Chapter 15: not on purpose
Chapter 15 was not intentional
As soon as he heard that the two great scholars were going to stay at home for dinner, Li Ce was both excited and worried, and said to Chu Nanzhi repeatedly:
"Sister-in-law, I'll bring a chicken home and kill it to make some soup for the old man. By the way, let my wife come over and help you."
Chu Nanzhi knew that he was worried that he would not be able to handle it, and he didn't know that the second elder would come, so he didn't buy much meat and vegetables, and there was no main dish. It was really shabby to serve the second elder, so he took half a tael from his waist Give him silver:
"It's already meal time. I'm afraid the siblings and nephews haven't eaten yet. You can invite your family to eat together. If you give the money to the siblings, it will be money for buying chickens."
"Sister-in-law is treating me like an outsider. It's just a chicken. You still give me so much money. Brother Jinxiao usually helps our family a lot."
Li Ce pushed Yinzi back, lowered his voice and whispered to her: "I heard that Mr. Nie came here to discuss something with brother Jinxiao, so he won't let the children come over to make trouble. Their grandmother is taking care of them at home."
"You take the money, don't refuse me again."
Chu Nanzhi forced the silver into his hand.
Li Ce turned around and put the silver on the cutting board, and hurried out the door.
Chu Nanzhi shook her head helplessly, and had no choice but to put the money back on her waist.
She put all the meat and vegetables she had bought back on the cutting board and inspected them. The five catties of pork was originally intended to be brought back and marinated for a few days before eating.
Since Li Ce refused to take the money, she cut off half and kept it for his wife to take back later.
For the rest, she is going to make a few stir-fried dishes with the few vegetables she bought.
Fetch a basin of water, put cucumbers, eggplants, green peppers and tomatoes into the basin to wash, halfway through washing, a small head suddenly pokes in from the door of the kitchen, staring at her with grunts.
Chu Nanzhi looked up, but saw Sibao Lin Ruijia peeking outside the door.
When the eyes of the two met, Sibao quickly hid back in fright.
Not long after, Sibao poked his head in quietly again.
This time, she didn't flinch, and summoned up her courage to ask, "Can I come in and help you?"
Looking at her pitiful appearance, Chu Nanzhi could hardly laugh or cry: "It's too hot, go eat the red bean cake bought by Grandpa Nie with your brothers and sisters, I can do it alone."
"I'm not afraid of heat, I don't want to eat red bean cake."
She wants to save her stomach and wait until she can eat the dishes made by bad women.
Chu Nanzhi looked at her expectant eyes, and smiled knowingly: "Then you come."
Si Bao heard the words, and immediately walked in with a smile, not afraid of her anymore.
Chu Nanzhi saw her reach out her immature little hand to touch the cucumber in the water for a while, and knock the eggplant for a while.
Inadvertently, she saw a few bright red rattan marks on Sibao's exposed arms.
She couldn't help but feel sore: the original owner was really ruthless with such an immature little hand.
She sighed silently, staring at the rattan mark on Sibao's hand and asked, "Does it still hurt?"
Sibao also saw the injury on his arm, pulled down his sleeve in panic, shook his head quickly and said, "It doesn't hurt anymore, it doesn't hurt at all."
Knowing that she dared not tell the truth, Chu Nanzhi warned in a warm voice: "Don't let the water splash on the wound, I'll apply some medicine to you after eating."
Sibao said "um", then silently lowered his head, not daring to answer.
She suddenly had an indescribable feeling in her heart:
Bad woman, what happened?
Chu Nanzhi didn't care about the Four Treasures anymore, and was busy with the work in hand.
While waiting for her to take the washed dishes back to the cutting board, she heard a whimpering sound from behind:
"I didn't mean to, I really didn't mean to."
Chu Nanzhi turned around and saw Sibao covering his face and crying, hesitantly looked to the ground, and saw a cucumber was broken into two pieces.
