Jia Shi and Xiao Xu both ate mutton for the first time and tasted it carefully. There are very few sheep in the Jiujiang area, and mutton is naturally expensive, although Yan Yuanwai has money to buy it, but where will he be a big grandfather to do these things, and he is afraid that Xiaoxu will eat bad stomach, and Jia has never eaten it when he was in his mother's house, and he has no chance to eat mutton when he is poor at his husband's house.

"That's what mutton tasted like this!" Xiao Xu screamed novelly, biting the boiled crispy mutton.

Jia Shi also smiled and said: "I used to hear others say that mutton is delicious, but the taste is unpleasant, fishy and fat, but in fact it doesn't have that big smell, isn't it, Sister Qiu?" ”

"Yes, yes." Sister Qiu hurriedly responded twice, trying her best to pretend that she had tasted mutton for the first time.

Yan Yuanwai got up and went to settle the account, and when he came back and listened to what his family said, he smiled and said: "If you want to eat, we will sell it in Jiujiang, I know a family that raises sheep, that is, they raise less, and they may not kill sheep once a year. ”

"The mutton is delicious, but we haven't done it, and it's not delicious." Jia said with a smile.

Sister Qiu said: "It's not necessarily difficult, isn't that family raising sheep, they definitely know how to do it, and it is estimated that what seasonings are added to cover the taste, like fennel, star anise pepper or something, we have them all, it's not difficult." ”

"En, it's not difficult! Let's eat meat, and we can also eat bones for Little Ash! Xiao Xu ate a mouth full of oily flowers, and did not forget to raise his eyes to support Sister Qiu, lest there be no mutton to eat in the future.

Yan Yuan smiled angrily, stretched out his palm and pushed over, "Do you know how to do it?" You're a foodie like Ash! ”

Xiao Xu smiled, bowed his head and gulped down the hot haggis soup, but his heart was warm. After the two families became a family, he felt that this family was much more comfortable, especially his father, who had changed very much, before his father was always with a straight face, and his temperament was also smelly and hard, he saw his father and the mouse saw the cat-like, and now his father smiled more, and his speech was also warm and harmonious, and his mother became more and more similar, and he dared to speak in front of his father.

He likes this family very much, and he likes his current father and mother and sister very much.

The family went back after eating, Sister Qiu originally wanted to lead the family to visit again, Jia Shi looked at the sky and said that the clouds were a little thick, and said that it would not rain in the afternoon, so she went back, and it didn't take long to get home, the dark clouds rolled in the sky, and it rained in less than a moment.

Jia Shi first carried the pastries and fabrics to the eldest brother Li Changjiao, and when he came back, it was still a little rainy, and he went back to the house to change his clothes, and sat there silently, obviously angry at Li Changjiao.

Yan Yuan went out to the township, Sister Qiu came to Jia's house and asked Jia what was going on, at first Jia didn't say it, and then she couldn't stand Sister Qiu's soft grinding and hard bubbles, and finally said it while cooking.

"What else could there be! Your aunt, what did she say to me? Eh, as soon as I passed, I didn't say a few words, and I saw that she wanted to tell me something, and your uncle didn't ask her to say it several times, I thought at that time

, ironclad is not a good thing. When I left, they were all far away, and she came to her house, saying that your two cousins were unfounded, and that she wanted them to be officials under your father. Jia sighed and said while cutting the sauce on the board.

Sister Qiu paused, and immediately shook her head and said, "Mother, you can't answer her, this is a matter outside Yan Yuan, we can't interfere." ”

"You kid! Mother-in-law is the kind of person who doesn't understand anything! Jia Shi smiled and said, "Naturally, I can't answer her, and the people next to us can't help Yan Yuan, and we can't drag others back!" "The most important thing is that Yan Yuanwai is good to her, and she doesn't expect Yan Yuanwai to be embarrassed because of her.

"Aren't the two cousins of the Changguo Chang family good at learning crafts in Huyang?" Sister Qiu said, "Isn't it better to learn a good craft than to be an official?" ”

Jia said: "Who knows what your eldest aunt thinks? I also think that the skill of learning is better than that of being an official, and being an official is looking at the style, but there is no craftsman to make money, and if you want to make a lot of money, you will take that illegal way, your two cousins are like your uncle, they are all honest and honest people, and they can't do that thing. ”

"Then what did you tell my aunt about?" Sister Qiu asked.

