The genius woke up with a slight light and the grass woke up, and the person next to him had already gotten up, turned over, and endured the soreness on his body to get up and go to the kitchen. According to the rules of Dahe Village, the first day of the new daughter-in-law is to prepare a morning meal for the whole family.

After packing up the bed and going out, the courtyard was quiet, only Shen Jinqian was practicing boxing, Liu Bicao didn't make a sound, pursed her lips and entered the kitchen.

Liu Bicao, who knew the situation of the Shen family, couldn't help but sigh, there was only a thin layer of brown rice in the rice tank, and two or three jars were found, as well as some cornmeal, sorghum rice, yellow rice and soybeans, and a bag of grain bran.

Now the farmer in the field is planting, the harvest has to wait for autumn, the population of the family is large, and the grain is getting tighter and tighter.

Liu Bicao scooped up some bran and sorghum rice mixed together, and found two sweet potatoes and cut them into small pieces and put them in the pot together.

In order to marry, the Shen family has emptied their family foundation, and it seems that they have to find some way to get some food, otherwise how will these mouths in the family survive the autumn harvest.

"Bicao, it's so early, why don't you rest more" Just as Liu Bicao was still thinking about how to make the family eat enough, Shen's mother came in.

Bicao saw that Shen's mother's face was a little more rosy than before, and guessed that it might be because there was a happy event in the family and people were happy: "Mother is early, I am used to getting up early, but why don't my mother rest for a while." ”

Hearing the mother in Liu Bicao's mouth, the smile on Shen's mother's face became bigger and bigger: "When people are old, they can't sleep anymore." ”

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law looked at the pot and the fire in the kitchen, talking carefully from time to time, and it didn't take long for the morning food to be good, this is all Liu Bicao's habitual action and put the meal on the table neatly, just at this time Su's father also came back from the field.

In the past two years, the harvest in the field has not been good, and every family has served the crops in the field better than the people, after all, it is the family's chewing for a year. No, under the seeds, the first thing Shen's father does when he gets up every day is to go to the field to see the crops, and his heart is steady.

"Dad, Brother Jinqian, Jinxin, Meizi, Xiaohe, and Jinyan are here for dinner." Liu Bicao scooped the boiled gruel into a bowl, only some rice at the bottom of the bowl, and the rest was soup. Several children of the Shen family are also sensible and do not make trouble, and Shen Mei helps Liu Bicao scoop rice.

Although Shen's father and Shen's mother have been working in the fields for decades, compared with the people in the village, they are still a little like people who work all year round, but a little like the lord of a big family. Even the children of the Shen family are also good-looking, and their bodies are clean.

The Shen family has no relatives in the village. There are many children in the family, the eldest Shen Jinqian is six years older than Liu Bicao, and he is twenty-three this year, the second is Shen Jinxin is nine years older than the old, the third Shen Mei will be ten years old this year, and the fourth Shen Jinyan and Shen He are six years old and four years old.

Several children were taught by Shen's father and Shen's mother to be very sensible, and they usually don't go out to play with the children in the village, but only play with a few children next to the Shen family.

After eating, Liu Bicao asked Shen's mother to go back to her room to rest, Liu Bicao had learned some medical skills with her grandfather before, and Dr. Wang of Renhe Pharmacy in the town had also taught her. Therefore, Liu Bicao thought about going to the mountains to find some herbs to save them, and when she was free, she would go to the town to exchange them for money.

"Sister-in-law, where are you going?" Shen Mei cleaned up the kitchen and came out, and saw Bicao carrying a back basket and holding a small hoe ready to go out.

Bicao smiled and looked at the sister-in-law in front of her, who was dressed in coarse cloth clothes and had a beautiful appearance: "In early summer, the wild vegetables in the mountains will be old in a few days, and it is not easy to enter, so I will dig some wild vegetables in the mountains and dig herbs by the way." ”

Shen Mei listened, and hurriedly went to the utility room to get a small back basket: "Sister-in-law, I'll go with you." ”

Liu Bicao thought about it, Shen's father and the three went to the field to weed, and the two younger ones had Shen's mother at home to watch, and there was nothing to do at home. Looking at Shen Mei's big eyes again and knowing that this was to find food for the family, Liu Bicao nodded, went to talk to Shen's mother again and took Shen Mei to the mountain.

Shen Mei usually takes Shen He and Shen Jinyan to pick up some firewood and cut pigweed at the foot of the mountain, and has not yet gone up the mountain.

"Meizi, we'll take a break when we're tired." Bicao saw that Shen Mei had begun to gasp. The eleven-year-old body looked as thin as a seven- or eight-year-old child because he had not eaten enough.

The two walked and rested, and it took most of the hour to reach the mountain, and Liu Bicao didn't dare to go into the mountains, so she put down the basket and looked around, and handed over to Shen Mei how to recognize it.

"Sister-in-law, you are so amazing, you know so many things." Shen Mei put the Poria and Astragalus handed over by Liu Bicao into the small back basket, her big eyes full of smiles and envy.

