Behind him came the mournful howl of the black egg, Wu Tao stepped into the car, happily burrowed into the green veranda covered with grapevines, and glided in a puff of smoke to the blue-gray porch.

"Dad, Mom, I'm back!"

A call, but no one answered. Only a big shiny black dog rushed out, and the people and cars around him kept circling.

Touching the big black head, the cart entered the house and parked. On the coal stove in the yard, the tea was already steaming, and the light was on in Grandpa's room.

The mulberry leaves of a flatbed truck at the entrance of the East House are full of fresh breath, and it seems that the parents must be busy working in the Silkworm Room of the East House.

Find a thermos and fill it with boiling water. Then refill the well water and put it back on the coal stove. When I saw that the furnace was about to go out, I had to find tongs and replace them with new charcoal.

"Brother!"

Hearing the voice of his younger brother Wu Jiang, Wu Tao scolded immediately: "Where did you go, it doesn't matter if the water on the stove is boiling?"

"I played with Black Egg at Aunt Hua's house......"

"You're lying!" the black egg's howl was still ringing in his ears, and the boy dared to tell nonsense when he opened his eyes. Wu Tao turned his head and caught a glimpse of the white ice cream remaining at the corner of his brother's mouth, "Where did you run to steal food?"

Eight-year-old Wu Jiang's eyes rolled slightly, and he felt that he couldn't escape his brother's eyes, so he had to explain honestly.

"Brother, my parents are busy and haven't cooked until now, I'm starving to death. So just now, Black Egg said to invite me to ice cream, and I went. ”

It is the busy mulberry season right now, and the family has raised three silkworms this season, and the three east houses are full. Now the silkworm is big, and the mulberry leaves it eats every day cost two or three hundred catties, and it was full of a flatbed.

Every day, I go to pick mulberry leaves before dawn, and I can't come back until the afternoon. Mulberry leaves are picked and mixed with potion, and after preparation, they can be sprinkled to silkworms. The silkworm has to pull after eating, and the more it eats, the more it pulls, so it has to change the silkworm plaque for the silkworm and pour out the silkworm sand......

After this busy time, he didn't have time to cook and eat, so it was strange that Xiao Jiang didn't shout hungry.

"Okay, won't you be hungry for a while? I'll cook. ”

"Brother, you know how to cook, why don't I know? Could it be scrambled eggs? Mom said that those eggs are not allowed to be eaten, and they will be left for you to take the high school entrance examination to supplement nutrition. ”

At the age of Wu Tao in his previous life, he could indeed only scramble eggs, which was still a skill he learned in kindergarten.

Now, what's so hard about making a meal?

When I walked into the kitchen, I saw that the pots had not been brushed, the dishes had not been washed, and there were leftover chili peppers and garlic cloves on the cutting board. Other than that, there is not even half a green vegetable, let alone fish and the like. As for the only meat in the house, that is, eggs and duck eggs, which have long been hidden in the cabinet by the old lady.

Fortunately, there is still home-grown japonica rice in the rice jar, and there is still half a bowl of oil in the oil bottle.

That's enough.

threw a bunch of dishes and chopsticks into the basin, and threw the loofah gourd: "Come, Xiao Jiang, come and wash the dishes!"

"Oh, brother, I can't wash it! My parents never let me wash the dishes. ”

"Mom and Dad are busy, but they can't protect you! Today you must not only wash, but also wash clean, otherwise you will not be allowed to eat dinner. ”

"Brother, brother, brother, why are you going?"

Wu Tao walked out of the courtyard gate, and the voice came back: "Pick vegetables!"

There is no rice at home, but fortunately, at this time, there should be green goods to eat in the vegetable garden outside the yard.

When I came to the vegetable garden behind the house, I saw that the two rows of cucumbers on the shelves were growing happily. Pick a few strips of similar size and put them in the basket, and this is the first course.

When I looked back, I saw a row of tomatoes leaning against the fence wall, only the big fruit of my fingers, far from the time when I could eat them.

