After Qin Xi said goodbye to Tang Ying, she went back with her eldest brother.

Qin Qing is still attending classes in the primary school in the village, she is very serious and conscious in her studies, and she doesn't need Qin Xi to supervise her at all, compared to the rest of the people, she is still very worry-free.

For lunch, Qin Xi didn't plan to make complicated things, just a simple sweet potato porridge.

Their family still eats a fixed set of three meals a day, even if it is simpler, it is already very good.

Many people in the village have long been reduced to two meals a day, and the meals are all scarce, all for survival.

After all, if you want to find wild vegetables now, you have to walk for at least half an hour to see a little green, and the wild grass and wild vegetables around the village have long been cleaned, and the scene is comparable to the crossing of locusts.

After all, there are still pigs in the village, which are task pigs, and they must be raised, and after a while, they will have to be handed over, these days, they are all supported by the sweet potato vines that were cut back and dried before.

Someone in the village will always do the work of beating pigweed, and now they don't pick anything, they naturally grab a piece of land and cut it to death.

As for the cattle, the people who are now responsible for driving the cattle to graze have been replaced by adults, and they have been given additional work, after all, it is not an easy job to drive the cattle to graze now.

In addition, there are special people in the village who are responsible for chopping sweet potatoes and dried straw for the cows every day, scalding them with hot water, and then waiting for the cows to come back, they can be fed.

People are not as good as cows, everyone has a clear understanding, treating these baby cows, the village is naturally meticulous, and the people in the village also attach great importance to it.

After eating and sitting briefly for a while, Qin Xi planned to take a lunch break, but he couldn't sleep when he lay on the bed and tossed and turned.

So, she sat up very irritably, looking at the sun outside the window, and the pumpkins, winter melons, and green onions, ginger and garlic she planted in the corners were wilted, which made her even more annoying.

The vegetables she planted before were still very energetic, and the growth of the vegetables was good, but now, I can only say that they are still alive, and this is still what she often watered to hang them half-dead, otherwise, they would have hung up a long time ago.

Like the most drought-tolerant peppers, they have long been dried in the sun, and now the pepper trees are roasted by the sun very crispy, a little hard, the kind that will break when broken, you know, it is only mid-August, and at this time in the past, the pepper trees are the time to produce peppers.

This year's chopped peppers are gone, only some dried chili peppers, fortunately, last year she chopped a lot of chili peppers, although some of the Qinhe River was divided, but if they save a little use, they should be able to last until next year, besides, there are moldy beans and pickles and the like, there is no shortage of jar vegetables at home.

In May this year, although pumpkins and winter melons produced a lot, they are not big in size now, after all, they are still in the growth period, and they have stopped developing because of drought.

The pumpkin vine knot of the pumpkin climbing on the fence wall, the largest is only the size of a sea bowl, and it is the kind that is light and fluttering, no more than two catties at most.

As for the others, most of them are only the size of the small bowl she eats in, and the appearance of less than a pound is also light and fluttering, and it is not welcome.

The situation of winter melon is better, the largest winter melon, there are more than a dozen catties, and the small ones are only two or three catties, it looks like a baby winter melon, but the vines are indeed about to die.

Not to mention the onions and garlic, Qin Xi, who has short leaves, is embarrassed to pull it, if it weren't for her and her brother's bath water and foot washing water, these crops would have been roasted dry a long time ago.

The word roasted dry is realistic, not an exaggerated narrative.

If it weren't for the fact that the skin of the pumpkin and winter melon is not old, if it is not released, Qin Xi would have picked them home and put them away, no matter how buried they are, they are still food, and if they are placed outside, they are seducing people.

Now that the time is ripe, after Qin Xi discussed with her brother, she directly picked the pumpkin, the pumpkin skin has changed from dark green to green yellow, this kind of can be picked, put it on the shelf, as long as it is not frozen or spoiled by mice, this pumpkin will be put for half a year, there is no problem at all.

Liu Mei looked at Qinjiang and Qinxi enthusiastically picking pumpkins through the unobstructed window.

I used to laugh at Qin Xibai's hard work, and when she had that time, she might as well rest at home, but now when it was time to harvest, she was jealous when she saw it.

If they want to plant something, it is naturally very simple, they only need to prepare the ground and plant the seeds, but they are just lazy, they are not willing to do this little work, thinking that it is useless to harvest a little bit.

As everyone knows, a little here and a little there, it adds up to a lot.

"Brother, shall we steam pumpkin pie tonight?"

I picked eighteen pumpkins today, and although the harvest was not as rich as I imagined when I planted it, it was not bad, at least it yielded.

Besides, when the tip of the pumpkin vine was tender and delicious before, she didn't pinch the pumpkin vine back to eat, and when she first knotted the pumpkin, she also picked the tender pumpkin to eat, and now there are still so many left, which is already very good.

"Okay, I like to eat." Qin Jiang's eyes lit up at the thought of being able to eat something fresh at night.

To be honest, during this time, eating sweet potatoes hurt a little and annoyed to death.

The pumpkin cake made by Qin Xi is not authentic, and the flour used is not glutinous rice, but flour, because there is no glutinous rice at home.

You can put some brown sugar, break a small piece, heat and melt it in water, and mix it with pumpkin flour, so that the steamed pumpkin pie has a slight sweetness.

In fact, the pumpkin pie fried in oil is more fragrant and delicious, but Qin Xi is reluctant to fry the pumpkin pie with oil, and she feels that it is too extravagant, so she should fry it for steaming.

After the pumpkin is washed, put it on the rack and steam it without peeling, and after it is steamed, the pumpkin skin is processed.

You know, this pumpkin skin is also edible, and the three of them eat it separately, in short, you can't waste a little bit of food.

Add the flour to the steamed pumpkin, pour in the sweet potato pulp water, and start the noodles directly.

She was reluctant to put more flour, only a small scoop, and there was not much flour left at home, so she had to save a little.

The two remaining two in the house, since she started to make dinner, have been gathering around the stove, like two greedy honey!

"Qin Qing, go and do your homework, and when I do it, I'll bring it over, you're here, I'm not good at working."

"Brother, help me boil water, this is going to be steamed."

(End of chapter)