Defeat natural disasters with farming

Ye Yu really missed the taste of hot pot, so when she came back from the private school the next day, she followed Mrs. Ye in and out, went through all the two cellars, and finally gathered all the necessary materials.

Since there is no Sichuan-style spicy hot pot to eat, mushroom soup pot or old duck hot pot are also very good.

What he didn't expect was that there is a hot pot now, but it is still called a pot or a warm stove. You just need to put a stove with charcoal on the table, and put a soup pot on the stove, and the soup will be bubbling and bubbling. Soak, you can rinse all kinds of ingredients in it.

When Mrs. Ye learned that he wanted to eat the pot, she caught a duck from the shed and slaughtered it.

She washed and emptied the internal organs, cut the duck into small pieces, and blanched the duck for later use. You don’t need to wash the pot, you can pour lard directly, and then add sliced ​​ginger and various spices to sauté until the oil changes color. Pour in the duck meat and stir fry.

Put the sauce-red duck meat in a pot with water and simmer for half an hour. The moment Mrs. Ye lifted the lid of the pot, Ye Yu sniffled, and the air was filled with a salty and fragrant smell, which made her His stomach growled involuntarily.

Mrs. Ye glanced at him and said with a smile: "Look, we are so greedy, brother Bao."

The second sister-in-law Ye answered, "Don't say it's Brother Bao, even I want to drool when I smell it, it smells so good."

Ye Yu chuckled, and put his hands behind his back, "It's not because grandma, you cook delicious food."

As soon as they poured the duck meat together with the soup and water into the copper soup pot on the stove, Mother Ye came in with several wooden basins, which contained various washed and cut vegetables, including wax gourd slices, tender Tofu, bamboo shoots, bamboo mushrooms and bamboo fungus etc.

The Ye family gathered around the kang table while cooking pots and chatting.

There were a few peppers floating in the soup pot, Ye Yu picked up a piece of bamboo fungus and put it in his mouth. The originally inconspicuous thing soaked up the soup and became crispy, and when he bit it, it burst into his mouth with a delicious fragrance.

Dictyophora usually breaks when you touch it, but it can be stored for a long time after drying. As long as you pay attention not to press it, it will be good until the next time you take it out.

With the sound of pattering rain outside the window, eating a steaming pot is really a pleasant thing.

Ye Lao Er took a sip of vermicelli, and discussed with his father: "Father, our family might as well ask someone to dig a well, so that we don't have to go to the river to draw water in the future."

Someone once had a look at their house. There is underground water under the yard, but it is more than enough to drill a well.

Old man Ye did not agree, "Why dig a well? Our village is only a few steps away from the Liu River. Why waste that money?"

But Ye Yu also really wanted to build a well in the yard. The well water is always cleaner than the river water. Even if their family deliberately walked upstream when fetching water, they didn't reach the end of the river, and the river water was inevitably mixed. There shouldn't be, it must be boiled to drink.

Secondly, I heard from the elders that there was a drought in their place for a while, and the river dried up. If such a thing happens again in the future, it will be better to have a well.

The third reason is that summer is coming soon, and the temperature in the well will be much cooler than other places. If you have some unfinished food, you can use a basket to hang it in the well, which has the effect of keeping fresh, and the well water is cool and refreshing, which is very good Make the cold Tao that is often eaten in summer.

Once these two and three points were listed, Ye Yu persuaded his grandfather and made a direct decision to ask Ye Laoer to go back and find a well-drilling master.

At the end of the old duck pot, Mother Ye poured a handful of thick noodles into it. The noodles soaked up the soup and tasted delicious. One small bowl per person was just enough to eat clean.

Ye Yu sighed after eating, touched her slightly swollen belly, and licked her lips eagerly.

Ye's mother knew that her son liked this meal at a glance. She wrote it down in her heart, thinking that she could make more in the future.

When the rain stopped, Ye Laoer went out. These villages were not good at digging wells because they were close to the Liuhe River, but there were some nearby villages without rivers flowing through them. Almost everyone was good at digging wells, so please come It doesn't take much money to dig a well, you just need to prepare the things yourself, and pay them some money after the well is dug.

Ye Laoer can be regarded as a hot-tempered person, and within a few days, he made an agreement with two villagers in a village far away from the county. They will come to Ye's house to help dig wells in their free time. For lunch, as for the reward, each person only needs one tael of silver.

He wanted to go to the county town to buy a potter's wheel. The potter's wheel is generally composed of a crank handle, a drum, a well rope, a long shaft, and two brackets. The essence of this thing is a wooden wheel shaft. The tools are not very fine, but if you don't have any skills, you really can't do it. 1;

However, the two hired villagers said: "There are also wells. You don't need to go to the county to buy these two things. Everyone in our village can make them. Why don't you entrust them to us."

The two villagers are cousins ​​of the same family, both surnamed Feng.

Ye Lao Er didn't have any objection when he heard it, and the two signed a contract, agreeing to start drilling the well tomorrow.

The two brothers of the Feng family chose a piece of land on the west side of the yard. Brother Feng pointed to it and said, "Compared with other places, the weeds grow so densely on this ground. There must be groundwater underneath. It is estimated that the water will come out after a few days of digging."

When the location of the well was determined, they began to dig down with butterfly cones. The excavated soil was thrown into the mud bucket, and when it was full, it was pulled out and dumped by the wall. The soil was still useful and could be built into an earth wall or soil kang.

