See Nanshan leisurely

"I..." Chen Youran hesitated for a while, and said, "I just think this hair is troublesome, and it takes a lot of time to take care of it, so I plan to cut it."

In fact, I feel that my gender is a bit in the way.It would be much better if one of the three in the family was a boy.Although the combat effectiveness may not be enhanced, having a man at home is like having a pillar of the house. It feels very different, and outsiders will not easily bully him.

So she thought, and simply cut her hair.Although I am not a man, I can definitely build it in the direction of a tomboy.Chen Youran also spent some time in the years when he was in school. Although the skills at that time were a bit rusty, the foundation was still there, and it is not too late to pick them up now.

It's a pity that she has never been a person who can hide things, so Lan Shan quickly dug out these silly ideas, and couldn't help but cry, "Could it be possible to become Bruce Lee immediately if you cut your hair? If you can't, what's the point of cutting your hair? Who in the town doesn't know you? Could it be that because you cut your hair, they think you've changed?"

"That's what I said, but you have to work hard." Chen Youran was a little embarrassed.

"There seems to be something wrong with the direction of your efforts." Lan Shan shook her head with a smile, and asked her, "Youran, have you really thought about what to do in the future?"

"Maybe I thought about it." Chen Youran scratched her head, "You and Yanran are about to take the high school entrance examination, and you will definitely go to the county town to go to high school after the examination. At that time, we will move to the city together, and we will not live here. Don’t worry about these people coming to harass me. At that time, I will find a way to start a small business over there, and at worst, I will set up a street stall and go to the market with those people, and I should be able to live my life.”

She glanced at Lan Shan carefully, "I've only thought of this for a while."

This was beyond Lan Shan's expectations.Life teaches people to grow, this is really true.

She patted Chen Youran on the shoulder, "Isn't this quite clear? If that's the case, why do you still insist on competing with them? I'll deal with it casually, let's deal with it for the past few months, and when we enter the city , They have no way to follow, this matter just passed. It is actually not good for us if we have to make a scene and tear our faces."

After all, this is an era that is more harsh on women, let alone in a small place like Wuzhen.Although those two were entangled endlessly, if things really got serious, people would not say anything wrong about them if it got out, they would only think that Lan Shan was indiscreet, and that there must be something wrong with the Chen family sisters being close to her.

People say it's scary, but it's true.

……

In order to divert Chen Youran's attention and cheer her up, Lan Shan decided to find something to do.

The best option is of course to cook.

Half of the year is over, and the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is just around the corner, so it's time to prepare the food for the Lantern Festival.

Lan Shan took out the glutinous rice purchased earlier and prepared to process it.

There are two ways to eat local glutinous rice balls. One is to pound glutinous rice into powder, then heat water to mix it, knead it into a dough, and knead it into small glutinous rice balls, or cook them directly, or wrap them with fillings.The other is called hanging rice cake, which has a complicated process and a more delicate taste.

Since Lan Shan has free time, what she wants to do is naturally the latter.

She soaked the glutinous rice in water first, and when the glutinous rice was completely soaked and soaked up the water, she sent Chen Yanran to the neighbor who made tofu to borrow a stone mill.When she and Chen Youran worked together to move a pot of glutinous rice over there, the neighbor saw it and asked, "Do you want to make glutinous rice cake?"

Lan Shan nodded, "It's ready, give Aunt a bowl."

In the countryside, people often come and go, and if they have any good things, they will always want to give a copy to the neighbors, not to mention they borrowed the stone mill from others.Sure enough, when the aunt next door heard it, she immediately cheered up and nodded with a smile, "Then I'll just wait and eat."

Not to mention, although his family has a ready-made stone mill, and Nuomi’s also has it, but they make tofu every day, and they are already tired of it. Hang the milk cake once.

So she didn't leave either, and stayed to help push the mill.

