After seeing off Zhang Xingwang and his son, Shen Ruolan fed the remaining dumplings to Heizi, rolled out some dough with the leftover dough from making dumplings, took a simple bite, and went to the back garden to feed the sheep, chickens and geese , After feeding, I went back to the house, and Toba Toba got into the bed to catch up on sleep.
She didn't sleep all night last night, and she was doing revenge and working. She is so sleepy now. It's rare to be quiet now. She needs to catch up on sleep and nourish her spirit, otherwise she will lose the fat she gained so easily. up.
This sleep was very long, sleeping until noon, and only woke up when he heard the barking of Heizi outside.
Heizi screamed maniacally, with a threatening and attacking rhythm. As soon as he heard that there was something going on outside, Shen Ruolan quickly got up, put on his clothes and shoes, and ran out with disheveled hair.
When I got outside, I saw Heizi standing at the gate, stalemate with the four Shouya sisters outside the door. Shouya held a stick in his hand, and stood in front of the three younger sisters with a horizontal knife, as if he was about to fight Heizi to the death. Heizi also grinned his teeth and showed a fierce look on his face. The two sides were so stiff, neither of them would give in half an inch!
Seeing Shen Ruolan coming out, Heizi immediately stopped barking, ran to her side wagging his tail, and hummed at her feet, as if he had kept the enemy out and asked her for credit.
Shen Ruolan bent down, patted Heizi's head, and said with a smile, "They are my own, so I can't bite them anymore, you should be friendly to them, you know?"
Looking up at them again, he smiled and said, "Why did you come back, I thought you would come back early in the morning!"
Shouya said: "We wanted to come back early, but when the sun was high, we didn't have a car, so we walked back."
Because I walked a lot and wore thick cotton-padded clothes, the sisters were all sweating, and there was a rare blush on their faces, which was much better than the yellow and thin faces before. .
With this colorful dress, it looks even better.
In fact, they were not ugly at first. They all had big eyes, big mouths, three-dimensional features, tall and thin. If this kind of appearance is placed in modern times, it is a rare mixed-race beauty, which is very popular. Unfortunately, Born in the ancient times when softness was the beauty of women, this kind of three-dimensional facial features and aggressive looks are very unpopular.
However, if others don't know how to appreciate them, Shen Ruolan will still appreciate them. Even if others think they are ugly, she still thinks they are pretty, and they will become more and more beautiful in the future.
"Hehe, it is said that people rely on clothes, and Buddhas rely on gold clothes. Look at you guys. Putting on these clothes, you will immediately become beautiful!"
She started to tease, so that the skinny girls were embarrassed.
Zhaodi said shyly, "When we first entered the village, many people didn't recognize us."
"Not to mention them, even I almost didn't recognize them!" Shen Ruolan laughed.
At this moment, the faces of the elder sisters are all washed clean, they look much whiter and fresher than yesterday, their hair is neatly combed, braided like Ruolan , hanging on the chest, but the hair tie is a bit ugly, it's all hemp rope.
Shen Ruolan patted Heizi, let him hide aside, and said to the thin girls, "Stop standing outside, come in!"
Heizi snorted twice, as if he was reluctant, but he still stepped aside.
Shouya and the others followed Shen Ruolan into the house, and as soon as they entered the door, Shouya took out the dozen or so Wen money that Shen Ruolan gave them yesterday, and put it on the kang: "Lanya, we didn't spend this money, you can put it away .”
Shen Ruolan knew that they were not willing to spend and wanted to save her money, but she didn't tell the truth, so she uncovered the kang mat, put the copper plates under the kang mat, and said: "Put it here first, in case any of you think about it." Use it, come here and get it.”
Shouya hurriedly said: "We don't need it, we have food and clothing, so we don't need to spend money."
Shen Ruolan smiled and said: "Put it here if you don't need it, you just don't need to worry about it."
