After eating, the second uncle was busy killing chickens and rabbits; A few children went to Xiaohu's house to practice horse walking and jumping in the sand pit; The uncle was busy looking for the tools to bring to the mountain tomorrow, and the second girl remembered that Xiaohu saw the green light in the eyes of the wild boar, so he asked the uncle to find a shovel for digging a pit. The eldest aunt and the second aunt were busy cleaning up the remaining fish and preparing to drown the salted fish. Erya wanted to make spicy fish fillets, but there were no other ingredients except oil, salt, and pepper. Ay! It's really hard for a clever woman to cook without rice.

Erya spread the pepper on the ground to dry, which is too little, so he can only keep it for his own family to eat. I heard the eldest aunt and the second aunt say that there are chili peppers, but they are all called big peppers, and few people grow them, spicy is on the one hand, and on the other hand, it is because they can't be eaten as vegetables and occupy the vegetable garden.

It seems that this world in which I live was in the middle and late Ming Dynasty or the early Qing Dynasty. Or rather, this is not any era in history that I know of. No matter where it is, it's just alive. Maybe it's the time you know, you will have a prophet, and you will take measures in advance. But now you don't know anything, you can also prepare in advance for emergencies, what happened in history, what floods, droughts, plagues, wars can happen in any era!

Erya was thinking about it while flipping the peppers, and Hongguo, Anzi and Xiaolong dragged a basket of chestnuts over and wanted Erya to help peel the shell.

The little dragon didn't know that the chestnut's thorns would prick people, so he reached out and grabbed one from the basket, and then said: 'Wow! A voice howled: "Sister-in-law! Pain! ”

The second girl hurriedly grabbed his little paw, opened the small palm and looked at it, obediently, there was a small red dot, and some even had small blood spots. When the eldest aunt, the second aunt, and the second uncle heard Xiaolong's crying, they all hurriedly ran over and asked, "What's wrong?" "When I saw Xiaolong's little tender palm covered with small red dots, everyone was very distressed. They all blamed Hongguo and Anzi, "Little brother, why don't you look at it?" "The two girls are embarrassed to get up, hey! I'm an adult here, and I can use two children to help watch my younger brother.

"Uncle and second aunt, it's none of their business, don't talk about it, I'll take Xiaolong to the kitchen to get some salt and boiling water, wash it, so as not to get inflamed." As he spoke, he took Xiaolong to the kitchen to get salt and boiling water, and it happened that there was still boiling water left over for scalding chicken in the pot.

Erya asked the little guy while washing with salt water, "Does it hurt?" ”

The little guy snorted and cried thickly: "Pain! ”

"Bear with me! It's going to be good right away! Erya finished washing quickly, and still didn't feel at ease, so he put Xiaolong's little paws in the salt water and swung them up. Then shake the water and let him dry freely.

The injured Xiaolong snuggled up to his sister-in-law's body, watching his sister-in-law, sister, and brother rub the shell with the soles of their shoes, and they rubbed a lot in a while.

Hongguo asked her sister-in-law while rubbing her shell: "Sister-in-law! Does anyone buy this chestnut? ”

Erya blushed, and forgot to bring the chestnuts in a hurry in the morning, and only remembered that they had already arrived in the town. They didn't ask the uncle, and they thought they had forgotten about it. I didn't expect this girl Hongguo to still be worried.

"What! In the morning, I was urged by your little tiger brother, and I forgot about it. ”

Hongguo snorted for a long time: "Then, sister-in-law!" Can I give it to Xiao Qin and Xiao Cong? ”

Oh! I wanted to share it with my little sisters. Er Ya pretended to wipe the sweat on her forehead with her fingers, and shook it hard. said: "Hey! You little girl, scared my sister-in-law full of sweat. If you want to give it away, you can peel the shell yourself. Or let them come and help you too, and I'll cook it for you! ”

Xiaolong looked at the shot of his sister-in-law wiping his sweat and giggled. I also follow the example of my sister-in-law, wipe it and shake it. His action was more like a little monkey scratching his ears and cheeks, but it made the second girl's stomach cramp when he laughed.

The second uncle was originally going to kill two rabbits, because the second girl felt that the nitrate fur was very troublesome, and it was better to put them all together than to trouble two pieces of it. The mother rabbit who was already pregnant with the baby rabbit was left, and two female rabbits and a male rabbit were left, and the rest were slaughtered. The second uncle will peel the skin, but the nitrate skin will not work. So Er Ya came on the field and took a blunt knife and a skin of grease scraping oil.

