On the second day, Liu Guiyuan was not in a hurry to go to the town, because she had walked a long way for two consecutive days, her calf was very sore, and there was a blood mark on her right heel, so she had to rest at home first.

After breakfast, Liu Hongjube and Liu Huahua went to East Lake as usual, but this time, in addition to hunting pigweed, they also had a job of fishing snails and river mussels.

Last night, the three sisters slept at one end and talked little, and agreed that the three of them would go to the river to fish for snails and mussels as soon as they were free, even if they were not sent to the town for a while, the snails could be raised in the water, and the mussels were dried and ground into powder.

Liu Guiyuan came back from Liu Jindi's house with one foot on his shoes, half-dragging back, still holding a bowl of fresh milk in his hand, now that the calf is bigger, more and more able to eat milk, it is estimated that he will borrow it for another ten days, so he does not need to borrow it.

While boiling fresh milk, Liu Guiyuan thought to herself, when she has money in her hands in the future, she can also raise a cow, preferably a cow, and she can usually work in the field, and when the cow is pregnant, her family can drink milk every day, and occasionally make some dairy products to change the taste. When you have something to do to go to town, you don't have to work hard, you can also take an ox cart.

"Mother, the milk is cooked, you can feed the lotus seeds when it cools down." Liu Guiyuan took the hot milk and carefully brought it into the back room.

Zhang's is changing the diaper of the lotus seed, and the child eats a lot of Dora, and can change two or three a day, but after drinking the milk these days, the lotus seed looks fat, and the cry is more energetic.

Zhang changed his diaper, put the lotus seeds away, put a small quilt outside to block it, and then pulled Liu Guiyuan to the hall and said: "Guiyuan, my mother knows that you have a big idea, but your father will not change his mind unless he ...... about your sister's troubles."

"Unless what?" Liu Guiyuan's eyes lit up.

"Alas, unless our family has a strong foundation, your mother and I can give birth to a boy sooner, so maybe your father can let your eldest sister marry off."

"Mother, think about the eldest sister's matter, anyway, she is still young, don't be in such a hurry, I'll go to East Lake to fish for snails first, and put the diapers waiting for me to come back to wash."

Liu Guiyuan didn't want to listen to Zhang's persuasion anymore, so she ran away under the pretext of fishing for snails, leaving Zhang alone in the house and shaking her head.

Walking to the path of East Lake, there are fields cultivated by villagers everywhere, with green watermelon fields and a bunch of maize; There are peanut fields the size of bowls, covered with rows of sesame seeds; There is also a wheat field that has just begun to turn yellow, and when you touch it with your hands, the wheat mangs are soft and soft, and they are a little prickly to the touch.

Liu Guiyuan picked up an ear of wheat while walking, rubbed it with her hands, it was a handful of wheat grains with wheat husks, she pulled up the corner of her gown, kneaded the wheat grains vigorously, and then got a handful of husked wheat grains.

At this time, the wheat grains are just ripe, and they are tender in the mouth, with the natural moisture of the grains, and after three or five days, and then a few poisonous suns, the villagers can harvest the wheat one after another. When the time comes, every household will be busy, including children, to harvest wheat, to gather ears, to dry wheat, and to work in the field.

Liu Guiyuan guessed that these wastelands were not wastelands at first, but because the terrain was too low, the villagers were afraid that the crops would be flooded by rain.

After a few turns, Liu Guiyuan found the two sisters who were playing pigweed by the Huashi River, and after a while, they had already picked up a lot of pigweed, and also folded a handful of sour tube rods, which looked a bit like sugarcane, but there was no residue to eat, only sweet and sour juice, similar to wild plums.

"Can you still find the sour barrel?" Liu Guiyuan happily picked up a slightly thin one, put it in his mouth and smacked it, it was a little old, but it could still taste it, it was so sour!

"Your second sister folded it next to the depression by the river, and these can still be eaten, and the rest can't be eaten." Liu Hongjujube shoveled a clump of fat mountain lettuce and planned to bring it back to add vegetables.

Liu Guiyuan helped to pick up the grass while eating, and when the two dung baskets were filled earlier than before, she proposed to go to the Huashi River to have a look, and fish for snails to touch the fish. Usually she doesn't dare to go down the river, she is too small to slip in the river, but today it happens that the eldest sister and the second sister are here, so she can rest assured that she can go down the river.

The three sisters put two dung baskets together, and two shovels hidden in the pigweed, and then followed Liu Guiyuan to the shallow place of the Huashi River, where there was a large open space overgrown with verdant aquatic plants.

Liu Guiyuan rolled up her trouser legs and took the lead in going down into the water, the river was clear, and if you looked closely, you could see the bubbles coming out of the silt, she bent down directly and touched it, hey, there is really something, it is a hemp shrimp, just out of the shell.

Liu Hongjube and Liu Huahua were not ambiguous, rolled up their trouser legs and sleeves, quickly found a location, and went into the water to touch things. Going down to the river to fish, they did a lot of things before, and their actions were even sharper than Liu Guiyuan.

