Chapter 35: Lame
Lilac dropped the book, hugged Zhang's leg and said, "Mother, egg custard." ”
"Okay, my mother will steam Xiangxiang and add two drops of sesame oil."
The girl's favorite is egg custard with sesame oil.
The clove rice is egg custard with half a nest, and Zhang's is three nests plus a bowl of boiled water and two salted radish.
When Zhang fed the cloves, the cloves pushed a spoonful of egg custard to the Zhang family, "Mother eats." ”
Zhang smiled with happiness on his face.
This laughing lilac remembered for a lifetime. In the previous life, the mother and the mother in this life were very beautiful, but their smile was not as good as one ten-thousandth of the Zhang family.
"Xiangxiang is really filial." Zhang said.
She put the spoon to her lips and said "let's go" twice, pretended to eat, and put the egg in Lilac's mouth untouched.
This drama is often staged by the mother and daughter. Lilac really wanted Zhang's to eat, but Zhang's was reluctant to eat a little by himself.
At the end of the morning, Lilac woke up from the lunch break and stayed next to Zhang to watch her play. Zhang's was already skillful, and he had a long knowledge in the embroidery shop in the capital, and the style of the yarn was unique and popular, and the selling price was good, and Zhang's enthusiasm for playing the yarn was also more high.
Watching Zhang's play is one of Lilac's favorite things to do now, and it is also to lay the foundation for some future plans.
Seeing that the girl is watching seriously, whether she understands it or not, Zhang will explain one or two.
The wisdom of the ancient people cannot be underestimated, which can be seen from the network. The style of play, style, type, meaning, and color matching seem to have been achieved to the extreme.
For example, the decorations on sachets, purses, fan bags, and ornaments, as well as concentric knots, bows, plate length knots, clover knots, wishful knots, double coin knots, etc., are beautiful and exquisite.
Zhang's ingenuity is ingenious, and a few strands of thread fly between his fingers, and finally turn into a beautiful jewelry or item. It's just that the ropes she uses are not the best, and the selling price is limited.
Suddenly, there was a knock at the courtyard door, and it was Zhao who came.
The two concubines get along well and often do needlework together.
Zhang opened the door and smiled, "Zhen'er didn't come?" ”
Zhao said, "I went with my mother-in-law to the town shop to find his father." ”
She took out a piece of winter melon candy from her purse and stuffed it into the clove's mouth.
Her shop sells dried miscellaneous items, and she also sells these miscellaneous sugars, and occasionally brings a few pieces to cloves.
Lilac said vaguely, "Thank you, auntie." ”
Zhao smiled again, "Something happened to the big house......"
She came here and passed by the big house, and heard Ding Xia's scolding and Wang's crying coming from inside, so she went in to see the excitement.
Ding Sifu is four months older than Lilac, and he is almost two years old and still can't walk, and he can stand firmly.
I didn't pay attention to it before, thinking that it might be that the child was late to walk. Later, I asked the town doctor and the traveling doctor to come and see it, but they didn't see anything wrong.
Wang was in a hurry, and asked Xia for 200 yuan, and went to the county hospital with the child on his back early this morning.
The doctor said that the child's right leg was broken at some point, and he had not been treated, and his bone was crooked. The child is still young, and if he spends money to go to the provincial capital to break his bones and then graft his bones, it may be cured. If he is not cured, he will be lame in the future.
When going to the provincial capital to treat this disease, the various expenses add up to no less than twenty taels of silver.
The big house is poor, and there is not even five taels of silver in the deposit, let alone twenty taels. For the sake of a rich man, it is impossible to sell houses and land.
Ding Sifu is going to be a cripple for the rest of his life.
Wang was unwilling to borrow money to be cured. Everyone else disagreed, not to mention that they could get money if they borrowed or not, and they couldn't afford to pay it back even if they borrowed it.
Wang cried and made a fuss, and Ding Youcai beat her.
