CHAPTER XXXVI
Lin Baoru didn't think about it so much, she coaxed Xiaoshan in her arms to drink a few mouthfuls of porridge, and then Wang's words said: "When the time comes, let's find a few little hens and duck cubs, and we can lay eggs after three months." ”
The Wang family really didn't think about raising things, one is that their food and clothing have just been solved, and if they add chickens and ducks, they will have to feed food. Second, raising chickens and ducks is too laborious, especially in spring and summer, when it is windy and rainy, you always have to remember, but if you make a problem, it will be in vain.
She hesitated for a moment and said: "Chickens and ducks are easy to find, but we have no place and no food, and my mother is afraid that she will not be able to feed ......."
Lin Baoru also understood Wang's concerns, she sighed, turned the hill in her arms, and then looked at Wang and said: "Chickens and ducks don't eat much, and they can be raised by beating pigweed and stirring some wheat bran in the spring." When the time comes, my eldest brother and I will build a chicken nest in the base of the wall with mud, so that they can shelter from the wind and rain. We don't ask for much, as long as we can live with two or three egg-laying chickens, we can provide for Cairu and Xiaoshan to eat. ”
"Mother, we can save it and not eat, but the three of them are just when they are growing, if they are always so nutritious, it can't work."
When Wang heard this, his eyes turned around on the children, and then he gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, my mother will go back and say to your Aunt Lu, and when her hens are in the nest, leave us a few newly dropped chicks." ”
When Cai Ru and Cai He heard this, they immediately cheered, "I like the eldest sister and my mother the most." ”
"When the time comes, I can dig up worms for the chicks to eat."
"I can cut water and grass for them, and I can catch grasshoppers for them......"
Lin Baoru looked at the appearance of the two of them dancing happily, and couldn't help but reach out and give each of them a brainstorm.
"Okay, okay, if you jump again, you'll jump into the sky."
Cai Ru laughed a little embarrassedly, but she just looked at her eldest sister and mother's eyes still shining.
The eldest uncle's family raises chickens, and every day when eggs are laid, the eldest aunt will cook and fry them for her cousin and cousin, and stew them. It's a pity that she only has to watch.
She also wanted to raise chickens at that time, but her mother always refused to allow it, and her mother was unhappy if she talked too much, and then she never thought about it again. Sometimes she goes to the village to play, and when she sees a child who picks chickens, she is always very envious.
Lin Caihe didn't dare to tell anyone, she had thought about stealing someone else's chicken and raising it to a place that only she knew...... But she didn't have the guts.
Until one day, when she and her mother went to collect firewood, they caught the bird that had been breaking its wings. She couldn't be happy, thinking that she had raised the bird and let it lay its eggs.
It's just that the bird was seen by the eldest uncle, so she asked her cousin to play, and when she mustered up the courage to go to the old mansion to ask, she learned that the cousin's little bird was suffocated and used by the eldest aunt in stew.
After that, she didn't dare to think about feeding animals.
Caihe's idea was much simpler, she was laughed at by the eldest sister, and immediately pouted and sprinkled coquettishly.
Xiaoshan saw that his third sister was unhappy, so he clapped his little hands and wanted to make the third sister happy......
With the commotion of the two, there was naturally laughter in the house again.
And Wang, not to mention the reasons for the previous hesitation.
After the family ate, Lin Baoru went to see the pig pancreatic soap that she had dried yesterday. At this time, the pig pancreatic soap was dried into blocks, perhaps because of the addition of plant ash, the color is very different from the color of the whole pig pancreas.
Moreover, even those annoying fishy smells have dissipated.
While she seemed to have to put away the pig pancreatic soap, she discussed with the Wang family who helped her stir the ashes of the grass and trees: "Mother, seeing that the sky is about to change again, let's get cotton clothes and hurry up." ”
"I thought about it, and after a while, I went to Aunt Lu and Aunt Ma, and asked them to help me do needlework together."
Wang looked at the sky, nodded and said, "I have to do it quickly." It's just that we have asked people to help, and it's not good to go empty-handed...... Otherwise, the mother should do it herself, the cotton clothes are said to be troublesome, but they can be made in a day or two. When the time comes, you help your mother look at the stitches, and it will be ...... soon."
Lin Baoru smiled and said helplessly: "Mother, in the past, our family did a lot of work, and we rarely walked around the village, and we didn't talk much about the aunts and aunts in the village. But now it's different, in the future, grandma and aunt will no longer be able to handle the big and small things of our family, and we will have to figure out these things ourselves. ”
These are what her grandmother told her in her previous life.
After her grandfather died, she wanted to take her grandmother out to live, but her grandmother always said that her lifelong favor was in the village, and she was reluctant.
But no matter how good and comfortable her grandmother said in the village, Lin Baoru was very worried.
It wasn't until later when she went back for the holiday that she looked at the neighbors who gave her grandmother balls and bacon, and she understood what her grandmother meant.
