After a good night's sleep, everyone in the Zhang family was refreshed and red when they got up in the morning. It was too dark last night, and now that there is leisure and the sky is bright, it is natural to walk around and pick it up carefully, but unfortunately after this stroll, the faces of the family are as black as the bottom of the pot.

Because, the hoes and shovels, baskets and other daily necessities that were originally placed in the corners of the house are nowhere to be found, and several new tables and chairs made by Zhang Fu in the past few months have also been moved, not to mention those large and small cabinets, and even the two iron pots in the stove room have been taken away.

The little peach blossom girl has a small heart, and when she saw that the family had become like this, she cried first, Zhang Guier thought of something and was irritable and angry, and couldn't help but scold, "What are you crying about, it's good to have a house to live in." ”

Shanzi pouted when he saw Peach Blossom shed tears, and as soon as he heard this, he stepped forward to protect her, glared at Zhang Guier and shouted, "Don't scold Peach Blossom!" ”

Zhang Gui was even more annoyed, raised his hand and wanted to hit him twice, but was stunned by Pu Cao and let go.

Pu Cao took Peach Blossom and Shanzi into his arms, pulled his sleeves, and said coolly while carefully wiping Peach Blossom's tears, "I remember that the sage didn't say that a gentleman doesn't use his mouth, does the future champion of the Zhang family only have the ability to anger his younger siblings?"

If you are angry, go and get the things back at home, that's what a good man should do! Don't tell me, you don't know where all our belongings have gone? ”

Zhang Gui'er was choked, her face turned even bluer, and she wanted to say something, but in the end she gritted her teeth and stomped her feet, and actually ran outside the yard.

Peach Blossom was so frightened that she didn't dare to cry anymore, timidly pulled Pucao's sleeve and asked, "Sister-in-law, where did the second brother go?" ”

Pu Cao raised his eyebrows and smiled, "Xu went out for a walk, and he will be back in a while." After speaking, he pulled up the two children and said, "We still have a small iron pot, let's make porridge for breakfast first, you go and help me pick up some firewood and come back." ”

The two children obediently obeyed, and together they went through the small door next to the stove and went back to the hillside, where many dwarf pines had grown, and by this time they were mostly dry, and they were just turning back to make firewood.

After the bud porridge came out of the pot, and the two salted radishes were also cut into strips and put on the plate, Zhang Guier came in from outside the gate with a snort, this time it was obvious that he was even more embarrassed than the last time he begged for luggage, not only his clothes were covered with dust, but his right foot was also a little lame.

Peach Blossom felt sorry for her brother, so she ran forward and busily patted her brother's clothes, choked up and asked, "Second brother, did the dog leftover and the black baby bully you again?" I... I'll help my second brother beat them..."

As soon as Shanzi heard that Peach Blossom was going to fight, he immediately said, "I'll go too!" ”

Zhang Gui'er's eyes turned red when she remembered the bullying she had just received at her uncle's house, but she still held back her tears and scolded, "The gentleman doesn't move his mouth, fighting is something that only wild children who don't know etiquette do, you are not allowed to go, I will report it myself in the future... Well, I'll look at it. ”

Peach Blossom and Shanzi pouted aggrievedly and responded in a low voice.

Zhang Guier looked up at Pu Cao unhurriedly arranging the dishes and chopsticks, felt that his face was dull, turned around and entered his room, closed the door and refused to come out.

Pu Cao called out to the two children, who didn't know how to be good, to come into the house to eat together, and just after cleaning the table, they heard movement outside the door.

When I went out, it was Chunni and her husband who moved next door, so she hurriedly filled a big bowl of bud porridge and asked Peach Blossom to serve it to Zhang Gui'er, who wanted to save face, and then rushed to the next door to help.

Chunni and his wife were tying the oxcart to the poplar tree in the corner of the courtyard, and when they saw Pucao coming, Chunni smiled on her face, "Pucao, I will choose my own life in the future." ”

Her voice was brisk, obviously happy because she was free from her mother-in-law's clutches, but Liu Housheng next to her had a hint of loneliness on his face, after all, it was his father, mother and brother, even if he was treated thinner on weekdays, he was always the home that raised him.

Pu Cao saw that he hurriedly stepped forward to help carry the luggage, took advantage of the situation to divert the conversation, and said with a smile, "In the future, our two families will be neighbors, you have to prepare more for food, otherwise, I will come over when I smell the smell, and you can't hide it." ”

Chunni giggled, but Liu Housheng listened interestingly, and his face softened a lot.

The old man of the Liu family was really a little sorry, and there were only a few broken baskets and rotten hoes for Chunni and his wife, not to mention the plough stick for farming, that is, there was no small clay pot, and the three of them were busy before they finished moving the tea, and cleaned the house inside and out, spread straw mats on the kang, and put all the things on the way, and the sun had not climbed above their heads.

Pu Cao patted the dust on his body and said with a smile, "You two are busy first, I'll go back to cook, and when the meal is ready, call Peach Blossom to call you." ”

Liu Housheng originally wanted to push back, but Chunni said happily, "Okay, you can go." ”

When Pucao walked out of the yard, Liu Housheng complained to his daughter-in-law, "Their family doesn't have any food left, why did you go to eat?" ”

Chunni glared at him, the broom in her hand waved quickly and quickly, pouting into dust, and snorting angrily, "If we don't eat with the grass for lunch, we'll be hungry!" Your mother's door, even a good pot didn't give up our shares, now on the stove, the rust is almost two fingers thick, soak for a day and a night to brush it out..."

