Chapter 12: The Grass Scents Full Moon
Momoka drove the goose to Liu Laicong, who called her, and asked Liu Laicong like an old man: "Did you catch a piglet at home?"
"No! My mother said that we should see other people's families, so that our family can follow them, or we will have to fight. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info”
The reason why young children can talk about this is because adults talk too often at home, so that children can follow along, so they will worry about each other as much as adults.
The policy of reform and opening up has long been handed down to various localities, but none of the people dare to be the leader. Originally, this season was the time to catch chickens, geese, and piglets, but everyone was waiting and watching, wanting to catch but not daring. But I couldn't suppress that desire in my heart, so everyone was talking hard and talking hard, not only thinking about it, but also looking forward to someone finally not being able to stand the temptation and confusion of what the big guy said, and take the initiative to stand up and be the leader.
Two little girls, one five years old and the other less than seven years old, talk about such a topic, it is pure parroting.
My mother said that I was too young, my sister and brother had to study, and I had a younger sister to take care of. When I grow up next year and can help bring my sister, I will catch the piglets and raise them at home to buy me new clothes for the New Year. ”
Ben Zhuangzi and the familiar people around him all felt very incomprehensible to the Liu family raising other people's girls, especially Liu Yujin and his wife, who had many girls in their own family and had very poor family conditions, and what they said in private was also very difficult to hear. Of course, Liu Laicong will also hear it, but her mother will teach the children more than Liu Laichang's mother, and repeatedly explain in front of the children, don't say that her little sister "picked up" and other similar unpleasant things in front of Taoxiang's family, otherwise after being beaten and scolded by their family, they will be beaten and scolded again when they return home. Therefore, when Liu Laicong heard Taoxiang say about her sister, he didn't follow Liu Laichang to say something like that, but said obediently: "Taoxiang! I heard that your sister is very smart, she laughs at Aunt Darong who has breasted her milk, and when she talks about it, when she talks to Xiao and Milk (Darong's mother-in-law), how can she tease her and she doesn't laugh, but really?"
Speaking of her sister's unique intelligence, Momoxiang is energetic: "That's my sister, she laughs when you say good things about her, and if you deliberately say bad things about her to tease her, she immediately has a cold face, and no matter how you coax you, she ignores you." Even he likes to tease my sister, and he asked my three aunts to prepare new clothes and shoes, and wait for my sister to give her a long face on the day of the full moon. ”
Grandpa Taoxiang's own granddaughter has never hugged anyone, including his eldest granddaughter Liu Guixiang. No matter how hard he cried, he listened as if he hadn't heard it, no matter what he didn't ask. Unexpectedly, not long after Xiaocaoxiang came home, he saw that Xiaocaoxiang woke up and didn't cry or make trouble, he looked at it with his eyes obliquely left and right, and saw his grandfather who suddenly stretched out his head to look at her, not only did he not cry but giggled at his grandfather, but her grandfather was startled. Then the old man showed off to others everywhere: it takes two months for other people's children to giggle, and this girl in his family laughs crisply before the full moon, and she must be extraordinary when she grows up.
Everyone who heard it pouted their lips and said in their hearts: What can you do if other people's children are extraordinary? Do you really think that they will give you face like your own children?
Today is the last day to cut rape, which can be regarded as the end, and it will not take much time to finish the work, so the production team will not care about lunch. In addition, Xiaocaoxiang is full moon today, and the three aunts are in a hurry to send the small clothes and shoes that were hurriedly rushed out at breakfast time, and they have to rush back to work after breakfast. Wang Hongying asked for leave in the morning and made fried rice cakes at home to entertain her three sisters-in-law.
"Oh! Sister-in-law, why do you still have a New Year's cake at this time?" Liu Yuping, the sister-in-law, shouted in surprise when she saw a pot of fried rice cakes on the edge of the pot.
The eldest sister-in-law, Liu Yuzhen, was also very surprised, their rice cakes could only be kept until the end of February at most, and when the temperature warmed up in March, they began to stink and sour, and they could no longer be kept. Unless it is cut into small strips and dried in the sun, it can be kept. However, in that case, it can only be left for the Chinese New Year to make snacks for the children, but it cannot be used as a staple food for entertaining people.
