Chapter 10: Homecoming (1)

The warm sunlight in the early morning shines into the house through the glass, and the house is also bright, and the family has already gotten up, only Xiao Qianjing is still lying on the kang. Grandma and Mother were cooking the family's breakfast, Grandpa was busy preparing feed for the family's livestock, and Father was leading the old cattle to find it on the grass behind the house for it to graze on its own.

"Get up! The sun is all in the ass! When my father came back from herding the cow and saw that Xiao Qianjing was still sleeping, he came to his buttocks.

"Hmm..."Xiao Qianjing rubbed his hazy sleepy eyes and got up, put on his clothes in a daze, and went to the outside with his shoes on the ground, maybe he hadn't opened his eyes yet, and his head hit the door directly with a "bell", he was stunned for a moment, opened his eyes in a daze and looked around, with a "Who am I, where am I?" What am I doing? The confused expression! When the family saw it, they all laughed out loud.

After breakfast, his father went to visit some elders in the village with his things, and Xiao Qianjing planned to play with the children in the village, so he said hello to his mother and grandmother and ran out. Ran quickly along the familiar road to Erya's house.

"Two girls, two girls, are you at home?" He stood outside the gate and shouted inside. The first thing to greet him was not Erya, but a big black dog of her family, who ran to the gate while barking, barking at him with his teeth. Looking at the big black dog's fangs, he moved back in fright.

"Squeak...", a woman came out of the door from the house, and Xiao Qianjing saw that it was the second girl.

"Auntie, is the second girl at home?" Xiao Qianjing shouted at the woman inside.

"What's it called?" The eldest lady walked to the door and kicked the big black dog, and the big black immediately ran back with his tail between his legs. "It's a view! Yesterday, I heard from your uncle that your family is back. Is it good to go to school in the city? Let the eldest lady see, the people who come back from this city are different, look at this clothes, look at the white and tender white and tender faces, I have only been there for more than a year, the water and soil in the city raise people! The eldest lady turned around him and pinched his face, and there was a sound in her mouth!

"Erya, this dead girl, doesn't know where she died, by the way, when are you going back to the city?"

"My dad said that at most in a week, he would repair the house for his grandmother, and he would also help his grandparents hoe the crops in the field!"

"Well, why don't you go into the house and wait, that girl will be back in a while!"

"Ahh I won't go in that big lady, I'll go outside and look for them! Goodbye, Auntie! Xiao Qianjing turned around and ran away.

"Ahh Slow down! It seemed that he didn't expect him to say something like "goodbye", the eldest lady was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly shouted behind her!

Xiao Qianjing ran outside to look for Erya's figures, but after looking for a long time, he couldn't find them. Boredom, he walked along the edge of the field and prepared to go home, when he had just walked a short distance when he saw the pea field in front of him, a large area of verdant greenery, the kind that could not be seen at a glance. It is said that the pea pods in this season are when they are tender, and they can be eaten raw, and the beans inside are tender and tender, and you can bite out of the water when you bite into them. The skin is also tender and crispy, remove the transparent hard skin on the outside, leave only the green tender meat inside, put it in cold water and soak it for a while, it will become more and more cold and crisp, it is a rare snack for children in the countryside in summer. If you can't eat it after a while when the skin turns yellow and hard, it's something that belongs to children in the countryside and can't be eaten in the city.

Xiao Qianjing slowly walked into the pea field, carefully avoiding the pea vines, the village is not afraid of people going in to pick, as long as you are careful not to step on the crops. Xiao Qianjing saw that there was that kind of tender green, bulging pea pods, so he carefully stepped on the open space to pick them off one by one, and after a while, he stuffed his trouser pockets full, even the two hands were full, he saw that there was no place to take it, he slowly withdrew from the pea field, and walked towards home quickly, thinking that he could go back quickly and soak the beans in cold water, and had long forgotten that they were unhappy that they had not found Erya.

"Grandma, look at me and picked a lot of peas in the field." As soon as he entered, he saw his grandmother burning a fire by the fire. "There are no ones in this city, and when I go back to the city, I will get some for my classmates."

