Tan muttered and walked away.
Xiaoduo came from outside and happened to meet Mrs. Tan. Xiaoduo said hello to Mrs. Tan, but Mrs. Tan ignored her at all.
Xiaoduo was startled, looked at Tan's back, and stuck out her tongue playfully, not at all annoyed.
But she didn't go to say hello to Mrs. Tan for the second time. Instead, she slipped into the kitchen and whispered to Yang Ruoqing: "Sister, what's wrong with this old lady? I didn't even bother to say hello to her. Who are you talking to?" Are you angry?"
"She must have been angry with me. She felt that I was heartless and unjust, so I immediately went with her to find my aunt." Yang Ruoqing said.
"But in my opinion, this old lady is just looking for trouble and is angry with the air!"
Xiaoduo's attention was focused on the first half of Yang Ruoqing's words, "Looking for aunt? Where did aunt go?"
"I don't know, the gods come and go." Yang Ruoqing said.
Xiaoduo shook his head: "Auntie is really a little weird these days. I heard that she takes a shower several times a day and her skin becomes inflamed. She bought some ointment from Brother Wangsheng to rub on her body!"
Yang Ruoqing said: "If you ask and don't say anything, then who can be blamed? Let her wash it as she pleases. If it hurts, she won't wash it."
Quirk!
"I suspect that aunt took Zhuangzhuang out to play, or went to town." Xiaoduo came over and helped Yang Ruoqing pack the vegetables in the basket, while shaking her head and analyzing.
"She probably went to town. She went early in the morning and will definitely be back before lunch."
"Because when we invited her to warm the stove for wine yesterday, she nodded and said she would definitely come today!"
Of course, Yang Ruoqing also remembered what Xiaoduo said, "Well, I hope she will show up on time, if not for anything else, just to save some time for us and the old Yang family."
But having said that, father Yang Huazhong is not at home, and fifth uncle is also in Qing'an County. If something happens, the old man and the old lady can only go to fourth uncle Yang Huaming for advice.
But you know Yang Huaming's character, and he has been having a headache about He'er these days.
Among the grandchildren, Yang Yongjin is also in the county, and only Yongzhi and Yongqing live in the family.
The old man, the old lady, and her grandson Yang Yongzhi actually have a relatively distant relationship, because Yang Yongzhi was sent by his father to learn carpentry skills from a master in Maple Leaf Town when he was very young, and he only came back after he got married as an adult.
Compared to Yang Yongzhi, the old man and the old lady were more familiar with Yang Yongqing, but they grew up beating and scolding Yang Yongqing.
But Yang Yongqing is not stingy, especially because many of his ideas and concepts conflict with the two elders.
Therefore, things like Yang Huamei's sudden disappearance and things like Yang Huamei's crazy bathing a few days ago, after the old couple eliminated them one by one, they could only come to find Yang Ruoqing.
Therefore, Yang Ruoqing hoped that Aunt Meier would show up on time during lunch, otherwise, the two elders would probably be scratching their livers and lungs again.
As time goes by, more and more relatives and friends come to Luo's house to participate in Nuanzao Wine.
Blacksmith Luo was busy entertaining the male guests, while Wang Cuilian was in charge of the female relatives.
Luo Baobao also came back specially. She helped Wang Cuilian take care of the women.
Zuo Jinling happened to have not returned to Huguang County yet, so he stayed behind to assist Blacksmith Luo.
Tuan Yuan Yuan and all these children were handed over to the little sister Lingling to take care of them.
It was very lively in the front and back of the yard.
Sisters Yang Ruoqing and Xiaoduo rolled up their sleeves and prepared lunch in the brand new kitchen in the backyard.
From time to time, waves of relatives come to visit the stove.
"The brand new stove, with so many large and small counters, is like the back kitchen of a restaurant. Is it convenient to cook?" asked Da Sun with a smile.
Yang Ruoqing nodded: "It's very handy. It's so easy to eat two tables!"
Everyone praised it.
In this area, it is really a matter of opinion.
For example, when the older female relatives like the Da Sun family saw these large and small earthen pots, they envied the Luo family for having no shortage of hot water to cook a meal.
There is also a shrine recessed into the wall on the inside of the stove. Not only can a wooden statue of the Kitchen God be placed in the shrine, but a candlestick can also be placed in front of it to place offerings.
This is better than the designs of their stoves.
There is no space to place the statue of the Kitchen God on the kitchen stove of each of their homes, so they can only paste a portrait of the Kitchen God painted on red paper on the wall.
The offerings will not be placed specially. Only on special days, or when the family usually cooks something new, or if the elderly or children at home have a headache or a fever, they need to beg the Kitchen God for protection. When the time comes, they will take a small bowl to symbolically decorate the food and place it in front of the drawing of the Kitchen God posted on the wall.
And after years of smoke and fire, not to mention that the offerings were not smoked properly, even the dogs wouldn't eat them.
Even the red paper portrait of the Kitchen God was blurry, and in the end I didn’t know what it was.
But the Luo family's shrine is different. It is recessed inside, and the statue of the Kitchen God is placed firmly inside. It can be worshiped and respected every day, all year round.
"The design is so good, Qing'er. The Kitchen God lives a better life in your home than in ours!"
An older relative and woman in the crowd couldn't help but speak out her innermost thoughts.
Everyone nodded.
"The Kitchen God lives a comfortable life in the Luo family, and he will probably protect the Luo family more. Therefore, the Luo family will get better and better, with prosperous people and a great business."
Well, regardless of whether they were true words or flattery, these words were still very useful in Yang Ruoqing's ears.
After all, this is being licked, right? Ha ha……
Compared with the younger sisters-in-law and the young wives, when looking at the brand-new kitchen of the Luo family, what they mainly noticed was the long row of small kitchen openings next to the wall.
Especially for a young daughter-in-law like Cao Bamei, her family does not have many people, currently only four people.
Hong'er lived in a school in the town for a long time, and Yang Yongzhi had two meals at the Taoist temple.
So she and Da Niuniu, mother and daughter, were usually at home.
When the mother and daughter are cooking at home, they have to turn on the cooker. The stove is so big, it feels like a waste to cook a mouthful of rice and stir-fry a plate of vegetables.
If you use a small clay stove, the firepower is weak and you have to wait for a long time.
It would be great if there was a long row of stoves like the Luo family, which is simple, convenient and fast.
Cao Bamei planned to sit down with Yang Yongzhi and think about the family's next plans and arrangements after finishing the Luo family's warm stove wine today.
To build a new house?
I don’t dare to think about it for the time being, where I have to save the limited money for Hong’er’s education and the dowry money for Da Niuniu.
There is no need to build a new house for the time being, but if you renovate the kitchen, you can still squeeze out the money.
