Vaguely hearing the roosters in the village, Li Xiaohan woke up in a daze, and there was already the sound of people walking outside the window.

When I opened the door, Wang was busy in the kitchen, and Li Xiandong was moving the unprocessed part of the eucommia peel that was cut yesterday to the porch.

"Xiaohan, you're awake, go wash up, your mother is about to cook breakfast."

"Oh, Daddy, what are you doing?" Li Xiaohan rubbed his eyes.

"I moved the bark down the verandah, because I was afraid that it would rain and it wouldn't be good if it was exposed to the sun." Li Xiandong said.

Under the front porch, it is very suitable, airy and breathable, not afraid of rain and sun. No wonder people in the city build houses like this.

"Dad, you're so thoughtful." Li Xiaohan praised her father vigorously, but her father had been suppressed for too long, and he had no self-confidence.

In fact, Li Shengli has been old in the past few years, and Li Xiandong is in charge of all the affairs of the family, but unfortunately this meticulousness and thoughtfulness have not been seen.

I hope that after the separation, my grandfather will not regret it.

There was already a chill in the early morning of autumn, but Li Xiandong smiled and continued to carefully tidy up the eucommia peel, in the kitchen, Wang's cooking breakfast occasionally made a sound of pots and pans colliding, and the sweet fragrance of food came from the air, Li Xiaohan suddenly felt very warm in his heart, wrapped his clothes tightly, and quickly went to the corner to wash.

After washing up, Wang's breakfast was ready. Therefore, if you want to go up the mountain today, you can't get some porridge and water for breakfast.

This year's wheat is ground into flour, the fried button meat is chopped and sandwiched in the cake, and the surface is browned at high temperature, and the aroma of the wheat is baked, and the rich fat is soaked out from the inside.

Such a cake makes people have a great appetite just by holding it, and when you bite into it, the aroma of meat and wheat is rampant in your mouth.

"Mother, I'll just say that it must be convenient and delicious for you to do this."

Wang looked at the two fathers and daughters eating with a smile, and there were fireworks in their voices, "If you like your mother, I'll make it for you." What else would you like to eat? Tell me. ”

"I also want to eat another egg paste soup, I want to put chopped greens and shiitake mushrooms, and the eggs should be slipped in last, and the tender ones will be served." Li Xiaohan said vaguely while eating the cake.

"Cheng, I'll give you the whole tomorrow." It's just an egg paste soup, Wang now feels that this is not a problem, where is there still a month ago that he couldn't even boil a lard.

After breakfast, I brought the extra bread for lunch, and then went out with a basket.

Because Li Xinhe and the others no longer need to come to help today, and the other villagers still don't know about the situation of Du Zhong, this time there are only three people, like ants slowly entering the forest.

The busy day passed very quickly, and when the sun gradually set westward, Li Xiandong's family went down the mountain with a basket on their backs, and on this day, they found two eucommia trees.

When they got home, Wang was ready to cook, and Li Xiaohan and Li Xiandong did not stop, and the two of them took out the eucommia peel that had been soaked in salt water for a day and drained it, ready to fry the broken shreds.

Needless to say, the person who operates the main operation is Li Xiaohan again.

"Dad, fire, the fire is smaller, let's take our time, in case it burns, it's not good."

"Dad, it doesn't need to be so small, it's bigger, I can't feel the heat when I put my hand in the pot."

Li Xiandong was sweating profusely, and he didn't know if it was hot or urgent. After a while, with a ruthless heart, Li Xiandong said, "Baby, mother, you come, I'll cook." ”

"Ahh The Wang family was also anxious when they saw Li Xiandong's fire, but the Li family has never had a man cook. This man cooks, and the mother-in-law of the family will be told to die.

Wang, she didn't dare.

