12. Chop wood

Because the two of them worked together, the meal was quickly cooked. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

After the two of them sat down, Jiang Hongxiang was very hungry, so he ate it and ate a few bites of the dish and said: "Today's dish tastes very good, pomegranate, your cooking level is getting better and better."

Pomegranate smiled, did not speak, she is still very confident in her cooking skills, in her previous life, in order to maintain her figure, but also for a healthy diet, everyone is popular to eat vegetarian food, and when cooking, they advocate less oil, less salt and no seasoning. In order to make the vegetarian food with less oil, less salt and no seasoning delicious, pomegranate has put a lot of effort into this. Unexpectedly, her craftsmanship came in handy in this era of scarcity of materials, and the dishes they eat now are grown by themselves, without any pollution, and fresh, making them even more delicious.

Jiang Hongxiang saw that Pomegranate didn't eat rice, only sweet potatoes and vegetables, thinking that she was reluctant to eat rice, so he saved it for him, so he persuaded him: "You are doing manual work now, or eat a little rice, so that you can support it."

Pomegranate explains: "Sweet potatoes are the best grains, they are much more nutritious than rice, and I like to eat sweet potatoes."

Although Pomegranate told the truth and the truth, Jiang Hongxiang didn't believe it. At that time, the price of rice was expensive, and the price of sweet potatoes was low, so people took it for granted that rice was better than sweet potatoes. Rice is also better than sweet potatoes.

After eating, Pomegranate and Jiang Hongxiang discussed going to the mountains to collect firewood, now is the slack season, only half a day's work, most people go to fetch more firewood piles in front of the house and behind the house to store, to the busy farm can also earn work without distraction, with work, there is money and food stamps. This is the day to live. At that time, there was no way to do business, and the only source of income was to earn money and food.

After a morning of work, Jiang Hongxiang thought that the pomegranate must be very tired, but she insisted that she would go to the mountains to collect firewood, Jiang Hongxiang couldn't imagine how the weak little girl before had changed so much overnight, and it was not too much to say that it was reborn, he thought, maybe Shi Kailiang's death hit her too hard, so she was a stress reaction, and he had this experience, because of the sudden change, it seemed to grow up overnight.

And sometimes, there is anguish and troubles in the heart, and only simple physical work such as labor can be distracted. The body is idle, and the mind likes to think crankily.

After resting for a while, Pomegranate wrapped two leftover cakes from the morning in clean gauze and put them in a cloth bag, brought a kettle, and Jiang Hongxiang carried a bamboo basket on his back, and set off with a machete.

Not long after Pomegranate and Jiang Hongxiang went out, Shi Shunfu and Zhang Guiying came to the door of Pomegranate's house.

Zhang Guiying raised her hand and knocked on the door of Pomegranate's house, knocking on "Dong Dong" while shouting, "Pomegranate!" Pomegranate! Open the door! ”

I knocked for a while, but there was no movement.

Zhang Guiying said unhappily: "The blue sky and the big sun, the two people who are lonely and widowed, what are they doing inside with the door closed?" You can't be doing something nasty, right? ”

Shi Shunfu also felt that something was wrong, and he was irritable, and when he heard his wife say this, he scolded: "What nonsense? Her father just left, she has such a mind? Knock on! ”

Zhang Guiying knocked on the door of Pomegranate's house loudly, and on the other side of the village road, Qin Xiaojuan came back from washing clothes by the river, and saw that Zhang Guiying was about to tear down the door of Pomegranate's house.

Qin Xiaojuan, who was holding her clothes, shouted at Zhang Guiying: "Auntie, don't knock, Sister Pomegranate, they are out and not at home."

Zhang Guiying stopped and said, "Not at home? Where did they go? ”

"When I was washing clothes by the river just now, I saw them walking up the mountain, carrying bamboo baskets, as if they were going up the mountain to collect firewood."

"Which mountain did you go to?" Shi Shunfu asked.

"I don't know, I just saw them from a distance and didn't ask her."

Qin Xiaojuan said, and entered the courtyard door of her house with a basin.

Zhang Guiying and Shi Shunfu, you look at me, I look at you, your face is ugly.

Before, they didn't care much about this family business, so they didn't care much about pomegranates, but now, they suddenly found out that this was a good family business, so they felt that it was very inappropriate for pomegranates to be with Jiang Hongxiang, a decentralized labor re-education person, and now they heard that pomegranate went to the mountains with him, and they didn't feel good in their hearts, and for a long time, they had been living under one roof, getting along day and night, and they didn't dare to think about it anymore.

Pomegranate went to do such heavy work in the morning, which was used to other people, but it must have been very unbearable for Pomegranate, who thought that she would definitely rest at home in the afternoon and would not go out, but it turned out that she was not as weak as they thought.

There are so many mountains and so big, who knows where they went, so they can't find it, so they can only wait for the evening when they come back to look for Pomegranate, tonight, we must let that kid move out of Pomegranate's house.

Shi Shunfu and his wife went back with mixed feelings.

There are special forest rangers on the mountain, pomegranates, they go up the mountain to collect firewood, and they are shooting dry branches and some dead trees, and ordinary trees are not afraid to cut down.

At that time, there were no gloves, and the pomegranate had to be wrapped around the hands with cotton cloth for work, so that the hands would not be injured, the hands would not blister, the calluses would not be grinded, and they would not become rough. Without a mask, the pomegranate covered his face with a cloth and a big straw hat, so that his skin would not be sunburned or scratched by branches.

Jiang Hongxiang saw that Pomegranate protected himself so well, and sighed in his heart, this little girl lives so delicately, it is very different from other girls in the village, I don't know if this is her luck or misfortune.

Today is the first time that the two of them have started to work together, they didn't say anything superfluous, they cooperated with the tacit division of labor, whether it was digging and picking soil on the dam in the morning, cooking together at noon, or collecting firewood now, Jiang Hongxiang consciously did heavier physical work, and pomegranate did fine work.

Just like collecting firewood now, Jiang Hongxiang is responsible for hooking the dry firewood from the tall tree with a long hook knife, and the pomegranate will make the messy dry firewood into small sections, neatly stacked in the bamboo basket, such firewood is carried back, dried under the sun for a few days, and can be directly carried to the stove room to burn the fire, and the head is very strong.

In a short time, they hit two large baskets of firewood. The pomegranate also picked some azaleas and camellias, and these wildflowers, full of life, were no worse than those sold in later flower shops.

Jiang Hongxiang sat there resting, eating cakes, watching the pomegranate trimming those flowers with great interest, he asked, "Pomegranate, aren't you tired?" We can't finish the work every day, and we ...... like this."

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