After taking a nap that afternoon, Xiaoxi played with his younger brother in the mud at the head of the courtyard dam, mainly Chen Yubin was playing, Xiaoxi watched, and occasionally played a hand. Granny Chen went back to the stove room to find a shop, and when she saw the two sisters and brothers playing not far away, she beckoned to them, "Xiaoxi, Binbin, come here, go to the garden with your mother-in-law to pick cowpeas and green beans." ”

The siblings patted the mud on their hands and walked towards their mother-in-law.

The vegetables in the garden are now ready to bear fruit, and the falling branches are heavy.

The mother-in-law looked at the cowpeas and green beans in the garden, and they were quite ripe, so she beckoned Xiaoxi and her brother to pick the places where they could get them, and she picked them.

"Mother-in-law, can I pick this?" "Can I pick this?" "Can I pick this?"

The cowpeas and green beans on the vine were all plucked except for the length of the fingers. Now the beans grow very quickly, and after two or three days, you can pick a stubble again.

Granny Chen picked a dozen or so half-aged cucumbers on the cucumber rack that were starting to turn slightly yellow, picked a few old ones on the eggplant seedlings, and picked the reddened ones on the tomato rack.

Out of the vegetable garden, the mother-in-law poured the vegetables from the basket on the big table (the big table, in the creek, is a must-have for every household, a square square table with a height of one meter two and a width of one meter three, surrounded by four large benches with a length of one meter and four and a height of fifty centimeters. In the countryside, the family usually buys vegetables and then asks the cook to come back to do it, and then the host family will go door to door to borrow a large table and bench, and return it when the work is done. Now one side of the large table is against the wall, so there are only three benches around.

The big table was too high for Xiaoxi and his younger brother, Xiaoxi could barely reach the table when he sat on the big bench, and Chen Yubin could only sit on the table.

Choosing vegetables is a simple matter for the two children.

Choose the cucumbers, eggplant and tomatoes for a large dish and put two large baskets on the table and put the selected ones in.

"Xiaoxi, Binbin, you choose this particularly tender one, and take it to the jar later. The mother-in-law raised the tender cowpeas and tender green beans in her hand, and after speaking, she went back to the stove room to get a basket to be specially loaded.

In addition to sauerkraut, kimchi is also a must-have dish for every household.

Choosing beans is to remove the silk, remove the insect eyes, and then peel and leave the seeds of the particularly old ones. This carob seed is delicious when cooked, doughy and glutinous.

After choosing the beans, the mother-in-law looked at the basket full of cowpeas and half a basket of green beans, which was too much.

Then I chose again, selected the more tender beans, prepared to blanch them all over the water to dry, make dried beans, and save them for eating in winter when there is a shortage of vegetables.

I didn't have an idea for so many beans left, so I put them on the kitchen board. I was planning to do it, but I really couldn't do it, so I dried it all into dried beans, although it was a little old.

Now the seedlings have been planted for more than 20 days, nothing happened, grandpa ate breakfast every day to take the cow out and put it, almost noon to bring the cow back, eat lunch and take a nap, wait for the afternoon when it is cool and take the cow out, to the evening to come back, when you come back, you have to carry a back of fresh weeds, this is the cow's dinner.

Xiaoxi's house is an old buffalo in his teens, male, stout, sparsely coated, grayish-black. The horns are thick and flattened, curved backwards. The skin is thick, the legs are short and the hooves are large, about 500 kilograms.

Because it's an old buffalo, it's very docile. It did all the tiring work of plowing and raking the field, so as long as it didn't rain, Grandpa would go to herd the cattle every day, and when he came back at night, he would cut fresh cow grass on his back.

After going to the weir pond to feed the water and closing the cattle back to the cattle pen, the grandfather went back to the stove room to wash his hands, and saw two baskets of beans on the board, so he looked at the mother-in-law who was cooking the pot in front of the stove, and asked curiously: "Why did you pick so much?"

"I went to the garden today to see that the cowpeas and green beans were full, so I said that I would finish picking them. After two days, there will be another way to eat in the garden, so much, I am thinking about what to do, but if it doesn't work, I will dry it all. ”

Grandpa thought about it, remembered the flour he had just beaten two days ago, and proposed, "Didn't we just beat the flour, just cut the steamed buns, let's try this year's new wheat." ”

The mother-in-law thought about it and nodded in agreement.

The next day, after getting up in the morning and eating, the mother-in-law gave Xiaoxi two yuan, asked Xiaoxi and her younger brother to buy bags of baking powder and came back, and instructed: "When you pass by your second aunt's house, if she is at the head of the house, call her to come up, and we will steam the buns." ”

Originally, the family had their own yeast, but my mother-in-law thought that the steamed bread steamed with her own yeast was not soft and soft with the yeast she bought, and this was this year's new flour, of course, she had to eat it well, so she gave Xiaoxi money and asked her to buy baking powder.

With the two dollars he had just bought in his pocket, he set off with his younger brother.

All the way down, when they reached the fork in the road, they didn't take the big road, but the small road to save time, and the small road had to pass through the second aunt's house.

In the distance, Xiaoxi saw the second aunt squatting in front of her house pulling the weeds in the cornfield, pulling Chen Yubin, shouting "second aunt", Chen Yubin heard her sister shouting, and also shouted.

