When Shounanniang saw her cousin-in-law looking down and thinking about something, she thought that she would not answer herself, and when she was about to turn her head and ask Chengshu's daughter-in-law, she heard her cousin-in-law whisper in her ear: "Sister-in-law! Of course I want to go too." Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoIt's just that I want to go to the chestnut forest in the back mountain to see if I can pick up chestnuts and walnuts back, and I want to bring them over to the children of my cousin's family as snacks. There are also a lot of fungus dried at home, and I also want to bring some to roast meat for them. As for the rabbits and pheasants, since you have prepared them to bring, I will not take them, just bring the ones that are dried at home. Do you think that's appropriate?"

"Ahh My sister and brother picked up a lot of chestnuts and walnuts at home, and I also brought a basket for my cousin's children as snacks. ”

The two of them muttered quietly beside them, and several gentlemen on the table also discussed the matter of going down the mountain again. It has been half a month since the Liu family greeted the guests from the mountain again.

Xie Chengshu and Xie Shounan both came, they were afraid that one person would not remember the road very well, thinking that the two of them could make up for each other's mistakes. There were a lot of people who came with them this time, there were more than 20 in total, and half of them were children, and even the eldest great-grandson of the third master's family, who was only three years old, also came. With the drag of the child, they walked for a day and a night to get here. Xie Chengshu did not lead everyone to Liu Baiquan's house, but crossed the door of his house and went directly to Liu Yujin's house.

When you wake up early in the morning, you not only have to make breakfast, but also clean up some chores at home, sweep the yard and various rooms, scrub the dust on the tables and cabinets, feed the animals, and so on. That's a lot of things. Mornings are the busiest time of the day for farm wives. Just when Wang Hongying was busy driving the chickens to the bamboo garden next to him, cleaning up the chicken coop and sprinkling a thick layer of straw ash, Xie Chengshu led a large team of Xie family members to push open the courtyard gate. When she heard the noise, she thought it was her mother-in-law who came back with the fragrance of grass to make milk powder to eat, so she ignored it and continued to be busy with her own business.

Xie Chengshu's sister-in-law (Xie Chenglin's daughter-in-law) saw that the yard was clean, and some farm tools such as hoes and shovels were neatly leaning against the corner of the eaves. Under the eaves, there are dozens of salted ducks and salted geese hanging next to each other, and there are two clay pots for raising flowers in one corner of the yard. As soon as you enter this door, it gives people a sense of tranquility living at home. Several women are like Sister-in-law Xie, still looking at the warmth of this home, but Xie Chengshu has already seen Wang Hongying who is pouting his butt in the chicken coop and flattening the grass ash with a wooden shovel: "Cousin-in-law, are you busy?"

Hearing someone speak, Wang Hongying hurriedly withdrew from the chicken coop, saw that it was Xie Chengshu, and asked with a smile: "Why did you come here after such a long time?

turned the corner, and saw that among the more than 20 people standing in the courtyard gate, there were still very young children, which surprised Wang Hongying a little.

"Whoa, these little nephews are tired from running so far with the adults! Hurry up! Come into the house and rest. Old cousin, cousin and sister-in-law, when you take your children into the house to sit, just like your own family, don't be restrained. I'll boil hot water for you, wash your faces, warm your hands, and look at these little ones, their faces are frozen blue. ”

Wang Hongying has lived in Xie's house for several months, and Xie Shounan's mother has also entered Xie's door at that time, and the two can be regarded as acquaintances. I haven't seen him for more than ten years, and it was a little strange, Wang Hongying was full of happy surprises, and greeted everyone into the house with sincerity, so that Xie Shounan's mother suddenly narrowed the strange distance when she met Wang Hongying.

"Hello cousin!"

"Hello cousin!"

"Hello cousin!"

......

All the children greeted Wang Hongying at the signal of their mothers, so that she was overwhelmed at once, only grinning, showing a mouth full of white teeth, smiling happily, and nodding her head: "Okay! Okay! You guys are good, everyone is good!"

There was a lot of stuff in the hall, and they had brought it all with them. None of them were empty-handed, and even the youngest Shouxiang carried several small cylinders rolled into rabbit skins. Wang Hongying was distressed: "Oh! Why do you have to carry things on your back for such a young child? Why don't you know that you are distressed!"

"Haha! Cousin, don't feel sorry for this guy, he hasn't walked a single step since he went out, he just sat in the frame and let the third uncle and the third aunt pick it up. ”

Everyone burst into laughter, Xiao Shouxiang was shy, and as soon as he turned around, he hugged his mother's calf, buried his face inward between his mother's knees, and ignored anyone who teased him to talk. Chenglu's daughter-in-law took down the rabbit skin that Shouxiang was carrying, broke her son's face, and coaxed him: "Xiangzi, what are you carrying this rabbit skin for, have you forgotten?"

Xiao Shouxiang shook his head, a little reluctant to let go of his mother's legs, holding the rabbit skin that his mother handed him, came to Wang Hongying with his head down, and said timidly: "This is grandma making wool shoes and hats for my little sister." ”

It's not just that Liu Baiquan is patriarchal, but there are few people who are not patriarchal at this time. Wang Hongying actually likes boys more than girls in her heart, and the little boy in front of her looks cowardly, which is about to melt her heart.

"Ouch! Little girl, why are you so distressed! Auntie likes it so much!"

Wang Hongying took Xiao Shouxiang's things and put them in the pile. Then I said hello, and went to the kitchen to boil water to give them hot water, and to put down noodles and stir-fry two dishes as soon as possible to pad their stomachs.

Shou Nanniang also followed to the kitchen to help her cousin-in-law light the fire, "Cousin-in-law, this straw in your house is not good at all, you have been busy for a long time, this fire just can't burn, it's always so few, and people are in a hurry to die." It's like we burn branches and dry firewood in the mountains, and when the fire is big, we add firewood, and when we want to be small, we smoke a few, and one person can put the pot on and off the pot. ”

"There's no way around that, we have a lot of straw here, and the production team used to divide some rape and wheat straw, but there were very few of them, and they were usually reluctant to use them. There was a barren hillside three or four miles away from our house, but the barren hill belonged to another brigade, and he wouldn't let us cut the grass or cut the branches when we went. Even when the children wanted to draw some pine needles (pine leaves) and come back to boil the pot, they called the people from the production team to come back like dogs.

I'm going to make a New Year's Baba soon, and I plan to wait for Liu Yujin to be no longer busy, so I will ask him to carry the rice to my sister-in-law's house and come back in exchange for a few loads of firewood. This year's Chinese New Year is different from previous years, and there will definitely be many relatives at home who will come to visit the New Year, and then they will use the leftover firewood from the steamed New Year's baba to stir-fry. Otherwise, just stir-frying with this straw is really the same as you said, and it can kill people in a hurry!"

Shou Nanniang shook her head and sighed while laboriously ventilating the straw in the pot hole with tongs: "Alas! Our house is too far away from here, otherwise what kind of firewood, pine leaves, branches, thatch, roots, and firewood on our mountain do you want?"

Wang Hongying's meat-cutting knife paused, his mouth didn't speak, but his mind involuntarily poured up: "There are no big trucks, but the production team has tractors." If you come back from a trip to pull a tractor, you can probably give three or five yuan, right?!'