Chapter 7 Eating
After arriving home, the yard was refreshing, presumably Zhimin Zhixing cleaned it again, the fragrance of the hare shelf soup could be smelled from afar, Chungui secretly sighed, she still had to eat meat, she didn't want to reminisce about the rice cereal on the day she just came.
She glanced at it casually, and there was a bunch of sweet potato seedlings piled up on the edge of the pool! Even the roots and leaves, the soil clods under the bottom are still completely preserved, could it be that Zhiping dug up the mountain? Or who sent a stubble to their family?
Puzzled, she entered the kitchen, and saw that three cubs were crouching in front of the saucepan with their backs to her, staring at the firewood, three radish heads neatly arranged from large to small.
Chun Guigang couldn't help but want to laugh, Zhiping suddenly sucked and asked, "Brother, when will my sister-in-law come back?" ”
Zhixing snored the child's head: "I don't know, wait a little longer, wait for my sister-in-law to come back and eat together." ”
Zhiping couldn't squat a little, so he simply leaned on Zhixing: "I smell the smell of steamed eggs!" ”
Zhixing patted his head and admonished: "There are no eggs at home, don't argue with your sister-in-law to ask for eggs in the future, my sister-in-law has worked hard enough to raise us, and eating wild vegetables is the same." ”
"Okay......."
Zhiping got down from his brother with some grievances, and turned his head to tilt his head on Zhimin.
Chungui just wanted to laugh and held back, she sighed and said softly: "Who said that Zhiping can't ask for eggs, we Zhiping can tell my sister-in-law what we want to eat, and my sister-in-law will do everything." ”
As soon as she spoke, the three turnip heads turned their heads in unison.
Zhiping's aggrieved little face only lasted for a second, and he immediately stretched out his hand to hug him happily.
Zhixing's little adult seemed to disagree: "Sister-in-law, Zhiping is older, so you can't be so used to it." ”
Chungui picked up Zhiping with one hand, and grabbed the two brothers and sisters with the other, and said angrily: "Nonsense, you and Minmin are still children." ”
Zhiping hugged Chungui with both hands and rubbed it, obviously very happy.
What else did Zhixing want to say, Chungui hurriedly asked, "Who brought the sweet potato seedlings in the yard?" ”
Zhixing: "Grass and vines?" ”
Chungui nodded, but she forgot that the people here only call sweet potato seedlings grass vines.
"Qi You brought it, he said that he had seen this grass and vine a few times when he watched his sister-in-law pick wild vegetables on the mountain before, and today he went up the mountain and saw that a big bush had grown, so he picked it back for you."
Chungui was stunned: "He went up the mountain today?" ”
Zhixing nodded: "I just came back, I look very tired, this big clump of grass and vines was all picked by him." ”
Zhixing continued: "Sister-in-law, this grass and vine are not as good as mountain bitter vegetables, and it takes a long time of boiling water to remove the bitter and astringent taste in it. ”
Chungui smiled, following the memory of the original body, sweet potato seedlings were only found as wild vegetables in recent years, and poor people generally pinched the tips when the sweet potato seedlings were newly grown in order to feed and wear, and cooked them as wild vegetables. Even if the seedlings are pinched, no one has ever seen the grown sweet potato. If a leaky vine grows, the sweet potato is hidden in the ground, and no one can see it, and naturally no one will eat it.
She had planned to go to the mountains after eating, but now she was in trouble.
Zhimin also said: "Sister-in-law, the grass and vines are astringent, and it's too late to cook today, so let's eat mountain bitter vegetables." ”
Chun Gui put Zhiping down, turned his head and poured out a whole pot of soup: "Let's not eat that grass and vine, didn't Min Min ask what the remaining half of the land was planted." She turned her head: "Just plant the grass and vines." ”
Zhimin Zhixing, you look at me, I look at you, and there is doubt in my eyes.
Chungui was reluctant to throw away the hare rack, and she expected to cook another pot of soup.
Turning her head and seeing the appearance of the two children who wanted to speak and stopped, she smiled and pushed people to the dining table: "Okay, sister-in-law promises not to waste that half of the land, and in a few months you will be able to eat delicious food!" ”
Zhixing blinked and whispered, "Sister-in-law, we believe in you, we eat what you plant." ”
Chungui rowed over the small half bowl of egg custard: "Silly boy." ”
Even if he didn't accept this sweet potato seedling in his heart, he didn't argue with her, and still trusted her unconditionally.
This is the family.
After the meal, Chungui remembered that he should tell Qi You about the field, and after washing the dishes, he went straight to the next door.
The old house next door is different from the Liu family, the yard is smaller, the old house is about one-third of the Liu family, the surrounding walls look a little old, and there is only one window from the outside, presumably the inner room is darker.
I don't know how Qi You's kid reviews his homework on weekdays.
She shouted a few times outside the door before she heard hurried footsteps, and the door opened.
Qi You didn't seem to expect her to come over, and his expression was a little stunned.
Chungui raised his eyebrows, this kid rarely has a look exposed.
"Why do you look like you're in a hurry?"
She walked inside.
Qi You's face stiffened, and before he could stop it, Chun Gui had already seen the dishes on the dinner table at a glance.
A stack of boiled mountain bitter vegetables, a bowl of rice.
Chungui was stunned for a moment, and glanced around again, where a basket of fresh bitter vegetables was placed at the kitchen entrance of the cubicle.
She walked calmly towards the kitchen, except for a basket of bitter herbs, only a small stack of salt and a small portion of brown sugar on the stove.
This brown sugar was still made by her Zhixing.
