"Auntie, you misunderstood, I didn't."

"Nothing, no. If you want me to say, the old man doesn't know if he got out of that mountain, maybe it's you Xu Chunliu who is looking for a good person outside. You don't have a face, my Zhang Xi still has a face, I warn you, don't go to my Zhang Xi. ”

Chunliu held back the tears in her eyes, and stubbornly endured not to let them fall.

The woman snorted at her, turned and walked away. didn't walk a few steps, and met another person in Huaxi Village who was good at judging people's rights and wrongs.

"Aunt Zhang, are you coming to see your daughter-in-law again?"

"Don't talk nonsense, everyone in Chunliu is a person with a family, but our family Zhang Xi can't climb high." The woman deliberately raised her voice.

Chunliu, who was about to open the door, stopped when she heard this.

"Chunliu Xu family, which family did you promise? We have a radius of 100 miles, and there is anyone more competitive than your Zhang Xi? ”

"It's no more competitive than our family Zhang Xi, but people have food in their hands." The woman said, deliberately turning her head and glancing at Chunliu: "Aunt Wang, have you seen it, have you seen that Chunliu's belly, there are cubs there." ”

"Isn't this Chunliu still unmarried?"

"What can you do if you don't get married, Miss Chunliu doesn't care." The woman raised her voice: "What kind of lady do you think she is, just a shameless dead girl who can crawl on people's kang heads for a little food." It's a loss that I didn't marry our family Zhang Xi, otherwise, I would be embarrassed with our Zhang family. If I were her, I wouldn't have the face to stand in front of this house, and I would just strangle myself with a rope. ”

Chunliu turned the joints of his hands blue, and his lips were almost bitten and bleeding. She wanted to argue for herself, but would those people listen?

Good things don't go out, bad things spread thousands of miles, she seems to have seen her future, the kind of future that is disliked, discussed, and silently cursed behind her back.

Harunagi closed her eyes and gently pushed open the two closed doors in front of her.

In the snowflakes flying in the sky, the form of a giant beast faintly appeared, and the white light flashed, turning into a strange-looking, but inconspicuous little old man. With a handful of green onions in his right hand, a piece of pork in his left hand, a bag of flour hanging from his waist on his left, and a small jar of salt hanging on his right, he stood in the snow and squinted at the woman who was chattering and arranging people.

This woman's name is the long-tongued woman, and she likes to talk about right and wrong behind her back, and her chattering tongue is a delicious dish that makes gluttony salivate. The old man licked his tongue, turned around, and went to Bai Li's house first.

When Bai Li opened the door, he saw Old Man Tao carrying a piece of fresh pork, with a flattering smile on his face.

"Girl, can you make me something delicious with this meat? The black ground vegetables are a little greasy to eat. ”

"Where did you get pork from this old man?" Bai Lihu looked at Old Man Tao suspiciously: "Within a radius of 100 miles, except for those local vegetables in the forests of the back mountains, not to mention pork, even ordinary wild vegetables are difficult to find." ”

"Don't be an old man, we have made a bet before, called master." Old man Tao touched his shriveled belly: "Master, I went to the town." ”

"Didn't steal?" Bai Li took the pork.

"Steal? I'm gluttonous...... I want something to eat, but I still need to steal it? Besides, in your shabby village, who can hide such a large piece of fresh pork? The old man smacked: "Hurry up, I'm about to starve to death." ”

"Okay, okay, you wait." Bai Li carried the pork into the small kitchen, while the old man Tao stood outside the window and watched.

"Girl, what are you going to do with this pork for my master?"

"Let's make a dumpling, ground fungus wheat ear dumpling." Rolled up his sleeves and took out the vegetables that had been cleaned before: "You old man is really amazing, you can't grab things that others can't grab, you can just bring them back." ”

"Call the master, call the master." The old man repeated: "My surname is Tao, and I gave it a name many years ago. How? That sounds good, doesn't it? ”

"Intoxicated?" Bai Li stopped what he was doing, looked at the old man from head to toe, shook his head and said, "You are not worthy of this name." ”

"It's okay if you don't match it, anyway, this name is mine." The old man pointed to the board: "Hurry up and cook." ”

"Wait a minute." Bai Li quickly chopped the pork into minced pieces, put it together with the minced green onion and chopped ground vegetables, added an appropriate amount of salt for seasoning, wrapped the mixed stuffing in the dumpling skin, brushed a thin layer of oil in the pot, put the wrapped dumplings in the pot, injected water after frying, and simmered over high heat until the juice was collected.

The dumplings were not yet cooked, and the fragrance overflowed first.

"Sister, what are you doing here?"

When I heard the voice, I looked up and saw that the two brothers had all stuck their heads into the window, and if it weren't for the old man Tao pulling their legs behind his back, these two people would have to come in through the window.

Looking at the door again, my father and mother, who simply slept until noon in order to save some food, also got up. Two people stood side by side, blocking the small door frame. If it weren't for the sudden darkness of the small kitchen, she wouldn't have really wanted to look up.

"Tao ......" touched the skin of his mouth, and wanted to say three words to the old man Tao, but he was willing to gamble and lose, plus the mouth of the cannibal was short, and he turned a corner in his mouth by the way: "The master brought a piece of pork back from Huaxi Town, I thought for a while, and then chopped the pork, and made a fried dumpling for you with the vegetables." The rest of the stuffing can be eaten for two more meals. Bai Li took the fried dumplings out of the pot, put them on a plate, stood on tiptoe and handed them to the old man Tao: "This flour and pork were brought back by the master, and this dumpling must be eaten by him first." As for whether you have a good mouth or not, it depends on whether he is willing to do it or not. ”

"Master Tao, look at ......" Bai Li's father licked his lips and pointed to the two sons who were still lying on the window: "These children haven't tasted meat for almost two years, and it's pitiful." ”

"It's strange and pitiful, but how can I look at my girl more pitiful." Old man Tao glared at Bai Li's father: "Want to eat?" If you want to eat, give me that girl. ”

"Isn't it a reparation?" Bai Li's father was stunned, then understood, and quickly turned to Bai Li, who was still busy in the kitchen, and said: "Li'er, don't blame Dad, this used to be a dad bastard, it was a father who favored sons over daughters, and didn't regard your life as more important than your brother's life." You're a good boy, don't be like your father. ”

"Okay, if I bother with you, how can I come back to this house." Bai Li didn't bother to pay attention to this nominal father, put down the second pot of dumplings that had just been wrapped, and saw that his mother was still embarrassed at the door, pointed to the dough on the board and said: "Mother will wrap it with me, as for my father and two brothers, let's split the firewood in the yard first, the fire in my stove is not prosperous." ”

Before the words fell, Bai Li's father kicked each of his two sons, and the father and son obediently chopped wood.

While making dumplings, Bai Liniang asked Bai Li in a low voice: "Li'er, where did you learn your cooking skills?" My mother doesn't even know about the food you make. ”

"This is all taught by the master." Bai Li was talking nonsense, and directly pulled the old man Tao out to cushion his back. Bai Liniang stopped what she was doing, and after taking a deep look at her, she didn't want to think about it anymore.

A pot of wheat ear dumplings was brought out of the Bai family's kitchen, and the Bai family was satisfied, but the other people in the village were hungry to death. Just when the big guy was drooling in the Bai family's yard, the news of Chunliu, the girl of the Xu family, hanging herself, came.