Chapter 4 Parental Heart
Stretching out his hand to feel the still cold wind, Shen Cuiping shook his head, "I still don't want it, it's such a cold day, don't freeze your hands." Or, do you watch your mother dig? ”
Under the warm sun, Tian Xiaomiao looked at her white and tender little hands, and then looked at her mother's thick and rough hands, and her heart ached.
She ran to the nearby grove and retrieved a sturdy branch, patted off the snow on it, and drew it twice out of thin air.
"I'll just use this instead of a hand, let's do it together, and one person won't be called a game. Let's try to find a few more sweet potatoes, and when Dad comes back, he will surprise him, I think he likes to eat baked sweet potatoes! ”
At the mention of Xiao Miao's father, Shen Cuiping's eyes softened, hesitated for a moment, and finally nodded in agreement.
"That little seedling be careful not to freeze, if it's cold, we'll go home immediately."
"Okay, okay, got it!"
Tian Xiaomiao nodded with a smile, and shook the soft bun on both sides.
The branch in her hand is Tian Xiaomiao's eye, the tip is slightly thinner, and she doesn't prick her hand when she holds it on it, but her strength is still too small, and she only pokes a small hole in the snow with a stick.
Shen Cuiping diligently concentrated on digging sweet potatoes, squatting on the ground and picking out the thick snow places, because the thin snow places were all dug by her before.
Taking advantage of Shen Cuiping's lack of attention, Tian Xiaomiao took out two pieces of rags from his arms and wrapped them in his hands. Now there is no condition, and when I go home in a while, I must ask my mother to make a glove to come out, so that when digging snow and digging the ground, my hands will not be so frozen and hurt.
After choosing a place, Tian Xiaomiao also began to dig, she wittily held the branch in her left hand and turned her back to Shen Cuiping, so that even if Shen Cuiping looked up at her in her busy schedule, she would only think that she was poking the snow with the small branch.
The first pit was dug for almost ten centimeters, and generally if there is a sweet potato, there will be a rhizome on it, so Tian Xiaomiao decisively gave up this pit and moved to the next one.
Although this land is so small, although the size of the sweet potato is quite large, the chance of encountering sweet potatoes is still very small.
As a result, when Tian Xiaomiao dug the fourth pit, he still found nothing, and his face was full of frustration.
"Oops!"
At this time, Shen Cuiping suddenly let out an exclamation, and as soon as Tian Xiaomiao turned around, he saw her waving to him.
"Come, Xiao Miao, let's see if my mother has found a sweet potato!"
Shen Cuiping did not directly pull the sweet potato out of the ground, but beckoned Tian Xiaomiao to come over, and it happened that Tian Xiaomiao was also very curious about what the sweet potato looked like when it was buried in the ground, so he immediately secretly hid the cloth wrapped in his hands and ran over happily.
There were also many pits near Shen Cuiping, her hands were already a little red from the cold, and she didn't know how to put her hands in her sleeves to warm them, but reached out to hold Tian Xiaomiao in her arms and shield her from the wind.
Pointing to the sweet potato that appeared in the pit in front of him, "Look, Xiao Miao, this is the sweet potato in the ground, is it the first time you have seen it?" ”
Tian Xiaomiao nodded, this was indeed the first time she had seen a sweet potato still in the ground, with a dry and blackened stem on it, a very full body, a faint purple red color, and a thin layer of soil on the outside, which was quite big.
It seems that this meal has settled, Tian Xiaomiao raised his head, "Mother, shall I pull this sweet potato?" ”
The surrounding soil has been almost dug up, and now it is easy to pull it out, Shen Cuiping nodded, in fact, she also had this meaning when she called Tian Xiaomiao over.
Her daughter has been frail and sickly since she was a child, rarely goes out, and has never done farm work, unlike those children in other families, many of whom know more about farm work. It's not that she dislikes Tian Xiaomiao for not working, but she is afraid that she will be disliked if she has a mother-in-law in the future, so she will hand it over to her little by little now.
Although Shen Cuiping is just an illiterate peasant woman, she is really good to her children.
After digging a pit for a long time just now, Tian Xiaomiao was so hungry that she was about to bite, and as soon as she got her mother's permission, she immediately broke away from Shen Cuiping's embrace, grabbed the upper half of the sweet potato with both hands, and pulled out the sweet potato with all her might.
"Oops!"
Because of the excessive force, Tian Xiaomiao fell backwards on the snow.
The little red face fluttered, both feet off the ground, and both hands were still clutching a large sweet potato. Shen Cuiping didn't go over to help her anxiously this time, but squatted on the spot and giggled, there was no straw under the snow, it couldn't pierce anyone, but it was soft, she wasn't worried at all, and watched Tian Xiaomiao, who was blushing, get up by herself.
"Oops, hand slippery, hand slippery."
Comforting himself dryly, Tian Xiaomiao fluttered on the snow on his buttocks, looked at the big potato in his arms, and laughed again.
"Drop! Skill: Gathering, Skill Level: Beginner, Proficiency 1%. ”
Well? Learned skills again?
For the system prompt, Tian Xiaomiao had long been used to it, but he was slightly surprised and stopped thinking about it, and obediently took his mother's hand and went home to roast sweet potatoes to eat.
This time, when cleaning sweet potatoes, there is an extra note on it, "Ingredients: ordinary sweet potatoes".
It seems that this is derived from the gathering skill.,Originally, you could only see the name of the cooked dish.,Now the raw materials that haven't been cooked also have hints.,Not bad.。
Tian Xiaomiao blinked, this is quite useful, if someone gives him a cup of poisonous wine in the future, will it also be marked as "poisonous wine"?
This sweet potato is a bit big, and Tian Xiaomiao cut it into three sections to roast.
The stove has only one mouth that can be baked, and it is used to bake exactly one at a time to improve proficiency.
Originally, Shen Cuiping wanted to roast it herself, but how could Tian Xiaomiao waste this good opportunity to have a long experience, and even coaxed her to rest.
This time, Tian Xiaomiao mastered some methods of roasting sweet potatoes, such as often flipping, because the sweet potatoes roasted before were burned because they stayed in one place for too long.
I don't know if it's an illusion, Tian Xiaomiao feels that the proficiency of this barbecue has increased at a faster rate, probably because he has mastered the correct method.
There is no oven for roasting sweet potatoes here, just manually flipping a sweet potato and letting Tian Xiaomiao squat on the ground for more than half an hour before standing up.
"Ordinary roasted sweet potato", sure enough, this is still the evaluation.
Tian Xiaomiao had a whim, spit on the roasted sweet potato, waited for a long time, and the prompt was still "ordinary roasted sweet potato", her little face turned white, it's over, if someone spits in their own food in the future, it's really hard to prevent!
Stepping away, Tian Xiaomiao cut off the sweet potato that was contaminated by saliva, and took the other piece into it for Shen Cuiping to eat.
Then she built a simple little chair with firewood and sat down in front of the fire, continuing her barbecue skill upgrade, she was very, very curious about what difference this skill would make if it was upgraded.