Back at home, Jia had already rolled out the noodles and boiled the water in the pot and waited for them to come back and wait for them to come back and go down.

"Peach, there is no meat at home, I made marinade with eggs, fungus, garlic sprouts and cabbage core, and I don't know if it suits your appetite." Jia's kitchen was very clean, even the firewood was stacked neatly in bundles, and on the bamboo poles for drying clothes in the courtyard, her washed tent curtains and Wenxuan and Yu'er's clothes were hung, which showed that Jia's was not idle for a while this morning.

Wang Chunrong and Lan Yi brothers and sisters brought pork and duck in and put them on the kitchen floor, Wang Chunrong smiled and said: "How can it be not delicious, Aunt Yao's cooking is even full of praise for the old lady, we have a good mouth this time." ”

Jia Shi chuckled and took the pork from Lan Yi's hand, "This is for the evening, right?" I'll clean it up and marinate it first. ”

Lan Yi shook her head, "Aunt Yao, don't get your hands dirty." I'll clean up this meat, you guys are hungry. ”

Jia Shi looked out and saw that Wang Chengde and his two children were washing their hands, and immediately added firewood to cook noodles.

Lan Yi cleaned the pork and pork liver, she had already let Zhou Lao chop the pork ribs into small pieces, and now the bones and slag can be put into the pot, the pigs raised here in Da Zhou have no additives, and the pork is not filled with water, so it looks very good in color, and the meat is also a lot of porcelain, Lan Yi feels that it tastes much better than the current pork.

As Wang Chunrong said, Jia's cooking skills are indeed much better than Lan Yi's, the same raw materials, the same seasoning, but she can make Lan Yi can't make exquisite. Not only is it more flavorful, but the knife work also impresses Lan Yi, it seems that she still has a lot to learn.

A large pot of noodles was eaten clean by everyone, and Lan Yi also drank a bowl of noodle soup with satisfaction.

"You rest, I'll clean up the dishes." Jia sat at the table and waited for everyone to eat, and immediately stood up and began to clean up.

Lan Yi snatched the chopsticks in her hand, "Aunt Yao, I'll come." Wenxuan and Yu'er's clothes are dirty, you can help them change into clean clothes and coax them to take a nap. ”

Wang Chengde also smiled and nodded: "Sister Yao, you didn't go to the field, Yu'er can help with the work at a young age, and Wenxuan is not noisy and obediently plays next to him, which is really worry-free." You see, the two little ones are sleepy, and their eyelids are starting to fight. ”

Compared with Wang Wenting, the little bully of the Wang family, Wang Chengde felt that Wenxuan and Yu'er were raised much better by their daughters, which is what a child should look like.

Jia Shi nodded, and also saw that the two little guys were sleepy, so he dipped the wooden basin with hand towels, wiped their hands and faces, and said softly: "It's Tao'er who teaches well." ”

It's just that the clothes on the two children were too dirty when they came back, and Lan Yi had already taken off their coats for them, but according to Jia's idea, the two children should take a bath before eating and sleeping. However, she also knows that the weather is cold, and there is no warm room at home, so she is afraid that she will catch a cold when she bathes the children, but the gains outweigh the losses.

"Mother, Xiaohuo and Xiaobai are still tied to the hillside." Yu'er said worriedly, "What if they run out?" ”

"Don't worry, you can't run out, the fence of the second grandfather's circle is very strong, and Grandpa Zhao is still living on the hillside, help us watch it." Lan Yi put the dishes and chopsticks into the pot and added firewood to boil hot water to remove the oil stains on the dishes and chopsticks.

"So, what if a tiger or a wolf comes?" Yu'er is still not at ease.

Wen Xuan listened to his brother's words, and also frowned worriedly, "Mother, Tuesday Uncle is not at home, the tiger is coming, and no one is fighting." ”

After returning to the village, Lan Yi asked Wenxuan and Yu'er to change their words and call Zhou Weiji back to Uncle Zhou, and the two little guys were confused by the titles they exchanged for, but they were still obedient. In their consciousness, what the mother said was right and they all had to listen.

Lan Yi was speechless, these two ponies really made them care: "Don't worry, didn't we dig a trench between the hillside and the forest, the tiger and the wolf can't escape." By the way, have you ever asked the second grandfather if the trench caught the pheasant and the rabbit? ”

The two little guys were immediately distracted, and Yu'er said sharply, "Yes, the second grandfather said that he caught several rabbits." Mother, the cover of the trap we dug in the forest south of the village hasn't been made yet, so let's go and see it later. ”

Yu'er still remembers that last year's traps at home caught many small animals, and even a wild boar caught one, and her mother was very happy at that time.

