The dead husband is back

After Liang Xiaocai arrived home, he didn't bring Guan Caiyi into the house immediately.Although he felt that it would not be a big problem to stay in the house for a while, and it was not convenient to leave, but Guan Caiyi didn't think so.She may subconsciously feel that her son is not considered a member of the Huo family, so she can't make up her own mind on the matter of "bringing more people to the family".So Liang Xiaocai entered the room first, and called out directly: "Mother, I'm back. Have you rested yet?"

Li Shunlian is still asleep.Ordinarily, it is reasonable for her to go to her in-laws' home for the funeral.But she was blind, and going there would only be of no help, so she didn't go.But the person didn't go, but he was still thinking about it. When he heard that his daughter-in-law came back, he hurriedly walked out of the house: "Nothing. Xiaoyin, why did you come back so late at night? Is there someone to see you off?" ?”

Liang Xiaocai said: "Yes. My aunt sent me here. I thought about coming back tomorrow, but I miss you, so I came back earlier."

Li Shunlian breathed a sigh of relief: "Oh, it's better if someone is with you. Next time, don't dare to walk at night." After a pause: "By the way, Xiaoyin, where is your aunt?"

Liang Xiaocai said, "I'll call her."

Only then did Guan Caiyi enter the house.Li Shunlian was older than her, she said: "It's so late at night, please forgive my sister in law."

Li Shunlian was kind-hearted, and said: "What is this talking about. Come on, have you sat down? Xiaoyin, please sit down quickly for your aunt, and pour her a bowl of hot water to drink. It's cold outside at night."

In the past, Liang Xiaocai would speak up for Guan Caiyi when he occasionally mentioned about the Liang family. He said that his aunt did not intend to be his aunt, but was just deceived by Master Liang.So Li Shunlian has a good impression of Guan Caiyi, unlike the people in the town who disdain Guan Caiyi.

Guan Caiyi sat down and said, "Sister-in-law, you are too polite."

Li Shunlian said: "It should be." After finishing speaking, she asked: "Xiaoyin, everything is done at home? How is your mother-in-law?"

Liang Xiaocai said: "It's almost done. My uncle took me... and my mother away." After a pause, "Mother, I have something I want to discuss with you. Do you think it's okay?"

Li Shunlian said: "Success. You say it."

Liang Xiaocai said: "It's too late, I don't worry about letting my aunt go back alone, is it okay to let her stay here for one night?"

Li Shunlian said: "Is there anything negotiable about it? Of course it's fine. As long as she doesn't dislike it, she can stay as long as she wants. Otherwise, I don't feel at ease if she goes back alone so late."

Liang Xiaocai said, "Thank you, mother."

Li Shunlian said: "It's the right thing to be polite."

Guan Caiyi had never seen such a kind person as Li Shunlian, and she almost cried just because she was asked to stay.It was because of Liang Xiao's interruption that she didn't cry.

Li Shunlian was also worried that Guan Caiyi might not be used to living in this poor rural place, how could she know that Guan Caiyi's life in Liang's house was not as good as here.At least the kang here is warm, although there are only big kangs.

Li Shunlian said: "I don't know when you will come back, Xiaoyin, but Yongsheng's mother just helped to burn down my house. But it's okay, this house is bigger, and the three of us can live in it."

Guan Caiyi looked at Liang Xiaocai.Liang Xiaocai shook his head with a smile, indicating that he didn't care.

So that night, the three of them crowded together on a kang.

The next day, Guan Caiyi woke up before Liang Xiaocai and Li Shunlian woke up.She got off the ground quietly, and was really not used to it for a while.The main reason is that she hasn't slept in a warm place for a long time, and she fell asleep so suddenly, and when she woke up early, her throat was still a little dry and itchy.She went to drink a sip of water and felt better, and then began to consider whether to light the fire or wait.

If it was at Liang's house at this time, the water should have been collected and the firewood chopped.I don't know how she can help here.Although she has more than 20 taels, she feels that she cannot be lazy.If possible, she still hopes that her son will marry a wife and have children in the future.

Just as they were thinking wildly, Li Shunlian and Liang Xiaocai also woke up.After they put on their clothes, Liang Xiaocai said, "Mother, please slow down. I'll go out to light the fire first."

Li Shunlian responded.Liang Xiaocai went outside again and said, "Auntie, you sit down too. You can talk to my mother."

Guan Caiyi didn't feel too uncomfortable with the "Auntie", because she was used to it when Liang Xiaocai was at Liang's house earlier.Xiong Jinping deliberately made her uncomfortable, so her son was not allowed to call her "Mother" in public, and often called "Auntie".And when she thought of seeing her son often in the future, she became bearish about these names.

"I'd better do something," she said.

Liang Xiaocai thought: "Then let's make some porridge. In the morning, let's have some porridge and steam some steamed buns. By the way, I have to go to Mrs. Zhang's house to see if I can borrow some noodles, and thank them by the way."