Wang Hongying replied to her sister-in-law with a smile while still putting the rice cakes in the oil pot that were rounded and flattened: "This is when I made New Year's baba at home last year, the extra baba noodles were not enough to steam a pot, and my father-in-law was reluctant to let the firewood be steamed, so I dried it and put it in the jar." When the family was separated, my mother-in-law gave it all to me, and I made it like a soup fruit (rice ball) noodle, but I didn't expect it to work! You all take a piece and try it to see if it is the same as the soup fruit?! It's sticky and soft!"
The sisters really picked up a piece and put it in their mouths and tasted it: "Oops! It's really sticky and soft like the soup fruit, and it doesn't stick to the teeth." How do you feel so much better than the sugar-fried New Year's poop that I ate when I came back for the Chinese New Year? This is really the leftover poop noodles from last year's New Year's poop?"
This second sister-in-law actually doesn't like to eat rice cakes very much, she dislikes rice cakes that are either sticky to her teeth, or hard poked and poked and can't eat, or coarse scum that can't swallow. Her husband works as an accountant in Lianhuahu Village, and he can get a lot of glutinous rice every year, other people's rice cakes are three parts glutinous rice and seven parts indica rice, and her family is five parts glutinous rice and five parts indica rice. That's it, she doesn't think there's anything good to eat. But after eating this rice cake made by her sister-in-law today, she actually felt that it was soft, smooth, sticky and delicate, and it was particularly delicious.
Wang Hongying, the second sister-in-law, really didn't know how to answer, she actually sent the original baba noodles back to her parents' house, and only kept less than a bowl. Who knew that later she found that the jar was still full of noodles, she tried to eat it once, and sure enough, it was the same as the white rice at home, it was also delicious, not the kind that was produced at home. However, she can't say that it is not the original baba noodles, otherwise a few sisters-in-law asked her where she came from, and she really had no way to explain it clearly.
She chattered for a while before pretending to be puzzled and said, "It's the leftover baba noodles from last year! My family hasn't made soup fruit since the Dragon Boat Festival last year, so it can't be soup fruit noodles." ”
Although the eldest sister-in-law also thinks that the fried poop this time is indeed much better than the New Year's poop during the Chinese New Year, she does not have as many questions as the second sister, but thinks that it is the reason for the different production methods.
"When I made New Year's poop this year, I also learned from my sister-in-law, just set aside some to dry, and leave it for fried and eaten at this time, it must be better than steamed!"
When the three sisters-in-law and sister-in-law were chatting happily, Liu Yujin, his uncle, mother, and second brother and sister all came back from work, each carrying a fish basket in their hands.
As soon as she saw the eldest brother, the second brother, and several of them carrying fish baskets in their hands, she opened her mouth and asked, "Big brother, why are you all carrying fish baskets?"
"Now is the time to be busy with spring ploughing, how can we go to catch fish! This is filled with yellow eels and loaches, and in the past two days we have been plowing the mud fields, and we have caught a lot of yellow eels and loaches, and I heard that my family is willing to exchange eggs for them, so we brought them back. Today, you will go back after eating here, and let your sister-in-law fry yellow eel silk with bacon and green garlic sprouts at noon, and if you are not in a hurry to go home, you will have another braised loach. ”
Liu's mother-in-law interjected beside her: "I'm afraid this loach will have to be raised for a few days! Otherwise, the muddy smell is so heavy, how can you eat it?"
Wang Hongying was pulling the poop in the oil pot in the kitchen and shouting outside: "Mother-in-law! There are a lot of loaches that have been raised for seven or eight days at home, and they are just right to eat today." Let's let them eat at home before leaving, and finally come to this trip. ”
She is not wrong in what she said, in a large collective, even if you don't care about the work and want to take leave to leave your relatives, there will be other members who will react that you don't love the collective, don't love labor, and all kinds of petty bourgeois hats will card you over, and it is very likely that you will be criticized if it is serious. Therefore, except for the time when you can't work on a snowy day, you can take time to visit relatives and friends, and at other times, especially during the busy farming season, no one dares to casually ask for leave to go to relatives.
Of the three sisters-in-law of the Liu family, the eldest sister-in-law has fewer chances to come back when she is far away, and she really comes back during the Chinese New Year all year round. This year, because the production has been divided into households, and there is no need to work so tightly in the collective, at the request of her uncle, she sent small clothes and shoes to this niece who picked it up for the full moon.