Chapter 13 Foodies and Silkworm Breeding
"Today, I'm going to make gnocchi for everyone to eat." Dragon Boat poured a few spoonfuls of flour into the bowl.
The family finally bought flour, and the stove was filled with lard, and it was the time for the Dragon Boat Festival to show off its cooking skills. Besides, Yichen and Meiya, the two foodies, are lying in front of the stove waiting for delicious miles, and of course she, the third sister, can't let them down.
Add water to the flour, mix well, knead into small pieces, put it in a pot and boil, pour in the lard. Here, the Dragon Boat Festival made pickles and wheat cakes with flour.
Yichen saw that the Dragon Boat Festival was so busy, so he also took a knife to cut the bamboo shoots he cut last time. After cutting it and cutting it on the stove, the poor man's child is in charge early, Yichen cut the bamboo shoots evenly, and threw the oil pot into the pot to boil. After a while, the bamboo shoots were also burned.
Steaming gnocchi and pickled wheat cakes are served on the table, and a plate of fresh bamboo shoots is served for a truly nutritious look. The two foodies were busy eating. The sound of "click" caused the Dragon Boat Festival to laugh uncontrollably.
Xie Ling came over from the firewood room, Yichen was a little full, and handed over a wheat cake, "Mother, try it, the third sister made it." ”
Xie Ling was still busy with his hands, stretched out his mouth to take a bite, and nodded, "Since the third sister made it, Yichen, you eat more." By the way, take some for the second sister to eat. ”
"The second sister only knows Ah Yuan all day long, and she doesn't like us to disturb her." Yichen pouted, he remembered that he brought delicious food to Erya the night before, Erya was breastfeeding Ah Yuan, and the soup splashed on Ah Yuan's face without holding it steadily, making Ah Yuan cry, and Erya angrily asked Yichen to go. Yichen was extremely aggrieved.
"Yichen, don't blame Erya, who is a mother who doesn't care about her own son. Erya is also hard enough, you, as a younger brother, have to help her more. Xie Ling touched Yichen's head, Yichen was very sensible, and sure enough, he went to Erya's room with gnocchi and wheat cakes.
During the Dragon Boat Festival, he helped Erya change Ah Yuan's diaper. Erya was very moved, and after coaxing Ah Yuan to eat and sleep well, he came over to help Xie Ling raise silkworms.
Now the silkworm has reached the third instar, molted twice, and is big. Xie Ling was much busier than he was in the previous silkworm period. Dragon Boat Festival decided to help Xie Ling.
"Dragon Boat Festival, this silkworm raising is not an easy task. First of all, you go to pick mulberry leaves, you must not pick them when the sun is fierce, there must be no dirt on the mulberry leaves, if there is, you must wash them, and then wipe them dry, before you can give them to the silkworms to eat. Then, give mulberry four times a day to ensure that the silkworms are well fed. On weekdays, the firewood room should be ventilated, not too hot, too damp, or too dry. In order to avoid rat attacks, the steamer is also covered. It's busy. Xie Ling pointed to the Dragon Boat Festival.
"Mother, I'll go pick mulberries. Let the Dragon Boat Festival help feed the silkworms. Erya picked up the most tiring job and went to the field to pick mulberry leaves. The Dragon Boat Festival stayed in the firewood room.
Xie Ling washed the mulberry leaves he had picked before and handed them over to the Dragon Boat Festival for selection. Pick out the yellow, insect-bitten mulberry leaves for chickens to eat, the rest is good mulberry, silkworm baby is more delicate, must be good mulberry to eat not to get sick.
Then put the mulberry leaves in the silkworm cage, watching the silkworms chew carefully, and the Dragon Boat Festival was about to cover the steamer, Xie Ling suddenly came over, picked up a few silkworms and put them aside.
"These silkworms, the scalp is blue, different from several other yellow and white silkworms, they are not nutritious, and they are called blue-headed silkworms. The green-headed silkworms should be specially fed, feeding the good mulberries five times a day until they are also the same as other silkworms, so that they are put together. Xie Ling pointed.
