After eating at noon, they divided five or six into five and six and then gave birth, and drove the carriage to bring four large stone mortars, and put them under the shade of the trees, and took the big wooden pestle, and ping-pong and scooped up the rice, and the children gathered around, laughing and laughing, which was more lively than beating the rice grains.

The first mortar of white rice and rice bran was scooped out, and the old woman had already taken it and put it in the dustpan, and the rice bran ran away with the wind, leaving a bright and small white rice grain, which was very gratifying, and the naughty child reached out and grabbed a few grains and ran, threw them into his mouth, and bit them with a rattling sound, and the old woman reached out to fight, but she laughed instead.

After this day, the whole morning of the second day, all men, women and children were doing their work, while glancing at the grass shed from time to time, where Zhang's sister-in-law was taking people to wash a large pile of white rice in a large clay pot, ready to steam into rice, and reward them for more than two days of hard work.

Unfortunately, they didn't know that this white rice was almost impossible to eat, because the farmers were all poor, and when they rarely ate white rice, they ate it once or twice, and it was only a handful of rice and half a pot of water, boiled to improve the food for the elderly and children. Now that there is no need to boil porridge, and a large pot of rice is steamed for everyone to eat, all the little daughters-in-law, including Sister-in-law Zhang and Aunt Yun, are a little afraid to start with the amount of water, for fear that if one is not good and hard, it will spoil the good grain.

So Rui Xue, who was coaxing Kexin to play at home, was invited to the ground again, and the four people in her previous life also used an earthen stove, but they did not use a big pot to stew rice, and estimated that they used a sea bowl to scoop the underwater pot, and asked everyone to remember how much rice and how many bowls of water, and then sat aside and burned firewood with their own hands.

Sister-in-law Zhang was afraid that she would bend over and squeeze her stomach, so she pulled her to sit aside, and called the little daughter-in-law named Da Mei to give her a hand.

Rui Xue occasionally turned her head to see six or seven children, their faces flushed from the sun, all huddled outside the grass shed, shouting their fingers, looking at the steaming cauldron, so she thought of making them some snacks, so she called Caiyun over, "Go back to the house, pick some large cabbage leaves, and bring the meat sauce and peanuts in the stove." ”

Caiyun happily responded, and disappeared without a trace, but after two quarters of an hour, he hurried back with a bamboo basket, reached out and wiped the beads of sweat on his head, and said with a smile, "Madam, you have brought them all." ”

Rui Xue stretched out her hand to check the cabbage leaves, they were all green and fresh, and the size was just right, so she threw them into a large pot of water and soaked them, put them aside and drained them, and then cut a handful of green onions and coriander, and found a large bowl and spoon to put in one place.

The little daughters-in-law washed and cut the vegetables and meat in their hands, and they all wanted to see what good ideas Rui Xue had come up with, so they smiled and gathered around, Rui Xue didn't pick them up, squatted by the cauldron and heard a slight crackling sound coming out, and asked Da Mei to lift the lid of the pot.

In an instant, the unique sweet rice fragrance rushed out with the steam, filling the entire grass shed, and the women were so excited that they didn't know what to say when they saw the pot full of white rice.

Rui Xue took a small clay pot, put most of it out first, and said, "Da Mei, wait a little cooler, and then put it out, don't let the heat smoke your hands." ”

"Hey," Da Mei responded, but her eyes were fixed on the clay pot in Rui Xue's hand.

Rui Xue scooped two large spoonfuls of rice and put it into the pottery bowl, then added meat sauce and chopped peanuts, chopped green onions, and chopped coriander, stirred together, and the rice became slightly brown, and finally spread a large Chinese cabbage leaf on the bottom of another bowl, poured the mixed rice into it, wrapped it, and looked left and right, as if it was not much different from the rice bag he had eaten in his previous life, so he turned around and handed it to Caiyun on the side, "You ran back to get the ingredients, this first rice bag will be eaten for you first." ”

Caiyun's little face was flushed, and when she received it in her hand, she took a bite, only to feel that her mouth was full of rice, meat sauce, peanut fragrance, and then mixed with the spicy green onion, and the hot coaxing slid all the way to her stomach, which was very refreshing and non-greasy, as if it was fragrant and warm like penetrating her heart, and she nodded violently, "Well, it's delicious, it's delicious!" After speaking, she didn't care about being shy and ate it in a big gulp.

Everyone laughed, Rui Xue's subordinates quickly wrapped two more, waved their hands to call the children over, and gave the two of them the youngest to eat first, Da Mei saw that her hands were itchy, so she shouted, "Boss, I'll help you wrap it, I've learned this." ”

Rui Xue stood for a while, and her back was sore, so she nodded and handed it to her, instructing, "The children can't eat too salty, and put less sauce." ”

Da Mei responded, and soon quickly wrapped five or six, a group of small leather monkeys each hand, all wiped their saliva, and did not forget to salute and thank them, and then ran crazy to grandparents or fathers and uncles, jumping and asking them to eat the first bite, then sat on the ridge, hugged the big food, some of the nose tips, faces are stained with rice grains, and everyone is funny.

But those who are parents and elders have treated their children well, but they feel more comfortable than they have treated them, so even though they have not eaten a grain of rice in their stomachs, their men are working harder, and the rice seedlings are slotting faster, and the wooden pestle is pounding harder.

