Chapter 678: It’s Jin Xiaomei’s turn to make meritorious service
The matter of Li Ruhai being beaten is already a certainty, and no one can save him.
Zhao Jun didn't care, but then he saw a flour bag and an earthen basket placed by the wall.
Zhao Jun didn't know what was in that bag. But the earthen basket was full of eggs.
"Mom!" Zhao Jun asked Wang Meilan, "Who gave this to our family?"
"Oh my god!" Wang Meilan clapped her hands and ran directly outside. When she got outside the house, she called Jin Xiaomei who had just climbed up the wall and said: "Xiaomei, come back quickly!"
Jin Xiaomei was startled, then she sat on the wall and asked, "Sister-in-law, what's wrong?"
Wang Meilan waved to Jin Xiaomei and said: "Throw all the things you brought back here!"
"Oh!" Jin Xiaomei sighed and said with a bitter smile: "I made that little brat Li Ruhai so angry that I can't even use my brain."
After saying that, Jin Xiaomei came back down the wall and followed Wang Meilan into Zhao Jun's house again.
As soon as Jin Xiaomei entered the house, she said to Wang Meilan: "Sister-in-law, bring the jar where you put eggs at home and leave half of it for you."
"No!" Wang Meilan waved her hand and said, "Take it back quickly and give it to the child. My chickens can pick up eggs every day."
After the New Year, Zhao Jun and Li Baoyu went to Yongxing to participate in the spring hunting and brought back four chickens. The Zhao family left a male and a female. The two chickens laid eggs and had nests. Although they were poisoned by black tigers one after another, they
He left a nest of chickens for Zhao Jun's family.
After this brood of chickens grows into chickens, the rooster crows every day or is slaughtered, while the hen is left to lay eggs.
These hens are also very impressive. Although they cannot lay eggs every day, each hen can lay an egg every two days on average.
So there is no shortage of eggs in Zhao Jun’s family, even if Wang Meilan eats fried eggs with badger seeds every day, there will be no problem.
When Wang Meilan said she didn't want eggs, Jin Xiaomei, who knew her family's situation, didn't force them. She just said to Wang Meilan: "Sister-in-law, go get a flour bag and I'll pour you some sorghum rice, which is new this year." p>
"That's okay!" Wang Meilan smiled when she heard this, and hurriedly went to the outhouse to retrieve a noodle bag.
Sorghum rice is a coarse grain and not valuable these days, but Wang Meilan often eats white flour and rice. With this new sorghum rice, it feels good to taste something fresh.
When Wang Meilan came back with the bag and held the mouth of the bag with both hands, Jin Xiaomei picked up the bag of rice and poured out the sorghum rice inside.
Just hearing the sound of rushing, Wang Meilan saw that Jin Xiaomei was half done, and said hurriedly: "Okay, brothers and sisters, it's almost done!"
"Eat it." Jin Xiaomei poured some more before stopping. At this time, there was still a little half in her bag, but she poured more than half of it to Wang Meilan.
"Look." Wang Meilan also said: "Give it all to me!"
"Let's keep it and eat it." Jin Xiaomei smiled lightly, carrying the basket and the flour bag before leaving.
At this time, Wang Meilan stopped Jin Xiaomei and said, "Stop cooking for noon. Come and eat with Xiaoqiao."
"That's incredible!" Jin Xiaomei had her hands occupied and immediately raised her head and said, "I can just take a bite at home."
"Come here." Wang Meilan also advised: "The rice is ready, we can eat it in one bite."
"In the evening." Jin Xiaomei said with a smile: "We will come over again in the evening."
Hearing what Jin Xiaomei said, Wang Meilan stopped trying to persuade her. Instead, she took out a piece of lean meat from a bear's leg from the large basin in the outhouse, chased it across the wall and handed it to Jin Xiaomei.
Then, Wang Meilan went home to boil a pot of hot water and asked Zhao Jun to make the two pheasants naked.