Later, the grandmother was gone, and the two concubines began to quarrel with the house over the land left by the grandmother, and as a granddaughter, no one listened to what she said. Even, when the village chief proved that her grandmother wanted to leave the house and land to her, the two concubines came to tear her up.
In the end, it was the elders in the village who suppressed the matter, and even helped her, the person who had been designated by her grandmother a long time ago, to handle the aftermath for her grandmother.
For many years after that, whenever there was anything on her grandmother's side, the warm-hearted young people in the village would always contact her. It is the development of tourist areas in the village, the demolition of the land, and how many villagers in the village guard those objects for her, so as not to be looted and coaxed by the two concubines.
Lin Baoru knew in her heart that everyone helped her at that time, and there were also some other relationships. After all, every time she celebrates the New Year's holidays, she will carry things and go door to door to visit the people who have helped her grandmother and herself.
But the most important thing is that she is in constant contact with those people.
Human affection is like this, there is a coming.
Wang really didn't think about it that much, and only then did he wake up after listening to his daughter's words. She has lived half her life, and she has not seen it thoroughly and clearly before her daughter.
"Mother's brain is really a little stiff, I didn't expect this." Probably because she found out that her son was better, it diluted Wang's other thoughts, and at this time she didn't feel sorry for herself anymore, but just sighed and sighed.
Lin Baoru turned her head to look at Wang, covered her mouth and smiled: "What's the stiff brain, I'm afraid that my mother is used to doing her own work, and she is not used to playing with others for a long time." But in the future, my mother will be in charge of our family, and I have to bring all the human affairs together, and when the eldest brother and they get married in the future, you will catch the blind ......."
When Wang heard Lin Baoru say that his son would marry a daughter-in-law in the future, he immediately became a little happy. In the past, she didn't dare to have extravagant hopes, always thinking that if her son married a daughter-in-law in the future, no matter if he was tall, short, fat, thin, even if he was widowed. A woman or a fool, as long as she lives.
No matter how bad it is, she can still serve, and she can always serve her daughter-in-law properly.
But now it's different, she thinks that her son can work with all his strength, and now that his brain is better, maybe he can really marry a complete daughter-in-law in the future.
Lin Baoru looked at her mother's expectant look, and she could guess some of her thoughts, so she smiled and said: "Then wait for your grandchildren to drink for the full moon, it is a big matter for your mother to find a similar aunt to be busy!" ”
The more Wang listened, the happier he became, and he only smiled and said, "Mother listens to you, and I will go to your Aunt Lu's house in a while." After a pause, she asked with some hesitation, "Our family has no friendship with your Aunt Ma, and besides, she didn't talk about our family behind her back in the past, so don't let her come and spread anything again." ”
Lin Baoru knew her mother's worries in her heart, but in fact, she was quite indifferent to long-tongued women. But after yesterday's incident, she really thinks that Aunt Ma is not bad. Although there is always no one to keep the door open, his temperament is as jealous as hatred, otherwise he would not have found fault with the two women of the Shangzhang family.
Aunt Ma loves to nag things, and in the final analysis, it doesn't mean that she has bad intentions.
And I'm familiar with her, and in the future, I'm afraid that I can listen to a letter from my own family.
Besides, when they rushed back to the village the day before yesterday, they also responded to Aunt Ma's words to help. If they are only called Aunt Lu at this time, they will leave Aunt Ma alone, but they will not be kind.
Lin Baoru briefly explained a few words to the Wang family, and said: "Mother, just because Aunt Ma helped us stop the eldest uncle's family yesterday, we have to be grateful to others." ”
Wang thought about it carefully, it was really like that. Although the words came out of the mouth of Aunt Ma, in the final analysis, she couldn't complain about others.
"Yes...... We haven't been able to get our hands on anything now......" She frowned and looked at Lin Baoru with some embarrassment.
Lin Baoru sighed, "Aren't there still bones at home, at noon, I boil a pot of bone broth, use bone broth to cook a rare dish, let's cook some brown rice porridge, hot steamed bud rice cakes." Leaving them for a meal can be regarded as a thank you. ”
She didn't say anything else, usually some people in the village helped other families do work, if they didn't take things, most of the main family would take care of a meal.
Lin Baoru originally planned to use pig pancreas as a thank-you, but after thinking about it, she always felt that it was inappropriate. First, this is the way she thinks she can make some money, if she gives it to people casually, she will pass it on before she thinks about how to sell it, for fear that she will be happy in the end. Second, the pig pancreatic soap has not been changed in the end, it is okay for home use, take it out to do favors, it is still a little worse, I am afraid that Aunt Ma will not dare to use it easily.
Take 10,000 steps back and say, what she feared can't happen. But if her grandmother and aunt know about it again, she is afraid that those two will have to be demons again.
Don't really say it, Lin Baoru is the truth this time.
The Liu family, who had just stopped for two days, was now just picked up by Lin Baoru's disgraceful Zhang family, is it ready to move again?