After tidying up the vegetable patch, Li Zhu transported a little soil to the cave every day. The pen %fun %pavilion www.biquge.info made a stove near the entrance of the cave and near the stream, and it was the same as the one at home, divided into large and small stoves. Like at home, a simple grass shed was built, Li Zhu had experience this time, and relying on Deng's help, the two of them spent more than ten days to clean up a simple small kitchen.

Li Zhu cut some bamboo, tied a simple door to block the wind, and erected it at the entrance of the cave. When Li Zhu went to the bamboo forest, he dug up some small bamboos and planted them on both sides of the stream. Li Zhu just thought that this would save watering, and Hamahama saw that what he thought was soil erosion.

In the busy days of Li Zhu's family, Li Yu occasionally came over to borrow an ox cart to pull things. Without a cart, Li Zhu's family stayed at home to practice calligraphy, read, embroider, sew and mend.

Li Zhu's family took care of the lamb carefully, the lamb raised in the firewood room has begun to grow hair, and can stand on its own, Li Zhu moved it to the sheep shed, winter is approaching, the grass and firewood in the firewood room is more and more piles, the lamb is not very convenient in the firewood room.

Li Zhu and Deng went to the uncle's house from time to time to help with the work, the two old people were very happy in their hearts, and they were also close to Li Zhu's family on weekdays, using Li Mu's joke that it was not a son but a son.

It rained for seven days in a row, and the weather gradually turned cold. Li Zhu's family was dressed in thin cotton clothes. Hamahama was wrapped up, and it was difficult for his hands and feet to move, but Hamahama still insisted on stretching out his hands and feet every day and insisting on exercising. Li Zhu's father and son also often use Binbin's hands and feet to be funny. I usually entrust me to send things to Brother Mu to bring must-buy things, such as salt, vinegar and the like. The days came plainly, ushering in the winter solstice.

On the day of the winter solstice, there is a custom of eating rice balls, because Aunt Sun likes sesame rice balls, and Deng asked Li Mu to help buy some sesame seeds early. Because the festival shop is busy, I don't have time to make it myself, the soup balls made by the Deng family are delicious, Li Mu and Li Quan inherited the habit of Aunt Sun to eat sesame rice balls, Li Mu was not polite, and brought a large belt of sesame seeds over, so that the Deng family would make them all. The Deng family responded with joy, even if Li Mu didn't bring sesame seeds, the Deng family planned to do the uncle's share.

Because the dumplings were to be brought to town, a week before the winter solstice, Deng began to prepare. Deng mixed glutinous rice and rice in a ratio of five to one, soaked in water for 1 day, and then put it into a cloth bag, suspended in the kitchen, and made flour the night before the winter solstice.

Two days later, Deng boiled red beans in a large pot over low heat, until the sand boiled out, fried the sesame seeds in a small pot, and then poured in the lard left over from the previous pig killing.

Li Zhu helped to use boiling water and glutinous rice flour to wait for it to cool down a little, and Li Zhu helped to make rice balls, pinched a small piece flat, put it in the boiled filling, sealed and kneaded the round.

Brother Li Hai looked interesting, and washed his hands and came over to help. Li Zhu taught them how to pinch it, and Li Hai's brother played while making it, and also made some small rice balls.

Li Zhujia was reluctant to use oil lamps, and they couldn't see it until it was dark from dinner, and Deng covered it with something, intending to continue tomorrow. During the day, the Deng family did it alone, and asked Li Zhu to take Li Haige to read and learn calligraphy, and only asked Li Zhu to help at noon.

Li Zhu's family stopped doing it, and it took two days to finish the amount to be done, and the Deng family did a lot of money this time, and also did the shares of Old Man Li, Li Yu's family and his mother's family. After it was done, he asked Uncle Zhang and Old Man Yu to bring it to Li Quan, Li Mu and Deng Juren's family in the town.

Li Zhu sent it to Old Man Li and Li Yu's family.

Mr. Li loves to eat rice balls, no matter what kind of filling they are, but Mama Li doesn't like rice balls, so she never makes rice balls. In the past, when Mr. Li wanted to eat, he could only go to the town to eat.

When Old Man Li took Li Zhu's uncooked rice balls, he asked happily, "Your daughter-in-law can make rice balls?" Li Zhu nodded. Because the family had never made rice balls before, Li Zhu didn't know that Old Man Li liked rice balls very much.

After receiving an affirmative reply, Old Man Li smiled happily: "Okay, this is good." In the future, if there is any happy event in our family, we will make rice balls, round and round, and everything will be complete. "Making this glutinous rice ball is just a matter of time, not something expensive, Li Zhu nodded in agreement after hearing this, thinking that there is nothing wrong with it.

After Old Man Li received an affirmative answer, he was happy in his heart, and pulled Li Zhu to talk about things in the field for the first time. Li Zhu listened on the side, wondering why Old Man Li was so happy. Finally, when Old Man Li said that he wanted to top dress, Li Zhu couldn't help but ask: "Dad, is there any happy event today?" Old Man Li was happy when he heard it, and said: "It's nothing, it's just that I don't have to go to town if I want to eat rice balls in the future, I'm happy." Li Zhu asked strangely: "Dad, you used to go to the town to eat rice balls?" Old Man Li thought that he had never taken Li Zhu to eat rice balls, and said embarrassedly: "It's not a precious thing, your mother doesn't like it, I don't do it at home, I go to the town alone to taste it." ”

Li Zhu nodded, and once again there would be happy events in the future, and they all made rice balls, and Old Man Li took the rice balls back to the room with satisfaction.

After Li Yu took the rice balls and gave them to Mr. Li, he brought them to Li Yu's family. As soon as I entered the courtyard of Li Yu's house, two layers of firewood were neatly placed. Li Shi looked at Li Zhu and smiled: "I have been busy working in the field these days, and I don't have time to take care of these things." Or my own brother's own fragrance! Li Zhu smiled and put down the rice balls, and went to find the eldest brother Li Yu to chat.

After Li Zhu saw Li Yu, he told Li Yu about his father's unusual joy after receiving the rice balls, Li Yu said with a smile: "Dad likes to eat rice balls, but my mother doesn't like it, no one at home did it before, so my father went to the town to eat by himself." I tried walking hundreds of miles to town with my dad just to eat multiple dumplings. After hearing this, Li Zhu suddenly said, "Oh." ”

Li Yudao: "My daughter-in-law will do this, but my mother doesn't like it, when my mother was still at home, I did it once, and I was scolded by my mother, so I didn't do it again." Li Zhu nodded after hearing this. Li Zhu chatted with Li Yu for a while before returning to the room.

Dinner with Tang's dumplings.

Binbin likes the glutinous rice balls made by Deng very much, which are purely natural, so it is good, Deng is afraid that Binbin is not easy to digest, so he pinched a hole in the glutinous rice balls and sucked the sesame seeds and bean paste in Binbin. Hamahama sucked three in one go, which is an extremely rare thing for Hamahama, who usually eats little.

Li Zhu's pork was picked up by the Deng family, and it could not be used to make dumplings, Li Zhu went out and asked Old Man Yu to help buy some pork tomorrow to come back, Li Zhujia planned to make a few dumplings, called the uncle's family and the eldest brother's family, Mr. Li, celebrate.

People are like this, no matter how frugal their daily life is, they are more willing to do so during festivals.