Blissful Days After Widowhood

    The bench is as high as your calf, and it can be big or small when you fall.

    Gu Yin hurried away from the crowd to help, but Wang steadied herself.

      hilarious."

    Everyone saw that there was no liveliness to watch. Those who wanted to buy porridge naturally paid for money, and those who didn't want to buy scattered. Gu Yin also returned to her stall.

    After being busy for almost an hour, I can finally catch my breath.

     Mr. Wang stretched his neck and looked around, seeing that he didn't see Mrs. Wen, he first exhaled a long breath, and then lowered his voice: "Why did Mrs. come back with you?"

    Gu Yin reluctantly said: "The old man is useless, I said to stay at Wen's house and make it for him before coming back. He didn't want to waste my time, so he said he would use it."

    "Then...then he heard it?" Mr. Wang groaned, and there was no more aura that he had just stood on the bench.

    Gu Yin said with her eyes: What do you think?

    The old lady just heard Wang's words and immediately took two steps to the side, pretending that she was not with her and did not know her.

    The people behind them all dispersed, and the old man followed the crowd.

    "How can mother say that so well? He also wants to save face."

    Wang regretted, and whispered: "It's our preserved egg lean meat porridge, they saw that black preserved egg in it, and they don't know who shouted that we sold it broken. I was angry, but I just wanted to say that this was praised by the old man, so naturally it would not be a broken thing. Afterwards, he rushed out and went out bald. Do you think the old man will Don't let Wu An go to their house to study?"

    Gu Yin saw her grimacing face, and the sky was falling, so she comforted: "The old lady is very arrogant, I will apologize on behalf of my mother later, and it should be fine. Returning to one yard, I think that the old man will not take his anger on Wu An."

     Halfway through the morning market, the old Liutou who sold fried ghosts next door came over to chat with Gu Yin, and then noticed Gu Ye next to her.

    "This little guy is so good-looking, why haven't I seen it before?"

    Gu Ye was whiter and fatter than before, wearing a brown jacket, a pair of black thin cotton trousers, a black belt tied around the waist, and a chubby little belly drawn out with a lively air.

      Dimples, cute and sweet. Of course, the most special thing is the pair of black eyes, big and bright, full of aura.

    Anyone who saw him like this would never have imagined that he was a dirty wild child two months ago.

    Gu Yin patted him and asked softly, "Do you remember how your mother taught you at home?"

    Gu Ye nodded, strode on his short legs and ran to Lao Liu's head without hesitation, knelt down and kowtowed to him, "Grandpa Liu, I wish you a good old age!"

    This sentence has been practiced several times at home, so he does not stutter at all.

    "Okay!" Old Liutou laughed until his teeth came out. He started to open the money box and said, "Here is the New Year's money for you, and you can buy something to eat yourself."

    Gu Ye pursed his lips and smiled, his eyes were curved and his dimples were shallow.

    Aunt Ge came to return the steamer, and when he saw his small appearance, he couldn't help laughing, "Honey, where did the little Fuwa come from? Whose child?"

    This time there is no need for Gu Yin to teach, Gu Ye bowed down to Aunt Ge again, and called out in a clear voice.

    "Hey!" Aunt Ge grinned, and hurriedly pulled him up and touched her body again, "I didn't bring any money here, wait, I'll go back and make it up for you right away."

    Seeing Gu Yin smiling from ear to ear, Aunt Ge smiled and patted her, "Why haven't you seen such a doll in your house for two months? It's too polite, New Year's Eve. It's enough to hand over, why let the child kneel."

    Gu Yin smiled and said, "You and Uncle Liu can stand this, haven't you two seen who this kid is?"

    She said so, Old Liutou and Aunt Ge will look at Xiao Gu Ye from head to toe again, and then they will recognize him.

    "Fu Da Ming's child, it's you!" Aunt Ge's eyes were red.

