Lao Suo is about 50 years old, gray cloth short shirts, green coarse cloth trousers, black cloth belt around the waist, sunburned purple and black face, short body, but he walks very vigorously, tiger and tiger, like an old farmer, not at all like the town medical hall those thin skin and tender meat Langzhong.

Then this Langzhong should not be a Langzhong sitting in the museum, but a "barefoot doctor" in the countryside, their main business is farming, most of them are self-taught, and they do not have the right to practice medicine in the hospital, but they are picking up the common minor illnesses and pains in the countryside, which is still very effective, and the fee is relatively cheap.

If there is such a man in a village, he is the first person to be found when someone is sick, and if the barefoot man in the village can't see it, he will go to the town and go to Huyang City to see a doctor.

Lao Su touched his beard, but he didn't look down on Sister Qiu because she was a child, and said: "Your mother is only infected with the cold, and she is almost fine, if you don't feel at ease, go to the town to ask a Lang Zhong to take a look, and grab two pairs of medicines to eat." ”

"Oh, thank you!" Sister Qiu hurriedly thanked her, she knew that Jia's was not seriously ill, but seeing Lang Zhong say this at this moment, she felt more at ease. "The cost of this consultation ......"

Lao Su shook his head, "Your aunt gave me the consultation fee before I came." ”

"Then Langzhong, you can stay and have a meal." Sister Qiu beckoned.

"No, no, no. I hurried home and went to the fields to plant flowers and grow flowers in the next morning. When Lao Suo finished speaking, he strode behind his back.

Sending away Lalangzhong, the donkey's father also finished the work in his palm, and said goodbye to Sister Qiu, Sister Qiu wanted to keep him for dinner, the donkey's father was reluctant at first, and Sister Qiu enthusiastically kept it for a long time, asking him to accompany Uncle Lin Qu, but it happened that the donkey was not willing to go, so the donkey's father stayed.

Jia couldn't lie down on the kang, so he wanted to help Sister Qiu cook the pot, and invited a few children out, claiming that they would cook this meal, and the adults would rest on the side.

Aunt Chunhua was not at ease, afraid of the big Indo-Pacific skin, and burned the pot of other people's new homes, and wanted to go forward to help, so she pulled Lin Cheng back, and said with a smile: "The child will be filial to us when he grows up, what are you doing to stop it?" ”

Sister Qiu took out ten cents from her family's "deposit", sent Dayin and the donkey as errands, and went to the grocery store at the entrance of the village to make 20 copper plates of soybean oil, estimated that it was about a pound, and took green onions, ginger and garlic from Jiang's house. She and Lin were busy cleaning up the river fish that they had caught up, cutting the big river fish into pieces and wrapping them in millet batter with the small river fish and small green shrimp.

After the oil came back, Lin Zhun burned the pot, Sister Qiu poured the oil into the pot, burned until it was five or six minutes hot, and then put the wrapped small river fish and small green shrimp into it and fried it slowly, and both sides were fried until the golden crisp was taken out. The aroma of fried river fish and green shrimp permeated the courtyard in the air, and the gluttonous big seal and the donkey drooled on the side.

There are a lot of small river fish and small green shrimp, and there are two bowls of fried in total, Sister Qiu asked Dayin and the donkey to take it to the hall house, and asked them to take it to eat with the adults sitting in the hall and chattering, which is an appetizer before the meal, and the next two river fish are the main event.

Sister Qiu scooped out the remaining oil in the pot, leaving only a little, and cut the two river fish into thick sections, put them in the pot and fried them thoroughly, put a few melons in scoop water, and boiled them over high heat. The soup is made of flour, the soy sauce is put to adjust the color and seasoning, and the ginger and garlic sprouts are added to remove the fishy smell.

After the pot was washed and cleaned, Sister Qiu picked up the millet flour pancakes on the kang along the pot, and the kang pancakes were much faster than the boiled river fish, and in less than a quarter of an hour, Sister Qiu lifted off the pancakes one by one, and sent them to the hall together with the boiled river fish.

Most of the fried small river fish and small green shrimp were all killed by Dayin and the donkey, and the two were still unsatisfied, and they had to touch the small river fish in the dark field, so that Sister Qiu fried them to eat.

"Fragrant, really fragrant!" The donkey father smelled the aroma of the river fish soup and said with a smile, "Sister Qiu is really smart, the river fish I don't know can also do this, and I often touched the river fish to go home before, either boiled in the water or fried and ate the river fish pieces, which is not as fragrant as Sister Qiu's!" ”

Sister Qiu smiled and said, "Uncle loves to eat, so I caught the river fish and brought it back, I'll make it, let's divide it!" ”

"That's fine!" The donkey father laughed.

