Through the small days of farming

While the rice was cooking, Bai Niannian noticed that the two cubs and him were dirty. The house was warmed by an earthen kang, and the water in the pot above the stove of the earthen kang was burning. Also hot.

It took a while for the rice to be cooked. When the man in the family was around, he made a wooden tub for the two cubs to bathe in. The two stoves in the kitchen had a fire. Not much lower, "Brother, can I give you a bath today? We can eat after the bath."

"Yeah! I like brother to give me a bath." Mingde looked at Bai Niannian happily. "Brother, let's go get the bathtub."

The two cubs went to carry the bathtub, while Bai Niannian went to the room to get their clothes. Looking at the patched clothes, the man in the house was not there, and they didn't even have any income. They could only save money. They had no money I bought clothes for the two cubs, and when the clothes were short, I cut a piece of cloth from the worn clothes and mended them.

He took out the clothes on his front feet, and the two little guys carried the bathtub into the kitchen on his back feet.Bai Niannian used a wooden ladle to fill all the hot water in the big pot into the wooden basin. The hot water in the pot was very hot, and he filled a lot of cold water from the big wooden bucket placed in the corner. Not much water, almost used up.

The two cubs directly took off their clothes and put them on the wooden bench beside them. The two cubs went in to wash together. Seeing that Mingli would bathe his younger brother, Bai Niannian would let the two of them play by themselves. Put a branch into the earthen kang where the kang was burned, and cut a hole in the salt with a kitchen knife. There is no salt in the house. How can it work if you don’t eat salt? Pour half of the salt into the salt jar, and put the rest together On the bottom layer, fold the opening and press it under the rice to keep out moisture.

The lard left in the oil tank was only a layer of lard at the bottom of the tank. In his opinion, the amount of lard was pitifully small, but he considered that he and the two cubs did not have so much oil and water in their stomachs. In normal cooking, I put a little bit of lard in or soak gauze in a jar of peanut oil and then wipe it in the pot, which is equivalent to putting oil.

He was worried that they would have diarrhea if they put in too much, so in the end Bai Niannian only put in a third of the lard in the jar.

It is equivalent to the usual dishes that are similar to boiled wild vegetables, and now there is a lot of lard. In the era before his end, wild vegetables were quite expensive in big restaurants, and they were delicious.

But those ingredients are much more expensive than wild vegetables, and the wild vegetables here are a heaven and an underground.

Because Bai Niannian put a lot of lard, the cooking smells delicious, the speed of the two cubs bathing quickly, and after Bai Niannian finished cooking, the two little guys are already dressed and looking into the pot eagerly wild vegetables.

The rice in the other pot is almost cooked, Bai Niannian removes the firewood from the cooking stove and asks Mingli to get a bowl to put the vegetables in, and one of the two little guys comes over with a bowl, both made of wood The wooden bowls and the furniture in the house were almost all made by the elder brothers of the two cubs. When the house was built, there was no extra money in the house to buy furniture, so the man made some by himself.

It doesn't look very pretty, but it's practical.

Bai Niannian ordered the two little guys to take out the dishes, and poured the water out with a wooden bucket. After the two little guys took out the dishes, they came in to help and poured out the water with the wooden ladle. The three of them did it together He quickly poured out the water, and forgot to put two big branches in the stove of the kang. After washing the pot just now, he poured the last water in the big wooden bucket. After eating, they can use it for washing. Bowl, he can wipe his body with the remaining water.

He has a smell =. =

"Put the bathtub away, we can eat." Bai Niannian asked the two cubs to put the bathtub back to its original position, while he himself took out the bowls and chopsticks. More than half of the rice in it went away at once, and the remaining rice will be reserved for breakfast tomorrow morning. Add some water into it, and it will be porridge after cooking.

When the two cubs came out, Bai Niannian had already brought out three bowls of rice twice, and sat on the stool waiting for the two of them to come out to eat together.

Seeing the white rice in the bowl, the two cubs swallowed involuntarily, and quickly sat down in their seats.

Bai Niannian picked up a chopstick dish for the two of them first, and said, "Eat, be careful, don't burn your mouth."

Wild vegetables that are full of oil and salt are delicious, and the two cubs like to eat them very much. Bai Niannian unconsciously curled his mouth, he will definitely be able to raise the two cubs to become plump and fat!

There is a big bowl full of white rice, and the two little ones are full. The food they eat during the Chinese New Year is not so delicious. It would be great if they could be full every day, Mingde hoped extravagantly.

In Bai Niannian's eyes, the oil in this dish is actually not enough. The two little guys ate their mouths full of oil, and they were full. Bai Niannian packed the dishes and drove the two cubs to sleep , Sleep enough, cubs grow fast.

