When he got home, there was no one at home, so Haizhu led a group of children to buy chickens on the street, and also bought tofu and sea vegetables.

"Third aunt, this thing is very simple, in addition to grasping the heat, it is necessary to pay attention to the amount of these spices, don't put too much, the more the braised soup, the heavier the braised taste, the heavier the braised flavor will press away the umami of the sea vegetables, and the tofu skin and tofu low are heavy and not delicious without the bean fragrance." When Haizhu arrived home, she took her third aunt, who was two years older than her, in the kitchen to teach her how to cook braised vegetables, and taught her little by little.

Bei Niang was a little at a loss, she pointed to her mouth, meaning that she couldn't speak.

"It's okay, don't be afraid, we have a lot of money in our family, as long as you are willing to spend money, there are more people who are willing to help you shout." Haizhu said with a smile, "If you can't speak, it won't matter, three yuan a piece of bean skin, ten yuan a pound of sea vegetables, five yuan a piece of tofu, and your fingers can be compared." ”

"Third aunt, you hire me to help, and I will have the strength to shout if you give money." Dongzhu shouted in the courtyard.

"Me, me, me!" Shiohei raised his hand, "I will too." ”

"It's not good to say anything, you still stay at home honestly." Feng Ping pressed his little brother's head and said, "Third aunt, you might as well hire Chaoping as well, and I will settle the account." ”

Pingsheng looked left and right, and he leaned in front of Fengping and whispered to him: "Big brother, you teach me to settle accounts." ”

"If you take a bite of him, he will teach you." Dongzhu sneered, "He doesn't teach me." ”

Pingsheng pursed the little pig's mouth, and Feng Ping covered his mouth, "No, I'll teach you." ”

Chapter 103: Running away from home

In the middle of the night, Bei Niang was standing beside Haizhu to see how she made her face, and heard footsteps outside the door, followed by the sound of splashing water, She turned her head to take a look, and looked at Qi Laosan who probed into the kitchen.

"You're going back tomorrow morning, and you're going to bed early tonight." Grandma Qi stood under the eaves of her coat and spoke, "There is no hurry to make cakes, I won't learn it today or tomorrow." ”

Bei Niang gestured and asked Qi Laosan to go first, she wanted to watch Haizhu finish before leaving.

"I'll go over and boil the bath water first, and I'll pick you up when the water is hot." Qi Laosan tore off the cotton cloth for bathing from the rope and strode out first.

Haizhu sped up the action of mixing noodles and said to Bei Niang: "This kind of noodles is to be soft, you don't need to pay much attention to the side, it is to grasp the humidity, and you can try to make a pot of noodles tomorrow night." ”

Bei Niang hurriedly waved her hand, she couldn't do it, she would spoil the rice noodles.

"It's okay, I'll watch it for you, I won't lose my hand until you can't learn." Haizhu said patiently, Her third aunt looks like a timid and heartless person, and honest and diligent, in the face of such a person, she wants to bully her with a bad heart, and she can't help but want to help her if she has a good heart.

When the noodles were reconciled, she took the lid of the pot and covered the basin, cut the wick with scissors, and the candle flame was extinguished, and the kitchen was plunged into darkness.

"Let's go, I'll take you out." Haizhu pulled her a little, and when she walked to the courtyard, she could see the road when there was moonlight.

Bei Niang pointed to the door, and the person also walked out, walked out of the door and pointed to the wooden door, and asked Haizhu to lock the door from the inside.

Haizhu watched her walk to the next door, and then came the voice of her third uncle, she closed the door and locked it.

"Big sister?" Fengping shouted when he heard footsteps.

"It's me, hurry up and go to bed, and I'll get up early tomorrow morning to go to the beach to pry oysters." Haizhu entered her room with Dongzhu, the girl was already asleep, she gently closed the door and blew out the lamp, took off her clothes in the dark and lay down on the bed.

The courtyard here fell into a deep sleep, and the night in the next yard had just begun.

In the middle of the night, the cat who came out to catch the rat jumped on the courtyard wall when he heard the sound, not the creaking sound of the mouse gnawing on the wood, it climbed down the courtyard wall and left.

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"There is no water in the water tank, hasn't my third uncle come back with water this morning?" Dongzhu bent down to look at the water tank, the water in the water tank had bottomed out, and then saw that the wooden car and the bucket were at home, she was surprised: "My third uncle is no longer working?" ”

"Don't shout, he'll go fetch water after he eats." Grandma Qi hurriedly shouted, "There is water to drink and water to wash your face, you wash your face quickly, your sister is still waiting for you to pry the oysters." ”

When the two granddaughters went out with Fengping, Grandma Qi sent Chaoping to the next door to call the door.

