"You still need to say this, I can see it a long time ago, if it weren't for the girl in the second room who wastes food, our life would not be so embarrassing." Zhou said hatefully.

"The girls of the second sister-in-law's family are not all without benefits." Xie Shi thought that today was the Chinese New Year's Eve, and he had just sacrificed to his ancestors, and suddenly felt a cold back, and hurriedly changed his breath.

"Hmph, that's why you're kind-hearted. I think Xu's is a blessed person, his mother's family can't tell clearly, he didn't say anything about giving birth to a room of girls, and he also killed a good second uncle.

This time it's okay, give birth to a debt collector, she is satisfied, but she spends so much money in the public school. I don't know what bad luck will happen in the future. Zhou mumbled non-stop.

A gust of cold wind blew in through some crevice, and the flame of the oil lamp jumped sharply, as if life was hanging by a thread.

"Sister-in-law!" The doors and windows in the kitchen were closed, and the wind came strangely. Xie Shi was a little suspicious at first, and at this moment, he was even more scared.

Zhou, who had a ghost in his heart, shuddered when he was screamed by Xie Shi, whose voice had changed his tone. After drinking the wine, the hot body instantly seemed to fall into an ice cave.

The cold wind was blowing, and the two brothers who were drinking crookedly at the dinner table, one of them was agitated, and they also woke up a little. The two brothers seemed to hug each other, and crookedly went to the hall to quarrel with their parents and beg for tea.

Zhou and Xie exchanged glances, and both closed their mouths in fear.

The kitchen was quickly cleaned up, making dumplings, spreading baba, fried melon seeds and peanuts, and the women's work was not done yet.

Wei scolded with a smile and made tea for the two brothers, and walked to the kitchen by himself.

Zhou and Xie took the initiative to clean up the kitchen, which surprised Wei a little, she thought that her words had worked, so her face softened the two daughters-in-law.

The second house is also very lively. Juniper ate the milk and slept obediently. Xu promised to teach the Du Mei sisters to read, and at this time they happened to be free.

First teach to recognize the surname, there are few strokes of the Du character, and the four sisters remember it at a glance. Then teach each his name. Plum, cherry, peach, cinnamon. These names correspond to the time of their birth.

Du Mei was born in the wax moon, so it is naturally a plum. Du Ying was born in April, and the wild cherry blossoms in the mountains are like a glow. Du Tao is the end of February, the peach blossoms are blooming, Du Gui happens to be August, the fragrance of osmanthus is intoxicating.

Xu's tone was gentle, every word, coming out of her mouth, was a beautiful picture, the four sisters recognized the flowers first, and now they recognized the words, and quickly connected the two and remembered them one by one.

Xu used charcoal to write on an old piece of cloth: Each, Plum, Mold, Berry, Sea, Insult, Repentance, Obscurity, Min.

The four sisters were dumbfounded, what are so many words that look similar! They couldn't even figure out which plum character Du Mei was.

Xu Shi looked at their stunned appearance and laughed: "Actually, these words are not difficult to recognize, I will teach you a method to ensure that you can remember them at once." ”

"This word is read every time, and every household in the village today is ready to eat, and this is every word." Xu Shi nodded to the first word and said.

"This word is a plum tree, and if it rains, it will become moldy, and if you change the grass, it will become a wild strawberry in the mountains." Xu Shi spoke one by one.

The four sisters listened with relish, and Xu opened up a new situation full of novelty in front of them.

"Oh, then I see, these words are pronounced mei." Du Gui is the youngest, and her little head is bright.

"Guizi is a bit right, all three of them are pronounced mei, and not later." Xu lovingly touched Du Gui's head.

"What's in the back of the story?" Du Tao looked at these words, and only felt that this word "each" was like japonica rice, boiled with corn for a while, and boiled with pumpkin for a while. The taste of cooking is not japonica rice.

"Add water to the sea of thoughts, the outside couplet must be blessed such as the East China Sea; The one who adds to the person is an insult of insult; Heart-added, read regretful repentance; The day is called obscure, the wind and rain are like obscurity, and the roosters are crowing; The one who adds the anti-text is the smart Min. Xu Shi said it in one breath with high spirits.

The three small ones, their brows were twisted into pimples, Du Mei was bigger than them after all, she seemed to have a natural cognitive ability for these words, and Xu Shi just helped her poke open a thin layer of window paper.

The splendor in the words is like the sun breaking through the clouds, making her like a seed around her, breaking through the ground and sprouting, growing leaves and branches, growing rapidly, and her mind is on a higher level.

The rows of characters in the dream book automatically popped out of the words she had just recognized in her mind, and they were no longer a cloud of ink that was meaningless to her.

After Xu finished speaking, he regretted a little when he saw his four daughters with different expressions. What's wrong with you? As early as more than ten years ago, didn't you secretly decide to hide everything?

In this life, I am only an ignorant and ignorant rural woman, and I live a plain and stable life with Erjin. Erjin has only been gone for more than ten days, why did he reveal so much?

"Isn't my mother talking too much?" Xu asked a little weakly.

"Mother, my brain is knotted, these words are mixed together, and they are boiled into laba porridge." Du Tao raised his eyes and frowned.

"Look at your little bit of interest, just think about one to eat." Du Ying pinched Du Tao's cheek.

"How many do you recognize?" Du Tao asked unconvinced.

"I know the first four, but I don't know the wind and rain in the East China Sea behind." As she spoke, Du Ying laughed embarrassedly.

"Ha, ha, ha." Du Gui didn't give face at all, and rolled on the bed laughing.

"Little sister!" Du Ying was annoyed and threatened.

"Mother, don't worry, Du Mei will definitely make those who bullied us regret it to the point of mold." Du Mei whispered.

