The three little girls threw themselves in front of their mothers. Wang Meilan touched a little head with one hand, but had no time to comfort the two little ones. She only asked Li Dayong: "Where is your eldest brother in my family?"
At this time, Li Dayong had put down his chopsticks and cakes, got off the kang, frowned and said to Wang Meilan, "My eldest brother... went to fight."
As soon as these words came out, Li Dayong saw Wang Meilan's cheeks twitching and twitching.
If it weren't for the guest Jie Chen, Wang Meilan would have cursed.
At this moment, Jin Xiaomei pushed Li Xiaoqiao, who was holding her thigh, and said, "Old girl, why are you crying?"
Yes, Zhao Hong, Zhao Na cried because her father had nothing to do and left his daughter to go hunting.
But why are you, Li Xiaoqiao, crying? Your mother is not at home, so why is your father still there?
Li Xiaoqiao wiped her tears with one hand, pointed to the kang table behind her with the other, and said: "It tastes terrible."
Hearing this, Jin Xiaomei pulled Li Xiaoqiao to the kang table and saw that where Li Dayong was sitting just now, there were only two pieces of steamed cake and one pickled cucumber.
In front of the three little girls, there was food, but the bowl was filled with a spoonful of solid matter. The thing was said to be yellow or not, or white or white. In Northeastern dialect, it was called "huibutu", and there was something on it.
With honeycomb eyes.
Jin Xiaomei held Li Xiaoqiao with one hand and handed the bowl to Li Dayong with the other hand, pointing the bowl towards Li Dayong and asked: "What are you making for your child?"
Although he made it by himself, Li Dayong still glanced at the bowl subconsciously, then raised his head and replied: "Isn't this a cake?"
When Wang Meilan heard this, she took a curious look and said with a smile: "Dayong, did you steam the chicken cake without adding water?"
"Ah?" Li Dayong was startled and asked: "Do we still need to release the water?"
Apart from cooks, few Northeastern men these days can cook. Whether you can cook a dumpling or not is a question.
Therefore, even though she hid her private money and was undergoing labor reform, Jin Xiaomei did not dare to let Li Dayong cook. At most, she asked him to help wash rice and wash vegetables.
"Alas!" Jin Xiaomei pulled Li Xiaoqiao to the kang table, sighed and shook her head and said, "How many eggs did you steam? The children don't seem to have eaten any."
"My dad has steamed six eggs." At this time, Li Xiaoqiao said crisply: "He gave me three spoons, gave Zhao Hong four spoons, and gave Xiaona four spoons. None of us ate them. They were not salty, so we couldn't swallow them."
Don’t go down.”
"Brother!" Wang Meilan was standing aside, listening to Li Xiaoqiao say that Li Dayong divided the cakes for the three of them. The cakes given to Zhao Hong and Zhao Na were more than those given to Li Xiaoqiao. She felt very happy, but she had to complain about them.
Complain.
So, Wang Meilan said: "You don't add salt when you beat the eggs, and you have to pour some soy sauce when they are steamed."
"No!" As soon as Wang Meilan finished speaking, Jin Xiaomei asked Li Dayong again, "Didn't our eggs be fried the day Baoyu and his uncle came over? Where did you get six eggs?"
At this time, Jin Xiaomei thought that these eggs belonged to Zhao Jun's family and were left by Zhao Youcai for his children before he left. So she asked Li Dayong to answer in a questioning tone, so that he could intercede with Zhao Youcai sideways. p>
But Li Dayong said: "Zhao Jun's aunt brought this to me."
"Ah?" Wang Meilan was startled when she heard this, and asked quickly: "What is his aunt doing here?"
"Look for his uncle." Li Dayong said: "My eldest brother was taken away by Wang Qiang early in the morning. Wang Qiang was homeless that day, so his wife searched all over the village.
Later, I heard Mrs. Han say that Wang Qiang asked my eldest brother to leave, so she came to your house. When she saw that there was no one in your house, she came to my house again.
When I heard that his uncle and the others went to fight the siege, his aunt asked me what to give the children to eat at night. I said it would be pickles and slivers for the cake. His aunt asked me what I could cook, and I said I could steam chicken cakes."<
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Li Dayong's words made Wang Meilan's cheeks bulge again. Seeing that things were not going well, Jin Xiaomei quickly smoothed things over. She laughed at Li Dayong and said, "You said you could steam chicken cakes. You are so blind. Let Zhao Ling get it for you."
