Chapter 18 Harvesting Sweet Potatoes
That night, Shen Yunfang ate the rice that he hadn't seen for a long time. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
It's just the first time to use this kind of big pot to stew rice, she hasn't mastered the amount yet, and she has simmered a lot, which is also no oil and water in her stomach, big eyes and small belly, looking at the remaining big bowl of white rice, her mind moved, and even the rice bowl was put into the space. Just experiment to see if the space can be insulated.
Preservation has been experimented, yesterday I dug some wild vegetables in the mountains, this night, it still looks so watery in the space, not wilted at all.
After eating, Shen Yunfang was still thinking about the sweet potatoes in the field at home, so after putting down the dishes and chopsticks, she went to the field with a hoe.
Before she got to the place, she saw three figures busy in the field, Shen Yunfang took a few quick steps and saw that it was the two brothers of her uncle's family and the eldest brother of Wang's mother's family.
Wang Zhijie, the lobby brother of the uncle's family, is two years Chinese New Year's Eve old today, and the sister-in-law in the lobby is called Wang Li, who is also thirty-two years old, and the two have a total of three children, the eldest boy is called Shen Ninghao is fourteen, the second boy Shen Ninglin is ten years old, and the youngest boy is called Shen Ningchen is four years old. The second cousin Wang Zhiwen is Chinese New Year's Eve years old today, and the second cousin's sister-in-law is called Shu Xin, who is twenty-eight years old this year and has two children, the eldest is a girl Shen Jingyu, who is eight years old, and the second is a boy Shen Ningtao is only two years old.
When Shen Yunfang went to Shen Yeqing's house for dinner that day, Shen Zhiwen's family of four happened to go back to his daughter-in-law's mother's house, so they didn't meet him.
Then there is Brother Da Shu, who is younger than the two cousins of the uncle's family, it seems that he is twenty-seven or eighteen, and there is currently a girl named Xiaojuan. It's good to marry a daughter-in-law, and Aunt Wang is a mother and son, and she is serious and makes the parents and villagers of Gaijiatun envious.
"Brother Zhijie, Brother Zhiwen, why are you here?" Shen Yunfang was quite strange.
Shen Zhijie glanced at his cousin with some unhappiness on his face, and then didn't squeak and worked with his head bored.
When it was Shen Zhiwen, he smiled innocently, and said a little shyly: "It was my father who came home and asked us to come over, saying that you can't do this job alone." ”
Shen Yunfang raised her eyebrows, probably because her uncle went to the house just now and saw the sweet potatoes that had just been dug out of the yard, and knew that she was planing sweet potatoes, so he instructed the two cousins to come over.
"Hehe, I really can't do it myself. Shen Yunfang didn't refuse, she was already late in digging sweet potatoes, if she relied on herself, she didn't know when she would be able to finish it, if she had these young men to help her, it would only take an hour.
"I'll go with you tomorrow morning to get some firewood. "This is what his father just ordered.
"Well, thank you, Brother Zhiwen. "It's really good, she is not familiar with the environment on the mountain, she doesn't dare to run around casually, and she is not afraid of having an acquaintance with her.
After saying hello, Shen Yunfang was about to carry the hoe to the ground and do it together, after all, everyone who came to help did it hard, she just didn't do anything, but she had to have a good attitude.
But who knows, Shen Zhiwen saw that she had also come down, and hurriedly said: "Yunfang, you don't have to plan, just gather the sweet potatoes we have dug out." "He was embarrassed to say, don't come to help, who doesn't know that the delicate girl of his third uncle's family won't do anything.
Shen Yunfang couldn't help it, and she didn't have any opinions when she saw that the other two, so she readily agreed.
After more than an hour, three adult laborers turned over all the nine points of Shen Yunfang's family's self-reserved land. Shen Yunfang didn't even straighten up in the back, so he squatted and picked it up in the basket, and by the way, he also touched it in the soil, for fear that there would be fish that slipped through the net.
Since it was just a big basket, it was not enough at this time, so every time the basket was filled, Brother Zhiwen had to carry it to move her, and then pour out the empty basket and come back to load sweet potatoes.
