Old Man Chen pondered for a moment and said tentatively, "There are a few new pot brushes upstairs. It means that you can take one apart and pull out a few sorghum stalks.

Xiaoxi nodded, "Master, then you can help me draw a few sorghum stalks." Three or four will do. ”

"Hmm. Old Man Chen pushed the stool and walked to the sleeping house.

In their place, the staple food is rice, the non-staple food is noodles, and only occasionally they eat Huizijia buns, dumplings, and rice balls. Like corn, when it is tender, it is peeled off the pot and boiled porridge; when it is old, the selected ones are full of grains, ground into fine powder, and when the porridge is cooked, it is mixed into a fine pulp and poured into the pot to cook the cornmeal porridge. It's all delicious.

In this way, corn is also consumed less, mainly for the family's livestock, such as chickens and pigs.

As for sorghum, basically every household will plant it every year, but they all plant a little, not even a cent of land, and choose the land that is not fertile enough to plant.

Sorghum stalks are used to tie pots, brushes and brooms, both of which can be used in ordinary times, and are indispensable in every household's daily life.

Like now, the floor of the house is full of dirt, and a broom tied with a sorghum stalk is much better than a brown broom or something that I bought. Even if the mud floor at home is replaced with a concrete floor, this broom is better than other brooms.

As for the sorghum rice, Xiaoxi didn't pay attention, what did Old Man Chen do here, she didn't know, anyway, she hadn't eaten it at home.

Oh~ There are a few sorghum pillows at home, and they look a little old.

Therefore, Xiaoxi heard someone say that it is very unusual for his family to eat sorghum rice, how to eat sorghum rice?

"Hey~ This green bean monster is delicious. Old Man Chen took a string bean and ate it, raised his eyebrows, his eyes lit up, and said to Xiaoxi.

Hearing this, Chen Yubin, who was still disgusted with vegetables just now, opened the green beans, and only looked for the meat below to eat, and hurriedly grabbed the chopsticks and green beans to taste.

"Mmmm, it's delicious...... "Before the green beans in his mouth were completely chewed and swallowed, Chen Yubin hurriedly expressed his opinion.

Old Man Chen frowned, his face was calm, and he tapped the edge of the bowl with the chopsticks in his hand, "Eat, eat, talk, and wait for the contents of your mouth to swallow." In case it's not covered, it's all over the place. As far as the people at the head of their own house see it, it's nothing, if the others see it, they will be very talked. ”

The corners of Chen Yubin's upturned mouth drooped, pouted, nodded, and said "um". The interest in eating has decreased a little, but it will be fine again in a while, and he will not be unable to get along with the food.

The creek also sandwiched chopsticks and green beans to try. "Well, it's delicious...... It was supposed to be the oil from the fried pork belly, and when I put the green beans on the side, the oil was soaked in the green beans, so it was delicious when roasted. ”

Thinking of a better way to barbecue, Xiaoxi's eyes lit up and said to Old Man Chen, "Hey...... Master, then I'll roast meat in the front and vegetables in the back, especially potatoes and eggplant. …… It's just that the meat is not much better. ”

Not a lot is not much left, less means.

"Well, yes, it's better to bake it this way than to just bake it in clear oil. There's still half of the meat left, and you can roast some more vegetables to feed us, and we have some rice. Old Man Chen stretched his neck and looked at the marinated meat in the meat basin.

"Well, indeed, I'm seven or eight minutes full now. Granny Chen's empty left hand, rubbing her stomach, said to Xiaoxi. She ate the most just now.

"It's not enough, isn't there still soup, drink two bowls, so many snacks at home, if you are hungry in the afternoon, just eat two more pieces." Old Man Chen said indifferently, he had never eaten so well before. After thinking about it, he said, "However, I guess it's enough." ”

"That's fine. "Mr. Chen has a good control over the amount of food, and he can basically make sure that there is no surplus food, and everyone is full.

But like guests at home or asking for help or something, they are still used to cooking more meals.

The first is to prevent accidents, such as when you are tired from work, the amount of food increases greatly, or there are other guests suddenly at home, you can't say that you are all eating, so that people can watch it.

The second is that if the rice is cooked just right, and others want to scoop two bowls, and when they see that there is not much rice in the pot, they are embarrassed to scoop it, and as a result, they are hungry, and they have to complain when they go home, saying "this family, they can't eat enough to help (or go to be a guest)", and say things like "no"; or after eating, they see that there is no rice left in the pot, and even if they are full, they will say that you are stingy and reluctant to cook more.

Therefore, in addition to eating at home, if there are others, they will cook more, not only to prevent accidents, but also to eliminate other people's tongues.

To the surprise of the brook, they had eaten all the vegetables and had left the meat.

Looking at the remaining half bowl of barbecue, Xiaoxi pushed Chen Yubin who was spread out on the chair, "Binbin, you eat the rest of the meat, otherwise it will have to be hot at night." ”

Chen Yubin didn't even dare to touch his stomach, swallowed his saliva, shook his head, and said weakly: "I have more than enough heart but not enough strength! If I don't eat, I won't eat, I'm too full, and if I eat again, my stomach will burst." "The meat is delicious, and the straight people have an endless aftertaste, but the stomach is too small to fit it.