That’s six eggs.”
Li Dayong chuckled and said: "I don't know, you need to add water to steam this thing."
Seeing Li Dayong's straightforward appearance, everyone laughed, but there was no joke in it, because it is normal for men these days not to know how to cook.
"You." Jin Xiaomei glanced at the fat cake that Li Dayong threw on the table, and said with a smile: "You steamed the chicken cake, didn't you say that the fat cake was cooked?"
"Ah, I forgot, haha." Li Dayong said with a smile: "I was just busy steaming chicken cakes, and I forgot to make cakes."
Hearing what Li Dayong said, everyone laughed again. Wang Meilan couldn't hold back her laughter, and most of her anger disappeared.
At this time, Jin Xiaomei looked at the corn noodle steamed cake on the table and thought that since her family had not steamed steamed cake in the past few days, it must have been steamed by Zhao Youcai for her children.
Thinking of this, Jin Xiaomei also wanted to help Zhao Youcai put some powder on his face to save Wang Meilan from being too angry.
So, Jin Xiaomei said to Li Dayong: "Our eldest brother brought this cake to you, right? It looks good when steamed. Look, there are beans on it."
"No!" What Jin Xiaomei didn't expect was that Li Dayong shook his head and said, "This is what Shunzi's wife gave me."
Jin Xiaomei was stunned for a moment and asked subconsciously: "Shunzi's wife?"
"Ah!" Li Dayong said: "Shunzi went with my eldest brother. At three o'clock in the afternoon, Shunzi's wife came over to see if they were back. She looked at me and my three children at home. She knew I couldn't cook. So she went back
Later, he sent me some more cakes."
This time, when Wang Meilan got angry again, Jin Xiaomei didn't say anything. What kind of father is this? People like me have to go to Lingnan on Sunday just because Li Dayong can't cook. Zhao Youcai, a chef, can cook four meals at home.
Let the kids make something to eat.
Unexpectedly, he and others rode in a car and left, while Zhao Youcai also left in a car.
As a result, all these people who traveled across provinces for medical treatment and shopping came back, and Zhao Youcai hasn’t come back yet.
Now think about it, regardless of the poor food on the table, if it weren't for Wang Qiang's wife, Lin Xiangshun's wife, the three children and Li Dayong, they wouldn't even be able to eat this bite.
Jin Xiaomei also felt sorry for her child. She raised her hand and gave Li Dayong a gentle push, and whispered: "Don't you want to go out and buy some food?"
"I don't have any money either." Li Dayong answered without thinking. He listened to Zhao Youcai on everything. The cunning Zhao Youcai hid money in three caves. Naturally, Li Dayong also had some private money, but he couldn't expose it.
Otherwise, it would be terrible if Jin Xiaomei remembered and asked again later.
"You..." Jin Xiaomei was speechless, tilted her head and looked at Li Dayong, and said angrily: "You won't go to Lao Wang's house to get a few boxes of cans first, and then we will give him money later?"
"Our family never has any debts!" Li Dayong said confidently.
"Brother!" Seeing that the two couples were quarreling, Wang Meilan helped change the topic. At the same time, she was also concerned about her two daughters, so she asked Li Dayong: "What did you eat for lunch?"
"It's noon." Li Dayong said: "In the morning, I picked up two pieces of tofu for the rice stewed by Xiaomei. We ate the tofu with dipping sauce."
"Ah." Wang Meilan nodded slightly when she heard this. Although this is quite confusing, it can still be swallowed.
"Hey!" At this time, Jin Xiaomei sighed, and then said to Wang Meilan: "Okay, sister-in-law, you don't have a fire at your house. Just leave it at my house, bring in the noodles we bought, cook some hot soup noodles, and have a bite
Come on."
"Okay."
As soon as Wang Meilan responded, the minister stepped forward and called Li Dayong: "Uncle."
Then, Jie Chen turned to Jin Xiaomei, called her aunt, and then asked: "Is there someone missing in your family?"
"Yeah!" Jin Xiaomei reacted suddenly, her eyes widened, she stepped forward and pushed Li Dayong hard, and shouted: "Where is Ruhai?"
