In February, the weather is getting warmer, and the fields and villages are covered with light green, and there is grass in the distance, but there is no trace of it closely.

The ice floes in Qixi have unconsciously melted into water, and a few white goose ducks have twisted and swung down the stream, and a few bushes of spring flowers by the stream have also spit out bright yellow buds early.

Spring is coming.

The alkaline soil that Lu Xiaoyi had been looking forward to for a long time also came, and the surplus grain went to the city to carry it back in person.

Passing by the courtyard of the Lu family, Yu Liang deliberately got out of the car and told him that Lu Xiaoyi was helping Yulan dry her clothes and find an excuse to go out with Yu Liang, but Yulan only briefly explained a few words and stopped caring about her.

Qi Feng was also in the car, winked at Lu Xiaoyi with a smile, and called her a tomboy, and Lu Xiaoyi nodded as a greeting.

The carriage stopped at the foot of the mountain, Qi Feng asked Yu Liang to take two sacks of alkaline soil down from the car, and then sat on the sack, pointed to the courtyard of the Yu family on the mountainside, and complained: "Eh! I said, how do you move this? I've come all the way back from Mongolia, so I won't have to help move to the mountainside. ”

Yu Liang smiled: "Those who can work harder." ”

Qi Feng snorted, "I can't stand it!" You move on your own, I don't care. ”

Lu Xiaoyi asked Yu Liang: "Brother Liang, is Brother Feng a soft leg?" Not a sack of soil can be moved up the mountain. ”

Qi Feng jumped in front of Lu Xiaoyi and shouted, "You tomboy, why do you say I'm a soft-legged person?" ”

Lu Xiaoyi raised his eyebrows, "If you don't move, you're a soft leg!" ”

Qi Feng was about to have a seizure, but he quickly reacted and said proudly: "Hey! You tomboy wants to provoke me, so I won't be fooled! ”

Lu Xiaoyi's little trick was recognized, and he grinned, "Brother Feng is really smart." Then he said to Yu Liang: "Brother Liang, I'll help you move it." ”

"You can't move, I'll just move." The surplus grain picked up a sack and threw it on his shoulder, and walked to the mountainside without a sound.

Qi Feng got up helplessly, clapped his palms and picked up another sack to follow, complaining as he walked: "What do you say you are doing with this thing all the way?" One cannot be eaten, two cannot be sold, three cannot grow grass, and four cannot lay eggs. ”

Yu Liang and Lu Xiaoyi ignored him, let him nag, and when they arrived at the courtyard of the Yu family, Qi Feng threw the sack, sat on the square bench in the courtyard with a big grin, and shouted exaggeratedly: "The master's waist is going to be tired, so who, tomboy, you come over to help the master hammer!" ”

The tomboy is also a girl, and he is not a girl, so why call her. Lu Xiaoyi secretly rolled his eyes and ignored him.

The surplus grain moved the sack to the backyard and stacked it, and then began to chase away the guests, "Fengzi, it's okay for you, hurry back!" ”

Qi Feng jumped up and looked at the surplus grain in disbelief, "How can you be like this, cross the river and tear down the bridge, unload the mill and kill the donkey, the rabbit and the dog cook, and the bird hides the bow and ......"

Yu Liang smiled: "Don't show off, I don't know how many brushes you have?" ”

Qi Feng jumped to his feet, "What do you want to hint at?" Let me tell you, back then, in the school, I was just too lazy to learn, and my brain was not stupid! ”

"Well, I know, you've said it more than a hundred times."

Qi Feng's eyes rolled up, he was really counting the times, and muttered in his mouth: "Is there a hundred times?" How do I feel less than a hundred! ”

Yu Liang didn't talk to him, and pulled him up and pushed him out of the courtyard, "It's not that I won't keep you, when I came, Uncle Qi said, let you send it back quickly, the dart bureau is waiting for the car, and there is a dart that can't be delayed." ”

Although Qi Feng was out of tune, he was still serious about getting down to business, and he complained about the surplus food as he walked out, "You have nothing to do with your father, I just want to talk to you a few words, and I can't delay the business." ”

Yu Liang said: "Now that the business of the dart bureau is light, it is not easy to have a dart, and it can't be delayed." ”

"Okay, okay, can't I go? I'm really afraid of you, so I'll come back to you when I'm free. ”

"Well, I'm not going to send you down the mountain, I still have something to do here."

