Eating melons and raising children in the period literature

At 5 pm, Yang Qingqing's home

"Aunt, aunt, my mom said that my second uncle is leaving, let us call brother Jianping and sister Yinfen and the others." Wendan pushed the door open with Wenran

"Okay, they are all awake! I'll go tell them."

Before Yang Qingqing could call for help, several people came out of the house, and Jianping walked towards the front door without saying hello.

"Yang Wendan, where are my mother and the others?"

Wen Dan was standing in the center of the yard watching Ma Jianping come out.

"Aunt, I'm taking Brother Jianping and the others away, so don't come out." She looked at Yang Qingqing who was about to come out.

"Thank you, auntie. We're leaving first. Goodbye, auntie. Goodbye, Wenjing, Wenxuan, Wenyuan, Wenqian." Yinfen didn't leave without paying any attention to them. Instead, she stopped and greeted Yang Qingqing and the others before taking Yinhua out to catch up with her brother.

Yang Qingqing thought to herself, "It seems that Yinfen is not bad! She is much better than Ma Jianping. Could it be that Ma Changpo's family favors boys over girls, which is why Ma Jianping has such an arrogant and narcissistic personality?"

However, her impression of Ma Yinfen has improved.

She thought she should also go to the Ma family. After all, if she was going to visit them at night, she should go in advance to see if there was anything she could do to help. She had some foresight.

"Wenjing and Wenxuan, you guys stay home and play for a while. If you're hungry, eat some peach cakes or something. We still have to go to Yinping's house for dinner tonight. I don't know what we're eating. I'll go see if there's anything I can do to help, you guys just stay home!"

"Aunt, Brother Jianfang said he would take us and Yanli to the river to catch small fish this afternoon. Can we go?" Wenxuan thought of what Ma Jianfang said to them in the morning, and he was very excited to go to the river to play. He regretted not being able to go last time for a long time.

"Okay! Just don't go to deep water or do anything dangerous. If you can do that, I'll let you go." Yang Qingqing thought that none of them had ever seen a river before, so she agreed to let them go. After all, Ma Jianfang and the others were watching, so it was much safer than going alone.

"Okay, we got it. We will definitely not do anything dangerous." Before Wenxuan could answer, Wenyuan cheered and agreed.

"Okay, when we have time, let's go together. If we catch any fish, I'll make you something delicious. I'm leaving first."

"Auntie, goodbye"...

Yang Qingqing came to Ma Changhui's house. Ma Changpo's family had already left, but Ma Lizhen's family was still there.

"Aunt Qingqing, are Wenxuan and the others at home? What are they doing? We have an appointment to go out and play together, can we go find them?" Ma Jianfang asked Yang Qingqing impatiently.

"They're at home! Go find them, and be sure to be safe when you go out!"

When Ma Jianfang heard Yang Qingqing's agreement, she took Yanli and Wendan out together. This time, Ma Yinping and Yanqin did not go out, but stayed to help.

"Auntie, sister-in-law, is there anything else I can help you with at home? Please tell me if I can help you." Yang Qingqing saw Zhao Xiaohua and Li Weiling sitting in the main hall.

"Everything is ready. There won't be many people here tonight. We can just have a family reunion dinner and let Guifen get to know everyone. She can't even recognize all the family members yet!" Li Weiling said as she asked Yang Qingqing to sit down.

When Yang Qingqing heard what Li Weiling said, she felt that it was inappropriate for her to come for dinner, so she asked, "Sister-in-law, it's not a good idea for us to come. After all..."

"Okay, I know what you mean. Under normal circumstances, we would not call Liyue's in-laws family, but given your situation now, we actually assume that you are a family. Don't feel embarrassed or anything?" Li Weiling explained why she called Yang Qingqing and the others. After all, strictly speaking, Yang Qingqing could not be considered an adult, and Wen Jing, Wenxuan and the others were even more children. No matter how you look at it, you can't just call Ma Liyue's family and not call Yang Qingqing and the others children. If Yang Qinghe is not mentioned, he might feel unhappy, and the villagers will gossip again. For the sake of his family's reputation, after all, Ma Changhui is still the village secretary, and he cares about reputation very much. It is also for the sake of family peace, so as not to offend the sister-in-law or even the mother-in-law. In the end, Yang Qingqing also helped her family a lot, so inviting Yang Qingqing was sincere and the result of weighing the pros and cons.

