Chapter 22: Roast Chicken
Life is still going on as usual, the Dong family will send some rice and noodles every once in a while, all of which are said to be sent by Mrs. Dong, Qingzhi sometimes wonders if Dong Zhan takes care of the 'fellow countrymen', but he doesn't think it's very important.
The Song family's vegetable field was planted again, although there is still only one main meal a day, but in the morning and noon when you are hungry, you can also cook vegetable soup to eat, and occasionally Qingzhi will put a little rice to make vegetable porridge.
When Qingzhi goes to the river every day to fetch water, wash laundry in the courtyard, water vegetables, and do housework, when she looks up, she can see the overlapping mountains: the pine forest where she and Ritsukogawa meet every day is among them.
Lying down in the soft quilt and falling asleep every night, Aoeda felt that this was also very good, and she was very grateful that she had received the script of 'Get Rich'.
I don't know if it's because of the use of spiritual water, and the aloe vera in the public fields of Song Village quickly grew to a size that can be harvested.
This time, the village chief came forward and personally took Aunt Huang to the Ronghua Rouge Shop to bargain.
After a fierce battle of equal strength, the village chief and Mrs. Huang got a bottle of 500 wen at a selling price.
Song Qingzhi, who always thought that the selling price in the store was really 500 Wen, was so impressed after hearing the news.
Chen personally went to the village to guide disinfection and bottling, and when she returned, she brought back a large bag of noodles and a chicken that had been cleaned, saying that the village chief asked her to accept it.
Qingdou was very happy to see that there was food, and took advantage of Chen's to put the food, and secretly asked Qingzhi: "Sister, the rabbit you made last time was delicious, can the chicken also do that?" ”
Qingzhi hugged him to his lap and sat down, seeing his bulging cheeks like a small bun, he couldn't help but kiss him twice, and then said, "Of course you can, my sister will make it for you tomorrow!" ”
Because Qingzhi is fifteen years old, Chen may soon marry to run the family, and he thinks that there are no women in the law family, and Qingzhi needs to be in charge of marrying in the past, so he doesn't care about housework now, and wants to give Qingzhi a chance to exercise.
Qingzhi's father died only last year, and the law family did not come to propose marriage, and the Chen family was not in a hurry: the daughters of the peasant family were rarely willing to marry in the mountains, and she felt that the Song family took the initiative in this family matter.
The next morning, Chen still went out early in the morning as usual, Qingzhi got up to cook vegetable porridge, asked Qingdou to get up for breakfast, and then went to the backyard firewood shed to select two or three dry firewood, ignited the fire and put it in the earthen oven.
She brought a large bowl and poured some oil into it first, afraid that Chen would find out that she didn't dare to pour more, so she sprinkled the minced thyme she had baked last time into the oil, added a handful of salt, mixed well, and then carefully smeared a layer on the surface of the chicken, and put it aside to wait for it to taste.
The two sisters and brothers went to water the vegetables in the vegetable field first, and the green beans also caught pests with their own hands; Qingzhi cleaned the house neatly, put away the clothes that Chen wanted to dry last night, and sat in the courtyard to sew for a long time; Qingdou searched the yard for the eggs laid by two chickens, and sure enough, he found them, and carefully received them in a jar with straw.
After these things were done, Qingzhi went to the front of the oven again, squatted down to hook out the charcoal firewood, and waited for the temperature to drop a little, before pushing the whole chicken on a large clay plate, and plugging the oven hole with a large stone.
She sat down again and sewed up, she was not very skilled in needlework, but fortunately the original body was the same, so it was not very suspicious.
Qingdou smelled the aroma of roast chicken and clamored to eat it, but Qingzhi smiled: "It's not baked yet!" A little while. ”
The child was greedy, and it was pitiful to smell the fragrance at home and not be able to eat it, so Qingzhi took the green beans out to fetch water, thinking that the child forgot to play.
