70s Xiao Que Xing

Chapter 127

"Yes, Dad, Pearl and the others are making moon cakes, so I asked me to help. You just came back, how did you know that!" Xie Xiaonian glanced at Xie Xiaobao while speaking, thinking that he should have told Father Xie.

"I didn't say it!" Seeing Xie Xiaonian looking at him, Xie Xiaobao said quickly, afraid that Xie Xiaonian would misunderstand him and not give him mooncakes at night.

"When I came back, I heard from people in the village that the work points these educated youths earned were not enough to feed themselves. How could they have food to make mooncakes!" Father Xie asked casually.

In fact, he heard the speculation from the villagers that Xie Xiaonian took his family's food to send to the educated youths, that's why he asked this question. After all, the family's food is not abundant, so he can't tolerate Xie Xiaonian taking his own food out to show off.

"There's no food to buy. Although they don't earn much work points, they are from the city after all, so they don't need money. Otherwise, they wouldn't have enough money to build kitchens and toilets." Xie Xiaonian responded.

In fact, what Xie Xiaonian said is correct, usually when the villagers renovate their houses, they not only need to cut wood, but also save money and tickets to buy glutinous rice, not to mention money, just food tickets, and no one in the village has any.

And even the straw on the roof, they have to save for several years.

So at this time, if there is no money, the house cannot be built casually.

Some families can’t even afford a side room, and when their children get married and have no house to live in, they can only squeeze together or divide one house into two with bamboo to make ends meet.

When Li Zhenzhu and Liu Yifan built the kitchen and toilet, they bought the wood and straw from the villagers. Anyone in the village would think that they had money in their hands.

In fact, what the villagers don't know is that when Li Zhenzhu and the two built the house, they used up all the money and food stamps in their hands. The kitchen can't even be covered.

Father Xie heard what Xie Xiaonian said, so he believed Xie Xiaonian's words, and stopped pursuing the matter, and then said: "Push the bicycle into the house, hang up the meat first, and I will bring you a few catties later. White noodles, don’t forget to make dumplings at night.”

"Don't worry, Dad, I will never forget it. Pearl just gave me 4 mooncakes, and we can have a happy Mid-Autumn Festival with the addition of mooncakes at night." Xie Xiaonian took the initiative to talk about mooncakes.

"So many?" Father Xie asked in surprise.

"They make southern style moon cakes, each one is relatively small, one is only as big as the palm of your hand, unlike the ones we sell here, each one weighs a catty." Knowing that Father Xie misunderstood, Xie Xiaonian explained.

"It's so small, those 4 don't weigh half a catty." Father Xie said with some disappointment.

"They are just responding to the occasion, and they don't rely on this to get enough to eat. After all, it is made of fine grains, and they can't afford to eat too much." Xie Xiaonian said.

"Well, then you can add more vegetables to the meat later, make more dumplings, don't have enough." The family hasn't eaten meat for such a long time, and everyone must eat a lot.

"Well, I see, Dad." Even if Father Xie didn't say it, Xie Xiaonian would still do it. After all, there are so many people in the family, and this catty of meat is not enough if you don't add more food.

After finishing speaking, Xie Xiaonian pushed the bicycle into the house, and the meat turned around and hung it in the kitchen.

After Xie's father went out, Xie Xiaobao ran to the kitchen and happily said to Xie Xiaonian: "Second Sister, do we really eat dumplings tonight?"

"Well! Didn't you hear that just now!"

"That's great, second sister, pack more, I think I can eat 3 big bowls!" The last time Xie Xiaobao ate meat was when Xie Xiaonian was engaged. He hadn't eaten meat for nearly 5 months, and he was too hungry. up.

"Don't worry, I promise to let you eat enough!"

After Xie Xiaobao got Xie Xiaonian's affirmative answer, he hurried out to show off with his friends, after all, eating dumplings was a big deal for him.

When Xie Xiaonian's eyes were a little swollen from reading, he realized that the sun had already started to set, and it was time to make dinner.

So Xie Xiaonian put down the book in his hand, went to the vegetable garden and cut a lot of leeks.

