After being busy for more than half a month, the work of planting rice in the village has been completed, and the busy people can stop and rest for a while.

That night, Chen's mother cooked dinner in the stove and the creek burned the pot. After boiling some hot water first, Chen's mother went upstairs and took a small piece of bacon two fingers wide, cleaned it with hot water, cut it into small square slices about 2 cm in size, took a big bowl and prepared a bowl of sauerkraut, and fried the noodles.

I took a pair of clean chopsticks, took the big bowl, lifted the wooden lid on the clay jar containing sauerkraut, put the chopsticks in and walked around, and said to myself: "Oh, the sauerkraut is gone, it's been a long time (when) to pull some vegetables and come back to make sauerkraut." ”

After finishing speaking, he thought about it, "I don't have anything to do tomorrow, Xiaoxi, we'll go tomorrow to pull it, get it back, get it early and get sauerkraut, we rural people, we can't do without this." ”

After saying that, Chen's mother quickly fished out a large bowl of sauerkraut with her hands and feet, and then put the lid on the jar.

Scoop up the hot water in the pot, wait for it to be hot, pour in a little rapeseed oil (in the creek, they only eat two kinds of oil, one is their own rapeseed oil, the other is the lard boiled from the lard they bought), put in the home-made chili sauce, ginger and garlic and fry together, put in the cut bacon, start to stir the oil, after the oil of the bacon is almost dry, pour in the sauerkraut and stir-fry, put in salt, pepper noodles, chicken essence and monosodium glutamate, and simmer in the sour water in the sauerkraut for about three minutes before scooping up.

Leave a little sauerkraut in the pot, add the appropriate water and cover the pot.

Chen's mother put the fried sauerkraut in the cupboard, generally speaking, the fried sauerkraut with porridge is a perfect match, and the boiled noodles are also super delicious.

When the water in the pot boiled, Chen's mother took out a handful of two-knife noodles from the cupboard (noodles are divided into thin noodles, two-knife noodles and wide noodles), put down the noodles according to everyone's needs, put in oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, boiled for a while, and asked Xiaoxi to call Chen Yubin, who was playing outside:

"Xiaoxi, call your brother back for dinner. ”

After hearing her daughter's promise, she took out a bowl from the cupboard and served the noodles, scooped them up, and served them to the table. Wash the pot well, take advantage of the coals at the bottom of the pot, boil the pot hot water, and wash it later. Once the family is seated at the table, dinner begins.

The Chen family split up as soon as Chen's father got married, and after the separation, the money sent by his father went home to his grandfather, so that his grandfather could build him a new house next to the old house, and the old house was distributed to Chen's father.

Because my father is still a single person and is not at home, my grandfather and mother-in-law live next to my father's house, and the old house is now home to Chen's mother, mother and son.

Because they live next to each other, when the farm is busy, they work together, eat, and when they are done, they eat separately, and when they are ready, they take a bowl or eat together.

The next day, Chen's mother finished feeding the pigs and cleaned up the house, and Xiaoxi and her younger brother got up.

Chen's mother brought two bowls of porridge and put them on the table, and urged her two children: "Hurry up, two little lazy people, come to eat after washing, and after eating, we will go to the mountains to pull tender rape and come back to make sauerkraut." ”

After cleaning up the pots and bowls, Chen's mother carried a big bag, locked the door, and pulled the two sisters and brothers out of the house.

When she went out, Chen's mother gave each of her two sisters and brothers a boiled egg, and they used to give them raw eggs for them to drink directly, Chen's mother thought that this was nutritious, but Xiaoxi thought that the raw eggs were full of bacteria, so she didn't drink them, so after a few times, Chen's mother cooked them for them.

After the two of them slowly finished peeling the eggs and eating them, the destination was almost there.

Xiaoxi's land is basically on the back mountain, only a 1-acre paddy field is on the river side of the mountain, and a 5-point sandy land is 3 or 4 minutes away from home.

After going up the mountain, Chen's mother looked at the growth of corn along the edge of the field and found that one of them had grown, and even the replanted corn grew well.

At this time, the best to make sauerkraut is tender rapeseed seedlings, when harvesting rapeseed, farmers will leak a lot of rapeseed even if they are careful, and after a rain, you will find that the whole field is green, of course, people will not waste.

In Xiaoximen Village, there are two kinds of rapeseed - black rapeseed and butter rapeseed, the black rapeseed produces high oil, the oil squeezed by the butter rapeseed is delicious, and because the seedlings of the black rape grow tall and must leave a travel distance, so the black rape is the seedling first, and then dig a pit to plant, so that it is convenient to remove weeds;

Although the butter rapeseed is small and the oil yield is low, although it is delicious, the Chen family has a total of 10 acres of land and planted 1 acre of butter rape and 6 acres of black rape.

After Chen's mother inspected it, she called Xiaoxi and Chen Yubin to quickly pull the vegetables, and instructed: "It's still early for us, you only choose this tender leaf to pick, don't get those scum into it hastily, lest you go back and choose another one (the meaning of one time), you be careful not to step on the corn." ”

After the instructions, Chen's mother left them alone and worked alone.

Because of the creek they picked butter rape seedlings, the leaves are small, the stems are thin, the seedlings are tender, all of them picked for most of the morning, and then they picked a big back that pressed tightly (that is, compacted).

Chen's mother saw that it was not early, so she beckoned to the two little ones who were still having fun not far away, "Children, go home, it's time to cook." ”

After returning home, Chen's mother put down her back and went to the stove room to cook.

