Lan Yi led the donkey, Yu'er and the baby sat in the basket, and the family went to the market.

Yu'er and the baby wore Lan Yi's new sleeveless gown and dark blue square-mouth shoes. Lan Yi took a shoe sample from Chen, and it took a few days to make it from the bottom of the mille-feuille. Yu'er has been reluctant to wear it for the past few days, and only took it out and put it on when she went to the market today, staring at her shoes all the way and smirking.

Chen and Lan Yi went all the way, she went to sell the eggs laid by the hens at home and came back in exchange for some daily necessities. More than a dozen hens raised by the second aunt's family are laying eggs, except for the child who eats two, the rest are used in exchange for money, Lan Yi bought eggs once at the second aunt's house, but the second aunt did not accept her money, and Lan Yi had to give up. Yes, now she buys eggs at the market, and her second aunt's family often comes across them when they sell eggs in the market.

"Sister-in-law, these two children are really obedient, if my monkey is also with me, I won't be able to buy anything." People in the village generally do not bring children to the market, one is afraid that there will be too many people, and the other is that the children are crying when they arrive at the market to buy this and that, and it is also troublesome to carry them.

"The baby is still young, Yu'er is also sensible, and rarely asks for things." Yu'er and the baby are good, she will tell Yu'er before going to the market every time, and give him five cents every time the market is held, and he can buy one thing. Yu'er is reluctant to spend money, so every time she saves it and puts it in her own small jar, she pours it out every day and looks at it with a smile, looking like a standard little miser.

"Sister-in-law, what are you going to buy?" This family is wearing a hat on their white little faces, looking happy, if it is okay on this hot day, the three of them will not go to the market.

"Second brother and sister, I plan to buy some oil and salt, and by the way, I will buy two pots." Lan Yi led the donkey and smiled.

"Pot? Broken pot at home? "This broken pot is unlucky.

"No, there is only one big pot at home, buy two more, a small stir-fry, and a large one is used to boil water to boil pig food." Every time I bend down to fry in the big pot, it is very difficult, and it is not easy to brush up the oil pan quickly, and there are always oil ideas floating in the boiling water bath. Lan Yi's family is only three people, and it is also suitable to buy a small pot for stir-frying, she wants to remodel the kitchen, and then plate two pots, one large and one small, the big one is used to boil pig food, and the small one is used to stir-fry, of course, it would be perfect if she could buy a casserole for boiling soup.

"Sister-in-law, this pot is not cheap." Chen is a little envious, she lives with her mother-in-law, and she has to listen to her mother-in-law for everything she buys, how can Lan Yi be so comfortable.

"By the way, sister-in-law, you should have a small pot at home, I have seen it on the shelf in the east house." Chen patted his head and remembered.

"No, there's nothing on the shelf, there's only an earthen stove next to it." If there was a pot, she should be able to see it.

Chen was stunned for a moment, and sneered: "It must have been the third brother and sister who took it easily, and she can't see anything in her eyes." ”

"No, it's useless for her to take an old pot, I'm afraid it's broken and thrown away." There are also some things to say about other people's pots, and it is said that it is not auspicious.

"Yes. I guess it's broken. Chen also said goodbye, and the two went to the market and separated. Since the separation, the Chen family and the Liu family have lived separately, there are fewer quarrels, and the relationship has gradually eased.

Lan Yi left the donkey at the entrance of the market and took the two children to start shopping.

The big iron pot is eighty Wen, the small iron pot with a handle is forty Wen, the casserole is twenty Wen, and the three-mouth pot is used for more than 100 Wen, which is indeed not cheap, Lan Yi bought some daily necessities and bought some snacks for Yu'er and the baby. Yu'er was still reluctant to spend the five cents in her hand, and she put it in her small satchel and covered it tightly, for fear of losing it, saying that she was three years old and looked old, Lan Yi felt that Yu'er must be a Gu family saver in this life.

