There is still a small half of the pumpkin vine that Zhang ate, and Liu Guiyuan does not plan to fry new vegetables, wasting oil and firewood.

From the vegetable field outside the fence, I picked a few garlic leaves, pinched two corianders, chopped them and mixed them with some oil and salt.

As soon as the meal was brought to the table, Liu Chongshan came back from outside, saw that there were pancakes and side dishes in the house, and it was strange and delicious, so he stretched out his hand and rolled a sheet, and asked Liu Guiyuan while eating: "You got it?" ”

"Well, I learned from the eldest sister and the second sister, they went to hunt pigweed, and they will be back soon."

Liu Chongshan nodded absently and said to her, "Go to the garden and pick a sharp pepper." With that, he went to the back room.

When Liu Guiyuan came back from picking two or three ripe peppers, he heard him talking to Zhang in the back room.

"Where can I get milk? There was no milk when she gave birth to the third child, so she didn't grow so big? Liu Chongshan heard Zhang say in the house that he was going to Liu Dashuang's house to ask for milk, and he didn't want to talk about it.

Originally, it was embarrassing enough to give birth to a girl, and she had to go to someone else's house for her to ask for milk, but now the whole village knew that he gave birth to another girl.

"Longan drank the milk of Tie Dan Niang at that time, otherwise how could he be raised, the lotus seeds are not yet full moon, and it is not possible to do without milk."

Tie Dan Niang is the second aunt who came in the morning, Tie Dan and Longan were born before and after, and the two families were not separated at that time, so they took her to feed her for more than ten days.

It's okay not to mention the iron egg, but as soon as the iron egg is mentioned, Liu Chongshan thought of the fact that the second brother's family gave birth to three sons in a row, and the expression on his face was wrong, and said: "There is also a face to say, look at how many people will give birth, look at you?" Who is to blame for the premature birth of lotus seeds......"

"Dad, the peppers are here." As soon as Liu Guiyuan heard that Liu Chongshan was going to turn over old accounts again, he quickly lifted the curtain and entered the house.

"It's going to be dark when you come." There are still two bites of the burrito in Liu Chongshan's hand, so don't put the sharp pepper and keep it for the next meal.

"Dad, Liu Dashuang's family asked me and my eldest sister to talk, our children are easy to speak, and we will give it as soon as we ask the custodian." Liu Guiyuan looked at Liu Chongshan with a smile and proposed.

"Look at what you can, who do people know about you? Your mother has no milk now, how much milk do you have to drink for lotus seeds? Don't you want anything to change that milk? On the one hand, Liu Chongshan was embarrassed to come to the door, and on the other hand, he felt sorry for the food at home.

Rural people, if they want something from other people's families, they don't want to spend money to buy it, they all exchange it for things of equal value, and most of these things are food.

"It is estimated that the wheat harvest is about to be made, and then our family will be able to continue to produce food. Besides, my father, my mother gave birth to lotus seeds and injured her body, and the milk will come back, she can also drink it, and she can give birth to a little brother for my family after she has raised her body. ”

Liu Guiyuan knew that it was April, and when it looked like the end of May and the beginning of June, the wheat in the field would be harvested.

Sure enough, as soon as Liu Chongshan heard that he had a younger brother, the idea was gone.

When Liu Hongjube and Liu Huahua came back, the three sisters padded their half-full stomachs with the remaining pancakes, and Liu Guiyuan told the two of them about borrowing milk from Liu Dashuang's house.

"There's still a bit of maize scum at home, do you want to change this?" Liu Hongjube has eaten, picking up the pigweed in the open space, and now the vegetables at home have not yet grown, and some tender maran heads can be picked up from here to fry and eat.

Liu Hongjube picked the tender Ma Lantou and put it aside, grabbed a large handful and threw it into the chicken pen, and the three hens saw the green leafy vegetables and flew over to eat them.

