Chapter 246: Something Happened
Big girl, you go to Brother Shu's house first, if they haven't left, let them come to my house for dinner, breakfast and lunch, and then call Uncle Zhong and Brother Shu! Du Mei chased after him and said loudly.
"Got it." The eldest girl answered, turned and left.
Du Mei knew that Du Zhong's life was not easy, her grandmother Wei deducted Du Zhong's rations for no reason, Du Shu was a half-grown child, it was the age of the tall man, and he ate a lot, for this reason, his family's food has been very tight, and he often runs out of cooking. Du Zhong is a person who admits death, and refuses to accept Du Mei's help.
Niu Er and Hei Jiaolong are the people in her grain shop, and they stayed at his house the day before yesterday and yesterday, which has caused a lot of trouble, if they stay at his house to eat, with Du Zhong's good-faced personality, they will definitely do everything to entertain them, and it will inevitably be overstretched in the future, and it will be difficult to continue.
When the eldest girl went, Du Zhong and his son were weaving bamboo baskets under the corridor, Niu Hei and the two were still asleep, and the snoring in the house started to snore each other.
"Uncle Zhong, Brother Shu, Meizi asked you to go to her house for lunch together." The eldest girl stood beside Du Zhong and his son, watching them weave baskets with their fingers.
"This ......" Du Zhong hesitated, Du Mei always helped him, and he had to take extra care of his face, he was grateful in his heart. But now that she has been enshrined by the emperor as a widow, she is no longer the girl in the second room of the Du family in the past, can he climb this high branch?
"You must go, otherwise my senior sister will say that I can't talk and do things." The eldest girl blinked her eyes and smiled.
"Let's make up the basket and ......," Du Shu said with a smile on his face.
"Besides, besides, you can get busy." Du Zhong didn't wait for Du Shu to finish speaking, so he rushed to say.
The eldest girl answered and went back.
"Daddy......" Du Shu said a little dissatisfied.
"Eat, eat, know how to eat!" Du Zhong glared at his son fiercely, looking like he hated iron but not steel.
Du Shu was scolded inexplicably, and his heart was puffed up, but he didn't dare to talk back, so he had to bury his head in the basket and twist the wild bamboo strips around to vent his anger.
The eldest girl didn't dare to go to the second stunned man's house, yesterday her mother didn't dare to tell Huang Yiping what Mrs. Cao said when she went home, but she called the eldest girl to the kitchen this morning, and she was killed for a long time.
The eldest girl didn't look at the second stunned, and Du Mei also knew that he must be sleeping at home, so she didn't care about him, just lunch.
Last evening, Stone went to the mountains to hunt a fat hare, which is now in a cage, and today he has just peeled it for cooking. There are also many vegetables in the field, so Du Tao and Du Gui went to dig after breakfast.
Blue smoke came out of the chimney of the second room, and it melted into the white mist. Seeing that the sky was getting brighter and brighter, suddenly, the white mist in the sky was torn apart by the sunlight, and thousands of rays of light poured down. In an instant, the hole grew larger and larger, and the mist vanished like a night elf.
The fragrance of the spicy hare drifted with the sunlight on the roofs of Dujiagou households, and the two stunned people smelled the fragrance.
"What's delicious to cook today?" He asked Dumei cheekily.
"Big girl, you go to Uncle Zhong's house again, what time is this, why haven't they come yet?" Du Mei pretended to ignore the two stunned, he came here, could he still eat without him?
"I'll go with you!" The second stunned man said happily to the eldest girl.
"If you want to go, you can go, I'll stay and help Sister Meizi do things." The big girl who was burning the fire in the stove had already stood up, and when she saw that the second stunned person said that she was going, she sat back on the bench and added a handful of firewood to the stove.
"You...... That...... Then I'll go. The second stunned saw that the eldest girl's attitude was unfriendly, so he remembered that his mother must have said something reckless to the eldest girl last night, he didn't dare to argue, so he had to hold back and go to Du Zhong's house alone to call someone.
As soon as the second stunned man left the courtyard gate, he didn't go far when he saw Niu Er and Hei Jiaolong walking side by side.
"I said that the two of you, you have to be invited three or four times for a meal, and you really treat yourself as a distinguished guest." The second stunned man stopped them, crossed his waist and said, he didn't dare to be cruel to Du Mei, and he couldn't raise his eyebrows at these two?
"Isn't this coming, what's the hurry!" Niu Er gently pulled the second stunned to the side and walked straight away.
"If not...... If it weren't for ......" The two stunned men clenched their fists for a long time, and finally pulled their legs back, eating is the most important thing.
"Why are you two here, Uncle Zhong and Brother Shu?" Du Mei looked out, but there was no one in sight.
"They refused to come, and we persuaded them for a long time, but they didn't do anything." The black dragon said helplessly.
"Why is that?" Du Mei asked with a frown.
"How do I know? Everyone else came up to eat, but they just ......" Niu Erzheng caught a glimpse of the second stunned man coming back, and swallowed his words.
Du Mei took off his apron, patted the fine dust on his body, and walked away.
"Hey, where are you going?" The people in the courtyard said in unison.
"I'll go see Uncle Zhong and them." Du Mei said, walking briskly.
"I don't want to drink wild vegetable mush!" Du Shu really couldn't figure out why he couldn't go to Du Mei's house for dinner, he sat on the stove and lit the fire, and said angrily.
