At the same time, when Qianmai and others were eating in the small mountain stream, Nanjiang Qianjia's table was also put on various kinds of rice dumplings.
Qianjia’s Chinese food today is exceptionally rich. In addition to the chicken and duck rice dumplings that are necessary for the festive season, and the current seasonal eggplant and rice amaranth, there is also a pot of hoofs with delicious colors and flavors. This is the first-class dish served by the Jintian people. The color is bright red, soft and fragrant, fat but not greasy, and contains the meaning of wishing a good future and a bright future. This is also one of Qian Xiaohai's favorite dishes, but because the production process is cumbersome and complicated, Qian Liqin rarely cooks it by hand. Therefore, Qian Xiaohai's appetite for today's lunch is very appetizing, and he frequently raises chopsticks to spread his hooves, cheeks bulging and eating deliciously.
Seeing her son's indecent eating, Qian Liqin couldn't laugh or cry: "Xiaohai, just patronize and eat by yourself. You should ask your grandparents and aunt to eat first."
Hearing this, Qian Xiaohai finally moved his gaze away from the hoof, looked around the table, and found that everyone was staring at him interestingly, blushing involuntarily. Busily stood up and served some elders with vegetables: "Grandpa eats more, grandma eats more, auntie eats more."
His kind of children's actions, which were only after the reminder, made everyone laugh. The grandma of the potential family looked at her grandson with a smile, picked up the chopsticks that had been put down a long time ago, picked a thin and moderate hoof from the basin, and put it into the grandson's bowl. Said: "Grandma can't eat, you can eat more. Seeing you eat well, grandma is happier than eating herself." After all, he also gave Qian Xiaomo a small bite and a small bite of rice in the corner, who was holding a piece of thinner. The shop hoof.
"Mom, you have bad teeth. I have steamed this hoof for a few more hours, so it will melt in the mouth, so you can eat a little bit. Their children, they can hold them by themselves, so don't bother." Qian Liqin said.
"I have no appetite, I can't eat it." Qianjia's grandmother shook her head slightly, and instead greeted Qian Liying: "Aying, if you like, eat more."
"Yes, the dishes are delicious, I have tried very hard." Qian Liying smiled and said: "At home, I have to cook for the children every meal every day. This time I'm going to my mother's house, I just have to sit down. Just eat ready-made. It's so comfortable, can you take the opportunity to eat more?"
Qian Liqin smiled slightly, got up and brought a bowl full of rice to Qian Liying: "Sister, you try this year's broad bean rice. Knowing that you like it, I made it in an iron pot. This year, I am at home. There are many broad beans. If you like it, I will bring you some back to let my brother-in-law and the children try."
"Okay. I'd better take this bite. I won't tire of eating it every day." Qian Liying happily took it, but saw that the white rice was inlaid with jade-like green broad beans and light yellow plump bamboo shoots. And the green onion, couldn't help but smile with satisfaction: "I must eat two large bowls at noon."
That's right, the guest of Qian's family today is Qian Liying, the eldest daughter who returned to her natal family. In Jintian County, during the Dragon Boat Festival, married daughters will bring their husbands and children, as well as some local specialties such as trotters, yellow croaker, chickens and ducks, to their parents’ home to gather together. Although after the last ring incident, Qian Liying left her family in anger and shame. But as the eldest daughter of Qianjia's right-hand house, Qian Liying has a gentle and generous temperament, and she has always united and loved her sister. After two days of depression, her anger disappeared, and she worried about Qianjia's grandmother's illness. These few days coincided with the Dragon Boat Festival. After dealing with the family member, he hurriedly prepared gifts and returned to her family to "send the Dragon Boat Festival".
The potential lunch did not last long. After the grandparents of Qianjia finished their meals, they went back to the front room to see the store and rest. Yang Yong then stood up, and said to Qian Liying: "Sister, you can do it yourself at home, I have to go to the ground. The sun is violent today, and the sweet potato vine just planted in the morning is about to wilt. You can plant alive by watering."
"Okay, you go." Qian Liying answered, suddenly remembering something, and asked: "Is there any red core sweet potato planted at home this year? My grandson likes to eat it very much. Last year, I missed myself. Plant a little bit to save him from being greedy."
"This is easy to handle, I'll cut some for you. In addition, this year, the family has grown a lot of edible melon seedlings. Sister, do you want to bring some back to plant?"
"That couldn't be better." Qian Liying's family is well-off. Except for her little daughter, her other children are all doing small businesses in France. The couple lived with their grandson and nephew, sometimes in the city, sometimes in the country. The farm at home is rented to others to grow, and only a few plots are left to grow seasonal vegetables, so that they can be more environmentally friendly and fresh to eat.