Li Dayong was a little confused for a moment, subconsciously looking left and right, and finally lowered his head and asked Li Xiaoqiao: "Where is your second brother?"
Li Xiaoqiao answered simply: "I don't know."
"Who are you asking?" Jin Xiaomei was anxious. She went up and pushed Li Dayong again and shouted: "When did the child leave?"
Li Dayong said: "After dinner in the morning, didn't he go out?"
"You never came back?" Jin Xiaomei asked quickly.
Li Dayong recalled it carefully, then shook his head and said: "No."
When Jin Xiaomei heard this, she immediately became anxious and shouted at Li Dayong: "The child has been missing all day, and you don't know how to look for it?"
At this time, Li Dayong was also anxious, with beads of sweat on his forehead, and replied: "I have been busy with three small things this day, so I forgot about him!"
"Okay, okay!" At the critical moment, Wang Meilan stepped forward to take charge of the overall situation, and first advised the couple: "Stop quarreling, no one is to blame for this, it's just your eldest brother in my family, there is nothing serious to do in a day.<
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Okay, let’s stop arguing. We haven’t eaten anymore. Let’s go out quickly and ask around to see if the child has gone to someone else’s house.”
Even though Wang Meilan said this, she didn't know for sure. It was already past eight o'clock, where could Li Ruhai go?
But at this moment, Zhao Jun heard the cries of the green dragon and the black dragon in his yard. As soon as he turned around and walked out of the outhouse, he saw the door of Li's house being pulled open from the outside.
Immediately afterwards, Li Ruhai came in with a smile.
Li Ruhai didn't look like a lost child. His face was red and he was holding a roe deer thigh in his hand, which looked like it weighed nearly ten kilograms.
Li Ruhai saw Zhao Jun and asked with a smile: "Brother Jun, you are back? Why did you buy so many things? Didn't you spend money?"
"This damn kid." Jin Xiaomei in the room heard the noise, rushed out of the room in a few steps, grabbed Li Ruhai by the collar, slapped Li Ruhai hard on the shoulder twice, and cursed: "Where are you running today?"
Gone?"
As she said that, Jin Xiaomei saw the roe deer thigh that Li Ruhai was carrying, and her expression changed and she shouted: "Are you going up the mountain to play the game again?"
"You little brat!" When Li Dayong heard this, he folded his left leg upwards below the knee, stretched out his hand to pull off his cloth shoes, and was about to beat Li Ruhai.
"Hey, hey!" Seeing this, Li Ruhai hurriedly threw the roe deer's thighs to the ground, raised his hands in a gesture of surrender, and shouted: "I didn't go up the mountain, this was given to me by my old brother Chen."
"Brother Chen?" Jin Xiaomei was startled, frowned and asked: "Which brother Chen?"
"It's Chen Dalai." Li Ruhai said: "I forgot his real name."
As soon as Li Ruhai said this, Zhao Jun, Wang Meilan, Li Dayong, Jin Xiaomei, and Li Baoyu were all stunned. They called Chen Dalai every day, but no one knew what Chen Dalai's real name was.
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"Why did he give you the roe deer thigh?" Li Baoyu asked, "Why did you come back just now?"
Li Baoyu asked two questions in succession, but Li Ruhai smiled and said, "It's a long story."
Jin Xiaomei's expression changed, she pointed at Li Ruhai and said, "Stop talking nonsense."
"Hey." Li Ruhai said: "In the afternoon, I stayed in front of the small shop and chatted with those old ladies... no, chatted with those old ladies and aunts for a while, and then I caught up with Mrs. Chen to fight against jealousy, and even got into a fight.
I will help her take soy sauce and liquor home.
I went to her house, and her men dragged back two roe deer. I helped them pick off the roe deer, but they insisted on letting me stay for dinner. Mom, don’t tell me, my old sister-in-law Chen is quite interesting. She weighed four of them for me.
Here’s a dish.”
"Second brother." At this time, Li Xiaoqiao pulled Li Ruhai's hand aggrievedly and whispered: "Where are you eating four dishes for dinner?"
"Ah!"
"Stop saying it's useless?" Seeing this, Li Dayong interrupted Li Ruhai and shouted: "How long have you eaten four dishes?"
"Yeah." Li Ruhai replied with a smile: "After dinner, let's chat at his house for a while."
