Dressed as a farmer group pet

Chapter 261 260 Summer
Bringing Xiao Hei back from the mountain again, Er Niang happened to make a smoothie with raisins, a little haw jelly, and small glutinous rice balls, topped with red flower sauce, which looked pretty.

"Are you back? Come and taste this. It's such a hot day, why do you always run outside, and you don't want to get too hot in the sun."

Xiaomi took a bowl of smoothie, mixed various condiments with a spoon, took a bite, and enjoyed it all over his face.

Of course, when eating, I didn't forget to flatter: "It's delicious, my mother's craftsmanship has improved again!"

I made the smoothies by myself. After summer, Uncle Liu brought back saltpeter, and there was a way to make ice with saltpeter.

Liu Zeniang is even more generous. She directly asked people to write a lot of ice food recipes. As long as they don't spread it to the outside world, they can eat and make whatever they want!
Of course, people also said that girls should eat less, so even if Xiaomi and Xiaoxue are greedy, they can only eat one bowl a day at most.

However, ice making is also particular. Ice made directly from saltpeter cannot be eaten.

So I use a big basin to make ice, and then put a small one in the middle of the big basin, pour cold boiled water into it, and wait for the cold boiled water to turn into ice water, smoothies, etc.

After the saltpeter is made into ice, it can also be reused. When the ice cubes melt and dry, the saltpeter will continue to stay.

For this reason, Jiang Hu specially made a very large and short frame, less than finger height, covered it with oilcloth, poured melted ice water into it, and dried it in the sun within a day or two.

Leaving from the scorching sun and eating a cool smoothie is simply the enjoyment of life!
"Mother, Second Sister and the others are coming back soon, what are you having for dinner?"

Erniang usually makes smoothies in the afternoon, so that everyone can eat them when they go home. Ice cubes are placed next to the bed at night, which can also cool down, making sleeping much more comfortable.

This is also thanks to the fact that Liu Bo took a lot of saltpeter, but after autumn, all these saltpeter powders will be returned to the Yamen.

Saltpeter is something that is strictly controlled. Only a few people can spend a lot of money to rent it for a summer. If they don't return it after autumn, they will basically be punished as treason.

"Let's eat cold noodles tonight. I killed a chicken in the afternoon and it's already stewed. Chicken breast and drumstick are cold, and there's mushroom chicken soup."

"Wow, so many delicious food, thank you mother!"

In the past few months, the eggs and duck eggs at home were rarely sold for money, and they were basically kept for hatching. Now chickens, ducks and geese have bred a lot, especially chickens, with hundreds of them!
Of course, there are also many pigs.

When building the pigsty, Jiang Hu took the opportunity to tell everyone that he wanted to sell the piglets, so that everyone who knew could help introduce them, and he would give two pennies for each piglet.

Now there are more than a dozen pigs in the pigsty, and five of them are gilts.

Originally, Zhang Yuan's family, that is, Xiaocao's parents, had ordered all the gilts for the next litter. Now that they have suitable ones, they naturally bought them in advance.

Because of the closeness between Xiaomi and Xiaocao, Zhang Yuan and his wife were not dissatisfied. Anyway, his sow was just pregnant and hadn't yet calved.

Jiang Hu came back from the backyard and saw Xiaomi eating a smoothie: "Where's your mother?"

"It's in the kitchen." Xiaomi pointed behind him.

Jiang Hu turned around and left.

Xiaomi pursed her mouth, she got used to it.

Sure enough, after a while, her father's voice was heard from the kitchen.

"Didn't I say that you are not feeling well these days, don't you get these cold things? Let me come, go and see if the children are back."

Xiaomi sighed softly, daddy, don't you know if they are back or not?Just came back from the outside, isn't it easy to see the carriage coming back?
Xiaomi is no stranger to getting along with his parents.

You know, when her father was very poor at home, he had the advanced thinking of "you can't lose children, and you can't lose adults".

Thinking back to when it was rare for the family to buy meat buns, the father was stunned to have one for each of them, and the mother was not allowed to leave all of them to the children.

There is one thing to say, in fact, this is very good. All kinds of news in the previous life show that parents put themselves too low, which is not good for children's growth.

So, when other people's family is: "Father, where is my mother?", but their family is: "Boy, where is your mother?"

Xiaomi said, what's so strange?Just get used to it.

"Xiaomi, after eating, I'll bring you a bowl to Grandpa Liu, he's over there by the pool."

"Oh, I know."

In summer, the temperature is high, and the ice sand melts quickly. At the end of the meal, there is only ice water left, and it dries up in one bite. Then I take the portion of Grandpa Liu and send it to him.

