Because of the arrival of Xie and Liu Qingyan, the Xie family did not continue to work, and gathered in the hall to rest, and Cai accompanied Xie's mother and daughter into Mrs. Xie's room.

Mrs. Xie is fifty-eight years old this year, three years older than the old man of the Liu family, and she is leaning on the head of the bed and closing her eyes to recuperate.

"Mother, I've come to see you."

Xie Shi only said a word after entering the door, and tears fell down her eyes, as if her mother had an incurable disease.

Liu Qingyan gritted her teeth, and there was a feeling of hatred in her heart, and this mother's tears were inevitably too much.

"Second girl, why are you here!"

At first, Mrs. Xie, who was pretending to sleep, thought that she had heard the wrong dream, but when she opened her eyes and saw clearly, she immediately tried to get up happily, but she fell back with a painful "ouch" in her waist.

"Mother, don't move." Xie Shi quickly stepped forward to support Mrs. Xie.

"It's old, it's useless." Mrs. Xie sighed.

When Mrs. Xie was comfortable, Xie said to Liu Qingyan: "Yan'er, you haven't come to see your grandmother for many years, kowtow to your grandmother." ”

Okay! Liu Qingyan was not used to this etiquette, but she did not resist kowtowing to the old man, so she obediently knelt on the ground and said, "Hello grandma, Yan'er kowtowed to you." ”

Mrs. Xie didn't dare to move anymore, so she could only stretch out her hand to let Liu Qingyan get up, and then grabbed Liu Qingyan's hand and said, "Good boy, let grandma take a good look, poor thing, the last time I saw you was when I was four or five years old, you were so old in a blink of an eye." Grandma is old, she can't walk far, and she can't go to see you in her heart, so many grandchildren, you can't see it often, my granddaughter with a sharp heart! As he spoke, his eyes turned red.

Mrs. Xie cried, and the tears that Xie had just stopped fell again, the sun was shining outside, but it was miserable and rainy inside.

Liu Qingyan took a breath of cool air and concluded that Xie's problem of shedding tears and eggs at every turn was genetic.

Fortunately, there is also an eldest aunt Cai.

"Mother, the second sister and Yan Yatou came to see you from afar, what a happy thing, your crying is like life and death parting, weird." Cai couldn't stand it anymore and couldn't help complaining.

The two mother and daughter who were crying and crying stopped their voices, wiped their tears and pulled up the family normally.

"Second sister, you accompany your mother to talk, it's noon, I'll go to the stove room to help the fourth brother and sister cook, and boil some tea by the way." After Cai's finished speaking, he mentioned the chicken and asked Mrs. Xie: "Mother, is the chicken brought by the second sister killed at noon or killed at dinner?" ”

Mrs. Xie looked at the chicken and said: "This chicken has to be stewed for a long time before it can be bitten, and now it's too late to kill the chicken for lunch, save it for dinner and kill it again, why do I have to stay overnight when my granddaughter comes." ”

"Whoa."

Cai Shi responded, turned around and went out.

"Mother, I'll go play with Sister Qiaozhen." Liu Qingyan was afraid that the two mothers and daughters would come to the golden mountain again in a while, so she would find an excuse to sneak out.

"Go ahead, my mother will talk to your grandmother." Xie Shi and his mother have something to say, and it is not good to detain their daughters here.

Qiaozhen sat in the original position and knitted, it seemed that it was a delicate and exquisite makeup box, with very thin and thin strips, and there was a braided flower basket next to it, which was woven into the shape of petals along the mouth.

Liu Qingyan pulled a small bench and sat next to Qiaozhen to watch her weave, and praised Qiaozhen's dexterity while watching.

Qiao Zhen pursed her lips at Liu Qingyan and smiled very quietly, and said, "I don't have anything good to give you when you come from afar, so I'll make a beautiful basket for you to take back." ”

Liu Qingyan pointed to the flower basket next to her and said, "That's good." ”

Qiaozhen glanced sideways and said, "It's better than this." ”

Liu Qingyan thought that this basket was already beautiful enough, what would it look like if it was better than this.

Cai came out of the stove room with tea, and said with a smile when he heard the conversation between the two: "This girl can't do anything else, so she likes to make up some strange things and sell them in the city, but those young ladies and ladies like it, and they can also earn a few copper coins." It's a pity that our road is not good, it is inconvenient to get in and out, and we can't get out much at one time. ”

Liu Qingyan was about to speak, but the eldest uncle scolded Cai's and said: "You mother-in-law has no eyesight, how old is your niece, you just tell her this, where does she understand." Why don't you hurry up and bring in the tea for your niece to drink, you should have been thirsty for this journey. ”

Liu Qingyan closed her mouth and shouted silently in her heart, "I'm not small, I'm not small." ”

After entering the hall and drinking tea, two tall, thin, and identical-looking young men came in from outside the courtyard, one carrying a wooden barrel and the other holding a bamboo basket in his hand, laughing all the way.

Cai opened his mouth and scolded: "You two bastards, you know that you are crazy outside if you don't do anything serious one day, and you don't enter the house when you don't eat, you see that you are all people who want to please your mother-in-law, and you are so unconscious." ”

The young man was not annoyed, and one of the people who carried the wooden barrel said with a smile: "Mother, isn't there a shortage of vegetables to eat at home, let's go to the creek and ditch to catch fish, thinking of adding a vegetable to the family." As he spoke, he showed the wooden barrel to Cai, and in the barrel was a trash fish the size of one or two fingers.

Cai's smile again and said, "Your second aunt and your cousin Qingyan are here, and they happened to eat at noon." ”

Only then did the two teenagers discover the existence of Liu Qingyan.

