060 stone mill grinding

"Can you use me for help?" The man stood in the doorway of the kitchen, his hands on his chest, looking down at the two of them. Tang Anqing avoided his gaze slightly, lowered his head and took the cloth bag in Puyu's hand and put it on the partition under the cupboard, and put the two bowls on the horizontal table above the cupboard, "No need, just me and Yu'er." Has the fence in Avena's backyard been completed? ”

Before Tang Baiyu could answer, Puyu hurriedly said: "Not yet, Daddy said Zhuzhu, it's not enough, I'm going to go tomorrow, go to Shanshan to find it." Isn't it, Daddy? ”

Tang Baiyu nodded, against the light so that people couldn't see the expression on his face clearly, "Go ahead." ”

The two of them were carrying a cloth bag, and Puyu had to carry one, so Tang Anqing gave him the light bag with red beans. The two of them talked and laughed and went to Sister Xiuyun's house, the man kept standing at the kitchen door with his chest crossed, and waited for the two of them to enter the door of Sister Xiuyun's house before retracting their gaze, thinking about whether to make a stone mill at home, which would be more convenient. Wait for tomorrow to ask Liu Qing and see if he can.

Here, Tang Anqing only knocked on the door a few times, and the door was opened by Liu Rui who ran over, "Aunt Qing, Xiaoyu, why are you here?" Xiaoyu, come over and I'll show you something good, I caught it from Xishan this afternoon. Mother, Aunt Qing is here. ”

The big black dog tethered to the jujube tree at the door barked when Tang Anqing knocked on the door, and now he was lying in the kennel with his ears pulled and shrunk inside. Sister Xiuyun walked over from the hall, and the smile on her face couldn't be hidden, "Qingqing, come in, don't I still talk about you, what are the cattle and sheep in your house calling just now?" ”

Puyu was pulled away by Rarity, and the bowl in her hand was also handed to Tang Anqing, who came in and closed the door by the way, "Sister Xiuyun, what's the good thing about this?" You can see that you are smiling from ear to ear. ”

"What's so good? Didn't I just weigh my family's rice just now, and this is one percent more than last year, so it seems that this year can have a good year. Although she said this, the smile and pride on Sister Xiuyun's face couldn't be hidden, and Tang Anqing didn't poke her, "It's not a good thing, you can be content." ”

Sister Xiuyun raised her eyebrows, looking like she was right, "Come here, my stone mill is in the West House, it's been useless for a long time, you wait for me, I'll go get the pestle and have to bring a basin of water." ”

Tang Anqing stood outside the door of the West House, looking at the stone mill placed inside, and there was some dust on the grinding plate, which was really useless for a long time. There was also dust on the grinding handle, and cobwebs hung in the crevices. There was also a rope on the plank next to it, which seemed to be used to tie the donkey. Sister Xiuyun came over with a basin full of water, and chattered while washing the stone mill with water, "The last time my family used the stone mill was when I was in my twenties, and I usually use it, you see this dirty." But my mill is made of pear wood, so it's sturdy. As he spoke, he cleaned the stone mill inside and out, "At that time this morning, Liu Laosan sent the donkey, and I went to bring it over." ”

When the rope was put on, Sister Xiuyun took the cloth bag in Tang Anqing's hand and frowned, "I'll go to that rice bag again, I'll fill it with glutinous rice flour later." ”

Tang Anqing smiled a little embarrassedly, she hadn't seen a stone mill before, so she didn't think about it so much, "Sister Xiuyun, I'm really embarrassed, then I'll trouble you." ”

"What do you say about those polite words, where did I remember the rice bag last time?" Sister Xiuyun went to the kitchen as she spoke, and her voice slowly became quieter as she moved.

After a while, Sister Xiuyun came out of the kitchen room, with an extra rice bag and a bowl in her hand, put the rice bag on the grinding mouth and tied the rice bag with a rope fixed on the grinding mouth, "Later, the glutinous rice flour that will be ground will flow out of the grinding piece and come into this rice bag." ”

Scooping out a bowl of glutinous rice from the cloth bag, Tang Anqing walked over, "Sister Xiuyun, I'll feed the glutinous rice to the grinding mouth." ”

Sister Xiuyun tied the donkey rope to the mill handle and waved her hand, "You are inconvenient now, just stand on the side." I can do it alone, I used to be alone, don't look at this stone mill looks heavy, it's much lighter with a donkey pulling. You haven't used this stone mill before, have you? ”

Tang Anqing nodded, in the past, she didn't buy ready-made glutinous rice noodles directly from the mall, but Song Ni used to push the grinding handle that should have been pushed by two people. "I'm fine, Sister Xiuyun, just let me come."

"Okay, wait for this mill to turn once and you will feed the glutinous rice once, if you are tired, tell me." Handing the bowl in her hand to Tang Anqing, Sister Xiuyun said with a little worry, the double body of the person really paid attention, especially in the previous few months. But for example, in their mountain village, not all of them are still working in the fields for five or six months.

