The splendid years of a talented lady

Chapter 218 A Crazy One (2)
Anyway, people are well aware of my little thoughts, and it is useless to talk too much.

When it was about to freeze, the courtyard of the Min family had been completely rebuilt. The five bright brick houses, the spacious courtyard at the front and back, the neat and straight high courtyard walls, and the tightly-sewn courtyard gate stood there, and the whole mountain There is no one in the village who does not envy the neighbors in the village. They all look at the courtyard of Min's house, which is so nice!

After the house is built, only the fine work of installing doors and windows and spreading green bricks is left, which requires specialized craftsmen to do.

It happened to be the time when the cabbages in the various fields were to be harvested, and all the helpers went back to their respective homes for another round of busy work.

Su Xiazhi felt very sorry, and made an agreement with everyone. When she and Xiucai move back, everyone will have a big meal!
The Chinese cabbage in the field has been harvested, and farmers in the north have basically entered the slack season and began to prepare for winter.Women in every household are busy with their feet.

The same is true for Su Xiazhi.

When she and Xiucai got married, it was just after the Spring Festival. There was neither money for Xiucai nor vegetables for the winter.

No matter what this year, we can't live like that again!

While other housewives were drying Chinese cabbage on the roof, Su Xiazhi was meticulously preparing side dishes for the winter.

This year, the number of people in the family has increased by several, and the vegetables that can be seen on the market in winter are very few and expensive, so she has to cook more and save them.

The peppers brought back from her mother’s house had been dried long ago. Su Xiazhi cut the dried peppers into pieces with scissors and sautéed them on a low heat. When the fried peppers were cool and crispy, they were crushed with a stone mill and made into chili noodles.

With the seasoning of chili, Su Xiazhi felt that she was even more powerful, and she was busy at home alone!
When my brother came over, he carried a few baskets of white radishes on his back. Su Xiazhi picked the ones and stored them in the newly dug vegetable cellar in the backyard of Min’s house. He washed the rest and cut finger-thick radish strips to dry on two mats. superior.

"Sister-in-law, won't it become dried radish this winter? Is it delicious?" Gao Yue, squatting on the ground and turning the radish sticks, asked while working.

"I don't know." Su Xiazhi was washing the bowl.In order to hold the side dishes for the winter, she bought three jars, big and small, and prepared one for spicy radish sticks, one for pickled spicy cabbage, and another jar of sauerkraut would be enough.

"In previous years, my mother prepared vegetables for the winter. It's not my turn. I'm trying to make some this year." While talking, Su Xiazhi looked up and saw Min Lansheng holding Jiaojiao and looking at her with a smile. Her eyes are extraordinarily calm.

Jiaojiao has lived in Min's house for a while, and when Su Xiazhi was busy, Min Lansheng mostly looked at her, but now there are two beauties, one big and one small, cuddling together, it's really eye-catching!
Su Xiazhi winked at Xiucai: "Shall we take Jiaojiao as a daughter?"

Min Lansheng rolled her eyes, turned around and entered the room with Jiaojiao in her arms: "Uncle will teach you how to write."

"Still writing Jiaojiao's name?" the little girl said in a soft voice.

"Let's learn a few new characters today." Min Lansheng turned her head and glanced at each other, and then said slowly, "Let's just write: Hello cousin, good cousin..."

"Bah!" If Su Xiazhi can't hear the hint in his words, then he is really a fool!

She raised her eyes and stared at the thing holding the child who was flirting with her, and then she blushed, and said in her heart: Shameless!Worrying about this every day!

After five or six days in the sun, the radish sticks were almost dry. Su Xiazhi asked Gao Yue to put them in a big basin. After she sprinkled two handfuls of salt in it, she rubbed the radish sticks evenly and sprinkled them again. After adding chili powder and sugar, mix well again, then put these flavored radish strips into the jar, cover it and press it down with a stone, then she raised her head and said: "This thing can be served with rice, we can also use it when we drink porridge in the morning Serve a plate."

The craftsmen hired in the yard over there installed the doors and windows of several houses within a few days, and the blue bricks on the ground in the house were also smooth, and the work on the large surface was basically done.

It was already approaching the twelfth lunar month after paying the craftsmen. Uncle Shi brought back to Su Xiazhi a dairy goat that had just given birth to a lamb from another village. The milk bag hanging from its belly was bulging. Don't worry: the little girl finally has a 'Nurse', and she won't be afraid of having nothing to eat when she comes back, so she should take that girl back to live...

"Shall we move back?"

The weather was already cold at night, and the young couple who went to check out their new house were a little excited to see their newly built home!
As soon as Su Xiazhi opened his mouth, he breathed out a stream of hot air.

Kneeling down and touching the bricks on which the kang was built, the scholar raised his face and looked at the lady: "It's all dry, then move it."

"Which room do I sleep in?" Jiang Wen's voice suddenly came from the beam, causing the couple in the room to roll their eyes together!

"Hey, I said, it's almost Chinese New Year, aren't you going home?" Su Xiazhi raised her head to check the distance, and felt that it was still too high to drag him down.

"I can't bear to part with your cooking." Jiang Wen twisted his body and jumped off the beam, his clothes fluttering, and his posture was indescribably graceful!

The scholar stood up calmly, stood in front of the lady and said flatly: "Go back, I don't eat much tonight, I'm a little hungry."

Go back... Jiang Wen raised his eyebrows and smiled, who are you talking to?

After returning to the small courtyard where they lived temporarily, Su Xiazhi went straight into the kitchen to prepare supper.

Jiang Wen followed in like a tail, watching her swiftly busy with her hands and feet, and vaguely remembered the scene when she was alone with her sister when she was young.

"Where do you come from?" He asked softly, "Why do I always feel that you and my sister are the same person?"

Su Xiazhi paused while cutting vegetables, turned her back and asked, "Have you ever asked your sister this question?"

"No." Jiang Wen shook his head: "Before I met you, I always thought that only my sister was the most unique woman in the world. I never thought that your words would be similar."

"Oh?" Su Xiazhi put the shredded pork cut on the chopping board into a bowl, and asked while serving the starch, "What does she often say?"

Jiang Wen tilted his head and thought for a while before opening his mouth: "In the early years, she would often say 'Lao Tzu', 'wipe' 'your sister'..."

(End of this chapter)