Chapter 13: Keep an account
Shi Jin has experience in catching fish, and the tools she made and special bait have harvested two large fish and a few small fish for her.
"Mother, fish!" The second girl clapped her hands excitedly, and the eldest girl was also happy, her little face was flushed, and she was all smiling.
"Let's go, go to Granny Yan's house." Shi Jin put the fish in a small back basket, carried it on his back, and walked to Granny Yan's house with the two little girls.
What she said to Aunt Zhao just now was just a deliberate remark to ask for some sympathy.
When the mother came to the courtyard of Granny Yan's house, Shi Jin saw a slightly familiar figure enter the house, and was surprised.
"Jin Niang, come in!" Granny Yan came out of the stove room, saw the maiden outside the courtyard gate, and waved at them.
"Auntie, I caught some fish, can you see how to eat it?" When the mother entered the courtyard, Shi Jin showed the small back basket to Granny Yan.
"Ouch, what kind of fish are you catching in this cold day?" Granny Yan took Shi Jin's hand, touched the cold one, she frowned, looked at Shi Jin and looked at the fish in the small back basket, and sighed helplessly. "Let's make soup and drink it at noon."
In the past few days, Shi Jin will take two little girls to Granny Yan's house every day to do embroidery work, and when it is time to eat at noon, she will leave with the two little girls.
Granny Yan stayed a few times, but failed to keep her, yesterday a good thing to say, Granny Yan proposed to take out a little money from the embroidery work, which was counted as the food expenses of the mother, so they stayed for dinner.
"Hurry inside!" With a greeting, Granny Yan took the small back basket into the stove room, and Shi Jin took the two little girls into the house.
As soon as she entered the house, she saw the person sitting in the house, who was the fortune teller she had seen at Zhao's house yesterday.
The fortune teller didn't seem surprised when he saw his wife, but his eyes were still so strange when he looked at Shi Jin.
"Oh, I forgot to say it." Granny Yan came in from outside the house and pointed to the fortune teller sitting there, "This is my cousin, and it is also a coincidence, someone invited him to come to the village to meet, and he came over by the way." ”
In the plot of the original book, there is not much description of the fortune teller, Shi Jin knows that his name is Liu Ji and will remember him, all because he is the cousin of Granny Yan.
Although they are cousins and brothers, because he was raised by Granny Yan's mother, the relationship between the two is better than that of a brother and sister.
"What a coincidence." Shi Jin responded with a smile, anyway, the purpose of inviting the fortune teller has been achieved, and since I have already met it yesterday, there is no need to bother anymore.
"Sister, then I'll go back to the house first, and I'll make it for you what you want to eat at noon." There were guests, Liu Ji stood up and looked at Granny Yan.
"When you come home, you don't know the things in the stove, just wait to eat." Granny Yan smiled and spoke, Liu Ji responded, nodded at Shi Jin, and left the house.
When Liu Ji left, Granny Yan beckoned her to sit on the kang, took out the embroidery work again, and chatted with Shi Jin while doing the embroidery work.
From the mouth of Yan's mother-in-law, Shi Jin knew a lot of things that were not written in the book, which was about Liu Ji.
Originally, she was still wondering, since the fortune teller was Granny Yan's cousin, and the sister and brother had a good relationship, why didn't the people in Zhaojia Village know him?
Now they all know.
After noon, Zhao and Zhao Lian'er came back from outside the courtyard with a smile, and Zhao Bao followed aside, holding a sugar gourd in his hand, licking the sugar on it with relish.
"Auntie is back!" Xing Shi came out of the house, her eyes swirled on Zhao Lian'er, and then fell on the sugar gourd in Zhao Bao's hand, she swallowed her saliva quietly, and talked to Zhao with a smile.
"Hmm." Zhao agreed, and handed the things in his hand to Xing, "Just yourself?" ”
"As soon as my aunt left, my sister-in-law went out with two little girls, she said to work, but I didn't take anything, and I didn't come back at this time."
In addition to the dishes and chopsticks, Zhao also bought others, and Xing looked outside the courtyard and pretended to be worried.
"I remember that in the past, my sister-in-law went out to work, and it was all fast and good, and I never said that it was delayed for so long. I don't know what's going on lately, I've been gone for so long, and I haven't brought much when I come back, but it's not comparable to the past. Oops, it can't be another tire gas, right? ”
Zhao's face sank because of Xing's words, and Zhao Lian'er on the side had to add oil and vinegar. "Mother, sister-in-law won't go to the wild man, right? Is it really my brother's child in her belly? ”
Zhao Shi looked at her suddenly, Zhao Lian'er rarely saw her mother look so beautiful to herself, and couldn't help but smile, "Mother, I just said it casually." ”
"Lian'er, after all, that's our sister-in-law, you can't talk nonsense in the future." Xing's heart couldn't help but move because of Zhao Lian'er's words, "Although the eldest brother has just sent back the news, the sister-in-law is pregnant, such a coincidence is really rare." ”
After Xing finished speaking, he looked at Zhao quietly, and saw that her face was becoming more and more ugly, and he was afraid that he would harm himself, so he hurriedly carried the basket to the stove room.
Zhao took a look at the house where Shi Jinniang lived, and then went to the main house, Zhao Lian'er hurriedly followed, Zhao Bao was impatient to listen to the chatter of the adults, and had already entered the house, and now sat on the kang and ate sugar gourds.
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"Auntie, this fish is for you." Shi Jin finished the embroidery work at Granny Yan's house and was about to go back to Zhao's house, but saw that there were a lot of fish left in the basket handed over by Granny Yan, and they were even alive.
"Take it." Granny Yan stuffed the basket into her hand, "With these fish, you can explain to your mother-in-law better." It's just that I'm doing embroidery at my house, so it's better not to tell her. ”
Granny Yan is for Shi Jin's good, and Shi Jin understands in her heart that she hopes that she can save some money, just in case.
Shi Jin couldn't refuse, thanked Granny Yan, and after saying a few more words, she carried the small basket and took the two little girls back to Zhao's house.
Before she entered the courtyard gate, something smashed in front of Shi Jin, she was a little faster, and she was smashed just now.
"Oh, lazy bones, you still know to come back!" Zhao stood in the courtyard, his hands crossed on his waist, and stared at Shi Jinniang, it was what she threw away.
"Yo, sister-in-law, why don't you wait until dinner time to come back?" Zhao Lian'er sat on a small stool at the door of the main house, holding a handful of melon seeds in her hand, and said with a smile.
Shi Jin didn't take Zhao Lian'er seriously at all, and then she would naturally find an opportunity to clean her up, there has always been any movement in the Zhao family's courtyard, and the neighbors are willing to watch the excitement, wouldn't it be a waste if she didn't take advantage of this stage to play?
"Mother, don't be angry, it's all my fault, I went to the river to wash ......my clothes a few days ago," Shi Jin said what he had said to Aunt Zhao by the river before, and then took out the fish in the back basket.
"If it's cold today, my body is heavy, and it's the first time I've caught a fish, so I've lost time. Fortunately, it's still too late to let my mother drink fresh fish soup today. ”
For Shi Jin, it was really a waste to give the fish to the Zhao family to eat, she had thought of a good rhetoric, but Granny Yan was kind enough to let her bring the rest of the fish back, and she simply calculated it.
Shi Jin kept an account in her heart, no matter what the Zhao family got from her, when she left with the two little girls, she had to get it back with interest.