After Yang Yong carried the tools and went out, Qian Liqin made Qian Liying a cup of homemade wild tea and picked up the dishes. The two sisters were sitting in the small kitchen, chatting with each other.
"How about the various harvests at home this year?" Qian Liying asked. The third sister of my own has a weak temperament and no special skills. She has always stayed at home in the countryside to serve the two elders. Her family background is the worst of the four sisters, so she couldn't help asking.
"Fortunately. The wheat has just been hit, and the fields have been added to the mountains. The total amount is more than two thousand catties. This year we have raised three pigs and ten sheep. Gastrodia just cultivated the strain a few days ago, and this year has signed a few more contracts than last year. Now I hope that the heavens can be beautiful, and only with good weather can we have a good harvest."
"Yes. Brother-in-law took care of the house well. Yesterday I went upstairs and went around and saw the firewood upstairs neatly arranged in rows, all thick as thumbs, enough for you to burn for a year or a half. . In this way, you will also save effort in housework."
"Where can I save effort? There are old people at the top and young people at the bottom. Both shoulders are heavy burdens. I am worried all day long."
"Isn't it?" Qian Liying took a sip of her tea, and sighed slightly: "I came back yesterday and saw my old lady, I felt a panic in my heart. I haven't seen her for a while, and her belly is big again. That foot It was so swollen, I pressed it gently, and the boss came out a hole. I'm really worried."
Qian Liqin stopped the bowl-shaking action in her hand, raised her head, tears were already in her eyes: "Eldest sister, I can't sleep every day. Mom talked to me, saying that she dreamed of my brother Xiaoshouzi several times... Didn't you I saw that the medicine that Dad has prescribed recently, the medicine scum is scary..."
"No way. The hospital can't do anything about birth, old age, sickness and death. The old lady doesn't want to suffer, so she gets a stab at the end of her life. We can only make small offerings, and we can only serve them deliciously. Try to fulfill her wish."
"Yeah. The ritual was done smoothly a while ago. After I came back, I also invited the master to help her prepare the coffin, shroud, and shoes. She chose the fabrics herself. She seemed calm and indifferent, so I just watched it. Fear... My second sister has often come over to cry recently. I tremble as soon as I hear the crying... I don't have much money at home, and one day I don't know how to deal with it... "Qian Liqin's voice is already sobbing.
Qian Liying's eyes flushed when she heard this: "One day, when Mount Tai is overwhelmed, we can't do anything. The eldest sister will definitely support you. Unexpectedly, the last time I left, so many things happened at home. Yesterday passed. In the west of the village, the second sister kept crying while pulling me."
"Well. The second sister may be planted this time. It's okay to lose money and close the factory. The main reason is that the'black heart powder' is sold to the nearby Shixiang and 9 villages. People complain and criticize the sanghuai every day. They can't do it in Nanjiang. I heard that they are going to open a snack bar in Wenzhou."
"What kind of trouble are these? I don't want to accumulate any blessings for children and grandchildren." Qian Liying frowned and sighed: "Listening to you, looking at my old lady like this, I don't dare to tell her Simei Thing."
"What happened to her again?"
"She is now at my Xiaowu's house in Ouhai. Xiaowu came back to deliver the Dragon Boat Festival the day before yesterday, scolding and grinning, thinking that the two had a big opinion. What can I say, one is my daughter, and the other is a sister. All of them are audacious. , Fangs, no one will let anyone. I really want to close my eyes, not to see or to worry, let them go."
Qian Liqin was surprised: "So, is Pingyang really gone?"
"I'm leaving. That silly B thought he had eighteen girls and a flower, and even if they were married, what should I do in the future?" Qian Liying was heartbroken, hating iron for iron, and her words sharpened: " We were worried for her. She didn’t care about it. She just did what she wanted. I heard that she was not in trouble with people and wanted to go abroad with her... The heart is too high, the people are too capable, and she wants to make millions. … In front of your brother-in-law and the children, I was embarrassed to mention her. I swallowed it after the words came to my lips a few times. When Yueqing divorced, my old lady was so angry that she vomited blood. Today, she couldn’t even swallow food. I really don’t dare to say..."
Qian Liqin also stayed silent for a long time: "She hasn't come back for two years, and she doesn't know what she is doing. We only vaguely heard some rumors at the beginning of the year. Xiaohai's father went to Cangnan to send gastrodia elata a while ago and abducted it to Pingyang. And found out that he had run away from home..."
"It's a sin. I get a headache and chest tightness when I think of these things." Qian Liying frequently shook her head and beat her chest, and she was frustrated: "The second sister has an accident, the fourth sister has this virtue, and the old lady has only half her life left. I don’t want to go back to this house more and more..."
