pastoral life

Xue Da returned home to pick up food. Originally, he should have eaten in the field like other peasants, but Mrs. Zhao was too lazy to bring it to him, so when others were eating the food brought by his daughter-in-law He had to walk back with his hoe for a long time before he could eat a mouthful of hot food.

"Have you sent the one from the youngest's home?"

Xue Da had never seen Xue Mingzhu in the house, so he naturally guessed the writing, and the Zhao family would not dare to make a claim on this matter without him letting go, so the matter of letting Xue Mingzhu marry as a substitute was actually discussed by the husband and wife.

"Where did you send it over? After the account transfer, that coquettish hoof followed the Wang family boy back directly. He chased people without taking half of his clothes, and used his face to post them. Pooh! At first he was looking for life and death, see If you catch a man, go up to him!"

"Okay, you can stop talking a few words, Jiaojiao is still young, after learning such a bad mouth from you, how can she talk to others in the future."

"Damn ghost, when you knew me, you knew that I was such a person, so why didn't you dislike me at that time, but now it's good, seeing that I'm old and fat, you feel uncomfortable, so you're starting to think ghostly!"

"Shut up!"

Seeing that Mrs. Zhao's words became more and more unbearable, Xue Da became anxious. There was a girl in the family who had not left the court. The last one who suffered from Mrs. Zhao's indifference was his daughter Xue Jiaojiao. No matter how good-looking he is, if he is sent to a wealthy family, he will be a concubine at best, and then Xue Dake will lose all his face.

A concubine's reputation is not good enough to be disliked even by peasants. Only those women who have lost their virtue will be taken in as concubines, but whoever has a good way out will be willing to be a concubine?Therefore, even going to be a concubine in a family like Master Yuanwai is despised.

"How dare you yell at me!"

Mrs. Zhao is used to being overbearing, so he is willing to be so submissive. He only felt that he would be bullied ten steps later, so he got angry and stretched out his fingernails to scratch Xue Da. When something happened, Xue Da suddenly couldn't dodge. Shang Shengsheng was scratched with three blood marks, he is the head of the family, how can he bear this anger, he kicked Zhao's heart in a fit of anger.If it was a woman with a thin body, she would have to rest for at least one night, but Mrs. Zhao was a man and was born rough, so she was not so delicate, so she fell on her back with an ouch, his skin was rough and fleshy. There was nothing wrong with it, but the pain was severe. Under this stimulation, Mrs. Zhao became ruthless. She got up twice and rushed forward to fight with Xue Da. The two men wrestled together and it was difficult to distinguish between them. It smashed the candlesticks and dishes at home to pieces.

Xue Jiaojiao looked at the two people coldly in the room, not only did not step forward to fight, but she couldn't help but hum in her heart.

She is fed up with such parents, what kind of family will she climb up with her ability?Bisheng made these two dragged down terribly, hum, just wait and see, when she finds a good man, she will marry and never come back for the rest of her life!

The Xue family had a lot of fun here, but the Wang family had the first full meal they hadn't eaten since their parents' accident.

"The oil tank and the salt tank are here. There is still some rice left in the rice bag, which is enough for a meal. I will take another ten catties of rice to the grain yard and ask Chen Bo to help break some. Next to the chopping board is today's rice." The cabbage and two cucumbers you just picked, you can fry them together, and if there is anything missing, just tell me."

Mingzhu looked around for a while, then went to look in the wooden cupboard before she raised her head and said:

"What about soy sauce and vinegar, do you have these?"

"It's all on the stove, it's in the barrel."

"What about ginger and garlic?"

Wang Mingchuan blinked his eyes, thinking that Xue Mingzhu was going to cook another dish, so he waved his hands and declined:

"It's enough to eat two dishes at noon. They are so small, except for Dahe, the remaining three can't eat much."

"Who told you to add more vegetables, bring me a hot pot!"

Although he didn't understand what Xue Mingzhu meant, Wang Mingchuan ran to the yard in front of the door very diligently to dig some garlic and old ginger. After everything was ready, Mingzhu began to wash and chop vegetables, while Wang Mingchuan consciously went to light the fire. .The pile of firewood piled high outside the stove hole, but Wang Mingchuan was not in a hurry to use it. He just took a handful of sawdust and threw it into the stove hole and poked it with the tongs. When the charcoal came, the sawdust met the burning charcoal and Wang Mingchuan blew it skillfully, and it ignited after a while. Seeing this, he hurriedly took a handful from the firewood pile behind him to ignite the fire, and it took a lot of time It took a lot of work to get the fire going.

"Take a spoon to scoop up some water and brush the pot. My side is almost ready, and I'll cook when you clean it up."

Although Wang Mingchuan used to go into the kitchen, but he cooked by himself after the death of his parents, how easy it is to move, as long as the things are cooked, this time together with Xue Mingzhu, he feels that cooking is really difficult. I'm really tired, and I don't have much ability to take it easily.

Although Mingzhu was born in the city, she lived in the countryside when she was a child, so she was able to use the two large iron pots with ease, one for draining rice and the other for cooking vegetables. After a while, she made three dishes under Wang Mingchuan's surprised gaze. There are only two ingredients for a dish and a bowl of soup, but he, Xue Mingzhu, can make three or four different ways of eating it, which gives Mingchuan a different understanding of Xue Mingzhu, who has never had much sense of existence.

