Four Foods in the Mountains

I don't know how long the years are in the mountains. The four seasons of the year, winter goes to spring, and the cycle is a few years.

In early spring and February, it was warm and cold at the same time, and the sun came out to warm up for a few days, and it rained again in the early morning of this day.

But the spring rain is as expensive as oil, and every farmer can only be happy when he sees the rain.

Lu Yunchuan went to the town early in the morning with a bamboo basket on his back, bought a cloth bag of millet and red dates, and was going to the butcher shop to cut some fresh pork bones.

The proprietress of the butcher shop was already familiar with him. Seeing Lu Yunchuan walking towards her house with a basket on his back, she greeted him from a distance: "Mr. Lu is here to buy pork bones again? Do you want to buy pork bones this time to make soup for your husband?"

"Yes, I'm sorry to trouble you." Lu Yunchuan nodded to the proprietress.

"No trouble, no trouble, it just so happens that you came early today, and the crescent bone hasn't been sold yet, this bone is the best to use for stewing soup, there are many brittle bones on it, it's nourishing and delicious, your husband-in-law specified that he likes it. "The proprietress was very enthusiastic, picked up a big knife and cut off a large piece of cartilage in front of the fan bone, wrapped it in oil paper and handed it to Lu Yunchuan.

After taking the bones and paying the money, Lu Yunchuan put the pig bones into the basket, and covered them tightly with a cloth towel. It was windy and drizzling, so it was not easy to wet the contents of the basket.

The morning market on the street was already open, Lu Yunchuan walked halfway and saw a seller of sour jujube cake, bought a small bag with a few copper coins.

After the cold winter, spring is just showing some signs.The spring breeze is blowing, and it is raining lightly, and the flowers on the mountain also spit out some flower buds.

The mountain road was slippery, Lu Yunchuan was afraid that the mud would stain his clothes, and he walked slowly. When he got home, Cen Ning was already up.

Wearing a thin cotton padded jacket, Lu Yunchuan went to the town to pick up a horse that had been rained a few years ago. Cen Ning was holding a basket of rice in his hand, and was about to go to the backyard to feed the chickens.

Looking up and seeing Lu Yunchuan, a pair of dark eyes showed a warm smile: "I'm back."

Cold and hot, and a few years older, Cen Ning's face did not change at all, only the belly under the cotton padded jacket was so high that he had to support his waist with the other hand.

Before he could take off the bamboo basket on his back, Lu Yunchuan stepped forward to take the basket from Cen Ning's hand, and helped Cen Ning to sit down on the stool: "I'll feed you, you are heavy, don't do these things."

"When I woke up and had nothing to do, I thought about feeding the chickens. It's okay." Cen Ning said as he reached out to wipe the rainwater off Lu Yunchuan's face, "It's all wet, go inside and wipe it off with a cloth towel."

"Okay, you sit down, I'll wipe the things after I put them away."

He also said: "There is a seller of jujube cake in the town. I bought some. You can taste it, but don't eat too much. If you eat too much of this stuff, your teeth will be sore."

After unloading the bamboo basket on his back, Lu Yunchuan opened the jujube cake and handed it to Cen Ning, then went to the backyard to feed the chickens, and took a dry cloth towel to wipe his hair.There was not much rain in early spring, only the head and body were a little wet.

"Why are you up now, the child is making trouble with you?"

Cen Ning sipped the jujube cake and shook his head: "I only woke up when I heard the sound of rain outside. He has been very good these days." He said gently stroking his stomach.

He has been in the body for more than eight months, and he is already a little thin. When he is heavy, he does not talk about work. Even if he stands for a long time and sits for a long time, his waist feels sore, and he often cannot sleep well.

Thinking of how pleasantly surprised the two of them were when they first found out that Cen Ning was pregnant, they hugged each other at night, only felt that ten months of pregnancy was very long, and they couldn't wait to see the baby.

But when the child grew up in Cen Ning's womb, he realized how hard it is to conceive and give birth.

Cen Ning loves the child, so he doesn't feel anything about it, he caresses his stomach every day and only feels joy in his heart, but Lu Yunchuan loves Cen Ning, and gets angry at himself from time to time, with complicated feelings in his heart.

