W Chapter 24

Chapter 24 Chapter 24 V three-in-one

Chapter 24 Chapter 24 V three-in-one

Coming out of the house, Ling Xing’s brow was slightly furrowed. Even though he still had a smile on his face and was comforting the children, if you looked closely, you could still see the difference from usual.

He had always lacked a sense of security, which was related to the death of his parents in his childhood and only having his grandfather to depend on. Now that he was in another world, this sense of unease was amplified a lot.

Although he would not shrink back from things, he couldn’t completely eliminate this emotion, and could only find ways to alleviate it.

Ling Xing sighed softly, without hiding it, “I’m afraid the Fang family will retaliate against us.”

Shen Hui shifted his gaze, only able to see a small part of Ling Xing’s profile. He said in a low voice: “The Fang family will use some small tricks, but it won’t have a big impact on the family. The village chief won’t allow it.”

Hearing what Shen Hui said, Ling Xing felt a lot more relieved.

Small tricks would be annoying, but at least there would be no danger to life. He had spent most of his previous life in the village, and frictions between neighbors were like that, so he could get used to it.

The village chief’s house was the most impressive in Xiao Liucun, half brick and half mud, with a thatched roof.

Compared to the other houses which were all made of mud, the village chief’s house was really the best.

The Fang family lived not far from the village chief’s house. It was also a house made of pure earth bricks, but it was newer and had a larger yard.

After they became successful, they bought the neighboring yard, where the Shen family used to live.

Zhu Rushan happened to be at home, and when he saw Shen Hui bringing three children and Ling Xing, his eyebrows jumped involuntarily, with a bad premonition.

Sure enough, while Ling Xing was taking the children to his wife to buy malt sugar, Shen Hui spoke coldly in the yard.

“Village chief, the Fang family came to the Shen family to make trouble again today, almost breaking Little Five’s head with a fire stick. The eldest brother is gone, and I’m the eldest brother in the family. If anything happens to them, I won’t be able to control myself from taking action against the Fang family.”

Zhu Rushan knew very well what kind of person Shen Hui was.

He valued his family more than his own life. He was ruthless and didn’t talk much. If others didn’t provoke him, everything would be fine, but if they did, he would pay them back tenfold.

In this matter between the Shen family and the Fang family, Shen Hui had spoken, so he really had to take care of it.

A few years ago, his third son went up the mountain and encountered a python. If Shen Hui hadn’t saved him, his third son would have been eaten by the snake.

Although he had given the Shen family money to thank them at that time, the debt of saving his life couldn’t be cleared up with just five taels of silver.

Now that Shen Hui had made this trip specifically, Zhu Rushan knew that he was here to clear the debt of gratitude from back then.

Since that was the case, he had to treat it as his own family affair and couldn’t just try to mediate between the two sides.

Zhu Rushan said readily: “Okay, I’ll go to the Fang family and keep an eye on them for you later.”

Malt sugar came in liquid and hard forms.

The village chief’s house had the hard kind, which needed to be hammered with a tool.

The white malt sugar blocks were knocked with a clanging sound.

After Shen Hui finished speaking, he went into the house to get money.

Eight copper coins bought five thumb-sized sugar cubes.

They were all packed in the oil paper that Shen Hui brought. On the way back, Shen Lai kept swallowing his saliva because he was so greedy.

When they were almost at the end of the village, there was no one on the road.

Shen Hui broke two sugar cubes into four pieces and stuffed them into the mouths of Shen Lai, Xiao Chun, and Xiao Xia, blocking their saliva.

After tasting the sweetness, the three children squinted their eyes and covered their mouths, the smiles on their faces unable to be hidden, slowly wrapping the sugar cubes and savoring the hard-won sweetness.

While the children were turning their heads, Shen Hui raised his hand. Ling Xing felt something strange on his lips, forcefully pressing against his teeth, with a sweet smell in his breath.

Shen Hui had stuffed a malt sugar cube into his mouth too.

After reacting to the sugar being stuffed into his mouth, Ling Xing looked up at Shen Hui, and saw him lower his head and say to Shen Lai and the three: “I’m here.”

Then he suddenly turned his head, and Ling Xing suddenly met his eyes, hearing the other party say: “Don’t be afraid.”

Ling Xing’s ears were a little red, and he quietly moved the malt sugar cube in his mouth to a different position. Shen Hui was treating him like a child too…

Coming early was not as good as coming at the right time. When buying tofu, there happened to be only five catties left, and Ling Xing bought them all.

