Chapter 21
Holding a bowl and scooping up noodles in the pot, He Xiaoxi confirmed her suspicion even more.The noodle soup had a lot of broken eggs that fell into the poached eggs when they were boiled.With only the shattered eggs that fell from He Zhonghuai's poached egg, there would never be so many in the noodle soup.There are at least four or five eggs in this noodle soup to drop so many eggs.

Where can the poached eggs go?It must have been buried in the noodles and brought out.

In this family, the order of serving meals was fixed when He Xiaoxi was young.When He Xiaoxi's grandparents were still alive, He Xiaonan was the last one to serve the meal.After the death of his grandparents, He Xiaonan's ranking moved up, and He Xiaoxi became the last one.

Compared with the generosity of the two elders, Liu's meanness made He Xiaoxi suffer a lot.He Xiaonan was the last to serve the meal, and the old man at least let her be full.When it comes to Liu's, it's not just a matter of having enough to eat.He was often beaten and scolded for eating.

In this era, whether it is noodles or pancakes, they are made of mixed noodles all the year round.If you want to eat white noodles, you can only wait for the Chinese New Year to eat dumplings.

So both adults and children are looking forward to the arrival of the new year.The taste of the new year in later generations is getting weaker and weaker, and material abundance is the main reason.You can eat what you want, and when you want to eat.Who would still be looking forward to the Chinese New Year?

Zamian's noodle cakes are not as finely ground as later generations.Grain husks are also mixed in and eaten together.Therefore, the noodle cakes made are dry and hard, and it makes your throat hurt when you eat them.

Some miscellaneous noodles are difficult to knead into a ball when making noodles, and they are easy to disperse.It can only be wrapped with white flour and rolled into cakes.The outer layer of white dough is vividly called "furoshiki".

When the old people are around, the privilege of the person who serves the meal first is to be able to give priority to choosing a bun with more white flour.After the Liu family became the head of the family, when it was He Xiaoxi's turn, the bread was gone, so he could only drink thin ones.Drinking dilute ones can be mixed with water to fill you up, but there are not many dilute ones, so you can only drink water.It wasn't that He Xiaodong secretly left her a piece of cake every meal, He Xiaoxi would have starved to death.

Zamian noodles are not as smooth as white noodles.Zamian noodles want to be shaped, some have to be cut thicker.Zamian noodles are hard on their own, and they are even harder when they are cut thicker.The person who serves the rice first has more noodles in the pot, which can be scooped up with a spoon.When he arrived at He Xiaoxi, there were few noodles, so he had to use chopsticks to scoop them up.Mrs. Liu would beat her, scold her for being unruly, and throw chopsticks into the pot.She can only use a spoon to scoop.The hard noodles cannot be scooped up with a spoon and always slip.If you scoop for a long time, you will be beaten and scolded.This situation improved after the sister-in-law came in.

He Xiaoxi is still hesitating whether to expose Mrs. Liu and the others for stealing today.Today is not a good time, because today is market day.

The market is in Zhangjiaji Village on the other side of the river.The market day here is every five days.On the first market day after the busy farming season, many people went to the market.Because the business of the ferry is good, the eldest brother has not come back, so he is not at home at this time.

Many neighbors also went to the market to sell some small items, and there were few people at home.He Xiaoxi was afraid of making trouble.

Although it is now possible to use chopsticks to pick up noodles in the pot, it is still very difficult to pick up noodles because there are too many soups and few noodles.

There was a conversation between Mrs. Liu and her sister-in-law in the yard: "You go to eat first. The noodles have been too long, and they are not tasty. I will feed Lulu. You eat quickly, and then replace me after eating." It was Mrs. Liu's. sound.It sounded like the sister-in-law was refusing, but in the end the bowl was taken by Mrs. Liu.Occasionally, I would fry an egg white pancake to supplement Lulu.It is abnormal for Mrs. Liu to take the initiative to take on the job of feeding the children.What's more unusual, today it was Mrs. Liu's turn to cook, and they actually took the initiative to give the children extra meals.No matter how you think about it, it's weird.

Just as He Xiaoxi was wondering, Lulu cried.After that, there was a "crash", the sound of the bowl falling to the ground and breaking.Then, Mrs. Liu "slapped" the child a few times.Cursing: "Things that are dead will ruin things. If good things are not eaten and thrown on the ground, they will not be afraid of losing their lives."

