"Sister-in-law Li, today is a holiday, you can go back after cooking lunch, they will do it themselves for dinner, and there is no training task left and right. ”

Before Xiang Gang left, he said to Widow Li.

"Hey. Widow Lee happily responded.

I thought that this Sunday, Cangzhu was resting at home, and the two of them could finally sit face to face and have a meal together.

Since she went up the mountain to cook for the People's Liberation Army, she went out before dawn, stewed multigrain porridge in the pot, and left it for breakfast in Cangzhu. The first two nights Cangzhu sat under the oil lamp and waited for her, but when she saw his little person, holding a book in his hand, and his head was dozing little by little, Widow Li was distressed, and under the pretext that the oil lamp was expensive, she didn't let her son wait for her, and went to bed after dark.

As a result, the two of them didn't even have time to talk. Now that she can go back and cook a meal for her son, Widow Li is very happy.

Xiang Gang walked a few steps, and then turned back: "Sister-in-law Li, I didn't have time to ask before, you came here voluntarily for this job, right?"

At first, he thought that the public society would elect a man who knew how to cook, but unexpectedly it was a woman.

The widow who is not a widow is secondary. Xiang Gang still has this confidence in the soldiers under him, and he will never do anything that violates the integrity of the soldiers.

The main thing is that it is dark after dinner, and I am afraid that it is not safe to walk on the mountain road. There is still a lot of walking from the foot of the mountain to Jiangkou Port, and it will be nine or ten o'clock when you get home.

It's not that the beasts in the forest are afraid of hurting people. With the smell left by Xiao Jin and the wolf dung contributed by the wolves, those inferior beasts didn't have the courage to provoke at all.

He was worried about people—the unsightly scoundrels, who would be guilty of seeing a woman go down the mountain alone in the dark, doing something inferior to a beast.

But according to his understanding of the old secretary, if there are men and women who are willing to come to the mountain to take over the cooking, they will not pick a woman to come. In other words, no one wanted to come, and it was Widow Li's turn. It's okay if you volunteer, just in case......

"Gangzi, don't worry about this, I came voluntarily. Widow Li hurriedly explained, "You can get full work by cooking three meals, which is much easier than going to the field." Like us women, we work in the fields, and very few of us earn full work. ”

Xiang Gang heard her say this and nodded: "It's good if it's voluntary." But after cooking dinner, it's dark down the mountain, so don't do it in advance next time, anyway, it's warm, you don't have to eat it while it's hot, just make do with it. ”

"It's okay, it's okay. Widow Li waved her hand and said, "You train so hard every day, and you rely on three meals to replenish your strength, how can you make do with it." I know that you are worried that it is not safe for me to go down the mountain in the dark, so your daughter-in-law sent me a package of medicinal powder. ”

Widow Li took out the purse she was carrying and handed it to Xiang Gang: "That's it, not only to avoid snakes and insects, but also to defend yourself when you encounter bad guys." Xiao Shu taught me to scatter the powder when I was in danger, and I ran down the mountain after I was done, and I always carried it with me. ”

Xiang Gang heard that it was a self-defense medicine package sent by his daughter-in-law, and he was a lot of confidence. The last time I went back, I did see a few bottles and jars of grinding medicinal powder on the desk at home, and the medicinal materials were not recognizable, but there was wild pepper among them, and I recognized it when I smelled it, and I thought it was for self-defense.

"Nacheng, since my sister-in-law is willing, then you can do this work first. If it's inconvenient or there is something better to do someday, feel free to let me know. ”

"Okay, okay, don't worry, Gangzi, I will definitely not hold you back, I will do this job well. Widow Li nodded repeatedly.

How could it be unwilling. She can earn ten points by cooking three meals in the mountains, which in her opinion is easier than any job.

In between three meals, you can also sew clothes and buy a few insoles. It doesn't get any easier and more comfortable than that.

Previously, the secretary summoned the members who were good cooks and asked everyone who would like to go up to the mountain to cook for the army, and the conditions offered by the army were quite tempting: you can earn full work by cooking three meals a day, and the requirements are also simple: 1. You must not leave the specified area during the work period, otherwise you will bear the consequences; 2. You should not be late or leave early, and you will not be absent from work without reason, so as not to affect the work and rest of the army.

With these two requirements alone, she thought she would meet a lot of competitors, but no one was willing to go except her. When I asked the reason, they all said that it was too dangerous, and I went in and out of the mountains every day, and who knew if I would encounter wolves and other fierce beasts. Just look at the first requirement, there must be a lot of danger in the vicinity of the station.

The temptation of full work is not very great for male members, and female members, when they think that this job may incur danger to their lives, would rather hoe the ground and pull weeds, which is safe, not tired, and earns less than three points.