After finishing speaking, he took out the hair rope and a few combs bought for them yesterday from his arms (in the space), and said: "Your hair rope doesn't match your clothes too well, go and change it." The wooden comb was handed over and let them choose by themselves.
The sisters held the headband Shen Ruolan bought for them, and they were so moved that they didn't know what to say, how to repay her kindness.
In fact, Shen Ruolan helped them only based on her own mood, and never thought of asking them to repay them. After delivering the hair rope and comb, she started preparing lunch again.
The skinny girls haven't eaten since morning, and they've walked so far, they're all starving. Fearing that they would be hungry, Shen Ruolan didn't do complicated and troublesome things, but only made a big pot of pearl soup, which was ready in just one stick of incense.
Everyone, Tulu Tulu, finished the pearl soup and started to work.
When they were working, Shouya and Zhaodi said that they would not let Shen Ruolan do anything, but said that she would only cook in the future, and they would do the work of boiling the jelly, and she would not be needed anymore.
It happened that Shen Ruolan was still thinking about the big pig and the chickens, ducks and geese in the old house, and they were determined not to let her do it, so she didn't force her anymore and got up to go to the old house.
In the old house, the aunt was looking after the house. When she saw Shen Ruolan coming, she immediately took her hand and greeted her affectionately. The affectionate attitude was as warm as a pot of fire, it was creepy!
"Lan Ya, I cleaned some rice two days ago and sprinkled some rice cakes. I'll ask your sister-in-law to give you some to try later!"
"Hehe, there's no need for ma'am, I don't like sticky food." Shen Qiao laughed twice and politely refused.
She still has a little understanding of the aunt, that is, she is a helpless master. Now that she is treating her like this, she must be begging her for something. She can't owe her a favor just for a few pieces of rice cakes, lest In the future, I will repay her a hundred times and a thousand times.
Aunt Shen looked proud, "Don't you like it? It's made by someone else. Try it if you like it. Let me tell you, you can't do anything else, but the rice cakes are good, sticky and sticky. Genuine, let’s eat this piece and think about that piece, you, Brother Fu Cun, could cry when you ate my rice cakes all the time when you were a child, really, it’s so delicious!"
"But ma'am..." She still doesn't want it!
But before she finished speaking, the aunt quickly said: "By the way, I think the firewood in your house is almost gone. I will ask you Brother Fu Cun to go to the tree to hook some branches for you tomorrow." Go, you are in a cold sweat, you will freeze to death without firewood!"
The firewood pile at Shen Ruolan's house is really only the bottom. Those branches that Brother Fu Cun hooked up for her before could have been burned until Kaichun'er, but her father came back, and the two houses in the family were on fire. Boiled jelly, almost all day long, firewood is extra cost, these days she was thinking about going to the market to buy some firewood, but the aunt offered to help solve it.
However, there is no such thing as a free lunch in the world, and she would rather go to the market to spend money to buy it than owe the favor to the aunt, because the favor from the aunt is not so easy to owe. A few pieces of rice cakes, a pile of firewood, maybe what should she put back in the future
She said: "Ma'am, why are you bothering my brother Fu Cun in such a cold day? I can just go to the market and buy some, and it doesn't cost much."
"Don't bother, don't bother, what does he do if he doesn't work? Besides, why spend money to buy things that people can get? Even if you have money, you can't be so frantic?" The aunt looked very considerate. The appearance made Shen Ruolan unable to stay any longer. If she stayed for a while, the aunt might give her something again, so she should withdraw quickly.
"Ma'am, I have something to do, so I'll go first."
"That's all right, go get busy. Aunt Shen knows that you have to make jelly for your father. He is such a good boy. He knows how to help the family. He is much more sensible than your sister Mei." Aunt Shen praised her without any effort.
