Chapter 3: Today is Laba
As usual on those days, Yukimi was woken up hungry again.
I really want to continue to rely on the warm kang, but today is Laba, so I have to get up to make pot Laba porridge.
After dinner yesterday, she took out the only little inventory and the ingredients that Zhou's mother borrowed from her neighbor Wang Lianjiao's house, and checked it, just enough for a pot to be thick enough for twenty people to eat.
sighed, put back half of it, picked out a few handfuls of polished rice, mung beans, red beans, lotus seeds, etc., as well as a small handful of lentils, red dates, longan, lilies, wolfberries, barley, millet, and then asked Zhou's mother to wash rice, soak fruits, peel the skin, and remove the core.
It's still early in the morning, but we have to get up and stew it over a slight fire, so that everyone can get up and have a decent Laba porridge to drink.
As soon as she moved, Zhou Bo opened his eyes, looked at the sky outside and was still dark, and asked in a low voice, "What are you doing so early?" ”
Because you can't eat, wax is also a luxury.
She sat in the quilt and sighed while dressing: "It's Laba today." ”
In the dark, I heard Zhou Bo be silent for a moment before saying, "There is Zhou's mother." ”
Xue Jian sighed again: "Alas, I think so too, I'm afraid that you young masters and young ladies of the Zhou family won't agree." ”
Zhou Bo said lightly: "There are a lot of words!" ”
In the dark, Yukimi imagined the scene of Zhou Bo's paralyzed face glaring at her, and her mood suddenly improved.
After a while, when Xue saw the kitchen, Zhou's mother had already made a fire, and Xue saw that she just watched her put the ingredients into the pot, and then told her to add water to boil and then switch to low heat to boil into thick porridge.
Mother Zhou rushed out of the kitchen after seeing the snow, and she tiptoed back to the house, got back into the hot bed, and slept back. It's a pity that there is no sleepiness, Yukimi's eyes widened and she didn't move, she fell into deep thought.
After a while, she gently pushed Zhou Bo with her hand, but Zhou Bo ignored her. Taking advantage of the darkness to do bad things, she thought badly, and then had the courage to rub the face of the paralyzed man with her hands.
Zhou Bo still didn't make a sound, but tilted his head slightly, bit her hand, and she cried out in pain.
Zhou Bo's eyes sparkled in the darkness and looked at her, she was in a trance for a moment, and then she said in a weak heart, "Young master, I, the slave told you......"
Zhou Bo closed his eyes and snorted: "Say!" ”
Xue Jian said cautiously: "I heard Sanni say, the village is the Daqing River, the river is very wide, in the summer children go to swim in the river, and some fish come to the fish, and the adults are scolded for fear of drowning......"
"Getting to the point!"
I couldn't help but roll my eyes in the dark, and Xue Jian asked, "Why do people fish in the village in the summer, but don't fish if they don't eat in winter?" ”
Zhou Bo's eyes suddenly opened, Xue Jian was startled, and muttered: "I forgot all the previous things, don't stare at me......"
The dark eyes closed again, Zhou Bo just silently reached out to hug her, and only sighed and said after a while: "The river will freeze in winter, and the stupid girl has forgotten this?" ”
Yukimi let out a sigh of relief, yawned and said, "It's good to have ice, no one else can catch fish, so we can fight, and we have to envy others to death!" ”
After breakfast, the children watched Zhou Bo go back to the room, and they all revolved around Xuejian: "Xuejian, the porridge you make is delicious, can you drink it every day?" ”
"Snow sees, if it doesn't snow today, can we go out and play?" ……
Qian'er ran over and said, "Xue Jian, the sixth young master quarreled with the fourth young lady, saying that he was not full and wanted to drink another bowl of porridge." ”
Xue Jian frowned, the noise outside was not intense, Xue Jian walked out slowly, and said coldly: "Sanni, go, take the whole pot of porridge to San Lang Liulang's room." ”
Wu Niang grabbed her: "Xue Jian, are you confused?" We have this pot of porridge all day today, and there is no rice at home, and the second sister has just gone out to be her big girl. ”
Xue Jian knew that the big one was not a high-end product, and some of the better ones had already been cleared, but this one was just the most ordinary thick one at the bottom of the box.
Siniang was stunned when she heard this: "We escaped ...... this time, and we didn't prepare any thick cotton clothes, this big one, and we will cover the seventh and eighth children at night ......"
