The sun shone on the earth again, and the darkness of the night receded.

Wasn't the young people who first got up?

Not a child?

It's the old man who feels the least in every family!

As long as there are elderly people in every family, you will see them busy in the garden every morning.

Sometimes it's weeding, sometimes it's helping seedlings.

Even if there was no work in the garden, they would walk back and forth twice before they could go about anything else with peace of mind.

This is the case with Aunt Guo's house, which is separated by a wall from Zhou Shujie's house.

Uncle Guo and Aunt Guo had already gotten up, one for persimmons in the garden, and the other for eggplants.

The hands are busy, and the mouth is not idle, you and I are chattering one by one.

Aunt Guo suddenly thought of something and asked, "Hey, old man, Zhuzi's daughter-in-law and her uncle came to look for you last night, and you talked in the yard for a long time, what did you say?"

Uncle Guo held a hand-rolled cigarette in his mouth and replied vaguely: "What else can it be, it's not a matter of making furniture." ”

Aunt Guo asked, "Do you want to give him the second child, how many cabinets do you want to make?"

When he got to the ground, he straightened his waist and took the cigarette in his mouth, and Uncle Guo replied clearly: "It's not to open the cabinet, what the daughter-in-law wants is different from ours." I want a combination of furniture made by a big factory, I heard Lao Zhou say that the furniture can't be bought here, yesterday she came to me and asked me if I could go to see the style, come back and try to see if I can play out. ”

While listening, Aunt Guo inserted the last persimmon shelf, and took a rag to fix the persimmon seedlings on the shelf.

After tying up, he walked to the head of the ridge, stood next to Uncle Guo and asked him: "This thing sounds very troublesome, have you agreed? If you don't agree, it's not good!"

Uncle Guo took the last puff of cigarette, threw the cigarette butt on the ground and used his foot to avoid it, and then said, "Can you not agree?" He said that he would go to the market the day after tomorrow and let me take a look with Tuesday. There was a family in the county that bought the furniture, and he told them to let us see it. I didn't say anything to death, I said to see first, and if I could really do it, I would type it out for him. ”

The garden was busy, and the two of them turned and walked out as they spoke.

Hearing this, Aunt Guo said: "Then the day after tomorrow, you look good, and if you agree, you will do it as much as possible." ”

Uncle Guo, who walked to the door, replied: "I know!"

After saying this, the two of them didn't continue chatting, and Uncle Guo entered the courtyard by the wall, and the newly built stable, adding grass and material to his horse.

Aunt Guo chose to enter the house, thinking that it was almost time to make breakfast.

As soon as I entered the house, I found that the house was very lively.

The three daughters-in-law all got up, and two were busy cooking and one was taking care of the children.

Aunt Guo wanted to reach out and help do something, but she couldn't intervene.

Let the eldest daughter-in-law and the second daughter-in-law invite them into the house and watch the children with the third daughter-in-law.

And the three sons of the Guo family also walked out of their respective houses one after another at this time.

The boss picked up a broom, and there were not many sawdust in the sister-in-law's yard.

The second child went in and out of the barn where the wood was placed, and the timber was messed up inside.

Guo Sange took over the work in his father's hands, and continued to add grass and materials to his horses, and took out bristles.

At this time, Zhou Shujie, who was separated from his house by a wall, had also gotten up.

After stretching his waist in the yard, he went to feed the pigs and chickens.

After feeding, I went to pick up firewood and cook on the fire.

Steamed a pot of rice, fried a shredded potato, and then served with a bowl of sauce, a few green onions, a handful of greens, and a plate of pickles. This is the standard for a farmer's breakfast.

If you want to eat meat, this ordinary day may not be easy, unless you can buy a little back to eat it in the market, or you usually eat more vegetarian times.

After eating, pick up the table and clean it up

After that, the mother-in-law sat on the kang and watched the two children while making shoes.

Zhou Shujie was busy getting her fried noodles.

