Chapter 663: Jiuzi Zongzi (Three)

Rehe, Cao Family Courtyard, under the East Courtyard Corridor.

Cao Yong looked at the chessboard and shook his head and said, "I'm 'sing three' again! I understand. This is the chess that is the 'first move' to win. This has lost three times and won three times. Can you still fight?"

Seeing that her husband was in a bad mood, Chu Yu put down the chess piece in his hand and said, "If you don't take a break first, calculate the time, the wife will come to the palace to pay tribute to the empress dowager, and she will be back. I don't know how the dinner in the kitchen is arranged."

Cao Yong stood up and stretched his body, feeling lazy and indescribable.

He walked to the corner of the yard and looked at the sunflower seedlings inside, which were already half a person tall.

"After the late one in Beijing, the sunflowers in the capital should have buds at this time." Cao Yong touched the leaves and said to Chu Yu.

When Chu Yu heard her husband mention the capital, he said, "Now we are all out, and only Sister Amethyst and Sister Tian are left in the mansion, which is very deserted." As she spoke, she had already stood up.

When Cao Yong saw this, he stepped forward to support him and said, "Is it too tired to sit? Want to take a walk?"

"Yes." Chu Yu nodded and said, "I've been sitting for half a day, so I'm so bored. I want to see what Tianyou and the others do."

Just now, when the couple started playing chess, Qi Niang took Tianyou and Hang Seng to the garden to play. Because there were a few maids and mothers watching, they were not afraid of bumping into each other.

Upon hearing this, Cao Yong helped his wife and went to the garden together.

Not far away, by the swing, there were a few maids surrounding them, and the crying of the children came faintly.

After hearing this, Chu Yu couldn't help but worry that his feet had accelerated.

It was Tianyou who was crying, Qi Niang was there, and she was so anxious that she scratched her head and persuaded her: "What's there to be afraid of? It's just a big dish bug. This is something you see. If you don't pay attention, it will be cooked into a dish, just think it's added with meat? It tastes fresh and tender, and it's better than pork."

It would be fine if she didn't persuade her. After she persuaded her, Tianyou stretched out his hand and covered her mouth, crying even harder.

It turned out that Qi Niang took Tianyou and Hang Seng to play in the garden and saw this small vegetable field. Qi Niang brought their brothers over and pointed them out one by one, which one was the cabbage, which was the radish seedling, which was the eggplant seedling, etc.

Tianyou and Hang Seng grew up in the inner house since childhood. They have seen these people there, and they all feel that they are particularly novel when they hear them.

Tianyou remembered what his grandfather once taught, "When the sun is in the afternoon, sweat drips into the soil." He pulled Qi Niang and asked which one was the seedling and how to "hoe the seedlings".

Crops and vegetable fields are not the same as each other. Qi Niang must be ashamed of him and asked him to pull out the weeds in the vegetable fields.

The maids and mothers who followed each other would stop them when they saw each other. There was a reason for them to do "miscellaneous work", and they would not dare to make trouble in the "vegetable field" of the old man and the eldest grandmother.

Tianyou felt very novel and took Hang Seng and the other two to the vegetable field to pull weeds.

The first time I made this, how could I tell the difference? While Qi Niang wasn't paying attention, Tianyou had already pulled several small cabbages.

When Qi Niang saw her, she hadn't said anything wrong. A vegetable worm the size of a little finger crawled from Cai's heart to Tianyou's hand.

Although I have seen some small ants, bees, etc., it is the first time Tianyou has seen such a big worm. He is so scared that his face is pale and he cries non-stop.

Cao Yong and Chu Yu approached each other and knew the reason. Seeing the "culprit" in Hang Seng's hand, he was really amused and crying.

Chu Yu touched his son's little head and said, "I'm not afraid, I don't bite people, aren't I afraid?"

When Tianyou saw his parents coming, he might be a little embarrassed and stopped crying and sobbing all the time.