By the time they passed, the second aunt had already come out of the cornfield, went back to the house, grabbed a handful of melon seeds for each of them and stuffed them into their pockets.

The second aunt Chen Cui greeted the two children with a smile and asked curiously, "Xiaoxi, what are you two going to do?"

"Second aunt, my mother-in-law told us to buy baking powder. ”

Then Chen Yubin hurriedly added: "Second aunt, my mother-in-law said that she would steam steamed buns today and asked you to go up." ”

Chen Cui thought about the work at home, shook her head, and refused: "You go back and tell your mother-in-law that the second aunt is not going up, and there is still a lot of work at home." ”

Chen Yubin didn't understand that steaming buns at home, such a rare thing, the second aunt didn't go.

Xiaoxi is very understanding, Uncle Zhao (the husband of the second aunt) works outside, the family has so much land, raises two pigs, dozens of chickens, and two sons who are 5 or 6 years old and studying in the village school.

nodded and said, "Well, second aunt, I know, I'll tell my mother-in-law when I go back." ”

Chen Cui remembered that there was no salt at home, so she said to Xiaoxi: "Xiaoxi, when you go shopping, help me bring two bags of salt back by the way, and wait, I'll go get the money." ”

Chen Cui first gave the two yuan in his hand to Xiaoxi and said, "This is the money for two packets of salt." He gave her another piece of money in his hand, "This is one dollar, you and your brother are five cents each, go buy candy to eat, ah." ”

Xiaoxi took the money, squinted with a smile, nodded briskly and said, "Well, second aunt, then let's go." ”

Chen Cui looked at her with a smile and nodded, "Go ahead, be careful on the road." ”

Among the three aunts, Xiaoxi and the second aunt have the best relationship, one is that they live close to each other and often come and go, and the other is that they have similar temperaments, and they are both delicious.

I remember in my previous life, during the summer vacation of my sophomore year, because my mother-in-law's health was not good, Chen's father also went home.

Summer is very hot, bored at home, dad often rides a battery car to the team to play mahjong, in the morning to carry the creek to the second aunt's house, when the evening comes back to the second aunt's house and carry the creek back. Sometimes, I don't want to go back at night, so I sleep with my second aunt. At that time, I was joking and went to the second aunt's house to eat, drink and rub the net, and the second aunt listened to it and said with a smile: "That's it." Then he pretended to be angry and said, "Come again, and get your two masters out." ”

After he couldn't see the house, Xiaoxi took out the money he had just gotten and discussed with Chen Yubin, "Binbin, let's spend the five cents given by our mother-in-law, and we will save it from our second aunt, okay?"

My mother-in-law gave two pieces, and it only cost five pieces to buy yeast powder.

Chen Yubin thought about the spicy strips and lollipops sold in the store, swallowed his saliva, and refused, "I want to eat spicy bars, fruit candies and lollipops." ”

Xiaoxi said again: "Then we can buy two lollipops, one for you and one for me, and then buy three different spicy sticks and eat them separately." ”

"But, why don't you spend the money given by the second aunt, I want to buy a lot of lollipops. ”

"We save it, and when you want to eat it, we'll buy it, so that you won't have money to buy candy to eat next time, and don't spend it all at once." Xiaoxi saw what his brother wanted to say, so he made a ruthless move, "If you really want to use it up all at once, you can do it, you can enjoy it once, my money has to be saved, next time I eat alone, you watch from the side." ”

Chen Yubin puffed out his cheeks and finally nodded, "Okay!"

Taking advantage of this momentum, Xiaoxi continued to work hard, "Then put the money here and keep it for me." ”

This is okay, Chen Yubin jumped to his feet in a hurry and shook his hand, "No, no, no, I'll keep it myself." ”

"You keep it, what if it falls?"

"No, it won't fall. ”

"But if it falls, you'll have to watch me eat it. ”

Chen Yubin's eyes widened, "Then what if you spend my money?"

Xiaoxi was a little funny, "What am I spending your money for, I also have money, besides, we stay together every day, I go to buy candy, will you know?"

Chen Yubin thinks about it, it takes a lot of time to go back and forth from home to the place where he buys things.

The two children are still young, and it is estimated that half an hour has passed back and forth.

Chen Yubin asked with some hesitation: "You really won't spend my money?"

Xiaoxi said sincerely, "Really. ”

Chen Yubin was still a little uneasy, and stretched out the little finger of his right hand, "Let's pull the hook." ”

Helplessly stretched out his finger, "The hook is not allowed to change for a hundred years, whoever changes is a little yellow dog." ”

After withdrawing his hand, he took Xiaoxi's hand and urged, "Sister, go quickly." ”

Xiaoxi pretended to dig it in his pocket, and then said to Chen Yubin, "That, here you go." ”

Looking at the cherry in my sister's hand, I remember that this was not there for a long time, why did my sister still have it here.

"Sister, aren't the cherries long gone? Where did you come from?"

Xiaoxi pretended to be mysterious and said, "I hid it, and I hid it in the well behind it, and it was frozen." ”

Behind the house is a bamboo forest, and there is a well in the bamboo forest, which is now useless.

"Oh. Chen Yubin happily took it, "Sister, how many more?"

"There are a lot of them, it's icing, when you want to eat, just tell your sister, and your sister will bring it to you." ”

Thinking about it, he can still eat cherries in the future, it doesn't matter where he comes from, just eat some of them, Chen Yubin nodded wildly.