First, put the hazelnuts into the garlic jar where the garlic is mashed, mash them into pieces, and then put the pounded ones into a small clean basin.

Fortunately, this hazelnut kernel is fried, and it is also fried crispy and crispy, which is particularly easy to break, otherwise this plate will have to be pounded sometime.

By the time she smashed all the dishes into pieces, an hour had passed.

Then she went to the outhouse to make a fire, brushed the pot, and when it was hot, she greased it and scooped a large pot of flour into the pot.

Fried noodles are not so easy to fry well, if they are not fried well, they will not be fragrant, and when the fire is big, there will be a lake, and it is not delicious to eat, so it needs to be turned over slowly.

When the noodles are slightly yellow, put the mashed nuts in the pot with your hands, turn over a few and stir well.

Zhou Shujie took out a bag of saccharin from the bowl shelf again, opened it, took a few grains and threw them in the pot to continue stir-frying.

Nowadays, many people may not have seen saccharin.

I have only eaten white sugar, in the previous era, white sugar was very expensive and very little, and ordinary people could not buy it, and this saccharin is a substitute for white sugar.

Under normal circumstances, a grain of saccharin can turn into a scoop of sugar water, and its sweetness is not the same as that of white sugar.

At that time, every boiled bean paste used saccharin.

After stir-frying evenly, pick out a little bit and put it in your mouth and taste it, the sweetness is just a lot and not much.

If you put too much saccharin, it will be sweet and bitter.

Zhou Shujie took out the fried fried noodles and put them in the largest ceramic basin.

Dig a pit in the middle so that it dissipates heat quickly, so that it won't cover the lake in the middle because it's too hot.

I washed the pot again, and I saw that it was still early, and I was not in a hurry to make lunch.

Instead, he added two ladles of water to the pot, added firewood to boil the water, took out three bowls, and put two small spoons of fried noodles in each bowl, poured boiling water and made a paste and carried it into the house.

One of the bowls was placed on the lid of the cabinet and left for the two children to dry.

She kept a bowl for herself, handed a bowl to her mother-in-law, and said, "Mother, you try it, this is freshly fried fried noodles, see if it tastes good, I want to send this to the pillar to stamp a little, ready to drink some when I am hungry at night." ”

The mother-in-law put down her hand, and the second pair of shoes was about to be made.

I took the bowl, it was a little hot to the touch, and I didn't rush to drink it.

I blew on it before I was on the edge of the bowl and drank a little bit into my mouth.

The bar clicked his mouth, and a rich aroma of wheat and nuts mixed and spread in his mouth, and there was a faint sweetness, which made the old man feel very delicious.

The mother-in-law smiled and nodded to Zhou Shujie, and said, "It's delicious, just mail some of this to the pillar, and let him be hungry at night." ”

Zhou Shujie smiled and didn't speak, just nodded, and drank the bowl of fried noodles in his hands with his mother-in-law.

The two children on the kang were asleep, and they shouldn't have been able to sleep for a few minutes before they woke up.

Sure enough, as Zhou Shujie thought, Dangdang and his mother-in-law had just finished drinking the fried noodles in the bowl.

The two children also woke up one after the other.

The two little ones didn't cry when they woke up, they opened their eyes and turned their heads to see where they could look, and when they saw their mother and their grandmother, they lay there and grinned.

Zhou Shujie sent the two empty bowls to the outhouse.

When he went back to the back room, he picked up his son from the kang, first urinated on him, and then picked up his daughter after finishing it.

When the two children had finished urinating, they took out a towel and wiped their faces and hands with warm water to refresh them.

Only then did I take the bowl of warm fried noodles in oil, and when I came to the two children, I fed them one by one with a small spoon.

When she got it, she thought that she would leave a little for the children, so she deliberately broke the nuts, otherwise she would not dare to give them drink.

The two children shared a bowl, and this bowl was still a small bowl, and there were not many of them.

It seems that the child is still a little unfed.

