Chapter 13: Decision
The mother and daughter found Uncle Tang San with baskets on their backs, and with his help they put the three full baskets on the ox cart.
The other people in the village hadn't come back yet. After all, it was a rare trip to the city, so of course I had to take a good look around and come out when the time was right.
Master Tang San looked at their backpacks curiously: "It's so heavy, what's inside?"
"What else could it be? Of course it's cornmeal and sorghum flour," Li Taohua said, "Can we afford anything else?"
"Haha, I don't mean anything else, I'm just asking casually." Master Tang San took a bite of the mixed flour steamed bun and took a sip of water.
The villagers came back one after another. They saw the backpacks that Li Taohua, her mother and her daughter were carrying, and were as curious as Mr. Tang Sanye about what was inside. One of them tried to lift the weeds on the surface of the backpack, but was pushed away by Li Taohua, who yelled "Bandits robbed us." When people passing by looked over, the man blushed.
In the past, Li Taohua still cared about her image, but now, she has become shameless and has even lost the face that she used to care about the most. Seeing this, everyone dared not to provoke her anymore.
Qin Huiyin is only eleven years old now. She is protected by Li Taohua and does not have to face the gossips of those gossipers. She grew up with her grandmother. After her parents divorced, one of them said he was going to the city to make a lot of money, but ended up being a Phoenix man who ate all his money and had a son with his new wife. The other rekindled his love for his first love, but was caught by his first love's wife and made it to the local TV station. He has never been heard from since then and has never returned. She grew up under the care of her grandmother and has never felt the love of a mother.
At this moment, being held in Li Taohua's arms, an unprecedented sense of security enveloped her cold heart.
After returning to the village, Master Tang San sent the mother and daughter to the door.
Tang Yixiao was waiting at the door. When he saw them come back, he took the backpack from Tang Luwu.
"You don't have to move it, don't get tired." Tang Luwu said.
Tang Yixiao ignored her, took the backpack from her hand, and carried it into the main room.
Tang Luwu originally wanted Tang Yixiao to help Qin Huiyin, but seeing that he had just left, it was not appropriate to call him again. She took the backpack from Qin Huiyin and carried it on her back.
Qin Huiyin stayed to help Li Taohua.
Li Taohua wiped the sweat off her face and closed the gate.
"Just have something to eat at noon!" Li Taohua said. She was stunned for a moment when she saw the corn porridge on the table, then turned around and smiled at Tang Yi who was working silently.
"It's great to have food as soon as I get home." Qin Huiyin smiled at Tang Yi and said, "Thank you, little brother."
"Who is your brother?" Tang Yi smiled as if he was pricked by a needle, and retorted unhappily, "I just don't want to tire my sister."
Anyway, his sister would cook after he came back, so he might as well prepare it first so that he could rest when his sister came back. He didn't care whether the mother and daughter were hungry or not, he just didn't want his sister to be wronged.
"Little brother, don't talk like that. Aunt Li and Yinyin went to buy medicine for you. You have this month's medicine." Tang Luwu said with red eyes, "I followed them in person."
She told him this to make him understand that the medicines were good and not adulterated. She saw with her own eyes that they used the prescriptions to prepare the medicines, and there was absolutely no problem.
Tang Yi smiled and frowned.
But he is not as naive as Tang Luwu.
Why did this mother and daughter suddenly treat them so well? If they said they had no other purpose, he would not believe it. He had seen through the nature of this mother and daughter a long time ago, and they could not be so kind.
"Eat it if you want, or not." Li Taohua said impatiently, "I don't owe you anything. Even if you die in front of me, I won't frown."
Qin Huiyin: “…”
My god, you are so beautiful that you don’t have to talk.
"Mom, I'm hungry." Qin Huiyin tried to smooth things over. "Let's eat first! After dinner, I still have things to do. Mom and Sister Lu Wu will have to help me later, and Tang Yixiao, you have to help too."
All Tang Yixiao had to do was to wash the pig's offal with wood ash in the river. After washing the pig's offal, he was also responsible for cleaning the pig's heart, lungs, and head. In short, everyone in the village knew that they had bought a bunch of waste materials that others didn't want. After the villagers who were still itching for the things in the three backpacks knew about it, they kept mocking them. They felt better and no longer worried about it.
The Tang family has a stone mill, and Qin Huiyin wants to use it to grind the peas into powder.
This is physical work. In the Tang family, where there is no strong laborer, the three women spent an entire afternoon grinding all 30 kilograms of peas.
"Girl, what are you going to do?" Li Taohua was so tired that her back and waist ached. Finally, she couldn't control her curiosity and asked Qin Huiyin.
Qin Huiyin smiled and said, "Mom, you don't even know what I want to do, why are you still cooperating with me? Aren't you afraid that I will waste these thirty kilograms of peas?"
"Peas are not expensive, so you can waste them if you want! It's rare that I see you want to do something, so of course I have to support you." Li Taohua said, "But we've been busy all afternoon, and you've made so much pulp, what do you want to do with it?"
"You'll know tomorrow." Tonight, we'll precipitate the pea water into powder, and then dry it tomorrow. We'll be able to see the finished pea powder in the evening. "Mom, I want to eat meat."
"Mom will make it right away." Li Taohua said, "We've been tired all day, let's eat something delicious."
Qin Huiyin put the pig's head and other leftovers in a bucket and put them in a water tank to keep them fresh. I don't have time to make those things today, I'll do it tomorrow night.
While Li Taohua was preparing dinner, Qin Huiyin was still busy. After the pea milk had settled once, there were still impurities in it, so it had to be scooped out again with water and then poured out after settling.
"Sister Luwu, isn't it time for you to go and make medicine for my brother?" Qin Huiyin said.
Tang Luwu had wanted to go a long time ago, but Qin Huiyin was busy here alone, so it was difficult for her to leave.
Now hearing her say this, he quickly said: "Then I will go to boil the medicine first and come to help later."
She has to prepare her brother's medicine herself, otherwise she won't feel at ease.
"I don't have anything to do here, go ahead!" Qin Huiyin said, "I'll go help my mother cook right away."
Li Taohua bought rice, flour and various seasonings today and prepared to make noodles.
She first cut a small piece of meat into slices, put it into a dry pot and fried it to release the oil and water. When the meat turned golden yellow and the oil and water came out, she added water and brought it to a boil.
Seeing the water boiling, she kneaded the noodles into dough. She was about to pull the noodles when she was stopped by Qin Huiyin.
"Mom, let me do it!" Qin Huiyin knew Li Taohua's cooking skills when she saw her pulling noodles. Meat is good, noodles are also good, don't waste good things.
She held the knife with great agility, and the dough pieces formed parabolas and jumped into the water with graceful movements, like swimming champions.
Li Taohua was watching from the side, her cherry-like mouth slightly open, her almond-shaped eyes widened into an oval shape, and she looked stunned.
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