Chapter 16: Osmanthus apologizes
Naturally, there was no way to divide the two eggs, and Modai didn't plan to divide them, leaving them to the two children directly.
Mody didn't want to just eat some black batter for breakfast, so she did it herself.
Maude checked the straw basket she brought from the valley, there were still twenty-nine lemons, ten oranges, twenty persimmons, two bunches of grapes and thirty bananas left in it.
Mo Dai broke off eight bananas, peeled them and put them in a clay pot for later use. She cleaned the cauldron first, then added water, then lit the stove and stuffed a few pieces of firewood into it. After the fire stabilized, she set up a steamer on the cauldron, and put the leftover steamed buns on the stove. Heat on top.
The small pot and stove here were not idle either. Modai also stuffed firewood into it to let it burn by itself. She freed up her hands to clean the small pot first. A spoonful of solidified white lard made yesterday was heated and melted in a small pot. After the oil was hot, she put the bananas in and fried them until golden on both sides. Since there was no sugar or honey, she squeezed an orange and poured sweet and sour orange juice on each banana.
After the bananas were fried, she removed the firewood from the small stove, put out the open flame, covered the pot, and let the bananas simmer in the small pot for a while. If this is in modern times, she has an oven, and if she bakes it for five minutes, the taste will be extremely delicious, but the current conditions are limited, everything can only be done, or maybe, she can improve the pot and stove in the future.
Soon, the water in the cauldron boiled, and the steamed buns were heated. Mo Dai put the steamed buns into the big bowl, scooped up a spoonful of black flour, mixed it with cold water and poured it into the boiling water, along the Stir clockwise continuously for a while. When the thin paste and water are completely mixed and gradually bubbling, Mo Dai picks a little lard and salt into the porridge, stirs again for a while and the pot is ready to serve.
Perhaps it is because the porridge has added oil and salt, it smells very fragrant, coupled with the sweet smell of bananas floating in the small pot, the whole kitchen is filled with delicious temptations, and Maru Niu has long been looking for the fragrance ran into the kitchen.
Maruku: Girl, what delicious food did you cook? It smells very fragrant, bring it to me quickly!
Modai: Go away, people haven't eaten yet, so pigs stand aside for me!
Maruki stared angrily and tears gathered: You are ungrateful, you bully the small with the big, you don't love small animals!
Modai replied coolly: so what?
Maru Niu almost vomited blood in anger, but for the sake of delicious food, it can bear it, it can bear it, it will bear it at all costs!
Xu Shaolin took care of the two children, Mo Wufeng swept the yard, Mo Wuyun filled the water tank, and Mo Wuqing cleaned the hut and chicken coop.
When Mo Dai brought the breakfast to the table, the entire family was frozen in sight by the pot of fried golden oil and exuding a sweet smell.
"What is this?" Mo Wuyun asked everyone's thoughts.
"This is a wild fruit I picked from the mountains. I tasted a few and thought it tasted good, so I brought it back." Mo Dai said as she sandwiched a fried banana into several sections, took out the seeds inside, and then Add to the small bowls of the two children, "You all have a taste."
Several adults tasted the fried bananas in silence. The mouth was soft and creamy, and it also had a sweet and sour taste of orange juice. This made Xu Shaolin and the three brothers Mo Wuyun, who seldom eat sweets, couldn't help but have sour eyes. Is it really okay for a poor family to eat such delicious food?
After Xu Shaolin took one bite, he was reluctant to eat any more, insisting on saving it for the two children, and the three brothers Mo Wuyun didn't dare to take another bite. Only Maru Niu and the two little ones were not affected, and they ate happily.
Modai just said lightly, "Although this food is delicious, if you eat too much, you will have a stomachache, and if it is serious, you will have diarrhea. One for each person, and the portion is just right."
Finally, the three brothers Xu Shaolin and Mo Wuyun no longer refused, obediently finished eating fried bananas, drank a bowl of porridge, and ate a piece of steamed corn bread. At this point, Mo Wuyun had to believe that Mo Daxi actually knew how to cook, and his cooking skills were excellent. No wonder she always disliked the food cooked by the three of them as unpalatable!
Mo Wuyun thought of Mo Daxi's disdain for them in the past, and then looked at her smiling face greeting everyone to eat, and felt uncomfortable again. Didn't he say that he wanted to share two eggs with everyone? Isn't it all alone? What hypocrisy!
After eating, Mo Dai carried a basket of meat and a basket of eggs on her back, ready to go to the town to sell for money. Before she left, she stuffed the two boiled eggs to the two children. Seeing their dazed faces, she sighed helplessly. The two little guys fell down in panic just as soon as they came into her sight. They scratched their heads, but as soon as those eyes touched, Modai understood their inner thoughts: Do you really want to give it to us? Are you really not going back?
