While Zhou Zhong's family was having a lively meal, the little girl named Qingqing also ran from the backyard of Zhou's mansion to a yard on the left side of the front yard. This yard was originally empty, but now it was occupied.

The Bai sisters moved in.

I saw Qingqing holding the clay doll that Zhou Zhong gave him, and quickly ran into the bedroom to put it away. Then she took out a paper bag, which contained snacks that Aunt Wang had given her, but she was reluctant to eat them, so she used them all in paper.

Wrap it up and put it in your arms and bring it back.

I saw Qingqing taking snacks and running to the wing on the west side of the yard. It has been transformed into a simple kitchen. A girl in a blue sarong is lighting a fire. However, because of her inexperience, the firewood stuffed in the stove is too heavy.

Too much, and the fire could not be started at once. Instead, a puff of thick smoke came out, causing her to choke and cough repeatedly, and her face was gray and black, looking extremely miserable.

In addition to the girl lighting the fire, there is also a woman also wearing a blue sarong cutting vegetables in front of the chopping board. Judging from the jerky look when she cuts vegetables, the cabbages she cuts out are also large and small. I guess she used to

I have never been in the kitchen.

"Auntie~, here are some snacks for you!" Qingqing took out a piece of pastry and happily ran to the girl who was lighting the fire, trying to put the pastry into the girl's mouth.

"Cough~cough~, Qingqing be good, my aunt won't eat, it's too choking here, go out quickly, don't get choked by the smoke!" The girl who was lighting the fire coughed and asked Qingqing to go out to play, but she was choked at this time.

Tears flowed out, and the black ash on his face turned into ravines, which looked very interesting.

Qingqing was also choked and her eyes hurt at this time, so she didn't go forward anymore. She turned around and ran to the woman cutting vegetables. She held up the pastry in her hand and said, "Mom, try it quickly. This is the pastry my aunt gave me."

, so delicious!”

When the woman cutting vegetables heard Qingqing's words, she knelt down and looked at Qingqing and smiled softly: "Since Auntie Wang gave it to Qingqing, Qingqing can't live up to Auntie Wang's wishes. She must finish the snacks, okay?"

good?"

After listening, Qingqing nodded and said, "Okay, Qingqing understands!"

"Well, you're so good. Go to the room and wait for a while. Mother and aunt will prepare dinner quickly!" The woman gently stroked Qingqing's head and said, with a doting look on her extremely beautiful face.

Smiling. The sensible Qingqing also saw that her mother and aunt were busy, so she nodded obediently again, turned around and ran back to the room to play by herself.

The two women in the kitchen are naturally the Bai sisters who have just moved into the Zhou Mansion. The young woman chopping vegetables is Qingqing's mother Bai Junwan, and the girl setting the fire is Bai Junwan's sister Bai Mengwan. These two sisters used to be the daughters of the family.

The eldest lady spends most of her time on her hobbies, and their father is also very open-minded, so the two sisters have never learned cooking skills. Now they are naturally in a hurry when cooking.

Finally, after Bai Mengwan lit the fire, the smoke in the kitchen subsided a little. Soon after the water in the pot boiled, Bai Junwan took a small bowl and dug out half a bowl of rice from the rice vat, but she

After hesitating for a moment, he poured back half of the rice in the bowl, then washed it with clean water and poured it into the pot.

The white rice grains rolled up and down in the boiling water, and a pot of rice porridge was quickly cooked. To be precise, it should be rice soup, because there were too few rice grains in the porridge, and it was all covered with clear soup water.

After making the rice soup, Bai Mengwan boiled the cabbage in the pot again. Their kitchen was very simple. Apart from some necessary cooking tools such as pots and pans, the rest only had a rice vat and a few rice balls.

As for cabbage, the seasonings for cooking are only coarse salt, oil, vinegar and other seasonings, so the cabbage can only be cooked in a pot with salt and eaten.

"Sister, we have been eating cabbage for many days, can we change the taste?" Bai Mengwan complained to her sister while putting the cooked cabbage in a bowl.

Bai Mengwan is about the same age as Zhou Zhong, with an oval face, thin eyebrows at the temples, and watery eyes. Although she is wearing a Jingchai cloth skirt and there are still a few pieces of cigarette ashes on her face, it cannot cover up her natural beauty. And if we compare her with

If you compare your sister Bai Junwan, you will find that the two sisters are almost eighty-nine times similar in appearance, except that Bai Mengwan is younger and full of the innocence and purity of a girl, while Bai Junwan, as a young woman, is a little more mature and intellectual.

Hearing her sister's complaint, Bai Junwan smiled helplessly and said: "Mengwan, we were in a hurry when we escaped from Nanjing, and we didn't bring much belongings with us. Now we don't have much left, so we have to do everything.

Be more frugal, but the embroidery in my hand is almost finished. When it is completed, I can sell it and get some money. Then we can buy some delicious food to celebrate."

Bai Mengwan actually knew the situation at home. She just complained casually without any other intention. Now that she heard her sister's words, she felt a little embarrassed. She shamelessly smiled at her sister as an apology, but Bai Junwan saw

My sister's face was covered with gray, but she couldn't help but giggle, and then she picked up the towel next to her and wiped her face.

