Defeat natural disasters with farming

Because Ye Yu happened to be here, so he helped Ye's father greet customers in the store. Although he was small and weak, he could still do the calculations.

A customer who often came to the store saw a child carved in pink and jade standing at the counter solemnly settling accounts, so he laughed out loud and said to Father Ye: "This is your child? I can help you collect money. Really clever."

Father Ye patted his head lovingly, and said modestly: "This child is quite talented in arithmetic."

This morning was still full of guests, and almost all the lo mei prepared by them had been sold out by noon, leaving only some leftovers. Seeing this, Father Ye gathered them up, put them on a plate, and brought them to the dinner table as a pawn. Eat as a dish.

Because Ye Yu found a lot of new spices on the mountain, such as licorice, grass fruit, etc., the stew they use now is quite different from before, so the taste of the stew sold in the shop now is different. Slightly tastier.

Ye Yu was gnawing on a stewed chicken foot. The salty, spicy and spicy taste was comparable to modern snacks, making people unable to stop eating.

"In the afternoon we have to cook another pot to sell. I thought summer would not sell better than winter, but I didn't expect that the hotter the day, the more it would be sold."

Father Ye was a little puzzled by this, the braised meat is too salty and spicy, so the sales volume in summer should not be as good as that in winter.

He didn’t know that there is a word called rebellion. As for people, the colder the day, the more they like to eat sorbet, and the hotter the day, the more they like to eat hot pot. They pay attention to hot and spicy, not to mention that their lo mei is very appetizing. It’s great in summer. The best thing is that you can eat a bowl of rice quickly with the lo mei.

Ye Yu likes to eat the chicken gizzards made by their family the most. The meat is very firm, and it is very springy when bitten down. It is spicy and refreshing.

Seeing this, Father Ye moved the chicken gizzards on the plate towards him, but said: "This food is too spicy, you'd better eat less."

"I'll just eat this meal." Ye Yu suddenly missed all kinds of modern snacks when he said this.

Malatang, crayfish, stinky tofu, grilled cold noodles...

He secretly wiped the corner of his mouth. Sooner or later, he will reproduce these snacks.

After a meal, Father Ye asked them, "Are you going to pick Brother He home later?"

Ye Yu nodded, "Yes, go to the martial arts hall."

"Okay, pay attention to safety on the road." Father Ye instructed a few words, and just pretended they were leaving.

After leaving the shop, Boss Ye led Ye Yu to the door of a house according to the route he remembered. There were two stone lions standing at the door, which was a majestic scene.

Ye Yu looked up and saw a few words engraved on the plaque on the door - Xinglong Martial Arts Hall.

They knocked on the door, and after a while, someone opened the door. After learning about their intentions, the person invited them in, "Junior Brother Ye He hasn't finished his training task today, so I have to trouble you to wait for a while."

Ye Yu followed him into the house, and saw that it had a huge interior space. It was a two-entry house. The yard was extremely empty, with only a few plum blossom stakes and wooden dummy stakes, and some sandbags piled up in the corners.

At this time, some disciples were beating wooden dummy piles in the yard, and the sound of the collision between the human body and the wood made Ye Yu's hands ache when he heard it.

The person who led the way invited them into the main room, and immediately brought a pot of tea for them.

When there was no one in the room, Boss Ye breathed a sigh of relief, and whispered to Ye Yu, "This place is so majestic, I dare not speak."

Ye Yu can understand his feelings. The decoration of the martial arts hall is mainly made of dark logs, and the colors are minimal, so it looks very rigid and serious, and people dare not speak casually after seeing it.

But he also knew what to say to reassure his uncle.

"That's why the second brother can learn more."

Sure enough, as soon as the words came out, Boss Ye immediately straightened his back and said happily: "The second child is very naughty, Master Wu must teach him well, if he is not obedient, he will just slap his palm, don't be polite."

And Ye He learned from his senior brother that his father and his younger brother were coming to pick him up, so he had just finished riding his horse, and before he even had time to change his clothes, he ran over happily when he heard what his father said .

"Father! How can you say that about me?" he yelled.

Hearing this, Ye Yu stood up and took a good look at her second brother who hadn't seen him for a month. The first thought that came to Ye Yu's mind was that his brother had grown a lot taller.

