The Zhang Miaoye saw the wound when she was applying medicine to Zhang Miaomiao,
"Third Sister, the wound is so long."
"It's okay. The wound is almost scabbing."
The Zhang Miaoye felt a little heartache,
"Third Sister, aren't you in the county? Why did you go to the city?"
The Zhang Miaomiao was stunned,
"I have something to do in the city."
The Zhang Miaoye was a small person, so she did not suspect anything. After applying medicine to Zhang Miaomiao, she went out to work.
In the courtyard, Zhang Chengzong said to the Chen Xiuzhen, "In about twenty days, the Third Eldest Son will go to school to teach. "Don't make a fuss. Let her recuperate properly. Otherwise, it won't look good for her to limp to school."
The Chen Xiuzhen's lips moved, but she did not say anything or object. Zhang Chengzong knew that she had agreed to him, but she was too embarrassed to say it out loud.
After lunch in the afternoon,
Zhang Chengzong asked the Zhang Miaomiao to rest at home.
The Zhang Miaomiao nodded in agreement. Before the wound on her foot healed,
The Zhang Miaomiao could not only be considered to be working. However, there were some things at home that she could do. No,
The Zhang Miaoye led the cow and carried the basket on her back to mow the grass out,
The Zhang Miaomiao packed up the things at home and set up a table under the porch to write a novel.
The outline of the entire novel had already been conceived by the Zhang Miaomiao before she submitted it. The plot of the story was almost set,
So she picked up the pen and began to write.
The afternoon sun was not as hot as it was at noon,
People were not so impetuous,
The wind blew,
Mixed with a warm stream of air. Because the plot of the novel was smooth,
The Zhang Miaomiao had thought about it countless times,
She wrote it with ease, and soon, she was immersed in the novel.
The sun was slowly setting in the west. Zhang Miaomiao noticed that the light had dimmed. Only then did she snap out of her reverie. Putting down the pen, Zhang Miaomiao patted her shoulder and looked at the dozen pages of paper. She could not help but smile. She had written more than 15,000 words today.
He put the notebook and the pen into the cloth bag before returning them to his room.
Walking out of the room, Zhang Miaomiao stretched and prepared to go into the kitchen to cook.
"Sister Miao Miao, how's your leg?" Suddenly, a head popped out from the top of the wall.
Zhang Miaomiao saw that it was Go. N smiled. "It's nothing serious. You've been working hard recently, right?"
Go N scratched his head. "It's not that hard. Shan Ge has arranged everything. Qiao er had it the hardest. I'm stupid and don't know how to drive. Otherwise, he would've had it easy too. "
"No one is stupid. You just have to put in some effort to learn."
Go N nodded like a pug.
Zhang Miaomiao suddenly remembered something. "Go. N, I want to visit Grandma Qin the day after tomorrow. Are you free? Can you take me there by bike? "
"It's fine." Go. N said quickly. He thought to himself, Shan Ge had already told him to be free even if he had something to do.
"Thank you."
"Sister Miao Miao, don't be so polite."
Zhang Miaomiao smiled and Go. N said a few words and went into the kitchen.
Looking at the things in the kitchen, there was nothing in the kitchen except a pile of fermented noodles. There was only a little oil at the bottom of the bottle. Zhang Miaomiao could not help but frown.
Her mother, Chen Xiuzhen, never skimped on the food at home. Lao Wu was the only one who never skimped on the food at home. The others only needed to eat their fill. Cooking required as little oil and water as possible. When Zhang Miaomiao came back, she saw that Zhang Miaoye and her father's lips were dry and cracked, so she bought a bottle of vegetable oil in town and took on the cooking work herself. However, she had lived in the city for less than ten days, and the oil bottle had already been emptied.
Zhang Miaomiao thought that her mother must have poured the oil away and hidden it.
Zhang Miaomiao was really speechless about her mother, Chen Xiuzhen's behavior. She wanted to rush to her room and take out the hidden oil bottle. But thinking of her mother's unreasonable look, Zhang Miaomiao immediately went back to her room, took three yuan, and walked toward the village entrance.