Lan Yi nodded, it was time to take a look, the slope in the south of the village had been planted with wheat, and I don't know if the wheat seedlings have broken the ground.

"Go to sleep, and when you wake up, we'll see."

Except for Lan Yi's mother and son, the family did not have the habit of napping, and Wang Chunrong and Wang Chengde slaughtered the two ducks and went to the hillside to help. Lan Yi thought that there would be a lot of people at night, so she went out to the edge of the village and bought a few half-foot-long grass carp to clean them. She's not good at making fish, but she has a new chef at home.

After Lan Yi woke up, she took down the cauldron where the pig food was boiled, set up the duck that had been coated with seasoning, slowly roasted it with pine wood, and put the ribs into the cauldron and simmered over low heat.

After the ribs are stewed, Jia's white noodles have been made, and the steamed buns can be steamed in the pot.

"Peach, when are we going to have dinner?" Jia Shi washed the noodles on his hands and asked.

Lan Yi looked at the sun, it was still early when she first arrived in Shen, "It's four o'clock in the unitary hour, everyone in the village only goes home from the fields to prepare for dinner when the sun goes down." Now that the days are short, the sun will go down in the middle of the unitary hour. ”

She had studied for a long time to accurately determine the hour based on the position of the sun, and mastering this skill was much more convenient than wearing a watch.

Jia nodded, "How many dishes are we going to prepare tonight?" ”

"One large, two small, three tables, eight or nine adults at the men's table; There are five adults here, that is, five or six children, and there is a big eight-immortal table at home, and we will eat in this kitchen, and I will move the kang table out later, and this low table will be enough. ”

There are a lot of people, and the meals must be prepared sufficiently, so Jia Shi pondered and asked, "Then how many dishes should we prepare?" ”

"Two roast ducks, a few steamed fish, braised pork with radish, stewed pork ribs with sour bamboo shoots, pork rib soup with vermicelli, sliced mushroom meat, roasted fungus with garlic, roasted eggplant, vinegared cabbage, leek eggs, spinach and dried shrimp and fried hazelnut kernels, and marinated duck eggs, the staple food is steamed buns." Lan Yi counted it with her fingers, "That's all you can do at home, it's cold now, and there aren't many vegetables." In two days, let's buckle the greenhouse and plant some vegetable seeds, so that we don't have to worry about eating green vegetables. ”

Lan Yi thought of the tomato seeds she bought, and hesitated to plant them, cucumbers can grow in the greenhouse, and tomatoes should be able to grow.

Seeing Lan Yi frowning and thinking, Jia Shi couldn't help but smile and said: "No matter how many Eight Immortals there are on the table, I can't finish it, since there are roasted eggplants, garlic and fungus will not be done, and the fungus can be used to fry leek eggs." There are a lot of meat dishes tonight, and the vermicelli pork rib soup is better than changing to millet soup, which can also clear the stomach for the children. ”

Jia Shi is proficient in medical skills and is also very good at dietary conditioning, and she is indeed a lot more worry-free to have her in Lan Yi, "Just listen to Aunt Yao, you are much more thoughtful than I thought." ”

Jia Shi laughed a little more this time, and finally showed his teeth, "Peach, I'll get this order." It's time for the two children to wake up, you go into the house and take a look, didn't you say that you want to take them to the forest south of the village to have a look? The woods are not dense over there, whether there are wolves or something, you have to be careful. ”

If the forest is deep, there are naturally wolves, Lan Yi has always been cautious, she only moves in the forest near the edge of the village, and does not dare to go deeper, except for wild boars and bobcats, she has never encountered anything more powerful. Moreover, when she came back this time, Zhou Weiji told her several times not to let her go into the forest, and to hand over the fruit and chopping firewood to him.

Thinking of him bluffing her like a child when he said this, Lan Yi felt a little funny.

After the two children woke up, Lan Yi took them to Li Zheng Zhao Weiyang's house with gifts and invited Li Zheng to come to the house for dinner and wine at night.

Zhao Lizheng happened to be at home, and he was very happy to see Lan Yi, and nodded in response. Lan Yi invited Zhao Lizheng's wife Hua to come over again, and Hua said that the family was busy with things, and it would be lively another day.