"Who is Liu Dashuang's family and where is his house?" Liu Guiyuan was worried about borrowing milk, and asked her eldest sister vigorously.

Liu Huahua picked up a broom and swept the finely chopped vegetable sprouts and leaves on the ground, and when he heard Liu Guiyuan ask this, he introduced it in detail: "Let me tell you, he is the uncle of our family, but he is separated by two rooms, and he is not so close." He is a strange person, he can play flower drums and sing songs, he goes out to ask for food for most of the year for half a year, and he earns a lot of money in several places in Linxian County......"

Liu Peanut's words, the speaker has no intention of listening to the heart, originally saw that there was maize at home, and there were sharp peppers planted in the vegetable garden, she was not sure, but now she heard the "flower drum" and "ask for rice", she guessed that this was probably the middle and late Ming Dynasty.

Because the corn crop was introduced in the late Ming Dynasty, and the flower drum that Liu Peanut said in his mouth is a bit like the famous Fengyang flower drum in later generations, then this place is estimated to be near Fengyang, Anhui Province.

According to the second sister Liu Huahua, there was a great famine here many years ago, and many people starved to death when they could not harvest crops.

This point coincides with the last years of the Ming Dynasty, because of the frequent disasters and famines in the last years, the local people could not survive in their hometowns, so they took the flower drum to the rich places outside to sing songs and beg, and slowly formed a means for the locals to go out to earn money and make a living.

"And who is the current emperor? What year is it? Liu Guiyuan didn't want to guess, and her history was not good, so she simply asked her sister directly.

"How dare you say those two words!" Liu Huahua was startled and hurriedly covered her mouth.

"How dare we say it, but it's the eleventh year of Daping. Longan, what are you asking for? Liu Hongzao walked over and whispered in her ear.

"Is the Ming Dynasty still around?" Liu Guiyuan had a prediction in his heart, and hurriedly whispered to her eldest sister.

"That was the previous dynasty, eleven years have passed, and now it is the Great Dawn Dynasty. If you ask these questions today, you know them, so don't ask them again in the future. Liu Hongzao patted Liu Guiyuan's shoulder, put his left index finger on his lips, and made a "shhhhh

"That's it, don't ask in the future." Liu Huahua echoed.

Liu Guiyuan nodded, made a gesture of wiping his neck, and immediately laughed at the two who were still nervous.

It seems that this Great Dynasty should be the follow-up of the Ming Dynasty, but isn't the Ming Dynasty the Qing Dynasty after the Ming Dynasty? After thinking about it, she didn't understand, Liu Guiyuan didn't want to think about it, anyway, no matter which dynasty, she didn't have to live the same life.

After picking up the pigweed, Liu Hongjube and Liu Guiyuan sent the pigweed from the two large dung baskets to the third aunt's house, and her family raised a total of three piglets this year, which can be eaten very much.

In addition to pigweed, her family also had some leftover wheat bran from last year, and most of them were sent to the third aunt's house early, otherwise how could the third aunt, who has always been picky, allow her family two or three catties of pork.

Liu Chongshan had lunch and didn't know where to go, in her opinion, this father was a bad job.

went to the back room to pour a urine basin for Zhang's family, and found a diaper changed by lotus seeds in the wooden basin under the bed, and Liu Guiyuan took it to the open space outside the house to wash it.

After she washed her diaper, the eldest sister and the second sister also came back, and the three sisters got together to discuss, and went to Liu Dashuang's house to borrow some milk for a while.

"Otherwise, if I take Longan there, it's not good for the three of us to go." Liu Hongzao thought about it and proposed, mainly because she was the same age as Liu Jindi from her uncle's family, and she played well.

"Okay, then I'll talk to our mother at home." Liu Huahua has been busy from the morning to now, and he is also happy.

The three agreed, and Liu Hongjube took Liu Guiyuan and carried a small half bag of corn residues to Liu Jindi's house.

