The Blessing of the Qi Nv of Transmigration

Chapter 51
"On the 26th of the twelfth lunar month, kill the pig and cut the meat." The Hu family cut the meat early this year. Due to the large number of people, they marinated more than 100 catties, and the sauce was more than 100 catties. In addition, they also marinated beef, mutton, chicken, duck, goose and fish feet. Several.

Yang Feier was in the kitchen watching Feng Ling cut the tofu into small pieces, Feng Min was lighting the fire under the stove, Wang was wearing an apron and was frying tofu on the stove, and Shen was piercing the fried tofu with a big needle. Then the two ends are connected to each other, and they are worn like Buddhist beads on the neck of a sand monk. They are three feet long. When the weather clears, they can be hung out to dry, just like thousands of sheets. It takes a long time to eat, because from the [-]th of the new year to the [-]th of the first lunar month, you can’t buy any vegetables during this period. Even if they are sold occasionally, the price is ridiculously high, so you have to store a lot at home.

It was still snowing outside.

He heard the voices of several people outside the gate, and gradually began to shout loudly, and then the gate was slammed shut, and old man Qiu came in from the outside, walked to the kitchen door, and called Shen: "Miss, there are three people outside. Personally speaking, I want to find you, say it is your parents and brothers, I asked them to wait a while, and they were not happy when I went back to you, saying that they bullied others, look at this big one, and they scolded me, so I had no choice but to Lock the door, do you want to go and see?"

When Mrs. Shen heard this, she was already stunned. Seeing her daughter-in-law like this, Mrs. Wang asked Feng Min to turn off the fire temporarily, took off her apron, and said, "I'll go out and have a look." Then she went out with old man Qiu. .

After a while, Mrs. Wang brought in three people, two old couples in their 60s and [-]s and a young man in their twenties. There were chilblains all over his upper feet, and all he needed was a bamboo stick and a broken bowl. The young man was dressed fairly neatly, with only a few patches on his clothes, but they were also very thin. He wore a pair of rag shoes on his feet. Several people's hair was stained with grass clippings, their faces were blue and purple, and the two old people were already on the verge of collapse.

Seeing this, Shen burst into tears, rushed out to support the two old people, and said in a choked voice, "Father, mother, how did you end up in such a land?"

Feng Ling Fengmin was very winking, and hurried out to help the two old people into the kitchen. The kitchen was always burning and it was the warmest. The young man followed him in. Yang Feier and Wang brought three benches for them to sit down. Shen rushed out again, and took three padded robes from herself and her husband to put on for them. Feng Ling Fengmin had already poured three bowls of hot water for them to drink while warming their hands.

Putting on cotton robes, drinking hot water, and being in the warm kitchen again, the complexions of the three of them gradually returned to normal, but they were still sallow and emaciated, with a bitter look on their faces.

Shen said: "Have you eaten this morning? I'll cook something for you."

The old man said: "Eat, Xibeifeng is full."

The old woman next to her elbowed the old man and said, "You old man, you've become like this, why is your mouth still like a firecracker?"

Shen Shi was not annoyed, and said: "Then you wait a moment, I will do it right away."

He asked Feng Min to burn another stove, poured half a bottle of boiling water, and when it boiled, he quickly cracked fifteen eggs into it, dug five spoonfuls of brown sugar into it, and cooked them together, and quickly boiled again, waited a while, Put it in a bowl, put it in the hands of several people, and tell them to eat.

Those three people just watched Shen's eggs being knocked into the pot one by one without money, and their eyes were straightened. Now this big bowl of brown sugar eggs is in their hands, and the sweet and fragrant heat goes straight into their noses. , wearing a new cotton robe, as if in a dream, on the way to search here from the ruined temple in the morning, I thought I would not survive today.

After the three of them ate and drank well, and their bodies were completely warmed up, Shen asked: "Father, mother, and my brother, how did you become like this now?"

Old man Shen snorted, and said: "It's not about you, a brother who is not up to date. The year before last, he said he was going to do some business, but he was tricked into going to the casino. He lost more than 800 taels of silver overnight. Your mother and I were cheated by the creditors." Forced to sell the house and land, at any rate, I barely paid back the two years. In the first half of the year, your mother was ill and didn’t pay back the money for half a year. Somehow, the interest rate has rolled back to more than 100 taels. We came to look for you when we had nowhere to go, but we didn’t know until we went to Tangjia Village that you had moved to Fucheng long ago, but no one knew where you lived. We only said that it was on Shuyuan Street. It snowed heavily yesterday. I rested overnight at the Yin Temple outside the city, and came to the city early in the morning to find you."

The old woman looked at Shen with tears in her eyes, and said, "It's been more than 13 years since you married into the Hu family willfully. Your stubborn father won't allow me to find you, and you are just as stubborn as your father." Jin, sure enough, I never go home once, I sometimes doubt myself, whether I have ever given birth to your daughter. I owe you two in my previous life!" I couldn't help but let out a sad cry Suddenly, I thought of the emperor's twelfth lunar month, crying like this in someone's house, it was not bad luck, so I quickly grabbed my mouth with my hand and forced myself to bear it.

Shen's face was also full of tears, and she kept wiping it with a handkerchief, as if she couldn't wipe it dry. Back then, she insisted on marrying Hu Yongqiang, and she had a stalemate with the family. Before leaving the house, she swore viciously in front of her parents. In the future, I will live a prosperous life with Hu Yongqiang, otherwise I will never return it, but these years, the family life has not only been difficult to turn around, but there is a trend of deteriorating, so there is no face to go home, until this year. , as soon as winter came, Shen was thinking about this matter in her heart, and only waited for the shop to have a holiday on 29, and discussed it with Hu Yongqiang. Unexpectedly, her natal family came to her.

