Grandpa is not vegetarian

After staying in the city for five nights in a row, Boss Niu started to send firewood to the city again, and Mu Yunyi was finally able to go home.

This day caught up with the ten-day round of vacation, and Mu Yunyi bought a lot of delicious things. Because he wanted to continue copying poems when he went back, he bought another set of pens, inkstones and put them on his back in his treasure bag. I bought another jar of shochu for Uncle Niu.

The days in winter are short, and it is already dark after returning home. Gao Yichun and Gao Yiqing calculated his vacation days, and went to ask Uncle Niu in advance if he was going to the city. He was already busy with work, and the house was burning hot , the big pot was filled with dried rice, and the small pot was filled with bacon and stewed dried vegetables, all of which were bought in the village, such as dried cowpea, kidney bean, and eggplant, which were dried in the autumn and kept for winter. Next, cook it thoroughly first, and then use the meat to stew, steaming out the fragrance of the whole house, and rushing out.

"Brother Yuanbao!" As soon as the door opened, Gao Yiqing rushed forward, "Brother Yuanbao is back!"

"I'm back, I'm back!" Mu Yunyi hugged him and looked at him carefully, "Xiao Wu has grown fatter and fairer, and he has been raising well these days. Oh, what are you doing, far away Just smell the aroma!"

"It's bacon and stewed dried vegetables. My brother taught me how to make it. I can eat it later!" Gao Yiqing helped Mu Yunyi carry the bag into the house.

"Brother Yichun! Is your leg better?" Mu Yunyi walked into the back room.

"Much better, much better, now I can move gently."

"Are you able to move?"

"Well, in fact, the injury was not very serious at first. Didn't Master Jiang say that it was not completely broken, and now he can move like this." He lifted the quilt, lifted his leg, and slowly bent and stretched his calf , "I guess I will be able to go to the ground after the new year."

"This can't be sloppy! If you hurt your muscles and bones for a hundred days, you have to take care of it for a hundred days, otherwise, once it breaks again..."

"I know." Gao Yichun said with a smile, "I will be more careful, otherwise I will be injured again, and I will have to spend more money. If I am completely paralyzed, there will be even more hopelessness in the future. I will pay the debt." Can figure it out."

Gao Yiqing brought over the hot water that had been boiled in advance and kept warm on the lid of the pot. Mu Yunyi washed his head, face, hands and feet, then set up the kang table, and began to eat. The stew was well done. Although the seasoning was limited, the heat could be seen accurately. , All kinds of dried vegetables are cooked just right, neither pulpy nor clogged, and the broth is boiled to the right time, seeping into the vegetables, and the taste and taste are excellent.

Mu Yunyi ate two bowls of dry rice, and then lay on the bed of the kang, clutching his propped up stomach, and hummed comfortably: "This rice is really delicious, even better than the master chef in Zuixianlou."

Gao Yiqing smiled: "When my brother's legs get better, let him make it for you. It's ten times more delicious than mine!"

After dinner, Mu Yunyi asked the two of them about their homework. First, let them recite the parts they were taught one by one, and then bring over the Three Character Classic, and point out the words casually for them to recognize. Gao Yichun's memory is quite good. He could recognize all the characters taught, but Gao Yiqing didn't recognize three of them, and was very annoyed: "Obviously I wrote it down before, why can't I remember it!"

Mu Yunyi took out a pointer made of locust tree branches from the cabinet, and slapped Gao Yiqing's palms three times: "I'll remember these three words for you, and I'll take the test next time. If you don't recognize anything else, it's fine. If you don't recognize these three words , slap each character three times on the palm of your hand, if you can’t recognize it later, you can slap it nine times, and if you can’t recognize it the fourth time, you can slap it 81 times!”

Gao Yiqing quickly assured: "Brother Yuan Bao, don't worry, I will definitely recognize it!"

Mu Yunyi told them another page, and after they had read it well, he asked them to recite it, while he took out a pen and ink to copy Tang poems.

The two of them have now learned hundreds of characters, and they have gradually mastered the rules of stroke structure, so they can recognize characters quickly, and they can recite them in a short time. , get up tomorrow morning, let's review." After finishing the work, he pointed to the sewing basket in the corner of the kang and asked, "Where did this come from?"

Gao Yichun hesitated a little and said, "I'm bothered by sitting on the kang all day long, and I can read all the characters you taught me. When my old lady came back, I begged her to teach me some sewing." He took out a pair of unfinished shoe soles from his pocket, "I thought that there is no woman in our family, and you only know how to embroider, and there is no one to do the cutting work, so I learned from my aunt, and saved a lot of money."

Seeing his slightly anxious look, Mu Yunyi patted his head: "Okay, you can learn it if you want, and I won't criticize you. In fact, if you insisted on learning embroidery last time, I would do it too." Taught you."

Seeing that he wasn't angry, Gao Yichun breathed a sigh of relief: "It's my first time making shoes, so I'll make a pair for myself first, and then I'll make them for you and Xiao Wu when I get used to them." Then he asked Gao Yiqing to put the box on the ground Open it and take out a pair of small black cloth boots, "This is specially made for you by my old aunt. It's a little bigger according to the size of your moccasin boots. Check to see if it fits well."