Li Xiandong saw Wang's hesitation, and naturally understood what Wang was taboo, but he was said to have no children for so many years, and there was no more, and "There are only three people in our family, let's not say who knows." However, if this eucommia is not fried well, it will be scrapped, and this is all money. ”

Wang was pushed to the stove in a daze, and Li Xiaohan also persuaded, "Mother, I want to stabilize the fire a little bit and make it a little smaller, and I can't control my father's big and small things." You come and light the fire. ”

What is it for a man to cook a meal, it is still a plus for a man to cook in his previous life, and a lot of chefs are men.

As for the question of whether Li Xiandong can eat rice: they ate brown rice porridge at night, and after a day's work, they were so thirsty that Wang washed the brown rice, put water in it, and prepared to cook the porridge. The dish is prepared to be steamed eggplant and steamed meat on top of porridge.

At this time, it doesn't matter if it's good or not, Li Xiandong can still steam things, besides, the Wang family is still beside him, just open his mouth to guide while burning the fire.

Sure enough, if the Wang family came over to burn the fire, it would be much better, the Wang family was a good hand at burning the fire, Li Xiaohan only needed to care about the frying of eucommia in the pot, and there was no need to care about the fire......

"Uncle Xiandong, Uncle Xiandong, I called you for a long time, but no one answered, I saw that the door was unlocked, so I pushed the door and came in. Uncle, my dad ......"

Li Xinhe pushed open the door and saw Li Xiandong cutting meat......

For a moment, several people were stunned.

This can't be said, just said that no one else knew, and was immediately broken by Li Xinhe.

In the end, it was Li Xiaohan who came back to his senses first, "Brother Xinhe, what are you looking for my father?" ”

"Oh, cough, my father said Uncle Xiandong, are you going to go into the city tomorrow to sell eucommia? My family is driving an ox cart, do you want to go with me? ”

Today, Li Xinhe's family also cut two eucommia barks, and the patriarch's family naturally didn't have to carry it into the city with an ox cart, only Li Xiandong had sold eucommia in the clan, and the others were a little bottomless.

"Then let's be together tomorrow morning, thank you Xinhe, brother. We're busy, so we won't greet you. There is no doubt that this is Li Xiaohan speaking.

Her calm attitude made everyone suddenly feel that this was not a big deal. It was the others who made a fuss.

"Hey, you're busy, I'll go back." Li Xinhe withdrew and closed the door of Li Xiandong's house.

I didn't think about it until I was halfway there, and I was just stunned by Li Xiandong's cooking, and it was Eucommia ulmoides fried in the Li family's pot, and it was Li Xiaohan who was in charge.

Uncle Xiandong's house seems to be a little messy, Li Xinhe frowned slightly, but after thinking about it, it seems to be acceptable.

Uncle Xiandong's family has a small population, so he doesn't have to do everything. It's just the next kitchen, and the book also says that governing a big country is like cooking a small fresh.

Li Xinhe persuaded himself, of course, what he saw today, he naturally didn't see it.

At Li's house, after Li Xinhe left, Li Xiandong immediately closed the door tightly and stuck the threshold solidly.

"Mother, fire, fire, keep an eye on my fire."

"Dad, don't worry, Brother Xinhe is a trustworthy person and won't talk nonsense."

"Yes, Shin and his nephew are good people who can be trusted, and they won't say it." Li Xiandong and Wang muttered to themselves at the same time, as if this would be more affirmative of this fact.

Then, Wang lowered his head and burned the fire, and Li Xiandong was in a trance and continued to cut meat.

……

After about a quarter of an hour, "Mother, okay, give me a dustpan." ”

Wang hurriedly handed Li Xiaohan a dustpan, Li Xiaohan took out the eucommia cubes in the pot, and the three of them didn't care about anything else, so they hurriedly gathered around to take a closer look, and Li Xiaohan also took out the dried eucommia peel he bought before and compared.

"Dad, mother, I look okay?"

"Well, it looks pretty much the same." The two nodded frequently.

"Mother, let's clean the pot and then continue."

"Hey."