Where Liu Hongzao got off her feet, the depth of the water was just beyond her knees, she held the water with both hands, reached into the water, her fingertips buckled the bottom of the water, her palms were close to the surface of the river, and she slowly groped in the water.

As soon as Liu Guiyuan saw her eldest sister fishing against the current, she knew that she was an expert in fishing, and then turned her head to look at her second sister, and the technique of touching fish was a little rough.

Liu Huahua found a relatively narrow place, directly reached out in the water to stir, the clear water quickly became turbid, she opened her eyes and waited patiently, and when the fish couldn't hold back her breath, she grabbed it with both hands, and the prey was in hand!

"Ah, it's a yellow eel!" Liu Huahua exclaimed, her hands clenched hard, and the yellow eel was slippery, struggling desperately in her hands, trying to escape.

Liu Huanan didn't care about this, she walked quickly to the shore, and threw the head of the yellow eel to the ground, less than three or two times, the yellow eel was not arrogant, but the tail still moved a few times from time to time.

"Guiyuan, help me put it in the basket and tell it to run carefully." Liu Huahua became more and more courageous, and continued to go into the water, concocting the same method.

Liu Guiyuan happened to be uncomfortable with the water in his right heel, so he hurriedly went ashore with a sigh, and waited to see a gray-black slender body, yellow markings, like a snake, disgusting for no reason.

"Second sister, is this a yellow eel? It looks like a snake, it's ugly! "She loves to eat yellow eels, but she can't see live yellow eels, otherwise she will easily think of snakes, and in the end she can't eat anything.

"Don't say that word, I won't be arrested if you say it again!" Liu Huahua was also afraid of snakes, but she wanted to catch another big one and go home, so she quickly ordered Liu Guiyuan to shut up.

The three sisters played by the river for a while, then packed up their things and walked back, and when they reached the middle of the village, Liu Hongjube and Liu Huahua handed Liu Guiyuan the wild vegetables left in advance, and the two went to the third uncle's house to deliver pigweed.

Liu Guiyuan waited impatiently for them, and ran home with a basket of loot, completely forgetting the pain in the soles of his feet.

If in the past, she walked for a day, and she had to rest for two or three days at the shortest, but now that she has become a peasant girl, she doesn't plan to spoil herself psychologically, so she can bear the pain.

When she arrived at the door of her house, before she entered the fence, Liu Guiyuan heard a burst of laughter, one old and one young, and the young one, she knew it was Zhang as soon as she heard it.

Why does her mother Zhang still have such a happy moment? Liu Guiyuan entered the house while thinking about it, and shouted in his mouth: "Mother, I'm back, I caught a lot of fish in the river with my eldest sister and second sister, as well as yellow eels." ”

"Who's coming back? Dates or Peanuts? With a hearty voice, an old lady with thin feet walked out.

Liu Guiyuan didn't know this person, but seeing that he was about the same age as Liu Yao's, he had a guess in his heart at the moment, and sure enough, Zhang's who was following behind said with a smile: "This is your grandmother, Guiyuan, call someone quickly." ”

"Hello grandma, I'm Xiao Longan. Why are you here? Liu Guiyuan put down the basket, walked up to the old lady, and looked at her curiously.

The old man was dressed in gray cloth, standing slightly hunched, his gray hair was coiled in a bun, fixed with a wooden comb, sparse eyebrows, slightly collapsed eyelids, and yellow-brown eyes, looking at her kindly and joyfully.

"This is longan? Okay, it's good, it's so big, it's going to make people work, good, good! ”

Grandma Luo saw Liu Guiyuan, who was not stupid, and couldn't stop clapping her hands with joy, she originally heard the villagers say, she thought that someone else was bluffing her, and she pulled the person and asked, only then did she know that her daughter was born, and she didn't send a letter.

"Mother, you just arrived, sit down and rest, Guiyuan, go and pour water for your grandmother to drink."

Zhang's just coaxed the lotus seed to sleep, and she moved her body on the kang when she had nothing to do for a while, and the lochia on her body never went away this time, and it was almost 20 days intermittently, and Zhang's was a little worried, I don't know if it was always crying in the confinement or something else.

She walked around the hall twice, and saw a familiar old man standing at the door, carrying a bamboo basket on his arm and a bag of things in his hand, wasn't that her own mother Luo Guiying? She didn't even inform her mother, how did she know?

"I'm not tired, what are you resting, quick, take me to see my little granddaughter, I'll see if she looks handsome."

Grandma Luo said as she entered the back room, and when she saw the little girl sleeping soundly in the small quilt, she couldn't help but smile and said, "Thin is a little thinner, but her face is ruddy, and she should be able to feed well." ”

After saying this, Grandma Luo lowered her head and reached into the placket to grope, then took out a white handkerchief, opened it layer by layer, revealing a small silver lock, gently placed on the chest of the lotus seed, and said: "This is the longevity lock that Grandma gave you, after you wear it, you will ensure a long life of 100 years, no disease and no disaster." ”

"Mother, where did you get the silver lock? How much does it cost? "The Zhang family knows the situation of her mother's family, the old lady is short of money, and she usually sells a few eggs for money, so she has to spend it on a few grandchildren, how can she have spare money to play a silver lock.

