Chapter 24: The Flower

When she got up early in the morning, Zhao Yunlan got up to see the precipitated sweet potato pulp, and Zhao Yunlan was very happy. Carefully poured out the water from the upper layer, dug up the starch underneath, and found a dustpan to dry.

The good weather not only makes the croppers happy, but also Zhao Yunlan.

When Li Mingmei got up to boil water, Zhao Yunlan had already brought the dustpan to the yard.

"Sister-in-law, this looks like flour." Li Mingmei exclaimed.

"That's right, this is the flour in the sweet potato, when this flour is dried, it will be ready for you to eat, hey~." Zhao Yunlan said that there is no such thing as chili, and there is no chili pepper in hot and sour powder, which is missing the soul.

Zhao Yunlan carefully thought about the substitute for chili peppers, well, you can use dogwood. It just so happened that I went to the third child to go to the town today to deliver clothes to Li Mingyi, "Third brother, you come, I have something to trouble you to help." Zhao Yunlan called Li Mingli.

"Sister-in-law, what are you doing politely, just tell me if you have something."

"Okay, I'm not polite to you. Today, you go to the pharmacy in the town to help me buy some dogwood and a piece of ginger, and I'll give you the money later. ”

"Sister-in-law is uncomfortable, but I have to ask Dr. Sun to come over and take a look." Li Mingli asked.

"I'm not uncomfortable, this is bought back to make seasonings, you just have to buy it, give you fifty yuan, and buy it according to this money."

"Sister-in-law, will this be too expensive to make seasonings?"

"Just buy it! You have to pay before you reap. Zhao Yunlan thought for a while, "There is another matter, you take a walk around the town today to see if there are any flower baskets sold, if there is, you can inquire which family it is, and then see how their business is." ”

Li Mingli nodded solemnly, Zhao Yunlan went back to the room and took sixty wen to Li Mingli, "Give you ten more wen, buy some food in the town, if you delay for a long time, take the ox cart of Second Uncle Wang back." ”

Li Mingli refused to accept the money: "I'll just bring some cakes later, it doesn't cost this money." ”

Zhao Yunlan didn't want to pull with Li Mingli, so she stuffed the money into the third child's hand and turned around and went to the kitchen. Li Mingli had to stuff the money into his arms.

After breakfast, Li Mingli packed Li Mingyi's clothes and went to town. Zhao Yunlan followed Old Man Li to the ground, and Xiaobao was also carried to the field by Zhao Yunlan.

"Xiaobao, do you know what this is?" Zhao Yunlan asked Xiaobao, and Xiaobao listened as if she didn't understand.

"Mother, hehehe~" Xiaobao grabbed the grass with mud and stuffed it into Zhao Yunlan's hand, and Zhao Yunlan was not annoyed. Zhao Yunlan's temper is getting better and better now, and the motherhood aroused by Xiaobao is spreading out in circles, and sometimes Li Mingmei can feel Zhao Yunlan's love.

"Xiaobao, read with your mother, wheat, come to wheat."

"Crooked." Xiaobao tilted his head to kill, but Zhao Yunlan was cute, and Zhao Yunlan was overjoyed, "Wheat, it's wheat"

Xiaobao followed "Wheat, it's a little crooked"

Li Mingmei laughed next to her, and Zhao Yunlan no longer bothered about Xiaobao's pronunciation. found a flat ridge for Xiaobao, and let Xiaobao sit there to play, Zhao Yunlan was only a few steps away from pulling weeds.

Zhao Yunlan brought Xiaobao to the field to let the children get in touch with nature by themselves, and learned to know these crops since they were young, and they knew that it was not easy to grow crops. Although I plan to take the road of reading in the future, I also have to know all kinds of grains. Even if Xiaobao doesn't understand the consciousness of these things now, Zhao Yunlan wants to start from the milk doll, get exposed to it in life, and slowly develop a good habit of going to the study, going down to the kitchen, and planting the land outside, don't become pretentious because of reading.

Xiaobao sat on the ridge, lively and active, one moment wanted to stand up, and the next he crawled around, making his clothes all dirt. Zhao Yunlan looked at it and thought: It is adults who are tired of children's social practice. The thought of going back and having to change clothes again gives me a headache. After all, Xiaobao was not restrained.

The work in the field is almost over, Xiaobao has been playing all morning, and now he is drowsy and wants to take a nap.

Zhao Yunlan carried Xiaobao home in the back basket, and Xiao Bao fell asleep in the back basket.

Entering the courtyard, Wang was sitting in the courtyard with needles and threads sewing clothes, and Zhao Yunlan carried Xiaobao back to the bed in the room and fell asleep.

"Mother, you leave me to sew for a while. Don't be distracted anymore and go inside and rest for a while. Li Mingmei washed her hands and walked over, wanting to take away the clothes in Wang's hand.

