Nanshanxia

The old lady Zhu put away the kitchen knife and stared coldly at Zhou Caifeng several times, then she said to Yuan Xiao in a warm voice: "That's fine, since you want to do this, grandma won't stop you, but you have to let grandma and your husband be by your side .”

"Yeah!" Yuan Xiao's eyes were full of tears, but the tears disappeared completely when he looked at Yuan Laoshuan and Zhou Caifeng and his wife. There was endless chill in his eyes, and he said in an emotionless voice : "Come into the house with me!"

After entering the shop, Zhou Caifeng began to look here and there with envy on her face. When she saw the cold-faced old Zhu's family, she shivered and just sat down on the chair honestly. She saw Yuan Xiao She didn't speak all the time, she reached out to grab the cakes on the table, but was snatched by Yuan Xiao with a plate and something, she looked at Yuan Xiao several times in a daze, couldn't hold back, and said frankly "Yuan Xiao, mother hasn't had enough to eat these days, and now she's so hungry, you don't want to feed me big fish and meat, it's better to use this dry food to pad my stomach, mother is starving to death."

Hearing Zhou Caifeng's tone of complaining, Yuan Xiao didn't show any emotion. He crushed all the cakes on the plate in front of Zhou Caifeng and Yuan Laoshuan. He said to Zhou Caifeng without smiling: "It's okay, you just don't have enough to eat, you can't die. When I was young, I was often starved by you for two days and two nights. Didn't I die? You were still with me Said, as long as a person can breathe, he can last for a long time! Have you forgotten all this?"

Following Yuan Xiao's words, Zhou Caifeng recalled all the evil things she had done to Yuan Xiao. Under Yuan Laoshuan's glaring gaze, she withdrew her hand embarrassingly. She moved on the chair, sat up straight and faced Yuan Xiao and The rest of the old Zhu's family smiled awkwardly, "You child, I didn't expect you to hold grudges so much. Mother was young and ignorant back then."

Yuan Xiao didn't pay attention to Zhou Caifeng's explanation at all, he just smiled aside, "You can't say that I hold grudges, the main thing is that the memories you gave me are these things, as long as I think of you, I don't have any other good memories. If this Blame, or blame you."

"Ahem, Yuan Xiao, this is your mother's fault. She doesn't know how to be a human being. Don't be like her. After all, we are relatives with the same blood." The longer his face, the more his legs trembled. If it weren't for the fact that his family couldn't get rid of the pot, he wouldn't come to Lao Zhu's house to cause trouble. This family is really scary, and they serve the table without using a kitchen knife.

"You said that we are relatives with the same blood? Does that mean that we should help each other?" Yuan Xiao sat quietly on the chair, looking directly at Yuan Laoshuan who kept wiping off his sweat.

Yuan Laoshuan thought that Yuan Xiao was enlightened, and immediately transformed into a loving father, with a forced smile on his face, "We are relatives, we need to take care of each other, just like your mother and my family need your help when we are in trouble. Same."

"Huh? You said that reminded me, I am your relative, why did you sell me to Hualiu Street so hard? Is this what relatives should do?" Yuan Xiao sneered, There was a cold smile on the corner of his mouth, and that smile was full of sarcasm, "I remember you didn't like me when I was young, you beat Zhou Caifeng, and Zhou Caifeng came to beat me, this is really a family!"

Yuan Laoshuan was completely choked by Yuan Xiao. He turned his head and stared at Zhou Caifeng. Zhou Caifeng seemed to understand, jumped up from the chair, and knelt down in Yuan Xiao's direction. She couldn't help crying: "Yuan Xiao , Our family ran out of water a few days ago, and all the food was burned. This time, there is really no way for the family, so my mother wanted to come to you. Your father broke his leg while hunting the year before, and the leg broke every now and then. It hurts, and all the money in the family is spent on him for medical expenses, not to mention that your brother Jiaxing has been studying in the academy, and our family has no money left to buy food, so we can only rely on you. It was all mother's fault before, Just forgive me, mother!"

