Peasant woman

Chapter 23

Xu Cao was lifting the lid of the pot, when she heard the voices of Uncle Dezi and Brother Qingshan, she hurriedly raised her head and said with a smile: "Yes, Uncle Dezi, Brother Qingshan, you guys stay and eat together at night, Fugui and Miaomiao and I can't eat like this many."

Uncle Dezi and Brother Qingshan smiled, "Well, the stove in the kitchen has been built, and you can go in and cook after two days when it is completely dry."

In the evening, Uncle Dezi and Brother Qingshan stayed for dinner.

After the ribs in the pot were cooked and the potatoes were stewed, Chen Jin added two big bowls. One bowl was given to Mrs. Chen and the other bowl was sent back to her natal family, but when she came back, she brought several large pancakes.Fu Gui also went to have a few drinks and called Father Yang.

Several people ate around the big pot in the yard.

Next to him, Xiao Bai was running around in a hurry, moaning and whining around Xu Cao.

Xu Cao thought that Xiaobai had been with her for a year or two, and she hadn't rewarded Xiaobai well, so she found two broken bowls and gave Xiaobai and Heizi each a bowl of pig's offal.

Xiao Bai impatiently started to eat.Heizi lowered his head and sniffed twice, then looked up at Xu Cao.Xu Cao smiled at it and said, "Heizi, hurry up and eat." Heizi looked at Fugui silently, Fugui grinned, "Heizi, here it is for you, eat it quickly." Then Heizi lowered his head and started eating.Seeing Xu Cao sighed, this is really a good dog.

Several people also started to eat. When they ate the potatoes, the big guys were stunned, and said in doubt: "Rich daughter-in-law, what is this? It's really delicious."

Potatoes are stewed with ribs, the taste is very good.Seeing that they were eating happily, Xu Cao hurriedly asked, "Father, Fugui, Uncle Dezi, Brother Qingshan, do you think this food is delicious?"

Qingshan stuffed another piece of potato into his mouth, it melted in his mouth, he hurriedly said: "It's delicious, it's really delicious, it's as delicious as pork. It melts in your mouth, it goes into your stomach right away."

Xu Cao laughed. The potatoes had been boiled with the ribs for more than half an hour, and they naturally melted in the mouth. They were soft and delicious, with a meaty taste.

Uncle Dezi also echoed, "That's right, the taste is really good, I've never eaten this stuff before, rich and noble daughter-in-law, what the hell is this?"

Even Old Man Yang nodded, and couldn't help saying, "It's delicious."

Fugui didn't speak, but grinned silly.Even Miao Miao, who was sitting on the little bun beside her, ate very happily, her mouth full of greasy food, "Mother, it's delicious."

Xu Cao helped Miao Miao pick up a few pieces of potatoes, and said with a smile: "The things I dug in the mountains a few days ago, I didn't expect to be edible. Now that the snow is about to fall, the things may be gone."

When everyone heard this, they didn't ask any more questions and started eating.A large pot of pork ribs and potatoes was eaten up, and the pancakes brought back from her mother's house were shared by several men. Xu Cao was almost full after eating potatoes, and shared a pancake with Miao Miao.

After the pots in the yard were cleaned up, the sky was already dark, so dark that some of them could not be seen.Xu Cao boiled hot water in a large pot in the yard again.

Miao Miao went to bed early, and fell asleep as soon as she got on the kang, Xu Cao tucked up the quilt for her, then washed her body, went into the room, and saw Fugui sitting on the kang, waiting for him, holding a cloth bag .Seeing Xu Cao coming in, Fugui hurriedly handed her the cloth bag in his hand, grinning and said: "Daughter-in-law, this is the money for selling pork today, you take it."

Xu Cao opened the cloth bag and saw that there were broken silver and coins inside, about two taels of silver.Xu Cao held the cloth bag and walked to the wooden box next to it, took out the brocade box from the box, took out the ten taels of silver from the brocade box, put them all into the cloth bag, and said with a smile: "Fugui, We now have 13 taels of silver."

Fugui grinned, "Put away all the daughter-in-laws, and buy whatever they want, and I don't have to worry about my mother and third siblings anymore."

Xu Cao wrapped the silver in several layers of cloth and put it on the bottom of the alley, then put the brocade box into the wooden box, and locked the box.She didn't believe that Niu could still steal it.

Seeing his daughter-in-law's angry look, Fugui happily hugged the little daughter-in-law onto the kang, causing Xu Cao to let out a small exclamation.

Fugui hugged the petite daughter-in-law in his arms, touched her body, and found that she had finally grown some meat, so she smiled contentedly, "Daughter-in-law, let's save the remaining 100 catties of pork for the winter, and eat it every day." , you will definitely grow well after winter."

Xu Cao covered her mouth and snickered, "You thought you were raising pigs."

"It would be great if I could raise white and fat ones like piglets." Fugui muttered, thought for a while, and whispered in Xu Cao's ear, "Daughter-in-law, that thing called potatoes is delicious. Looking at the corner, there are a lot of them, and they can be eaten for a long time. I didn’t expect this stuff to be edible, and the taste is really good.”

