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Chapter 65 Robbham's Birthday

Just then Caimu was pushed out by Luo Baisu, turned around in anger and gave a savage mouthful towards the gate of the courtyard, saying: "You are a stupid woman, you will be bullied by the Luo family if you are capable, don't beg to come to the door crying!"

Just after Caimu finished his harsh words, he felt a tingling pain on his face. He stretched out his hand to touch it, and his fingertips were smeared with blood. He thought he was beaten by Luo Mingdu's broom just now, so he couldn't help becoming more and more annoyed. Shi cursed a hundred or seventy or eighty times, wishing that Fang Shi would be unlucky immediately, so that he could vent his anger in his heart.

When Fang Shi and Caimu brothers and sisters were arguing in the yard, Yao Shi stood and sat in the main room.The more noisy the yard was, the happier her expression became.

Brother Fang's words seemed to wake her up suddenly.

A daughter-in-law who doesn't have a son by her side and is having trouble with her natal brothers, what tricks can she do in her hands?She doesn't need to make things difficult on purpose, she will have their bitter fruit to eat in the future, so the more she thinks about it, the happier she feels.

After two days, the mustard greens in the field were ripe.

The country people are thrifty. No matter what they grow in the field, they make the best use of it and seldom waste it. The vegetables that cannot be eaten in the season are dried and stored. When the vegetables are scarce, even if the taste is not good , can also respond to emergencies.In the past, people in the village collected the mustard greens, washed the leaves and dried them into pickles, cut the heads of the vegetables into dried vegetables and stored them in the sun.

So the three mothers picked a sunny day and collected all the mustard greens in the field.

Four ridges of mustard greens, harvested a full two baskets of mustard greens.

The young mustard leaves are still pickled and pickled to make sauerkraut, and the older ones are dried under the eaves for ten days and a half months before they become dried pickles.

The processing of vegetable heads is more complicated.

Looking at the baskets of mustard heads, Luo Tian was thinking, he didn't want to simply dry the vegetables as before, but wanted to pickle them into fresh and delicious mustard.

Although people in later generations eat as little or no pickled dishes as possible for the sake of health, mustard mustard has been widely spread in her hometown. It is really crisp, tender and refreshing. Whether it is fried or made into soup, it is a rare dish. delicacies.

It's just that mustard has a unique taste, and it's troublesome to pickle.Wash it first, then marinate it in a jar with a layer of vegetable head and a layer of salt. When the water seeps out of the vegetable head, take it out, wash it and drain it. So marinate three times, and then mix it with ginger and pepper to make it The seasonings are sealed in the altar and marinated for three to four months.

Mrs. Fang listened to her brief talk, took a kitchen knife, and sat in the courtyard to cut off the roots and leaves of two baskets of vegetables, and picked off the tangerine peel. made in a cylinder.

After the pickled mustard was marinated in the jar, Yao sent Luo Baining over to spread the word, it turned out that Luo Baihan's birthday was coming.

Fang calculated in her mind that Luo Baihan was born at the end of April, and it would be his birthday in five days.

Yao shi has always attached great importance to Luo Baihan, and every year on Luo Baihan's birthday, even though it is not a regular occasion to set up wine, he still wants to find a way to make it lively.This year Luo Baihan turned nineteen years old and entered his twenties, so naturally he was no exception.

Since Fang Shi and Yao Shi clearly had a quarrel last time, now she is like a wooden man to Yao Shi. When Yao Shi said that she would hold a banquet for Luo Baihan, she just said "hmm" and didn't answer anything.

Since Yao is a mother-in-law, she doesn't need to worry about her thoughts, and said to herself: "I think it's cheaper to hold banquets at home now that my family is not well-off."

Old man Luo disagreed a little: "It's not an important matter. There is no reason to serve wine every time. According to me, it's just a family gathering for a meal."

Yao shi gave him a sideways look, and said: "Seeing that Bai Han is going to take the Juren examination this year, this can be regarded as a lively event in advance."

He said it as if Luo Baihan was definitely going to high school this year.Luo Tiandu kept his head down, looked at his toes, and secretly rolled his eyes.

Old man Luo said quickly: "Since that's the case, let's wait until he finishes the exam. If he really passes the exam, it won't be too late to serve wine."

Yao shi was upset when he poured cold water on him twice, and said: "I want to wait for his senior high school to raise people before setting up wine, but now the family doesn't have much money, so don't use this name to set up wine, take some When the favor comes back, what will Bai Han take to catch up with the exam in the second half of the year? These years, the east family married a daughter, and the west family gave birth to a child. Who is thinking of a way to make some money? We have eaten a lot of wine these years, but only Bai Qiu married I set up a banquet every year, and I don’t know how much money was posted outside, but now I can take one back, it’s just one, and I have to make up for Bai Han’s money for the exam.”

Luo Baisu and Fang Shi also had a share in the relationship back then, but now Yao Shi didn't mention it at all.

Old man Luo didn't want to raise money with his son and daughter-in-law, so he frowned and stopped talking.

Yao shi glanced at him, and then continued: "We country people don't pay much attention to it. The bacon at home is ready-made. If it is kept, it will go bad in the hot weather. I just took this opportunity to eat it all. The side dishes are all delicious. It’s grown by myself, so even if you want to buy it, it won’t cost much.”

