Wang family small peasant girl

Chapter 54

Zhang Zhang rushed into the courtyard with Zhang Yun, dragged her into the main room, pushed her to sit on the bench, and said, "Sit down, I'll get water and cloth." After speaking, he ran out of the main room and into the kitchen.

Mrs. Zhou in the kitchen, when Zhang Zhang mentioned Zhang Yun's injury, ran to the main room anxiously, stepped into the main room and asked, "What's the matter, is the injury serious?"

"Mother, it's okay, I just cut one. The wound is long. It looks like there's a lot of blood, but it's not deep." Zhang Yun hurriedly comforted, so as not to worry about Mother.

As soon as Mrs. Zhou arrived in front of Zhang Yun, Zhang Zhang also came in with a water basin. Mrs. Zhou hurriedly took it and said, "I'll come, you are clumsy, don't hurt your sister."

Zhang Cheng responded and ran into the house to find clean cloth strips. Mrs. Zhou sat in front of Zhang Yun with a bench and slowly removed the cloth strips wrapped in her hands. The blood was stained, and he said distressedly: "It's not serious, look at the blood on your hands, why don't you be careful." While muttering, he scooped up water and gently washed the wound on his back.

Zhang Yun knew that his mother was in distress, so she read a few words without replying. The clear water flowed through the wound, and he felt the slightest pain.

Zhang Zhang quickly took the strip of cloth, and Zhang Xing also came in at this time. After handing the cloth strip to Mrs. Zhou, Zhang Zhang went to the kitchen and grabbed a handful of ashes from the stove. After Mrs. Zhou washed the wound, Gently wiped off the water, Zhang Zhang had already turned around at this time, went up to spread the ash evenly on the wound, Zhou picked up the cloth and carefully bandaged the wound, and said in his mouth: "Cheng Zi, quickly take the coir raincoat, Bamboo hat, go pick up your grandfather and father, they should be on their way home now."

"Hey." After agreeing to the regulations, he ran out of the main room, wanting to go to the backyard. As soon as one of his front feet stepped out, Zhang Liangen and Zhang Youqing came in from outside the yard.

As soon as the two of them entered the yard, before they had time to put back the farm tools, the heavy rain fell. They didn't care about other things at the moment, and rushed into the hall with the farm tools on their shoulders.

The rain soon became denser and splashed on the mud. After Zhang Liangen and Zhang Youqing ran into the main room, they put the farm tools in the corner, shook the rainwater splashed on the jacket, and turned their heads to see Mrs. Zhou was wrapping up the wound, so she hurriedly surrounded her and asked, "Yun'er, why are you injured?"

"I just went to the Qingling River to hunt pigweed, and I got cut." Mrs. Zhou replied immediately, and Zhang Liangen and Zhang Youqing sat down on a bench beside him. In such a weather, why do you still let the baby cut pigweed?"

Seeing that Zhang Liangen was a little displeased, Zhang Yun hurriedly said: "Grandpa, I'm going by myself. Mom is in the kitchen and didn't see me go out."

Mrs. Zhou didn't take it seriously, she always knew her father-in-law's temper, he would come and go quickly, and he would be fine after a while, so she hurriedly said: "I have such a good memory, I really forgot that today is the Waking of Insects." After speaking, she felt in her heart After thinking about it, I remembered something, and hurriedly said: "Ah, then tomorrow is February [-], and I haven't made anything at home, so I'll go get ready." Zhou patted his leg, got up after speaking, and walked along Under the eaves of the main room, ran into the kitchen.

"I'm so confused." Zhang Liangen muttered another sentence, then stood up, stood by the door of the main room, looked at the sky with heavy rain, and turned to Zhang Youqing: "This will blow the north wind, as the saying goes' Jingzhe blows the north wind and spends the winter from the beginning again. I'm afraid it will be cold when the rain stops. Tidy up the pens and chicken coops, and put more straw to avoid freezing."

When Zhang Liangen called, Zhang Youqing stood up, followed him out of the hall, went to the backyard to get the coir raincoat and bamboo hat to put on, then went to the pigsty, shoveled away the feces and dirt in the pigsty, and cleaned it. After that, I brought dry straw to pad the inside of the pigsty thickly, and added an extra board outside the pigsty to keep out the cold air.

After the pigsty was cleaned up, the chicken coop was also cleaned, and thick straw was also placed on it, and the chicken coop was brought into the main room, so as not to catch the cold under the eaves of the yard from the wind and rain.

After cooking the poultry, you have to take care of yourself. Everyone added an extra jacket to prevent colds. For this, Mrs. Zhou specially cooked ginger soup. Even if it didn't rain, everyone drank it A bowl will warm your body and protect you.

Thunderstorms generally don’t last long. After a burst of heavy rain, the rain gradually stops. After dinner, it has completely stopped. The yard is filled with a strong smell of mud. Answer fell down.

February [-] was considered a big day in ancient times. Mrs. Zhou was busy in the kitchen until late in order to prepare for tomorrow's food and sacrifices. Zhang Yun wanted to help, but she refused. Thrust out of the kitchen.

Zhang Yun couldn't help, so he went back to the house, took a rest after washing, and fell asleep in a daze after a while.After sleeping for an unknown amount of time, there seemed to be bright lights dancing in front of her eyes, and she felt someone gently pulling her hand, and she gradually woke up.

When she opened her eyes, she saw the oil lamp beside the kang, the flames were flickering slightly, Mrs. Zhou was sitting on the side of the kang, putting her hands on her legs, and putting things on her hands.

