Chapter 56: Chaos in the City
In the afternoon, in order to appease the concubine, Mrs. Feng prepared a small table of delicious dishes.
They were all the favorite dishes of Xiao Nuobao.
The staple food was two-grain rice mixed with rice and yellow rice.
Served with a large bowl of fragrant elbow meat stewed with lotus root, a plate of minced meat and eggplant, a plate of brine chicken legs, and a bowl of sauced egg dish, it made people drool.
Every dish was soft and easy to digest, and Xiao Nuobao was reluctant to leave the table.
In the end, her little mouth was greasy and her belly was about to burst.
Mrs. Feng knew that the concubine did not eat well at noon, but she had to take away her small bowl of rice, for fear that she would spoil the appetite of this good girl.
Little Nuobao was full but not satisfied.
Without the bowl, he started to think of many things, and deliberately rolled around at the feet of the eldest and second sisters-in-law, waiting for them to feed him. Sure
enough, Sun Chunxue was the first to be tempted.
She was reluctant to let go of any opportunity to please her sister-in-law.
But she was afraid that Nuobao would be offended, so she only dared to feed him two chopsticks of minced meat.
Li Qiqiao was quick-witted.
She whispered in Nuobao's ear: "Later, the second sister-in-law will make you some sour plum soup, which is sour, sweet and good for digestion. Your eldest sister-in-law can't make it!" When
little Nuobao heard this, all his greed was hooked, and he hugged the second sister-in-law's thighs and danced with joy.
His little feet couldn't help kicking happily, and they were even kicked half crooked by the stomping.
Because Chun Ge'er had done a good job in protecting his aunt in the morning, he also had the opportunity to sit at the table and drink meat soup.
Jiang Fenghu held him, fed him a mouthful, and then brainwashed him: "Well done, son. In the future, if anyone dares to get close to your aunt, you must protect them immediately. No matter what happens in our family, it is not as important as your aunt's business. Do you understand?"
"Gulp!" Chun Ge'er drank the meat soup loudly .
As if he understood, he nodded from time to time.
He is young.
But he is not stupid.
He has seen it all these days. The aunt is the sky in the family. Does he need his father to teach her?
Jiang Fenghu grinned with satisfaction.
Fortunately, this kid is sensible. The truth of the Jiang family must be instilled in him since he was young. In the future, he will definitely listen to his aunt.
There was some food left from the lunch. After the meal, Feng Shi picked it out and divided it.
Jiang Fengnian took the food to the village head, Zhang Xiucai, and several other villagers who had contributed the most to the construction of the house.
The dishes on the table were rich in oil and tasted good. They were all things that everyone would not eat at home on weekdays.
The villagers were not so particular. They just felt that they had a good time to eat the leftovers, and they kept thanking Jiang Fengnian.
At night, Li Qiqiao used sour plum soup as bait to coax little Nuobao to sleep in the west room.
On the large kang, the fire was blazing hot. Little Nuobao lay between his second brother and his second sister-in-law, and they kept looking at him as if they couldn't get enough of him.
"Nuobao's face seems to have swelled up a lot. Wife, please take a look." Jiang Fenghu gestured with his hands.
He was concerned about this matter all night.
Li Qiqiao nodded and breathed a sigh of relief: "It's mostly gone, and the rest can't be treated with hot eggs alone. My eldest brother is going to the city to buy some new furniture tomorrow, and my mother has asked him to stop by the clinic to buy some ointment for our Nuobao."
Jiang Fenghu felt relieved.
His sister is precious, so he needs to get some good ointment and take care of her slowly.
Jiang Fenghu glanced at little Nuobao again and started to chat: "Wife, our sister has a round face, and the more you look at her, the prettier she becomes. How come she looks more and more like me when I was a child?"
"Get lost! Nuobao's face is like a silver plate, and your face is like a big pancake, how can they be alike!" Li Qiqiao was so angry that she pinched his thigh.
