70s Xiao Que Xing

Chapter 330 Nature

"It's none of your business. She's already thought so. Before, my mother-in-law wrote to ask me to send money back, saying that she wanted to knit a sweater. It seems that she just wanted me to pay for it. Knitting a sweater for Hongmei. But they think so beautifully, I don’t have a sweater yet, where can I find spare money to knit for her, I’m not as easy to bully as I was when I first got married,” Zhang Chunping said.

"Are you going to go up the mountain tomorrow to sweep the goods?" Several families made an appointment to go up the mountain together tomorrow, but now that Zhang Chunping's house has guests, Xie Xiaonian still needs to confirm.

"Of course we did. Let's just pretend Hongmei doesn't exist."

These mountain products are related to their family's winter rations, how can they be affected by an unimportant person.

"That's fine, it's settled like this, you go back and cook, your man should be back soon!" Xie Xiaonian nodded and said.

"Chunping's sister-in-law's family is going to be in trouble recently!" Xie Xiaonian said with emotion after repeating what Zhang Chunping told him to Xu Zhongjun.

"That can't be helped. Who let her family have such relatives? I don't think Chunping's sister-in-law is a person who will suffer, so don't worry, eat well! This braised pork is delicious, daughter-in-law, You didn't eat in the morning, hurry up and eat more!"

Xu Zhongjun said while picking up food for Xiao Nian, all his attention is now on the food.

"Father, I want to eat braised pork too!" Seeing that his father was serving food for his mother, Jianbing also held a bowl and said.

"Do it yourself, do your own thing!" Xu Zhongjun replied ruthlessly.

"Then why do you pick it up for mom, dad is partial!" Pancake said dissatisfied.

"It's only natural for me to bring vegetables to my daughter-in-law, so I'm biased, what can you do!" Xu Zhongjun replied childishly.

"Pancakes, my brother will make them for you!" Heping comforted.

"Yeah, brother is the best!"

Xie Xiaonian looked at the scene that was staged on the dining table almost every day, and smiled helplessly, Xu Zhongjun was really getting more and more childish.

"Zhongjun, you tidy up the vegetable garden tomorrow morning and hoe the ground so that I can grow vegetables! Pancakes and apples, you two will stay at home with Xiaobai tomorrow morning to watch over my sister. Go ahead and call your father, do you understand?" Xie Xiaonian urged.

"Mom, where are you going? I want to go too!"

"Mom is going to go to the mountains with Xiang Hong's mother and the others to pick goods from the mountains tomorrow. You will go faster when the time comes. You are too young to keep up. Be good at home tomorrow, and I will bring you delicious fruits when you come back at noon!" Xie Xiaonian coaxed.

"Why don't I go up the mountain with you tomorrow, so that I can carry some things for you. For the vegetable field, I can do it when I come back from the army at night." Xu Zhongjun continued worryingly.

"No, I'm mainly going to make up the number, and I don't make too much. I can move by heart. You train hard enough every day. How can you still do farm work when you come back!"

Xie Xiaonian often finds time to go up the mountain, just to find an excuse for the family to eat, and will not compete with others to get too many things back, let alone tire herself.

Xu Zhongjun also understood the situation, so after hearing Xie Xiaonian's words, he agreed.

"Aren't your nieces going?" When they went up the mountain the next day, Xie Xiaonian asked suspiciously when he saw that Xiang Hong followed, but He Hongmei was nowhere to be seen.

"She said she was too tired yesterday, she didn't rest, and couldn't walk! My family can only go up the mountain to pick mountain goods one day a week, so it's fine if she doesn't follow, so as not to make me angry and affect my work." Zhang Chunping pursed her lips. Said.

"That's fine, we can be more comfortable without her here. Some time ago when I went up the mountain, I found a place with a lot of good things in it. Let's just go there today and save the time of running back and forth to find it." Xie Xiaonian Continuing.

"Okay, I knew it was right to follow you!" Zhang Chunping said happily.

The place Xie Xiaonian found was a small mountain depression, a little far away from the compound, but because no one went there, there were a lot of things like mushrooms, fungus and chestnuts in it.

In addition, Xie Xiaonian sometimes sprinkles some stream water from the space to the plants over there, so it is not an exaggeration to describe the small mountain col as fruitful, so many things are enough for their family to have a good winter.

At noon, when the family returned to the compound with their heavy backpacks on their backs, they saw He Hongmei at the gate of the compound, shyly chatting with the soldiers on guard.

To be precise, it was He Hongmei who was talking alone, and the soldiers on guard stood straight all the time because of their duties, without looking sideways, and did not speak to each other.

But a pretty little girl kept talking to him like this in front of him, and the soldier's face was blushing, but he didn't know how to drive him away, so he had to treat him as ignorance.

Seeing the people coming back, He Hongmei hurriedly said goodbye to the little soldiers and walked towards Zhang Chunping and the others.

After she walked away, the little soldier also quietly breathed a sigh of relief. Facing such a little girl, he really didn't know how to resist.

