Chapter 18 Serving
In the previous life, the hometown planted rice, so Pucao loved rice and became obsessed, and yesterday I went to the grain store to buy some japonica rice back, but when I asked the price, she was so shocked that she almost jumped up, and actually asked for sixty wen a catty.
She has long known that the cold climate of the snow country is not suitable for growing rice, and all rice is transported from the southern countries, but she didn't expect it to be so expensive.
It's this fine noodles, because they are produced in several cities in the south, and the price is not too expensive, twenty wen a catty, she weighed five catties back, and plans to occasionally improve the food for the children in the future.
After a while, the gnocchi in the pot floated out, and the appearance of the white fat and small rolling in the bone broth was very cute, and the grass was stirred with a long spoon, added some salt, and finally sprinkled a handful of chopped green onions.
As soon as Shanzi and Peach Blossom woke up, they ran in the stove room while smelling the fragrance, and were driven to wash their hands and face by Pucao, Zhang Guier picked up a big broom and swept the yard clean, and also washed his head and face and went into the stove to eat.
The family sat on the pyre, looking at the milky white and emerald green delicious food in the bowl, all smiling and swallowing, reluctant to take a bite.
Pu Cao laughed and beckoned, "Let's eat quickly, our family will have a better life in the future, and there will be times when you are bored of eating." ”
Everyone lowered their heads and ate it, Shanzi was greedy and anxious and burned his tongue at the first bite, Pucao was angry and funny, just about to go to scoop water for him, he heard someone shouting outside the courtyard gate, "Open the door, the family is lazy, the sun has climbed up the mountain, haven't you gotten up yet?" ”
When the Zhang family heard this, everyone frowned, and Peach Blossom immediately hugged her pottery bowl and whispered, "Sister-in-law, do you want to hide it first?" ”
Pu Cao didn't want her to develop a stingy temperament at such a young age, so she said, "Don't hide, you just eat, there is a sister-in-law." ”
Zhang Gui'er glared at her sister and got up to greet her first, Pu Cao was afraid that the couple would have some kind of ghost idea, so she took the words to envelop Zhang Gui first, so she hurriedly followed.
Sure enough, as soon as Second Uncle Zhang and his wife entered the courtyard, the eyes that seemed to have hooks began to sweep around, and every time they saw a new object, the horizontal flesh on their faces trembled, and Pucao was very disgusted to see it.
Zhang Gui'er's face was not good, and after a salute, he asked in a cold tone, "Second uncle and second aunt came to the door so early, but is there something?" ”
Second Uncle Zhang snorted coldly, put up the "score" of the elders with his hands behind his back, and scolded, "Isn't this still my Zhang family's courtyard, I can't come?" ”
Second Aunt Zhang's eyes stared at the new dustpan hanging under the eaves, and her mouth echoed, "That's it, as long as this courtyard is still surnamed Zhang, we can come at any time." ”
Zhang Guier heard that the couple was so cheeky, and her face turned blue with anger, and she wanted to refute a few words and pursed her mouth.
When Pu Cao saw it, he secretly scolded in his heart for being useless, and stepped forward and said with a smile, "What the second uncle and second aunt said is not right, although they can't write two words in one stroke, but they are all separated from each other and have too many teenagers, so they can't pinch a piece."
The second uncle and the second aunt are guests when they come to the door, don't get confused, this is the rules and etiquette. ”
Aunt Zhang and Pu Cao are bitter and bitter, and when they heard this, their eyes were about to scold, but they were frightened back by Uncle Zhang's eyes, so she had to shut up, but she took her eyes as the crossbow arrow and flying knife, and stabbed at Pu Cao coldly.
However, Pu Cao saw that their husband and wife didn't want to turn their faces, and looked back at her with a smile that didn't show weakness at all, with three points of smugness and seven points of ridicule on her face, and her face was more and more distorted with anger.
Second Uncle Zhang walked to the living room with square steps, but when he stood at the door and saw that the hall was empty, he subconsciously asked, "Why don't you even have a table and chairs?" ”
How could Pu Cao let go of this opportunity, and immediately said, "The second uncle doesn't know, I don't know which lack of virtue will be punished, in the next life, I will be a beast and a thief of cattle and horses, and I will move all the belongings in the house, and what I spent money to redeem is an empty house, if I know who this person is, I will curse them every day that they will not die well, walk and fall to death, cross the river and drown..."
The more Uncle Zhang listened, the worse his face became, and he secretly scolded himself for forgetting the objects in his own room, so he quickly coughed twice, and said half-truthfully, "Didn't my nephew and daughter-in-law make a lot of money and add a lot of new things, why don't you find someone to make some wood?" ”
Pu Cao's eyebrows were raised, and the heart was finally here, but his face was silent, and he said with a smile, "Second Uncle listened to what the wife said, where can I go as a woman to make money?" It's just that there is a few surplus money left over from the sale of the bud valley before, and in the end, it can't be because the thief who cut off his children and grandchildren makes the four walls of the house empty, so he reluctantly buys a few things. To be honest, now that the family has no money, I still want to go to my second uncle's house to borrow 100 yuan. ”
didn't wait for Second Uncle Zhang to speak, but Second Aunt Zhang's iron rooster couldn't hold it anymore, and refused loudly, "My family has no money, don't think about beating my family's idea!" ”
Pu Cao pursed her lips and said slowly, "The second aunt helped other people's families 'collect the land' this autumn, but she was not tired, and the bud grain at home must have left a lot, can't help our family with a few changes, we can always borrow dozens of catties of bud grain noodles, right?" ”
This autumn, Aunt Zhang had to break two baskets of buds every night to come back, and if there were too many, she could get more than 300 catties of sticks, and the people who lost the buds guessed that she did it, but they had no choice but to catch her wrist, so they secretly cursed non-stop.
