Chapter 55 Back to Mother's Home

The two villages are not far away. The third uncle's car was fast and stable, and it didn't take long to get to Ye's house.

The living conditions of the Ye family are better than those of the Xu family. It can be seen from the house that the old courtyard of the Ye family is a relatively moderate small quadrangle courtyard. The gate is opened in the southeast corner, and there are three main rooms facing south. There are east-west wing rooms on both sides, and there are two inverted seats for farm tools and sundries on one side of the courtyard door.

The two married uncles have been separated. Now only the third uncle is not married and still lives in the old yard with the old couple.

The yard was very neatly cleaned. Except for the surrounding and horizontal aisles in the middle, the rest of the places were planted by Mrs. Ye. Cabbage, water radish and eggplant were all energetic.

Old Ye was pulling grass in a straw hat. When he saw someone picking him up, he hurriedly greeted him and took the child from Mrs. Ye. He said in surprise, "Oh, this baby Lizi has been heavy for only a month."

"Grandpa, you are holding the lock, and the chestnut is here." Xu Xinger came forward to show the chestnuts in her arms to the old leaf.

"This is the adopted child of their couple." Mrs. Ye explained, "It's the youngest grandson of Grandpa Xing's own brother."

Old Ye naturally knew about Ye's body, but he was also a little surprised to hear this. After all, he still knew something about his daughter. He thought that with her nature, he didn't know how long it would take to tell Xing's father, but now it's only been a month, and even the child has passed away?

Mrs Ye knew what the old man was thinking at a glance. She stepped forward and pulled him and said, "Let's talk about it when you enter the house. Don't stand in the way here."

"Yes, come into the house and bask outside." Old Ye came to his senses, "Lao San, go and call your brother and brother and come over for lunch."

"Good!" Ye Laosan answered and went out. Not long after, the eldest and second daughter-in-law came over first and said that the two men went to work, and they came to help Zhang Luo have lunch first.

Mrs Ye complained, "Why don't you bring the children here? Their brothers and sisters don't see each other a few times a year. It's easy to come here once, and you have to be close."

"Stone went to study. Erniu didn't know where to find it. After breakfast, he couldn't find any shadow. He refused to come back until he was hungry." The eldest daughter-in-law came up to see the two small ones and smiled shyly at Ye.

"Seven or eight years old is the time for Tao, and it is normal to be willing to go out to play." Ye pointed to Xu Xinger and said, "Xing'er is still a girl. She didn't live at home every day before. She is ten years old this year, and she is a little more stable. I don't know who she is."

"Mother--" Xu Xinger said in a long voice, "Why are you talking about me?"

"Praise you for being sensible now!" Ye looked at his daughter with a smile.

Xu Xinger curled her lips and saw that Mrs. Ye was carrying a basket to go out to pull vegetables, so she jumped down and said, "I'll go to the garden with my grandma."

The two went to the field to pick cucumbers and beans, cut two pumpkins the size of adult fists, went back to the yard and twisted a few eggplants, and pulled out some green onions, radishes and cabbage.

The dishes were picked back, and several people were busy. The eldest daughter-in-law went to cut the meat and chop the meat stuffing. After a while, she used cabbage balls to make soup, and the second daughter-in-law washed the vegetables in the yard.

Mrs. Ye washed her hands and went back to the room, and then poked her head out and said, "Pry two bigger eggplants for the child to fry the eggplant box."

"Good!" The eldest daughter-in-law answered in the kitchen, cut a piece of tenderloin, added some ginger and chopped it together, added some yellow wine and soy sauce, mixed well, cut a small piece of tofu and put it in, grabbed it with her hand, buckled a lid and put it aside, picked out two thicker eggplants from the second daughter-in-law's washed, cut off the head and tail, and quickly cut it into two and a half pieces. It looks connected, and then stuff the meat stuffing into it.

The second daughter-in-law has scooped flour into a large bowl, beaten an egg, added some salt and water to make a paste, and then set up a hot pot and added oil to the pot.

When the oil pan was 60% hot, the eldest daughter-in-law slid the eggplant boxes wrapped in the batter one by one. The sound of oil sounded in the stove, and the fragrance soon came out.

Tao'er smelled a little greedy, but she also knew that this was not at home, so although her eyes looked eager, she still sat next to Xu Xinger and did not do anything rudely.

Xu Xinger patted her on the head with approval to praise her for being so polite.

The eldest daughter-in-law quickly fried an eggplant box, took it out and put it on the kang table, and pushed it in front of Xu Xing'er and Tao'er. "Eat it while it's hot. It won't taste good when it's cold."

Taoer did not reach out her hand when she saw it, but looked up at Xu Xinger first.

"Yo, Taoer is really sensible. She is only a few years old, and she has the rules of going out as a guest." The second daughter-in-law was surprised when she saw it. She smiled and picked up an eggplant box and handed it to Taoer's mouth. "Eat it quickly. Come to your grandma's house. You don't need these rules."

