Chapter 38 Natural Refrigerators
"What's there to play, don't you have itchy hands?" Chen's mother was very angry, but she couldn't do anything if she wanted to beat them, and Xiaoxi was still sick, so she drove them to Grandpa Chen's house with a stick.
Chen's mother walked behind with a black face with a stick, Chen Yubin cried all the way to her grandfather's house, and Xiaoxi also drooped her face, thinking about her mother's black face just now, and the stick, and she was afraid for a while.
"Dad, I'll let them go here for a while, and I'll call them back when I'm eating. After saying that, he went back with a dark face.
Seeing his daughter-in-law's elongated face and very unhappy, Grandpa Chen looked at the two children in front of him who had obviously done something wrong, and asked curiously, "Why did you make your mother angry?"
Xiaoxi let out a long breath of turbidity, "Grandpa, we locked the lock at home, and my mother couldn't open the door when she came back, so she dug a hole in the wall to open it." ”
This matter can be big or small, Grandpa Chen said with a straight face: "How can you play with the lock? Seeing that Chen Yubin was still crying and shrugging his shoulders, Grandpa Chen pulled him over, wiped his tears, and said angrily: "Okay, don't cry, you are still so aggrieved when you do something wrong? ”
The two of them quickly nodded in agreement.
It didn't take long for Chen's mother to call Xiaoxi and them home for dinner. Because it was not early, Chen's mother Tu cooked the noodles quickly, served the rice to the two children, and then went out.
Seeing that their mother did not eat, the two children could see the caution in each other's eyes, and finished eating like chewing wax, and when they returned to the bedroom, they found that the hole in the wall was blocked.
Xiaoxi stepped forward and grabbed the broom in her mother's hand, "Mom, go and eat, or I'll sweep the ground later." ”
After glancing at them and handing over the broom, Chen's mother walked towards the stove room.
Xiaoxi began to think about the dirt on the ground, and without raising his head, he said, "Binbin, go and bring the handful." Chen Yubin ran away.
That time was painful for Xiaoxi, it was nothing to go out to play, the itch on the body could not be scratched, but it could not be swallowed, but it was not possible to eat a little oil and salt, what was there and could not bear it, white porridge and white noodles every day, at most put some sugar, but soon the days of this bitterness passed.
Chickenpox is very contagious, and just two days after Xiaoxi's chickenpox, Chen Yubin began to have chickenpox, so he changed to Xiaoxi to watch Chen Yubin at home.
didn't wait for the second aunt to come back, and Chen's mother followed Chen's father to Guangdong to work in the autumn of that year.
After Chen's mother left, Grandpa Chen occasionally went to see the house, sometimes staying for one night or something. That night, Grandpa Chen took Xiaoxi to stay at his second aunt's house for one night.
After dinner, the grandfather and grandson sat in front of the TV and watched TV, and before eight o'clock, Xiaoxi began to yawn.
Listening to the yawns in his ears, Grandpa Chen persuaded, "Xiaoxi, you go to sleep first." ”
Rubbing the tears in the corners of his eyes, he really couldn't hold on, thinking that back then, he could fight for one or two points, but now his combat effectiveness is not good. "Well, grandpa, I'll go to sleep first, and when the TV is on at ten o'clock, you must call me. ”
Now black-and-white TV can only receive two stations, one of the economic channels will broadcast two feature films at ten o'clock in the evening, Xiaoxi asked his grandfather to wake him up, just to catch up on the TV series. Grandpa Chen is also a TV fan, and he will definitely see the TV station shut down.
Grandpa Chen stared at the TV and said absentmindedly, "Well, I'll call you then, you go to sleep." ”
The brook rubbed her eyes and yawned and went to sleep.
When I woke up, Xiaoxi saw that the TV was turned off, and Grandpa Chen was drinking water in front of the bed. Xiaoxi angrily turned back to his grandfather in the slippers next to the bed and said, "Grandpa, didn't I ask you to call me?"
Grandpa Chen's slippers didn't stop for a moment, and said flatly: "I called you, but you said you want to sleep." ”
Xiaoxi didn't believe it, "You definitely didn't call me, I didn't even hear it." ”
"I called. "I'm sure.
Xiaoxi was a little suspicious that his grandfather had forgotten, and he had lied to himself at this time, but he couldn't do anything without evidence, so he could only continue to refute dryly, "That...... I didn't wake up, and if you call me a few more times, I won't get up. ”
"You said you want to sleep, why am I telling you?" Grandpa Chen looked helpless.
Yes...... I couldn't speak, Xiaoxi turned around angrily and stared at the screen, as if she wanted to stare at the TV series, but if it stopped, it was stopped.
Reluctantly, Xiaoxi turned off the TV, got up and went back to bed, and turned off the light next to the bed. I couldn't fall asleep for a while when I closed my eyes, after all, I just woke up and started thinking cranky in the dark night with my eyes open.
During the Chinese New Year, the second aunt came back, but Chen's mother didn't come back because they went out.
The second aunt and the two came back the next day to see their grandfather and them, and when they came, Uncle Zhao also brought grass seeds, Xiaoxi was very surprised that he didn't forget. Because it was not a valuable thing, and it was the first time that his niece asked him to bring something, Uncle Zhao brought a large bag.