Qi Feng glanced at Yu Liang, Yu Guang glanced at Lu Xiaoyi again, and said with an ambiguous smile: "What do you have to do with the tomboy?" ”

Yu Liang's face turned red, "Are you leaving?" ”

Qi Feng laughed and walked down the mountain.

Yu Liang looked at Lu Xiaoyi with a red face, Lu Xiaoyi pretended to be innocent, and Yu Liang was much relieved.

"Xiao Yi, do you think this soil is what you want?" After saying that, Yu Liang untied the two sacks and let her look at them.

Lu Xiaoyi took a closer look, only to see that the soil in the sack was big lumpy, a little white, and the section revealed a small uneven bee gap, rubbing it with his hands, feeling very dry and hard, with a little powder, exactly the same as the alkaline soil in the northwest Gobi in the previous life.

Lu Xiaoyi was very happy, and said to Yu Liang: "Brother Liang, it's great, it's this kind of soil." ”

"A sack is enough, right?"

Seeing Lu Xiaoyi nodding, Yu Liang quickly poured out the Gobi soil, and kicked it with his foot, saying, "This soil is so hard, no wonder it can't grow crops." ”

Lu Xiaoyi said deliberately: "There are monsters in these soils, of course they can't grow." ”

Yu Liang obviously didn't believe it, squatted down to look through the lumps of soil, and muttered, "Can this soil make cakes?" It looks dirty, should you wash it? ”

Lu Xiaoyi scratched her head, she really didn't know whether to wash it or not, thinking that the Gobi soil was seriously salinized, and there was no harm in washing and soaking it.

Seeing her nodding, Yu Liang hurriedly put the lumps back into the sack, carried them down the mountain and threw them into Qixi to soak and wash them, then carried them back to dry, and then carried another bag to be washed.

The whole process was full of surplus food, Lu Xiaoyi was sweet and guilty, sweet surplus grain was considerate and capable, and he was guilty that he couldn't help.

Where did Yu Liang know that there were so many complicated thoughts in her little Ding Ding's head, and she only focused on putting the lumps in the sun.

The wet lumps of soil did not dry for a while, and in return, Lu Xiaoyi helped the surplus grain to make Chinese rice: the fine wheat noodles were rolled out and cut into strips, and then two poached eggs that were charred on the outside and tender on the inside were lying on the noodles, without greens and green onions, instead of a small handful of pickled peppers and shredded radishes given by Magnolia, a large bowl of hot noodles was ready.

Seeing the joy of eating the surplus food, Lu Xiaoyi's guilt in his heart was reduced a lot, and he jumped down the mountain to go back to his home.

After lunch, the sun was soft, Lu Xiaoyi estimated that the alkaline soil was dried, and he went out secretly, and was blocked by Xiao Ding Xiaogeng, Xiao Geng complained even more, "Eldest sister, where did you go to play in the morning, and you didn't take me and the second sister?" ”

Lu Xiaoyi said with a smile: "I went to Brother Liang's house to play." ”

Xiao Geng reacted even more after hearing this, "Why don't you call me?" Then he rushed forward and grabbed Lu Xiaoyi's sleeve, and gave Xiao Ding a look by the way, "Second sister, you drag over there, if the eldest sister doesn't take us, we will rely on her." ”

Xiao Ding's eyebrows and eyes were crooked, "Don't be so pitiful, didn't you have a lot of fun with the dogs in the morning?" ”

Xiao Geng pouted, "Dogs, they're not fun, Brother Bao and Brother Qiang also went to the school, and no one took me to play!" ”

Lu Xiaoyi became more and more pitiful when he heard what he said, and hurriedly coaxed: "Okay, the eldest sister is wrong, I will definitely take you wherever the eldest sister goes in the future!" ”

"I also want to bring my second sister."