    The child suddenly disappeared last winter. I asked Guan Huotou to help him to find it but no results. Everyone was in a hurry, especially Lao Liutou and Aunt Ge who were the first to feed the child Yes, he was only a lot more worried than Gu Yin and Wang Shi.

    "Good boy, really good boy!" Old Liutou also wiped his eyes with his sleeves.

    Gu Ye received their compliments generously, and Aunt Ge turned back and got silver money, and also gave him New Year's money.

    Gu Ye took it unceremoniously, turned to look at Gu Yin again, and only took them a copper coin, and refused to take the rest.

    "Oh, it's like I've changed a person. If I'm walking on the road, I definitely won't recognize it." Aunt Ge took Gu Yin's hand and patted it, "You teach so well. . What's the constitution going forward?"

    Aunt Ge knew that it was not easy for Gu Yin's family to be orphans and widows, and there was another five or six-year-old child in the family, especially Wang Shi, who saw that it was really difficult to get along with her, so she was afraid that she would not be able to tolerate this child .

    "Auntie don't worry, my mother really likes him."

    While they were talking, Gu Ye had already entered the stall with two copper coins, and showed them to the Wang family as if they were offering treasures.

    He hasn't forgotten to give the New Year's money to Wang!

    Gu Ye jumped up and ran to Gu Yin again and asked her with a smile, "Mother, shall I eat?"

     "Go, do you know the way back?"

    He nodded hurriedly, then ran away.

    After watching the whole process, Aunt Ge finally felt relieved, and then said to Gu Yin, "If you encounter any difficulties in the future, just open your mouth."

    Gu Yin thanked her for her kindness, and after the two talked for a while, Aunt Ge went back.

    Not long after, Gu Ye came back with two strings of candied haws.

    He had already eaten one bunch, and he handed the other one to Gu Yin and then to Mrs Wang. Naturally, neither of them would eat them, so he asked Mrs. Wang to help him put them away. Seeing that Mr. Wang had inserted the string of candied haws, he went to Gu Yin's side again.

    Gu Yin took him for a walk on the pier, and asked him to pay tribute to other families who helped him in their old age.

    Gu Yin blushed when she heard this, but Gu Ye always acted candidly - he thinks everyone is right, he is so good, so likable, his mother is indeed Beautiful and kind-hearted, like a fairy girl in the sky! It's a pity that he doesn't have much to say now, otherwise he must say something nicer to praise his mother!

    After bowing down, Gu Ye's purse had ten more coins. He counted back and forth many times, and his eyes became small crescents when he smiled.

    When he returned home in the afternoon, Mrs Wang looked at him holding a small purse and said with a smile, "Look at this little money fan, I'm afraid no one will believe it if you say it wasn't yours. !"

    Gu Yin was counting the copper coins she earned that day with a smile, when she heard this, she immediately touched her face and said, "Where do I have it?"

    Wang shi laughed for a while and asked Gu Yin how his income was that day.

    Before the Chinese New Year, they could earn about 130 cents a day, but this day they replaced it with preserved egg and lean meat porridge. Put a lot of it, mainly to improve the flavor, and the tip is a little thicker, so it stands to reason that you should earn more.

    However, it is a pity that the preserved eggs are not well sold. Many people are as unacceptable as the Wang family at the beginning, so the total profit is similar to before.

    But Gu Yin is not flustered. The launch of new products is a process of upgrading. If you can sell this amount on the first day, the business will definitely get better and better in the future.

    Wang shi listened to her calculation, but unfortunately said: "Your porridge is really delicious, I have never eaten porridge with this flavor in my life. Don't say it's two cents, three cents The five cents also made it so that the people on the pier were not very knowledgeable, and they were hesitant to see that they were not good-looking.

    The level of the guests who open the shop is different from the people on the dock, so the acceptance will naturally be higher.

    And Gu Yin's craftsmanship is recognized by Mrs. Wen, and Wang Shi feels more and more that she should not be exposed to the wind and the sun on the pier.

