noffsinger Chapter 269: Planning to take her food?
Chapter 269: Planning to take her food?
In the main room, Shulin's mother and her two daughters were preparing the table.
When Shulin's mother saw Bai Xing'er coming out, she forced a smile on her face.
"Xing'er, come here quickly. Let me tell you how to clean up."
"Hey, I'll come."
Bai Xing'er responded and went into the house.
Mother Shulin poured the remaining soup from a nearby plate into another larger basin and said,
"Take Jianya and Tingmei with you and collect all the soup from these plates.
This vegetable soup is really good. When these dishes were cooked, they were wiped with oilcloth.
Save it for dinner and add some dried vegetables to stew, and you can have another meal!"
Bai Xing'er quickly agreed and began to clean up the dishes on the table with swift hands and feet.
Seeing that she did a good job, Mother Shulin was secretly satisfied.
This daughter-in-law is not a spoiled one, so she can be let go of the housework in the future.
Thinking about the other women in the village who had become mothers-in-law, they couldn't do much work that day and just had to give orders.
Mother Shulin thought about it and felt proud.
He caught a glimpse of the two girls and said to them with a cold face:
"You two little bastards, follow your sister-in-law and do your best. If you dare to spill the soup, I'll beat you up!"
Jianya and Tingmei trembled with fear and held the plates of food more tightly.
Only then did Mrs. Shulin turn around and go to the east room.
On the kang in the east room, Yang Shubao was lying on the kang playing with a wooden top.
Seeing his mother come in, he quickly threw down his spinning top and ran to the kang, pouting and saying coquettishly:
"Mom, you're lying!
You said that my sister-in-law has a lot of food, and I can eat delicious food as soon as she comes home.
The lunch today is no different from usual!"
Mother Shulin hugged her youngest son, turned her head and looked towards the main hall, then whispered comfortingly:
"Shh, keep your voice down so she doesn't hear you.
Xiaobao, your sister-in-law just got married into the family.
Don't worry, Mom will ask her to take out the food tonight and steam white flour buns for our little treasure!"
Yang Shubao then grinned, leaned close to his mother's ear and whispered softly:
"Mom, then I want to eat two big white buns!"
"Okay, just give my little treasure two big white buns!"
As they talked, the mother and daughter sat down on the kang and started chatting and laughing.
In the main room, Bai Xing'er only heard clearly Yang Shubao's first sentence.
The voice was too soft to hear what was said at the end, but I could guess roughly.
They want to eat the food they brought!
Although she knew that the Shulin family was poor, she was prepared to take out some food for emergency use when everyone had almost finished eating in the spring.
But she still felt uncomfortable that he was already planning to take her food right after she got married.
At this time, it is still several months away from spring!
It’s impossible that his family has no food to eat just after I get married!
Thinking of this, Bai Xing'er frowned unconsciously, but she caught a glimpse of Jian Ya and Ting Mei from the corner of her eye, lying on the table and drinking a big mouthful of leftover soup.
After drinking, he quickly wiped the corner of his mouth with his sleeve, as if he was afraid that she would find out and complain.
Bai Xing'er saw how skinny the two girls were, and considering Shulin's mother's attitude just now, she knew that these two girls might have a hard time.
She had seen too many families like this in the village before.
Girls are fooled into not starving to death, and when they turn twelve or thirteen, they are married off in exchange for a dowry to help boys get married.
Bai Xing'er deliberately turned her back and cleaned up the table on the other side.
Later, Jianya and Tingmei saw it and quickly leaned over to drink it. When they saw the remaining cabbage leaves in the drink, they quickly picked them up and stuffed them into their mouths.
Bai Xing'er listened to the tiny noises coming from behind and began to wonder how she was going to continue living in the Yang family.
If nothing unexpected happens, she will live in this house for a long time.
But when she thought about consummating her marriage that night, she felt a little nauseous again.
We still have to find a way to put this matter behind us first.
Thinking of what Yang Shubao had just said, Bai Xing'er had an idea.
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In the north courtyard, Lu Qingqing and others began to clean up after the guests left.
The men carefully took down the red cloth hanging at the gate and on the wall of the courtyard.
Most of the cloth was just covered in snow and wasn't dirty.
Everyone shook it a few times, brushed off the snow, and folded the red cloth again.
Nowadays, every family cherishes even a piece of cloth.
This kind of large piece of cloth can be collected and reused.
The men returned the money according to the proportion contributed by the three families at that time.
When Li Rui came to deliver the red cloth, he thought of the big bone soup he had at noon, looked at Lu Qingqing with some greed and said:
"Daya, do you still have the bone soup you served at noon?
How about I exchange some meat with you?"
Lu Qingqing took the red cloth and raised two fingers.
"No meat needed. Tomorrow morning you will practice with Xiao Lang for 25 minutes. You must use the seventh form, which you are most proficient in."
Li Rui quickly responded:
"No problem, then it's settled. I want to drink bone soup tonight!"
"Okay, I'll have Xiao Lang deliver it to you tonight!"
Seeing that she agreed, Li Rui left the room in high spirits and went to ask for credit with several other fellow disciples.
After everyone left, Lu Qingqing looked at Bai Xing'er's pile of food by the door.
That location is right next to the door, and snow can easily be brought in when people go in and out, which can easily get the food wet.
But there isn't much space in this house to store things.
Apart from the kang, there was only a small aisle left in the whole house.
At the end of the aisle is a stove connected to a kang, with a lot of dry firewood next to it.
Further out, there were some food and dried fish that Lu Qingqing used to conceal her tracks.
As for the outermost part, it is Bai Xing'er's food.
Everyone in the team knew that Bai Xing'er's food was kept with her.
Therefore, this thing cannot store space.
After thinking about it, Lu Qingqing decided to clean up the house while she had nothing to do in the afternoon.
After closing the door, he put the entire grain pile into the space and then put it out in another location.
Then he opened the door and went to the yard to find the rack that had been used to make wooden pallets, and used it as a base for the grain.
After finding it, he took out a piece of oilcloth that he had used before and put it on the wooden pallet.
Then he closed the door and moved another pile of food onto the wooden pallet.
Finally, cover it with a layer of oilcloth and tie it tightly with ropes.
Lu Qingqing looked at the tightly wrapped lump and clapped her hands in satisfaction.
Then he looked around the house he lived in.
After living here for so long, I have discovered some problems.
So, let's clean up the house today.
Everything else about this house is fine except that the door is not very tight and cold wind often comes in.
Because she and Qin Lang always slept in the space at night, they had not dealt with this matter.
In addition, the ground is not paved with bricks, but made of dirt.
When you come in from outside, the snow water on the soles of your feet will meet the ground and your feet will be covered with a layer of mud.
Every time, the two of them would rub the soles of their shoes against each other when they entered the house.
Lu Qingqing thought about it and took out some oilcloth.
At the same time, he took out the burlap bag that he had bought to hold food from the space.