When Lan Yi came back, he ran into the little gangster Zhao Zhongxuan again. Zhao Zhongxuan and two young people were sitting and chatting on the stones at the edge of the village, and when they saw Lan Yi's mother and son, one of the long-faced young men touched Zhao Zhongxuan on his shoulder and whistled.

Zhao Zhongxuan looked up, saw that it was Lan Yi's mother and son, turned his head and glared: "Leather monkey, are you looking for death?" ”

"Hehe, third brother, why haven't you taken care of this yet?" The round-faced fat man on the other side of Zhao Zhongxuan laughed, because he didn't stop talking, Lan Yi, who was passing by, could hear it clearly, and couldn't help frowning and glancing at the fat man.

Seeing the displeasure in Lan Yi's eyes, Zhao Zhongxuan smiled, raised his hand and slapped the fat man's head: "Let you talk nonsense!" Let's go, let's go into the forest to catch a pheasant and roast it, third brother, I'm hungry. ”

When the leather monkey and the fat man heard the roast chicken, their eyes lit up and they nodded, and the three of them staggered towards the back of the village. Zhao Zhongxuan also turned around and winked at Lan Yi, as if the two had some tacit understanding, which caused the leather monkey and the fat man to laugh.

Lan Yi couldn't help gritting his teeth, this Zhao Zhongxuan was really annoying, but he didn't do anything out of the ordinary, and Lan Yi was not good at beating people with a stick.

"Don't mess with it, sister, sister is not the little lady who can only cry for bullying, sister is strong in combat." Lan Yi muttered.

Second Uncle Wang spent an afternoon helping Lan Yi prepare two pots. The second uncle's craftsmanship is good, because he is afraid that the stones will be burned by the fire, the pot stove is smeared with a very thick layer of clay, in order to exhaust the smoke, a ventilated chimney is made behind each pot, and the stones are built against the wall directly out of the roof, so there are three chimneys on the roof of Lan Yi's kitchen, which looks a little weird. After the pot is ready, Lan Yi separates the pot stove for stir-frying, cooking rice, boiling water and cooking pig food, which is also convenient and hygienic.

According to Zhao Shangjing, peony seeds are sown in July and August. Peony seeds are sown into the soil when they are plucked from the plant, and the germination rate is also higher. Now it has reached the 30th summer solar term in May, and the land reclamation has been put on the agenda by the three families, and the 35 acres of hillside should be done before the autumn, because in addition to sowing peony seeds, other land must also be kept for planting peonies. In August and September, it is the busiest autumn harvest season for farmers, and there is no time to clean up the hillside.

When the villagers saw the three families busy on the uphill slope, they all came to ask what they wanted to plant, and they only said that they were medicinal peonies. This is not an easy thing to do, Lan Yi invited two helpers from the village, Second Uncle Wang's family went into battle, and the sixth son took five or six hired people to work together, and it took more than half a month to clean up.

Lan Yi experienced the fatigue of a wasteland. Pull out the shrubs and dead grass, clear the stones, level and plough the land, bring good farm manure from home, and go to the woods to bring a lot of dead leaves and manure, choose a suitable area to shovel, dig pits and bury fertilizer, and prepare to plant peonies. According to the second uncle, if you want to grow crops and harvest the land in this way, it will take three years to plant, no wonder the people in the village don't like to open up the wasteland and farm.

At this time, the apricots in the mountains were ripe, and Lan Yi followed Chen and Liu to the mountains to pick them back for the children to eat. Seeing that the persimmon tree, the hawthorn tree and the sour jujube tree were also full of fruit, she could see that her eyes were hot.

"Brother and sister, let's come back in a few days when these are ripe, take a few more bags, and I'll lead the donkey over to carry it."

Liu Shi smiled and glanced at Lan Yi, with an indescribable style: "Sister-in-law, you don't know this." This persimmon can be eaten, but the taste of red fruits and sour dates is not delicious, and it is useless for us to pick them back. ”

"Although this red fruit is a little sour, it can still be eaten." Lan Yi pointed to the hawthorn tree and said, thinking of the hawthorn cake and sugar gourd made of hawthorn, Lan Yi couldn't help but swallow her saliva. Do you want to pick some to make sugar gourds yourself? This seems to be a must-have for every farmer......