Wu Yu, Niuniu, and Da Zhuang ran into the woods to play, smelled the smell of rice, and ran back.

Da Mei hurriedly wrapped a few more for them, Niuniu ate loudly and shouted that it was delicious, and she would eat this at night, and was slapped on the head by Rui Xue, she immediately lowered her voice and said like a thief, "Sister, our family secretly eats this at night?" ”

Everyone laughed and leaned back, almost dropping the spoon in their hands, Rui Xue was also so angry with her that she couldn't cry or laugh, and said, "Okay, pack ten, you lie on the bed and eat secretly at night." ”

Before lunch, finally all the rice grains were taken off and put into a sack, and the good white rice, except for the one and a half bags left in the pot, was afraid that the sun would be exposed and it would be easy to turn powdery, so it was moved to the shade of the tree.

The young men were anxious to eat the white rice, and after washing their hands, they all came over to help set the tables, chairs, dishes and chopsticks, and soon, a large clay pot was placed on each table, which was filled with sharp white rice, faintly emitting heat, and around it was a large bowl of braised pork, eggplant roasted meat, mushroom stewed chicken, plus a pot of old cucumber meat sliced soup.

The dishes are not very exquisite, but they are extremely affordable, just looking at the big bowl and big basin, it makes people feel full, the elders have poured wine, Zhao Fengnian picked up the wine glass, and said with a smile, "I have worked hard these days, don't say much else, dry this glass of wine, just let go of the stomach and eat." ”

Everyone laughed along, drank the wine in the bowl, and before they had time to eat a bite of the food, they reached out to hold the white rice, and the chopsticks took a bite to eat it, and immediately shouted loudly, "It's so fragrant, it's delicious." ”

Rui Xue took a few children to set up a small table on the wooden couch as usual, but her heart hugged a bone, gnawed her hands full of oil, Caiyun Caiyue took care of it on the side, Rui Xue gave a few big dishes from time to time, and listened to them talk about fun things, and laughed happily.

In the woods not far away, Jian Wu and Qin Xin, who came all the way, were sitting behind a bush, eating dry cakes and catching cold water, smelling the aroma of the food in their noses, the more difficult it was to swallow, Qin Xin was younger, so he said, "Sister Wu, otherwise we will pretend to be passing by, begging for hot water to drink..."

Jian Wu glared at her and said in a low voice, "Are there two young women traveling together, Tie Gongzi said that there is still a senior master in the Zhao family, and we will be on the road, I am afraid that people will recognize it." ”

Qin Xin rubbed her gurgling stomach in protest, and was just about to resign herself to her fate to dry the cake, when she heard someone behind her say, "Is that senior in your mouth the old man me?" ”

Jian Wuqin's heart and body were stiff, and the next moment he immediately touched the long sword on his side, but unfortunately there were already two sharp objects behind him against their waists, "Don't move, little girl, I don't want to hurt people, old man, but you have to talk about it, why are you secretly staring at the Zhao family?" ”

Jian Wu quietly gave Qin Xin a look, and pretended to open his mouth to respond, "The seniors are merciful, we didn't..."

It's a pity that their plan is very good, but when they ran more than 30 zhang away, they suddenly fell to the ground before the goo-dong, and the two fell together, both of them were sore, and they couldn't lift their hands and feet for half a minute.

The two looked at the old man who walked slowly in front of them, and a flash of horror flashed in their eyes, but they quickly covered it up, and Qin Xin said angrily, "You actually drugged? ”

Amber laughed, stroked his beard, and said, "I'm an old man, and I can't outrun you young people, so I have to use some small means." Say, why are you snooping on the Zhao family? ”

Jian Wu frowned slightly, and asked, "The old man is the senior who lives in the Zhao family, right?" ”

"Oh, the little girl knows very well, have you visited the Zhao family?" Amber's eyes narrowed slightly, and although his face was smiling, his men were attached to the side of the cloth boots, showing that if they didn't say a good word, they would suffer.

Jian Wu hurriedly said, "Old man, we have a letter from Tie Xiong Tie Gongzi on us?" ”

Amber raised his eyebrows, took his hand back, and went to turn over the cloth bag on Jian Wu's back, sure enough, the top was a letter, he took it out and glanced at it twice, then turned around and picked up a small porcelain bottle in the cloth bag on his waist, and shook it lightly in front of the two women, but after a while, the two women felt that their bodies had regained their strength, turned over and sat up.

Amber laughed and said, "You two girls have already made it clear, otherwise there will be no misunderstanding, they are all a family, look at this matter." ”

Jian Wu and Qin Xin also looked embarrassed, after all, they were invited by Tie Xiong to be the guards and maids, but they were put down by an old man of the family as soon as they met recently, no matter what, this is a big shame.

Amber is an old Jianghu, how could he not guess their thoughts, so he said again, "You two girls' light body kung fu is really good, Hongyulou is really the place where the Crouching Tiger grows long, I, the old man, if I hadn't used the medicinal powder in advance, I really couldn't hold you." ”

Jian Wuqinxin's face was a little better, she stood up and patted the leaves and dust on her body, and said, "There are many disturbances today, and I hope that the seniors will forgive their sins, and the younger generations will leave." ”