He Hongmei stepped forward and said to Zhang Chunping with concern: "Second Aunt, you are back, are you tired? Jun Wei and Jun Qiang were coaxed to sleep by me, and I have already cooked the meal, just waiting for you and Second Uncle and Xiang Hong are coming back for dinner. The basket must be very heavy, come, let me carry it for you."

After finishing speaking, He Hongmei made a gesture to step forward to take the pannier from Zhang Chunping's back.

Zhang Chunping was not a polite person, since Hongmei wanted to help her carry the basket, it happened that she could help her daughter.

So Zhang Chunping immediately put the back basket on the ground, and said to Hongmei: "That's fine, then help me carry it, and I will help Xiang Hongbei."

After finishing speaking, ignoring He Hongmei's uncertain expression, she took the basket on her daughter's back and walked home.

In fact, He Hongmei just wanted to put on a show, pretend to be virtuous, and then take the opportunity to see what's in the back basket.

But now Zhang Chunping had put the back basket on the ground, waiting for her to carry it, and she was a little bit hard to get off for a while, so she had to accept her fate and carried the heavy back basket on the ground, otherwise people would not have to say she was hypocritical.

However, she didn't let herself suffer. Before carrying the basket, she took out the biggest pear from the basket, and followed the crowd to the yard while chewing on it. Anyway, she didn't eat it for nothing.

If Zhang Chunping hadn't told Wu Shuqin and the others about this niece in the morning, when other people saw this scene, they would have thought her niece was obedient and obedient.

"Mom, I was with my brother this morning and took good care of my sister. She didn't cry all morning." As soon as Xie Xiaonian arrived home, Pancake hurriedly claimed the credit.

"Really, Pancake is so good, keep working hard in the afternoon. Come, I will reward you with fruit." Xiao Nian took out a bunch of grapes from the basket and said to Pancake with a smile.

"I don't want to eat, Mom. I'm going to go up the mountain with you this afternoon. I want to go up the mountain too. I haven't gone up the mountain for a long time." Pancake said dissatisfied.

"But mom won't go up the mountain in the afternoon. In the afternoon, mom and dad are going to build out the rabbit pen and sheep pen in the yard. When mom and dad go up the mountain together next time, I will take you and my brother back to the mountain together." Can I have my sister go with me?" Xie Xiaonian coaxed.

"Okay then, mom, you must take me with you next time you go up the mountain." Pancake asked worriedly.

"Well, don't worry, my mother keeps her word and keeps her word."

After finishing speaking, Xie Xiaonian went to wash two bunches of grapes, peeled a pear and gave it to the father and son, then went to the kitchen to cook lunch.

But Zhang Chunping, who originally thought that she could eat when she went home, went to the kitchen and saw a pot of vegetables stewed in the pot, and said to He Hongmei angrily: "Didn't I tell you, fry a potato or a bean?" , and then steam an eggplant, what are you doing?"

"What is what? Of course it's food? It's not like you haven't eaten it, isn't that what our family does? And we only eat two meals a day in our hometown, so you will enjoy the blessing and pay for it for a day. After eating three meals, I think it’s okay to deal with the lunch meal casually, and eating too much is a waste of food.” He Hongmei made excuses for her laziness.

"I eat two meals in my hometown. That's also the time when the farming is slack. Don't you still eat three meals during the busy farming season? We are so tired from going up the mountain today, what's the matter with eating three meals? See if you asked you to cook a meal. What you do is What? Is it for people to eat? It’s a waste of my food. If you don’t want to cook, don’t like to stay here, if you like to eat two meals, you can go back to your hometown and no one will keep you.” Even if you can’t take the opportunity Zhang Chunping didn't intend to make things easier for the other party by driving them away.

"Why is it not for people to eat? You don't want to eat it, I will eat it myself. I think you are deliberately finding fault, and you want to use this to drive me away. Let me tell you, if you want to drive me away, there is no way!"

He Hongmei filled herself with a bowl of food angrily, and sat at the table to eat.

No matter how unpalatable it was, she still pretended to be delicious, to annoy Zhang Chunping, who made this second aunt never get along with everyone in her family.

Originally, Zhang Chunping's family was not picky eaters. After all, Zhang Chunping's previous craftsmanship was stored there, and picky eaters would starve.

But ever since Zhang Chunping and Xie Xiaonian learned to cook, the family's mouths have become more and more picky. The three children looked at the food in the pot with droopy faces, unwilling to reach out to eat.

Normally, when it was time to eat, the children would have already devoured it.

Seeing this, Zhang Chunping had no choice. It was her own child who was hungry, and she felt distressed, so she went back to the kitchen and made a small pot of scrambled eggs with tomatoes as quickly as possible.

"You guys are really living a good life. You can eat scrambled eggs casually. My grandma and I can't eat eggs once a year at home."

When Zhang Chunping brought the dishes to the table, He Hongmei said with her lips curled up while picking eggs into her bowl.

Anyway, there are no outsiders here, and she doesn't need to pretend to be gentle and kind, to reveal her mean nature.

(End of this chapter)