Chapter 10 Big Mouth
After the eighth day of the lunar month, the Wei Family Shop opened to sell goods.
On the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Mrs. Wei took Wei Jin, Zhao Feng and Zhao Yuyun to Longfu Temple to attend the temple fair. She watched the show all day and went home after noon.
On the 16th day of the first lunar month, the gentleman who was hired by Wei Nian to teach foreign languages arrived. The gentleman's surname was Jiao. Looking at his thirties, he had a silver-edged round glasses on his nose and a three-piece suit. He looked very gentle. Wei Nian learned foreign languages with his husband every night. Chen Xuan obtained the consent of Mrs. Wei and would gather a basin of charcoal fire for the Western Conference Room every night to prevent Mr. Jiao and Wei Nian from getting cold. When his elder sister-in-law Wei Jin ordered her to have a midnight snack, Chen Xuan asked Wei Nian privately whether he would make a copy for him and Mr. Jiao.
Wei Nian and Chen Xuan are the same age as Chen Xuan, both of whom are twenty years old. Chen Xuan is worried and unwilling to look at the face of Mrs. Wei, so except for three meals a day, they don’t eat too much, so as not to be unhappy. Wei Nian is different. The 20-year-old man is at a good time. Wei Nian nodded, "Okay."
Chen Xuan told Mrs. Wei the next day that although Mrs. Wei felt a little sorry for the increase in midnight snacks, since it was her son and husband who ate it, Mrs. Wei was willing to give up. Alas, after all the chicken, fish and elbow meat cooked before this year, I have to make new ones every day. I can't ask Li to buy more when buying.
However, Mrs. Wei still instructed Li and Chen Xuan, "When making mutton cakes, don't just make mutton onions. How much mutton is enough. There are cabbage at home, so you can mix some cabbage, and save money."
Li Chen Xuan nodded after all, and she nodded. Wei Jin refused to accept it, "The mutton is not delicious, what's the taste! Oh, I said, mom, your youngest son is studying foreign language all night, and if you want to eat a mutton pie, you still have to mix half of the leaves for your son, not for outsiders!" Li Chen Xuan said, "Don't listen to mom, the mutton pie is filled with mutton and green onion." He also said to Mrs. Wei, "Look at the gentleman, he looks gentle and wears a foreign style. If you mix vegetables with leaves in your mutton pie, you won't think that our family is in financial difficulties."
Old Mrs. Wei was complained by Wei Jin, but she turned her eyes and tied her legs to Wei Jin and said, "If you are rich, who would come out every night and make money for someone to be a gentleman. I said, "Girl, don't meet a foreigner who wears foreign style and think that such people are rich. Most of them are like this. Maybe the bright ones outside are bright, and the ones who make nails inside may be repaired!"
Wei Jin told her mother and didn't argue about this, so he simply said directly, "Anyway, cabbage is not allowed in the mutton patties, it is so unpalatable. I don't like cabbage flavor the most!"
"After all the time, it's not that your brother doesn't like it, it's that you don't like cabbage!" Old Mrs. Wei said choking her daughter, and she didn't say anything about whether to mix cabbage in the mutton patty.
Wei Jin muttered, "I only had a good meal at my parents' home."
Old Mrs. Wei wrapped her legs and put on her shoes. She took Sister Yun to Dada to watch the show in the theater in Dashilan.
Wei Nian was a little uncomfortable with the late-night snack of mutton pies every day. He brushed his teeth at night and complained to Chen Xuan, "Even if you can afford mutton at home, you won't have the mutton pies."
Chen Xuan said, "Sister loves to eat this."
Wei Nian said to Chen Xuan that his elder sister who had married and lived in her parents' home all day long, "Other people's daughter-in-law will go back to her in-laws' house after the fifteenth. Our aunt is good, and she will live in her parents' home all year round." Anyway, he can no longer eat mutton pies, "You think of a way, change your tricks. You can just follow her in everything, and steam some buns at will."
Chen Xuan sewed her clothes in her hand and thought for a while, "It's the first lunar month, it's not yet the weather is cold, and eating buns is not warm. I'll roll out noodles tomorrow and make hot noodle soup."
"Cheng." As long as it is not a mutton cake, Wei Nian is not picky.
So, the next day's late supper was replaced with hot noodle soup.
Chen Xuan thought that Wei Nian was probably tired of eating mutton patties, so she didn't put slices of meat in the hot noodle soup. She just sautéed the scallion and stir-fryed with chopped green onion. After the noodles were ready, cut a cabbage head, put a few drops of sesame oil, and brought it to Wei Nian and Mr. Jiao.
Wei Nian praised Chen Xuan for doing this well that night, and she was very keen.
Chen Xuan smiled, "I'm so strong that the noodles must be hard, and the noodles rolled out will be chewy."