    Especially her skin is really tender, the frostbite in winter is finally gone, the sun is good today, she tanned her face in the middle of the morning, and she doesn't know how to get through it in summer.

    "If I had known, I would have let Wu'an read again a year later. The twenty taels are enough for a good shop in Panshikou."

    "It's a good thing to be able to go to Master Wen's door! What else do you want to do, mother?" Gu Yin put the copper coins into the cash box, "It's okay, we will be for a month. Earn at least three or two, and be a little more frugal in life, and opening a store is just a matter of half a year."

    Afterwards, Mrs. Wang went out to buy ingredients and wanted to let Gu Yin rest, but she thought of promising to make fresh shrimp wontons for the old man the next day, so she went along.

    Unfortunately, at the market, there are only freshly caught river prawns on the market.

    In the early spring, the river prawns are not only expensive, but also small in size.

    Gu Yin bought half a catty and thought that it would take a little more effort to make shrimp ravioli that satisfied the old man.

     After thinking about it all the way until Wang finished buying other things, Gu Yin went to cut a pound of pork hind legs without any fat and a small bag of sweet potato flour.

    She is going to make a yanpi shrimp wonton.

    The so-called yanpi is a thin slice made of mashed meat and sweet potato flour, also known as meat yanpi.

    It needs to beat the pork into a puree. Once it starts, it cannot be stopped. Gu Yin and Wang Shi took turns beating for a full hour.

    And the amount of sweet potato flour to add is also very particular.

    However, Gu Yin's hand was more accurate than the food scale. After a while, the mashed meat and sweet potato flour were mixed into a pink dough.

    Because it took too much time to beat the mashed meat, Wu An also came back from school after rolling the wonton skin.

    He carried a small book bag temporarily sewn for him by Wang's former son, and returned home happily.

    Wang said strangely: "Why did you come back by yourself? Didn't you say you should wait for your mother to pick you up?"

      , poured himself a bowl of water to drink, and said, "Besides, my mother and sister-in-law have worked hard to set up a stall every day. It's too troublesome to pick up and drop off sooner or later. I'm not a child anymore."

    He is introverted, and he rarely speaks so much at home.

    Even Gu Yin couldn't help but be surprised: "We Wu'an are really incredible, we've only read a book for a day and we're like little adults!"

    Wu An blushed when she praised her, scratched her head and said nothing.

    When it was getting dark, Gu Ye, who was playing wildly outside, came back.

    Wang habitually took a cloth towel and dusted him from head to toe.

    Gu Ye obediently let her finish the dusting, and then pulled Wang Shi to ask for the candied gourd before, but Wang Shi refused to give it at first, only said: "I will eat the evening meal immediately, and I will eat it to support my stomach. But I can't eat anymore."

    But in the end, he was defeated by Gu Ye's eager begging and gave him the candied haws.

    The candied haws had been let go for a long time, and the outermost sugar coating had melted and re-condensed, which looked very unsightly.

    But in the eyes of children, it is nothing to be unsightly, so when Gu Ye happily brought the candied haws to Wu An, Wu An's eyes also lit up.

    "I leave it for you." Gu Ye said with a gulping saliva.

    Wu An happily ate one, and let him take another bite. The two of you took a bite and I ate a whole one.

    "I was surprised that this little brat can still eat leftovers. Dare is specially reserved for Wu An!" Wang Shi smiled and went to share this new thing with Gu Yin, but saw When it came time to go back to the house to rest for a while, Gu Yin was so tired that she fell asleep with her clothes on.

    She has to get up again in a few hours, so Wang shi didn't call her, just helped her loose her hair and covered her with a quilt.

    She "hiss" and put on the air-conditioning, then covered the quilt for the two children, and went out of the house to wash gently.

    Wang shi was already waiting for her outside the house, "I heard that you were smoking cold when you got up. Does your arm hurt badly?"