"I'll wait for brother to sleep together." Mingli Mingde followed him like a little tail, busy going in and out with him. In autumn, it gets dark quickly, and there is an oil lamp in the house, but Oil lamps are valuables, and poor families usually finish their meals early and then go to bed.

"Brother, wipe your body, can you go and warm up the bed first?" Before it got dark, with two little tails behind him, he was embarrassed to wash in front of the cubs when he took a bath.

"Yeah, bro, go take a shower, brother and I will go warm the bed together." Hearing that brother assigned a task to himself, Mingde happily took his brother's hand back to the room. Originally, they were in separate rooms. Sleeping, but when there was a lack of food in the past, I sold a quilt in the house to buy food for money. The two cubs were still young. After living together, they temporarily blocked the kang in another room. It is much warmer, and the firewood consumption has been reduced by half. The kang is so big that two more cubs can sleep in it. The thick quilt is covered in the dormitory, and there are two more people in the quilt, which is better than when I sleep alone. Much warmer.

Bai Niannian couldn't do anything else, so he fetched water from the well in the yard, filled the big wooden barrel in the kitchen with water, closed the doors and windows, brought a bucket of hot water and half a bucket of cold water into the small room for bathing, and when he came out Shivering from the cold, Bai Niannian hastily closed the door, poured a lot of hot water into the cold water, quickly took off his clothes, and took a shower happily.After putting on the cotton-padded clothes, my body was warm, and the peculiar smell on my body was gone. I stuffed a few thick tree roots into the stove of the kang, so that I didn't need to get up in the middle of the night to add firewood.

When he returned to the room, what he saw were the bodies of the two cubs hidden under the quilt, revealing a small furry head, and Bai Niannian's heart softened.

"Brother, come quickly, the bed is warm." Mingde said cheerfully.

Compared to Ming De, although Ming Li did not speak, that was what he meant in his eyes.

"So cute." Bai Niannian took off her clothes and praised.

It turned out that the feeling of being full was so comfortable. The two little guys blushed and were so excited that they couldn't fall asleep.

"Mingli, tomorrow you can stay at home and watch over my younger brother. Brother, I can just go out to find wild vegetables by myself." Bai Niannian thought that he would go out to look for wild vegetables tomorrow, and the wild vegetables in the vegetable field were all frozen to death, so It's impossible to grow vegetables here in autumn. They usually eat pickles pickled at home. There is no shortage of food in the house. The yield is large, the sweet potatoes planted in the vegetable field can almost feed the three of them, and the original owner is also able to make a living. There are also a lot of sweet potatoes planted in a hidden place in the back mountain. I don't even know about the two small ones, and I haven't dug them back. , The sweet potatoes dug back will not work if they are left for too long.

In addition to buying some of the food in the house, some are exchanged for sweet potatoes.Especially the Aunt Chen's family who lives next door, they usually help their family a lot. This time they got sick, Aunt Chen also lent money to their family, and they have to take the money back to Aunt Chen tomorrow. Life is not very rich.

He remembered that in the jar buried in the corner, there were hundreds of copper coins, and he didn't know how much money he had borrowed from Aunt Chen's family. Yes, they will go for three years and not come back.

"Brother, you are not in good health yet, I can follow Aunt Chen to look for wild vegetables, and I will be fine." Ming Li disagreed with asking brother to look for wild vegetables, because brother just didn't have long, so he couldn't go out to catch the cold.

Aunt Chen has two sons and an elder brother. Both sons are hard-working people. The elder brother has also married and is living a prosperous life. There is a need to find wild vegetables, but it depends on Mingli. When people go out to look for wild vegetables, they just make excuses.

This year, we need to grow some vegetables at home, pickle some pickles and save them for autumn.In fact, there is a small jar of pickles at home, but now I can find wild vegetables to eat when I can find wild vegetables outside. When the weather continues to get cold and I can’t go out, I will eat that small jar of pickles at home.

"Brother has recovered from his illness. You should stay at home and take care of the house obediently. It is good for brother to go out with Aunt Chen. Otherwise, it will not grow taller if it is too cold. How much money did Aunt Chen borrow from us this time? Since I'm ready, I have to pay back the money tomorrow." Bai Niannian narrowed his eyes and said, the last money in the house must be dug out tomorrow, he must be able to find a way to make money.

"150 Wen." Mingli said bitterly, the money in the family is not enough, he needs to grow up quickly, and when he grows up, he can go to the town to do part-time jobs and earn money for the family.

It is easy to relax under the warm quilt. Bai Niannian's body is not completely healed yet. A serious illness means that he will be weak for a month or two. Supporting his body with his spirit, now that he has relaxed his spirit, Bai Niannian Nian Nian quickly fell asleep.

The body can only recover slowly.