Chapter 38 Carried everything alone
Nai Tuanzi's black grape eyes stared at Big Brother Tang without blinking.
Tang Qingshan looked at his daughter, then at his elder son, went to sit down, and said in a deep voice, "Why did Rong Er ask Chang Er to come back?"
"That's right!" Mrs. Lin also remembered: "I was in such a hurry to call Chang'er back, and I didn't go back all afternoon. What did you do?"
Brother Tang coughed, and Tang Qingshan's eyes moved over, waiting quietly.
The second elder brother hesitated for a moment, and saw that the third brother Hanhan had gone out to pour water for his father, but he was not in the house, so he lowered his voice and whispered: "I don't know if you believe it or not, Xinbao had a dream. I was worried that my eldest brother would fall off the mountain, so I asked Sanlang to take Xinbao to pick him up. After he left, my eldest brother was about to pick wild jujubes. As soon as Xinbao called, he came back. As soon as he folded back...he The ground I stepped on just now collapsed, the big one, the baskets all fell down, you don’t know how dangerous it is.”
He pointed at the milk dumpling: "If Xinbao can be so clingy to Big Brother, he won't be able to lay down all day, it's frightening."
Tang Qingshan and Lin Niangzi were astonished.
Ms. Lin stood up, put her daughter into Tang Qingshan's arms, held her eldest son, and looked back and forth a few times: "Are you all right? Is Fan'er all right?"
"It's okay," Tang Dalang said, "I'm fine, except that the basket fell down, which is very dangerous. Fortunately, Xinbao called me."
Ms. Lin patted her chest straight: "Fortunately, there is Xinbao, Xinbao is really our family's little lucky star."
Tang Qingshan looked at the milk dumpling in his arms, and gently patted her head: "Yes."
Looking at the thoughts of the parents, it is obvious that "it just so happened that Xinbao had a dream, and it happened that he saved the eldest son. Xinbao really made them happy." They took this as a coincidence, and they didn't mean to investigate the content of the dream carefully. The beautiful boy's second brother was sad He sighed and didn't explain.
There is no one in the family who is reliable. After all, I alone carried everything.
The old couple were both tired, and the farmers went to bed early, so they were ready to go to bed after chatting for a few words. As soon as Brother Tang stood up, Xinbao immediately opened his hands: "Big hug!"
Brother Tang came over and hugged his sister, and said with a smile, "Xinbao wants to sleep with Big Brother?"
"Yes," Nai Tuanzi nodded, "Sleep with me!"
The third brother Hanhan routinely fights for favor, "Why? Why don't you sleep with the third brother?"
Wuliu complained about his brother: "You snoring dead man, Xinbao sleeps with you, you can't sleep at all!"
The third brother choked.
Then he actually didn't make any excuses, and lowered his head dejectedly.
Nai Tuanzi immediately felt distressed, turned her head and said: "Then Xinbao will sleep with San's tomorrow!"
Brother Tang came over moved and hugged his sister: "Thank you, Xin Baoer, but brother snoring...may be really noisy."
Tang Qingshan scolded his son: "Xinbao is three years old, she is a big girl, don't sleep with brother."
"Father," the second elder brother said, "Xinbao was scared today, that's why she is very clingy to elder brother. Let her stay with elder brother."
Tang Qingshan paused: "Just this time!"
Brother Tang laughed, carried his sister out, and Wuliu followed like an asshole.
They lived in the same room, and they chatted for a while on the kang before going to sleep.
Brother Tang is sixteen years old this year. He is between the age of a man and a boy. He looks very similar to Tang Qingshan. He is free and easy, and when he smiles, he is so handsome that he shines.
Such a good big brother almost died.
In the dead of night, the brain of the little broken car was emptied of redundant information, but it gave a lot of inspiration. She finally figured out this matter, and secretly vowed to protect everyone in the family.
She hugged his neck tightly with her two small arms, and the little bean sprouts made his chin itch.