Wang: "It's not in the way, I just came out and sat down, and I opened the thread little by little, and I can sew it in a while, without exhaustion." ”

Li Mingmei had no choice but to give up and followed Zhao Yunlan to the kitchen. The adults in the family eat two meals, but Xiaobao still has to eat three meals, Li Mingmei cooked a little lean porridge, which is still leftover from before, chopped minced meat and green onions, fried and put it in a jar.

Zhao Yunlan put a little more rice, thinking that the Wang family would also eat it together.

Sure enough, the Wang family shirked and refused to eat, complaining about what Zhao Yunlan was doing with wasting this food.

Zhao Yunlan said: "Mother, there is a saying that 'medicine is not as good as food', you now in addition to drinking medicine on weekdays, you also have to eat well, although you can't eat big fish and meat every day at home, but you can still eat three meals." ”

Wang no longer complained, and ate slowly with a bowl, Xiaobao woke up and saw that Wang was also eating, and also sat next to Wang with a bowl. Zhao Yunlan looked at this old and young person, and only felt cute.

Li Mingmei was asked by Aunt Sun's big flower sister to go to the mountains to break spring bamboo shoots, as well as several girls of average age in the village.

"Meizi, where did you buy this flower? That day, when I saw you wearing this flower, I asked my mother to go to the town to buy it for me, and I came back and said that there was no one in the town. Li Dahua couldn't wait to ask.

Li Dahua is the sixth daughter of Li Qingnian and Sun Jinfeng at the head of the village. Li Dahua has five older brothers above, and a younger brother and a younger sister below. The four elder brothers are all married, and the family is diligent and honest, so the work in the field is neatly cooked, and it can be regarded as a small family with surplus money in the village. Li Qingnian's family treats their children equally, and what Li Dahua wants, as long as it is within the scope of affordability, parents will try their best to do it. Li Dahua is also a straight person, and if he likes Li Mingmei's head flower, he will ask directly, and there will be no messy little calculations.

The other little girls were also eagerly waiting, as if they knew the answer and would have it in the next second.

"This one, I didn't buy it in the town, where does my family have that money to spend, this is my sister-in-law made it for me, it's good-looking!" Li Mingmei said proudly.

Li Dahua: "Hehe, it's good-looking, let our sister-in-law make me a pair too, um~ I'll pay, I've saved some pocket money, but there isn't much, let your sister-in-law be cheaper." ”

The other girls also nodded, and those who had no pocket money were still thinking about exchanging them for eggs.

Li Mingmei was stunned by this nonsense, and hurriedly carried the basket on her back to prepare to go home, and ran two steps to react, isn't this an opportunity to make money!

Li Mingmei couldn't wait to fly to Zhao Yunlan's side in the next second, and didn't forget to say to her little friend: "You wait, I'll go back and ask my sister-in-law." ”

In the courtyard, Zhao Yunlan was washing Xiaobao's changed clothes, and she saw a windy woman running in front of her.

"Big, big, sister-in-law, I, I have..." Li Mingmei was out of breath and anxious to say.

"You take a rest first, and then I'll pour you a bowl of water." Zhao Yunlan went to the hall and brought a bowl of water.

Li Mingmei took a breath and drank it, almost choking herself, "Sister-in-law, let me tell you, they want to buy this head flower from you," Li Mingmei pointed to her head, and then said, "Just let you give it cheaper, they don't have much money." ”

"You girl, I thought you were in such a hurry, this head flower, sister-in-law can do it, but I won't accept this money, everyone is a village, how can I ask for this money, when the farm is busy, your brother Dahua will come to help after finishing his own land. Most of the people in the village have helped our family, and we can't take this money. ”

Li Mingmei scratched her head shyly, and Zhao Yunlan continued: "But this is a way to make money, we can make a head flower and sell it in the town, you have also seen your sister-in-law make this head flower, I am telling you, you made it yourself and gave it to them." ”

"Sister-in-law, this won't work, I can't learn your own craft." Li Mingmei hurriedly shook her head.

"Silly girl, this is not worth any craftsmanship, those embroideries in the town are good craftsmanship! And this style of head flower is very simple, it is easy to be learned, your sister-in-law and I will have other Oh, you can rest assured. ”

Li Mingmei was relieved at this time, Zhao Yunlan thought, a lot of wholesale in the modern black small commodity market is cheap, and there are many styles. Why did Zhao Yunlan know, because she prepared Children's Day gifts for students when she was teaching, Zhao Yunlan also went to that city for a special trip, and the small shopping mall was all for Zhao Yunlan to pick flowers.

The girl's head flower, that is not a piece of cake, coupled with her own sewing skills, is guaranteed to capture the hearts of the big girl and the little daughter.

Zhao Yunlan was planning while teaching Li Mingmei.

Zhao Yunlan picked out a few pieces of rags with acceptable colors and gave them to Li Mingmei. I looked at the remaining rag heads, if I want to do this business, there are not many rag heads that can be used to make head flowers, so I have to go to the town to buy some more.

Li Mingmei went back to the room to make a hair flower, Zhao Yunlan put this matter aside for the time being, and went to see the dried sweet potato starch.