"What else can I say, just say that there is no shortage of people in the township now, and when there is a shortage of people, I will say to Yan Yuanwai, I said so, ordinary people must know what it means, I see that your uncle is not happy, she didn't even say anything else, she turned her head and left." Jia Shi said with a smile, and now she is more and more neat when she talks perfunctory.

Sister Qiu nodded and said with a smile: "If my eldest aunt mentions this matter again, you can tell her that we are going to open a store in another location, and then ask my cousin to help us." ”

With this beard hanging on the kohlrabi, the Tian family should not be obsessed with official affairs.

"Huh?" Jia Shi was taken aback, "Are we going to open a store too?" ”

Sister Qiu smiled and said, "Yes, it will be opened backwards, as for when it will be opened, let's see." "If the two cousins are capable, they should be bosses, and if they are capable, they should be ordinary fellows and pay more wages. Although the Tian family is not likable, Li Changjie takes great care of the two of them, and has lent a helping hand when they are most in difficulty, and Sister Qiu must repay these friendships.

Jia Shi nodded, and said with a smile: "You are a strong person, you can make money, you can read the small preface well, in the future, your sister and brother will help each other, and if you have a support, your father and I will be at ease." ”

Sister Qiu smiled, sat down in front of the stove to light the fire, and suddenly asked: "Mother, let's buy two people too, you are busy alone, you are very tired." ”

Jia Shi shook his head and hurriedly shook his hand, "What are you thinking in your head, kid?" Who are you buying? That's what the landlord and old money do! There are only four people in our family, do we use people to serve? I have two palms for each person, and I am busy in a moment, and I don't delay to go to the store to do work. Now that we have money, we can't shake off when we have money...... I don't need to be served, I don't feel comfortable just thinking about it! ”

"Okay, okay!" Sister Qiu didn't expect a sentence to attract such a surprise from Jia's family, so she hurriedly raised it

hand surrendered, "That's what I said, I want to ask you, you don't like me to buy people?" ”

Jia Shi glanced at Sister Qiu with a smile and shook her head. It's a good thing for her daughter to feel heartache for her, but she didn't think about it comprehensively, Yan Yuanwai was just an official, and after marrying her, he began to serve as a servant, what would others think of him? Will you talk about how he married a rich woman to live a comfortable life? Where does a man's face go? There is also the Jiang family, the gap is getting bigger and bigger, what will the Jiang family think in their hearts? Lin Zhun was already under a lot of pressure. This life is already very good, Jia Shi thought, it is a good life that she never dreamed of before, she is full of endless energy, where will she feel tired!

"We'll have grapes to eat in a few years." Jia Shi said with a smile that everything she looks at now is full of expectations and full of energy.

When it is the hottest time in summer, it seems that when you turn things at home, not only do you have to dry the thick mattress covered in winter, but also the food stored at home must be moved out and dried in the same way.

Sister Qiu and Jia's cleaned the yard early in the morning, and dried the flowers, beans, and buds in the yard, while the newly beaten flour was put in a bucket and moved out to dry.

"Eh! The flowers are all worms! Jia Shi fished out a handful of flowers, preached with heartache, fetched a basin of water, washed the flowers again, and then put them in the sun and fields to dry.

After the sun came out, within a moment of sunshine, the delicate insects and ants born in the food could not stand the sun, and twisted their bodies to arch desperately to other places, trying to avoid the exposure of the sun.

Sister Qiu squatted on the side, looked at an insect ant, picked it on the leaf with a small branch, and threw it into the chicken pen to feed the chickens when she saved too much. Perhaps because the food is good, the chickens that did not lay eggs in the middle of summer are still laying eggs all year round, but they are laying less eggs than usual, and they lay an egg every two or three days.

In the afternoon, when the sun was set in the west, the two of them took back the food back into the house, and Jia took a bamboo basket of flour with fine mesh, and prepared to steam dry food for the evening. Sister Qiu also came to know after the ancient times, flour can only be eaten after the basket, not only to remove the small stones and other slag in the flour, but also to basket off the unground coarse grains. In ancient times, the mill was a large grinding disc drawn by livestock, which could not be as fine as the flour milled by machines in the 21st century, mixed with coarse grains, and it was necessary to add water and flour after the basket.