Seeing Lan Yi's greedy look, Chen also smiled and accosted: "This thing is very bad, sister-in-law can pick some back if she likes it." But we won't be able to eat it until the autumn harvest, and we'll have no time to do it. ”

"By the way, second brother and sister, where does the bamboo grow here?" In the past few days, there are many people in the village who have gone into the mountains to pick wild fruits, and Lan Yi has gone deeper with the group, but he has not seen bamboo.

Lan Yi knows that there are several varieties of bamboo, and the season for producing bamboo shoots is different, but her hometown does not grow bamboo, and the bamboo shoots she eats are all bought. But thinking of sour bamboo shoots, bamboo shoot chicken soup, stewed pork ribs, braised spring bamboo shoots in oil and other dishes, Lan Yi still wants to go.

"This bamboo, in the north of our village, you can only see it when you go over a mountain pass, and your sister-in-law wants to use bamboo to let Dafu's father cut it for you, far away." Chen carried the basket on his back, and it was almost time to go back when the fruit was picked.

"It's okay, I'll go and see if there are any bamboo shoots to eat. Brother and sister, let's pick more apricots, and go back to dry them in the winter, so that we can make snacks for the children. Lan Yi smiled, she didn't lead the donkey today, and the back basket was loaded with a lot, but looking at this piece of apricots, she still wanted to get more.

On the second day, Lan Yi led the donkey, straddled the basket, and walked to the col with bamboo first. The saddle on the donkey's back has a thick leather pad to sit on, and it is not afraid that it will be put on the basket.

The mountain in the north of the village is the village where people go more, the forest here is dense, it is convenient to cut trees to make firewood, the pedestrians pick a mountain road in the woods, the path is very poetic along the mountain bend, Lan Yi rode a donkey and began to hang the book bag and read poems, entertaining himself.

Turning the hill along the path, you will see a col covered with bamboo. The cyan bamboos are neatly arranged, rustling with the wind, and thick bamboo leaves have fallen on the ground, perhaps because it has just rained, and many bamboo shoots of twenty or thirty centimeters high are drilled out of the fallen leaves, which are very thick. Lan Yi couldn't tell what kind of bamboo this was, so she dug one with a shovel, cut it open and pinched it, it was still very tender, and the entrance was a little sour.

She dug a lot, peeled off the outer skin and left only the tender bamboo shoots, and put them in a basket to lead the donkey home. Wash a large vat with a lid at home, put it in the sun to disinfect, and then roll it to the eaves of the east house, where it is relatively shady, put well water in the tank, and then directly wash the bamboo shoots and split them in half from the middle, yard them into the water, and seal the cylinder cover. This is the simplest method of sour bamboo shoots she has ever seen on TV before. As long as the pickled bamboo shoots are well preserved, there is no problem in eating them for a year. She plans to go to Zhoujia Village tomorrow to order two large vats, pickle more, and add a dish in winter.

At noon, I made bamboo shoots to roast meat, considering that the child can't chew hard, the bamboo shoots are first boiled in hot water and then fried, and the taste is not bad. Only the baby is a picky mouth, he doesn't like to eat bamboo shoots, he just wants to eat slices of meat, Lan Yi fed him in, he used his small tongue to push it out, puffing out his small mouth and being unhappy, this is the first time the baby is picky eater, Lan Yi held him and fed him several times and had to give up.

In the afternoon, when he went to the second uncle's house to tell the second aunt about the practice of sour bamboo shoots, Li listened to Lan Yi say that it looked like it could be left for a long time and tasted good, so he asked the two daughters-in-law to dig bamboo shoots with Lan Yi, so as to add vegetables to the winter.

