Yipin Farmer

Ting Shuang saw that the second and third child were whispering behind her back, and asked, "What are you talking about? Sneaky."

"I didn't say anything." Ting Hui blinked innocently, and changed the subject to pick up the basket, "What did you buy? Ah, bones, and offal. You didn't buy meat."

"This is also meat. It can nourish people more than meat. Pork belly nourishes the stomach, large intestine nourishes the intestines, and pork liver nourishes the liver and blood. They are all good things. Eat the longest."

As Ting Shuang said, she rolled up her sleeves and started to work. First, she boiled the bones in a large iron pot, then washed the pork belly, and rubbed it repeatedly with salt, vinegar, and flour.Wash it and cut it into strips, put it into the bone soup, cover the pot and stew it vigorously, then put a few mushrooms and everything you can find, dried radish, dates, ginger and the like.

After more than an hour, the kitchen was filled with a strong aroma, and the soup had boiled into a white thick soup.The younger brothers watched helplessly and swallowed.

Ting Shuang took out the stewed bones, and used a knife to shave the meat off the bones and stew them with radishes. The shaved meat tasted better than the big fat meat, and the bone marrow in the big bone cavity was picked out for Ting Ke. To eat, poke out the spinal cord in the spine for Tingzhi to eat.

"Eat this, nourish your brain."

Tingzhi took it over: "Brother, why don't you eat it?"

"Okay, let's eat together, fourth child, eat more, you are growing up." Ting Shuang was really happy to see them eating deliciously, and suddenly felt a feeling of being a mother. Seeing that the family ate deliciously made her feel happy.

"Yeah." Ting Zhi said while eating, "I felt dizzy when I was studying a few days ago, but now I have strength after eating meat."

"What? Are you dizzy? It's blood deficiency, hurry up and eat more." Ting Hui put a few pieces of pork belly in Ting Zhi's bowl, and said to Ting Shuang: "Brother, you are really good at cooking , It’s better than the chefs in the hotel, it’s unimaginable.”

Ting Shuang became proud: "Although the dishes I cook can't serve a serious banquet, it's still no problem to fill your stomachs."

Ting Hui held the big bone and gnawed, not letting go of a trace of meat, his face was full of oil, and he didn't care about his image, and suddenly sighed: "In the past, we stretched out our hands for clothes, opened our mouths for food, and how much oil and salt cost. We don’t even know how much we have. Who would have imagined that we would come to this point, that a little meat can make us so happy. It turns out that happiness is as simple as that. A family is very happy when they get together to eat in peace. If we had known earlier, we would have It should be cherished and not picky and complain.”

"Your boy used to be the most busy person. Now that you understand what happiness is, you really have become sensible." Ting Shuang laughed, remembering that Liang Shiqiu once said in an article that men are the most greedy animals, and a meal is delicious. It can change their outlook on life, and it seems that it is not all exaggeration.Interesting.

"I was very sensible, but you didn't realize it." Ting Hui stuffed a stick of chopsticks into his mouth, "I ate meat today, and the little roundworms in my stomach jumped up for joy."

"A few days ago you clearly said that your little roundworm starved to death." Ting Zhi laughed at him.

"Because of eating meat, the little roundworm came back to life again." Ting Hui exaggeratedly sighed, "It's really a blessing to have a big brother. I can't believe what we would do without him."

"As long as you talk too much, the scum of the food is sprayed out, and you can't stop your mouth if there are delicious things." Ting Shuang frowned and taught him a lesson, and gave him a chopstick dish.

"You won't even be allowed to talk." Ting Hui muttered twice and bowed his head to eat. He didn't stop for a while, watching Ting Ke bury his head in his mouth and didn't speak, and said, "Don't just eat, third, talk while eating. Look at your Eat like a starved ghost, be careful of choking." Pushing Tang to Ting Ke again.

Ting Ke remained silent all this time, devouring a few cornbreads, eating a bowl of stewed radish with shaved bone meat, and drank a few more bowls of soup before putting down his chopsticks.Take a long breath: "It's really delicious."

Then he asked: "Brother, why did you get so many cloth heads?"

"Give it to Dayingzi, she said that the cloth head can be used for many purposes."

Ting Ke went over to pick up the cloth and said, "I'll take a few pieces and sew something."

"I forgot that you like doing those girls' jobs the most." Ting Hui laughed, "What about washing rouge, making face powder, sewing purses and so on."

Ting Ke rummaged through the pieces of cloth and said: "Who stipulates that women are allowed to do certain things and men are not allowed to do them? I hurt my feet and couldn't do the work. I sat still all day and suffocated to death. I put these pieces of cloth together. It can be used as a quilt."

"Our family has quilts, or silks and satins made of white butterflies wearing flowers and fish playing with lotus."

"Putting together cloth ends can also be used as a quilt cover. We can pawn those satin quilt covers for money or give them as gifts."

Ting Shuang was a little surprised: "It's the first time I found out, third child, you really know how to live."

Ting Ke touched his head in embarrassment: "I just want to find something to do."

