Chapter 106 Rice Planting Season

Early in the morning, the chrysanthemum wakes up in the crisp birdsong in the back mountain, and listens to the bird happily calling "pea starling (pot)" or can be understood as "planting seedlings and sending trees", the villagers call this bird to destroy the seedlings, and the sound is loud and pleasant.

She was silent for a while, looked at the roof of the thatched house for a while, and listened to the sound of Yang's "cooing" calling for chickens to eat, before she tried hard to get up.

In the morning light, Zheng Changhe had already gone to the ground; Aoki also led the calf to drive the ducks, and by the way, he took a book to the river to graze; Yang fed the chickens and was already rubbing his clothes; Chrysanthemum got busy, first boiled water to wash the stove, boiled the corn paste, and then began to wash her face and rinse her mouth.

For the last two months, she felt as if she had put on a mask on her face, and the leprosy part had hardened; She is no longer allergic to those spicy and salty things, such as the red stewed loach. Touching the hard shell, she was full of doubts. However, as long as she is not allergic, she prefers those things that have taste, and she can no longer avoid them.

After tidying herself up, Chrysanthemum picked up a big broom and swept the yard and drove the chickens out. These chickens and ducks are very annoying, and they poop in the yard, which always causes her to clean up with grass ash. But since you want to eat other people's meat, you can't dislike them.

As soon as a few spring rains fell, those vegetables also grew wildly, competing with those plants and trees to fight for green. However, the vegetables grow and the grass grows, so you always have to spare time to pull the weeds. At this time, I will never admire the tenacious life of the grass, I think it is particularly annoying, and it will grow another layer in two days after tearing it up; Even if the grass pulled out is not thrown far away to let the sun die, as long as it is stained with soil and drenched by the spring rain, it will still live freshly and tenderly, which is really speechless.

The sown rice seeds grew into green carpet-like seedlings.

Seeing that it was rising day by day, people began to plow and harrow the fields, and the paddy fields were smoothed and soft, and filled with an appropriate amount of water to prepare for transplanting.

When the emerald green seedlings grew, they were embedded in the white paddy fields, and they looked like cloth with green patches from a distance. But this patch is even brighter than the original color.

And the field was full of people, bending down to pull out the seedlings. He plucked up the half-foot-long seedlings one by one, and when he couldn't hold them with one hand, he shook them vigorously in the water a few times, washed the roots, pulled a prepared straw and tied it tightly, and threw it behind him one by one.

It was really hard to bend over like this, and there was a person who was in poor shape, so he moved a small bench and put it in the field, and sat and pulled it; After pulling out a seedling, he vigorously pulled up the bench and moved it forward.

Some people picked up the plucked seedlings, sent them to the well-prepared paddy fields, and threw the ground into the fields with all their might. It is not just littered, but scattered far and near, so as to ensure that there are always seedlings to be planted by the person who planted the seedlings.

The person who planted the seedlings untied a handful of seedlings, held them in his left hand, picked up a handful with his right hand, pinched them with three fingers, and inserted them into the water with great dexterity, six in a row. As his right hand kept going up and down, rows of seedlings were carved into the paddy field. He kept retreating, and the neat seedlings increased in rows, standing in the paddy field to wade in the wind.

From time to time, the people who pull the seedlings and the people who plant the seedlings will straighten up and talk and laugh with the people in the field next door, about the weather, about the rain, and even about the harvest of the seedlings in a few months. It's not very warm yet, but they don't seem to feel cold, just busy and hopeful.

The little baby will come to deliver water and simple food, and the fields are full of people, as busy as the breath of spring surging in the air.

No matter how carefully you plan at the beginning, there will still be some unexpected situations in the end

The Zheng family, the Zhao family and the Zhang family planted rice in partnership, and there were enough people, but the three of them were very popular in the village, and those who had not planted rice for the time being took the initiative to help. Anyway, being idle is idle, and if you help someone today, the people of Ming'er will definitely come to help you. For example, Liu Xiaomei's house, but the brother is three miles, and his family has to wait a few days for rice planting, so he came to Zheng's house to help.

As a result, the burden of chrysanthemum cooking rice has increased again, and the number of people who eat has also kept rising, making her constantly wail in her heart - she has really become a rice cook!

So, Liu Xiaomei came to help cook again.

Chrysanthemum hurriedly said: "You are busy with yours, we have enough people." Look, isn't it enough for three people to cook? ”

Just kidding, she came to help today, and when she went to her house to plant rice, didn't she have to come to the door to help cook? So when is this cooking day? She would rather carry it for a few days than drag it out for a few days.

