Chapter 36: Mind
"Well, I know, mother."
"That's good, you all ate my aunt's dumplings, and you can work neatly in the afternoon, and you have to be worthy of your aunt's heart."
"Okay, mother."
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Xu Xuehua's house.
A row of low mud-walled houses, crooked, and the straw on the roof has become sparse after years of wind and rain, and it looks like it may fall at any time.
It was the meal, and smoke was rising in the kitchen.
Xu Xuehua was bending down to throw firewood into the stove, and the half of the nest head on the stove was cut into thumb-sized cubes and packed in a large earthen bowl, ready to boil the nest head soup.
This is something that the Yuan family brought Sanya to their family to apologize.
She swallowed a mouthful of saliva silently at a glance, "Mother, do you really want to help the second and third girls take care of others?" ”
Snowflake Lady is a middle-aged woman in her thirties, plump, white-skinned, with a sense of provocation on her face, humming a pleasant mountain song in her mouth, "What do you mean?" What does it mean to be bad? As for the stinginess and cowering appearance of the second and third girls, as well as the reputation of their mother's old family that they all know about subsidizing their mother's family, whoever deserves them is a good family! ”
Xu Xuehua glanced at the bowl of the nest, "That is, what kind of good family are they worthy?" There are good people, and no one can take their turn! Mother, can you divide me half a bowl of wotou soup after boiling this wotou soup for a while? ”
This is a good thing that Yuan's apologized to her Xu Xuehua and sent.
God knows, it's been a long time since she's tasted wowotou.
Every day is wild vegetable porridge, or the kind of wild vegetable porridge that can no longer be souped, no oil or salt, and some are just a bitter taste of wild vegetables.
Snowflake Niang's eyes straightened, "You girl, what's the point?" Your father and mother, your brother can't eat enough, this half of the nest, should you really apologize to you? It was her Yuan who wanted to beg me to tell Erya and Sanya that a good person brought it, you just memorized a name, you went to see Xu Chengju's house, Yuan's went to her house to apologize but took the nest? ”
went to Xu Chengju and didn't take the nest head, but let Xu Chengju slap Sanya and get angry.
Xu Xuehua witnessed these with her own eyes.
"But, mother, it's because of me, I was smashed by her aunt yesterday, I still have a bag on my head, I hurt, mother, I haven't tasted the taste of the nest for a long time, the brothers still have a nest to eat every day, I and my sisters drink vegetable porridge every day, and we have no strength to dig vegetables in the mountains."
"Get out! You know how to eat and eat, and your family has run out of food these days, don't you know? Your father went hunting today, if there is a harvest, our family will have a little staple food to eat tomorrow, if there is no harvest, the whole family has to drink vegetable porridge, you worthless girls have a sip of vegetable porridge to drink, just don't starve to death, do you still want to eat wotou? Then you go to the second and third Ya's house to reincarnate, their family entrusts Jiaojiao's blessing, even the worthless stinky girl can eat two meals a day, but it's a pity that you don't have such a good life, less grind, this nest soup is your father, and your brothers added food. ”
Xu Xuehua was so scolded that she couldn't raise her head.
Gathered around the stove, not only did she stare at the half bowl of Wotouding, but also her two younger sisters, both of whom were yellow and thin-skinned, and their eyes were like hungry wolves.
Unfortunately, they don't have a share.
The water in the pot boiled, and the alwhasa put a drop of oil, a little salt in, and a few handfuls of wild vegetables, and finally put in the wotou ding.
A scent came.
Xu Xuehua secretly swallowed a big mouthful of saliva.
Anyway, it's not her share, it's better to let her slap Sanya, and it's good to relieve her anger.
As soon as the soup was cooked, a few young boys ran in from outside the kitchen, all of them were her brothers.
"Mother, it's so fragrant! I'm going to drink a bowl. ”
"Hey, isn't there no food in store at home today? How did you cook wotou soup? This nest is different from what we usually eat, wow? This is so fragrant, what kind of noodles are put in it? Delicious better than our home. ”
"Mother, give me a bowl! Hurry up! ”
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A few brothers didn't care about the heat, and they ate a bowl for one person like a whirlwind.
Seeing Xu Xuehua and several sisters drooling beside them, they didn't care, and scolded in disgust, "Get out, what are you looking at?" I don't have a ...... to see you."
There was still the last half bowl left in the pot, and Snowflake protected it, "Don't grab anyone, this is for your father." ”
Said Cao Cao, Cao Cao arrived.
Snowflake Daddy is a middle-aged man with dark skin, his name is Xu Dazhuang.
He had just returned from selling game at the fair, and today he was lucky enough to catch a rabbit and sell it.
You can buy some miscellaneous grains and go back, and you can deal with it for a few days.
Entering the house, he excitedly said, "The opportunity to make a fortune has come!" Here's your chance to make a fortune! Hurry up, my mother-in-law will get some food, eat, and our whole family will go into the mountains...... Hey? How can there be wotou soup? ”
"You don't care! What did you just say about the opportunity to make a fortune? What are you doing in the mountains? Snowflake Lady gave him the wotou soup and handed it over.
Xu Dazhuang picked up the topic, "It's just picking wild fruits!" Isn't there a wild fruit forest in the mountains? Today I saw the old aunt of the Xu family selling that kind of wild fruit in the market, and it costs five cents a catty! Five pennies! ”
The rabbit he finally hit was sold for seven or eight cents.
People can just pick two catties of wild fruits and sell them for so much money.
Xu Xuehua was puzzled, "Dad, what are you saying that wild fruits are so valuable?" I go into the mountains every day, and I don't see any valuable wild fruits! ”
Xu Dazhuang drank the wotou soup, which had become a batter, and the family had run out of food in the past few days, and he had not eaten the staple food, and the batter was also rare and delicious.
While drinking, he said, "It's the kind of yellow, small, big and big, I picked it up for you when I was a child and ate it, it's so unpalatable that I don't even eat pigs......"
Everybody knows that.
"It's the kind with fine hairs on the skin, bitter and astringent, and big cores, I know."
"The part in the deep mountains, the part that used to make wild boars, didn't it? Father? ”
Xu Dazhuang nodded, "Yes, yes, yes!" ”
"Then why do some people buy it for five pennies a pound?" Sulflake asks the key question.
Xu Dazhuang was stunned, "I don't know!" It looks exactly the same, but the taste is different, we used to pick so bad that we couldn't even eat the pig, but the Xu family's aunt sold, I tasted two for free, it was sweet and sour, it could be entered, the taste was not bad, no matter what, let's hurry up to the mountain first, it is estimated that many people now know the news, go into the mountain to pick, we also have to hurry. ”
Xue Hua Niang hurriedly said, "Okay, the housekeeper, the wild vegetable porridge will be ready soon, eat a bowl for each person, and hurry into the mountain." It doesn't matter what it looks like, pick it up first, don't say that it sells for five pennies a catty, it's okay to sell it for a penny a catty. Otherwise, in a few days, the family will not even have to eat vegetable porridge......"