"Creek, bring the pot in the middle to a boil. Chen's mother scooped a scoop of water into the pot and put the piece of fresh meat in it. Before eating fresh meat, it is better to boil it in a pot and blanch out the dirty things.

After blanching, take out the meat, cut one-third of the fresh meat into 2 cm cubes, and put it in the pot of stewed vegetables inside.

"Mom, you slice this meat, the lean and the fat separately. ”

"Mom, when the bacon is cooked, let's get some slices, and they'll have wine. ”

"Mom, let's stir-fry the eggplant and tomato later. ”

"Oh, okay, little nag, I know how to get it, you just have to burn the stove. "It's really noisy, Chen's mother quipped.

It seemed that it was a little too much, and the brook touched her nose and stopped interjecting to concentrate on the fire.

After cutting the vegetables, put the green beans, kelp, shiitake mushrooms, and fungus into the stew in turn. Then the rice is boiled and cooked, and when the outside of the rice begins to soften, the rice soup is scooped up, leaving only the coals in the hole of the pot, and slowly cook until the rice is cooked.

When the rice and stew were almost cooked, Chen's mother scooped up the bacon, cut about a pound of bacon into pieces, put it in the stew and continued to cook, and then cut about half a pound of bacon into slices and put it on a plate. It was almost half past twelve when she got these things done, and Chen's mother began to stir-fry, stir-fry a dish, put it on a plate, buckle it with a bowl, and put it on the board.

Xiaoxi, Chen Yubin and Chen's mother were busy for more than an hour, hurrying to prepare the meal before the people came back. A vegetarian fried cucumber slice is fried crispy, a chili fried tofu, a meat fried beans, a slice of bacon, a vegetarian fried eggplant, and a stew. Six dishes, four meats and two vegetarian dishes, and then a man has a barrel of ten catties of liquor, and a large bottle of Sprite, which is drunk by a child and a woman, which is good when the farm is busy.

"Xiaoxi, go and see if your grandfather has come back. ”

"Oh, yes, Mom. ”

As soon as Xiaoxi came out of the stove room and walked to the head of the courtyard dam, he heard his grandfather's voice, so he simply ran to the edge of the courtyard dam and shouted to the mother-in-law and a few old ladies who were pulling seedlings in the self-reserved field below the slope: "Mother-in-law, come back for lunch." ”

Xiaoxi and their villages are basically planted with dry seedlings, and only a few scattered water seedlings are planted. The dry seedlings are divided into pieces of dry land, sprinkled with grain seeds, covered with adhesive tape, and the grain seeds germinate and grow into 2 or 3 cm, and are inserted into an arch with bamboo strips, and the adhesive tape is uncovered during the day and covered at night, so as to prevent the high temperature during the day to burn the seedlings, and the temperature at night is low and frostbitten, sometimes the temperature is too low at night, and the grain grass will be covered on or around the adhesive paper. When the seedlings are grown to the length of an adult's thumb and index or middle finger, they can be planted.

Hearing the mother-in-law's answer, Xiaoxi ran back, brought a basin of clean water from the kitchen, and then took out the soap and said to the people who had returned from work not far away, "Grandpa, grandpa, uncle, come and wash your hands, and when you are done, you will eat." ”

After speaking, he went back to the kitchen to help his mother set up a table, serve food, and get drinks in the courtyard, because there were many people, two tables were set up, one for men and one for women and children.

Because my grandfather and my uncle lived close to Xiaoxi's family, they called the children of both of them to eat together, after all, there was a lot of oil and water when they worked. A few other people were far away, so they didn't call it.

There is a table for men, a table for women and children, all of whom are advised to drink and eat, chat about family life, and it is very lively.

"This year's rain is okay, and the seedlings are growing well"

"Well, today's seedling is OK, it is green, the roots are thick, and it doesn't take two days to plant it. ”

"Brother Chen's field, you can finish planting it today, and I can also plant it in two days, come and help when the time comes, I will finish planting it for you today, and I will start soaking the field tomorrow."

"No problem, just let me know in advance when the time comes"

"The seedlings I planted for my brother today are so good, green and long"

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"Brother, your family still teaches children, this is only 3 years old, so I will follow the help of adults before and after running, and I am not hungry when I see delicious food"

"Well, the creek is a good one, and his vegetable garden is all taken care of by the creek."

"Wherever there is, it's all children's homes, and they can't help boasting, coming and coming, eating vegetables. ”

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In summer, the sun is shining at 1 or 2 o'clock, in order to avoid the sun and prevent heat stroke, so the farm is basically around 1 o'clock to eat, after eating, the near home to take a nap, the far in the main house to take a nap, around 3 o'clock to work again.

After lunch, everyone went to take a nap, Xiaoxi helped her mother clean up the dishes and chopsticks, sweep the floor, and go to a nap with her mother after finishing it.

After waking up, Xiaoxi found that only his younger brother was still asleep, so he got up and went to find his mother, who didn't know what she was doing.

When I went out, I saw my mother in the yard, who was grinding and grinding soy milk alone.

"Mom, I'll help you. After saying that, the brook ran over and poured a small spoonful of the swirling soybeans into the hole in the grinding plate.