The two rows of eggplant, beans and plum beans in the back have all just bloomed, and the square melon seedlings on the fence wall only bloom but do not bear fruit.

A large family, both old and young, can't just eat cold cucumbers, right?

For a while, Wu Tao was also a little embarrassed that a clever woman could not cook without rice. Looking at the trumpet flowers on the square melon seedlings, I thought that my mother was so busy that she couldn't take care of the vegetable garden. With so many flowers, you must pinch off some of them to make the remaining square melons grow bigger.

Thinking of this, Wu Tao's heart moved, there is!

After a while, looking at the small half bowl of square melon vines in the basket and the well-cared square melon flowers, Wu Tao knew that the second dish was available again.

Entering the depths of the vegetable garden, looking at the three leeks that had just spread their leaves, Wu Tao gritted his teeth, cut it, cut a plate!

After stepping through the leek field, we arrived at the east end of the garden, which was a small melon field, and there was no way to make vegetables. Just as he was about to return home, he suddenly caught a glimpse of the loofah vine on the fence wall.

Sweeping along the loofah vine, I found that two loofahs with a length of two feet had grown. Hey, four dishes are finally ready.

With a long sigh of relief, Wu Tao turned around and walked out of the vegetable garden, preparing to go home. Aunt Hua next door showed her head and beckoned to him, "Are you cooking today?"

"Hmm. ”

"Really good!" Aunt Hua sighed: "Take down the leek, I'll choose for you, and let the black egg be sent to you if you choose." ”

"Why is this so troublesome to you?" Wu Tao excused.

Aunt Hua didn't say a word, took out the leeks in the basket and said, "I'm okay at home, black eggs, and I have to cry for a while." ”

"Then thank you, Aunt Hua. ”

Seeing Aunt Hua swaying back home with leeks, Wu Tao sighed secretly, every family has a scripture that is difficult to read.

Originally, he felt that his family couldn't even get the dishes together for one meal, which was pitiful enough.

But when I think of Aunt Hua alone, a woman who is thirty dissatisfied, alone with the black egg as a drag oil bottle, the mother and mother are full, and the whole family is not hungry, not to mention the suffering.

What's more, the charm of Aunt Hua is famous in these ten miles and eight towns. When she married Heidan's father, Wu Tao was only as old as Wu Jiang, but she still looked straight, and there was only one thought in her mind, this bride is really beautiful.

Putting aside the distractions, he turned around and went back to the yard, and was greeting the old lady Zhang Huilan with a large plaque of silkworm sand.

"Yo, Tao is back?"

"Hmm!"

"We'll have to wait for that meal, and a room full of silkworms hasn't finished yet. ”

"Okay Mom, you and Dad are busy with sericulture. I'll cook the food, and keep it so that you can have a hot meal to eat when you're done. ”

Zhang Huilan glanced suspiciously at her eldest son, who had never been in the kitchen, and this was the only way to do it now. Even if it's half-cooked, it's better than cooking hungry.

I'm so tired.

When I entered the yard, I saw that the dirty bowl on the edge of the well was still there, but Xiao Jiang disappeared without a trace.

"Xiao Jiang, don't want to eat, come out and wash the dishes!" Wu Tao's tone was not polite, he was definitely his brother.

Zhang Huilan dragged the empty plaque back and said, "I'll wash the bowl then, Jiang is still young after all." ”

"Mom, don't always protect him. Wu Tao put down the basket and said while washing the vegetables: "Hei Dan is one and a half years younger than him, and now he can do anything at home." Look at Xiao Jiang again, he can't even wash the dishes!"

"Who let the black egg die since he was a child, and no one hurts Dad? Zhang Huilan said it as a matter of course.

Wu Tao was a little angry, and he didn't care about his mother's words, but his tone became more and more cold: "Xiao Jiang, I count to three, and if I don't come out to wash the dishes, I promise the Jade Emperor that you will definitely have nothing to eat!"

"One, two......"