"In this way, all the silkworms will be able to catch up with the progress, and we can control the time for them to spin silk, isn't it." The Dragon Boat Festival asked while feeding the green-headed silkworms.
"The Dragon Boat Festival is really smart, and you can learn everything quickly, that's exactly the case." Xie Ling complimented.
In the evening, the second girl returned, and the mother and daughter put the freshly picked mulberry leaves in a large basket and hung them on the ceiling to prevent the mice from reaching them, and they would be processed tomorrow. Then, the steamer is covered, the firewood room is closed, and the day of silkworm raising is over.
The Dragon Boat Festival is full of sweat, some emotion, silk is gorgeous, but just a silkworm picking is so tiring, it seems that beautiful things are not easy to get.
I thought that the years were quiet, but who knows, a loud knock on the door in the early morning broke the peace of the day.
"Yichen, go open the door." Xie Ling got up early to make breakfast, and helped set the table during the Dragon Boat Festival. Then I heard a knock at the door. Xie Ling said, "Our family has never had visitors, who will it be early in the morning." There was such a quick knock on the door. ”
Yichen opened the door, and a woman entered. She wore a coarse cloth skirt in the color of apricot blossoms, a hat on her head, and a floral silk scarf tied around her fat waist.
She rudely pushed Yichen away, walked in with a big grin, glanced at the food on the table with her little eyes, and smiled at the fat on her face, "Yo, my sister-in-law's family can eat and wear as much as the big families in the city." The pork belly is also topped with a fish, a cake, and a bowl of fragrant white rice. I don't believe that others say that my sister-in-law's family has made a fortune recently, but if I see it with my own eyes, I still don't believe it. She has a very rough voice and is very impolite when she speaks, and the Dragon Boat Festival doesn't like her very much.
"It turned out to be my sister-in-law. Let's sit down and eat together. Yichen, add a stool to your sister-in-law. Xie Ling was down-to-earth and generous, and in the face of such an obvious door-to-door provocation, she got up unhurriedly to meet her.
It turned out that she was the Xie family, and seeing Xie Ling standing next to this sister-in-law during the Dragon Boat Festival gave her sister-in-law a head higher. is really short and fat, and the Dragon Boat Festival calls her "dwarf winter melon" in her heart.
"Hmph, the sericulture has not developed recently, our family has not eaten meat for a month, you have meat to eat every day, and you don't send some to honor your eldest brother and mother. Xie Ling, you are really ungrateful. The dwarf winter melon shook off Xie Ling's hand, and his smiling face quickly turned into an angry face, which was really faster than turning a pig's belly.
"Sister-in-law Hugh wants to say so, we are only recently busy with some business, so we have meat to eat. No, it's ready right away, and I'm about to send it to my brother and mother. Xie Ling said as he handed over a pair of chopsticks, "Sister-in-law must have eaten yet, so sit down and eat while it's hot." ”
After all, the dwarf winter melon can't stand the temptation of food, presumably this fat body has already dried up without eating meat for a month, took the chopsticks and "swept" the table, and the Dragon Boat Festival hurriedly sandwiched the meat to Yichen and Meiya bowl of meat, but it was still not as fast as the dwarf winter melon, and after a while, the food on the table and the scraps all fell into the belly of the dwarf winter melon!
"It's delicious." The dwarf winter melon got up and touched her belly beautifully, she really wanted to eat again, Yichen said very unhappily: "How can you come to someone else's house to eat like this." ”
When the dwarf winter melon heard this, he was furious, pointed at Yichen's nose and scolded: "You little kid is really ungrateful, if it weren't for our Xie family saving your mother and recognizing your mother as a goddaughter, you would have starved to death in the mountains." How about eating you now? ”
"Children are not sensible, sister-in-law should not blame. Hugh said that he ate such a meal, that is, he came to support his brother and mother every day, and he should have done so. ”
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