"And what else do you want to eat? Delicious food from the mountains and seas! Du Zhong turned his back and faced.
"I'm going to eat, eat! Why don't you get our rations back! Du Shu shouted aggrievedly.
"You bunny, you want to turn the sky upside down!" Du Zhong raised his flour-stained hand and was about to hit it.
"Uncle Zhong, what are you doing!" Du Mei stepped in and just happened to see this scene.
"Du Shu is talking nonsense, I am about to teach him a lesson." Du Zhong put down his hand in amazement.
"Meizi, why are you here?" Du Shu was very happy to see her.
"I'm here to see what Uncle Zhong is doing at home?" Du Mei said, and lifted the lid of the pot.
A pot of water was boiling, and there were a few old and hard wild vegetables floating on it, and there was no oil star at all.
"What do I have at home, Meizi, aren't you cold mixed with your uncle." Du Zhong rubbed his hands a little embarrassed.
"Since you don't have anything to eat, why don't you come to my house to eat?" Du Mei covered the pot, and she didn't know whether she was smoky by the heat or sad, and her tears flowed out.
"What are you crying about, you are a widow now, you can't let people see the joke." Seeing Du Mei crying, Du Zhong panicked.
"It's all your fault, Dad!" Du Shu glanced at Du Zhong reproachfully, got up and went to get a face towel.
"You rabbit, what do you know?" Du Zhong roared.
"Uncle Zhong, what's wrong with you, why did you break up with us?" Du Mei took the face towel handed over by Du Shu, wiped her tears and asked.
"It's nothing, it's nothing, you're a widowed master, and you'll have a bigger future in the future." Du Zhong lowered his head and rubbed off the wet flour on his hands little by little.
"Old man?" Du Mei chuckled, a title that sounded awkward.
Seeing her laughing, Du Zhong lowered his head in embarrassment.
"Uncle Zhong, you just want to deal with us for this?" Du Mei stopped laughing and asked seriously.
"It's not that you don't come and go, I will still help you plant your field." Du Zhong's face turned red and he hurriedly distinguished.
"Uncle Zhong, I don't want you to help me plant the five acres here, but I also want you to help me manage the hundred acres of land on the grange, you can't watch me a girl's family mess around." Du Mei pouted and said pitifully.
"A hundred acres of land?" Du Zhong repeated softly.
"That's right, I'm a widow, it's just a good sound, no money and no power, don't you see that the emperor only rewarded me with a hundred taels of silver, he knows that I am a farmer, just give me more land, and my income will be here." Du Mei looked at his face and said with a smile.
"You are an old ...... and still farming?" Du Zhong asked suspiciously, he didn't say the word master again after all, for fear that Du Mei would laugh again.
"I'm just a country girl, but I can only farm." Du Mei is colorful.
"Where is your grange, not far from our village?" Du Zhong breathed a sigh of relief in his heart and asked with interest.
Du Zhong is an authentic farmer, he has done farm work for half his life, has a deep affection for the land, and takes care of the crops more carefully than his own children, and does not dare to slack off at all.
"The county lord hasn't made it clear yet, but it's fast, and it's only three or five days." Du Mei tilted his head and said.
"Ah, this season, not sooner or later, what should I plant?" Du Zhong doesn't cook either, so he ponders the production of the fields.
"I don't know, why don't you come to my house for dinner, the big guys are here, let's sum up?" Du Mei winked mischievously at Du Shu, meaning to tell him to quickly turn off the stove.
"This ......" Du Zhong looked at the basin hesitantly.
"Let's go, let's go, they're in a hurry." Du Mei pulled Du Zhong's sleeve and pulled it out, like a naughty little daughter, Du Zhong's heart instantly melted, so he no longer insisted.
By the time they came, there were already seven or eight dishes on the table in the hall, and the two stunned stared at the spicy hare and swallowed their saliva.
Yesterday, everyone drank a lot at Lao Tou's house, and the wine was not yet exhausted, so they only ate and did not drink today. Du Mei cooked a big pot of pure japonica rice, white and shiny, the rice was fragrant, and I wanted to eat a big bowl when I smelled it, not to mention that there were so many delicious dishes to accompany the meal.
The men each ate two or three bowls, and finally they deliberately shoveled the pot, soaked the meat stew of the spicy hare, and ate most of the bowls in Hulala.
Because of the fog before, I couldn't see the time, Du Mei's rice was made early, and it was not until the end of the hour after eating. The Dumei sisters went to the kitchen to wash the dishes and brush the pots, and the men talked about the fields and crops in the house.
"Sister Meizi, Sister Meizi!" There was an anxious call from outside the courtyard, accompanied by a knock on the door.
"Who hates it so much!" The second stunned man was talking about spittle, and he came to open the door very reluctantly.
"Ye Qing? Why are you here? The second stunned man asked in surprise.
"Where's Sister Meizi?" Ye Qing pushed away the second stunned man and walked into the courtyard quickly.
"What's wrong?" Du Mei came out when he heard the sound, and his hands were still wet.
"Something is wrong! My brother asked me to tell you, don't go to the grain store these days! Ye Qing swallowed his saliva, he was in a hurry, all the way to the wind, his throat was about to smoke.
"Don't rush, don't rush, drink saliva first and speak slowly." Du Mei poured him a cup of tea and pressed him to a chair, and several people in the room surrounded him, staring at him anxiously.
"That's the case......" Ye Qing drank two large glasses of water in a row, moistening his throat, before he spoke.