Immediately, Hu Yongqiang and his father-in-law were called back from the shop, and the three sons were called out of the room. Together with Yang Feier, he recognized his in-laws, grandpa, grandma, and uncle, and the family was reunited.

Hu Yongqiang and his wife discussed moving from the main house to the south room of the eldest son's east wing, and gave up their main house to the Shen family's parents, and arranged for their uncle Shen Fangrui to live in the twin west wing's east room. Don't bother, if you want a free servant's room, you can just live there by yourself, but how can Mrs. Chen give in? I haven't seen my parents for so many years. Xiaobao went back to her mother's house, and saw that whenever someone else's family had a big or small affair, her mother's family would come to help a lot, how many times she secretly shed tears, and now her parents and brothers are all gathered by her side, even if she is down and out. In addition, that is also an extraordinarily close relationship, wishing to give all the good things I can give to make up for the family affection and unfulfilled filial piety that I have lost over the years.

He was also busy asking Feng Min to boil hot water for them to bathe and wash their hair, change their clothes inside and out, and ask Feng Ling to buy chilblain ointment and come back. It was not until lunch time that they were busy.

The kitchen on the other side of the shop has long been abandoned, and the two briquette stoves are only used for daily tea cooking and washing water. Every day, meals are prepared in the new house, divided into two, and one is brought to the shop kitchen. The table is eaten, and the other is left in the kitchen of the new house. The women open a table, but since it snowed yesterday, they are afraid that the dishes served will be cold, so they will not be separated. They all come to the kitchen of the new house to eat. A long table with a width of [-] meter and a length of [-] meters was specially customized by Yang Feier, so that it would be easy to use for more people.

Today is a happy day. The members of the Shen family prepared a lot, and it was too late to go shopping, so they cooked a whole salted goose, cut it into pieces, and put the oily goose in the middle of the table. All kinds of meat, vegetarian, sweet, salty, soup, and snacks counted and there were more than a dozen kinds. A table was set up, and the apprentices came in to have a look, and they laughed and said, "Did the master eat the New Year's dinner in advance?" He smiled and said, "Today is your boss's happy event! Let's celebrate together."

After a while, Feng Ling Feng Min helped the old man and the old lady of the Shen family come in with a completely new look. The two of them were soaked in the bath water, their faces were flushed, their hair was combed meticulously by Feng Ling Feng Min, both wore cotton caps and brand-new thick cotton robes, It was the New Year's Eve clothes of the second elder of the Hu family. He was naked once, so he took them out to make a contribution.Looking at it dressed like this, it is true that people rely on clothes and saddles, and there is no trace of beggar, just like a rich man in a farmhouse.

Shen Fangrui, who was following behind, also changed his clothes, wearing a black gauze soft-footed headdress, and the mouse-gray round-neck quilted robe wrapped with gold silk that Hu Yongqiang planned to wear during the New Year. He has a handsome and elegant face, his face is like a crown jade, his sword eyebrows are bright, his nose is straight, his mouth is full of pills, he looks like he is in the middle of his twenties, he is clearly a handsome gentleman in his early twenties, and the three brothers of the Hu family and him They are all somewhat alike.

Except for Ah Shan, Ah Shui, Ah Zhen, and Ah Tang who are on duty in the shop, everyone else has arrived, and they will have a meal first before they come back to eat.

Mrs. Hu told everyone to sit down and eat quickly. They should have sat down, but just as they were about to take their chopsticks, they suddenly saw two people standing still on the table. It was A Xu and Xiao Yu'er, with tears in their eyes. He stood by the table with his head down, and the people at the table didn't know what to do, so they all looked at them.

But seeing the three members of the Shen family jumping up from the bench suddenly, the old lady of the Shen family blurted out crying: "Jing'er! Xin'er! Are you my Jing'er Xin'er? Grandma misses you so much!" The old man was also trembling like yellow leaves in the wind, the three of them stepped over the bench, and ran over from the opposite side in a gust of wind, Shen Fangrui ran at the front, hugged the two of them, shouted: "Jing'er, Xin'er!" and choked. In his throat, he couldn't make a sound, the boy burst into tears, but Axu struggled, gritted his teeth and tried his best to hold back the tears in his eyes, while struggling, the tears fell one by one, and the little fish was still crying. Not very sensible, let Shen Fangrui hold him in his arms, but couldn't help crying, crying and shouting: "Grandpa, grandma, I want grandpa and grandma!"

Behind, the two elders of the Shen family hurried forward, pushed away their son, and hugged the two of them in their arms. The two elders and two children hugged each other and wept heartbrokenly, everyone was moved.

Only Shen Fangrui was left aside.

Chen took a rough look at the side, wiped away tears, came over to pull up the two elders, and said: "Father, mother, Fang Rui, now I can understand that these two children are Fang Rui's sons, my own nephews Isn’t it? However, these two children were bought by Yongqiang and Xiu’er from Ren Yazi, so why did they fall into the role of selling their children? Where are the children’s mothers?”

All the people in the kitchen were dumbfounded. It was like watching a play. When the hostess asked the reason, they all pricked up their ears.

But Shen waved her hand again and said: "Forget it, let the children eat first and then talk! It's important to eat first."

Shen Fangrui knew in his heart that his sister was trying to save face for him, so she returned to her seat awkwardly. The second elder took the seat for the two children, and the people next to him quickly gave up two more seats. For the eldest grandson, Mrs. Shen hugged the younger grandson and never let go.

(End of this chapter)