As soon as Chaoping ran out of the door, the door next door opened, and he pointed to the third uncle who came out and laughed: "Third uncle, you are lying in bed." ”

He smiled at the man in the courtyard and said, "Chaoping, you are about to have a younger brother and sister." ”

Qi Laosan saw Chaoping looking behind him, he took the back of his head and led him into the house, saying, "Don't listen to his nonsense, he lied to the child." ”

When he entered the courtyard and saw that Haizhu and Dongzhu were not there, he went to the firewood room and took out the commode and basin into his second brother's house, and cleaned up the two nieces before they returned.

Bei Niang came to see that she was not needed for cooking, so she came out with leeks and sat in the yard to cut leeks quietly. Shiohei looked at her curiously, and she smiled at him from time to time.

When the ridge of the roof was covered with the sun's rays, Haizhu and Dongzhu came back with bamboo baskets, and when they entered the door, they saw the quiet person cutting leeks and calling out to the third aunt one after another.

Bei Niang raised her head and smiled at the two eldest nieces, she couldn't speak, and she could only respond with a smile.

"Let's eat first, and then get busy after eating." Grandma Qi came out with red date porridge, and the dish was scrambled eggs with leeks, one boiled egg per person.

Dongzhu glanced at her third uncle a few times, remembering what her sister had instructed, she didn't ask anything.

Qi Laosan breathed a sigh of relief, beckoned Bei Niang to sit beside him, and asked, "Haizhu, how is the situation at sea?" Can you go out and cast a net to catch fish? ”

"It should be possible, the jellyfish are scattered, if you want to go out to fish first, wait, I will use your boat to go to the island to see the old turtles."

"Okay, I'll get someone to help carry the boat to the dock later." Qi Laosan has no opinion, "You use the boat in the morning, and I use it in the afternoon." Mother, I don't come back to eat with Bei Niang at noon. ”

Grandma Qi nodded, she didn't have to explain that she knew.

After the meal, the family went in three waves, Qi Laosan pushed a cart to fetch water, Qi Grandma went into the kitchen to wash dishes, except for Second Uncle Qi, the rest of the people were busy cutting and mixing stuffing, Bei Niang saw that she couldn't intervene in the stuffing, so she followed Fengping to clean up the things used in the stall.

When Qi Laosan came back from fetching water, he pushed the cart and took the group away, and Grandma Qi soaked the dirty clothes she had changed from last night in a basin, and took Chaoping to lock the door and go to Hongshi Village to pick up another grandson.

"Second brother, you sit in the yard for a while, and I'll push you out when I come back later." She said through the door.

"Okay, I'm not in a hurry."

The house was empty, and Second Uncle Qi first listened to Chaoping's voice and walked away step by step, and when he couldn't hear it, he picked up a small wooden hammer and beat his legs and shoulders.

The people passing by the door, the laughter of the children in the alley, the quarrels between men and women, the birds flying over the yard, he listened attentively and watched, and when he was usually alone, these were the good things he used to pass the time.

A cat skimmed up the wall lightly, it stared at the people sitting in the yard, tentatively jumped into the yard, step by step approached the basin by the wall, and saw that the people did not drive away and scold, it squatted over and licked the water.

A white cat, the cat hair is knotted, wisps by wisp, and there are a few fish scales on the tail, when it turns its head in the light, Qi Lao Er concludes that it is an ownerless cat, the two cats have different colors, and most people are very taboo.

"Mi-" he shouted.

The white cat looked at him, too vigilant to come closer, it circled the yard, and when it saw that there was nothing to eat, it climbed up the wall and went to the roof to lie on the dried seaweed to bask in the sun and sleep.

Second Uncle Qi pushed the bulky wheels of the car and turned around to look at the cat on the roof, and whenever someone passed by the door, it would open its eyes vigilantly.

As the sun grew hot, the white cat jumped off the roof to sleep in the shade under the eaves, and when it heard the sound of the doorknocker turning, it jumped up the courtyard wall and ran away.

Grandma Qi was so frightened by a white shadow that she let out an "oops", and before she could see what it was, the thing disappeared as soon as it slipped through the smoke. She opened the door and saw that the second child was okay, she breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "What did you run away from the yard just now?" ”

"Cat, a white cat."

"You didn't steal your mouth, did you?"

"No, I came and drank some water." Second Uncle Qi rubbed his eyes and asked, "Chaoping didn't come back?" ”

"Well, your sister-in-law stewed meat at noon, leave him there to eat." Grandma Qi pushed Second Uncle Qi out, locked the door and walked to the end of the alley, and the two went to the vegetable field.

