Yipin Qiao Nongfei

Chapter 66
The three sisters-in-law bowed their heads on the kang to do their work. Hearing the loud noise outside, Mrs. Wang burst out laughing suddenly, and said leisurely: "If you want me to say, these men in our family have to be punished by three maids." , otherwise one by one will do some work outside to earn some money, just like a grandpa, and you don’t like this or that. Now you know? Even cleaning up the yard and the house is not an easy task work."

Mrs. Liu and Mrs. Yan both nodded, and Mrs. Yan also smiled and said, "You two should be content. I think the second and third brothers sometimes stretch out their hands anyway. Our family is the head of the house. That's what the old man does. If the oil bottle is poured, there will be no helper." Just now. Help sweep the yard today, that’s really the first time in history.”

Wang said with a smile: "It's still Sanya who is very good, but the eldest brother wants to be lazy, so he is not afraid that Sanya will chop off one of his fingers again?"

Liu's complexion changed, and she hurriedly said: "What does this have to do with us Qiu? It wasn't the two distinguished guests who caused the trouble, it wasn't Young Master Fang, Young Master Shen, these men may not be willing to do this."

Mrs. Wang also realized that she said something wrong. Normally, she would not take it seriously, but now it is different from the past, the more than 20 taels of silver at the bottom of her box were earned by Su Wanqiu, so she hurriedly smiled and said: "It's me. You said the wrong thing, but it was just the two distinguished guests who made a fuss."

Before he finished speaking, he suddenly heard Su Yishan shouting in a rough voice outside: "Where is the person? The sun has already set, why don't you hurry up and cook? You are so hungry that your heart is sticking to your back."

The three sisters-in-law hurriedly dropped their work and got off the kang one after another. At this moment, they heard Su Wanqiu's voice outside: "What is it called? It is worth complaining about several big men tidying up a few houses in one yard? Don't you usually say that women are at home?" Do you enjoy the blessings? What? The work that women do every day, you only do it for a day? You have not let you cook, and you complain. If you dare to say that we women enjoy happiness, let him be a woman work."

"How do you talk? Your grandfather is still here."

Su Yishan and the others had nothing to refute, so they had to bring out Su Mingliang.I saw Su Wanqiu came forward with a smile like a flower, took the broom from the old man's hand, and said angrily: "Grandpa, you can't always spoil your uncle and third uncle. How old are you and you still have to help them with work. Your health is important. Let's go." , let's go into the house, I bought chicken feet specially for this new lo mei, as a snack for you and Uncle Six."

Su Yishan and Su Yifeng watched Su Wanqiu pull the old man into the house, and both of them had old blood in their hearts: This third girl is too snobbish, hateful, hateful.

Su Mingjiang was drinking tea in the room, and when he saw the two of them coming in, he asked, "Don't just think about buying braised meat to entertain guests, you should also buy a few jars of wine."

Su Wanqiu said with a smile: "I've already ordered the wine, and I'll let the elder brother and the third younger brother go to the city to get it tomorrow. When I came back, I happened to see that the braised pork in Liu's shop was cheap, so I bought a big bag and came back with these things, and I'll mix it up the day after tomorrow. It’s enough to kill pig dishes and entertain guests.”

After speaking, seeing her mother and Yan Shi and Wang Shi both entered the main room, she patted her clothes and said: "Mother, I'll go and see that big fat pig again. It's so cold that I changed places. I don't know how I am. Don't stop eating and just eat." Oops."

Wang said with a smile: "What are you afraid of? Even if you don't eat, you will be hungry tomorrow, and you will be slaughtered the day after tomorrow."

Su Wanqiu shook his head and said: "That's not the case. It will lose fat. It's a pity to lose a few catties because of this fattening pig."

While talking, he went out like the wind and went straight to the pigsty.

On the night of the fourteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, after the whole family had dinner, they went to bed early and slept peacefully, and got up at the fourth watch to prepare all kinds of things for killing pigs.

Because there are two pigs to be slaughtered this year, and there are many serious guests, there are also a lot of things to prepare. In addition to utensils such as radish and sauerkraut, blood sausage and pig skinning, there are also tables, chairs, snacks and fruits, and pots and pans. A lot of preparation.

However, the new year is approaching, and many things have increased in price, and nothing else is fine. Su Wanqiu can't swallow those rough snacks, and they still sell them for twenty yuan a catty. Isn't this a money grab?So the third girl immediately decided that she would be in charge of the dim sum for entertaining guests today and make it herself.

For this, most of the family looked down on her, saying that she lost her mind and spent everything, but she was reluctant to pay for a few catties of dim sum.

Su Wanqiu didn't care, the adults took care of other things in the family, and she mobilized several brothers and sisters to do coolies. The girls sifted out low-gluten flour together with her; Stirring and whipping the cream. Due to environmental restrictions, these two things are basically enough. Anyway, it is just home-cooked snacks. Compared with the stubble biscuit cakes that cost [-] cents a catty, homemade ones can be eaten at least.

Without an oven, there are only two types of frying and steaming. On the list Su Wanqiu made last night, there are only six items: cream cake, honey three knives, glutinous rice sticks, glutinous rice cakes, twisted doughnuts, and pumpkin cakes.This is enough for a few children to work for half the morning.

"Third Sister, everything is ready. Can we go back? The rest can't help you much. Look, we are all unkempt. When the guests come, what are we talking about?"

"It's almost there, you go back." Su Wanqiu straightened up, looked around, and suddenly turned her head and shouted: "Yunxu, where is the apple I asked you to prepare? Before eating the butcher dish at noon, I will make some shredded apples and save them." Eat it after a meal, sour and sweet to relieve greasiness."

"It's all here." Su Yunxu came over with a large basket of apples in both hands, and Su Yunfan, who was too tired to shake his arms because of the whipped cream, looked at his sister, and at Chun Xia Dong who was leaving in a hurry, coughed and said: " Qiu...you won't go back...too orderly?"

"No, I washed my face when I got up in the morning." Without raising her head, Su Wanqiu placed the rolled dough on the lid one by one, and when she was interested, she would pinch out a little pig, kitten, and rabbit with ears, nose, and eyes. Very cute.

Su Yunfan rolled his eyes and whispered: "Who hasn't washed his face? I want you to go back and tidy up... It's to clean up. How can I say that our house is full of distinguished guests today? Country girls don't pay much attention to it. In the eyes of a nobleman..."

Before finishing speaking, Su Yunfan shrank his neck and said in a stern voice, "I don't mean anything else, what I mean is that if I can meet some noble person's eyes and get married in the future What, except for the fourth sister, you have all reached the age of marriage, and the eldest aunt has been talking about this matter for the eldest sister since last year, but she has not found a suitable family."

"That's none of my business, and I don't hate getting married."

Su Wanqiu continued to be busy with the work at hand, understood in her heart, and thought to herself: It may not be for other nobles, no matter how valuable other people are, they are just country gentry and local rich men, how can they compare to the promising students in the county school?Especially Shen Yuanxi, as for Fang Xuesong, no one would dare to dream of climbing high.

(End of this chapter)