Chapter 7: Small Days
When Zhao Jijiao woke up, Li had already made breakfast as usual, the cakes steamed with cornmeal and the chicken soup left over from last night, although they were not very delicious, they were better than a full stomach. Li Ruchang ate five tortillas and drank two bowls of soup, while Zhao Jijiao had returned to normal eating, eating two cakes and drinking a bowl of soup, and then couldn't eat anymore, which made Li Ruchang very surprised, and after repeatedly confirming that Zhao Jijiao was really full, he carried his hunting tools up the mountain, and Zhao Jijiao planted the seeds he bought yesterday into the vegetable field.
Zhao Jijiao had long forgotten which seed was in the paper bag, so she simply divided the vegetable plot into areas and planted them one by one.
When Zhao Jijiao was busy, the sun also climbed overhead, and Zhao Jijiao, who was tired and hot, had no idea of cooking at all, but fortunately, Li made enough cakes as usual in the morning, and after he brought enough cakes for him to eat at noon, there were still a few left in the kitchen. Zhao Jijiao washed her hands and wiped her body with cold water again, then took the cold corn tortilla and bit it.
The cold tortillas are a little hard, but the taste is still okay, but the bite is a little hard, and the chewing makes my teeth hurt.
After Zhao Jiaojiao ate one, she really couldn't bite it, so she didn't eat any more, put the remaining few back in the kitchen, and stayed under the eaves by herself, with a gust of wind blowing, full of coolness. Li Ruchang is quite good at choosing a location, in such a hot summer, his house can still be so cool.
Zhao Jijiao, who just wanted to rest, fell asleep unconsciously, and in the dream, she returned to modern times, and met modern Li Ruchang in the dream......
When Zhao Jijiao woke up, the sun had set halfway, it was almost three or four o'clock in the afternoon, and the sky was not so hot, and the two wild 'few' in the kitchen were a little noisy. Zhao Jijiao took a bowl with a big hole, filled it with some water and put it next to the wild 'several'. The lightly injured wild 'few' immediately came over to drink water, and the seriously injured one was already dying, but he didn't forget to call, which made Zhao Jijiao a little surprised.
can be surprised to be surprised, and the meat that should be eaten cannot be less.
Since the chicken can't be raised, it can only be killed. Zhao Jijiao took a kitchen knife, grabbed the wild 'several', plucked the hair on the wild 'several' neck, and then took a clean bowl and put it on the ground.
Don't look at this chicken looking dying, but when Zhao Jijiao cut it with a knife, it broke out with the greatest strength in its history, but Zhao Jijiao is not the first time to kill a chicken, and he already knows the steps to kill a chicken, so how can he let it break free. When the blood was gone, Zhao Jiaojiao threw the chicken aside, and the chicken struggled again, but the blood in the body had been drained clean, and it was useless to struggle again.
Zhao Jijiao made a fire and boiled a pot of water, which was used to pluck the feathers of the chicken, and the chicken feathers were very easily plucked from the chicken after being scalded with boiling water a few times.
After plucking the feathers, Zhao Jijiao also put the chicken on the fire and roasted it for a while, not to make roast chicken, but to roast off the remaining fragments of chicken feathers on the chicken. To do this, you have disemboweled the chicken, removed the inedible part of the chicken's belly, washed the chicken again, cut it and put it in a bowl, and waited for the evening to cook before taking it out.
Zhao Jijiao put a chicken away and only half an hour has passed, the sky is still very bright, Zhao Jijiao took out the cloth and thread again, and began to embroider the four gentlemen in the flowers that he thought of yesterday.
The cloth was cut into a square the size of two hands, and after stringing the needles, Zhao Jiaojiao started. The embroidery is not fast, after all, it is not more than ten years of not embroidered, the hands are a little rusty, and you have to slowly find the feeling.
Zhao Jiaojiao had just embroidered two petals, and Li came back as usual. There was a weasel in his hand, weighing about twenty pounds, and it looked like a whole body of meat.
"Wow, Xianggong is amazing!"
Zhao Jijiao put down the embroidered cloth, walked to Li Ruchang's side, and stared carefully at the weasel in Li Ruchang's hand, saliva was about to flow out.
"It's dead, it's not good to preserve, I'll marinate it later."
It is indeed difficult to preserve meat in summer, if you have a refrigerator, you can store it for two or three more days, but in this agricultural era, there is only one way to preserve meat.
"Okay, make it into bacon and eat it in winter."
Although Zhao Jijiao doesn't like to eat bacon, as far as the current conditions are concerned, she doesn't have to choose.
"You've planted all the vegetable patches today?"
Li Ruchang glanced at the vegetable patch that had just opened yesterday, and it had been cleaned up one by one, which showed that it had already been planted. In fact, when Li was usually alone, he picked some edible wild vegetables on the mountain and came back for dinner, and he usually stayed for several days when he entered the mountain, planting vegetables or something, and he really didn't think about it. But now that he is not alone, he has a little lady who wants to accompany him for the rest of his life, and suddenly feels that he has a heavy burden on his body.
"Well, am I amazing? Xianggong, don't look at me as a small person, I will have a lot, so you only spent five taels of silver, which is really a big advantage! ”
Zhao Jijiao naturally did not forget to brush her own existence, before she had the ability to be self-reliant, she could only hug Li Ruchang's thighs, and she still relied on him to live.
"Well, my lady is the best."
Li praised Zhao Jijiao in a serious manner, but he was embarrassed to praise Zhao Jiji.
"Hate, I'm going to cook, you can take a break."
Saying that, Zhao Jijiao packed up the embroidered cloth and other things into the sleeping room, and then went into the kitchen, put the chicken that had been cleaned up in the afternoon into the pot and boiled it with water.
Washing rice, cooking, washing vegetables, cutting vegetables.
The lettuce was eaten yesterday, and there were only two cucumbers and a few green peppers left, and there was less to make a pot of vegetables separately, so they were all fried in a pot.
A pot of cucumber fried chicken came out, and then green peppers were added, although it was not spicy enough, but there was still a hint of spicy, the rice was still sorghum rice, and there were only sorghum and cornmeal at home. Rice costs 14 wen a catty, and as far as Zhao Jijiao's current money is concerned, it will be gone after a few days.
"Xianggong, you can put a chicken coop around me, it's not okay to tie it up in the kitchen all the time."
Zhao Jijiao remembered the wild hen in the kitchen, and suddenly wanted to eat a few wild eggs.
"If I don't go up the mountain tomorrow, I'll go and chop some wood and give you one."
Li Ru often didn't forget to eat when he spoke, he really felt that the food made by his little lady was much better than what he cooked, and after only two or three days, he felt that there was no way to eat back what he made.
"Then when I'm done embroidering, let's go to town again, okay?"
Zhao Jijiao thought, there is nothing to do tomorrow, you can embroider embroidery all day, and you should be able to embroider four pairs the day after tomorrow at the latest.
"Okay."
This time, the two of them didn't eat anymore, and the rest of the dishes were brought into the kitchen and put away, and it should be tomorrow's breakfast.
Li Ruchang has a habit of washing the changed clothes after taking a bath, and did not let Zhao Jijiao help wash them, and Zhao Jijiao doesn't like to wash clothes by hand, it hurts her hands too much, but now there is no electricity, no washing machine, and she can only do it herself. It was unthinkable to ask Li to help wash it as usual. People didn't let themselves wash it, are you embarrassed to let someone wash it for you? So they both washed their own baptisms. Li Ruchang is used to it, and Zhao Jijiao doesn't know.