In the east room, Zhang Shuzhen bent down, fished out seven or eight salted duck eggs from the gray clay pot under the table, put them in a small enamel basin, and walked to the corner of the house, removed some messy sundries in the corner, revealing a small black porcelain jar, the dust was very thick, and there was a brick pressed on the mouth.

Removing the bricks, there is also a piece of pig urine soaked in the mouth of the jar tightly tied, and it is easy to untie it, reach into the chopsticks, and take out four or five squares of pork inside.

These pork are all killed by the production team at the beginning of winter this year, and the Sijiawazi brigade is not like Sun Aotun'er's brigade, and the pigs are not killed until the young year. The captain of the Sijiawazi brigade is very calculating, considering that there will be no weeds for the pigs to eat after winter, and if you want the pigs to grow fat, you must feed it food.

It just so happened that the members of the club had been vegetarian for a spring and a summer, and their stomachs had faded out of the birds, and they were all hungry for meat, so the captain proposed to kill the pigs, and none of them disagreed.

So in mid-October, that is, just after the autumn harvest, several pigs raised by the Sijiawazi brigade were killed.

At that time, it was not frozen, and the villagers couldn't save the meat when they got it, so they were all like Zhang Shuzhen - cut off the fat and rely on the oil, and pickled the thin one.

Sijiawazi production team meat is divided by centimeters, although there are four people in the uncle's family, but there are not many centimeters, Wang Haixing and Dachao are students, both in school, and only during the holidays or at night when school can help the production team to make some weeds, ten catties of grass to be recorded as a centimeter, their sisters and brothers are busy working until the autumn and do not earn much centimeters, so the family does not get much meat, a total of eight catties.

The eight catties of meat are also the same as other people's homes, the fat ones are cut off and boiled in oil, and the thin ones are pickled, for fear of stealing them, the jar of cured meat has been hidden in the house of Wang Wenyuan and his wife, and every time an important guest comes to the house, he can only take it out and cut a few slices.

After scooping up the salted duck eggs and meat, Zhang Shuzhen put the two jars as they were, and then returned to the kitchen with the eggs and meat.

Seeing Han Mingxiu'er sitting there picking green onions, she hurriedly said, "Why did you come out again?" Didn't you stay in the house and talk to Jianfeng? ”

Han Mingxiu stood up, put the green onions aside, and saw that the green onions in Sister Xing'er's place were all finished, so she took the pot of potatoes and washed them: "I don't know Brother Jianfeng well, and I don't have anything to talk about, it's better for me to work, you go into the house and talk to him." ”

"You child really, if you are not familiar with something, you are afraid of something, once you are born and twice mature, and you are not ripe slowly? Be obedient, go back to the house, you are not needed here. Zhang Shuzhen put the two small enamel basins in her hand on the lid of the water tank, and went to pick up the basin in Han Mingxiu's hand, wanting to drive Han Mingxiu back to the house to chat with her son.

Just as he was pushing, Huo Jianfeng also came into the kitchen.

He was tall and burly, and the kitchen, which had been very spacious, suddenly looked cramped and cramped as he came in.

"Mother, what about the flat dan, I'll go fetch water." As soon as Huo Jianfeng came in, he picked up the bucket and prepared to fetch water for the family.

Zhang Shuzhen is willing to let him carry water? said in a loud voice, "No need for you, no need for you, your Uncle Wang filled the water tank last night, and there is still half a tank, which is enough for tonight." ”

Huo Jianfeng said, "Doesn't it mean that there is still half a cylinder that is empty?" I'm going to fill it up, I'm idle and idle, and it's not fun to stay idle. ”

"If you're not feeling good, help me peel the potatoes." Zhang Shuzhen picked up the potato scratch and stuffed it into Huo Jianfeng's hand, and did not forget to tell him, "Be careful, don't cut your hands." ”

He smiled and said to Han Mingxiu: "The two of you wash and sharpen one by one, saving yourself from working alone." At this time, she didn't say anything about letting Han Mingxiu go back to the house and stay.

"And ...... What's that, Xing'er, you go pick up the mess and watch him scurry and beat the eggs. ”

Wang Haixing didn't know the little Jiujiu in her mother's heart, and said, "Didn't you just say that you can't beat the eggs in a big mess?" Why did you ask me to pick him up? ”

"Am I not at ease? That live monkey is unreliable for anything, and if you're not afraid of 10,000, you're afraid of what happens! While speaking, Zhang Shuzhen had already entered the house and found Wang Haixing'er's scarf, and stuffed it into her hand, so she couldn't help but go.

Wang Haixing is an obedient person, the old lady will do whatever she tells her to do, and after listening to the old lady's explanation, she pushed the door out without saying a word.

sent the girl away, Zhang Shuzhen was still not satisfied, picked up the basin and walked to the back room, "You two do it first, I'll go scoop noodles." ”

The two of them were left in the kitchen again.

Han Mingxiu was speechless, she came out to find a job to avoid being alone with Huo Jianfeng, and she didn't want to go around in a circle and have to be alone with him, she had to wonder if her aunt did it on purpose.

Huo Jianfeng didn't see anything uncomfortable or embarrassed, after Han Mingxiu finished washing a potato, he stretched out his hand to take it and cut it.

When handing over the potatoes, Han Mingxiu found that his hands were big and long, and there was a thick layer of calluses in the palms of his hands......

After Zhang Shuzhen entered the inner room, she quietly stopped, leaned sideways and eavesdropped on the movement of the kitchen, but after listening to it for a long time, she didn't hear the sound of the two talking, so anxious that Zhang Shuzhen scolded her son again and again in her heart for being useless.

This simple boy, she, a mother, has created so many opportunities for him, he doesn't know how to take the initiative, just this realization, don't want to marry a daughter-in-law for the rest of his life!

After stopping for a while, there was still no movement in the kitchen, so Zhang Shuzhen shook her head and sighed and took off her shoes and went to the kang to scoop noodles.

Noodles are expensive grain, not with bud rice noodles and sorghum rice, she was asked to lock her in the kang cabinet, she opened the kang cabinet, and took out the noodle bag from it, the noodle bag is not big, it contains more than 20 catties of white noodles, these are the noodles that their family eats for a year.

She picked up the gourd scoop and scooped the noodles of the two gourd scoops, then tied the noodle bag again and put it into the kang cabinet.

The family has a total of 30 catties of white noodles, and they are reluctant to eat it on weekdays, only whoever in the family has a birthday can make a meal of white noodles, or if someone is sick, they will not make pimple soup for whoever makes up for their body.

Again, it is to eat a meal or two of pasta during the New Year's holiday, usually the family is a meal of sorghum rice, that is, a large cake sorghum rice such coarse grains, the family is not enough to provide a slippery child, every winter when you don't work, the family can only eat a dry meal every day, you must drink a thin meal, otherwise the food will not be enough.

Zhang Shuzhen put the noodle bag back in the kang cabinet, thought about it, took it out again, untied the noodle bag, scooped another scoop of noodles and put it into the basin, this time, the already deflated noodle bag looked even more deflated!

Although she scooped three scoops of noodles at once, Zhang Shuzhen was not distressed, although she was careful, but when she thought that the children could happily eat and drink for a while, she felt that it was worth wasting!

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