Ting Hui laughed and said, "How could he know it? He doesn't know anything except patchwork. He doesn't know how to make clothes or embroider. He only knows this."

Ting Ke retorted: "You don't even know this."

The next day, Ting Shuang delivered the cloth to Aunt Zhou’s house and distributed the hemp balls to the children in the village. A group of children, big and small, jumped up and down, screaming and laughing, which gave Ting Shuang a very high prestige in the village. limited to children.

It was time for the crops in the field to be fertilized. In the past two days, Ting Shuang had been busy picking up dung and composting.When he came home from work, he unexpectedly found Ting Hui busy in the kitchen and Ting Ke talking next to him. When he saw him come in, he immediately shut up.

Ting Shuang was very puzzled, what the two boys said behind his back, there was a conspiracy, there must be a conspiracy.

Just as he was about to ask what happened, he stepped forward and saw Ting Hui rolling out noodles.

Ting Shuang was very surprised, and did not forget to joke: "I forgot to see where the sun came out when I went out this morning, third child, did you see where the sun came out today?"

Ting Ke covered his mouth and suppressed his smile, Ting Hui gave him a glare, then pushed the rolling pin vigorously, and said, "I see you go out to work every day, and you have to cook for us. You are really tired. Would you like to help me a little bit?" Still bullying me."

Ting Shuang felt warm and said, "You are really sensible, then I will have a ready-made meal today."

"Go wash up and rest, the meal will be ready in a while."

Early in the morning, when the sky was still dark, Ting Shuang woke up and found that Ting Hui was gone. This guy likes to sleep late, why did he go out before dawn.

Asked Tingke, said: "Second brother went fishing."

"Why so early?" Ting Shuang was puzzled.

"The fish in the pond don't eat much bait in the afternoon, so we have to go early in the morning, as Uncle Wei said."

Ting Shuang didn't care, and went to work in the fields as usual. When she got home, she smelled the smell of food in the distance, so she couldn't help speeding up her pace.

When I got home, I was surprised to find that the table was full of food, scrambled eggs with green onions, a braised fish, a plate of fried shredded potatoes, a plate of cold wild vegetables, a plate of bacon and braised beans, and a large bowl of noodles. It's not mixed with soybean noodles, but a poached egg is laid on it.

"This..." Ting Shuang gaped in surprise. "How is this going?"

Ting Hui giggled: "Brother, you forgot that today is your birthday."

"What?" Ting Shuang was speechless in shock. She didn't expect that today was her birthday. She didn't expect her younger brothers to have a table of dishes. No wonder the second child is learning how to roll noodles. It seems that they secretly talked two days ago to plan I wanted to hide this matter from him and give him a pleasant surprise.

For many years, no one remembered his birthday, let alone celebrated his birthday. Ting Shuang wanted to speak but felt her heart was choked and unable to speak.In the end, just say: "Hurry up and eat."

The four happily sat around a table and ate.

Ting Shuang asked, "Where did the bacon come from?"

Ting Hui said: "I caught a few fish, kept two to eat, and traded the other two for some bacon with the villagers."

"Where did that egg come from?"

Tingzhi said, "I didn't buy the money my elder brother gave me for school lunch. I bought some eggs from someone."

Ting Shuang yelled at him with a straight face: "Don't do this in the future."

Ting Zhi was taken aback, and hurriedly said, "I just didn't eat two lunches, and I was too full in the morning, so I don't want to eat."

"Then who made this dish?" Ting Shuang asked again, with a piece of fish in it, it tasted pretty good, for those who haven't eaten fish for a long time, it's very good.

Ting Ke said: "I mixed the wild vegetables, and the scrambled eggs with fish and potato shreds was made by the second brother. In order to cook the fish, the second brother went to the next door to learn from Dayingzi."

As he said that, Ting Ke started giggling: "Second brother cut off his hand while cutting potatoes, and was still squatting on the ground crying. I heard the sound and thought something happened. When I saw it..."

Ting Hui raised his hand to hit him: "Stinky boy, I didn't cry because I cut off my hand. I was thinking of me as a young master who has fallen to this point. Thinking of my parents, I feel a little emotional."

Ting Ke laughed again: "You squatted on the ground, covered your hands and cried, calling mother..."

"Stinky boy, that's not the case." Ting Hui rushed over to hit him, and the two rolled into a ball on the kang.

"Okay, let's eat." Ting Shuang smiled and pulled back, wiped her eyes secretly, and said, "As long as we live a good life, even if we don't live a life of great wealth, our parents will be happy."

"That's right." Ting Hui was happy again, and asked expectantly: "How about this dish? It is said that ramen noodles are better for birthday noodles, but I am afraid that they will break when pulled properly, so I have to cook cut noodles."

"Yeah. Delicious, both the noodles and the dishes are delicious." Ting Shuang spoke the truth, with this heart in it, everything tastes good, and this dish is not bad.

Suddenly, Ting Hui put away his smile and said seriously: "We have a request for big brother."