Go out from the back of the kitchen, and within a few steps, you can see Uncle Liu by the pool.

"Grandpa Liu, why are you fishing here today?"

There was a big cypress tree growing beside the pool, and Uncle Liu was under the tree, holding a short fishing rod and a big wooden basin beside it, and occasionally he could hear the sound of water in the wooden basin.

"I found out that the fish in this pool seems to be more delicious."

While speaking, the float moved, and when Liu Bo lifted the fishing rod, a palm-sized crucian carp was lifted up.

"Your Aunt Liu's family has a younger sister who is pregnant, and she said she wanted to eat our fish. No, I'm fishing right now."

Uncle Liu took the crucian carp down and put it in a wooden basin, then threw the hook into the water pool again, and then took the smoothie from Xiaomi: "Oh, it's ready, thank you Xiaomi."

Uncle Liu is getting older, and eating smoothies is also strictly controlled. There is only half a bowl, not as much as millet.

However, Uncle Liu didn't mind either. If he ate less, he would eat less. He didn't eat when it was raining. He was very concerned about his health.

The big wooden basin in which the fish were placed was covered with a bamboo sieve, and Xiaomi curiously opened up a little gap, only to see the backs of black fish.

"Wow, there are so many crucian carp, Grandpa Liu, you are so good, you caught so many in one afternoon."

As he said that, he reached in and tried to catch fish, but actually put some spiritual spring water.

Most of them are crucian carp, which is easy to survive, but other fish do not have such good vitality as crucian carp.

"Where is my strength? The earthworms raised by your parents are good. There are almost no empty rods!" Uncle Liu ate the smoothie with a smile: "But there are so many fish in this pool, I didn't expect it."

The pool is not deep, and the water is not turbid, but there are water hyacinths and duckweed on the surface of the water, and the underwater situation cannot be seen clearly.

I just know that there are fish in it, but I don't know the specific situation.

"Yes, there are a lot of fish." Xiaomi agreed casually.

The most common thing in this pool is crucian carp, which reproduces very quickly. She also put some crucian carp in the space, and rice field eel and loach.

Those things in the space can be regarded as optimized varieties, and the combination with the outside can improve the entire category.

Just like the various seeds she took out from the space before, after being baptized by spiritual energy, after several generations of breeding, the yield has not decreased.

As for this small pool, the reason why there are so many fish of all kinds is naturally because of the Lingquan water.

The source of some water canals in the village is almost here. She only needs to put the spiritual spring water here every day. Of course the fish here grow well.

Moreover, these spiritual spring water can also benefit the crops of the entire village.

Of course, the flow of water has never stopped. If some crops are unlucky and happen to run into the diluted spiritual spring water and completely flow away, then you can't blame her.

Not only that, but there are also various fish in the pond at home, and soft-shelled turtles also lay eggs, which seem to be about to hatch.

By the way, there are lotus leaves and flowers blooming beside the gazebo. Of course, Xiaomi will put some spiritual spring water into it from time to time.

And the pond at home is connected to this pool.

There was a sound of horse braying, and Xiaomi jumped up: "I'm back, I'm back, big brother and the others are back."

Uncle Liu also got up with jelly, and called to the opposite side: "Qixi, come and move some things."

"Here comes the master."

Qixi put the bucket on the ground and came over.

The pigsty is only about [-] meters away from the water pool in a straight line, and the pigs are fed directly from the water pool. For this purpose, a stone ladder was built on the other side of the water pool.

In the afternoon, Qixi and Jiang Hu pulled pigweed in the field. After returning, Jiang Hu went home first, and Qixi went to fetch water to feed the pigs.

Jiang Hu also came over now, carrying the wooden basin together with Qixi: "I made a few bowls of smoothies just now, you go and serve a bowl too, it's a hot day to relieve the heat."

"Okay, thank you Jiang Ge."

The wooden basin was carried to the front, and the carriage just arrived home. After the children came down, the two put the wooden basin on it together.

At this time Er Niang also came out, holding a bamboo basket in one hand and a food box in the other, followed by Aunt Yang, who was also holding a beautiful porcelain jar.

There are several lotus flowers in the bamboo basket, some are just budding, and some are still buds.

"This is some food made of lotus flowers. It tastes quite delicious. I just made it. I will bring it to your wife and master."

"I asked Xiaomi to help me write down the recipe, and put it in the basket. You can also let your cook do it yourself."

"There's also this lotus leaf tea. It's also very refreshing to soak in a cup after eating meat."

As he spoke, he put the things into the carriage one by one, and the lotus leaf tea was the beautiful porcelain pot with a fat belly that Aunt Yang was holding.

