Chapter Eighty-Three: A Busy Day

At noon, the sisters casually got some food, rested for an hour, and then began to get busy again. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

In the afternoon, several bags of grain were grinded, and Xiaoliu was not lightly tired, not to mention her eldest sister, who didn't want to lift her hands.

"Eldest sister, this layer of coarse scum is enough for our pigs to eat for many days, will it not be grinding tomorrow?"

"Don't grind, the day after tomorrow will continue to grind, the business in this shop is good, and the food will be used quickly." The two sisters were putting the finishing touches on it, so they had time to chat and work slowly.

"Eldest sister, I'm going to wash the taro." Xiaoliu brought all the flour back to the house, and the coarse residue was also put in the kitchen.

"The two of us together, otherwise people will say about you when they see it."

"Well, eldest sister, I'll go pick up the taro first."

Xiaoliu told her eldest sister, so she went to the kitchen and took a big basket, went to her mother's room, picked up a basket of potatoes and brought them to the tree. After the sixth sister cleaned the stone mill, she covered it again, and then walked over with a wooden stick.

Xiaoliu and her eldest sister carried a basket of yams, locked the courtyard door, and walked to the big pond in the west of the village.

When Xiaoliu arrived at the pond, he saw Yang Yuting and her mother also washing taro, and there were washing clothes not far away. The other end of the pond is from Xiaxi Village, and there are a few people washing something under the pond ridge over there.

After saying hello, Xiao Liu and her sister found a seat not far away, poured the potato into the shallow water area on the side, first washed the basket, and then began to wash the potatoes one by one.

Originally, the potato was washed in a basket directly into the water and soaked for a while, and then the root of the tobacco stalk was pounded vigorously, and it was washed very clean after a while. This time it was she and her eldest sister who wanted to be lazy for a while, so they washed them by hand one by one.

Although it was said that she was lazy and washed a few times, because of the blisters, she still washed it quickly, and she and her eldest sister worked fast, so they washed it with Yang Yuting and her mother, who came early.

On the big pond, the two sisters of Xiaoliu and the cousin of the Yang family walked to the village together, and the four of them chatted for a while on the road, and Xiaoliu also heard her cousin say that Yang Zhenting has two months to go on vacation, so it is not a few months before the New Year. Xiao Liu was still thinking about how fast this time passed, and he didn't notice that he had walked to the center of the village.

After the two sisters separated from the mother and daughter of the Yang family, the two of them carried the yams and walked all the way to the east of the village.

When she arrived at the door, her eldest sister took off the key around her neck, took two steps forward and opened the courtyard door, and Xiao Liu walked to the kitchen with Lanzi alone. The sixth sister closed the courtyard door, and was busy washing the potatoes with well water twice, washing the potatoes and then peeling and chopping them into pieces, and finally putting water in the cauldron to boil the potatoes.

Xiao Liu saw that she was fine, so she took two more baskets and went to the vegetable field, and threw a high basket on the side of the haystack, so she took the small basket to the vegetable field.

After picking half a basket of vegetables, Xiao Liu went to the haystack and began to pull the grass. When the high basket was filled with grass, he leaned on his back and walked home with the vegetable basket in his left hand. When I got to the kitchen, I put the two baskets on the ground, took the key hanging on the wall, went to the hall to scoop up the food, and then went to the bamboo forest behind the courtyard.

Xiao Liu went into the bamboo forest and was busy with hygiene for a long time, feeding the chickens and ducks, and finally collecting the eggs laid by the previous ten hens, which is the end of today's business. After seeing that there was nothing going on in the bamboo forest, he locked the courtyard door again, held the eggs, and then walked home.

Xiao Liu saw her grandfather driving an ox cart to the house from afar on the road. hurriedly sped up the pace of going home, if it wasn't for the eggs, Xiao Liu would have run early.

"Sister, do you have hot water?"

"You want to drink? There is a cool white boil, hot water to boil. Xiaoliu had to put down the eggs, sat down on the stove and started to burn the fire, her eldest sister quickly brushed the small pot with her hands and feet, added cold water, did not add a few fires, and the hot water in the small pot also boiled.