This was a great help. Although the small grinding disc used to push the rice milk is relatively light, Chen Youran and Chen Yanran were both spoiled and raised. Their arms don't have much strength at all, and they probably can't push the grinding disc. The technique of adding glutinous rice into the feed port between the turning of the stone mill, Lan Shan can't handle both ends by herself.

The neighbor came to help, but she was too embarrassed to ask someone to turn the mill, so she assigned the work of adding materials to her and turned the mill herself.

The reason for using the word "push" is that in order to save energy, the local people often add a T-shaped hook on the millstone. One end of the hook is hung on the millstone, and the other end is hung with a thick rope. Fix it on the beam of the house, so that a person stands on the outside of a horizontal bar, holds the horizontal bar in his hand, and pushes it back and forth with ingenuity, and the millstone will rotate.In this way, people do not need to move around, and can save energy.

In this posture, the arms should be kept flexed and stretched, and the body will shake slightly back and forth, which looks quite rhythmic and rhythmic.

Chen Yanran was obviously very interested in this and grabbed a seat.Lan Shan didn't argue with her, and gave her half of the space.It's a pity that she didn't have much strength, and after playing for a while, her arms began to ache, so Chen Youran went on again.In this way, Lan Shan stayed firmly on one side, and the two sisters took turns on the other side. After working for about an hour, they finally pushed all the glutinous rice into rice milk.

It happened that the neighbor's house made tofu, and the brackets were also ready-made.A net bag made by stacking more than a dozen layers of gauze is hung on a bracket at the four corners, and the pushed rice milk is poured into the net bag.In this way, the water in the net bag is gradually drained, and the layer of sediment left in the net bag is the hanging rice cake.

This thing can be directly kneaded into balls and boiled in the pot, or it can be stuffed with bread inside. It is eaten in the same way as glutinous rice balls, but the taste is richer and more delicate than glutinous rice balls.When cooking, add a spoonful of homemade sweet wine, the taste is delicious.

It's just that this method is very time-consuming, because the water in the net bag sometimes has to be hung for a day and a night before it can be completely drained.

So after hanging up the rice milk, Lan Shan asked the neighbor to take care of it, and the three of them went home first.After returning home, he was not idle, and went up the mountain with a hoe on his shoulder.

Although everything in the fields is withered in this season, in fact, as the temperature warms up, the breath of spring has quietly arrived.For those plants that eat their roots, this is when they are at their freshest.After a while, when the young shoots emerge from the ground, the root system will have gradually aged, and the taste will no longer be fresh and tender, such as Zhaergen.

However, it is not easy to eat this thing in winter, because there are no branches and leaves on the ground as marks, so you can only dig in places you are familiar with, otherwise you will not find its trace at all.

So in order to have a meal, Lan Shan also spent a lot of effort, specially let Chen Yanran ride a bicycle, took her and Chen Yanran to the direction of Qingshanzhai, and returned to the place she was familiar with.

As a cottage girl who cares about eating, Lan Shan naturally knows where all kinds of wild vegetables grow.She took Chen Youran and Chen Yanran, and dug up a basket of zheer roots in a short while, and then went home satisfied.

Shake off the floating soil, remove the roots, pinch off the parts that are too old to eat, and cut the folded ear roots into sections after washing, which can only fill a bowl, which is barely enough for a meal.

Because Chen Youran didn't eat shallots and coriander, but the cold salad was not tasty enough without them, so she took pains to blanch the shallots and coriander with ginger boiling water, took out the leaves and threw them away, leaving only the soup.

Add one tablespoon of chili, one teaspoon of salt, two teaspoons of pepper powder to Zheergen, pour soy sauce and vinegar, then pour the cooled soup on top, mix well and let it stand for a while until the seasoning is completely immersed in Zheergen. Then you can eat.

Probably because of a busy day, Chen Youran finally put aside those messy thoughts in her heart and became lively again, which made Lan Shan heave a sigh of relief.

But it was obviously too early to relax.Because the next morning, when she opened her eyes, she found that Chen Youran was no longer in bed.

