rebirth through food

unsatisfactory brown rice

Turning around and seeing Lan'er's bewildered look, Ye Xiaofeng couldn't help but feel soft, and smiled at Lan'er, "If Lan'er is willing, you can help brother apply the medicine."

When Ye Siaofeng came just now, he just wiped his forehead.This medicine worked very well, and the burning pain immediately became cool after rubbing it on, but not only did he have an injury on his head, but only after getting up did he find that there were unbearable pains in many places on his body, which must have been injured by that group of people.

"Okay." Lan'er was eager to be of help, heard that he took the wound medicine, carefully rolled up Ye Xiaofeng's sleeve to help him wipe it.

"Lan'er, here are two eggs, we each eat one." After getting dressed again, Ye Xiaofeng handed over the egg next to him.

"No, brother, you eat!" Lan'er put her hands behind her back and shook her head quickly, for fear that Ye Xiaofeng would stuff the egg into her. "Brother, you eat, I'll make medicine for you."

"There's no need to boil the medicine, the medicine given by the second brother is very effective." Ye Xiaofeng shook his head, since the wound had closed, he didn't need to drink those bitter traditional Chinese medicine soups.

"Then I'll go cook. There's not much work in the field today. When Dad comes back later, he'll be hungry if he doesn't finish the meal. Brother, eat the egg pad first, and I'll cook right away." The siblings talked for a while just now. Then, I took the medicine again, seeing that the weather was getting tight at noon, I had to cook quickly.Although Lan'er was thin and small, she did a lot of work, and became busy inside and out.

Ye Xiaofeng rubbed his head, the pain was gone after taking the medicine, but he was really hungry, so he followed him to the outhouse.The Ye family's house is not too big, but it is very spacious based on the population.There are two main rooms in the east and west, and an outbuilding in the middle, with some cupboards and the like.There are two large stoves in the east and west rooms, which can be used to heat the kang while cooking.

One of the two pots and stoves in the outer room was burning.Ye Xiaofeng growled hungry, and when he lifted the lid of the pot, a smell of repeated cooking came out.The pot is divided into upper and lower layers, with a bowl of brown rice leftovers on the top, and a half pot of porridge below through a grate.

"Brother, why don't you go and rest?" Lan'er added more firewood.

"Let me cook for you, what are you cooking?" Ye Xiaofeng rolled up his sleeves to help.Although he was just a college student in his previous life, he was good at cooking.When he was ten years old, his parents died in a car accident, and all the compensation was deposited in the name of his adoptive aunt.It’s just that my aunt has my aunt’s family, and although my uncle and aunt are nice to him, my aunt’s mother-in-law is not easy to get along with. It’s just that he only has this relative, and his aunt manages all the compensation money for his parents. He stayed at home and called grandma with his cousin.

There is no problem with his board and lodging, but his aunt and uncle work in the same unit and often have business trips.While the aunt and uncle were not at home, the grandma and his cousin began to gossip about him, and even used him as a nanny, cleaning up the house and cooking, all of which were his business, while his cousin would just sit on the side eating melon seeds Watch TV and trouble him by the way.This also caused his indifferent temperament, and he didn't get too close to people easily.

Ye Xiaofeng didn't feel too sad when he was reborn here.Although his aunt was kind to him, but these years they didn't have many days together, and the relationship was not too close, but he was reborn here, his father, brother and sister gave him a much more sincere feeling.

"Brother, it's fine if I come." Lan'er added another fire, turned around and went out of the house to the vegetable garden to pick two handfuls of green vegetables and came back. Another pot was boiled with water to simply chop and cook the vegetables. to the plate.

Ye Xiaofeng was dumbfounded, is this a dish?Boiled vegetables in plain water and sprinkled with salt, it was even lighter than what his cousin ate when she lost weight.

A plate of green vegetables, a plate of pickled radishes, a large bowl of reheated brown rice, and a bowl of porridge were placed on the table.

"The food is a bit short." Ye Xiaofeng felt that these things not only did not look good, but also the portion was not very sufficient, "Lan'er brought the eggs for us to eat."

The two red-skinned eggs that Ye Xingfeng gave him were both hard-boiled, it's useless to keep them, it's better to eat them.And looking at Lan'er's skinny appearance, she must have seldom eaten nutritious food.

Lan'er responded and went to get the eggs, and gently helped Ye Xiaofeng peel off the egg skin.The two siblings were talking when they saw Father Ye enter the yard carrying a hoe.

"Father." Ye Xiaofeng and Lan'er greeted him out.

"Xiaofeng, have you drunk the medicine?" Father Ye stood the hoe in the corner, washed his hands by the well, and hurried to look at Ye Xiaofeng's head.

"Father, after applying the medicine that the second brother brought, the pain is gone. I didn't let Lan'er cook the medicine." Ye Xiaofeng shook his head, and led Ye's father into the house, his stomach growling from hunger.Father Ye looked carefully at Ye Xiaofeng's head, and found that the wound had scabbed over, and his hanging heart finally let go.

"The medicine prescribed by Dr. Li is also good for your body. I caught them all and let Lan'er boil them for you." Father Ye still warned with concern, and Lan'er nodded beside him.

A family of three gathered around a small table and began to eat.

The brown rice in the Dahai bowl became two bowls, which were prepared for Father Ye and Ye Xiaofeng, while in front of Lan'er was a bowl of gruel.

