Chapter 1 Tortillas

As soon as the sky was bright, Chi Cheng had already opened his eyes, looked blankly at the soil cultivation house, and sighed slightly. Outside, there was the sound of her mother Chen sweeping the floor, and occasionally the sound of her father Chi Dazhu coughing.

Half a month ago, she was a modern chef who was about to reach the pinnacle of her life. Her Chi family has been a cook for generations, and her ancestors have been imperial chefs, and they have also sold food on the street. Now that her father Chi Bao is in her generation, she has opened a private restaurant in the suburbs, and her father Chi Bao is a well-known chef, and I don't know how many people want to invite her father to cook a meal.

It's just that Comrade Chi Bao has a quirk and only cooks three times a month, which makes Chi Cheng, who grew up with her cousin Chi Chi, very depressed. (That's right, it's red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple) The wish of the two is to become an unruly person like her father.

During the Chinese New Year family dinner, Chi Bao personally cooked and renovated a sumptuous dinner. Sichuan pepper chicken, peacock open screen fish, rose bean curd pig's trotters, braised pork, rising every year...... She ate five bites of each of them, eager to swallow her tongue, and finally drank another bowl of mutton and radish soup to smooth her breath, and then opened her eyes and arrived here.

The death of the god horse happened to her, it couldn't be weirder! It's really her name, don't you want to be so scary. I don't know if Comrade Chi Bao did cook a meal for her again after he found out that she was dying, and sent her on the road.

Thinking of this, Chi Cheng swallowed his saliva. Put on her clothes in the dark, she has been here for half a month, and she sleeps every day in addition to eating, and her father and mother in this life hurt her very much. She is the only child in the family, and everything good is used by her first, which makes Chi Cheng, who once wanted to wear it back, also a little embarrassed, occupying the body of other people's daughters, and always thinking about seeking death - too inauthentic.

When her mother Chen saw her get up, she put down the broom in her hand and said with a smile: "The orange is awake, and my mother has given you a bowl of cold sugar water." As he spoke, he went to the stove and brought it to her. Chen is about 30 years old, and because of his hard work all year round, his face already has fine wrinkles.

Her father, Chi Dazhu, sat in the yard and shook a fan to enjoy the coolness, and he had to go to the field today, but he really didn't feel at ease to put his daughter alone at home, if there were still people in the village talking nonsense, what could it be! He is not afraid, but he is afraid that his daughter will go to his heart.

Her daughter is not only handsome, but also skillful, how can she be satisfied, but the Zhang family can't look down on it! Alas, iniquity.

Chi Cheng said hello to Chi Dazhu and walked to the courtyard behind. According to the memory of the original owner, after the orange was retired by the Zhang family, he never dared to see people at home, he was depressed, he had a serious illness, and the pool orange became the pool orange. But life has to go on, even if she still doesn't know what age it is, it doesn't matter. If you want to come to a small mountain village, you don't need to get up like other crossing women, just live a good life. There is a saying that if it comes, it will be safe.

The yard at the back is full of vegetables, cucumber shelves, bean shelf, watery eggplant peppers, green shallots, her father and mother are diligent people at a glance, and the fields at home are properly cleaned up, why are they so poor? The only thing worth it is the old hen who is about to retire, and I don't know if she will lay eggs or not. Remember the big white letters on the wall of the modern village: to get rich, have fewer children and raise more pigs!

What a simple truth, her family has only one child in her family, and a few pigs, and a good life is just around the corner.

The orange pinched two tender shallots, a few cucumbers, and saw that the beans could be eaten in a few days, and her heart was also happy.

Orange carried the basket to the stove, and Chen pointed to the white sugar water, "Orange, drink some water to moisten your mouth." ”

"Hey, mother. What are you doing here? Chi Cheng drank half a bowl of wine, her body was really cool, and Chen touched her head lovingly, "Stick a corn tortilla and be hungry." ”

After drinking the water, Orange took a mazar and sat down to pick vegetables, Chen didn't say anything when he saw it, and the girl looked much better than a few days ago, maybe she wouldn't be blind when she started it. When I came back from a trip, I saw that Orange was holding a knife, and I was so scared that the three souls went to the two souls. The orange "dong dong dong" cut the shallots and cucumbers, and Chen came back to his senses, "Oranges, go back to the house and lie down, just do it." He carefully snatched the knife down.

Chi Dazhu shook his fan outside and echoed: "That's it, your mother can do it, and the orange will go back to the house." He didn't know what was going on, and thought it was his mother-in-law who felt sorry for her daughter.

"Mother, Dad, I'm fine. Lying down all day is also lying down. Otherwise, I'm always thinking about it. Besides, I like to cook. "Orange is very touched that her father and mother love her so much, in the village, or in the ancient village, this is simply capital luck.

Chen can't, and he doesn't do any other work in his hands, so he just guards the oranges. Seeing that the orange cut vegetables are as thin as cicada wings, fast and good. is better than herself, who has been cooking for most of her life, her daughter is amazing, the Zhang family is really blind!

She didn't doubt it, Orange used to be able to cook, and he was one of the best in the village, but it wasn't so fast and so good. Chen naturally felt that this was her daughter's talent, and God felt that he owed her daughter and had to compensate her. Otherwise, this stir-fry person can't be her daughter?

Orange saw Chen pick up the cabbage sum she cut and brought it up, didn't the original owner know how to cook before? Seeing that Chen glanced at it, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth again, and the orange breathed a sigh of relief. Mixed a cucumber, fried a shallot tofu, and fished an old pickle from the pickle jar. The oil at home is boiled with fatty pork, and I am reluctant to put it on weekdays. There are not a few eggs, and in a few days, let Chen hold a few more chickens to raise, and she can raise them at home on weekdays.