"Ah, who cares what the silver plate or the big cake is? Aren't they all round anyway?"
"A urinal and a water bottle are both bottles, so why don't you use them the same way?"
Xiao Nuobao didn't really listen to the second brother and his wife's muttering.
She only remembered that her eldest brother was going to the city tomorrow.
Just now, Xiao Nuobao closed her eyes and thought that there had been a commotion in the city in the past two days, and it was afraid that it would affect Daliu Village, so she had to make preparations early.
But she still had to wait for her eldest brother to come back from the city tomorrow...
Jiang Fenghu and Li Qiqiao joked and played for a while.
Suddenly, the kerosene lamp was blown out, and Xiao Nuobao saw the dark shadow of her second brother bypass her and crawl into the second sister-in-law's quilt.
"Wife~ Hehe, I see my sister has closed her eyes, she is asleep~"
"... Ahem, here you go again! Then speak softly, don't wake up my sister..."
"Hehe, I'm coming!"
Hearing the familiar "strange noise" coming from her ears, Xiao Nuobao opened her eyes and stared at the pitch-black night. Sometimes she was really "helpless".
She wanted to say that she hadn't slept yet.
Xiao Nuobao turned her head and saw that Chun Ge'er beside her had his eyes wide open like copper bells. He
was more energetic than herself.
She rummaged through the offerings helplessly. She had no
choice but to take out two pieces of maltose, one for each of her and her nephew. The night was long, and they ate while sighing...
The next day, Feng took out a small bag of broken silver and asked Jiang Fengnian to go to the city to buy it.
"Now that we have finished warming up the house, it is time to buy some new things for the family." Mrs. Feng looked around the house.
The old house was completely bare, with only two suitcases, a broken table and a few old chairs.
These were the leftovers from the second house, so Mrs. Feng simply chopped them up for firewood, and bought all the new things for the new house.
As for the money, she was not too sad.
The banknotes that Han Shang had given her before had not been touched.
The family had earned several dozen taels of silver from selling game, fruits and vegetables, and embroidery, in addition to building the house.
In the past half month, Li Qiqiao had completed several more embroidery pieces, which she could get at least another five or six taels of silver from taking them to Xiangliufang.
Seeing that she had sufficient funds, Mrs. Feng wanted to buy some other things for her daughter besides suitcases, tables and chairs.
"Mom, why don't you make a small rocking chair for my sister?" Jiang Fengnian saw what his mother was thinking and quickly suggested it.
A few days ago, when he went to the city, he happened to see this item being sold at a woodworking workshop.
The so-called small rocking chair is more like a small bed.
The more expensive ones cost five or six taels of silver each and are made of ordinary nanmu wood. The paint on the top is smooth and the mortise and tenon structure on the bottom is also exquisite.
As long as the child lies on it and is gently touched, he can rock by himself for a while.
It's so cold and my sister can't go out to play often. Jiang Fengnian thought that if he bought her a small rocking chair, it would definitely add a lot of fun.
When Mrs. Feng heard that there was such a good thing?
She immediately waved her hand and bought it for her daughter!
She took out another ten taels of silver and gave it to Jiang Fengnian.
"If you want to buy, let's buy the best for Nuobao. Don't worry about the money. We can still earn more if we have less money. The most important thing is to make your sister happy."
Jiang Fengnian was thinking the same thing. He accepted the silver and prepared to buy it for his sister excitedly.
But before he went out, he suddenly saw that there were several more hemp sacks of food and grain on the donkey cart.
Jiang Fengnian was stunned, and Feng Miao told him that his sister asked him to put them there.
Knowing that his sister had reasons for everything she did, Jiang Fengnian didn't dare to take it down, so he took the empty sacks and went into the city.
He left early in the morning, but it was already afternoon and he still hadn't returned.
"The boss is usually very efficient, but why did he take so long today? Could it be that he got stuck due to some problem?" Feng frowned slightly and looked towards the door.
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