Mian Niang

May-Second Aunt and Aunt Wang clashed, exchanged a few words at the door, and then left in a hurry.

When Mian Niang heard the voice, she came out to welcome him. She saw May-Second Aunt carrying a pig leg on her shoulder, and after greeting him, the May-Second Aunt quietly said to Mian Niang: "Your family's share has already been sent over by the idiot."

May-Second Aunt asked tofu hyacinth last night if she should tell Wu Niang about her injuries. She also brought pork meat to Mian Niang's house.

tofu hyacinth sat in her room. She saw May-Second Aunt enter the courtyard, but she did not directly enter the room, and instead stood there talking to Mian Niang quietly. The words that Aunt Wang had said just now continuously echoed in her mind, and she could not help but suspect whether there was really something going on between and the silly Zi.

She did not say anything and waited until the two of them had separated before speaking, "His second aunt, you're here?"

"Yeah, yesterday's wild boar was not small. I discussed it with the dumb guy's father and gave him some to Xing Hua's family, and also gave some to Mian Niang's family. These are for your family."

There was a cloth under the pig's thigh. When Mian Niang wanted to take it over, she was stopped by May-Second Aunt: "It's all oil, don't touch it."

She carried the pig leg into tofu hyacinth's room and placed it on the table for him to look at. "Can you see?"

Even though he had suffered a lot last night from spitting on the pork, looking at the pork now, tofu hyacinth's eyes couldn't help but to light up.

No choice, poor.

He only ate meat a few times a year. When he got married, he bought some meat, but didn't have much left of it, so on the day that Wu Niang returned home, he gritted his teeth and bought pig water for only two meals.

"What's wrong with that? That's good, you're the same too, don't you think too much of his second uncle? If you sell this pork at the market, you might even pay two coins and send it over just like that, sigh …"

As he said this, his eyes never left the pork.

May-Second Aunt saw her expression and could not help but laugh secretly, but she did not expose her thoughts, and only said: "What money are you selling? It's such a hot day and you're so far from the town, you don't have any acquaintances in the town, by the time you sell it, it would probably be ruined."

"Then sell it to our neighbors. We can't let them break down so quickly."

"Neighbors, we are all from the same village, how can we accept money from others? Besides, you know our village, we have to live our days together, even if someone has 2 yuan in their hands, they might not be able to come out to eat pork. We might as well keep it for ourselves. "

"That's true. I usually pick up two pieces of tofu here and buy it on credit. If you sell your pork, you might not be able to get the money that year. Maybe you will have to go to the door and ask for it."

"Isn't that very reasonable?"

The tofu hyacinth let out a quiet sigh of relief.

May-Second Aunt pretended not to see the change in her, and only asked: "This pork meat, how do you plan on putting it? The weather can't be placed in the afternoon."

"Mian Niang."

tofu hyacinth called out to Mian Niang.

"Ah!"

Mian Niang entered the house and smiled at May-Second Aunt, then turned to her mother-in-law and asked: "What's the matter?"

tofu hyacinth saw the interaction between the two and only felt that Mian Niang was not close to her relatives. Her attitude towards her mother-in-law was cold, not respectful, and she was even talking and laughing with her aunt.

Thinking about it this way, she felt that Aunt Wang's words were very reasonable, but relying on her words alone was not enough evidence, and now was not the time to fall out.

tofu hyacinth had no choice but to suppress the anger in his heart once again, and said to Mian Niang: Bring the meat to the kitchen, leave one piece there, the rest will be cut into small pieces, add less water in the pot, sprinkle more salt, like cooking oil, but don't boil it too hard, as long as the water inside is boiled and calm, and there is a huge jar in the kitchen, and once it is stored there, it will be enough to last for a whole year.

This was an earthy method. It could last longer than the pickled meat, and it was also more convenient.

Mian Niang agreed and was about to go get the pork, but she was stopped by the May-Second Aunt.

"Your legs aren't convenient, and you can't lift them. I'll go with you."

May-Second Aunt acted the same way as when she first entered, lifting up the pig leg once again, Mian Niang immediately walked in front of her and entered the kitchen, he first took out the chopping board and placed it inside.

"The chopping board won't do. Take out the panel."

Mian Niang took out his Stats Window and placed it on the stove.

May-Second Aunt put the pig leg on top, looked at Mian Niang, took out a kitchen knife from the side, and smiled: "You little wife, can you cut this meat well?"

Mian Niang shook her head in embarrassment. Her family had never killed a pig, nor had they ever bought such a big leg. She simply did not know where to strike from.

May-Second Aunt did not laugh at her, and only said: "Go get some water, wash the pot and the meat, leave this to me."

~ This is not something that can be done easily, so Mian Niang went ahead and found the biggest copper pot in the house, filled it with water and placed it in front of May-Second Aunt.

