Chapter 42 Grandparents
Second update, please pink.
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The eldest grandson of the Lian family is back, and it is autumn harvest again, so this lunch is naturally much richer than usual. Zhang, Zhao and He are all busy in the kitchen, even Zhier, Maner and Lianye also need help picking beans, peeling potato skins, and burning fire. Zhou personally supervises and directs that Zhang is the busiest, she has the best knife skills, she is responsible for cutting vegetables, and also has to cook.
The front and back doors of the room were wide open, and the smoke and aroma of cooking were spread far away, and almost everyone had a smile on their faces.
Finally, the table was served with a cold dish, dry cucumber shredded tofu, three hot dishes: one is green pepper, shredded potatoes, one is fried with dried tofu, one is stewed with potatoes and eggplant, and another is soup with pork belly, which is served in a pot. This is a very rich meal for ordinary farmers. The staple food has also changed, and it is no longer full of coarse grains. White flour is added to the mixed noodles, which is steamed to make it softer and more delicious.
The men and women still ate in two tables, and the food was served on the table. Gu Shicai, Jiang Shi, Lian Huaer, and Lian Duoer came to eat from the west room.
There were many people eating, but when Jiang became even more crowded, Lian Man'er took a bite and was about to pick up food, he suddenly smelled a fishy smell from his nose.
Lian Man'er turned his head and looked at Xiao Qi next to him. Xiao Qi wrinkled his nose, indicating that he had also smelled it. The two of them lowered their heads along the smell, and it turned out that they were Lian Ya'er sitting directly facing them and stretched out their little feet from under the table.
Lian Man'er wanted to ask Lian Ya'er to retract her feet. They sat on the kang for dinner, sitting cross-legged, without any reason to straighten their legs and stretch their feet in front of others. However, seeing that He is unreasonable, don't blame her for being rude.
Lian Man'er took the chopsticks and poked Lian Ya'er's feet hard while others were not paying attention.
Lian Yaer screamed and almost overturned the dining table.
"What's going on, what's going on?"
"Feet, who poked my foot?" Lian Ya'er cried in pain and shrank back.
Zhou looked down and saw it, and immediately scolded: "Ya'er, why are you sitting there? There are no rules and regulations." Zhou said, sniffing, then looked at Lian Ya'er's feet, and scolded He. "Ya'er's feet are mature, so you can wear two more pairs of socks for her, what's it like now."
He just didn't speak.
Lian Man'er calmly put down her chopsticks and only used a spoon to scoop the vegetables to eat.
"It's time to call Grandma Li Si to come. I'll wrap Ya'er for a second time." Zhou said again.
"Just wrap her. Ya'er's feet are so weak that she feels a little bit smaller." He quickly grabbed a piece of fat for Lian Ya'er, and also a piece for herself.
Jiang sat next to Gu. She was Gu's niece. She had a melon-shaped face, big eyes and curved eyebrows. Now she was feeding Niu Niu without saying a word. Niu Niu was eating another rice porridge. While feeding Niu Niu, Jiang was eating every bite by herself.
After the meal soon, everyone was busy cleaning the table, bowls and chopsticks.
Lian Huaer was still sitting on the kang and discussed with Lian Xiu: "Grandma, Duoer and I will be your company tonight."
"Okay. I'll call you over to sleep." Lian Xiu'er was very happy. "Jizu and the others are back, and there are so many people in your house."
After a nap, the family still had to go to the fields to work. He said he wanted to bind Lian Ya'er's feet, but he stopped going to the fields in the afternoon. Zhou nodded and asked Mr. Lian again.
Old Master Lian didn't say anything, just greeted Lian Jizu.
"Jizu, you and I go to the field."
Lian Jizu looked at Lian Shouren and nodded in agreement.
Among the people who went to work in the afternoon, there was one less He family and one more Lian Jizu. If you want to work in the field, it is difficult to wear straight clothes. Lian Jizu took off the straight clothes. Jiang opened the suitcase and took out a half-new dressing jacket to change it to Lian Jizu. It seems that he was prepared for it.
"Jizu, go to the field to do more work for your father." Before leaving, Lian Shouren also instructed Lian Jizu.
On the way to the field, I also met many people from the same village who went to work in the fields. Everyone greeted each other and said the same thing.
"Oh, Jizu is back."
"Scholars also go to the fields to work, and Uncle Lian/Lian's eldest brother is a lucky person."
Even the old man laughed and was particularly happy.
"Can Brother Jiezu work?" Lian Man'er walked behind and asked Lian Zhi'er in a low voice.
"You will know later." Lian Zhi'er refused to say it, just covering her mouth and laughing.
When he arrived in the field, the old man Lian asked Lian Jizu to take a sickle and cut the sorghum next to him. Because Lian Zhier's attitude was strange, Lian Man'er paid attention to Lian Jizu while working. Lian Jizu waved the sickle and actually followed the speed of the old man Lian. After a closer look, he realized that it was Lian Jizu's sorghum in front of him. Lian Shuxin helped cut a lot of it on the other side of Lian Jizu.
"This is... the one I performed." Lian Man'er was speechless.
"I just show you how to show you. I used to be the uncle, but later my brother Xuezu became a little older. My uncle refused to even do this. He would send Brother Xuezu to come every time." Lian Zhier whispered.
