Hearing Old Lady Xu urging them, the two of them had to end the conversation, take turns going to the bathroom, and then go back.
Entering the yard, the eldest daughter-in-law, Bai Jinfeng, was waving a broom to sweep the floor, while Old Mrs. Xu was watching with a droopy face and a frown on her face.
Seeing Ning Jia and An Ye reluctantly entering the yard, his face turned darker than the bottom of a pot: "Come out? I thought you two were going to discuss settling down in the toilet!"
"She stole the toilet from me! You can scold her instead of me!" Ning Jia rolled his eyes.
"Whoever grabs it first gets it!" An Ye responded with a shout.
"That's enough! Three fights a day! There's no peace at all!" Old Mrs. Xu glared at him with her three-cornered eyes. "With that little strength, it's better to do more work! One of you go fetch water, and the other go cook."
"I'm cooking." Ning Jia pointed at her small body, "I'm afraid the pole will break me."
"Then you go fetch some water." Old Mrs. Xu pointed at An Ye and said.
An Ye hates the smell of cooking fumes the most. She would rather fetch water than cook.
Ning Jia was already starving, so he quickly went into the kitchen, squatted beside the stove, lit the fire, and started adding water to cook while the fire was burning vigorously.
Old Mrs. Xu took a few eggs from her cupboard and handed them to Ning Jia, and told her sternly: "Steam these eggs, and watch your mouth and don't eat them secretly!"
As soon as the old lady left, Ning Jia started counting the eggs.
One, two, three…six.
Ning Jia couldn't help but laugh. The sun was rising from the west, and she even had steamed eggs for him.
You know, the breakfast in the old Li family is always the same - yellow noodle dumplings with wild vegetables, pickled radish and millet soup that is so clear that you can see a person's reflection in it.
My son can eat a few eggs. Isn't it like a festival?
She didn't have any food last night and was really hungry, so she started to make breakfast clumsily.
She really couldn't get used to the stoves in the countryside, but this didn't bother her.
During the holidays, she, her bestie and a group of fellow travelers often hike over the mountains and camp in the wild. Making fire and cooking is nothing to her.
After a busy day, breakfast is finally ready.
When the meal was served on the table, An Ye came back carrying half a bucket of water.
"Come and have dinner!" the old lady called out, and the men in the family came out of the house one after another.
The Li family is prosperous.
When she was young, Old Mrs. Xu gave birth to ten children at once, and nine of them survived. One of them was adopted by her eldest uncle's family to support the family.
Among these eight children, the second oldest married to a man in the neighboring village a few years ago.
Later, when Old Man Li passed away, there were only six sons and an unmarried little daughter left in the family to live with the old couple.
The autumn harvest in the village was completed yesterday, and the team leader gave the villagers a day off. The third and fourth brothers and their children went to visit friends in the town, so there were not many people having breakfast at this moment.
"Let's eat!" Old Mrs. Xu gave an order and brought out the eggs.
As soon as the white eggs were placed on the table, everyone's eyes were fixed on them. He coughed, cleared his throat and said, "Everyone has worked hard in the autumn harvest recently, and we saved a few eggs. Let's share them. One for the eldest brother and his wife. Zhaodi'er has had stomach discomfort these days, so she shouldn't eat eggs. The fifth brother is not at home, so I won't save any eggs for him today. One for the sixth brother and one for Xiaotao. They will grow taller after eating them. It's time to talk to her in-laws later."
These four eggs had a place to go, and the remaining two eggs naturally went to her and An Ye.
Ning Jia knew that Mrs. Xu didn't eat boiled eggs. The original text said that two days ago, Mrs. Xu secretly ate eggs in the kitchen without telling her daughters-in-law, and she accidentally choked and almost died.
From then on, the old lady would burp whenever she saw eggs, and this illness was only cured in the last one or two hours.
Since this is her egg, she will not be polite.
"Come here, eldest brother's wife, this is yours..."
Old Lady Xu handed the egg to Bai Jinfeng. When she saw Ning Jia reaching out his hand, she slapped him: "Why are you reaching out your hand? There's no egg for you to eat."
"Huh?" Ning Jia's eyes widened. "Aren't there two left? Why am I not among them?"
"One of those two is me." Old Mrs. Xu said slowly.
"What about the other one?" Ning Jia raised an eyebrow, "There's An Ye but not me?"
"She doesn't have one either." Old Mrs. Xu glanced at Ning Jia and then at An Ye. "The remaining egg is a big yellow egg."
Dahuang is a dog in the family.
Ning Jia got angry when he heard this: "There are dogs but not me!"
Isn't this an insult?
"Why?" An Ye was also furious, "Am I worse than a dog?"
"Yes, Mom, what are you doing?" Li Xu was reluctant to hug his wife.
