Chapter 70: Life of the Villagers (1)
In the large courtyard of Taoyuan Village, it is lively early in the morning, and the chickens and ducks raised in captivity under the eaves of the front yard are chattering non-stop, and they are so hungry that they are calling in the morning, waiting for their respective owners to come and feed!
The big white goose on the side is free, walking around the yard with wings, and the majestic appearance is very bluffing!
The embroidery lady opened the door with a pot of grain, and after feeding her own chickens, ducks and geese first, she opened the fence and let them out!
Every day, the chickens, ducks and geese raised by each family are to go to the back mountain to catch insects to eat, and so on in the evening they form a team to come back, worry-free, each family is marked, there is no such thing as entering the wrong nest!
Here the embroidery girl is cleaning the shed, the main family is a love to clean, the people in the village will slowly follow the learning, that is the ability of the master, with him to learn is right! people are a little blind follower, however, the family livestock shed is cleaned diligently, there is no smell in the summer, the two livestock are not sick, how long to eat is good, even the pigs and sheep in the backyard are very clean, the straw in the circle is to be changed every day, how to have a taste!
"Auntie, are you done? It's time to eat!" Mother Jing poked her head out of the kitchen window and asked! After receiving an affirmative answer, she shouted to the backyard, "Erniang, Sanniang, have you finished feeding the pigs?" It's time for breakfast, and you have to go to work in a while!"
"It's over!" Erniang replied happily, "We're washing!
"Alas! Here we are!" The embroiderer put the tools in her hand into the hall, took off the oilcloth overalls on her body and hung them on the shelves nailed to the wall, turned around and went to the edge of the canal in the backyard, and began to freshen up after a pan of water!
This canal is only one meter wide, and the water in it is all tributaries drawn from the big river, and people take the water here for washing things and feeding animals on weekdays, and there is no pollution in these years, and Chen Chen is also strict in managing it, and it is strictly forbidden to dump those dirty things into the water! However, there is a well in the courtyard, so they don't eat and drink the water in the canal!
"Auntie, hurry up! There are a lot of things to do today, but you can't rub it off!" Jing and his two younger sisters were already sitting at the table waiting, and they didn't move their chopsticks, they were all waiting for the embroidery girl!
"Well!" there is still a trace of coolness on the face of the embroidered girl, in this hot summer, it is very refreshing to wash your face with cool river water!
When the embroidery lady arrived, how could the two little guys on the table still be able to bear it, one of them took a cornmeal nest and gnawed it, "Mother, this nest is really delicious, and there is stuffing in it! It's not the same as what I ate before!"
"Nonsense! It's mixed with white flour and bean noodles!Can it be delicious?" Erniang said with some disdain, "The filling mixed with lard can be fragrant to death just by smelling it!"
"It's going to be done! I can't stop your mouth when I eat!" Xiuniang interrupted unceremoniously, "You two can be careful when you go to the chicken coop to work in a while, and this wave of chicken seedlings will come out in the next few days, if something goes wrong and you lose your livelihood, I will see where you two go and the northwest wind!"
"Got it, eldest sister!" Erniang, Sanniang responded in unison, Jing's temperament is soft, easy to bully, and no one listens to what he says, since the four of their mother and daughter were sold by her animal-like father and grandmother, it has always been the embroidery lady who is in charge, if it weren't for the embroidery girl who still has some skills, they were sold separately early in the morning, and later they will not enter Taoyuan Village, and live a stable life that they can't think of!
"Mother, how are you doing to help Sister-in-law Liu? If you are tired, why don't you knit a sweater with me! I have recently spun a lot of wool yarn, hurry up and gather enough for this batch of goods, our family's index is enough to buy a little cow!"
"Alas, no, I'm staying there very well, there are a lot of people in Xiu Meizi's restaurant, they can't be busy when I leave, the salary of 300 wen a month is a lot, not to mention the rice, I can bring back the leftover dishes sold every day and add oil and water to you!
"That's okay!" "Xiuniang took a bite of mixed eggplant and snorted, "If you don't go to work, you don't care about the meal, you all eat outside, there are these nest gruel left at home, I just finished eating a cold dish at noon, it's hot, and I can't put things down!"
"Alas, the pickled cucumber sent by Xiu Meizi some time ago tastes good, sour and spicy and delicious, the customers in the store like to eat this, you can also eat it with gruel at noon, the mouth of the province is tasteless!"
As soon as the embroidery lady over there nodded in response, the second lady here asked anxiously, "Eldest sister, what is that cow?
"Listen to Steward Chen, it's a kind of cow that can produce milk!" Xiuniang frowned and said, "But it's not sure yet, I heard that there is also a kind of beef cattle, which is very fast, specially raised to kill and eat beef, let's see when the time comes!
"Let's raise beef cattle, sister, we haven't eaten beef yet, I don't know what it should taste like?" Sanniang said greedily!
"You haven't eaten too much, don't think about it! Hurry up and eat!"
"Alas, okay! I'll listen to you!" Jing didn't have any opinions, he was blindly obedient, "When the time comes, just clean up the vegetable patch in the backyard, the family can't eat so much, and it's convenient to go to the market to buy whatever you want!"
"Well! It is estimated that it is easy to raise beef cattle, and we will not milk the milk, and the family is afraid that we will not be able to serve if we are not manpowered, so if the vegetable field is not good, let's open up a small piece of land in front of the house!
"Okay!" Jing Shi agreed 100% with this, "After work in the evening, we will turn the ground together first, water it thoroughly, and the seedlings will be easy to live!"
"Well, I know!" Xiuniang nodded in response, after breakfast, Jing and Erniang Sanniang rushed to work, and the matter of sweeping the tail was left to Xiuniang alone!
"No!" replied with a smile, "The wool is spinning, and the sweater and pants are not yet woven!
"You're just too diligent!" Xu Niangzi said with a smile, "I don't plan to go out today, but don't you have a lot of duck eggs at home?"
"What's wrong with your craftsmanship!" said Xiuniang with a smile, "Your ducks are well raised, and there are many eggs, even if you take them out and sell duck eggs, they are also sold well, and salted duck eggs are delicious, and it is a dish with gruel!
"Alas! That's good!" Xu Niangzi was praised for her beauty, and after saying a few words, she left quickly, and after a while, the sun was a little sunny, so she hurried away while it was cool!
After the embroidery girl cleaned up the house, she put a chair in the shade in the backyard and began to knit sweaters!
These sweaters and pants are to be sold in the store, there can be no thread joints, needless to say, the craftsmanship is good, and you have to be very careful, at this time the daughters-in-law and daughters of each family have begun to work!
Spinning, embroidering, thread rubbing, as well as washing clothes, picking vegetables and pickles, for a time the back door on both sides of the canal is lively, embroidery in such a safe, reassuring environment quickly knitting sweaters, a smile at the corner of the mouth can not go down, she is now a little touching fate, they were sold cheaply and are still alive and well, but the black-hearted person who got the silver died early in the morning, the things in this world, it's really hard to say, it's hard to say!