Fortunately, it was autumn, and the two pheasants, one male and one female, gained a lot of weight from fattening. But even so, the two pheasants had shed their feathers, and together they only weighed just over three pounds.
While Zhao Jun was picking up the chicken feathers, Wang Meilan was busy working on lunch in front of the stove. There was sleet and snow today. Although it has not fallen yet, the sky has been cloudy.
In this weather, Wang Meilan fried green onions and cooked a pot of hot noodle soup.
Wang Meilan rolled the noodles by her own hands. She didn't add any vegetables or anything. She just chopped some coriander and poured a few drops of sesame oil on the noodles when they were cooked.
While cooking, Wang Meilan kept calculating the time when the little girls would be out of school.
As soon as the noodles were cooked, the four little girls carried their homemade schoolbags into the yard. The weather was not good today, so the school simply held an afternoon class and gave the students a day off in the afternoon.
As soon as the girls entered the hospital, Wang Meilan welcomed them out. She planned to leave the little bell at home for dinner. This child came to pick up Zhao Hong and the others every day and delivered them to their home after school, but it saved Wang Meilan some trouble.
As soon as he saw Wang Meilan, Li Xiaoqiao asked her if her mother was back. After getting Wang Meilan's confirmation, Li Xiaoqiao ran home happily.
At this time, Jin Xiaomei had already arranged the house and was trying on the pair of leather shoes Li Ruhai bought.
Li Ruhai, who is only fourteen years old, has not yet grown too much. His height is almost the same as that of his normal peers. He can wear a size 37 or a size 38.
And Jin Xiaomei happens to wear shoes of size 37, so when it was exposed yesterday, Li Ruhai said that the marmot hat was for Li Dayong, and the pair of leather shoes was bought for Jin Xiaomei.
Jin Xiaomei pushed her shoes on her feet and then stepped on the ground, her eyes suddenly lit up.
These shoes are really comfortable to wear!
The leather shoes you buy for five yuan these days must be made of pure cowhide, and they are soft and soft from the upper to the sole.
Jin Xiaomei sat on the edge of the kang, raised her feet, looked at the flat toes of her leather shoes, and felt very angry!
No matter how suitable the shoe size is, the men's and women's models are different. Jin Xiaomei thought to herself, it would be great if this little kid had the money to buy me a pair of women's shoes!
At this moment, Li Xiaoqiao rushed in and threw herself into Jin Xiaomei's arms. The two of them became intimate for a while.
Then, Jin Xiaomei put on her leather shoes and went to the outhouse to cook for her precious daughter.
At this time, everyone in Zhao Jun's family had already eaten. This first bowl of noodles was given to Xiao Lingdang by Zhao Junsheng.
This girl originally wanted to go home, but Wang Meilan refused to let the child go no matter what she said. She just dragged her into the house and asked her to stay and eat noodles.
A bowl of hot noodle soup may not be a good thing ten or twenty years later. But nowadays, it is great.
White noodles in clear soup, with oily flowers floating on top, and a few leaves of coriander garnished. This noodle is selling well.
However, the wealthy Wang Meilan did not cook at noon today. She only placed a plate of pickles and a bottle of vinegar in the middle of the kang table.
But just this one bite made a bunch of children have a big appetite. They ate noodles first and then drank soup. There was a slight sweat on their foreheads and their little faces were flushed.
At the Li family next door, looking at the bear meat slices fried with cabbage and eggs on the table, Li Xiaoqiao actually didn't eat eggs or meat, and only picked cabbage.
"Girl, you eat meat!" Jin Xiaomei put her chopsticks into the plate, picked up a piece of fried bear meat, stacked it on top of another piece of meat, then picked up the two pieces of meat together and handed them to Li Xiaoqiao.
But what Jin Xiaomei didn't expect was that Li Xiaoqiao actually picked up his rice bowl and hid away.
