Chapter 7 Your Child Can Cook!
Dogs in the countryside are raised casually to take care of the family, and if there is something good to eat, they will give them a few bones or something, if not, these dogs will eat the same thing as pigs. www.biquge.info Sometimes these dogs are not fed because the owner forgot something, they are so hungry that they will eat. So there will be a sentence "The dog can't change the nature of the ****", in fact, if the dog is not very hungry, it is estimated that he will not eat that thing.
Zhang Tao's dog is called Black Panther, this name is as popular as Saihu or something, it is estimated that he walked into a few villages casually, and saw a spotted yellow dog and a black dog, either called Saihu or Black Panther, and the rest are called Yellow Lion Ma Leopard or something, anyway, they are all names of fierce beasts. It's a simple name, and it's a majestic call, but it doesn't matter if the dog itself is strong enough.
However, Zhang Tao's black panther is different from other dogs, this dog is taller than ordinary dogs, and the fight is fierce, and the dogs in the nearby village have no opponents. What's more important is that this dog recognizes people, never eats outside indiscriminately, and does not bite indiscriminately. The only bad thing is that it is a male dog, and when it comes to spring, it will run around, and it can't be closed at that time. After Zhang Tao got the panther some food, he went to the well at the entrance of the village with a bucket in both hands to fetch water.
At this time, it was not popular in the countryside to dig their own wells and install a hand-cranked water press or water pump, and all the people in the village took their domestic water from the well at the entrance of the village. Every day, carrying a bucket to fetch water back, and then using a large water tank to fill it up as a daily water for the family, this kind of work is generally done by the children in the family in turn, unless the weather is bad, the adults do not go out to do things or worry about the children will pick it themselves.
Zhang Tao carried water back and forth a few times, not only filled his own water tank, but also filled his grandfather's house, although the two families were separated, but Zhang Tao's grandfather is also old, and it is not convenient for them to go out to fetch water on this snowy day. And Zhang Tao doesn't have to pick and carry it directly with both hands, just to exercise the strength of his hands, how much effect Zhang Tao doesn't know.
But isn't this how the monks of Shaolin Temple exercise in the movie? That's how the movies go! You must know that the New Year's picture of that movie can still be seen on the walls of many homes. And there are no sports facilities in the countryside for Zhang Tao to exercise now, so he used these old-fashioned ways, anyway, he can walk half a mile without taking a breath with a bucket of water in both hands.
After filling all the water tanks of the two houses, the pig food on the stove was just hot at this time, and the panther probably didn't know where to get warm after eating his own food, and the animals were also afraid of cold in this kind of weather. Zhang Tao put down the bucket, stirred the pig food in the cauldron, and then added some grain bran into it - the feed at this time is still a high-end thing, although the advertisement of the feed flower is everywhere, but the average pig raiser rarely uses that thing, and only put a little bit of it when used, which is very expensive. Then Zhang Tao mixed some and put it aside, and brought all the chickens and ducks at home, which were for chickens and ducks to eat.
When the chickens and ducks began to eat, he carried a wooden barrel with a large bucket of pig food, and then brought it to the pigsty. His family raised two pigs, and after a while, both pigs could be slaughtered, just in time for the Chinese New Year. In addition to keeping some pork for the New Year, you can also have a good year with the money from killing pigs and selling them. This is probably the common phenomenon in the countryside here in Shonan at this time, if you raise it well in a year, you can raise two batches of pigs, and kill a batch in half a year.
Like Zhang Tao's family, it is better to take care of it, just in time for the start of school for children in the spring next year, and there is no need to worry about tuition fees at that time. It's just that I'm afraid that all people can't imagine that at this time, a pig can still let three children study, and in a few years, one pig will not be enough for one child to study.
Zhang Tao didn't know much about other places, at this time in their place, the nine-year compulsory system above was shouted loudly, and the tuition fees were also rising very loudly. Since Zhang Tao was in the third grade of primary school, the tuition fee has doubled and increased almost every semester, which has also led to more and more children falling out of school in rural areas during this period.
After feeding the pigs, Zhang Tao returned to the house, and Zhang Yan drove all the chickens and ducks that had eaten food back to the nest, and then blocked the entrance to the chicken coop with a wooden board. Seeing that Zhang Tao was back, Zhang Yan smiled and said, "Second brother, see that I have closed the chickens and ducks, I have counted, they are all here, and both hands are full." ”
The corners of Zhang Tao's mouth pulled down after hearing this, and then he touched Zhang Yan's head with a smile and praised her. At this time, there is no little red flower, and there is no game of likes, otherwise Zhang Tao will definitely give Zhang Yan a thumbs up or put a small red flower on her forehead. Although there are only ten chickens and ducks at home, it is not easy for her to fill all her fingers.
