Chapter Twenty-Eight: Grandpa Arrives

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A red-tailed carp with a golden light surfaced, Liu Qingyan cheered happily, the handsome guy took the carp off the hook, put it on a wicker stick and handed it to Liu Qingyan, "Little pepper, this fish is for you to eat, eat more fish and it will grow faster." ”

"You don't eat it yourself?" Liu Qingyan hesitated for a moment, but finally took it cheekily.

"I'm not fishing to eat fish." The handsome guy rubbed Liu Qingyan's bun, then squatted down and began to wear bait.

"Why fish if you don't eat fish?"

"Alas, it's pure." The handsome guy looked up to the sky and sighed, threw the fish hook into the water and said, "Little Pepper, you should go back early, just in time to make lunch." ”

"Oh, thank you then." Liu Qingyan touched the bun stained with the smell of fish, and walked away with the fish in one hand and the basket in the other.

The surface of the river is sparkling in the sun, the grass on the bank is bleak, the breeze is blowing, the willow branches are soft, and the surrounding is quiet, and the air contains a faint scent of grass.

The years are so beautiful, it's a season that doesn't need to be remembered. Time does not wait for others, and it is not a good time.

Close your eyes and take a deep breath, and the faint scent of grass will sink into your heart.

Xiaocao may seem weak, but it has an indomitable spirit, and its tenacious vitality has created its resilience to meet with the situation, whether it is in the depths of the arid desert, or in the desolate and barren Gobi, and even under heavy stones, high walls, it can take root and sprout, and thrive.

People stand between heaven and earth, when they are like a small grass, and the traverser is even more so, bidding farewell to the original advanced and familiar modern living environment, and coming to a completely strange world alone, how to survive without strong adaptability!

Liu Qingyan suddenly sighed in her heart.

When he opened his eyes, his eyes, which were as calm and leisurely as a lake, were active again, and he turned around and shouted to the young man a few feet away: "Handsome guy, my name is not Xiao Pepper, my surname is Liu Qingyan, if it is not Ma Qingyan, but it will become the one who reflects each other." ”

The young man holding the green bamboo pole under the tree looked at the river with a lazy expression, and the sunlight poured down through the leaves was reflected on the clothes, as clear as the blue of the clear sky after the rain, and there was a light and shadow with the color of the rippling water

The handsome guy turned his head when he heard this, and replied lazily, "I remember." ”

"Oh, giggle......"

The laughter is shallow, and the water goes east.

The handsome guy looked at the brisk figure and muttered, "Liu Qingyan, Qingyan, good name." The tenderness under the eyes overflowed, and the catkins flew in the picturesque landscape.

"The grass by the green river, the sky is not old......"

Liu Qingyan is in a good mood today, because she can eat fish again.

Humming a small tune all the way home, he went directly into the stove room, and Xie sat on the small bench in front of the stove to choose vegetables.

"Mother, there is fish to eat at noon today." Liu Qingyan lifted the fish to Xie Shi.

Xie Shi glanced at the fish and said, "Where did the fish come from, you just went to hunt a pigweed, and the fish in the river will jump up by themselves." ”

Liu Qingyan put the fish into the wooden basin and said proudly: "Didn't you jump up by yourself." ”

Xie Shi glanced sideways and said, "To be honest, don't be poor with me." ”

Liu Qingyan said while scooping water from the tank: "I met an old man fishing by the river, and I told him a story in exchange." ”

There are often some old people fishing by the river in front of the village, Xie Shi did not doubt it, and said with a smile: "You are capable now, you can change a fish by telling a story, and if our family wants to eat fish in the future, you can go directly to the river to tell a story." ”

"Mother, not all grandfathers are so generous." Liu Qingyan stomped her feet.

After Xie finished choosing the vegetables, he gathered the vegetable leaves that couldn't be eaten on the ground into a pile, and said, "It's good that you know, next time you meet the old man, thank you to the people." ”

"I know." Liu Qingyan took out the purslane on the pigweed, "Mother, let's mix some wild vegetables to eat at noon." ”

"Alright, alright, you love to eat these wild vegetables that no one wants." Xie got up, poked Liu Qingyan's forehead and said, "Go and light the fire." ”

Eventually, the carp was boiled into a fish soup, and one person drank a bowl of it.

