The ginger and garlic in the oil pot burst out of the fragrance, Gu Zhen poured the cut pork belly pieces into the pot and stir-fried them a few times, put water in the pot, and covered the pot: "Little girl, add some firewood, and burn it bigger." ”

Stir-fried on high fire, simmered on low heat, and after eating his stepmother's meal for a few years, Yan Qingsoul still learned a few cooking skills.

She has never washed her hands to make soup in her previous life, because of the lack of materials in this life, even if she secretly ran up to the mountains to hunt, the family will add some meat from time to time, but this year she does not dare to do it with great fanfare at home, people are hungry fiercely, the nose is more than a dog Turin, her home is quite good, far away from the neighbors in the east and west, closed to cook, it is not noticeable, and the neighbors on both sides are also their own family, and they can also cover her family. But even so, after her father died, Yan Qingsoul didn't dare to cook meat at home, and when she got meat, she simply cooked it in the mountains and brought it back to eat. It is because of this that the green soul learned to cook with his stepmother.

Speaking of which, the east side of her house was originally the house of the grandfather's house in the second room, but the grandfather and grandmother in the second room died early, leaving two sons, the eldest son went to the Su family in the same village, and the second son worked as a worker in the city. The old house fell into disrepair, and after it collapsed, it was simply bulldozed and turned into a field, and now it is planted with wheat.

Twenty meters away, there is the second grandfather and the third grandfather's house in the second room.

The west side of her house is a small bamboo forest, which was originally her family's, and later became a collective bamboo forest, the bamboo forest is sixty or seventy meters long from north to south, ten meters wide, the west side of the bamboo forest is the river, and the west of the river is the grandfather's house of the three rooms. Further west is the Brigade Headquarters and the Grocery Store. Behind the brigade headquarters is the village primary school, and the educated youth who go to the countryside live in the north of the village primary school, on the edge of the grain drying field.

Qingsoul's family is their big house, her grandfather and brothers, her uncle and grandfather died early, leaving a son and a daughter, Yan Qingsoul's grandfather was only sixteen years old at the time, and he had not yet started a family, just such a teenager, with his six-year-old nephew and three-year-old niece left by his brother to live, in order to support his nephew and niece, he dragged until his nephew went to the city to study, and was able to support himself, before marrying.

Grandpa's pair of nephews and nieces are Qing Soul's uncle and aunt.

At the beginning, the grandfather was reluctant to marry his niece, and the nephew was not around, after hearing that the nephew participated in the revolution, he simply asked the niece to recruit a son-in-law at home, and the eldest aunt had many brothers in the family, and the poor could not afford to marry a daughter-in-law.

In the years of the natural disaster, the farm where the eldest aunt's family was located was better than in the ordinary village, so the eldest aunt took the eldest aunt and her son and daughter back home, and settled on the farm.

Qing Soul's father Yan Qi'an is a capable person, although not as good as her legendary genius uncle, but good at studying, Qing Soul has seen her father's one-handed calligraphy, very stylish, her father only went to junior high school and returned to the village, at the age of sixteen he became a village accountant, and later became the captain of the production team, the secretary of the village branch, before his death, he had become the stationmaster of the town grain station. It is a well-known capable person in ten miles and eight towns.

Otherwise, if she remarries, she will not be able to marry such a beautiful, kind and honest yellow flower girl as her stepmother.

Gu Zhen waited for the braised pork to be cooked, and then began to soak the vermicelli and cut the cabbage, while asking Qing Soul: "Listen to your grandmother, do you want to take your aunt's house?" ”

She was chopping vegetables in front of the board, with her back to Qing Soul, Qing Soul couldn't see her expression, and she didn't know if she was happy or not, so after thinking about it, she still replied: "Dad said before his death that he would take my aunt back, and she was alone...... My aunt is more than ten years older than my father, almost fifty people, the farm work on the farm is much harder than in our village, I am afraid that she is old and can't work, she is alone, who will take care of her with a headache and brain fever? If something happens to her, how can I tell my dad? What's that...... Originally, I was young, and it was not easy for you to take care of the three of us, Mom, so I didn't mention it, but now that I'm older, my grandmother mentions you...... I just thought about taking over the family to help me take care of Erdan and Yaya, I can always support her. ”

"It's almost the New Year, and I have to give your aunt a New Year's gift, you can discuss with your aunt and take her home. There is a bite of us to eat on the left and right, and there is no one less than hers. In the past, we couldn't be busy, and your second grandfather's sister-in-law could still help us take care of some second eggs and maids, but I heard that your sister-in-law wants to go to school after the new year, and you will also go to high school after the fall of the new year. If you go to high school in the city again, I won't be able to do it alone. ”

Qingsoul has been skipping grades in school, she is now in her second year of junior high school, because she has to take care of her family, she discussed with the school, only goes to exams, and usually does not go to class. In fact, in the past few years, she has secretly gone to the first few elderly people in the countryside who have gone to the countryside to study at night every day or two in the past few years, and they have learned more than they have in school. So whether or not to go to school is really not a problem for her. Besides, the school is also very chaotic now, what can I learn?

But as her mother said, high school is not as good as junior high school, and she has to go to the city to study, and people may not agree that she will not go to class and only take exams. The junior high school can agree, it is because the principal is the maiden nephew of the grandmother of the third room, and he has a good relationship with her father, and after her father died, this cousin took care of her before agreeing.

It's about 40 miles away from home in the city, and if you really want to go to school, you have to live in school.

But in her family's situation, it is impossible for her to ignore her family for the sake of studying. But if she doesn't study, she is unwilling.

Qing Soul frowned: "Cheng, then I went to my aunt's house a year ago." As for high school, I want to go to a neighboring county, the county seat is only 20 miles to the south from our village, and the city is more than 40 miles to the north. Although our village is directly under the city, wasn't the third cousin of my aunt's grandmother arranged to be the secretary of the textile factory in the neighboring county after he retired? I went to see my aunt and grandmother during the Chinese New Year, and by the way, I asked my third cousin if I could find a relationship and arrange me to go to the county high school, but I didn't go to class for the exam. ”

The little aunt and grandmother that Qing Soul said is her own sister's own mother, her grandmother has no brothers, only this one sister, and the relationship between the two families has always been close.

When her father died, the little aunt and grandmother cried and fainted twice, and Qing Soul was particularly impressed.

Her grandmother only has one son from her father, but her aunt and grandmother are blessed with many sons and have five sons. The eldest son and the second son worked as a farmer at home, the fourth son worked as a factory director in the town's brick factory, the younger son graduated from agricultural university and now works in the provincial capital, and the third son became a soldier and was admitted to the military academy in the army.

Gu Zhen has always known that this eldest girl is a successful person, and when she heard her say this, she didn't object, because she wouldn't listen to it. Isn't it all the half-grown children who are in charge of the affairs of the family?

Gu Zhen thinks this is very good, the eldest daughter is the backbone of the family.