Lijiagou.
Wu family.
Before dawn, the Wu family got up, put on clean clothes, and made a special trip to Dahe Village to see their three-day-old granddaughter.
Boss Wu and Aunt Wu gave birth to two sons and two daughters. The eldest daughter got married and the eldest son needed to farm at home. The couple took their younger son to Dahe Village.
"Why did Hui Niang give birth to a daughter!" Aunt Wu muttered as she walked, "Her mother-in-law is so good at giving birth to a son, but why can't she give birth to a son? I'm afraid she will be rejected by her mother-in-law, eh..."
"Let's see who dares to bully my second sister!" Wu Xiaochui clenched his fists, "If my brother-in-law doesn't protect my second sister, my brother-in-law and I will never end up together!"
"Okay, you!" Boss Wu scolded angrily, "You broke your arm in a fight last time and it's not straightened out yet. Who do you want to fight with?"
The family of three chatted and soon arrived at the entrance of Dahe Village.
As soon as the three of them appeared, they were stopped by the patrol guarding the entrance of the village: "Where are you from, and who are you looking for in Dahe Village?"
Boss Wu frowned: "My daughter got married and came to your Dahe Village. I made a special trip to see her. Why, why are you not allowed in?"
They Lijiagou don't have such rules.
The patrolman asked: "Which family did your daughter marry into? I'll ask first."
Aunt Wu pulled her husband aside and said with a smile: "We are the Wu family of Lijiagou. My daughter married into the Zhao family of your Dahe Village. Her husband's name is Zhao Dashan. She gave birth three days ago. We are having a wedding ceremony today. As parents, we naturally want to come and have a look."
When she said this, the man on patrol laughed: "It turns out they are Dashan's wife's parents. Come in quickly. Sister-in-law Zhao has come to ask several times. She is afraid that the Wu family can't find their way. By the way, Dashan's wife and the others have moved We’ve arrived at our new home. You’ve probably never been here before, so I’ll take you there.”
The people guarding the village gate suddenly became enthusiastic, leaving the three Wu family members confused.
Cheng Wanwan's family has been preparing for Xisanjiu early in the morning. The village's rule for hosting Xisanjiu is to prepare noodles, called Xisanmian.
Mrs. Zhao brought the Sun family over early in the morning to help. The Zhao family and the Wu family numbered more than 20 people. The noodles had to be filled, and kneading out the portions for so many people was not an easy task.
Spring flowers and summer flowers are helping to pick vegetables. Just noodles must have side dishes, right?
Cheng Wanwan asked Wen to help cook the mushroom and pork sauce. Cut the wild mushrooms freshly picked from the mountain into fine pieces, put them together with the minced pork, and boil them in a pot to make a miscellaneous sauce. When the noodles are out of the pot, pour them on top. Call a Xiangxiang.
Cao Yingying was boiling eggs, dozens of them, and the pot was full.
The main reason was that Cheng Wanwan felt that it was too shabby to have the Wu family come for a meal with just a bowl of noodles per person, so she asked Cao Yingying to boil eggs, cut some of them into pieces and use them as side dishes, and let the Wu family bring the other part. Go back and add something else. You can't go back empty-handed after a visit.
There are also tea leaves in the pot, and the boiled eggs are brown and very fragrant.
"It looks delicious." Donghua walked to the pot, sucked the water hard, and reached out to fish it into the pot.
"No!" Cao Yingying quickly stopped her, "The pot is full of boiling water. What should I do if I get burned?"
Donghua licked her lips and reached out to get the egg, regardless of whether it was hot or not.
"You little girl, why are you so greedy!" Mrs. Sun rushed over with a roar, "If your grandma finds out, see if I don't hang you up and beat you!"
The old lady didn't allow her and Donghua to come to her sister-in-law's place, so they finally came here while they were having a drink. If the old lady saw Donghua stealing something, how could the two of them hold her sister-in-law's lap in the future?
Mrs. Sun grabbed Donghua’s ears and went to the backyard, asking Donghua to feed the rabbits in the backyard.
There are various aromas wafting in the front yard, the aroma of braised vegetables, noodles, miscellaneous sauce, eggs...
