"I knew I wouldn't be going home, and if you're sick, you have someone to take care of you." Zhang Yuxiu preached.

Sister Qiu said with a smile: "Then Sister Yuxiu don't go back, be my daughter, my mother is willing!" Compared with Mei Yindi, Zhang Yuxiu seems to be Sister Qiu's own sister, friendly to Sister Qiu, with a warm temper, and a little Li Ailian's hearty atmosphere, she is a good lady.

Li Ailian put down the wooden chopsticks angrily, "The people of the Lao Mei family are really not things!" It's cheap to get rid of them, and I want to go to his door and scold him for being a bastard, so that everyone in Xiaowangzhuang knows what kind of person he is! ”

"Mother, don't be angry." Zhang Ruoxu persuaded on the side, "It's not worth being angry with that kind of person." ”

Jia's and Sister Qiu also persuaded her on the side, Li Ailian is a vulgar and spicy person, and Jia's can tolerate her, but she can't.

Li Ailian sighed, looked at Zhang Ruoxu, and said earnestly: "Ruoxu, you also see, our two families are all orphans and widows, and others should be bullied by us." If you study hard and strive to get a name for the subject as soon as possible, no one will dare to oppress us at that time. No matter how tired Yuxiu and I are, I feel so energetic! ”

Zhang Ruoxu nodded a little under Li Ailian's expectant gaze, "Mother, I must concentrate on studying." ”

Sister Qiu was sweating as she listened to it, this really seemed to be the previous life, when relatives taught and inspired their children who were still studying at the dinner table.

After eating, Sister Qiu led Zhang Yuxiu and Zhang Ruoxu to find Lin Zhun to play, followed by Xiao Hei who was happily wagging his tail, and Jia and Li Ailian were washing dishes in the courtyard. Jia couldn't help but say to Li Ailian: "Eldest sister, don't put too much pressure on Ruoxu. "Provide for my mother and little sister, but if it weren't for people like Meiqu, no one would feel good in their hearts.

The matter of studying depends on talent, and it will be done, and there is no way to do it.

Li Ailian sighed, bowed her head and said, "This is not ...... Looking forward to him! Your brother-in-law is the only seedling, if I don't cultivate him well, how can I be right for his father! Then Li Ailian thought about Mei Lao Xiucai, and suddenly felt that Fang Cai's words were a little inappropriate.

She gave birth to a son to the Zhang family, but the sister only has Sister Qiu's daughter, isn't this poking people's sadness.

"I ...... You don't care about the nonsense you just talked about. Li Ailian hurriedly spoke.

Jia Shi wiped the sweat from the panel of his head, shook his head and said, "Am I such a careful person?" I'm afraid that you will force Ruoxu too hard, and he will be under too much pressure, but he will not be able to learn well. Back then, the old Xiucai was, it took a few years to get the old Xiucai, and then it was several years, and he didn't lift people in the exam, Sister Qiu, her milk chattered every day, and then he couldn't read any books, and he trembled as soon as he entered the examination room......"

"Everyone is like this, what else is the test!" Jia sighed. Mei Lao Xiucai didn't mean to take the imperial examination, Mao's long-cherished wish for many years was disappointed, but naturally he wouldn't send his anger to his son, and didn't all pass it on to her daughter-in-law?

Li Ailian nodded, "I know, I won't talk about him in the future, it's what it reads, there is land at home, even if."

He couldn't pass the test, and he couldn't starve him when he went home to be a dirt bun. ”

"That's right." Jia said with a smile.

The rainstorm in the past two days was very powerful, not only the potholes and pits in Xiaohe Town were all filled with water, but even the water in Xiaohe Town rose to a high level, almost flush with the riverside, far from the stone platform for washing clothes.

Most of the children are outside, holding all kinds of homemade tools to touch the river fish and shrimp. This year-old boy is all good at touching river fish, Sister Qiu stood there and looked at it for a while, and then saw a boy named Shugen'er in the village, and after a while, he touched half a basket of loaches from the mud pit.

Lin Zhun, Dayin and Ruoxu also rolled up their trouser legs, went to the pit to touch the river fish and green shrimp, and threw them on the shore when they touched them, Sister Qiu and Zhang Yuxiu hurriedly picked them up and put them in the basket.

Sister Qiu followed the prestige and looked at a boy holding a big echinoderm weighing five or six pounds on the shore and laughing stupidly, the echinoderm wriggled its tail in his arms, but it couldn't break free from the little boy's black and thin arm.

"It is estimated that the river fish raised in the lake upstream rushed out of the torrential rain and swam to us." Lin Zhun stood next to Sister Qiu and said with a smile.

After the "confession", the two seemed to have a little secret, and they couldn't help but smile sweetly at each other's convenience.

"It's a pity." Zhang Yuxiu looked at the big fat echinoderm with red eyes, "We don't have a net, we can only catch small river fish and small green shrimp here." ”

Sister Qiu smiled, "It's not easy to want river fish?" As he spoke, he strode to the side of the little boy with river fish, and asked with a smile: "Do you sell this river fish?" ”

Sister Qiu didn't recognize him, but he recognized Sister Qiu, "You want to buy my river fish?" ”

"Well, let's make a price!" Sister Qiu is very bold, and we can be regarded as a small boss!

"This ......" The little boy scratched his head, looked at Sister Qiu and Zhang Yuxiu couldn't help blushing, put the river fish in the bucket, and discussed with a few companions for a long time, but did not negotiate a price.