Xu Xinger took the eggplant box with chopsticks, thanked it with a smile, and helped her cool down a little, so that she could eat it by herself.

Peach is already young and eats slowly. After sitting for a long time, she only ate two eggplant boxes.

"It's almost done after eating this. Keep some stomach and wait for a while to eat." Xu Xinger saw that it was almost noon and picked another small one for her, so she stopped letting her eat more.

As he was talking, Mr. Ye's second cow ran back from the outside, rushed into the door in a sweat, opened his mouth and shouted, "Mom, I'm starving to death!"

After saying that, she didn't wait for the eldest daughter-in-law to speak and asked, "What is so fragrant?" Following the taste, he went straight to the inner room and saw the eggplant box on the table. His eyes suddenly lit up. He stretched out his hands and grabbed two pieces each. He devoured a clean meal and took the opportunity to lick the oil on his fingers.

Seeing this, Tao'er pushed the plate in front of her forward, ate the small half in front of her, and was taken down by Xu Xinger to wash her hands.

The eldest daughter-in-law followed up to see it. She raised her hand and hit Erniu's hand and scolded, "Is the starving ghost reincarnated? I didn't see my aunt and sister coming. When I entered the door, I stared at the food, didn't wash my hands, and I didn't know how to scream. They were not as sensible as your peach sister.

The back of Erniu's hand was painful and grinned, but he didn't take it seriously at all. He grabbed two eggplant boxes, got out from under the eldest daughter-in-law's arm, and ran to the yard to raise his voice, "Mom, I'm going out to play. I'll be back for lunch at noon."

"Don't come back without your meal at noon!" Xu's daughter-in-law was so angry that she dropped the rag in her hand and turned her head to Ye, "This child, I really can't do anything about him."

"It's a good thing for boys to live more. They will wander in the future, and it will be good to settle down in two years." Ye looked at Erniu's eyes full of envy, turned his head to look at the lock that was still in his baby, reached out and touched his little face and said, "I hope that the lock will grow up in the future and be as healthy as Erniu."

The food outside was almost ready. The second daughter-in-law came in to set the table. Xu Xinger wanted to go out to help carry the bowl and chopsticks. She pushed her back into the room and said, "Go in and rest. There are so many people, you still need to do it."

At lunch, Mr. Ye's stone also came over, still looking like a nerd. He came forward to say hello regularly, and then sat aside and waited for dinner. Ye Lao's daughter Nizi and son Ban'er also came over for dinner.

The Ye family did not have so many rules, so they set up two tables. The old Ye took his sons to drink and eat on the kang, and Mrs. Ye led her daughter-in-law and children to eat at the big table on the ground.

The lunch is very rich, with cucumber mixed with dried tofu, stir-fried pork with beans, fried eggplant box, stewed eggplant with minced meat, boiled meatballs with cabbage vermicelli, green onions and radish dipping sauce, and a small bowl of braised pork. The other children were still a little reserved and ate well. Only the two cows opened their bows and mouths were numb.

Seeing this, the eldest daughter-in-law was angry and annoyed. She moved all the meat dishes in front of Ye's mother and said, "Don't always eat vegetables. Pick up a few pieces of meat for the children." Looking back, he recounted the second cow, "Can you learn from your eldest brother? Eating is a little bit like, although they are all family members, but you eat so beautiful or something? Let your sister Xing'er and Sister Tao'er joke!"

After all, Mrs. Ye still protected her grandson and interrupted, "Let alone the children while eating. After eating, I feel uncomfortable in my appetite."

When the eldest daughter-in-law saw her mother-in-law speak, she stopped talking and stared at her son fiercely and stopped talking.

After lunch, the two daughters-in-law went down to clean up the kitchen. Mrs. Ye discussed with the old Ye about shaving the chestnut's hair. Suddenly, she remembered and turned her head and asked Ye, "Has the lock shaved the fetus?"

"It seems that I really didn't. When I brought it back, I was just one month old, and I was on the road for half a month. My father-in-law and Xing's father, two big men, couldn't think of these. I didn't shave my head when I brought them to my house." Ye Shi thought for a moment and shook his head and said, "Originally, I just kept it at my house for the time being, but my father-in-law didn't have the nerve to say anything about me. Later, when I adopted my child, I was not very well. My family was busy taking medicine for me, so I cleaned up this matter.

"That's just right. This time, the lock has been done together, and the fetal hair always needs to be shaved." Mrs. Ye made a final call, and then went to discuss with Mr. Ye who would ask to shave the child's head. If both children shaved their heads, how much red envelopes should be wrapped and what should be prepared.

There are many children in the countryside, and they are familiar with these things. Most of the things to be used are available at home. Even if there are some omissions, most of them can be borrowed from the villagers.

There was only one set of things at home, so Mrs. Ye went out to borrow one from her neighbor. The old Ye turned over the calendar to look at the days, took a bag of cakes brought back by Ye, went out to find the craftsman with the best shaving skills in the village, and agreed to come early the next day to shave the child's hair.