Lian Man'er lowered her head and wrapped the buns. Except for Zhou's words that were scolding this and that, everyone in the room was silent. Lian Man'er raised her head and saw the sympathy and concerning eyes handed over by Zhao and Lian Ye'er. They cared about her, but did not dare to express anything. Lian Man'er smiled slightly and signaled that they didn't have to worry about her.

Lian Man'er likes to eat buns, and they work hard, so they should get their share. Zhou's riots just now, and he will definitely make things difficult for them when it comes to dividing buns. It is not a good way to fight against Zhou, but no one can stop them from getting what they deserve.

Lian Man'er walked out of the room on the excuse that she wanted to get rid of her hands.

The snow outside had already stopped, but the north wind blew even harder. As soon as Lian Man'er came out of the door, the wind blew on her face like a knife.

"Man'er, where are you going? Will you be your company?" Goro, who was burning fire in the outer room, followed.

"Brother, come with me." Lian Man'er took Goro's hand and returned to the west wing.

The two lit the oil lamp and looked at each other.

"I'm so angry." Lian Man'er said pouting.

"Not." Goro sighed, "Dad is not at ease."

Zhou was so noisy that even his biological son would not have no idea.

"Milk is sure to eat us." Lian Man'er said, "She is sure to eat our father and mother are filial and will not be ruthless. If we just lifted our hands and didn't care..."

"My grandma and grandma must fight, and this bun can't be wrapped." Goro said.

Not only that, I’m afraid everyone will not be able to live the next year.

"Dad just told me, let's bear it, it has a beginning and a end," said Goro.

It turned out that Goro was given the instructions of Lian Shouxin to comfort her.

"I guess that's what our father means, and our mother is almost the same." Lian Man'er sighed softly.

They promised that Old Master Lian would make buns together, out of kindness, and if they gave up halfway, a beautiful thing would become a bad thing. Even Shouxin and Zhang were people who would rather be wronged themselves than take into account the overall situation. Just now, Lian Man'er wanted to make trouble with Zhou, but they still had to make concessions. It was because Lian Man'er saw this clearly that she endured it.

"Let's just treat it as a merit." Lian Man'er smiled.

The so-called merit, just having good intentions cannot be called merit. Only by doing things successfully can it be considered a merit.

Merit can be done. This does not mean that those who take into account the overall situation must suffer losses.

"Brother, you'll do this later..." Lian Man'er pointed to a pot of fruit tree leaves soaked on the ground. This was given to them by Li. It was said that it was the leaves of some kind of fruit tree. There was a faint fragrance on the leaves, which was different from the ordinary poplar leaves used by Lian. "I'll agree with my mother and my sister that the next buns we will pack will be cushioned with this leaves. Brother, tell our father. After you steam the buns you use this leaves, take our house."

They respected the authority of Zhou, but Zhou made things difficult for them, so they just crossed over to her and took what they should take.

"It's good." Wulang's eyes lit up when he heard Lian Man'er's words, "I'm still worried about that. What if I share the buns I bought with my second uncle? Now, let's eat the buns I bought with you."

Lian Man'er couldn't help but burst into laughter. He was sloppy. They all thought she was dirty and didn't want to eat what she handled.

"By the way, I will use our stove to steam it a few pots later. Our kang is not too hot yet." Lian Man'er said again.

"Well. I'll tell my father." Goro agreed.

The two of them blew out the lights, and Goro brought the leaf basin for Lian Man'er and returned to the upper room.

"What are you doing? What's in that basin?" Zhou was the most delicate. When he saw them coming in with basin, he asked.

"The leaves are gone, I'll take some more." Lian Man'er replied.

Goro put the basin next to Zhang and went out.

Lian Man'er sat back on the kang. Zhang and Lian Zhi'er saw her bringing her leaves, and they guessed something in their hearts. Without Lian Man'er's instructions, the mother and daughter used the newly brought leaves and placed them on the same curtain. Xiao Qi got Lian Man'er's hint and passed the message back and forth. A curtain of rice cake was packed here, or Wulang, or Lian Shouxin would come in and take the rice cake out to steam it. After steaming, they would directly send it to the garden below the west wing.

The shed where wine was originally stored has been vacated, and a clean clay tank was prepared. When the cakes freeze, they would put them in the clay tank.

Zhou thought that he had tamed Lian Shouxin's family, but when he saw that Zhang and his daughter were honestly buying buns and not talking, he did not feel suspicious. Of course, this was because she had enough confidence that the family of four dared to act beyond her.

I have picked the oil lamp wick twice. Looking at the sky, it is probably already past midnight. Lian Man'er yawned. She can't count how many buns she has wrapped, her hands are sore, and she is sleepy. Looking at the table, there is such a big dough, but the leaves in the basin are bottomed out.

After holding on for a while, she went back to rest after using up all the leaves, Lian Man'er thought so.

"Take Xiaoqi in our house and go to bed." When Lian Shouxin came in to get the buns again, Zhang said in a low voice.

Xiaoqi was lying beside Lian Man'er and had already fallen asleep.

"Don't hug it back and forth, it's cold outside, and it's shaken off again." Mr. Lian said. He kept leaning against the kang and was not asleep. Shaking off is their local language, which means catching a cold.

