The straw mats, cotton wool mattresses, and quilts all fully absorb the heat of the sun, and the quilt covers are washed freshly and refreshingly, and Yuri Kazuki was very satisfied when she lay down in the quilt that night.

The weather slowly warmed up, and the wicker sprouted, at first it was a faint yellow, and then the green became more and more intense, and in the blink of an eye, thousands of strands hung down, like a bare old man suddenly becoming a young beauty, and the best thing was to have a cloud of hair.

At this time, it is also the time when the farmers are at their most green, and the seeds have to be planted, and the previous year's grain has already been eaten in the winter.

No one bothered to appreciate the silky spring rain and the green grass that looked close but there was no one, most of them were starved with hunger, and their shriveled bodies swayed in the empty robes. Sometimes, there are big families in the city who come to Aoyagi Town on tall horses or horse-drawn carriages, and the scenery is very beautiful, but they feel that the locals on the street are very eyesore.

Among these hungry people, especially the villagers in the villages around Aoyagi, the townspeople are relatively wealthy, at most they do not eat as well as before, but they rarely go hungry.

It's just like Song Haonian who didn't have any food at home, and he killed all the roosters in order to replenish Lily's body, and he had to starve at this time.

If it was before getting married, Song Haonian would naturally have a way: either go to Liu Yi's house for a meal or two, or go home to ask his father and mother for food, plus he can find some prey from the woods, he can also deal with it for a while.

The best thing is, of course, that Brother Liu Yi has a business, and when he goes out with his brothers, not only does he not have to worry about food, but he can also leave some money on a trip. In the past, Song Haonian's five guan money was saved in this way.

But now that he is a family man, he can't do this kind of scoundrel thing if he wants to beg for food from others to support his wife. A man has a good face, if he doesn't even want face and has no shame, then a man will not be far from waste.

Lily has a full stomach to get rich, but it is difficult for the Qiao woman to cook without rice, and there is no food at home, so she has to starve. Song Haonian's eyes became more and more guilty when he saw her, but he didn't know that Lily was also very sorry: if it weren't for her mother hollowing out Song Haonian's family foundation, with those five hangings alone, Song Haonian would have eaten more than enough meat every day throughout the spring.

Lily looked for an opportunity to ask him, "Do we want spring ploughing?"

Song Haonian liked her very much, and honestly shook his head and replied, "No seeds." ”

When he divided the family, he was given ten acres of land, but he did not give a grain of grain to his family, and since he built these grass houses, the clay jars and chest of drawers for storing grain were full for a few days.

Sometimes I am really angry that my father and mother are partial, so I will be cheeky and go back to ask for food. But when he takes his daughter-in-law back to eat, he will be poked in the back and scolded for his lazy bones, and his skin is not so thick.

Lily sighed, she can understand after getting along with each other these days, Song Haonian looks tall and fierce, in fact, he is not bad, and he is probably honest and unlikable when he is at his parents' house. The eldest girl and him are husband and wife, they are really deaf and dumb, a pair made in heaven.

In the face of such an honest person, she can't say anything mean, but feels reliable - she is an honest person who can suffer losses, and later became a teacher and became capable, and she is still more at ease with honest people in her bones.

Without seeds, the few acres of land in the family had to be abandoned, not to mention that the Song family did not have cattle to plough the land, Lily sighed again under the idea of honestly farming.

The two young couples were relatively silent, and suddenly someone outside shouted: "Brother Da Nian, Brother Da Nian!"

This voice Song Haonian is very familiar, he agreed, went out to open the door, "Xiaofu." The person who came was his righteous brother, Wang Xiaofu, a grocer who walked the streets and alleys.

Lily also hurriedly stood upright, took a look at Wang Xiaofu, and avoided the kitchen in a restrained manner.

Wang Xiaofu greeted "sister-in-law", then ignored Lily, and talked to Song Haonian by himself: "The feather dusters and shuttlecocks you sent me here last time were sold, and I didn't have enough money for a while, so I couldn't get the money." Brother Danian, I'll exchange it for food for you. ”

Song Haonian looked at Wang Xiaofu, then at the bag of grain he carried, and smiled bitterly: "How much money did you exchange for that idea?"

His brother will not be greedy for his money, Wang Xiaofu insists on not giving money, and prefers to exchange it for food and send it, there is only one possibility, that is, to subsidize him in secret.

The two righteous brothers tacitly agreed, Wang Xiaofu no longer coaxed Song Haonian with lies, but just smiled: "Brother Da Nian, I know that you are not easy now, so don't be polite to me." There's not much food here, you collect it first, and when I encounter something in the future, won't I have to rely on a few brothers?"

At the beginning, Wang Xiaofu was sweet and sweet, and he was the most popular merchant in the town, and other merchants couldn't get used to it, so they blocked him in the alley and beat him to death, or Song Haonian and other brothers passed by and scared away those people, so that they could be saved.

After that, Wang Xiaofu married with them and became one of Liu Yi's sworn brothers, and their brothers each looked for those merchants to teach them a lesson, and since then, no one dared to beat him because Wang Xiaofu would do business.

"Lily," Song Haonian couldn't say it with gratitude and emotion, and called Lily, "Cook, leave Xiaofu to eat!"

The millet sent by Wang Xiaofu was soaked in water, and Lily found a handful of gray cabbage from the basket in the corner. The scientific name of gray cabbage is "quinoa", and it is found everywhere in the fields, on the roadside, and behind the house, and it grows one by one in spring.

Lily in the modern countryside, often play ash cabbage to feed pigs, grow up and have a good life, occasionally want to eat wild vegetables, will also pick ash ash cabbage to adjust the taste, is a more delicious and nutritious wild vegetable.

There is a layer of fluff on the leaves of the gray cabbage, and there is a layer of purple-red powder, these powders are not edible, it is best to dry the vegetables, blanch them several times, wash the powder, and eat them in the broth as vegetables.

Of course, the Song family has no meat, Lily boiled a pot of hot water, blanched the gray cabbage that had been washed several times twice, and watched the color change from bright green with a little gray and purple to dark green, and the heart was almost the same, so he poured out the water, poured water into the pot again, and washed the millet after boiling.

Then cut the gray cabbage that is cooled after blanching into dices, wait for the millet to be boiled until it blooms, then go into it, roll it one or two more, and add salt to it, and it becomes a pot of vegetable porridge.

The millet porridge is originally golden brown, but when the gray cabbage is added, the soup turns gray-green, and it does not smell or look unpleasant.

Wang Xiaofu didn't shirk his brother's food, so he drank two bowls of millet gray cabbage porridge at Song's house, and Lily couldn't help but add food to the two of them, and said embarrassedly: "It's all my fault for being clumsy, I don't have anything good to entertain you." ”

She took all the blame for not having good food at home on herself, Song Haonian naturally had a big face, fortunately, he was not the kind of person who didn't know how to raise his eyebrows and low his eyes, as soon as Wang Xiaofu left, he said to Lily: "It's me who is useless, I can't let my mother-in-law eat." Don't worry, I will let you live a good life in the future!"

Lily was drinking porridge, and was paying attention to the fragrance of wild vegetables, and when he heard him say solemnly, he bent his eyebrows and nodded with a smile.