He simply took out a piece of meat that was relatively thicker than the meat and put it to the side. Then he said to Mian Niang: "If this piece of meat is cut out later, and is placed into a wok to fry, sprinkled with salt, it can be put in for another two days. This bone, can be boiled once, and then placed in the stew.

Mian Niang nodded and lit the fire.

The two women washed the meat and added the appropriate salt.

May-Second Aunt took out the oil jar, looked inside, there were not many beans left, and said to Mian Niang: "Pour this oil onto the meat later, otherwise, if the oil does not cover the meat, the meat will become moldy."

This was all the experience accumulated by the elders in their days of living. Mian Niang kept all of this in her heart.

"This meat will only taste better if we store it in another way. However, it won't be suitable for us to use oil to raise. Stir-Fried dishes and stewed vegetables are also fine." "We poor people live our lives without too much care. It doesn't matter whether we eat good or bad things. If we can eat meat, we will have more or less some oil in our stomachs. In this way, we can live happily."

"Second Aunt is right. Life is about substance."

Mian Niang laughed, these were the words her father had always said. Although it was a suspicion that she had a poor family that was looking for excuses, hearing it over the years, she felt that it was no different from what the teachers in the academy said.

"That's the truth."

The May-Second Aunt nodded, seeing Mian Niang adding firewood to the pot, she revealed a knowing smile, liking Mian Niang more and more for her steadfast strength, and thus hoping that their family would live a peaceful life. Thinking of this, she walked over, lifted up her skirt, and knelt beside Mian Niang, whispering:

"Mian Niang, now that you have been wronged, you don't have to suffer, Your mother-in-law only knows how to talk big, although she has a little scheme in her heart, but she is not bad, and after slowly being cured, you will understand that Erlang's illness will be cured sooner or later, and she will become someone who knows her place, so in the future, you will enjoy the title."

Mian Niang smiled, but did not reply. She knew that Second Aunt was kind and comforting her, but if she really had to go against her heart and say how good it was to be tofu hyacinth and an Elementary Scholar, she would not be able to say anything.

Seeing her like this, May-Second Aunt knew that her sister-in-law's actions over the past few days had hurt her daughter-in-law's heart, so he comforted her: "Second Aunt and Your mother-in-law have been together for so many years, we have not even blushed before, you know, there is nothing wrong with her."

"I understand, Second Aunt."

If it was anyone else, Mian Niang would definitely suspect that this person was helping tofu hyacinth and berating him. But if the person in front of him was her second aunt and no one else, Mian Niang believed that she had good intentions, and did not want her to worry about him, and could only randomly deal with him.

It was probably because it had not been used for a long time, and a musty smell came from it. Mian Niang scrubbed it hard a few times, but she could not smell the smell, and then used a dry cloth to wipe the water inside clean, and with May-Second Aunt's help, she placed the jar on the stove.

The remaining piece of meat was cut into small pieces according to May-Second Aunt's method. She only needed to wait for the pot to come out and then she would fry it.

tofu hyacinth shouted for Mian Niang to go to her room, but she was taken away by him, "Your ankle isn't ready yet, how can you move her, I'll go."

"You can't do it yourself."

tofu hyacinth didn't dare to use any strength at all, and he relied entirely on others to support his legs even when he stood up. Last night, the two of them took care of things together. When Mian Niang wanted to go over with this thought, she was pushed back by the May-Second Aunt.

"What are you so anxious about? Didn't Erlang recover from his illness? Although he's not in a good condition, his legs and feet didn't sustain any hard injuries, right? No matter what, he's better than you."

"But he's a man?"

"So what if it is a man? Isn't the one lying on the bed his mother? She has brought him up with great difficulty. Can't he even show the slightest bit of filial piety?"

Mian Niang laughed in her heart. Just now, Second Aunt was speaking up for the Elementary Scholar and tofu hyacinth, and now that she was helping him, it could be seen that this elder did not have any selfish motives.

Since he couldn't force her, Mian Niang could only let her go. It was just that tofu hyacinth couldn't go to the toilet, and everything that happened could be resolved with the toilet in the house, so the Elementary Scholar refused to do anything about the matter. After helping the tofu hyacinth up, he gave him to support himself and the May-Second Aunt, and hid outside.

Before he could walk out the door, he heard the Elementary Scholar in the courtyard ask, "Who are you? What business do you have here?"

This was the first time Mian Niang had heard the Elementary Scholar and the others being so courteous towards each other, so she hurriedly walked out to see a carriage stopped at the entrance of the courtyard. Gu Han, who was wearing a blue brocade robe, was being supported out of the carriage.

Hearing that, he raised his head, coincidentally met with Mian Niang's surprised gaze.