Shen Hui took the pottery basin, and all the tofu was put into the pottery basin.

Xie Qingya glanced at the cold Shen Hui, and whispered to Ling Xing: “Ling Ge’er, I heard that the people who made trouble at your house last night were all sleeping outside this morning. Zhao’s family’s two boys were also injured. Fang Xiuxia is probably going crazy. You have to be careful.”

“It already happened, and the second brother caught them. That Fang Xiuxia doesn’t know what she’s crazy about, but she took a fire stick and smashed it directly at Little Five’s head. Fortunately, he came back in time.”

Ling Xing was still a little scared when he thought about it. If Fang Xiuxia’s strength had hit, Shen Lai would have suffered a great crime.

If you didn’t know better, you would have thought they were enemies of life and death, and they wouldn’t stop until they had killed each other.

Xie Qingya had an expression that said, “I knew it.” He pulled Ling Xing’s sleeve, leaned close to his ear and whispered.

“I guess it’s because Zhao Fan has someone outside. A few days ago, I went to the bookstore and happened to see Zhao Fan pulling and tugging with a ge’er. That ge’er was carrying a big belly, and his face was swollen from being beaten and couldn’t be seen. Zhao Fan was coaxing him with every word.”

Ling Xing understood immediately, and his brows furrowed, “Because of this, she hates ge’ers and is so cruel to our Little Five?”

“Probably so. I heard from the aunties and husbands who buy tofu that she came back with two children this time to make trouble with Zhao Fan.”

Xie Qingya was mysterious, and his voice was even lower, “They said that the ge’er had a child, and Zhao Fan wanted to marry her as a concubine, but Fang Xiuxia wouldn’t allow it, so she brought two children back to her mother’s house.”

This melon was so big, Ling Xing was stunned, “The aunties and husbands didn’t go to town, how did they know?”

Xie Qingya looked at him with an expression that said, “You don’t understand this, do you? There are no secrets in the village. A few people get together and say a few words, and they can know who knocks on whose door at night.”

Ling Xing understood again. This was the power of the village intelligence station.

So Fang Xiuxia was so bad to Little Five because her husband cheated on a ge’er, and the ge’er was pregnant and about to enter the door as a concubine.

That didn’t seem right. There was no such thing as cheating here, only concubines and concubines.

But no matter what, their Little Five hadn’t done anything wrong. If Fang Xiuxia wanted to hate, she should hate her husband, hate that ge’er. Why vent her anger on innocent people?

The more Ling Xing thought about it, the more he felt that this person was sick, very sick.

When he bought tofu and went home, Ling Xing told Shen Hui what Xie Qingya had told him, keeping his voice low.

Children couldn’t listen to these messy things, and Ling Xing paid attention to the healthy psychological growth of children.

Shen Hui didn’t have much emotional fluctuations, and Ling Xing asked strangely: “Second brother, did you know before?”

He didn’t seem surprised at all.

“No, I just found out.”

Ling Xing shrugged, okay, Shen Hui was just too calm. He couldn’t, he wanted to grab a handful of melon seeds to crack when he was eating melons just now.

……

Zhu Rushan knocked on the Fang family’s heavy wooden door with his hands behind his back.

Soon there was a voice asking, “Who is it?”

“It’s me, Zhu Rushan.”

After a while, the door was opened, revealing an old face behind the door.

The woman’s hair was combed meticulously, her clothes were simple and upright, she wore slightly gray silver earrings on her ears, and soft cloth shoes on her feet.

She invited Zhu Rushan into the yard, with a smile on her face, “Village chief, why are you free to sit here?”

Zhu Rushan stood in the yard, found a long bench and sat down, with a sullen face and a tone that wasn’t good.

“I won’t go into the house, no need to be busy. I’m here today, whether Fang’s wife really doesn’t understand, or pretends not to understand. That matter with the Shen family should have ended last night, but why did your fourth daughter bring people to the Shen family to make trouble again today? And almost killed that Shen Little Five.”

Zhou Caihua lightly tugged at the corner of her mouth, the fake smile on her face disappeared, and her expression was a little impatient.

Because of her age and the laxity of her skin, her eyelids drooped and the corners of her mouth naturally turned down.

Her impatience was therefore magnified a lot, which made Zhu Rushan’s heart burn.