The creek was all scattered, and it was intended to be used as a grassland, and when the grass grew, the creek was ready to raise some animals.
In the summer, the weather is hot, and the children in the village like to go to the weir pond secretly to swim, and Chen Yubin is no exception, but he will make it clear to Grandpa Chen every time he goes out.
In fact, when it comes to swimming in the creek, it is very scary to say that Chen Yubin had an accident in his last life, so Xiaoxi gave him all the warm-up actions he knew before going into the water, and repeatedly told him to warm up before going into the water.
The sun scorched the earth, and even the cicadas on the trees were beaten by the heat wave, losing their former vitality.
A few days ago, Cousin Li Wen of the third aunt's family came to the house and planned to play here for two days.
"Wenwa, since you don't sleep, then you are playing in the house, but you are not allowed to go to the reservoir, do you know?" Grandpa Chen said solemnly.
Because the family has the habit of taking a nap in the afternoon, as usual, after lunch, Grandpa Chen is going to take the three children to take a nap, who thinks that Li Wen, the child doesn't want to take a nap, and he can't force him, and he is afraid that he will go to the reservoir to play, the reservoir can be more than ten meters deep. He was a little child, Grandpa Chen was not at ease, but the weather was too hot, and he didn't sleep when it was nap time, and he himself was a little weak now, so he had to tell him again and again, and when he saw that he listened, he took Xiaoxi and the two to take a nap. Granny Chen went to Luojiawan's grandmother's house to play, so there were only a few of them left in the family.
After sleeping for a while, Xiaoxi was woken up by the heat, the clothes on his back were wet with sweat, and he couldn't sleep lying on the hot bamboo mat after changing clothes, so he carefully got out of bed and went out with dirty clothes, but saw Chen Yubin sitting listlessly on the big table outside.
"What's wrong?" Xiaoxi asked with concern when he saw him.
"It's hot. He lay on the table with his head resting on his arms, and when he saw his sister coming, he didn't bother to raise his head.
Indeed, why is it so hot this summer? Without saying anything, Xiaoxi went to the stove room to fetch a basin of clean water and washed the dirty clothes in his hands.
Seeing his sister squatting on the ground to wash clothes, the water seemed to be quite cool, Chen Yubin wanted to go swimming a little, but his grandfather was still taking a nap at this time, and he didn't dare to go without his grandfather's consent. Ah, by the way, "It would be nice to be able to eat ice cream." "My eyes are dark, if I want to eat, I have to go to the brigade to buy it, and I have to go for a long time, so forget it.
Well...... Ice cream, Brook thinks of the ice she's stored in the winter, and doesn't know if it's still there.
The reason for storing ice cubes is that Xiaoxi thinks that the storehouse has a preservation effect, and what is it when it goes in and what it is when it comes out, she wants to store some ice cubes to see if it can be preserved.
Xiaoxi hurriedly dried his clothes, flashed into the space when he went back to the house to put the pot, and went straight to the storeroom.
I didn't expect it to be preserved, but after the ice cubes were put in, it didn't melt at all until now, like an ice cellar. However, these are knocked down directly from the weir pond, which is not very clean and cannot be eaten directly, but it can freeze things, which also plays a cooling role.
Xiaoxi found a clean bowl and put some cherries and plums in it and put them on the ice, intending to eat them later. Time passed quickly, and in just a few minutes, the stream came out with the frozen fruit, and the flesh inside was frozen into ice lumps.
"Binbin, what is this?" Xiaoxi excitedly pushed the bowl in his hand in front of Chen Yubin.
"It's not cherries and plums, and it's not like I haven't eaten them. Chen Yubin was a little unimpressed, although there should be no such things at this time, but I have eaten a lot of out-of-season fruits at my sister's place since I was a child, so there is nothing unusual, but it is not bad to have fruits to eat. Accustomed to reaching out directly to pick up the cherry and preparing to put it in his mouth, but it was a little different from the usual touch, and the coolness from his fingertips made him feel that it was real, and he quickly threw it into his mouth, and the hot mouth was cool all of a sudden, and he took a bite and found that the flesh inside was frozen into a rustle, which was very relieving of the heat.
Chen Yubin pointed to his mouth excitedly, "It's cold, it's so cool, sister." ”
It was so lovely that the brook looked at him lovingly (don't doubt it, it was) and said to him, "Then you can eat more, and there will be more when you are done." Then he also sat down and quickly solved the fruit in the bowl with Chen Yubin.
Seeing the fruits in the bowl going down quickly, Chen Yubin was very curious about where these came from, but he knew that his sister had secrets and didn't want to tell him, so in the end, he just watched and ate as before.
Xiaoxi thinks that the frozen fruits this time are good, and grandpa will get some for him when he gets up later, as for Brother Wen, he still counts, after all, there are no such fruits now, even if there are, where are they frozen into ice.
Seeing that the fruit was very good to make like this, Xiaoxi thought that he could also juice the fruit and freeze it, which could be made into natural fruit-flavored sorbet, or fruit-flavored ice cubes or something.
The more I thought about it, the more I thought it was feasible, but my brother couldn't do it here, and Xiaoxi was looking forward to the arrival of the night.
Wow, isn't this a super-large refrigerator that you carry with you, or a natural refrigerator. Then when the winter freezes, get more ice cubes in it and make this natural refrigerator a little bigger.