Chapter 50: A Sweet Little Day
Chapter 50
When she couldn't see it, since she entered the yard, the eyes of the little bench would glance at her man from time to time. γLatest chapter reading. A pair of sparkling eyes, full of adoration. She dared to say that if it weren't for her own man, she wouldn't have come over to eat because she was afraid of this stinky boy. They were running around in the fields, and how happy it was.
Zhang Manchu, who was squatting in the courtyard and cleaned up the bow and arrows, came over to see the Tian bench ghostly, although he was still frowning a little unaccustomed and still had a cold face, but he didn't say anything.
Seeing that Zhang Manchu didn't scold himself, Tian Bench suddenly became a lot bolder, and after a few clicks, he squatted next to his idol Uncle Manho. Seeing the polished bow and arrow in Uncle Manchu's hand, a pair of slippery eyes glared at the boss, and said with a hippie smile: "Uncle Manchu, can you let me touch this arrow?" My grandmother said that you just shot a lot of wolves and bears with this arrow, is it true? β
The boys are curious, and they are also worshipping bloody iron men, isn't the age of Tian Bench a proper yearning for heroes and supermen? Superman may not have understood him, but when he went to the town with the adults, he heard a lot of heroic stories from the storyteller.
In their village, it is estimated that he is the most powerful Uncle Manchu. If you dare to go into the mountains alone, you can also fight wolves and kill bears and blind people
Xu didn't expect Tian Bench to say this, but Zhang Manchu was stunned for a moment. However, with a cold face, he still hummed, then handed over the bow and arrow in his hand, and told him unprecedentedly: "Don't look at the arrow is polished from wood, it's very fast, don't hurt yourself." β
Seeing Zhang Manchu handing over the things, Tian Bench was very excited, where do you remember that Lin Baozhu asked him to call someone to eat just now.
When Lin Baozhu came out to call someone, he saw his own man busy with his own affairs expressionlessly, and the bench on the side of the field fiddled with a bow and arrow. She sighed, if in her previous life, which child as big as a small bench was not raised by the family? Not to mention bows and arrows, I'm afraid I've been to a lot of various toy playgrounds.
"Don't be busy, wash your hands and eat quickly, and when the food is cold, I don't care about the heat." Lin Baozhu said, scooping water from the water tank and pouring it into the wooden basin.
Zhang Manchu saw that his daughter-in-law spoke, so he naturally went to wash his hands quickly, of course, he didn't forget to carry the bench he wanted to put on the table to wash his hands. The rules of her daughter-in-law are very meticulous, and she doesn't wash her hands and doesn't give her food.
Because it was hot now, and summer was about to begin, they moved their meals from the house to the shady courtyard in front of the stove. It's spacious and cooler than the house, and it's close to the stove, so sometimes it's convenient to add food or something.
Lin Baozhu scooped up three bowls of vegetable soup and rice, and then lifted the fried greens on the table. Although the food on the wooden table is not rich, there are dishes such as egg cakes and cold locust buds, which is particularly attractive in this hot weather.
"Auntie, it's delicious." Tian Bench took a bite of the egg cake, then snorted a bite of vegetable soup and rice, and suddenly his eyes widened. Why is there a sweet taste in this soup and rice? There was no leftover food at all, and it was delicious.
Lin Baozhu was coaxed by his small appearance, and while sandwiching some acacia rice and sending it over, he said, "If it's delicious, you can eat more, and go back and make something else for you." β
Zhang Manchu looked at his daughter-in-law who was coaxed into a smile, and then looked at a field bench that was slapping his ass, and suddenly felt that this day was really comfortable. If there was a child, it would be even better.
With such a thought, his gaze at his daughter-in-law became more and more profound. He must be nicer to her, so good that she doesn't want to leave.
After eating, before leaving, Lin Baozhu called out to Tian Bench, then took a basket and put the Huaihua rice into a bowl, and wrapped a few egg cakes and put them in. Told Tian Bench to send the food home first, and when the family went back to let everyone try it, he let the people go.
With such a toss, most of the day passed. Lin Baozhu fed the chickens and ducks, cleaned up the yard, and then took the torn clothes that Zhang Manchu had scratched and torn when he entered the mountain before and sewed them up. Looking at the stitches that she was holding back, she sighed, and it was a shame that the man was careless and didn't care about this, otherwise he might not want to wear such ugly clothes.
After asking his daughter-in-law outside, he knew that there was no physical work to be done at home, so he simply packed up his things, rolled up his sleeves and went out to the back mountain for a walk. At this time, some rabbits and pheasants will pop up from time to time in the back mountain, and it would be good if they could be caught.
On this day, when the beans in the bud rice interval in the upright field grow wildly, the people who like to gossip together on weekdays are also busy working in the fields. So there are not many people who come to look for Lin Baozhu to rest, but there are also many people who pass by and will come to leave a handful of long beans or a small pumpkin.
