dognovel Chapter 25 My Aunt's Extra-Birth Guerrilla Team
Chapter 25 My Aunt's Extra-Birth Guerrilla Team
"Big sister, open the door!... Hurry..."
"Clang, clang, clang..."
"Who? Who's knocking?" Yang Yuhan hurriedly reached out to pull the hemp lamp cord at the edge of the kang (a heated brick bed), instantly turning on the incandescent light bulb hanging on the wall in the room.
Yang Yuqiu was also awakened by the knocking. The two of them got up at the same time, quickly put on their floral cotton-padded jackets and trousers, and hurried to the door with flustered expressions.
Outside the gate, people were still banging on the wooden door and shouting...
"Who?"
"I'm your aunt, open the door quickly!" A woman's weak, panicked voice came from outside the door!
By the dim moonlight, I could vaguely see five or six black figures of varying heights standing outside the gate, swaying back and forth, like several black ghosts!
The window of the east room in the south wing was lit, and Liu Shulan, wearing a thick cotton-padded coat, quickly walked over.
"Big sister, open the door quickly! It's me, it's your little sister!" Liu Shulan's appearance was clearly visible through the light inside the room.
"Shuzhen, Zhenzhen, is that Zhen'er?"
"Big sister, it's me, Zhen'er...open the door quickly..."
"Yuhan, open the door quickly, it's your aunt." Liu Shulan said to Yang Yuhan who was standing next to her.
"Mom, I didn't take the front door key."
"Yuqiu, did you take the key?"
"Mom, I didn't bring my key either. I'll go back to the room to get it." Yuqiu said as she ran into the south wing.
"Hurry up, ma'am, we're going to be late!" the woman outside the gate urged...
"Little sister, what happened?" Liu Shulan anxiously turned around to look at the south wing, but still couldn't see Yuqiu's figure!
"Waaah... Waaah..." The woman's anxiety and the child's crying echoed outside the gate...
"Yu Han, go get the key," Liu Shulan said anxiously to Yu Han as she turned around.
"Okay, Mom, I'll be right there."
Through the crack in the door, Liu Shulan could vaguely see a middle-aged woman in the dim moonlight, her belly bulging, holding the hands of a two- or three-year-old girl.
Beside the pregnant woman stood a tall, middle-aged man with a large bundle of luggage slung across his back. He held the hand of a four- or five-year-old girl with two braids in each hand.
"Big sister, hurry up, open the door, there are pursuers behind us..." The pregnant woman turned her head from time to time to look at the dirt road they came from in the west of the village, and noticed several beams of flashlight beams swaying wildly in the distance!
"...It's too late..."
"I'm going to get the keys, don't go, little sister!" Liu Shulan turned and ran towards the south wing, cursing as she went, "Where did those two brats take the keys? And they're gone too?"
"I'll open the gate. Is this your sister-in-law Shuzhen and her family? Why are you here in the middle of the night? Are you trying to avoid the one-child policy?" Yang Zhannan, wearing a thick black cotton-padded coat and black velvet cotton shoes, walked out quickly with a bunch of keys in his hand and spoke to the woman outside the gate.
He yawned as he spoke, and his words were clearly laced with sarcasm and mockery!
"Open the door already! What time is it? Why are you still making such sarcastic remarks? Give me the key and I'll open it." Liu Shulan snatched the keychain from his hand, found the main door key, and instantly opened the wooden door.
As the pregnant woman took her first step through the gate, she noticed the small beams of light from several flashlights flickering on the west side of the dirt road... Several people of different sizes rushed in.
The woman said anxiously, "Sister, quickly lock the gate! There are pursuers behind us!"
Just as Liu Shulan was about to close the door, Yang Zhannan said, "Take them inside quickly, I'll close the gate." He looked west towards the dirt road and saw several beams of flashlight light growing larger. He quickly locked the gate with the large iron padlock, then turned and hurried back to the south wing.
He returned to the east room and saw his younger brother and sister-in-law's family of six or seven people sitting on the heated kang, almost forming a table.
He laughed, "Brother-in-law and sister-in-law, I was right, you really did come here to avoid the one-child policy. When did you have your fourth child? Your fifth one is due soon, isn't it?"
The big man and woman didn't speak, but smiled gently at him.
