Chapter 34: Seeing the Moon and Thinking of People
Niu Dashi has no opinion on Chen Xu's call to treat him as a cow and a horse, this is a very simple-minded guy, and he wants to marry Xing'er, so in the future, Chen Xu will be his eldest brother, the family does not speak two words, Chen Xu's busyness will naturally be his own business.
And Chen Xu in order to envelop this free labor, every day to change a variety of tricks to get some novel food to seduce Niu Dashi, and grilled fish was invented in the past few days, although the ingredients are very lacking, but with the simple seasonings such as onions, ginger and garlic, the fish marinated and cooked also made Niu Dashi, a turtle that did not eat the delicious taste of the later generations, drooled all day long, and soon followed Chen Xu to learn to use a fish basket to fish in the river.
It was close to six o'clock in the evening, but now it was almost the fifth month of the lunar calendar, which is almost the sixth month of the solar calendar, so the daylight hours were long and the temperature was hotter day by day.
A round of golden red sun hangs obliquely on the top of the mountain in the west, the bright sunlight shines obliquely, the large crops on the river beach sway with the wind, and the murmuring river water sparkles, forming a beautiful landscape painting.
A large patch of thatch had been cut down on the riverbank and laid neatly on the ground, much of which had begun to wither after a few days of drying.
Chen Xu stood by the river, watching Niu Dashi skillfully tie the fish basket with a green rattan and throw it into the river, and nodded with satisfaction.
Since he taught this guy, he has done the fishing work every day, and he is happy to do it, he comes to mow the grass in the evening, puts the fish basket into the river, and when he finishes the work, there will be more or less a few fish, and if he is lucky, he can get half a catty of big fish, and after the fish is peeled and cleaned by the river, the fish basket will be thrown into the river again, and the next morning it will be bright, and Niu Dashi will run to the river early to collect the fish basket, and then he will get a lot.
Every time Chen Xu sees it, he will mourn for the fish of this era.
It's so easy to be fooled, a few bones can get more than seven or eight pounds and ten pounds in one night, which is almost the same as picking up.
And it was also because he ate salted boiled fish that he almost vomited, so he began to make grilled fish, because there was no net frame for grilling fish in later generations, so the surface of the grilled fish was unevenly heated, some places were burnt, and some places were not cooked, plus there was no vegetable oil and chili cumin, which were essential seasonings for barbecue, and the taste also made him completely unacceptable, and every time he ate the least, less than Chen Jiang's food, and he couldn't swallow it.
But the taste of this grilled fish has basically conquered the whole village, now is the time when the sun sets, you can see a lot of half-sized children and even adults are also throwing fish baskets into the river, there is no fish basket simply make a rattan basket and throw it into the river with green rattan and aquatic plants, but in the morning there must be more or less harvest, even if there are only three or five fish, it can also improve the life of the day, eating meat is better than eating soybeans and brown rice to resist hunger.
After putting the fish basket away, the two of them quickly began to mow the grass while it was dark.
After almost an hour, when it was almost completely dark, and a faint mist began to flow on the river beach, the two of them stopped, stripped naked and jumped into the river to take a good bath, and then packed up the fish basket, made seven or eight small fish weighing two or three, washed them, and carried them home with a straw stalk.
"Wow, there's grilled fish to eat today!"
The little girl had already been waiting at the gate of the courtyard, and she had some longing to wear it, so she rushed up to take the fish in Niu Dashi's hand and hurriedly ran to the fire.
"Apricot slowing down?" Niu Dashi hurriedly followed up.
Chen Xu looked at the extremely incongruous backs of the two, and had the urge to poke Niu Dashi to death with one finger.
One is fourteen years old, the other is only seven years old, what a sin!
Xing'er knew that the two of them would bring fish when they came back, so they had already pureed the green onions, ginger and garlic, made some and smeared a few fish next to each other, and sprinkled some salt to marinate them.
A seven-year-old girl is very skilled in doing this, and her expression is very focused, while Niu Dashi sat beside her and watched the little girl's numb movements, with indescribable satisfaction on her face.
Chen Xu's face couldn't help but darken a little more, and he could only resist the urge to dig a pit and bury Niu Dashi and turn around to look at the new house, to see what steps should be taken tomorrow, what things were needed, how to distribute manpower, and other things.
The small fenced courtyard began to have a strong smell of grilled fish, mixed with the strong smell of wild green onions, ginger and garlic.
Chen Xu could still smell it from a distance of dozens of meters, and then his stomach began to growl.
Although there are fish and meat and grain at home recently, they can't stand the big appetite of a group of young adults who are working, and they are as if they haven't eaten for a few days, and they won't stop if they don't eat three bowls and five bowls, and they will cook porridge in the morning and porridge in the evening, but after a few days, half of the two stones of grain they bought have been eaten, and more than 20 catties of meat have been eaten.
Of course, if you can't eat so much according to Chen Jiang's plan, but Chen Xu is unwilling to deduct the food of the villagers who help, if you don't eat enough, where can you have the strength to work, and they are all from a village, you can't eat big fish and meat at home, and it is almost impossible to eat for the people who work, so in the eyes of the people who help these days, every day is almost the same as the New Year, and I haven't eaten much with an open belly like this in my life.
And after a few days of big fish and meat and sufficient food, not only do these villagers who work look a lot stronger, but the dishes on Chen Xu's family have also faded, and their cheeks have begun to plump and ruddy, especially the little girl, who has a little girl's delicate appearance.
"Xu'er, the corn at home can only be eaten for four or five days!" Sitting by the fire and eating grilled fish, Chen Jiang whispered.
"Well, I know, I'll go to the town market again tomorrow to buy some back!" Chen Xu leaned against a pile of wood, eating a grilled fish without a bite, staring blankly at the stars in the sky and a moon with almost only a crescent moon left.
When this crescent moon disappears completely, it will officially enter the midsummer of May.
Calculating the time, it has been almost ten days since the time traveled.
Busy all day long for food and house, these days have gradually forgotten some memories of later generations.
Looking at the bright moon together, tears should fall, and the heart of the country is the same in five places overnight.
At this time, seeing the moon and thinking about people, the faces and figures of the fathers and mothers of the future generations instantly appeared clearly from their minds.
There was once such a starry summer night, when I was a child, lying in my mother's arms, looking up at the morning glory and the weaver girl.
But everything has turned into a cloud of smoke, and it can no longer be found, and I can only find a trace of solace in the dusty past buried deep in the depths of memory.
Today's people don't see the ancient times and the moon, but this month once looked like the ancients.
Are the parents of later generations also looking at the same moonlight at this time, secretly crying for their short-lived son?
In the same place, they are in different time and space, and miss each other.
What is it like?