This is also an unwritten rule in Beigou Village, if there is a distinguished guest in the house, the host family will invite a familiar person in the village to accompany him, but invite more men. Even in the past, the women helped with the cooking, and would not stay to eat. After all, each family is having a hard time, and if there are too many people invited, they are afraid that the prepared meals will not be enough.

"Auntie, my aunt came back with me this time, and when you are busy in the past few days, you can take more effort to go over and sit, and my sister-in-law and younger siblings will often come when they are free." Lan Yi said politely, this can be regarded as a formal invitation to the female dependents to visit the door.

Zhao Lizheng's wife Hua is from a good background, literate and hyphenated, and she is more particular about doing things, and her little daughter-in-law Xiaohua is also the same as her, both of them look down on the ignorant women in the village, but their attitude towards Lan Yi is still relatively good, after all, Lan Yi is also a talented lady and knowledgeable, not to mention that Zhao Lizheng favors her, and even takes the big and small Hua family to her and is a lot more polite to her, and they all nod their heads.

Zhao Lizheng's eldest daughter-in-law, Wu, affectionately sent Lan Yi far away, and when she saw that her mother-in-law and younger siblings had turned around and returned to the courtyard, she said briskly: "Brother and sister, you are back." The peonies on our hillside have also been planted, and there is nothing to do at home, so I will go over and help you pick vegetables later. ”

Lan Yi nodded, "Then it's troublesome sister-in-law." ”

Seeing that Lan Yi did not refuse, Wu smiled even more happily, eager to send her all the way to the forest.

"Mother, why are there so many fewer traps this year than last year?" Yu'er counted the short wooden sticks erected in the forest and asked curiously.

Lan Yi dug up the soil in the trap with a shovel, braided it with a branch and turned the lid on, and said with a smile: "Why do you think it is?" ”

Yu'er frowned, looked left and right, and suddenly realized, "Because we all dug a circle of trenches on the edge of the field, we can't catch rabbits here." ”

Indeed, for this reason, the villagers dug a small trench on the outskirts of the village's fields and hillsides near the forest, and added a cover to prevent the wild beasts in the mountains, especially wild boars, from coming down and spoiling the crops, which played a significant role.

"Yu'er is right, there is indeed a reason for this." Lan Yi then enlightened him, "This year, many people in our village are busy going into the mountains to pick wild fruits for money, and they spend their time looking for fruits in exchange for more silver than spending on digging traps and catching small animals. So there are naturally a lot fewer traps to dig in. ”

Yu'er listened carefully and nodded with a respectful head, "Just like my mother said, you must learn to make reasonable use of time and make the most of it." ”

Lan Yi nodded, although Yu'er was shy and introverted, her little brain was definitely not slow, "Yu'er is awesome, you remember what my mother said." ”

Yu'er smiled and blushed, very proud.

Lan Yi pulled Wen Xuan, who was picking wild chrysanthemums, and admonished, "Have you seen the trench marked by a circle of small branches at the edge of the field?" Can't you go over and play, you can't go out of the trench into the forest without an adult following, write it down? ”

The two little guys nodded obediently, and Wen Xuan held up the wild chrysanthemum, "Mother wears it, it looks good." ”

Lan Yi took the chrysanthemum in Wen Xuan's hand, and after returning to the village, she changed back into a dark widow's outfit, and it was naturally inappropriate to wear flowers, "Mother doesn't wear it, I will weave it into a hat ring for you to wear." Let's go to the hillside to pick up duck eggs. The donkeys, goats, and horses should be brought home, too. ”

When Wen Xuan heard this, he hurriedly pulled Lan Yi back, "Mother, hurry up." ”

Picking up eggs is his favorite.

Yu'er is a few years older, and she naturally thinks a lot more, "Mother, where are Xiaohuo and Xiaobai going to live?" The little donkey's nest could not be stopped. ”

"Let's build a small shed for them next to the donkey's nest, and we'll build it when the peony is ready." I think it's better to tear down the donkey's shed, build a big shed that can keep warm, and cover the roof with stone chips, so as to save rain leakage, do you think it's good? Regarding the affairs of the family, Lan Yi will more or less tell the two children to develop their habit of participating and thinking.

The hillside was really still busy, Lan Yi had fed the ducks, and the two children had also picked up the duck eggs, she told everyone to go back to eat early, so she took the two children home to prepare the meal.

Before returning home, he happened to meet Zhou Weiji riding back on horseback. R1152