Happy peasant girl

Chapter 5

"What bad things did the three of you go to? Look at how you two elder brothers look at Miss Xi, her shoes are all wet in such a cold day!" Seeing the three younger siblings entering the courtyard, Lin Qingfei's face flickered She couldn't smile, but when she saw Lin Qingxi's face flushed from the cold and her wet feet, her face sank.

He protects his shortcomings, especially his own sister's. He has already kept Cao Agou's account in his heart, and he will definitely find a chance to get it back in the future.

"Third brother, I'm sorry!" When Lin Qinghe and Lin Qingmu faced Lin Qingfei, they were a little timid, and quickly admitted their mistake obediently.

Mrs. Mu saw two sons, one carrying firewood and the other carrying a pannier, while the youngest daughter was holding a small cage made of vines. There seemed to be white things moving inside, so she hurriedly asked them where they went early in the morning. .

After Lin Qingxi put down the rabbit cage made of vines by Lin Qingmu, she was dragged into the house by Mrs. Ye to change into clean shoes. When she came out again, the two elder brothers had already told the family members what they had planned in advance. , He also showed his family the wild vegetables, wild yams and rabbits he had dug.

"Good boy, you can find wild vegetables and wild animals in such a barren mountain, and now Dad's body can be replenished!" Lin Qinghai thumped his two younger brothers approvingly.

"Is this wild vegetable really edible?" Mu Shi also had this question.

"Mother, I can eat it! There was an old man who said it was called Malan dish before, and he told his younger sister how to make it, and then let the younger sister teach mother how to cook it!" Lin Qingmu mischievously rushed to follow Ye's side Lin Qingxi blinked her eyes.

"Mom, grandma said that daddy needs to be taken care of before he can stand up again, so in the morning my two elder brothers took me to the back mountain to have a look. Unexpectedly, I was lucky. Not only did I find the wild vegetables and wild yam that the old man said , and caught a rabbit." Lin Qingxi added.

"Wild yam? Is it just these old tree roots in the basket?" Wu asked curiously as she approached the basket with the child in her arms.

"Well, second sister-in-law, that's all! The old man said that this kind of wild yam is not common in winter, and we were lucky to meet it today. This kind of wild yam is a good medicine for curing diseases, and I will let my mother boil it later. Drink the soup." Lin Qingxi said excitedly as she looked up at Wu Shi with her small stature.

"It must be very precious! Just let mother save a bowl for dad, and save some food!" Seeing Lin Qingxi, Wu said that this yam is a good medicine for curing diseases and nourishing the body. She had never heard of it before in the town. I have seen or seen someone selling wild yam, it must be very precious.

"Eat them all! No matter how precious things are, our old Lin family doesn't have the habit of eating alone! Girl Xi, tell grandpa, who is that grandpa? Where did you meet him?" Linyuanshan is the only son of three generations. He has read books and seen the world outside. He knows what his granddaughter looks like better than anyone else.

But in the past few days, his little granddaughter is obviously different from before. Although he believes in ghosts and gods, his granddaughter seems to be no different except that she has become smarter and more sensible.

Lin Qingxi had long expected that her temperament would change too quickly, and she could hide it from others but not her own grandpa. Fortunately, she had already figured out a countermeasure.

"Grandfather, girl Xi can't remember clearly either. It seems that she met her once when she entered the mountain. The old man is very kind and he taught girl Xi a lot of things. It turns out that girl Xi didn't remember, but a few days ago When I woke up, I couldn't remember the old man's appearance clearly, but what he taught Xi girl became more and more clear, and Xi girl didn't understand what was wrong." Lin Qingxi looked at the courtyard in pretending distress. family.

Lin Qingxi's words made the old Lin's family fall into silence, especially Linyuanshan and Lin Qingfei, they looked at Lin Qingxi a little differently, but soon everyone seemed to have a tacit understanding and didn't ask any more questions However, what Lin Qingxi didn't know was that after she fell asleep at night, the old Lin's family gathered besides her for a secret "family meeting".

Since then, no matter how intelligent and unusual she was, her family never asked her why, as if she should be like this.

"Girl Xi, come, let's see what this is?" Lin Qingfei pulled Lin Qingxi to his side, and then put something in her palm.

"It's the red rope! Thank you, third brother!" Facing the red rope given by Lin Qingfei intuitively, Lin Qingxi happily gave him a bright smile.

"Second brother also has a gift for girl Xi!" Lin Qinghai saw that Lin Qingfei had given Lin Qingxi a red string as a gift, and proudly took out a silk flower wrapped twice in rags from his bosom and gave it to Lin Qingxi.

"Erlang, don't spoil your sister, these silk flowers are worth a lot of money!" Mrs. Mu glanced at the silk flowers in Linqinghai and Linqingxi's hands with some reproach. Although the silk flowers were old in style, they looked new.

"Mother, these flowers don't need money. Grandma Zhang next to the blacksmith's shop made them with cloth heads when she had nothing to do. She heard that our family has a younger sister, so she gave it to me. My elder brother also knows!" Lin Qinghai was afraid of the Mu family and The family misunderstood that he was spending money indiscriminately, and quickly explained.

"Thank you, Second Brother, Girl Xi likes it very much! Thank you, Grandma Zhang, for Girl Xi too!" Lin Qingxi touched the silk flower to her chest with light courtesy and affection. Her family was very kind to her. Her family loved her so sincerely, and she vowed once again to let her family live a happy life.

"Hui Lan, what a girl, you go into the house and cook. These little rabbits will be raised for two days first, Erlang and Sanlang, you should kill these two rabbits, keep the rabbit skins, and take them to the fur shop in the town to sell " Linyuanshan is very satisfied with his grandsons. His old Lin family may have a difficult life, but the harmony of the family is more important than anything else.

"Grandpa, girl Xi will help mother and sister-in-law cook!" Lin Qingxi volunteered to cook, and she still needs to guide these wild vegetables and yams.

"Okay, Miss Xi will help your mother and sister-in-law!" Linyuan Shan ordered his grandsons to do their own things, while he went into the house to see his son and grandson lying on the bed.

"Sister, brother is here to help you! How do you get these wild vegetables and wild yams?" Although Lin Qingmu also wanted to watch his second and third brothers kill rabbits, he also wanted to help Lin Qingxi.

"Sixth brother, help me pick these wild vegetables first, and I will peel the yams! Mom, can I use these wild vegetables to make some steamed buns later? Just chop the vegetables, add some black flour and salt That's fine!" Lin Qingxi also knew the situation at home, and she didn't even think about those seasonings.

"Okay, mother will do it!" Mrs. Mu put on her apron, took out a black porcelain basin, and poured some black noodles brought back by her third son into it, while Mrs. Qin was in charge of lighting the fire.

After cleaning the wild vegetables, Mu chopped them up and put them in the black porcelain basin, but Lin Qingxi asked to add some salt, but she was not willing to add it, thinking that there would be vegetables and soup later, so there was no need to add it. up.

There are two stoves in the old Lin’s kitchen, one large and one small. The big stove is usually used for steaming steamed buns during Chinese New Year, while the small pot is used for eating.

(End of this chapter)