Seeing Mai Xiaohuan's surprised and nervous expression, Qu Hao smiled and comforted her: "Little sister, don't be afraid, we came back to buy some kind of food that your sister gave me just now, I don't know if you have any food left at home." ”

What to eat? Mai Xiaohuan was even more confused.

"It's black, dirty, sweet, soft." Tang Yujun explained with a gesture, and after a while, Mai Xiaohuan understood that he was talking about sweet potatoes.

It turned out that they came back for sweet potatoes, and Mai Xiaohuan let out a long breath. She didn't expect that these people would be interested in sweet potatoes, and if they could promote planting on a large scale, they could launch sweet potato vermicelli, vermicelli, and sweet potato flour in the future...... Isn't that a business opportunity?

Thinking of this, Mai Xiaohuan asked them to sit on a stool and wait, and went to the cellar to get sweet potatoes by themselves.

"Xiao Huan, Xiao Huan, you see that this rabbit's fur is very white and its eyes are red, I want to keep it and keep it, do you think my father will agree?" Mai Xiaofang ran from behind with a snow-white rabbit in her arms, she liked this rabbit very much, and wanted to show her sister her treasure, so that she could help her persuade her father and mother not to sell this rabbit.

She was startled by a few people who appeared in her yard unexpectedly, and the little rabbit took advantage of her pause to break free from her embrace and scurry around the yard.

Mai Xiaofang went to chase the rabbit, Tang Yujun also went over to help, Qu Hao was a weak scholar, sitting on the stool honestly watching, Tang Yubo wanted to go over to help, looked at Mai Xiaofang's skills for a while, and silently walked to his friend and sat down to watch the game. The rabbit would burrow under the table for a moment; One will run around the tree; A sharp turn; Hide in the woodshed for a while. But no matter how it runs, Mai Xiaofang can find it quickly, and every time it is almost caught, the result is ......

"I'll let you run, and when I catch you, I'll hang you upside down in a tree." Seeing that the rabbit was about to go around to the apricot tree by the courtyard wall, Mai Xiaofang took a shortcut to intercept it, and one person and one rabbit ran around the tree a few times, Mai Xiaofang braked sharply and waited halfway through, and successfully captured the "fugitive".

This skill, this speed, the three of them looked straight eyes, since they were used to seeing everyone's young lady's style, suddenly seeing such a fresh and smart little girl, they all felt very novel.

"Run! Run! See if I won't hang you from a tree for a while. Mai Xiaofang carried the rabbit's two front legs around in a circle, causing it to scream in fright.

Mai Xiaohuan took a lot of effort to hand out a basket of sweet potatoes from the cellar, the Tang brothers hurriedly ran over to help, Mai Xiaofang wanted to use her sleeve to wipe her sister's sweat, but she avoided it in disgust.

"Hey, what are they doing back?" Mai Xiaofang asked in a low voice.

"A few young masters think the sweet potatoes are very delicious and want to take some home to eat."

The three big boys studied sweet potatoes for a long time, Qu Hao asked Mai Xiaohuan a lot of questions, and finally even asked how to eat, Mai Xiaohuan said that sweet potatoes have one of the most famous ways to eat, but unfortunately they have no raw materials and can't make them.

Tang Yujun laughed twice and asked Mai Xiaohuan: "I heard what you said is very similar to that, can you still cook?" ”

Mai Xiaohuan shook her head at the second sister when she opened her mouth to prepare to scold Tang Yujun, it was getting dark, it was a matter of time to send these people away, and if they didn't leave, they would have to stay overnight, wouldn't that be looking for something to do by themselves?

Could it be that this girl is really good at cooking, seeing that she is not much taller than the stove, can she hold a kitchen knife and wield a shovel?

"Xiao Huan, Xiao Huan's second brother caught a pair of rabbits again, today there are not only pheasants, but also a wild boar, and two fish, let's make braised fish tonight, the second brother has been thinking about it for several days." Before Mai Yonghai entered the gate, he shouted outside, and he had been thinking about it since he had eaten the braised fish made by his sister, and he would go to the river whenever he had the chance. The first few times he caught were small fish, which were fried or stewed, but unfortunately it was not the braised fish he wanted to eat the most.

It seems that this girl really knows how to cook, Tang Yujun made an important decision: "I want to stay tonight, just live in the carriage, your family will make all the prey to eat, how about I pay the silver to buy it." ”

I was really afraid of something, Mai Xiaohuan just wanted to refuse, but she heard the second sister agree very happily, she stretched out her hand to ask Tang Yujun for ten taels of silver. At this time, Mai Wan also entered the door with his two sons, and when he saw a few strangers, Mai Wan and Mai Yonghe were a little at a loss, Mai Yonghai looked at his two younger sisters, although he was beating drums in his heart, he also had to bite the bullet and speak: "Why are you back again, didn't you go to the county seat?" ”

When the ten taels of silver arrived, Mai Xiaofang first checked it, then ran to her sister's side, put the silver into her arms, and whispered: "You can keep it and buy books, it's enough to buy a lot!" ”

My family needs money everywhere, how can I buy books! Mai Xiaohuan took out the silver again, walked up to Qu Hao and Tang Yubo and asked them, "...... you tonight?"

"Can we stay for one night?"

Can you say no? Mai Xiaohuan returned the silver to Tang Yujun, Qu Hao said that he would pay the silver before he was willing to stay for dinner, they pushed it a few times, Mai Xiaohuan accepted five taels of silver on behalf of the family, and went to prepare dinner.