Xiao Liu hurriedly took the kettle again, poured three and a half cups of cold water, added half of the hot water, and poured another pot of hot water.

"Eldest sister, grandpa is coming home, I just saw it." Before Xiao Liu's words fell, she heard her grandfather enter the door. Xiao Liu hurriedly took the washbasin again, added hot water and took it out.

"Grandpa, you're back. I'll come over and wash my face in a while, and I'll put the water here, and the water is hot and I haven't added cold water. ”

"Well, grandpa pulls the ox cart to the backyard first." After her grandfather finished speaking, he led her cow to the backyard, and when Xiaoliu saw this, he hurriedly carried half a bucket of soaked soybeans to the backyard.

As soon as her grandfather got off the ox cart and tied the cow to the cowshed, Xiao Liu came over with a bucket. "Grandpa, this is a soaked soybean, let's give it to the big cow to eat it once."

"Okay, I'm tired of it today, go grab some green straw." After his grandfather tied the cow, after saying it to Xiaoliu, he was busy cleaning up the cowshed.

When Xiaoliu heard her grandfather's words, she put down the barrel and put it aside, and went to the cowhouse to bring the green straw over, ready to feed the cows.

Grandpa Xiaoliu saw Xiaoliu coming over with the grass, and hurriedly said to her: "I'll feed it, you're feeding too much."

"Okay, grandpa, I'll hold the grass." After Xiaoliu saw her grandfather get out the dirty grass in the shed, he took the high basket and pulled the yellow straw to pour it in the cowshed.

Xiaoliu made a place for the cow to sleep, her grandfather also fed half of the cow, she saw her grandfather put the two ends of the green straw in his hand, made a nest in the middle, and put soybeans in it, and then made one and fed one first. Xiao Liu had to go back to the kitchen first, and he didn't ask what he wanted to ask.

"Eldest sister, grandpa is still feeding the cows, and the hot water is cold."

"Who told you to be too diligent, burn it in vain." Her eldest sister's noodles were also reconciled, and the vegetables were washed, cut, and served, and placed there, and she was mixing pig food.

Xiao Liu took her bamboo cup and drank a glass of boiled water, poured the water from her grandfather's cup into her own cup and drank it, took the kettle and poured two cups of hot water and put it there.

"Eldest sister, I'll feed the pigs, you're boiling some hot water, and I'll wash it later." After Xiao Liu finished speaking, he walked to the backyard with the mixed pig food.

Xiaoliu poured pig food and fed the pigs, and her grandfather also fed the cows, and the two of them each carried a wooden bucket to the front yard. The hot water that the little sixth sister began to boil was still in the small pot, and when she saw her grandfather coming, she took a scoop of hot water and walked to the door, and poured it into the wooden basin on the shelf.

Xiao Liu took the wooden bucket from her grandfather's hand and went into the kitchen, her grandfather had to stand by the wooden shelf first and start washing his face and hands, otherwise Xiao Liu would blame him again.

Xiao Liu put the wooden bucket away, and then pulled out the small wooden basin and cloth towel for washing her face from the second layer of the wooden shelf outside, and began to wash her face with hot water. After washing her face, Xiaoliu saw that her grandfather was drinking water, but her eyes were looking at the water tank, and she saw that she wanted to go out and carry water back. Because they have done a lot of things today, and they use water much faster, they are running out of water in the morning.

"Grandpa, don't look at it, you're going to carry water." If it weren't for the fear that the village would see it, Xiao Liu would have wanted to carry the water back.

"Grandpa just rested when he was feeding the cows, what else to rest, I'll go and carry a load of water back first." After speaking, he put the empty water cup, took the flat pole leaning against the wall, and wanted to go out to carry the water with the bucket rope.

Xiao Liu had no choice but to take the long rope hanging on the wall, "Grandpa, I'll go with you." ”

"Well, let's go."

Xiaoliu followed her grandfather with a water rope and walked out of the courtyard gate. And her eldest sister at home is using a small pot to make dead dough cakes.