"Mommy, I'm hungry..." Little Five cried out, and Little Four also cried out that she was hungry. Then Little Three and Little Two cried out that they were hungry together. Only Little One sat there without crying or making a fuss, just pouting her little mouth.
"The food is here..." Yu Han and Yu Qiu each carried a dish of rice and vegetables and placed them on the heated kang (a traditional Chinese bed-stove).
The two sisters went to get the key and found that it wasn't in the west room, but in a box on the floor of the east room.
Yang Zhannan was woken up by the two sisters taking out their keys, so he took out his keys and went out to open the front door.
At first, he didn't know who had disturbed his sleep, which made him very angry. When he walked to the front gate, he could vaguely see the figures of his family outside the gate by the light of the yard lamp and the dim moonlight. Only then did he realize who had come and made a few teasing remarks.
The two sisters, having failed to retrieve their keys, decided against going to the front door and instead went to the kitchen to cook for their aunt's family. Who knew where they'd come from in the middle of the night? In this freezing weather, the adults and children must be freezing and starving.
Yang Yuhan carried a large tin basin full of freshly made sweet and sour pork, and half a large tin basin of leftover sauerkraut stewed pork from lunch. She had almost finished all the leftovers from lunch, leaving only the sauerkraut stewed pork with blood sausage.
Sweet and sour pork is a specialty dish in Northeastern restaurants, and it was also Yu Han's favorite dish on the dinner table in her previous life!
In her past life, she didn't pay much attention to food and drink, but rather focused on maintaining a good figure. Sometimes she would skip breakfast, dinner, or even a whole day without eating. Even when faced with a plate of sweet and sour pork, she would only swallow her saliva and refrain from eating. As a result, her stomach developed problems. Over time, she would feel very hungry when she didn't eat, and when she did eat, she wouldn't digest properly.
So, now that she's been reborn, she needs to take good care of her stomach. In this new life, while focusing on her career, she also needs to eat well.
Therefore, during her recent winter vacation, in addition to helping her mother with housework, doing her winter vacation homework, drawing pencil sketches to imitate the glass on the kang cabinet door, she also studied cooking.
Recently, I don't know how she's been talking about the cooking books she got, trying out all sorts of dishes. She immediately saw the recipe for sweet and sour pork, and luckily, there was some white flour dough that she had prepared for the Lunar New Year in the back kitchen, and some pork that hadn't completely frozen yet in the storage room. So she experimented and made a few pieces, and they were so delicious that she made a whole big pot of them.
In the courtyard, among the four houses, in each of the three mud-brick and thatched houses, opening the door between the east and west rooms reveals the small kitchen inside each house.
The small kitchen in the house wasn't for cooking for the family, but rather for when a daughter-in-law came to visit her relatives and got hungry in the middle of the night. So, the small kitchen came in handy.
Yuqiu brought out a freshly made large tin basin of cornmeal paste from her own small kitchen and placed it on the kang (heated brick bed) in the east room.
Then Liu Shulan took a few pairs of wooden chopsticks from the small kitchen dish rack and handed them to her younger sister, whom she hadn't seen for several years.
Without a word, the children rushed up and grabbed the sweet and sour pork from the tin basin, and in an instant, the basin was completely empty.
The children ate until their mouths were greasy, but their bellies were still not full. They even drank the whole bowl of corn porridge that they hadn't even glanced at before!
Yang Yuhan looked at them and chuckled to herself. Luckily, she had eaten her fill while making the sweet and sour pork in the small kitchen, otherwise she would have wasted her time!
My aunt and uncle hadn't even had a bite of cornmeal porridge before the two tin basins were empty.
"Little sister and brother-in-law, wait a moment, I'll go and make you another bowl of corn porridge." Liu Shulan said, then turned and left.
Just then, the sound of hurried footsteps pounding on the snow came from outside the glass window of the south wing!
The south wing is located at the edge of the dirt road, so the three glass windows on the back wall of the south wing are closest to the dirt road, and any sound on the dirt road can be heard clearly!
Upon hearing this, Yang Yuhan immediately ran to the gate and stood still. She saw three beams of flashlight beams growing larger and larger on the west side of the dirt road in front of the gate! They walked straight towards the gate!