This is a very rare situation, not to mention that Lan Shan wakes up earlier than Chen Yanran every day, and gets up earlier than her, even if occasionally Chen Youran wakes up first, she will never get up first, but will continue to lie in the warm bed inside.

Lan Shan put on her clothes and went downstairs, only to find that the fire had been lit, the room was warm, and the water on the stove had boiled.But after turning around, he didn't find any trace of Chen Youran at all. He tried calling twice, but no one answered, and he didn't know where he went.

Lan Shan couldn't find anyone, so she went to wash up first.When she finished washing her face and went out to pour water, she saw Chen Youran running slowly along the road.

In the winter, she was sweating profusely. Obviously, she had been running outside for a long time. Lan Shan stood on the steps with a basin in her hand and asked her, "Where have you been?"

Chen Youran said, "I'll go out to exercise and go for a run."

Lan Shan's eyes widened in surprise, she had no idea that Chen Youran was going to do this.But he immediately came back to his senses and realized that Chen Youran would do this probably because of what happened yesterday.

Cutting hair is purely psychological comfort, and it is unknown how effective it will be, but it will definitely be useful to exercise the body well and increase the force value.

On this matter, Chen Youran was surprisingly persistent.

Lan Shan looked at her, with many thoughts in her mind turning back and forth, one after another, but she watched for a while, and finally did not make any comments on Chen Youran's approach, but smiled and said, "It should be almost the same, we should Go over and have a look, maybe you can have breakfast."

"Okay." Chen Youran's eyes lit up, she turned around and walked to the neighbor's house without entering the house.Lan Shan quickly put the basin in her hand away and followed.

After a day and a night, the starch water has indeed been drained, and only a small piece is left wrapped in gauze.Lan Shan gave a small half to the neighbor's house, stayed to help clean up, and then took the rest away.

Half an hour later, the sweet and warm sweet wine hanging rice cake can be eaten.

Holding a bowl will make people forget all their troubles.

But just after breakfast, the denim and leather jacket duo reported on time.But as Lan Shan said, because she didn't refuse, the two of them probably wanted to build a good impression, so they didn't mess around. When they arrived at Chen's house, they bought two packs of cigarettes in a proper manner, and after talking to her a few words gone.

For the next period of time, the two of them basically came to report every day, and stayed longer and longer at the Chen family.And Chen Youran finally knew their names. Zhang Tianbao was called Zhang Tianbao in denim, and he was from Wu Town. The whole family worked in the town government. Although they didn't have particularly important positions, they were considered very respectable in this small town.The leather jacket was called Yan Chunlin, and it was from Dapingzhai.Before Zhang Tianbao said that his friend's house was in Dapingzhai, he was talking about Yan Chunlin.

The Lantern Festival passed without incident, Wuzhen Middle School started, and the town government started to work.

With the help of the third uncle, Chen Youran re-established her household registration with the town government, and got a separate household registration booklet. On the first page, her name was written in the head of household column, followed by Chen Yanran and Xiaomi.

"Chen Xiaomi?" the registration staff asked her while pinching a pen.

At that time, there was no electronic office, so the household registration book was also handwritten.When you have a newborn, just come and add a page. Some people are too lazy to register their household registration. They will only be registered when their children are going to school or when the government conducts a census.

"No, no, it's not Chen Xiaomi." Chen Youran quickly denied it.She really didn't like the perfunctory name of Mi Kexue, so she simply shortened it to Xiaomi.But that's just a nickname, so naturally it can't be written in the household registration booklet.

But before today, she had never thought about Xiaomi's name, and she was a little stuck for a while. She turned her head to look at Xiaomi who was being held by Lan Shan, and asked Lan Shan and Chen Yanran, "Take this opportunity to give Xiaomi a name." Well, what would you call it?"

"Then we have to unify the format with us." Chen Yanran was in high spirits, "Wanran, quietly, as expected, suddenly, unexpectedly, at a loss?"

"..." Forget the first two, what about the latter?

