amaotonovel Chapter 13 Decision
Chapter 13 Decision
The mother and daughter found Mr. Tang San with their backpacks on their backs, and with his help they put the three full backpacks on the ox cart.
The other villagers hadn't returned yet. After all, it was a rare trip to the city, so of course I had to take a good stroll and wait until the time was right before leaving.
Master Tang San looked at their backpacks curiously: "They're so heavy, what's inside them?"
"What else could it be? Cornmeal, sorghum flour, or something like that, of course," 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 drank a sip of water.
The villagers gradually returned. Seeing the backpacks Li Taohua, her mother, and her daughter were carrying, they were just as curious as Mr. Tang Sanye about what was inside. One of them tried to lift the weeds from the top of the backpack, but Li Taohua pushed him away. The latter yelled, "Bandits are robbing us!" When passersby looked over, the man blushed.
Li Taohua used to care about her image, but now she has become shameless and has thrown away even the face she once cared about the most. Seeing this, people dared not provoke her anymore.
Qin Huiyin, now only eleven years old, was protected in Li Taohua's arms, free from the venomous wrath of gossipmongers. She had grown up with her grandmother in her care. After her parents divorced, one claimed to be heading to the city to make a fortune, only to become a wealthy, wealthy man who married his new wife and fathered a son. The other rekindled an affair with his first love, only to be caught by her legitimate wife, a scene that made the local news. He vanished without a trace, never to return. Raised under the care of her grandmother, she had never experienced a mother's love.
At this moment, being held in Li Taohua's arms, an unprecedented sense of security enveloped her cold heart.
After returning to the village, Mr. 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, she didn't want to call him anymore. She took the backpack from Qin Huiyin's hand and carried it on her own 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's smile was like being pricked by a needle, and he retorted unhappily, "I just don't want to tire my sister."
Anyway, his sister would cook when he got home, so he might as well make 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 feel wronged.
"Little brother, don't talk like that. Aunt Li and Yinyin went to buy medicine for you. You've got this month's supply." Tang Luwu said with red eyes, "I went in with them myself."
She told him this to make him understand that the medicine was good and not adulterated. She had seen with her own eyes that they used the prescription to prepare the medicine, so there was absolutely no problem.
Tang Yi smiled and frowned.
But he was not as naive as Tang Luwu.
Why were the mother and daughter suddenly so kind to them? He wouldn't believe it if they said they had no other motives. He had long seen through the nature of the mother and daughter; it was impossible for them to 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."
Tang Yixiao's only job was to wash the pig's offal in the river with wood ash. After washing the offal, he was also responsible for cleaning the pig's heart, lungs, and head. In short, the whole village knew they had bought a pile of unwanted waste. The villagers, who had been tantalizing about the contents of the three backpacks, laughed non-stop when they found out. They felt better, and their concerns were no longer there.
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, which has no strong laborers, 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 aren't expensive, so if you want to waste them, go ahead! It's rare that 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 exactly do you want to do with it?"
"You'll know tomorrow." Tonight, we'll work on precipitating the pea water into powder, and then drying it tomorrow. By evening, we'll have the finished pea powder. "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 good."
Qin Huiyin put the pig's head and other scraps into 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 younger brother?" Qin Huiyin said.
Tang Luwu had wanted to go a long time ago, but Qin Huiyin was busy here alone, so she couldn't leave.
Now hearing her say this, he quickly said: "Then I will go to boil the medicine first and come back to help later."
She has to prepare her younger 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 extract the oil and water. When the meat turned golden brown and the oil and water came out, she added water and brought it to a boil.
Seeing the water boiling, she also 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 extremely smooth movements. The dough slices formed parabolas and plunged into the water with graceful movements, like swimming champions.
Li Taohua was watching from the side, her cherry lips slightly open, her almond eyes widened into an oval shape, and she looked stunned.