I don't know what to say when I return to the spring, when I first separated the family, all the food and clothes were sent to the old house, but the trivial items such as oil, salt, sauce and vinegar were not many people could take care of.
In the past two days, some people in the village have re-raised chickens and ducks, and their lives are getting on the right track, but Cheng Qiyou is just a child from a separate family in the end, and his temperament is extremely weak, and the separation is just another form of self-exile in his eyes.
Qi You looked at Chungui and scanned the furnishings in all corners of his house, without saying a word, for some reason, he suddenly felt a little apprehensive in his heart.
Finally, when Chungui glanced at him, he swallowed his dry throat and subconsciously blurted out: "These days, I have been reviewing my homework every day, and I have not fallen behind." ”
After speaking, he seemed to realize something, and pursed the corners of his lips with some annoyance.
Chungui didn't expect him to be able to say this, just like a gentleman who proved that he had really changed his life. What is this, to explain that although he has been in material self-exile, he has not violated her previous reprimands, and is still running wild in the spiritual world?
Chungui couldn't help but hook the corners of his mouth and shook his head. The fire in my heart was suddenly suppressed.
"I came to inform you that I have already helped Uncle Tory to help us find someone to help us plant those acres of paddy fields, and they are all given sixty percent of the rent, and I will ask you and Zhixing to write two written agreements later."
Qi You's heart relaxed for a while, and he breathed a sigh of relief: "These Spring sisters are in charge, I'll start writing later." ”
"And ....."
Qi You's breath of relief gradually rose again.
Chungui pointed in the direction of his house: "And thank you for sending the grass vine." ”
"and ......"
Qi You: ..........
Chun Hui walked over and picked up the stack of bitter vegetables and put it down: "Put a bag of rice on your back and put it here for me, you know when our family meal is, don't be late." ”
After speaking, she ignored the young man who was stunned in place, and stepped out of the old house: "Come over after dinner and help me plant grass and vines." ”
The rest of Qi You stared blankly at the stack of vegetables on the table, his heart was slightly sore, and for the first time he was overwhelmed and mixed with the joy of rising.
When he stepped into the door of Liu's house with a bag of rice, Zhixing Zhimin was already loosening the soil, and Zhiping also took a small wooden stick and poked it slowly. Chun Guizheng turned his back to him and tended to the clump of grass and vines.
Seeing him coming, Zhixing wiped his sweat and beckoned: "Qi You!" There you are! ”
Qi You nodded, and stopped after finding the spring return.
Zhixing got up directly and took the bag of rice in his hand: "Sister-in-law told us, we will all eat together in the future!" ”
Qi You deliberately swept over a few people, Zhixing and Zhimin had no nostalgia on their faces, and Zhiping was even more so, staring at him with a smile: "Brother Qiyou can watch me draw after eating in the future!" ”
Chungui smiled and pinched Zhiping's little face: "Nonsense again, after eating, your brother Qiyou wants to go back to Wenshu, you should be like your little radish head!" ”
Zhiping's face flushed suddenly: "....... Sister-in-law..... Sister-in-law is the radish head! ”
Chungui was so cute that his heart trembled: "Zhiping is the radish head, a small and short radish head." ”
The child pouted and saw that tears were about to fall: "Zhiping! Zhiping will grow taller! ”
Seeing that the child was in a hurry, Chun Gui hurriedly picked up the person and coaxed: "Yes, yes, of course, we Zhiping will grow taller, taller than my sister-in-law!" ”
Zhiping held back the tears in his eyes, but his mouth was still pursed, and while rubbing his face against Chungui's face, he whispered softly: "You look taller than your sister-in-law, protect your sister-in-law........"
The scene of Chungui fainting and dying probably left a deep impression on his heart, and now he is becoming more and more clingy to her.
Chun Gui's heart was peaceful, he hugged Zhiping and no longer let go, and whispered to Qi You's eyes: "I will eat at home in the future, but I am thinner these days than before the grain was released." ”
Qi You came back to his senses from this heartwarming picture and nodded at Chungui: "Okay." ”
At this time, saying thank you pushed him and the family farther and farther away.
Chungui held Zhiping in his hands, and instructed the three children to loosen the soil and dig pits. Although Qi You looks thin, he is very energetic in his work, and he gossips with them while supervising the work in the spring.
"You go up the mountain every day?"
Qi You glanced up at her and nodded: "This mountain is slowly coming to life, and there must be more wild goods on the mountain." ”
No wonder Zhixing said he went to bed so early every night.
Chungui saw that he had hunted two hares, and nodded: "Have you encountered anything?" ”
Qi You planted a sweet potato seedling: "Yes, they are all gadgets that have not grown up, and I will go again when they are older." ”
"Now that I have a stomach-wrapping ration, I don't hunt the little things," he explains. ”
A hint of approval flashed in Chungui's eyes: "At this time, everything is renewed, and after some time, let's go up the mountain together, catch some hares and pheasants and put them in captivity at home." ”
Qi You raised his head again, looked at her and said, "Okay." ”
By the time the pond is filled with sufficient water, the village's water source has already been restored, and some fish can be caught and raised in the pond.
This yard will always get more and more lively.
The three children of this half of the land of sweet potato seedlings only took two quarters of an hour to plant, thinking of the dreary atmosphere in the Cheng family's old house, Chun Gui directly left people in the Liu family, and asked Qi You to move some books over, and Zhixing and the two of them reviewed their homework together in the study room she had temporarily set out.
In the evening, Li Zheng brought the news of the candidate for renting the land.