Along the way, people were surprised to see Zhang Miaomiao's crippled feet and asked questions.
Only then did Zhang Miaomiao realize that she shouldn't have come out. The village was the place where rumors spread the fastest. In order not to be inherited by a cripple, Zhang Miaomiao could only explain to them one by one. She was accidentally pricked by glass, which made the women in the village feel sorry for Zhang Miaomiao.
Zhang Miaomiao smiled and walked toward the pork shop at the village entrance.
The pork shop was opened by an outsider who rented a house in the village. The business of the pork shop was always good during the busy farming season. When Zhang Miaomiao arrived, there was only the worst piece of pork left.
Zhang Miaomiao hesitated for a while, but thinking that Zhang Miaocao and her father probably hadn't eaten meat for a long time, she cut two catties and asked the boss to chop it up and go home to make dumplings.
The boss lifted the meat from the well in the yard and cut two catties for Zhang Miaomiao.
When Zhang Miaomiao went home with the meat, she didn't expect to meet Grandma Qian Dahua and Aunt Qiao Chunhua. She didn't know what they were arguing about. Qian Dahua left angrily, and Second Aunt Qiao Chunhua glanced at Zhang Miaomiao, then turned and walked back to the village.
Zhang Miaomiao thought that she was really unlucky today. She looked at the meat in her hand and thought that it wouldn't be enough to fill the gap between her teeth if Grandma and Second Aunt came to visit tonight. After thinking for a while, Zhang Miaomiao turned around and bought another catty of meat before going home.
When she got home, Zhang Miaomiao quickly kneaded the dough. She put the fermented dough from yesterday into the dough and put it aside to ferment. After that, she washed the meat, peeled it and minced it. Then, she mashed the onion, ginger and garlic and poured the juice into the meat. At the same time, she added salt water and stirred it evenly before putting it aside.
After all this was done, the dough quickly swelled up because of the fermented dough from the steamed buns. Zhang Miaomiao took out a chopping board and a dough stick and began to make the dough wrapper.
Zhang Miaomiao had learned from Second Brother-in-law before. Although she was a little rusty, her skills were still there. The first one was a little slow, but after the second and third, she gradually became proficient.
When Zhang Miaoye drove the cows home, Zhang Miaomiao had already made more than 20 dumplings. Seeing that the wrapper was made into dumplings, she began to make the dough wrapper.
After Zhang Miaoye cleaned up the cowshed, she washed her hands and saw Zhang Miaomiao making dumplings from the window. She was very excited. "Third Sister, Third Sister, are we eating dumplings tonight?"
"Yes. Go take a bath first. The water in the antimony pot is ready. "
"Okay."
Zhang Miaoye took out a bucket from the washroom next to the kitchen and filled the antimony pot with water. She carried it next door and found her clothes to wash. After taking a bath, Zhang Miaoye walked into the kitchen feeling refreshed. "Third Sister, let me help you."
"Come on." Zhang Miaoye said.
Zhang Miaoye was more agile. Zhang Miaomiao made a wrapper, and Zhang Miaoye wrapped it into a dumpling in no time.
Zhang Miaomiao was curious. "How did you do it so quickly? We don't eat dumplings often, right? "
"Third Sister, did you forget? Last year, Brother-in-law's master opened a dumpling restaurant in town. Brother-in-law didn't have time to help, so he asked me to help for a month.
I gave him 15 yuan. Mom wanted me to help this year, but the old master's dumpling restaurant hired an official worker. "
Zhang Miaomiao remembered.
At that time, the dumpling restaurant had just opened and there was a lack of staff. She had asked Brother-in-law to help. However, Brother-in-law's mother seemed to have broken her leg, and Second Sister couldn't handle everything at home, so she asked Zhang Miaoye if she was willing to help. At that time, Mom was not willing. After Second Sister said that his master would pay, Mom agreed to let The Fourth Prince go to town.
"Third Sister, will Mom say anything when she comes back?" Zhang Miaoye asked worriedly after the excitement had passed.