Chi Dazhu took a bite of the dish, which was different from the taste that Chen usually made, with a burst of sweetness in his mouth, and even more mixed tastes in his heart. Look at his daughter's skillful hands, and the food she cooks is better than that of her mother-in-law who has cooked all her life.

The black-hearted Zhang family, if he has the ability, he will seek justice for his daughter sooner or later. Isn't it just that he can't look down on his daughter when he is admitted to Xiucai, and he is not rare!

"Dad, you eat more. Mother, when I get to the field, I will work for a while, and I will come back with back pain. Orange gave Chi Dazhu and Chen a chopstick dish, and the two of them were reluctant to eat on weekdays, thinking about her as a girl. This tofu is fragrant and delicate, and it stretches endlessly in the mouth, which is many times better than modern tofu.

"Hey, girl, you eat." Chi Dazhu felt that his nose was sour, and he hurriedly took a bite of the tortilla, not to mention, even the cakes were better than usual.

Chen directly shed two tears, turned his back and wiped the corners of his eyes, her sensible daughter really came back and no longer locked herself in the house all day. God has eyes.

Even so, Chen still hesitated when he went out, and told Orange not to run to the river for a while, and to wash her clothes when she came back, and then said that she would not go to the ground at all.

"Mother, don't worry. Your daughter doesn't want to have that thing for a long time, let's live a good life, it's better than anything else. ”

Chen is still not at ease, usually a person in Lisuo has become a mother-in-law at this time. But the work in the field waits for no one, their annual ration refers to the grain in the field, and the labor force at home is already small, and they are worried, and the pear blossom who lives next door comes over with a pot.

Pear Blossom has a round face, and her eyes are round, and she looks very pleasing, according to the memory of the original owner, she and Pear Blossom grew up together since childhood, and they are good girlfriends who say everything. "Auntie, uncle, went down to the ground?"

Chen hurriedly let the pear blossom into the yard, "Auntie just said to let the orange go to you, what's in this pot?" ”

"This is my brother who touched small fish and shrimp from the river in the morning, and made soup for Sister Orange to drink." When Rika laughed, her eyes bent like the moon.

"You can keep it and eat it, and your uncle can touch it from the river when he comes back in the evening." The Chen family pushed, their family is right with the Zhao family, this time the orange is sick and the Zhao family has borrowed two pieces of money, which is still the dowry money prepared by the Zhao family for Pear Blossom.

"Auntie is polite to me." Pear blossom put down the pot, orange happily glanced at the lively little fish, she was worried about the lack of condiments at home, this small fish and shrimp boiled sauce to eat, Sensei is more fragrant.

"It's my mother, I'll boil some sauce and send it to Uncle Zhao later." Orange urged her mother, "Dad is out of the house, mother, go quickly." ”

After Chen's departure, the pear blossoms and oranges cleaned up the small fish, which was boiled into a milky white soup, which was delicious and nutritious. The small fish fried to a golden brown taste also crunchy, but it is too oil-intensive.

"Sister Orange, is the sauce really so delicious?" Pear Blossom asked while cleaning up, it is true that oranges can cook, that is also a homely meal, things like sauce have secret recipes, and the sauce that her mother boiled last year was bitter and astringent, and she has not eaten it until now.

This orange is no longer another orange, let alone a small shrimp paste.

"That's right, I'll send some to you when the sauce is ready. When the time comes, let's make a fruit cake, put crunchy pickles, sprinkle with chopped coriander and green onions, and spread the sauce to be fragrant. Orange suddenly thought that this pure natural and pollution-free ancient time, backed by mountains, with a river in front, is rich in resources, and does not worry about finding a way to make a fortune.

"I'm going to drool when I say it."

After packing up the small fish, the oranges put them in the jar and sprinkled them with salt and tinkered with them for a while. At this time, the sun has not fully risen, and the sweat is pouring out. Seeing that it was still early for lunch, Orange and Pear Blossom went to the river with a wooden basin to wash their clothes.

The two families lived in the east of the village, with Tianxian Mountain in the back and a long downhill road in front to the river. According to the memory of the original owner, her father and mother suffered a loss when they split the family, and her grandmother particially divided the wasteland in the east of the village to her father. Her father and mother gritted their teeth and moved over, and at that time, there was no one living in front of the mountain in the east of the village, and it was really desolate. Lihua's father Zhao He used to grow up wearing the same pants as Chi Dazhu, and when the old man in the family passed away, he also moved to the east of the village to be neighbors with Chi Dazhu.

The orange washed her face with river water first, and it was very cool and comfortable. The river water is very clear, there are really a lot of small fish and shrimp, and there are also loaches and yellow eels. I put my clothes in the river and floated for a while, fished them out and put them on the stones, beat them a few times with a mallet, and then soaked them for a while, and the two chatted a few words from time to time, and I guessed that they would almost go home to cook.

When I went back, the wooden basin was going to sink a lot, and after the orange walked for a while, I saw a girl walking quickly. Those who came all over shouted "pear blossoms".

"Hey, Sister Xiuxiu." Rika responded, "What's the matter?" ”

Orange tried hard to search in her memory, Xiuxiu probably lives in the west of the village, her four sons, she is a female baby, and her father killed Pig Li is very precious to her.

"Pear blossoms, oranges." Xiuxiu panted and ran to them, her little face flushed, and the smile on her face was about to fall. "My sister-in-law gave birth to a fat boy."