Chapter 36 Door-to-door Debt Collection

"My mother wants to live a long life." Xu Xinger's voice sank inexplicably. When she had a fever before, she had many dreams in a daze, as if she had dreamed that she had returned to the past. Although she did not worry about food and clothing, she became a motherless child.

At this time, he saw Ye standing in front of him with a smile, and his nose couldn't help but be sore. After wiping his forehead, he arched directly into Ye's arms.

It's rare for Ye's eldest daughter to be so coquettish. She hugged her with a smile and said, "How can you even change your nature when you have a disease? It's rare to see you so calm."

"I worried my mother yesterday." Xu Xinger continued to rub in Ye's arms. Suddenly, she remembered the problem that had troubled her just now, so she asked, "Mom, I don't know how to seal the chopped spicy sauce. It will take a month to eat it."

Ye thought for a moment and took down a wide-brimmed jar with a covered bowl from the bowl rack. "You wash the jar, scald it with hot water, put it in, buckle the bowl and seal it with wax oil."

"Mom, you still have a way!" Xu Xinger happily took the jar, scooped up the water and began to brush.

"You should be careful and don't rub it on your face again." Ye told him to go back to the house to do his own work.

Xu Xinger washed the jar and put it in the hot water in the pot, hoping to burn all the bacteria on it. After taking it out and drying, she poured the chopped hot sauce in, covered the bowl, lit a candle to seal the gap between the lid bowl and the jar, and carefully held it behind the stove. Place.

Taoer has been detained in the room by Ye Shi for fear that she would come out and meet peppers or something. At this time, when she saw Xu Xinger carrying out the jar, she poked her head out of the inner room and asked, "Sister, what did you make?"

Xu Xinger came back to see her like this and said with a smile, "Little greedy cat, I made spicy sauce. You can't eat it."

Taoer pouted slightly when she heard the words, blinked at Xu Xinger and asked, "Sister, have you encountered anything interesting at the market today?"

Xu Xinger deliberately shook her head and said, "Go to the market. Isn't that it? There's nothing interesting."

"That..." Taoer wanted to stop talking and had to look at Xu Xinger eagerly.

"Go into the house and have fun. I'm still working here." Xu Xinger is about to leave.

Taoer reached out and grabbed the corner of Xu Xinger's clothes, but squeezed her mouth and said nothing.

Xu Xinger didn't tease her anymore. She bumped her forehead with her forehead and said, "I went into the room to find it in the kang and bought you candy."

Only then did Taoer realize that Xu Xinger was teasing herself. First, she pouted and waited for Xu Xinger, but her eyebrows and corners of her mouth slowly curved out. Finally, she couldn't help laughing, put her arms around Xu Xinger's neck and kissed her and said, "Sister is the best."

"Go into the house quickly and don't make a mess here." Xu Xinger also took a bite on Taoer's face, went to the basket under the beam to take out the dried radish dried in winter, soaked it in warm water, and then turned around and began to scrape the vegetable board to scrape out the soup that had just chopped peppers and chopped garlic.

It was all cleaned up, and then looked back at the dried radish. It was already soft. She poured out the water in the basin, sprinkled a handful of salt into the basin, and began to rub it hard until the salt was finished. She put it next to marinate it for more than an hour, controlled the marinated soup, added the five-spice noodles that had just been ground, and then rubbed | Mix it evenly, and finally chop less peppers and mix them in. It is also put in a clean jar and seal the mouth of the jar and put it up.

Ye came out of the room to cook. Seeing that the stove had been cleaned up, he asked strangely, "What have you done after tossing around for a long time?"

"It's all put up. It will take a while to eat!" Xu Xinger washed her hands again, rolled up her sleeves and said, "Mom, you go into the house. I'll cook."

After dinner, Xu Xinger felt sleepy. She was still a little weak after having a fever. Although she didn't walk back and forth today, she walked around the market for so long. After coming back, she made chili sauce and radishes. She was really tired. After washing her clothes in a daze, she drilled into the quilt early.

Ye put the two little coaxed and turned her head. Seeing that Xu Xinger's cheeks were red again, she quickly reached out and touched her forehead. The heat really rose again. She quickly twisted a well water handkerchief and put it on Xu Xinger's forehead, and then went down to the ground to make a bowl of hot brown sugar, green onion and white wine water according to the method taught by Shanzi, and called Xu Xinger. Come and pour it down and stuff her back into the quilt to sweat.

Tonight, she didn't burn as much as the first day. After drinking a bowl of rice wine, she soon sweated all over. Her body was sticky and uncomfortable. Xu Xinger slept a little unsteadily and always twisted around in the quilt.

Ye knew that her daughter loved to be clean. Seeing her like this, she went out to burn a pot of hot water, twisted her handkerchief to wipe her body slightly, and then changed her into a clean underwear, and then wiped her sweat.

