Reborn Country Overlord

Chapter 7 Your child can cook!
Dogs in the countryside are raised casually to watch the house, and if there is something delicious, they will be given a few bones or something. If there is no such thing, these dogs will eat the same thing as pigs.Sometimes these dogs are not fed because the owner forgot something, they are so hungry that they even eat shit.

That's why there is such a saying that "a dog can't change its nature". In fact, if the dog is not very hungry, it is estimated that the dog will not eat that thing.

Zhang Tao’s dog is called Black Leopard, which is as popular as Saihu or something. If you go to a few villages and see yellow dogs with spots and black dogs, they are called Saihu or Black Leopard. The ones under it are called yellow lions and leopards, anyway, they are all names of ferocious beasts.

This kind of name is simple, and it sounds quite majestic. As for whether the dog itself is strong enough, it doesn't matter that much, just follow the dog owner's preference.

However, Zhang Tao's black panther is different from other dogs. This dog is taller than ordinary dogs and fights fiercely. The dogs in the nearby villages are no match.More importantly, this dog recognizes people and never eats outside or bites people.

The only bad thing is that the male dog will run around when it comes to spring, and it can't be closed at that time.After Zhang Tao got some food for the black panther, he went to fetch water from the well at the entrance of the village with a bucket in both hands.

At this time, it was not popular in rural areas to dig wells and install hand-operated water presses or water pumps. All the people in the village got their domestic water from the well at the entrance of the village.

Every day, I carry buckets to fetch water, and then use a large tank to fill it up as a daily water supply for the family. This kind of work is usually done by the children in the family in turn, unless the adults do not go out to do things or when the weather is bad. If you are worried about something wrong with your child, you will pick it yourself.

Zhang Tao carried water back and forth a few times, not only filling up his own water tank, but also filling up his grandfather's. Although the two families were separated, Zhang Tao's grandfather was also getting old. It is also inconvenient to go out to fetch water.

And Zhang Tao didn't need to pick it up and just used his hands to exercise the strength of his hands. Zhang Tao didn't know how effective it would be.

But isn't that how the monks in the Shaolin Temple in the movie exercise?That's how movies are played!You must know that the New Year pictures of that movie can still be seen on the walls of many families.

Moreover, there are no sports facilities in the countryside for Zhang Tao to exercise, so he used these old-fashioned methods. Anyway, he can walk half a mile without resting while holding a bucket of water in both hands.

After filling all the water tanks of the two houses, the pig food on the stove was just hot at this time. After the black leopard finished eating its own food, it probably went there to keep warm. Animals are also afraid of the cold in this weather.

Zhang Tao put down the bucket, stirred the pig food in the cauldron, and then added some rice bran into it—the feed at this time was still a high-end stuff, although there were advertisements for a single flower of feed everywhere, but most people raise pigs That stuff is rarely used.

If you use it, you only put a little bit, it is very precious.Then Zhang Tao mixed some and put it aside, and brought all the chickens and ducks at home, which were for the chickens and ducks to eat.

When the chickens and ducks started to eat, he carried a wooden bucket to fill a large bucket of pig food, and then mentioned it to the pigsty.His family has two pigs, and they will be slaughtered in a while, just in time for the Chinese New Year.

In addition to being able to keep some pork for the New Year, the money from killing the pigs can also lead to a good New Year.This is probably a common phenomenon in the rural areas of southern Shonen at this time. If the pigs are raised well in one year, two batches of pigs can be raised, and one batch can be killed in half a year.

The ones like Zhang Tao’s are well managed, just in time for the children to start school in the spring of next year, so you don’t have to worry about tuition fees by then.It’s just that everyone would never have imagined that one pig can still enable three children to study at this time, but in a few years, one pig will not be enough for one child to study.

Zhang Tao doesn't know much about other places. At this time when they are here, the nine-year compulsory system is loudly shouted, and the tuition fee is also raised very loudly.Since Zhang Tao was in the third grade of elementary school, the tuition fee has been doubled almost every semester.

This has also led to more and more children dropping out of school in rural areas during this period. More and more children drop out of school and go out to work because their families cannot afford the tuition fees. It seems that the more obliged, the more people drop out of school.

After feeding the pigs, Zhang Tao went back to the house. Zhang Yan drove all the chickens and ducks that had eaten food back to their nests, and then blocked the entrance of the chicken coop with a wooden board.Seeing Zhang Tao came back, Zhang Yan said with a smile, "Second Brother, I have locked up the chickens and ducks. I have counted them, and they are all there. Both hands are full."