As soon as Li Ruhai talked about chatting, Li Dayong stopped asking. He knew what his youngest son was capable of. If he wanted to chat, let alone eight o'clock tonight, even if he chatted until eight o'clock tomorrow morning, that would be no problem.
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"You!" Jin Xiaomei pointed at Li Ruhai and lectured: "You eat, just eat. Why do you use his roe deer thighs? How difficult is his family? You still want his things."
"Auntie." At this time, Zhao Jun said to Jin Xiaomei: "It's okay. I've been going up the mountain to hunt roe deer for the past two days. Let's cut off Chen Dalai's thighs."
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"No need!" As soon as Zhao Jun finished his words, Li Ruhai waved his hand and said, "I didn't ask for his roe deer thighs for nothing. When I went to his house, I took about ten pieces of cakes and gave them to him.
The child ate it."
"Second brother!" When Li Xiaoqiao heard this, he licked his lips, took Li Ruhai's hand, and said aggrievedly: "You still bought the cake?"
When Li Dayong saw this, he pointed at Li Ruhai and asked, "Why are you buying rice cakes?"
"I didn't buy it!" Li Ruhai said: "My sister-in-law bought it for me."
"Your sister-in-law?" Li Baoyu became anxious upon hearing this. The sister-in-law Li Ruhai mentioned was Li Baoyu's fiancée Liu Mei. If the two of them get married, it's okay for the sister-in-law to buy some food for her brother-in-law.
But now, can your Lao Li family not afford food or drink? Let your unmarried daughter-in-law buy food for your youngest son?
Therefore, let alone Li Baoyu, even Li Dayong and Jin Xiaomei felt that their faces were dull.
But before they could get angry, they heard Li Ruhai say: "Ah, as soon as I went out this morning, I saw my sister-in-law and Aunt Liu running to the south. When I asked, my sister-in-law said that her mother and I wanted to pick up some corn today.
, I followed them and helped them work all morning.
When I came back, I passed by a small shop and happened to buy rice cakes. So many people were there to buy them, and my sister-in-law insisted on buying two kilograms for me."
When Li Ruhai said this, the expressions of the Li family softened. The future sister-in-law worked for the future sister-in-law, and the future sister-in-law bought food for the brother-in-law, which was another matter. This allowed people to see that the faces of both families were also bright.<
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After Li Ruhai finished speaking, he glared at Li Baoyu and said angrily: "Why were you glaring at me just now? Didn't I do all this work for you?"
"Yes, yes." Upon hearing this, Li Baoyu stepped forward with a smile, put his arms around Li Ruhai's shoulders, and said, "Brother will buy you something delicious tomorrow."
Li Ruhai rolled his eyes at him but said nothing. At this time, Li Dayong asked Li Ruhai again: "What did you eat for lunch?"
"Yeah." Li Ruhai said: "My sister-in-law asked me to go to her house for dinner, but I didn't say anything. I just put the rice cakes from the snack shop and the boiled water that Aunt Wang poured for me. After I finished eating, I put the
The small shop chatted with them from about twelve o'clock to a little after three or four o'clock."
"Oh my god." Jie Chen had just arrived a few days ago. He didn't know what was going on. He was very surprised at first and couldn't help asking Li Ruhai: "Brother, what are you chatting with them for? You have been chatting for a day.
Son."
"Just chatting for a while." Li Ruhai said with a smile: "The sky is south to the north and the east is long and the west is short."
"The east is long and the west is short?" Jie Chen couldn't help but be a little confused when he heard this. He knew what it meant to be in the north and south, but he didn't understand what it meant to be long in the east and short in the west.
At this time, Zhao Jun leaned on Jie Chen's shoulder, tilted his head and whispered: "The master of the east family is the master, and the master of the west family is the son."
Jie Chen was stunned and looked at Li Ruhai in surprise. If I remember correctly, this was still a child.
Suddenly, Li Baoyu remembered something, and hurriedly released his arm around Li Ruhai's shoulders, and asked him seriously: "Ruhai, when you were breaking corn with your sister-in-law and Aunt Liu this morning, were you not talking nonsense?"
"No!" Seeing that his elder brother was so wary of him, Li Ruhai rolled his eyes at Li Baoyu and said unhappily: "Let's just chat for a while."
