Splendid peasant girl busy farming

Exciting good news

Not only the Luo family was there, but also the Sun family, Bao Suyun, Mianmian, Cao Bamei, Xiuxiu, Dasun family, and Xiaojie, mother and daughter who came back from the town's husband's house to visit relatives.

Oh, by the way, there are two more important people, namely Tan Shi and Liu Shi.

Mrs. Tan was picked up by Wang Cuilian in person at the east room of the old house, while Mrs. Liu strolled over after breakfast.

Why are so many people gathered at the Luo family today?
The reason is very simple, Zhou Wangtian Ma Maliang came to Luo's house to bring watermelons to his uncle Blacksmith Luo.

These watermelons are said to be planted by Luo Daye himself. Although they are not too big, they are full of twine bags.

Therefore, blacksmith Luo Wang Cuilian and Yang Ruoqing planned to break open all these watermelons. Actually, the watermelons didn't have too much pulp inside, and some of them were yellow sacs.

However, there are really a lot of watermelon seeds. Just pick off the watermelon seeds, put the watermelon sacs together, and cook a rich watermelon porridge.

In the Mianniu Mountain area, cooking watermelon porridge every summer is a very extravagant thing for most families.

Therefore, when making watermelon porridge, you should invite relatives and friends to come over to drink watermelon porridge, and everyone helps to pick watermelon seeds together.

Therefore, there are so many people in this main room, and everyone performs their duties. Together, they cut the watermelon, picked the seeds, smashed the watermelon sac, scrubbed the cauldron, washed the rice, lit the fire, and cooked the watermelon porridge...

Liu Shi rolled up her sleeves, and under Yang Ruoqing's urging, she was busy digging watermelon seeds. While digging, she told everyone in the main room about the endless gossip in her belly.

The big guys listened while working, and everyone listened with gusto.

Even Mrs. Tan, who usually annoys Mrs. Liu the most, did not scold Mrs. Liu for the first time today.

Da Sun even laughed and said: "Not to mention, the job of picking watermelon seeds is very boring in itself, but there is a gag made by Aunt Qing'er, hey, it really becomes interesting, look, this time I picked up a big bowl before I knew it!"

Da Sun held up the bowl in front of her and showed it to the crowd. Isn't that what it is? The bowl was filled with a bowl full of dark watermelon seeds, each watermelon seed was plump and round.

Some watermelon seeds still have red watermelon sacs that have not been peeled off, and some are still yellow watermelon sacs. ,

"Her aunt's watermelon seeds are so beautifully peeled, they don't need to be washed!" Liu said again.

Mrs. Da Sun casually picked the watermelon seeds in the bowl a few times, and said, "It still needs to be washed."

Everyone chatted and laughed for a while, and then Wang Cuilian picked up a large basin full of broken watermelon bags and went to the backyard.

Mrs. Sun put the watermelon seeds peeled out by everyone into a bamboo sieve, and got up to go to the pond to wash them.

Yang Ruoqing stopped Mrs. Sun, "That section of the road is very hot, mother, you don't have to go, just go to the well in the backyard to wash, there is shade over there!"

Sun said: "It's all right, I just like to go to the pond, put the sieve into the water, and just shake it a few times."

That being the case, Yang Ruoqing just followed her.

Things are almost done, and the next thing is to wait for Yang Ruoqing and Wang Cuilian to cook watermelon porridge.

So Blacksmith Luo brought a basin of clean water for Mrs. Tan and Bao Suyun to wash their hands, drink tea, and chat.

When he was done, he brought two large pots, put the watermelon shells together, and took them to the backyard.

These watermelon rinds have to be used as before, as agreed earlier, a pot will be used for washing and cutting for chickens, ducks and geese to eat.

In summer, the sky is dry and things are dry. People want to eat things that reduce the heat, and so do poultry and livestock.

Not to mention anything else, the big orange cat raised by Yang Ruoqing has dark red blood clots in its excrement in the past few days. Obviously, the cat is also on fire.

So these poultry and livestock are the same. Putting watermelon on fire, cutting watermelon rind into small pieces and throwing them on them can also relieve them.

As for the other pot, it must be used to make sour watermelon rind.

The cold sour watermelon rind is a cool and refreshing side dish in summer. When you bite into it, it is crunchy. Just thinking about it, halazi will flow from both sides of the mouth...

In the stove in the backyard, Wang Cuilian had already poured the watermelon sacs and washed rice into the big pot inside, scooped up enough water to submerge them, covered the pot, stuffed a bag of blacksmiths into the stove and chopped them into pieces. hard wood.

The fire in the stove was flickering and crackling, and heat gradually seeped out from the edge of the pot lid.

Next, the big pot basically doesn’t need to be taken care of for half an hour. After half an hour, take off the lid of the pot and push it a few times with a spatula, stir it a few times, and then cover it and simmer.

Everything is left to time, and a pot of sticky and sweet watermelon porridge will be returned to everyone.

Yang Ruoqing was not idle either, and was preparing the ingredients for noon.

Inviting everyone to eat watermelon porridge at home is a very special activity for farmers in summer.

It is impossible to serve everyone with only a large pot of watermelon porridge, and other accompanying dishes are definitely required.

Today, Yang Ruoqing prepared several dishes, green peppers picked from her vegetable garden, green peppers and eggs.

They also picked cucumbers, eggplants, long beans, eggplants, and gourds from their own vegetable gardens.

Mix and match them together to make several stir-fries.

Maybe a careful person will find out, why are they all vegetarian dishes?Don't you prepare two meat dishes to entertain everyone?
Ha, of course there are meat dishes.

Blacksmith Luo caught two catties of small river prawns from his own fish pond, the kind of small river prawns that don't need to be chopped off at all, they are alive and kicking, extremely fresh.

Wash it in water, pour it directly into the oil pan and stir-fry, at most, throw some minced garlic and ginger foam into it, there is no need to add any other seasonings at all.

When you're done, grab a handful of green peppers and throw them down before serving them out of the pot. They can fill two large plates.

Green peppers are emerald green in color, and small river shrimps are pink and tender. Don’t underestimate their small size, but when you bite into your mouth, the meat is plump and tender. It is paired with spicy green peppers, not to mention, It's really dinner!

So, Yang Ruoqing had an idea, took another smaller pot, washed the rice, and cooked a small pot of white rice on the small stove next to it.

She has that self-confidence, there will definitely be someone like her later, who will not be able to help but want to fill a bowl of white rice with the appetite of these stir-fried dishes, otherwise, it is just a sweet watermelon porridge, which is not enough to fill the stomach. Satisfy them both spiritually and physically.

When everything was almost done, Mrs. Sun came back from washing the watermelon seeds outside.

Mrs. Sun walked in a hurry, walking briskly, but her face was beaming, not only happy, but also excited.

"Sister-in-law San picked up a gold ingot?" Liu Shi saw it at a glance, and gossip sparked in her eyes immediately.

Mrs. Sun nodded vigorously to Mrs. Liu, and said, "Fourth brother and sister, you really guessed it right. There is really good news, or a great event!"

(End of this chapter)