Boss Ye is a very traditional father. Although he felt guilty when he heard his son's words, he didn't answer. Instead, he started to change the subject, "Have you finished training? Did you listen to the master in the martial arts hall?"

"It's done, we can go when I go back to pack something." Ye He wiped his sweat with a handkerchief, then patted his chest and said, "Of course I listened to the master, I am the most caring apprentice of the master."

Ye He is the last apprentice accepted by Master Wu, and also the youngest apprentice. Personal disciples like them have worshiped heaven and earth, and will be filial to the master in the future, while those ordinary apprentices outside are just sent here to learn casually. No one cares how.

After he said this, he glanced left and right, looking like a thief.

As he moved, there was a smell of sweat, and Boss Ye sniffed his nose, and he was so smoky that he quickly covered his nose with his hands, and said in distaste, "Hurry up and take a shower and change clothes, this It doesn’t hurt to smell it all.”

Hearing this, Ye He raised his arms to smell it, with an innocent expression on his face, "Does it smell? Why didn't I smell it?"

This time it was not Boss Ye who answered the question, but the senior brother who led the way. He held a plate of snacks and complained, "You forgot to take a shower last night, and you slept on the bed and smoked me all night."

"Unexpected accident." Ye He rubbed his head and said with a silly smile, "I'm going to take a shower right now."

"Father and Brother Bao, you two wait a little longer, and I will be right back."

Before Boss Ye could speak, he ran to the wing room in the backyard, where medicinal baths were always prepared.

His senior brother shook his head helplessly, and put the dim sum on the table, "Don't wait, come and have a few dim sum."

There are five pieces of light yellow snacks on the celadon plate, with an osmanthus flower inlaid on each piece, which is very delicate and beautiful.

It is sweet-scented osmanthus cake.

Ye Yu was amazed by its appearance. After appreciating it for a long time, he picked up a piece and put it in his mouth. The sweet and soft sweet-scented osmanthus fragrance instantly filled his mouth. Drinking a cup of tea will alleviate this situation a lot.

In fact, pastries should be eaten with tea, one bite of pastry and three cups of tea, and after eating one piece, it will kill the whole afternoon.

To be honest, Ye Yu was really impatient to divide a piece of dim sum into five or six bites, so he wiped his hands with a handkerchief after eating only one piece, and sat there drinking tea with his eyes downcast.

Apparently Boss Ye couldn't eat such a delicate dim sum, so he swallowed two pieces whole and didn't know if he could taste it.

But at this time Ye He had already hurried out with his luggage on his back, and he didn't forget to stuff the whole piece of sweet-scented osmanthus cake that was left on the plate into his mouth before he left.

As soon as he got into the donkey cart, he was so choked that he rolled his eyes. Ye Yu was helpless, and handed over the bamboo tube containing mung bean soup.

Ye He drank half a bucket of mung bean soup before he could get the sweet-scented osmanthus cake stuck in his throat. He breathed a sigh of relief, "Thank you, Brother Bao."

"Let me tell you, the food cooked by the martial arts chef is not as good as our grandma's. The only thing I can do is make good cakes. The osmanthus cake and mung bean cake taste very good." Except for choking panic.

"Then you should have a good meal when you go back." After Ye Yu finished speaking, he looked at him carefully from top to bottom, "I think you are much stronger."

If he was originally puffy, then he has developed muscles now. Although his body size has shrunk a bit, he probably contains much more strength than before.

"That's not it," Ye He said proudly, he stretched out his arm in front of Ye Yu, motioning for him to squeeze it, "Come on, squeeze it, I'm really strong now."

Ye Yu didn't refuse, and squeezed his arm with his hands. Sure enough, there were muscles, so hard that he couldn't squeeze them at all.

"The master said that you can't give up halfway after practicing martial arts, and I'm a bit old, and I have missed the best time to lay the foundation, so I can only make up for it as much as possible."

When Ye He said this, he felt a little regretful, he really felt that practicing martial arts was very interesting, and he didn't feel tired, on the contrary, it was very fulfilling.

This is also helpless, after all, when he was three or four years old, it was the most difficult time for his family. Brother Bao was just born, and he almost invested his entire family in order to save his life.

"But it's fine now, at least I can do what I like."

Ye Yu was shocked when he saw the light in Ye He's eyes, that light was called longing and anticipation.

So he blinked and lowered his eyes in response, "Yeah, that's good."

