"Our ducks have laid eggs!" Du Mei grinned and pulled out the old clothes from the basket, and conjured a basket of duck eggs like a trick.

"Wow! So much! Du Gui's eyes widened suddenly.

"It's a beautiful color!" Xu wiped the flour on the rag on his hand, and picked up a duck egg at random to look at it carefully.

The deep cyan color of the basket full of duck eggs and water is a bit like the color of the water of Sheshan Lake, and more like the clear sky before dawn, which is elegant and warm, and inexplicably makes people feel peaceful.

"Not only is it pretty, it's big!" Du Gui carefully picked one up with both hands, and shook it like a little adult. Her little slap wasn't the size of a duck's egg.

"How many are there?" Xu put the duck egg back, turned his head and asked Du Mei with bright eyes.

"I didn't have time to count, there are always thirty or forty." Du Mei shook his head and said. When I was loading duck eggs, I was just happy, and I still wanted to count them.

"I'll count." Du Gui trotted to the next room to find the basket.

"Meizi, I'll tell you something." Xu saw Du Gui running out, so he pulled Du Mei to sit down.

"Mother, what's going on at home? What about Du Ying? Du Mei asked nervously. She looked around and didn't see Du Ying. The patriarch promised her that he would help take care of the family.

"Don't worry, there's nothing going on at home, Sakurako went out to herd the cattle. These days, your aunt often comes to visit the door, and your mother-in-law will come to see it every once in a while. Only yesterday, your uncle and third uncle came to the door together, and begged at the gate of the courtyard for a long time, insisting that I let you help them exterminate the locusts. Xu Shi glanced at Du Mei's expression and whispered.

"You promised?" Du Mei asked with a slight frown. These people knew that her mother was as soft as a bodhisattva, and they wanted her to do something difficult.

"No, I don't want to, but ......" Xu is a person who misses the old love, where can he withstand the bitter begging of the eldest uncle and the younger uncle to lower their figures.

"Mother, I have my own opinions on this matter. Let's not talk about that for now, I'm hungry for the cakes you made. Du Mei was entangled in her heart, and she didn't know what to say for a while, so she diverted the topic.

"You wait, it's coming soon." When Xu heard this, he hurriedly washed his hands and began to knead the dough. Du Mei rolled up his sleeves and sat down in the stove to light the fire.

"One, two, three...... Twenty...... Thirty-six......" Du Gui squatted on the ground, the more he counted, the more excited he became, and his voice was sharp and thin.

"The cake is ready, Guizi, do you want to eat it?" Du Mei pinched a fragrant cake that had just come out of the pot and stretched it to the tip of Du Gui's nose to tease her.

"I don't eat it!" Du Gui was counting intently, shaking his head desperately, resisting the fragrance.

"Twenty-eight? Forty-eight? Ah, wrong count! Where did I count? Being interrupted by Du Mei, Du Gui lost his mind, raised his head and said distressedly.

"Haha...... Guizi, forget it, don't count, eat the cake. Du Mei smiled and pinched Du Gui's wrinkled little nose.

"I'll eat first, and count when I'm full. I don't believe it, I don't understand! Du Gui looked unconvinced, and took a hard bite on the cake in Du Mei's hand.

"Wash your hands quickly, there's something in the pot, don't rob your sister." Xu smiled as he watched the two sisters frolic.

"Mother, I'll take a bigger basket with me in a while, and there may be more duck eggs tomorrow." The ducks have opened their nests to lay eggs, and only thirty percent of the eggs have been picked up today, and I am afraid that they will increase one after another.

"Well, your Uncle Zhong just sent two big bamboo baskets a few days ago, which are made of wild bamboo on the mountain, but they are strong." Xu's heart was overjoyed, their family had worked so hard

It's been a long time, and now I'm finally seeing the harvest.

Xu wrapped a few pieces of the cooled cakes, put them in a basket, and covered them with a blue coarse cloth. After another remonstrance, he let Du Mei leave the house.

Du Mei was carrying a basket on one side, and as soon as she walked out of the house, she met Du Huaibing, who was carrying a shovel and planning to go to the field.

"Meizi, are you back?" Du Huaibing's eyes swept over her face.

"We're in Qidaogou Village right now, I'll come back temporarily, and the duck won't come back in a few days." Dumay curtsied.

"I'll tell you something." Du Huaibing stood at the roadside station and said with a shovel.

"Patriarch, you say." Du Mei was grateful to Du Huaibing in her heart, she had an accident in Laowangzhuang, and the patriarch brought the villagers to find her as soon as possible, and this kindness was to be repaid.

"Ahem, cough, wait for your duck to come back, and help destroy the fields in our village." Du Huaibing seemed to have something unspeakable, and coughed for a while before he spoke.

"This is natural, I can go to the other village to help, how can I not help my own people." Du Mei didn't think about it that much, and just followed his words.

"Mmmmmmmm Du Huaibing coughed again.

"Are you sick?" Du Mei looked at Du Huaibing's face, which was full of red light, and it didn't look like he was sick.

"No, no, I've been smoking too much lately." Du Huaibing hurriedly covered up.

"Patriarch, do you have anything else to say?" Du Mei was suspicious.

It's not your grandmother and uncle, they are afraid that you will hold a grudge and not help them, so let me help make peace. If you don't help them this time, the field will really be lost! Du Huaibing saw that Du Mei was already suspicious, so he had to give it all up, otherwise the ducks would not enter the fields of the three of them, and everyone would not be able to get off the stage.