This early summer afternoon, time seemed to be stagnant, and the two sisters were very sad. There was no more chatting, and the small kitchen of the potential family only heard the verbal clanging of bowls and scoops.
Seeing that there was still something to deal with at home, Qian Liying only stayed in her family for two nights before hurriedly heading south and hurried back home. At the same time, Yang Yong also embarked on the shuttle bus to Huayang north to send the Dragon Boat Festival to the grandparents of the Yang family.
In recent years, the grandparents of the Yang family have lived in Huayang City.
The seven brothers and sisters of the Yang family, except for Yang Yong in Nanjiang, the eldest and third of the Yang family stayed behind in Luodian to farm and run a breeding farm, the other four brothers and sisters all bought a house and settled in Huayang.
After years of hard work, Yangliu and his wife opened two small-scale Chinese restaurants in Spain. After the fifth Yang Shun retired from the army, he was transferred to the Huayang City Transportation Bureau. A few years ago, he became relatives with the kindergarten teacher Ji Lifang. When Xiaoliu Yang Xinlian was making clothes in Beijing, she had an affair with Li Feng, who was also a sewing master. After marriage, the couple went to Yugoslavia to run a fashion store together. Xiaoqi Yang Shuilian stayed with his parents. The year before last he married Fan Yingjun, a native of Huayang. Now the young couple has started a small construction project contract.
A few years ago, when the Yang family's three brothers and sisters bought a house, they bought the house on the upper and lower floors of the same unit in the community. Then, he took the elderly Yang's grandparents to Huayang City, where traffic and medical conditions were more convenient, and he was taken care of by the fifth and the seventh. So, now every New Year's Day, everyone meets in Huayang instead.
When Yang Yong came in with specially prepared local products, Yang Shuilian and Fan Yingjun brought their infant daughters back to send the Dragon Boat Festival. They were watching TV with the grandparents of the Yang family in the house, talking and laughing. Everyone was very happy to see Yang Yong, who hadn't seen him for a long time, come in.
Yang Shuilian hurriedly handed her daughter to her husband and stood up to cook some snacks: "Second brother, I guess you will be here today. Therefore, I also specially chose to come today. Are my sister-in-law and my little nephew and niece all okay?"
"They are all very good, and all of them are very good-looking." Yang Yong said hello to his brother-in-law, and teased the pink-to-doot youngest niece a little.
"That's good. The summer vacation is about to come, and then let them come to Huayang to play. In a blink of an eye, they are almost gone for another semester." Grandma Yang missed her grandchildren very much.
Yang Yong nodded and agreed. After eating the hand-rolled noodles prepared by my sister and old mother, I sat on the sofa and chatted with my father and brother-in-law.
After asking each other for a while, the Yang family's grandfather talked about the business: "Second, the fourth and sixth both remitted money back. They don’t use it for a while, and it’s also a bank deposit. Now you are the only brothers and sisters. The family is the most difficult. They all say that they can lend you first so that you can buy a house earlier, so that you can have a fixed asset sooner."
"Second brother, we siblings may as well gather at Huayang. If you have something in the future, we can discuss and solve it. If you stay in Nanjiang alone, we are not at ease. If you buy a house, my family will also support it." Fan Handsome and Yang Shuilian also helped.
Yang Yong was very moved by this suggestion. But after careful consideration, he became squeaky again: "This matter was mentioned by the fifth child last time. I have also calculated it carefully. According to the current Huayang housing price, I can buy a smaller two-bedroom and two-living room. Take out a down payment. If this year’s pigs, sheep and gastrodia elata are processed, you can probably make up half of it... But Xiao Hainanjiang’s grandmother is so sick, and the family should always keep some money to prevent accidents. This is the right time to buy a house, the old people’s mind It is inevitable that there will be lumps... Besides, I took the money from the fourth and the sixth to buy a house, and the next turnaround will not work, and they will be dragged into the water. This matter... Let me go back and discuss it with Liqin."
Seeing that the son, who was bold and neat in the future, became involuntary and looked forward to the future, Grandpa Yang was disappointed. For this reason, the old man also feels more and more regretful for his indiscriminate slap back then: "Well, just call me when we discuss the result. If you want to buy it, your mother and I are in the sky now, and I can help you. In Huayang City, choose an affordable house in the location. I really bought it. In the future, your brothers and sisters will get together to discuss things and do things well, and we will often see Sister Xiaohai and brothers.” (To be continued. , If you want to know what’s going on, please visit www.qidian.com, there are more chapters, the author is supported, and the genuine reading is supported!)