After eating, Chen's mother sent the two to take a nap, and then she was busy.

After tidying up the pots and pans, find a large dustpan (round, made of bamboo, similar to a sieve, the sieve has holes, the woven one is relatively thin, 1 meter in diameter, and is used for sifting things. The dustpan is 1.5 meters in diameter, has no holes, and is relatively thickly woven, and is used to dry powder and small beans, because it is large enough, it is still fenced, and it can also be used to cut things), put a clean wooden board in it, and took out a kitchen knife from the kitchen, and began to pick up the tender rape leaves picked in the morning.

With a handful of vegetable leaves in his left hand and a kitchen knife in his right hand, he began to chop the leaves, cutting them into half-centimeter-long segments.

About ten minutes later, a large number of vegetable leaves were cut, Chen's mother went to find two taojiao (shaped like a basket, but the basket is very smooth, there are many small grooves on the taojiao, the bamboo weaving is staggered, playing the same role as the basket - filtering, but the taojiao is larger than the basket, and an ear is braided with bamboo in the middle, which is convenient to carry), and two and a half taojiao are loaded, and they are picked up with a flat pole to wash in the weir pond.

In the creeks, the water is usually in the crevices of the ravines, and it is time-consuming and expensive to dig a well, so it is common for several families to work together to dig a well. Because there are many people who draft water, there is no room for waste.

Fortunately, the weir pond is in front of the house, close to home, and it is convenient to use. In fact, the water in the weir pond is also living water, all of which flow down from the mountain, and there is only one family living on the mountain, the water is clean, and there are several large weir ponds on the mountain.

After Chen's mother washed the green vegetable leaves in the weir pond, she went home and put the two pancakes on the stones of the yard dam to facilitate the water control and drying.

After finishing it, I went back to the bedroom to take a nap with the two little babies.

After sleeping for more than 1 hour, Chen's mother got up, moved Taojiao back to the house, and woke up the Xiaoxi sisters and brothers.

In the morning, she picked butter rape seedlings, and Chen's mother planned to pick some black rape seedlings in the afternoon.

Because of the thick branches and leaves of the black rape seedlings, the mother and son came back in half the morning, and then cut and washed and dried like butter rape seedlings, but the cut was thicker.

Chen's mother beckoned Xiaoxi to boil the pot, then cleaned the pot, added half a pot of water, and when the water boiled to 7 or 80 degrees, she instructed Xiaoxi to boil a low fire.

Pour the vegetable leaves full of baskets into the pot, blanch them with a colander, and when the vegetable leaves change color slightly, they will be scooped up with a colander and poured into the clay jar. After repeating this several times, Chen's mother put two kinds of vegetable leaves into two jars.

These two tanks are actually old tanks for sauerkraut, and there is still sour water left over from the last sauerkraut, and the leaves of the vegetables and these sour water are fermented, and the next day the leaves turn from green to gray-black or yellow-green and can be eaten.

After making the sauerkraut, it is time to cook dinner - sauerkraut noodles.

After eating, clean up the stove, wash the two children, go back to the bedroom and put them on the bed, show them a tape to listen, and then say to them: "Xiaoxi, Binbin, I went to my grandfather's house, and I will come back in a while, I am not allowed to go out of the house, Binbin must be obedient, Xiaoxi is optimistic about my brother, do you hear?"

Seeing the two children nodding obediently, Chen's mother smiled with relief and went out.

As soon as Chen's mother entered the door and found the two old people eating, she greeted her: "Dad, Mom, you have dinner." ”

When Granny Chen saw her daughter-in-law coming, she asked, "Hmm." What about Xiaoxi and Binbin? Why didn't they come?"

"When they were all washed, I let them stay in the house, and when they came out, they were dirty again. After speaking, he paused, and put the two plastic buckets in his hands on the table, "Mom, this is the sauerkraut made from the rape leaves that I went to the field with Xiaoxi Binbin to pick today, a bucket of butter rape, a bucket of black rape, I think the sauerkraut in your house should be almost finished." I'm going to pour it into the jar. ”

After speaking, he picked up the sauerkraut and poured it into the sauerkraut jar.

Chen's mother talked with the old man for a while, and after the two old men finished eating and helped wash the pots and dishes, they went home with empty plastic buckets.

Xiaoxi listened carefully to her mother's breathing, and after making sure that her mother was asleep, she flashed into the space.

After entering the space, the creek first started to harvest the crops in the field.

Although the area of the space is large, the creek has only reclaimed 1 acre of land, planted half an acre of corn, and planted half an acre of vegetables.

The corn has just been packed, and it is estimated that it will be picked tomorrow, and Xiaoxi does not plan to wait for the corn to be old, but plans to wait for the corn to be tender, refreshing, delicious, sweet and charming, and it will probably be about the same tomorrow night.

In the vegetable field, cowpeas and green beans are blooming, peppers are sprouting, eggplants are blooming, and tomatoes are just bearing fruit...... Well, the cucumber is just right, just long, the yellow flowers are still hanging on it, this is the time when it is sweet and refreshing, juicy and delicious, and the picking is just right.

The stream follows the route of planting cucumbers, picks them and puts them in the small basket next to them, and then carries them into the warehouse.

Then the potatoes were dug up and put into the warehouse, and the sweet potato vines were cut.

The creek had a tool room on the first floor, and took a sickle, an axe, and a saw from the tool room, put them in a small back basket, and carried them up the hill.