"Eh, Sanwazi, you went this time, so I told them that the meal was ready, and it was time to come back for dinner. Granny Chen remembered that the meal was almost ready, so she loaded a backload of rape seedlings, and shouted to the three babies who were about to go out on the side.

"Well, auntie, I know. As soon as I heard that I was going to eat, I tightened my back rope (a strap woven with a nylon pocket on my shoulder) and ran two steps quickly.

When Granny Chen entered the house, Xiaoxi had already fried all the other dishes, was boiling water, and the pot was boiling lotus root slices.

At a casual glance, seeing that it was the mother-in-law who came back, he didn't say anything, Xiaoxi quickly scooped up the lotus root slices and put them aside in a basin of cold water, scooped up the water, poured oil, grabbed a small handful of dried chili peppers into it, stir-fried a few times, and when the surface of the chili peppers was fried slightly yellow, he scooped them into the bowl and put them aside, leaving them for later use.

Pour in a large amount of rapeseed oil, stir-fry the fish pieces in the pot, fry until four or five medium cooked, add water and cover the pot to start the guy simmer slowly, and then put in sauerkraut, tofu and bean sprouts in turn, a pot of fragrant sauerkraut fish is good.

Drain the lotus root slices, add salt, soy sauce, vinegar, chicken essence, Sichuan pepper noodles and the fried chili oil, and stir well. Seeing that Xiaoxi's movements were still a little rusty, but they were sharp enough, Granny Chen nodded with satisfaction, and picked up a piece of lotus root and tasted it, "Hmm~ sour, sour, sour, sour, sour, okay." ”

I just went out to load rape seedlings, and when I came back, I didn't wash my hands and twisted the vegetables to eat, although I was not happy, but I was appreciated, Xiaoxi was very happy, took out the plate from the cupboard, and put the lotus root slices on the plate.

While the people who came back from work were still washing their hands and faces, Xiaoxi followed her mother-in-law and hurriedly served the food to the table.

"Come on, come on, let's sit down and eat. Granny Chen beckoned everyone to start the meal, "Don't be polite, I cooked a lot of rice today, I'll scoop it when I'm done, it's enough, hahaha." Xiaoxi poured soy milk for a few people who didn't drink alcohol.

"Well, yes, sister, sit down, we don't need you to say hello, we all know. When the uncle on the side saw that his sister was still standing, he called her to sit down and eat.

I was very thirsty after running all morning, and as soon as the creek was poured, Zhao Juan picked up the paper cup and took a big sip, and then remembered something, rolled her eyes, quickly put down the cup, and whispered to the creek: "Xiaoxi, is there anything else?"

Because Zhao Juan and her brother followed the adults and were busy in the fields all morning, their whole faces were hot and crimson, like a monkey's buttocks, and their hair was wet, sticking to their foreheads and necks one by one, and the stream was very distressed. Thinking that no matter how much I persuaded her to stay at home in the morning, I would not listen, and I had to follow her to the field, Xiaoxi said angrily: "Yes, you drink quickly, some of them are drunk by you." As he spoke, he picked up the soy milk bottle on the table and stuffed it into her hand.

Zhao Juan took it without refusal, seeing that there was still half a bottle, her heart was beautiful, so she didn't need to save it, and quickly drank two more sips to quench her thirst, this was the creek frozen. Two mouthfuls and a paper cup bottomed out, Zhao Juan raised her head and smiled embarrassedly at the stream, "Hehe...... This one is so delicious. Without waiting for Xiaoxi to say anything, he unscrewed the cap and poured another glass.

Looking at Zhao Juan, who was unaware of the white bubbles that had been printed around her mouth, Xiaoxi gave her a roll of her eyes angrily, and then picked up the bowl and began to eat.

Stir-fry these vegetables have smelled enough of oil smoke, so now there is no appetite, Xiaoxi will start to the cold lotus root slices, well~ The fishing is very timely, crispy, sour and spicy is very rice.

"Haha...... Today's dishes are all fried in the creek, it's okay, I didn't even have a hand, just stood aside and watched. Hearing Granny Chen's show-off, Xiaoxi's hand shaking the vegetables, turned his head to look, and found that several people at the table had turned their heads to look at themselves, and hurriedly grabbed a lotus root slice with chopsticks and ate it violently.

At this time, I heard Granny Chen's laughter, and Grandpa Chen, who looked over, quipped: "No wonder I said that today's dish is so delicious, it is not at your level at all." ”

"Hmph~ I'm not fried well, you haven't eaten it all your life. "Oops, this bowl of dog food really caught the creek off guard.

"Hahaha......" The unintentional words made the people on the table laugh, and the smiling Granny Chen blushed embarrassedly, so she had to bury her face in the rice bowl.

Zhao Juan looked at the laughing adults, very helpless, what happened, expressed a look of bewilderment, seeing the stream on the side buried in eating and not talking, she had to follow the stream to clip a chopsticks of lotus root.

"Hmm~ Xiaoxi, this is really made by you? It's delicious. Zhao Juan pointed to the lotus root slices in the bowl and said with a look of surprise.

"Well, just blanch it in the water, and then mix it cold, there are still some lotus roots left in the house, if you want, when you go back later, I'll put two sections for you." The brook whispered into her ear.