"It's okay." When Lao Wu came back and said that he wanted to eat dumplings, Mom probably wouldn't have time to care.
Sure enough, when Zhang Shugen came back and saw that they were going to eat dumplings for dinner, he was so excited that he ran around in the kitchen. He was so excited that he forgot that Zhang Miaomiao didn't like him. He grabbed Zhang Miaomiao's arm and shouted, "Third Sister, Third Sister, I want to eat, I want to eat."
"Youngest Child, what do you want to eat?" Chen Xiuzhen came in from the outside with the grass on her back. When she heard Zhang Shugen's voice coming from the kitchen, she stood in front of the kitchen window and asked with a smile.
Zhang Shugen quickly said, "Mom. Third Sister is making dumplings at home. "
Chen Xiuzhen saw what was inside through the window, and her face instantly turned gloomy.
'It's not the New Year or the busy farming season, but he's actually making meat. The Third Eldest Son is such a prodigal.' Just as she was about to scold Zhang Miaomiao, Chen Xiuzhen heard Zhang Shugen's earth-shattering scream. She immediately whispered in a panic, "Tree Root, Tree Root, don't be so loud. Do you want everyone to come to our house to eat?"
Zhang Shugen immediately covered his mouth.
Zhang Miaomiao then said, "It's almost done. You can eat after you wash your faces."
Chen Xiuzhen thought about Zhang Shugen's cheers and was worried that he would pester her if she tried to stop him. She immediately turned around and carried the grass to the cowshed.
Seeing that her mother had left, Zhang Miaomiao said to Zhang Miaocao, "Miao Cao, go pick some cabbages from the wall."
Zhang Miaoye nodded.
Soon, Zhang Chengzong also came back. Seeing that they were going to eat dumplings, he was instantly happy. "I haven't eaten meat in a long time."
However, Chen Xiuzhen's expression was a little ugly when she heard this. She was holding back her anger. She didn't live frugally for herself, but she couldn't get anything good out of it.
Zhang Chengzong washed his face and suddenly remembered. "The Third Eldest Son, did you buy the meat with money?"
Zhang Miaomiao didn't hide it. "Yes."
Zhang Chengzong said, "I'll ask your mother to give you the money later."
Ask her mother to give her money?
This was simply a fantasy. Zhang Miaomiao didn't think about it when she bought the meat. She immediately said, "No need."
Zhang Chengzong knew his wife's temperament. Seeing that Zhang Miaomiao rejected him so straightforwardly, his face was a little hot.
Zhang Chengzong guessed that Zhang Miaomiao should have some money after coming back from school. After all, the Normal School would subsidize the students every year. The Third Eldest Son wasn't a spendthrift person. A few years ago, he came back and gave some money to his family. This year, when he came back, the Third Eldest Son didn't give him any. His wife seemed to have forgotten about it because she was always busy with her parents. Thinking that the Third Eldest Son should have enough money to buy meat once, she thought. Thus, he said, "Ask your mother to buy another ten catties of meat every two days. You can cook it at home and eat it during the busy farming season."
Zhang Miaomiao agreed.
Zhang Chengzong looked at Zhang Miaomiao's back and thought that the Third Eldest Son was going to be a teacher at school soon. He had to buy quilts and clothes. He had to ask his wife someday. If the Third Eldest Son didn't have enough money, he had to ask his wife to give him some. Although he knew that his wife would make trouble, Zhang Chengzong thought that this was a matter of the Third Eldest Son's face and the Zhang family's face. He couldn't compromise.
"Dad, Mom, it's done. Hurry up and come over to eat." Zhang Miaoye shouted softly to the yard.
Zhang Miaomiao found it a little funny. The whole family ate dumplings like thieves. But as soon as she smiled, Zhang Miaomiao thought of Second Aunt and Grandma when she cut the meat. Her eyelids suddenly jumped up and down.
Zhang Miaomiao put the dumplings in a bowl. Zhang Miaocao was about to put the dumplings on the table when Zhang Shugen rushed to do the work.
When the family was about to eat, a voice came from outside the yard.
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