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Chapter 325 I hate eating sweet potatoes

Everything at home is still the same, except that there is an additional slaughterhouse, which was converted from a former sugar factory. This year, fewer people grow sugar cane.

Father Zhang first pulled Zhang Hua and Chen Jun back, and said, "I'll go and fetch those bodyguards back, and you go dig some sweet potatoes in the field and eat them!"

After Zhang's father left, Chen Jun couldn't help but underestimated: "What's so delicious about sweet potatoes!"

Zhang Hua moved the box into the house, and after saying hello to his mother, he picked up the hoe under the eaves, put on his back, and said with a smile: "The sweet potato we are talking about is not sweet potato, it should be called jelly potato. It’s the kind that can be eaten directly after peeling, very sweet.”

"Isn't that called Shage?" Chen Jun smiled and said, "The taste is just average!"

"It's okay, the one from our side is especially sweet and crisp!" Zhang Hua said with a smile.

"Then I'll go too!"

Mother Zhang came over and smiled at Chen Jun: "Go, give me a hug for Ping An, are you feeding me?"

"I've been eating porridge for a long time. The kid likes to eat meat. I don't like it without boiled meat in it." Chen Jun laughed.

"Hey, it's really heavy. It doesn't look too chubby, but I didn't expect it to be an iron lump!" Zhang's mother was very surprised when she took her grandson, and then said happily: "It's good to eat meat. It's a blessing to be able to eat it. Ping An, good boy, my mother-in-law will cook meat for you, our pork is delicious!"

Zhang Hua looked back at his doting mother, picked up the hoe and walked out.

There are several tender loofahs hanging on the loofah stand beside the dam. When you come back later, you can pick them and cook a smooth broth. The loofah boiled smooth meat is even more silky.

There are various vegetables grown on the ridge of Chaomen Field, among which peppers are the most. Zhang Hua picked more than a catty of large peppers, which is enough for frying hot pot meat.

Eggplants, green beans, and cowpeas are all edible. The rice in the field has been scattered. Zhang Hua pinches a piece of rice milk and the rice milk pops out. The rice milk will slowly fill the entire rice. After hardening It's just grains of rice.

The last half of the field ridge was all planted sweet potatoes. Zhang Hua first tore off the sweet potato sticks and cut off the sweet potato vines before digging.

"When we were young, we didn't have much snacks, and we often didn't have enough to eat. We always felt hungry, so we liked to steal sweet potatoes from the production team to eat. Later, when the land was divided, my dad always ordered a lot of sweet potatoes every year.

The sweet potatoes in our yellow mud are particularly crispy and sweet. People who sell sweet potatoes in the nearby ten miles and eight towns like to wash the sweet potatoes with yellow mud first, and pretend to be sweet potatoes from our side, which can be sold better. "

Chen Jun smacked his mouth and sighed: "You guys are really poor here. Although we were also poor when we were young, there are still a lot of things in the mountains and in the sea. At least it's no problem to have a full stomach!"

"I can't help it. We have so many people and so little land. The land and firewood mountains combined are not enough for an acre of land." Zhang Hua smiled and asked, "Do you know why I hate eating sweet potatoes so much?"

"Why?" Chen Jun asked curiously, "I didn't ask you before!"

"Because it hurt me to eat it when I was a child!" Zhang Hua sighed and said, "There is always not enough food, so I always cook some sweet potatoes and mix them with the rice, and often there are even more sweet potatoes than rice.

Basically, in the ninth month of the lunar calendar, sweet potatoes will be dug and cooked with rice, and then eaten until the Qingming Festival. After a year, you will have to eat sweet potato rice for half a year. "

Chen Jun thought for a while and asked, "Then why don't you study hard? Doesn't it mean that the worse the conditions are, the harder one should work?"

"Read a fart!" Zhang Hua rolled his eyes and said, "Reading also requires nutrition to support it. How can you study if you can't eat enough? After school, you have to do farm work, cut grass and feed pigs, and so on. How to read?"

Chen Jun curled his lips and said, "It's all an excuse. People with perseverance can read good books no matter how poor their conditions are!"

"Maybe!" Zhang Hua was silent for a while, and then said: "So, I'm not a very persistent person, at least I don't have much perseverance in reading."

Zhang Hua cleaned the three sweet potatoes he dug up in the paddy field and put them in the basket. Father Zhang’s sweet potatoes are very good. Each of them weighs about two catties. Three sweet potatoes are enough to eat. After all, they are only used to quench their thirst. .

Then Zhang Hua picked a few more tomatoes and put them in the back sash. When he returned to the dam, he also picked a few loofahs.

After peeling and cutting into pieces, sprinkle sugar on it. Chen Jun took a piece with chopsticks and put it in his mouth. He was surprised and said, "It's really crispy and sweet. You can eat it without sugar."

"The two kinds of sweetness are different!" Zhang Hua smiled and put a piece in his mouth with his chopsticks, and said with a smile: "When we were young, we liked to eat sweet food very much. .”

"Beep" Isuzu's horn sounded, and Zhang's father came back with Fang Wei and the others. Seeing these big men coming back, Zhang's mother first asked her husband what was going on.

After Zhang's mother learned that these people were Zhang Hua's bodyguards, she said happily, "Haha, that's good, so many people don't need to hire another person to collect pepper this year."

"He's a bodyguard, do you think it's your parents' job?" Father Zhang laughed.

"What's wrong with the bodyguard?" Zhang's mother was not happy, and said, "Their boss has to collect pepper for me. Can't the bodyguard collect pepper for me?"

Zhang Hua smiled wryly when he heard the words, Fang Wei was more generous, and said with a smile: "Then I will definitely collect peppercorns for you, cousin, you are welcome, just arrange it if you have something to do!"

"Hey, this young man can still talk!" Zhang's mother said happily, "Don't worry, there will be delicious food after you work, chicken, duck and fish are all you need!"

"Then we have a big appetite, cousin, don't dislike us for eating too much!" Fang Wei laughed.

"There is no oil and water in the stomach to eat a lot. In the past, one person could eat two catties of grain at a meal. Now that I eat well, who can eat as much!" Zhang mother said with a smile: "You just don't care Eat, as long as you can eat!"

In the evening, most of them were leftovers from noon, mainly because Zhang Hua and the others originally said they would come back for dinner, but they didn't come back to eat, so there was only a large table of dishes left at noon.

With the vegetables picked by Zhang Hua, Zhang's mother added a loofah smooth broth and twice-cooked pork, plus a large table of leftovers at noon, which was richer than ordinary banquets.

During the dinner, Zhang's mother kept urging Fang Wei and the others to eat more, mainly because the weather was too hot, and it was hard to pick up unfinished food, even if there was a refrigerator, it would still have a sour taste if eaten after several times of heating.

Zhang's mother didn't want her son and daughter-in-law to come back after a long time and eat leftovers.

(End of this chapter)