Xiao Sibao and Erbao on the side took the candied haws and began to bite them. The sour residue inside, combined with the translucent sugar dough wrapped around the outside, tasted sour and sweet, which was very satisfying.
"I still want to go to town with my stepmother in the future." Erbao took a bite of the candied haws in his mouth.
When Sanya heard this, she was happily biting the candied haws.
The sweet feeling, as a crunching sound spread between her lips and teeth, Sanya couldn't help but squint her eyes, stopped arguing with Erbao, and took the remaining candied haws to the stove.
"Stepmother, stepmother, do you want to eat candied haws?"
"Stepmother, actually, there are quite a few candied haws-gluts sellers in the town. Several times when we go to the market, Aunt Susu will buy candied haws-gluts for Brother Tieqiu."
"In the past, dad would also buy it for us..."
The little guy thought of Lu Zhi, the smile on his face froze, and his tone also sounded a little lonely.
Li Tannian had just heard her chirping, and thought she was noisy at first. Seeing her sudden silence, he comforted her and said, "I'll let him buy it for you in the future."
Sanya's eyes lit up, but soon she became depressed again.
I don’t know if daddy can wake up...
Lu Dabao listened carefully to his stepmother's words of comfort to Sanya. He slowly took a bite of the candied haws covered in syrup, and an unprecedented sweetness spread from his mouth.
After a brief moment of confusion, he couldn't help but mutter in his heart: Could it be that it was really going to rain red in the sky?
Before the four little ones finished eating the candied haws, little Yang's voice came from outside.
"Lu Dabao, come out for a moment."
"Second uncle?" Lu Dabao called, looked at Li Tannian again, and went outside.
Little Yang folded his arms, and when Lu Dabao came out, he said angrily: "I'm going to the town tomorrow. How many mats have you knitted? Take them out quickly, and I will help you take them to the town to sell.
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"No, thank you, Second Auntie."
"What?" Little Yang once suspected that he heard wrongly, "No more? Lu Dabao, why don't you save money to treat your father?"
"No, thank you, Second Auntie." After Lu Dabao finished speaking, he was about to go back to the house.
"No, why can't it be cured? How much thought has your father put into the four of you, and you just say you don't care about him anymore? Dabao, you can't be so unfilial!"
After Xiao Yang finished speaking, he paused and then said: "If you miss this village, there is no such shop. If you hide the mat at home and your stepmother discovers it, I can't help you!"
Lu Dabao stopped and looked at little Yang seriously: "Second aunt, do you really think I can cure my father with a five-cent mat?"
Little Yang was speechless.
Lu Dabao smiled, took another bite of the candied haws, and returned to the courtyard.
Little Yang didn't expect Lu Dabao to leave like this, and thought about how she used to help him sell mats and earn twenty or thirty cents per bed. If he said he didn't want to make it up, he wouldn't make it up. Wouldn't he be ruined in the future?
After making a profit, I suddenly became very angry!
She immediately followed her to the courtyard and said angrily: "Dabao, Second Auntie, I want to ask you again. You have to think clearly. Only Second Auntie can help you with this matter. If others find out."
As she spoke, she gave Li Tannian a meaningful look.
Little Yang is threatening Lu Dabao!
In her opinion, it didn't matter if she made some money. At least she gave him five cents. If Li Tannian found out about his mat, he wouldn't even think about asking for another cent!
Lu Dabao is so smart, he must know how to choose.
Thinking of this, little Yang simply folded her arms and looked at Lu Dabao at leisure, just waiting for Lu Dabao to come and beg her.
However, after waiting for a long time, she did not see Lu Dabao coming. Instead, she saw Li Tannian looking towards her.
That look in his eyes was so cold that the person who looked at it felt frightened.
Before she could react, she heard Lu Dabao's crisp voice again: "Second aunt, thank you very much. I really don't need your help."
Little Yang's face turned green, and he almost said a sentence from between his teeth: "Don't regret it."
"Won't."
Little Yang grinded his teeth, snorted coldly, and walked away.
She wanted to see how stubborn this guy could be!
Li Tannian looked at Xiao Yang's leaving figure and felt that she had forgotten something very important, but no matter how much she thought about it, she could not remember it.
At noon, I finally stopped eating scorpions.
Li Tannian cooked a large pot of white rice, cut up a bowlful of pork head, mixed some shepherd's purse, and started the meal.
She had blanched the pig's head several times with water, and also removed the white film on the pig's mouth. Therefore, the pork she braised had no other flavor at all except for the aroma of braised pork.
The four little ones devoured it, their cheeks bulging as they ate, so cute.
After dinner, Lu Dabao was weaving mats in the courtyard, while Erbao and Sanya went to cut reeds in the reed field.
The two little beanbags each carried three small bundles of reeds back and made mats in the courtyard.
At that time, Li Tannian had already marinated all the sheep and scorpions and soaked them in a clay pot.
Seeing that it was getting late, she washed the pot and began to stew crucian carp and tofu soup.
She fried the crucian carp until both sides were golden brown, added the soup, and started to stew.
After a while, she stewed the soup into a milky white color, and the smell of fish came from the stove.
Dabao, Erbao and Sanya were still weaving mats, but they couldn't help but raise their heads and looked at the stove. Little Sibao didn't even play with the mud, and went straight up and hugged Li Tannian's calf.
leave.
Li Tannian felt helpless for a while, and finally sat him down on the stone pillar in front of the stove. She hurriedly cooked the tofu in the pot.
After the crucian carp and tofu soup was out of the pot, she baked a few more pancakes, and then asked Lu Dabao to lead his brothers and sisters to the main room for dinner, while she took a bowl of fish soup to the east room.
Lu Zhi's face looked much rosier today. Li Tannian blew the fish soup to cool down and started feeding him spoonful by spoonful.
After the feeding was over, the man remained motionless, showing no sign of opening his eyes.
Li Tannian frowned, wondering if it was because there was too little Lingquan water, so he covered him with a quilt and walked out of the east room with an empty bowl.
What she didn't know was that as soon as she walked away with her front feet and back feet, the man's hand hidden under the quilt trembled violently.