Zhou Shujie didn't dare to feed them more, after all, it was saccharin, not sugar, and I didn't know if there would be anything bad for the children to eat it.

The two little ones are not clingy at all when they are full, and they crawl back and forth in the kang to play.

Or practice standing on the windowsill.

Basically, they just got up and fell down again after a while.

Then he got up again, and fell down again.

And so on and so forth.

Lunch at the farmhouse is cooked around half past eleven.

I ate at about half past twelve, and it was more than one o'clock after eating.

Today I ate quickly, and it was less than one o'clock after cleaning up.

It's all because I drank that bowl of fried noodles in oil before the meal.

Zhou Shujie and her mother-in-law were not hungry, and they each put away their chopsticks after eating only one bowl of rice.

Zhou Shujie played with the children for a while, and seeing that the time was half past one, he had to go down to make milk powder for the two children.

Children sleep when they are full, and if you don't let him eat enough, they won't be able to sleep either.

Zhou Shujie brewed two bottles of milk powder, and felt the temperature on his hand, so he screwed on the pacifier and sent it to the two children.

Now that the children are older, they drink milk from a bottle, and they all hold it in their hands.

Unlike before, Zhou Shujie and her mother-in-law had to help them carry and feed.

Now they are lying on the pillow, with a small quilt under them, holding a milk bottle in their hands, drinking by themselves, and almost falling asleep when they are gone.

Zhou Shujie and the other two children did fall asleep.

Only then did he take the bottle out of the mouths of the platoons, wash it in the outhouse, wash it with water, put it on the lid of the cabinet in the house, and make milk powder for them at night.

It's all done, and there's not much work left at home.

Zhou Shujie didn't want to be idle, said to her mother-in-law, changed into old clothes and went out with a basket.

She's going to get some wild vegetables for the chickens and piglets.

Now in this season, wild vegetables are growing very fast, and there are them on the edge of the ground.

Whether it's gray cabbage, thread cabbage, or bitter hemp cabbage, all of them are more than a foot tall.

Get some gray cabbage and feed the pigs.

I got some bitter hemp and cut it for the chickens to eat.

While consuming vegetables, Zhou Shujie also thought, in fact, her yard is quite tight, she wants to spread the chickens and let them run all over the ground to find some snacks to eat, so that the chickens will grow fast.

After a while, I made a large basket full of gray cabbage noodles.

There was also a bundle of bitter hemp cabbage made of straw next to it.

Zhou Shujie walked home with a bundle in his left hand and a basket in his right arm.

When she got home, she threw two handfuls at the pig, and put most of the remaining basket in the shade, leaving it for the night.

Then he cut a pot of the chickens and fed them with wheat bran.

The day passed like this, and my mother-in-law's two pairs of shoes were completely finished in the afternoon.

After dinner, Zhou Shujie found a piece of white cotton cloth and sewed a secret pocket.

I put more than half of the fried fried noodles into it, and I felt that it weighed five or six pounds when I carried the bag with my hand.

After that, he carefully wrapped the two pairs of shoes made by his mother-in-law, and put them in the same bag that he was to mail to the pillar.

Of course, the two of them wrote that thick envelope together, and they didn't forget to put it inside.

If you do this tonight, it will be much more convenient tomorrow, and you can go to the mail with a drop.

Nothing was said all night.

…………

Next

About seven o'clock yesterday, Brother Tuesday drove an ox cart to pick up Zhou Shujie to catch the market.

I also had to pick up Uncle Guo to help him see the set of furniture.

Zhou Shujie has already finished cleaning up, and is waiting for his brother!

Seeing that her second brother was coming, she didn't talk nonsense, she carried the bag with money in her pocket, got into the ox cart, and threw the child and home to her mother-in-law.

The ox cart stopped again in front of Uncle Guo's house, and before it was too long, Uncle Guo and Aunt Guo walked out together one after another.