The children of the Liu family and Lin Yuan don't like to eat bamboo shoots, so they didn't go all the way to other things at home, so they just smiled and said that if it was delicious, they would get it next year.

Chen and Lan Yi went to Zhoujia Village to order two large clay jars, and let them be delivered to their homes in the afternoon, so they went to the bamboo forest to dig bamboo shoots, which were fresh for two or three days, and the bamboo leaves could not be eaten. In the past two days, the men in the family have been busy cleaning up the hillside, so naturally they have no time to help.

Lan Yi came out this time to borrow the wooden cart from Sister-in-law Niu's house, let the little donkey pull the cart, and get some more.

"Sister-in-law, this little donkey is very useful. I see that you don't have to worry a lot back and forth. Chen looked at the little donkey with envy, but the family recently built a house to buy a hillside, where did the money come from to buy livestock. But even if you want to buy it, I think my father-in-law will buy a cow, a cow is more useful than a donkey, and only Lan Yi will buy a donkey if he is used to pick and ride like this.

"yes, it's a lot easier for me with it." Lan Yi patted the donkey's back, fortunately, this road was walked out by people picking bamboo, and they could pass a small car, "Brother and sister, don't people in the village like to eat bamboo shoots?" ”

"Not really. Eat more in the spring. We all dig bamboo shoots and shreds them and boil them in salt water and then dry them, and it is enough to eat a winter when the sun is basking once or twice, and the sister-in-law came back after the time of drying the bamboo shoots. The air in the woods was cool, and Chan was in a good mood.

Lan Yi nodded, bamboo shoots do taste good in spring, "This bamboo shoot shredded is put in when it is soaked in winter to make meat dishes, it should taste good." However, if you don't put the meat, it is really not delicious. ”

"Who's to say it's not, who is willing to eat meat every day. Sister-in-law, if we make money this time, we will buy more meat during the New Year, and we will have a fat year. Chan is looking forward to a better day.

"If it doesn't work this year, it will take next year to make money from oil extraction at the earliest. But let's think of making some money in a few days, so that the children will have meat to eat and clothes to wear. Lan Yi looked at the bamboo forest, full of joy, and her tone was a little bigger.

Chen looked at his sister-in-law, "That's a good feeling, and the children can be less exposed to cold by wearing thicker clothes in winter." Sister-in-law, if this pickled sour bamboo shoot tastes good, let's sell it at the market in winter, how can we add a layer of cotton wool to the children. ”

Seeing that Lan Yi was so positive, she thought that the taste of this sour bamboo shoot should be good, so she and her sister-in-law came out all the way to dig bamboo shoots and pickle them, so that they could not only eat them at home, otherwise they would not buy two large vats with Lan Yi in one go.

"Brother and sister are right, why do we have to sell the money in the vat, right?" Lan Yi blinked and smiled happily.

Seeing her like this, Chen said with a smile: "Sister-in-law, you don't look like you have a child. It looks like it's just an older child, but with two children and supporting a family, Chen and Li are full of admiration every time they talk about Lan Yi.

"Second brother and sister, it's not like it anymore, haven't you seen that our children can play soy sauce? Hehe. Lan Yi knew she didn't understand, but she still said it in passing.

No matter how stable Chen is, he is only in his early twenties, and he talks and laughs with Lan Yi, looking forward to a better day in the future, and the speed of digging bamboo shoots is naturally much faster.

In the afternoon, the store set a car to transport the large vat to the two houses, Lan Yi caught up with the sour bamboo shoots before dark and sealed them, feeling that the wrists and fingers of both hands were already stiff, and after bathing and sleeping for the children at night, she sprinkled honeysuckle in the hot water and bathed, thinking that the second aunt talked about the third child of the Zhao family Zhao Zhongxuan today.

PS: Today's ** is very good, I hope everyone bathes in the sunshine, sleeps a beautiful nap, and then looks at Xiaolan's white hydrology after waking up, is there a sense of long-term comfort? Hey, hey, hey...... Working on ......

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