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Chapter Eleven A Good Meal

With the two fathers pushing each other, Sun Yue and Lao Cao's daughter went out to the street with several large cloth pockets.

The Cao family's daughter's attitude is a little better than before, but she still has a bit of anger at the corner of her eyes, and she feels fierce and not easy to get along with.

Sun Yue deliberately pretended to be tender and asked sweetly, "What's your name?"

"I don't have a name. There are a few girls from poor families who have named them. My father calls me Nier, and outsiders call me Cao Nier. You can call me Sister like my younger brother."

"Well, from now on, I will call you sister, and you will also treat me as your younger brother."

Cao Ni'er smiled in embarrassment, gently touched Sun Yue's head, raised a bunch of heavy copper coins in her hand and said, "I want to eat something, sister, take you to buy it."

"If you want to eat crabs, you will lose weight after a few days when the ice turns into sequels."

"Crabs, there are few sold in the South City. Let's go and take you to the North City."

"Well, sister is so nice."

After all, he was just a teenage girl. Sun Yue deliberately pretended to be young and was so happy that she said a few words. She happily took Sun Yue to buy crabs.

There are many rivers in Bianliang, so crabs are not too expensive, and the price is not much different from meat. However, most people are more willing to eat meat with this spare money, so there is nothing in Nancheng that sells this thing. After going around, I bought some meat and wine. It was more than half an hour after I got home.

Lao Cao's youngest son ran over as if he was flying, drooling at the very unpromising lamb leg in his sister's hand. Lao Cao hurriedly took it over and went to the kitchen with Sun Chunming.

Sun Yue honestly went back to the house and spread out cheap yellow paper, trying to practice calligraphy with a brush, which made the Cao boy, who originally wanted to play with him for a while, feel very disappointed. He went to find his sister again, who was busy helping him in the kitchen and ignored him, so he could only watch Sun Yue practice calligraphy seriously.

In the kitchen, Lao Cao and Sun Chunming didn't know what they were talking about, but they were quite happy and laughed loudly from time to time. His mother was sleeping in another room and she had not yet woken up. Before she knew it, the two originally strangers gradually became harmonious.

After a while, there was a knock on the door outside. In fact, the door was not locked at all. He came in after knocking on the door. However, it was Widow Zhang next door holding half a pot of tofu in his hand and shouting with a smile, "From Sun's family, I'll sell the remaining little tofu today for you guys to add some food."

In fact, Sun Yue knew that she was just giving tofu a meal. Every time he and Sun Chunming cooked meat these days, she would come to deliver tofu when she smelled it. Every time Sun Chunming had to keep her for dinner. Fortunately, she would help them do some housework after they finished their meals, and sometimes they would help them wash clothes, so the meal was not annoying.

As soon as I entered the door, I happened to see Lao Cao. For a moment, the two of them looked at each other and their movements froze.

"Are you back?"

"Ah, I just came back, that.... Leave a piece for dinner."

Unexpectedly, Widow Zhang, who had always been quite gentle, shook her hand and smashed the tofu on Lao Cao's face, and said angrily: "I didn't say anything when I left, and I didn't come to fart when I came back. Why are you treating me like me? Even Sister Yao, I'll let you sleep for so many years in vain, you should save some love, you bastard!"

Widow Zhang became more and more angry as she spoke. She came up and reached out to hit him. Old Cao lowered his head and did not hide, letting his slap in the face. Everyone in the room ran out to watch the fun, but no one came to persuade him. The big dark face turned red and bright. Widow Zhang stopped when she was tired of hitting her.

This fuss woke the old lady up. Maybe she was a little Alzheimer's disease. After waking up, she shouted: "Son~ It's not good, the Khitans are here~ Run!"

Lao Cao had to coax my mother first: "Mom, it's okay, the Khitans have been beaten away by the child."

The old lady cried, "Woo~Wooh~Wife, daughter-in-law? Where is the wife? Ah! The wife was taken away by the Khitans, and the wife was taken away by the Khitans."

Lao Cao hurriedly said, "No, my wife is here, here, look, isn't this a wife?"

As he said that, he quickly brought Widow Zhang to the front and made a pleading expression. Widow Zhang glared at Lao Cao fiercely, but still squeezed out a smile and said, "Mom, look, I wasn't stolen. Isn't that there?"

"You are my wife? Oh... OK, okay, just don't get snatched away, hurry up, hide quickly, don't let the Khitans see you."

The two of them cooperated tacitly and coaxed the old lady in a short while, and they were happy in a short while.

Lao Cao still said the same thing: "That... stay for a meal."

Widow Zhang hesitated for a while, perhaps because the fragrance in the kitchen was too greedy, so she nodded and said, "Okay, but I'm not urging you for my aunt's sake."

"Okay, okay, know."

Seeing this, Sun Yue couldn't help but want to give the old lady a thumbs up. Is this really confused or pretending to be confused? Such a big thing, just make a little trouble and just get over?

Otherwise, the ginger is still spicy.

After joking for a while, the meal was finally ready. Fortunately, there were high tables and stools at home, otherwise so many people would not be able to sit down. Sun Chunming shouted, "Daughter, put the bowls and chopsticks." Then he saw Cao Ni'er doing the work very carefully, and I don't know how they were so good.

In short, everything is very harmonious. The Cao family may rarely eat crabs. Sun Yue will help them peel them when they eat. Anyway, the children have little appetite and don’t have much workload. Old Cao clumsyly peeled the shells for Widow Zhang. Widow Zhang kept rolling his eyes to him. However, Sun Chunming actually thought of peeling Cao’s mother first before eating.

At the dinner table, we naturally had to talk about each other's origins and past. The father and son were naturally born with the same rude style. There are too many families of officials who have been beaten by war these days, and it is not surprising that they have fallen into beggars.

Lao Cao's family is from Guanzhong. He himself was a soldier in the Later Han Dynasty and was still a leader. During the mutiny, Guo Wei and his brothers realized something was wrong and ran away in advance. They used the money they saved when they were in the army to open this pancake shop.

He heard that his father was killed by the Khitans when Yelu Abaoji went south. All of their family, except his mother, were arrested for the Khitans to build the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun. The old lady raised Lao Cao alone, so when she became sick, she would say that the Khitans were coming. Sometimes when she saw the Hu people, she would be scared to hide under the bed.

As for Widow Zhang, she was originally the newly married young wife next door. When she was newly married, she happened to be the one who was a slaughter of the city ten years ago. She was a famous beauty at that time, so she was naturally taken.

Maybe she thought her husband's family was annoying, so she killed them all. Instead, she survived the three days and survived by chance. She committed suicide several times but didn't want to die.

She was quite calm when she said this. There were only 10,000 women like her in Kaifeng City, and there were 8,000 people. She had been used to it, so there was nothing she could not say.

The father and son couldn't help but feel mixed feelings when they heard this. Sun Chunming picked up the wine bowl and said, "Come on, everyone have a drink and give this damn past. I think this official family is different from the bastards of the previous five generations. I think he should be able to be longer-term in the Song Dynasty, for the peace in the future!"

The cottage is not big. After eating for a while, I feel the whole room is full of crab roe. Everyone is very happy to eat it. For Lao Cao's family and Widow Zhang's family, this should be happiness.
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