When the two returned to the room together, Zhang Tao was about to boil water to bathe the family and wash their feet, but found that the cauldron on the wood stove where the pig food was originally cooked had been removed, and a pot of boiling water had been placed on top of it to boil water - it was made by his brother Daniel Zhang. Zhang Tao smiled when he saw this, and did not say anything.
Zhang Tao has been in this era for a while, these days he is basically busy with these things, never asked his brother and sister to help, he just wants to use his own actions to tell them that there are some things they can help their mother to reduce busyness, try to help her mother reduce, don't let her mother work too hard. And in the previous life, the three brothers and sisters usually picked up water for the water tank and took turns noisily, but now that I think about it, they were really too ignorant at that time.
Judging from the performance of Daniel Zhang and Zhang Yan today, their efforts have been responded, at least his brother will take the initiative to boil hot water, and Zhang Yan will lock the chickens and ducks back to the chicken coop, which is a good phenomenon. Sometimes when one person takes the lead in doing something, other people will be embarrassed and then follow suit. At least they won't take turns picking up water as they used to.
It's getting darker and darker outside, and winter in Shonan is very early and dark, and it gets dark around six o'clock. At this time, it is rare to see watches and alarm clocks in the countryside, and only a few people who got rich first and civil servants will have them, so ordinary people will not be able to grasp the specific time. At this time, a young man passing by at the door shouted in his throat with his broken gong throat, "I used to ask endlessly, when will you go with me, but you always laugh at me, and have nothing... ”
Zhang Tao really wanted to complain about this voice - it was really ugly. But as soon as he heard the voice, he knew that it should be almost six o'clock by this time, and after a little rest, he got up and walked to the kitchen, and began to cook. The song was sung by a young man from the village, who worked in a nearby coal mine on the day shift, often wearing a hard hat, and a large bunch of keys and knives hanging from his upturned buttocks, and clanging those things when he walked.
Every time I pass by Zhang Tao's house, the time is usually almost six o'clock. The time to and from work in the mine is very accurate, they leave work at 5 o'clock during the day shift, and after taking a shower in the mine, it is usually close to 6 o'clock when they go to the village. And when this guy enters the village, he will roar two pop songs, so people who don't have clocks basically use this guy's two voices as a reference for time.
People here in Xiangnan eat spicy, that is, they have to put chili peppers in stir-fried vegetables, and the rural living standard at this time is not as high as in later generations, and they can eat meat or something for dinner, Zhang Tao and their family's dinner today is a cabbage and white rice with a curly heart. Zhang Tao washed the cabbage first, and then cut it into slices slightly, at this time the oil in the pot was already hot, and he put the stalks cut on the board and the dried chili peppers cut into the pot and fried them. Zhang Yan followed Zhang Tao at this time and watched Zhang Tao busy, smelling the fragrance in the kitchen and swallowing her saliva constantly, she felt that the dishes made by her second brother were much better than those made by her mother.
After all the meals were heated, Zhang Tao's mother had already returned from outside, she didn't come back alone, she should have come back from the field with a woman in the village. The two chatted all the way, and the other woman was talking about whose children were more sensible or something, and every morning when they went to school, they ate their own leftovers and went to school, and never let the adults in the family get up early to cook for them, and the adults in the family could sleep more in the morning. Zhang Tao's mother's name is Zhang Cuihua, a very ordinary name of a rural woman, and after listening to the words of the woman next to her at the moment, she just smiled and didn't agree.
The woman in the village thought that Zhang Cuihua was in a bad mood because her children were not sensible, so she couldn't help but take out her own children, saying that her children were not sensible and had to get up early every day to prepare food for them. The two chatted like this, and when they got close to the house, they smelled the smell of food, and the woman in the village thought that it was the fragrance made by someone else's house, and said with a smile that she was hungry when she smelled the fragrance.
However, after she and Zhang Cuihua entered the room, they found that the scene in front of them was even more shocking than the sensible child who would heat up the meal and eat it and go to school. She saw that Zhang Tao was cleaning up the board or something, obviously just cooking, just looking at the steaming meal on the table.
The woman was stunned for a moment and then said enviously, "Your children are more sensible, and they can cook and fry by themselves, your life is so good, you will have ready-made hot dishes and hot meals to eat when you go home." The two bear babies in our family are estimated to be waiting for the old lady to go back to cook for them, and even the child's father will only wait at home to eat ready-made, and he won't be able to help. ”