Liu Jindi's family is really like what the second sister said, the living conditions of the family are good, two rooms side by side, one is a neat adobe house, and the other is a half-tile house made of blue bricks.

Bypassing an adobe wall, Liu Hongzao knocked on the half-hidden dark red wooden door twice, and it didn't take long for a teenage girl to come and open the door.

"Hey, the red dates are here, why haven't you come to play with me for so long?" Liu Jindi saw her good sister Liu Hongzao coming over, happily held her arm, looked down and saw Liu Guiyuan following behind, and asked curiously: "This is Guiyuan...... Not stupid now? ”

"Well, now I'm sensible, I can do stir-fry and cook." Liu Hongzao had a proud expression, it turned out that there were some people in the village who always laughed openly and secretly when they saw their sister Guiyuan, but now they still dare.

After speaking, he pointed to Liu Jindi and said to Liu Guiyuan: "You want to call her cousin, do you know?" ”

Liu Guiyuan bent his crescent eyes and shouted with a smile, but before Liu Jindi could respond, a female voice full of energy came from the room.

"Liu Jindi, just a pair of pomegranate flower insoles, you can embroider for four days, is your hand a pig's trotter?" As soon as the words fell, Liu Qianshi, who was wearing a red dress, walked out with a pair of embroidered insoles in his hand.

"Mother, someone is here." Liu Jindi was told by her mother, and she stomped her feet on the spot angrily, and then thought of something, and said to Liu Hongjujube: "By the way, red dates, you teach me how to embroider on both sides, right?" ”

Liu Hongjube used to learn a little double-sided embroidery skills, or Zhang's hand to teach her, and then the third sister was born, Zhang's had no time and no mood to teach his daughter to learn embroidery, so this double-sided embroidery technique even Liu Huaanhua can't.

Liu Qian glanced at her with disgust and said, "I haven't learned to walk, so I want to learn to run, so I can learn to pick up embroidery first." Then he warmly greeted Liu Hongzao and the two sisters into the house.

After Liu Hongzao called the eldest uncle, she was a little embarrassed to speak, and said in a daze: "My little sister has no milk to eat, I want to ask your cow how much milk she has......"

"Auntie, I am longan, my father and my mother asked our sisters to come over for some milk, the family just gave birth to a little sister, there is no milk to drink and cry every day. We don't take it for nothing, exchange a little maize dregs, don't be too little. Liu Guiyuan took over the conversation, and the thunderbolt made it clear in the future.

Liu Qian was stunned for a second, and hurriedly patted his legs and smiled: "Oh, this is Xiao Guiyuan, Xiaozui is too good to speak, he is really sick and has become smart!" ”

"The calf born by the cow last month at home, the milk has not yet gone down, if you want it, come and squeeze it a little early tomorrow morning. I don't want the maize scum, my family doesn't lack this, go back and tell your father, it's all relatives who say this. ”

Liu Qian's is really a bold person, firstly, they don't usually drink milk, and secondly, their lives at home have been getting better and better in the past few years, a little bit of maize dregs, it doesn't matter if you want it or not.

In the past few years, her family was poor, with only a broken earth house and two or three acres of thin fields.

Later, the head of the family went out to beg with his acquaintances, and sometimes when he met a rich guest, he sang a song and played a flower drum in front of him, and he could get a few dollars, which slowly earned a little family business for the family.

Or how many other people's children in the village either go to work in the fields or leave the house to clean up the pieces, and her Jin Di stays at home and has nothing to learn to twist embroidery?

Liu Hongzao immediately stood up gratefully when she heard this, and said straight in her mouth Thank you uncle for your help, but the maize scum must be, otherwise they will be embarrassed to milk the cow.

Liu Qian is not such a hypocrisy, seeing that Liu Hongzao and the two sisters insisted, they waved their hands, nodded and said, "That's okay, I'll accept it." ”

Before leaving, Liu Jindi also held Liu Hongzao's hand and told her to teach herself double-sided embroidery when she was free.