At noon on hoeing day, sweat drops into the soil; Who knows that Chinese food is hard work!

The scorching sun is in the sky, although it has not yet reached the most scorching time of the day, but it is still unbearable to be sunburned, sweat flows on the cheeks, and after evaporation, you can rub out salt grains with your hands, and the frail person is afraid that he will already suffer from heat stroke.

"Dad, come over and have a drink of water to rest." A delicate female voice sounded, but it was Li Yulan, who was working on the hillside, and the family of five was assigned to clean the corn stalks on half of the hillside and turn the sweet potato vines.

Sweet potato vines will not only consume too many nutrients, but also affect the yield of sweet potatoes. When the sweet potato vine grows, it is necessary to turn the vine, cut off the excess vine, and only half a meter long is left to grow the main vine, and the excess rattan is cut down but it is a good thing to feed the livestock, of course, only the livestock of the production team can enjoy the sweet potato rattan feast.

"Okay, let's take a break." Li Zhengyang replied according to the big back basket, after harvesting the corn, he would cut down the corn stalks and pile them on the ridge, and then carry them back after drying, it was the best firewood, he was now cleaning up these corn stalks, and he was carrying the back basket to the production team, he was busy sweating profusely, and his whole body was full of rod and leaf chips, if he did this in the early years, he would be itchy all over his body, but now the skin has long since become old, and even if the caterpillar crawls over, there will be no reaction.

Li Yulan got up and called out to her mother and two younger sisters to come over to drink water, and after the family responded, she took out a clay kiln jar from the bamboo basket, which was the eagle tea brought out, and put two thick bowls on the ground, and then poured tea full.

"Gollum!" There was a sudden sound in her stomach, she was hungry, but she would not be able to go home for a while, but she would not be able to eat dry food when she got home at noon. Although the tender sharp leaves of sweet potatoes all over the ground taste good, if there is no oil, it will be like pig food when fried, and it is difficult to swallow.

"Big sister, I'm hungry." The fourteen-year-old third sister Li Yuqin had a bitter little face, and she didn't dare to complain in front of her parents, so she had to nag her eldest sister.

According to the branch genealogy, the Li family's generation is a generation with the word "jade", and their five siblings all have a jade character in their names, namely: Li Yulan, Yuhong, Yuqin, Yufen, and Yuqiang.

There are also cases of names in the village according to generation, but they are generally large families with relatively large branches.

"Xiaoqin, drink water, wait a while and go back to dinner." Li Yulan comforted her sister, she was also hungry, but she was the boss, she had to set an example, and she couldn't complain about being tired.

At this time, the second sister Li Yuhong had already drunk the water, put down the thick bowl and ran to turn over the sweet potato vine, Yuhong's character is honest, and she never complains about hard work, but the third sister Yuqin is more delicate and can't stand it. Rice raises hundreds of people, and the personalities of several sisters are different.

Li Zhengyang also finished drinking the tea, sat on the ridge and felt out the leaf cigarette, ready to smoke two puffs, the heavy work was on him, he couldn't stand it without smoking, there were too many children in the family, and he couldn't complain about the production team, only blamed him for wanting a son to inherit the lineage, the old Li family couldn't do without this lineage, and the price paid for this was that the family was poorer.

Men can be regarded as full workers, but no matter how hard women work, they can only be counted as eight points of labor at most, and the family can not earn much work except for him, and although this farmland is good, the land is barren compared to other production teams, and the food is a little less than that of other teams. His family is one of the few truly poor households in Jiaoshan Commune.

Mother Li was late, and was about to drink tea and go back to work, but she didn't think that at this time, the conflict came to the supervisor of a production team, who was responsible for counting the work, which was considered mental work, but it was not full work.

"Uncle Li, I have something to ask you." The person who came is also surnamed Li, and he is a relative of the captain Li Zhongjun, although he and Li Zhengyang are from their own family, but they are not related to each other, but despite this, they can be regarded as occasionally taking care of his family, otherwise he would not have been able to support so many children in the early years.

"Red soldier, what's the matter?" Li Zhengyang got up and went out, a little confused.

Li Hongbing said directly: "Someone came to report just now, saying that Mr. Jin took two and a half children to steal a lot of vegetables from the production team, and now he is running to your house." Uncle Li, do you know this? ”

"What? How could Sister Jin Chi steal vegetables, Brother Hongbing, are you mistaken. Li Yulan asked nervously, and the family hurriedly walked to the edge of the soil, Jinchi has a good relationship with their family, just like a family, so they have to be nervous, stealing things is a big taboo.

"yes, there's absolutely no way that kid in Jinchi would do such a thing." Li Zhengyang said affirmatively.

Li Hongbing under the ridge scratched his head and replied: "Captain Jiang has already taken someone to your house, I am afraid that something will happen, so I will hurry over to inform you, otherwise, Uncle Li, you should also hurry home for a trip, you also know that Team Jiang's temperament is the most unsightly to steal." ”

"Cheng, I'll go home here!" Li Zhengyang made a decision immediately, and then jumped off the ridge, called Li Hongbing and ran home.