……

In the end, Li Xiaohan was tired and sour with his hands, Wang didn't dare to fry, and Li Xiandong didn't dare, so he could only take a break after dinner, and Li Xiaohan continued to fry.

"Dad, mother, you tell me to get up tomorrow, get up early tomorrow and go to the city, I'm afraid I won't be able to get up." Li Xiaohan finished washing up, and before entering the room, he said to Li Xiandong and Wang.

"Hey, go ahead, don't worry, call you." Wang looked at Li Xiaohan's tired appearance, and said distressedly.

Li Xiaohan was reassured, went back to the room and buried his head on the kang, closed his eyes and immediately fell into a deep sleep.

The sky was bright.

In the second main room east of Li Xiandong's house, there was a knock on the door, accompanied by a thin voice, "Xiao Han, Xiao Han, get up, get up." ”

"Hey, mother, I'll get up." Li Xiaohan should arrive, in the end, it is a young body, and as soon as he sleeps, his spirit will come back immediately.

Even if he moved, his arms were still too sore, Li Xiaohan grinned and dressed himself and opened the door.

"Hurry up and wash up and come over for breakfast, and you and your father will go to the entrance of the village later, and the village chief's ox cart will take you into the city."

"Mother, aren't you going?"

"Your father and you just go, I'll go to the woodland to boil some water for Panax notoginseng seedlings, these days to cut Du Zhong, there is no cooking, I have to go and see." After watering, I'll go and see if there are any eucommia trees in the woodlands nearby, I'll go first, and you'll join me when you come back. ”

As Wang spoke, he quickly put breakfast on the table.

Li Xiandong had already put the dried eucommia peels that had been fried last night into a sack, and then put other fresh eucommia peels that had not yet been fried into the burden. Today, they will bring the eucommia peel that was fried last night with the fresh eucommia peel to the city.

"Okay."

After washing, the three of them finished breakfast, Li Xiaohan carried the sack of dried eucommia peel, Wang and Li Xiandong picked up the burden--- although it was a bit of a show-off, but the Li family had accumulated a little too much eucommia peel in the past few days, and the eucommia peel could not be squeezed hard, so several people could only carry it together.

That's it, the eucommia trees that were cut down at home to make furniture were not peeled. There was no way, there were not enough people, so I had to rush to the mountains to cut off the bark of the eucommia tree.

The Li family of three was afraid that they would have to explain it when they met someone, so they simply walked the back road.

The plan was good, but when we got to the entrance of the village, we found that a large number of people had gathered around the ox cart: the entrance of the village was already full of people, and then the village chief's ox cart was still parked there, and the cart was conspicuously loaded with a pile of tree bark.

"Come, Xiandong is here, make room for you." Li Guiqian beckoned, "Xiaohan, put your back basket in the car." ”

"We're late." Li Xiandong was a little embarrassed, and Wang's face turned red, Li Xiaohan didn't care, obviously everyone came early.

"No, it's because everyone is in a hurry and gets up early. Plus, there's not a lot of people in your family. Li Guiqian said indifferently.

Yes, Uncle Xiandong's family has a small population, and he has gone to the stove by himself.

Li Xinhe, who was driving an ox cart, said in his heart, his face calm and calm.

The bark thing occupies a place and is conspicuous, and the onlookers next to it are talking one after another, and some people are shouting, "Patriarch, what the hell is going on, you can talk about it." ”

"What's the hurry! I'm here. The patriarch scolded loudly, turned to Li Xinhe and said, "Okay, you guys go, I am here." ”

Li Xinhe waved his whip, and the ox cart started slowly, leaving the patriarch to say to the onlookers, "Okay, follow me to the ancestral hall." ”

Li Xiaohan and the others followed the ox cart forward, and everyone's eyes were full of suppressed excitement, but at this time, no one spoke. Everyone's mind is on whether Eucommia can be sold for money, and they can't wait to reach Renhetang in the city immediately.

The road is very close and far away.