"Hmm. "You must know that no one grows lotus root in their village, this is a new thing, Zhao Juan thought it was bought when she was in a hurry, and she didn't think much about it. "Well~ This sauerkraut fish is also delicious, sour, and the tofu is boiled to taste......"

"This soup and rice is also very delicious, will you come to some later? When I stewed fish today, I deliberately added half a pot of water, and there was still half a pot of soup in the pot at the head of the house. Thinking of the deliciousness of fish soup and rice, Xiaoxi couldn't help but share it with Xiaoxi on the side.

As soon as she heard this, Zhao Juan's eyes suddenly flashed with golden light, "Really? As he spoke, he picked up a piece of lotus root with chopsticks.

"I want it too, I want it too. Chen Yubin, who was on the side, was not willing to be lonely, and leaned over and said hurriedly.

Seeing that he slashed rice, and several grains of rice fell off his clothes and pants, Xiaoxi carefully twisted it, Zou frowned, and complained: "You eat slowly, eating too fast is not good for your stomach, besides, there is a lot of fish soup in the pot, you have to drink, why are you grabbing it so fast?"

Chen Yubin raised his head from the bowl and laughed embarrassedly "hehe".

Looking at his dumbfounded appearance, Xiaoxi glanced at him angrily, "You have to eat slowly, you can't be in a hurry......"

The days are as usual, Xiaoxi and they should go to school, and the family also turns over the corn harvested some time ago and dries it into the cabinet and seals it, and these grains will be sold until the spring of the next year. The Xiaoxi family now sells all the millet, wheat, and corn they grow at home, and the family eats all the crops grown in the space.

To eat rice and flour, because there is no machine at home, it is necessary to rely on Grandpa Chen and Granny Chen's hands to wipe off one ear after ear and then process it. These are what Granny Chen said, bought directly from the human land, she has been in this place all her life, and the county has never been out, although she is very curious, why do people sell it so much, but I think it may be like this outside, so I didn't ask much.

After chopping the red weed in the creek and feeding it to the pigs, I looked at the six pigs in the two pigsty, and now they are fat and strong, and the food on weekdays is good.

An acre of red lotus was planted in the self-reserved land in front of Xiaoxi's house, and thousands of catties were harvested, and people must not be able to eat it all. The ones that have been dug up and those that have been eaten by insects are selected, and some of them are of good condition, cut into strips and dried, and some are thrown into the porridge when cooking, and the rest are piled up in the pigsty, cut into pieces and fed to the pigs. There are two red cellars in front of the house and behind the house, and those who are left are good, choose those who are of good quality and bury them in the small cellar behind the house for people to eat and seed, and bury the rest in the cellar in front of the house, and chop the pigs and cook them when the pigweed is gone in winter.

There are also pumpkins, every year on the side of the yard dam on a few seedlings, the vines will climb all over the yard, in the autumn, to harvest hundreds of pounds of pumpkins. Save a few sweet noodles in the pot, and pile the rest into the pigsty and keep it for cooking for the pigs in winter.

Alas, the brook propped up his chin, leaned against the railing, and watched the incense of the few heads in the circle who did not know what had been calculated, and waited another month or two, and then it would be over, and one would be killed and eaten by himself, and five would be given to the pig dealers. Although the current hairy pork (that is, alive) is only more than three yuan a catty, when the time comes, these five pigs will have to be sold for four or five thousand yuan, which is a lot of income for the Chen family, who have been digging in the field all year round.

There are also more than 40 chickens at home, and they can pick up more than 20 eggs every day, and they rush to sell them once or twice from time to time. There are more than a dozen ducks at home, and they can also pick up a few green-skinned duck eggs every day. Last year, I also raised a few geese, but this guy was fierce, and he bit the creek a few times, leaving a lot of shadows in the creek's heart, so this year the family didn't raise it.

This year, the seven-year-old buffalo in Xiaoxi's house gave birth to another cub, the little male cub under the year before last was bought by the third aunt for a thousand, and now this little cub has been more than two months, Xiaoxi was surprised to tell her mother-in-law that the calf was gnawing on the soil to eat, and Granny Chen smiled and said: "This means that it has grown up and is going to start eating grass, hahaha......" Sure enough, it didn't take long for the guy to eat some on the tip of the tender grass every day.

These days, Grandpa Chen has made small fish sauce a few times, because now Grandpa Chen has not caught the piglets back, and it is not yet time to sell the chicks, so he can only make small fish sauce and sell it, and there is a fixed income of seventy or eighty yuan a week. The four jars of chili sauce at home were also sunried, and they were put into the space by the creek, and some fresh chili peppers were selected to be beaten and dried.

Xiaoxi looked at the glass bottles in the space that were gradually decreasing, and was very worried, how could this bottle of sauce be cleaned if it was gone? There were no glass factories or anything like that in the county, so it had to be recycled.

It is stipulated that those small glass bottles are recycled according to two cents each, and the large glass bottles are recycled by five cents each, and in the future, when you come to buy sauce here in the creek, you can also take your own bottle, and you can reduce two cents and five cents. In this way, the unused glass bottles returned to the creek, waiting to be used again.

Everything was on track, the weather was getting colder day by day, and everyone was wearing light coats.