"Now you should go to someone's house!" Jia Shi laughed angrily.

Sister Qiu's eyes lit up, "Can you get married now?" Great! ”

Jia's ear scraped and patted on Sister Qiu's head, and she was speechless, "It's really for nothing that you are so old, and you are full of heart to run to other people's homes!" ”

Yan Yuanwai was also amused, rubbed the place on the door panel of Sister Qiu's head for Jia's family, and said with a smile: "How can that be?" It's easy for me to have a lady, and it's easy for Xiaoxu to have a sister, where can I get married so quickly? Stay at home for a few more years. ”

"And me!" Xiao Xu shouted on the side, "In the future, when I grow up, I can raise my sister!" ”

Sister Qiu smiled and praised, "Good boy! By the way, she kissed Xiao Xu's head door fiercely, and she really didn't owe her to Xiao Xu so well.

The four of them were all very happy to eat a meal, Xiao Xu looked at Jia Shi for a while, and looked at Sister Qiu for a while, and the mouth of the happy rice porridge was all moaning, and his feet were hanging on the wooden chair, swaying back and forth, this was not a lonely breakfast for him and his father, nor was it a breakfast for him to eat with others in the store like a guest, it was a breakfast he ate with his mother and sister, and the bickering and jokes on the table were the warmth and taste of home that he couldn't experience when he was a young boy.

After eating, Sister Qiu took Xiao Xu to the shop, and after feeding the chickens, she put the big ash on the board car, and the hot weather is early this year, and the small oats are ripe a few days earlier than in previous years.

The originally lively market was deserted for a moment, and the Jia family closed the shop, only planning to go back to Jiang's house in Xiaohe Town in the afternoon to make water tofu, and distribute the water tofu and soybean sprouts to the people of the Qiu Ji team to pick and sell.

As soon as Sister Qiu and Xiao Xu came out of Jiujiang Town, they saw a busy scene of farming everywhere, the golden fields were shining in the sun, the wind blew up the rolling fields, and the fields were rural people with reed hats who bent down to cut small oats, and people with arms, legs and feet had already cut most of the small oats.

After Sister Qiu and Xiaoxu arrived in Xiaohe Town, the village was quietly touched, and most of the people were busy in their own territory at this time. There were big cows and donkeys tied to the door on both sides of the fodder, looking at the people and donkeys who were coming, they all shouted vigilantly, and Xiao Xu ran over with a smile and touched all the donkeys on both sides. Sister Qiu could almost imagine how lively and prosperous the workshop should be in ten days.

After watching the workshop, the two of them drove the big ash to the land boundary, and walked to the fields of the Jiang family, and met a lot of villagers who knew each other, all of whom greeted Sister Qiu, and finally looked at Xiao Xu, and said with a slightly respectful smile: "This is the little young master of Yan Yuan's foreign family?" ”

"What young master is very mastery! Just call him Xiaoxu. Sister Qiu said with a smile that Zhao Xiaoxu asked him to greet the villagers.

Xiao Xu has already passed the age of being afraid of life, laughing

The chant was accompanied by Sister Qiu's "uncle, uncle, aunt" all the way to shout, the mouth is very sweet, the person is beautiful and cute, and it is rare to provoke many people.

Lin Zhun had just finished cutting a ridge of small oats, stood up straight and wiped his sweat to rest his breath, when he saw Sister Qiu and Xiaoxu coming from afar, and said with a smile to Aunt Chunhua: "Mother, Sister Qiu is here." ”

Aunt Chunhua hurriedly stood up straight and glanced at Lin Zhun's direction, came out of the field, smiled and couldn't close her mouth to meet her, first hugged Xiaoxu from the board car, and then helped Sister Qiu get off the donkey car.

"Is it hot on the road?" Aunt Chunhua asked with a smile.

Xiao Xu shook his head, "It's not hot, with a reed hat!" Aunt Lin, my sister and I brought you sweet bean juice, you can eat it quickly. ”

"Good!" Aunt Chunhua responded with a smile, took a bowl from the realm, poured a bowl of bean juice first, and beckoned Lin Zhun who was talking to Sister Qiu, "Da Zhun, hurry up and eat a bowl." Then he shouted to the backs of a few people in the field who were bent down to cut the little oats: "Father, his father, Da Yin, hurry over and eat some cold rest!" ”

said that it was cold, but in fact, after such a long time, it was no longer cold, otherwise a few people had just sweated so much, and they couldn't eat cold bean juice directly, and they had to have diarrhea.

Dayin is now 11 years old, and since this year, he will also go to the ground to cut small oats like his eldest brother Lin Zhun. Sister Qiu looked at the big seal running from a distance, her face was sweating, her body was taller than all of her, and her body was much stronger, after the big seal went to study in the town, she understood more things than before Lao Sheng, and at this time last year, he only knew that he ran out to play every day, and he didn't care about the things at home.

"Got a lot of things!" Lin did boast to the villagers about his son, "You don't need to rush to know how to help the family, just like his brother, he will not be idle when he gets home." ”

Xiao Xu saw that Da Yin was coming, and pulled Da Yin's palm and asked him to take him to cut the little oats, but Da Yin couldn't wrap Xiao Yin, so he took him to the ground.