“Village chief Zhu, you’re being too biased. Why don’t you say that Shen Erlang quietly sneaked into my house in the middle of the night, beat up my fourth daughter and my two grandsons, and threw them outside for most of the night?”

Zhu Rushan was holding his breath in his heart, and at this moment, hearing what Zhou Caihua said, he couldn’t help but think of his family at all.

“If my ge’er had his belt pulled off and his pregnancy mole seen by a mixed boy, I would pick up my things and go find someone to fight. Oh, so only your family’s children are precious, and the Shen family’s ge’er is lowly? That Ling Ge’er was beaten unconscious, and he just died, so you treated him like this?”

“Don’t look at the outrageous things that your two did. You’re pretending to be confused about how nasty Fang Xiuxia’s scolding was, right? Do you really think that paying a few taels of silver is the end of it? What kind of temper does Shen Hui have? You provoke him? This time, he beat them up and threw them outside to sleep for most of the night. Did you think that would relieve your anger and the matter would be over? Fang Xiuxia doesn’t understand Shen Hui’s temper, don’t you, as her mother, and her father, who has been in the village for so long, understand?”

Zhu Rushan said a lot, and Zhou Caihua’s face turned green as she listened.

Of course they knew, but at the beginning, didn’t they think the fault was with the Shen family? They also wanted to get more benefits, which is why they had what happened last night.

As for what happened today, they didn’t expect their fourth daughter to suddenly go crazy and want to kill someone.

Family scandals shouldn’t be aired, and it wasn’t good to tell the village chief the reasons for this.

Zhou Caihua’s face changed, and she also felt that her family had something unspeakable.

If they really wanted to provoke that desperate devil, the old couple would have shown up from the beginning, instead of always letting the younger generation go, just to have some room to maneuver and not make things so stiff.

“Oh, why is village chief Zhu so angry?” The sound of a crutch came from the room, and Fang Linhai, the head of the family, finally came out.

“The fourth daughter has been spoiled at home since she was a child, and she can’t stand being wronged. She’s also the wife of the Zhao family, so she can’t stand being angry. I heard that the child was shouting about suing the government last night, and my fourth daughter was also frightened, so she scolded a few words.”

Fang Linhai wore a dark gray robe without any patches, and had a leather belt around his waist, with obvious wear on the edges, but that didn’t prevent the belt from being more valuable than a belt made of cloth.

Whether it was because money raised people, Fang Linhai, who was sixty years old, had a lot of white hair, but he didn’t have any sense of old age.

Because his left leg was injured when he was young, he had to walk with a crutch, but he was in good spirits, with sharp eyes, and his words sounded amiable but were actually barbed, blaming the fault on Shen Lai, a child, first.

Zhu Rushan said unhappily: “Brother Fang, are you really getting old and confused? Fang Xiuxia is almost thirty years old, and you two still treat her like a child?”

“Shen’s Little Five is only ten years old. She scolded a child with those dirty words. Do you still think Fang Xiuxia was wronged? Besides, your Fang Xiuxia was the first to scold someone!”

Fang Linhai obviously didn’t expect Zhu Rushan to be so disrespectful, not following the topic as usual and directly revealing the matter.

No matter how much the Fang family’s old couple wanted to help, they couldn’t confuse black and white because of what Zhu Rushan said so bluntly.

In addition, their family lived in Xiao Liucun and couldn’t really offend the village chief.

Fang Linhai twitched his lips and said with a chuckle: “Old brother Zhu, look at you, you’re getting angry after saying a few words. It was Xiuxia who did wrong, and I’ll tell her to go back.”

This wasn’t the result Zhu Rushan wanted, and he frowned and suppressed his anger.

“Honest people speak honestly. I’m here today to say that the matter between the Fang family and the Shen family will stop today. The village has been quiet for so long, and I don’t want anything to happen.”

Knowing that Zhu Rushan was serious, the two elders of the Fang family looked at each other, and then Zhou Caihua pouted and left.

Fang Linhai stayed and laughed dryly, “Okay, we’ll do it according to what old brother Zhu said.”

With the matter resolved, Zhu Rushan left the Fang family.

As soon as he opened the door, he heard the sound of things breaking from the west room of the Fang family.

Zhu Rushan shook his head and sighed, and went out directly.

In the west room of the Fang family, Fang Xiuxia smashed the pottery jar and was still not relieved, and wanted to smash the pottery plate.