This procedure is very tiring and requires skill, both to scrape the inner sebum oil and not to scratch the skin. At the beginning, in order to please the trick, I used a sharp knife to scrape, and as a result, a lot of fur was wasted. Fortunately, at that time, in addition to using it for oneself, it could not be sold, and no one dared to wear it when it was given away, and it was scrapped.

Sometimes there is too much fur at home and there is no place to put it, so the second uncle asks the second uncle to find a way to deal with those rabbit furs and wolf furs, which the master does not look at.

The second uncle was clever enough to bring a girl (who later became Erya's second aunt) who chased him very closely to the mountain, because she could make clothes, so he asked her to find a way to make all the fur that could make clothes, and also make a cover out of cloth to cover the outside, and the hem and sleeves were a little longer than the fur, so that people could not see that it was fur. There are large and small, all of which are secretly sent to Erya's house.

The fur sweater is really well made, put on the fur, and the outside is symbolically covered with a jacket, unless people pick up the clothes to see, they can't see that there is fur inside, which is warm and good-looking and lightweight.

Er Ya also learned a few hands, so Er Ya felt that if this fur was done, it would definitely be able to sell for a good price.

After scraping a few sheets, Erya was so tired that she threw down the knife and stopped drying. It happened that the second aunt had cleaned the pheasant, so she went to the kitchen to make chestnut roast chicken.

Chestnut roast chicken for two chickens, filled with two pots. let Xiaohu and Daman serve a pot of chicken; In addition, two rabbit meat were tied with straw rope and sent to grandpa's house. After that, I made two vegetarian dishes to match, and the eldest aunt took advantage of the time when the second girl was cooking, and the uncle, the second aunt, and the second uncle, separated half and half of the rabbit, and the rabbit head and the second girl let it be kept, and put it in a small vegetable basket. Then, each man took half and a half of the rabbit meat and sent it to each family. Er Ya cooks the dishes, cleans the dishes and chopsticks, and serves them to the table. Hongguo and a few boys who came home helped set up the benches around the table. When the dishes were served, the people who went out to deliver things came back, and Xiaohu and Daman also brought back a small bag of about ten catties of wheat noodles.

Daman put the noodle bag on the table and shouted: "The big milk has to give us a bag of noodles to hold, we don't want it, the big milk is angry." Xiaohu also nodded again and again, indicating that what Daman said was true. Because before, the eldest aunt had an explanation, if the big milk gave something, you must not ask for it. Therefore, Daman thought about quickly clearing himself so as not to be blamed.

The uncle looked at the child's mother and said, "Forget it, pour the noodles into the basin, and Ming'er will remember to return the bag." ”

There is no saying in the countryside here that women do not serve at the table, except for those who do not treat women as human beings. Unless there is a guest in the house, in order to respect the guest, women and children are not served. Usually, the family sits together lively. Of course, it is not without rules, the main part of the family sits on the top edge, and then sits down next to each other according to their generation and age. Except for Xiaolong, of course, he sits next to Erya to take care of him.

At the dinner table, they were waiting for the uncle to give everyone a spoonful of chicken with chestnuts to share the dishes, but the back looked at the front and was already dragging the chicken fragrant and delicious, especially Xiaolong, Anzi and Hongguo were dragging a big chicken leg. The saliva was about to choke on himself, and even the eldest uncle and second uncle quietly swallowed their saliva.

The children are one person and one spoon, and the uncle and second uncle are one bowl per person. The eldest aunt only kept two chestnuts for herself, and the second aunt only needed a piece of chicken and a chestnut. The uncle and the second uncle hurriedly picked up the bowl again, each to his wife, and you pushed me to pick up the small half bowl. Then, the eldest aunt and the second aunt were busy giving some to the children, and the children pulled and didn't want it.

Erya was still a little moved when she saw them like this.

Xiaolong finished nibbling on the chicken legs and was busy eating chestnuts again. Then, as if he had discovered something surprising, he shouted excitedly: "Sister-in-law, sister-in-law!" This chestnut is better than chicken thighs. ”

Chestnuts are a little sweet and a little noodle, and they are basically children's favorites. "Hmmm! It's delicious, my sister-in-law will often make it for you in the future, and your hands still hurt? Erya took the little guy's little hand and looked at it, it's okay! The child's injury is healed quickly, and it is estimated that it will be completely healed after tomorrow.