Wei Nian encouraged Chen Xuan, 'Do it in the future, don't make it so oily when it's late at night."
Wei Nian is not a praising Chen Xuan's midnight snack. She made it for Wei Nian a few times, sometimes it was noodle soup, sometimes it was vegetarian dumplings, and sometimes it was noodle tea. Sometimes, Old Master Wei was hungry at night, so he would ask Chen Xuan to make one more. Old Master Wei ate less, and Chen Xuan wanted to make Wei Nian and Mr. Jiao anyway, so he had to make one of Wei Nian and Mr. Jiao. One more spoonful of it. Old Mrs. Wei whispered in private, saying that Chen Xuan came to their house and didn't mention it, but his skills increased quite quickly.
Mr. Wei said, "Isn't that good?"
"I didn't say it well. To put it, although I was a country girl, I really loved Anian. I changed my style to do it for Anian every day. I was not so smart before." Old Mrs. Wei said.
However, Old Mrs. Wei didn't think about it. Since the fifteenth day of the lunar calendar, Chen Xuan often made it for the midnight snacks every day. Old Mrs. Wei has always been united with Wei Jin. The mother and daughter eat mutton cakes for nine days in ten days. Chen Xuan just wanted to change the tricks, but she had to worry that the mother and daughter were not happy.
Sometimes, when Chen Xuan is having midnight snacks, Wei Yin would come to help. Occasionally, when he came to the yard, he would hear Wei Nian talking to Mr. Jiao, for a while, for a while, for a while. Chen Xuan couldn't understand the foreign language, but he just thought it was quite nice. However, Wei Yin was much smarter than Chen Xuan. After hearing it several times, Wei Yin would even say a few words of foreign languages. Chen Xuan felt that with Wei Yin's intelligence, if Wei Yin was allowed to go to school, he would not have been able to get into the school called university.
Moreover, Wei Yin is not only smart, but also a very good person. These days, he has to teach Chen Xuan to recognize a few words every day.
Chen Xuan was grateful and made old Mrs. Wei's shoes. Seeing Wei Yin cutting new clothes, she said, "Second sister, I've made these shoes for the old lady. You didn't mean to make four new clothes this spring. I don't have much work on hand now. You can't be busy. I'll make some for you."
Chen Xuan's needlework and thread were polished in the previous life, and it was very meticulous, even if the embroidery was well embroidered. When Wei Yin heard this, he was naturally happy. Even when Mrs. Wei saw that Chen Xuan took the initiative to help Wei Yin do the work, she was very satisfied. Thinking that being a sister-in-law, wouldn't it take to love her sister-in-law so much? Wei Yin happily told Chen Xuan about the clothes she wanted to cut. Chen Xuan listened carefully. Wei Yin made cheongsams. As long as the cheongsam was cut, it was nothing more than edgings. It was more troublesome to use any other one.
When Chen Xuan helped Wei Yin make the new clothes, Wei Yin knew that his second sister-in-law treated her well, so she thanked Chen Xuan. Chen Xuan smiled, "What's wrong? How is it worth thanking?"
Old Mrs. Wei immediately said, "That's right, your second sister-in-law is not an outsider."
Chen Xuan helped Chen Xuan make new clothes and worked hard at home every day. Moreover, diligence is not unhealthy. The New Year couplets posted on both sides of the yard door are old. Moreover, the New Year couplets have been mixed, and the couplets have been wet. Now there are still several damaged places. Chen Xuan said to Mrs. Wei, thinking about lifting the couplets down. Mrs. Wei said, "The New Year is coming, just peel them down. Just peel them down. There must be sticky wrinkles on the wall. It's easy to wipe them off and wipe them clean."
Chen Xuan responded happily, and Mrs. Wei said in her heart that this silly girl in the countryside is honest and has the ability to find work. But she didn't know that Chen Xuan was happy that Chen Xuan had always been worried about recognizing some words, but she had no paper to write. Chen Xuan had been watching the couplet for several days, afraid that the couplet would not be broken enough, so she secretly teared it a few times when people couldn't see it. Now seeing Mrs. Wei ask her to reveal it, Chen Xuan hurriedly uncovered the couplet and put two faded white couplet papers back into the house. The words on it were not full, and there were still many places to use.
Chen Xuan wiped the wall very clean. After getting these two couplet papers, Chen Xuan felt like she was treasured. She secretly wrote several times in the house. As a result, she couldn't write Wei Nian's pen. Chen Xuan's face turned pale because of fright. Thinking of Wei Yin's saying that this was a very famous brand of pen, and even the tip of the pen was made of gold. If she was used, how could she compensate her?
Chen Xuan wanted to discuss with Wei Yin, but I don’t know what to say, hey, such a valuable thing!
Chen Xuan was thinking about what to do. One day, Wei Nian was about to write and was looking for a pen in the room. Chen Xuan nervously stumbled her fingers and said to Wei Nian, "Brother A Nian, then, that, that..." She stuttered suddenly.
