Chapter 9 Multigrain steamed buns

After checking these newly collected items and arranging the use of the talisman jade pendant and spirit stone, Qu Qingge packed the remaining things into her newly poured wooden box, looking at the words 'wooden box 9/9' displayed in the system backpack, and felt a burst of satisfaction.

As early as in the morning, when Qu Qingge was alone, she watered the 'Infinite Growth Wooden Box' with water again, and made seven wooden boxes out again.

Because the backpack position of the system was not enough, she couldn't explain what was going on with the wooden box that suddenly appeared at home, so Qu Qingge simply made up just enough nine wooden boxes for the backpack limit, and stopped watering it.

There are now new wooden chests for newly collected items.

When the family came back in the evening, they had a meal mixed with spiritual water, Qu Qingge knew from the small talk of the family that when they were working in the field today, they had been sweating a lot, sweating almost twice as much as usual, and their clothes were soaked.

But when they worked, they became more and more energetic, as if they had eaten something great, and their bodies were full of strength, and they were not tired at all after doing so much work today, which was really incomprehensible.

When they were discussing, Qu Qingge kept her heart on her and didn't dare to speak, for fear that they would focus on her and then associate something.

Fortunately, the peasant family is simple-minded and does not have much knowledge, but they just thought that the sun was big today and the air was a little humid, so that they didn't think of anything else.

Seeing that Qu Qingge was just burying her head in the rice and not speaking, she thought that she was tired of playing today and was hungry.

Grandpa Qu and Grandma Qu saw that her baby granddaughter was hungry into that pitiful little touch, and immediately put away the little thought in her heart, and stretched out her chopsticks to pick up the chicken wings and chicken legs of the big rooster she had just slaughtered today and put them in Qu Qingge's bowl, coaxing her to eat more and eat more slowly.

There is only a pair of wings and a pair of legs on a chicken, and no one else may be able to eat it, so Qu Qingge has two alone.

But who said that she was the most favored in the Qu family, she was the meat of the old man and the old lady's heart, others did not dare to object, and they would not grab that bite with a three-year-old child, so in the end, the big chicken wings and big chicken legs went into Qu Qingge's little belly.

As a result of a binge meal, Qu Qingge was overwhelmed.

She collapsed her chubby little body on the bed, and Zhou Liniang gently rubbed her with her hands to help her digest.

"Mother~It's so uncomfortable~" Qu Qingge's two little paws hugged Zhou Liniang's hand that was rubbing her little belly, twisting her little brows, and muttering coquettishly.

She can't remember how long ago she was when she ate in her last life, it seems that she is at this age, and it seems that she has never had one, but she remembers that since she and her father practiced martial arts, she has been very restrained and has lived a very disciplined life.

She would sleep at night, get up at midnight, eat only eight minutes full at each meal, and insist on practicing martial arts for more than two hours every day at any time, and this life lasted for sixteen years from the time she was six years old, until the moment of her death.

Zhou Liniang looked at Qu Qingge lying on the bed humming and chirping funny, not fair-skinned, but her slender and beautiful fingertips tapped Qu Qingge's little nose, and said with a smile: "You deserve it, who told you to be greedy and eat so much." ”

"Mother~You're still laughing~" Qu Qingge was annoyed and angry, and pulled her mother to be coquettish.

In this life, I can once again be coquettish in the arms of my living mother, which is enough to make people addicted.

"Okay, good~ Mother won't laugh at you, it's not early, Meow'er should go to sleep. Zhou Liniang chuckled and comforted, looking at the young girl's eyes so soft that water could drip out.

Meow'er wants to punish you, Meow'er wants to listen to her mother sing to me, so she will punish her mother for singing music, and Meow'er sleeps. ”

Qu Qingge seemed to be willful and demanding, but her voice was delicate and tender, like a little milk cat who was spoiled, seeing her beloved young girl like this, how could Zhou Liniang not rely on her.