The pottery they used was painted with colored pictures, which was much more expensive than plain pottery.

When the pottery jar was smashed, Zhou Caihua felt very distressed. This time she was going to smash the pottery plate, but she was stopped by her.

Putting the pottery plate down, Zhou Caihua couldn’t help but poke Fang Xiuxia’s head with her finger, “You’re wronged outside, but you only know how to show off your power at home, smashing this and smashing that. If you have the ability, why don’t you show it off outside?”

Fang Xiuxia felt angry in her heart, “What did I do wrong? Why does everyone give me a hard time!”

Her husband did, the ge’er who seduced her husband did, the Shen family did, and her mother did too!

Why was her life so hard!

“If you and Dad hadn’t stuffed me into Zhao Fan’s room back then, would I be stepped on by that dirty ge’er in the kiln now! It’s all your fault!”

Fang Xiuxia picked up the pottery plate that had been put down and smashed it, and Zhou Caihua couldn’t stop her at all.

Listening to her daughter’s crying, her heart was also not a taste.

“You’ve been living a good life for so many years, why are you still resenting your parents?”

It would have been better not to say it, but as soon as she said it, Fang Xiuxia was about to explode.

She almost roared out.

“What good life have I been living? Am I living a human life in the Zhao family? Zhao Fan’s old immortal mother uses me like a cow and horse all day long, and scolds me for being lazy and cheap if I rest for a while. She also wants to adopt my son to the eldest brother who can’t have children. If I hadn’t bought one, San Cai would have called someone else’s parents!”

Zhou Caihua sighed for a long time, but what could she do? Didn’t life go on like this?

It was good enough to have enough to eat and wear, and to have a son by her side.

“You’re still young, and there will always be a day when you outlive people. When your mother-in-law is gone, won’t you have the final say in the family? As for adoption, that didn’t happen, did it?”

Fang Xiuxia said angrily: “But now there’s a ge’er from the kiln! He has a child in his belly!”

Zhou Caihua really couldn’t do anything about this, and just as she was about to persuade her again, she suddenly thought of something and asked Fang Xiuxia, “Fourth daughter, how old is the doll that Zhao’s eldest brother’s family bought?”

Suddenly changing the topic, Fang Xiuxia didn’t react for a while, and after a moment ofStupid, she replied, “Four or five years old, what are you asking this for?”

“You answer me first, how is he getting along with Zhao’s eldest brother?” Zhou Caihua asked again.

Fang Xiuxia thought for a while, “The last time I went to Moon Bay Town, that kid was tied up and locked in the wood shed. I heard my sister-in-law say that he always ran away, and if the people in the village hadn’t helped keep an eye on him, he would have really run away that time.”

Hearing this, Zhou Caihua’s face was full of joy, and she took Fang Xiuxia’s hand.

“It’s good that he can’t be raised, aren’t you worried about that ge’er and the child in his belly? Think about it, a newborn child, who still has Zhao’s bloodline, and a wolf cub who was bought and can’t be raised, which one is better?”

Following her mother’s words and thinking about it, Fang Xiuxia slapped her thigh and said, “Hey, why didn’t I think of that before!”

“You’re still too young.”

Zhou Caihua smiled and said, “Even San Cai is not as attractive as the one in that ge’er’s belly. As long as you raise him from a young age, he’s your own child if you don’t say anything. How old is San Cai? He’s already sensible, otherwise he wouldn’t have gone out to buy a younger one to raise as his son. Your mother-in-law is just testing you, and she deliberately wants you to feel uncomfortable and fear her. You’ve been eating badly and sleeping badly because of this.”

After this point, Fang Xiuxia really understood.

But she was still a little worried.

“But what if she has a girl or a ge’er in her belly? The eldest brother’s family wants a boy.”

Zhou Caihua said calmly: “It’s not like you can’t have one after giving birth to one. Even if you keep the ge’er and girl at home, they won’t threaten you and Er Bao and San Cai. Raise them and marry them off, and you can exchange them for a bride price. If you give birth to a son, send him to Zhao’s eldest brother’s house.”

“Your mother-in-law is biased towards the eldest family. As long as you talk to her nicely, she will definitely help you.”

Fang Xiuxia suddenly became enlightened, and she was no longer angry. She packed her things and was about to leave.

That ge’er looked like he was going to give birth in three months, and she had to talk about this as soon as possible.