They quickly returned to Yejia Village in such an atmosphere. Ye He jumped off first, then picked up Ye Yu, and took him off the donkey cart.

The villagers who were grinding beans at the millstone at the entrance of the village greeted him as soon as they saw him: "Brother He is back? How are you doing in the martial arts hall?"

"It's definitely not bad, my master and brothers are very kind to me." Ye He was very proud.

"That's good." The villagers cheerfully fanned the wind with their wooden fans.

When they walked to the village, they could hear greetings from time to time, most of them were addressed to Ye He. He was the first child in the village to go to the martial arts gym, which naturally aroused a lot of curiosity.

On the way, Ye He whispered in Ye Yu's ear: "Brother Bao, let's go and play with Brother Quan and the others tomorrow."

For him, if he had to say anything bad about living in a martial arts gym, it would be that he couldn't play with his friends.

But Ye Yu's words poured cold water on him, "Did you forget that we are going to study in a private school?"

Ye He's face collapsed in an instant, he thought for a while, and then said: "Then wait for you to finish school."

"It's almost there."

They have already planned where to go to play tomorrow.

Turning the corner, I saw Mrs. Ye and Mrs. Ye waiting at the door, and I could hear Mrs. Ye's voice, "Why are you so slow, hurry up."

"Grandma, mother, I'm back!"

Ye He jumped over and took one of them by the arm, and said happily: "Grandma, you don't know what we're having for dinner tonight, I really miss our family's meal."

Mrs. Ye laughed so hard that she couldn't see her teeth, "Eat chicken shredded cold noodles."

She stretched out her arms to embrace Ye Yu again, and then brought the two children into the house.

"This well is really well drilled. Now to make cold noodles, you only need to put the cooked noodles in the shade for a while."

After finishing speaking, Mrs. Ye brought three bowls of chicken shredded cold noodles to the table, urging them to eat quickly, "We have finished eating, this is reserved for you."

I saw yellowish noodles neatly stacked in a thick porcelain bowl as big as a face. Unlike the usual thick noodles, this time the noodles are thinner, as if they would break when you pinch them. Besides the noodles, there are also green The cucumber shreds, red carrot shreds and white chicken shreds are very rich in color, and it looks like it will make your index finger move.

There is also a layer of taupe soybean paste on the various ingredients.

Ye Yu swallowed, and used chopsticks to mix the noodle side dish and soybean paste evenly, and then put a chopstick into her mouth.

As soon as he took his mouth, he could taste the wheat aroma of noodles, the freshness and sweetness of shredded cucumber and carrot, the oiliness of shredded chicken, and the salty aroma of soybean paste. The bowl of chicken shredded cold noodles is especially delicious.

Cold Noodles Cold Noodles, as the name suggests, taste cold. It is very appetizing to eat a bowl in the hot summer. The three people on the table just concentrate on eating the noodles.

At the end of the meal, Ye He touched his stomach and said, "As expected, the food at home is delicious!"

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Ye Yu vaguely heard a small sound coming from outside the room, he rubbed his head against the pillow, opened his eyes after being dazed for a long time, sat up and lay on the bed in a daze for a while.

After fully waking up, he walked out while yawning. Mother Ye, who was packing up her things, saw him and asked in surprise, "Why do you get up so early? It's not time to wake you up yet."

"I just woke up suddenly." He rubbed his eyes and replied.

Mother Ye didn't ask much, she took out the dirty clothes in her hands, "Okay, then you go wash up first, and come over for dinner later."

"Eh."

Ye Yu responded, and then walked to the front yard with a toothbrush. Just as he passed, he found Ye He was striding by the wall, shouting a few words from time to time, and Xiaomi was circling around him. He probably heard Ye He just now. It was the movement from Ye He.

"What are you doing?"

"When doing morning training, the master told us that no matter where we are, the morning training must never stop."

I don't know how long he has been in the horse stance. Anyway, when Ye Yu saw him, he was sweating all over his head and face, and his clothes were already soaked.

Even so, his posture was still very standard. Ye Yu withdrew his eyes and concentrated on brushing his teeth. Anyone who persists is worthy of respect.

Ye Yu shouted at Xiaomi after washing up: "Xiaomi, come here quickly." Don't let it disturb Ye He's morning training.

After Xiaomi heard its name, it barked twice, and hurried over wagging its tail, rubbing against Ye Yu's leg excitedly.

