Lamei asked Wang Xiaofu to carry water, and she was not idle, carrying a wooden bucket to carry water together.

In a col north of the village, a stream of clear water bubbled out of the huge rocks, and over the years, a smooth groove was carved out of the boulder and deposited into a pool at the bottom.

On both sides of the groove, because there are perennial people stepping on their feet to catch the water, grinding out two marks, Lamei skillfully stepped on it to catch the water, and listened to Wang Xiaofu: "I'll come!"

Lamei smiled, jumped down from the groove, and let Wang Xiaofu go up. Wang Xiaofu took a sip of water with his hands first, and praised: "It's so sweet!"

"Sweet is sweet, it's just too cold, don't drink too much, be careful about your stomachache, hit it back and dry it for a while before you can drink it." "As long as this mountain spring water is not put under the sun, it will faintly emit cool air even if it is hit back for a day, unlike the town, and the water will be so hot that it can't be drunk for half a day. The bamboo flat shoulder hangs down the hook at both ends, hangs up two buckets of water, and sways slightly when walking, and people need to reach out and hold it one after the other, so as not to ripple out too much. Wang Xiaofu was used to carrying the burden, walked very easily, and looked back at Lamei: "If you can't lift it, you can mention it less, and it's a big deal that I will run two more times."

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"I'm not so squeamish," Lamei said, "you look at the road, and you fall your teeth carefully." ”

The two of them made three trips, filled the water tank, and there were two buckets of water in the bucket to use first, and then sat in the hall to rest.

The old couple didn't go home for a few days, but this time it was a new house, and Lily was determined to make something good to eat, so she asked Li Mingjiang: "Dad, what do you want to eat?"

Lamei said: "I'm so tired that I don't want to move, so you still want to make food." ”

"If you're really tired, go sleep for a while, and then get up and help me cook. Lily is also a little tired, she is still a little young, but seeing that Song Haonian and Wang Xiaofu seem to be hungry, they can't go home hungry.

Lamei smiled and said, "Can I still ask you to cook alone?" As she spoke, she called Wang Xiaofu to chop wood, "Let the rain get wet a lot, and you can pick it up." ”

Song Haonian moved the rice and flour fumes to the kitchen early, and went to cut the grass and feed the mules. Lily walked around the kitchen and came out and said, "Let's eat dried bamboo shoots and fried bacon today." ”

This dried bamboo shoot was given to her by Li Mingjiang in winter, and the remaining few were not eaten, and now Li Mingjiang is seriously injured, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to eat in the future.

When she lived in her daughter's house, Zhu couldn't wait to eat rice and meat every day, but when she returned to her home, she immediately felt distressed: "Don't make white rice, just eat miscellaneous rice, and put less meat." ”

Lily laughed when she heard it: "Just one meal, you can't eat poorly." ”

Zhu didn't feel that he couldn't eat enough, and when he saw Lily cutting bacon and washing millet, blood was dripping from his eyes. The lily is first soaked in hot water to dry bamboo shoots, cut into slices after changing the water several times, and then steamed a piece of bacon through the water, and also cut into slices. Put a little oil in the iron pot, pour the bacon and ginger slices into it and fry it over high heat, the bacon itself contains oil, the more you fry the oil, the more you fry the oil, and then put the bamboo shoots into it, pour a spoonful of water slightly

Simmer for a while.

Wait for the bamboo shoots to absorb the bacon fat and become moist and pleasant, and then add a spoonful of autumn oil to taste. A lot of salt is used in the curing of bacon, which has a salty taste, and it tastes without salt, and then sprinkles a handful of garlic seedlings into it to increase the fragrance.

In addition, boil a poached egg soup, and put the next handful of gray cabbage in the soup, which is a good soup.

The bacon is fat and thin, not firewood or greasy, and the dried bamboo shoots are full of special fresh fragrance, lined with oil, which makes it more and more delicious. Song Haonian and Wang Xiaofu, the two strong young men, were indeed hungry, so they ate two bowls of mixed rice with bamboo shoots and fried bacon in one go, and scooped soup to drink.

Zhu's person, always you think she is good, she will make trouble for you, when others think she is not saved, and show a little reasonable, Lily boils six poached eggs according to the head, she prefers to give her son-in-law two people when scooping soup: "You are all hard, eat slowly, don't worry." ”

Lily held the bowl and snickered, Lamei rolled her eyes, and before she could speak, she saw Wang Xiaofu sandwiching a poached egg into her bowl. Zhu said: "You eat yours, don't worry about the three girls, she has a lot of eyes." ”

Lamei: ""

Song Haonian knew that Lily didn't like to eat egg yolks, so he only sandwiched two egg whites to her, and whispered, "You eat more." ”

Zhu pouted, sandwiched a poached egg for Li Mingjiang, and gave him his egg yolk: "I don't like to eat this yellow kernel, it's weird." ”

After counting, six people still have a poached egg per person, but they eat a lot of affection.

After eating, Lily washed the dishes with Lamei, and Song Haonian took Wang Xiaofu to chop firewood nearby, so as not to have enough firewood for the second elder. Seeing that everything was in order, it was not early, so I left for home.

Lamei has only been married for a few days now, and people are still a little confused, so when she returned to the town, she automatically went to Lily's house, or Wang Xiaofu pulled her: "Our family is over there!"

Only then did she react: "Ah, I almost went to my eldest sister's house!"