In ancient times, many families had face primers.This thing is also called "old noodles". To put it bluntly, it is a piece of old noodles left over from the last steamed noodles.There are a lot of yeast in the old noodles, and when they are mixed together to make new steamed buns, it will be easier to leaven the dough. The most amazing thing is that the steamed buns will not harden after cooling.It's just that he has been to the Liang family for ten days, and the family's old noodles are probably useless.

Guan Caiyi said, "Then I'll go get some firewood first."

Liang Xiaocai went to get a piece of fabric and a small box of snacks that he bought yesterday after finishing the Heli business and went out.Guan Caiyi carried some firewood into the house in the cowshed, and Liang Xiaocai yelled through the fence: "Aunt Zhang, are you up?"

Smoke was starting to rise from the chimney, it must have been.Sure enough, Aunt Zhang came out after a while: "Oh, Xiaoyin, you're back."

Liang Xiaocai handed things over: "I'm back. I brought you a piece of material and a box of snacks. Please take care of my mother these days. Thank you, Mrs. Zhang."

Aunt Zhang said: "Your children are all neighbors, so why are you being so polite?"

Liang Xiaocai pushed forward again: "Just put it away, or I won't bother you if I have something to do next time. I have something else I want to tell you right now."

Aunt Zhang took the things: "Then I won't be polite to you. What do you have to say."

Liang Xiaocai said, "I want to borrow some noodles from you. I haven't returned for a few days, and I don't have any noodles for steamed buns in the morning."

Aunt Zhang said: "What are you borrowing, I'll get you some." After finishing speaking, she patted the ingredients and snacks: "Wait for me, right away."

Liang Xiaocai smiled very lightly.He found it hard to look sad, too.He is a very casual person, and he rarely takes bad things to heart, so the emotion of "sadness" is almost non-existent.But after all, it was said that his eldest brother had just died, so it would be unreasonable to smile too brightly.

After a while, Aunt Zhang came out with a face-to-face introduction.Liang Xiaocai thanked him, and at this moment Aunt Zhang said: "By the way, Xiaoyin, who was that person carrying firewood into the house just now?"

Li Shunlian was blind and hadn't worked for a long time, but when the man entered, his steps were steady and fast, and he was thinner than Li Shunlian, so it wasn't her at first glance.

Liang Xiaocai said: "Oh, she is my aunt. My mother was sick and bedridden, so my uncle took her to her natal family because of worry. It is always inconvenient for my aunt to go with me, and my uncle is also not worried about me. Here alone, she came with me. In this way, she can help me a bit here, without having to go to my uncle’s house. As you can see, I haven’t grown much in the past few years. thing."

Although the original body was quite capable of work, he had never planted land in the town and had no experience, so the first three years were spent on land reclamation.

Aunt Zhang nodded: "So that's what happened. From then on, we will be neighbors. Well, then I will go to work, and you can go too."

Zhang Xiaocai nodded, and took the introduction to Guan Caiyi.The main reason is that he can't compare with Guan Caiyi's skill in making steamed buns, so he is not polite.

The two mothers worked together to light the fire, cook porridge, steam steamed buns, and then add some pickles. Although it was not rich, it was warm.

Guan Caiyi couldn't remember how long it had been since she had a hot breakfast, and it felt a bit like a dream after eating.It wasn't until I saw that the bowls were different from Liang's when I was doing the dishes, that I suddenly realized that this was reality.

At this time, Liang Xiaocai took Li Shunlian outside to get a breath of fresh air and mention the house by the way.

"Mother, I think Liu Tiegun's family seems to have a vacant house. You said if I want to rent it out, how much should I pay for a year?" Liang Xiaocai asked Li Shunlian.Originally, he wanted to ask her directly if Guan Caiyi could live with them, but then he thought, if Li Shunlian didn't want to, it would be embarrassing for both sides.

"The small room next to Liu Tiegun's house? It's about the same for five or six hundred Wen a year. What do you do?"

"My mother is sick, so she was picked up by my uncle. My aunt couldn't go to my uncle's house, so she reconciled with my father. She had nowhere to go alone, so I didn't feel relieved, so I asked her to go to my uncle's house. I'm back. I'm thinking of renting the house of Liu Tiegun's house to my aunt. It's not too far away from us, and we can take care of each other."

"That's it." Li Shunlian thought for a while, "Actually, according to me, if your aunt doesn't dislike her, she can just live in our house. You see, it's not safe for her to go outside as a woman. Besides, Liu Tie The small house in his house has not been lived in for a long time, and I have to clean it up when I go there. Adding the rent, it’s worth at least a tael of silver, so why spend that money for nothing.”

"That's true. If you say that, mother, I will let my aunt live in our house. She can still help me take care of you, so I can rest assured when I go out to work." Liang Xiaocai said, "Don't worry, she can't stay here Our family eats and lives for free."

"Hey, if you want to say this, you are scolding your mother. You say that I am an old woman who has no money and is blind. If it were not for you, would I still be alive today? So as long as you are happy, she can live here I have nothing to say here, mother. I have many companions when she comes, otherwise mother will be lonely when you go out."

