Chapter 2: The Four-legged Beast
I don't know how the original owner's chicken was raised, there are more than a dozen, but one is thinner than the other, and it's good to receive two eggs a day.
There are so many people in the family, and only Zhu Bamei, who is "biased" by the original owner, can get an egg every day, and no one else can even dream of it. At most, during the busy farming season, you can taste a little fishy.
The Zhu family only has a few acres of thin fields, but they have to raise more than ten mouths, and the grain they harvest can't be eaten from the beginning of the year to the end of the year, so can't they be hungry one by one?
also pity the Li family, even with such a big belly, he couldn't get a whole egg.
The eggs are really the "baby" of the Zhu family, their family has no other financial resources at all, and the only way to exchange money is to save eggs for money.
Of course, even if this is the case, in addition to deducting the money for marrying a daughter-in-law and inviting a midwife, the original owner also spent everything else on Zhu Bamei - just hope that she can be a big family as a maid and an aunt in the future?
Cover your face.
In these years, the most important thing is "life", because once you get sick, you can't afford to hire a doctor at all, so you can only rely on yourself to "survive".
The original owner fell so much before, and was carried to the bed by his family and no one asked for a doctor, which is also the reason.
If it weren't for that, it would probably not be Ye Yuran's turn.
"Mother!" As soon as he saw Ye Yuran enter the kitchen, Liu was nervous.
Today, it's her turn to cook, how many meters she can catch in a day, how many vegetables she can put in a day, all of them are fixed.
If you have more or less, you will be scolded.
If there is more, the mother-in-law will scold for "waste", and if there is less, the mother-in-law will scold for not being able to fill the stomach - but in fact, as the Zhu family grows more and more, they never fill their stomachs again.
Ye Yuran saw the rice she was holding in the bowl and said that it was rice, but in fact, most of it was rice bran, and there was not much rice at all.
Add the wild vegetables grown at home and boil it into a thin pot of porridge, and the original owner, Old Man Zhu, and Zhu Bamei can scoop the bottom of the pot a little thicker, and everyone else can only evenly share a bowl of gruel that has the bottom to the bottom.
The two grandsons, because they can't be sent to big families as maids and young masters and aunts from rich families, are "useless" and receive even less.
Ye Yuran sighed softly in her heart: Alas!
With such a way of eating every day, it is no wonder that in the memory of the original owner, she saw that this family was all looking like yellow chicken muscles, except for Zhu Bamei, none of them looked better.
Li was able to eat eggs greedily, but she really couldn't blame her, a pregnant woman, one person ate two people, and she was hungry faster than ordinary people.
How can a person who drinks gruel every day withstand it?
If it weren't for Ye Yuran's memory, Li was already six months pregnant, otherwise she would definitely think that the other party was lying.
Pregnant women are thin and weak, the fetus in the womb has no nutrition, and the peasant family can't support it no matter how many births they have, so people in these years are desperate, but they ......
Watch God eat.
Like the original owner and Old Man Zhu, it is still relatively rare in Zhujia Village to give birth to one to feed one.
Here Ye Yuran had to think about it again, how did this original owner have luck, you say bad, people are just "more sons and more blessings"; you say okay, but you are so poor that you drink gruel, you can't eat enough, you can't dress warmly, and you have to care about an egg.
"What about the others?"
"Dad took the eldest brother to work in the field, and the sister-in-law went up the mountain to hunt pigweed. As for whether anyone is lazy at home, Liu didn't say a word.
"Alright, don't stand here stupidly, you help me light the fire, and I'll make dinner today. Recalling the tone of the original owner's words, Ye Yuran tried his best to imitate it.
Liu was stunned: "Yes, mother." ”
Ye Yuran took the basin and scooped out some flour and rice bran from the room city again, as well as five eggs and a bag of dried fruits.
Liu was shocked when he saw his mother-in-law take out so much food.
So much, how many meals do you have to eat?
Ye Yuran ignored her, and looked at the kitchen with cleaned wild vegetables and cabbage, but there were no radish: "Are there any radines?"
"Yes, in the vegetable patch. ”
"Then you go and pluck some and come back, pluck ten. "Like the original owner, he doesn't talk nonsense and issues orders directly.
"Yes, mother. ”
......
The cabbage was cut and placed aside, and the green leaves and wild vegetables were mixed together and chopped into foam, and put in a pot for later use.
The oil is already at the bottom of the tank, and there is still some salt.
Ye Yuran poured all the rice bran, flour, and eggs into a basin, filled the water with an oil can, and poured it into the basin to stir.
Finding that there was no such big pot at home, she divided the vegetable foam and the noodles in the pot into two parts, and made one of them first.
On the other side, when Liu came back from pulling radishes outside, he ran into his sister-in-law Liu, who came down from the mountain.
In addition to the pig vegetables piled high in the basket on his body, Liu also had a bag hanging in front of him, needless to say, it must contain some wild vegetables and wild fruits that could be found.
"Sister-in-law, I'll help you. Liu quickly took the bag from her hand.
"Why did you pluck so many turnips?" Liu frowned slightly when he saw the contents of her basket.
If she remembers it well, there doesn't seem to be such a thing as radish in the dinner set by her mother-in-law.
"It was my mother who asked me to pull it out. Liu knew what she was asking, and hurriedly whispered.
As soon as he heard that it was his mother-in-law's order, Liu did not speak again.
When the two of them returned home, Ye Yuran's preparations were almost done.
"The old man is back, you go and chop down the pig's vegetables and feed the pigs, and the second family washes the radishes and cuts them into shreds. ”
Ye Yuran saw that Liu's head was so small, and he was actually carrying such a big basket, which made her feel a little uncomfortable - are all the women of this era like this, or is the original owner too ruthless to make her like this?
However, she did not show any abnormality, so as not to show her feet, so she could only follow the example of the original owner and continue to issue orders.
"Yes, mother. ”
Liu put down the basket, put the large wooden basin standing under the courtyard of the wall, and began to chop the pig vegetables.
"Mother, this is what my sister-in-law brought back from the mountain. ”
Liu put the basket down and handed the bag to Ye Yuran.
Ye Yuran took it and opened it to take a look, and found that in addition to wild vegetables, there were also wild fruits inside.
Wild fruit was not uncommon in the farmhouse, and she was surprised that there was a pink fruit in it, and she tasted it, and it was sweet and sour as she had a hunch.
Before, she was still thinking that this cake may not taste very good, but now it has fallen.
Because she was afraid that everyone's taste would be different, Ye Yuran did not plan to put the fruit directly into the flour or shredded radish, but washed it and boiled the "jam" in a small pot.
In fact, jam is not as difficult to make as everyone thinks, the difficult thing is to make it well.
Because of the limited conditions, except for fruit, salt, and water, she could at most grab a little flour into it, and the rest was gone.
No way, who let the family not have cornstarch?
But if you don't have it, you can't leave it out completely, otherwise it will be water, and there will be no way to thicken it.
The jam has to be slimy and thick.
Of course, it is not excluded that she is worried that the number of fruits picked out is a little small, and if she doesn't put some flour in it, it will not be enough to eat at all.
There was no sugar, so Ye Yuran tried to pick some sweet wild fruits, washed the fruits first, removed the core and cut them into cubes.
Soak in cold water and salt.