Everyone ate very satisfied at lunch, and Liu Qingyan also ate half a bowl of rice, her stomach was a little uncomfortable, and she paced under the big camphor tree in the courtyard to eat.

Pacing back and forth, I remembered salted duck eggs and pine preserved eggs.

The breakfast of the people of Baishui Village is relatively simple, basically white rice porridge and steamed buns with pickles, at most add a fried vegetarian dish, and occasionally make noodles, but the handiwork is not satisfactory, it is really a bit greasy to eat like this every day, is it better to add some new tricks?

Salted duck eggs and white porridge are a perfect match, salted egg yolk and some ingredients can make many delicious dishes, salted egg yolk fried rice, salted egg yolk tofu soup, salted egg yolk eggplant, salted egg yolk baked pumpkin and so on.

The materials needed to make salted duck eggs are also simple, and the village has good loess in the barn field, and you can make it with some salt, the only problem is that you don't have ducks.

Without ducks, there can be no duck eggs.

In the afternoon, Qingzhi was also detained by Xie Shi in the house to learn needlework, and she went crazy if she didn't go out.

"Mother, is there anyone in our village who sells duck eggs?" Liu Qingyan took the needle and thread and embroidered absentmindedly for a while and asked.

Xie Shi heard this: "Yes, there are many families in our village who raise a lot of ducks, but the duck eggs are still fishy without eggs, our family has eggs, Yan'er, why do you think about eating duck eggs?" ”

Liu Qingyan put down the needle and thread and came to Xie Shi, her eyes flashed and said: "Mother, I came up with a fresh way to make duck eggs today, and it will definitely be delicious when I make it, why don't you go buy some duck eggs and come back?" ”

Xie Shi looked up at his daughter steadily, and thought for a while before saying, "Mother found that your brain has become a lot smarter recently, and this idea is one after another, and I really can't see through you." I have heard that people's temperament will change after the catastrophe of life and death, is it true? ”

Liu Qingyan's eyes flashed, and seeing that Xie Shi had found a wonderful reason for herself, she immediately got off the donkey, "Mother, do you also think that I was stupid before, after falling into the water, I thought about it in the stuffy room for several days, and the spiritual platform was clear, as if I had eaten Laojun's elixir." ”

"Auntie, I also feel that Sister Qingyan has changed, she used to be like a stuffy gourd and didn't like to talk, but it's better now." Qing Zhi interjected.

"You weren't stupid before, you were just ...... It's just that the temperament is too soft, and there is no opinion on everything, so if you marry someone in the future, if your mother-in-law's family is good-looking, you will have to be bullied. Now that it has changed, it is good that I can rest assured that I will marry my mother. Xie Shi said and turned the topic to the daughter's lifelong event.

"Mother, I'm still young, why do you say this!" Liu Qingyan pretended to be annoyed and stomped her feet

"You are twelve, the girls in our village have thirteen years old and began to say goodbye, first set a good family for two years and then get married, you are not in a hurry to wait for the big now, the good men have been set away by others, you can only marry crooked melons and split dates." Xie began to preach bitterly again.

Liu Qingyan spurted out a mouthful of old blood.

Yes, no matter what world it is in, this mother is bent on sending her daughter out as soon as possible, for fear that her family's good cabbage will not have a pig to arch.

Qingzhi grinned and snickered beside her, and was glared at by Liu Qingyan with a warning look, and immediately put away her smile.

"Mother, let's talk about duck eggs!" Liu Qingyan brought back the topic of deviation with a bitter face.

"Okay, eggs are sold in the town for a penny, duck eggs are two pennies for three, horizontal and vertical is not a precious thing, people in our village don't like to eat, you want, my mother will go to the village tomorrow to ask, find some and come back."

"Thank you, mother! Mother, are you thirsty? I'll pour you tea. ”

After Liu Qingyan finished speaking, she ran out again, this time she didn't slip away, and soon poured tea and came back.

After breakfast on the second day, the old man led Liu Boyu to catch the piglets, and when he came back, he hugged a little piglet, and the piglets howled all the way, and when they were put into the pigsty, they immediately shut up.

The piglets are white and a little cute, and they don't have the stupid appearance of growing up.

Liu Qingyan and Qingzhi went to the vegetable garden to break some old lettuce leaves to tease the piglets.

Xie fed the pigs with a bucket of mixed pig food, which was cooked with corn stubble and broken rice.

Pouring the pig food into the stone trough in the pigsty, Xie smiled and said to Liu Qingyan and Qingzhi, who were watching the piglets grab food: "This is the first meal of the piglets in our house, give them a better meal, and there will be no such good food in the future, so you have to mix some wild vegetables to feed." I'll leave it to you to do the same work, and I'll go and fetch some pigweed and come back and feed the pigs. ”

Liu Qingyan was a little incredulous when she heard this, and asked with a glare: "Mother, you mean I can go out?" ”

"Well, you can go out, looking at your cleverness now, there shouldn't be anything wrong.

Liu Qingyan was ecstatic in her heart, and ran out after pulling Qingzhi.

"Slow down, be careful when you go to the river." Xie shouted to the back that was as far away as the wind.

"Got it."

The sun is warm, the grass and trees are fresh, the little sisters are walking in the fields with a bamboo basket, and the pure and bright smile of the girl is vivid and dazzling in the spring light, which is unforgettable at first sight.

The willow branches on the river bank are swaying, the catkins are light, and there are one or two shades of red peach blossoms dotted among them, and Liu Qingyan's mood is also fluttering up unconsciously.