"Okay, I'll pick some more when I leave, or it won't taste good when I cover it." Grandma said with a smile.

"Grandma, what are you cooking?" He saw the big iron pot on the stove steaming.

"What about the yam, wait for your grandfather to come back at noon and ask your grandfather to rub the yam fish for you, don't you want to eat it for a long time, grandma is old, and she can't work hard, so your grandfather can still rub it, finally wipe it once, rub it more, and take some when you leave." Grandma said with a smile at Xiao Qianjing.

"Mother, let Daming rub it, Dad's legs are not good, and his legs hurt after standing for a long time!" Xiao Qianjing's mother said on the edge of the kang.

"Daming, he can't rub it well, it's not tendon at all, your father's tendons, we don't eat it often anyway, let your father rub it." Grandma said to her mother. "Okay, the yam will be delicious after a while." Grandma may have been sitting for a long time and couldn't stand up when she tried to stand up.

"Mother!" The mother was talking to her grandmother, and when she saw that her grandmother didn't stand up, she hurriedly walked over and slowly helped her up, and carefully helped her to the kang. "Mother, is your back hurting again? Did you take the medicine that Daming bought for you? ”

"Eat, eat! How many years of old problems can be cured at once, you know how to spend money indiscriminately! ”

"That's a waste of money! If you're sick, you have to take medicine, don't you? Doesn't this medicine work? Why don't you go into the city with us and see the doctors at the city hospital this time? It's not a problem to drag it all the time! Mother said anxiously.

"It's all an old problem, half of the loess is buried, and it's still tossing back and forth!"

"Mother..."Mother was just about to persuade Grandma again, but the door of the hall opened from the outside, and it was my father who came back!

"Mother, what are you talking so loudly, I heard it at the door. My Daddy? ”

"I didn't say anything, your father went to see the cow, the yam is covered, let's come and peel the yam together!" Grandma stopped her mother and took the words.

"Mother, what's wrong?" Father was a little anxious.

"It's all right!" After saying that, the grandmother went to the field, and the father wanted to say something more, but was stopped by the mother, and the mother glanced at the father and motioned to the father not to say anything about it. Next, the family took out a pot of yams, threw the small ones into the basket and prepared to feed the pigs, and picked out the big ones and peeled them off and put them in a clean basin to prepare for yam fish at noon. When Grandpa came back, he went to the hall to sift some good noodles with a fine basket, and Grandma put the peeled yams into a large iron pot, and then crushed them one by one with her hands, and then sprinkled the noodles evenly on top of the yams, and began to knead them vigorously to make the yams and noodles fused together. This requires the wrists and arms to work hard all the time, which is very physically demanding, and grandpa just rubbed it for a while, his face began to turn red, and his forehead began to sweat.

"Dad, why don't I come." Father walked up to Grandpa and said.

"There's not much, don't get your hands dirty" and so on Grandpa kneaded the noodles, the family worked together to knead the noodles into small seasons, and then kneaded into the shape of the middle fat on both sides of the sharp shape and put a full cage, the mother put the good yam fish into the pot to steam, as for the dipping grandpa picked a lot of wild mushrooms in the beach a few days ago, after so many days it had already been dried, grandma took the mushrooms in and washed them with water, and then cut them into small cubes, and then put some meat foam, shallots, salt, oil, put them in the pot and stew them with the yam fish. Half an hour later, the steaming heat came out of the cauldron, grandpa knew that the rice was cooked, there was a simmer for a while, grandpa opened the lid of the pot, the yellow-brown yam fish looked bright, exuding the unique fragrance of this noodles and yams, Mei Qianjing swallowed saliva greedily, grandma took out the dipping sauce, put a little salt, added a little water, stirred it with chopsticks, and poured some into everyone's bowl. Mei Qianjing couldn't wait to pick up a yam fish with chopsticks, put it in a dipping saucer and put it in her mouth.

Eating this unique delicacy, everyone in the room had a satisfied smile on their faces. In fact, it doesn't matter what you eat, the important thing is that the family can be together. One