“Er Bao and San Cai will stay in the village for a few days, and I’ll go back to town.”

……

The Shen family came home from the field and heard about what had happened today.

After learning that Shen Hui had found the village chief and asked him to go to the Fang family to keep an eye on them, the others in the Shen family breathed a sigh of relief.

As long as the village chief agreed, with the village chief suppressing them, the Fang family wouldn’t dare to do anything big.

Shen Chengshan said: “The village chief came over yesterday, and it was Wang Fulang who sold tofu who invited him over. I’m thinking of inviting the two of them to have a meal one day to thank them properly. The village chief probably wouldn’t be interested in the things in the house, so why not have Xing Ge’er make some buns and steamed buns and send them over for him to eat something new.”

Ling Xing said that it was no problem, anyway he had to make dough every day, so it would be easy to do.

Knowing that Wang Juan and Xie Qingya were to be invited, Shen Hui said: “I’ll go up the mountain in three days to see if there’s anything in the cage. If not, I’ll go to town to buy some meat.”

After discussing everything, the family started working again.

The land had to be plowed deeply, the weeds inside had to be dug out, and they had to be burned to save the grass roots from robbing the crops of nutrients later.

Shen Hui also went with them in the afternoon. He was strong and could do the work of several people.

Ling Xing took Shen Lai, Xiao Chun, and Xiao Xia at home. Not long after the family left, Shen Lai touched his stomach and said he was hungry and wanted to eat a sugar cube to fill up.

The little fellow was using his abacus beads on Ling Xing’s face, and Xiao Chun and Xiao Xia also looked at Ling Xing with expectation.

Being looked at by the three cute dolls, Ling Xing’s heart softened badly. He wanted to give it to them, but Xu Youfang knew that Shen Hui had bought sugar back and said that they could only give Shen Lai and the others one piece every three days.

Otherwise, they would eat non-stop, and there was no money in the family to give the children sugar.

Ling Xing didn’t dare to open the cabinet to get the sugar. He saw that there were still some mung beans in the pottery jar in the stove room, and he thought of something to eat.

He said to the three children: “You definitely can’t eat sugar today, but you can make another delicious food for you to try, do you want to eat it?”

As long as there was something to eat, the three children were happy and nodded without hesitation.

Ling Xing used a pottery basin to hold some mung beans and picked out the bad beans with the children, so as not to affect the taste.

After picking out the beans, wash them clean and soak them directly in hot water. The things they made also needed alkali, so Ling Xing made some grass and wood ash and soaked it in water.

The dough starter would have new ones left every day. There was no need to redo it and there was no need for alkali water, so he didn’t make grass and wood ash water later. He had to do it again this time.

After covering the lids, Ling Xing asked Shen Lai to take care of the house.

He went to Xie Qingya’s place to ask if he could borrow his stone mill for a while.

“I’ll use it in an hour, is that convenient for you, Xie Ge’er?”

Xie Qingya said: “It’s very convenient, just come directly.”

Ling Xing thanked him with a smile, saying that he would send some to Xie Qingya to taste after the food was made.

It took time for the mung beans to soak. During this time, after he finished busy with the things he needed for tomorrow’s stall, he took the three children to clean the house.

He also washed the steamer and steamer cloth, and the mung beans were soaked.

He took the soaked mung beans alone to Xie Qingya’s place to grind soy milk.

Xie Qingya’s stone mill was not particularly big, but for Ling Xing, who was malnourished and weak, grinding beans was a super big chore.

After Ling Xing stopped to pant after grinding two circles, Xie Qingya couldn’t help laughing.

“I thought you could last for three laps, you can grind these beans for ten years, let me help you, just send me two more bites after you make the food, my husband likes to eat.”

Ling Xing didn’t make things difficult for himself. If he really relied on himself to grind, he wouldn’t be able to eat a bite of hot food tomorrow.

“Okay, I’ll send you more. Xie Ge’er, come and help me.”

Xie Qingya snapped his fingers, “Watch out.”

The sound of wood creaking with the rumbling sound of the stone mill rubbing, Xie Qingya grinded quickly and evenly, and after a while, a slightly green soy milk flowed out of the small hole.

Ling Xing took the pottery basin to catch it.

Because of the small amount, Xie Qingya finished grinding in a while.

The pottery basin that Ling Xing brought was not enough to hold it, and Xie Qingya took his family’s pottery basin to hold it for him, and also helped Ling Xing send it back.