Chen Youran gave her a blank look, then turned to look at Lan Shan, "What do you think?"

"Tianran or Canran." Lan Shan thought for a while, and said, "It doesn't matter how outstanding she is, just grow up safely and live happily. It's better to choose words with good meanings."

Chen Youran nodded, pondered for a moment, and made a decision, "Let's call it Chen Canran. Be happy and smile more."

So these three words were written in the household registration book by the staff.

After writing the name, Chen Youran got a brand new household registration book with Mo Xiang, but felt a little bit of regret and regret for no reason.It would be great if Lan Shan's name could also be written on it, then she and I would be a family, and we wouldn't have to go back to Lan's house to be tortured, and we would never be separated from her.

At this time, Chen Youran still didn't quite understand her feelings. She only knew that Lan Shan was as important to her as her family, or even more important. Seeing her happy and smiling every day.

In order to achieve this goal, it doesn't matter how hard you work. With rare perseverance, Chen Youran persisted in the habit of running and exercising, and even picked up the military boxing learned in high school military training.

Even the 24-style simplified Taijiquan, she didn't let it go, and she did gestures at home when she had nothing to do. Unfortunately, she forgot half of the moves, so she would get stuck while practicing.

The good news is that at the beginning of the new semester, several students in Wuzhen Middle School fell ill one after another, which caused the school to pay attention to it, and finally put the students' physical fitness education on the agenda, so the whole school began to promote simplified Tai Chi, allowing Chen Youran to forget himself. part of the re-completion.

The days of peace always pass quickly, and in a blink of an eye, spring is here.

……

There is an old saying that those who are close to vermilion are red, and those who are close to ink are black. There is some truth in this saying.For Chen Yanran's grades, she studied with Lan Shan for a semester plus a winter vacation, and she didn't see how hard she worked. At the end of last semester, her grades improved by more than ten points. The first monthly exam of this semester improved by leaps and bounds, and she was admitted to the top ten of the class .

Although with the teaching resources of Wuzhen Middle School, this score is not a big deal in the whole county, but there should be no problem in being admitted to Yunxian No. [-] Middle School. If you are lucky, you may be able to get into the key class at the end of the crane.

But this is not enough, with Lan Shan's grades, it is a sure thing to enter the experimental class of No. 530 Middle School.If Chen Yanran still wants to be in the same class as her in high school, she has to work harder and improve her grades a little bit, at least until she gets around [-] in the exam.

Chen Youran now has high hopes for her, and she is paying close attention to her studies. She always urges Chen Yanran to study hard and not to be left behind.

She didn't realize that Chen Yanran, who was originally relaxed, had become a little nervous because of her repeated exhortations.Moreover, at her age, she was already in adolescence, when her rebellious psychology was at its heaviest.Chen Yanran was not the kind of honest child, if everything was normal, she might be a god.It was only because of family disharmony that his parents divorced and he grew up suddenly, and he didn't want to cause trouble for Chen Youran, so he endured it.

But after all, this is not a problem that can be solved by patience, so when Chen Youran kept putting pressure on her like any parent, Chen Yanran couldn't bear it.

Lan Shan saw it, so she planned to talk to Chen Youran.That night, before she went to bed, she started this topic, and said to Chen Youran, "It's impossible for you to force Yanran like this. Not only can you not urge her to study hard, but it might even have the opposite effect."

"Why?" Chen Youran was stunned.

Lan Shan thought it was funny, "You have only graduated from school for a long time, and you were not a good student before. If you bring yourself into Chen Yanran, don't you understand?"

Chen Youran thought about it for a while, if he had such a sister, he would probably have been bombed long ago.

Thinking about it this way, I couldn't help but feel embarrassed, "I'm also doing it for her own good, alas... I can't study well, so I can only do this, but she can still be saved. But you also know her temperament, twitching, now Being with you makes such progress. If I entered high school and wasn’t in the same class as you, I might have slipped down again. But the experimental class is not so easy to take the exam, so I... accidentally became a little stricter .”