It's not that Mei Zhijun doesn't want to help Mei Zhizhong solve this problem in one go, it's just that his family doesn't have much spare money now.

After the beginning of spring, the money to buy seeds, fertilizers, chickens, and piglets could not be moved, and the remaining more than 2,200 yuan, he and She Yufen had already subsidized 1,500 yuan to She Yujie, and then spent almost 100 yuan to buy New Year's goods.

In addition, I don't know if there will be other places to spend money, so Mei Zhijun left more than 100 yuan for emergency.

In this way, he only had 500 yuan left to lend to Mei Zhizhong and his wife.

He felt very sorry, but Mei Zhizhong and Zheng Juan couldn't be more satisfied.

"It's good to have five hundred, and you don't have to give us any more money." Zheng Juan looked happy, "I'll go back to my mother's house to borrow the rest." ”

Her mother's family has two older brothers, a younger brother, and an older sister, and the life of her sister's family is even more difficult than her family's, and she is afraid that there is no chance to borrow money, but her two brothers and a younger brother have some family background.

If she borrowed too much, she would have to worry about whether her sister-in-law and younger siblings would be happy, but if she asked each family to borrow a hundred yuan, she would still be sure to borrow it.

So although there were only five hundred, Mei Zhizhong and Zheng Juan were still overjoyed, and the heart that the two of them had been carrying since they started talking about borrowing money fell back into their stomachs with a "bang".

After the four of them decided on this matter, She Yufen and Zheng Juan began to be busy cooking again.

Because she was entertaining relatives, the meals prepared by She Yufen were several times more sumptuous than usual.

She prepared ten dishes, chicken stewed mushrooms, red stewed rabbit meat, fried hairtail, sauerkraut pork vermicelli stewed frozen tofu, fried pig blood sausage, pig-killing vegetables, pork skin jelly, stewed pork ribs with gourd and potatoes, scrambled eggs with green onions, fried peanuts, all of which are salty and fragrant home-cooked dishes.

She prepared a mille-feuille cake for the staple food, because Zheng Juan wanted to eat it, and she also fried yellow rice cakes for her to dip in sugar to eat.

Their yellow rice cakes here are made of rhubarb rice noodles, red dates and red beans, and the red dates and red beans are first spread on the surface of the steamer on the large iron pot, and then the rhubarb rice noodles are sprinkled on top of the red beans and red dates layer by layer.

This job is easy to say, but in fact, it is a great test of the housewives' cooking skills and patience.

Like She Yufen, who has good craftsmanship and patience, the steamed rice cakes are soft, delicate, and chewy, which makes people never get tired of eating them.

And like Li Guowen's wife, who is not good at craftsmanship, or like Zhao Huiying, who is impatient and impatient, the steamed rice cakes often have a few sandwiches, and when they are unlucky, they even simply steam out a string of cigarettes.

Farmers don't want to waste food, so even if it is not steamed well, the rice cake will be eaten up little by little.

No matter how much you cherish material resources, people's taste will always be honest.

Good is good, bad is not good.

This is also why Zheng Juan wants to eat She Yufen's rice cakes.

"The steamed rice cakes of her milk this year are sandwiched raw, and I ate a slice of millet porridge at breakfast, and I ended up eating a big dead gnocchi." While dipping in brown sugar and eating rice cakes, Zheng Juan complained to She Yufen who was sitting next to her.

She loves to eat rice cakes, but no one in their Shuidi Township has ever grown millet [shǔ zǐ].

Before getting married, she could also eat the yellow rice cakes that her parents bought during the New Year's Day at her parents' house, but after she got married, she could only eat a few bites at her in-laws' house every year.

Fortunately, there is also a She Yufen in her mother-in-law's house who will make beautiful and delicious yellow rice cakes.

She Yufen saw that she really liked it, so she generously promised to give her some later, and let her take it away, "I steamed a big pot, if you like it, take more back." Anyway, it can't be broken, you and my eldest brother can slowly eat until the thaw. ”

Zheng Juan smiled, "Oh, that relationship is good!" ”

Mei Zhizhong glared at her, "Why do you want everything?" ”

Zheng Juan pursed her lips, "Yufen is not an outsider. Besides, why is there less of her and Zhijun to supplement us? ”

Mei Zhizhong said "hey", "I said you!" Why don't you know how to write the word 'contentment'? ”

Zheng Juan and She Yufen opened their mouths together, Zheng Juan wanted to argue a few words for herself, and She Yufen wanted to give Zheng Juan a round.

However, before they could make a sound, Mei Yali, who was sitting next to She Yufen and eating with a small wooden bowl in her hand, had already put down the spoon and said to Zheng Juan seriously, "To Uncle." Hello uncle. ”

Mei Zhizhong froze with his mouth half-open, while Mei Zhijun and She Yufen laughed.

Zheng Juan's embarrassment of being robbed by her own man suddenly disappeared, she picked up Mei Yali and smiled so much that she couldn't see her teeth, "Oh, uncle's good girl, why are you so hurtful?" ”

Mei Yali rubbed Zheng Juan's right cheek with her small forehead, "I also hurt my aunt." ”

With her in the middle, she was coquettish and cute, and the atmosphere at the dinner table suddenly became harmonious.

Mei Zhijun smiled and touched his daughter's head, "We Yali have said so, big brother, don't complain about your sister-in-law anymore." Besides, this rice cake was originally offered to you by Yufen, and it was not my sister-in-law who asked us for it. ”

She Yufen also nodded on the side and agreed, "It's not what's wrong, big brother, don't be polite when you shouldn't be polite." If you want me to say, you should learn from my sister-in-law. ”

Mei Zhizhong was said by these two people, where was he embarrassed to say anything to disappoint the fun, he raised his hands as a surrender form, "Cheng, Cheng, CD is my fault, I shouldn't say your sister-in-law." ”

Zheng Juan, Mei Zhijun and She Yufen were all amused by him, and the four of them ate happily again.

However, they were happy for less than ten minutes before the door of Mei Zhijun's house was pushed open.

The person who came was Mei Yali's grandfather Mei Jinfeng, and the old man held his hands and strode towards the three small earthen houses of Mei Yali's house.

Seeing Mei Jinfeng's figure through the glass window, Mei Zhijun and the others were all surprised.

While putting on her shoes and getting off the kang, She Yufen whispered to Mei Zhijun, "Why did Yali come here at this time?" Let's say we're here for dinner, we're halfway through it. said that they came to visit the door, how could anyone rush to the door to visit the door with a meal? ”

Mei Zhijun was also confused, he opened the door of the house first and greeted him out, "Don't think about it, let's ask later?" ”

Mei Zhizhong and Zheng Juan, who were a few steps late for them to go out because they were sitting on the inside of the earthen kang, were also talking in a whisper, Zheng Juan pulled Mei Zhizhong's sleeve, "Her father won't be here to urge the two of us to go back, right?" ”

"Impossible!" Mei Zhizhong replied to Zheng Juan categorically, in exchange for Zheng Juan's white eyes.

Mei Yali, who was asked by She Yufen to stay in the house to take care of her younger brother, secretly gave a thumbs up - her eldest aunt was so smart that she could guess the truth of the matter at a glance. Hahaha......