Widow Li didn't think so, since the army dared to ask the secretary to recruit a husband in the commune, it was impossible not to consider the safety of the husband. Moreover, Yingfang gave her a reassuring pill the day before, saying that she just had to rest assured in terms of safety, and she would never be fine, so she took the job very calmly.

Those members who wanted to go but didn't dare to go scolded her for asking for money and not wanting her life, and she didn't refute it. Such a good errand, I wish no one would rob her.

As it turns out, it's really safe. After seven days on the job, except for a little discomfort on the first day - between cooking lunch and cooking dinner, there was at least two hours of rest, but I went home and rushed a little.

But the next day she learned wisely - she brought the tattered clothes that needed to be mended at home, and when she rested, she sewed and mended them to do some personal work. As long as you don't leave the yard, it's fine.

After sewing and mending the torn clothes, she brought two pairs of insoles up, and when the insoles were finished, she planned to make a new dress for her son. After a year, the kid seems to have smoked again.

The old professor, who had spent his days in a hut full of bottles and cans and strange materials, told her that here, as long as you do your job, no one will say anything about you.

With such a reasonable job, how could Widow Li not want to continue to do it. She even thought about it, as soon as the vegetable patch at the back of the yard opened, the sewing work would not be brought to the mountain to do, and the vegetable patch would be in charge of her, and no additional work would be counted.

Since Xiang Gang said that he would have a holiday today, and he would be able to go home after cooking lunch, cleaning up the kitchen and stove, Widow Li replied with a smile and went to the kitchen to work.

Xiang Gang said hello to the old professor who was in the laboratory and didn't listen to anything outside the window, brought the back basket and cloth bag that his mother-in-law had brought him to eat, and walked down the mountain easily.

After exiting the fence, I walked along the lush forest, saw the wildflowers everywhere in the forest, and suddenly realized that spring had arrived inadvertently.

After a pause, he turned around and strode towards the lush bamboo forest.

The daughter-in-law likes to eat bamboo shoots, whether they are fresh or dried.

Xiang Gang turned around the bamboo forest in front of the cave by the way, picked up a relatively sharp stone, dug up the surface, dug up the tender spring bamboo shoots, and dug a back basket after a while. Seeing that the family had enough to eat, he marked a few places where it was obvious that he could dig up bamboo shoots, and turned around and asked the team members to dig some bamboo shoots back. This thing is durable, and the fresh vegetables and vegetables in the station will be in place for the next few days.

Out of the bamboo forest, passing through the mixed forest that used to be set up, Xiang Gang turned in and took a look at the trap, and sure enough, it was abandoned. However, in the sunken place, somehow, it was dominated by pheasants into an egg nest, and there were a dozen wild eggs with round heads, pointed ends, and green colors with irregular brown spots.

Just to replenish the body of the daughter-in-law.

Xiang just grabbed half of it and put it into the cloth bag, and the rest didn't move, so he had to leave a few for the pheasants to hatch, otherwise he wouldn't be able to please the humans if they became extinct one day.

Obviously, no one came to this mixed forest, and the rotten wood that fell to the ground was full of full ears and white fungus, and no one picked it. Of course, it may also be that wild vegetables and mushrooms are lush in spring, and a lot of them can be picked near the mountain pass.

Xiang Gang adhered to the principle that good things cannot be wasted, squatted down, and carefully took off a few clusters of white fungus.

His daughter-in-law has told him more than once that white fungus is a good thing. Compared with the tree ears that can be seen everywhere, such a white white fungus is really rare. Take it back and make white fungus soup for your daughter-in-law to drink.

When the last white fungus was in the bag, Xiang Gang straightened up with satisfaction, and suddenly saw something grazing his shoulder, and raised his hand and swung out a punch.

There was a muffled sound, and something was shot down by him like a parabola in the grass more than ten meters away.

"Cluck-"

The noise startled the pheasants foraging among the bushes and fled.

Xiang Gang took a closer look, and the heart he was carrying fell back to its original place. Dare to take precautions subconsciously, shot down a colorful brocade chicken with long tail feathers, and collapsed on the blade of grass completely. Also, hundreds of kilograms of wild boars can be killed by him with one punch, let alone a pheasant of a few catties.

The colorful pheasant is a type of pheasant, named after the brilliant seven-colored feathers around its neck.

Yingfang also caught a colorful brocade chicken with the help of Xiaojin. The beautiful feathers were collected by her and made a fan, which was used to fan the wind in the summer, which was both literary and practical, which provoked Shuangying's sister-in-law and Yuxiang's sister-in-law to ask her more than once where she bought it.

Xiang Gang picked up the colorful brocade chicken that was beaten to death by him with a punch, and he missed his wife and cute baby at home even more. The horizontal and vertical baskets and cloth bags are full, and they no longer wander around, concentrating on going down the mountain to go home.