"What else can they do after marrying into this family except to make me angry? Dahuang saved my life two days ago! Dahuang hasn't been in good spirits these past two days, so I gave him an egg to nourish him. What's wrong with that?" Old Mrs. Xu said righteously. If her son didn't take good care of them, she would lose her dignity as an old woman in the future.
"Let me tell you the truth!" Old Mrs. Xu snorted coldly, "Not only do I not have eggs for you, I don't have rice for you either! When will I get up in the morning and work honestly? When will I have food to eat!"
After saying that, the old lady cracked an egg and threw it to Dahuang.
Although it hurts to lose an egg, I still try my best to establish my authority.
Ning Jia watched helplessly as the egg drew a beautiful parabola right in front of her eyes and fell into the dog bowl!
Dahuang swallowed the egg as soon as he opened his mouth. After eating it, he licked the crumbs with relish.
Ning Jia glanced at Old Lady Xu, and the corners of her mouth curved up: "Mom, you are right, we should give Da Huang some supplements."
After saying that, she picked up the rice pot, stood up, and poured the full pot of rice soup into the dog food bowl with a splash.
"Ah - Ouch!" Everyone at the table was dumbfounded. They were all shocked and stood there stupidly.
After Dahuang had finished eating the eggs, he was licking his black, dirty, broken bowl when suddenly a bowl of rice appeared.
Dahuang's eyes lit up immediately. He wagged his tail, barked at Ning Jia twice, and licked the porridge happily.
Ning Jia smiled and said, "Da Huang, you are the old lady's savior, you have to eat more! I can't treat you unfairly!"
"You...you you you..." Old Mrs. Xu watched the whole pot of rice go into the dog's stomach. She was so angry that she was shaking all over and couldn't speak.
An Ye gave Ning Jia a thumbs up in his heart, but his face was full of sorrow. He immediately complained to Old Mrs. Xu: Mom, the family is just having a good meal, why are you talking about the dog? Is this okay now? People are still hungry, feed the dog first! ”
"That's right, mom. This person can't even eat eggs, and you feed them to the dog..."
"It's a good meal, but it's all a bargain! Mom, tell me, you..."
The whole family looked at the old lady with resentment on their faces.
Old Mrs. Xu was furious and anxious. She sat on the ground, slapped her thighs and cried, "What sin have I committed! How could I marry such a person!!"
Seeing the old lady in such a state, the others did not dare to say anything. They even forgot to eat and rushed to support her: "Mom, don't worry. What if something bad happens?"
Seeing this, Ning Jia sneered, took advantage of the chaos in the yard, grabbed two eggs from the table, winked at An Ye, and slipped out.
An Ye was silent, took two steamed buns with wild vegetables from the table and followed closely behind: "Ning Jia, don't run away. You made me miss breakfast, I will never forgive you!"
In the blink of an eye, the two of them ran to the big locust tree at the entrance of the village, one after the other. They stopped only when they saw that there was no one around.
The two looked at each other and couldn't help but burst into laughter.
"Jia Jia, you did a great job. I'm going to make that old man mad to death." An Ye smiled and took out the two steamed buns from his pocket. "One for you and one for me. Eat them while they're hot. You have to go to bed later. You can't eat without food in your stomach."
Ning Jia smiled and took out two eggs from his pocket: "Here, there are eggs! Others don't take supplements, but you can! You have to work hard during the day and work half the night. How can you not get enough nutrition!"
An Ye blushed, and directly broke open the steamed bread and stuffed it into her mouth: "You just know how to laugh at me, eat your meal quickly."
After being hungry for a whole night and half a morning, Ning Jia now felt that the wild vegetable steamed buns tasted delicious.
After the two best friends had finished their meal of steamed bread and eggs, they heard a beep-beep-beep whistle coming from the village.
The two of them went directly to the tool storage department of the village brigade, one after the other, to get shovels and hoes for work, and mixed in with the crowd to go to work.
After autumn, there is not much farm work to do in the fields after the crops are harvested, but we cannot sit idle in the winter. We have to reclaim land and dig canals to prepare for the coming spring.
Once they arrived at the field, each production team went to work in the area assigned to them.
Ning Jia carried a shovel to the most inconspicuous piece of land and started working.
She was shoveling the ground with great effort when suddenly a dead branch fell in front of her.
She raised her head and looked around, and saw An Ye raised his chin towards her not far away, indicating that she should look into the distance.
Ning Jia looked in the direction indicated by An Ye and saw a tall and burly young man with bronze skin, strong and rough facial lines, and a pair of wild eyes under his black eyebrows.
Isn't this her "cheap husband" Li Yao?
At this moment, he was whispering to the old couple, and his expression looked a little gloomy.
He went to be on duty at the fish pond last night. Normally he shouldn't have to go to work that day, so why is he here now?
The man seemed to notice that Ning Jia was looking at her. His eyes swept through the busy crowd and accurately locked onto her position.
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