At this time, the mother and daughter were all panicked, and Li Yulan hurriedly shouted: "Mom, I'll go back and have a look." ”

"I'll go too!" The third sister Li Yuqin also shouted, but her starting point was slightly different, although she was also worried about Jinchi, but she also wanted to take advantage of this lazy rest.

"You two go and go back quickly, Mom and Xiaohong stay here." Mother Li responded, she was also worried about Jinchi, but there can't be no one at work here, if the whole family runs back, someone will come to check, and see that there is no one, then it will be unlucky.

"Hey!" Li Yulan was so anxious that she took her third sister and ran home, leaving her mother and honest second sister to continue working.

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But he said that Fang Dajun was happily preparing to show his cooking skills, and he was under pressure to kill chickens, so he simply asked Qin Da to come and take the knife.

Jin Chi took the two children to peel green beans and wash peanuts, green beans are used to roast chicken, peanuts are used to cook, all are good things, in addition to green skin gourds, big peppers, Chinese cabbage can be eaten, the food is very rich.

But seeing that Fang Dajun was holding the rooster's feet with one hand and the wings with the other, he carried the rooster upside down, and there was a thick bowl under it, which was filled with water and salt, and the charcoal stove in the kitchen was boiling water.

And Qin Dazheng was sharpening his knife next to him, and killing chickens was the most taboo to make up for the second knife, because if the blood was not cleaned, the chicken would not be so delicious.

"That's it." Qin Da scraped the knife edge with his fingers, it was almost over, and then he walked over, ripped off a chicken feather on the rooster's neck, without any hesitation, the knife edge was cut at once, and the throat was cut in an instant, and the chicken blood flowed out and dripped into the bowl, and it was just a few strokes to dye a bowl of water red.

When the blood dried up, Fang Dajun buried the chicken's head under his wings and stuffed the rooster into the barrel, originally thought that he would be afraid of such a bloody scene, but there was no reaction at all, he had never killed the chicken, but the previous owner had done it, he had seen it once, and next time he would dare to use the knife himself.

Soon the boiling water came, poured into the wooden barrel, and the rooster could be scratched with a little scalding, Qin Da volunteered to take over the errand of catching the hair, and Fang Dajun was also happy to be idle, so he went to the side to peel green beans, and pulled out a dozen seedlings in total, and he could peel a large pot of them, which was enough to work for a while.

He went to peel beans, but the girl Xiaofen ran to Qin Da, shouting to make chicken feather shuttlecock to play, but the boy Xiaoqiang also ran away, and the rest of the army and Jin Chi looked at each other and laughed.

"Dajun, I'm really bothering you today, letting you break the bank, and letting you help cook by yourself." Jin Chi was very embarrassed to let the guests into the kitchen, which was very rude and violated her family education, but now the situation is special, and there are only two children in the host's house.

"Hehe, don't bother, I'm not an outsider!" Fang Dajun thickened his face.

Jin Chi was helpless, "You, you don't have a proper way to speak, I can tell you, you must not spread the relationship between you and Yulan outside, otherwise the reputation of the girl's family will affect others for a lifetime." ”

Fang Dajun nodded with a serious expression, to be honest, he must experience a love before getting married, because couples may not be able to go to the end because of their incompatible personalities, so he is not 100% sure that the daughter-in-law he wants is Li Yulan, and everything will not be known until they get along.

After a while, Qin Da had already plucked out the chicken feathers, and Fang Dajun went over to help again, grabbed some rice grass and lit it on the edge of the dam, and burned the fluff off the chicken with an open flame, this is a local custom, and some places don't care about this little fluff.

Then it is disemboweled, the internal organs of the chicken are taken out, the village is called "Xiashui", the city is called "chicken offal", after processing, it is fried together with pickled peppers, this "pickled pepper chicken offal" tastes very good, but the bitterness is that now the villagers only have pickles at home, and there is no pickled pepper.

Fang Dajun opened his mouth and shouted: "Jinchi, where is there ginger near here, I will go and pull some back and it will be useful." ”

"Oh, go down the path in front of you, and you can see an old eucalyptus tree, where ginger is planted, and it is also from the production team." Jin Chi echoed.

In this way, Fang Dajun went out to the front with Qin Da, although the road was different from when he came, there was no need to worry about getting lost, this bamboo forest was the guiding light. Qin Da went to the small river ditch below to deal with the internal organs of the chickens for easy cleaning, he took care of himself to pluck the ginger, and after lunch, he went to Captain Li to make up for the loss of these dishes.

As a result, not long after the two of them went out, a group of people suddenly appeared outside the Li family's house, menacing, and shouted angrily before they reached the dam: "Okay, you really dare to steal the collective things of the production team." ”

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