Farmhouse Pastoral Notes

Chapter 36
After the Dragon Boat Festival, Yang Chunjun and Yang Chunming went to the town to study again, and when they came back, it would be a July holiday. In ancient times, reading was not open all year round, like some special holidays, or when the farming season was busy. There is a holiday, and there will be more than a month of holiday during the Chinese New Year and the hot summer, which is similar to the modern winter and summer holidays.

Time is moving forward unhurriedly, inadvertently, the warm May has passed, and the scorching sun is ushering in June.

The Yang family has recently made some small fortunes because of the soup dumpling business, and the hot soup dumpling business has even been picked up by a restaurant in the town. Mrs. Yang and Li are such a shrewd person. Hearing about this He went to the town single-handedly, had a good chat with the shopkeeper of the restaurant, and immediately settled the deal. Except on certain special festivals, the Yang family will send [-] meat buns to the town every day. Five cents is calculated in three, and it is settled once a day. Although it is troublesome to get up early every day to chop stuffed buns, the income of money still makes Yang and Li happy. Of course, Gu’s smile has increased recently Quite a lot. Obviously, the better the business of soup dumpling, the more money their big house gets.

Because Mrs. Yuan and Mrs. Yang and Mrs. Li have made it clear, they didn't get a penny for the soup dumpling business. When they didn't get any money, Mrs. Yuan and Mrs. Yang Weibo were not ordered to work, let alone The two children in the second room are now playing like crazy every day, whether they go into the water to catch fish or go up the mountain to dig medicine.Although Yuan Shi felt a little regretful about the soup bag business, but when she thought of the way her sister-in-law rubbed her hands every night, the pity in her heart disappeared. She was only full of luck that she still had the tea business.

Yuan Shi is now wholeheartedly feeding her tea leaves, hoping that these tea leaves can realize Yuan Shi's wish to change houses. Yang Weibo has gone to work in the town because of nothing at home recently, and Chunqiu is pulling the tiger When he is free, he goes up the mountain to dig Chinese herbal medicines, and the family is very busy.

The rice seedlings planted in mid-April are growing vigorously in the rice fields. In June, the rice seedlings are growing rapidly. In order to make this year’s rice more grain and exchange for more money, this is the right time It is a good time to remove seedlings of rice. The purpose is to remove some aquatic plants and other weeds around the rice to prevent nutrients from being absorbed by other weeds.In ancient times, there were no herbicides, and there was no way to weed weeds by machine, only by hand, so Chunqiu followed the Yang family's large army to weed the seedlings today.

Except for old man Yang who went to deliver the buns this morning, who was still at home to catch up on sleep, including her father who came back from part-time jobs, of course, the main labor force is a few adults, and the rest of the children can't even tell the grass. Well, Mrs. Yang and Li can't let them work. If they accidentally pull out the good rice seedlings, Mrs. Yang and Li's heart will die.

Because the rice fields are full of water, and in ancient times, the rice fields were reclaimed around the river for the convenience of water storage. Now it is the harvest season, whether it is in the river or in the fields, there are small fish fry everywhere.

Mrs. Yang and Li made them come here for a simpler purpose, which is to catch all the small fish fry in the rice fields, and then take them home and chop them up to feed chickens and ducks.

Chunqiu each carried a bucket, and under Yang Li's instructions, "Be careful not to step on the rice seedlings and be careful of leeches", they entered the water with arrogance.

The weather in June is not comparable to that in April. The water temperature alone is different. While feeling the comfortable water temperature under his feet, Chunqiu lowered his head and looked for fry seriously.

Different from the flakes of fry that were the size of a little finger in April, it has been almost two months now, and the fry have grown to the size of a palm in spring and autumn, and they look white in the sun, and these fish are still stupid and slow to move. Chunqiu stretched out his arms and hugged one, and then threw it into the bucket beside him, Chunqiu lowered his waist to catch the fish, just like that, and the bucket was already half full in the middle of the morning.

"Qiu'er, come up quickly, it's time to go home for dinner." After Yuan's work, she was standing on the bank and calling to her daughter who was still busy in the field.

"Hey, I'll be right back," Chunqiu replied crisply, then threw the last fish in his hand into the bucket, picked up the bucket and walked back, and bent it with his empty hands. In the morning, after the waist felt like the blood was flowing, Chunqiu finally relaxed her muscles and bones. Her small body really couldn't bear such a heavy workload.

"Look at your pretty face, wipe it off quickly, oh, are you tired, why did you catch so many?" Yuan Shi reached out to take the bucket in Chunqiu's hand, and handed the handkerchief to her face covered in water The little girl, although she said disgusting words, her eyes were extraordinarily gentle, looking at Chunqiu as if she had melted water.

"Hey, mother~, I'm back, I'm not tired at all, really." Chunqiu wiped his face with a handkerchief, and stuck out his tongue guiltily at Yuan's distressed eyes, but still couldn't Let her mother know that her back hurts, otherwise, according to her mother's temperament, she will definitely not be allowed to go to the field in the afternoon.

"Hmph, you little heartless, mother loves you so much, look at the others, but they have all gone home, and you are the only one who is foolish enough to arrest you, go home quickly, the meal is ready" Yuan looked at her daughter That silly smile made him a little angry, and he poked Chunqiu's small forehead with his hand, this worry-free little girl.

"Oh, I'm really gone, where's Huzi?" Chunqiu realized after hearing her mother Yuan's words, looked back at the empty rice fields, and asked belatedly.

Yuan said angrily, "I have already gone back, my son is not as stupid as you, I guess he is sitting at home with your father for dinner now."

"Then let's go, mother~, I'm hungry." After hearing this, Chunqiu stretched out his hand to grab Yuan Shi's clothes cuff, his eyes were full of anxiety, she was starving, but everyone else went home to eat.