"Lan'er..." Ye Xiaofeng looked at Lan'er, and it turned out that the porridge was not for soup, but for Lan'er's meal.After searching in memory, Ye Xiaofeng was surprised to find that the whole family had been used to it for a long time.Lan'er is a girl, she will get married in the future, so she doesn't need to eat too much.And it's not just their family, it turns out that all the poor farmers in these ten miles and eight villages are like this.

"Father, Lan'er does as much work as I do. How can I get enough of this porridge?" Ye Xiaofeng was dissatisfied. How could these adults bear to treat a young girl like this.

"This..." Father Ye never thought that his youngest son would question him like this. Although he also loves his youngest daughter, the situation in every family is not the same.There is little food, so the dry rice is naturally for the men, not to mention that Lan'er is a little girl, even the daughters-in-law of various families have no dry rice to eat.

Ye Xiaofeng jumped off the kang without saying a word, took out another empty bowl from the cupboard, came back and knelt on the top of the kang, took out half of the brown rice in his bowl, and pushed it in front of Lan'er, "Lan'er, let's share it." eat."

"Brother!" Lan'er was very shocked. Although the little brother loved her in the past, he never did this. At most, he secretly gave her some of his own food.Looking at Ye Xiaofeng's eyes that must watch her eat, he couldn't help but get red eyes.

Watching Lan'er eat the first mouthful of rice with tears in his eyes, Ye Xiaofeng laughed, God put a piece of pickled radish into Father Ye's bowl with his chopsticks, and added another piece to Lan'er's bowl, "Father, Lan'er, eat. "

"Oh good." Father Ye woke up from his daze, and felt that his younger son's personality seemed to have changed, but he was more sensible than before.

"By the way, there are also eggs." Although boiled eggs are tasteless, they are much more nutritious than the table full, but there are only two eggs, and Father Ye and Lan'er will definitely not eat one if they are given one each.

Ye Xiaofeng jumped off the kang again, picked up a kitchen knife and split one of the eggs in half.

"One for dad, one for my sister and I." Ye Xiaofeng divided the egg between the two, took half of the egg in his bowl and bit off half at once.Although the brown rice was leftover, the taste was not very good, but the eggs were very good, especially the egg yolk, which was rich in flavor, which was far from comparable to the eggs laid by chickens fed by feed in his era.Father Ye and Lan'er wanted to return the eggs in the bowl, but Ye Xiaofeng stopped them, "Hurry up and eat!"

Ye Xiaofeng was already starving, the other two hadn't eaten yet, and he had already eaten half a bowl of rice, so he jumped off the kang for the third time and filled himself with a bowl of porridge.

Ye Xiaofeng and Lan'er refused to eat the little brown rice left in the bowl, and let Father Ye eat it.The two brothers and sisters also shared the half pot of porridge, and the whole table was clean, leaving only empty plates and bowls.

"Father and brother, let's go rest." Lan'er packed up the bowls and chopsticks and took them out, Ye Xiaofeng sat next to Ye's father on the kang.

"Does Xiaofeng's head still hurt?" Father Ye wanted to touch the wound on Ye Xiaofeng's head, but his hand stopped in mid-air, but he still couldn't touch it.

"It doesn't hurt anymore." Ye Xiaofeng shook his head.He always felt that Father Ye loved him a little too much. The children of the peasant family are not very skinny, and there is no one like him, who has a kind of pampering that he can't wait to hold in the palm of his hand.

"If something feels uncomfortable, tell Dad quickly." Father Ye sighed, his tone very dull.

"Father, is there any work in the field? I'll go with you!" Ye Xiaofeng lowered his head and thought for a while.He is destined to live here in the future, but life here is really difficult, and he still eats brown rice.Although brown rice is more nutritious than fine white rice flour, it has a rough taste and is not very palatable. He wants to inquire carefully whether this kind of brown rice is eaten here or why.

"There's not much work left. Our family has only a little land, and we can only grow this little rice and black flour." Father Ye sighed, "We can't harvest much food in a year, and if we remove what we eat, the rest of the rice will grow." Only then can it be ground into fine rice, which can be sold to Qingshan Pai for a few pennies." The reason why they eat brown rice is because brown rice can weigh a few catties more than fine rice.

"Father, how much refined rice can we sell to Qingshan Pai in a year?" If it's too little, it's better to keep it for yourself.As for money, it's better for him to figure out a way.He didn't believe that he, a modern person, couldn't make money in ancient times.

"If you sell it to the county town, you can sell it for seven renminbi a catty of rice, but if you sell it to the Qingshan School, you can only sell it for five renminbi per catty." Father Ye shook his head, "If you live carefully for a year, you can save money. More than 200 catties, selling it to the Qingshan School is a lot of money."

Ye Xiaofeng made some calculations in his mind, five cents a catty, and two hundred catties would only sell for a tael of silver.One tael of silver can't buy anything at all, but two hundred catties of rice is enough for the family of three to eat for several months, and this is the price of fine rice. If it is replaced by brown rice, it will be enough for half a year.It seems that selling rice is extremely uneconomical.

"Father, let's not sell this rice from now on, let's keep it for ourselves." After thinking about it, Ye Xiaofeng raised his head to discuss with Father Ye.

Father Ye was taken aback for a moment, then smiled wryly.He is so incompetent that the two young children are so hungry that they can't even eat rice, white noodles, or even brown rice. "Xiaofeng... I have suffered for you."

"Father?" Ye Xiaofeng was stunned for a moment, and then he understood what Ye's father meant, "Father, it's not that I'm greedy. Look at our family's life. If we don't want to think of a way, just do it for another 100 years. It was also given to humans for nothing, and our family of three still can't eat a bite of fine rice."