Chapter IV

From time to time there are pheasants and hares in the woods, oranges look greedy, they are braised and steamed, but she is a little woman who has no power to tie chickens, she goes to catch fish, but it is okay to catch chickens.

There is a shallow layer of grass on the ground, unknown wildflowers are blooming, and the trees are low, and the mushrooms are shaking their umbrellas and opening lively. She and Rika had their eyes lit up and began their mushroom picking journey.

The pine and cypress also squatted down to pick mushrooms, while telling the pear blossoms and oranges not to go to places with a lot of grass, and to be careful of snakes. The cold voice echoed in the forest, and Li Laosan pursed his lips and said nothing.

"Brother Songbai, are you hungry?" Xiuxiu is still shushing the cold and asking for warmth, and I don't know how many times I heard Xiuxiu ask Songbai in the morning, Xiuxiu is not a delicate-skinned person, otherwise a squeamish girl would have cried.

Li Laosan pouted again, if it weren't for her mother repeatedly warning him not to let him get involved, he would have to pull Xiuxiu over and scold. Although he didn't know what his mother's calculations were, he wasn't stupid, and since that day his mother saw that the pines and cypresses were getting more and more down, she moved her mind to get married. Xiuxiu is a person who only knows how to listen to her mother, and her mother asks her to care about Songbai, and she cares about Songbai all the way.

Pear blossom and orange picked most of the basket of mushrooms, and they couldn't eat more than that, so the two found a stone and sat down to rest, "Sister Orange, let's go find wild fruits to eat in a while, there should be wild strawberries at this time, not to mention how delicious they are, and sour dates, let's pick more and go back as snacks." ”

"Okay, I'll go over there later, and I'll look for wild leek flowers and fungus." The orange wiped the sweat from his head, although there were trees in the forest to shade him, but it was tiring to work for half a day.

"What are you two whispering?" Xiuxiu came over with a few wild strawberries in her hand, "The third brother picked it from it, it's weird and sweet." ”

"Why are you willing to come back from my brother's side?" Pear blossom unceremoniously took a strawberry and joked about Xiuxiu.

"Alas, my mother said that I should find my mother-in-law's family, Brother Songbai is a good man and down-to-earth, and my mother said that I should marry him." Xiuxiu didn't shy away from Pear Blossom teasing her, her face was calm and calm, but the orange was clear, Xiuxiu just listened to her mother's instructions, and didn't know what the love between men and women was. Don't look at her growing up so big, marrying someone is only a superficial understanding.

"But I don't think your brother likes to talk, and I'm a talkative, if I marry your brother, I can't suffocate me." Xiuxiu took a bite of the strawberry, and the tender juice flowed from the corner of her mouth, and her lips were red.

"Poof" Rika laughed, "Your sentence is to the point, my brother didn't like to talk since he was a child, so he still talked a little bit with Brother Pengfei, and then their family moved to the town and didn't get along, marrying my brother is not a crime." ”

Xiuxiu nodded, not at all as shy as she was just now, "It's not a mile, I'll talk to my mother when I go back, but I can't just look at Brother Songbai's good looks." ”

They were talking a lot about Songbai, who was fishing in the river not far away with the third child, and didn't pay any attention to them.

"Let's hurry up and find wild leek flowers, otherwise we won't be able to go back for lunch." The orange wiped the residual juice from the corner of her mouth, the fruit here can be made into jam, but she has to use something as expensive as sugar, and she really doesn't have many at home. On weekdays, she only used it to entertain guests, and her mother spoiled her, and let her drink white sugar water. She felt that she couldn't come to the mountains in vain, and put wild fruits and everything in the back basket.

"Okay."

A few people walked around the mountain, there were a lot of wild leek flowers, but they were not particularly good, and the oranges were pounded into flower puree anyway, and they picked a little too much. The fungus was not found, but she was a little disappointed, and she couldn't put it in the back basket, so she didn't continue to look for it, and Pear Blossom and Xiuxiu didn't continue to pick it after picking something enough to eat. Songbai and Lao San caught a lot of small fish, and Songbai was lucky to get a big fish.

"Third brother, it's still my brother." Pear Blossom went to tease the third child again, and the third child was sad for the big fish caught by the pine and cypress, and stared at the pear blossom when he heard the words.

"If you want me to say that Brother Songbai is also powerful, what do you say about oranges?" Xiuxiu didn't seem to be a little girl on the way, and she regained her usual grin.

The named orange looked at the third child and Songbai, the former looked frustrated, and the latter had a light expression that didn't care about anything, "I think the third brother is also very powerful, didn't he pick so many fruits for us to eat." ”

The third grinned and looked at Pear Blossom and Xiuxiu defiantly, "It's still an orange girl with a good eye." ”

The downhill road is more difficult than the uphill, carrying a heavy basket down the mountain is not simple at all, several times she has to lose her center of gravity, not that she is hypocritical, the body of the orange is very tough, but the pond orange rarely goes up the mountain, it is inevitable to grasp it badly. The baskets of Pear Blossom and Xiuxiu are basically full of mushrooms, and they are not particularly heavy. Orange picked more leek flowers and fruits than the two of them, and walked staggeringly.

Xiuxiu and Rika were fighting with the third child, and they didn't notice her strangeness. However, Songbai looked back and saw that she was swaying, and took advantage of his height to put heavy things such as sickles and fruits in her basket in his back basket.

As soon as Orange wanted to recite a poem to the kindness of this iceberg beauty from the bottom of his heart, he heard Song Bai muttering in a low voice: "Delong Wangshu." ”

Orange choked on his own saliva, and you are still a cultural person, and glared at the pine and cypress stupidly, this thing is dressed in a hypocritical skin, in fact, it is the most annoying.