The two sisters were talking in a low voice when they heard Lian Jizu uu.
"Jizu, what's wrong, Jizu." Lian Shouxin hurriedly threw down his work and rushed to Lian Jizu's side.
Lian Jizu stood with one leg raised, with a painful expression on his face.
"Uncle Fourth, I sprained my ankle."
"How is it? Is it so powerful?" Even the old man put down his work and walked over to ask.
"It's okay, my master, I can continue to work." Lian Jizu bravely landed the sprained foot on the ground, but immediately let out a roar, and his body staggered.
Everyone was in front of him, so of course he wouldn't fall.
"How can I do my job if I sprain my ankle? Dad, why don't Jizu go back and rest." Lian Shouxin suggested.
Even the old man didn't answer immediately.
"Yes, Jizu is a scholar, dad, see which scholar can do the job in the field?" Lian Shouyi said with a smile.
"Yes, let Jizu go back." Lian Shouli said.
Lian Jizu refused and said that he would continue to help Mr. Lian. Lian Shouxin and his brothers persuaded each other. They said that Lian Jizu's injuries were very serious and he had to go back and rest.
"Dad, let Jizu go back." Everyone pleaded.
"Come on, then Jizu, go back and rest well. Erlang, help your Jizu brother go back." Old Master Lian finally said.
In this way, Lian Jizu leaned against the Lian family Erlang and limped back.
This afternoon, Lian Man'er spent the time in a sensible way, and couldn't help laughing from time to time. She was despised continuously, and was successively rolled by Lian Zhier, Zhang and Lian Shouxin.
After breakfast the next day, she had to go to the ground again. Lian Jizu sprained her ankle and naturally couldn't go. He said that Lian Ya'er had just wrapped her feet for the second time and she wanted to stay at home to take care of Lian Ya'er.
"Let Xiu'er take care of her. There are so many women in the family, but she can't take care of Ya'er?" The old man dismissed it without even raising his head.
On this day, I went to the ground in the north and cut the millet. The millet rods should be thinner than the sorghum stem, and the ears must also be longer as the sorghum ears, which are loose ears.
"This year's millet grows well." Zhang twisted a millet and said happily.
The rice that has been removed from the shell of millet is commonly known as the big yellow rice, which is different from the small yellow rice that has been removed from the shell of millet. The big yellow rice is sticky and is usually left until winter. The big yellow rice is finely ground into noodles, and then mixed with some millet flour and small yellow rice flour in a certain proportion, and the noodles are made into skins. The small beans are wrapped in it, that is, red bean filling, and made into sticky bean buns, commonly known as the sticky bean buns. This sticky bean bun can serve as the food for people in the countryside here for a winter.
Lian Man'er remembers that this kind of raw ginger is very nutritious, and the best way to eat it is to eat it with beans, which can fully supplement nutrition, be very good for the stomach, strengthen the body, and is also very suitable for children to eat when they grow and develop.
It's such a good thing, Lian Man'er thought to herself.
The brunch and spikes after removing the rice grains are also useful, which are the raw materials for tying brooms. The brooms they usually use to sweep the floor and sweep the kang are made of this. The Lian family also has a large broom, which is made of bamboo branches, not locally produced, and is considered a rare thing.
"My sister-in-law is like a fairy, and she eats a little bit every time she eats." Lian Zhier and Lian Man'er are indispensable to chatting. This time the topic is Jiang's.
"Sister Huaer, uncle, they also eat less." Lian Man'er said. "It should be because they can't get used to coarse grains."
"I saw Duoer eating snacks on his back." Xiaoqi came over and said.
Lian Man'er thought, judging from Mr. Lian, the meaning of Mr. Lian, was to have a large house and a family stayed in the village. They were not used to coarse grains, and they could still get by eating snacks a day or two. After a long time, I don't know if they could hold on.
When it was time to rest again, Lian Man'er went to carry the water jug. She thought it would take some effort, but she picked it up all at once. The water jug was very light. Lian Man'er shook the water jug and opened the lid of the water jug, and found that there was no water inside.
"Who got the water jug in the morning? Why did you forget to fill it with water?" Lian Man'er said
"It was the water jug of the second uncle in the morning." Goro said.
"Why didn't I put water on it? Didn't it spill on the road?" He said carelessly.
"Second uncle, this jar is dry inside and outside." Lian Man'er said, if he had filled water in the morning, he would never have been like this.
He called out and walked over and picked up the water jug from Lian Man'er's hand.
"I'll go home to fill the water." He took the water jug and was about to walk back.
"From the second family, please stand up." Mr. Lian called He, "Let Man'er and Wulang go. Let's wait for the water to be sent back before resting."
He was unwilling to do so, but he did not dare to argue with Mr. Lian.
Lian’er’s rules were in the fields, and no one could leave without the old man. Lian Man’er knew that even the old man knew that He was lazy and was afraid that she would come back when she would go, so she and Wulang would go.
"Go and go back quickly, be careful on the way." Zhang instructed.
Lian Man'er and Goro carried the water jug and walked home.
As soon as he entered the gate of Lian’er, Lian Man’er smelled the smell of oil.
Chapter completed!