“You can return the basin to me when the time comes, don’t rush to pour it out.”

Ling Xing nodded and said yes, sent him out the door and was busy washing the mung bean paste.

A pottery basin was filled with clear water, and the mung bean paste was poured into the linen cloth and placed in the clear water to slowly rub it.

Shen Lai was on the side to help, responsible for pouring the mung bean paste into the linen cloth. After a few times back and forth, he finally finished rubbing.

Ling Xing kept the remaining mung bean pulp after rubbing it and put it in a pottery bowl.

If you add some sugar to this, you can make sweet mung bean paste buns. Or add sugar and put it in a mold to press and steam, you can also make mung bean cake to eat.

Skimming off the white froth on the soy milk, quietly waiting for the mung bean soy milk to settle.

Ling Xing had nothing to do, and took advantage of the sun to boil water to wash the hair for the three children and himself.

This was a time-consuming and laborious task. The children were afraid of theSoap foam, and they would always subconsciously hide, after washing them, Ling Xing’s clothes were also mostly wet.

Thinking that the collar of the clothes would get wet no matter what after washing her hair later, it was better to just leave it like this, and change it after washing.

After wiping the hair of the three children almost dry, let them sit down in the sun to dry their hair.

By the time Ling Xing finished washing his hair and changed his clothes, and cleaned up the yard, it was almost time to continue making food.

His hair was half dry, and the ends were still dripping with water, sliding down the back of his waist on the cloth. Fearing that his hair would be stuffy and smelly, he didn’t tie it up.

Pouring the upper layer of the settled mung bean soy milk in the pottery basin, there was a thick layer of mung bean starch at the bottom.

After spreading it evenly with a spoon, you can scoop it out.

Add mung bean starch and mung bean soy milk according to the proportion, and add a little salt and clean grass and wood ash water to stir.

One is to add flavor, and the other is to keep the color unchanged and the taste smoother.

Ling Xing planned to dry the remaining mung bean starch and store it for later use.

After finishing, Ling Xing called Shen Lai to burn the fire.

He was not sure about the heat suitable for the pottery pot, but Shen Lai started helping the family to burn the fire at the age of six, and now he has four years of fire burning experience at a young age.

As the temperature got higher and higher, the mung bean soy milk in the pot became more and more viscous. The color changed slowly from light green, and Ling Xing felt that it was okay to look at the viscosity, and took the pottery pot to scoop these into the pottery pot and let it cool naturally.

The weather was still a bit cold now, and it cooled quickly and solidified quickly.

Shen Lai, Xiao Chun, and Xiao Xia didn’t recognize this thing, and stared curiously, asking what Ling Xing made.

“Mung bean jelly, it’s delicious with dipping sauce.”

After Ling Xing explained a little, he prepared the seasoning.

There were some dried peppers at home, and he pounded them into chili powder with a small mortar. In addition, there were only soy sauce, salt, and vinegar at home.

Everything else was gone.

Ling Xing put some of each and added well water to stir. It was a pity that there was no garlic at this time, it was not yet time to grow it, otherwise the seasoning would taste better.

The mung bean jelly was formed before the Shen family came back.

Ling Xing opened it with a knife, washed Xie Qingya’s pottery basin, and put half of the jelly in it.

“Little Five, go and send it to Wang Fulang’s house. Also tell Wang Fulang how to eat it.”

Ling Xing said the method of eating and how to adjust the seasoning. After Shen Lai heard it, he repeated it and there was nothing wrong. He ran away with the pottery basin.

Ling Xing continued to cut the jelly, cut out three bowls, and poured the seasoning into the bowls separately.

The sauce was salty and spicy, and the mung bean jelly smelled a little fragrant.

Xiao Chun and Xiao Xia swallowed their saliva.

I really wanted to eat it.

Ling Xing cut the jelly, and by the way made the batter, with Xiao Chun watching the fire.

It was almost time for the family to come back for dinner, so doing it at this time, they could wash their hands and eat directly after they were busy and came back.

Shen Chengshan and his party carried hoes and shovels home, and happened to meet Shen Lai who came back from Xie Qingya’s place.

“Little Five, why did you come back from there?”

Shen Chengshan asked.

Shen Lai ran over with a smile on his face, “Ge’er husband asked me to send delicious food to Wang Fulang. Let’s go back and eat quickly, Ge’er husband made a lot, it looks so delicious.”