Who knew that Qingdou remembered the delicious meat in this house, and he didn't want to go into the water to play, so Qingzhi had to fetch a bucket of water and was about to carry it home, but he saw Ritsukogawa standing on the side of the road with a smile, and the warm afternoon sun added a fine golden color to his hair.
She was so amazed that she almost splashed water.
Why do you see him almost every day, and you will still be shocked by how handsome you see him at first glance?
Song Qingzhi suddenly felt a little annoyed, frowned and asked, "Why are you here?" ”
Ritsu Zichuan didn't understand the girl's thoughts, scratched his head and said, "You have been thinly dressed for a while, I didn't see you this morning, I thought you had a cold......"
So what's the matter with waiting by the river? Why did she come to the river when she caught a cold?
Ritsu Zichuan really looks smart, but he is actually very stupid, he is a high-looking but very two-year-old hunting dog.
Seeing that she was fine, he hurriedly said, "Uncle Shen is still waiting for me to go to class, I'll leave first." ”
Song Qingzhi suddenly remembered the roast chicken, and hurriedly stopped him and said, "You wait!" ”
instructed Qingdou to say: "You and Brother Zichuan are waiting here, and my sister will be back in a while." ”
She was anxious that Lu Zichuan still needed to hurry back to class, rushed home, hooked out the big pottery plate, regardless of the heat, roughly divided it into two halves with a kitchen knife, wrapped half a chicken in the dried lotus leaves dried at home, and hurried back to the river.
"Here you go, I'll do it!"
She stuffed the hot lotus leaf bag to Ritsukogawa, still gasping.
She has always been grateful for the rice, noodles, and meat he sent before, and wants to repay it, after all, friends can't always take advantage of each other, although this roast chicken is nothing, it is also her heart, and it is also the best thing that the Song family can handle.
Thinking of this, she suddenly wanted to send some to Dong Zhan too?
No! The fat son of the landlord's family is fat enough!
Ritsukogawa thanked him and walked away with the lotus leaf bag, all the way involuntarily thinking of Qingzhi's little face that had become ruddy because of running, and her eyes, watery and darker, and the whites of her eyes were so clean with a faint blue.
Qingzhi carried the water and returned home with Qingdou, the half of the chicken had already cooled a little, and it was just right to tear it and eat it.
Qingeda wondered if the half chicken with lotus leaf buns would burn Ritsu Zichuan? After all, he seems to be a bit silly.
She gave the chicken leg to the green beans, put the rest away, and waited for Chen to come home and eat together.
After eating the chicken legs, Qingdou went out to play with the children, Song Qingzhi had just cleaned up the things used in the oven and the backyard, and suddenly a voice came from the front: "Is there anyone at home?" Green Branches! Where? ”
Came in directly, and the ancient people didn't knock on the door?
Qingzhi hurried to the front yard and beckoned, "It turned out that Aunt Zhang was here." ”
She didn't let the guests sit down, because this lady was the first person to steal aloe vera, and she was the one who took the lead, and the other three or four families followed her example.
Aunt Zhang had a smirk on her face and said, "Isn't it me!" He sniffed and said, "Hey, Qingzhi, your family is doing so well now, it's not a festival, and you still eat meat!" ”
Qingzhi listened to the strong sour taste in her words, didn't want to pay attention to her, and said coldly: "Aunt Zhang came to the door in person, is there something wrong?" ”
Aunt Zhang looked around, praised the wall of the courtyard for being white, and then walked to the newly made chair made by Qingzhi and sat down, and said, "I specially reported good news to you!" Today, everyone's share of the silver has come down, tsk, the family has divided two taels, and your family has divided four taels! ”
Aunt Zhang was so jealous that her eyes were green, and she said: "It's a pity that the village chief who cut off his head didn't say that I stole aloe vera and didn't give my family any money!" ”
Qingzhi immediately applauded the village chief in his heart, the village chief is good!