Aunt Chunhua was not at ease, followed behind, and said, "Don't cut anywhere, you can just cut two handfuls if you want him." ”

"Eh, I know." The Great Seal responded from afar and went into the ground with a small preface.

Lin Zhenshi looked at it with a smile, and said to Aunt Chunhua: "Mother, don't worry, Dayin is all big children, and he knows it in his heart." ”

Aunt Chunhua smiled, "Isn't this uneasy!" "Yan Chengxu is the only son of Yan Yuanwai, if he is cut and wiped anywhere, it will be bad. asked Sister Qiu again, "Where is your mother?" How's it going? ”

Sister Qiu nodded and said, "It's good, when we left, my mother said that she would come to my aunt's house in the afternoon to make water tofu." "Your mother is an idle one!" Aunt Chunhua smiled and said, "I'll be her for two or three days!" A daughter-in-law in Qian'er Village asked me, saying that your mother married Yan Yuanwai, and she still did not do business? I said do, why don't you do it, none of us who don't do it for a day are all uncomfortable. ”

And before the two got married, Yan Yuanwai decided

Okay, all the money he earned was handed over to the Jia family, as a family member and Xiao Xu's bondage, as for the money earned by Jia and Sister Qiu, it was their mother's and daughter's, how to spend it was their business, and he and Xiao Xu would not want it. As the head of the family, he has the responsibility to take on the life of the family.

Sister Qiu didn't think about how clearly she had to divide it with Yan Yuanwai, in the end, the big guy was a family, and it was inconvenient to divide the money too clearly. Now Yan Yuanwai's income is not bad, and there are no big flowers in the family, so she doesn't have to use their mother's money for the time being, her calculation is to wait for Xiaoxu to grow up a little, and she and Jia will do their best to support Xiaoxu when she is studying for the imperial examination.

In less than a moment, the big seal came out of the oatmeal field with Xiao Xu, the Xiao Xu plate was dripping with sweat, full of joy, and Sister Chaoqiu gestured, "I cut such a big bundle of small oats, and there it is!" ”

"Really capable!" Aunt Chunhua smiled and praised, then followed Lin Zhun, and the big seal went down to the ground again, and asked Sister Qiu and Xiaoxu to sit in the shade of the tree on the ground boundary and wait, saying that it would be very hot after cutting for a while, so she would go home to cook, and come out to cut the small oats in the afternoon when it was cool.

Sister Qiu sat on the boundary with Xiao Xu, looked at a few green and green oat heads in the ditch next to her, and hurriedly went over to pick up the green and green oat heads.

"It's not ripe yet!" Xiao Xu shouted, "Sister, why did you pick them?" ”

Sister Qiu put an oat head in her hand and rubbed it back and forth, and said: "It's not ripe, and it can only grow like this." "These oat seedlings are generally sprinkled on the roadside land during sowing or harvesting, and do not develop like the small oats in the ground, and the small oats have all matured at this time, and they turn green, and when the oat harvest season has passed, they will not continue to ripen, grow into green and yellow, but will wither in the summer rains.

The oil green oat head is not fully ripe, the oat tips are all soft, rubbing back and forth in the hands without pricking the hands at all, rubbing a few times, the fresh oat kernels in the oat heads and the oat husks wrapped around them are separated, blow gently, the oat husks and other things on the top will be blown away, and what is left in the hands is dozens of pale yellow tender oats.

"Open your mouth!" Sister Qiu said with a smile.

Xiao Xu opened her mouth obediently, Sister Qiu stuffed the small oats in her hand into Xiao Xu's mouth, Xiao Xu chewed in Sister Qiu's smiling gaze, and said with a smile: "There is some sweetness, the original little oats can be eaten directly!" ”

"This is oat kernels, and only unripe green oats can be eaten directly." Sister Qiu smiled and said, "Have you ever eaten oatmeal kernel rice porridge?" It is a porridge made from green oat kernels. ”

When it came to oatmeal kernel rice porridge, Xiao Xu immediately said: "I have eaten it, I used it to boil it, and I still think it is boiled with small oats." ”

"Stupid melon!" Sister Qiu stretched out her palm and clicked on Xiao Xu's head, "The little oats are all ripe and fruitful, hard, and they can only be ground with a grinding plate, how can you cook rice porridge and eat it!" As she spoke, Sister Qiu also stuffed the peeled tender oatmeal kernels into her mouth, chewed it, and the tender green sweetness passed through her tongue to the tip of her heart.

hours she followed the village

Children go to pick up small oats together, the big guys find a small green oats after all rush to grab, to grab is a burst of victory joy, although the green oat kernels are not delicious, but it is one of the snacks of rural children, and children can only look for this kind of green oats when the small oats are ripe, but they can not pull out the oats in the field when the small oats are out of the ear, to the staff found out to be beaten, in the past this kind of food consumption behavior can not be accepted by the hard-working rural people.

There are not many people who use oat kernels to make rice porridge, in the end, the oat kernels do not grow fruit, although they taste good, the villagers in the thrifty province seem to be a little expensive.

(End of chapter)