"How about ten copper plates?" Zhang Yuxiu was tired of the impatience of the others, so she asked first.

After a few people discussed, the deal was closed, and the river fish was sent to Sister Qiu's house with a wooden bucket, and Sister Qiu counted ten copper plates for him. This little boy is all earning money for the first time, and a few people are happy to follow what, take the money and run away, you talk about whether to buy food or play.

"What are you going to do with this river fish?" Zhang Ruoxu asked with a smile, "When I was at home, I heard Yuxiu talk about it, and said that Sister Qiu's cooking was delicious." ”

"It's better to keep up with the last time!" Da Yin shouted anxiously on the side, "I went back to that kind of thing, and I blew it up and boiled it back." Thinking back about the delicacy, Dayin couldn't help but stick out his tongue and lick his lips, "I still want to eat that kind of thing." ”

"No problem!" Sister Qiu patted her chest and agreed, glanced at Lin Zhun with a smile, and thought cheekily, where is there no reason not to do it when the future uncle orders food.

In the afternoon, Li Chang came to the door and brought a large one

Wrapping things, there are a few paper pastries, two stacked pieces of floral cloth that are fully brushed.

"A few days ago, when I was harvesting wheat, I went to Huyang to buy all these pastries, and I bought them all in Huyang to give the children a fresh taste. Huaerbu is for the two ladies, and one of them makes new clothes. Li Chang said with a smile, raising his palm to block Jia's words of thanks. Don't see outside, the two children send vegetables and water tofu to me when they see the sky, can I, as an uncle, buy some things for them? ”

"Yes, naturally!" Li Ailian and Jia all said with a smile.

Li Changjiao beckoned to Sister Qiu again: "Come, uncle has brought you something good." As he spoke, Li Changjiao took out a brown paper bag from his arms, handed it to Sister Qiu, and said with a smile: "Open it and take a look." ”

Sister Qiu opened the paper bag, and there was bright red powder inside, Zhang Yuxiu glanced at it from the side, and said with a smile: "Is it red fat?" ”

"No, it's not." Sister Qiu's heart gradually recovered, glanced at Li Changjiao, and asked in surprise: "It's hibiscus powder, right?" She mentioned it to her uncle once before, but she didn't expect her uncle to put it in her heart, and she didn't forget to bring her a pack of hibiscus powder when she went to Huyang to buy goods.

Li Changji smiled and nodded, "We don't have this thing in Jiujiang yet, even Huyang sells it less, and there are not many people who use it." ”

Naturally, not much! The spicy seeds of the Ming Dynasty recorded by Sister Qiu were transmitted to China, and spicy seeds occupied a place in the recipes of the Chinese people. She can't find spicy food now, so she can only find the same substitute. Sister Qiu happily picked up the hibiscus powder and said what was good, caught a glimpse of the echinoderm in the bucket, and suddenly thought of a good idea, "Please eat delicious food for my uncle in the evening, Baozhun Er has not eaten it before!" ”

Sister Qiu mixed the river fish meat with flour and red eggs, cut the water tofu into thin slices and scalded it with soybean sprouts in boiling water, and prepared to start making the famous dish that was popular all over the country in her previous life - boiled river fish.

And Jia's went to call Lin Qu's family to come over, and the difficult Li Zhongquan came over, Jia's heart was happy, and he was ready to invite everyone to have a meal, and he also went to Lao Sheng's shop to get a pound of soju.

Li Zhongquan and Lin did sit together, convenient for eating and drinking, and the rest of the people didn't pay attention to anything, and squeezed together to sit together, and in addition to a few water tofu dishes and meat dishes, the finale of this meal was a steaming, fragrant boiled river fish, as well as a light river fish head water tofu soup, ready to wait for the wine and rice to be served later.

"Just smelling it smells good!" Lin said with a smile.

Li Zhongquan usually only ate the big pot of dishes sold by Sister Qiu to the students of Tingfeng Academy, and now it is the first time to eat Sister Qiu's special dishes, looking at the boiled river fish with both color and fragrance, he couldn't help but boast to Jia Shi: "It's the chef of Huyang Tavern, and I don't have the skill of my nephew's daughter!" ”

"Really?" Sister Qiu asked with interest, "What kind of dishes do all the chefs in the Xu Tavern cook?" ”

Li Zhongquan recalled and said: "When I went to buy goods last year, the boss of the commercial bank invited me to eat in a tavern, there were no good dishes, the name of the dish was quite fancy and whistled, I didn't remember it, I ordered corned beef, a pork rib soup, and flower raw rice

Dry food or something. There are also good upper-level taverns, it's a pity......" Li Zhongquan smiled and shook his head, "I didn't have a chance to go in and have a look." ”

Jia Shi smiled on the side and said, "What are you pestering your uncle to say about this work, hurry up and eat vegetables!" ”

The wine utensils were brought by Lin Cheng from home, and Sister Qiu poured a glass for all the adults present, and after the adults drank a full drink, they started to eat, and the rest Lin did accompany Li Zhongquan to eat and drink.

Sister Qiu tasted a piece of river fish meat first, and chewed it slowly, the river fish meat was extremely tender, but the taste was not as strong as in her memories in her previous life, and it was expected that the hibiscus powder was not spicy enough. After everyone reached out their wooden chopsticks and tasted the river fish, Sister Qiu hurriedly asked, "What's the matter?" Isn't it delicious? ”

(End of chapter)