Yingfang still needs to say, she must be at home with a baby.

On the days when Xiang Gang was away, Sister-in-law Fu and her mother took turns to sleep with her. Three babies, if there is a fuss at night, she can't afford to be alone.

But Rao is helped, and he still feels bad. What can I do? Make up for it during the day.

So, Yingfang's daily life is like this-

Feed the three baby eggs in the morning, get up to wash and eat breakfast, and then hurry back to the room to make up for sleep while the baby eggs are still sleeping.

Basically, the good time of the morning is spent in a daze of sleep.

After eating lunch, I don't dare to sleep anymore, otherwise I will become a night fairy at night. Accompany the awake baby eggs, make them babble and talk for a while, wait for them to fall asleep, and then help the mother and sister-in-law to dry the spring and autumn quilts together.

Seeing that the weather is getting warmer and warmer, the thick quilt in winter can't cover it.

When the whole cabinet was covered, Yingfang actually took out a hard-sealed booklet hidden in it at some point from the bottom of the cabinet, which was one of the treasures she got from the acquisition station before she got married.

However, at that time, I was busy reciting the "Encyclopedia of Chinese Herbal Medicine" given to her by the master, and I didn't read much of the ancient books I found, and the only thing I read carefully was "Red Makeup and Daimei", which taught people how to make rouge gouache.

As for this booklet, Ying Fang had no impression, half angrily and half boredly flipped through it, but she didn't want to look at it and was fascinated.

is a thin booklet, and the records are all practical recipes.

There are two kinds of preparation of single bath beans: palace and folk.

The palace bath bean is made of clove, agarwood, green wood, musk and other precious spices, supplemented by more than ten kinds of fragrant flowers such as peach blossom, Shu water flower, spiral flower, etc., which are put into the mortar and mashed in proportion, ground thousands of times, and then mixed with soybean powder after adding pearl powder and jade shavings. Washing your face with this kind of bath bean can make your skin smooth and smooth and your body moisturized and fragrant.

Folk bath beans are much simpler, and even the formula is not even talked about, just soybeans, mung beans, bowl beans and other beans and honey locusts are ground into powder, which has an excellent cleaning effect on hand washing and bathing. Conditionally, it can be mixed with Chinese herbs such as Angelica dahurica, Atractylodes macrocephalus, Vitex seed, winter melon kernel, gardenia kernel, peach kernel, etc., while cleaning, it can also apply to the face, long-term use, can make the complexion tender as peach blossoms, smooth as jade, and can also go to blackheads and acne.

Ying Fang went through the existing herbs at home and found that she could make up the recipe of folk bath beans, supplemented by some sun-dried petals, and used the small stone mortar that was idle in the warehouse to grind all kinds of beans, herbs, and petals in proportion.

Stepping on the cradle, pounding the stone pestle with his hands, and tossing for more than two days, it can be regarded as the success of the improved version of the folk bath beans.

That night, I pinched a pinch of bath beans and scrubbed my whole body up and down, and found that the effect was surprisingly good!

So, her mother, her father, sister-in-law, and even the old man and Xiao Li all abandoned the soap and used the bath beans she made up to take a bath.

After pounding out the bath beans, Yingfang continued to pound the jade Rongsan.

What is jade Rongsan, as the name suggests, it is a beauty recipe that can make the appearance as beautiful as jade.

Specifically, it can treat dark, dark, and wrinkled.

Thinking about it this way, it is very suitable for rural women who have been exposed to the wind and sun for many years.

The recipe is not complicated: six points of mung bean powder, four points of kaempfera, white aconite, and white zombie silkworm, two points of borneol, and one point of musk, which are ground together into powder. When using, you can mix it with some Huotan Qingquan to apply the face.

It's not hard to get anything else, even if she doesn't have it on hand, the master will definitely be able to get a few points. The difficult ones are the white zombie silkworm and musk, and the master is afraid that there will be no one, so he has to run aground temporarily.

There are many recipes like this, Yingfang feels like she has picked up a treasure, and she really wants to find an opportunity to go to the acquisition station again.

However, I heard her father say that a document came down a year ago, and the upper authorities had stricter control over the acquisition station, and persuaded her not to go around there if she had nothing to do, so she had to put away this thought.

"Babble!"

Nuan Nuan lay on her lap and kicked her feet, interrupting Yingfang's thoughts.

"Bad girl, seeing that your brother and brother are asleep, why are you still so excited?" Ying Fang pointed at the tip of her daughter's nose with her index finger.

"Ahhhh

This girl!

Yingfang didn't have a problem with her. I had to stand up and carry her around the yard.

I don't know what's going on today, this girl has been awake for a long time and still refuses to sleep.