Zhang guessed, "The child never complained of leg pain when his leg was broken, and eighty percent of it was broken in a few months." ”
Zhao said, "Not really. Ding Xia scolded Wang for not taking a good look at his son, and even pinched her. Hmph, Wang shows off every day how great it is that she gave birth to four boys in nine years. It's good now, I'm a cripple. ”
The Zhao family hated the Wang family the most, seeing that the sky showed that he could give birth to a son. If she's lame, she'll not show off anymore.
Zhang said, "God still has eyes." It's not that you don't report it, the hour has not yet come. The lack of virtue done by Ding Xia and Wang should be retributed to their children and grandchildren. ”
Zhao said, "Hmm." A few days ago, I heard my father-in-law say that if the Hao family can't give birth to a son, the uncle and Ding Xia will pass on the four riches to them. The four riches are lame, Ding Youshou and his family are definitely unwilling to want it, and I don't know who they will succeed. Phew, I still want her grandson to give my father-in-law and the head of the house, how dare I think about it. ”
The people in the big house were unlucky, and the Zhang and Zhao families did not have any sympathy, and they gloated.
Lilac's heart is turbulent.
She felt that Ding Sifu might have rolled out of bed and broken his bones, but it was more likely that Hao's was unwilling to have a stepchild, and he hated Wang's son for making trouble, so he deliberately broke or broke Ding Sifu's leg.
That woman had wanted to do something to herself at five months, and she could definitely do that.
Attacking the baby who has no power to restrain the chicken, he loses his conscience.
The two said that Shen Shichu was going to make dinner, and Zhao got up to go home.
Zhang got up and went to the kitchen to cook.
Lilac sat by the stove and watched Zhang's busy.
Steamed two-rice noodle steamed buns, bacon and radish soup, fried tofu with garlic sprouts. There is half a pound of bacon, and everyone can eat a few slices today.
I also used a small clay pot to boil half a jar of minced meat and rice porridge for cloves. The minced meat is bacon, and the aroma of rice soup is very fragrant.
After the bacon was cooked, Zhang scooped it up and cut half a slice of oily and shiny fat meat and stuffed it into the mouth of the cloves, which was so fragrant that the cloves were reluctant to swallow it.
The small days of the farm are sweet and warm, and a little fat can be happy for a long time.
The sun is falling in the west, the sky is full of colorful clouds, and Lilac runs to the door of her house to wait for her grandfather, father, and brother to come home.
Kuroko squatted down next to her.
This is what she and Kuroko do every day, and there was a Ding Liren before.
Zhang took a cotton cloak and put it on her.
At this time, it was the end of the day, and the villagers carried farm tools back to the village in twos and threes, and Lilac greeted them loudly.
"Grandpa Li."
"Second Uncle Xia."
"Grandma Xia San."
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Lilac doesn't leave the house often and doesn't know many people, but almost everyone she knows likes her. I think she laughs when she sees people, and she is indeed beautiful and likable, much better than the domineering and smelly blacksmith.
The villagers happily talked to her:
"Xiangxiang came out to wait for grandpa again?"
"Xiangxiang will bring a big bowl tomorrow, and I will squeeze a bowl of milk and take it home and drink it slowly."
"Hehe, Xiangxiang is so smart, maybe she can really be Feng Suzhen in the future."
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"Well, I'm still waiting for my father and brother."
"Thank you, Aunt Xia."
"Hehe, grandpa is joking."
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After a while, four figures, two tall and two short, appeared in the glow at the entrance of the village.
Lilac staggered towards them.
Kuroko also shouted and trotted with the little master.
"Grandpa, Daddy, Big Brother, Second Brother."
The soft and glutinous children's voices are scattered in the evening breeze, extremely cheerful.
The villagers passing by stopped and smiled at the stumbling little figure.
Ding Zhuang took a few steps to pick her up, and threw it upwards, making Lilac giggle.