"Pfft..." Yuan Shi was still stern-faced before, but when she saw her anxious little face, she was happy all of a sudden, stretched out her hand to pinch her little face, and said with a sneer, "You know you're hungry, don't you?" Mother thought that you were planning to skip meals, but now you have realized it? Let’s leave quickly, otherwise, what will you do if there is no food at home?"

"Yeah, let's go, let's go" Chunqiu nodded impatiently, and then stretched out his hand to pull Yuan Shi to rush home anxiously.

"Oh, take it easy." Yuan shi held the bucket in one hand and held her daughter in the other, telling her not to fall.

Chunqiu didn't care about these things, he just stretched out his hand to hold Yuan Shi and walked forward, only thinking about eating.

When the two arrived home, others had already eaten, so Yuan just threw the bucket in his hand in the yard and ignored him. He stretched out his hand to pull Chunqiu aside, and the two of them washed their faces with the basin by the well before going into the house. lobby.

"The second daughter-in-law is back? Hurry up and sit down to eat." Yang and Li were eating, when they saw Yuan walking in with Chunqiu, they said something and then continued to eat.

"Hey, mother, don't worry about us," Yuan Shi replied, and then put two bowls of water and rice from a wooden basin not far away and put them next to Chunqiu and Chunqiu. When Chunqiu was sitting, Yang Lishi also handed Chunqiu a Salted duck eggs.

Chunqiu took it over without even thinking about it, knocked it along the table twice, and then opened it. The duck egg was already salty, and it was marinated by Yang Lishi to make oil. Looking at the golden duck egg yolk, Chunqiu suddenly had a big appetite Zeng, served with a salted duck egg, and ate two large bowls of watery rice.

"It's a quarter of noon. Let's set off in the afternoon. Let's all go back to the house and rest now." Old man Yang finished his meal, told the time to go out in the afternoon, and went back to the room with Mrs. Yang and Li.

Chunqiu, who just finished eating and wanted to digest, said that she didn't want to go back to sleep now, so she sneaked out again after Yuan Shi returned to the room.

I planned to go and see the fish I caught, but I took two steps without thinking, and was slapped hard from behind. Chunqiu was a little dazed when he was photographed, and before he turned back suddenly, his tone was a little impatient, "Two Sister, what are you doing? Why didn’t you sleep?” After seeing the appearance clearly, he relaxed his frowning eyebrows. It turned out to be Chunhua. Why does her second sister have a bad face? Could it be that she was scolded by her aunt again?

"Hmph, grandma is so eccentric, I didn't even give the duck eggs to eat." Chunhua looked at Chunqiu, regardless of 21, and began to complain when she came up.

This made Chunqiu a little confused: duck eggs? ?Could it be the one handed to me?

"It's the one for you. You're still pretending to be stupid. You haven't given me the little stone for a long time." Chunhua pouted and said unhappily.

"Uh uh...Second sister, I don't know about this either." I thought you all had them, Chunqiu touched the tip of her nose in embarrassment, she was so hungry at the time that she didn't notice the gazes around her.

"Well, it's actually not your fault, but I just want to eat a bite of duck eggs." Chunhua looked at Chunqiu, and still stated her purpose. She just wanted to have a bite. Who made her third sister eat it so delicious? .

"Okay, I will definitely save you a bite next time." Chunqiu could only take over Chunhua's words.

"That's fine, don't forget, I won't be angry anymore." Chunhua nodded magnanimously, and then seemed to have discovered something, staring at Chunqiu with a straight face, "Why are you here? Aren't you going to sleep?"

"..." Didn't you run out yourself?Chunqiu roared in his heart.

"Go and see the fry we caught," Chunqiu said helplessly, how could she sleep when she was full.

"Huh?" Chunhua seemed to have heard something terrible, her eyes suddenly lit up, staring at Chunqiu felt uncomfortable.

"Third sister, have you thought of something delicious? Tell me about it, I won't say it." Chunhua showed a meaningful expression, an expression of let's go eat together, making Chunqiu really happy. Speechless!Why does her second sister always think that she can cook delicious food! !

Chunhua didn't know Chunqiu's entanglement in her heart, she just rejoiced that she came out in time, the food made by her third sister was really delicious, there must be something delicious this time.

"...Second sister, let's go and have a look first." Chunqiu said with difficulty against her second sister's expectant eyes.She'd better check what kind of fish they are first, in fact, fried small yellow croaker is still good, at this moment Chunqiu's mind is also thinking about eating.

"Then let's go." Chunhua took Chunqiu's hand and ran over quickly.

Huzi and the others caught the fry and put them next to the well. The two of them were lying next to the bucket, watching carefully. To be precise, Chunqiu was observing carefully, and Chunhua was just watching Chunqiu.

Chunqiu kept shaking his head while watching, most of the fish here are carp, there are also some grass carp and silver carp, there is nothing suitable for frying, what should we do?Is the second sister still waiting?
Chunhua looked at Chunqiu's inscrutable look, and felt even more excited. Whenever Sanmei looked like this, she would definitely be able to think of delicious food.She looked forward to it even more.

If Chunqiu knew, he could only say that this was really a beautiful misunderstanding.

Looking at it like this is not going to work, Chunqiu thought about it in his heart, and after making up his mind, he came up with a good idea.

Chunqiu looked up and looked around the yard, and successfully broke off a small branch from a branch beside him. After cleaning the leaves on the branch, he put it into the bucket and turned it up and down. Chunqiu, who was not expecting anything, suddenly Surprised by what I found.

Yo ha!It doesn't matter if you turn it over this time, you really found something good, Chunqiu's eyes are fixed on the black and slippery thing, isn't this a good material for deep frying!I suddenly had an idea in my heart.

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