Ye Yu saw that the groundwater in their house was not deep, and after digging about a dozen meters, the water came out. Next, Ye Laoer and the Feng brothers used the prepared well radius to reinforce the well wall, and then used a heavy hammer to shake the well. In fact, it was a big project, and it took half a month.

But after finishing the most difficult part, the next step is much simpler. You only need to use stones to form a hexagonal fence around the well, install the potter's wheel, and drop a wooden barrel under the well rope, shake the handle to immerse the wooden barrel When you lift it up again, you can get water.

The well-drilling skills of the two of them are really good. When Mrs. Huang came to visit their home, she was full of praise, "Where did your family find the well-builder? My family is also planning to dig a well. Please introduce it to me later." .”

Mrs. Ye nodded, and replied, "Okay, their village is far away from the county seat, and every family is poor, and they don't ask for much compensation."

Compared with villages that are closer to the county seat, the farther you are, the poorer you are. After all, the news is not well-informed. Only the salesman will bring some needles and thread to those villages from time to time, and occasionally talk about the situation outside. As for the output of the village They can only wait for the merchants who will receive the goods to come, no matter how hard the price is suppressed, they can't do anything about it.

Mrs. Huang took a sip of the well water scooped up, "It tastes good raw, but the water we brought from the Liu River is not so delicious. If it is not boiled, it will cause stomach upset."

This well water is sweet and sweet when drunk raw.

Mrs. Ye also took a sip of wild tea, put down the cup, and asked, "When is the wedding of Mrs. Wu?"

"After the spring plowing, no matter what, it will be the end of May."

During the spring plowing period, every household is busy, how can there be time to serve wine?

"I thought that the family Zhaodi married to was still somewhat related to my second daughter-in-law, and my second daughter-in-law would be more helpful in serving wine later."

Mrs. Ye has a good impression of the four girls of the Wu family. Now that one of them is finally getting out of the sea of ​​suffering, shouldn't she be happy for her?

Mrs. Huang said thoughtfully: "I don't seem to have heard anything about Mrs. Wu recently. How can she be so quiet?"

Mrs. Ye, who was patching her clothes, interjected, "I know about it. It rained heavily before, and Mrs. Wu caught cold for some reason. Dr. Hao came to prescribe medicine, maybe it was because she was sick. , so there has been no movement."

"Hey, let me tell you, that's how it is!" Mrs. Huang was rather gloating. Anyway, she didn't have any good feelings for Mrs. Wu.

But what they don't know is that Mrs. Wu has taken a few medicines prescribed by Dr. Hao, and her stroke symptoms have improved a lot. According to Dr. Hao, if she keeps taking the medicine according to this prescription, she may die soon. I can speak.

However, all of this was wasted because of the wind and cold, and even Mrs. Wu was in worse condition than before. Before, she could at least yell "uh ah", but now her face is so slanted that she can't even make a sound. Dr. Hao is really sorry for this Helpless, I had to change the prescription again.

Mrs. Huang stayed at Ye's house until evening, and left contentedly after chatting about the gossip.

Although she left, Mrs. Ye always remembered what Mrs. Huang said about digging a well, and told Ye Laoer about it when she came back, "Go and ask the brothers of the Feng family to see if they can still pick up the well." Take over the job of digging the well."

Ye Laoer, who was sucking the porridge, raised his head when he heard the words, slapped his thigh, and said excitedly: "Isn't it a coincidence, the Feng brothers are just about to organize a well-drilling team, and they want to take advantage of the slack in the nearby villages. Take some well-drilling projects, and I will talk to them tomorrow."

Ye Laoer and the Feng family brothers passed by to dig wells together, and they felt a little bit of sympathy for each other.

"Okay, I'll leave this to you." Mrs. Ye said directly.

"You can rest assured."

After the meal, Ye He began to study with a light the size of soybeans. Mrs. Ye hated iron for not being able to make a sound: "I told you not to memorize during the day, and it is so late that you have to light the oil lamp, and you are not afraid of wasting it."

The most important thing is that the lamp hurts the eyes. Ye Yu frowned when he looked at the oil lamp, so he suggested: "Why don't we buy some candles, the oil lamp is too dim."

Mrs. Ye calculated the price before she nodded, "I'll ask your father to buy some from the county later."

The light of candles is much brighter than that of oil lamps, but it is better to memorize the books during the day, and it is easy to be short-sighted at night.

However, Ye He is a procrastinator in studies. One day he made a good promise to endorse early, but the next day he left it behind. No, today it was delayed until night.

So when the children were all asleep, Mrs. Ye discussed with the old couple: "Brother He is not suitable for studying. Didn't Brother Chu say earlier that he is born with great strength and is suitable for learning martial arts? Let's see if we can find a martial arts master to teach him." , It’s better to be strong than to stay at home.”

Old man Ye frowned and took a puff of his cigarette, "Listen to you, if it doesn't work, let the second in-laws teach him how to hunt. Boys with arms and legs won't starve to death."

Not to mention that their family has a lot of land now, even if it is divided equally among everyone, it is enough to support them, but Ye He is a man after all, so he has to have some skills, otherwise he can support the whole family.

"Hey." Mrs. Ye responded.

She has two sons and one daughter, the eldest son Ye Hai does not need her to worry about now, but the eldest daughter Taohua and the second son Ye He still need her help.

Like Peach Blossom, her needlework is far behind that of girls of the same age in the village. Even the stitches can't be called precise, so she needs to practice more.

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1: From Baidu Encyclopedia