Liu Bicao was digging forsythia and didn't look up: "If you want to learn, sister-in-law will teach you." ”

Because of the rain two days ago, a lot of mushrooms grew in the mountains, the water is tender and tender, it is very attractive, and the family is a little better than the food for the two days of the happy event, and they are all pickles to eat. Shen Mei couldn't eat it for a long time, but she knew the situation at home, so she was naturally happy to see fresh mushrooms now, until she finished picking the mushrooms on this side.

"Sister-in-law." When the two returned home, Shen Jinxin hurriedly came over to pick up the backpack on the two people's backs, "Where do you put these things?" Looking at these fresh wild vegetables, Shen Jinxin was also happy, the family had eaten pickles for a long time, and the family had no time to dig them.

Liu Bicao gasped slightly, took the water handed over by Shen Jinqian and drank two sips, looked at the mud on the legs of the two, knew that they had just come back from the field, and didn't let them do it, "I'll put it" and said that he found the wild fruit picked on the mountain from the small back basket: "Xiaohe, I would like to come and eat this wild fruit." ”

No matter how sensible Shen He and Shen Jinyan are, they are also four or five-year-old children, and their eyes lit up when they heard that they had food, and they hurriedly ran over to take the fruit: "Thank you, sister-in-law." Shen He was a little timid, and smiled shyly at Liu Bicao, and the pair of small dimples on his face were cute.

There was Shen's mother busy working in the stove room, and Liu Bicao was in a hurry to divide the things she was looking for on the mountain and didn't go in to help, so she took Shen Mei to tidy up the basket in the yard.

Liu Bicao asked Shen Mei to sort out the tender ones such as amaranth, fishy cabbage, mother-in-law, and plantain, and put aside the old ones that were not easy to eat, and together with the forsythia herbs, she was ready to sell them to Renhe Pharmacy next time in the town, these are all common herbs. He also put aside the bracken and the older purser and prepared to make dried bracken, which was delicious in winter.

"Brother Qianqian, put this small half-basket of wild taro in the kitchen, and cook it tomorrow." Liu Bicao cleaned up the back basket and said to Shen Jinqian, who had just returned from picking up water.

Shen Jinqian didn't speak, just took the back basket into the kitchen and poured out the taro in the back basket.

"Where did this taro come from?" Mother Shen looked up and asked. "Bicao went to the mountains to dig today." Shen Jinqian paused and replied.

Shen's mother glanced at Shen Jinqian: "Your daughter-in-law is a good one, which family's new daughter-in-law went up to work in the mountains the next day after entering the door?" Mother Shen sighed, "Don't think about the hollowing out of the family, it is also the blessing of our Shen family to be able to get back such a good daughter-in-law, as long as you are good, the life of the family will be better." ”

Shen Jinqian didn't say anything and took the basket out of the kitchen, and he didn't know if he had listened to Shen's mother's words.

It was not too early for the family to finish eating, Liu Bicao cleaned up the stove, and went to the pig shed to feed the pigs, and now the most valuable thing in the house is a pig in the pig shed and a hen and a rooster in the chicken pen that can lay eggs.

Just when Liu Bicao finished his work and was about to go back to the room to rest, he heard someone shouting outside the door, and he was still anxious when he heard the voice, "Aunt Shen." ”

As soon as Bicao opened the door, Shen's mother also came out with her clothes on: "Erfu, what's wrong?" "The person who came was the second blessing of the family next door.

"Auntie, my kid doesn't know what's wrong, he suddenly has a fever, the doctor in the town is too far away, my father asked me to ask my sister-in-law to come over and have a look." Erfu was a little anxious, in the past, Liu Bicao's grandfather was the only doctor in the village, and he often taught Bicao when he was alive, so after his death, there were women and children in the village who had a cold and a cold to find Liu Bicao, and because of the mention of the town's doctor Wang, people in the village would look for Liu Bicao to see if they had a cold and headache.

"Don't worry, I'll bring some medicine and I'll go right away." Liu Bicao hurriedly turned around and went to the backyard to get the herbs she had brought from Liu's house before.

When she came out of the backyard, she saw Shen Jinqian waiting for her at the gate of the yard, and saw her come out and take the things in her hand: "Let's go." ”

"Bicao, how's it going? My kid is all right, right? Waiting for Liu Bicao to see that she was sick, Erfu's daughter-in-law and Erfu Niang on the side asked anxiously, this is the only grandson of the Liu family.

Liu Bicao smiled soothingly, "Don't worry, it's no big deal, when you drink the medicine and sweat, there will be nothing wrong, and the child's illness will come and go quickly." ”

Erfu Dad sent people all the way to the door: "It's a big night to trouble you." ”

"It's okay, be careful tonight, if there's anything to call me at any time." Liu Bicao said some more things to pay attention to at night before walking with Shen Jinqian in the direction of home.

When she got home, everyone in the family was asleep, and Bicao looked at Su Jinqian, who had closed her eyes when she went to bed, and sighed slightly. At the end of the day, only the two talked at dinner in the evening, Bicao's mother was absent since she was a child, and she worked as a rough maid in the town, so she could see people's faces the most, and she knew that Su Jinqian didn't like herself.

Crawled lightly to the innermost part of the bed, pulled over the thin quilt, and gradually fell asleep.