"The peach and willow catkins are white, and they follow the wind day after day." He improvised two lines of poetry, picked a willow leaf with his hand, flattened it between his lips with both hands, and blew it vigorously, and a few lively and crisp notes jumped out, rippling away with the flying catkins in the sky.

When Qingzhi saw it, she also picked a leaf and learned to blow it, but she couldn't blow it anymore, and her little face turned red.

As soon as we talked about catkins, catkins arrived.

"Sister Qingyan, Qingzhi." The girl's shout could be heard in the distance.

Liu Qingyan fixed her eyes and saw several little girls of the same age waving their hands.

These little girls felt familiar, searched in their minds, and remembered that they were Qingzhi's best playmates, catkins and willow branches, who used to come to the house to play with Qingzhi, and there was a younger one, who had no impression in their memory.

"Catkins, willow branches, and small cui, you also come to hunt pigweed!" When a few people walked in front of them, Qingzhi and the little girls chatted and greeted each other.

Liu Qingyan smiled and watched quietly.

"Sister Qingyan, are you all right? It's been a long time since I've seen you come out! Liu Zhi greeted Liu Qingyan, but his tone was alienated, not as enthusiastic as Qingzhi. The original owner's personality is too shy and introverted, and his relationship with other people is always lukewarm.

"Okay, it's all right, I'll come out to play with you more often in the future." The smile on Liu Qingyan's face is even stronger, she is no longer the same as before, and she will not live alone in the best years like before.

Among the little girls, Liu Qingyan is the oldest, Liu Zhi is eleven years old, Liu Wu is the same age as Qingzhi, and Xiao Cui is only nine years old.

"Sister Qingyan, were you playing the flute just now? It's so nice. Liu Zhi looked at Liu Qingyan curiously and asked.

"It's blowing this leaf." Liu Qingyan raised the willow leaf in her hand and sent it to her lips again.

"Ah, this leaf can also be blown so well, Sister Qingyan, I want to learn."

"I'll learn too, Sister Qingyan, what's fun to teach us to play!"

The innocent and romantic little girl, her curiosity was aroused, and several people chattered around Liu Qingyan again, and the relationship between them suddenly became closer, and people's feelings were so delicate.

Liu Qingyan looked at the weeping willows in front of her and said to the women, "I'll teach you to play the willow flute." ”

Break down the weeping willow branches and make willow flutes of different lengths, one for each person.

Liu Qingyan first demonstrated the blowing, like the clear sound of the young phoenix escaping, infecting the trees, the landscape, and the village houses, making the young girls' immature faces show a novel smile.

"I want it too, I want it too, Sister Qingyan teaches me to blow."

So, either deep and low, or sharp and long, the sound of the willow flute was not settled, and it rose again and again, wafting in the vast fields of Baishui Village, interspersed with the cheerful frolicking sounds of the girls.

The terrain of Baishui Village is open, the water flow of Baishui River flows smoothly and slowly to the east, and the weeping willows on both sides of the river and the aquatic plants on the riverbed line the river like a green jade belt.

Under the willow trees, there are lush weeds, small wild flowers, colorful butterflies dancing among the flowers, and various small insects crawling on the weeds.

The little girls scattered, and soon filled their baskets, and then gathered together to play.

Break off the green weeping willow branches, compare the size of your own head, make a small ring, wrap some silk carrots, insert red, blue, white, pink, purple wildflowers, make a beautiful wreath and wear it on your head, and judge each other who does it better.

The little girls had enough to play, carrying bamboo baskets, wearing garlands on their heads, and playing willow flutes to go home, and only lowered their voices when they arrived at the entrance of the village, and promised to meet again tomorrow.

After eating lunch, Xie went out with a bamboo basket, and before leaving, he instructed Qingyan and Qingzhi to do needlework at home.

Liu Qingyan naturally didn't go to embroider obediently, so she found a piece of red rope and came out to play with Qingzhi turning over the flower rope.

After a while, Xie came back with a basket of duck eggs, and he didn't blame him when he saw the two of them playing.

"Yan'er, my mother doesn't know how you make this duck egg, so I took thirty of them back first, and see if it is enough?"

Liu Qingyan rummaged through the duck eggs in the basket, picked one up and shook it gently in her ear to see if the duck eggs had become "bad eggs".

"That's enough, mother, I just came up with this method, and I don't know if it will work out, let's try these first."

It takes at least a month for salted duck eggs to be successfully pickled, and thirty are really not enough to eat, in order to avoid Xie's suspicions, Liu Qingyan had to say try to do it,

"Pickled, how to pickle this duck egg?" Xie Shi was puzzled, thinking that this is not a melon vegetable, how can duck eggs be pickled!

"Mother, you go to the threshing field to get some fine loess and come back, you have to use loess to pickle duck eggs." Liu Qingyan grabbed Xie's arm and coquettishly.

Xie Shi had no resistance to his daughter's coquettishness, and tapped Liu Qingyan's forehead with his finger, and said angrily: "You girl, you think of some ideas to come out and toss your mother every day." ”

"It's not that my mother loves me!" Liu Qingyan leaned her head on Xie's shoulder, rubbing and rubbing.

"Okay, mother, I'll get it for you." Xie smiled helplessly, took a short shovel and dustpan and left.

Wash the duck eggs one by one, put two benches under the shade of the tree, and set up a bamboo sieve to put the duck eggs on to dry.

Qingzhi was assigned to boil water in the stove room, and she was quite enthusiastic about making new food.