Wei Jingshu took out the contents of the fish's stomach in one go, but she didn't know what to do with them. She looked at Wei Yu who was squatting beside her calmly.
Somehow, Wei Yu saw her confusion and went to the kitchen to find a small bowl with a hole in it: "Second sister, I'll give this to Er Goudan's dog. He can teach me to read someday."
Wei Yu originally studied in a private school in the village, with a tuition of fifteen cents a month, but after his elder brother left, Zhou thought it was too expensive and stopped his studies.
Wei Jingshu nodded and took the processed fish to the kitchen.
Li Rou had already boiled water. When she saw the fish, she scooped out half a pot of water, put the fish in and boiled it for a while, took it out and put it away, and then put in a few peels of vegetable leaves and boiled a pot of soup.
Outside, Le'er suddenly cried. Li Rou wiped her hands in a hurry, told Wei Jingshu, and ran out to coax the child.
After a while, Wei Yu came in and sighed at the pot of vegetable leaf soup.
"Second sister, when I grow up, I will definitely take you to eat delicious food and drink spicy drinks. Even dogs won't eat this kind of thing."
Wei Jingshu didn't know whether dogs could eat it or not, but she did eat it!
But she didn't discourage Wei Yu, but nodded seriously.
Wei Yu was only seven years old, and he was already familiar with cooking, but he was a little short and often needed Wei Jingshu.
Li Rou had just given birth, and it was time to replenish her body. Wei Yu made up his mind and immediately boiled three of the nine pheasant eggs, and hid the remaining six in the box in the kitchen.
The fish had already been boiled, so he used all the oil and water he got to cook fish soup, and he didn't miss any of the ingredients.
After a while, a rich fragrance came from the kitchen, and Wei Jingshu's greed was aroused, and she looked at Wei Yu eagerly.
Two soups and one dish, the two took them out at once.
This was just a single room, with only a couch, two stools, and a table with half a leg missing.
The two stools were taken by Li Rou to set up a small couch alone, and she slept with Le'er at night.
There was a stone under the table with one leg missing, but the height was a little insufficient, so that most of the soup spilled as soon as it was put on.
Li Rou had just finished feeding Le'er and felt so distressed. When she saw the soup base, she guessed that Wei Yu had run out of the ingredients.
She opened her mouth, but did not say anything to blame, just sighed softly: "Let's eat first."
"Sister-in-law, my sister and I will go to find bird eggs tomorrow and exchange the eggs for the ingredients, so that we can make fish soup for you."
As she spoke, Wei Yu placed three eggs in front of the three people, and she held her own small broken bowl, picked up the floating vegetable leaves in the soup and chewed them dry.
"You eat it, sister-in-law doesn't like eggs."
Li Rou pushed the egg in front of Wei Yu, and Wei Yu shook her head: "Sister-in-law, you don't like it, but Le'er wants to eat it, I don't eat it, I just like vegetable soup."
Seeing this, Wei Shuang also put the egg in her bowl into Li Rou's bowl, and no matter how Li Rou persuaded her, she would not listen.
Li Rou's heart was pressed, and she almost cried out.
As the three of them pushed each other, Wei Jingshu had already peeled the round egg like Li Rou had done before, and with a little force, the egg was split into two. She
looked at it reluctantly, and then put it into Wei Yu and Wei Shuang's bowls. After a pause, she took out the one in Wei Yu's bowl, broke off a small piece and threw it into her mouth, and then she looked at the soup on the table with satisfaction.
The fish was not marinated, so there was a light fishy smell in the soup.
Wei Yu and Wei Shuang looked at each other, and at the same time put the eggs in the bowl back into Wei Jingshu's bowl, but they saw Wei Jingshu suddenly stood up and went out without looking back.
The three of them chased after her anxiously, but they didn't even see her figure.
When they came back, they had a few more cakes in their hands.
"Ashu, where have you been?" Li Rou looked at Wei Jingshu worriedly, and Wei Yu and Wei Shuang also looked over eagerly.
Wei Jingshu stuffed a cake into each of them, pointed to the thatched house not far away, and said seriously: "Go to the neighbor's aunt's house to exchange for cakes."
As she said, she took out the fish hanging in the corner and said seriously: "The neighbor's aunt said that without salted fish, the fish will go bad quickly. You can exchange it with the uncles and aunts in the village for food."
The light in Wei Jingshu's eyes lasted for a long time, and she happily calculated: "One will be exchanged for loofah with Aunt Wang, and loofah soup will be made for my sister-in-law to increase milk and feed the child. The rest will be exchanged for two pairs of shoes for Xiaoyu and Xiaoshuang at Brother Tiezhu's house."
Wei Yu and Wei Shuang shrank their feet. The shoes they wore had holes, revealing their two feet.
Wei Jingshu also discovered it when she was observing the table legs just now. She remembered what the neighbor aunt said when she went to change the side dishes, that if she had any questions, she should go to her. After drinking two mouthfuls of soup, she couldn't wait to pick up the two fish and ask. In addition to what she wanted to know, she also got a few pancakes in return.
It tasted good, but it was a little choking, which was just right with the soup
. She turned her sight and saw the tightly closed gate of the main courtyard.
The Zhou family of three went to the county, but they were also guarding against the four people as if they were thieves, and locked everything that could be locked.
But there were still two benches in front of the door. Wei Jingshu stuffed the half-eaten pancake into Li Rou's hand, strode over, holding a bench under her armpits in each hand, walked back to ask Li Rou for the pancakes, and stuffed them into her mouth silently.
The three of them were stunned for a while, and quickly caught up with Wei Jingshu, and persuaded her earnestly: "Ashu, don't touch their things, be obedient and put them back."
"Second sister, don't be impulsive, put them back, my sister and I will find a way to get two stools back."
Wei Jingshu swallowed the cake in her mouth, then looked at the three people, and said in confusion: "Isn't this ours?"
The original owner's memory was in a mess, but this point was very clear.
Li Rou and Wei Yu choked, only Wei Shuang smiled foolishly: "It's ours, this is what my eldest brother and his wife went to the county to pick." Wei
Jingshu smiled at Wei Shuang and said generously: "I'll catch fish for you tomorrow."
The neighbor aunt said that the fish must be fresh and must be caught on the spot. The aunt
also said that when you catch the fish, go to her house and she will cook it for you.
Thinking of this, she looked at Li Rou again and said seriously: "Sister-in-law, the neighbor aunt said that you are reluctant to add auxiliary ingredients. This is not good. You have to take good care of yourself so that Le'er can eat well."
As she spoke, she had returned to her residence. The small house was particularly cramped. Two benches were placed there, making it even smaller. She looked thoughtfully in the direction of the main house.
Li Rou and Wei Yu were afraid that Wei Jingshu would go over to get something, so they quickly closed the door.
Wei Jingshu withdrew her gaze regretfully.
There seemed to be a lot of good things there.
Wei Shuang carefully moved to Wei Jingshu's side, raised her head and smiled at her, and whispered: "Second sister, let's go to the mountains to fetch water tomorrow morning. There is no water in the jar."
Wei Jingshu nodded seriously, and her eyes inevitably fell on the table with a missing leg.
This table has been a few years old, and it is obviously unnecessary to repair it. The only way is to replace it.
Wei Jingshu was chewing on the pancake while thinking again.