So when it was dark, the sweet potatoes in the ground were all dug out, and the Zhijie and Zhiwen brothers went home, and the brother who lived with Shen Yunfang carried the last basket of sweet potatoes to her home.
By the time Brother Da Bolt poured all the sweet potatoes in the basket into the yard, Shen Yunfang had already filled the bowl with water.
"Brother Bolt, it's hard work, drink some water. He graciously handed over the bowl in his hand.
The poor family didn't even have a cup, so they could only use a bowl for eating.
Maybe he was really thirsty, and the big bolt was not polite, so he took the bowl and drank it in one gulp, and then he wiped his mouth, handed the empty bowl to Shen Yunfang, and said, "When are you going to move these sweet potatoes into the cellar, I'll come over and give you a hand." ”
Shen Yunfang was moved by this in her heart when she heard this, no matter whether people were sincere or false, she would accept this sentence if she had this sentence, "No need, Brother Da Shu, I'm not in a hurry, just take it slowly." ”
Da Bolt glanced at Shen Yunfang, but he didn't insist, just said, "Okay, if there's anything, you can go over and shout." Then he strode out of the yard.
Shen Yunfang watched everyone disappear, and then sighed, in this era, there are still many good people.
She didn't have the time to think about it, and seeing that it was dark and she couldn't see the figure clearly, she quickly closed the courtyard door of the house, and then took advantage of the last bit of light to clean up the sweet potatoes in the yard.
Thinking that there were a few catties of kerosene tickets in the stack of tickets that the eldest mother gave her last time, she would go to the county after two days of dissipation, and buy back everything that should be used at home. It's not a day or two, so why can't you live like this?
In the end, Shen Yunfang received one-third of the sweet potatoes in the yard into the space, because he didn't dare to go to the cellar in the dark, so he put them in the space and didn't move, waiting for the daytime, just move them to the cellar. She is still very careful, if someone comes to the house tomorrow morning and sees that the sweet potatoes on the ground are gone, she will definitely be suspicious, just like this, she can't lift her hands and shoulders, and it is unrealistic to get so many sweet potatoes to the cellar in one night.
When Shen Yunfang was lying on the kang, her body was already tired, and she really did a lot of physical work today, and it was also this body that was finished, she didn't have the strength to be pretentious, and she didn't look like a rural girl at all. Don't say it, it really made her second aunt right, the life of the young lady's body.
Lying down, she fell asleep in the midst of thinking about what to buy.
The next day, Shen Yunfang still got up early in the morning, cleaned up by herself first, then fed the chickens, and saw that the cabbage, potatoes and radishes in the backyard should be collected, thought about it, and took out the only sharp kitchen knife in the house from the house, she decided to collect the cabbage first.
After this is harvested, you can pickle the sauerkraut after drying it. Sauerkraut is one of the most important dishes on the table in the Northeast winter.
Because her hands are weak, and because the kitchen knife is not too sharp, each cabbage has to be hit several times, and when she chops down the twenty-three cabbages in the backyard, her hand holding the kitchen knife is shaking.
Move the cabbage to the bottom of the front yard house, and it happens that the sun is shining here in the morning.
Then she closed the courtyard door and went to work.
When she arrived at the production team, she saw Shen Zhiwen waiting for her with a long sickle in his hand.
"Brother Zhiwen, you're so early. Shen Yunfang was quite surprised.
"It's not early, my father has already come. Shen Zhiwen smiled and said.
"Uncle is really dedicated. Shen Yunfang sighed.
Then Shen Yunfang didn't use the help of Cousin Zhiwen, and drove the sheep out of the sheepfold, and the two of them walked and chatted in the back.
After arriving on the hillside, Shen Yunfang still tied the head sheep to the small tree, and then followed Brother Zhiwen to the mountain.
The next moment, Shen Yunfang knew what the long sickle in Brother Zhiwen's hand was for.
I saw Shen Zhiwen walk under a big tree, grab the end of the long sickle in one hand, and stretch the end with the sickle to the trunk above, and then with a force on his hand, the branch above was cut off and fell.