It wasn't just Xiang Sanmei who was hungry, but Xiang Yuan, who was asleep, was also awakened by this fragrance...

He hadn't eaten for a few days, and when he saw his sister holding a bowl of mash eggs into his mouth, he instinctively became a little anxious, "Xiang San, you put the bowl down!" ”

"Phew! Bah! Bah! "Xiang Sanmei didn't see it well, so she used her killer trick of grabbing food with her brothers and sisters over the years...

She spit a few bubbles of saliva into the mash bowl, looked at her brother triumphantly, and looked like you would come up and grab my saliva if you dared to eat my saliva.

Ding Shuxian didn't care about scolding her youngest daughter, and watched the second baby get up from the bed angrily and fight with the third sister, which was the same as usual.

She finally let go of a big stone in her heart, and felt that the boring days had hope again, "Don't rob the second baby with your sister, Mom will go to the street to cut some lard and come back, and give you fried oil residue to eat." ”

Lard is neither pork rind nor pork in the true sense of the word.

It's just a layer of white grease in the shape of a layer of pork belly, which is spread out in a very large piece, one plate at a time, so it is also called lard.

For the real rural people, lard is the best part of the pig's body, which can not only boil meat oil, but also have fragrant oil residue to make tooth sacrifices, and the price is corresponding, which is the best interpretation of good quality and low price.

Of course, Xiang Yuan is happy, and the family usually cuts the lard once every half a month in order to have back the oil residue to eat.

At the age of 12, he began to grow taller and more skeleton, because of the lack of oil and water, he could usually swallow five bowls of brown rice with kimchi, which was the age when he had just entered the age of half the size and ate Lao Tzu.

"Mom, I still want to eat ear melon."

The people of Yuchen County call chayote called Tu'er melon, which sounds a little less lofty, but has a more intimate feeling close to life.

Ding Shuxian hurriedly agreed, "I know, Erwa, you are obedient, take a good rest in bed, wait for your mother to come back, don't run around with Guo Zi." ”

Guo Zi is three years older than Xiang Yuan, and he is about to be promoted to the second year of junior high school at the beginning of school, and he often comes to pull Xiang Yuan to cause trouble everywhere, climb trees and fight birds, and steal fish in the pond...

But he lacks responsibility, and when he encounters something, he runs first, Ding Shuxian has long had no good impression of him, not to mention the fact that he almost killed his second baby this time.

"Fangfang, burn the fire, first steam the rice with bamboo retorts, third sister, you have eaten the mash eggs personally, take a shovel and sweep the at the head of the yard." Ding Shuxian walked to the gate of the courtyard.

A cold girl in the side room answered: "Mom, come back early, I want to eat sorbet." ”

Xiang Sanmei hurriedly jumped up and said, "I'm the same as my sister, I want to eat sorbet, and I can give all the oil residue to Xiang Erwa to eat." ”

"Sorbet costs two dimes, and I can't go hungry after eating, so I don't have much money today." Ding Shuxian saw her daughter's disappointed face, "You have been a sister for most of the month, take good care of your younger brother, and wait for the beginning of school Mom to buy you sorbet." ”

Sister Xiang Fang went to the stove room to pick up firewood for the fire, she is 14 years old this year, and she is a student in the second year of junior high school, but she is short, dark and thin, and some malnourished.

The girl is at the age of strong self-esteem, her father has become a prisoner in labor camp, and after the start of school, I don't know how my classmates will despise her, and what the teacher will think of her...

Outside the courtyard dam, Xiang Yuan stood under the scorching sun, looking around a little nervously...

He had a sense of alienation from everything he was familiar with, the dilapidated yard dam that he was used to, the marital flowers blooming by the yard dam, and the little bees buzzing around, strange and kind.

is still too young and reads too little, if he reads more historical masterpieces, at least he can learn from Kong Ming after falling asleep, chanting a big dream who will sleep first...

Or like Zhuang Zhou's dream butterfly, he suddenly realized, and since then he has seen through the red dust and is determined to cultivate immortals in the valley!