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Before Qi Laosan went to his mother-in-law's house, he found a few people he knew to carry the boat to the dock, the home was too far from the sea, and he kept the boat in the house of acquaintances when the sea was forbidden.

Haizhu finished selling the cake and went to the dock to pick up the boat, she said hello to the guards at the pier and set sail directly to the island. She hadn't been out to sea for half a month, and when she floated on the sea again, she felt strange in her heart.

Two moments later, the fishing boats arrived on the island, the sentry pavilion on the island was gone, a pile of rotten wood had fallen on the beach, and the dock where the boats were moored showed signs of repair.

"Miss Qi, are you here to see the turtle?"

"yes, it's still there, right?" Haizhu jumped off the fishing boat and went straight to the direction of the sand pit in her memory.

"It's going down to the sea to hunt, and it's probably coming back soon, so you wait a minute."

Bubbles floated in the puddle under the reef, Haizhu brought a bamboo rake from the boat, she squatted on the edge of the reef to dig water, and dug out two palm-sized stone crabs from the puddle.

There was a faint sound of talking in the wind, Haizhu remembered Han Ji, and she asked the patrolling soldiers if Major General Han had come over recently.

"No, now the island is taken over by General Shen."

"He's on the island?" Haizhu stood up, she hadn't seen Shen Sui for some days.

The patrol soldiers took her into the island and said, "General Shen has always been on the island. ”

Haizhu went to see Shen Sui, and almost didn't recognize him when he saw someone, he looked like a beggar called Huazi, with a full beard, patched clothes, and his hair was dry like dry grass, and he tied a piece of cloth casually.

"You were exiled to the island?" She sighed, "Han Ji has lived on the island for half a year and hasn't become such a ghost, are you so close to home, or can't you go back from the island?" ”

"Don't mention it, I ran away from home." Shen Sui sat on the ground without paying attention to it, and motioned to Haizhu not to be polite, "You can sit casually." ”

Haizhu chose a stone to sit on and asked him what was going on.

"I was forced to get married, my mother took a fancy to a girl, I didn't want to marry, so I ran away from home, just on the island, it was windy and rainy, I didn't bring anything, my clothes were torn and cut and sewn on, and the hairpin was broken and I tied my hair with strips of cloth." Shen Sui stretched out his hand and asked Haizhu to borrow money, "My money has been cut off at home, and I am penniless now, just waiting for you and Han Ji to send it to the door first." ”

Haizhu: ......

She didn't have any money with her.

"I'll bring it to you later, do you want to take my boat back to the docks?"

Shen Sui shook his head, he was afraid that he would be tied up by his father if he went ashore, this is a military camp, his father can't land on the island without his order, just enough to let him hide for a while.

Haizhu pursed her lips, "Your father and mother are really dictatory." ”

"But no, I'm a human being and not a boar in a pen, so I'm going to let me out casually." It's rare for someone to understand him, Shen Sui poured out a stomach full of resentment, and finally told Haizhu to make a good meal and remember to send him a copy.

Chapter 104: Catching Shrimp at the Mouth of the Sea

Shen Sui sent Haizhu out of the island, pointed to the old turtle basking on the beach and said, "I'll take care of it for you, remember to come to see me more, and send me more food and drink." ”

The old turtle thought that Haizhu had come to fetch it out to sea, and it moved into the water with great flaws, and swam to the bottom of the boat.

Shen Sui: ......

Haizhu understood the meaning of the old turtle, she thought about it, and planned to take Shen Sui to swim around the bottom of the sea when she brought clothes over.

She raised the sails and turned the bow of the boat to leave, and the old turtle swam after the boat, and halfway through it realized that it was not in the right direction, and it hesitated for a moment, but still followed the boat.

"I knew you missed me." Haizhu stood at the stern of the boat quite contentedly, she looked at the sea in the distance, and forgot to ask the dolphins about their whereabouts, I don't know if they have moved.

Before the fishing boat approached the wharf, she saw that the entrance to the sea was very lively, and the people on the shore were all carrying sackcloth in that direction.

Haizhu plucked the sails and took the old turtle to join in the fun.

"Auntie, what are you arresting?" She asked the people on the shore.

"There was a big bunch of shrimp in the river, and I don't know what day they swam over." The eldest lady hurriedly put down the next sentence, tied her hair tightly, and jumped into the river with a burlap bag.

People at the beach know how to swim, and they are good at swimming, as long as there is no undercurrent under the sea, it is still easy to swim with their heads on the water. Haizhu looked at the swarthy heads on the water, she took a look around the boat, took the bamboo basket by the rotten basket and jumped off the boat.