The two of them talked and laughed, chatted casually about some homely things, accompanied by the squeaking sound of the grinding plate, the white glutinous rice flour flowed out of the grinding piece and flowed into the rice bag hanging on the grinding mouth. With the traction of the donkey, he was not tired, Tang Anqing picked up the pestle and swept the glutinous rice on the grinding plate, so that the glutinous rice that was jumping outside was swept into the grinding mouth.

Puyu didn't know when she ran out of the hall, and looked at the spinning mill with curiosity, and followed his mother in circles along with the millstone, "Mother, Brother Rarity, there is a cricket, and the fight is terrible. ”

"That bear child is playing crickets again, and at this time last year, the village was looking for crickets, and there were old houses in the village in the west and south mountains by the river. The bears and the children were addicted to fighting crickets, so I threw all the crickets he caught at an old hen and ate them, and Rarity was angry with me, ignoring me for days. When Sister Xiuyun heard this, she came to talk, and Rarity, who was following behind, stuck out her tongue at Sister Xiuyun with the crickets in her hand, "Mother, if you feed me chickens again this time, I will catch another twenty crickets and come back, Xiaoyu will show you my victorious general and the big black wolf fighting, they are my most powerful crickets." ”

"Oh" Puyu was called over, and the two of them squatted in the yard, watching the two black-brown crickets in the jar fight.

"Qingqing, look at it, don't let my Rarity take Xiaoyu to ruin, at that time, in order to catch crickets, she often came back covered in mud, just like a mud monkey." Sister Xiuyun has a bit of hatred for iron and steel, and sighs angrily at Rarity, who is kneeling on the ground and cheering him on the crickets loudly.

Tang Anqing also watched with interest as the two of them teased the crickets, "If children love to play, let them play, the more you want to [Jushuku] The more you don't let them do anything, the more he wants to do, and it's also interesting for me to look at this cricket." ”

"Okay, General Chang Sheng, hurry up, bite off the wings of the big black wolf, ah that's how to win again, it's really worthy of General Chang Sheng, no one's cricket can win over me." Rarity happily puts the tawny cricket in her hand and touches its wings, looking smug.

The child put the pitch-black cricket in the jar on the palm of his hand, looked at it with big eyes, and poked its wings, the cricket trembled, apparently coming to life, and the other wing was pulled off in half, "Brother Rarity, what about it?" ”

"Hey, the big black wolf is useless, throw it away. If Xiaoyu wants, I will find you another good one, and I guarantee that it is not worse than my victorious general" looked at the cricket found by the river yesterday with disgust, and was originally happy to find an all-black cricket, but I didn't expect that the cricket found on the West Mountain today is even more powerful, and it seems that I will go to the West Mountain next time to catch the cricket.

"Oh, then give it to Yu'er, Yu'er will take it home and show it to Daddy." The child stood up cautiously and looked at Tang Anqing, "Mother, Yu'er is looking for it, Daddy." ”

"Go, my mother will go home in a while." Tang Anqing poured the last bit of glutinous rice into the grinding mouth, "You go slower, you know?" ”

The child walked slowly towards the gate, "Yu'er knows. ”

Rarity quickly stood up and put the General Chang Sheng in the jar, I don't know why Xiao Yu liked the useless cricket, the wing had been torn off in half by General Chang Sheng, what was good. However, watching him wander outside, I followed. "Mother, Xiaoyu and I are going to his house to see if there are any crickets in the backyard of Aunt Qing's house?"

"This kid says that the wind is the rain." Sister Xiuyun looked at the grinding plate, and asked the donkey to stop, "Qingqing, tie up the rice bag, I'll see how the grinding goes?" He bowed a handful of white glutinous rice flour from the grinding mouth and twisted it, "It's very fine, and it should be about the same to make bean cakes." ”

"That'll do." Tang Anqing took out the rice bag, Sister Xiuyun found a strip of cloth to tie it up, and put the cloth bag that originally contained glutinous rice on the grinding mouth, which was just used to catch red bean flour.

There are not as many red beans as glutinous rice, and after a while, the red bean flour was milled, Tang Anqing rubbed his waist, "Sister Xiuyun, do you want to keep some?" I can't use it that much at once anyway. ”

"No need, making bean cakes costs so much sugar, my sugar jar has long been empty. I don't want it to any avail. "The main thing is that sugar is more expensive, and his family only buys a few taels when the Chinese New Year is approaching.

Tang Anqing smiled and tied the bag of red bean flour to his mouth, "Okay then, when I make the bean cake, I'll let Rarity bring it to you." Then I'll go home first, Sister Xiuyun. ”

"That's okay, Qingqing, you go slowly, I have to scrub this grinding disc." Sister Xiuyun led the donkey into the donkey pen and fetched water to scrub the stone mill, if she didn't brush it again, the original glutinous rice flour and red bean flour would remain, and it would be more difficult to clean up the next time she used it.

When Tang Anqing carried two bags to the door, the man was waiting there, and without saying a word, he took the bag in Tang Anqing's hand and strode east.

Tang Anqing hesitated for a moment, followed behind the man, looked at his tall figure, and his pink lips curled.