Hang Seng raised the vegetable worm and said, "Brother, this one doesn't bite people. If it dares to scare the brother, the younger brother will eat it." As he said that, he raised his head and was about to send it to his mouth.

Cao Yong quickly stopped him. Even if he was brave and brave, he would be a bit creepy.

Hang Seng just thought his father was interested in the bug, so he reached out and handed it to Cao Yong.

Cao Yong complained secretly. When he was a child in his previous life, he cried when he saw insects, because he was often teased by his sister-in-law.

Although I am not afraid now, such a thing is squirming in my palms, which makes me feel numb all over.

But in front of his wife and children, there is no reason to show his timidity. Cao Yong could only use this fat vegetable worm as a toy and said to Tianyou: "It's just crazy. It only eats vegetable hearts and dew, and is a vegetarian."

"Monk, Uncle Zhiran?" Tianyou said with his father holding the bug and his eyes were shiny.

Wherever this is, Cao Yong can only admire the child's imagination as imaginative and without restrictions.

The big vegetable worm lay in Cao Yong's hands for a while, but refused to remain calm and crawled.

Cao Yong's body was stiff, and he smiled and said to Tianyou, "It's soft and soft, it feels like a candy. Do you want to take it for a while?"

It was rare for my father to have such a "gentle" tone, and Tianyou nodded in a strange way.

Cao Yong was overjoyed and immediately reached out and placed the vegetable worm on Tianyou's palm.

Tianyou woke up at this time. Looking at the green worm, his mouth broke and he was about to cry again.

Cao Yong couldn't bear it, and coughed, saying, "Come out for a while, this insect is missing home too. Hang Seng, help your brother put the insect back."

When Tianyou heard this, he seemed to have found a savior and looked at Hang Seng in a hurry.

Hang Seng raised the insect and asked Cao Yong in confusion: "Father, didn't Sister Qi Niang say that this is better than pork, don't you eat it?"

Cao Yong pointed to the vegetable field and said, "It's so small, wait until it's bigger before eating."

Hang Seng tried his best to take a few steps forward and put the vegetable worm in his hand back into a small cabbage.

When Tianyou heard his father and brother say that he wanted to eat this, he covered his mouth tightly with his little hands and said nothing.

Seeing the interaction between father and son, Qi Niang was extremely novel, so she came to Chu Yu and whispered: "Grandma Princess, why does Qi Niang look at Master Cao with some confidence? Master Tianyou is afraid of insects, who will he look like?"

When Chu Yu heard this, he thought about the scene where her husband coaxed his son just now, and just laughed.

When Cao Yong heard Qi Niang's muttering, he turned around and knocked her head, saying, "If you take them naughty again, you should be more careful. Look, they have pulled several of these good cabbages."

"It's tender, can make soup." Qi Niang replied dissatisfiedly.

Cao Yong was really bored. Seeing that Qi Niang had already taken her step forward, she brought Tianyou and the others to experience "farming", she also had the interest of training her children.

Especially these two little guys are picky about food, and their picky food is no less than that of Cao Yong, a father-in-law.

Don’t eat tofu, bean sprouts, don’t eat cabbage, rapeseed, celery, Tianyou doesn’t eat beef and mutton, Hang Seng doesn’t eat duck or fish.

Looking at Tianyou and Hengsheng's dirty little hands, Chu Yu squatted down and wiped them.

Cao Yong saw it and asked his sons: "Is it hard to pull weeds hard, are you tired?"

"Not tired." The two of them shook their little heads and replied in unison.

Cao Yong pointed to the vegetable field and then asked, "What if they were pulled? Not only did they have to pull the weeds, but they also had to bend down, grab bugs one by one, and then take a kettle to water them, etc."

The two guys looked at me, and I looked at you, but there was no movement.

Cao Yong raised his eyebrows, saw Wu En beside him, called her aside, and whispered, saying, "Take people to the street, pick up a grain shop, and buy two of the lowest-priced grains. When looking for a pickle shop, buy some of the cheapest rotten pickles."