Liu Qingyan knew that these two young men were the twin sons of her uncle, whose names were Da Wu and Xiao Wu, so she shouted at the two of them: "Big cousin, second cousin." ”

She couldn't tell which one was big and which one was small, and she shouted indiscriminately.

The young man responded at the same time, and the one with the basket came forward to touch Qingyan's head, and said with a smile: "Yo, Cousin Yan has grown so tall, she has become a big girl, and I hugged you when I was a child." ”

The other put down the barrel and touched Qingyan's head, and said with a smile: "Yes Lak, we all hugged you, cousin Yan, do you remember?" ”

Liu Qingyan only threw them a big smile and didn't say anything, and slandered in her heart: Hug a fart, you are not hugging me.

Cai scolded with a smile: "You two bastards, you don't say anything out of tune. At that time, I hugged your cousin and fell to the ground, and I was embarrassed to say it, but fortunately she was too young to remember, otherwise I wouldn't have to resent you for the rest of my life. ”

Dawu Xiaowu was exposed, jumped up and complained about Cai, but in the end, Cai's ears were grabbed by one hand and went to the stove room.

Second, the year of the sassy is full of joy!

Liu Qingyan looked at the backs of the two young men who left, and was happy in her heart, now she found the difference between the two, a black mole the size of a millet grain grew on the corner of one mouth, and the other did not grow.

I ate late for this lunch, and when the meal was put on the table, Liu Qingyan's stomach was already "gurgling". Alas! Who let himself go slowly and come late, and the meal prepared again by grandma's house.

There were too many people to sit at a table, so it was divided into two tables, one table was placed in the hall, and Xie Laohan led the men to eat. The table in Mrs. Xie's room was full of female dependents, and Liu Qingyan only saw her little aunt Xiao Cai at this time. After this little aunt got married, she had never come to Xie's house, so she didn't recognize her.

Xiao Cai's is the sister of the eldest aunt Cai's family, and Xiao Cai's marriage to the Xie family is still the thread of Cai's family, and this pair of concubines get along very well.

Braised pork with dried bamboo shoots, fried small miscellaneous fish, scrambled eggs with cucumbers, plus two vegetarian dishes, it is very good.

Picking up the rice bowl, Liu Qingyan found a problem, she and her mother had rice in the bowl, but the other people's bowls were rice mixed with sorghum rice, including the little uncle's three-year-old daughter, Qiaomei, the little girl would already use a wooden spoon to scoop up the rice herself.

Mrs. Xie also got out of bed to eat, and when she saw Liu Qingyan looking at the rice in the bowl and not moving her chopsticks, she knew what was going on, and said to Liu Qingyan with a kind smile: "The little white rice produced in our paddy fields here is not enough to eat, and the usual rice has to be mixed with some miscellaneous grains to cook. ”

Liu Qingyan sighed with emotion in her heart, the modern people of later generations are tired of polishing rice and white noodles, eating big fish and meat, and spending high prices to eat wild vegetables and grains to maintain their health, but the people here regard rice and white noodles as a rare delicacy, and the gap is really not ordinary!

Xie Shi changed his bowl with Mrs. Xie's bowl, and said, "Mother, I grew up here and am used to eating this meal, is it hypocritical to marry and live a good life for a few years?" You are old, sorghum rice is hard and difficult to restrain it, you can eat white rice, I am young and eat this sorghum rice. ”

Liu Qingyan looked at Qiao Mei, and also reversed the white rice in her hand with Qiao Mei's, and said: "Qiao Mei is young, she should eat more white rice to grow faster, I am usually tired of eating white rice, and now I just change my taste." ”

Xiao Cai just wanted to say that Qiao Mei was small and couldn't eat so much food, and wanted to change the rice again, but Liu Qingyan had already put the rice in her mouth, so she had to give up.

Mrs. Xie looked pitying, smiled and said to her two daughters-in-law, "Look, your niece is so sensible." It's just that the white rice used to entertain the guests has fallen into the stomachs of us, the old and the young, but you have worked in vain. ”

Big and small Cai also laughed.

Mrs. Xie instructed her two daughters-in-law again: "Don't cook multigrain rice at night, everyone eats white rice." ”

"Whoa." Big and small Cai responded with a smile.

After finishing lunch, the exhausted Liu Qingyan wanted to find a place to rest for a while, but heard Cai's two sons calling to go to the mountains to pick some bamboo ginseng and come back, which would be used to stew chicken soup at night.

Hearing that she was going to pick bamboo ginseng, Liu Qingyan suddenly became energetic.

Bamboo ginseng is a good thing, not only delicious but also to improve the body's immunity, she needs it!

Bamboo ginseng is also called Bamboo Sun, known as the "queen of fungi", which has extremely high requirements for the growth environment, and only parasitizes on the dead bamboo whip and bamboo roots, so the yield is scarce. Good quality bamboo sunflower can be sold for 8,000 yuan a kilogram in later generations, and not everyone can afford to eat it.

So, Liu Qingyan ran out with her feet drawn, shouting that she wanted to go with her to pick bamboo ginseng.

Seeing that Liu Qingyan was going, the two little babies of the little uncle were also clamoring to go. Dawu Xiaowu agreed to bring Yong Yanzi, but refused to take Qiaomei, on the grounds that she was too young to climb the mountain, and she would have to carry her for a while, which was too troublesome.

Qiao Mei pursed her mouth and ran to her mother crying.

In the end, the duo of the twin brothers became a five-person team joined by Liu Qingyan, Qiaozhen and Yong Yanzi.

The group talked and laughed and marched towards the back mountain.