Chapter Twenty-Three: Warmth
Back at home, Sun Chen saw at a glance that his sister Erniu was sitting on the bench in the courtyard doing needlework absentmindedly, and Lao Bai was lying lazily beside her, playing with her tail boringly.
When Sun Chen looked at her, she also raised her head to look at the gate of the courtyard, the eyes of the two people met, and the worry on the face of the second girl disappeared immediately, leaving only surprise and relief.
"Brother, you're back!"
Lao Bai on the ground also jumped up and rushed to Sun Chen in front of the second girl, "Hey, you're too dirty, Lao Bai, don't touch me!" Sun Chen hurriedly dodged its slightly fat body, which made the second girl feed.
'Woo~' Lao Bai immediately turned into an abandoned look, which made the brother and sister laugh.
Sun Chen put down the things on his back, reached out and rubbed its head a few times, and then used his hand to smooth the hair on its back, Lao Bai's tail that immediately shook vigorously showed that it was very satisfied with Sun Chen's service.
"Well, do you have anything to eat at home now? I didn't have time to eat in town. ”
"There are also two amaranth cakes, you eat Ding Ding Hungry first, and I'll roll out a bowl of noodles for you later." Erniu put down the things in her hand and washed her brother with water in a wooden basin, "Are you going to the town again after you go down the mountain?" When did you go down the mountain? Stayed in the mountains again last night? Is it cold in the mountains? ”
After playing with Lao Bai for a while, Sun Chen walked to the stone where the wooden basin was placed, and reported to his sister while washing his face.
"Hehe, it's not cold on the mountain, I went down the mountain just after dawn, went to the town to sell the prey and came back." Sun Chen didn't feel bored at all by asking for warmth in such a verbose way, because in the original world, every time Sun Chen returned home, his mother asked him like this, and similar words really made him feel happy from the bottom of his heart.
"I asked Brother Da Zhuang, and he said that he didn't know which family you had made an appointment with to go up the mountain, brother, who did you go with in another village? What was the man's character? ”
"I don't know you either, but don't worry, bad person, your brother and I won't associate with him."
Sun Chen's answer did not satisfy Erniu, but she also knew that her brother would not say anything more, so she could only walk into the kitchen stupidly and give her brother a note.
After Sun Chen washed his face, he went to get amaranth cakes to eat, he was really hungry.
After a while, the second girl came over with a big bowl of noodles, and two eggs lay on it.
Since Sun Chen had a relatively stable hunting income, he and his sister's food level had forced him to increase. In the past, when they were not separated, Sun Chen and his sister could not eat more than five eggs in a month, but now he and his sister eat at least one egg every day.
For such a way of eating, the second girl couldn't accept it at first.
In her mind, she finally felt very satisfied that she didn't have to go hungry anymore, and she definitely couldn't eat and drink lavishly anymore. Especially since she was a child, Sun Yang has always been in her ears for the reason of saving money for Sun Chen's future marriage, so that their family can save money, and even be deducted from rations by her grandmother. The long-term brainwashing made her feel that she should save up her money and keep it for her brother to marry his daughter-in-law.
It took Sun Chen a lot of effort to successfully correct her idea. Later, I found out that my sister was still a proper snack, and she could turn out some fresh tricks for seemingly ordinary food, and the taste was not bad.
It's right to think about it, it's just an eleven or twelve-year-old child, and what else can he think about besides thinking about what to eat and how to eat every day?
"The chickens laid four or five eggs this morning, so we don't have to buy eggs anymore." Erniu sat next to Sun Chen and watched Sun Chen eat, chatting with her brother about the changes in the family in the past two days.
"Really? That's great. Sun Chen laughed while eating, "This is the result of not forgetting to feed them every day, you must continue to work hard, and strive to save a clay pot of eggs in the future, we can eat a salted egg every day after pickling!" However, remember not to save from our daily ration~"
"Hehe, I know!" The second girl laughed along, she has long been hungry for salted eggs, in the past, at home, salted eggs grandma always saved the occasional trip home to the uncle's family and the third uncle, she herself is usually reluctant to eat often.
Every time Sun You and Sun Ning, the eldest girl of the uncle's family, eat salted eggs, they will deliberately smash their mouths in front of Sun Chen's brothers and sisters, and they will also vigorously say how fragrant the egg yolk tastes.
It can be said that salted eggs are a small obsession shared by the two brothers and sisters, and they both want to eat as many as they want without scruples one day. Such a small obsession actually affected Sun Chen now, because he never felt how much he liked to eat salted eggs before.
Sun Chen also tried to pickle some during this time, which he had accidentally seen when he was wandering around the Internet before. Because there were not many eggs, he didn't use the method of boiling brine and soaking them directly and sealing them, he just washed and dried the eggs, dipped them in the spirits, then rolled the salt, sealed them in a small wine jar, and the yolk was oily in less than ten days.
It's just that he has always heard his mother say that salted eggs marinated in brine are the most delicious, and he and Aunt Zhu exchanged a few salted eggs in brine, and he really felt that the taste was really different, so he kept thinking about pickling it once.
The brother and sister gossiped for a while, Sun Chen told his sister about hunting a fox and buying a bow and arrow for Lin Tieli, and when the second girl heard that her brother had hunted a fox and sold it for such a high price, she said that she had to add a good dish to celebrate at night.
She didn't have any opinion on Sun Chen buying such an expensive pair of bows and arrows as a congratulatory gift, and said vigorously that it was indeed thanks to Lin Tieli's guidance that her brother could find such a money-making business.
After Sun Chen finished eating the noodles and washing up the things that Sun Chen brought, he took a bow and arrows and a pound of pork and came to the busy Da Zhuang house with his sister.
"What are you guys doing?"
Lin Tiezhu, Lin Tieli and Da Zhuang were holding hammers, and they were taking turns to knock on the walls of the main houses on the east side, and from time to time the soil embryos were knocked down, and the whole courtyard was dusty.
"Ah Chen is here, your uncle thinks it's too dark in the house, so he wants to change the windows, and then open up the two rooms here, and make a hall." Aunt Zhuzi wrapped a cloth towel around her head and said with her hands over her mouth. "Come and sit in our room, it's dusty here."
Da Zhuang's house is still the one that Da Zhuang's grandfather had prepared for the brothers earlier. Although it is in a courtyard, there are all that should be, and the two brothers each have three main rooms plus three auxiliary rooms.
The style of the house is naturally fashionable in the past, the hall is very small, and the windows are not too big, but now when the house is built, most of the halls will be made bigger, and the windows will be very large, so that it will appear much brighter than the original Gaifa.
"You go and sit in the house, I'll help you out here." Sun Chen stuffed everything to Aunt Zhuzi, rolled up his sleeves and asked her for a cloth towel. He didn't wrap his head with a cloth, but used it to cover his mouth and nose.
"Uncle Tiezhu, what do you want me to do?"