"Okay, it's all up to you, my mother sings music to Meow'er, Meow'er has to sleep obediently~"

Zhou Liniang washed Qu Qingge's feet, wiped her face again, and then put her down on the bed, covered her with the futon, stretched out her hand and patted it gently, and sang softly on her mouth:

"It's cloudy~ It's raining~ The water is gathering on the ground~ The fish are swimming in the water~ Grandparents are hoeing~ Hoe, hoe, hoe~ hoe to a treasure fish~ Grandma wants to eat salty, grandpa wants to eat sweet~ The two compete and smash the pot~"

With the big folk songs heard since she was a child, Qu Qingge gradually fell asleep, this is the first time since she joined the army that she fell asleep when someone was there, and once again felt the warmth of her mother.

For the next two days, Qu Qingge washed the marrow as usual when he was alone at home in the morning, added spiritual water to the kitchen tank, went out with his brothers to catch live animals to eat in the afternoon, used the collection technique by the way, collected props, went home and hid in his own room to check and use the newly acquired props, and fell asleep in his mother's arms at night.

In the rest of the time, Qu Qingge inexplicably had a sense of urgency in her heart, and she could only seize every opportunity to get along with her family and cherish the time before parting that might come in the near future.

In these two days, she also conducted five more collections, two failures and three successes.

Once again, I got five low-grade spirit stones, one medium-grade spirit stone, and five gold ingots, and no other special props.

This time, Qu Qingge did not hesitate, and fed all the spirit stones and the low-grade spirit stone she had left before to replenish the energy of the system, and she was really frightened by the system that consumed 1% of the energy in a day.

After deducting the energy consumed in these two days, plus the energy replenished, the remaining energy of the system is 54%.

So much energy is also thanks to that medium-grade spirit stone, a medium-grade spirit stone can replenish 50% of the energy, and it seems that the day when she will fill the system with energy is just around the corner.

She kept the gold as usual, or for that reason, she couldn't explain how she got so much money, and she couldn't take out the money now, so she could only wait for the opportunity to give it to her family or use it secretly for her family in the future.

At this time, Qu Qingge didn't know that this opportunity came so quickly.

After the busy farming period, Zhou Liniang should also prepare things and take her children back to her parents' house to save her relatives.

In the morning, before the hour came, she had already gotten up, and after washing, she went to the kitchen to prepare the family's breakfast in advance, and the dry food that the mother and son ate on the way.

Zhou Liniang prepared three adult men's fist-sized multigrain steamed buns for the three of them, and she took a knife to cut the steamed buns horizontally from the middle, two of which were sandwiched with half a fried egg and a small pile of pickles, which were wrapped in oiled paper, and the last steamed bun was just sandwiched with pickles.

Needless to say, the two steamed buns with eggs are for the children, and Zhou Liniang eats the pickled steamed buns by herself.

Qu Zhang's promise to let Zhou Liniang bring back to her parents' house two stones of grain and a basket of eggs, which are ready to be placed at the kitchen door, when Zhou Liniang leaves, she will bring them with her, and there is no need to ask her again.

Seeing that it was not early, Qu Qingzhen had already gotten up to wash and dress by himself, and Zhou Liniang also went back to the room to prepare to wash and dress Qu Qingge, but found that Qu Qingge had already woken up by himself and was putting clothes on himself.

Zhou Liniang couldn't help but purse her lips and chuckle chuckle: "My mother's meow grows up, and she will dress herself, so good~"

"Mother~" Qu Qingge turned her head when she heard the voice, and when she saw that it was her mother, she called softly.

She was still struggling to put clothes on herself, but she couldn't help it, her feet were short, her body was not very flexible, and she was in a hurry.

Seeing this, Zhou Liniang was afraid that her beloved daughter would be annoyed and embarrassed, so she took a few steps forward with the smile on the corner of her mouth, buttoned Qu Qingge's unworn buttons, and helped her close her clothes, tied a small belt, and tidied up a few more times, and helped Qu Qingge dress neatly.

Then she picked up Qu Qingge and asked her to stand on the bed, picked up the clean towel cloth on the side and soaked it in boiling warm water, wrung it out, wiped her face and hands, and washed it clean. The group of three people was neatly dressed and prepared, Qu Qingzhen had a kettle hanging around his neck, holding the dry food they ate on the road in his hand, and Zhou Liniang carried a flat shoulder, which contained two stones of grain and a basket of eggs.

