Chapter 4: It's better to be a girl
The words were not spit out, and the breath was like a quiet orchid.
Gorgeous and graceful, it makes me forget to eat. ”
Chen Shilian lay down for a while and found that it was lunch time, and Zou's mother was busy in the kitchen. She was also tired of work, so she immediately started to help and cook lunch with Zou's mother.
Usually the Zou family has nothing to eat, sweet potatoes and artichokes are the staple food, rice is available, but the yield is not much, the vegetable field is not far from home, pick and eat fresh at any time. In this early spring, I also eat mustard stalks, pickled plum cabbage after the mustard greens are dried, and there is dried radish pickled red and tofu made of edamame tofu.
At noon, there are only two of them at home, the staple food is steamed sweet potatoes and artichokes, and then stir-fry mustard greens, then a plum vegetable soup, plus dried radish and tofu, and they will have a meal.
After eating, Chen Shilian originally wanted to go to Old Man Zou and the two of them, but deep in the mountains, she was not familiar with the road, how could she find someone. So she waited for them to come back in the peach orchard.
Not to mention, a small peach orchard, there are only a dozen peach trees, and the peach trees are full of pink, which is really beautiful. Chen Shilian has a feeling of being in a warm sea of flowers, and she is reluctant to fold a flower to play with.
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The Zou father and son were about to arrive at their peach orchard, and they saw a woman in the peach blossom forest from a distance, approaching the flowers and smelling the faint fragrance, with a happy face.
When they got closer, Chen Shilian saw them.
She wanted to speak, but she didn't know what to say, thinking about the way she had just smelled the flowers, her cheeks were crimson, and she walked towards them with a bright smile.
Zou Wenfang was a little stunned, isn't this the person depicted in "Luo Shen Fu"? He just stared at people in a daze, and he didn't even react at all when Chen Shilian reached out to take the prey in his hand.
Chen Shilian also saw his stupid appearance, snorted slightly, turned around and followed her father.
Dad was also hungry, so he picked up the sweet potatoes and potatoes that were still hot in the pot and ate them, and ate them after three or two bites. Soon he was full, and began to boil hot water, ready to scald his prey.
Zou Wenfang came in late for half a day to eat, and he was also hungry, but he looked good. With an artichoke in his hand, he ate the red and bright dried radish and tofu with relish.
Chen Shilian was next to her father and wanted to help, how could the old man be willing to let this girl work. "You sit next to you, and I'll get this with the old woman."
Chen Shilian is also a little stubborn, just to come up and help.
Seeing this, the old man liked this girl even more, a really sensible girl, "Good boy, today these are the old man's special calls to pick you up and make up for your body." Remember to eat more at night, this will be your home in the future. ”
Chen Shilian was also very moved, "Well, I know, uncle." ”
Zou Wenfang was hungry while eating, watching the three of them busy working, and did not speak, and from time to time he glanced at his future daughter-in-law. provoked Chen Shilian's eyes one after another.
Old man Zou didn't see it, and Zou's mother also saw all this. Zou's mother sighed: Her son has reached the age where he can marry a daughter-in-law, although this daughter-in-law candidate is the old man's master, she has no right to decide on the candidate, but this girl is really good. Handsome, well-behaved and capable, she likes it very much. And looking at my son like that, too. It's spring, since his son likes it, and the two of them have the life of their parents, so it is naturally a good marriage. She didn't know if Chen Shilian knew about the baby's parent, so she wouldn't mention it at this time, and she would discuss it with the old man when she rested at night.
Chen Shilian didn't know anything about the baby's relatives at all, but just now Zou Mu and the stinky boy looked at her strangely, especially the stinky boy, whose eyes were shining. Find a time to teach a lesson, dare to stare at my sister so fruitfully, and give you a few chestnuts to eat.
The three of them were very quick with their hands and feet, and it didn't take long to clean up the two pheasants.
At home, Zou's mother was in charge, and she decided: "These two pheasants are used to steam sweet chicken soup, and the other two are directly braised and the rabbits are boiled with snow potatoes." ”
Chen Shilian must have no opinion when she first came, Zou Wenfang didn't have any right to speak at home, and finally the old man Zou came out to give advice, "Okay, sweet chicken soup is good, old man, I like sweet chicken soup the most." That hare will eat more Shilian later, nourish her blood and nourish her skin. ”
Chen Shilian whispered: "Well, thank you, uncle and aunt." ”
Zou Wenfang was directly ignored by the three of them, the old couple was used to treating him like this, Chen Shilian was revenge for the kid who just didn't know how to be polite and stared at him, and ignored him. But he is really used to it, when he has his sister at home, he talks to them more, and he has nothing to say to the old man. Books are his favorite, and of course, sweet chicken soup is also the same.
Zou Mu brought a large porcelain soup pot, filled it with chopped pheasant pieces, added wolfberry, angelica, codonopsis, and astragalus, added soup, and put it in a pot to steam.
The stove made of local "fairy mud" and stones is boxy. There is a large cauldron on the low dark stove, and the pots here are all large iron pots of nearly 80 centimeters, and the bottom is the stove. The steamed sweet chicken soup has been put into the pot, covered with a wooden pot, and the firewood in the stove is burning hot.
