Chapter Forty-Eight: Improvement Begins with Breakfast
Early the next morning, Xu Lan got up and came out after making two jars of plaster in the space.
There is a chicken pen on the left side of the courtyard of the Xu family, and there are five chickens, all of which are laying eggs. The rest of the old rooster's hair was about to fall off, loose and dirty.
Xu Lan looked at the cooing rooster and decided to keep him for two days, and then Xu Dawa's legs were better and he slaughtered the stewed chicken soup, and the rooster who was swaying around the yard didn't know that he was being targeted.
The four hens lay four eggs a day, and the eggs that they used to pick up every day were hidden by the Chen family, preventing Zhang and Xu Lan from being thieves.
Only gave Xu Dawa two eggs every day, and ate the rest secretly.
The Chen family will be in the ancestral hall for three days after that, and the head of this family will be Xu Lan in the future, and the eggs will naturally be distributed by her.
went to the chicken coop to pick up the four eggs that she didn't pick up yesterday, Xu Lan knocked two to make a big bowl of egg custard, and put the remaining two in the egg basket, and steamed the steamed buns with white flour.
The rice porridge boiled with polished rice was served with a plate of pickles, and the breakfast was arranged by Xu Lan to be exceptionally rich and nutritious.
Seeing that Xu Lan had come out with so many tricks for breakfast, Zhang exclaimed, "Lan'er, why are you making so much." ”
Xu Lan said with a smile: "Mother, I said that I want to make up for you and your eldest brother, how to make up for it if you don't eat better?" ”
"Yes...... You don't have to make so much at once, you see this porridge, it uses a lot of polished rice, and there are ...... steamed buns in white" Zhang's face was full of distress.
Yesterday, she was still thinking about polishing rice and white noodles, enough to eat for more than half a year.
According to Xu Lan's way of eating, I am afraid that it will be finished in a few days.
Xu Dahai got up and came over to see the breakfast on the table, and the corners of his mouth twitched, but he didn't say anything, picked up a bowl of porridge and took a big sip.
Not to mention, the porridge boiled out of polished rice is more fragrant than usual, and there are big white steamed buns, which are fragrant and soft in one bite, and have a sweet taste when chewed carefully.
Zhang didn't say anything more when she saw that Xu Dahai was eating well, she was mainly afraid that Xu Dahai would be angry when she saw Xu Lan cooking like this.
Since he was not angry, Zhang's was not easy to sweep away his daughter's interest, and he also picked up the bowl and ate.
Seeing that Zhang's ate it, Xu Lan laughed and took a copy of everything to Xu Dawa and sent it over.
Xu Dawa was also surprised when she saw the sumptuous breakfast, and after being surprised, she said: "Little sister, I don't like egg custard, you eat it." He pushed the egg custard to Xu Lan.
Seeing him like this, Xu Lan didn't understand Xu Dawa's thoughts, she snorted and laughed, "Brother, you can eat with confidence, there is still food on the table, I have food, this is your share." ”
She pushed the egg custard over again and said, "You have to eat more, the nutrition can keep up, and the injury will heal quickly, don't you want to protect me?" How can you protect me and my mother when you don't hurt well? ”
When Xu Dawa heard Xu Lan say this, she ate the egg custard with confidence, thinking that she should try to get better as soon as possible and protect her little sister and mother.
After guarding Xu Dawa to finish eating, Xu Lan took the bowl back, Xu Dahai was already full, half leaning on the chair, and sighed with satisfaction.
Zhang's was also very satisfied, "Lan'er, come and eat, my mother left you two big white steamed buns, the porridge is estimated to be cold, my mother will give you a hot one, it's not good to eat cold porridge." ”
Xu Lan's heart was warm, "No, the porridge is not cold yet, you can eat it." ”
I used to get through when I didn't have porridge to eat, and I would dislike cold porridge there, she was not hypocritical at all, and she quickly eliminated a big bowl of porridge and two big white steamed buns in the past.
Seeing that there was still a small bowl of egg custard left on the table, Xu Lan knew that the Zhang family was reluctant to eat it for her.
"Mother, why don't you eat egg custard? I made it for you, and I ate it to nourish your body. ”
Zhang smiled: "Don't you know your mother's body yet?" There needs to be made up, and you should make it up for it when you're so young. ”
Seeing that Zhang's didn't eat it, Xu Lan put the egg custard to her mouth strongly, "If my mother doesn't eat it, I'll throw it away!" ”
Zhang's face was embarrassed, and finally saw that Xu Lan didn't seem to be lying, so he ate the egg custard.
It's a shame to throw such a good egg custard.
After breakfast, Zhang scrambled to wash the dishes and let Xu Lan rest, but Xu Lan couldn't compete with her so she had to give up.
When she came to the courtyard, she looked back and forth, and felt that a vacant land behind the courtyard could be developed, fenced off, and turned over the soil as a vegetable garden.
She actually had this idea a long time ago, but Chen Shi listened to the words of a Taoist priest who said that there was luck hidden in that piece of land, and no one was allowed to move it.
The family is almost out of food, so do you care about the fortune?
Now that she is in charge, Xu Lan is not afraid of Chen at all, she took a hoe and went to turn over the vacant land, Xu Dahai saw it, opened her mouth to say something, and swallowed the words again for a while.
His daughter is now very capable, and when he is a father, she can reply ten words in one sentence. In the end, it didn't end well.
Xu Dahai didn't see it, and went to the field with his hands behind his back to see how the rice was growing, and whether he needed to release water or something.
Xu Lan looked up by chance, just in time to see Xu Dahai's changes, her satisfied lips.
After working hard for so long, she finally got what she wanted, no one was beeping in her ears and no one was taking care of herself anymore, and she could do more things in the future, and she didn't have to be tied up.
Zhang came out of washing dishes and saw Xu Lan turning the ground, although he was worried that Chen would come back to make trouble, he didn't say anything, and took a hoe and went to turn the ground.
"Lan'er, you can rest for a while, my mother will do it quickly, and she will be able to turn over the ground in the morning."
The two of them flipped over for a while, and Zhang saw that fine and dense sweat appeared on Xu Lan's forehead, and his heart was distressed.
Xu Lan wiped her sweat, raised her head and smiled: "No need, I'm not tired, mother, the two of us are faster together." Sprinkle some water in the afternoon, and you can plant vegetables tomorrow, and in the future, we will be self-sufficient in eating vegetables at home, which will be much more convenient. ”
Seeing that Xu Lan insisted, Zhang didn't say anything anymore, and the speed in his hand sped up a lot.
It was almost noon, and the ground was finished, so Xu Lan went to make lunch.
The Xu family has a vegetable field, on the hillside, the soil quality is not good, the vegetables grown are not good at all, and the annual vegetable seeds are getting worse and worse year by year.
Zhang also wants to manage the vegetable patch at the back of the yard, so he doesn't want to use the vegetable seeds at home.
"Lan'er, I'll go to your Aunt Wu's house to borrow some vegetable seeds." Zhang shouted outside the stove room, and then went to Aunt Wu's house next door to borrow vegetable seeds.
When she arrived at Aunt Wu's house, Zhang didn't have time to speak, but she met someone she hadn't seen for a long time, her sister-in-law, Liu.
Compared with Zhang's timid character, sister-in-law Liu is much stronger, otherwise she would not have occupied almost all the family property when she split up that year, so that the people in the second room would not dare to put a fart.
Not to mention that he also drove Chen out.
Even the Chen family didn't dare to provoke people, the Liu family can see it.
The Zhang family was the most afraid to deal with the Liu family, who knew that it would happen so by chance!