Qu Qingge is still young, even if she has a lot of strength, Zhou Liniang is reluctant to let her take things, so she is empty-handed, as long as she takes herself.

After their mother went to the main house to say goodbye to Qu Zhang and Grandpa Qu, they went out and officially set off towards Qingshan Village.

Qingshan Village is halfway up the mountain, and to get there from Qujia Village, you need to go south, walk for a quarter of an hour on the grassy path after leaving the village, and then go to the bottom of the mountain.

There is a mountain road that people have walked out of the mountain for many years, and you can reach Qingshan Village by walking along this road, but after all, no one has specially leveled this mountain and forest path, and it is still rugged, and people who are not familiar with the mountain road will walk extremely difficult.

After they go up the mountain, they need to walk a rugged mountain road for half an hour at the fastest to reach Qingshan Village.

"Mother, sister, the child is exploring the way ahead, you should be careful. ”

Along the way, Qu Qingzhen walked at the forefront, holding a thin long wooden stick in his hand, and from time to time he explored the way, scaring away the small animals, snakes, insects, rats and ants along the way, preventing them from suddenly jumping out and disturbing or hurting his mother and sister behind him.

"Hey~!" Zhou Liniang should arrive, even if the burden on her body was very heavy and made her sweat profusely, she still couldn't help showing a comfortable smile on her face, and she was sensible and filial to her children.

When Zhou Liniang was in Qujia Village, she still felt that the flat burden on her shoulders was very heavy, but as soon as she entered the uninhabited grass path, she felt that the burden on her shoulders was much lighter, and she couldn't help but look behind her.

Sure enough, Qu Qingge was holding her small hand to help her support the food basket.

Qu Qingge's innate divine power Zhou Liniang is the most aware of it as her mother, but she is too young after all, Zhou Liniang can't bear her to help carry too heavy things, worried about crushing her small body, and can't help frowning and saying:

"Meow'er, don't do it, I'm worried about pressing you, my mother can do it herself. ”

"Meow'er wants to help her mother support her, and her mother can rest assured, Meow'er will stretch out her hand and won't press me. Qu Qingge obediently said words of comfort to her mother, but her hands were still firmly helping her mother hold the heavy basket.

Zhou Liniang saw that Qu Qingge's attitude was firm and she didn't say anything, but she grabbed the rope on the burden and silently raised the burden higher.

Knowing her daughter Mo Ruomu, although Qu Qingge has been looking a little well-behaved recently, her temperament itself has a stubbornness, and generally as long as she insists on something, no one can change it.

Knowing that she loves women, Zhou Liniang simply stopped persuading, it was useless to say it, it was better to pay attention to it first, children are uncertain, and when she is tired and her hands are sore, she will naturally let go.

But along the way, no matter how rugged the road is, no matter how difficult the road is, Zhou Liniang is sweating and panting.

Qu Qingge in front was already tired and a little dying, but he still insisted on burying his head in the front, leading the way for them in front, wanting to protect his mother and sister behind him;

Zhou Liniang suddenly felt a burst of pride, proud to have such a pair of outstanding and filial children.

When they had walked about half the way, a rudimentary mountain pavilion appeared in front of them, covered with wood and thatch, with a rough stone table and a few stone chairs for passers-by to rest.

Zhou Liniang took her children to the pavilion to rest for a while, she let Qu Qingge and Qu Qingzhen walk away a little, she slowly put down the burden on her shoulders, and when she straightened her waist and moved her shoulders, she felt that the whole person seemed to come to life, and she was indescribably relaxed.

Zhou Liniang rubbed her sore shoulders by herself, and took her children to sit on the stone chair, she asked Qu Qingzhen to take out the dry food of the three people, and handed the steamed buns with eggs to her son and daughter, she ate the pickled steamed buns herself, and the three of them ate the steamed buns with the kettle they carried.

Qu Qingge pretended to be hungry, but actually used the fast eating method he had trained from the military camp in his previous life to devour half of the steamed bun, poured a large mouthful of water, and then pushed the remaining half of the steamed bun in front of Zhou Liniang.

"Mother~I can't eat it~!" Qu Qingge pouted and said coquettishly.

"You~ How can you eat more? If you don't eat, but you won't grow tall~" Zhou Liniang intended to coax Qu Qingge to eat a little more.