"Don't care, this is my full moon gift to my granddaughter, by the way, what's the name? But how many of them are called by red dates? Grandma Luo asked with a smile.

"Well, it's called Lianzi, I was finally pregnant, I was looking forward to being a boy, but I didn't expect it to be a girl." Zhang lowered his eyes and sighed softly.

Grandma Luo patted her lightly and feigned anger: "Don't talk about this in front of the children, so that a few of them will be sad to hear it." Then he asked Zhang's to lie down on the kang, and he still walked less and delicately during the confinement, and it was not good in case he saw the wind.

"Grandma, I poured water for you." Liu Guiyuan boiled half a scoop of hot water outside, sprinkled a pinch of sand sugar in it, stirred it well, poured it back and forth in two bowls, and hurriedly brought it in when the hot water was no longer hot.

Grandma Luo walked for so long, she was just thirsty, took it and put it to her mouth, tasted it, it turned out to be Xuantian sand sugar water, and then drank it in two gulps, and said with a smile: "It's so sweet, Xiao Longan is really filial, I know how to love Grandma." ”

Zhang knew that her mother had just drunk sand sugar water, so she said to her mother with some pride: "Longan is very clever now, she made the sand sugar and milk at home, and she went to the town to sell snails if she had nothing to do, maybe she did it, not to mention the two big ones, I didn't have to worry about the work outside the house......

Grandma Luo was happy to listen to her daughter's chatter, and after a while, Liu Hongjube and Liu Huahua also arrived home with a dung basket on their backs, and their feelings for their grandmother were deeper.

Seeing this, Liu Guiyuan was busy preparing meals outside, grandma came, they had to do something good to honor her, and it happened that they caught yellow eel and grass carp in Huashi River just now, and they could burn a braised fish at noon, and then stew a yellow eel, so that Zhang's can also eat.

"Fortunately, I didn't eat all the pork last night." After all, Liu Hongjube is older, and she came out to do things after talking to her grandmother, she carried a small half of salted pork in her hand, and she just cleaned up and ate it at noon.

"It's still my mother who knows that my grandmother is coming today, so I specially left it for her." Liu Guiyuan said with a smile, last night she was going to burn a pound of pork to eat, and Zhang's refused to let it live, saying that this pound of meat could be salted and salted, and a piece could be eaten for two or three months.

Halfway through the meal, Liu Chongshan came back humming a little song when he smelled the smell of rice, and these days he either ran around in the village to find someone to pull him, or went to the field to see how the wheat was ripe, anyway, he just didn't do business.

In his words, he will not be idle for a few days until the wheat harvest is now, and he will not be idle when the wheat is harvested. But in Liu Guiyuan's eyes, Liu Chongshan's style of work is a bit like wanting to develop in the direction of the farmer's lazy man, which is not good, she has to find a time to knock and knock, so as not to make him too comfortable.

"Dad, my grandmother is here, let's talk to my mother in the house." Liu Huahua, who lowered his head and burned the fire, saw her father coming back, and hurriedly shouted sweetly to remind him that someone was coming to the house.

Liu Chongshan hummed and entered the house, and shouted to Grandma Luo, "My mother is here", and the rest didn't talk much, only when Grandma Luo talked to him, he answered in a timely manner.

Everyone in the village is like this, the son-in-law is not very close when he sees his mother-in-law, he just politely calls someone to greet and sit, and then accompanies him to say a few words, and it is basically over. It's not that Liu Chongshan has any opinions about his mother-in-law, but that folk customs are like this, and every household is the same.

The staple food is steamed bread, which is mixed with bean noodles, white noodles and maize noodles, and the white and yellow steamed noodles are particularly beautiful. Only then did Liu Guiyuan know that the ancient steamed buns were made of pure noodles, and they were all the size of a fist, because of the addition of coarse grains, they tasted very real, and they were hungry.

A total of four dishes were fried, a braised fish, a stewed yellow eel, a pork with wild vegetables, and a stir-fried snail meat with pickles, with Xuanteng's big buns, and the family ate happily.

After the meal, Liu Chongshan and his mother-in-law said a few words, and went to the field to pull weeds under the pretext, leaving only Zhang and Grandma Luo talking in the back room, Liu Hongjube and Liu Huahua were washing dishes and sweeping the floor outside, and Liu Guiyuan was pinching his nose and squatting by the fence to wash diapers.

In the back room, Grandma Luo felt a little distressed about today's meal, and complained that Zhang's would not live, and after a while, she praised Gui Yuan's ability and sighed that Zhang's had not suffered in vain in the past few years.