The whole village is starving, but I have a full warehouse of meat in the mall

Chapter 16 The sun really rises from the west

A breeze blew over, and the aroma of chestnuts blew into the yard. Ye Dahe, who was busy working, took a deep breath. Oh my God, what is being fried in the kitchen? Why does it smell so good!
Ye Sishan had already dropped the work in his hands and rushed to the kitchen, swallowing hard: "Mom, the chestnuts smell so good!"

Jiang Wan handed the spatula to Gu Xiaohui, and they took turns frying chestnuts. The large pot of chestnuts was bright in color, and the flesh at the opening turned yellow, coated with oil and sugar, making people salivate.

"Come on, Sishan, try one!"

Jiang Wan picked up a hot chestnut from the pot and threw it over.

Ye Sishan was so burned that he jumped up and down, but he didn't care about the heat. He stretched out his hands to peel off the skin and stuffed the steaming hot chestnuts into his mouth.

It’s very hot, but very fragrant, sweet and soft. I didn’t know chestnuts can be so delicious!
A large pot of chestnuts was fried and placed on the table in the main room to cool.

At this moment, Ye Erzhu stood at the gate of the yard and shouted, "Aunt, grandma asked me to come over and give you some chestnuts."

Jiang Wan walked out and saw Ye Erzhu holding a large bowl in his hand. The bowl was full of cooked chestnuts, which smelled quite fragrant.

Jiang Wan took the bowl and said, "Thank your grandma for me."

Ye Erzhu didn't dare to stay any longer. When he came to play with his brother Erhai before, he was severely scolded by his aunt. The person he was most afraid of was his aunt. After finishing what his grandmother had asked him to do, he turned around and ran away.

"This child..."

Jiang Wan shook her head. She was also planning to give Erzhu some sugar-roasted chestnuts to take back.

She walked into the house, and a child grabbed a handful of chestnuts and waved, saying, "Go out and play after you finish eating. Come back for dinner in an hour."

Ye Sishan stuffed his mouth with chestnuts and said vaguely: "Is there still food to eat today?"

If you can feel full by eating chestnuts, how can you have room for food?

Jiang Wan put the chestnuts on the table away: "Just eat this as a snack, don't eat too much, or you'll get a stomachache."

Ye Sishan's clothes bag was full and he nodded vigorously with satisfaction.

Since his mother asked him to go out and play, then let him go out and play.

As soon as I walked under the big locust tree in the village, I saw a large group of children surrounding the small fish next door, and I could hear the sound of them swallowing saliva from a distance.

"Xiao Yu, give us one to eat!"

"Brother Xiaoyu, can you let me lick it?"

Wang Xiaoyu stood in the middle, his pockets full of chestnuts. He ate them one by one, enjoying them so much.

The children nearby didn't have chestnuts at home, so they drooled and stared at the chestnuts in Wang Xiaoyu's pocket.

Today, many families are eating chestnuts. The village head's wife also picked up a lot of chestnuts from the mountain. Ye Shitou, the eldest grandson of the village head, was holding a bowl and eating as he walked.

The children who were surrounding the little fish immediately surrounded the stone.

Ye Shitou was quite generous: "I don't have much left, you can each take half."

There were six children in total surrounding him. He threw out three of them, and each of the six children took a half. They looked very satisfied and said, "Brother Shitou, the chestnuts cooked by your grandma are so delicious!"

Ye Shitou raised his chin and said, "This is what my mother cooked. My mother's cooking is the best!"

Wang Xiaoyu said unconvincedly: "My mother cooks the best!"

"All of you, get out of the way!" Ye Sishan squeezed in, "My mother's cooking is the best!" Among these children, there was a smart one named Hu Zi. He rolled his eyes and said, "We'll just eat Shitou's. Anyway, Shitou's mother's cooking must be the best!"

The five kids nearby followed suit.

Wang Xiaoyu immediately handed over his chestnuts: "Then you guys hurry up and eat what my mother made!"

Ye Sishan also moved quickly: "There are also chestnuts made by my mother, you can try them!"

A pile of chestnuts was passed to them. The six children's eyes lit up and they all swallowed them whole in one gulp, but they could also tell whose ones were the most delicious.

Six pairs of eyes stared at Ye Sishan.

Hu Zi swallowed his saliva and said, "Si Shan, isn't your mother only good at beating people? How can she make such delicious chestnuts?"

"My mother never hits people!" Ye Sishan raised his chin and said proudly, "My mother is the best mother in the world!"

The air was filled with the scent of chestnuts.

Xiaoyu swallowed her saliva and followed behind Ye Sishan: "Sishan, give me another one..."

Ye Sishan had only two left in his hand. He hesitated again and again, picked up a chestnut and took a bite, handed the remaining half over, then turned around and ran home, fearing that he would be caught and take the last one away.

Xiaoyu took half a chestnut and was reluctant to eat it, so he took it home and gave it to his mother, Aunt Zhao: "This is the chestnut made by Sishan Niang. Mom, can you make it according to the recipe?"

Aunt Zhao smelled a sweet aroma as soon as she took a breath. She picked up the chestnut, took a small bite, and immediately started cursing.
"What a spendthrift woman! She puts oil and sugar in the roasted chestnuts. The few copper coins in the house are not enough for her to squander!"

"She just wants to have a good meal right now, and doesn't even think about what to eat tomorrow! Ugh, it's no wonder that Old Madam Ye looks down on her daughter-in-law..."

The cursing reached Jiang Wan's ears next door.

She was cutting pork fat, planning to make a cold dish later, but when she heard Aunt Zhao scolding her, she continued working.

The original body was not popular in the village, and there were too many people who said bad things about her behind her back. If she wanted to curse back at them one by one, she would be too busy to handle it.

She didn't react, but Ye Sanshu got angry and rushed out with the axe he was using to chop wood: "Aunt Wang, what did you just say?"

Aunt Zhao was shocked. "What's wrong with you, you idiot? I treat you well, but your mother only cares about her own mouth and when has she ever taken care of you guys?"

She really treated the four children of the Ye family well. In the past few years when the harvest was good, she would occasionally give them buckwheat buns.
The crops have been poor in the past two years, so they would secretly add some dried wild vegetables and small steamed buns to the crops. Otherwise, Ye Sanshu's axe would have hit the firewood at Aunt Zhao's feet.

He carried the axe and said, "My mother is very kind to us. She fried chestnuts specifically for us to eat. Otherwise, how could Sishan have extra for your family, Xiaoyu!"

"Sanshu, get some firewood to the kitchen!"

Jiang Wan shouted, and Ye Sanshu immediately ran in and moved the chopped firewood to the kitchen.

Aunt Zhao stood at the door with a look of suspicion on her face. In the past, these children had a very bad relationship with Sister Ye. She scolded that woman in front of the children, and the children never reacted. Today, that bastard Ye Sanshu actually wanted to chop her with an axe!

Xiaoyu said from the side: "Sishan has more than a dozen chestnuts in his pocket, more than I have..."

Aunt Zhao slapped him on the back of the head: "It's good enough that I gave you some to eat, but you still think it's not enough? Hurry up and get out and chop wood!"

She looked at the next yard with some disbelief. Jiang Wan was squatting on the ground cleaning up the pig manure and vegetables, while Dahe's wife and Xiaofang were sitting on chairs sewing clothes.

Ever since Daha's wife came into the family, Ye Jiang has never done any housework. It's really like the sun rising in the west.

(End of this chapter)