Life is leveling and fighting monsters

Chapter 8

Tomorrow is the New Year's Eve, and there are still many things to prepare. The sanitation grandma at home has finished cleaning the day before yesterday, and today it is mainly steamed and fried.

Grandma Chen is from Lianghu. She has been in northern Xinjiang for two years. She also follows the local customs and prepares to steam some sticky bean buns and steamed buns, as well as her hometown’s tofu balls, coir raincoat balls, steamed pork with rice flour and steamed pork ribs with rice flour.

There are even more things to fry, including fried dumplings with magnolia slices, fried fish cubes with meat and fruit, fried lotus root with fried radish balls...

Braised vegetables are a little simpler. After adjusting the marinade, put the beef, chicken, and the prepared lotus root, kelp, Qianzhang, etc. in order and cook them. Press them down every once in a while.

Before Grandma Chen finished naming the dish she was going to prepare, Zeng Xiao was drooling, and Rourou, who was standing hiddenly on Zeng Xiao's shoulder, was drooling even more.Zeng Xiao despised it in her heart: "Don't you elves only drink nectar and dew? If you don't eat these, why are you drooling!"

"But it sounds delicious!" Rourou begged, "Give me some later! Just a little bit!"

Zeng Xiao snickered in her heart: "Okay, you go ask the elves first if they can eat it!"

After breakfast, the grandfather and grandson got busy, washing vegetables, kneading noodles, steaming glutinous rice, and mincing meat fillings. They turned on the three stoves at the same time, steaming and cooking. When Mr. Chen came back from wandering around at noon, the yard The tempting aroma of vegetables is already wafting in!
The lunch on the table in the main room has already been set. This is a meal for the grandparents and grandchildren, so don't be careless!

The hot pot in the middle of the table cooks stewed pork ribs with lotus root, freshly baked steamed pork, a mixed brine platter, fried cabbage, and Grandma Chen’s special dish: sour and delicious steamed eel. Zeng Xiao really misses his hometown Chili, and I made a preserved egg chili by myself.

Rourou had been waiting next to him for a long time, and he didn't dare to eat the chili peppers. Zeng Xiao secretly fed him a bite of everything, and went back to sleep with satisfaction!
After lunch and cleaning the bowls, Mr. Chen said that he would take Zeng Xiao out for a stroll to digest food first, which made Grandma Chen laugh and directly expose her: "Are you going to show off your new granddaughter?"

The old man didn't argue with him, just gave her a blank look and took Zeng Xiao out.

It's the end of the year, and people who have been away from home have all come back. Every house is bustling, and everyone greets them warmly when they meet!

Mr. Chen happily introduced Zeng Xiao to his neighbors: "This is my granddaughter Xiaoxiao, who came to celebrate the New Year with us!" After the neighbor finished praising Zeng Xiao, he said "Where is that?" and walked to the next house in high spirits!

Zeng Xiaoying and Grandpa Chen said hello to others, but she couldn't help feeling sad. Grandpa Chen's only son died in the line of duty in the army 20 years ago. His newlywed wife had not had time to give birth to a boy and a half girls. Later, Grandma Chen asked her daughter-in-law to remarry. , leaving only the old couple struggling to survive.If my son’s comrades hadn’t come to find him, I don’t know what the situation would be like now!When we were just having dinner, Zeng Xiao accidentally mentioned her nickname, which made Grandma Chen think of her son’s childhood and became very sad!
Mr. Chen showed off and took Zeng Xiao back with satisfaction.Before I had gone far, there was a sudden noise in front of me, a group of people gathered in a circle, and there was also crying and cursing!Grandpa Chen quickly pulled Zeng Xiao and squeezed in!