After half a month of busy work on the Xie family's side in Huangzhuao, this year's bamboo shoot period is over, selling the last batch of multi-flavored dried bamboo shoots, and putting the income together to settle the accounts, except for the cost of buying various spices, it actually earned nearly thirty taels of silver, which made the Xie family overjoyed, and the income of the previous year in addition to various expenses, only a few taels of silver could be saved.

The Xie family are all simple and honest people, thinking that this recipe for making dried bamboo shoots was thought up by Liu Qingyan, and there was no reason not to give her a share after making money, and after discussion, they unanimously agreed to take out ten taels to Liu Qingyan.

On this day, Xie Laohan had breakfast and went to Baishui Village with his youngest son Xie Qiugui.

Xie Laohan walked in front with his hands behind his back, Xie Qiugui followed behind with a small coarse cloth bag in one hand, which contained dried bamboo sunflowers, and a delicate bamboo basket in the other hand, which contained a few handfuls of dried dried bamboo shoots.

The father and son traveled quickly, and arrived at Baishui Village in the middle of the morning.

Guo was sitting in the corridor in front of the door embroidering, when he heard someone come in and raised his eyes to take a look, seeing that it was Xie's mother's family, he lowered his head without saying a word and continued to embroider, ignoring the greetings of the Xie family's father and son.

The father and son of the Xie family knew Guo's temperament well, so they didn't care about her and continued to go inside.

Mrs. Liu heard the movement in the house and came out to greet her, and said happily: "It's my in-laws' family who is here, please sit in the house." ”

"My mother-in-law is good, but my father-in-law can be at home?" Xie Laohan walked to the hall while greeting him.

"The old man went down to hoe the weeds, and called him back later." Mrs. Liu replied with a smile.

After entering the hall, Xie Qiugui put the things in his hand on the table, gave Mrs. Liu a junior salute, and then said, "Mother-in-law, why don't you see your sister and niece, but you went out?" ”

He had read some poetry and books, and his words and deeds were much more polite than those of a farmer.

"The mother and daughter are in the backyard vegetable patch, you sit first, I'll shout." Mrs. Liu walked out of the back door of the hall, stood under the eaves and shouted into the vegetable garden: "Eldest daughter-in-law, my father-in-law is here, come back quickly." ”

"Well, come on." Xie and Liu Qingyan were building a shelf for the beans, and when they heard their mother-in-law say that their father-in-law was coming, they hurriedly put down the work in their hands and ran back.

"Dad, little brother, why are you free, my mother's back injury is healed?" Xie's face was full of happy smiles, and his voice was also full of joy.

Xie Laohan was in good health, and he was full of energy when he spoke, "It's been a long time ago, the family was busy a while ago, and the housework was all handled by your mother and Qiugui's daughter-in-law." ”

Liu Qingyan's impression of the Xie family is very good, the family is harmonious, although the life is poor but also harmonious, she is most annoyed by Guo's kind of fool who lives and dies all day long, destroys family unity, and uses tofu scum in his brain.

So, following Xie Shi into the door of the hall and shouting affectionately: "Grandpa, uncle." ”

"Whoa." The father and son of the Xie family happily agreed.

The people who came were all men, and the family was now full of women, which was somewhat inconvenient, and Mrs. Liu said to Xie: "The eldest daughter-in-law, it is rare for the father-in-law to come back, your father and daughter will talk first, and I will call the old man back." ”

Mrs. Liu left, and Xie asked Xie Laohan about the affairs of the family, chattering, and asked about everything one by one.

Xie Qiugui got up and walked to the table, picked up the delicate basket and said to Liu Qingyan: "Look, like it or not, your sister Qiaozhen said that she patronized and dug bamboo shoots last time, and forgot about the basket weaving, this time I heard that we were coming, so I specially made it up and brought it to you." ”

This basket is shaped like a big ingot, using the two natural colors of bamboo, green and yellow, weaving a variety of hollow patterns, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a handicraft, and the bamboo material is also carefully selected, which is more durable.