Although Wu En didn't know Cao Yong's intention, since it was Cao Yong's order, he responded and asked, "Master, how much do you buy each one?"

"How many?" Cao Yong hesitated for a moment. As his parents arrived in Rehe one after another, there were many people living in the other courtyard, including fifty or sixty.

"Every five dou of grain, two jars of pickles." Cao Yong thought for a moment and said, "Go and find Zhang Yi to pay the silver and ask him to arrange a car to take you."

Wu En went with a reply, and Cao Yong and Chu Yu took the children back to the East Courtyard.

Chu Yu asked someone to change his clothes for Tianyou and the others, washed his hands, Qi Niang cleaned up, and then brought two plates of cakes for them to eat.

Qi Niang was greedy, smiling, and said while eating: "There are so many snacks in the north. It's not like this when we have snacks. Most of them are from the sea. Fish, no need to mention shrimps, all kinds of shells and crabs are fat."

Tianyou and Hang Seng could hear it with great pleasure, but they couldn't eat the cakes in their hands.

Tianyou took a bite and put it down, while Hang Seng took it in his mouth and broke it apart.

Cao Yong saw it and said nothing; Chu Yu frowned and said, "Don't wait to waste things, be careful to let my grandfather see it and teach you a lesson."

Tianyou carefully looked at his father's face, and saw that he had no intention of blame, he acted coquettishly with Chu Yu and said, "Mother, my son doesn't like sweets, so he can't eat them anymore."

Hang Seng also laughed and said to Chu Yu: "Mother, break it up, feed the fish..."

"Isn't it easy to 'hoe the rice' just now? I don't know how to cherish food." Chu Yu angrily pulled Cao Yong's sleeve and said, "The prince said a few words to avoid them from having a naughty memory."

The couple said this to cherish food, but the children did not know that the livelihood was difficult and did not have the concept of cherishing frugality at all.

This is the reason why half-aged child Fang Qiniang also knew: "Grandma of the princess, the two young masters are rich and well-off, and they don't know the sufferings of the people. If you eat steamed buns for a few days and drink the porridge for a few days, you will know that this snack is a delicious food in the world."

What she said was Chu Yu, who had only heard of it.

The children were moved and stayed in the room for a while. Tianyou and Hang Seng encouraged Qi Niang to go to the school to compete with the Ren brothers.

Thinking of what Qi Niang said just now, Chu Yu hesitated for a moment and said, "Mr., don't wait for your sons to grow older, and your husband will take them out more. Even if you don't go to farm and study, you must know some livelihood. After all, you are a kid. If you only know the meat, it will be our parents' sin."

Upon hearing this, Cao Yong nodded with a smile and said, "It's hard for you, a mother, to think of these things. If it were other people, who were spoiled too much, wouldn't give up if they didn't want to be useless people."

"Even if I don't say it, my husband won't let his sons do that." Chu Yu looked at her husband, his eyes full of trust.

Cao Yong was thinking about the evening's "feast" menu.

Although it was afternoon, the sun was in full swing.

Chu Yu looked out the window and said to Cao Yong: "Mr. I will ask someone to cut a watermelon and send it to the front yard? The sun is playing underground, don't get the heat."

Cao Yong shook his head and said, "Don't, don't fight, you have to raise good character. From today on, let them know that it is difficult to make a living."

When Chu Yu heard this, he couldn't help but say, "This hot day can't make the children thirsty."

Cao Yong said: "It's enough to just boil the cold; the children outside can drink cold water directly..."

On Rehe Street, Wuen stood in front of a small grain shop with two noodles, followed by a teenage girl Qing'er.

"Sister, why don't you go to the shop across the street? Which shop is big?" Qing'er looked at the doorstep as big as a palm and asked curiously.

Wuen smiled and said, "The old man asked to choose the cheapest one. If the store is big and bully customers, the things will be expensive."
To be continued...