The Daily Life of Mother Raising Children in the 1980s

Chapter 11-20

Chapter 11
　　Chapter 011 Holding Hands

　　Xu Taoke had no reason to ask Ye Xiaoqin to cook, and refused with a smile: "What do you cook when you are still a child?"

　　"..." Ye Xiaoqin looked at Xu Tao with a nagging expression. She has been the elder sister in the family since she was five years old. Her parents said that she was an adult and she had to help take care of several younger sisters. There was an egg at home, and her mother also told them She said she would leave it to her sister because she was still young.

　　Inexplicably, Ye Xiaoqin sniffed with sadness, so could she also be a child who has not grown up?

　　"You guys should take a rest when you are tired. Sitting all the time is not good for your physical development." Xu Tao noticed the slightly red eyes of the little girl. She could feel that this eleven or twelve-year-old girl was carrying a heavy burden on her shoulders. What kind of pressure, but he pretended not to notice it, just smiled and walked out of the yard to pick vegetables. By the way, he dug out a few fresh potatoes from the ground and prepared to fry a portion of shredded potatoes.

　　After Xu Tao picked the vegetables and washed the potatoes, she asked Zhao Linan, who was almost always attached to her: "Xiao Nan, can you help mother light the fire?"

　　Even though the person being commanded is just a little boy with milky beans, there is no age distinction when it comes to commanding men, and Xu Tao is also keen on commanding this little man, Zhao Linan.

　　"Okay." Zhao Linan didn't know how to make a fire, but the little guy didn't care about that. When Xu Tao asked him, he immediately nodded without hesitation, then moved his short legs and followed Xu Tao into the Ye family's kitchen.

　　The Ye family's kitchen is very simple and has a large stove, but some cooking ingredients are relatively small, only salt and MSG. The salt is still coarse salt, not fine salt. Wu Hui is putting it in a small pottery jar to contain MSG. It was also a small jar, and she couldn't tell what it was originally filled with.

　　Xu Tao looked at the spices in the kitchen, a little surprised at how poor her family was these days, and then resigned to her fate and started processing the shredded potatoes.

　　Originally, she was going to make hot and sour potato shreds, but judging from the current situation, she could only stir-fry the potato shreds and green vegetables. It would be okay to have a light and simple dinner.

　　Xu Tao asked Zhao Linan to work, but she didn't really ask the little guy. She started to light the fire quickly. After asking Ye Xiaoqin, she washed the rice and put it in the pot to cook porridge. After the porridge was cooked, she pretended to put it aside to dry. Then I started cooking.

　　Dinner was prepared quickly. After cooking the porridge and stir-frying the vegetables, Xu Tao invited the children of the Ye family to have dinner.

　　"Aunt, you and your brother eat first, we're not hungry yet." Ye Xiaoqin spoke to Xu Tao in a somewhat tangled manner.

　　In fact, her stomach was growling with hunger for a long time, and her sisters should be hungry too. After all, they didn't even have enough for lunch, but her father and mother haven't come back yet. How could Ye Xiaoqin dare to take her sisters to eat without permission? Drink enough.

　　"It's very late now. You take your sisters to eat first. I cooked a lot of porridge and left it for your parents!" Xu Tao couldn't bear to let the children go hungry, especially since Ye Xiaoqin was so good, she couldn't help it. Feeling distressed.

　　Ye Xiaoqin was still struggling, but Xu Tao was also strong. In addition, Xu Tao was the elder, so she spoke. Ye Xiaoqin did not insist too much, and he and his sisters sat at the table obediently and started eating.