"Daughter?" Jin Xiaomei's chopsticks stopped in mid-air and asked with some confusion: "What's wrong?"
Li Xiaoqiao frowned and said, "Mom, I don't want to eat meat. I've had enough."
Jin Xiaomei: "..."
At this time, Jin Xiaomei couldn't help but think of her nephews. Those children were like wolves when they saw meat. Looking at her daughter, Jin Xiaomei silently put the meat into her bowl.
Then, Jin Xiaomei still refused to give up and pushed the plate with eggs in front of Li Xiaoqiao and said, "My dear, where are you eating some eggs?"
Li Xiaoqiao looked at Jin Xiaomei and thought about saving face for her mother, so she picked out a little bit with her chopsticks and put it into her mouth, then clicked her lips and said, "It's not as delicious as my aunt's fried eggs."
Jin Xiaomei was happy when she heard this. She took a mouthful of rice into her mouth and asked Li Xiaoqiao: "What delicious food has your aunt cooked for you these days?"
Li Xiaoqiao said whatever he remembered and talked about last night's meal. Jin Xiaomei suddenly realized it and said with a smile: "Did I tell you, your aunt left a small pot of Heixiazi oil for me in our bowl shelf."<
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Li Xiaoqiao didn't care whether it was oily or not, he just said: "My uncle cooked the meal the night before yesterday, and he even killed the chicken."
"Well..." Jin Xiaomei smiled and said, "Is this enough for you?"
Li Xiaoqiao grinned, suddenly remembered something, and said to Jin Xiaomei: "The bell led us to cook the meal at noon the day before yesterday."
"What?" As soon as Li Xiaoqiao said this, the smile on Jin Xiaomei's face instantly disappeared, and she frowned and asked: "Daughter, what did you say?"
Children sometimes want to show off in front of adults. Li Xiaoqiao looked up at Jin Xiaomei and said, "Mom, at noon on the day you left, we and Ling Dang cooked the meal together."
Jin Xiaomei frowned and didn't speak for a while. Children's expressions are sometimes inaccurate. Jin Xiaomei tried to confirm with Li Xiaoqiao: "Did Ling Dang's mother cook for you?"
"No!" Li Xiaoqiao shook her head solemnly and said, "Lingdang's father and mother didn't stay home that day."
"That's not right!" Jin Xiaomei thought for a while and then remembered that on the day she left, Wang Meilan and Zhao Jun were going down the mountain to sell leather. This was something they had agreed on a long time ago. When Zhao Jun didn't come back at Zhao Jun's house just now,
Wang Meilan also gave Jin Xiaomei her share of the money belonging to the Li family.
Jin Xiaomei remembers clearly that Zhao Youcai should have stayed at home to cook for the little girls that day!
"Daughter!" Jin Xiaomei stretched out her hand, took the child's chopsticks from Li Xiaoqiao's hand, and then asked slightly seriously: "Didn't your uncle stay home at noon the day before yesterday?"
"No." Li Xiaoqiao shook her head again.
Then, Li Xiaoqiao added: "Lingdang brought us back, and there was no one at my uncle's house. After Lingdang cooked for us, I even helped with the chopsticks."
This little girl has two older brothers. Even when the conditions were not good, she was always pampered and she never did anything at home.
That day, Zhao Youcai put the cooked food on the curtain drawer. There was water under the curtain drawer, and there was a charcoal fire in the stove, which kept the food warm.
When these little girls came back and saw that there was no one at home, Zhao Hong, Zhao Na and Li Xiaoqiao ran around anxiously inside and outside the house. Only Little Bell opened the lid of the pot and saw the food, so he called the three of them to eat.
So, Li Xiaoqiao left the cooking to Xiao Lingdang.
Jin Xiaomei blinked and returned the chopsticks to Li Xiaoqiao. She watched Li Xiaoqiao pick up the cabbage and put it into his mouth, while thinking about something in her mind.