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Under the guidance of Wang Mingchuan, Xue Mingzhu came to the main room of the Wang family with him. The area of ​​the main room is not small, which is enough to show how gratifying the family's previous harvest was. But there is nothing left.

Mingzhu spent a few years in the countryside of Shudi when she was a child, and they seldom built cellars there. Except for a special barn built next to the bed for food storage, the rest of the harvest was stored in the main room. It can be seen from the size of the main room.The crops planted in this place are very similar to those in Shu, and the layout of the house is quite familiar, but it is not much different from the place where he stayed when he was a child, so Xue Mingzhu recognized at a glance that the place where the table was placed was the main room... was moved The empty hall.

Farmers in the south grow rice by themselves, and every household has a barn. After a year’s harvest, the barn is full and the grain for the year will be available. Therefore, there is no need to worry about rice in the countryside. Rice is worthless to them. The really valuable things are piled up in the main room. There are cotton, rapeseed and pepper. These three things come for big money.

But Xue Mingzhu didn't see any of these three things.

He sighed, deeply feeling the heavy burden on his shoulders.

"Brother Pearl!"

When Xue Mingzhu was worrying about the way ahead, a series of untidy children's voices came out from the center of the hall, and then he took a good look at the four little carrot heads sitting around the table, the big one was Wang Dahe I've seen it before, the youngest of the three is only five years old and the youngest is only three years old, and the thin and small eyes are extremely big, looking at Xue Mingzhu obediently and obediently calling her brother, seeing that she is so young but so sensible Xue Mingzhu couldn't help but feel a little sad in her heart, and she didn't say much to others, and just put three dishes and one soup on the table with Wang Mingchuan.

"Kick"

The bottom of the plate collided with the wooden tabletop, and he saw the shoulders of the youngest girl shrank almost invisible.

"After you call me brother, you have to be obedient. Eat it quickly. Eat it when the food is cold, and be careful not to hurt your stomach."

As she spoke, she took a wooden spoon to fill a bowl for the youngest little girl. The little girl sucked the snot out of her nose and grabbed the chopsticks before starting to move. Seeing the messy braids, Xue Mingzhu suddenly made up her mind.

After traveling to this place, I don't know when he will be able to go back. These children have given him a place to live, and he will have to take good custody of them in the future as a debt of gratitude.

"Eat slowly, here is cabbage soup, drink some if you are thirsty, don't choke."

Wang Mingchuan on the side watched Xue Mingzhu serve rice one by one starting from the youngest one, and finally filled a bowl for him before he could take care of himself. After the rice was put into the bowl, Xue Mingzhu was still not in a hurry to eat, He only used his sleeve to wipe Wang Xiaoxi's snot before moving his chopsticks in peace.Seeing this scene, Wang Mingchuan's heart warmed up. He didn't know what other husbands and wives should be like, but he just felt that although his husband and wife were not good-looking, they were absolutely reliable.

"Look at me, how can you work if you don't eat?"

Xue Mingzhu looked up by chance and saw Wang Mingchuan staring at him for a moment. Xue Mingzhu, who thought his yin and yang face was nothing to look at, picked up chopsticks and threw cucumber slices into Wang Mingchuan's bowl.

"Eat vegetables, eat vegetables, the little one is obedient, you, the biggest one, still want to quarrel with me?"

Hearing this, Wang Mingchuan picked the tip of his nose and looked away embarrassedly. If Mingzhu looked carefully, he could see some pink from the tips of his ears.

Wang Mingchuan was a little embarrassed, so he lowered his head and ate in silence. Xue Mingzhu was not a person who liked to pick up topics, so the atmosphere at the table after this was extremely depressing, and even eating rice felt a little awkward.

"Brother Mingzhu's dishes are delicious!"

The angry roar of the youngest son of the Wang family suddenly broke out from the originally quiet dining table, Mingzhu was startled and almost threw the chopsticks over, but the culprit was not aware of it at all.As if to prove that what he said was the truth, Wang Xiaohu put a chopstick of vegetables into the bowl together with the rice and took a few mouthfuls with Ba and Ba. He stretched out from the inside and tapped it hard twice. The serious look with rice grains on his face made Mingzhu dumbfounded. She can flatter at a young age, and I don’t know who taught it.

Because the meal was the normal taste of a reunion after a long absence, the children were a little full. Wang Mingchuan asked Wang Dahe to wash the dishes, but he went to the barn to fetch rice and wanted to take it to the grain farm. Mingzhu looked at that. The rice bag weighing no less than ten catties rested on Wang Mingchuan's thin shoulders and hurried up to pick it up.

"I can carry it by myself. The valley field is not far away, and I will go back as soon as I go. You watch a few small ones at home, just wait for me to bring Mi Yang out."

"No matter how strong you are, the bag of rice is heavy, so don't be stubborn—Dahe, go and get a bag, and I'll give half of it to go with your brother."

Finally, at Mingzhu's insistence, the rice bag was divided into two and the two walked side by side. Wang Dahe cleaned up the table and dishes, and Wang Xiaohu took the two small ducks to play. Come on for the first time after you're gone.

The author has something to say: Well, this chapter is scumbag, go to bed~