"If you want to eat it, you can pick it yourself, it's all over the mountains behind. "Zhou Sining is not a person who is used to children, she is busy to death every day, and there is a lot of work to do when she goes up the mountain, she can't wait to divide one person into eight petals, how can she have the effort to make snacks for these two leather monkeys to eat, if you want to eat, you won't pick it yourself, you really think of yourself as an uncle, and she has to serve everything.

"We didn't go, my mother said she wouldn't let us run around, and you would let you pick it up for us if you wanted to eat. "Zhou Jiqiang said that there are words, this is what their mother said, they are boys who don't have to do any work, they just want to ask the eldest sister, she is responsible for serving their brothers comfortably.

Zhou Sining snorted, "That's okay, I'll go up the mountain to pick raspberries for you now, and you can cook the food at home." As she spoke, she stuffed the back basket into Zhou Jiqiang's hand.

"Remember to make the meal before our dad and mother go home, you know our dad's temper. As she spoke, she turned around and prepared to walk out of the courtyard.

"Hey, what are you doing with this for me, I don't know how to cook. Zhou Jiqiang really wanted to throw the back basket in his hand far away, "You hurry up and come back for me to cook, don't want to throw all the work to me, or I will sue if my mother comes home." ”

Zhou Sining seemed to be threatened, turned around helplessly, reached out and took back the back basket that Zhou Jiqiang was holding, there was also her scorpion in it, she really didn't worry about others holding it, "What do you want, I'm alone, if I cook at home, I can't go out to pick raspberries for you, what the hell let me do, hurry up and choose the same." ”

Needless to say, if they don't pick raspberries, they will just be unhappy, if they don't cook, Zhou Yaosen will scold.

"Are you stupid, what time is it, what are you going to eat when you don't cook, what will your father and mother eat when you come back, you won't wait for us to pick the raspberries we want when we go up the mountain tomorrow." Zhou Jiqiang felt aggrieved, but he had to let the eldest girl stay to cook, and he was afraid of his father's soles.

"Okay, then you can wait. Zhou Sining is too lazy to care about these children who have been crooked by the Zhou family's education, anyway, what these children will become when they grow up, that is what Zhou Yaosen's family should suffer, and it has nothing to do with her, so she doesn't have the spare time to help others educate bear children, so she directly carried her backpack and went to the kitchen.

Originally, I was delayed on the mountain, and on the way back, I encountered Zhou Juhua's roadblock, and when I arrived at my house, I was stalked by Zhou Jiqiang's brothers for a while, and if I didn't hurry up, I guess I would really be scolded.

Zhou's kitchen is very simple, a few square meters of cottage, when there is a big stove, there are two big black pots on it, the left side is shiny at a glance, it is used for cooking for his family, the pot on the right is obviously a lot of tatters, and there is a thumb-sized hole on the inside, this is a pot used to cook pig food.

Why should the pots used by people and pigs be placed together, this is because of the lack of firewood.

The firewood that each family saves every year, but their own family is a little insufficient, and it is really a little difficult to cook for the pigs, so some people have come up with such a way, directly put the two pots side by side, so that the firewood for cooking will be burned to the pig food pot, although the ignition can not boil the cooking food thoroughly, but it can still be done by heating and heating, and then others think that this method is very good, so now basically Xitang Village, every family is like this stove.

On the left, there are two crockpots with pickled pickles and miso pickled last winter, and on the right, firewood for cooking is piled up.

After Zhou Sining entered the house, the first thing was to throw a small bundle of branches in his hand on the firewood pile on the right, saying that there was no firewood at home, in fact, it was all a modest statement, they were all people who were passing by, who could really cook and pick up firewood, just the Zhou family's firewood, it was no problem to use it carefully for a month.

After she put the firewood away, she reached into the basket, touched the underneath, pressed the small frame that was upside down, grabbed the edge of the basket with her other hand, and with both hands cooperated, she shook and poured the wild vegetables placed on the basket to the ground.

Then he flipped over the basket and turned it a few times, and then he took out the hand that was in the basket, and of course took out the small frame containing the scorpion inside.

There were three scorpions in total, and they were tossed by her, and their tails were all erected, and they looked very energetic.

Zhou Sining frowned and thought for a while, there was really no ready-made way to install these gadgets at home, she thought about the following, and finally decided to weave a straw cage to hold them.

There was a small pile of hay piled up under the stove, which was dried last summer and used to light the fire, she directly dragged a small handful out, and her hands were busy, and in a minute or two, a dense grass cage was ready. She opened her mouth, and then shoved the three scorpions into it with her hands and feet. After sealing the mouth, he thought about it and hid the straw cage under the firewood.

The firewood pile is cool underground, and there is some moisture next to the ground, which is an environment that scorpions like, and it should be no problem to raise it for a day or two.

She doesn't want to eat candy now, so she is going to take these scorpions to the town and sell them, but she doesn't have time to go to the town now, so she can only find another chance tomorrow.

Hiding the scorpion, she was ready to start cooking.

There were no surprises for dinner, the staple food was still sweet potato, and the vegetables were the wild vegetables she had dug up on the ground this afternoon.

Zhou Sining received the memory of the original owner, and also inherited the skills of the little girl, and it was not difficult for her to cook or anything.

Pulling a small bench in front of the stove, she sat down and stuffed a handful of hay into the dry hole, then picked up the match she had hidden under the stove, slipped the last one, and lit the hay. Seeing that the hay was on the ground, he quickly pulled out a bud rice stalk, and with both hands, he folded a bud rice stalk into several pieces of moderate size, and then stuffed them into the stove hole one by one.

After raising the fire, she lifted the lid on both sides, scooped a ladle of water into the pot on the left side, and scooped it in to dress up the pot on the right. Then she put an iron curtain in the pot on the left, and then the lid was closed again.

After pulling a few more branches from the firewood and stuffing them into the hole to make sure that the fire would not be extinguished, she got up again, took a wooden basin and went to the granary in the back.

The Zhou family doesn't have much else, but there are many local potatoes. Zhou Yaosen has a total of 30 acres of land in his hands, half of which he planted sweet potatoes, gave birth to five acres of rice, five acres of corn, three acres of potatoes, and the remaining two acres of land are planted with miscellaneous grains, such as mung beans, peanuts and so on.

At this time, there is no chemical fertilizer, no organic fertilizer, etc., and the harvest in the farm's manure field can be imagined.

The Zhou family planted five acres of rice, and could harvest six or seven hundred catties of rice every year, some of which were used to pay agricultural taxes, some of which were sold for money, and the remaining dozens of catties were left for their families to eat.

It's just the New Year's holiday, the elderly and children in the family or strong laborers can eat a few bites, and Zhou Daya doesn't occupy any side, so she has only a handful of times when she has eaten rice for so many years.

For people here, the main food is usually corn and sweet potatoes, but most people will eat corn until the New Year, and after the New Year, there will only be sweet potatoes at home to wrap their stomachs.

This is also the case with the Zhou family, and the sweet potatoes and sweet potatoes that have seen the sky since the end of the year.

Both humans and pigs eat this.