Chapter 7: Water chestnuts
Jiang Saburo snorted lightly, scooped two scoops of water with his own hands, tore off the sweat towel on his shoulders and rubbed it twice in the basin, washed his face three or five times, and wiped his neck and arms.
It's finally cool.
When I looked again, the water in the basin was already black.
When he had poured out the water, he saw his wife holding her by the waist.
"San Lang, the vegetable soup and the bread are placed under the basket, Sakura and I have already used them, you can eat them quickly."
"Okay." Jiang Saburo nodded, and took out a large bowl of shepherd's cabbage soup, five black flour cakes, and a boiled goose egg from under the basket.
"Where did the goose eggs come from?" Jiang Saburo sat down at the small table, rolled up a piece of bread and took a big bite.
"Dani sent it." Chun Niang took a pu fan to fan her husband, and then fanned Ying Bao a few times, "Take two, I ate one with Ying Bao, and this one is for you." ”
Jiang Saburo took a sip of the vegetable soup, picked up the cake and chewed it, "Goose eggs for you to eat tomorrow." People say that pregnant women eat goose eggs, and the raw dolls are white and clean, what do I do when I eat this, waste! ”
Chun Niang smiled, "Net nonsense, how did you waste your food?" Sakura and I have boiled eggs every day, as well as screw shrimp and loaches sent by my eldest nephew, which is not bad for this goose egg. You hurry up and eat, hoe the ground under the big sun on such a hot day, don't get meat again, beware of the heat. ”
As he spoke, he picked up the goose egg and knocked it on the corner of the table a few times, broke the shell, and handed it to her husband.
Jiang Saburo had no choice but to take it and peel off the shell little by little.
Chun Niang sat down on the high stool, shaking the fan to cool off her husband and daughter, and saw that the two hens in the family were revolving around the little girl, as if begging for food, and said softly: "It's strange to say, our two hens have gained a lot of weight recently, and they are also diligent in laying eggs, two a day, and they are all double yolk eggs." ”
Sakura looked up at her mother, and squatted on the ground to stroke the chicken's head and feather back.
The two hens cooed and pecked the little master's toes very affectionately.
Jiang Saburo was stunned when he heard this, his brows furrowed, "It's about earthworm feeding, Dani doesn't often take Yingbao to dig earthworms to feed the chickens these days, the chickens are strong, and they naturally lay eggs frequently." ”
"Yes." Chun Niang smiled and looked at her daughter, and the more she looked at it, the happier she became.
Sakura Baoer is getting better and better-looking, the whole child is pink and jade, and her eyebrows and eyes are delicate like dolls in New Year's paintings. Even if he runs around all day long, he never gets darker.
Looking at the other babies in the village, after the summer harvest, they all looked like black loaches, and they couldn't see it.
"Bao'er, come, open your mouth." Jiang Saburo used chopsticks to pick a piece of egg yolk and stuffed it into his daughter's mouth, and then gave another piece to his wife, and then ate the rest of the goose eggs.
After eating, the family of three lay down on the mat and took a nap.
Sakura couldn't sleep, and when her father and mother fell asleep, she got up and slipped out of the yard.
The two hens followed her.
The three little ones came to a small dry ditch.
This is the earthworm base that Sakura Bao and Sister Dani often visit, and the soil in the ditch is thick, which is suitable for seedlings.
Sakura squatted in the pit and shoveled the soil, shoveling the soil with a little fallen leaves into a small bamboo basket, and then carrying it back to her vegetable patch and scattering it around the saplings.
She was tired from two trips back and forth, panting, and sat on the ground to rest.
Suddenly, I slapped my head, don't I have an invisible mobile warehouse, it's no problem to transport some soil.
Hey, it's really a person who has become smaller and his head is rusty.
There was no one around, and at noon, everyone was at home to escape the heat, so no matter what they did, no one would see them.
Sakura Po suddenly stood up and picked up a shovel to shovel the soil.
Shovel once, shovel once.
Soon, she harvested a large amount of fertile soil from the dry ditch.
When the two hens saw that they couldn't eat the insects, they cooed in a hurry, tilted their heads and looked at their masters in confusion.
Sakura apologizes for touching them, and promises, "Wait a minute, when Sister Dani comes, you will have bugs to eat." ”
She had to collect more soil when no one was around, so that she could raise seedlings later.
"Bao'er, what are you doing?" Jiang Saburo woke up and disappeared from his daughter, and hurriedly went out to look for it, no, at a glance, he saw his daughter's face and hands covered with black dirt, squatting in the ditch and not knowing what to do.