"Okay, okay, bring it all." Lu Xiaoyi agreed with a smile and took two followers to Yu's house.

The door of the Yu family's courtyard was wide open, and the black tiger heard the movement and ran from afar to greet him, and he was very happy to pounce and jump.

Yu Liang leaned against the door frame of the courtyard with a hammer and waited for them, and when he saw Lu Xiaoyi looking over, he said with a smile: "The lump is too hard, you have to hit it with a hammer!" ”

Xiao Ding Xiaogeng is not interested in the pimple, and chases and plays with the black tiger inside and outside the courtyard. Yu Liang sat on the small bench, hammering the lumps into powder, Lu Xiaoyi sat on the side and watched quietly, and the muffled sound of hammering reached his ears, and he felt extraordinarily beautiful.

Halfway through, Lu Xiaoyi asked if Yu Liang's family had any spare clay pots? Yu Liang put down the hammer and got up to go to the house to remove an empty clay jar.

Lu Xiaoyi said while holding the powder into the jar: "This soil is not easy to come by, so you have to use it sparingly." ”

Yu Liang saw that she was serious and said with a smile: "It's okay, you can find Uncle Qi to bring it from Mongolia in the future." ”

"I'm embarrassed to trouble them again and again."

Yu Liang smiled, did not speak, continued to hammer the lumps, one sack was hammered, and seeing that it was still early, he hammered another bag into powder.

The naan pit that failed last time is still there, and Lu Xiaoyi does not plan to dig the pit again, but plans to brush a layer of alkaline soil on the basis of the old pit, and then wait anxiously.

When the alkaline soil layer dries and firewood is put in the pit to burn, Lu Xiaoyi's eyes are red with excitement when he sees the familiar kind of white.

Yu Liang saw her crying and thought that she had failed again, and comforted: "If this soil doesn't work, let Uncle Qi bring other soil back next time to try." ”

Lu Xiaoyi rubbed his eyes and smiled: "Brother Liang, we have succeeded for more than half of it, and I am happy." After speaking, he ran to the stove, "I'll make you scones to eat." ”

The subsequent dough waking up to make cakes in one go, when it was the turn to put it into the naan pit to bake, Lu Xiaoyi's heart was still hanging, after all, she had no experience in mastering the heat and time, and what made her even more worried was whether the pit wall could grasp the dough cake, in case it fell into the fire halfway like last time, Lu Xiaoyi really didn't know what to do.

Yu Liang helped her estimate the time, about a stick of incense, the moment the pit lid was opened, Lu Xiaoyi's eyes were red again, thank God, the cake was properly glued to the pit wall, it can be said that it was 99% successful!

Lu Xiaoyi carefully took out the scones, the scones about the size of a plate exuded a pure wheat fragrance, Lu Xiaoyi broke a small piece, except for some sandwiches, the taste was no different from the naan in the previous life.

The surplus grain ate the rest of the bread and praised it.

Lu Xiaoyi rushed home, dug up some fine wheat noodles with Magnolia on his back, took a few sticks of incense, and returned to the Yujia courtyard, trying one cake after another, figuring out the heat and time, but the problem could not be solved, and he rushed home to ask Yulan for advice.

Yulan said: "The dishes in the pot are not cooked, just add some water and stuff it!" ”

Lu Xiaoyi suddenly remembered that in her previous life, she saw Li Wen's mother hand Li Wen an empty basin, Lu Xiaoyi asked her and told her that it was light salt water, because she had not seen Li Wen's mother actually operate it, so she ignored this point.

It's often these insignificant links, and once you ignore it, it becomes a hurdle for you to stagnate. Lu Xiaoyi secretly warned himself: The difference is a thousand miles, and you must be cautious and subtle in everything you do in the future, and you can't be careless.

The scones finally worked.

Go public one day earlier and make money one day early, but how can you tell Yulan and Lu Zhong? Can't make it clear that all this is her idea, so she has to use the banner of surplus grain, anyway, this naan pit is also made by her and the surplus grain, she only has empty ideas, and the actual operation is done by surplus grain, and the naan pit has half of the credit for the surplus grain, and in the future, the scones will be on the market, and he must be given some money.