    Wang Shi originally said she came when she was making mashed meat yesterday, but Gu Yin said that making mashed meat looks simple, but in fact, she has to follow the texture of the meat and beat the fascia The crack was considered a success, so in that hour, most of the time, Gu Yin fought by herself.

    Wang shi went to press the meridians for Gu Yin, she was already very restrained, and without spending 30% of the effort, Gu Yin still took a breath.

    Wang hurriedly withdrew her hand, frowning distressedly.

    "It's alright, it's just that I've done less work in the past two months, and I'm not used to it. It'll be fine in two days."

    Seeing that she finished washing, Mrs. Wang immediately went to make stuffing and buns, and hurriedly went to help, while blaming herself: "I said something wrong yesterday, otherwise you don't need to It took so much time to make amends for the old man."

    "It really has nothing to do with you, the old man has taken care of me like this for the past two months, and he has found a master for our family Wu'an as a gentleman. Even if there is no such thing as yesterday, it is what I should do ."

    Aunt Ge came to pick up the buns, Wu An and Gu Ye got up one after another.

    Gu Yinben thought that Mrs. Wen would probably not come this day. When the morning market was half over, she would take the materials and deliver them to Wen's house in person.

    Unexpectedly, before the morning market started, Mrs. Wen arrived first.

    "A bowl of shrimp wontons." The old man was not polite, he sat down at the low table and started ordering.

      Beat with the back of the knife for more than a quarter of an hour, add sugar and pepper, and stir to form shiny shrimp paste; add cold water to the three-fat and seven-thin pork filling three times, beat in eggs and stir vigorously. Finally, the shrimp paste and pork are mixed and stirred into meat filling, and then put into the thin asian skin to make ingots, which is the Yanpi shrimp wonton.

    The yanpi wontons were cooked, Gu Yin sent them to the old man first, and then another person came to the stall behind, and then turned around to wrap fish and meat wontons.

    The yan skin is pink, and when cooked, the color of the powdered meat filling shines brightly. Just looking at it is different and appetizing.

      on the eyes.

    A bowl of twenty, every bite is the ultimate enjoyment.

    The other ravioli eaters came later than the old man, but ate faster than him. Seeing him dawdling and enjoying the meal, the ravioli in the bowl was also different from what they ate. Can't help but ask Gu Yin: "Little lady, is this something new?"

    Not waiting for Gu Yin to speak, Wang rushes to say: "No, no, this old gentleman is an acquaintance of ours, this is the only one, not for sale."

    Just kidding, the ravioli went to her daughter-in-law Half-Life this night, no amount of money can be sold to the outside world.

    Everyone took another look at the old man who was still cherishing every bite of wontons. Although he didn’t know the difference between the wontons, he still felt that the ones in his bowl were definitely better than the average ones!

    I can't eat this different wonton, why don't I try this little lady's new porridge?

    Thinking like this, the person who didn't get enough after a bowl of wontons called out another bowl of porridge.

    In addition to the repeat customers who drank preserved egg lean meat porridge the day before, the porridge on this day was much better than the day before.

    And Mrs. Wen saw that their mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were busy, and after eating the wontons, she didn't go to Gu Yin to talk, but got up and called the accompanying servant and whispered a few words to him.

    Shortly after, the servant brought back a pony and a fishing rod.

    The old man sat on the open space next to the stall and caught fish.

    Originally just to pass the time and play, but I didn't expect that there are many people doing food business on this pier, and they just dump the food residues into the canal without paying attention. The fish in the canal eat the scraps here every day, and they come back here after a winter of starvation.

    The bait was bitten in less than a quarter of an hour.

    When Gu Yin finished her business in the morning, the old man's fish bucket was full.

    Although these prickly and small river fish are not valuable, the old man is very happy to fish.

    After Gu Yin finished her work, she saw a smile on the old man's face, so she took the initiative to talk to him.

    "Aren't you mad?"

    The old man turned his head and glanced at the servant, who stood up and gave Gu Yin his pony.

    Gu Yin sat down next to the old man and listened to the old man: "I'm angry, why am I angry?"

