Through the small days of farming

After more than half an hour of turbulence, the group returned to the village. The fare had already been paid when they got on the bus in the morning, so they went straight home after getting off the bus. Bai Niannian planned to pick vegetables in the vegetable garden of his uncle , but looking at his almost full basket, he decided to pick it next time.

Anyway, the dishes can't get away there.

At the intersection around the corner, Bai Niannian saw the two cubs waiting at the door of Aunt Chen's house. When he saw him, his eyes lit up and he ran over quickly.

"Brother, you're back." by Chen Mingde.

"Brother, is it heavy? Let me lift it for you." by Chen Mingli.

"Well, I'm back. It's not heavy. You can carry it yourself. I'll bring you back candied haws." Bai Niannian took out two bunches of candied haws. "Eat one for the two of you, and give the other to Er They eat cows, you know that?"

"Brother, I'll take it to Er Niu!" Chen Mingde took the candied haws and ran to find Er Niu.

"Why do you waste money buying that candied haws? You can boil two eggs for one penny and make up for the children." Aunt Chen couldn't keep up with the pace he unconsciously accelerated when he saw the cub, and fell behind him. Some distance behind, when Chen Mingde was taking candied haws to Er Niu, Aunt Chen caught up and couldn't help but say a few words to him, with a smile on her face, whose baby is being missed by others, will it be happy?

"It's not worth much, I buy the children something to eat once in a while to make them happy." Bai Niannian explained.

"Are you hungry?" Bai Niannian counted the time, came back for about three hours, stayed on the street for another two hours, almost five hours had passed, the two cubs should be hungry.

"Well, brother, shall we go back to eat?" Chen Mingde grabbed his brother's free hand first, and Ming Li could only retreat and choose to hold Chen Mingde's hand.

He is holding his elder brother with his left hand and his elder brother with his right hand, and he is walking in the middle, feeling very happy.Even his favorite candied haws let his brother take them home first, and the three of them ate them together.

When my elder brother was here, every time I went to town, I would buy a bunch of them. They were sweet and sour, and delicious.

However, the eldest brother hasn't come back for a long time, and he almost can't remember his appearance. If he doesn't come back, what should he do?When will big brother come back?

"I'm finally home. It's very tiring to make an ox cart." Bai Niannian put the things away and stretched comfortably.

The porridge was warming in the pot, and Bai Niannian went to bring out the morning dishes. Although the dishes were cold, it didn't matter, he buried the vegetables in the porridge, and after a short while, the porridge was not so hot, and the dishes were also warmed up.

After burying the vegetables for the two of them, he found that the two cubs had already disassembled the candied haws, and then delivered the first bite to his mouth.

Bai Niannian took one bite off, and while eating happily, it was given to him by the cub, he said honestly: "Next time you have to finish the meal before eating snacks, this time I will let you go Two, let’s not take this as an example.”

The two brothers also had one in their mouths, vaguely expressing their understanding.

Bai Niannian sipped the porridge, remembering how he saw his eldest brother in the town today. It looked like he had raised a concubine in the town, and he got his 'buying money'.

If his current husband hadn't taken five taels of silver as a bride price, he would have been sent to the town to be a concubine.

Being a concubine, is that what ordinary people would do?Even if the family can't get through, most people are unwilling to let their children be concubines, but his two elder brothers are going to sell him to the town to be a concubine.

Now that he has money, he even raised a concubine in the town. I don’t know if my sister-in-law will regret selling him to Chen Jia for money. His dowry was just a box of clothes, which his father had bought for him when he was still alive.

Now those clothes have been exchanged by him for money, which is used to buy food.

"Brother, eat another one."

Looking at the two cubs, Bai Niannian felt happy, he didn't like this sweet and sour taste, he liked to eat sweet.Even if he likes this sweet and sour taste, it is impossible for him to compete with the two cubs.

"Brother, don't you like this smell, eat it, be careful, don't get it on your clothes." They don't have many clothes, and it's hard to wash, let alone dry.

"Yeah, we'll be careful." Seeing that Brother Mo really didn't like to eat it, the two cubs stopped trying to persuade him, and shared the remaining two fruits with each other.

After eating the candied haws, we start to have lunch. Most people in the village only eat three meals a day when the farming is busy. Now they are not busy farming and are not the labor force of the family. They can eat three meals a day, not rice soup or porridge , but thick rice porridge, after a bowl, the body is warm and happy like a dream.

After eating, the two cubs scrambled to help wash the dishes, and seeing their lively appearance, Bai Niannian also followed them: "Wash with hot water from the pot, the water from the well is still cold, be careful of catching a cold. "

"understood."

While the two cubs were washing the dishes, Bai Niannian moved all the sweet potatoes out of the cellar. The new ones or the sweet potatoes dug from the mountain yesterday were all dumped together. The dumped sweet potatoes looked like a small pile, almost It weighs five or six hundred catties, which seems like a lot, but if the three of us eat it, we can probably only eat it until the beginning of spring, when rice breeding begins, and other crops are just beginning to be planted. Eat, some people in the village will starve to death in recent years.