Yuan Xiao frowned and looked down at Zhou Caifeng who was kneeling on the ground begging for her, smiled contemptuously, and was about to kick Zhou Caifeng away from the side, when Zhu Yan came up, picked Zhou Caifeng up, and shook her When they reached the open space, they said to Zhou Caifeng viciously: "You think you can make Yuan Xiao forget all the past experiences by kneeling? If you are sensible, get the hell out of here, or I will beat you to death!"

Seeing that her last move was useless, Zhou Caifeng hurriedly got up from the ground, not daring to look at Zhu Yan, and asked Yuan Xiao in a low voice, "Yuan Xiao, what can you do to forgive mother, mother will definitely do it."

Yuan Xiao raised the corners of his lips, looked at the silent Yuan Laoshuan beside him, and said with a smile: "Yuan Laoshuan, as long as I can remember, you have never smiled at me. The only time I saw you smiling at me was What were you thinking when I was about to be sold to Hualiu Street by you?"

"I..." Yuan Laoshuan looked around with sweat on his face, unable to utter a complete sentence.

Yuan Xiao was not annoyed when he saw this, he intuitively felt that such Yuan Laoshuan was ridiculous, he saw that candles were already lit in the room, so he said bluntly: "If you want money, you can."

"Really, really?" Zhou Caifeng leaned towards Yuan Xiao more excitedly than Yuan Laoshuan. In her opinion, as long as she coaxes Yuan Xiao well, with the shop of Lao Zhu's, their family will definitely have enough food and clothing.

Yuan Xiao ignored Zhou Caifeng, but turned his head to Yuan Laoshuan who had been staring at him with a smile and said, "I don't have any other demands. I just want you, Yuan Laoshuan, to kneel at the door of my house, in front of the neighbors, Tell me all about selling your brother to Hualiu Street, beating and scolding your wife and children, and abusing children, and I will give you money."

Yuan Laoshuan couldn't sit still on the chair. He grabbed the handle of the chair with his hands, with a helpless and tangled expression on his face. No matter how he thought about it, he never thought that Yuan Xiao would make things difficult for him. Although he was in urgent need of money, he didn't. Thinking about burying himself in front of the whole town, he couldn't help falling into chaos.

At the same time, the old lady Zhu said, "If I were you, I wouldn't even come to Yuan Xiao. I didn't know how I treated him before. Now I come to ask for money with a shy face, do you think they will give it to you?"

"The head of the family..." Zhou Caifeng noticed the expression on Yuan Laoshuan's face, she was afraid that Yuan Laoshuan would give up halfway, so she offered to propose: "The head of the family, go for the prosperity of the family!"

Yuan Laoshuan turned his face to look at Zhou Caifeng who was full of hope, couldn't help sneering, slapped Zhou Caifeng casually, and reprimanded him severely: "You came here on purpose to embarrass me. No matter how short I am, I can't be shameless." to that point."

Zhou Caifeng touched her burning cheeks and cried aggrievedly. She looked at Yuan Laoshuan who had got up and was about to leave, and shouted again: "The master..."

"Get lost!" Yuan Laoshuan raised his non-disabled leg, kicked Zhou Caifeng to the ground, and then said to Yuan Xiao and the old Zhu's family: "I can't do this, I don't want money Oh, don't forget that I still have family fortune, he is the favorite student of old Mr. Qu in the town school, and he has a bright future in the future, so don't beg us when the time comes."

"Okay, we will never come to beg you, and please remember what we said today. If you try to embarrass my husband again, I will break your other leg!" Zhu Yan protected Yuan Xiao behind him in due course, and looked down at the whole scene. Yuan Laoshuan with a stubborn face.

Facing Zhu Yan's warning, Yuan Laoshuan gave a shock, turned around and left without looking back. Seeing this, Zhou Caifeng also left quickly.

No one noticed that there was a person hiding in the dark in the corner outside the door.

**

This time after Yuan Laoshuan and Zhou Caifeng left, they never came to see Yuan Xiao again, and Lao Zhu's family finally calmed down again, and soon it was early summer.