At this time, Jin Xiaomei has concluded that Zhao Youcai must have gone out to fight the siege while Zhao Jun and his son were not at home.
"Alas!" Jin Xiaomei sighed softly, thinking: "Why is this Brother Zhao becoming more and more careless?"
The first two times when Wang Meilan was away from home, Zhao Youcai also sneaked out to fight, but at least Li Dayong was at home at that time. Although Li Dayong couldn't cook, at least there was an adult at home.
There is no adult at home this time, leaving the house for four little girls, and letting the children cook by themselves.
In Jin Xiaomei's opinion, this means that the little bell is big enough to give Zhao Hong and the others a bite of food, otherwise her daughters will starve.
At this moment, Jin Xiaomei not only felt sorry for her daughter, but also thought that Zhao Youcai had no business.
"Daughter!" Suddenly, Jin Xiaomei stopped Li Xiaoqiao who was chewing cabbage, and then asked: "Does your aunt know about the food you cooked?"
Li Xiaoqiao shook her head while holding the cabbage in her mouth. After swallowing the cabbage, she said: "My aunt came back late that day, and we had dinner when we got home. There were a lot of delicious things that day. My aunt also bought ham sausages, which were more delicious than
Lunch meat is delicious."
"Ham sausage?" Jin Xiaomei was startled, thinking what this was, she had never heard of it.
At this time, Jin Xiaomei was a little undecided. She didn't know whether she should tell Wang Meilan about this. If she wanted to tell Wang Meilan, the couple would definitely have a quarrel. How about telling Wang Meilan? Jin Xiaomei
I also feel that Zhao Youcai is going too far.
"Alas!" Jin Xiaomei sighed again, then shook her head, picked up the chopsticks and continued eating. She had already decided to hide this matter in her stomach and not tell anyone else.
Jin Xiaomei ate a few mouthfuls of sorghum rice and felt uncomfortable. She thought about chatting with her daughter to distract her attention, so she asked Li Xiaoqiao: "My daughter, how have you been sleeping at your eldest sister's house these days?
Huh?"
"Very good." Li Xiaoqiao nodded, and remembered something at the same time, and said with a smile: "My aunt hugs me to sleep every day, and she doesn't hug Xiaona anymore."
This person needs to be attentive when getting along with others. Under such circumstances, Wang Meilan would rather wrong her daughter than let Li Xiaoqiao be wronged in the slightest.
In fact, not only Wang Meilan was like this, but Li Dayong was also like this. Although the chicken cake he steamed without adding water was very difficult to eat, he still gave more points to Zhao Hong and Zhao Na, but gave one less spoonful to his daughter.
At this moment, Li Xiaoqiao’s words greatly touched Jin Xiaomei.
She thought: "Dayong always says that his elder brother is good to him, and Baoyu always says that his elder brother is good to him, so my sister-in-law is not bad to me either!"
Just thinking of this, Jin Xiaomei became even more confused. She turned to look out the window, struggling a little in her heart. But she still thought that she couldn't provoke the couple to fight. There were some things that she should help hide or hide! p>
When she thought of this, Jin Xiaomei decided to help Zhao Youcai hide the matter.
But when Jin Xiaomei withdrew her gaze and prepared to continue eating, her eyes suddenly glanced at the colorful moisturizing cream placed aside.
This was also given by her sister-in-law!
"I can't hide this from my sister-in-law!" Jin Xiaomei put her chopsticks down on the table and said to Li Xiaoqiao: "My daughter, you can eat while Mom goes out."
After saying that, Jin Xiaomei got down to the ground, put on her shoes and quickly walked out of her house. She went directly to the wall that separated the two houses and climbed over the wall skillfully.
Zhao Jun's dog saw Jin Xiaomei coming from the yard, and there were a few wagging their tails at her. Even the new Hualong knew that this girl was one of his own.
Jin Xiaomei came to the door in a few steps, pulled the door open and entered the room shouting: "Sister-in-law!"