Liu Guiyuan returned home, picked out some of the basket of safflower grass, and prepared to fry them at noon, her vegetable garden was too small, or Liu Chongshan and Zhang didn't bother to clean it up at all, in addition to green peppers and garlic, there was only a row of eggplants that had been planted late, which had just bloomed.

Liu Huaanhua sent pigweed to the third aunt's house before going home, and then returned home slowly with two dung baskets on his back.

"Chop some pigweed and mix a little wheat bran to feed the chickens, I'll rest first, and I'll go fetch water later." Liu Huahua fell down the dung basket and sat on it to rest, today the eldest sister Liu Hongzao was not there, carrying two dung baskets of pigweed, but she was tired.

"Second sister, I fed the chickens and went to fetch water with you." Liu Guiyuan scooped a scoop of well water and handed it to Liu Peanut to quench his thirst, this well water is all natural and has a sweet taste when drinking.

Recently, she fished snails and needed clean water to wash them, so she used more water, and usually the eldest sister and the second sister took turns to pick them, the eldest sister didn't say anything, but the second sister said it once, and her son naturally wanted to please her.

"Count you as acquaintances!" Liu Huahua glanced at her with slanted eyes, took the water scoop and drank half a scoop.

When the two of them came back with a lot of water, it was not early, and they cleaned up in the house for a while, and began to make lunch, and Zhang was already able to get out of bed and walk, and was moving in the hall at this time.

"Mother, you get up and come back, you can't move the needle and thread." Liu Guiyuan went to the hall to scoop noodles and saw Zhang's hand bandaging in his hand and looked at it repeatedly.

When Liu Hongjube came back and asked her how many embroidery threads and patterns she wanted, Zhang remembered the clothes that were embroidered before she gave birth, so she took them out and looked at them, and wanted to embroider two stitches when she looked at her, but she really had nothing to do at home.

"Where you are so squeamish, you should also be active and find something to do." Zhang looked at his third daughter Liu Guiyuan with a smile, and said this in his heart.

"Then you can sweep the floor with a broom, this work is light, you can do it." Liu Guiyuan handed her a broom.

"Okay, you girl, my mother asked you to arrange it clearly." Zhang took the broom and cleaned the room carefully.

At noon, a garlic safflower herb was fried, and a plate of wild vegetable dumplings was steamed in the pot, the wild vegetables were picked from the pigweed, and the flour was mixed with maize dregs mixed with bean noodles, but two of them were pure white noodles, which were specially reserved for Zhang's.

In addition to recuperating the meal, Liu Guiyuan also used a small pot to cook a sugar egg with ginger slices, Zhang smelled the smell and said, "How can you eat eggs every day?" ”

"Mother, you can eat it, this is all from longan, it doesn't cost money." Liu Peanut, who was burning the fire at the bottom of the pot, winked playfully at Zhang, making Zhang laugh.

This family, as long as Liu Chongshan does not come back, they will be happy.

After eating wild vegetable dumplings, Liu Guiyuan hurried to Huashi River to fish for black snails and sent them to the town tomorrow morning to exchange money.

Unexpectedly, she was just halfway through, and under the old willow tree on the road, she saw an "acquaintance" who made her upset.

"Liu Guiyuan, remember me, right?" Tian Rubai saw the little girl coming from a distance, and hurriedly greeted her, as if she had met a relative.

Tian Rubai returned home today, and as soon as he told the adults what happened in the field, he immediately knew that Liu Guiyuan was the third daughter of Liu Chongshan, the first family in the front of the village, although he was surprised how she was not stupid, but he was still very sorry for stepping on other people's baskets.

He remembered that Liu Chongshan wanted to have a son, and he was not very good to his own girls, in case he was angry with the little girl because of the basket, then he would become a wicked person, so he specially took a new basket from home to apologize.

"Oh, don't be angry with your new basket, huh?" Tian Rubai took the basket to the little girl, thinking that when you accept it, the matter will be over.

Liu Guiyuan took a brand-new basket and rolled his eyes, saying, "The basket should have compensated me, but I was still scolded by my father, how can you compensate for this?" ”

Tian Rubai thought that what Confucius said was really right, it was really difficult for women and villains to raise, so he asked with a headache: "Then what do you say I should do?" I can't tell you to beat me up, can you? ”

"That's not necessary, I'm going to the Huashi River to fish for black snails, some are hidden under the water, I can't go down, you can help me catch some." Liu Guiyuan handed him the new basket and led the way in front of him.

She saw that this young man was kind-hearted and would not fail to follow, so she dared to ask her for help, although it was a bit unreasonable to act like this, but there was really no way out.

By the Huashi River, under the locust tree, a young man hunched over and touched in the river, a little girl lowered her head to pick it up, the clear water surface rippled from time to time, and occasionally there were flying bees, collecting nectar among the blooming wild lotus.

After a busy afternoon, Liu Guiyuan's new basket was full of snails, which was more than the amount she had fished for a day.

"Hey, I forgot to remind you that there are mussels in the river, don't hurt your feet." Liu Guiyuan suddenly remembered that she had gone down to the river to fish and was scratched by the shell of the river mussel, and hurriedly reminded her.

"You're talking crooked, aren't you? I've noticed, oh, there are several of them, and I just threw them into the grass. ”

Crooked is another name for the river mussel, the farmer family is most afraid of being crooked and scratched when they go down to the river, so as long as they see it in the water, they must be fished out and thrown to the shore, and they must be piled together, and the provincial ones will be rowed to others.