Shi Niang's belly was already pregnant, she held her stomach and smiled and said to Liu Xiaomei: "Aren't you busy at home?" Your brother has gone to help us plant seedlings, and your mother won't go to the ground? So who cooks in the house? ”

Liu Xiaomei laughed like a thief: "My mother asked me to come, she is at home today." Chrysanthemum, don't panic and push miles, there are a lot of people today, are you tired? Aren't you afraid that my family will ask you to help me when I plant rice? Hehe, I just want you to come and help me then. It's very stuffy to cook, so it's good to have one more person to talk to. ”

Chrysanthemum looked at her with a calculating look and said helplessly: "There are many people working in your family, and you and your mother are also cooking, and you still need to find others?" It's a hassle to have a lot of people. ”

Liu Xiaomei took the knife in her hand and waved the knife to cut vegetables, and said, "Don't you want to hurry." Our family is already a few days late, if we can't plug it well, it will affect the seedlings. Chrysanthemum, I know you don't like to go out, but you come to help me cook, so you can come to my house to have a look. I have two peach trees in my house, both of which are bearing fruit; There is also a plum tree, two apricot trees, and two persimmon trees. In June and July, the sweet and sour apricots and plums were delicious; Further on, persimmons also taste sweet. I prepared the saplings that your brother dug up for you. Originally, when those little seedlings grew, my brother had to pull them out and throw them away—the backyard was too crowded—but I thought about you, so I let him stay. My third brother netted a lot of small fish, dried them, and small shrimp. It's better for you to come to my house and talk to me than to be bored at home. I always go to look for you, and you don't come to my house, I feel embarrassed. ”

Chrysanthemum listened to her eloquent words and couldn't help but smile.

This Liu Xiaomei always told her about what her family planted like this, what kind of pepper skin is thinner than other people's, what vegetable melon is sweeter than other people's, and what melon seeds are bigger than other people's, she loves to listen to these.

She looked at this little girl, and for some reason she liked it very much, so she said to her: "Don't say it, I'm going to drool when I say it." I can't help you then! When the apricots and plums are ripe in June, you can send me some. ”

Liu Xiaomei smiled happily, nodded again and again, and said that she would definitely pick the good ones and give them to her when the time came.

This time, Chrysanthemum felt much more relaxed, because Grandma Shi really had good tea and rice. The old man is the same as the stone girl, with a cool temperament, although he is not young, his body is very strong.

She arranged for everyone to do things without panicking at all. And the dishes she made were also very distinctive, and the chili baba she brought conquered her, so she humbly followed the old man for advice.

The pickled chili baba is minced red pepper, mixed with ground rice flour mixed with corn flour, salted and finely chopped tender ginger, stirred evenly, and packed in a crockpot; When eating, scoop a bowl out, sprinkle some chopped green onions, brush the pot with sesame oil, use slow fire and spread pancakes, fry until both sides are browned, and the red pepper is used as the main ingredient, and it is naturally a red piece when it is served.

This chili pepper is sour and spicy and burnt, and it is very appetizing to eat. If it weren't for the heavy saltiness, she could only eat it as a vegetable, and she would have to eat several pieces. Liu Xiaomei also ate a few pieces when she saw it, and as a result, she kept drinking water with Chrysanthemum.

Grandma Shi told them not to eat too much, but to eat, because it hurt their stomachs.

The old man is very good at doing things. That Yang Zi and Xiao Shi were also going to go to the field because the school was on vacation, so she said, "Aren't you going to make trouble?" It's better to pick up some snails and add a bowl of vegetables. ”

When the two children heard this, they went to the field with baskets. At this time, the snails in the field were already crawling everywhere, and before noon, the two came back with a basket of snails.

Grandma Shi gave them an embroidery needle and taught them to pick snails. Lifted the lid and pulled out the meat curled up in the curved snail shell, pinching off the back intestines, leaving only the black and white flesh in the middle.

Yang Zi and Xiao Shi also did it extremely seriously. After picking two large bowls, they packed them in a small basket, washed them by the river, and then sent them to the kitchen to be handed over to Grandma Shi.

Grandma Shi asked Liu Xiaomei to cut some leeks and green garlic seedlings to prepare, first fried the red pepper in the oil pot, added a little salt, and then poured in the snail meat, and quickly stir-fried; On the other hand, he also said to Chrysanthemum and Liu Xiaomei: "This thing can't be fried for a long time, if it is fried for a long time, the meat can't be chewed; When it's almost cooked, it should be served. ”

When he saw that the meat of the snail had changed color, he added leeks and green garlic to it, and when the fragrance was fragrant, he served it.

She used a small bowl to fill some separately, and said to Yang Zi and Xiaoshi with a smile, "You two come and taste it too." You picked it up, and you've been busy for a long time. ”

The two of them ran in excitedly, took the chopsticks handed by their grandmother, took a ball of snail meat and put it in their mouths, and then shouted it together; Chrysanthemum and Liu Xiaomei also tasted some of them, which were indeed spicy and refreshing, and the meat was flexible and tender.

Chrysanthemum saw that this dish was a little spicy, and moved out of the pot jar, and one person made a pot, put the snail meat on the pot, and then stuffed it into the mouth, and for a while, chewed so much that it made a "crunch" sound. While eating, several people looked at each other and laughed.

The old man watched the four of them eat happily, and his eyebrows and eyes stretched out with a smile. She said to Shi Niang, "You can eat some too." It's almost burned, so let's take a break! ”

Shi Niang was originally pregnant, and her mouth was the most greedy, but when she saw that the chrysanthemums were eating well, she also swallowed her saliva and asked, "Is it delicious?" It smells good. ”

Xiao Shi hurriedly picked up a piece of snail meat and put it on a pot, ran to his mother and handed it over, and said, "Mother, you eat and see, it's delicious." ”

Shi Niang chewed a piece, and it was really spicy and appetizing.

Then he said to his son, "It's really good." You'll pick up some in the afternoon. This rice planting will take a few days, but it is not a good bowl. Mother, why haven't I seen you burn it before? ”

Grandma Shi smiled and said, "I learned it from her mother-in-law of Lotus." "Min