"Thank you, sister-in-law. I understand." Yang Qingqing understood what Li Weiling said, but she didn't see her second brother and sister-in-law, so she asked, "If there is anything I can do for you, please tell me. Where are my second brother and sister-in-law? I didn't see him today."

"They are in the backyard! There is nothing going on in the backyard right now. Liyue is chatting with Qinghe and Dad. Do you want to go and take a look?"

"Then I won't go. I'll stay here for a while! Hahaha." Yang Qingqing heard that her second brother and others were accompanying her father-in-law, and immediately said that she would not disturb them.

"Old family, it's almost time to start cooking dinner. Let's start the fire. If we're any later we'll be too late." Zhao Xiaohua got up and asked Li Weiling to prepare dinner. "Qingqing, you don't have to move. Just stay here for a while. I'll let Yinping accompany you. Old family, go to the backyard and ask Liyue and Lizhen to come and help. I'll go over first."

"Okay, I'll go right away, and ask Yinping and her two sisters to stay with you for a while."

"No, I'll just go find them. Where are they?" Yang Qingqing got up and walked out, wanting to find someone.

"They are accompanying Guifen in the new house! Then you can go over and take a look. I'm going to look for Lizhen and Liyue." Then he went to the backyard.

Yang Qingqing thought to herself, "I'm close to the bride, and I don't even know her last name. What should I say? I can't just call her by her name, isn't that a bit impolite?"

“Ding…ding…ding…”

Yang Qingqing was about to knock on the door for the third time when it opened. It was Yinping who opened the door.

"Yinping, I came to see you and your bride. Hehe~hehe~hehehe"

"Then come in quickly, Aunt! My sister-in-law just asked us about this! She said she had never seen anyone as special as Aunt!"

"Really? Why am I special? Am I particularly good-looking?" Yang Qingqing said as she walked into the house.

Seeing the bride sitting on the kang and Yanqin sitting on the kang

"Aunt, you're here!" Yanqin said hello but didn't want to speak. The main reason was that she didn't know what to say. She was the only one familiar with Yinping in this room, and it was the first time for others to talk.

"Hello, my name is Yang Qingqing, you can call me Aunt Qingqing. Although I think it's better to call me Qingqing, but I'm afraid that my second sister-in-law will say something to me, so you should just call me Aunt! Haha." Yang Qingqing was just trying to find something to say, she didn't know if it was okay to say that, but she really felt that she would be happier if they just called her by her name, after all, she was only 16 years old, not really that old, but even though she was young, she was older than her. She was also quite helpless.

"Hello, my name is Li Guifen. You can just call me Guifen or Xiaofen. I'm fine with anything." Guifen said cheerfully.

"Okay, I'll call you Guifen. How old are you? Is your home far from here?" Yang Qingqing made small talk.

"I'm nineteen, one year younger than Jianguo. My family is..."

After a few awkward conversations, we finally had dinner.

Yang Qingqing and the others came out, and Li Weiling and Li Guifen introduced the people at each table one by one before they started eating.

Yang Qingqing, Yinping and Yanqin sat at one table, and the others sat at another table.

Dinner was much better than lunch. At least Yang Qingqing saw that there was one more dish of meat than at lunch.

There were still six dishes, but instead of smashed cucumbers, there were tomatoes with sugar. There was also a potato and radish dish with meat added, and another tiger skin dish was replaced with scrambled eggs with green peppers. It was served with the same Sihe flour steamed bun as at lunch.

There was no feeling of scrambling for food like at noon. Everyone was quite humble and the atmosphere was very harmonious.