When the two cubs came out, Bai Niannian was sitting on a small stool, dividing the sweet potatoes into two piles, and dividing the sweet potatoes suitable for roasting into one pile, saving them for usual roasting.Sweet potatoes that are not suitable for roasting are divided into another pile and used to make sweet potatoes.

"Brother, what are you doing? We are also here to help!" The two cubs ran over and squatted aside to watch. Seeing that there were not enough small stools, the older cub went to the kitchen to move a small stool. The stool comes out.

"Did you see it?" Bai Niannian picked up a medium-sized sweet potato to show them. Too big sweet potatoes are hard to cook, while small sweet potatoes are easy to burn, so it is necessary to pick out some suitable sweet potatoes for use. Use it to make roasted sweet potatoes, and make everything else into dried sweet potatoes. "Put this type aside."

"Yeah, bro, do you know?" The two cubs looked carefully at the sweet potato in his hand before answering.

Bai Niannian nodded, "The two of you will be in charge of making this out, brother, go wash the sweet potatoes you picked out."

The weather is bad recently, and the sun doesn't come out very much. Even if it does, the sweet potatoes can't be dried by the sun. Before the sweet potatoes are dried, the sweet potatoes will become moldy.

So at this time, dried sweet potatoes are usually dried directly on the stove. Put the charcoal that is usually burned in the stove, wash and cook sweet potatoes, cut them into small pieces, put them in a sieve, and bake them on the stove.

The charcoal below does not need to be burned too vigorously, otherwise the sieve will be burnt, and the dried sweet potatoes will also be burnt.Cut into small pieces and bake for two or three days before it can be baked into dried sweet potatoes, and if you cut into larger pieces, it will take about three to five days.

The three of them work together very quickly. After Bai Niannian finished washing a bucket of sweet potatoes, the two younger ones also finished dividing the pile of sweet potatoes. Then they rolled up their sleeves and helped him wash the sweet potatoes. There is no brush or anything like that here. , Bai Niannian tried to wash the sweet potatoes with the water melon bag used for washing dishes, and found that it was not as fast as washing the sweet potatoes directly by himself, so he gave up looking for something to wash the sweet potatoes and simply washed them by hand.

The sweet potatoes are not very dirty, just rub off the outer layer of mud with your hands in the water.

There was a kang burning in the room, the temperature was high, the two cubs were busy to and fro, they sweated and took off their outer cotton clothes, seeing that the doors and windows were closed, Bai Niannian let them go.

It looked like a lot of sweet potatoes, but the three of them washed together very quickly. Bai Niannian poured the sweet potatoes into the pot, covered the wooden lid, put a few sticks of wood in the stove, and let it cook the sweet potatoes slowly.

He took a towel and wiped the Hanshui on the backs and foreheads of the two cubs, and then asked them to put on their cotton clothes.

The two chickens at home have not been fed yet. Chen Mingli took a kitchen knife and cut some sweet potatoes, which were about the size of soybeans. He found that pheasant sweet potatoes are also eaten when cut into pieces. Bai Niannian watched to prevent the cubs from hurting him. , while looking thoughtful.

Chen Mingli squinted his eyes. He originally planned to mash the corn at home to feed the chickens. Now that the pheasants eat sweet potatoes, they can have corn left over. They can grind the corn into flour. It has been a long time since we have eaten corn pancakes at home.

When Bai Niannian saw his movements, he vaguely remembered that when he was young, his grandmother used sweet potatoes to feed the chickens at home.Bai Niannian tapped his head with his hands, trying to recall how grandma handled the sweet potatoes back then, feeding raw sweet potatoes to the chickens, and the chickens would have diarrhea if they ate too much.

The water in the pot for boiling sweet potatoes boiled, bursts of hot steam came out, and the wooden lid was pushed up, making a sound of "puff puff puff". Bai Niannian looked over and suddenly remembered that when he was young, his grandmother The sweet potatoes used to feed the chickens were cooked.Boil the sweet potatoes, then cut them into small pieces and feed them to the chickens.

The yield of sweet potatoes is large, and it is a good choice to feed chickens.But he remembered that grandma used to mix sweet potatoes with rice bran or corn at that time, and just stir them together before feeding the chickens.

The sweet potatoes they feed the chickens are not mixed with other things, but the earthworms and worms that the two cubs went out to dig, can be considered mixed with other foods to feed the chickens?

By the way, he remembered that earthworms had to be boiled and sterilized before they could be fed to chickens. Before the end of the world, there were still people who raised earthworms and chickens.The problem was that he hadn't paid attention to this aspect at all. He didn't know how to raise earthworms. Otherwise, their family could raise earthworms to feed chickens, and their two cubs would not have to go out to dig earthworms every day.

Bai Niannian kept in mind that the earthworms had to be cooked before they could be fed to the chickens, and then went to boil water to prepare to kill the chickens. Thinking of the taste of the chicken, Bai Niannian felt his mouth watering.