After chatting with Aunt Guo, Zhou Shujie learned that Uncle Guo was going to help look at the furniture, and Aunt Guo was going to the market to buy some pork and come back to eat.

Aunt Guo also asked Zhou Shujie!

"Daughter-in-law, don't you want to buy some meat? In two days, the farm will be busy, hurry up and buy some to eat in your stomach, grow some oil and water first, and save yourself from working hard." ”

Zhou Shujie almost couldn't help laughing, thinking to himself, this is the same as being in a sedan chair and piercing his ears and eyes.

In the end, he couldn't help laughing, twitched the corners of his eyes, and replied: "You have to buy it too, buy more, and you can put it in the well for two days if you can't finish it." ”

Aunt Guo slapped her hands and said, "That's right! I think the same way, let's go together." ”

Maybe it's really like Aunt Guo said, when you are busy farming, every family wants to buy some meat, and give yourself a long oil and water first.

Therefore, there are a lot of people rushing to the market today, and the ox cart is full before leaving the village.

Zhou Shujie also saw a few other families with cattle, and they were also busy setting up ox carts?

There are a lot of people around, and it seems that they are also going to the market.

There was a carload of people on the way, and the owner Li Jiaxiao chatted.

We won't go into details.

It wasn't until the county seat that the car got out of the car and walked towards their respective goals.

On Tuesday, Brother Guo led Uncle Guo to see the furniture, and Aunt Guo acted with Zhou Shujie.

Zhou Shujie first went to the post office and mailed the package.

After that, he and Aunt Guo walked to the meat stall, and after queuing for a while, each of them invited five catties of waists.

The two men carried the meat again and walked around the market.

I didn't see anything I wanted to buy, and I didn't see the two brothers who sold seafood in the winter.

The two men walked back with the meat, and when they came to the ox cart, they saw two little girls, the eldest thirteen or fourteen years old, and the younger seven or eight years old, standing in the shade of the tree beside the ox cart with their frames and selling sorghum fruits.

Zhou Shujie didn't see the two little girls when he came over, but smelled the smell first, and followed the smell to see the frame they placed on the ground.

Eight or nine handfuls of sorghum fruit were tied to the basket, and one handful was about the thickness of a child's wrist.

Zhou Shujie asked: "How do you sell sorghum fruits here?"

The little girl didn't dare to say anything, and hid behind the big girl, and the big girl smiled and returned: "A dime, do you want it, sister-in-law?"

Aunt Guo also came from behind, and when she saw Zhou Shujie standing here, she came over to take a look, and when she saw the things in the box, she smiled happily and said, "A dime a handful, then give me two handfuls, and I'll go home and coax my grandson." ”

Seeing that Aunt Guo bought two, there were still seven in the basket.

Zhou Shujie didn't talk nonsense, took out seven cents and handed it to the big girl, and bought all the seven handfuls back.

What is more surprising is that the big girl may have seen that Zhou Shujie was not easy to hold with her hand, so she gave her the small box containing the sorghum fruit.

Zhou Shujie and Aunt Guo sat on the ox cart where no one was around, chatting and waiting for them to come back.

The ox was tied to a tree, where he ate the grass he brought.

Fortunately, the car was parked under the tree, and it was quite shady and not sunny.

After a while, all the people in the village came back with meat and laughing while talking.

Everyone arrived, and finally Uncle Guo and Brother Tuesday walked back briskly.

In Uncle Guo's hand, he also held a notebook, the kind used by children to go to school, and there was a pencil in it.

The two of them walked to the ox cart, and Uncle Guo sat firmly in the place left for him by Aunt Guo.

Brother Tuesday untied the reins of the cow, stuffed the bag under his buttocks, and sat in the car to drive home.

On the way, Zhou Shujie also heard it, and Aunt Guo asked Uncle Guo in a low voice: "Have you seen the furniture, can you make it?"

Seeing that the car was full of people, there were many people, and Uncle Guo didn't answer, but just nodded "um".