Hearing the voice, Nie Huai'an also led the other three little ones in, staring at her with fear.
With a calm expression, Chu Nanzhi picked up the broken cucumber back into the vegetable washing basin, and comforted Sibao, "I know you didn't do it on purpose. Look, I'll wash it and cut it into slices so you can eat it." of."
Si Bao heard that she didn't blame him, so he dared to raise his head, and asked with lingering fear, "Aren't you going to hit me?"
"If you don't hit me, I won't hit you again."
Chu Nanzhi smiled and said, "But you have to promise me to be a good boy in the future."
Sibao nodded ambiguously.
She doesn't know what a good boy is like, but the behavior of the bad girl today is really abnormal.
Maybe because Grandpa Nie and Grandpa Chang are here, bad women dare not beat themselves.
Sibao thought so.
Chu Nanzhi waved her hand: "Go, go play with Grandpa Nie and the others."
After hearing this, Sibao happily ran to Nie Huai'an's side, only then did he really feel safe.
But the little guys and Nie Huai'an felt a little unbelievable.
Usually, this woman would not even bother to cover up in front of him. Even if she was protecting her, she would beat and scold the child entirely according to her own preferences.
Zensheng knows how to understand current affairs today?
Could it be that old man Chang really has a better face than himself?
Thinking of this, Nie Huai'an turned his head, and glared angrily at Chang Yanjue, who was sitting sideways in the living room, with an expression of disbelief.
Chu Nanzhi looked at Old Nie strangely, but she couldn't say what was strange about it.
Anyway, they are just two weird old men.
She remembered that Nie Huai'an was also a very remarkable person. When he was young, he was the only envoy of the Dahe Empire who had been sent to the six northern and southern countries.
I never thought that now I would be willing to hide in the countryside and be a little-known villager.
She really doesn't understand.
Perhaps it is because of the eccentricities of the ancient sages.
Not long after, Li Ce brought his wife, Mrs. Zhou back, and the husband and wife killed the chicken together. Chu Nanzhi was busy cooking, and Mrs. Zhou was in charge of stewing the chicken soup.
Mrs. Zhou is a dutiful countryman. She seldom stepped into this house before, and she dared not talk to the original owner. Just now she heard that Chu Nanzhi didn't beat or scold the child, and she vaguely heard something about the second elder's praise of her in the living room. Less vigilant.
Moreover, a woman from a Taoist family actually broke a case in the county government that no one could solve, and won honor for the woman. In fact, she adored this woman a little bit in her heart.
She glanced at the dishes that were being stir-fried in Chu Nanzhi's pot, and tried to strike up a conversation with her boldly: "Sister-in-law, can Cai Cai still do this?"
"Um."
Chu Nanzhi pursed her lips and smiled: "I think it's okay, you can taste it when you eat later, and see if it's different from what you usually eat."
Mrs. Zhou hesitated for a while, and said falteringly: "Let's do it some other day. I'm afraid my sister-in-law will be too busy, so I come here to help. The food at home is almost ready, and the children are waiting."
Chu Nanzhi guessed that Li Ce had told her in advance, so she no longer forced her to stay.
After the chicken soup was cooked, Li Ce really came in to lead Zhou back.
Chu Nanzhi took a bowl, put some fried dishes into it, and handed it to Mrs. Zhou: "I don't know if the dishes I cook suit your tastes. Since you don't want to stay for dinner, then take Go back and eat."
After finishing speaking, he handed the cut piece of pork to Li Ce, and continued: "You don't want to take my sister-in-law's money, you take these pork, go back and make it for the children to nourish themselves."
Li Ce refused to accept it.
"Then I will have to buy another chicken tomorrow and return it to you."
After Chu Nanzhi threatened, he took the pork and went out to bid farewell to everyone. On the way back, the husband and wife kept talking non-stop, and they all agreed that this sister-in-law of the Lin family seemed to be a different person.
(end of this chapter)