"But I just can't eat it, Meow'er's stomach is bulging, what can I do. Qu Qingge pulled Zhou Liniang's sleeve unobtrusively, twisting her bones like candy.

"If you can't eat it, put it down. Zhou Liniang reached out and touched Qu Qingge's little belly, and when she saw that it was really bulging, she sighed helplessly, and agreed that she would not eat it anymore.

In order to get to Qingshan Village early, they didn't eat breakfast, Zhou Liniang also carried a heavy burden and rushed all the way, even if Qu Qingge helped reduce some weight, this way, she was hungry enough, and after eating her pickled steamed buns, she also picked up the leftover steamed buns eaten by her daughter, and she didn't dislike it. Just eat it.

As soon as she took a bite, Zhou Liniang's puzzled eyes swept towards Qu Qingge, and she didn't know if it was a coincidence or intentionality, almost half of the eggs were left in Qu Qingge's remaining half of the steamed buns.

However, Qu Qingge had already run outside the pavilion by himself, squatting down, playing with the flowers on the side of the road, with the innocence of a playful child.

Isn't it a coincidence? Why are your children still suspicious?

Zhou Liniang laughed at herself in her heart, and then put aside the strange idea in her heart, and ate the half of the delicious egg steamed bun in her hand again.

When Zhou Liniang looked away, Qu Qingge seemed to be in a way, but in fact, her tense back really relaxed, she exhaled carefully, and patted her chest with her little hand in her heart...... It's scary~!

After eating the steamed buns, the three of them rested for another quarter of an hour, and then got up and continued on their way.

The next song was very peaceful, obediently following Zhou Liniang, helping her to support the heavy basket, in fact, this idea is nothing to her, even if she is allowed to take all the way, but I am afraid that Zhou Liniang will really suspect something at that time.

Qu Qingge couldn't help but feel a little bored, since she was reborn, whenever she wanted to do something for her family, she was hindered by her young age, and she couldn't help openly, and she needed to hide, and she had to prevent her identity from being suspected, which was also quite tiring.

Obviously, it was only a little more than half an hour away, because there were two more children, Zhou Liniang took them almost until almost noon, and only arrived at Qingshan Village when the sun was shining.

From afar, I saw a huge stone tablet standing at the entrance of the village, with the three characters of Qingshan Village written on it, simple and heavy, interpreting the folk customs of this village.

"Isn't this Li Niang? Why did you come back to your mother's house?" They happened to meet a short, slightly chubby woman at the entrance of the village, maybe the head of the mountain family is stronger, this woman's flesh looks like **, very thick, the woman saw them, and came up to ask with a smile on her face.

"Didn't my sister-in-law give birth to a big fat boy, my aunt asked my eldest brother to send me a letter and let me come back and see. Zhou Liniang smiled and replied.

"Your mother-in-law is really open-minded, and she can let you bring so many things back to your mother's house, this is rice grain, right? I haven't seen such fine grain for a long time. The woman wanted to grab a handful as she spoke, but Zhou Liniang inadvertently avoided her.

She was not embarrassed, she wanted to stretch out her hand to Qu Qingge again, but Qu Qingge pretended to be afraid of life, hid behind her mother and dodged, but before she even turned to reach out to Qu Qingge's little face with baby fat.

Qu Qingzhen was honest, and he didn't know what this elder wanted to do, so he didn't dodge in time and was caught.

The big rough and thick hand pinched the delicate little face and ravaged it, and the woman still had a smile on her face, and said, "This is your eldest son, he is so handsome, just a little worse than my dog." ”

Where did Qu Qingzhen suffer this kind of thing, he was hurt for a while, and his eyes were teary-eyed, but the respected elders who followed the master's teachings could only struggle slightly, and they didn't dare to resist too much.

Qu Qingge frowned, and suddenly rushed up like a small cannonball, knocking down the woman headlong, and shouted loudly: "Don't bully my brother!"

I saw that the woman let out a scream like killing a pig, and immediately fell to the ground and wailed and cursed:

"It hurts...... I hurt my old lady to death, you little girl who killed a thousand knives, lost money and goods, and actually dared to hit the old lady! It's unreasonable, the junior still dares to contradict the elders, why is this kid so fierce! No one will dare to ask for it in the future!"

