Chapter 29: Hospitality
"Brother Xiao has always wanted to come and see you and see Maomao. But there were a lot of things in the army, and he couldn't pull away. This time, I knew that I was coming to ride Longpo, so I specially asked me to come and visit you. He doesn't worry about you! She emphasized.
The expression on Xiao Tianye's face changed inexplicably.
Both joy and sorrow, joy and sentimentality, mixed tastes.
When was the last time she and Xiao Lingfei met?
It seems that Ah Fei is going to join the army, so he came to tell her. happened to meet his premature hair, and beat Xiang Hong hard to vent his anger for himself, and asked him to write a letter of guarantee.
But it's a pity!
Ah Fei went to the army for a few years, and Xiang Hong was afraid that Ah Fei would curry favor with her in every way at first.
But as time went by, seeing that Ah Fei didn't appear again, he became more and more aggressive......
"I'm good."
Eventually, she smiled and said to her.
Turning around and taking the opportunity to move the cupboard, she quickly blinked away the tears in her eyes. Hurriedly took out a rice bag from the crack in the wall, carefully poured a small handful of white noodles from it, then put away the rice bag, and carefully put the cupboard back in place.
Su Xintang's eyes were a little fluttering: "Anti-thief, you can't hide something at home......"
Is it to prevent Xiang Hong from losing the bet?
Good?
Is it good to live like this?
Su Xintang didn't dare to agree, but didn't say anything.
Xiao Tianye is very quick at housework, so she kneaded a small handful of white noodles, kneaded them into dough, and commanded Xiang Maomao to cut some leeks back, intending to make leek cakes.
At present, most of the rice has been handed over to the state, and the rest is not much distributed to every household. Wealthy families have corn and sweet potatoes left, and if you can eat corn and sweet potato porridge every day, it must be the "rich" in the village.
In order to avoid embarrassment with each other, Su Xintang hurriedly turned the topic to Xiang Maomao: "When I came just now, I saw Maomao grazing cattle outside, and let him go out in such a heavy rain. The child is in poor health, if you get frostbite, you have to die of distress? ”
She didn't forget that in her previous life, Xiang Maomao would have a fever, it is said that she caught a cold in the rain, and she endured it for a few days, until she fainted at home and was discovered by Xiao Tianye, and finally burned her head and became a fool.
"I told him about this kid when I went out, and asked him to wait for me at home. What a ......."
Xiao Tianye's face changed.
Over the years, she and Maomao have relied on each other, although the days are sad, but when she sees Maomao, she has inexhaustible strength.
Worried that Maomao was really infected with the wind and cold, she didn't care about cooking, so she hurriedly boiled a bowl of ginger soup, and when she came back from cutting leeks to Maomao, she was poured a bowl by Xiao Tianye.
"This kid is too leathetic."
Xiao Tianye laughed, and then sent Xiang Maomao to set up tables and chairs.
Today's main dish is the freshly caught small fish and small shrimp, which are made into fresh fish soup, and the small shrimp are fried with spicy seeds and served directly on the plate.
Su Xintang watched her show her skills.
"It's better for boys to be skinny. You can't be squeamish like raising a girl. You can't go up the mountain and down the ground, and when you grow up in the future, you will have to work hard? ”
"That's when I look forward to the day when he will marry and have children."
Speaking of Xiang Maomao, Xiao Tianye's eyebrows were evacuated.
She took out something like tree bark, added some sorghum flour and wild vegetables, and rubbed it repeatedly.
Seeing Su Xintang staring, she couldn't help laughing: "I'm afraid you haven't seen it, this is elm bark, mixed with some sorghum noodles and wild vegetables to eat together, the taste is good, and the taste is also very good." ”
Su Xintang had actually seen someone eat elm bark, and he spit out his little tongue at the moment: "I thought you used elm bark to smash Cheng noodles and eat it." ”
"How can such a precious thing be so wasted!"
Xiao Tianye said bluntly.
In the year of famine, as long as it is enough to satisfy the stomach, people eat it, such as grain bran, grass, wild vegetables, Guanyin soil, but it is difficult to swallow. The elm bark is very slippery, has a good taste, is sticky, mixed with something else that can be eaten, and it forms a ball, which is easy to swallow.
The most important thing is that the stool is dry after eating many things, and it is not delicious or bad. Many people can't get down, and they die of pain and swelling.
And the elm bark moistens the intestines, in those years, if there was a big elm tree in anyone's yard, the heart of the disaster year also had a bottom. Because the elm bark is too sticky to eat directly, it will be flatulent and blocked in the stomach and cannot be digested, so it will be mixed with other foods and eaten together.
Su Xintang knew that Xiao Tianye had a hard time, but she didn't expect that she would have such a hard time in her early years. It's really hard to imagine how she has survived all these years.
Xiao Tianye seemed to be unconscious, rolled out the elm bark noodles and made dumplings to eat.
Dumplings are similar to using a hand tool to squeeze noodles into the shape of round rice noodles. Squeeze it directly into a pot of boiling water (similar to how to squeeze rice noodles), cook it, pick it up, add a little seasoning and eat it with the "noodles", it tastes delicious.
When the dumplings came out of the pot, the leek cakes in the other pot also came out of the pot.
In order to make the leek cake delicious, Xiao Tianye almost emptied his family's funds, not only used up the only little oil in the family, but also made an exception to use the only egg in the family.
A small bowl of white flour made her make six egg cakes, with a thin skin, and you could vaguely see the golden eggs and green leeks inside.
made another pumpkin soup, and then she invited Su Xintang to the table.
"There's nothing good at home, so you're going to eat some."
Xiao Tianzhi was actually very apprehensive in his heart.
Su Xintang is beautiful, fair, and has an outstanding temperament, and she looks like a young lady from the city when she is dressed, and she doesn't know if the only things in the house can enter the eyes of the other party.
"I've never tasted so many delicious things in the city, but today is an eye-opener for me."
Su Xintang had already made up his mind to eat Xiao Tianye's meal.
When she eats her meal, the next time she comes back, she can find an excuse to bring some food and rice noodles. Looking at Maomao's thin yellow muscles, I'm usually afraid that I'm hungry.
She happily sandwiched a leek cake, put it in Xiang Maomao's bowl, picked up another one and gave it to Xiao Tianye, only to clip another one and take a bite herself.
"Well, my eldest sister's cooking skills are so good! I'm blessed today! ”
Su Xintang praised repeatedly.
Perhaps because of the lack of oil, the white noodles are a little soft, but the taste is very good.
Xiao Tianye breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly sent the leek cake in his bowl again: "If you like to eat, eat more, it's too late today." Wait for the next time you come over, and the eldest sister will make you something to eat. ”
"Good! I'm just waiting for your words, big sister! ”
All three burst into laughter.
In the joyful atmosphere, the door "clanged", someone kicked it open, and a man walked in with a curse.
"Stinky, aren't you begging for a beating? When labor and management go out, they actually hide at home to eat fragrant food and drink spicy food? I'll kill you......"
scolded in his mouth, raised his fist and greeted Xiao Tianye.