The soybean milk, peanut milk, corn milk, etc. are all made of stones under the stream, which are very stable, and the upper and lower are composed of two round stone slabs with a diameter of about 80 cm and a thickness of 30 cm. The height of the stone mill is about one meter, and a wooden stick is pinned to the waist of an adult, one end is pinned to the stone slab above the stone mill, and the other end is pinned to the waist, and one person can push it away. The slate below will protrude into a circle, which is deliberately made of a groove, and then protrude into an outlet, and put a bucket under the outlet to make the slurry.

There is also a kind of stone mill, which is much larger than this one, and is used to grind things like that, and this kind of stone mill is relatively heavy, and it has to be pushed by livestock. There are only cattle in Xiaoxi Village, no heavy animals such as donkeys and mules, and the only horse in the neighborhood is kept by a veterinarian in the village.

"Mom, why do you grind soy milk so early. ”

"It's not early, it's past 4 o'clock, and they will be back in just over an hour, and they will be planted more than half in the morning, and it will be almost in the afternoon. We've got to hurry. ”

"Hmm. ”

The two mothers and daughters worked together to grind the beans in about ten minutes, and the rest was to clean the stone mill.

"Where's your brother?"

"The little lazy pig is still sleeping"

"Then go and wake him up, or he won't be asleep again at night."

"Hmm" Xiaoxi saw that the soy milk was almost over, so he went back and asked his brother to get up.

When Brook returns to the stone mill to help her mother clean the stone mill, a little boy is followed by her buttocks.

Rinse the stone mill with clean water over and over again, and after washing, stuff a wooden block between the two stones on top to make it easier to dry the water inside the stone. Chen's mother brought the soy milk to the kitchen, and after asking Xiaoxi to boil the cauldron inside, she cleaned the pot, poured the soy milk into it, added some water to fill the pot, put the lid on the pot, and added coarse firewood to burn it vigorously.

I took out the peanuts that I peeled last night in the cupboard, washed and chopped them and put them in the pot to cook together, then scooped a few bowls of rice and scooped them up, put them in when the pot was boiling, and boiled them with firewood. This porridge is called soybean milk porridge in Xiaoxi's house, Xiaoxi later went to Beijing to study, but did not find this kind of porridge in Beijing, and I haven't eaten it in all those years, and I miss it very much.

After the porridge was ready, Chen's mother scooped up the porridge with two large iron basins and cooled it, so that when they came back to eat, it would not be hot, because it was too hot in the summer. There are too many leftovers at noon, and I can't put them on a hot day, so I heat up all the leftovers at noon.

After making it, the brook scooped some water in the washbasin, washed it with her mother, and spent more than an hour in the kitchen, which was hot and gray.

After washing, the brook scooped another basin of water and soap and put it in the yard to wait for the grandfathers to come back and wash their hands.

At this time, although the sun was still hanging in the sky, Xiaoxi and his mother took their straw hats and dragged their younger brother to pull weeds in the vegetable garden.

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"Creek, go and scoop us up and wash our hands. ”

"Grandpa, you're back, I've scooped up the water and put it in the yard. ”

"Xiaoxi, Binbin went home. When Chen's mother saw that the workers had returned, she packed up and went home and served them vegetables and rice.

After serving the dishes to the table, I saw my mother coming out with a big pot of porridge, Xiaoxi went to hold the bowl, and Chen Yubin took chopsticks. Chen's mother scooped rice, Xiaoxi handed the bowl next to her, Chen Yubin divided the chopsticks, and the three of them worked together.

By the time everyone finished washing their hands and faces and sat down on the table, the three of them had already scooped up the rice.

"Guihua, you go and bring the medicinal wine I brewed, and a few of us old guys will drink two glasses. Chen Youde instructed the eldest daughter-in-law on the table next to him.

"Oh, yes, Dad. ”

After Chen's mother took out the wine, Chen Youde personally poured it for a few old people, and a few people pushed the cups and changed them.

"Mom, I want to eat sauerkraut, do you have fried it?" Porridge and sauerkraut are a perfect match, Xiaoxi likes to eat sauerkraut.

"Yes, there is still the rest of the fried yesterday, I'll get it. ”

The sauerkraut in Xiaoxi is different from the sauerkraut in the Northeast, and it is also different from the sauerkraut bought in the supermarket.

With sauerkraut, Xiaoxi ate two bowls of porridge, and he was really holding on, so he took his younger brother for a walk with a shy stomach.

Because it was still early, several old people drank wine, reminisced, bragged, gossiped and gossiped, and the meal was eaten for nearly two hours, and everyone dispersed.

Because Xiaoxi's family finished planting the seedlings the day before, Grandpa Chen and Grandma Chen went to help other people's families the next day, and Chen's mother watched the two little ones at home.

Xiaoxi's house is with the houses of the other four families, surrounded by a courtyard, in fact, it did look like a courtyard at first, but one side was demolished.

Why is it like a courtyard house? Because the house of the Xiaoxi family occupies one side, and the other four families work together to occupy two sides, and the house of the Xiaoxi family is not connected to their house. It's not done together, it's just together.

After breakfast, Xiaoxi took his younger brother to play in the neighbor's house, that is, in the yard.

Alas, it's really boring, 3 or 4-year-old children don't need to work, except for turning ropes and playing with mud, they really don't know what to do.

Time flies quickly, and half a month has passed in a blink of an eye. In the past half a month, Xiaoxi and his younger brother have passed by in eating and drinking. Because the two children are still young, every time the adults go to help someone else's house, they will ask the two little ones to go to dinner at noon.