Chapter Seventy-Eight
Now there are four Shen Lan sisters and brothers left plus a small stone, there are a total of five people in the family, Shen Lan casually got some vegetables at night, and there are also leftover shrimp and yellow eels for a few children to burn, seeing that there are still a lot of portions after the burning, Shen Lan was impatient to eat leftovers, so she simply packed a bowl of yellow eel in a bowl and sent it to Song San's sister-in-law, and sent it to the other two families who borrowed tables and chairs, and then settled down to eat dinner.
Although they didn't eat chicken and hooves, everyone was still very satisfied with the yellow eels and shrimp for dinner, and after a tired day, they fed the sheep after dinner, everyone washed and slept, and Xiaoshi also slept in his own small bed, and no longer had to squeeze a big bed with Shen Lan.
The next day, Shen Lan began her life after the confinement, and re-inventoried the gifts received by her family these days, Shen Lan found that there were more than 200 eggs, as the weather gradually got hotter, I was afraid that these eggs would not be able to be put away, so Shen Lan planned to sell them, in addition to eggs, there were naturally dry goods sent by Yuan Hao, Shen Lan felt that it was better to eat fresh meat, this kind of dry goods was not to her appetite, so she needed to deal with these things.
If it was Shen Lan before, she would definitely send a letter to her father, and then let her father deal with it for her, but now Shen Lan feels that she can no longer rely on her mother's family for everything, compared to the fact that she is now the mother of the child, and she should stand alone for the sake of the child, so Shen Lan does not plan to trouble Shen Xiaoquan anymore.
After a silent opportunity in her heart, Shen Lan went out with the child in her arms, and the direction was naturally Song San's sister-in-law's house, and as soon as she arrived at the door, she saw Song San's sister-in-law sitting at her own house/at the door rubbing the rope, so she greeted with a smile: "Third sister-in-law, busy?" ”
"Lan Niang. Is the little stone well-behaved? Sister-in-law Song asked with a smile, and then shouted into the house: "Lianniang, move a stool for your Aunt Lan to come out." ”
"Third sister-in-law, don't be busy, I'll ask you something, I'll go back after asking, don't bother Lianniang." Shen Lan hurriedly refused, in fact, she was very awkward every time she called Song Lian like this, after all, her third sister was also called Lianniang.
"What's the matter?" Song San's sister-in-law didn't stop, so she asked.
"I just wanted to ask. Third sister-in-law, do you know who holds the chicks? Can you help me hold a little, you know I received a lot of eggs, and I want to hold some chicks. Shen Lan said, although Shen Zhao said that he would give her a hug. But because of her childbirth and confinement, these things were delayed. Shen Lan wanted to see if she could find someone in the village to help hold a litter.
At this time, Song Lian also moved a stool out. With a smile, he shouted at Shen Lan, "Aunt Lan sit." ”
The chairs were all moved out, and Shen Lan naturally sat down, but Song Lian did not leave. Instead, he stood beside her and played with the little stones.
"Okay, I'll help you ask in the evening, by the way, will you divide the eggs?" After the third sister-in-law Song agreed, she asked, of course Shen Lan would not divide it, so she hurriedly shook her head and said, "The third sister-in-law told me how to divide it, and I will go back and divide it." ”
"It's not troublesome to separate the eggs, when you wait for the sun to be hot, take the eggs to the sun, there is a black spot in it is the breeding egg, if there is no black spot, it is not, how many chickens are you going to raise?" Song San's sister-in-law asked.
Shen Lan thought for a while and said, "I don't raise more, I just want to raise a dozen to see." ”
"Lan Niang, you don't have land, what do you feed with so much? It's better now, but when winter comes, there will be no wild food, or are you planning to kill all the chickens before winter? "As soon as I heard that Shen Lan was going to raise more than a dozen, Song San's sister-in-law was not calm, how much food did this have.
How much? These are still Shen Lan's plans to test samples, these chickens are not enough to eat even if they eat at home, and besides, others lack feed, but she is not short at all, but unfortunately this cannot be said in front of Song San's sister-in-law.
"It doesn't matter, I will sell it in the market before the winter, and it will be better to come back for some money to survive the winter." Shen Lan replied.
Seeing that Shen Lan really didn't plan to raise it for the winter, Song San's sister-in-law didn't say anything, after all, Shen Lan didn't have a field in her hands, so it was good to raise some things at this time, and it was good to dig and write wild vegetables up the mountain for feeding, maybe she could really sell them for money before winter came, but it was also an entry.
"Okay, you can just pay attention, and besides, your mother's brothers and sisters are here to help you, and you can raise more animals, by the way, how much do your sheep eat?" The third sister-in-law Song then remembered that Shen Lan still had a sheep at home, so it seemed that Shen Lan's burden was a bit heavy.
This Shen Lan didn't pay attention, in the past, Shen Zhao's family was in charge of Shen Zhao's family, and she would let Shen Lian herd sheep, but now Shen Lan directly pulled vegetables from the space and threw them to the sheep to eat, anyway, there were a lot of vegetables in her space, so she pulled a bundle and threw it to the sheep today.
"It's okay, my third sister will be kicked out on weekdays, but she hasn't gone out today." Shen Lan replied.
"That's good, you can slaughter it and sell it for some money in winter, mutton is more expensive than pork." Song San's sister-in-law said with emotion, but there are not many people who can afford to eat mutton.