"It doesn't hurt anymore! Brother, I also peeled chestnuts today, and the chestnuts have thorns that prick me, and they hurt so much. My sister-in-law didn't hurt when she washed me. As he spoke, Xiaolong held up his little paw to show Xiaohu.

Uncle hurriedly asked what was going on! Then, Xiaolong's deeds became a joke on the dinner table. Xiaolong was already sensible and knew that everyone was laughing at him, so he pouted and didn't let him laugh.

After eating, the eldest aunt and the second aunt cleaned up the table, took the dishes, chopsticks and basins to the yard to wash, and did not let the second aunt do it. Erya and Xiaohu together, with everyone sitting at the table chatting and eating!

The uncle thought that there would be the rabbit skin that had not been shaved tomorrow, so he asked Erya: "Xiaohu's daughter-in-law, why don't we go over tomorrow, and you and Xiaohu will scrape the rabbit skin at home?" ”

"No, we'll go over tomorrow afternoon and go straight to the place before. Xiaohu is always worried about the wild boars there, and I want to dig a trap out of the dark, and if we can catch a few little wild boars, we will raise them ourselves. ”

Xiaohu was worried about the big wild boar, and Er Ya was worried about the little wild boars. However, I heard that the wild boar here is not as valuable as the domestic pig, and the wild boar smells of noise, and even the master chef of the restaurant has no way to remove it. Therefore, it has not been able to sell at a high price. It seems that scarcity is expensive, and it doesn't make sense everywhere.

Laizi was a little anxious: "Sister-in-law, what about that gastrodia?" ”

"It should be fine, the one born in the grass is unrecognizable to ordinary people, if you meet a veteran of collecting medicine, you can only admit that you are unlucky."

There was a look of worry on everyone's faces. Erya saw that they had dinner, and there was nothing else to do except chatter and be stunned. It feels like time has gone in vain, it's a pity! I wanted to teach them something.

"Uncle, it's okay to eat this night, why don't I take my brother and younger brothers and sisters to recognize some words and learn some arithmetic."

The eldest uncle, the second uncle and the brothers, except for Xiaohu, who was very calm, all of them widened their eyes.

The uncle asked Erya in a slightly frightened tone: "Do you know words?" Can also do arithmetic? Are you the second girl of the Liu family? It's not that I have any suspicions about you, it's that there is no rural woman who knows how to read and write within a radius of hundreds of miles from us. Knowing arithmetic may be smart, but this literacy is not something that can be done smartly, so someone has to teach it! ”

Xiaohu was a little displeased and said, "Uncle, what did you say!" Why is my daughter-in-law not the girl of the Liu family, which shows that she is the second girl of the Liu family. You don't know? The kiss that my daughter-in-law set before, did that person rely on Xiucai later?! ”

Uncle raised his big palm and patted his head: "Ouch! Look at my memory, Xiaohu daughter-in-law, I'm sorry! Don't be angry with your uncle! If you want to make them know how to read and do arithmetic, that's a great thing. Maybe my family can show off their talents! Hahaha"

After the uncle finished speaking, he felt that he had told a joke, so he laughed to himself.

Erya didn't expect that Xiaohu had already found a good source for her. No wonder Xiaohu was a little surprised at the time, and then he was very ordinary.

What made Erya strange was why they weren't surprised that they knew martial arts, and why they had such a big reaction to literacy.

Alas! If you want to say that this martial art is good; Ancient Chinese characters are also good; Brush writing is also good; For the former Erya, it is chicken ribs.

In the area of martial arts, since I didn't calm down in elementary school and injured a boy in the same class who maliciously insulted me, my parents didn't allow me to use martial arts. Of course, there was no chance to use it later, and the second uncle could be found by the armed police force to be the captain of the coach team when he returned to the city, but the second girl couldn't even be a female soldier, because their family didn't recruit female soldiers.

Brush writing is often praised when taking calligraphy classes in primary school. After that, there is no use at all at school. In society, Erya just writes better than ordinary people, but it is still far from calligraphy, so it can be imagined! At home, in addition to the first few years, I can also show off and write a couplet to my family and fellow villagers. Later, there were gold-sprinkled and gold-edged ones on the market, and some were simply golden words, so that even Erya's own home was pasted with the golden characters that were bought and shiny, and the titanium eyes of the blind could be brightened.

As for knowing ancient Chinese characters, don't talk about this, that's Erya's countless sad tears!

It's just that I didn't expect that here, these chicken ribs would turn into a rarity.

Er Ya is silent!