Chapter 28: Learning to Grow Vegetables
"It's so delicious~~~"
Across a courtyard wall, the little girl Guo Xing'er and the little cute baby Meng Qi touched their little stomachs and sighed almost at the same time.
The Guo family has a difficult life, not to mention the usual times, even during the New Year, Aunt Guo is reluctant to eat meat for her children.
Guo Xing'er has grown so big, and it is the first time she has eaten such delicious roast chicken and braised pork.
Although her mother gave half of the braised pork and half of the roast chicken to her second uncle's family, and the remaining half of the braised meat was stewed together in eggplant and beans, Guo Xinger still ate with a satisfied face.
There were only a few pieces of chicken, and Aunt Guo gave the best chicken thighs in half, half to her daughter, half to her son, and she herself picked the position closest to the chicken butt and ate a small piece of chicken to taste.
Guo Yang is not good at words, Aunt Guo is like this, he doesn't say a word of persuasion, but he has been constantly putting roast chicken and braised pork into Aunt Guo and Guo Xinger's rice bowls.
There were a total of more than a dozen pieces of chicken, Guo Yang sandwiched three pieces for his sister and three pieces for his mother, and he only ate half a chicken leg and two pieces of chicken.
The braised pork stewed in eggplant and beans, Guo Yang also gave a very strong share of the rice bowl of the three of them.
The youngest Guo Xing'er ate two more pieces of braised pork than him and Aunt Guo, while he and Aunt Guo ate no more and no less, each eating six thin slices of braised pork.
Aunt Guo looked distressed, she actually wanted to pick all the meat slices for the two children to eat, but her daughter kept covering her bowl, and her son was stubbornly staring at her rice bowl with big black eyes, with a posture of "don't think about us if you don't eat it".
Aunt Guo was moved and sad at the same time, and in the end, the three of them were still assigned according to Guo Yang, and each of them ate some roast chicken and braised pork.
After dividing the two most precious foods, the three of them began to share the big white steamed buns that they hadn't eaten at noon.
Yes, Meng Zhen and the ten steamed buns they gave to the Guo family, Aunt Guo was not willing to eat them immediately.
Aunt Guo's family, which usually only eats two meals a day, naturally did not fire at noon today, and after Aunt Guo returned to her home, she only took six steamed buns out and shared them with her son and daughter.
Of the six steamed buns, she gave three to Guo Yang, who had the largest amount of food, the remaining three, two and a half she gave to Guo Xing'er, and the last half she left for herself to satisfy her hunger.
In fact, if it weren't for the fact that the weather was too hot now, the cooked meat and steamed buns would not be left for tomorrow at all, and Aunt Guo even wanted to divide these things into several days and eat them slowly.
As for the two-pound pork belly that Meng Hao later gave to the Guo family, Aunt Guo had already salted it as soon as possible, as well as the three-foot burlap sent with the meat, and Aunt Guo planned to use it to make a new blouse for her son and daughter after a while.
Speaking of which, not only has their family not tasted meat in a long time, but their mother and wife have not worn a new dress without patches in years.
As soon as she thought of this, Aunt Guo couldn't help but become more and more grateful to Meng Zhen and the others.
She told her son and daughter, "I see that Miss Meng has been wearing men's clothes, she probably doesn't want others to know that she is a daughter, don't accidentally say it in the future." ”
She doesn't worry about her son, as far as Guo Yang's stuffy gourd-like personality is concerned, Aunt Guo just says it casually, and he will never tell others about it.
And Guo Yang is older after all, even if she doesn't say some things, Guo Yang can make the right judgment herself.
So Aunt Guo's only worry is her young daughter, although Guo Xinger doesn't have much contact with those children in the village, and almost every day she helps her and Guo Yang do things, but Guo Xinger is not a close friend.
Aunt Guo was afraid that she would accidentally leak her mouth and publicize what Miss Meng wanted to hide.
Guo Xing'er saw her mother staring at her with a serious face, and hurriedly tapped her little head a few times, "Mother, don't worry, I will definitely not tell anyone, even the second uncle and second aunt, cousin and cousin, I will never say it." ”
Aunt Guo touched her daughter's head, "Xing'er is good." ”
Guo Xing'er's little face was slightly red, and she tugged at the corner of her clothes, "Then, can I go to Meng's house to play with Sister Meng again in the future?" ”
Aunt Guo paused, "If it's okay, don't go next door, you Sister Meng and they are from a big family, although people don't look down on us, we can't always go to make trouble for others." ”
Guo Xing'er was a little disappointed, but she still said "um" very obediently, and she didn't mean to play a child's temper with her mother.
Aunt Guo was very pleased, she instructed Guo Yang, "You go and find out some of our rapeseeds, and tomorrow I will pick a few suitable rapeseeds to be planted at this time and send them to Miss Meng." ”
Guo Xing'er immediately came to her senses when she heard this, "Mother, can I deliver food to Sister Meng's house in the future?" I can also help them grow vegetables. Didn't you say they came from big families? Then they will definitely not grow vegetables. ”
Aunt Guo thought about it, "Then you can send them some vegetables every day, but my mother can remind you that you can't ask for other people's expensive things." ”
Guo Xing'er's little head was little by little, "Don't worry, mother, I will definitely not take those delicious snacks from Sister Meng's house again." ”
Aunt Guo touched her daughter's head, "Xing'er is good." ”
Early the next morning, Aunt Guo really came to Meng Zhen's house with a pair of children and a number of vegetable seeds.
Meng Zhen couldn't help but be grateful when she heard what she said.
Not to mention her, Su Shen and Meng Qi, even Yan Zhenwu and Hao Mengyun, two adults, who have never farmed.
Planting vegetables, growing grain, planting fruit trees and other essential skills for farmers, none of the five of them knows.
So if it weren't for Aunt Guo coming to the door, Meng Hao actually planned to use the money to buy vegetables in the future.
Now with the help of the Guo family, they are finally able to make use of the large vegetable fields in the two courtyards, which makes Meng Hao very happy.
She temporarily decided that she would not go up to the mountains to hunt with Yan Zhenwu and Hao Mengyun today, and she would learn how to grow vegetables from Aunt Guo's mother and son.
"This is cabbage seeds, and cabbage can be planted in any season."
"These packets are green onions, garlic, loofahs, zucchini, beans, white radish, carrot seeds, if you plant garlic, you have to put the garlic cloves up like this..."
In the newly bought house of Meng Zhen and Su Shen, Guo Yang silently divided the vegetable garden into rectangular vegetable furrows, he leveled the land in front, and Su Shen fetched water and watered the ground according to his requirements.
Aunt Guo took Meng Zhen and her daughter, either in front of Su Shen or behind Su Shen, and buried all kinds of vegetable seeds in the soil.
Little Meng Qi couldn't help, so he sat obediently under the apricot tree, the little fat hand holding the fat face, blinking at Meng Zhen and them planting vegetables with big curious eyes.