Early this morning, Zhu Yan woke up from his sleep listening to his grandma's scolding in the yard. Seeing that Yuan Xiao was about to wake up, he took the initiative to lean forward and kissed Yuan Xiao's cheek, warmly The voice persuaded: "I'll go out and have a look, you can sleep for a while."

"Hmm..." Yuan Xiao snorted, stretched out his arms, opened his eyes and smiled at Zhu Yan and said, "I woke up, I'll go out with you."

With Yuan Xiao's words, Zhu Yan couldn't say anything else, so he could only go forward to help Yuan Xiao dress and wash. When the husband and wife went out, the old lady Zhu was still cleaning the yard while reprimanding the boss, "Tell me how old you are, why do you still buy everything? We've never seen a lot of seasonings before. If this doesn't taste good, it's a waste of money!"

"Mother, when I was buying the seasoning, the old man said that this is a new seasoning that is delicious. He asked me to buy it and try it. I believed him too. I didn't smell it, but I didn't know it was this smell. It was my fault. Don’t scold me, it woke everyone up this early in the morning.” Seeing that Zhu Yan was coming, Boss Zhu immediately asked Zhu Yan for help, “Ah Yan, I bought the wrong thing. Grandma wants to peel my skin."

The old lady Zhu saw that her grandson and Sun Fulang had come, she put away her cold face, smiled and said, "Ah Yan, why did you two get up so early? Could it be me and your uncle who quarreled with you two?" !"

"No, Yuan Xiao and I came out after a full sleep." Zhu Yan looked at his uncle's pitiful appearance, so he had to lie to Yuan Xiao. After all, he told the truth at this time, they were indeed woken up, I'm afraid My uncle is going to be cleaned up again.

Yuan Xiao also smiled and said, "Grandma, the sun is already so big, it's time for us to get up and work."

"Oh, my little ancestor, what are you still doing? Your belly is getting bigger and bigger. I'm scared. You still have to come out to work. You're going to scare grandma to death." Zhu the old lady When her eyes touched Yuan Xiao's growing belly, her face became more loving. She smiled and said to Yuan Xiao and Zhu Yan: "The main thing for you now is to take good care of your body. When this child comes out, You are busy."

While the old lady Zhu and Yuan Xiao were continuing to talk, Zhu Yan took the initiative to step forward to check the seasoning bought by Boss Zhu, but the moment he opened the seasoning bag, he was completely shocked.

"Ah Yan, what's wrong with you?" Boss Zhu noticed Zhu Yan's stupefied, and couldn't help becoming more flustered. It seemed that he had indeed bought something bad, and at the same time he began to resent the old man who sold the seasoning.

Zhu Yan stretched out his hand and grabbed a handful of cumin in the bag, raised his head and said to Boss Zhu with flickering eyes: "Uncle, did the old man selling seasonings introduce this to you?"

"Well, let me think about it." Boss Zhu felt everyone's gazes, thought carefully, and then suddenly realized, "The old man called this cumin, and told me to add a little aftertaste when cooking, but the flavor of this thing It doesn't taste really good."

"I think this thing can be tried. I'm going to make a new dish with it." Zhu Yan went to the kitchen with cumin as he said.

What Zhu Yan wants to make this time is the home version of spicy strips. The raw material of the spicy strips is the oily bean curd that he has researched before. Take out the foamed oily bean curd to control the water, cut it according to a certain size, and put it in the pot Steam for a while.

After the oily soybean skin becomes soft, put it into a large pot, add five-spice powder, chili powder and a little cumin one after another, stir evenly, then add the previously heated oil, minced garlic and salt, stir well and serve edible.

The mixed oily bean curd noodles are fresh, delicious, spicy and chewy, and garnished with cumin. They are very popular as soon as they are made, attracting many new diners, including the villagers of Yuanjia Village.

This time, Zhu Yan learned from the people of Yuanjia Village that Yuan Laoshuan and Zhou Caifeng's precious son, Yuan Jiaxing, broke his leg when he went up the mountain yesterday, and that Yuan Laoliu's daughter-in-law Liu Damei suddenly went crazy and ran up the mountain.

Combining the recent events, Zhu Yan came to a conclusion that the old Yuan family seemed to have offended a great person.