Mai Wang and his two sons skillfully tied up the wild boar, took a knife more than a foot long, and stabbed it along the throat of the wild boar.

The rabbit was put in the backyard by Mai Xiaofang, she took half of the pickled rabbit from the beam, this is still when Mai Wan was injured, he killed a rabbit at home, and ate half of it, and this half was pickled by Mai Xiaohuan and put it in the basket of the beam, and kept it for entertaining guests, which came in handy today.

Because there are many dishes, the two stoves are lit today, and Mai Xiaohuan is thinking about the dishes with the wild boar meat that Mai Wang has just sent to the board and is still steaming. Men generally like to eat spicy, then use dried wild ginger powder to make a small fried wild boar, and then a braised wild boar, rabbit meat is used to make rabbit pumpkin rice, of course, pheasant should be stewed with mushrooms to eat, fish is used to steam, otherwise it is too greasy.

After thinking of the recipe, the sisters communicated, Mai Xiaofang rolled up her sleeves and washed her hands, picked up the kitchen knife, and according to her sister's requirements, the slices of the slices, the chopped pieces, the knives fell, it was not ambiguous at all.

Mai Xiaohuan made a good fire and planned to make rabbit and pumpkin rice first, and after the ingredients were placed, cover the pot. Turn your head to make braised wild boar, and add ingredients to the fish and steam it in the pot for a while.

The three older boys had seen enough of killing fish and slaughtering chickens, and turned around to the open kitchen of Mai Xiaohuan's house to watch the two children stir-fry vegetables not much higher than the stove. Whether it's knife skills or stir-frying, they do it quite well, but they don't know how it tastes?

"You two won't be cooking for the first time today! Can I eat what I made? Tang Yujun circled around the kitchen of the Mai family several times, looking at everything that was fresh, and just wanted to touch the kitchen knife on the case, he was ruthlessly reprimanded by Mai Xiaofang.

Then I watched people pick up a knife to cut vegetables quickly, and the speed and strength were very well mastered, Mai Xiaohuan wore an apron, wrapped a square cloth with broken flowers on his head, and stir-fried the vegetables in the pot unhurriedly.

Looking at these two children, and then thinking about such a big brother and sister in their own family, Qu Hao and Tang Yubo felt that their decision to stay today was the right one. In the future, when they have the opportunity, they also want to bring their younger siblings and let them see what the lives of ordinary people's children are like.

"That ......" Mai Wang rubbed his hands, looking at Mai Xiaohuan who wanted to speak and stopped, Mai Xiaohuan thought for a while to know what her father meant, she glanced at her father resentfully, and shouted into the yard: "Second brother, you take off one of the wild boar legs, and then cut two catties of meat, the wild boar legs are sent to grandma, and the meat is sent to the third uncle's house." ”

"Why! Don't give. Mai Xiaofang took off her apron and threw it aside, wanting to stop the second brother. Mai Xiaohuan held her wrist and said: "Not for anything else, just because grandma is our father's mother-in-law, she treats us badly, let's stay away from them in the future, it's too annoying, and my father will be sad." ”

"Dad, if there is something going on with grandma in the future, you can go alone! Anyway, my mother and I and Xiaohuan won't go. ”

"Hmm!" Mai Wang knows that his daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law have a lot of opinions about the old lady now, he can understand, and he will not force them to change their minds, and it is also a good way for everyone to see each other less.

When Mai Wan turned around to feed the cattle and sheep, Tang Yujun muttered in a low voice: "What does that kind of mother care about her, if she has meat, she shouldn't be given meat, it seems that today's meat has been bought by us, or I will chase your second brother back." ”

Mai Xiaofang nodded like a chicken pecking rice, urging Tang Yujun to act quickly.

The two reached a consensus for the first time today, and they were destroyed by Qu Hao and Mai Xiaohuan in a blink of an eye, Mai Xiaohuan's sensibility and knowledge left a very good impression on Qu Hao. He secretly made a decision, if Mai Xiaohuan's food was cooked well, he would recognize her as his godsister, it was really difficult to find a capable and sensible little girl like her.

When Shan Cuihua came back, most of the dishes were ready, and only two stir-fried vegetables were left in the pot, she looked at the three boys who were supposed to leave and stammered and asked, "How many...... Bite...... Why haven't you left yet? ”

"Auntie, we want to try Sister Xiaohuan's cooking skills, and besides, it's too late today, we can't catch up with the county seat, so we want to disturb here for a night, and we will leave tomorrow morning, do you think it?"

If you weren't too curious and really wanted to hurry, you would have arrived in Pingliang County as early as possible. If we could have driven you away, we would have done it a long time ago, and we would have to wait until now.

Mai Xiaofang pulled her mother aside and told Qu Hao that he used the silver to buy wild meat and let them cook something to eat. The three of them thought that Shan Cuihua would have to fry two vegetables on the stove herself, but they didn't think that she put down the things in her hand, set up the table and chopsticks, and asked Qu Hao if they had a quilt in the car? If anything, stay in the room where Mai Xiaoyuan sleeps every time he goes home tonight, where there is a big bed and a couch, which is enough for three people.

Don't you even ask what kind of meal you cooked tonight to entertain your guests, and don't you see how the meal looks like?

Suddenly, the three of them had doubts about the taste of tonight's meal, and they regretted why they insisted on staying to eat, and they didn't know if it was too late to rush to the county seat now?