The corners of Zhang Tao's mouth twitched after hearing this, and then he touched Zhang Yan's head with a smile and praised her.At this time, there is no little red flower, and there is no like game, otherwise Zhang Tao would definitely give Zhang Yan a like or stick a little red flower on her forehead.Although there are only ten chickens and ducks in the family, it is not easy for her to fill up all her fingers.

When the two returned to the room together, Zhang Tao was about to boil water for the family to bathe and wash their feet, but found that the large pot on the firewood stove where the pig food had been cooked had been removed, and a pot for boiling water had been placed on it. The water is boiling—his brother Zhang Yong did it.Seeing this, Zhang Tao smiled, but didn't say anything.

Zhang Tao has been in this era for some time. These days, he is basically busy with these things alone. He has never asked his brothers and sisters for help. He just wants to tell them with his actions that they can help his mother with some things. To reduce busyness, try to help mother reduce it, and don't make mother work too hard.

In the previous life, the three brothers and sisters usually took turns to fetch water for the water tank. Now that I think about it, they were really ignorant at that time.Judging from the performance of Zhang Yong and Zhang Yan today, their efforts have been responded to.

At least his brother will take the initiative to heat hot water, and Zhang Yan will shut the chickens and ducks back to the chicken coop, which is a good sign.Sometimes when someone takes the lead in doing certain things, other people will feel embarrassed and follow suit.At least they won't take turns arguing about picking water as before.

The sky outside is getting darker and darker. The winter in southern Shonan gets dark very early, around six o'clock.At this time, watches and alarm clocks were rarely seen in rural areas, and only a few people who got rich first and civil servants had them, so ordinary people could not grasp the specific time.

At this time, a young man passing by the door screamed with his broken voice, "I used to ask endlessly when you will come with me, but you always laugh at me and have nothing..."

Zhang Tao really wanted to complain about this voice—it was so ugly.But as soon as he heard the voice, he knew that it was almost six o'clock. After a short rest, he got up and went to the kitchen, and then started cooking.

The singer was a young man in the village. He worked in a nearby coal mine. During the day shift, he often wore a hard hat and hung a bunch of keys and knives on his upturned ass. Things were clinking.

Every time they jingle and pass by Zhang Tao's house, the time is usually almost six o'clock.The time for commuting to and from get off work in the mine is very accurate. They get off work at five o'clock during the day shift, and it is usually close to six o'clock after taking a shower in the mine and then going to the village.

And when this guy enters the village, he always shouts pop songs in two voices, so people who don't have a clock basically use this guy's voice in two voices as a time reference.

People in southern Shonan eat spicy food, even if they stir-fry green vegetables with chili peppers. At this time, the living standard in rural areas is not as high as that of later generations. Meat can be eaten at meals. Zhang Tao’s family’s dinner today is a roll Heart of cabbage and white rice.

Zhang Tao washed the cabbage first, and then cut it into slices. At this time, the oil in the pot was hot, and he put the chopped vegetable stems and dried peppers cut into pieces on the chopping board into the pot and started frying.

At this time, Zhang Yan followed Zhang Tao and watched Zhang Tao busy, and swallowed continuously as she smelled the aroma in the kitchen. She felt that the dishes made by her second brother were much more delicious than those made by her mother.

After all the food was cooked, Zhang Tao's mother had already returned from the outside. She didn't come back alone, she should have come back from the field with a woman from the village.The two were chatting all the way, and the other woman was talking about whose children were more sensible.

Every morning when I go to school, I heat up the leftovers and go to school by myself. I never let the adults in the family get up early to cook for them. The adults in the family can sleep more in the morning.Zhang Tao's mother's name is Zhang Cuihua, a very common name for a rural woman. At this moment, after hearing what the woman around her said, she just smiled and didn't agree.

The woman in the village thought that Zhang Cuihua was in a bad mood because she felt that no one in her family was sensible, so she couldn't help but take out her own children, saying that her children were not sensible and had to get up early every day to prepare food for them. .

The two chatted like this, and when they got close to the house, they smelled the smell of food. The woman in the village thought it was the smell of someone else's home cooking, and said with a smile that she was hungry when she smelled the smell.

However, when she and Zhang Cuihua entered the room, they found that the scene in front of them was even more shocking than that sensible child who would heat up his own food and eat something to go to school.She saw that Zhang Tao was clearing up the chopping board, obviously he had just finished cooking, as she could tell by looking at the steaming food on the table.

The woman was stunned for a moment and said enviously, "Your children are more sensible, and they can cook and stir-fry by themselves. You are lucky. You will have ready-made hot dishes and rice when you get home. The two bears in our family Baby, I guess it will still wait for my mother to go back and cook for them, even the child's father will only wait at home to eat ready-made, and will not help."

(End of this chapter)