Hard times have room

Chapter 199 What to bring?
Pauline and the others spent the next few days soaking in the fields.

On the 13th of this month, Pauline discussed with her father the possibility of asking for leave successfully, and after analyzing the results, she was immediately indifferent. At this time, if there is no major reason to ask for leave, then it will not be possible. Batch.

After all, now is an important time. If you leave, there will be one less person and one less share. Also, what if others feel tired and have something to learn from?
Don't you see, even the eldest son of the captain, Xu Hongdong, who is often away from home, was forced by him to go to the fields to fetch water. It's not that he will really drive him out of the house, he can only do it reluctantly, and in just a few days, he has become a lot darker.

But Baolin and Wang Jiandang didn't have a legitimate reason, so how could they go to the door to tell them?

Now the family doesn't have much money, 35 yuan, very little money to move, of which [-] Su Hongying is absolutely impossible to move, this is the money for Baolin's study.

"Dad, do you want to go to the old house for ancestor worship tomorrow?" Paulin said vaguely, taking a mouthful of bean porridge with something in her mouth.

"Well, tomorrow on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, the Ghost Festival, we will gather to worship our ancestors, and we will have dinner together." Wang Jiandang took a piece of snail meat that was soaked in oil and stir-fried with chili peppers. own mouth.

Yes, this meat is different!With the addition of oil and chili, this tastes really amazing and delicious.

Drink a mouthful of porridge, and then have a piece of meat, this is the day people should live.

"Then what do you bring with you tomorrow? It's not good-looking if you're empty-handed, and the talkative people at home can't talk about us being stingy and unfilial." Su Hongying stopped the tableware and chopsticks in her hand, looked at Wang Jiandang next to him, and asked him Give an idea.

Okay, I didn't say it myself, even if it was, she would give it to the people in the old house for nothing, and she also felt distressed. The relationship was not close at first. It's not good. But the whole village should not talk about her being stingy and stingy.

"This, I've already prepared it." He stopped talking at this point and looked at the mother and daughter next to him with a smile, to see if they could guess it.

As soon as Su Hongying met Wang Jiandang's gaze, she frowned and thought about the recent events, but she couldn't think of it even though she thought about it!
Recently, Wang Jiandang has been following her to work. How could he have time to prepare? It can't be said that it was the two eels and six frogs that were caught yesterday!
No, it's impossible. Anyone can catch this thing. Although it is said to be meat, it is really impossible to get it in the countryside!
Seeing that Su Hongying couldn't think of anything, Wang Jiandang turned to look at Bao Lin again to see if she still remembered.

Bao Lin thought about it carefully, most likely this time last month, her father first went to Tongmao Village with her, and then went to the town and county by himself. Only these two times did her father leave the village. .

By the way, when she went to the county seat, she sold dried squid. At that time, she looked at it, and it seemed that there was one left. It seemed that her father was going to keep it for tomorrow.

"It's dried squid, I left one at home when you went to sell it last time." Pauline said decisively, other than this, other things are really not suitable for dishes, such as brown sugar, when the New Year's and birthdays are over. It's okay to send a package of brown sugar, otherwise it's too exaggerated.

"Hey, by the way, it's still a girl's brain, you say you, I told you at the time, keep one at home, it will be useful later, you also asked me why I keep it, did you forget it? already."

When Wang Jiandang said this, Su Hongying reacted. She did ask at that time, but she was too busy and tired recently, so how could she still remember this.

"Okay, I understand." Su Hongying replied with an unhappy expression, it's normal to not remember what happened for so long.

"I just said that your memory is not good. You don't even remember what happened last month. You want me."

Seeing that Wang Jiandang was still getting more and more excited, Su Hongying had to cough twice to interrupt his next words.

"Okay, I didn't remember it this time. You are really happy. It's enough to have a few sentences. Besides, I'm going to freak out!"

"What are you doing? It's just dried squid, just say it, and guess, guess what, there are so many things."

Su Hongying looked at Wang Jiandang with a displeased expression. This kind of thing would be a shame for her, let alone in front of her daughter.

"Mom and dad, I'm done eating, you guys can eat slowly, I'll go to the back room to see how the dried squid is doing." Pauline pointed to the back room, and then went to the back room, um, pick up It's not suitable for her to stay here when she comes down, she will still see this wink.

She had to go and see how the dried squid was doing. After all, she hadn't seen each other for almost a month, and she had no impression at all.

If her father didn't mention it, she would have forgotten about it.

As soon as she entered the back room and looked at the dimly lit scene in front of her, it took Pauline a while to get used to the darkness in the room, and she could roughly see the outlines of things in the room.

Pauline took the key out of her pocket and went straight to the big wooden box in the house.

This box is made of wood left over when Pauline's family built the house. It doesn't look very good, but it is strong and durable, and it helps a lot to store food at home.

Without it, the food at home would have been eaten by mice.

Now the people in the village eat less, but it doesn't affect the mice's eating and drinking at all, because sometimes this thing is really hard to guard against, and if there is a chance, it will be drilled, and if there is no chance, it will also be drilled. The presence.

I looked left and right, checked and checked, and found no sawdust or the like falling on the ground, indicating that 'this box has not been eaten by anything, yes, don't worry.

As soon as he opened the box, Paulin took out the potatoes and peas and broad beans that were placed on the top. These [-] to [-] kilograms were the food rations for Paulin's family of three for nearly two months.

As for the rice that Wang Jiandang exchanged in Tongmao Village later, he took out five catties, and the rest was buried in the tycoon in Baolin's house.

From these five kilograms of rice, I scooped out 4 kilograms of broken white rice, and the remaining one kilogram was made of bran and some small and small broken rice, and it was not wasted. I saved it for porridge when it was difficult. drink.

The white rice is now placed in the bedrooms of Su Hongying and Wang Jiandang, and in their cupboards. When they want to cook rice porridge, they can go to their room to get it.

The bran mixed with the millet rice is put in the kitchen and packed in a jar. When it really can't go on one day, this thing can also be topped.

After taking out all the things on it, Paulin stood up with the dried squid with a strong fishy smell, and smelled it. Although the fishy smell was strong, it was definitely not bad, and there was no rotten smell.

Yes, there will definitely be a face to carry it when the time comes.

(End of this chapter)