Dad, this seems to be the Northern Song Dynasty

Chapter 11 A Delicious Meal

After the two fathers gave in to each other, it was still Sun Yue and Lao Cao's daughter who took to the street with a few big cloth bags.

Cao's daughter's attitude at this meeting is better than before, but the corners of her eyes are still a little hostile, 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 several names for girls from poor families. My father calls me Nier, and outsiders call me Cao Nier. You can call me sister like my younger brother."

"Well, after that, I will also call you sister, and you should treat me as your younger brother too."

Cao Nier smiled awkwardly, gently patted Sun Yue's head, raised a bunch of heavy copper coins in her hand and said, "If you want to eat something, my sister will take you to buy it."

"I want to eat crabs, but after a few days it will be vernalized and the ice will melt, so it won't be fat."

"Crabs, they are rarely sold in the South City, let's go, I will take you to the North City."

"Well, sister is really nice."

After all, she was just a ten-year-old girl, and Sun Yue deliberately pretended to be tender and made her happy with a few words, and happily led Sun Yue to buy crabs.

There are many rivers in Bianliang, so crabs are not too expensive, not much different from the price of meat, but ordinary people obviously prefer to eat meat if they have this spare money, so there is nothing to sell this thing in Nancheng, so they went around and bought some meat With wine, it has been more than half an hour since I got home.

Lao Cao's youngest son flew over, drooling at the useless leg of lamb that his sister was carrying, Lao Cao quickly picked it up, and went to work with Sun Chunming in the kitchen.

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

In the kitchen, Lao Cao and Sun Chunming were chatting for some unknown reason, and they were quite happy chatting, and they laughed loudly from time to time. His old mother was sleeping in another room, and she still hasn’t woken up yet. Unknowingly, the original The two strange families gradually became harmonious.

After a while, there was a knock on the door. In fact, the door was not locked at all. The person who knocked on the door came in, but it was Widow Zhang next door, holding half a pot of tofu in her hand, and shouted with a smile, " From the Sun family, I will bring some of the leftover tofu from the sale today for you two to add as a side dish."

In fact, Sun Yue knew that she used the name of delivering tofu to eat. These days, every time he and Sun Chunming cooked meat, she would come over to deliver tofu when she smelled it. Every time Sun Chunming had to They kept her for dinner, but fortunately, they would help them with some housework every time they finished their meal, and sometimes they would help them with their laundry, so this meal was not annoying.

As soon as he entered the door, he happened to see Lao Cao. For a moment, their eyes met and their movements froze.

"You're back?"

"Ah, I just came back, that...let's leave a piece for dinner."

Unexpectedly, the always gentle Widow Zhang slammed the tofu on Lao Cao's face and said angrily, "I didn't say a word when I left, and I didn't come to fart when I came back. What do you think of my old lady? Sister Yao, I let you sleep in vain for so many years, so I should save some affection, you bastard!"

The more Widow Zhang spoke, the more angry she was, she stretched out her hand and slapped him. Lao Cao lowered his head and didn't hide, and let his slaps crackle on his face. Everyone in the room ran out to watch the fun, and no one came to persuade him. The beating made Lao Cao's dark face flush brightly, and Widow Zhang stopped tired from beating.

This commotion woke up the old lady. The old lady might be a little demented. After waking up, she shouted: "Son~ it's not good, the Khitan people are here~ run!"

Lao Cao had to coax his old mother first: "Mother, it's okay, the Khitan people have been beaten away by the children."

The old lady cried: "Woooo~ Wife, daughter-in-law? Where is the daughter-in-law? My son! My daughter-in-law was snatched away by the Khitan people, and my daughter-in-law was snatched away by the Khitan people."

Lao Cao hurriedly said: "No, no, my daughter-in-law is here, here, look, isn't this my daughter-in-law?"

As she said, she hurriedly brought Widow Zhang to her face and made a pleading expression. Widow Zhang gave Lao Cao a hard look, but she still squeezed out a smile and said, "Mother, look, I haven't been snatched away. I'm not here." what?"

"You are my daughter-in-law? Oh...Okay, okay, it's good that you haven't been snatched away, hurry up, hide yourself, and don't let the Khitan people see you."

The two cooperated tacitly, coaxing the old lady over in a short while, and having fun in a short while.

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

Widow Zhang hesitated for a while, perhaps because the smell in the kitchen was too craving, she nodded and said: "Okay, but I'm doing it for my aunt's sake, not for you."

"Okay, okay, I know."

Seeing this, Sun Yue couldn't help but want to give the old lady a thumbs up. Is this really stupid or just pretending to be stupid? For such a big matter, just make a fuss and let it go.

Anyway, ginger is still old and spicy.

After talking and laughing for a while, the meal was finally ready. Fortunately, there were high tables and high stools at home, otherwise there would be no room for so many people. Sun Chunming called out, "Girl, set the dishes and chopsticks." Ni'er finished the work quickly, and she didn't know how the two of them got along so well.

All in all, everything is in harmony. The Cao family probably seldom eats crabs, and Sun Yue will peel them for the siblings when they eat by themselves. Anyway, the children have a small appetite and the workload is not too big. Lao Cao clumsily gives Widow Zhang was peeling the shells, and Widow Zhang kept casting supercilious glances at him, but Sun Chunming actually thought of peeling himself for Mother Cao before eating.

At the dinner table, it was natural to chat about each other's backgrounds. The father and son were naturally of that kind of nonsense background. There are too many official families that have been wiped out by the war these years, and it is not uncommon for them to be reduced to beggars.

Lao Cao's family is from Guanzhong. He himself served as a soldier in the Later Han Dynasty. He was still a senior. When Guo Wei mutinied, he and his brothers realized that something was wrong. This biscuit shop.

I heard from him that his father was killed by the Khitan people when Yelu Abaoji went south. Their whole family, except for his mother, was taken away for the Khitan people to build Yanyun Sixteen States. The old lady was alone. He raised Lao Cao, so now when he gets sick, he will say that the Khitan people are coming, and sometimes he will be scared to hide under the bed when he sees the Hu people.

As for Widow Zhang, she was originally the young daughter-in-law who was newly married next door. When Yan Er was newly married, it happened to coincide with Guo Wei's massacre of the city ten years ago.

Maybe her husband's family was an eyesore, so she killed them all. On the contrary, she survived those three days and committed suicide several times without success, so she didn't want to ask for death.

When she said this, she was quite calm. Women like her in Kaifeng City had eight thousand if not ten thousand. She was used to it, so there was nothing she couldn't say.

The father and son couldn't help but have mixed feelings. Sun Chunming held up the wine bowl and said: "Come on, let's have a toast and send this damn past. I think this official family is different from the bastards of the previous five generations. I think His Song Dynasty should be able to last longer, for the sake of peace in the future, do it!"

The hut is not big, and after eating for a while, the whole room smells like crab roe. Everyone eats very happily. For Lao Cao's family and Widow Zhang's family, this should be happiness.

(End of this chapter)