Because Chen Xuan was attentive to do midnight snacks, and the two got along well these days, Wei Nian took a pen and asked Chen Xuan, "What's wrong?"
Chen Xuan whispered, "The pen was broken."
Wei Nian opened the pen cap and asked, "Why is it broken?"
"It turns out that writing is very good, but I can't write it out suddenly." Chen Xuan said sadly, "I don't know how it was broken. I thought, Brother A Nian, do you know someone who can repair pens outside? A Yin said, this is expensive. Then, I still owe you one 5 yuan but haven't paid it back. This, this ruined your pen again." Chen Xuan felt that he was really sorry for Wei Nian.
Wei Nian almost didn't laugh. Seeing Wei Nian holding the kang table so hard that she couldn't stand up, Chen Xuan asked Wei Nian, "Why are you laughing at?" What should I do if I do this!
Wei Nian originally wanted to tease Chen Xuan, but he also knew that Chen Xuan was an honest person. Seeing her so worried, Wei Nian said first, "This is not broken, it's because there is no ink inside. Just pull some ink in it."
"It's really not broken?"
Wei Nian nodded, Chen Xuan breathed a long sigh. Wei Nian asked her to go to the western room and took out a plastic glass bottle about two inches high from the drawer. Wei Nian unscrewed the lid and showed it to Chen Xuan. Chen Xuan smelled the slight stench of ink. Seeing that there was still half a bottle inside, Wei Nian said, "This is ink." He unscrewed the pen to absorb ink, and asked Chen Xuan, "Do you often use my pen secretly?"
"It's not often, just a few times." Chen Xuan saw that the pen was not broken, and the big rock fell to the ground. Seeing that Wei Nian sucked ink for the pen, Chen Xuan twisted the ink bottle on the lid and put it back into the drawer.
Wei Nian casually tore off a piece of paper from the notebook on the table, wiped the ink around the pen tip, and threw the paper to the ground. Chen Xuan saw that the snow-white paper was thrown away! He immediately leaned over and picked it up and put it on the table. If Wei Nian didn't want it, she would take the house for a while. Wei Nian said, "Just use an eyebrow pencil to draw flowers. Don't look at the strange pen and use it. It's not good to draw flowers on the pen."
Chen Xuan said, "I'm not painting a flower."
"What is that doing?"
"Writing." Chen Xuan whispered, "Ayin taught me to recognize more than a hundred words."
"Oh, this is amazing." Wei Nian said casually, "It's not bad to recognize more words."
"Yes." Chen Xuan nodded and discussed with Wei Nian, "Can you still let me use your pen in the future?"
Wei Nian wanted to laugh when he thought of Chen Xuan's worried and worried look, saying "the pen is broken". Wei Nian wanted to laugh, "Yes, you can use it whenever you want."
Chen Xuan thanked Wei Nian and said, "Don't you like to eat soy food? I'll bake it for you tomorrow morning and it will be the most delicious to eat it while it's hot."
Wei Nian laughed, "Okay."
As a result, Chen Xuan got up early and made a mess for Wei Nian to eat.
As a result, Wei Nian's slutty speech almost made Chen Xuan so angry.
This is the thing, because the breakfast at Wei family mostly cooks corn cob noodles at home, buy some fried dough sticks outside and bean curd brain, and there are not many times when making bait. Chen Xuan thanked Wei Nian for letting her continue to use Wei Nian's pen, so she cut chopped green onions early in the morning, beat eggs, mixed batter, and made bait.
Old Master Wei was old and loved Xuan Ruo’s food. He nodded and said, “The second wife is a good stall.” Because the stall was about to be delicious when it was delicious, Chen Xuan was in the kitchen, so the Wei family ate it first.
Old Mrs. Wei said it was not bad, especially, it was more affordable than buying food outside.
Wei Jinze said, "What's wrong with the second brother and sister? She was not so attentive before. The sun came out from the west."
This is really bad. Old Master Wei couldn't help but frown and glanced at his eldest daughter.
Wei Jin tore apart a bun, gave half of his two sons, and said, "Eat quickly, it will be fragrant while it is hot."
Wei Nian also felt that the batter was better than the fried dough sticks and oil cakes he ate every day. He put them in a bowl for his two nephews Wei Jie and Wei Ming, and said proudly, "You are all benefiting from me. Axuan mainly comes to the stall for me to eat."
Wei Yin asked with a smile, "Second brother, what are you doing?"
"Your second sister-in-law wants to write with my pen." Speaking of this, Wei Nian said to her elder sister, "Look at Axuan, it's only been a few days since she came to our house and has recognized more than a hundred words. Look at you, you are also the eldest young lady in the Zhao family, and you don't even recognize one of them. You are not as good as Axuan."
Chapter completed!