    After he finished speaking, he thought of the delicious bowl of Yanpi wontons in the morning, and he said, "Okay, I'm a little angry."

    Mr. Wen has a good face, everyone who knows him a little knows.

    Gu Yin first helped Wang to apologize and explained the whole story. The old man didn't bother anymore and said, "Actually, your mother-in-law is not wrong. I am full of praise for that porridge. It doesn't seem like it's selling very well today, so let her continue to promote it like this. Sell a little more, and you'll earn enough money to open a shop sooner." After he finished speaking, he did not forget to lower his voice and exhort, "But don't allow it. Said that I was chasing after that bowl of porridge!"

      It's for my own business, and I won't let my mother mention this."

    It was the same way of speaking, but what came out of Gu Yin's mouth was to smooth out every pore of the old man.

    Gu Yin went back and relayed it to Mrs. Wang. After Mrs. Wang heard it, she immediately began to shout: "The preserved egg and lean meat porridge that Mrs. Wen personally praised, spend two cents a bowl and eat it with Mrs. Same thing!"

    Don't say it, Mrs. Wen is very famous in this town, and everyone who hears it will stop.

    Of course, someone asked Mrs. Wang, saying that you suddenly stopped talking after you mentioned it yesterday. Why did you shout again today?

    The Wang family is now "following the decree" to promote the propaganda, and said confidently: "Yes, I said it yesterday. But my daughter-in-law is a low-key person, thinking that everyone will know after eating it. It's delicious. I didn't expect that today everyone is still afraid of this appearance, so she went to ask the old man for instructions, and the old man himself agreed with me. "

    The other party sneered and said, "What kind of person is Mrs. Wen, who can open up for such trivial matters? Besides, as you said, your daughter-in-law is no longer working at Wen's house, so why should you? Why would you go to Wen's house to see the old man? You wicked mother-in-law is really making up more and more exaggerated things."

     "That is, even if your daughter-in-law really did it in Wen's family during the New Year's Eve, if, as you said, she was appreciated by the old man, why would you go back here to set up a stall? That's Wen's family! Don't think that the workmanship is true, and the appreciation is false, in fact, it is to be resigned, right?"

    Wang can't always say that the little old man sitting next to him fishing is the old man, and his daughter-in-law just asked. She had just suffered from Hu Yan's loss, and her eyes rolled, thinking that she couldn't say that her daughter-in-law just wanted to do her own business and didn't want to work for others - saying this, I'm afraid others will think that the old man can't even keep a cook. Stay, and let the old man lose face again.

    So she said, "Why am I making up this shit? It's no secret that my daughter-in-law goes to work at Wen's house. The young shopkeeper of Daxing Rice Shop and Chef Xu of Wen's house all know about it. As for not doing it later, it was originally a large family who was busy entertaining guests during the Chinese New Year and recruited short-term workers, but would they come back when the construction period is up?"

    Everyone saw what she said was swearing, and she didn't show any fear, even if she was skeptical, she couldn't help but believe it.

    With this effect, the porridge that day was sold out quickly.

    When the morning market was completely over, Mr. Wang looked at the short-sold porridge bucket with a smile on his face.

    The old man next to him also finished catching the fish. Seeing her like this, she collected the fishing rod and asked, "Is this all sold out?"

    This is the first time Mrs Wang has spoken to the old man after the stage, and she was still a little frightened - otherwise, she would not have asked Gu Yin to apologize before, she did not dare to come forward .

    But the old man really had nothing to say about her family, so she answered boldly: "Thanks to your old man, I used your words to promote it today, and it was all sold out in one breath! It's all your old man. The credit for Jinkou Yuyan's living signboard!"

    Mr. Wen raised his chin proudly, "How much more did you make than yesterday?"

    Wang wanted to flatter the old man, so he deliberately said a little more and said loudly: "Speak less than fifty words!"

    Grandpa:…

    What a living signboard worth fifty pennies!