At noon in the crowd, two men were holding down a young man in his early twenties, and a woman in her 50s or [-]s was crying and cursing loudly. The young man's black cotton coat was soaked by the melted snow, and he was lying on the ground struggling desperately!
Zeng Xiao watched for a while and roughly understood what happened: Sister-in-law Wu, a middle-aged woman, had just had lunch and went out to check the door. When she came back, she found that the 2 yuan hidden in the bedroom was missing. The neighbor who was playing at the door The child said that he just saw Lin Ziye coming out of Sister-in-law Wu's house. Sister-in-law Wu quickly called her husband and son to go out to look for Lin Ziye.Finally, he was held down here!

Lin Ziye shouted while struggling: "Which little brat said that I stole it? Although I am not a good person, I will never deny that I did it. If I didn't do it, don't try to frame it on me!"

Sister-in-law Wu blew her nose and cursed: "Who else is it if it's not you? You are the only one in the whole village who idles around all day and has never done any serious work! Why would a six or seven-year-old kid frame you? Why don't you frame someone else? indivual?"

Lin Ziye said angrily: "Call that little bastard over here to confront me! Is it the little bastard from Lin Laosan's family? Just now I passed by there and teased him a few words! Turn around and frame me! Lin Laosan ! Did you instigate it? I have no grievances with you, why did you kill me? You bastard!"

Zeng Xiao frowned. She felt that Lin Ziye was wronged, but she couldn't be sure!

She leaned close to Mr. Chen's ear and asked in a low voice: "Grandpa, what do you think is going on?"

Mr. Chen shook his head: "Although this Lin Ziye usually doesn't do his job properly and does nothing, he is still a principled person! It's not like he would do this!"

While he was talking, the crowd started to commotion again. A man in his 30s squeezed in with a little boy of six or seven years old. As soon as he came in, he cursed at Lin Ziye: "Why am I wronging you when I have nothing to do? You dare to do it but don't admit it." You bastard!" He turned to the little boy and said, "Don't be afraid, just say whatever you see! As long as I'm here, no one can do anything to you!"

The little boy was so frightened that his face turned red and he trembled slightly. He turned around and hugged his adult's legs, not daring to raise his head.

Sister-in-law Wu cried loudly: "You are a murderer! I have stolen half of my hard-earned money for half a year, and my life will be wasted if you steal it!" As soon as she finished speaking, a line of words appeared above Sister-in-law Wu's head: "Help Sister-in-law Wu find it back." 2 yuan, you will get 3000 points upon completion.”

Zeng Xiao's eyes widened, 3000 points! ! !
She looked at the trembling little boy, and asked Mr. Chen for advice in a low voice: "In your opinion, who got the money?"

Mr. Chen pinched the short beard on his chin, pouted his mouth in the direction of the little boy: "I'm going to ask that little bastard!"

Zeng Xiao had a plan and secretly took out the chicken feather token arrow from the space sticker. Following the prompts, she focused on the little boy and said to herself: Tell me where the 2 yuan is!After reciting it for the third time, the chicken feather arrow in his hand turned into a golden light, flew towards the boy, and disappeared directly into the little boy's body!
Zeng Xiao looked around nervously, as if no one had noticed the golden light, she secretly breathed a sigh of relief!

A group of people were quarreling fiercely. The little boy suddenly raised his head and shouted: "I took the money, and I hid it in the snowdrift behind my house!"

For a while, the audience was silent!

"What nonsense are you talking about! How dare you say it again!" Lin Laosan slapped his son on the head.

"I took it! I was afraid that others would find it, so I just said it was Uncle Ye who took it and I hid it in the snowdrift!" The little boy covered his mouth in horror, but he still couldn't help shouting!
"What are you still arguing about? We'll find out if we go over and take a look! Let me go quickly!" Lin Ziye, who was still lying on the ground, roared!
So, a large group of people followed to watch the fun!Sure enough, Lin Laosan took out the 2 yuan from the snowdrift behind his house!

Zeng Xiao happily listened to Rourou's report on the latest points progress: 3000 points + the previous 836 points + the 272 points obtained by helping Grandma Chen in the morning. Now the total is 4108 points!
She breathed a sigh of relief, she only needs more than 800 points, and there is no pressure at all!

(End of this chapter)