In the past few days, Chen's mother has also been calling Xiaoxi and their homeroom teacher, mainly to ask about the resumption of classes for a long time.

After a few more days, in the second half of the year, the wheat was basically yellow, and it was time for harvest.

On the first day, Mr. Chen found all the saws and sickles (a sickle-like tool with teeth that they used to harvest crops and a sickle for chopping wood) and sharpened them on the stones.

In the morning, everyone got up when it was just dawn and they could see the road clearly.

"Mother-in-law, you sleep with yours, your eyes are not good, just stay at home, and help cook in the creek later. When we carry the wheat back, you can help us turn it over. Old Man Chen stopped Wang Aihua, who was about to get up.

Wang Aihua also knew that her eyes, like this, it was dark outside, but she was a little embarrassed to eat here, so she said that she would get up and help them cut wheat.

Since his father-in-law said so, Wang Aihua got up and sat back on the bed, "That's right." ”

Xiaoxi is not used to sleeping inside, so she knows when Chen's mother is together. "Well, Mom, are you up?" rubbed his eyes that couldn't be opened, and looked outside, it was not yet dawn, but this is how the farm is busy, if you don't get up early to get busy, the sun will be big for a while, and people can't do their work.

Moreover, the wheat is ripe, and if you don't hurry back home, if it rains, you will be busy this season.

Listening to the busy sound of everyone outside, Xiaoxi suddenly woke up and got up from the bed in a hurry.

Putting on his shoes, he saw that on the bed opposite, Chen Yubin was still asleep, and Xiaoxi stepped forward and pushed him twice. "Binbin, I'm up, I'm still sleeping. ”

"Hmm~ What are you doing?" Chen Yubin rolled over impatiently, his face against the bamboo mat, and pouted his ass against the stream.

"It's time to get up, grandpa, they're all up, and they're going to harvest wheat today." ”

After all, Chen Yubin was still woken up by her, and when they came out, Old Man Chen and the others had already packed their things and were ready to go.

"What are you two doing here? Go back to sleep. Seeing that Chen Yubin still looked sleepy-eyed, Old Man Chen said with some distress.

The two children are growing up, and besides, they are enough. The two of them are old, the eldest is two, plus Luo Guowen, there are five people in total, just more than two acres of wheat, a few of them are enough.

"Yes, Binbin, Xiaoxi, you two go back to bed, it's not dawn yet, a few of us are enough. Granny Chen grabbed the back rope and said to the siblings.

"Oh. "That being said, I really haven't woken up yet.

"Creek?"

"Huh?" Xiaoxi looked up at Old Man Chen.

"Later, when you wake up, get up and cook, and bring it to us when it's ready. Let's go first. ”

"Oh. With a word of agreement, the brook returned to the shed in a daze, and lay down for a while and fell asleep.

"Let's go. Seeing that the sky was slightly white, Old Man Chen urged.

When I woke up again, it was already dark.

Xiaoxi wandered all the way to Chen Laoqi (that is, Xiaoxi's father) house.

A few days after the earthquake, everyone didn't dare to cook in the stove room, because there were always aftershocks, and then it gradually got better, and the weather was getting hotter and hotter, and cooking outside couldn't stand it, so everyone went back to the house to cook. Still, sleep outside.

Xiaoxi's stove room is relatively deep, and if there is any emergency, I am afraid that it will be too late, so everyone discussed cooking at Chen Laoqi's house. However, his stove was badly damaged, and he didn't dare to cook there.

Fortunately, when the house was being built, Mr. Chen proposed to build two stoves in order not to trouble his two sons when he was old, one in the stove room and the other in the hall.

Because this stove has not been used since it was built, it has been idle, so it has accumulated a thick layer of ash, and it took everyone an hour to clean it out and install things such as cutting boards and water tanks.

Before he reached the door of the hall, the creek smelled a smell of smoke, trotted two steps, leaned in from the door, and saw Wang Aihua sitting in front of the stove and cooking pots.

"Grandma, have you been up for a long time?" she just got up and came straight over, and didn't go to see the shed where Grandma lived, so she didn't know she had gotten up.

"The brook is up? I've just gotten up. Hearing his granddaughter's voice, Wang Aihua's face unconsciously smiled.

The creek got closer and saw that the rice was all in the pot, is this still called just rising?

"Grandma, why don't you sleep a little longer, what are you doing so early? I also said that I will cook, you have to cook this. ”

"Huh...... When people get old, they don't sleep much, and when that time comes, they wake up and can't sleep, so I get up and cook. ”

Xiaoxi took his own toothbrush and towel and went outside to brush his teeth and wash his face.

Put the toiletries back away. Now that the meal was almost ready, Xiaoxi groped around the pile of vegetables on the ground, and returned to the board with more than a dozen tender cucumbers.

After washing, take a kitchen knife and "pop" for a while, pat the cucumber into small pieces, take a basin and put it in a pot, add salt, chicken essence, peppercorn noodles, soy sauce, vinegar and cooked chili noodles, and stir well.

I also took out a few handfuls of kimchi from the kimchi jar on the ground next to the board and cut them into cubes, and put in chicken essence, soy sauce and cooked chili noodles.

This jar of kimchi was re-soaked this time, because several daughters picked a lot of green beans and cowpeas for the home, and they couldn't finish eating it for a while, so Mr. Chen set up a jar, selected the most tender green beans and cowpeas to soak it, and soaked some carrots and peppers. The rest of the green beans and cowpeas, choose the tender ones, choose them to be scalded in hot water, dried into vegetables, and kept for winter.

When the cold cucumber and cold kimchi are ready, the porridge cooked by Wang Aihua is also ready.

Xiaoxi took three large bowls from the cupboard, scooped up three bowls of porridge, scooped the remaining porridge in the pot into the basin, and cooled it.

Bring three bowls of rice to the dining table, and bring two small bowls of cold cucumbers and cold pickles on the cutting board, which are not put in chili peppers. Because Wang Aihua has been alone for many years, he can't eat spicy anymore.

Xiaoxi ran to the head of the courtyard dam and shouted in the direction of the shed, "Binbin, Binbin?"

When Chen Yubin heard the scream, he opened his eyes suddenly, and when he saw that it was already bright outside, he hurriedly turned over and got up, and ran to the road with his shoes on.

"Huh, sister?"

"Hurry up and eat. ”

"Oh, here we are. So saying, he ran this way.

Xiaoxi didn't wait for him, and turned back to the hall.

"Grandma, you eat first. Binbin will have to wait a while. ”

"I'll wait for you together. ”

Xiaoxi remembered that Chen's mother fried a big pot of sauerkraut last night, and brought it out of the cupboard and put it on the dining table.

Sauerkraut and porridge are a perfect match!

It just so happened that the rice was still hot, so I waited for Chen Yubin by the way.