Lin Baozhu is not stingy, if the people who come are familiar and have good friends, they will also put some acacia rice out to make favors. No matter what, she couldn't always take advantage of the bracken harvesting to others, after all, she had the greatest profit from harvesting bracken at that time. If she really took that thing as a favor, she wouldn't be disappointed.
All afternoon, Lin Baozhu sat on the small bench to mend clothes, and occasionally someone greeted her from afar, and she responded with a smile. When it was almost time for dinner, I took the guy and went to the stove room to heat up the rest of the meal in the hot afternoon.
When there was heat in the pot, she went to look at the acacia flowers spread out on the bamboo dustpan again, and saw that they were all drained and even a little wilted, and then she put them away satisfactorily. There are a lot of acacia flowers picked today, and it doesn't use much to make locust rice just for pancakes, so she thought about simply making locust nectar. First, it is easy to preserve, and second, it can be cooled when it is hot.
Speaking of this acacia nectar is also a kind of sweet tea, in the past she also likes to ponder some flower tea, the girl is a tea master, will also like to fiddle with some flowers and plants. At the beginning, in order to make a sweet and beautiful flower tea, she deliberately went to learn one or two from the traditional flower tea masters who have been inherited for a hundred years.
I thought about it in my heart, and the action of sprinkling sugar on my hand to boil acacia flowers did not stop at all. The small wooden shovel flew back and forth in her hand, and the locust flowers in the pot slowly seeped water and became soft and sticky, but in half an hour, a small pot of locust flowers was only half a small pot of sauce. It smells sweet and weird.
Lin Baozhu saw that it was done, and happily washed a bowl with Liang Baikai first. As soon as you take the sweet and floral cold water into your mouth, the sweet and fragrant smell spreads until you drink it and it lingers for a long time. Lin Baozhu, who was still sweating because of the heat in the stove room, also felt a chill, which was really refreshing.
When he came back in the evening, Zhang Manchu caught two more rabbits, thinking that there was no oil and water at home recently, so he simply washed and skinned them and let his daughter-in-law pickle them for her own food. And he was allowed by his daughter-in-law to drink a big bowl of cold water for the first time, but he didn't want the water to be really delicious in his mouth, and it was not a little bit better than simple sugar water, so he couldn't help but smack his mouth twice.
After dinner, seeing that the sky was not completely dark, the two of them sat on the edge of the kang table and gossiped. said that it was gossip, but in fact, it was just Lin Baozhu who said that Zhang Manchu listened, and occasionally Zhang Manchu would respond a few words, but most of them only echoed.
Thinking that it would be okay anyway, Lin Baozhu simply took out the money box again. Today's incident with Tian Bench also reminded her that if there are more people entering the mountain in the future, it is inevitable that she will see those bitter grasses. If you have a heart, you are afraid that you will be able to find out about her tea picking a few times, even if you don't know the reason, I am afraid that many people will cut down the tea tree and go home for firewood because they don't know.
If that's the case, it's not only a pity, but it's also really a tyrannical thing.
But if you tell everyone about picking tea and making tea, I'm afraid it's not realistic. Not to mention how many people outside will have the idea of this natural tea garden after it spreads, and say that there are people in the village who are afraid that they will be red-eyed.
Since he got involved with everyone in the village, Lin Baozhu found out this, many times, even if you are kind, you may not be grateful by others. It's like when she harvested bracken, although she thought that she could benefit from it, but the people in the village also really beat her to make money. But there are still some people who say some weird things about yin and yang, and they will always point fingers behind her back and say that she may not have earned much, which is really unkind, and she is embarrassed to earn the hard-earned money of the villagers.
Anyway, after thinking about it, she had the idea of buying a mountain.
"Daughter-in-law, do you mean to buy all the mountains with tea trees?" Zhang Manchu frowned slightly, as if he didn't expect his daughter-in-law to have such a big mind. It's not that it's bad, but it's really a bit difficult. Although there are many mountains in Peachtree Bay and few places, the mountains are not very valuable, but if it is really calculated, it is also a lot of consumption. Not to mention that it is useless for the farmer to buy the mountain, even if it is to repair the land, the income of the land may not be enough to buy a fraction of the mountain. So for generations in the village, I haven't heard of a single person who has the idea of buying a mountain.
Lin Baozhu saw that he frowned and looked a little stunned, worried that this matter would not be easy to handle. The main reason is that she is an outsider after all, and she is not familiar with the laws and land transactions of this era, and she does not know at all whether there is a lord on the hill over there.
"But we people won't let you buy it?" Lin Baozhu asked with some disappointment, with her understanding of Zhang Manchu, if she wasn't really embarrassed, she would never be embarrassed by her own requirements.
Hearing the hope in his daughter-in-law's words and the disappointment later, knowing that she was thinking about it, Zhang Manchu quickly shook his head and said: "It's not that you won't be allowed to buy it, it's just that no one mentioned buying a mountain in the past, and I don't know the regulations inside." It's better to rush to ask Lizheng, if you can buy it, first ask what the price is, how to follow the regulations. β