Fang was still pretending to be dead, but didn't speak.

Yao shi had no choice but to continue: "I'm getting old, I'm afraid I don't have the energy to arrange a banquet, old man, I still have to rely on you to help me when the time comes."

Fang couldn't help it, so she had to answer: "I don't even like the food I cook, I'm afraid my mother will be in charge of the overall situation when the time comes, and I can help to light the fire under the stove or something."

"It doesn't need to be too delicate. Cut the bacon into pieces, stew a pot of sauerkraut, and then go to the tofu shop to order two plates of white tofu. Fish is cheap this season. I made an appointment with the fisherman in advance, ordered a few big fish, and saved ten at home. A few eggs, a few side dishes, and a little more oil to stir-fry.” Yao’s life is really good, since he has decided to celebrate Luo Baihan’s birthday, he can count on the dishes on the table in a short period of time. alright.

The countryside is not as good as the city, that is, if there is something to do at home, a table can hold seven or eight dishes with a mix of meat and vegetables. There will be jokes.

Just, put more oil to fry?This is quite intriguing.Yao's family still had the small jar of oil given by Luo Tiandu's family, and according to Yao's shrewd nature of housekeeping, there was no need to think who would get the oil.

Luo Tian was almost certain that Yao shi suddenly wanted to hold a banquet on Luo Baihan's birthday at this time, although it was because he had no money and wanted to get some favors back, but it was not necessarily because he wanted to express his anger for Luo Baining.

After the family's discussion, they all put aside their work. Old man Luo went to find the boatman who fished by the Yongshui River all the year round, but Fang's was assigned by Yao's to order tofu.

Nowadays, the weather is getting hotter every day, and the tofu is not durable. There are not many fresh tofu made in the tofu workshop every day. Like Yao's, it needs a large amount of noodles, so you have to make an agreement with the tofu maker in advance.

Mrs. Fang went to a tofu shop, ordered tofu, and made an appointment to deliver it early in the morning on the day of the banquet.

How to manage Luo Baihan's birthday banquet is now the top priority of the whole family, Fang's was called by Yao's name to help, so naturally he couldn't shirk it.Even Luo Baisu was called out and ordered by Yao Shi to write a post.

People in the village, if there is any happy event, just ask someone to bring a message, and no one writes a post seriously.Originally, there were not many literate people in the village, and paper and ink were expensive, so no one was too lazy to bother, but Yao felt that Luo Baihan was a scholar, so he was naturally different from ordinary farmers, and she hoped that this time, she would be able to accept a few Money, if you just ask people to talk about it casually, who will pay attention to it?

Yao shi insisted on doing this, no one in the family wanted to make her unhappy because of such a small matter, and it was not a big deal anyway, so they all agreed to her.Fortunately, pens, inks, papers and inkstones were all ready-made at home, so Luo Baisu wrote the post without further ado.

Yao shi thought it was a decent thing, and wanted to make Luo Baining look good, so he asked Luo Baining to put these dozens of posters in his pocket and send them out one by one.

Luo Baining is illiterate, so there are too many invitations, so naturally she can't remember which one belongs to, and she is anxious to play, thinking that this is not a big deal, as long as his brother celebrates his birthday, and the matter of putting wine at home As long as I made it clear, I sent out the posts in my hand indiscriminately, one for each family, and unexpectedly sent a lot of them by mistake. Zhang San's family sent it to Li Si, and Li Si's family sent it to Wang Wu's family. inside.

The old patriarch has been teaching the children in the village to enlightenment. Although not many of them study hard, and after so many years, they can only recognize the characters, and few of them can remember them now, but the old patriarch's own juniors, They are all literate. Seeing that the name on the post is wrong, it is inevitable that they have to learn to speak in front of adults and make a few jokes.

When Luo Tiandu and Mrs. Fang went to borrow tables, chairs, benches, bowls and chopsticks from acquaintances, they were dragged and said once: "Sister-in-law, your sister-in-law sent the third uncle's post to our house by mistake. , we still don’t know who owns it now.”

After speaking, he handed the post that Luo Baining sent over to Fang Shi the day before, and Luo Tian went up to take a look, and it was indeed a mistake, his head was full of black lines.

Yao shi specially asked Luo Baisu to write a post solemnly, and then sent Luo Baining to post it, just to show that she attached great importance to the wine arrangement this time. A lot of jokes.

If the person who received the post was a narrow-minded and calculating person, he might offend him completely.

"Bai Han's birthday party, we live in the same village, just call any child over to pass the word, but the fourth aunt is so cautious, and specially sent a post over, alas, really!" Fortunately, that person is not narrow-minded. Yes, I just took it as a joke and didn't care about it seriously.

"Children are playful, and it's common for them to take the wrong things." Because Luo Baining made a fuss, Fang didn't want to say much, but just casually prevaricated.

Luo Tian felt that this was an excellent example to prove the importance of reading, so he tugged at the corner of Fang's clothes and said, "From now on, eldest sister will study for another hour, otherwise she will learn fewer words, and you will be troubled like this by my sister-in-law." It's a joke, that's embarrassing."

Fang nodded helplessly at her: "Yes, what you said is right, you and eldest sister want to study, when did I object?"

(End of this chapter)