Smallholder Farming Daily

Chapter 1

In the evening, smoke rises from the Taohua village at the bottom of the mountain.

Tian Shiliu was busy cooking the family's meals in the kitchen. She rolled up her sleeves and crackled in the pot with a shovel in her hand. People who knew her well knew that she was cooking, and those who didn't know her thought she wanted to cook. It's a waste of money.

It was midsummer, and cooking was a hard job. Pomegranate was sweating profusely, and her sweaty clothes stuck tightly to her back.After frying in the pot for a while, she ran to the stove and stuffed a few handfuls of firewood fiercely. Maybe it was too much and she used too much force, and accidentally extinguished the fire in the stove.

She raised her sleeves to wipe away the sweat, then puffed up her cheeks and blew violently on the stove, causing the thick smoke to fly around in the stove. As soon as she took a breath, the smoke burst out, covering her face and eyes. I can't open it.

She rubbed her eyes for a while, and when she opened them again, tears were streaming down her face, but the fire was already on, so she wiped away her tears and happily went to the stove to shovel out the vegetables in the pot and put them on a plate.

When Pomegranate was pouring rapeseed oil into the pot and preparing to fry another plate of leeks, her mother, Mrs. Lin, came in.

Mrs. Lin glanced at the pot, and immediately yelled, "Oh, what are you doing with so much oil, the oil is enough to fry three dishes! Why did I raise such a stupid girl who can't live, you know This oil is expensive, one catty of oil is the price of five catties of grain!"

Pomegranate pouted and said, "Mother, it's delicious to fry vegetables with more oil."

Lin looked at Shiliu's steamed bun face, then took a look at her figure, and said, "Eat, eat, eat, you just think about eating, you're going to look like our big sow!"

Putting down the hoe on her shoulder, Mrs. Lin hurriedly shoveled up the oil in the pot, and said while shoveling: "If you go to your in-law's house and put so much oil, it's no wonder your mother-in-law doesn't scold you, she will definitely call you a prodigal son them!"

Shiliu laughed when she heard this, and said, "I heard that Qian's family planted two acres of rapeseed, and there is no shortage of oil to eat. Come on, mother, don't shovel anymore, there won't even be a drop of oil in the shoveling pot!" She After saying that, he poured the chopped leeks into the pot.

Lin handed the spatula to Pomegranate, picked up the gourd ladle and scooped half a scoop of water from the water tank to drink, drank it all in one gulp, and then sat under the stove to light the fire.

Shiliu took a peek at her mother, then quickly poured half of the oil her mother shoveled out into the pot, then grinned happily, stirring the vegetables and oil together with a shovel in her hand.

When Lin heard the crackling in the pot, she couldn't help frowning, "Pomegranate, be gentle, don't break the pot. A pot costs 25 yuan. If it becomes a leak, how can our family have the money?" Buy a new one? It will cost three pennies even if it is repaired!"

Pomegranate pouted, and the strength in her hands was a little lighter.

Lin said again: "Do you know why mother told you not to work in the fields from today?"

Shiliu giggled and said, "Mother is afraid that I will get tanned and my hands will be rough. It will not look good as a new wife. Many girls who are about to marry are like this. They don't work in the fields for half a year before they get married."

"Well, it's not too stupid, and it's better than our new piglet. But it's not just for this, mother wants you to practice cooking and cleaning at home on purpose. Working in the fields with your parents is no worse than a man's labor. If you can cook good food and clean up the house, when you go to your in-law's house, your in-laws will not be able to find fault with you." When Lin spoke, she frowned slightly, and she was always worried about Shiliu's future life in her in-law's house.

Pomegranate was a little impatient after hearing this, and said: "Mother, nine out of ten sentences you say these days are never far from your in-law's house, and you spend all day at this in-law's house or that one, as if I'm going to marry into my in-law's house in the next few days. Leaving the cabinet, there is still half a year left."

As soon as Shiliu finished speaking, he heard footsteps outside, and then a middle-aged woman poked her head in, and said with a smile, "Master Tian, ​​you've come back from the field, yo, the pomegranate is cooking."

Seeing that it was the matchmaker from Qianjia Village, Mrs. Lin hurriedly got up and invited the matchmaker into the house, moved her a small stool to sit on, and said, "You are such a rare visitor. I haven't seen you in Taohua Village for a long time. How can you today?" Did you come here because the Qian family has something to tell you to the Tian family?"

The matchmaker slapped her thigh and said, "Isn't that right, the Qian family has something important to discuss with your family."

Lin was slightly taken aback, Shiliu also stopped the spatula in her hand, and both mother and daughter looked at the matchmaker nervously.They really couldn't figure out what was the big deal. Could it be that the Qian family wanted to regret their marriage?Shiliu is already eighteen this year, and finally the wealthy family is willing to come to propose marriage. If the Qian family wants to regret the marriage, Shiliu will be ashamed, and I am afraid that she will never be able to marry again.

Seeing their mother and daughter's expressions, the matchmaker could probably guess what they were afraid of, and immediately smiled and said, "It's a happy event, a great event!" She sniffed as she said, "Oh, the vegetables are burnt!"

Pomegranate came back to her senses, and quickly stirred the pot with a silly smile, as long as it was a happy event.

After hearing this, Mrs. Lin felt relieved, and hurriedly asked: "Is there any big happy event? Isn't the happy event only held in the spring of the next year?"

(End of this chapter)