Chapter 13: Fighting Sparrows
I woke up from a nap and went out with great interest to meet the two brothers of Chaomei and Chaosu, the two brothers carried empty baskets, and they didn't seem to have any thoughts on picking up ears of wheat.
He ran to the drying ground, and sure enough, sparrows flew to steal the wheat.
Chao Su Chaomei has a slingshot for one person, and he takes out a stone from his pocket and bullets it, but unfortunately his accuracy is not good, and he doesn't hit a sparrow for half a day.
Duan Huan asked Chaomei to secretly bring one of the dustpans in the drying field, and instructed Chaosu to tie the dustpan with a rope twisted from a straw stalk.
Then he found a small wooden stick and set up a dustpan, took out a handful of broken rice from his coat pocket, and threw it under the dustpan, and took the two brothers to hide behind the straw stack with the rope.
"Little aunt, can this catch sparrows? So much wheat is drying? Chaosu's voice was very soft.
Thinking about the allure of the things in the space to the animals, even a meal of wheat can't compare.
Chaomei put her finger to her mouth and motioned for her brother to stop talking.
The three of them stared at the dustpan without blinking, and after a while, they watched two sparrows fly under the dustpan and peck happily at the broken rice.
"Auntie, pull the rope!!" Chaosu eagerly urged to enjoy himself.
Huan glanced at the sky: "Wait a while, there are still sparrows to go in!" I sprinkled a lot of broken rice! ”
"Little aunt, you actually took rice out of the house, and you are not afraid of being beaten?" Chaosu felt that rice was a precious thing, and broken rice was also rice, but he was worried.
Chaomei looked at her younger brother and looked at Duan Huan again, with a serious expression: "Don't talk nonsense!" Who in the village doesn't know, Taizu treats his little aunt like an eyeball, don't talk about fighting, and he is reluctant to say even a heavy word! ”
Duan Huan was not in the mood to pay attention to the two brothers, because in just a while, there were not only more than a dozen sparrows under the dustpan, but also two gray pigeons.
Well, now is it!
He quickly pulled down the rope: "Hurry up and take a look!" ”
Chaosu opened the dustpan and reached in to catch it, and Chaomei took it and tied the sparrow's feet with a straw rope, with a tacit understanding, it seems that there is no shortage of things like beating sparrows.
The harvest was good, with two pigeons and seven or eight sparrows, and the two brothers let the two brothers make the decision to divide the spoils.
"Then I'll take a pigeon! The rest is yours! ”
"No, the idea came from my aunt. Rice is also brought out by you! You only take one, we take too cheap! "Chaomei is a little adult, and she speaks very seriously.
Chaosu also helped on the side: "My dad knows, we have to eat bamboo shoots and fried meat!" (Stir-fried meat with bamboo shoots refers to beating the palm and buttocks with bamboo slices, and Sichuan Province generally uses bamboo shoots to fry meat to refer to corporal punishment of children)
"Don't fight, I'll take one, this pigeon is fat enough, it's almost two pounds!" Duan Huan made the final decision: "When you go back, tell your father that one pigeon is enough for two people in my family to eat, and the sparrows are too small and the plucking is too troublesome!" ”
It just so happened that Grandpa Xu came back to pick up the joy.
Offering treasures with joy: "Zuzu, look, the pigeons I caught with Chaomei Chaosu!" ”
"It's not a pigeon, it's a turtledove! You babies have the ability! Grandpa Xu glanced at it and recognized what the dolls were carrying.
The two brothers hurriedly said that it was all the credit of Huanhuan, and they should not have shared so much.
Grandpa Xu waved his hand and didn't care, and asked Chaomei Chaosu to take it back quickly, and led him home.
On the way home, Grandpa Xu asked Duan Huan: "There are so many things, you just took one, don't you think it's unfair?" ”
"Zuzu, I have divided the things. We only have you and me in our family, one is enough, and we have enough to eat every day, and we are not short of two sparrow meat. Super Mei Chaosu has taken me to play in the past two days, everyone is a partner, you shouldn't care so much! "I want to explain to Grandpa Xu seriously.
"Xiao Yu'er is right! Let's be generous! Grandpa Xu agrees with Huanhuan's generosity: "But generosity depends on the situation, the kind of person who specializes in taking advantage of you, should be stingy or stingy!" ”
Duan Huan nodded: "Zuzu, I know!" I'm not a melon baby, whoever eats me bully, I let him walk around without eating! Besides, those sparrows, with more hair and less meat, are bright after plucking, hey~ It's not cost-effective! ”
Hearing the latter words, Grandpa Xu couldn't help laughing:
I was still afraid that my great-granddaughter would be too generous, and others would come over to take advantage.
As a result, this girl originally disliked that the sparrows were not easy to tidy, and made the two brothers take the sparrows away with a guilty face.
Is this fine, or is it more refined?
Grandpa Xu went home and removed the hair and internal organs of the turtledove, cleaned it, and put it into a clay pot with Codonopsis, Astragalus and wolfberry, and prepared to stew it in a pot.
I circled around this clay pot twice, mainly because this jar was too beautiful.
The body of the jar is covered with a thick glaze of oily and shiny deep vermilion, and there are golden dragon shapes and auspicious clouds-like relief patterns on the jar.
The lid and handle of the jar are in the shape of a dragon, which looks rich and domineering, is this an antique?
"Zuzu, where did this jar come from? And dragons? Is it for the emperor? "I think this jar is not young, and there are dragon patterns, which looks like an antique at first glance.
Grandpa Xu covered the pot and said with a smile: "This jar is also a few years old, probably your grandfather bought it, I have it since I can remember!"
Not an antique though! This is called Guitao, and the origin is the Osmanthus Commune in our county.
This kind of ceramics is quite famous outside, and I heard that last year it went abroad and participated in the West German Expo! ”
The West German Exposition of 1961? This ceramic is so good? "Aren't antiques really that powerful?" I feel that after drinking the soup in a while, I must take a good look.
Grandpa Xu couldn't help but be happy when he saw the small appearance of Huan's eyes shining: "This kind of jar is stupid and ugly, even if it is an antique, it can't be priced!" You have to like it, after eating for a while, Zuzu will bring you a few beautiful ones to take a look at! ”
After the soup was stewed, Grandpa Xu also rolled out the noodles, thick hand-pulled noodles, and added the fried meat and black bean with small green peppers.
Because turtledove soup is considered a medicinal diet, Grandpa Xu did not put cooked oil sea pepper (chili oil) in the noodles, but the green pepper and tempeh are fragrant, and there are small meat particles in it, which tastes salty and delicious, and is particularly flavorful.
Eating noodles and nibbling on turtledoves, the turtledove meat is very delicate, not fishy and has a faint medicinal fragrance.
After drinking the last mouthful of soup, he sighed: "Zuzu, I'm swollen again!" I've been eating too much in the last few days, and I feel like I'm going to grow into a big fat man! ”
"Nonsense, it's a blessing to be able to eat! Little dolls have to eat more in order to grow taller. Our family is all tall, but we can't raise a little short! Grandpa Xu patted his head and spoke seriously.
After cleaning up the kitchen, Grandpa Xu removed the jar of bean paste in the kitchen, uncovered the wooden board underneath, dug off a layer of fine sand on top, and dragged out a large box wrapped in oilcloth.