Old man Zou asked Chen Shilian to look at the firewood, anyway, it was almost finished, those internal organs and other things were also good goods, he didn't let his daughter touch those dirty things. Chen Shilian didn't say much, just sat in front of the stove and "set fire".
Chen Shilian stared at the flames in the stove, and remembered that when she was a child, when the family celebrated the New Year, it was like now, her father and mother were busy killing chickens, and she herself "set fire" in front of the stove. Thinking, thinking, and tears.
Zou Wenfang kept looking at Chen Shilian, and she cried for some reason, "Yurong is lonely and tears are dry, and pear blossoms bring rain in spring", he knew that Sister Chen was homesick and missed her parents.
As soon as he got up and wanted to step forward to comfort her, Chen Shilian turned her head and noticed his actions, and after seeing his sincere and pure eyes, she also knew that he wanted to come over to comfort herself, so she nodded to him and thanked him.
Zou Wenfang sat back again, and it was good that his mind arrived. I wanted to wipe her tears and comfort her to talk to him, but now it's not necessary.
The sweet chicken soup will be steamed for an hour, and Zou Wenfang won't know anything, but he also knows that he has to add water to the pot, otherwise the whole family will eat "roast chicken" after evaporation?
As for the braised chicken, use lard to stir-fry the garlic, simmer it, add some soy sauce and salt, and it's almost the same.
Old man Zou chopped the hare into pieces and cut the shaved snow potatoes into sections.
The snow potatoes in Sibao are actually yams, but they are different from the yams in the north.
The northern yam is small in diameter, one or two centimeters, but it is very long, suitable for stir-frying, and it is very delicious to eat.
The snow potatoes in Sibao are large in diameter, three or four centimeters are very common, and those that grow well are thirty or forty centimeters long, thick and heavy, suitable for stir-frying, stewing and stewing. The taste of stir-fry is smooth, slightly sweet, crisp and tender, and refreshing; The snow potatoes stewed and stewed with the meat taste like betel nut taro, and the meat has a strong flavor and its own sweetness.
By six o'clock, it was already dark, and the Zou family was like a New Year today, with three bowls of meat, a few vegetarian dishes, and a big table.
Chen Shilian's bowl has always been piled with meat, and Old Man Zou and Zou Mother have been adding it to her, both of which are as tall as a hill, and they want to serve her vegetables again, and they ask her "if it's delicious".
She also feels so happy, this is the feeling of home that she hasn't had in a long time. She kept holding back her tears, for fear that she couldn't help crying on this festive day and spoiled the atmosphere. "Well, it's delicious."
"If it's delicious, you can eat more, these people can eat the best today, and tomorrow it won't be fresh," Old man Zou himself drank Hakka rice wine and ate chicken butts. Chen Shilian's bowl was full of meat, and his bowl was full of claws, neck, and buttocks. (The head was smashed by a gun, and it was thrown directly.) )
Chen Shilian didn't want to go, and also sandwiched chicken thighs for the old man, "Uncle, you also eat more meat." ”
Old man Zou was happy in his heart, and his daughter knew that it hurt people, although there was a smile on the corner of his mouth, but he said: "It's okay, it's okay, I like to eat this chicken head and chicken butt or something." This chicken butt, the fattest meat, melts in the mouth, the mouth is full of fragrance, and then a sip of rice wine, it is enjoyment. ”
The old man didn't usually talk much, drank some wine, and when he encountered happy events, he would talk non-stop.
Chen Shilian had never eaten chicken butts since she was a child, and when she heard Old Man Zou say this, she put one out of his bowl. Old man Zou was still talking about the "deliciousness" of chicken butts, so she took a bite directly, and in an instant, her face became red, sassy, this chicken butt tasted too sassy. Looking at the biting chicken butt on the chopsticks, she didn't eat it, and she didn't eat it.
Zou Wenfang on the side also stared at her dumbfounded, this Sister Chen can, she can eat it. But when he saw her red cheeks, he knew the truth. I think he was also deceived by the old man's sentence "melts in the mouth, and the mouth is full of fragrance", but today I didn't expect Sister Chen to be tricked.
"Poof, hahaha", Zou Wenfang couldn't hold back, and laughed directly. However, the old man's murderous gaze immediately shot at him. He also covered his mouth instantly.
At this time, Old Man Zou noticed Shilian's embarrassment, "cough cough", embarrassed, "Shilian, uh, do you want to take a sip of wine." ”
Or Zou Mu came out to relieve the siege, "Come on, come on, Shilian, drink more sweet chicken soup." It's all to blame the stinky old man, he likes to eat, and he tricks other people's daughters to eat too. But the old man's trick has also been tried, our whole family has been deceived, the one who laughed the loudest just now, was deceived and ate a whole bite directly, and he couldn't eat for a few days. She laughed happily as she spoke.
Zou Wenfang said aggrievedly: "Mother, you are digging up my black history, haven't you and the eldest sister, the second sister and the third sister also eaten?" I'm not the only one. Hey, hey, hey. ”
"Poof," Chen Shilian couldn't hold back and laughed. After listening to Zou Wenfang's embarrassment, she was no longer so embarrassed, but she still ate the chicken butt. In this war-torn era, some meat is good to eat and cannot be wasted. "Actually, if you get used to the taste, you can still eat it."
"Look, look, huh? Or is the girl sensible? ”
"Just your stinky bullshit, eat your chicken ass."
The family had a full meal.