Sheep slaughter? Shen Lan didn't even think about it, but she begged Shen Zhao to help her buy this sheep in order to drink goat's milk, how could she slaughter it? So Shen Lan didn't reply to Song's third sister-in-law's words, but took the topic away.
"Third sister-in-law, I want to go to the county to sell things, I don't know if I can take someone's ox cart to go?" Shen Lan thought about it, the dry goods sent by Yuan Hao would definitely not sell well in Yuanjiaji, but they could be sold in the county, after all, there were inns and wineries in the county, which could be sold in the right place.
"Oh, what are you going to sell? Why didn't you ask your dad to send you there? Sister-in-law Song asked.
Shen Lan smiled at Song San's sister-in-law, but she was reluctant to say the reason, although she now has a good relationship with her mother's family, but from the previous experience, she has no autonomy at all, which is very unaccustomed to a person from a society of equality between men and women, and she feels that the economy is not free, even if she sells things and gets money, as long as Shen Zhao helps her collect it, she has to take out the money, and finally ends up with Shen Zhao reaching out to ask for money, this feeling is too bad for Shen Lan.
She is willing to be filial to the original owner's parents, but she doesn't want the economic lifeline to be pinched, so she was willing to let the Shen family take so many things yesterday, no matter what, she has to be independent, before because she was pregnant with a child, she didn't dare to move casually, but now that the child is born, she has to hold up a piece of the sky for the child.
"My dad is busy in the house, and it's not good for me to trouble them all the time, isn't it?" Shen Lan smiled and spoke.
Sister-in-law Song nodded, and then thought about it, she felt that Shen Lan should indeed be like this, after all, the Shen family's parents will always grow old one day, and Shen Lan can't always rely on her parents.
"Uncle Wang's family has an ox cart, if you want to use it, you can borrow it from him, as long as the cattle are fed on weekdays, and you can rent it for a day when you give him three cents, but you are not a woman who can drive the ox cart." Song San's sister-in-law was a little embarrassed for a while.
"Third sister-in-law, don't I still have Hailing at home?" Shen Lan said with a smile, but she was determined that she wanted to learn to drive the ox cart, Shen Lan had a plan, and after the summer harvest, she would send Shen Hailing to study, and then the matter of driving the ox cart would naturally fall on her.
The children of poor families are in charge early, this sentence is not wrong, Shen Hailing can really drive ox carts, don't say who Shen Hailing is, even Song Chengfei can do it, but it is not their turn to do it on weekdays.
"Then I'll ask your third brother to help you talk about it, when do you want it?" Song San's sister-in-law asked.
"No need, I'll go by myself, you can show me the land." Shen Lan refused, she might have to trouble others more in the future, and she couldn't let Third Brother Song borrow it for herself every time.
Song San's sister-in-law didn't care, nodded, and showed Song Fuwang's house to Shen Lan, Shen Lan looked in the direction, silently wrote it down in her heart, and planned to go over and ask Song Fuwang if she could borrow her ox cart later.
Shen Lan chatted with Song San's sister-in-law for a while and then went back with the child, and when Shen Lan went out, she told Shen Lian to watch the door at home, so at this moment several children were still playing hopscotch at their doorstep.
"Eldest sister, I'm back." Seeing Shen Lan coming back with the stone, Shen Lian and Shen Hailing, who were waiting to play the game, shouted with a smile, Shen Lan nodded, and saw that Xiao Shen Wei was trembling and standing in the house with one foot ready to kick the tiles.
"Lianniang, you hold the stone for the eldest sister for a while, and the eldest sister will go to cook lunch." The sun was already overhead, and it was almost time to cook lunch.
"Okay, you guys play, I'll light the fire for the eldest sister." Shen Lian immediately turned around and followed Shen Lan into the house, and Shen Lan let her wash her hands before handing over the stone to her.
Only then did I go to the East House to scoop two bowls of sorghum rice, picked up a few eggs, and then returned to the stove, washed the rice and poured it into the pot first, while Shen Lian held the stone and burned the fire behind the stove.
Shen Lan carried the basket out of the back door and walked into the vegetable garden, this vegetable garden was growing well under Shen Zhao's careful service, Shen Lan walked to the leek, squatted down and picked up a mussel shell specially used to cut leeks, grabbed a handful of fresh leeks and cut them, and then picked a few eggplants and a handful of cowpeas before entering the house.
Scooped water from the water tank and washed the cowpeas and eggplant, shaved the eggplant with his hands and feet, and cut the cowpeas directly with a kitchen knife, and took out a bowl from the vegetable basket that fell on the top of the kitchen, and the bowl was filled with a piece of salted pork, this is the pork left over from the previous full moon wine, the amount is not much, it is only two or three taels, and it is also a piece of pure lean meat, Shen Lan cut half of it, washed it with water a little, and cut it into thin slices to prepare for fried cowpeas, as for the rest, it is still in the bowl and put it in the basket and continues to hang above the stove.
After dealing with these, the rice soup in the pot was also boiled, Shen Lan hurriedly scooped up the rice and rice soup and divided them, quickly washed the pot, scooped some oil into it and fried the meat slices, and waited for the meat slices to change color before pouring the cowpeas into it, stir-frying for a while, scooping some hot water from the kang jar and spilling it in, suddenly the white mist curled, seeing that the pot was about to start, he sprinkled a little salt into it, and then stir-fried it twice and put it on a plate. (To be continued......)
ps:It's too late to correct typos in the morning、Wrong sentences.,Send it first.,Wait a while to send the child back to fix it.,The other few were also sent together.,Let's look at it firstR1292