Chapter 61: Liu's shy face asks for a congratulatory gift
When he got home, Liu stood at the door with a gloomy face, and when he saw Jiang coming back, he said in a strange manner: "Brother and sister are really good girls, you are not at home, Xianglian will not even open the door of my eldest uncle!" ”
Because after Chu Dong stole meat, Xiangling told Xiao Xianglian that as long as she and the Jiang family were not at home, the door would be tied up, and people who were not familiar with it, especially those in the old house, must not open the door.
Holding back the disgust in his heart, Jiang asked Xianglian to open the door, entered the house, sat on the kang, and asked Liu: "Sister-in-law is looking for me?" ”
Liu didn't answer, but moved his nose to smell the delicious smell of pies and oil shuttles in the house, and said in a strange manner: "My brother and sister's house is really good food, and it is fragrant with meat and oil." ”
Jiang's face sank and said, "My sister-in-law came in the afternoon and brought a lot of things, specifically to see Brother Xia." Is there something wrong with my sister-in-law? ”
Liu Shi felt the disgust in Jiang's tone, and pouted: "There is nothing else, it is just that the matter of Brother Chun'er's change of relatives has been decided, Xiangwei married over, and Lin Yue married over." The day after tomorrow is the day after tomorrow. Although the two families did not choose, everything is simple, but there must be a number of etiquette, you are the second aunt of Xiangwei and Brother Chun, and one of the two children cannot be left behind. I heard that your gift to the three-pillar daughter-in-law is a prism? ”
This can't be more straightforward, it's just that the Jiang family came to the door to ask for something, and named the more expensive shuttle glasses, and it was not one, it was two.
Jiang's face darkened, he picked up a feather duster, swept the dust on the kang and said, "Sister-in-law, it costs oil to light the lamp at night, so I won't keep you." ”
Jiang gave an eviction order, Liu reluctantly got up, walked to the door and returned to the ground, and said with a calm face: "Brother and sister, if you want me to see, Xiangling will not go to the wedding the day after tomorrow, you also know that Xiangling's brain is sometimes good and sometimes bad, don't listen to anything bad and get sick." “
Without waiting for Jiang to answer, Liu twisted his waist and left.
Jiang roared angrily and threw the feather duster on the kang, lit the oil lamp she just said she was reluctant to light, and said angrily: "I came to the door to specify a congratulatory gift, and I didn't let my daughter eat banquet noodles, why is she so big-faced?" ”
Jiang has always been angry about the old house man almost killing Xiangling, but he didn't expect the old house man to be fine, and he didn't take it seriously at all.
Xiangling persuaded: "Mother, don't be angry, she won't let me go, I don't want to go yet!" I just happen to be able to do more work at home. As for the congratulatory gift, even if it is made for others to see, we can't go empty-handed, she wants a mirror, let's buy a mirror, but there is no need to buy an expensive one, the cheap one will be, and when the gift is made, others must see it, and we have to spend our money on the face. ”
It's not that Xiangling is too virgin to easily forgive the old house, but this era is like this, although the second room is separated from the main house, but Chu is still Jiang's mother-in-law, Xiangling's grandmother, and still has a considerable say in major events such as weddings and funerals in the old house.
Although Xiangling is confident that she will see the move, she will be provoked a hundred times and returned, but the superficial work that should be done still needs to be done, at least so that outsiders can't find fault with the second room, so that the second room will always stand on the "commanding heights" of morality to suppress the old house.
Jiang sighed, angry to angry, she still knows the stakes, the blame is only on her now, affected by her daughter's hot temper, her temper is becoming more and more explosive day by day, and she is becoming more and more aggrieved, just now, she dared to throw her face at Liu's sister-in-law, which in the past, she didn't even dare to think about it, this feeling is really good.
Xiangling saw that Jiang's face eased, smiled and hugged Jiang's waist, and teased: "Mother, it's okay for you to use this feather duster to scare outsiders, don't use it instead of a broom to beat me, it's pure bamboo, and it hurts a lot to beat people......."
The family of four suddenly removed the haze and smiled.
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Early the next morning, the door was knocked on the door, Xiangling was frightened, thinking that something was wrong, so she quickly opened the door and found that it was Chu Wen, the kid who came.