Liu Qingyan held the bamboo basket and nodded busily: "I like it." ”

I was thinking that the baskets I usually use are ugly and coarse, and if I take this basket out to shake it around tomorrow, I won't let that little girl envy to death.

Xie Qiugui opened the coarse cloth pocket and said with a smile: "A few days ago, the mountains were full of digging bamboo shoots, and when I saw bamboo ginseng, I picked them back and dried them by the way. ”

Liu Qingyan leaned over to see that the bamboo sunflower trees were solid and stout, in good condition, and there were priceless good things in the market, this pocket was more than two catties, so she smiled even more happily, her eyes narrowed into a crescent moon, and she hurriedly thanked her, "Thank you, grandfather, uncle." ”

Xie Laohan said happily: "Grandpa Xie has done a lot, it's just a little local product, and it's not worth a few dollars, it's far worse than your recipe for making dried bamboo shoots, and grandpa wants to thank you." ”

Liu Qingyan pinched a bamboo sunflower and tasted it carefully, and said with a smile: "That recipe is for my grandfather to make the best use of things, but in my case, it is a tyrannical thing, it is useless at all, and my grandfather doesn't have to take it to heart." ”

Xie Shi also said: "Yes, Dad, Yan'er is your granddaughter, how can she help something, there is no reason not to help, this is all right." ”

Xie Laohan sighed: "That's what I said, but Yan Yatou has really helped our family a lot, and in the future, the family will have more money, and Xiao Wu and Qiaozhen's marriage can also be carefully picked." ”

Xie nodded in agreement: "If you get married, the children will be able to live comfortably in the future, but you have to choose carefully." ”

"That's the reason, your brothers and sisters are living a peaceful and beautiful life now, and your mother and I are also happy." Xie Laohan looked pleased, took a sip of tea and continued: "Next year, our family is going to make more dried bamboo shoots to sell, maybe we can renovate the yard, build a few more rooms to live in, and in the future, you and your son-in-law will take the children back, and there will be a place to live." ”

"Dad, are the bamboo shoots really so easy to sell, you can build a yard in a year?" Xie exclaimed.

Old Man Xie stroked his beard and nodded, "It's true." He said to Xie Qiugui again: "Fourth, tell your second sister and granddaughter about what you do selling bamboo shoots." ”

"Yes, Dad."

Xie Qiugui told the story one by one.

The first time I went to the city to sell multi-flavored dried bamboo shoots, it took a lot of twists and turns, one by one the teahouse came to inquire, and the shopkeeper said that he wanted to buy it after the tasting, but the price was extremely low, and the price was 200 or 300 wen a catty, which was far from the price of 500 wen a catty. As a result, the dried bamboo shoots were eaten by many young and old, but they still did not find a buyer who could afford it.

The fresh food of the exclusive secret recipe naturally can't be sold cheaply, and in desperation, Xie Qiugui went to the restaurant in the city with the mentality of breaking the kettle and sinking the boat, and took the multi-flavored bamboo shoots to the restaurant in the city, Ruyi Building.

After tasting it, the shopkeeper of this Ruyi Building took it at a price of 500 wen a catty, and made a snack with tea before serving.

"When I went to Ruyi Lou again, the shopkeeper was not only much more enthusiastic than before, but also asked us to make as many dried bamboo shoots as possible, and the price can also be raised, saying that the multi-flavored dried bamboo shoots have a very good response among the guests, and many diners came specially for the dried bamboo shoots snacks, and some even offered to buy and take them away, which has become a state of short supply, and now it is only available for VIP private rooms."

Speaking of this, Xie Qiugui had a dry mouth, took a sip of tea and continued: "The shopkeeper of Ruyi Building raised the price to six hundred wen a catty, and collected as many as he wanted, but unfortunately there are only two stoves for cooking at home, and only a few catties of dried bamboo shoots can be produced every day. ”