Farmhouse Pastoral Notes

Chapter 171 Preparations
The sun like the yolk of a duck egg rises from the east, and the sky turns white. Gradually, the sun grows higher and higher, and finally illuminates the entire sky.

From early in the morning, the Yang family village gradually became active, and the Yang family mansion also became lively.

Yesterday Yuan Shi was busy with her tea and had a few days free to go up the mountain with Chunqiu and the others to pick burr balls.

Gloves, sickles... All kinds of equipment have been prepared long ago. Chunqiu and the others wore cloth shoes and stood in the yard waiting for her mother. When her mother came out with a basket on her shoulders, Chunqiu shouted excitedly, "Let's go!"

Arrogant and high-spirited, with chest up and head up, Chunqiu raised his little head and walked at the front of the team. During the period, when he met villagers in the village, Yuan just smiled and did not explain why they were going to the back mountain to meet the villagers. Looking at their puzzled eyes, Chunqiu walked forward calmly, fearing nothing, the whole mountain belongs to her family.

"Xiu'er, where are you going with Da Mao in your arms?"

Yuan's eyes were sharp, and she saw the young woman walking in front of her with a child wrapped in a quilt.

"It's Sister-in-law Yuan and Second Brother Yang, hehe, I'll take Da Mao and go to Granny Li's house for a while."

Cousin Xiu'er's beautiful female voice came from the front, Chunqiu looked up, and saw the cousin with a lady's bun and a narcissus-colored dress.

At the beginning of August, Cousin Xiu'er successfully gave birth to a boy, weighing 6 catties and 6 taels. Please go over.

In ancient times, such a heavy male baby was considered healthy. You must know that when Chunqiu and Huzi were born, they were not enough to weigh five catties.

After the full moon, although the child does not have a big name, he also has a nickname, called Da Mao.

Now Da Mao has passed for more than a month, and Aunt Xiu'er has also passed her confinement time. When she is free, Aunt Xiu'er will come out for a walk with the baby. Of course it will not be too long, just a few minutes That's all.

"Why did you go to Granny Li's house? Da Mao made trouble again at night?"

Yuan Shi greeted her directly, stood beside Xiu'er, and started talking to her.

After listening to Yuan Shi's words, Xiu'er patted Da Mao on the back lightly, and said in a low voice, "Well, Da Mao has been making noises at night for the past two days. Mother thinks something is wrong, so let me go to Granny Li's house to have a look."

When Chen Xiu'er said this, it was obvious that the pressure was not high, and there was some disapproval on her face, but because of her mother-in-law's face, Chen Xiu'er did not object.

Yuan Shi is someone who has been there, so she naturally understood what Chen Xiuer said. She patted Chen Xiuer's shoulder, and then said with a smile, "It's okay, it's normal for a child to feel restless, and it will be fine in two days. Your mother-in-law is also worried, so go and have a look." It's nothing serious..." When Chunqiu Huzi woke up, Yuan Shi also hugged them if Granny Li was there.

Granny Li is a well-known person in their entire Yangjia Village. How should I put it, she is very similar to the great fairy dancer in later generations, but the old people believe it, especially in the age of ancient mythology, Chen Xiuer's words are meaningless. It's not that she didn't believe it, she just complained casually when she met Yuan Shi.

Yuan shi chatted with Chen Xiuer for a few words, and said a few words of comfort, then watched Chen Xiuer go away. After Chen Xiuer left, Chunqiu secretly glanced at the big hair in the quilt, um, it was still as black as a newborn. Thin, and the skin is still a little dark yellow, but this is also normal. The baby has just been born for one month, because the gallbladder has not been drained, so it has not become white and tender, and it will be fine in a few months.

As for the nonsense that children grow white and tender in a few days that often appear in novels, they are all unbelievable!
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For several days, Chunqiu and his family were busy with chestnuts, except for Huzi, who was studying in the hall. When the yard was full and couldn't fit it, Chunqiu decided to take a day off. The chestnuts that had been dried before were picked up to make room for the unpicked chestnuts on the mountain.

There are two difficult problems in processing chestnuts. One is the problem of the burr shell on the outside of the chestnut. If this is not handled well, it will get stuck into the flesh. The hard shell is not a problem, but the burr shell must be solved first.

In ancient times, there was no shelling machine, and Chunqiu didn’t know how to make a machine. As a last resort, Chunqiu used the most stupid method, manual shelling. First, put a wooden board or something hard on the dried chestnut shell and grunt back and forth until the burr It's almost fallen off, and I'm peeling them off with my hands, and because some chestnut shells are dried in the sun, they fall off with a light pinch, which saves a lot of trouble.

Chunqiu was gone when picking chestnuts, and there was no reason to call it a day. Chunqiu was not there when the chestnuts were picked. With their parents who were resting at home, Chunqiu and the three of them sat in the yard and picked chestnuts for a whole day. There are a lot of chestnuts in the yard, and the hill-like chestnuts in the yard are much less, so I quit work.

"Crack...Crack..." Chunqiu tilted his head and rubbed his shoulders, twisted his wrists, and moved his thighs that had been immobile for a long time, and he came back to life.

"Okay, Qiu'er, go back to the house and have a rest, mother will go to the kitchen to warm up the dishes"

Yuan Shi also finished the activity, and looked at the girl with red hands beside her, feeling a little distressed.

"Well, mother, what shall we eat later?" Chunqiu directly showed a bright smile.

"Let's have lunch," Yuan said directly without thinking, she was also tired all day, and she really didn't have the strength for me to cook.

After hearing this, Chunqiu nodded directly, "Okay"

After Yuan finished speaking, she went straight to the kitchen with her sore shoulders. Chunqiu looked back at Yang Weibo who was sitting on the ground with bared teeth, and shouted, "Father, let's go back to the house."

"Hey, come here" Yang Weibai's honest voice came from the side, Chunqiu waited for her father to get up, and the two went back to the house directly.

I eat it early at night, and the cooked food is also very simple, just heat it up in a pot and eat it.

When Chunqiu was sleeping at night, he told his father about the iron pot. When making sugar-fried chestnuts, you need to put fine sand in the pot. Chunqiu still has to go to the river to find this thing, thinking about tomorrow’s things Quite a few, Chunqiu lay on the kang and fell asleep in a daze...

After a good night's sleep, Chunqiu woke up very comfortable the next day.

Early in the morning, her father, Yang Weibo, dug out a small iron pot for Chunqiu from the warehouse in the backyard of their house. It was left over from the demolition of the east wing. Because of the iron pot, Chunqiu went to the river to dig some sand and came back. .

Then let her father build an open-air stove at the gate of the yard, sit on the iron pot, wash the fine sand dug up and pour it all in, Chunqiu is ready to show his hand.

(End of this chapter)