplings and happy and satisfied smiles from the children.

Old Man Ming only felt exhausted and swept away in an instant, he touched the head of Goro, who was holding a sugar cube and called him "grandpa" vaguely, "What delicious did your milk make?" ”

Gorou broke the little black hand index and told Old Man Ming, "Dumplings, pork filling, and pork kidneys and cabbage soup." ”

Mrs. Ming, who was smiling, poked her head out of the main hall when she heard the voice, "Wash and prepare for dinner." ”

Ming Laosan Mingtang is the youngest son, and his personality is much more lively than the two elder brothers, hearing this sentence of Mrs. Ming, he immediately cheered and went to fetch water to serve his father to wash.

Old Man Ming waved his hand to signal that he didn't have to work, "You also go and wash, you don't have to serve me." ”

Ming Laosan smiled, and took a wooden basin to fetch water and wash with his two brothers and Ming Xu, the eldest man of the Ming family.

Mrs. Ming instructed her three daughters-in-law to wipe the table, serve the vegetable basin, scoop dumplings, and set the dishes and chopsticks, while she washed the cauldron herself, warmed a pot of water, and kept it for the daughters-in-law to wash the dishes after eating.

This is the old tradition of the Ming family, and Mrs. Ming, who has never been harsh on her daughter-in-law, will be like this at other times except in summer, adding two more firewood to the stove and warming a pot of water after cooking, so that the daughters-in-law will suffer less when washing the dishes.

By the time she boiled the water, everyone in the Ming family, as well as Yu Jiayan, who was now living in their house, had all stood or sat at the dining table, waiting for Mrs. Ming to eat together.