As soon as the three members of the Wu family walked in, they were stunned.
They had never smelled such a strong aroma during the Chinese New Year. The aroma penetrated their noses and made their mouths water.
Wu Xiaochui swallowed his saliva dissatisfiedly.
"Look at this hopeless look!" Boss Wu said coldly, "Don't let the Zhao family underestimate the Wu family, otherwise your second sister's life will be even more difficult in this family!"
Wu Xiaochui nodded quickly.
The three members of the Wu family stepped over the threshold and walked into the yard. The ground was not mud, but bricks, clean and tidy.
The yard is large, with walls, and every visible corner is paved with bricks. There are two trees planted at the gate. There are stone tables and benches under the trees, and two little girls are sitting and picking vegetables.
Looking around, he could see the carriage carriage in the yard. If there was a carriage, it meant there should be a horse. There was a carriage in this house.
Boss Wu was a little uneasy.
Aunt Wu stammered: "We came here once last year when Hui Niang got married. Her mother-in-law and her family seemed to live there. There were three shabby rooms with leaks... How could they suddenly live there? I bought such a big house with blue bricks on the floor and tiles on the roof. Oh my God, how much money does it cost..."
Boss Wu coughed, meaning not to look like a loser.
Chunhua, who was picking vegetables, heard the sound and stood up quickly: "Are uncle and aunt from the Wu family coming? I'll go in and call auntie."
Cheng Wanwan washed her hands and hurriedly greeted her: "In-laws, you are here. Hurry up and sit down. Dashan, stop working. Serve tea to your father-in-law and sit with him and your brother for a while. Mother-in-law, I will tell you He said, that child is well behaved, sleeps when he is full, eats when he is full, and does not cause trouble at all..."
She took Aunt Wu's hand and walked into the house.
Aunt Wu seemed to have seen a ghost.
When Dashan and Huiniang were discussing their marriage last year, the two families met frequently. Every time they met, the mother-in-law had a cold face, as if the Wu family owed her a hundred taels of silver. If Huiniang hadn't been determined to get married, she would have been It is absolutely impossible to marry her daughter to the Zhao family.
She was already mentally prepared to face the cold words from her biological mother.
Unexpectedly, Mrs. Zhao Cheng actually held her hand and affectionately called her mother-in-law, with a warm smile on her face, as if she was a completely different person.
The more enthusiastic Cheng Wanwan became, the more panicked Aunt Wu became.
Could this be some bad idea?
"My mother-in-law, please drink some tea first to moisten your mouth." Cheng Wanwan poured a cup of tea and handed it over, "Just wait for another quarter of an hour to celebrate the three sides. Let's go and see Hui Niang and the child first."
Aunt Wu thought it was just ordinary water, but after taking a sip, it turned out to be sweet.
This is brown sugar tea that Cheng Wanwan asked Cao Yingying to cook. When someone comes to see the children and delivers eggs, she pours them a cup.
The people in the village have not seen the world and do not like to drink tea. Tea with sugar is more popular.
Aunt Wu drank the sugar water in one breath and followed Cheng Wanwan into the back room.
As soon as she entered, she saw the silver lock around the child's neck. It was bright, white and really dazzling.
There is also a cloth bag on the child. It is not the cloth bag commonly used by people in the village. It is actually made of fine cotton. A newborn baby, a female baby, is made of fine cotton?
As soon as Wu Huiniang saw her own mother's expression, she understood what she was thinking and said, "This silver lock is a gift from my mother-in-law. The word "peace" is engraved on it, hoping that little Zhuzhu can grow up safely. "
"What?!"
Aunt Wu was stunned.
From the moment she entered this yard, she felt that this home seemed different from before.
When I was drinking sugar water, I thought that the Zhao family was deliberately showing off to overpower the Wu family. Then I saw the silver lock, the child's blanket, and the half-bowl of chicken soup that had not been taken out on the bedside... and finally The most important thing was that she found that Huiniang seemed to be fatter and whiter, and her whole body was very round. This was not what a suffering person should look like, nor did it look like the miserable look of a woman who had her body hollowed out after giving birth... She suddenly felt that something was wrong. It seemed different from what she imagined.
