Chapter 13: Anomalies (1)
When the rice is cooked, start stir-frying in a small pot next to it. The Ye family's kitchen is not small, with a large wooden cabinet against the wall on the left, in which there are dishes, chopsticks, plates, and so on. After entering the door, leaning on the earthen stove in the innermost and upper right corner, there is a lot of firewood piled up under the earthen stove.
The earthen stove is very well designed. There are two holes in the stove for filling firewood, and there are three places above the earthen stove for pots. The largest pot is usually used for cooking rice or boiling water, and as it is big, the hole under is one. The other two small mouths can be placed in two small pots, which can be used to stir-fry vegetables or make soup. There is only one firewood opening for both pots, but this design is very practical.
Ye Xuanxuan used to live in the city, and occasionally traveled and encountered those remote areas, and she would also see such earthen stoves. It's just that I don't know how to burn it myself.
Thinking like this, Ye Xuanxuan also entered the kitchen and handed the dishes to Ye Erya, and then stared at Ye Bao'er burning the earthen stove.
The two firewood entrances of the earthen stove are open to the innermost, and as long as there is a fire here, the other half can be lit without a fire. All you need to do is choose a softer hay type of firewood, put it in the innermost part, and it will be lit as soon as you touch a little spark on the other side. It is also easy to burn an earthen stove, and you can light it with soft firewood first. As long as there are gaps in the erections, it is relatively easy, and finally add a little bit to the inside, and when the fire is bigger, you can add branches.
After watching it for a while, Ye Xuanxuan felt that she could also get started, so she hurriedly asked Ye Bao'er to take a rest and burn it herself. While burning the fire, he started chatting with Ye Erya by the way, but Ye Erya also used to cook in the kitchen, and chatting with Ye Xuanxuan could still chop vegetables in an orderly manner.
I saw that she quickly poured a little oil into the pot, grabbed the wild vegetables that had been washed before and quickly put them into the pot and stir-fried. After stir-frying, add a little salt and continue to stir-fry. As soon as the vegetables were fried, Ye Bao'er took out the plate with sharp eyes and handed it over. After serving the stir-fried wild vegetables, put them in the freshly made rice pot and put them on top of the rice to keep warm. I poured some oil and poured the eggs into the pan and fried them, seeing that the amount was about two eggs!
Since there were relatively few eggs, Ye Erya began to stir-fry after frying, let it spread and add a little salt. After the eggs are served, add some wild celery that was left over from yesterday, add salt, and stir-fry together. After thinking about it, I scooped out a small half bowl of hot sauce from the clay pot in the left corner of the kitchen and steamed it together.
After finishing this, she didn't feel tired, and after adding some water to the small pot, she wiped her hands and asked, "Eldest sister, Bao'er, are you hungry?" Seeing that they all shook their heads, they turned their heads to look at the sky again, and it was already a little dark. Look at the sky, Daddy is coming back! Ye Erya walked over and sat next to Ye Xuanxuan, and also pulled Ye Baoer together.
The three of them were close together, and the earthen stove was still full of heat, making all three of them feel very warm.
Feeling warmer, Ye Xuanxuan wanted to get up and move. When I walked out of the kitchen, I saw that the courtyard door was pushed open, and the Lu family came back with Ye Jin, still eating melon seeds as he walked. Seeing Ye Xuanxuan standing in the kitchen, she came to her strength, and was about to go over to sarcastically mock her, but after thinking about it again, she couldn't help it. Turned her head away from Ye Xuanxuan, "Is the meal ready, hurry up and bring it over, the dead girl doesn't have any eyesight." "Don't think about it, just scold the two of them.
However, what made Ye Xuanxuan curious was that the moment the Lu family entered the door and saw her, it was clear that she was planning to find her business. This time, she walked away without scolding, she didn't ignore the weird smile on the corner of Lu's mouth when she turned her head. Could it be that this Lu clan is calculating something?
Ye Xuanxuan, who couldn't figure it out, didn't bother to think about it, if there was really anything to do, the soldiers would come to cover the water! Could it be that the Lu family still dares to eat himself?
Thinking like this, she was also relieved, and dragged her lame leg into the kitchen. Ye Erya was coming out with the dishes, and Ye Baoer also came out. After taking the dishes and chopsticks from Ye Baoer's hand, he also entered the house.
Their house is a courtyard wall surrounded by loess bricks, and the yard is quite large. The whole family has a total of seven mud houses, with a layout of one line, and one or two hundred square meters of yards. This area is very good in modern times, but in the countryside, especially in remote mountain villages, this is the standard of ordinary people. After all, there are many fields, and the price of unfertile land is surprisingly low.
Although Ye Xuanxuan doesn't know how many families this family has, it is not bad to see that there is land to grow houses and raise livestock. However, the children work more and work less, and the income is naturally less.
This house was still repaired by Ye Youfu and Yu's after the separation, and it was only two small earthen houses before. The middle one is facing the courtyard door is the living room, which is actually larger than the other rooms, and there is a long narrow table at the top of the living room, which looks like an offering table. There are several old wooden chairs on both sides of the lower head, and an old round table of solid wood of the same color is placed in the middle.
I usually eat in that room, but in the mountain village, it is not like a large family that needs to divide the living room and dining room. In addition, on the left and right sides of the room, on the left are where Lu Shi, Ye Dafu and Ye Jin live.
The reason why Ye Jin lived with them was also because the Lu family always used Ye Jin as an excuse that he was still young, but in fact, she was just worried about her son. The room on the right is smaller, but it is locked all year round, and no one has entered it. Even Ye Dafu didn't have a key to get in.
I heard that it was her dead mother, Yu's room, which was used as a study, and Yu's had been locked since Yu's death, and Ye Dafu would not have asked where the key was.
After all, he has feelings for his ex-wife, it is his ex-wife's room, and keeping the room is a thought of her and respect.
I have to say that this Ye Dafu is a good person, although he and Yu got married in the early years, they were matched by others, but the relationship between the two has always been very good after they got married. Ye Dafu felt that it was a great blessing for him to be able to marry Yu, because Yu could recognize some words.
In this period, only a lady from a big family or a lady from the government will, and the Yu family will do it too! This made Ye Dafu feel lucky and face-saving. Although he is loyal and honest, he also knows how to be considerate when he treats his wife, and only lets her do some housework, and he takes care of the work in the field or the heavy work at home.
When Yu was alive, he would often read books or write something in his small room in his free time, and seemed to use that room as a study. Although Yu didn't let him into his hut or tell him what he wrote, Ye Dafu also understood that as long as he knew that the woman he married was gentle and virtuous, and he could read and write, it was enough. His requirements are not high, as long as his daughter-in-law is good to himself and his children. Moreover, Yu's had already exceeded his requirements, so he was indifferent to his daughter-in-law's refusal to let him enter the small bookstore.
Think of yourself as a coarse person, and you can't read, so it's useless to go in. And she didn't have the money to buy her pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, that is, all the objects that Yu looked at and wrote were taken by herself. Although he didn't know if it was the money from Yu's mother's side, he was too interested to ask. He thought, since he can't give her anything else, at least give his daughter-in-law a world of her own!
This locked room is what the Lu family has always wanted to explore, and she thought that the Yu family would leave her dowry and private room in that room, and leave it to the three children of the Ye family in the future. But since she got married, she knocked on the side and mentioned some, Ye Youfu and Ye Daya said that they didn't know where the key was. After mentioning it a few times, I was afraid of arousing their suspicions, so I put it down for the time being.