Xiangling said angrily: "What are you doing?" ”
Chu Wen opened the contents of an oiled paper bag in his hand and handed it to Xiangling, the taste and picture were too "beautiful", Xiangling took a few steps back and said, "What is this?" So stinky? ”
Chu Wen said with a smug face: "Didn't you ask me last time, will maggots give birth to maggots after they die?" I got a small pile of them when I got home, and it turned out to be maggots. ”
Xiangling felt a tumbling in her stomach, and said to Chu Wen angrily: "Then let me ask you, maggots give birth to maggots, is it maggots born after rotting, or maggots born like giving birth to children?" ”
This question made Chu Wen confused again, it seems that it is completely a dead knot, there will never be an answer, don't mention how depressed the little guy is, is it that he is destined to be inseparable from the fool?
Xiangling was willing to see Chu Wen, a naughty boy eating turtles, and said with a smile: "You didn't answer, go back and continue to rub mud marbles for me." ”
Chu Wen took out a large bag of mud balls from his arms, stuffed them into Xiangling's arms, and walked away again.
It seems that this little guy had the foresight and had already made preparations with both hands, and the mud balls had already been rubbed.
Looking at Chu Wen's back of the decadent Tang Dynasty, Xiangling felt that she was very guilty, and at the same time she was very happy, fortunately she was asking the question of "will maggots give birth to maggots after they die", if the question was "snake venom in snakes, will snakes be poisoned by snake venom", would this child be stupid enough to catch a poisonous snake for experiments?
When he was closing the door and returning to the house, Xiaoshan came over with a piece of meat, handed the meat to Xiangling and said, "My father asked me to give you badger meat, so that I am not allowed to say a word, enter the house, and even eat it." ”
Xiangling wanted to refuse, but Xiaoshan had already stuffed the straw rope that tied the meat into Xiangling's hand, turned around and left.
Xiangling had no choice but to take the meat into the room and pad the meat, which weighed five or six catties, and the badger did not produce much meat, so it should be Ge Changlin who sent most of the good meat.
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Because she bought millet yesterday, Xiangling boiled a small pot of millet porridge in the morning and boiled four eggs.
Drinking in her mouth, it was very bland and tasteless, Xiangling suddenly remembered the half bag of soybeans that Jiang Erlan took, and immediately smiled, why did she forget the bean paste, an artifact for rice? !
Said action is action, Xiangling poured out half a basin of beans, soaked them in water, and soaked them for a day before they could be soaked, and then Xiangling went to He's house with a basket and a firewood knife.
When I arrived at He's house, I found He Hua'er in a daze in the yard, and Xiangling walked behind her and didn't find it.
Xiangling's "ah" scream scared He Hua'er into a scream, and seeing that Xiangling scared her, she was so angry that she beat Xiangling twice.
He Shi, who was picking vegetables in the garden, raised his head, looked at the two little girls, held up an eggplant in his hand and said, "Xiangling, take some vegetables when you leave for a while, let your mother come to pick up the vegetables, and refuse to take them every time." ”
Xiangling said with a smile: "Auntie, I came this time just to ask with a shy face if there are any chili peppers and garlic in my aunt's house." ”
The goal of the farm is to fill the stomach, most of the gardens are planted with sweet potatoes, potatoes and other things that can fight hunger, cabbage and eggplant are planted at the top of the sky, the variety is single, coriander, leeks, lettuce, peppers and other varieties that do not top hunger, some people plant, but relatively few.
He laughed and said: "This is what you asked, our village grows chili peppers in my family, Lizheng family and Mrs. Chu's family, and your uncle loves to eat red peppers burned in the stove pit, and strings of chili peppers every year." I'll pick some for you when you're gone, and it's already red. Garlic is full of wild garlic, and I will help you dig some of the wild vegetables when I dig them. ”
Xiangling suddenly blossomed: "Great, auntie, you don't need to pick the pepper first, I'll come back in five or six days, you give me a look of wild garlic, I'll dig it myself." ”
It takes six or seven days for moldy soybeans to be born, and raw materials such as chili peppers are used, as long as the source is known, Xiangling is not in a hurry to use it.
He is a real person, Xiangling said that in five or six days, he really didn't pick it, but just picked some eggplants and cucumbers for Xiangling.