Pu Cao heard Chunni mention it and remembered it in her heart, so she took it out as a knife and stabbed Aunt Zhang's weakness at this time.
Aunt Zhang couldn't get angry now, and muttered in a low voice, "My family is poor, and there is not enough bud noodles to eat, how can there be a surplus..."
Second Uncle Zhang suspected that Zhang Fu had made a windfall that day, and he was not deceived by the female thief, and he wanted to get a piece of the pie, and even drove Pu Cao away to occupy the Zhang family compound and dominate the family wealth, so he ignored the eyes of his mother-in-law, and pulled the reluctant Zhang Guier to the side and muttered in a low voice.
Pu Cao was afraid that Zhang Gui'er would be brainless and say something that shouldn't be said, so she glanced at it twice, and was rushed into the stove by the second aunt Zhang without paying attention for a while.
In order to block people, this superb couple came early in the morning, and before they had time to eat, Aunt Zhang smelled the fragrance wafting out of the stove, so she sucked saliva and touched it.
Peach Blossom and Shanzi are sensible and well-behaved, seeing that their sister-in-law and brother are going out, they honestly guard the pottery bowl and swallow their saliva, wanting to wait for their sister-in-law and brother to come back and eat together, but they don't want to look up but see Aunt Zhang coming in with a shy round face.
Aunt Zhang'er saw that the pottery bowl was actually made of fine noodles, and her eyes immediately lit up, and she stepped forward to pick up the pottery bowl in front of Shanzi and said, "That little prostitute also lied to people that she couldn't eat enough bud porridge, but it turned out that she was hiding and eating fine noodles." ”
After she finished speaking, she opened her mouth and took a small sip, and said, "I actually put meat in it, this ruined girl..."
Children are already protecting food, not to mention that the family is full of bud porridge, and it was snatched away as soon as there was some good food, Ren is Shanzi is already very sensible, but it is inevitable that he will feel distressed.
This kid didn't know where he got a lot of strength, and he went to grab the pottery bowl, and Aunt Zhang was about to take a second sip, but she was pulled on her wrist, and the pimple soup in the pottery bowl spilled out, and it was all poured on Shanzi's little arm.
If you have ever drunk pimple soup, you know that the noodle soup looks cold, but in fact, it is only a little solidified on the surface, but it still retains a certain amount of heat inside, and it is easy to be scalded if you are not careful.
Shanzi didn't grab the bowl, but the pain on his arm was spicy, he was stunned and cried loudly, Peach Blossom was already afraid, and when he saw Shanzi being burned, he stepped forward to beat Aunt Zhang, "You let go of Shanzi, let go of Shanzi..."
The cries of the two children were extremely penetrating, and they spread out when they competed with the race, frightening the uncles and nephews of the Zhang family who were talking, as well as Pu Cao, who was eavesdropping.
Pu Cao turned around and saw that Aunt Zhang was not there, her face sank immediately, she ran into the stove in a few steps, and when she saw that Shanzi's arm was pasted with noodle soup, she stepped forward and hugged him and ran to the side of the water tank, and directly inserted her arm into it...
Liangshui calmed down for a moment, the pain subsided slightly, Shanzi finally stopped crying, the little arm that was not injured hugged Pucao's neck, sobbing, "Sister, sister, she snatched my pimple soup..."
Pu Cao lifted his sleeves, and when he saw a big slap on it, he was red and swollen, and his distressed body trembled.
Although Shanzi has not been with her for a long time, in this family, when it comes to blood, Peach Blossom and Zhang Guier are close relatives, she is an outsider, and even strictly speaking, she is a helpless lonely ghost ghost, and Shanzi recognized her as a sister, which is her only relatives who are implicated in this world.
These days, every time I wake up in the middle of the night, I feel homesick and tearful, and I get through it by hugging this child's chubby little body and comforting myself.
But now, the child she loves is burned like this, which makes her hate it so much that she wants to kill!
Looking up again, the second aunt Zhang was still standing by the door, complaining to the second uncle Zhang with her big mouth open, "Our Zhang family's rice grain, what's wrong with me eating a bowl, the little cub is still very protective of food, pounce on it, grab it, let him have no rules, burn himself..."
Pu Cao only felt that the anger in her heart burned to her head in an instant, she put down Shanzi and whispered, "Shanzi doesn't cry, you watch my sister give you anger." ”
As she spoke, she picked up the flat pole next to the board and quietly touched the door, Peach Blossom was so shocked that she covered her little mouth and leaned against Shanzi, but Shanzi's eyes were wide open, waiting to see how her sister wielded.
Second Uncle Zhang was pulling Zhang Gui'er, who was annoyed, and provoked, "This is still not our old Zhang family, your aunt will be bullied by a foreign cub when she eats breakfast, and there are no rules?" ”
He was speaking righteously, and suddenly saw that Pucao felt bad when he touched it from behind, and he was just about to remind his daughter-in-law that he didn't want Pucao to be thin and weak, but he had trained his strength to make cattle and horses for the Zhang family for many years.
Before he could speak, he had already raised his flat shoulder and slapped it hard, Aunt Zhang was in pain, howled miserably, and subconsciously pounced forward, Second Uncle Zhang couldn't dodge, and she was directly hit under the stone steps.