"My mother has already told me about this." Du Mei lowered his head and looked at his toes and said.

"They are also in a hurry, the threshold of my house was almost broken by them, and they have made a promise that they will not embarrass your mother and daughter in the future. You can help them. Du Huaibing was beating a drum in his heart, Du Mei was a girl with a very strong temper, and she didn't know if she could move.

"When we were in trouble, we didn't see them help us." Du Mei sniffled and looked up at the field in the distance.

"Yes, they have done some things excessively, and if they were a side matter, I would never intervene to help them today. But this locust plague is a major event, not only the county lord stares at it all day long, but the saint also sent King Yan to personally supervise it.

Our Dujiagou is the largest grain-producing village in ten miles and eight townships, and you are the leader of the duck flock to exterminate locusts. Du Huaibing knew that Du Mei was wronged, but from the overall situation, he had to persuade him with good words.

"Okay then." After a long silence, Du Mei finally nodded in agreement.

Du Mei doesn't care what praise he gets, but Du Huaibing is the patriarch of Dujiagou, or the Lizheng of ten miles and eight townships, if there is such a shameful thing as a loss of harvest in his clan, it will have an impact on his prestige after all. Du Mei can't do something that doesn't repay the favor, but causes trouble for him.

"I knew you were a good boy who was reasonable!" Du Huaibing's heart, which was still holding just now, couldn't help but rejoice when he heard her words.

"Then I'll go first, Peaches is still waiting." Du Mei bent his knees and took his leave.

"Go, go, pay more attention to your body outside." Du Huaibing waved his hand in satisfaction.

Village Chief Wu's wife at night

I made a large bowl of duck egg soup with chrysanthemum brain and a plate of fried duck eggs with shallots. These two dishes are the most popular, refreshing and greasy, Du Mei divided the cakes made by her mother for everyone to taste, wrapped in shallots and duck eggs, and served in soup, everyone ate full and comfortable.

"Duck eggs, there is a better way to eat them in my hometown of Youzhou." When the fat servant was full, he leaned back in his chair contentedly, stroked his stomach and said.

"How to eat?" Du Mei asked curiously.

"You like fresh food here, we all eat pickled food there, and it is fishy, but Miss Du's duck eggs don't smell fishy at all, it's really strange." The fat servant snorted his mouth, as if he was reminiscing.

"Pickled? Is it tasty? "Dume has a natural attachment to what he eats.

"Delicious? Fresh, fine, tender, sandy, oily, tsk, if you have eaten it, you will never forget that taste for the rest of your life! The fat servant sucked his saliva and looked fascinated.

"Look at you like that, catch up with Ming'er, let's go to your house and try it!" The thin servant was moved by what he said and quipped.

"Hey, don't talk about you, I've thought about this bite for many years, and I haven't eaten it since my wife got sick." The fat servant hung his head in frustration.

"It's not a difficult thing, you just let your mother teach you to do it." The thin servant pushed him.

"It's not as easy as you say! I heard my mother say that the important thing to make pickled egg tops is to have loess, and it is to have that kind of loess that is very sticky. The fat servant glanced at the thin servant.

"Okay, don't talk about these things that you don't have, hurry up and do what!" Han Liu stood up, straightened out his soap clothes, and urged.

Du Mei listened to the words of the fat servant word for word, but she wondered in her heart, how to pickle duck eggs in loess? When she goes back, she will definitely go to the scrap manuscript to borrow this Youzhou Prefecture Chronicle to take a look.

The Dumei sisters stayed in Qidaogou for two more days, and they were able to pick up a basket of duck eggs every day, and more and more of them were getting stronger every day. Du Mei goes back and forth every day, and his heart is happy.

And it came to pass, when the day was over, that the field was finished. The Du Mei sisters returned to their hearts like arrows and politely refused to be kept by Village Chief Wu. packed up their things, drove the ducks, and returned to Dujiagou at dawn, Han Liu and the three of them were not at ease, and escorted them home.

When the villagers saw the Dumei sisters returning, they greeted them very warmly, and when they saw that their ducks were big and strong, they all showed envious expressions.

Xu deliberately cooked more dishes, and wanted to leave Han Liusan and the three people to eat, but they hurried back to report to Shen Zhanghua, so they directly took the horse and went back to Qinghe County together.

This night's two-room courtyard was more lively than the New Year, the big girl who got the news, ran to see Du Mei after dinner, and the women in the village sat in the courtyard of the moonlight with their own thoughts, accompanied by chatter.

At night, the crowd dispersed, and the three small ones went to take a bath, leaving only Xu and Du Mei in the courtyard.

"Meizi, Ming'er is going to exterminate the locusts in the village, that matter ......" Xu's old story was brought up again, she was only afraid that Du Mei would not will.

"Mother, the patriarch also looked for me that day, and I couldn't make it difficult for him, so I agreed." Du Mei lowered her head, and in the moonlight, she couldn't really see her face.

"I know you're reluctant, but...... Your father ......" Xu Shi wanted to speak and stopped, his voice was abnormal.

"Mother, I'm not reluctant. This time, I can teach them a long lesson, and see if they dare to bully us in the future! Du Mei snuggled up and hugged Xu's, the Midyear Festival was approaching, and her mother must have missed her father in her heart. 2k reading web