Because Father Xie said to make more dumplings, Xie Xiaonian got a lot of leeks and prepared to mix them in the meat stuffing, so that although the dumplings would not be very tasty, they could have more stuffing.

When Xie Xiaonian was choosing the dishes, he saw Wu Lihua led Xie Xiaobao and Xie Xiaoye back, so much earlier than usual, one could tell at a glance that they were coming back to eat dumplings.

"Second Sister, I'll help you choose the dishes." Xie Xiaobao saw that Xie Xiaonian was cooking, and immediately stepped forward to help.

Maybe it was because they wanted to eat dumplings quickly, so although Wu Lihua and Xie Xiaoye didn't help, they didn't find fault with Xie Xiaonian either.

Because there were a lot of bags, when Father Xie and Xie Dabao came back for dinner, Xie Xiaonian finally finished making the dumplings, and was directing Xie Xiaobao to boil the water and prepare the dumplings.

Seeing the two of them coming back, Xie Xiaonian said: "Father, you should wash your hands first, the first pot will be ready in no time."

Father Xie looked at Xie Xiaonian and Xie Xiaobao who were busily busy in the kitchen, and Wu Lihua and Xie Xiaoye who were resting in the main room, frowned and did not speak.

After all, it was a holiday, so if he could not lose his temper, he still didn't want to lose his temper.

There are many people in the family, so Xie Xiaonian needs to cook three pots to cook all the dumplings.

Because the ground pot is faster, within a few minutes, Xie Xiaonian cooked the first pot of dumplings.

A total of 4 bowls were made out of this pot. Xie Xiaonian brought a bowl to Father Xie first, and said, "Father, you should eat it while it is hot." Yes, you can handle it yourself."

Because today Xie Xiaobao helped choose the vegetables for a while, and helped to light the fire for a while, so after Xie Xiaonian returned to the kitchen, even if Father Xie didn't say anything, Xie Xiaonian took a bowl directly and handed it to Xie Xiaobao, who was sitting in front of the stove, swallowing his saliva greedily .

If before, Xie Xiaobao would have dared to serve the first bowl of rice served, but in recent months, after Xie's father has become more and more strict, without Xie's father speaking, Xie Xiaobao really dare not reach out to serve the rice, especially this kind of rice. Time to improve your life.

After Xie Xiaobao took the bowl that Xie Xiaonian handed over, he didn't start eating immediately, he glanced at Father Xie with his small eyes, and after seeing that he didn't object, he started to eat happily.

He wasn't afraid of the heat, so he stuffed them into his mouth one by one, but luckily he still remembered watching the fire in the stove.

Xie Xiaonian didn't intend to serve the last bowl, she wasn't greedy enough to compete with Xie Xiaoye.

Because there was only one catty of meat, Xie Xiaonian put a lot of leeks in order to make more dumplings, but the dumplings didn't taste good because there were too many vegetables and little meat.

Xie Xiaonian made a total of nearly 250 dumplings, but he didn't expect to eat them all in the end, even Xie Xiaobao ate 2 big bowls, Xie Xiaonian was a little afraid that he would spoil his stomach.

After eating, Xie Xiaonian took out the four mooncakes.

"Father, this is the mooncake that Pearl gave me today, share it with everyone!" Xie Xiaonian said.

"Just divide it up, and I won't touch it." Father Xie didn't plan to intervene in such a trivial matter.

"Well, Xiaobao helped with a lot of work today, so I divided Xiaobao into one, and Dabao also worked for a day, so I also divided one, and the rest were one and a half." Xie Xiaonian was fairly assigned.

"I want to eat the whole thing too! The half is not enough to fit between my teeth!" Xie Xiaoye said unhappily seeing that she only had half of it.

"What did you do today? Lazy like your mother all day long, and you want to eat a whole meal. Your second sister didn't even say to eat a whole meal."

When Father Xie came back at night, he saw Xie Xiaonian and Xie Xiaobao busy in the kitchen, while Wu Lihua and Xie Xiaoye, who had played for a day, were resting in the room, and he was a little dissatisfied, so he was not polite at this time, and said directly.