Liu Housheng's face was embarrassed, knowing that the old lady was wrong, but it was not easy to say that the elders were not, so he had to step forward to coax the angry daughter-in-law, and said with a smile, "Tomorrow I will send tax grain, I will go up the mountain with Tiezhu and them, and come back to buy you a new pot with a few good skins." ”

Chunni just complained a few words, and when she heard her man say this, she put away her grievances, regained her spirits and said, "Okay, you go hunting, I'll dry the bread at home, we have hands and feet and no one can rely on us, and we will still live a prosperous life." ”

Not to mention that the couple whispered, but said that Pucao went back to his house and found out two copper coins, so that Peach Blossom and Shanzi went to the village head Liu's house to buy tofu, and then brought out the bud noodles on this morning and looked at it, which just doubled in size, so he put it aside, and went to bring out the big bones and pork bought yesterday from the well.

A few big bones are washed and cleaned, put into the pot and add half a pot of water, while boiling the pork is cut into small squares, thrown into the salt jar to pickle, and when you can fry the vegetables in the future, pick out a piece and cut it to squeeze the oil, and save the remaining oil shuttle to make dumplings or porridge, which are excellent food.

Not long after the bone broth boiled, the peach blossoms came back with Shanzi, and the pottery bowl in his hand contained a square white and tender tofu, which looked very tempting, and the two children knew that there was delicious food to fill their stomachs today, and they were all smiling, which was very cute.

Pucao patted them on the head, praised them, and went straight to the back garden, which had long been deserted, turned over two finger-thick shallots in the grass, chopped them and threw them into the pot.

The two children sat at the door, pinching the small branches on the ground and practicing calligraphy, but their noses moved from time to time, smelling the aroma of bone broth coming from the pot.

The Chen family next door is not a stingy family, although they were afraid to leave early and go back last night, but later sent their second son to send a basket of potatoes and two cabbages. Pucao did not shirk either, and the days of being neighbors in the future are still long, so there is naturally no shortage of time to return favors.

A cabbage is shredded, potatoes are peeled and cut into strips, tofu is cut into pieces, and when the bone broth is boiled to an attractive milky white, they all go down to the pot and turn it a few times, and then pat the big cake on the side of the pot, and the meal is ready.

After the last fire is burned, when the heat overflowing from the side of the pot lid is getting thinner and thinner, the pu grass is boiling, the aroma of bone broth is blowing in the face, the shredded cabbage and potato strips are rolled to the outside, and the bone broth boiling in the middle is tumbling is the tofu cubes like mutton fat jade, and the bud cakes lined tightly on the edge of the pot are even more golden and attractive...

Peach Blossom and Shanzi, who came to the side early, couldn't help clapping their hands and laughing happily, Pucao was afraid that they would burn them, so they coaxed them to go next door to invite Chunni and his wife to dinner, never thought that the aroma of this bone broth was really fragrant and attractive, and the two couples found it themselves without waiting to invite.

Chunni smiled happily, "Pu Cao, what are you doing to eat, this fragrance is really hooking people's stomachs, is it really stewed meat?" ”

She said that she stepped forward to help scrub the clay pot to hold the vegetables, and there was no shovel to use for the grass, so she found a chopstick to pry the bud grain cake down, and the fingers were red, and she touched her ears from time to time to cool down, and finally finished her busy work, so she smiled and said, "The stew can't afford to eat for the time being, and I will have to wait a few more days, but I will use the bones to make soup and stew the vegetables, and I will also keep the incense to get rid of your big teeth." ”

The two children followed Pucao for a long time, and they already knew her temper, so they went to the well to fetch water to wash their hands, and finally changed the new water and brought it to Liu Housheng, which made him blush, and carefully washed and washed his big hands.

Zhang Gui'er was stuffy in the room all morning, it was when she was irritable, she smelled the fragrance of the yard, her stomach gurgled, and she wanted to go out but felt that she couldn't pull her face down in the morning, so she was even more hesitant.

Okay, Peach Blossom hurt his brother the most, and he ran to the door to call, and he got off the donkey and quickly opened the door.

Pu Cao didn't have time to show him a face, filled a big bowl of stew and sent it to the Chen family in the West Courtyard first, the farmer's family is simple, and there is a custom of sending each other to eat some food on weekdays, and the cabbage and potatoes in this stew are also from their own homes, so Aunt Chen excused herself two sentences and asked her eldest daughter-in-law to find a pottery bowl to leave the dish, and at the end she smiled and said that the potatoes and cabbage will be eaten in the future, although you will come to get it again.

Pu Cao said a few more polite words, and then turned back.

The Zhang family is now surrounded by four walls, and there are no tables and chairs, so the two families simply served a bowl of vegetables, took a cake, and squatted outside the stove to eat it.

At this time, it is the time when autumn is high and cool, the sun is as hot as summer, only the peaceful warmth is left, and the occasional autumn wind blows, which is cool and comfortable. Everyone drank the warm bone broth and took a bite of the sweet bud cake cake, each of them wanting to sigh with satisfaction.