"Tomorrow is a big day off." Jia Shi said while rubbing his face, "Your Aunt Chunhua told me a long time ago, your Master Lin thinks of him very much, it just so happens that you are going to take a look at the workshop tomorrow, and you should take you back with Da Ash." ”

Sister Qiu nodded, "Okay, Brother Zhun hasn't been home for a long time?" ”

"yes." Jia Shi said, "That kid knows how hard he can, he doesn't wait for the autumn to go to the county government to take the exam, he reads books every day, and he is also reading books during the college holidays, and he doesn't go back home." ”

"Brother Zhun has a short time to study, and he is not young, so he is anxious." Sister Qiu said with a smile, she hadn't seen Lin Zhun for a long time. After moving to a new home, she went to the store less often.

The next day, Sister Qiu picked up her things and went to the store. After arriving at the store, Sister Qiu saw that Chunxiang's daughter-in-law was talking to Jia, and Jia's face was full of embarrassment.

"What's going on? What's going on in the store? Sister Qiu asked in surprise, she hadn't seen such a hesitant expression on Jia's face for a long time.

Jia Shi hurriedly said: "Nothing, nothing. ”

Isn't this obvious that there is no silver 300 taels here, Sister Qiu was a little crying and laughing, "Mother, what's the matter?" What are you hiding from me? ”

Chunxiang's daughter-in-law was full of anger and said, "Yes, auntie, you can't hide this matter from your mother." ”

Jia Shi sighed, "It's not a big deal, today the big cow and the second cow came to eat bean curd, your sister-in-law said...... Cough, it's also a shadowless thing, it's not good if you wronged someone, forget it, pay attention to it. ”

"Auntie, it's not me who wronged him!" Chunxiang's daughter-in-law said angrily, "Every time the big cow and the second cow come to eat bean curd, the total amount of money is less, I obviously see the guests put the money on the wooden table after eating, and the money is gone." If the big bull doesn't come, there will be no such thing, and as soon as he comes, he will lose money! It's just a matter of eating for nothing, and stealing money, it's really a bad job! ”

Sister Qiu's face was embarrassed, it was not news that the big cow's arms and legs were unclean, it was just a small thing that usually stole a red egg or something in the countryside, and the big guy was angry, and he didn't do anything to him, but he didn't expect that now all of them have escalated to stealing money.

"This can't be done like that." Sister Qiu frowned and said, "It's not enough to eat for nothing, and we have to take the money for nothing...... No matter how much you don't care, you can't control it if you steal big in the future, and it's too late to catch someone and pull it to see the official! ”

Although the Jia family remarried, and basically has no contact with the Mei family, if they seem to have some face, they will never ask the children of the family to come to Jia's shop to eat for nothing, but the Mei family is different, at this point, Sister Qiu is also very impressed by the strong cultivation of the Mei family, they can always do shameless things, and at the same time feel at ease that they are doing what they are doing right.

Naturally, Jia's and Sister Qiu are not stingy people, the big cow and the second cow come to eat bean curd, and the Jia family and Sister Qiu have never picked them up, but they are always delicious and delicious hospitality, especially the Jia family, who is also worried that someone will say something unpleasant, and they are still very polite to the big cow and the second cow.

As a result, this kind of politeness did not win the respect of the other party, but instead boosted the other party's courage, and stole it from her, and the anger in Sister Qiu's heart can be imagined.

"It's not like I'm talking about them!" Aunt Fufa, who has never been very fond of squeaking, also opened her mouth, "The big cow and the big seal donkey are all about the same, every time the big seal donkey comes back to eat, they all rush to help do the work, and they are willing to sit down and eat when the work is neat, and they help wash the dishes or something after eating." Erniu, still young, the big cow is a teenager and a half-year-old, every time he comes back, he sits there like a big son, he opens his mouth to eat this and that, and he eats everything he hates. We are all villagers in the township, and we are all called aunts and aunts by the generations.

He put us on a stand and called us as servants, as if he was the young master of the master's family? Even you and Sister Qiu have never called us! When he doesn't understand things and doesn't care about him, he still stretches out his hand to steal money! If you want me to say, you shouldn't let him in to eat bean curd, I've never seen such a child! ”

It is impossible not to enlarge the cow to come in and eat bean curd, and Jia's will not be able to pass this level, and he is too soft-hearted and afraid of gossip from others.

Sister Qiu thought about it and said: "The next time he comes again, I will bother my aunt and sister-in-law to keep an eye on it, even if I don't invite guests, look at him Don't ask him to steal money, he wants to come, just look at him to eat enough, and if he wants it again, he will say that it is gone, and it is sold out." ”

(End of chapter)