Chapter 40: Preparation
"Ah, it's dawn." Early the next morning, Shen An'an slept full, and when he got up, he stretched a big lazy waist.
In Shen An'an's cognition, eating and sleeping are the top priorities in life. If you don't have enough to eat, you'll be hungry, and that's worse than death. And if you don't sleep well, your spirit will be bad, and if your skin is bad, you will become ugly. These two things are something she can't tolerate. However, after coming here, no money is the most intolerable thing for her.
She was worried about making money, so she had to get up early today. Fortunately, Shen Anan didn't know what insomnia was, and he didn't know what it meant to be unable to sleep. I was tired like a dog during the day, and when I climbed into bed at night, as soon as my head was on the pillow, I went to meet Zhou Gongxiang.
Shen Anan thought that he got up early enough, but he didn't expect that Shen Sanlang and Cao's got up earlier than her.
When she got dressed and got up, she had already heard the sound of the two talking and washing their faces from the kitchen, and Shen Anan knew that Shen Saburo was going up the mountain today.
She was suddenly overjoyed, she didn't expect Shen Saburo to be more anxious than her, this is good. "Dad, mother, why do you get up so early?"
Shen Sanlang was already squatting at the door, drinking gruel "bang, bang", holding a porridge bowl in his left hand and a brown rice cake in his right hand. Drink two mouthfuls of gruel and eat a bite of brown rice cakes, and eat them with relish, as if he is holding delicacies from the mountains and seas in his hands.
Shen An'an, who saw it, also wanted to eat it, in fact, she knew how unpalatable the brown rice crackers were.
"Well, Annieko, you should also move quickly, let's go to the back mountain today to explore the way." The people in the village are very shrewd. If you see someone digging something in the mountains, you can't wait to beat the gongs and drums. When you go back the next day, you will definitely be stripped in advance.
Shen Saburo pondered, this herb is a good thing, in case others know that they are digging this, they will definitely dig it too. At that time, there will be nothing to do with their Shen family.
Cao's also meant this, "It's that you guys have to work harder tomorrow." ”
"Then you make two more cakes." Cao nodded in agreement. The husband and wife got up before dawn.
Shen Anan uses the so-called toothbrush here. It's just a melon bag with some salt in it, and pound it a few times in the mouth. But because I ate salt, I didn't have time to say "Phew!" "Phew!"
rinsed his mouth indiscriminately, Shen Anan decided that after he came back, he must make a toothbrush to come out, this tooth is too sinful.
Now, even if she brushes her teeth with the bristles of a pig's beard, it is better than this toothbrush with salt in the loofah sac.
She suddenly missed her soft-bristled toothbrush.
"Give!" Seeing Shen Anan brushing his teeth, his little face wrinkled into a bitter gourd face. Cao Shi muttered in her heart again, why did her daughter love brushing her teeth so much recently.
"Mother, are you giving this to me?"
Seeing that the dough in front of him was finally not a brown rice cake, Shen Anan was very reluctant to step forward and hug the Cao family and kiss him.
Her mother-in-law, how did she change her personality and actually give her this.
"yes, don't let me take it back."
After Cao finished speaking, he withdrew his hand, but Shen An'an's hand was faster than hers. "Don't mind, mother, you said you would give me food, why do you have to take it back." Taking the dough cake, Shen Anan took a big bite, although the cake was a little dry, but this side was silky and soft, and she felt that she was happy as if she had gone to heaven.
Every time she thought about the sore throat brown rice crackers and the painful feeling that she couldn't pull out, she felt that she had better not have them again.
Shen Anan is a girl after all, she has little appetite, and she is full after eating only half a pancake.
Seeing that she was full, Cao Shi didn't say anything, and put the remaining two sheets up. "This is your lunch, you can eat it on the way when you are hungry. Remember to bring plenty of water. ”
Shen Anan nodded again and again, and said, "Mother, you treat me so well." Then he hugged her arm and coquettishly.
Cao Shi was not used to Shen An'an being so intimate with him, so he only felt panicked in his heart. Hurriedly said: "What are you talking about, it's getting less and less like a girl." "Hurry up and give your dad a favor.
This will Shen Saburo push his wheelbarrow into the yard and check around, only to find that the wheels of the car are broken and need to be repaired.
"I'll have to find some rope and a few sacks." Cao told Shen An'an. Wrap a few more loops of rope around the top of the car. These ropes are used to tie up the goods, and the * bag is brought to hold the rhubarb.
This wheelbarrow is not as easy to use as a large board car, but it is more convenient to walk in the countryside and carry some goods.
Shen Anan was full, and suddenly felt that all the strength of his body had returned to his body. got the hemp rope and pockets, and helped Shen Saburo get into the car.
After the things were ready, Shen Saburo repaired the car, brought plenty of water, and they were ready to go.
Originally, Shen Anan was still thinking about whether to ask Wang Song to go up the mountain with him today. Looking at the way he was spitting yesterday, I'm afraid there is something unspeakable.
At this time, Shen Sanlang took the initiative to accompany him up the mountain, and with such a strong laborer to help by the side, they would definitely have a great harvest today.
"Dad, did you bring a machete, a hoe, and a shovel." These are the necessary tools for digging rhubarb, if you don't have these tools, not only will it affect the speed of digging rhubarb, but sometimes you may dig the grass because of the lack of strength.
Digging up a herb is like throwing silver into the water.
"Well, I'll bring it, and then you can show it, I'll dig it, and you can move it."
"Okay! Wrap it around me. ”
Shen Sanlang couldn't help but grin when he heard Shen An'an's playful answer.
After watching the sky slowly brighten, he hung the belt of the unicycle around his neck, and with one end of his hands flat, the unicycle was firmly on the road.
"You remember to come back early, be careful of the poisonous snakes on the mountain, and your sister An, don't look at the white eyes when walking." Cao Shi still told the two of them uneasily.
"I know, mother, you take good care of your home at home."
"By the way, mother, remember to wipe the pig's head with salt before pickling, and then put it in Weng Li without a lid."
Listening to Shen An'an's uneasy admonition to herself, Cao couldn't help but glance at her and said, "I don't know how to marinate meat yet, I need you to teach me." Look at it, don't rush to eat with your eldest brother and Brother Shan! ”
Shen Anan listened, and immediately said with a smile: "I know that my mother's craftsmanship is good, but this is a pig's head, not pork belly." This pig's head has to be split and pickled, and the weather is not very cold now. If you put too little salt, I'm afraid it will spoil. ”
"Long-winded, alright, you can go quickly." After Cao finished speaking, he was in a hurrying posture.
Shen Anan walked to the door, and didn't forget to turn his head and say to Cao's family: "Mother, you remember to go to see Sister Xia Chunhua, you said that I will go to see her when I come back." ”
"Got it, got it. How can you be more verbose than me, an old woman. Cao Shi took off the apron that had been changed from old clothes, shook it, and said angrily.
Shen Anan went out with peace of mind.