"Aunt Wang, I'm sorry, the child is still young and ignorant, you are an elder, don't be like her. She thought for a moment that you were bullying her brother, so she would accidentally hurt you, this is for her brother, the child loves his brother, even if the way is not right, the starting point is good, but I can't afford your slander!"

Zhou Liniang frowned, and when she opened her mouth, she stabbed back with a bunch of soft knives, this Aunt Wang has really been annoying for more than ten years, but she can scold her, but she can't scold her child.

A mother who insults her child in front of her is something that everyone will blow up.

"I said Wang Er's family, you are doing it everywhere like a-stirring stick all day long, is it interesting? Now you are still bullying a three-year-old doll, you have no face?"

"If you are greedy for food, you still bully the children, and you deserve to be knocked down by a doll! ”

"That's it, I said Wang's second daughter-in-law, hurry up and go home, don't make a fuss here, don't say it without face, delay making lunch, be careful that your man will whip you again!"

The people in Qingshan Village seem to know a little bit about this Wang Er's family, and they know what kind of character she is, and when they saw Zhou Liniang standing at the entrance of the village with two young children in a thin posture, they suddenly had a bias in their hearts.

Pity and sympathize with them, the mother and son were entangled in a troublemaker, but they were afraid of being troubled afterwards, so everyone was planning and didn't dare to squeak, and now there is the first person to take the lead and help, and the others have also helped to persuade them.

As soon as the second Wang family heard the old lady of the Zhou family, she paused, and then heard her own man, thinking that it was really not early now, and if she didn't go back to cook, she really had to be cleaned up, so frightened that she quickly got up and hurried back.

When everyone saw her movements so neat, they suddenly thought that she screamed so badly just now, she couldn't be trying to slander people, right?

Suddenly, the impression of her was lowered by a degree, this person usually has a little advantage in this village, and he actually stretched out his hand to the married girl outside the village.

Is...... Throwing all the faces of Qingshan Village to other villages, how can it not be disgusting.

When Qu Qingge thought that this was the end of the matter and wanted to jump out of bed to go to her eldest brother's house to have a look, Zhou Liniang hugged her tightly and asked softly: "Meow'er, don't be in a hurry to run, my mother will tie two pigtails for Meow'er, and dress up our meow'er to see her grandmother beautifully, okay?"

"Okay, then my mother wants to help me tie it better. "At her mother's request, Qu Qingge is omnipotent, not to mention the trivial matter of tying a braid, so she deliberately behaved very happily to make her mother happy.

"Got it, you little stinky beauty~" Zhou Liniang affectionately hooked Qu Qingge's little nose and said with a smile.

She took a wooden comb and straightened Qu Qingge's hair for her, then evenly separated the two sides, tied up the two ponytails in unison, and then flexibly intertwined them with her bare hands, turning the two ponytails into neat braids, and the two sides were circled into a ring of sideburns, which were fixed with red headbands, and a beautiful and lovely double sideburns was completed.

Qu Qingge shook her head, feeling the two sideburns also swaying with her shaking, to be honest, she was still a little unaccustomed.

After the family was rich in the previous life, Qu Qiaoshan made a lot of war money during the war, and Zhou Liniang was willing to spend money on her children, so her clothes and jewelry were not lacking, and even because of the favor of her elders, she had a lot more valuable jewelry than others.

There is no shortage of head and face ornaments, and even her jewelry is so much that she can wear it for a month without duplication, and there is no jealousy factor in the exclusion of those noble ladies at the beginning.

So before the big change, Qu Qingge can be said to have enjoyed all the glory and wealth, what delicate and beautiful hair accessories have not been worn, what complicated and gorgeous sideburns have not been combed, but after joining the army, she no longer dresses up as a woman, but wears a Taoist sideburns or a ponytail all the year round, which is simple and convenient.

Outsiders only say that the Qu family has a female general, brave and good at fighting, even winning battles, ranking as a third-grade general, supporting the defeated Qu family with his own strength, revitalizing the glory of the family, holding great power, and unlimited scenery.

They only saw her on the surface, but they didn't know what she had sacrificed for it.