Chen Ming's wife Xiaohong is a very ordinary-looking peasant woman, about thirty-five or sixteen years old, with dark skin and a mediocre appearance, because she is wearing cotton clothes, her medium-sized figure looks very bloated, and the cotton jacket is covered with a black and red plaid placket with patches and patches, which is clean, and she warmly greets Feng Qingxue, "Come into the house and sit, don't be so polite next time." ”

Chen Ming's two sons were at home, and they were a little shy when they saw the guests.

Chen Ming scolded with a smile, "You Uncle Lu only came here a few days ago, and you don't know each other today?" ”

His eldest son, Chen Tianzuo, was older and had a better memory, so he called "Uncle Lu" with a smile, looked at the wind and snow curiously, and shouted loudly: "Hello Aunt Lu!" Pushing his younger brother, Chen Tianyou also asked him to shout with him.

Chen Ming and Xiaohong laughed, but Feng Qingxue's face turned into a red cloth.

When there were guests at home, Xiaohong hurried to the kitchen to get busy after greeting her.

Residents in other towns and towns either live in a large compound crowded together with several families, or several families live in a tube building, and it is common for a family to live in a small place, and a dozen or so people live in thirty or forty square meters, but Chen Ming's family was a small courtyard bought for him by Lu's father when he got married, and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, because of his composition and merits, no one dared to covet his house.

Feng Qingxue handed the things in her hand to the two children and went over to help.

"Girl, you are a guest, how can you cook." Xiaohong turned around and saw the wind and snow, and hurriedly pushed her to go to the hall to sit and drink tea.

Feng Qingxue said: "Sister-in-law, I can't intervene in the words of the master, so I will give you a hand." ”

Xiaohong heard this, so she had to give up.

Feng Qingxue entered the kitchen, and found that there was a stove similar to the Lu family, sitting on two iron pots, one large and one small, and there was also an iron briquette stove next to it, on which sat a large copper kettle, the spout was constantly steaming, and there were neat piles of honeycomb coal in the corner, and there were two broken wooden barrels, in which lush garlic seedlings grew on the soil, and a small part had been cut off.

Radish and cabbage are winter vegetables that every household will store, and there are a bunch of potatoes in the kitchen that are pulled out of the cellar in the morning, and there are a bunch of potatoes of all sizes, Xiaohong lifted the big copper kettle and poured hot water into the basin, mixed it with cold water, and quickly washed seven or eight radishes and a cabbage, and cut a large handful of garlic seedlings to wash them, and peeled and washed the potatoes.

Feng Qingxue said that he was a layman, but in fact, he washed and chopped vegetables like Xiaohong, and he was not idle for a while.

After the vegetables were cut, the earthen stove and the briquette stove went into battle together, and the latter opened the door, and on the stove sat a small iron pot with two ears.

Xiaohong dug out a piece of lard from the oil tank and put it in the pot, and it melted into the hot pot, and the aroma filled the house.

Stewed vermicelli with cabbage, stewed radish slices, scrambled eggs with garlic sprouts, and shredded potatoes with sour and hot potatoes, each of which is full of portions.

"The child is greedy, Lao Chen's pork supply was used up as early as the beginning of the month, so you came, and there is no meat star at home to entertain you." Even if today's meal eats their family's three-day supply, Xiaohong still feels very embarrassed.

Feng Qingxue hurriedly smiled: "Sister-in-law, don't be so polite, who doesn't know that there is a shortage of materials now?" With or without meat, it is a blessing to be able to eat enough. Ah Jiang brought me to visit Brother Chen and his sister-in-law, just to let me know Brother Chen and his sister-in-law, so that I can move around in the future, so as not to recognize each other when we meet, it will become a joke, if we are angry because we don't have a bite of meat to eat, then who are we? ”

Hearing this, the smile on Xiaohong's face never stopped, and her heart was extremely comfortable, no one didn't like considerate guests.