Ting Shuang didn't know what was going on, and became serious: "Say it, I will definitely do it."

"Brother, you must be in good health. We all hope that you will be happy in the future."

Ting Shuang's heart became hot, and her eyes were a little blurred, and said, "We all want to be healthy and live happily."

The family sat around the kang table and ate together. The meal was sweet and pleasant.

After dinner, Dayingzi came to the door with needlework and some eggs.

"My mother asked me to bring these eggs for my fourth son to eat. She said that looking at Zhizhi for the past two days, she seems to have lost weight again."

Ting Shuang quickly took it over to thank you: "I really don't know how to thank you."

Dayingzi said with a smile: "It's right for the villagers to help, and besides, they are neighbors. Last time, I picked some of the cloth heads brought by my elder brother to embroider purses to make shoe uppers, and the rest were glued to the insoles."

Ting Hui stretched out his head to look at the embroidery in her hands, and couldn't help but say, "Your designs and colors are not good-looking, most of the designs and colors embroidered in the provincial capital are fresh flowers or grass."

Ting Shuang was afraid that he would offend others, so she glared at him: "Da Nier's work is not so good, what do you know, brat."

Dayingzi was not angry, and said: "Second brother is right, the embroidery in the city is really beautiful. It's a pity that I can't draw that kind of pattern."

Ting Hui stood up with a proud face: "I can draw, and I will draw for you." Then he ran to the Westinghouse, brought Ting Zhi's pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and said, "What flowers do you want, tell me."

"I like peonies. I heard that Luoyang peonies are the best. Unfortunately, I have no chance to meet them."

Ting Hui picked up the pen and dipped the ink, and after a while, a living peony appeared on the paper.

"It's really wonderful. It's completely different from the flowers that girls in the village usually use." Dayingzi clapped his hands and applauded, and then said, "Draw another lotus flower with a little dragonfly on it."

Ting Hui drew her again.

"It looks like it's alive." Dayingzi was very happy, and said, "Draw another chrysanthemum."

"Whatever pattern you want, just tell me, and I'll draw it for you." Ting Hui was very proud, and it was rare that he had played a little role, so he had to show it off.

"Is Da Nier here? I told you to send some eggs and die here and don't know how to go back." Aunt Zhou's voice came from outside the door. After entering the room and seeing the scene inside, there was a smile on her face.

Ting Shuang followed her gaze, and saw Ting Hui drawing seriously with a pen on the Kang table, while Dayingzi was fascinated by the side, her cheeks flushed with excitement, and her two heads were very close to each other, one young and handsome, the other youthful. Beautiful, that scene is a bit of that.

After seeing off Zhou's mother and daughter, Ting Shuang thought of a serious problem. The age of the second and third children was too early for marriage in this era, but he came from modern times and treated them as children, but in the eyes of the people here, they should get married. I have a baby.

"What do you think of Dayingzi?"

Ting Hui was puzzled by his sudden words: "What do you mean?"

"I mean, do you mean anything to her?"

Ting Hui said simply: "No, she looks average and can't read."

"Don't judge people by their appearance, the British people have a good temper and kindness." Ting Shuang was dissatisfied with his attitude, and also realized the seriousness of the current situation. Although the second and third children were still children in his eyes, they should start a family in the eyes of the world, but , They have a high vision, and those with ordinary conditions look down on them. In the current poor situation, people with good conditions look down on them.The whole thing is that high is not enough and low is not enough. Marriage is a big problem, and it is necessary to make money quickly.

But earning the first pot of gold requires capital, without the initial start-up capital, how to earn the first pot of gold?

Ting Shuang felt that she was about to get money. In her dreams, she always thought of dropping copper coins from the sky, or picking up a bag of silver while walking.

Unexpectedly, such a thing really happened.

After a few days of convalescence, Ting Ke felt that his injury was almost healed, so he went to the city to look for work, and returned home in the evening, feeling nervous and restless.

"What happened?"

Ting Ke closed the courtyard door tightly, and then closed the door of the house, with a serious look on his face.

"What's going on?" Ting Shuang was also tainted with his uneasiness.

Ting Ke took out a bag from his pocket and said, "I picked up a bag of silver on the village road not far from the city gate."

As he spoke, he opened the cloth bag, revealing a few silver ingots and a few pieces of silver.Ting Shuang was taken aback. He had learned to do business for a few days, and he could recognize silver taels with his eyes. This bag of silver weighed about 120 taels by visual inspection, and it looked like the real thing when he weighed it with his hands. It was unbelievable. A sum of money is enough to buy pigs and cattle, buy farm tools and build a house, and you can also buy goods and open a small shop.

Ting Huizao's voice was trembling with excitement: "It must be that the ancestors have spirits, and it must be that God saw us working so hard, so he gave us money."

Ting Shuang was also excited and heartbroken. Of course, she didn't believe that the ancestors were showing their spirits. God blesses her and said in her heart: Thank you CCTV, thank you great party, thank you Mao Zedong, thank you...

"We can't take this money." Suddenly a firm voice interrupted his free thinking.