This was bought by Erniang on purpose. She bought several of them specially for tea, such as the dragon grass that was dried and cut before storage, such as the chrysanthemum tea and lotus leaf tea that she made herself.

Needless to say, the tea leaves in porcelain jars are better than bamboo tubes, and they are moisture-proof and won't smell.

After explaining everything clearly, the driver went back. As for the children, they had already been taken home to eat smoothies.

Don't look at it's already afternoon, this carriage is protected from the sun but not insulated, and it happened to be basking in the sun on the way home, so everyone is extremely hot at the moment.

Er Niang went to the kitchen and told her that one bowl is enough for each person, don't eat too much, and then went to work.

Jiang Hu and Qixi fed the pigs, while Erniang and Aunt Yang picked up eggs and duck eggs, and they could have dinner and rest after work.

After eating, the children also went to help pick up eggs and the like, trying to have dinner early.

The children in the family are doing well in their studies, and they will not be required to read books after returning home. After all, they have read books all day in college, and they will relax after returning home.

They used to have to do their own laundry, but now Erniang and Aunt Yang do all the laundry.

After all, Erniang used to be busy with work, but now she has to hire people to do a lot of work, so she is free.

As for the children, they just wash their underwear every night when they wash up.

A month ago, both Jiang Yu and Liu Ze turned 12 years old, and Liu Ze's parents sent someone to ask him if he wanted a book boy and maid who could help him with some trivial matters around him.

But Liu Ze refused, saying that he is doing well now and doesn't need anyone to wait on him.

In the evening, I ate hand-rolled noodles, which were cut into thin slices. After cooking, I passed through ice water to cool down quickly.

Then drip a little burnt rapeseed oil, mix well and divide into each bowl, and then add seasoning according to your own taste.

For a chicken that weighs four catties, first cook the whole thing, then tear off the meat from the chicken breast and legs and serve it cold, and continue to cook the soup with the skeleton of the wings.

A bowl of fresh, fragrant and thick white chicken soup, just smelling it, will make your mouth water.

However, before eating, Erniang specially scooped up a bowl of chicken soup and noodles, and asked Jiang Hu to share it with Xiaomi, Xiaohei and Dongnanbei.

Well, that's right, those three puppies were named Xiaodong, Xiaonan, and Xiaobei in a simple and rough manner as expected!
Together with their mother, Xiao Hei, guard the Jiang family's "farm" in the four directions of east, west, north and south!

Not only that, Jiang Hu also dug out a dog hole in the corner of the backyard to facilitate Xiao Hei's entry and exit. Next to the chicken coop and duck coop in the pigsty, he also made a waterproof and sun-proof kennel.

After all, apart from the Jiang family raising more than a dozen pigs in the pigsty, there are more than 100 domestic chickens and pheasants, and there are also a lot of rabbits. This guy breeds very fast, and there are almost a hundred of them.

There are slightly fewer ducks and geese. After all, there are not so many ponds in the village. Jiang Hu is thinking about whether to find a piece of wasteland and dig a large pond, just like in Fu'an Village.

Besides these, there are more than a dozen developing bamboo raccoons, Xiaomi's peacocks, and cattle plowing the land.

These are all kept outside the house, and they are all valuable things. Should there be guards to guard them?

I have to say that Xiao Hei gave birth to a baby just in time!
As for Xiao Mi, he is a good expert at protecting food. Any mice or snakes should not even think about appearing in the house.

The most reassuring thing is that no matter whether it is Xiaomi Xiaohei or Xiaodongnanbei, they will not eat outside things, and they will not eat the prey they catch themselves, but only eat the food fed by the owner.

In this case, there is no need to worry about someone poisoning, after all, such things are not uncommon.

Jiang Hu went out for a walk and fed all the cats and dogs. Really speaking, the food eaten by the cats and dogs at home is probably better than that eaten by many people.

Not just good, but a lot!

Feed cats and dogs the same food, and three or four children can be fed!

Thanks to the fact that their family lived far away, no one would see what the cats and dogs were eating during meal times.

"It's time to eat. This cold chicken is spicy. This one is not spicy. By the way, there are also some lotus pancakes here, which are fried with lotus petals and flour. You all have to try it."

Erniang brought the food prepared in advance to the table, not forgetting to pack enough food for Aunt Yang and Qixi.

A large bowl, topped with cold noodles, scooped with cucumber sticks, celery sticks, and shredded red pepper cold chicken, and served with a bowl of chicken soup at just the right temperature, it's not too comfortable!
(End of this chapter)