Mu Yunyi took the boots and looked at them: "Why would your aunt take the initiative to make boots for me?"

Gao Yichun said: "My old aunt wants Mo Xiang from their family to come and learn calligraphy with me and Xiao Wu. It has been three days since I came here. During the day, even Brother Xiao Ma and the other two children in the village, Xiao Wu and I follow your instructions. We teach them."

Gao Yiqing danced and said: "They are all stupid, especially Yinsuo, who always reads wrong."

"That's strange, the eldest and second bedroom of your family are both educated, why doesn't she let her son learn from Gao Yizheng and the others?"

Gao Yichun explained to him: "Since ancient times, there has been no ceremony for a married girl to return to her natal family. Although my grandmother is biased towards the old girl, she is also short of breath in this matter. Just raising the two of them, I don't know how to be married. The sister-in-law and the fourth aunt have talked so much, it is absolutely impossible to pay for Mo Xiang to study, the eldest brother and the second brother will naturally ignore him, and the old aunt is a strong one, and she is only thinking about making Mo Xiang like him. The old uncle took the test of fame like that, and he had planned for several years without any hope. This time, he has to work hard to catch up with us. I brought Mo Xiang to talk about it that day, and I agreed."

Mu Yunyi pondered and said: "I don't care about anything else, it's just your relatives..."

Gao Yichun smiled: "You don't have to worry about this. I know better than you what kind of people our relatives are. My aunt is different from them. Mo Xiang is also a well-behaved child. I have spoken to my aunt in advance. It's all clear, if anyone in the upper house is dissatisfied, let her bear it, and can't make trouble in this house."

Mu Yunyi yawned: "It's good that you know what's going on, I'll only teach you two anyway."

The next day, after breakfast and heating the kang, Mu Yunyi took the book and began to teach the two of them to go to school. After reading it twice, several students came, the first one was Ma Le from the neighbor, who recited Holding a bag of roasted peanuts: "My mother knew that Yuan Bao was coming back today, so she specially roasted peanuts last night for me to bring them."

Then there is Gao Xuehong's child Mo Xiang, his name is You Mingyu, he is only eight years old this year, he looks fair and clean, his big eyes are shining, he is three points timid, seven points shy, and secretly looks at Mu Yunyi from time to time .

Even though they lived in the same courtyard, Gao Xuehong was also afraid that Mu Yunyi would get bored. After all, from what Mrs. Gao and several brothers, sisters-in-law, nephews and wives had heard, this Mu Yunyi was extremely difficult to mess with and cruel. Originally, I wanted to stagger the day when Mu Yunyi came back, and only learn from Brother Gao Yichun, but I was afraid that my son would not be able to keep up with the progress, and I lived in a large courtyard, so I couldn't always avoid it, so I waited for Ma Le to enter the courtyard. The son came over with the sachet he made himself, and told him repeatedly in advance: "Don't provoke that little evil star. If he scolds you, just pretend you didn't hear him. If he beats you, bear it if you can. Follow you!" The third brother reads the book well, it is serious."

There are also two children Gao Yiqing, who are about the same age, are cousins, both surnamed Ji, one named Jinsuo and the other Yinsuo.When the two came, they also carried things on their backs, one was a big lump of frozen tofu, and the other was a bag of dried vegetables.

Last night in bed, I talked to Gao Yichun about teaching people to read. Gao Yichun told him that the people in the village are simple and know that reading is good and literacy is useful, but they can’t afford it. There is no private school in the village, so there is a It is extremely rare to find a place to learn characters, and everyone knows that reading requires some training for the master, so they try their best to squeeze something out of their teeth and send it.

Mu Yunyi used to have dim sum kids who were noisy and annoying, but when he saw those things, his nose got sore.

Ma Le and Mo Xiang are alright, they are close to the house, and although there are a few pieces of pudding in their clothes, they are all neatly tidied up.

The gold lock and the silver lock are miserable, the clothes they wear are light and fluffy, there is no cotton in them, a piece of old cloth is randomly wrapped around their heads as a hat, and although the shoes are cotton, they are too thin, so they are not worn. The socks were stuffed with hay, and they didn’t fit at first glance. A shoe was filled with snow, and after melting, it froze again. , kept sniffling: "My grandpa heard that Brother Yuanbao came back today, and specially asked us to bring frozen tofu and dried vegetables, saying that it was for Brother Yuanbao to try something new." The two stood at the door, looking at wet Rotten and dirty shoes, dare not look up.

"Take off your shoes quickly!" Mu Yunyi hurriedly got off the ground, picked up the frozen tofu and weighed it, fearing that it would weigh four to five catties, and it was difficult for the child to carry it slippery step by step in the heavy snow.

When the two of them heard that Mu Yunyi told them to get rid of evil spirits, their faces immediately felt hot, thinking that they disliked the two of them for dirtying the floor of the house: "No need to take them off, we just listen at the door."

"What are you listening to at the door! Besides, even though the outhouse is on fire, the soles of your feet are cold, so take off your shoes." Mu Yunyi took the dried vegetables out of his pocket and put them with his own, and found another space Crack the frozen tofu with the back of a knife and put it in the jar.