The two sisters returned to the main hall with the food and asked Qingqing, who was playing, to eat together. However, when Qingqing came running up and saw the rice soup and boiled cabbage on the table, she couldn't help showing a look of disappointment on her face and raised her head.

She looked at her mother and aunt, and then whispered: "Mom, when can we eat meat?"

No matter how sensible Qingqing is, after all, she is just a little girl who has just turned five years old. She used to have a good life at home, but since the family suffered a disaster some time ago, she has suffered a lot with her mother and aunt. It can be said that from heaven

I fell into hell all of a sudden, and now I have finally settled down, but I can only drink rice soup and eat cabbage every day. Even the adult Bai Mengwan can't help but complain, let alone a little girl like Qingqing.

Regarding her sister's complaint just now, Bai Junwan felt quite uncomfortable. Now she heard that her dependent daughter just wanted to eat meat, but she couldn't satisfy this simple request. This made Bai Junwan's nose sore and tears suddenly came to her eyes.

The eye sockets almost fell off.

However, although Bai Junwan felt uncomfortable in her heart, she still held back her tears and comforted her daughter: "Qingqing, be good, the New Year is coming soon. When the New Year comes, my mother will definitely cook meat for you, okay?"

At this time, Qingqing also knew that her words had embarrassed her mother, so she immediately nodded her head sensibly and said: "Okay, Qingqing is very good, mother, don't be sad, Qingqing will never eat meat again!"

Hearing her daughter's sensible words, Bai Junwan felt her eyes heat up again, and tears suddenly flowed down her beautiful face. However, she immediately lowered her head and wiped it with her sleeves, then stood up with a forced smile and served Qingqing rice.

The few rice grains were all put into the bowls of Qingqing and her sister Bai Mengwan, but she only drank the clear soup on it.

Bai Mengwan had been watching her sister and Qingqing from the side. When she heard Qingqing say that she wanted to eat meat, she felt as if she had been pricked by a needle in her heart. Her eye circles were red and she almost shed tears. Then she seemed to

Thinking of something, there was a bit of hesitation on her face, but soon her face straightened up, and her eyes showed a firm look, as if she had made some decision.

None of the Bai sisters said anything during this meal, and even the lively Qingqing just lowered her head to eat. After the three of them finished eating, Bai Junwan packed up her things and returned to the bedroom, then picked up an embroidery piece on the table to embroider.

Although she didn't know how to cook, she was an excellent worker. Ever since she settled in the Zhou Mansion, she had considered how to support her family, but after much deliberation, she could only make some money through embroidery.

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Bai Mengwan didn't want Qingqing to disturb her sister, so she hugged her and sat on the bed, and then told Qingqing stories to coax her to sleep. However, when Bai Mengwan's eyes swept over her sister's thin shoulders under the light, she couldn't help but feel sour in her heart and regret herself.

Why didn't you learn more about female workers in the first place? Otherwise, you would be able to help your sister reduce some of her stress today.

At the same time, Zhuo'er was mysteriously telling Zhou Zhong about the haunting in the back garden. She said with a pale face: "I couldn't sleep that night, and the moon happened to be very big outside, so I stood there

I was admiring the moon in front of the window, and then I heard a banging sound coming from the back garden, as if someone was banging something, it was really scary!"

However, Zhou Zhong didn't believe it at all. He smiled and patted Huo'er's little head and said: "There were only a few of us living in the backyard of the mansion. I was not at home at the time, and you and my aunt lived together.

There's no one else in the backyard, how could someone knock something?"

Seeing Zhou Chong's disbelief, Zhuo'er also said anxiously: "Really, I really heard a noise over there in the garden. It's just that it was too dark and you weren't here, brother, so I didn't dare to go see it myself."

Seeing Zhuo'er's vow, Zhou Zhong finally believed that Zhuo'er had really heard something strange in the garden, but he still didn't believe there was anything ghostly. He probably made the noise from some animal, and Zhuo'er happened to be timid.

That's why I thought it was a ghost.

Thinking of this, Zhou Zhong couldn't help pinching Huo'er's cute little nose, and then smiled and comforted: "Okay, no matter what is in the garden, now that my brother is back, all the monsters will be scared to death, and nothing can hurt them.

Got my little bracelet!"

Hearing Zhou Zhong's affectionate words, Zhuo'er also felt very relieved. In her heart, her brother was the protector of the whole family. Just like her father before, no matter what difficulties she encountered, as long as her brother was there, they could solve them all.

After comforting Zhuo'er, Zhou Chong returned to his yard, which was separated from the back garden by a wall. Although he had been away from home for many days, Zhuo'er kept coming to help him clean. Butler Xu even lit the fire for him. The room was very clean.

Warmth. Zhou Zhong was indeed a little tired from the boat ride, so after washing his feet, he took off his clothes, lay down and fell asleep. However, just as he was sleeping soundly, he was suddenly awakened by a sound of "Boom~"
Chapter completed!