Lily laughed: "In this case, go to my house, let's mix some pimple soup and eat." ”

As she was talking, Xing'er jumped up and down, saying, "Auntie, I've been waiting for you for a long time." ”

Lily hurriedly asked Xing'er what was wrong, and Xing'er said: "My mother said that you are all tired of the day, and it is troublesome to cook when you go home, so she told me to wait here, and when she saw you, she called me to my house for dinner." ”

"What's your meal?" said Lamei, "If the food is not good, I will not eat it." ”

Xing'er tilted her head and thought for a while: "My mother's slurry gnocchi soup, Aunt Lamei, do you want to eat it?"

"Yo, this is too good to be eaten, let's go eat it!"

The relationship between several families does not need to see each other, and often one family is not allowed to cook for other families, and must be called to eat together, Song Haonian and a few happily went to Liu Yi's house.

Xing'er twisted her eyebrows and pulled Lily's hand: "I just think that the pulp soup is not very delicious, and Aunt Lamei also said that it is delicious" She felt that Lamei was very tasteless.

Lamei pretended to be angry and said, "Then I'll eat your food!"

Xing'er had a serious illness some time ago, Li Caifeng felt sorry for her, she was distressed, she was picky on weekdays, and she had to eat with adults, but now it's good, adults eat pimple soup, and they also cook sweet potato millet porridge for her.

The sweet potato porridge is sweet and the color is also good-looking, much better than the pimple soup, Xing'er hurriedly hugged Lamei and said sweetly: "Good aunt, Xing'er's rice is for you to eat, but my mother has made too little, let my mother make some more." ”

"Slippery!" Lamei couldn't help but laugh.

When they arrived at Liu Yi's house, Liu Yi and his wife first asked, "Have you sent your father back?"

Lily said: "It's all settled, and we'll go to see them every ten days from now on." At this time, she remembered the phone call in her previous life, there was no convenient communication, sometimes something happened to the two elders, they didn't know anything, it was really suspenseful to think about.

Li Caifeng said with a smile: "Don't worry, my father and brother are all in the village, even if there is anything, I can take care of one or two, and report to you a letter, I can't make a big mistake." ”

Baihe thinks too, the countryside is very humane, and Li Mingjiang has injuries on his body, so there are old people who go to him every day to talk, one is to relieve boredom, and the other is to see if there is anything wrong with people.

There are people in a village, even if not everyone cares, most of them have no malicious intent, plus they go back every few days to take care of their daughters and send some rice and flour cloth, Li Mingjiang and Zhu's two days will not be too bad.

After eating, the moon rose, a few people chattered, Li Caifeng asked Lily and Lamei: "Do you still have shavings water there?"

The shavings water is soaked in water from peach wood and elm shavings to soak out the gelatin, and it is rubbed on the hair when combing the hair, which can make the hair smooth and moist.

Li Caifeng usually thinks this thing is sticky, and she doesn't like to use it very much, and she doesn't need it because she has good hair, but Lamei originally had one or two ** when she lived in her eldest sister's house.

Lamei said, "What do you want to do with shavings? ”

"It's not my little demon star yet. Xing'er was also sleepy early, and at this time she was already asleep in her father's arms, and her little head was little by little, Liu Yi hurriedly supported her head, and carefully changed her position to make her daughter lie more comfortable.

Li Caifeng said: "Look at her, she wants someone to sleep in her arms, if she puts it on the bed at this time, she will wake up and refuse to sleep, leave her alone, and plant it in the ground." ”

The two young couples looked at Apricot and laughed and lowered their voices. Li Caifeng said again, "Her hair is a little yellow and very thin, I grabbed her and washed it back, and I had to be like a chicken Yes, the comb can't be caged." On weekdays, she always knots, combing her hair and shouting that it hurts, her father is used to her, saying that she doesn't comb her hair, which also makes you say that the girl's family doesn't comb her hair.

Will you be able to get married in the future?"

Xing'er is only seven or eight years old, and when she is a mother, she worries about her future marriage, "My hair was like this when I was a child, and it was better with some shavings water, so I asked you if you have it, try it for her, and if it is good, I will buy it." ”

Lamei clapped her hands and said: "You ask me can be regarded as asking people! According to me, shavings water is fine, I got married two days when Qingpine brought me two ** osmanthus oil, that is fragrant and moist, better than shavings water, turn around and you find a ** pour half **, dedicated to the apricots. ”

Osmanthus oil is much more expensive than shavings water, Li Caifeng hurriedly said: "She is a villain, where can she use such a precious thing?"

"Just when I Xie Xing'er shared my sweet potatoes to eat. Lamei remembered Xing'er's quirky appearance, and she couldn't hold back her laughter at first.

I didn't mention it when I went home that night, and the next day I sent half a ** osmanthus oil, as soon as I opened it, it was a rich aroma that could not be dissolved, the texture was moist, the color was also beautiful, and the apricots loved it so much that she couldn't find a comb and stuffed it into her mother's hand: "Mother, comb my hair!"

"You!" Li Caifeng tapped Xing'er's head, dropped two or three drops of oil into his hand, and evenly wiped it on Xing'er's hair, and Xing'er sniffed intoxicated.

Comb her hair again, it was a lot smoother, Xing'er no longer had a sore foot, Li Caifeng was satisfied with combing her daughter with two bags of buns, and found a piece of red silk to tie it up. Xing'er looked left and right in the mirror, it was so beautiful, she held her chin with her little hand and said, "When I grow up, I must be as good-looking as my mother, aunt, and aunt!"