The next morning, Xu Xinger felt refreshed and jumped up again. She hugged Ye's arm and said, "Mom, thank you for your hard work last night."

"You are fine, you don't have to work so hard." Ye said with a straight face, "I have long said that I won't let you go to the market, but you don't listen. Your father can't make up his mind and will spoil you."

"Mom, I know it's wrong." Xu Xinger admitted her mistakes repeatedly and promised, "I will definitely listen to my mother in the future and promise not to get sick."

"Go!" Ye's anger suddenly subsided and he said with tears and laughter, "Can you guarantee that you will get sick or not?"

Xu Laosan came in from the outside and saw that Ye and Xing'er were in the room, so he said, "I took Xing'er to Lao Wu's house today, bought some snacks, and cut a piece of meat. Do you think there is anything missing?"

Ye said, "Are you going out again?" I had a fever last night, and I have to take it out now. Do I still want to get better?

"Ah?" Xu Laosan scratched the back of his head, turned his head to look at Xu Xinger, and said to Ye with some entangledness, "The third brother of the Wu family said yesterday that he wanted to accept Xing'er as an apprentice. This is something we take advantage of, but we can't still be so stiff, and don't respect people, right?"

Ye also knew that Xu Laosan's words were reasonable, but he was worried about his daughter's body. Finally, he simply shook his hand and said, "You two can do whatever you are. I can't control it. If you come back tonight and it burns up again, I don't care."

"Mother--" Xu Xinger put her arms around Ye's waist from behind and rubbed her back and said, "You don't care who cares about me. I know you love me the most. I must pay more attention today and won't have a fever again."

"You will say something nice." Ye entered the room helplessly, opened the kangqin to find clothes for Xu Xinger, and couldn't help sighing, "I don't even have decent clothes. How can I go to be a teacher?"

"Mom, I'm going to worship, not to say kiss, just clean clothes, and something decent." Xu Xinger came over and said disapprovingly.

"Nonsense, a girl's family puts something on her mouth without kissing." Ye searched in the kang, "Why don't you wear this? The clothes made in the twelfth month of the year before last were made bigger at that time. I let go of my sleeves and trousers, and I should still be able to wear them.

Xu Xinger was speechless at a glance. Yesterday, she laughed at Xu Yingzi. Is it possible that she would repay herself now, or is this way of dressing the usual practice of people without money in the countryside?

She quickly stopped Ye and said, "Mom, that's a coat in a cotton coat, and the materials are thick. How can I wear it out on this hot day? Before the Wu family, I got heat up to heat first."

"That's true." Ye frowned when she heard this. Naturally, her daughter's body was still important. She continued to look in the kang piano, pulled out her own clothes and said, "Why don't you change my clothes for you? My men are more quickly, and they should be able to change it before noon.

"Mom, there is no need to be so troublesome." Xu Xinger reached out and pulled out a piece of cotton clothes she occasionally wore. Although it had been washed more and slightly faded, there was no patch on her body, which was still a good fit. "This one is not good."

"This is too... Why don't you go to the village to borrow someone?" Ye looked at the clothes with some dissatisfaction and wanted to be picky, but finally sighed and said, "Forget it, in such a situation, there is no need to go out to pretend to pretend to be fat."

"That's right, mother, think about it. My clothes didn't fit and patches yesterday, and Uncle Wu didn't dislike me." Xu Xinger quickly changed her clothes and felt quite satisfied. She raised her hand and turned around and said to Ye, "Mom, look, this is not very good."

"For good, you and Taoer are both sensible and not picky." Ye looked at her daughter's contentment and felt a little sour. Her mother's family was not bad. When she was a child, her life was not as hard as it is now. Although she was not an unsuffering person, watching her child suffer with her always made her feel uncomfortable.

Xu Laosan urged outside. Xu Xinger didn't notice Ye's mood as soon as she was anxious. She grabbed the comb and closed her hair, and quickly ran out and said, "Okay, this will go."

Ye took a few breaths and raised his hand to stroke his chest. This time, chestnuts seemed to really hurt his body. In the past two confinements, he was not as hard as this time. When he did something, he felt panicked and short of breath. With a slight emotional fluctuation, his chest would also be stuffy and painful, and he didn't know what was wrong with it.

She leaned against the edge of the kang and rested for a long time before carrying this strength. She stood up weakly and wiped away the cold sweat on her forehead.

"Mother!" Taoer shouted outside, with a trembling voice, "Someone is looking for my father."

Ye Shi answered, pulled the wrinkled clothes just now, and then got up and went out to ask, "Who is it?"

Two gloomy men stood in the yard. When they saw Ye come out, they said bluntly, "Xu Laosan's?"

"Yes, what's the matter with you looking for my man?" Ye looked at the two men and stretched out his hand to hold Taoer behind him.

"Your man owes us a total of five taels of silver. It has passed the deadline to repay the money. Let's see what to do!" One of the men took out an IOU from his arms and shook it in front of Ye.