The twins were already asleep. Brother Tang touched her, carefully untied her little bean sprouts, and said in a breathy voice: "Xin Baoer is not afraid, brother is fine."
Nai Tuanzi put his little feet on him, and his small body clings to him: "Xinbao can't sleep, and singing will be good if he wants to."
Sing?
Brother Tang coughed: "Brother can't sing?"
In the darkness, my younger sister stared at him with **** eyes, full of expectation, Big Brother Tang coughed again, endured the shame of the youth, and hummed deeply: "Sheep, sheep, jump over the flower wall, the flower wall breaks, the donkey pushes the mill, A pig carries firewood and a dog makes fire, and a kitten squeezes pastry on the kang..."
Nai Tuanzi slept until dawn, and woke up in a daze.
Maybe because she was afraid of freezing her, the door was closed, and the fourth brother was sitting in front of the bed, making up something. When he saw his sister woke up, he said to the outside: "Brother! Xinbao is awake!"
After a while, Brother Tang came in. He didn't really go up the mountain, so he squatted down to put on her shoes.
Second brother with his hands behind his back, accompanied his sister to wash his face and brush his teeth slowly, while whispering in her ear: "Did Xinbao dream?"
Nai Duanzi shook her head.
Second brother was relieved, came back and sat down, combed two small bean sprouts for her.
Brother Tang brought her the rice and said, "Don't keep asking her, it took so long to forget."
"I have to ask," Nai Tuanzi replied earnestly, "Xinbao is still young, so it's easy to forget in dreams, but if you ask, you won't forget."
Brother Tang smiled and patted her head.
He is a typical big man thinking, the elder brother has a full sense of responsibility, and feels that he should stir up the burden of the family, so that the younger sister can feel at ease... But there are many things in this world that are beyond the reach of manpower.
Second brother said in a low voice: "Brother, speaking of it, our family has suffered a lot."
Brother Tang didn't know what he thought of, his eyes froze.
Second brother was keenly aware of it, and took a look at him. Brother Tang avoided his eyes and said, "Do you want to eat prickly pears? There are so many, what do you do with them? They will rot if left unattended, and I'm not willing to give them away."
Nai Tuanzi raised her hand and said, "Xinbao!"
Brother Tang smiled and said, "What do you know?"
Nai Duanzi said: "You can use pears to make sugar."
"Huh?" Brother Tang didn't expect that she could really say anything, and frowned, "Boil sugar? How do you use this to boil sugar?"
Brother Tang laughed over there: "Xinbao said you also believe it! Candy is so easy to boil?"
Sugar is a rare item at this time, and it is quite expensive. Not everyone knows how to make sugar, and the sugar mills are strictly guarded.
Being questioned, Nai Tuanzi suddenly became unhappy: "Xinbao is just a few!"
She stood up and tried to explain to them.
The boiled sugar she mentioned is actually boiled syrup. It is really not difficult to boil syrup with prickly pears.
Prickly pears have thorns, but the thorns are different from millet thorns. They actually look like this, so you can cut them into pieces or strips, filter them through a net, and then filter them out with a fine cloth. Pear juice, boiled on high heat.
Depending on the heat, it needs to be boiled for at least an hour. The pear juice will gradually thicken, and then change to a low heat and cook again. Slowly, until it can be drawn, it must be boiled while stirring... until it reaches the desired consistency. up.
Although thorn pears are sour, they actually have a lot of sugar, which is definitely lower than that of Yali pears, but it is no problem to boil syrup.
She can't speak in a very systematic way now, she forgets the end after what she said, and her speech is a bit confusing, but the key issues are clarified.
Brother Tang couldn't stay idle, so he immediately thought about trying it out, and fourth brother Tang also went to help, and the second brother hugged Xinbao: "How did Xinbao know?"
Nai Tuanzi proficiently uttered the golden sentence: "There are not many Xinbao, why there are several, but there are only a few Xinbao."
A lie repeated a hundred times becomes the truth, and she speaks with confidence.
(end of this chapter)