When I arrived at the door of the house, it was noon, although I was wearing a straw hat, I still choked enough, and I really wanted to sit in the air-conditioned room and sleep under the air-conditioner. Saying goodbye to Xiuxiu and the third child, Songbai put things into her back basket from the new, looking like she did good deeds without leaving a name, in fact, Orange understood Comrade Songbai's approach, didn't she just want her mother and his mother to misunderstand something.

"Brother Songbai, thank you, go back and let my mother make you something to eat." Orange shouted as Songbai was about to enter the house.

She swore that she saw Comrade Songbai stumble for a moment, and she couldn't decide to scold her for being a white-eyed wolf.

"Brother, what do you thank Sister Orange?" Pear Blossom had been arguing with the third child just now, and she didn't know what happened to the two of them in the back.

"Nothing." Songbai took a sip of cool white wine, "Send the fish to our mother." ”

Orange hummed a song and went home, "Girl, so happy." ”

"Is that okay, mother, and peanuts and soybeans?" Orange washed her face, and she had to quickly pickle the leek flowers.

"Yes, there is still half a bag left from last year's planting. Girl, you want to use it, let your father get it for you. Chen poured out the mushrooms and leek flowers in the basket, "Take so many back, it won't sink on your back?" ”

"Unsinkable. I want to make some leek flowers, and then make tofu brains to sell. Orange wiped her face and said to her mother, "Mother, don't you see it." ”

Chen was stunned for a moment, and then shouted out of the house to Chi Dazhu, "Master, come out." ”

Chi Dazhu was weaving bamboo baskets in the house, and Chen came out as soon as he shouted, "What's wrong?" ”

"Your daughter wants to sell tofu brains, you tell her yourself." Chen carried the mushrooms to the backyard, and the orange was confused for a while, her mother was angry? It wasn't good just now.

"Girl, why do you suddenly want to sell tofu brains?" Chi Dazhu sat on the bench, Orange didn't know how to explain, she wanted to make money, improve her life, at least build a house like Xiuxiu's house, otherwise she was always worried about leaking rain on rainy days.

Shinong industry and commerce, in the thinking of the ancients, it was deeply ingrained, so many people would rather starve to death on the ground than become merchants. This is the generation gap, she sighed, "Dad, the work in the field is also over, so I will find some business and sell tofu brains to make some money." ”

Chi Dazhu was silent for a while, "Girl, let my father think about it......"

Orange nodded, she knew what her father and mother thought, their family was not short of food and clothing, and they didn't want to work so hard, she felt that her father and mother just didn't turn the corner for a while.

"Orange, eat first, and think about it after eating." Chen didn't know when he came back from the backyard, turned around and went into the kitchen, looking still angry.

Orange also followed into the kitchen, and her mother made a fire with a straight face, "Mother, I know that you feel sorry for me, so I will grind beans at home and let my father go out to sell it." ”

"You're willing to call your father." Chen's tone was relieved, and when the orange saw that there was a play, he pulled Chen's arm and said coquettishly: "My mother wronged me when she said this, I want to sell it, and you have to let me go." ”

"Alas, my mother can't help you, listen to your father." Chen added a piece of firewood, and the crackling sound of the firewood sounded, "If your father is capable, he doesn't need you to think about making money." ”

"Mother, what are you talking about, we are not a family, I was not raised by you?" Orange knew that her father and mother felt sorry for her, and she stopped talking.

Thinking that the small fish sauce can be eaten, the jar lid is fragrant, dipped in a chopsticks to taste, although the taste is not as delicious as modern times, it is better than a sweetness, and when she has money, she can match the condiments, so that it tastes better.

"Mother, I'll make fruit cakes and eat them at noon." Orange has long been itchy and wants to eat fruit cakes, Chen nodded, "Okay, you can do it, your father in the province said that what I make is not as delicious as what you make." ”

The fruit cake is the pancake fruit, spread a thin layer of noodles, beat the eggs, put the fried thin crispy, sprinkle pickles, coriander and green onions, other dishes can also be put, depending on the personal taste, and finally smear the sauce, love to eat spicy put on the pepper, the entrance is a burst of crispy, she used to do it herself.

Now even the sauce is made by himself, and the taste is a little better than in the previous life. After tasting it, Chi Dazhu nodded and said, "My daughter is capable, and my father will fish for you another day." ”

"Go and send some to the pear blossom family, she is also thinking about eating." Chen took a bite, the crispy taste touched the buds, the richness of the shrimp paste, the crispy aroma, the spicy green onion, the silkiness of the eggs, and the golden crispiness of the skin.

"Alas, I know my mother." After eating two oranges, she was full, and the cakes were not very large, so she picked up ten and put them in the basket, and presented a jar of shrimp paste in a small jar.

The Ewha family was about to start a meal, and the Sun family was not polite with the oranges, and one person stuffed a fruit cake in his hand, which tasted really good. Rika took the jar over, "Why don't you ask me to come over and do it with you." Orange smiled and said, "Pear blossom, this shrimp paste is also delicious." Another day, my dad caught fish, and I'll make some mushroom shrimp paste. ”

"Well, all right. I'll wait to eat. Pear Blossom was not polite to Orange, "I'll go and wash your clothes next night." ”

"Well, I'll go first, that uncle and aunt."

"Wait a while, the pines and cypresses didn't catch a fish, they don't like to eat what I made, you bring it back and make it, we all go to your house to eat, we are also loose and lackluster." Sun said with a smile.

Orange hesitated, "Okay, then you remember to come at night, I'm welcome." According to the memory of the original owner, the two families often ate together, but they were very close.