Chapter Twenty-Eight: Picking Green and Cooking
Song Ziyu knew that if she didn't make it clear to her, she would get to the bottom of it, so she said, "Cai Qing!" You don't like to eat this wild boar, who can we sell it to, and the people in the city are precious? If it's not delicious, who will buy it. ”
Lu Caiqing was embarrassed for a moment and muttered, "I'm not tired of eating every day!" ”
"Anyway, the people in the city don't recognize this, only we eat it ourselves."
"You can't put it in the house, you can't put it in the house all day long, it's all this smell in the house, and it's not good for the air. Besides, it's not nutritious for you to eat these raw meats! When Zifei was still growing his body, did you usually eat this? ”
"Ziwu will go to the city every once in a while to sell some animal skins and pheasants, and buy some miscellaneous noodles in exchange for money to come back as a staple food." Song Ziyu explained.
"You were so hypocritical when you first came, this is our food, where do you put it in the house? The food we brought at the risk of being put outside was not taken away by the wild beasts of the mountains. Song Ziwu interjected again.
"Then you won't figure it out on your own? I see that the people in Chenjia Village have dug cellars at home? Food can be stored. ”
Song Zifei listened and quickly came to Lu Caiqing and said, "Sister Caiqing! What is a cellar? ”
Lu Caiqing looked at Song Ziyu and the brothers as if they didn't understand, could it be that they were isolated from the world and never asked others? So he talked about the benefits of the cellar, how can the storage time and freshness cycle be longer, and it is not easy to deteriorate and rot. How to choose a place and so on, Song Ziyu felt that there were a lot of benefits, and there were ready-made tools at home, and it was nothing more than individual work, and after discussing with his brothers, he started construction now, and after listening to Lu Caiqing's introduction, the depth was about three meters, and he found a suitable location to start the soil.
Lu Caiqing watched the three of them swing shovels in the yard, and she was not idle, picking up the wild vegetables and mushrooms picked yesterday, washing them with water, she had done experiments yesterday, and the wild rabbits were still alive, in fact, she knew that the wild mushrooms she picked were not poisonous, just to make the three brothers of the Song family feel relieved.
When she started the fire, she cut some wild boar meat and stir-fried it a few times, refined the oil, put the mushrooms into the pot, mixed it with seasonings, and stewed a pot of beautiful mushroom soup. After a while, the aroma of mushroom soup filled the courtyard.
The three of them worked harder, this was the first meal Lu Caiqing made after his leg injury healed, the three brothers washed their hands and went to the table to eat, the mixed bread did not taste as hard as before because it woke up for a while, maybe it was the first time to eat such a delicious mushroom soup, a large pot of mushroom soup will see the bottom in a while, Song Ziwu praised Lu Caiqing for the first time and said that she cooked deliciously.
When the sun set, the cellar was completed with a height of one person, and the three of them cut some stumps and covered it, spread dry artemisia grass, and pressed a thick layer of loess on it, leaving a place for one person to make a cellar door, and the cellar was larger and more spacious than usual, and the ground was paved and stepped on by the three people.
Lu Caiqing realized that these three brothers are good at their work, and if they were to do such a job as the Lu family, they would basically do it themselves. Recalling the hardships that Lu Caiqing endured at home at a young age, he felt distressed.
It's May weather, and it's not hot, but with so much meat, it's not a long-term solution to put it in the cellar, so Lu Caiqing thought that maybe he could marinate the meat and put it for more time.
So Lu Caiqing called the three of them and talked about the method of marinating meat, and the four of them took drastic action in the courtyard, and Song Zifei also praised Lu Caiqing for his many methods.
Lu Caiqing, who was tired for a day, lay down on the kang early to rest, it was really hot to wear a padded jacket on this May day, and it was time to change clothes, thinking that it would be nice if he could take a bath comfortably.
Song Ziyu saw her lying on the kang with her eyes open and didn't speak, so she asked, "Cai Qing!" The meat is no longer carried into the house, what are you still thinking? ”
Lu Caiqing got up quickly, looked at Song Ziyu and suddenly remembered that the kang of these three people was crowded with four adults, and it was also inconvenient, she didn't dare to turn over at night, for fear of touching Song Ziyu, because the injuries on his body had not healed.
Song Ziyu saw that she was embarrassed, and asked nervously, "What?" If you still feel uncomfortable, do you want to lie down again? After speaking, he stroked Cai Qing's head with his big hand.
Lu Caiqing took his hand all of a sudden, thinking that the weather was getting hotter and hotter, and they would cross less and less, and they couldn't sleep on the kang all the time this night, after all, only Song Ziyu was his own man, although there were no outsiders, but he always had to avoid suspicion, but there was only one room here, and it was impossible to build one for himself, unless he built a new house for Song Ziyu and himself.
At the moment, you can't move out, but if you don't move this meat in, you can still take the kang out of that half of the place.
So he opened his mouth and said, "Brother Song! You see that there are four of us sleeping on this little kang, and now you are injured, and I don't dare to turn over at night. ”
"Hey! That's what you're talking about! It doesn't matter if you turn yours, Brother Song's rough skin and thick flesh are not a small injury. ”
"But I'm distressed! Besides, it's getting hotter and hotter, and I have one more brother, and you three brothers can't sleep well, so I think it's better to connect the rest of the place, so that the four of us don't have to be so crowded. ”
"What? Don't you want to be next to me? I honestly didn't touch your crooked thoughts at night. Song Ziyu heard it and thought she disliked herself.
"No, no! Brother Song, what are you talking about, I just think it's getting hot, it doesn't matter if you are my man, but they are my uncles, they should always avoid suspicion, they will marry their daughters-in-law in the future, their reputation is important, our conditions are limited, otherwise we should move out to live.
Song Ziyu knew that he had misunderstood her, so he scratched his head embarrassedly and said, "Cai Qing!" I'm sorry I didn't think about it, I didn't think of this, the three of us used to live in the past, and now that I have you, it's time to think about the problem of living. ”
"I'm not the kind of hypocritical person, but I always have to live like a life, and always sleeping on a kang is not a long-term solution, you actually misunderstood me." As she spoke, Lu Caiqing felt aggrieved.
Song Ziyu saw that her little daughter-in-law was angry, so she quickly took off her shoes and got on the kang, moved over Cai Qing's body and said, "Okay, okay!" I admit that I was wrong, I misunderstood what you meant, and I will take it when I pick up Kang Ming'er, anyway, there are no things in the house, and it's empty. ”
Lu Caiqing deliberately pretended to be angry, and ignored him with a pout, Song Ziyu said again: "Caiqing!" I'm still angry! I'm stupid and won't coax my daughter-in-law to be happy, you are angry, I remembered, I discussed with my second brother a few days ago, wait for Ming'er to make time, and then build a house next to the main house for us to marry, you have been here for a month, I can't let you live here for no reason.