Everyone shared a bowl of fragrant river fish soup, and broke the pancakes in the appearance of Sister Qiu, and soaked them in the river fish soup. Sister Qiu also served river fish soup and pancakes and brought them to Jia Shi in the back room.

Da Yin on the side finished eating the soup, sneaked into the bowl of the eldest brother, Lin Zhun turned his back to him without moving, and the angry Da Yin muttered that the big brother was stingy.

Lin Zhun looked at Sister Qiu with a smile, this little girl is so smart, she can always surprise him one after another.

There is a lot of game in the countryside, but there are not many people who can make it. Even in Sister Qiu's previous life, material communication was so developed, and there were still a lot of housewives in the countryside who cooked for a lifetime, and the food they cooked was still the same, and most of them didn't have any opportunity to see and taste it, and they didn't know how to burn these things that they didn't know naturally.

In Sister Qiu's memories, since she was a child for the New Year, everyone in the village bought river fish to kill chickens, and most of them only cut the river fish and chicken into pieces and fried them in a frying oil pan.

After eating, the donkey's father took the donkey home, only the Jiang family was left, and the Jia family came out of the house, and the two families sat down to talk.

"Airong, what are you planning to do later?" Aunt Chunhua asked, it is a good thing to split up, and then what we have to consider is the life of the two of them in the future, there is no land in the wilderness, there is no food, and the 100 catties of millet noodles distributed to them are not enough to eat at all.

Jia Shi thought about it, but before she opened her mouth, Sister Qiu took the lead and said, "My mother and I plan to make water tofu and sell it. "Yesterday, when she was picking up something, she found two small millstones in the Westinghouse that were well preserved, which happened to save money on the millstones.

"Make water tofu?" Lin was surprised, and then shook his head and said, "The water tofu is not easy to sell, we can't use the water, and the water tofu made is not good for eating." ”

Sister Qiu smiled, and she didn't want to explain more to them, so she just smiled and said, "The water in our deep well is good, maybe we can make good water tofu!" ”

Lin did see that Sister Qiu's expression didn't seem to be joking, so she couldn't help but pause, and then said with a smile: "Do you really plan to sell water tofu?" ”

"It's true, of course." Sister Qiu preached intently that her parents in her previous life had successfully made a fortune with tofu and became a wealthy man, and she had participated in the family business for many years. If she can't make water tofu here, she really can't live up to her previous life work experience of one or two decades.

Jia Shi was also taken aback, she had never heard Sister Qiu talk about making water tofu before, so she looked at Sister Qiu hesitantly and asked, "We have never made water tofu, and the water tofu here is not easy to sell." "There are also one or two companies selling water tofu in Jiujiang Town, and they don't have many ideas.

"How do you know if you don't try?" Sister Qiu smiled and said, "I've seen others make water tofu, and that's it!" ”

Lin Shushi accosted, "I think Sister Qiu cooks cauliflower with a lot of thought, and the things she makes are delicious, and the water tofu she makes is definitely better than others." Besides, making water tofu doesn't take much physical strength. ”

Sister Qiu's family has no male laborers, no tenant subway, no livestock, no farm tools, not to mention, all the work in the field requires a lot of physical strength, hard work for a year, paid rent, the remaining food is afraid that it is not enough to make a living, if you go to the town to make a small idea, how can it be enough for the mother and mother to chew grain.

Sister Qiu couldn't help but look at the past, and smiled at Lin Zhun, it's better to be a big brother, and she supports her everything.

"Then let's give it a try." Aunt Chunhua said with a smile, "Sister Qiu, this child is very skillful, and the river fish soup at noon is very beautiful. ”

In the afternoon, Sister Qiu followed Lin Zhun to the grocery store of Lao Chengjia to buy ten catties of soybeans. Uncle Lao Shun was full of confusion when he called Sister Qiu the beans, and he couldn't help but say more, and asked, "Sister Qiu, why are you buying so many beans?" ”

The fact that Mrs. Lao Xiucai gave birth to a serious illness and threw it out to the old woman of the Mei family and the second child of the Mei family, it is no exaggeration to say that it has already spread all over the village, and the big guys can only sympathize with the Jia family in addition to talking about the Mei family's unkindness behind their backs. Orphans and widows are living in difficulty, and soybeans are of little use except for making sweet sauce and extracting oil.

"Naturally, I ate it." Sister Qiu said with a smile, she didn't plan to talk too much to outsiders, there was no privacy in the village, and in less than an hour, the sister-in-law and mother of the daughter-in-law from outside the village all knew that she was going to sell water tofu.