Seeing that Xie's father was about to lose his temper again, Wu Lihua quickly pulled Xie Xiaoye and stopped her from talking.

Seeing Father Xie acquiesced in his distribution method, Xie Xiaonian directly divided the mooncakes among everyone. As for who eats what fillings, Xie Xiaonian didn't care.

And Xie Xiaobao looked at the whole mooncake in his hand, and happily said to Xie Xiaonian: "Thank you second sister, second sister, I will help you with work tomorrow."

Because of this assignment, for the first time, Xie Xiaobao had the idea of ​​more work, more pay in his mind, and for the first time he became interested in working.

The next day, before Xie Xiaonian went out, she saw the third grandma coming to the house.

"Third Grandma, why are you here?" Xie Xiaonian asked in surprise.

"I have something to do with you, come to the house after you finish your work in a while!" The third grandma said with a smile.

"Well, come over when I finish packing!"

As soon as Xie Xiaonian arrived at the third grandma's house, the third grandma dragged Xie Xiaonian into the kitchen, then took out the mooncakes Xie Xiaonian gave yesterday from the hanging basket and said, "Pearl can give you a few months of cakes, you can give me so much , I ate two yesterday, you can keep the rest and eat slowly!"

"Didn't you go to your nephew's house for the holidays yesterday? Why are there so many left?"

"I went, but I didn't bring the moon cakes. You and Li Zhenzhu made moon cakes together in the whole village. I don't know those two educated youths well. If I take the moon cakes to my nephew's house, not everyone in the village will know about it. , Did you give this to me? Then your stepmother will have something to say." The third grandma analyzed.

"It's okay, I'm not afraid of her." Xie Xiaonian said indifferently.

"It's not a question of being afraid or not. It's better to have less than to be more. And if you give me so much at once, the villagers must think that the two educated youths are very rich. Isn't that just causing trouble for them!" The third grandma looked at Xie Xiaonian indifferently. Look, said carefully.

"Then you can keep it for yourself. You gave me a lot of pearls yesterday, and I still have them. You can keep them for yourself!"

"I can't finish eating, you eat it quickly, or it will go bad."

"Then I'll eat two, and you keep the remaining four for yourself, or I won't eat any of them!"

"Okay, two are fine, hurry up and eat, don't be seen."

After Xie Xiaonian finished eating the mooncakes and chatted with the third grandma for a while, he went straight up the mountain.

"Xiao Nian, are you okay!" Standing at the foot of the mountain, Li Zhenzhu asked anxiously when she saw Xie Xiaonian approaching.

"What can I do!"

"Yesterday, Lin Xiaodan told you about going to my place to make moon cakes. Your stepmother didn't blame you for not working or taking food from the family!" Li Zhenzhu asked worriedly.

"The things I took are really my own, not my family's. Don't worry! And I took the mooncakes back. It's too late for them to be happy. How could they blame me." Xie Xiaonian said with a smile.

"Didn't the team start to organize mountain sweeps today? Why are you still here?" Xie Xiaonian continued to ask.

"I'm not worried about you, so I asked Liu Yifan to take a leave of absence for me. Since you are fine, I can rest assured. Be careful when you go up the mountain, and I will go to work too!"

"Well, you should also be careful, you don't lack food now, don't make yourself too tired, and don't forget to bring a medicine bag to repel snakes and insects." Xie Xiaonian instructed.

"Well, I know, I take it with me every day, I'm leaving!" After speaking, Li Zhenzhu hurried to the east.

After Xie Xiaonian went up the mountain, she didn't wander around where they used to go, but walked a certain distance into the mountain. She decided to go inside to see if she found anything new.

Xie Xiaonian was walking into the mountains, picking wild fruits and digging up some uncommon herbs.

It may be because no one came from this mountain, so Xie Xiaonian gained a lot along the way.

When Xie Xiaonian was about to sit down and eat something, he suddenly saw green and purple plants in the distance.

(End of this chapter)