Shen Ruolan's heart has melted. Shen Ruomei has always been like a sharp heart and eyeballs in the eyes of the aunt. Now, in order to praise her, even Shen Ruomei has come out to talk about it. What is the aunt asking her for? Son
Before she could figure it out, Aunt Shen spoke again: "You said you are a little girl, are you exhausted from making those old jellyfish every day? I will let you brother Fu Cun come to your house tomorrow." Help you do it, so as not to tire you!"
Dangdang, the answer is revealed!
Shen Ruolan rolled her eyes, it turns out that the aunt has been waiting for her here!
Ask Fu Cun to go to her house to help her make jelly, so Fu Cun will learn how to make jelly? Her family's jongzi is no longer unique in Chu, because others can do it too!
Then, the market was divided up, and the two companies competed fiercely...
Shen Ruolan stopped in her tracks, looked directly at Aunt Shen, and said, "Thank you for your kindness, Auntie, but I really don't need to bother my brother Fu Cun. If you want to be a jelly, you can just thin them out, and I don't even need it."
The smile on the aunt's face froze for a moment, and her expression was a little cracked, but she recovered quickly, and said: "That's okay, then I will let him help your father, your father goes to the city every day Running, squatting and delivering goods, he must be exhausted, let your brother Fu Cun help him, and save him so much hard work!"
This is the second best thing, she wants Shen Fucun to work in front of her father!
Shen Ruolan can agree to this request. Even if the aunt doesn't tell her, she can see that her father has worked hard. It would be great if someone could help share the burden.
Moreover, she, Brother Fu Cun, is hardworking, down-to-earth, and has no flair. If she stays with her father, she will definitely be able to help him well. It is simply perfect.
However, although he can be used, she can't show that she is willing to accept it, otherwise the aunt will take the benefactor attitude of "our family sees you working too hard, so I will help you", obviously she wants to find a share for her son Their family is also willing to accept work, which is the best of both worlds, but once they are involved with the attitude of the aunt, the good things will become disgusting!
She lowered her head and hesitated for a while, showing a very embarrassed look.
During this period, Aunt Shen's eyes showed a bit of nervousness and uneasiness. The food at home was not enough, and she was pointing at Fu Cun to go out and find some work to make up for it. Lan Ya wouldn't agree
When she couldn't hold back anymore, Shen Ruolan finally spoke reluctantly: "That's all right, although my father can come over by himself, wouldn't it be easier for him to have one more helper, anyway, Brother Fu Cun stays at home It’s useless to stay here, why don’t you find some work to earn some money, so that the family can relax and relax!”
"That's right, I thought so too."
When the aunt saw that she agreed, she was so happy that her eyebrows and eyes were all smiling, and the wrinkles on her face were piled together, "It is said that there is no better way to fight a tiger than a brother, and no better way to fight than a father and son soldier. It’s easy to use what you hired, and you can rest assured to use it!”
Shen Ruolan smiled and said: "Well, I'm really relieved. My brother Fucun is a good person. If he has a bad character, I can't agree to let him go to my father even if it means breaking the sky."
Aunt Shen got what she wanted, and became more affectionate to Shen Ruolan, and she didn't come back until she was sent to the gate.
Before Shen Ruolan left the old house, she went to the pigsty to have a look. The pigs in the pigsty were caught last autumn, and now they have grown more than two hundred catties.
Liu Shiping took good care of this pig, and raised it to be fat and strong, waiting for Kaichun to sell it.
The family has no money, and her son still has to go to school, and the annual tuition fees are all earned by her raising pigs.
However, she doesn't need to work hard to raise pigs in the future, because her son has been abolished, and the laws of Chu state stipulate that eunuchs cannot be officials, so there is no need to read her son's books.
In fact, even if there were no such regulations, Shen Degui's books would be useless to read. With his stupid and impetuous virtue, how could he read good books? It was just sitting in the school and pretending to be a gentleman to satisfy his vanity.
Their family's chickens, ducks and geese are also well-raised. There can be fourteen or five in total, which is enough for her to eat for several months.
After Shen Ruolan looked around for a while, she went back.