Blissful Days After Widowhood Chapter 55: Water chestnut porridge

"Mother-in-law, mother-in-law, what's wrong with you?" Ning Xi hugged Mother-in-law Qin and shouted anxiously.

Jun Qianyu stretched out her hand to check Granny Qin's pulse: "It's alright, it's just cold and hungry, and it's just like being stimulated for a while. When I get home, I'll warm up and have something to eat. "

At the entrance of the village, due to the weather, there were almost no people outside. Ning Xi couldn't wait any longer. He didn't care that it was raining. Finally found Qin Xiaomei's house.

To their surprise, the family that Qin Xiaomei married was so poor that they had to have a mud house. The corner of the house was collapsed by the rain. The house was narrow and damp. Put your feet down.

When Qin Xiaomei heard that her mother had an accident, she hurriedly greeted her with a big belly, and a young man also followed with a limping hop. Jun Qianyu and the driver helped to carry Granny Qin in and put them on the bed. Qin Xiaomei went to change her mother's clothes that were soaked by the rain.

Ningxi lived in Ningjia Village for a while, and was used to doing household chores in the farmhouse. Now, she found firewood and set fire to the farmhouse's big kang, but she didn't burn firewood for a long time. This hand was a little raw, and the firewood was damp, so he was choking on the smoke and coughing for a while. After a while, the room became obviously warm, and Granny Qin's hands and feet were no longer so cold. Ningxi asked Qin Xiaomei for some **** and brown sugar, and prepared to make a bowl of **** and brown sugar water for Granny Qin to drive away the cold.

Qin Xiaomei went into the kitchen looking a little embarrassed and searched for a long time. In the end, she only took out a piece of shriveled ginger, but there was no brown sugar. Ningxi couldn't, so she could only wash the **** and smash it into pieces and boil a bowl With **** water, I asked Qin Xiaomei to help Granny Qin pour it down. After a while, Granny Qin coughed a few times and finally woke up.

The mother and daughter have not seen each other for a long time. It was like this when they first met. They couldn't help crying. Ning Xi couldn't bear to disturb them, so he pulled Jun Qianyu to sit down at the table and wait patiently Let them tell each other goodbye.

When she finished talking about the changes at home, Granny Qin asked about the situation in Qin Xiaomei's house. She looked at the house with four walls, and saw her son-in-law's inconvenient walking. She couldn't help crying again.

Ningxi listened to it for a long time, and could understand that Huangjia Village is a remote rural area with poor land and little output. Therefore, most of the young and middle-aged people in the village go to work in Lezhou City, and Qin Xiaomei's husband, this A man named A Ming, because the old mother at home has been sick in bed, A Ming cannot go out to work in order to take care of his mother, so his family has not been well-off. Fortunately, he still has a family tradition of making tofu, and he makes tofu on weekdays. Selling in the village can't make much money, just make ends meet.

At the beginning of the year, Amin's mother passed away, and the life of the young couple gradually improved. They saved some money to renovate the house. Qin Xiaomei found out that she was pregnant again, and the young couple was very happy.

In order to provide nourishment to the pregnant Qin Xiaomei, A Ming sometimes went up to the mountain to hunt some small animals to cook to replenish her body. Unexpectedly, when he went up the mountain a few days ago, due to the slippery weather, A Ming accidentally broke After losing his leg, the family lost the main labor force, and the money he saved was used to treat his leg, and his life suddenly became embarrassing.

Ning Xi listened and sighed to himself, no matter what era, injuries and illnesses are a big mountain on the heads of the people!

Under such circumstances, Ningxi was really embarrassed to ask Granny Qin to help her. It was rare that Jun Qianyu was patient and didn't rush her, and he kindly helped Aming look at his legs and asked the driver to help her. Give Amin a bottle of wound medicine.

Mother-in-law Qin was still thinking about Princess Qi in her heart and took the initiative to ask Ningxi about Princess Qi's situation. Ningxi didn't dare to make her sad again, she only said that the princess had no life worries, but just lost her appetite. If she could find her when she was young Favorite food can probably help the princess' appetite.

Mr. Qin lowered her head and thought carefully: "Ayu was a very good child since she was a child, she never picks up her mouth, she eats whatever she gives her, her wife passed away early, and General Feng is always on the go, and everything at home is the successor of the general. Mrs. Zhao is in charge. Mrs. Zhao is very long-sleeved and good at dancing. He behaves very well to Ayu in front of the general. When the general is not at home, he often deducts food expenses. Although the ex-wife left Luohua Villa for Ayu, But those are all rough people in the rivers and lakes, only to see that the general's mansion has a bright surface, and how can it be taken care of so carefully, it's pity that we, Ayu, are so young that they can't say it when they are bullied." The tone was low, full of sadness. meaning.

Qin Xiaomei forced a happy face and comforted: "Sister Ayu told me that she was very happy when she was loved and cared for by her mother. She even hummed a song to me, saying that it was my mother back then. My favorite is humming to coax her to sleep!"