After listening to Du Mei's words, the three little ones stopped laughing, and they all gathered around them, looking at their mother and eldest sister with eager eyes.

Xu was shocked, she was not only shocked by what Du Mei said, but also shocked that her eldest daughter completely understood and skillfully used the words she taught. This daughter is smarter than she was back then!

Is she wrong? In order to ensure the stability of their own lives, selfishly not letting their children read and write, will it delay their lives?

"Meizi, there's still a lot of work to be done in the kitchen!" Wei heard the long-lost laughter in the second room and interrupted them.

"Go ahead, go and help your grandma. Wait for the next time you are free, my mother will teach you arithmetic. Xu urged them softly.

Zhou's has reconciled the glutinous rice flour and kneaded it into a drug, Xie is wrapping sesame filling, I don't know if she is careless, or if she is born with uncoordinated fingers, either the skin is cracked, or the filling is dewed.

Wrapping glutinous rice baba is still very particular, it should be flat and round, and the picture is a good omen of perfection and sweetness. If the filling is exposed, it will flow into the pot, because it is sugary, the pot will be sticky, and the baba will burn first before the kang is cooked, which is not good-looking or delicious.

Wei stood by the pot and watched, kept turning over, Du Gui was still burning the fire, Du Mei took Du Ying and Du Tao's fingers to wrap dexterously, the kitchen was soon filled with the sweetness of sesame candy and the fragrance of glutinous rice, and more than a dozen pieces had been stacked in the bamboo dustpan on the stove.

Tonight's New Year's vigil, all the food is eaten open, the three brothers smelled the fragrance, so they slipped to the kitchen to eat the cake, the three of them were burned by the hot sesame filling and stuck out their tongues, but they still refused to drop the cake. Du Mei looked at their appearance, and suddenly thought of the black girl sticking out her tongue, she quickly lowered her head and held back a smile.

Xie was afraid that Du Jie and Du Xing would eat sticky food at night, and it would not be easy to restrain it, so they quietly told it early in the morning, so the brother and sister did not come to the kitchen like the three hungry guys in the big house.

Glutinous rice is the most hungry, and yesterday's fishermen ate glutinous rice. The three brothers each ate three pieces, but they couldn't eat any more. I put a few pieces in a saucer and sent them to the grandfather, their father and the third uncle in the hall, and they were drinking a lot of tea, with this snack, just right.

Zhou is rolling dough on another dining table at this moment, and his hard work is eye-popping. If something goes wrong, there must be a demon, Du Mei looked at her, and then looked at Xie. At this moment, what unusual thing happened to the two of them in the kitchen?

Rolling dough is really a manual task, first knead the dough vigorously, and then use the rolling pin to expand it little by little. When the dough is as big as a lotus leaf, wrap the dough layer by layer on top of the rolling pin and push it on a table sprinkled with raw flour.

After pushing and rolling three or four times, the dough is elongated, at this time, open the dough, change the rolling pin to another direction, wrap it again, and push it again. This is repeated until a whole dough is slowly rolled into a round, table-sized, paper-thin dough.

At this time, the dough roller holds the two ends of the rolling pin high, so that the dough hangs down naturally, and the hand swings back and forth rhythmically, so that the dough is stacked up, and try to keep it at a width, and when the dough all falls, the table seems to be a standing wave.

If you want to wrap glaive-shaped dumplings, take a small bowl to carve the dough into a circle, and if you want to wrap cat's ear dumplings, you can directly use a knife to measure and touch the dough and cut the dough into a boxy one. On weekdays, the dough can be cut directly into half a finger's width, grabbed and shaken open, and it is noodles.

Today is the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, praying for more children and reunion, so it is necessary to wrap up the moon. Zhou found a suitable bowl in the cupboard and carved the dough.

The dumpling filling is adjusted when the meat is chopped in the morning, and there are two kinds of celery meat filling and cabbage meat filling, of course, both of which are more vegetables and less meat. Celery is diligent and thrifty, while cabbage is a wealth of all kinds. All have good meanings, and they are all auspicious.

The Du Mei sisters and Xie wrapped the glutinous rice and baba, and Zhou rolled out the dough, and they moved on to making dumplings, while Wei began to fry peanuts in the pot.

Fried dry goods are a great test of the stove fire, the fire is big, the fried goods are paste, the fire is small, and these shells are not easy to cook. Du Gui was familiar with the road, and continued the thatch little by little, but he didn't let the temperature in the stove be cut off.

After stir-frying peanuts and fried melon seeds, the fragrance of this fresh dried fruit, no one can stop it, Du Shicheng sent Du Xing to send the uneaten baba back to the kitchen, and reloaded some melon seeds and peanuts to the hall to eat.

Wei peeled a few peanuts for Du Mei and wrapped them in dumplings. Peanuts are also called longevity fruits, and whoever wants to eat them indicates that they will be healthy and free from all diseases in the coming year. The full blooming dumplings are stacked in a sieve in a circle, neatly aligned.

There was a sparse sound of bombardment outside the courtyard, and it was already a child's time. In the kitchen, the pot was washed and the dumplings were boiled, and Dajin took three cannons and put them in the courtyard to drive away evil spirits, avoid disasters, and pray for blessings.

The whole family crowded into the door and looked at the dark sky, and sure enough, it was better to set off artillery at night, and the bright light of the explosion compared to the stars and moonlight.

Each person ate three or five dumplings, and the Chinese New Year's Eve was considered complete. Du Jie ate a peanut, and Xie Shi closed his mouth happily.

The kitchen was set up, and the family gathered in the hall. The younger generations kowtowed to the old couple of Du Shicheng one by one, and Geely said a basket of words. Wei gave each person a red envelope of money, Juniper fell asleep, it was inconvenient to get up, Xu knocked on his behalf, because it was a newborn, Wei wrapped an extra red envelope.