Sakura quickly stood up and ran over, and the two hens behind her followed closely and ran so fast that even their wings fluttered.
"Dad, Bao'er digs earthworms for chickens to eat." Sakura Po shook off her companion without blushing.
Two hens: She's a liar! She lied! She ate it all by herself, and there was not even any slag left.
Jiang Saburo took his daughter home, patted off the dirt on her body, washed her hands and face, put it next to Chunniang, pinched the little tugging on her head, and threatened: "Sleep!" If you dare to run around alone again, beware of spanking your ass! ”
Sakura grinned, nestled beside her mother, and grimaced at her father.
Jiang Saburo stood up and said to his wife, "The sun is not too strong outside, I'll go and hoe the rest of the ground." You should be careful at home, go out for a walk, and then look at Sakura, don't let her go out and run around. ”
"yes, got it." Chun Niang leaned on the couch, touched her daughter's little head, and said gently: "Recently, Bao'er has been really wild, and if you don't pay attention, there will be no shadow, I can't catch up. ”
"Okay."
Jiang Saburo went to the stove room to pour a jar of cold boiled water, put on a straw hat, and went out with a hoe.
It didn't take long for Dani to come running, followed by her youngest brother Yuanbao.
"Third aunt, let's play with Sakura." Dani Dao.
Chun Niang was walking back and forth in the house, and when she saw her niece and nephew, she smiled and beckoned: "Dani is here, come into the house, the third aunt will make you sugar water to drink, eh?" Don't you have any homework today? ”
Yuan Bao is six years old this year, and he has just entered a private school for enlightenment in the spring, and he goes to school every day like entering the execution ground, and when he comes back, he is like a monkey going down the mountain.
"No, no schoolwork." Yuan Bao snorted and hung his head.
He didn't understand why all the adults liked to ask this when they saw him, couldn't he say something pleasant.
Ying Bao ran over and took the little cousin's hand, "Brother Yuanbao, can you read to Ying Bao?" ”
Yuan Bao touched the back of his head, his face full of confusion: "I, I can only use the three-character scripture." "The first few paragraphs.
Alas, I shouldn't have come with my eldest sister.
"Then Brother Yuanbao reads the Three Character Classic, okay?" Although Sakura is literate, she can't let her father know.
Only by first contacting and learning more from ingots can I dare to show it little by little.
Yuanbao couldn't stand the expectant eyes of his little cousin, so he had no choice but to clear his throat and start reciting: "At the beginning of people, nature is good, sex is similar, and Xi is far away......"
After reciting the "Three Talents Heaven and Earth", Yuan Bao began to scratch his ears and cheeks.
Ying Bao clapped his little hands and praised: "Brother Yuanbao is amazing!" ”
Yuan Bao's face was red, but his small chest was instantly straightened.
Chun Niang greeted: "Come and drink sugar water." Yuanbao, ignore your sister, hurry up and drink saliva to moisten your throat. ”
"Hmm." Yuan Bao breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly avoided his little cousin and ran over.
Sakura snickered and ran to drink water.
After drinking the brown sugar water, the three children stayed in the house for a while, and felt bored, so they ran out of the yard and fished for small insects in the woods in front of the door.
Yuan Bao is the most familiar with this game, picking a handful of locust leaves to remove the leaves, leaving only slender leaf stems.
Pouting on the ground to find a few small wormholes, poking a thin leaf stem into it, and then patting it on the ground with his hand, shouting in his mouth: "Ma Dog Ma Dog Come out quickly!" ”
Then with a slight pull, there was a small blue and white worm on the leaf stem.
Yuan Bao laughed, wiped his snot with the back of his hand, and showed the little bugs to Sakura.
Sakura took a few steps back, she didn't want to play this little kid game.
Turned to Dani and said, "Sister Dani, is it okay to go pick up water chestnuts?" ”
There are rice fields in their small mountain village, and you can find a lot of small water chestnuts in the paddy fields, which can be sweet and sweet.
Dani was also very impressed, and immediately nodded in agreement.
So Sakura Bao went home and told Ah Niang, and ran to the nearby paddy field with Dani Yuanbao.
In the paddy field, the seedlings have just taken root, and the water chestnuts have quietly sprouted.
Dani and Yuanbao took off their shoes and went down to the paddy field, bent down and touched it, and soon found a pocket of black and black round water chestnuts.
This kind of water chestnut is only the size of a fingernail, and it tastes sweet and sweet, and the ingots are immediately stuffed into the mouth.