Seeing that Sister Qiu didn't plan to say it, Uncle Lao Shun didn't want to ask again, and said okay, soybeans, Lin Zhun took the cloth bag and carried it on his shoulder.

"How's your mother? Is it better? Uncle Shun asked.

Sister Qiu nodded, and her voice was brisk, "It's much better, in the morning, my aunt asked Lang Zhong from their village to come and take a look, and said that she would rest for a few more days and take a few pairs of medicine." ”

Uncle Shun's surprised eyebrows were all provoked, isn't it, in the past two days, there are noses and eyes in the village, saying that Mrs. Lao Xiucai's sudden illness is not okay, wait for your breath, and invite Lang Zhong in the two towns in a row to look down on it, how can it be almost good after a day's work?

Could it be that the adults are afraid that this poor little lady without a father will be uncomfortable, and they want to coax her?

Thinking of this, Uncle Lao Shun glanced at Sister Qiu's eyes and couldn't help but feel a little pity, stretched out his palm and grabbed a few millet candy from the shelf and stuffed it into Sister Qiu's hand, "Take it, eat it on the road." ”

Sister Qiu pushed back in surprise, "Uncle......" Their family is not close to Uncle Shun's family, just a nodding friend, where can you ask for other people's things casually.

"Uncle gave it to you, why, you still can't look down on it?" Uncle Lao Shun said with a smile, and stuffed the sugar into Sister Qiu's hand again.

"Thank you, uncle!" Sister Qiu is also not polite, no matter how polite she is, she will take a vacation, where is the child in the village who is not gluttonous.

Before leaving, Uncle Lao Shun grabbed Lin Zhun and asked quietly: "Da Zhun, how is Mrs. Lao Xiucai?" ”

Lin Zhun saw his expression and knew that he wanted to be crooked, so he couldn't help but smile and said: "Uncle and mother are very kind, Lang Zhong said that it will be good to recuperate for a few days." ”

Looking at Lin Zhun pulling Sister Qiu's back, Uncle Lao Shun shook his head and said with a smile: "It's really sick, what should I do, it's uncomfortable to follow this heart, eh, good people have good rewards, God is all looking at it!" ”

After returning home, Sister Qiu begged Aunt Chunhua for something, asking her to "process" Lang Zhong's words a little, and release the news that Lang Zhong had misdiagnosed Jia's illness before.

Aunt Chunhua naturally agreed.

After the Jiang family left, Jia helped Sister Qiu move out of the grinding plate in the house, put it in the yard, scrubbed it with water a few times, and left it in the sunfield to dry.

"Sister Qiu, do you really want to make water tofu?" Jia asked hesitantly. She was originally a timid person, she had never been exposed to water tofu before, and her eyes were dark about this industry, which made her more suspicious and unconfident, but she saw that Sister Qiu was full of energy and confidence, and Jia also hoped to make money with water tofu.

The most important thing is that since Sister Qiu came home and came here for a long time, Sister Qiu has become smarter, understands things, and looks at things more clearly and thoroughly than her, and thinks of such a smart way to ask their mothers to break away from the Mei family, gradually, Jia's everything is habitual to listen to Sister Qiu's opinions, and Sister Qiu has become the one who has the idea among the two.

"That's natural." Sister Qiu sat under the eaves of the house and rested, pointed to the beans piled up in the house and said, "Look, I have bought all the beans back." ”

A city of beans is three cents, and Sister Qiu bought ten pounds of beans for thirty dollars, listening to Lin Zhun said, if you go to the town or those big businesses in Huyang City, hundreds of pounds of beans will be cheaper. Relying on her palm skills, a city of catties of beans can almost produce three catties of water tofu, and the cost of a city of catties of water tofu is a little more than a penny.

"Sister Qiu, it's not that there was no water tofu sold in this town before, no one bought it after it was fresh for a while, and I also tasted the water tofu, it was not very delicious, and it had a bitter taste." Jia sighed.

Sister Qiu smiled and picked up the beans she bought, picked out the damaged and bad-looking beans, and asked without raising her head: "Mother, what color is the water tofu you eat?" ”

Jia Shi sat next to Sister Qiu, helped Sister Qiu pick beans, and recalled for a long time before shaking his head and saying: "The color is yellow, it's not good-looking." ”

"Oh, then they must be taking the water tofu with salt and brine, the craftsmanship is not good, the salt and brine are not added well, and the water tofu is pressed again, and the taste is bitter and the color is not good-looking. Rest assured, we will definitely do better than them. Sister Qiu said.