Pu Cao felt as if a big hand was grabbing her heart at this moment, and the pain made her brain throb, and she couldn't wait to grab the Liu Pozi and tear her mouth. How many well-behaved children, how could this wicked old woman bear to scare them?

She barely endured her anger, tried to make herself smile gently, pointed her finger at the small brains of the two children, and said angrily, "You two little fools, you all believe what people say." Why did my sister-in-law throw you away and run away by herself?

Our house has just been redeemed, and we still have to build a greenhouse, sew quilts and cotton clothes, and we haven't done a lot of work, how can my sister-in-law leave? Besides, my sister-in-law has nowhere to go if she wants to go, and it will snow in winter soon, and my sister-in-law can still freeze to death outside? ”

The two children blinked their eyes wide, pondering for a long time in their careful eyes, as if this was the case, so they asked in a low voice, "Sister-in-law is really not leaving?" ”

Pu Cao nodded heavily, "Don't go, definitely don't go!" ”

The arms of the two children were loosened at this time, Pucao patted them on the back, let them go, stuffed the sugar man into their hands respectively, and said with a smile, "Sister-in-law specially picked it for you, peach blossoms belong to chickens, and mountains belong to pigs, right?" Like it or not? ”

"I like it!" The two children are young, in the end, they are better to coax, they each take it carefully, happily squeeze it in their hands, and soon show a smiling face, Pu Cao took the opportunity to ask again, "After we left, why did the aunt of the Liu family come again?" ”

Peach Blossom stretched out her little finger and gently touched the round nose of the little fat pig, and replied casually, "Aunt Liu wants to move the clay jar of Sister Nier's house, but Shanzi and I didn't let her in!" ”

It turned out that Mrs. Liu looked around her son's house yesterday, and the new pottery jar and all kinds of things were imprinted in her eyes, and they took root in her heart, and even slept at night over and over again, so that Old Man Liu couldn't sleep well.

So,As soon as I got up this morning, the old couple came to the door again.,Want to take advantage of no one to move things back first.。。

Their plan is good, but they never thought that Peach Blossom and Shanzi got Pucao's instructions yesterday, and they implemented it very seriously, and they got up early and rubbed their eyes and stood guard outside the door of Liu's house, no matter how the old couple of the Liu family coaxed, the two children just stood in front of the door and stopped them from entering the yard.

The old couple became angry and said a lot of mean things, which caused the two children to cry and lure the neighbors out.

Chunni has been standing at the door for a long time and listening, she has already gritted her teeth with hatred, and was about to open her mouth to scold but saw Pucao waving her hand, knowing that she didn't want to scare the child anymore, so she had to turn around and go back to the house to find her unscrupulous in-laws' "son" to vent her anger.

Pu Cao comforted the two children, took their hands and laughed all the way home, brushed the pot to boil porridge, pasted cakes, fried shredded potatoes, and shouted Chunni through the fence to go back to the front of the head, and then went to the back garden to ask Zhang Guier to come back for dinner.

Zhang Gui was really not lazy, and there were more than 200 adobes on the hillside, which were neatly arranged like soldiers waiting for review.

Pu Cao praised it rarely, Zhang Guier seemed to be relieved, and then raised her chin as usual, looking arrogant.

The family ate and continued to dig and remove the billet in the afternoon.

Chunni settled down and Liu Housheng also rushed to help with the work, and when he was resting, he discussed with Pu Cao, and went to his mother's house to find a carpenter tomorrow morning, so that when the adobe was dry, the carpentry work would be done. As for building the wooden frame on the wall, when the time comes, I will ask a few people from the village to help with it, but it will be easy in one day. In this way, you can save some food without delaying your efforts.

Pu Cao naturally agreed, and simply told her about the carpentry work she was going to do, so that Chunni could relay it to the carpenter tomorrow, so that the family could know it.

In this way, it was busy until night fell, and everyone finished work, Pu Cao stewed potato chips for a few children with the bone broth sent by Chunni, and heated a few bud cakes to deal with it, and the family was very tired, and they all fell asleep after chatting a few words.

After eating early the next morning, Pu Cao stopped Zhang Guier, who was going to the back garden, picked up a stack of yellow paper, simply cut it into the shape of copper coins, prepared two bones that had been boiled in soup, two large cakes, and asked him to take the peach blossoms to the mountain to burn five or seven for Zhang Fu's mother and son.

Zhang Guier has been called to do work by Pucao these days, and she has long forgotten the sacrifice day of her brother and mother. Suddenly, seeing that Pucao was so prepared, there was a rare trace of gratitude on his face, and after opening the "golden mouth" to thank him, he changed into clean clothes and took his sister away.

The family was quiet for a while, Pu Cao took Shanzi to wash the dirty clothes that the family had saved, and just about to ask Shanzi to go next door to see if the sick Liu Housheng needed help, Chunni brought a pair of carpenters and apprentices to rush back. She was obviously worried about her home, and her feet tightened, but she walked for seven or eight miles, and her head was covered with beads of sweat.

Pu Cao felt sorry for her, and after she briefly introduced a few sentences, she drove her into the house to take care of Liu Housheng, and then invited the carpenter father and son to sit down and drink water and gossip.

This master carpenter is a distant relative of Chunni's family, and in terms of seniority, he should be called Uncle Santang.

Uncle Li is a simple and red-faced man, and the burden of life makes the traces left by the years on his face deeper and heavier, he is only forty years old, but he looks as old as fifty years away.

His little apprentice is the youngest son of the family, seventeen or eighteen years old, I don't know whether he can't eat enough for a long time or is not fat, his body is thinner than a woman, and he can't do good farm work hard, so he follows his father to learn the craft.