I guess it will be dawn when I finish wrapping all the cakes, so Xiaoqi doesn’t have to go back to the house to sleep.

"It's okay to wrap the quilt tightly." Lian Man'er said.

"Well, take him back and let him take off his clothes and sleep, so as to save him from sleeping." Zhang wrapped Xiaoqi tightly with a quilt, picked him up and handed him to Lian Shouxin's arms.

At this time, Xiao Qi woke up, opened his eyes, looked around, and kicked and said he would not leave.

"I won't leave, my breasts...bullying my mother and my sister." Xiaoqi said sleepyly.

It turned out that this little guy stayed here because he was worried that Zhou would continue to bully them and that he wanted to protect them. It hurt so much that Lian Man'er felt extremely soft.

Zhou's face sank.

"What are you doing? Stop it and don't scare the child anymore." Old Master Lian said in time when he saw Zhou's face change.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Lian Shouxin took Xiaoqi out.

"Mom, I'm sleepy too." Lian Xiu'er acted coquettishly to Zhou.

"Buy the buns well. Are you sleepy? What do you say to me?" Zhou deliberately looked stern, but secretly gave Lian Xiu'er a wink.

Lian Xiu'er knew that Zhou had acquiesced, so she stepped back from the table and wanted to find a comfortable place to sleep.

"Xiu'er, what are you doing?" Old Master Lian said.

"Dad. I..." Lian Xiu'er didn't dare to say that she wanted to go to bed, so she looked at Zhou for help.

"Look at your nieces, which one is not younger than you! They are all working here, where do you want to go?" Old Master Lian scolded.

Lian Xiu'er pouted, not satisfied with the old man Lian saying this to her, but she didn't dare to say anything, just waiting for Zhou to speak for her.

"She just took a break for a while, but she didn't go anywhere!" Zhou said. Even if she was her, it was hard to say that Lian Xiu'er would take a break first.

Seeing Zhou like this, Lian Xiuer had to come back with grievance.

I had to make buns for a winter, and even the family had a large population, the project volume was of course huge. However, their family was pretty good. Many families in the village were too busy to get some money when they made buns, and they also had to ask for help.

The last fruit leaf was used up on Lian Man'er's hand, and Lian Man'er yawned.

"Mom, I want to get rid of it." Lian Man'er said to Zhang.

"Go. Put more clothes on, don't freeze." Zhang said.

"Well. It's dark outside, I'm afraid, let my sister be my company." Lian Man'er said again.

Zhang and Lian Zhi'er naturally would not object. Lian Man'er took Lian Zhi'er's hand and came out of the upper room and went straight back to the west wing. Outside the west wing, Wulang and Lian Shouxin took aside the big stove, which was burning fire to steam the buns.

When they entered the inner room, Xiaoqi heard the movement and got up from the bed.

"Big sister, second sister, you two are back." Xiaoqi was still confused, "I've finished packing the buns, why haven't I come back?"

"I'll be back later." Lian Man'er laughed and climbed onto the kang, sat down next to Xiaoqi, and put her feet under Xiaoqi's mattress to keep warm. The fire was burning in the outer room, and the kang was very hot.

"Man'er, we... won't go back?" Lian Zhi'er asked.

Lian Man'er laughed, even Zhi'er became smarter, and she understood what she meant so quickly.

"We won't go back." Lian Man'er said, "Sister, we have done a lot of work, why are we going back?"

"If you don't go back, you won't go back." Lian Zhier said, obviously she was angry with Zhou. "But our mother is still there, why don't we think of a way to call her back."

"The method is ready." Lian Man'er pointed at Xiao Qi.

Even Zhi'er and Xiaoqi opened their eyes wide, a little confused.

"Did you ask me/Xiaoqi to call my mother back?"

"Of course not." Lian Man'er shook her head, "Xiao Qi was frightened by our breasts, and she was in a nightmare and kept calling her mother."

"Well, yes, I'm in a nightmare." Xiaoqi woke up from sleepiness and nodded repeatedly.

Lian Man'er called Wulang in and gave him some instructions. Wulang went out, and in a blink of an eye, Zhang ran back in a hurry.

"Xiaoqi, Xiaoqi, my mother is back, how are you?" Zhang rushed to Xiaoqi as soon as he entered the door.

"Mom." Xiao Qi shouted softly.

Zhang was stunned for a moment, then saw Lian Man'er, Lian Zhier and Goro laughing, and she understood.

"You guys are so scary." Zhang saw Xiao Qi's good, and he felt relieved. He didn't even care about being cheated.

Lian Shouxin just went to take the buns and came back to know the whole story. He had to shake his head with a hilarious feeling. He knew in his heart that the Zhang family and his son were all wronged and could not bear to blame him.

Everyone was back and the buns were stored in their own tanks. Lian Man'er was in a happy mood and felt a little hungry and said she wanted to eat buns. Because Zhou's troublesomeness, even Shouxin and others were not full. Just as a curtain of buns in the outer room was out of the pot, the family put a dining table, scooped a small bowl of sugar, and dipped it in sugar to eat buns.

The cake is covered with white sugar, and the glutinous and sweet taste penetrates into the heart.

Lian Man'er was having fun eating when she heard Zhou shouting outside.
Chapter completed!