Hearing this, Xu Cao turned over in a hurry and bumped into Fugui's chin. Fugui seemed to be fine, but she bumped her head so badly that Fugui helped her rub it for a long time. Then he pulled Fugui's hand and said, "Fugui, I want to discuss something with you. We don't have any land at home. Why don't you go to Lizheng tomorrow to see if anyone wants to buy land? We can buy it too." Go to an acre of land. I can’t eat my potatoes anymore. I’m going to keep them to germinate and plant them tomorrow spring. This thing is easy to grow, the harvest is good, and the storage time is long. We can also make some money while we are the first. However, the first thing to solve is the field problem."

As she spoke, she frowned. There were not many fields in the village, and the fields were all owned by the farmers. Unless the family wanted to move away, few people would sell the fields.I'm afraid it won't work.

Fugui hugged her in his arms, held her hand, and said with a smile, "What are you afraid of? I'll go to Lizheng tomorrow and ask. If there's any for sale, we'll buy an acre of land first. If not, let's buy it." Let’s talk to Lizheng, just reclaim a piece of land on the top of the mountain. I’m afraid the harvest will not be good if the land has just been reclaimed.”

Xu Cao thought about it for a while, and the harvest on the newly reclaimed land is indeed not good, but potatoes are easy to grow, and no conditions are required. Even if the newly reclaimed land is sprinkled with fertilizers, there is a heavy snowfall in winter, and the next spring will bloom, it will still be able to grow. Plant something.If there is really no land to sell, this is the only way to go.

Thinking of this, she felt a lot more at ease, and chatted with Fu Gui for a long time before falling asleep.Fugui looked at the sweetly sleeping daughter-in-law, and secretly sighed that life is really hard. It just depends on how long the days of being able to touch but not eat will last.

no!Hurry up and make his daughter-in-law strong!
Xu Cao was busy handling the pork when he came together the next day, rubbing salt on the pork.The pork is half cured and half smoked, which takes days.Moreover, Mrs. Chen and her third siblings had unclean hands and feet, and if they were drying in the yard, someone had to watch them.Thinking of this, Xu Cao couldn't help but sigh.

Fugui helped Xu Cao rub salt on the wild pork, and after a while Li Shi brought over a basket of steamed buns with corn and thick noodles.When Mrs. Li delivered the steamed buns, both Mrs. Yang and Mrs. Chen had bad expressions on their faces. Mrs. Yang was ashamed and Mrs. Chen was angry. When she saw Mrs. Li, she thought of the ten catties of wild pork and the big one. The pork leg was gone.

Mrs. Li glanced at Mrs. Chen triumphantly, and stuffed the steamed buns into Fugui's arms, "Fugui, you are tall, so you should eat more. If these are not enough, I have some more. Don't be polite to your mother. Now that you marry Da Ya, you will be my half son!"

Fu Gui happily took the steamed buns, and hurriedly said: "Mother, that's enough, that's enough." The steamed buns are big, there are more than a dozen steamed buns, it is estimated that Mrs. Li brought half a pot of steamed buns.

Seeing the intimate appearance of the two, Mrs. Chen was so angry that her teeth itch.But I also know that Mrs. Li is also a person who is not easy to mess with. Among the aunts and aunts in the village, how can there be a person who is easy to mess with?She just scolded her daughter-in-law on weekdays, if she was asked to quarrel with other aunts, she would not be able to quarrel with others.

Mrs. Li pulled Fugui on the phone for a long time, and they all secretly mocked Mrs. Chen. Mrs. Chen blushed and had a thick neck, but she didn't dare to fart.Father Yang was afraid of this situation, so he went out early.

Mrs. Li muttered a few more words before being chased away by Xu Cao.Chen stomped at the kitchen door angrily, but didn't dare to scold Xu Cao.

"Mom, it's time to eat." Niu, who had been busy in the kitchen all morning, came out and called everyone to eat.In the past two days, Niu has restrained a lot, and I don't know if he really regretted it, but he is very diligent anyway.She cooked the meals for the two days, took Yang Sandi's clothes to wash early in the morning, and cleaned the yard and the house.

Chen's anger happened to have no place to vent, and when he saw Niu, he couldn't help venting his anger, "You little bastard, you move so slowly, you want to starve to death."

Niu raised his head, looking angry, but stared at Chen but didn't dare to say anything, allowing Chen to curse.It seems that Niu is really afraid that Yang Sandi will divorce her.

Younger brother Yang couldn't stand it anymore, he frowned and said, "Mother, it's time to eat, don't scold me any more."

The whole room went to have breakfast.

Xu Cao was full after eating two steamed buns, Fugui ate six at a stretch, and then put the basket in the kitchen, "Let's save the few leftovers for dinner, so that we don't have to go to mother's house all the time." gone."

After breakfast, Xu Cao was busy hanging the salted pork skewers on a rope under the eaves to dry, and set up two logs in the corner of the kitchen, and set the logs on fire, and extinguished the fire when it was almost done. Only the choking smoke was left, so the remaining pork was placed on top of the wood, and the smoke was smoked.

After finishing all this work, it was almost noon, and Xu Cao reckoned that Fugui should come back.It took another half an hour for Fugui to come back.Xu Cao poured him a bowl of water, and Fugui drank it in one gulp.

The pots and pans at home were still taken from Mrs. Li, and Xu Caoping went to the town to buy pots and pans and came back after finishing his busy work for the past two days.

After Fugui finished drinking the water, Xu Cao asked, "How is Fugui? Is there any land in the village to sell?"

(End of this chapter)