The father and son themselves are not people who talk much, although they see that the customer is such a young and thin little daughter-in-law, they are still very respectful. In addition, I heard Chunni say before that part of this work belongs to her family, so she only asked for a salary of sixty yuan a day. As for the food, there are no requirements, just be full.

Pu Cao refused to take advantage, for fear that Chunni's mother's family would be praised and degraded because of these small money, and insisted on calculating the salary according to the world's price of 80 wen a day.

At this point, the carpenter father and son settled, planing boards and sawing wood in the yard of Chunni's house during the day, and stayed in the east house of Chunni's house at night.

Pucao and Chunni took a few children to dig and remove the billet, and they were also too busy to keep their feet on the ground. Liu Housheng was also anxious to help, but his leg injury was too serious, so he had to drink medicine and eat more, hoping for an early recovery.

The days flew by in the busyness of everyone, and this day was the day when Liu Housheng went to the city for a follow-up.

Dong Si first brought a cart of firewood early in the morning and sent it to the door, and helped carry it to the east side of the back garden to stack it, so that it would be carried into the greenhouse to burn the stove when the time came, and then he would send Chunni and his family into the city.

Pu Cao still remembered that he had promised to make food for Angelica, so he sent a piece of noodles last night, got up in the morning, picked up half a cabbage and scalded it softly and chopped it, and gave up a piece of salted meat, cut it into diced meat the size of a fingernail, mixed with minced green onions and two spoons of soybean sauce, and steamed more than 20 sauce meat buns.

Usually farmers, bud grain cakes and bud grain porridge can be eaten to the full, a little more solid people when the New Year to worship the ancestors, if a few steamed buns are also very decent.

Therefore, as soon as her genuine fine noodle meat bun comes out of the pot, it is definitely very coveted. Not to mention the peach blossoms and Shanzi lying at the door, even Zhang Guier, who was sitting at the door of the wing room and pretending to read, was also secretly swallowing saliva.

Pu Cao looked at a pot of white and fat meat buns, and felt that there was a small hand scratching in his throat and eyes, and he wanted to eat until he was full of burps. It's a pity that she has to give favors, entertain guests, take care of children and sick numbers, and she doesn't have her share, so she has to comfort herself in her heart that she will definitely steam one hundred and eighty silver money in the future, and eat a lot until she gets bored, so bear with it now.

Thinking like this, she quickly grabbed four of them, wrapped them in a washed white cotton cloth, and prepared to carry them into the city for Angelica. Then he picked up six more and sent them to improve the food for Uncle Li's father and son, and the two children and Zhang Guier also divided six of them, and then there were only six left in the pot.

She stuffed Chunni with a lot of brains, and said with a smile, "I'm afraid it's noon when I get to the city, so you can pad your stomach on the way with these buns." ”

Chunni stretched out her hand to push it back, but Pu Cao asked her to go to see Liu Housheng and Dong Si in the car, Chunni hesitated and nodded, and put the cloth bag into the basket.

Pu Cao thought about it, pulled her into the house and gave her the money, and explained carefully for a long time before sending them away in the car.

When she turned around and entered the stove, she saw Shanzi and Peach Blossom staring at the bun and swallowing saliva, as if they were trying to endure it but not moving, so she asked, "Why don't you eat it while it's hot?" When it's cold, it doesn't taste so good. ”

When the two children heard this, they hurriedly picked up one carefully, but instead of opening their mouths to bite it, they gave it to her and said, "Sister-in-law (sister), you can eat it too." ”

The little hands of the two children, because they have been stained with muddy water in the past few days, have become a little dry and cracked by the autumn wind, and the meat buns are even more white and fat. Pu Cao looked at them with clear and bright eyes, without a trace of reluctance, and couldn't help but feel warm in her heart, feeling that she really didn't love them in vain.

She reached out and hugged them in her arms and kissed them again and again, and at the end she pushed the bun back and said with a smile, "Sister-in-law is full in the morning, and she can't eat it at this time." You all eat it, if you still want to eat it in the future, tell your sister-in-law, and your sister-in-law will steam it for you. ”

The two children had been holding back their hunger, and when they heard this, they took a big bite.

The bacon is fat, and after steaming, it turns into oil, and the little hands of the two children are greasy, and they stick out their little tongues and lick them non-stop, which is very cute.

Pucao hugged them and sat on her lap, watching them eat sweetly, it was really more satisfying than eating it in her stomach.

Zhang Guier sat on the side and looked at everything in his eyes, his face slowly turned red, he lowered his head and stuffed half of the bun in his hand into his mouth, and went to the back garden with the basket in embarrassment.

Pu Cao had already seen through his selfish nature, and naturally he didn't feel how disappointed, teasing the two children for a few words, he got up and chose the cabbage and potatoes in the stove, and then smelled that the small vegetable cellar open in the corner of the house had no peculiar smell, so he found a basket and sent the cabbage and potatoes down, and put them in two corners.

When she climbed up and moved the wooden planks to cover the vegetable cellar, the two children had finished eating the buns, and they both pouted and shouted for help.

The remaining fifty or sixty cabbages are all big in Gao Bang's heart, and they have to be moved to the eaves to dry for a few days, ready to start accumulating sauerkraut.

It's not a job that requires technology, and it's not afraid of tossing and messing up. Pu Cao responded to the two children, took them to the inside and outside of the door, and took the cabbage as a baton to pass around.

Shanzi had the least strength, and occasionally a cabbage was heavier, so that he sat directly on the ground, and Pucao and Peach Blossom went over to help him, laughing while patting the dust off his body. Shanzi blushed with shame, and shouted that he would have strength when he grew up.