"Yingfang, are you going up the mountain again?" Xiang Er, who came back from cutting vegetables in the self-reserved land, greeted Qingling from afar. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

"Auntie, is dinner ready?" Qingling asked with a smile.

"It's boiled and simmered. I couldn't think of what to eat, so I went to the field and cut a cabbage, and made a plate of vinegared cabbage for your second uncle to drink. Oh, this is the vine tomato grown by my family, the eggplant from my mother's house, you can take a few back and eat it. If you like, I'll leave you some seeds next year. ”

said to the second aunt, picked a few long-looking eggplants from the bamboo basket and stuffed them into Qingling's hands.

Qingling thanked her and accepted it. Thinking about going back and sending a plate of chicken to the second uncle, how could there be vinegared cabbage and wine.

The second elder of the Zhang family was no longer surprised that Qingling brought a fat pheasant back from time to time. Of course, there are still surprises.

"This chicken is lame, I'm afraid it's not easy to raise, otherwise put it in the backyard of Gangzi's house, didn't he let you find two chicken mothers, and raise them until the end of the year to slaughter them for the New Year?"

Qingling really forgot about this, twisted her braids and said, "Then I'll ask Second Aunt Xiang in a while to see if she has any familiar people who want to transfer Ji Niang." ”

Chickens shed their feathers quickly, unlike ducks, where the fluff is so thin that it can make people feather.

As soon as the hot water in the pot boils, you can remove the feathers of the chickens that have been cleaned of blood. Carrying the chicken feet soaked in hot water, turning over and over a few times, the chicken feathers immediately faded clean.

Grandma Zhang sat on the small bench and sighed while shedding the feathers of the chickens: "I think I have killed more chickens this year than in the past three years." ”

Qingling couldn't help laughing: "Master, it's far from the end of the year." Maybe more chickens will be killed in the second half of the year than in the past decade. ”

Grandma Zhang couldn't stop smiling: "You girl, you like to tease me." ”

Fade the chicken feathers, cut open the belly, take out the belly goods, wash the whole chicken, and Grandma Zhang cut it into four pieces according to Qingling's meaning.

Keep two pieces for your own home. Stew a piece today, stew a piece tomorrow, plus the soup in the belly, can make people's tongues fresh.

The other two pieces were wrapped in a layer of taro leaves, stuffed into the back basket, and sent to the second uncle's house and the book's house before dinner.

Aunt Xiang didn't expect to send out a few eggplants in exchange for a piece of strong chicken thigh, but she refused to accept anything.

Qingling deliberately lowered her face: "Auntie, if you don't accept it, next time I'm embarrassed to ask you to beg for mash?"

Xiang Auntie couldn't cry or laugh: "That's okay, my aunt accepted it cheekily." The new rice is brewed with wine, and the mash can be taken at any time. ”

The secretary's daughter-in-law, Deng Mei, joked with an ambiguous smile: "Did you make an appointment with Gangzi? He returned to the army and sent it to you in exchange?

Qingling's face, under the ridicule of the aunts again and again, is getting thicker and thicker, and I don't know if she will be able to practice in the future.

Although his cheeks were stained with a faint red, he said: "I picked up his cheapness, and I was afraid that he would come back to settle accounts with me, so I came to block my aunt's mouth." ”

"Hahaha......"

After returning from the secretary's house, the Zhang family also had dinner.

The fragrant mushroom chicken soup is tempting when you smell it. When you drink it in your mouth, it tastes so fresh that your soul will float up.

"Did you ask your second aunt about raising chickens?" Grandma Zhang put a piece of chicken wings in the Qingling bowl and asked casually.

Qingling nodded: "I asked, but I haven't heard of any extra chicken girls for the time being." Don't worry, Master, don't I have two, one person is cold and lonely for the New Year, if Brother Gangzi comes back, we both go to you for the New Year, two chickens are counted as our partner fee, go back and get a few more fish, cut two catties of meat, except for ducks, chickens and fish are available, do you say okay?"

"Stupid!" Grandma Zhang poked her head, "You guys come to me for the New Year, I can't welcome the old man or me, so why don't you use any partner fees." Let's talk about it first, no matter whether Gangzi comes back for the New Year or not, you will come to our house and have a good gathering with Yue Jun's family. You don't have to worry about anything else, you raise those two chickens well, and then go back and make you a drunken chicken. It's best for Gangzi to come back, and it's okay if you don't go back, after all, it's a troop, and you have to listen to the arrangement. ”

"Hmm!" Qingling nodded heavily.

She heard Mao Afeng in front of the house gloat more than once that Mrs. Shu was beating her two chickens. Usually I don't have a chance, but when it comes to the New Year, I will definitely try my best to win her over, such as pulling her to the old house for the New Year, and I can't bring something to the door when I go. Nothing else, the chickens aren't there.

So it's better to settle down early. Save the gang in the old house from being foolish.

As for the New Year's goods for the elders, who said that they must have meat? Shu Jianqiang's eldest son is here, and he can use her unfavored adopted granddaughter to honor the New Year's chicken?

She was going to send a few pounds of rations. Well, I scooped it from the bag that Shu Jianqiang apologized for.

She didn't know if Mrs. Shu would jump in anger, but she wouldn't throw it out if she thought about it.

In the second half of the year, Lao Shu's family lacked a major labor force, and they may not be enough to eat, so dare to throw it? Beware of being struck by lightning!

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The days move forward unhurriedly.

Qingling gradually adapted to the sometimes busy and sometimes idle work of the health center.

The millet of the two acres of land in the belly of the mountain was also transported back to the cave after several trips back and forth as if she were an ant.

The earliest batch of millet had been completely dried in the shade for a few days, and in the dead of night, Xiao Jin easily carried it home to the warehouse.

The rest of the millet, just in time for the sunny weather, was also spread out in the cave.

But relying on this area in the cave alone, it takes several rounds to dry. Millet that has not been thoroughly dried is easy to mold and deteriorate if it has been in the sack for a long time.

So the family also shared half of the drying. Needless to say, the floor of the east house and the hall house, even the idle beds, incense tables, and even counters are all spread with millet hanging in the stitches.

After a few days of heel-beating work, I finally got all the millet to dry, bag, and put it in the warehouse before the first rain of autumn fell.

Qingling breathed a long sigh of relief.

At the same time, it is a pity that I was not able to harvest the ripe sunflowers before the first autumn rains.

When harvesting millet, I passed by the sunflower forest and found a few bushes with good sunlight, and the sunflower seeds were full enough to be harvested.

I thought that I would go to harvest sunflowers after harvesting millet, but I didn't want it to rain.

It's inconvenient to go up the mountain in the rain, and it's wet to take it back.

Thinking about that sunflower forest, although the area is not as large as the millet field, there are not many scattered trees in the east and west, except for the empty and moldy ones, you can still harvest a lot. There will be no more entanglement.

There was no place to go on a rainy day, and it was too early to leave the meal after work, so Qingling went to Zhang's sister-in-law's house to learn how to drive and dress.