Liang Xiaocai boasted in his heart: You old lady is very capable!

Then he helped the old lady under the eaves, and brought her a small mat to bask in the sun.

Liang Xiaocai probably stayed at Liang's house for eight to nine days, which didn't sound long, but the weather was much warmer than when he left.At least for now, it's really freezing people, not freezing water, and the ground can be overturned.Seeing that Guan Caiyi had collected everything he had eaten, he told her about the old lady's thoughts, and then went to the backyard to dig the ground and make a new plan.

Originally, he wanted to catch sparrows and sell them, but after thinking about it carefully, he had to go out to sell them at night, and it couldn't be now.Liang Dafu had just died, and Xiong Guangshan and the others probably hadn't gone back yet, so it would be a problem for him to sell things now if he encountered a problem.And if you want to sell the roasted mahjong and sell it at a high price, you must not put it in a paper bag like Guan Caiyi used to take the roasted mahjong with you, the taste is incomparable to the freshly made one.

He figured he'd have to figure out a way to sell something else first.

So for three days in a row, Liang Xiaocai didn't go out.He gets up early every morning to light the fire, sweep the yard, and dig the ground.As for the work of cooking and washing clothes, it has fallen to Guan Caiyi, because she can't be idle, and she is indeed better at cooking and washing clothes.

Then on the fourth day, there was only enough rice in the rice jar to make porridge for two times, so Liang Xiaocai took the ox cart of neighbor Aunt Zhang's family and went to the town together.She went to buy rice, noodles, oil, eggs, sesame seeds, some seasonings and so on.Especially noodles and sugar are bought more.Afterwards, he went to buy some bowls and chopsticks, and the total cost was about [-] Wen.If it wasn't for Zhang's ox cart, he wouldn't be able to take it all at once.

It was the first time Aunt Zhang saw her buying so many things at once, and she had taken her ox cart to the town before, but they bought relatively few things, so she asked curiously: "Xiaoyin, why did you buy so much this time?" many?"

Liang Xiaocai said: "Isn't it about to start planting crops? There are less time to go out, so I buy more at a time. This year I have to plant a variety of land, but it can't be like previous years."

Aunt Zhang said: "That's true. But you are so diligent, the more you plant, the better. I found that you have gone back to your mother's house this time, and you have thought about it for a long time when you come back."

Liang Xiaocai remained silent.I silently reflected on whether what I said recently was a bit too much.When Aunt Zhang saw that he was silent, she thought he was sad, so she quickly closed her mouth.

The bullock cart wobbled, as if walking very slowly.But Liang Xiaocai was thinking about things in his heart, chatting with Zhang's family from time to time, and when he realized it, he was home.At this time the sun had not yet set, and Guan Caiyi was preparing to light the fire.

Liang Xiaocai saw that he was in good time, so he said to Guan Caiyi, "Auntie, don't rush to start the fire. I want to fry something later."

Guan Caiyi asked, "What is fried?"

Liang Xiaocai said: "Small fruit. I heard people say it was delicious when I was buying noodles today. I want to fry some and try it."

When Guan Caiyi heard that his son wanted to eat, and his money was not so tight now, he couldn't bear to refuse, so he said, "Well, tell mother when you want to burn it."

Liang Xiaocai nodded, turned around and went to get some noodles, then added the newly bought flour and three eggs, and kneaded a dough.After reconciling, he put the dough aside to let it rise, and then turned to the sugar he bought.He took out a new porcelain spoon to see how many spoons he could hold in a catty of sugar he bought, and took out a newly bought small bowl to see how many bowls a catty of noodles could hold.After the calculation was about the same, he divided the raised dough into two parts, spread dry flour and began to roll it out to a thickness of about two millimeters, and then cut them into strips about five or six millimeters wide.After cutting, he poured some oil into the pan, and waited for Guan Caiyi to fry them in the pan while the fire was on.

Hey!The house began to smell the fragrance.

After Liang Xiaocai deep-fried the food, he took it out to empty the oil, and then boiled the sugar again.After it was boiled enough to be drawn, he quickly mixed the fried egg noodles with sugar, and poured it into a bowl when it was evenly mixed, and flattened it!

Guan Caiyi asked: "What is this? It's too fragrant."

After Liang Xiaocai warmed it up, he cut a little bit for Guan Caiyi and Li Shunlian respectively: "Is it delicious?"

Guan Caiyi nodded again and again: "Delicious, this is too delicious."

Li Shunlian also said: "My daughter-in-law is amazing. I have never eaten such delicious food. Ouch, it just sticks to my teeth."

Liang Xiaocai said: "It should stop sticking to the teeth when it's cold. Let's call it sweet fruit."

In fact, it is the basic version of Shaqima!

This thing is not afraid of cold, and there is no sale here.He only needs to take it to Zhenxi to sell at night. Zhenxi is a place where rich people go, and they sell some fresh things, which are not expensive and delicious, and there are still people who buy them?The nightlife is lively there, and he plans to make a fortune there!