"Sister......" Chen Yubin tugged at Xiaoxi's sleeve and said with a shy face: "Sister, why don't you put it in your space, wait for me to digest it for a while, and you can give me food again...... Hehe, it's still hot then, so you don't need to be hot anymore. ”

Xiaoxi directly gave him a pair of white eyes, pulled back his sleeve, and took the meat bowl. Although Granny Chen was spread out on the chair at this time, squinting her eyes and pretending to sleep, Xiaoxi still turned her back.

turned around again, the bowl in his hand was gone, and Chen Yubin smirked "hey, hey, hey".

Although it was delicious, the creek still controlled the amount, but it still ate a little more than usual.

Everyone ate relatively full, and Granny Chen and Chen Yubin were too full to eat, and it was not good to drink hawthorn water, so Xiaoxi brought a plate of hawthorn cake and put it in the middle of the table, so that everyone could eat some and eliminate food.

After resting on the chair for a while, he got up to help Mr. Chen pack up his things, and Granny Chen and Chen Yubin continued to stay at the head of the courtyard and spread out on the chair to bask in the sun.

When I went back to the house, when I passed by the board, I didn't see the oil basin in the creek, but there was an extra plastic bucket under the board that I don't know how many pounds, and it was filled with most of the barrel of oil.

Old Man Chen washed the dishes, and Xiaoxi had to go outside to bake chestnut cakes.

Sitting at the dinner table, thinking about it, is so boring. Granny Chen thought it was too roasting by the oven, so she sat far away and sat on a stone bench on the edge of the middle to bask in the sun.

Only Chen Yubin was left sitting on the sidelines, bored in a daze.

"Binbin, let's go, while it's hot at this time, let's take out our homework and write it for a while, you still haven't done half of it." Xiaoxi got up abruptly and pushed Chen Yubin.

"Ah......" The child didn't like to do his homework, but he screamed and his butt stuck to the chair.

Xiaoxi understands his thoughts very well, and she has experienced it herself. He stepped forward, ran his hand around his squeaky socket, lifted him up, and coaxed him in his mouth, "Alright, let's hurry up and get our homework." I'm only going to do it for a while today, and if you're serious, you're only going to do it for two hours, okay? ”

Now it is Xiaoxi who manages Chen Yubin's study. Although Xiaoxi is usually very indulgent to him, she is very principled and strict with him in this matter.

Old Man Chen also secretly observed a few times, and saw that the creek was very well managed, and Chen Yubin also listened to her, and after a few times, he threw the matter away and completely threw it to the creek.

Coaxed and pushed, Chen Yubin followed Xiaoxi back to the house to get his schoolbag and do his winter vacation homework.

Their homework is just a winter vacation life, Chen Yubin still has half of it left, Xiaoxi only has more than ten pages left to write, and she plans to finish it today.

"Sister~ hey, hey, hey......" Chen Yubin was playing with an eraser in his hand, and smiled very flatteringly, "Sister, lend me your winter vacation life." Seeing that Xiaoxi's writing was almost finished, and the answers behind it were too simple, he aimed at Xiaoxi, to be precise, at Xiaoxi's winter vacation life.

Xiaoxi's face was stern, and he said in a slightly stiff tone: "No, it's not that you can't do this, and you can't be lazy if you do it yourself." "Copying homework can be big or small, and Xiaoxi will not indulge him.

"Oh~" Chen Yubin retracted his gaze curtly, put the eraser in his hand into the pen box, and buried himself in his homework.

Old Man Chen came out, saw that the atmosphere between the two sisters and brothers was a little awkward, put down the sleeves of his clothes, and asked puzzledly, "What's wrong?"

Xiaoxi glanced at Chen Yubin, a smile appeared on his face, and he shook his head at Old Man Chen, "It's nothing." ”

Old Man Chen didn't ask any more. Sit at the table and watch them do their homework.

Seeing that Xiaoxi put down his pen and was about to get up, he hurriedly stood up and pressed Xiaoxi's shoulder, "You do your homework, I'll bake this chestnut cake." ”

Xiaoxi thought about it, sat back with the help of his strength, picked up the pen, and began to write his homework again.

"Xiaoxi, can you look like this?" Old Man Chen took out the iron plate, held the wooden handle in both hands, stretched the iron plate in front of Xiaoxi, and asked.

Xiaoxi nodded, took a piece of chestnut cake with chopsticks, and showed both sides to Old Man Chen, "Baking this color, it means that it is cooked...... By the way, sir, don't burn too much in the fire, so that the chestnut cake is easy to burn. ”

"Well, I see. The chestnut cake from the iron plate was poured into the basket beside him, and he handed the basket to the stream. ”

Xiaoxi didn't shirk it, but generously took it, put it into the space, and put the empty basket on the big bench.

Fortunately, Granny Chen thought it was too hot to sit in the oven at that time, so she hid far away, otherwise she wouldn't know how to collect these chestnut cakes.

"Creek ......," Old Man Chen called faintly.

"Huh?" Xiaoxi raised her head suspiciously, looking at Old Man Chen in confusion.

It is rare for the granddaughter to look confused like this, and Old Man Chen pressed the corners of his mouth that seemed to be about to be raised.