"Yes, yes!" A slight smile appeared on Granny Qin's face, "That song is called "Cai Hongling", your sister Ayu loves listening to it, and I have to hum it every day. Sleeping, by the way, her favorite food is water chestnut porridge. That year, Ayu was playful and suffered from the heat, and the heat started at night. The Zhao family refused to let anyone ask the doctor, so the old man made her a bowl. The water chestnut porridge, with a little brown sugar on it, is sweet, Ayu is cute to eat. Every time she feels uncomfortable, Ayu will always make me make her water chestnut porridge. In some seasons, fresh water chestnuts cannot be bought. Second In 2010, I bought a lot of water chestnuts when they were on the market, dried them and saved them, I can make them for Ayu whenever she wants to eat them.”

Granny Qin's thoughts returned to those distant memories with the words, and with a dazed smile on her face, Ning Xi took the opportunity to ask, "Could the mother-in-law tell me how the water chestnut porridge is made?"

"It's just the way of ordinary people. The water chestnuts are peeled and washed, steamed first, cut into fine cubes, boiled with glutinous rice, boiled into a sticky bowl, and added with some brown sugar, it tastes smooth and moist. Sweet and glutinous, it is suitable for children to eat, and people here like to cook this porridge for children to eat when the water chestnut is ripe.”

"Yes, I ate a lot when I was a child, and it was really delicious." Qin Xiaomei said.

Ningxi said: "Sister Qin, I can borrow your kitchen to make a water chestnut porridge. Can you taste the same taste as you ate when you were young?"

Qin Xiaomei hurriedly said: "This is naturally possible, but at this time, where can I buy water chestnut?"

Ning Xi's eyes turned to Jun Qianyu: "Fifth Master, can I ask you one more favor?"

Jun Qianyu lion said: "Add three more dishes, a total of thirteen dishes."

Although Ning Xi was angry at him for taking advantage of the fire, he was the only one who could do this at the moment, so he could only agree simply. Jun Qianyu waved his hand, asked the driver to come over, and gave a few words in his ear, then The coachman responded and hurried out the door.

Taking advantage of her free time, Ningxi asked Granny Qin to sing to her the favorite song of Princess Qi. Granny Qin said that she was too old to sing, so she asked Qin Xiaomei to sing it. After clearing his throat, he sang: "The two of us are rowing in a boat to pick red rhizomes. How happy is my sister, how happy she is. It's like two rhomboids, born from the same root, we both have one heart." It's also a joyful song. of folk tunes.

Ningxi pulled Qin Xiaomei to the next room: "Good sister, teach me to sing!"

Qin Xiaomei readily agreed and started teaching it one by one, but she didn't expect that such a simple piece of music could be learned by ordinary people after listening to it twice. Not singing well.

This is also the reason why Ning Xi insisted on taking her to another room to study. Whether in her previous life or in this life, she was born with insufficiency and no sense of music at all. I don't know how to sing in front of people. This time, in order to help Princess Qi regain her appetite, it is a sacrifice.

What she didn't expect was that martial arts practitioners have sharper hearing than ordinary people, and the sound insulation in this room is not good. He has already listened to her completely untuned singing voice. It took a lot of strength to hold back from laughing.

Granny Qin was old and her ears were not very good, but she didn't hear it. She talked to him about a lot of past events. Jun Qianyu asked her why she hadn't walked with the princess for so many years. Granny Qin sighed. He breathed a sigh of relief and told him that her son Qin Da was bullying others outside because she was the nanny of General Feng's mansion, and almost made a big incident. She knows her son's virtue. If she keeps in touch with Princess Qi, these two sons will definitely cause trouble for the princess, so she has been deliberately alienating them all these years.

After Xiaomei Qin taught Ningxi to sing, she saw that it was almost noon, and hurried to the kitchen to prepare meals to entertain guests. Ningxi wanted to go in to help, but was pushed out by Qin Xiaomei, so she had to go back outside to talk to Granny Qin.

Not long after, Qin Xiaomei's husband A Ming also dragged his injured leg into the kitchen, and then faintly heard the two arguing in a low voice. Ning Xi and Jun Qianyu looked at each other, worried that Qin Xiaomei and his wife were because of them. When something unpleasant happened, Ning Xi pretended to be unintentional and slowly paced to the door of the kitchen.

A Ming said, "No, this silver hairpin is the last piece of jewelry you have left, and it was handed to you by your mother-in-law when you got married. I can't let you exchange it for food. "

Qin Xiaomei said in a hurry: "The two guests from the family are grandma's distinguished guests, but now the family can't even make a bowl of dry rice besides this bowl of brown rice that can be used to cook porridge, so you won't let me go and eat it. Yes, what can the guests eat at this time?"

Amin Nane said: "Then, I'll borrow it from someone else's house."

"You don't need to go, I've borrowed everything I can, and I'll be humiliating myself if I go again. I don't need to say anything. I'll exchange it for my hairpin. I'll have the final say!"

Ning Xi rolled his eyes and saw that there seemed to be two sheets of tofu in the corner of the room, so he deliberately said loudly, "Sister Qin, do you still have any tofu that is not sold out at home? It's great, I like it the most. Tofu."

Qin Xiaomei hurried out: "This tofu can't be eaten!"