From the drowning coma of the Nanni Reservoir and returning to the house, he seemed to have experienced a long time and had a good real dream, but what did he dream of, what did he do, and what did he experience? But I can't remember it at all!

In the graduation sentence given to him by Mr. Wang in primary school, this doll often wanders in class, and I am afraid that I will not be able to study in the future, only a better memory.

If your memory doesn't work now, your future is even more worrying!

"In the river of dreams, met my ......"

After thinking for a long time, he unconsciously hummed two lyrics in his mouth, and was immediately interrupted by the pungent Xiang Sanmei, "Don't sing, Xiang Erwa, you sing so ugly, it's like a dead person singing, it's so ugly..."

In the past, the third sister had to be beaten by him at least, and such a despicable thing as snatching things and spitting on things could not be done.

Besides, it is a matter of course for his brother to beat his sister, but now he looks at his unruly sister who is greedy and doesn't remember to beat, and he doesn't seem to be as annoying as before.

After Ding Shuxian came back, the stove room was filled with the long-lost smell of lard, fried lotus white with oil residue, stewed ear melon in oil soup... Xiang Fang's spatula is a little unstable when it is fragrant.

Waiting for the dishes to be set on the small table, Xiang Sanmei cooked well.

Xiang Yuan stretched out his chopsticks to hold a lump of the biggest oil residue in Ding Shuxian's bowl, "Mom, you've become so thin these days, you have to eat more meat." ”

Ding Shuxian couldn't help but have a sour nose, the naughty and mischievous second baby actually began to be sensible, and they all knew how to be filial to adults!

"Hmph, sycophant, Xiang Erwa must want to ask her mother for money to play game consoles on the street again." Xiang Fang pursed her lips and made no secret of her contempt for her younger brother.

Xiang Sanmei kept turning the lotus white on the plate, quietly sandwiched a few pieces of the largest oil residue, buried them at the bottom of the bowl and prepared to eat slowly, in terms of the speed of eating, she couldn't grab her brother.

Xiang Yuan devoured it, ate four bowls of rice like a whirlwind, looked at the vegetable pot with only oil soup left, and burped, he lay down for two days, and the amount of food actually dropped.

"I don't have to ask my mother for money, and I don't have any money for the house now......" he muttered to himself.

"Radada... Gurgada"

"Ha, the chicken baby has laid eggs again, I'll feed the chickens." Xiang Yuan hurriedly put down the rice bowl, grabbed a small handful of brown rice from the rice bowl, rushed to the middle of the courtyard dam, squatted down with a smile, and five or six chickens surrounded him at once.

"Go away, go away, the fat chicken woman has laid eggs to supplement nutrition, and the rice is specially for it to eat, you are not allowed to rob it." Xiang Yuan stretched out his hand to catch up.

A big rooster and a few other hens that didn't lay eggs were afraid of being beaten, so they ran to the corner of the wall to dig earthworms.

The fat chicken woman with a red face happily pecked the rice grains from Xiang Yuan's hand, and from time to time she screamed a few times with her neck stalked.

"Ah, such a big egg must be a double yolk egg, put it down, make up enough two catties, and you can sell it for money in a hurry." Xiang Yuan took out a hot egg from the firewood room, his face full of joy.

Xiaohe Town is a large town in Yuchen County, ranking first among the nine townships in Yuchen County in terms of scale and population.

When it's time to catch the market, the crowded flow of people can simply crowd the two old streets in the town.

The town is not big, but there are many units, the sugar market street is adjacent to the four groups of Nanhe, the animal husbandry station, the agricultural machinery station, the fertilizer factory, the sauce factory, the supply and marketing cooperative, the town kindergarten, the town junior high school are all on this long street.

The other main street is Tiangui Street, the town primary school, silkworm cocoon station, natural gas station, waste recycling station, police station, town office, and station...... The farmers' market is readily available, and it is more bustling than the sugar market.