After being beaten, the child cried even louder.Xiaoxi hurriedly put down the bowl and chopsticks.

Inadvertently, I saw some medicine dregs on the side of the stove.Xiaoxi picked it up and saw that it was really medicine dregs.Reminiscent of Liu's unreasonable behavior today, put it in his pocket.Run out in a hurry.

The sister-in-law had already stopped Liu Shi, and Xiaoxi hugged Lulu to comfort her.There was a broken bowl on the ground with a mouth missing, and egg pancakes were scattered all over the floor.Mrs. Liu brought a broom and a dustpan to sweep and throw away.

He Xiaoxi touched the medicine dregs in his pocket.Put the niece down.Before Mrs. Liu, he picked up the gaped bowl on the ground and put away the cakes.Farm food is precious, especially the fine grain that subsidizes children.If Mrs. Liu wasn't planning to sweep it away, He Xiaoxi was just suspicious.Now she was [-]% sure that the omelets on the ground were tricky.

And it should be related to the medicine dregs she found by the stove.The appearance of the medicine dregs was too strange.No one in the family was sick, and no one was found to grab medicine.With Liu's temperament, if he is sick, he would like to let the whole village know, so that he can avoid work, so why would he secretly take medicine?And it's not that soup and the like can't be picked up on the ground, and no one is willing to throw it away.They are all picked up, washed and eaten.

Xiaoxi tore off a piece of cake and put it in his mouth, a bitter taste spread in his mouth.It smells like medicine dregs.He Xiaoxi put the bowl on the top of the cupboard in the eldest brother's room, went out and fastened the door.Picking up a big broom standing by the door, he hit Liu Shi head-to-head and face-to-face.

Anyway, this day can't go on, so there is no need to look forward and backward, let's act first.Caught off guard, Mrs. Liu was knocked down to the ground and received several blows.

He Xiaonan came to his senses, grabbed a hoe and handed it to He Xiaobei.He Xiaobei waved towards Xiaoxi.While resisting, He Xiaoxi retreated to the place where the crowd gathered.The surrounding villagers hurriedly separated the two.

In the Weihu area, the folk customs are tough.Shuidong Village is farther away from the lake. Although it is not like the people in the lake, there are many fights every year because of the lake's production.But large and small martial arts also happen from time to time.People have full experience in stopping fights, and even though He Xiaobei is fierce, he is only in his teens after all.It was subdued all at once.

Yes, it was He Xiaobei who was restrained and took the hoe, not He Xiaoxi who was taken from the broom.

This is another custom here.It is estimated that it is also created by the sturdy folk customs.It is easy for men to just pick up something and go to bed when they disagree with each other.The damage caused by the impulse is very large.But that is between men, and it is rare for a man to wield a weapon to hit a woman.

Like most rural areas, men in Shuidong Village also beat their wives.There is also a slang saying: the daughter-in-law who was knocked down kneaded the noodles.But whoever hits a woman with a weapon will face condemnation from everyone.The reputation will spread to ten miles and eight villages, where people beat their wives to death.It will make it difficult for boys of school age in a village to marry a wife.

When He Xiaonan handed him the hoe, he only remembered his age.But he forgot that He Xiaobei is a spoiled person who only knows how to eat alone.The good food he ate made him taller and stronger than children of the same age, and because of the family inheritance, he was tall and fat.He was about the same size as some fifteen or sixteen-year-old children in the village.

He Xiaoxi took advantage of He Xiaobei being surrounded by people to teach him, and dragged his broom back to the door.From afar, he saw He Xiaonan looking around on tiptoe.How could Xiaoxi let her go?
 Winter is so cold that I miss summer.I have already forgotten how I missed winter when I was attacked by mosquitoes in summer.Heiyu thought that Heiyu's memory seemed to be like this all the time, and could last for half a year.Today, Daddy Fish said, "Where is the calendar that I asked you to buy for me?" Daddy Fish is an old antique, and he is not used to looking at calendars on his mobile phone, nor does he like wall calendars, so he is only used to using calendars.Hei Yu told him to buy it before the new year, and reminded him again later, but Hei Yu forgot.Well, the memory seems to last less than half a month.cry!

  
 
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