He bent down and touched Xiaomi's head, "Come on, let's have breakfast."

"Brother Bao, wait for me, let's go together."

After Ye He finished speaking, he straightened up and walked to the well. He just wanted to scoop up the well water to take a shower, but was stopped by Mrs. Ye who came out of the kitchen, "I boiled water for you, go into the house and wash with hot water, cold water is not good for your body. good."

Ye He nodded, grabbed the towel and ran into the house.

Seeing him leave, Mrs. Ye said to Mother Ye with emotion: "In just one month, this child has changed a lot."

"No, Master Wu is really good at teaching/teaching people."

The breakfast was simple and delicious. After Ye Yu ate, she carried her book bag and walked to the private school with Ye Jing. They happened to meet Ye Shuan and Ye Minghui on the way.

Seeing the two of them, Ye Minghui hurried over and asked, "Is Brother He back? I miss him so much."

"I'm back, after school in the afternoon, let's go out to play together." Ye Yu replied with a smile.

"That's a good thing." Ye Shuan also smiled happily, "I tell you, there are many wild fruits on the slope that are ripe and can be picked and eaten. Maybe you can catch hares and pheasants."

Even if they are not greedy for meat now, if there are prey hitting them, they will not be disgusted.

Today, Mr. Ye is teaching "Hundred Surnames". Ye Yu found Ye's surname in the book and ranked 257th.

After he finished looking for his own surname, he couldn't help but start looking for another surname. Chu ranked No. 11.

Learning "Hundred Surnames" is not only about knowing every word in the book, but also needs to understand the whole picture of each surname and dig into the glorious history behind it.

Mr. Ye started with the surnames and extended to the celebrity anecdotes behind each surname, deepening students' understanding of the surname culture.

For example, Zhao came from the surname of Ying, and the ancestor was zaofu. Later, the descendants of the Zhao surname became doctors of Jin for generations and took control of the power of the Jin state.

The people named Zhao include Zhao Kuangyin and Zhao Yun.

Ye Yu was fascinated by the in-depth explanation.

Until Mr. Ye said: "Okay, that's all for today. When you go back, remember to memorize what you learned today."

He just woke up like a dream.

At this time, a face suddenly poked out of the door, Ye He looked in furtively, and was caught by Mr. Ye.

"What do you look like? If you want to come in, just come in."

Hearing this, Ye He came in rubbing his head, obediently called Mr. Ye, and said, "Sir, I'm here to wait for my two younger brothers."

Mr. Ye put down the water glass and nodded, then walked away with his own things.

"Phew, Mr. Ye is still so scary, I shivered." After he left, Ye He heaved a sigh of relief, put one hand on Ye Minghui's shoulder, and the other hand took Ye Yu's arm, and said excitedly: "Hurry up!" , let’s go out while it’s still bright.”

Seeing his excitement, Ye Yu couldn't help but smile, put the book bag on her back and walked out along with his strength.

Now is the best time for the sun, the branches and leaves are luxuriant, and the wind brings the fragrance of unknown flowers.

There are all kinds of wild vegetables growing up and down the slope, such as mother-in-law, mustard greens, Quma vegetables, sorghum, monkey leg vegetables, cucumber fragrance, bracken...

Ye Yu especially likes the fragrance of cucumbers. Other wild vegetables are slightly bitter when eaten raw. Only the tender leaves of cucumbers have the unique fragrance of cucumbers. Whether they are made into soup or stuffed, fried or eaten with cold salad, they are all delicious. .

In addition to such wild vegetables, there is also a kind of wild fruit that is also very interesting. It is called lantern fruit. As the name suggests, it is shaped like a lantern. The fruit is covered with a thin coat. After ripening in autumn, the coat becomes transparent, and the fruit inside tastes sweet. It is not greasy, and the coat is green when it is not ripe in summer. You only need to carefully drill a hole in the fruit pedicle with a bamboo stick, and squeeze the fruit pulp out of the hole to get a hollow peel.

Putting such a fruit peel on the mouth may make various sounds, some people make it like a whistle, some people make it like a bird's call, and so on.

The days passed gradually in such a dull way. Ye He reluctantly left home three days later. Before leaving, Mrs. Ye specially packed some walnuts and almonds in his backpack and told him to go back and share with his brothers. eat.

The author says:

caught a bug