Xue Jian smiled slightly, and said to Rokuro, who was serving the pot: "Rokuro, go back and tell Saburo that take this pot of porridge, and the three of you will be enough to fill up for a day." ”
Liulang sneered: "Our tenth mother is still young, and my third brother and I are both men, and it is the time to grow our bodies." ”
Yukimi nodded: "Yes, it should be." She turned her head and said to Siniang and Wuniang: "Starting today, let's not interfere with the river water with them, don't be greedy for other people's porridge to drink, and they naturally don't have to worry about whether we will starve to death." ”
A handsome young man with a little gloom between his eyebrows, with a black face, came in from the gate of the courtyard, snatched Rokuro's pot, and put it back in the small kitchen. "Xue Jian, my father is not separated, you are a ......, but a girl, what does this mean?"
Xue Jian smiled and said, "Third Young Master, when did you hear me say that you want to split up?" After laughing, he said, "Although the snow was not heavy last night, Da Lang said that someone must sweep this yard." Now that they are all sweeping the snow in front of the door, then my girl will not delay San Lang to go back to clear the snow! ”
San Lang was so angry that the corners of his mouth trembled, but he endured it again and again, turned around and called Zhou's mother, and pulled Liulang back to his yard with Shi Niang in his arms.
At this time, Erhu ran in and said to Xuejian: "Xuejian, what is the one that the eldest young master wants, the ...... that Uncle Ma made."
"Girl," Wu Niang covered her mouth and smiled.
"Yes, penny, my father got it back, look at it, okay?"
As he spoke, Zhou Jinsheng then sent the simple penny girl that Xue Jian wanted, which was to insert a few long nails upside down at the end of the long stick.
"What is this?"
"What is it for?"
The children circled, and the second tiger also took the penny and looked at it over and over again.
In this cold region, the villagers rely on ice beds for most of their transportation in winter, and children can sometimes be seen playing on ice beds on the frozen Daqing River.
The ice bed of the Zhou family is naturally larger and stronger than the average family, and ordinary people can sit one or two people, but the Zhou family can sit up to six people. In Yukimi, it's a deluxe version of the extended ice bed.
The ice bed is usually pulled by one person in front, and the ice bed of the Zhou family was originally like this, but with this kind of snow in the name of Zhou Bo, in this way, standing at the end of the ice bed, you can support the ice bed and run.
Xue saw that she explained to everyone for a long time, and Erhu interrupted her: "Don't say any principle, reason and reason, we don't understand what you said, isn't it just a stick used to support the ice bed?" ”
Seeing the disdainful eyes of the two tigers, Xue saw that he was immediately petrified.
Ignoring Xue Jian's stunnedness, Wu Niang took her three younger brothers and sisters and got on the ice bed, and Zhou Dahu pulled them to Daqing River on Tuesday, and then began to practice supporting the ice bed with a penny.
Although Liulang was still angry, but in the end, he was a child, and he ran over to join in the fun with Shi Niang in his arms, and there was laughter and laughter on the ice for a while.
This scene envied many children playing in the Daqing River.
When Siniang came back to tell Xue Jian and Er Niang about this, Xue Jian was watching Er Niang become a female celebrity. Erniang has a pair of skillful hands to mend Hachiro's torn clothes finely and densely. Siniang sighed while mending: "Our children also have clothes that are mended and then worn......"
In one sentence, Siniang's own tears turned red first, and Erniang did not say anything.
Xue Jian tilted his head and said: "You also know that after Xue Jian fell ill, he forgot many things, even this female red, he forgot what to do." However, I still think that if this torn place is embroidered with dolans, is it not like old clothes, but also new? ”
Erniang frowned at first, and then her eyes lit up: "Xue Jian is right, catch up with Ming'er, I will clean up everyone's clothes, and if you can embroider a pattern, you will have to throw it away or redo it." This New Year is shabby enough, so let's give the kids a new breath of fresh air. ”
Just do it, Erniang and Siniang started the renovation project of old clothes, Xue saw a light smile, the new three years and the old three years of sewing and repairing for another three years, this is the way of the poor family, what kind of big family should the Zhou family be before, a piece of clothing worn two or three times, even if it is an old clothes. In the past month, pretending to have amnesia and watching them live like this and that all day long, tearing down the east wall and making up for the west wall, but the word thrift is still half-understood, and I have to sigh, a group of loser bear children!