He pulled Shen Chengshan and Xu Youfang and left, eager to go back and eat delicious food.

Hearing the delicious food, Xu Youfang was afraid that Ling Xing would have a soft heart and couldn’t stand the grinding, and would spend money for the children again. She walked and asked: “You didn’t ask your Ge’er husband to buy anything, did you?”

Shen Lai stomped his feet, and said, “Mom, what kind of person am I, why do you always think I’m instigating Ge’er husband to buy me food?”

Seeing that the child was unhappy, Xu Youfang immediately stopped, “Okay, okay, Mom won’t say it, look, you’re still getting anxious with Mom.”

The family said and laughed and went home. In the evening, the setting sun fell, and the afterglow sprinkled on their bodies, warm andRejoice.

At the foot of the mountain, in the small earthen house, the chimney was smoking, Xiao Chun finished watching the fire, and was squatting on the ground in the yard with Xiao Xia to watch the ants.

Seeing the family come back, the two didn’t look at the ants anymore, and ran forward, shouting father, mother, grandfather, grandmother, and second uncle.

Their hair had just been washed, fluffy and soft, and tied with cloth strips casually, tied behind their heads.

People who saw it wanted to reach out and touch the little radish heads, the touch must be very good.

Shen Gui carried a hoe in one hand and touched the heads of the two little radish heads with the other hand, “Did your great uncle’s husband wash your hair?”

Xiao Chun and Xiao Xia nodded repeatedly.

Cao Manyue put down the shovel in her hand and poured water for the family to wash their hands. After she washed it clean, she went directly into the stove room to help. Although she looked tired, her eyes were full of smiles.

“Ge’er husband has worked hard today. The two children are very noisy when they wash their hair and bathe. Did they splash you all over with water?”

Ling Xing was putting the batter into the pottery basin, and he replied when he heard it: “It’s okay, it was even more difficult for me to wash my hair when I was a child. Washing my hair once was like going swimming in the water wearing clothes.”

While speaking, Cao Manyue helped Ling Xing put the batter on the table, and then put it into the pottery bowls one by one. Ling Xing took the chopsticks from the wooden cabinet and arranged them in order.

On the round old wooden table, there was a large pottery basin, inside was the gray batter, and in front of each stool, there was a bowl of batter and a pair of chopsticks.

In the middle of the table were three bowls of mung bean jelly, and chili powder was hanging on the surface of the poured sauce.

In addition, there was nothing else.

Cao Manyue looked at the three bowls of things that she had never seen before, thinking that they should be the delicious food that Little Five Uncle said.

It did look new.

The other people in the family washed their hands clean, dusted the dust on their bodies with a cloth towel, and entered the room one after another.

Shen Lai was the first to sit down, and his eyes were glued to the mung bean jelly.

“Xing Ge’er, what kind of food are you making? Is there any saying?” Xu Youfang also felt that the things in the middle were fresh, and asked Ling Xing.

The others in the Shen family looked at the mung bean jelly in the middle together, also with curiosity on their faces.

Ling Xing gathered the long hair that was scattered on the side of his cheeks, put it behind his ear, and started to introduce the new food.

“It’s made of mung beans, called jelly. It feels slightly cold to the touch, and the taste is smooth, soft and elastic, and it also has some mung bean fragrance. I adjusted the sauce, and pounded some chili powder into it, which is slightly spicy and good for eating with rice. There is a bowl without chili powder, the children can’t eat spicy food, they can eat that bowl.”

Hearing Ling Xing’s introduction, the people in the Shen family couldn’t help but swallow their saliva, this thing sounded really delicious.

They hadn’t eaten mung bean jelly, and they hadn’t even heard of it.

They didn’t expect that mung beans could be made into such things. They only knew that they could be cooked with other miscellaneous grains to make bean rice.

The two elders of the Shen family and Shen Hui had eaten mung bean cakes before, made by the chef at home. However, they would eat but not make it, they only knew that they should use honey and sugar.

After Ling Xing introduced the mung bean jelly, he said: “By the way, the beans have to be ground. I can’t grind them, Xie Ge’er helped me grind them. Because I also used his family’s stone mill, he also helped me bring the mung bean paste back to my house, so after I made it, I cut half of it and sent it to Xie Ge’er.”

This was the family’s mung beans, and he took it to make human relationships, so it was not good not to