The Peasant Girl’s Splendid Manor

Chapter 86 The dust has settled (2)

 After the sesame seeds are fried, the maltose in the pot is also melted.

Mo Yan took out the fried salt, wrapped it in oil paper and put it away so that it can be used again next time.

After cleaning the pot and drying it, Mo Yan poured the fried corn into the pot, and also poured in one-third of the maltose. He began to stir with chopsticks and spatulas, and waited until the maltose and fried corn were evenly mixed together before starting to knead the sugar. melon.

 It is not difficult to pinch a sugar melon, just make it smaller than your fist. Xin'er saw it interestingly. After washing her hands with hot water, she also helped knead it. Finally, she made more than 20 kilograms of sugar melon with five kilograms of fried corn, ten kilograms of fried rice, and maltose.

Looking at a large pile of yellow corn candied melons and black and white rice candied melons, Xin'er suddenly hugged Mo Yan and cried "Wow".

“Sister, Xin’er is so happy, really happy. We have so many sugar melons at home, and we no longer have to covet other people’s ones!”

Mo Yan felt sad when she heard that. In previous years, not to mention making so many sugar melons, even if they were offered to the stove, they only had two or three small pieces. After the stove sacrifice, the family could share the food. Before they could enjoy the sweetness, the sugar melons were gone.

“Don’t cry, don’t cry. Our family is better now and will be even better in the future. There will be endless sugar melons to eat every year.”

Xin'er raised her head and nodded, with tears flying down her face. She looked at her sister and said from the bottom of her heart: "Sister, the family has become so good because of my sister. Sister, you are the best sister in the world."

“Silly girl, our family has become so good because of our concerted efforts. I only did what I should do!”

Mo Yan touched her head and smiled broadly. Taking over their sister's (daughter's) body, she would be kind to them and feel at ease.

 The sugar melons are ready, and Mo Yan is busy chopping stuffings and bread dumplings. This is also one of the customs of the New Year. When the hundred and white fat dumplings with mushrooms and lean meat are made, the stove sacrifice will begin.

There is a custom that "women do not offer sacrifices to the stove". When offering sacrifices to the stove, Mo Yan and the other girls went back to their rooms, while Mo Yan took Zhen'er to work in the kitchen. When the sound of firecrackers fell, the sacrifice to the stove was over.

Mo Yan cooked a pot of dumplings. The family gathered around the table with a brazier burning under the table and ate all the dumplings in a lively manner.

Compared with the happiness of the Mo family, Lao Motou's family is in a state of gloom and gloom.

Since coming back from Mo's house yesterday, Old Mo's face was gloomy. At the end of the day, he didn't even eat a few mouthfuls of food. Mo Hong sat on the doorstep and scolded Mo Yan and the others for the whole day. Mo Niu also cried and wiped her tears. They didn't do anything, not even the children. The younger ones were frightened and kept crying, disturbing the surroundings.

Mo Wu didn't know what to do, so she didn't even prepare the sugar melons for the stove. Finally, after a lot of effort, she borrowed two from a family who had also escaped from Mojia Village, and finally brought them to the stove. Fooled over.

On the second day of Xiaonian, Old Mo took Mo Yongfu to the Yamen. When he learned that his son would be beheaded if he did not pay the money, he was so frightened that he relied on Mo Yongfu to hold him up. .

When they got home, they started to raise money. But when Mo Hong took out all the money and counted it several times, it was still more than a hundred taels short. Old Mo felt a fishy sensation in his head and throat and fell straight down. .

On the 26th of the twelfth lunar month, the day before the Yamen was sealed, Jing Zhaoyin heard the case of Mo Yongshou and Mo Yonglu defrauding people of money. Many people from Liuyang Village came over to watch the excitement.

Unexpectedly, in the courtroom, Mo Yongshou shouted "unjustly accused" in front of everyone, and actually put all the blame on Mo Yonglu. However, with the evidence of shopkeeper Xing and evidence, his plan failed in the end.

Mo Yonglu, on the other hand, was completely desperate for this younger brother who wanted to kill him, and without hesitation, he revealed all the details of his plot against the Mo family.

In the end, after Shopkeeper Xing accepted the more than 9,000 taels of silver returned by Old Motou and stopped pursuing the more than 100 taels that had been used, Mo Yongshou was punished in court for being the principal culprit and was punished with a cane of thirty pieces and exiled for three thousand miles. The desert outside will be implemented after the seal is released on the 16th day of the first lunar month next year.

Mo Yonglu was an accomplice and was imprisoned in a cell thirty days after being beaten with a cane. He could not go home until he was paraded on the street for ten days on the 16th day of the first lunar month next year.

After the verdict, Old Mo vomited another mouthful of blood and fainted. Mo Hong ignored him and sat down on the door of the court, slapping his thighs and yelling at Mo Qingze for not saving him. Some villagers were gossiping. When Mo Niu came forward to ask, he added insult to injury and blackmailed everyone in the Mo family.

People always sympathize with the weak unconsciously. Seeing the situation of Old Motou's family, the villagers of Liuyang Village's view of the Mo family became very subtle...

 (End of this chapter)