"That's good, thank you today, these fish and shrimp and black snails, you can take half of them back to eat." Liu Guiyuan saw that he was almost caught, so he wanted to go back quickly.

"Yo, I've been busy for a long time and finally heard a thank you, it's not easy."

Tian Rubai went ashore, and after cleaning up, he only grabbed two handfuls of snails, put them in his coat and held them, saying that he would just take them back and try them, but as for the little fish and shrimp, he didn't take any of them.

Liu Guiyuan looked at the figure of the young man leaving, nodded silently, and said in his heart, good boy, I will definitely repay you when I get rich in the future, and then brought home the pile of river mussels on the shore that no one wanted.

River mussels are a good thing, the peasant family has no vegetables to eat, go to the river to touch a few and boil them in hot water, and then put some wild vegetables and bacon is a fresh soup. Although the current river mussels are not as delicious as after spring, they are still very good for people who lack vegetables at home.

More importantly, this river mussel is actually the secret of the umami of the snail lion soup, which Liu Guiyuan also thought of when she went to a good female classmate to play when she was in college, and the classmate happened to open a small snail lion powder shop at home, and once told her that the reason why the snail lion noodle soup is so fresh is that there are river mussels hanging in it.

Now that she has a river mussel, her snail fan plan is even more foolproof.

The next day, Liu Guiyuan still got up early in the morning, took the processed black snails and walked towards the town alone, and the people in their village also took ox carts to the town, but that had to catch the big set, so Liu Guiyuan had to walk.

After arriving in the town, Liu Guiyuan took the lead in going to the noodle shop that sold fresh fish noodles, and I don't know how the snail meat sold to her family last time was, and whether the guests liked to eat it or not.

When Liu Guiyuan entered the store, he didn't see the cook who killed the fish and the woman who wiped the table, but only a middle-aged man wearing a dusty hat, rolling up his sleeves and settling accounts at the counter.

"Hello owner, I came back to sell black snail meat, and today I got some more, bigger than the last time, I don't know if you still want it here?"

The middle-aged man was the owner of the shop, he looked up at Liu Guiyuan, touched the snail nonsense on his face and said: "Oh, it's the snail meat you sold, don't want it, don't eat it last time, I fried it at home, and I lost five cents in vain." ”

Liu Guiyuan was a little discouraged when he heard this, but he still mentioned the idea of boiling noodles with snails, but the owner had the same attitude as the woman last time, and was not interested in the combination of snails and noodles, so he waved his hand and told her to leave.

Liu Guiyuan had no choice but to say thank you, and walked out with his things in a gray manner.

"Hey, wait, little girl, come here." The middle-aged man tilted his head and called out to her as if he was thinking about something.

Liu Guiyuan thought he had changed his mind, held the basket and said, "Thank you for your kindness, I'll give you a cheaper price, okay?" ”

The middle-aged man shook his head like a rattle, patted the counter with one hand, and said, "Hey, I said no, no matter how cheap it is." I stopped you because I wanted to tell you that our street went all the way to the south, and there was a Sun Yangzheng store on the right turn of the third one, and there were many customers in the store, maybe someone likes to eat this, you can go and ask. ”

Liu Guiyuan didn't expect the shopkeeper to be so kind-hearted, and sincerely said to the shopkeeper "business is prosperous", grabbed a handful of processed snail meat from the basket, said that he would add vegetables, and left in a hurry.

The middle-aged man shook his head and continued to lie on the counter to settle accounts.

Liu Guiyuan went out of the noodle shop, walked all the way to the south, and soon found a big restaurant called Sun Yang Zhengdian, good guys, the shop is divided into three floors, there is a Cailou Huan Gate in front of the door, the door is hung with a disguise and delisting, one says Sun Yang Shop, one says Zheng Shop, and it looks really magnificent.

At this time, before the meal, there were already many customers in Sun Yangzheng's store upstairs drinking tea and drinking, or ordering a few exquisite side dishes, eating slowly.

Liu Guiyuan looked at it a few times and decided to enter through the side door, her countryman dress so as not to touch the diners. Walking to the side door, the word "fragrant mash" was written on the door, and a young man of eighteen or nineteen years old was standing in front of the store, carrying a wine barrel with his back to her.

Liu Guiyuan saw that he was busy, and he was not in a hurry to talk, he looked around, and saw that there were many fine stones on the ground, and he was afraid that he would drop the wine barrel, so he put the basket aside, leaned over and picked up the stones, and then carefully threw them to the corner of the wall.

The young brother carried the wine barrel, and out of the corner of his eye, he saw her, and there was a uniform gravel on the ground, and he had a rough idea in his heart, but he still continued to move the wine quietly.

After the sixth bucket was moved, he wiped the sweat from his head, lowered his head and asked her, "Who are you and what is the matter?" ”

Liu Guiyuan smiled sweetly at him and said, "Hello little brother, I am Liu Guiyuan from Huashi Village, I fished some snails in the river and washed them cleanly, do you need this big restaurant?" ”

The young brother took the basket, lifted the lotus leaves covered on it, grabbed a handful of snails with their tails pinched, smelled them, confirmed that there was no smell, glanced at her, and said, "My surname is Sun, you come in with me." ”