"Mother." Zhang Yun called softly, and Zhou realized that she was awake, and hurriedly said: "It's okay, you go to sleep, I'll go out when I'm done."

"What is this for?" Half of Zhou's body blocked her view, and Zhang Yun murmured as she couldn't see what she was doing.

Mrs. Zhou didn't reply right away, and after covering her hands, she released her hands. Zhang Yun held her hands in front of her eyes, and saw that her hands were covered with a piece of cloth cover, covering her wound tightly. .

"Put this on, it can block some water, and the wound should not get wet." Zhou said, she stuffed her hands into the quilt, tucked the quilt on both sides, and then stood up.

"Mother, it's going to be very late, you can do it tomorrow, you don't have to stay up all night so hard." Zhang Yun felt a little distressed, thinking that his mother had already been busy in the kitchen for half the night, and he had to sew this for her all night. It's been too much work.

Mrs. Zhou smiled slightly, "Silly girl, you forgot that tomorrow is February [-], you are not allowed to touch needles all day." As she spoke, she reached for the lamp and said softly, "Okay, don't talk Come on, go to bed early, mother is gone."

Rudou's light slowly moved to the door, Zhou opened the door and went out, the door was closed, the room was shrouded in darkness, Zhang Yun opened his eyes, stared blankly at the door for a long time, then closed his eyes and fell asleep.

The next morning, the whole family got up early in the morning, according to the custom, tapped on the beams of the house with a long pole to wake up the dragon, commonly known as knocking on the dragon's head. At that time, many people in the village were already picking mugwort leaves.

Zhang Yun ran to the pond, pulled out some water candles that had grown out, and came back to pick out the stems, and asked Zhou to fry them. On February [-], every household had to spread pancakes early in the morning. Zhang Yun looked at Zhou. Spreading pancakes, I found that they are similar to modern spring pancakes, and they have to be filled with ingredients, so I went out to pull out water candles and came back, fried cattail vegetables to wrap them in pancakes.

The ingredients for the pancakes are more than that. Last night, Mrs. Zhou prepared the ingredients for the pancakes, spread out some eggs, fried some vermicelli, shredded bacon, and the leftovers from the day when the pigsty was built last time. The roe deer leg meat was marinated by the Zhou family, and a little bit was cut yesterday, shredded and fried, and with the stir-fried cattail vegetables, the pancakes were already full of ingredients.

After Zhang Yun pulled out the water candles and came back, he nestled in the kitchen. Although washing and washing could not help, it was no problem to light the fire and so on.While stuffing thatch and firewood into the stove, he watched Zhou’s spread out thin pancakes. According to the village, this is called dragon scales. As the saying goes, on February [-], the dragon raises its head. This is the dragon’s festival, so every February [-] Today's food has to be related to the dragon.

When Zhang Youqing, Zhang Zhang, and Zhang Xing came back, they brought a large handful of wild leeks with them in addition to mugwort leaves, and gave them to Mrs. Zhou to fry and wrap them in dragon scales.

Mrs. Zhou moved quickly, and spread out a lot of pancakes in a short while, enough to fill up a family of old snacks, and then wrapped each pancake with various ingredients, rolled them up and placed them on a plate, and waited for them to be rolled up. Finally, pick out the bean paste and dilute it with hot water and mix it thoroughly, then you can dip it and eat it.

"Father, the dragon scales are ready, let them wash and eat." After the dragon scales were wrapped and placed on a plate, Mrs. Zhou carried them to the main room, and shouted with a smile after leaving the kitchen.

As soon as everyone heard that it was ready to eat, they all stopped what they were doing, went into the kitchen to wash their hands, and then went to sit down in the main room, and the whole family gathered around to eat.

The bread in the dragon scales is full of ingredients, dipped in the salty sauce, and bites into the mouth, it tastes very rich. Zhang Xing, a glutton, yelled while eating: "Mother, there are so many ingredients this year, it is more delicious than previous years." There are too many." Muttering in his mouth, he didn't have time to spare his hands, he took the dragon scale and stuffed it into his mouth, the corners of his mouth were full of sauce.

"Look at your food, slow down, no one will grab it from you." Mrs. Zhou ordered with a smile, and then said: "When the food is ready, after worshiping the ancestors and the land, go to Uncle Siliang's house and let Shuan Zi eat it." Mother will shave your head, and then run out to play after the shave is finished, don't delay the business, you know."

"Understood mother, which year did I miss this matter? If you don't tell me, my aunt will come and call me after shaving Shuanzi's head. It doesn't happen every year." Zhang Xing bit his dragon scale with his mouth full, Just a few words back.

"As long as you can, you have to watch the time when you go out to play, don't come back too late." Zhou said with a smile, and turned to Zhang Zhang: "Later, you and Yun'er will go to Uncle Siliang's house to pick him up. Keep an eye on him."

"Hey, mother, I see." Zhang Zhang immediately responded. Zhang Yun, who was listening to them, heard that he could go out to play, so he remembered that February [-] is also a spring day, and every family will go out for spring. Can't help but smile on the face.

Seeing his son and daughter laughing at Yan Yan, Zhou's smile became even bigger, and he said after a while: "Father, how is the wormwood smoked? The corners of the wall and the bottom of the kang should also be smoked carefully. This will kill the bugs."

"I haven't smoked it yet. Don't worry, I will smoke it carefully inside and out." Zhang Youqing replied with a smile. After hearing this, Mrs. Zhou nodded with satisfaction.

The whole family chatted and laughed, and soon the whole set of dragon scales was eaten. After Zhou cleaned up, the family had to prepare to worship the ancestors and the land.

(End of this chapter)