Fortunately, this child is a good boy, and when he seldom makes a fuss, he occasionally moves gently in his stomach, never making Cen Ning feel uncomfortable.

The goat's milk in the stove was hot, Lu Yunchuan was wrapped in a cloth and carried the stove and poured it into a bowl, the goat's milk was still steaming, Lu Yunchuan avoided Cen Ning's hand who came to pick up the bowl, and put the bowl on the table beside him.

"It's hot, I'll blow it cold before you drink it."

After Cen Ning's belly got bigger, his legs tended to cramp. When it was severe, he couldn't sleep all night. At first, he was afraid of waking Lu Yunchuan, so he just endured it by himself. Until one time, the pain was so severe that he couldn't help but groaned. Lu Yunchuan didn't know until he saw his pale face after waking up.

After five years of marriage, it was the first time that Lu Yunchuan sternly faced Cen Ning, lit the oil lamp and sat on the kang to rub Cen Ning's legs. He didn't close his eyes for the rest of the night, but he didn't open his mouth to say a word to Cen Ning.

It made Cen Ning almost cry with his big belly, Lu Yunchuan was afraid that his eyes would hurt from crying, so he softened and coaxed him: "The child is not yours, but it is only in your stomach to make you suffer alone. If I can't do it for you anymore, What are you doing, let you bear it alone, how can I have the face to hug the child and kowtow in front of the ancestors of the Lu family?"

Cen Ning just nodded and sobbed, and never dared to hide it from now on. Whenever he had a cramp, he would pat Lu Yunchuan on the shoulder and obediently let Lu Yunchuan rub his legs.

Later, Lu Yunchuan took the eggs to the midwife in the village, and the midwife said that drinking some goat milk and soup would make her feel better. Lu Yunchuan went to other villages to milk two bowls of milk every few days, and often went to the town to cut fresh pork bones and boil them. Bone soup.

The goat's milk didn't taste very good. Cen Ning squeezed his nose and drank a bowl, and couldn't help frowning slightly.

Lu Yunchuan fed him a preserved fruit and poured him a bowl of honey water, just like when he coaxed Brother Zhi to drink goat milk.

For breakfast, steamed buns and rice porridge were made by Lu Yunchuan. Cen Ning also put a few red dates and sugar in the porridge.

"Isn't there no jujube at home?" Cen Ning asked Lu Yunchuan as he picked a big one to feed.

"I went to the town to buy some more today. Aunt Wu said that it is good to eat more dates when you are pregnant. It is good for nourishing blood. I also bought millet. I will cook porridge with red dates and millet for you to drink later." Peeling an egg for Cen Ning, he had to eat dates and said, "I also cut some pig bones and asked Aunt Wu to make some soup for you at noon."

Aunt Wu was specially invited by Lu Yunchuan to take care of Cen Ning. After Cen Ning became seriously ill, Lu Yunchuan would not let him work.

He had to work on the crops in the field, and Yao Chunling didn't care about the family's affairs by herself, so she invited an aunt to cook and wash at home. When Lu Yunchuan went out to work, he could chat with Cen Ning to relieve boredom.

Aunt Wu is also from the village. She accidentally broke a leg when she went up the mountain in the early years. She can barely walk, but she can't do heavy work. There are old and young in the family, and the family is waiting for dinner. He asked someone to take care of his pregnant husband, and immediately came to the door.

She was honest, her work was quick and clean, and she could talk to Cen Ning, and even though the family life was tight, she never cried in front of Cen Ning, and never took anything from the house.

After getting along for a while, Lu Yunchuan and Cen Ning were both satisfied, knowing that Aunt Wu's family life was not good, so they would pay her once every half a decade.

After breakfast, Lu Yunchuan sat with Cen Ning, patted his stomach and said a few words to the child, then went to the field with a hoe on his shoulder. Aunt Wu should be here in a while, so don't worry.

Farming was busy in February, and it was time for spring plowing in the field. When Lu Yunchuan came back from the town, many people in the field were already busy plowing the ground, bowing their heads and bowing their heads.

Cen Ning tied a bamboo hat on him, supported his waist and sent him out of the courtyard gate, then walked around the main room twice with his support on his waist, sat down when his legs were no longer swollen, took the sewing basket and continued to sew a piece from last night Little bellyband that wasn't sewn.