Forget it, freezing three feet doesn't happen in a day, she is not the real Mo Daxi, don't take it too seriously!
When Mo Dai stepped out of the courtyard, she saw the broken door panel that was kicked down by Mo Xinglin yesterday, thinking that after returning from the market today, she would repair it by herself, so that she could save the money to find a carpenter for repairs, and it would be good to save it for the whole family to eat. And the stake for the clothesline had to be reburied...
Just as she was thinking, a sneaky figure suddenly flashed in the corner of her eyes. Mo Dai narrowed her eyes slightly, and retreated back to the yard involuntarily, temporarily unloading the basket from her back, subconsciously hiding behind the broken door panel.
I saw that sneaky figure lingering at the door of Mo Daxi's house for a long time, as if he wanted to enter but dared not enter, dared to enter but was unwilling not to enter, he lingered for a while, sighed involuntarily, and finally made up his mind It was about to enter, but at this moment, there was a chilling voice in my ears——
"Sister-in-law Osmanthus, are you going for a walk?"
"Ah!" Mo Guihua was so frightened that she hurriedly backed away, her body lost her balance, she fell to the ground, and when she raised her eyes to look at Mo Dai, her eyes were terrified and her face was as pale as a ghost.
Mo Guihua, Mo Daxi's neighbor, is twenty-two years old, a head taller than Mo Dai, with a thin body, thick eyebrows and big eyes, high cheekbones, sun-tanned skin, a typical country woman.
"Huh? Why are you sitting on the ground? Get up quickly, be careful of the cold in your body, and you will be frightened in the middle of the night..." Mo Dai pretended to be surprised, and stretched out her hand to pull Mo Osmanthus to get up. However, her hand had not reached Mo Osmanthus's. In front of her, Mo Guihua used her hips as a tool to move three feet away on the spot.
"That, that, that..." Mo Guihua stammered and couldn't speak, she simply closed her eyes and gritted her teeth, she suddenly turned over and knelt down in front of Mo Dai, which startled Mo Dai and took a step back involuntarily , but I heard Mo Guihua say, "Daxi, I'm not human, I shouldn't be greedy for that meat, since I got that meat, in the past four or five days, I haven't been able to eat or sleep well, and I always feel that you are haunted... Uh, no, I didn't mean that, I mean, I mean... Oh, I'm sorry, if you want to hit me or scold you, just come at me, I will never fight back! Ah, and that meat, I Bring it too!"
Mo Guihua stood up and went behind the old locust tree, picked up a basket of meat and walked over, her face was flushed, but she still didn't dare to look at Mo Daxi: "Here, my husband has salted everything." !"
Mo Dai found that although Mo Guihua came to apologize and return the meat, the hand holding the basket was very strong, as if holding a baby, for fear that the baby would fly away if she let go.
Mo Dai thought to herself, Mo Guihua knows how to take the initiative to come to apologize, so many times better than Mo Xinglin, anyway, she is also a neighbor in the village, if she looks up and looks down, she has to be forgiving and forgiving. And there are a lot of pork at home, so the basket sent by Duomo Guihua may not be very happy, not to mention that the husband has worked so hard to marinate the meat, so-
"In this case, you leave the meat, people can go!" Mo Dai gestured to take the basket from Mo Guihua's hand, but unexpectedly she didn't, because Mo Guihua held the basket desperately and did not let go, her eyes flashed Helpless and reluctant.
Hey, how can there be such a thing? How dishonest!
"Ahem!" Mo Dai cleared her throat, reminding a certain woman that it was time to let go.
"Ah, yes, I'm sorry, I, I..." Mo Guihua hastily let go, but can the eyes stop being so nostalgic?
"How about this, Sister Osmanthus, I'm going to go to the market to sell meat, so I might as well sell the basket you sent me, but I can't carry that much by myself, please help me carry it to the town!" Mo Dai said Don't care whether Mo Guihua agrees or not, she just left with her basket of meat on her back and a basket of eggs on her arm.
Mo Guihua was stunned for a moment, although she felt that Mo Daxi was a bit treacherous and selfish, but now that she could carry this basket of meat for a while longer, it would be considered spiritual comfort. God knows, how much she and her husband are reluctant to part with this basket of meat, but In life, there are so many things that you can't bear and can't get, you should let go, but there is only one thing you really can't let go of, and that is conscience.
Mo Guihua thought of her husband carrying out the meat for her with a forced smile, and secretly wiped away tears when she wasn't paying attention. There is no way, the family is too poor, the children are as thin as reed sticks, and she finally got a basket of meat out of conscience. After eating a satisfying meal every day, the rest didn't dare to move his mouth.
Thinking of this, Mo Guihua couldn't help but her eyes turned red, she carried the basket on her back, and silently followed behind Mo Dai.
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So what, did you guess that bamboo handles two eggs in this way? Hahahaha