The heroine of Kuai Chuan Zhi's family only farms

Chapter 1346 [1345] The magical effect of plant ash (4100)

On the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, Ding Wei ate the first piece of meat in her life, a thin piece of lean meat, because her mother sold all the good meat, so the rest was lean meat that people didn't want, but Ding Wei My favorite food is lean meat. Unfortunately, my mother sliced ​​it too thin. The skill of the knife is comparable to that of a chef in Lanzhou beef noodles. , probably because of the lack of oil and water in this era.

What Zhao Qingqing cooks is boiled white meat. The gravy is used for noodles. The meat is cut into thin slices and eaten with garlic vinegar and soy sauce. Although Ding Wei only ate one piece, the taste left her with endless aftertaste.

For a large family, each person may only have two or three slices of meat in their mouths, but these two or three slices of meat have already made the children very happy.

It can't be said that Zhao Qingqing is stingy. The main thing is that the meat will be eaten until the end of the first month. It has been marinated with a large amount of salt that is specially marinated. It is already very good to cut a little bit every day. Blood clots should be eaten before the year, because they can't be kept for too long, if it's not for the cold weather, I'm afraid they won't be able to keep them!
Pig blood clots are stewed with radish, cabbage and tofu when stewed, and lard residue is used to make dumplings and buns. This year, my mother did not put new meat in the stuffing, and all the buns and dumplings are made of oil residue. , Fresh meat is boiled, used for frying or eaten as noodles, so that at least some meat can be seen every day.

Now Ding Wei is also eating more and more, mother's breast milk has become an appetizer instead, and she will follow the normal three meals, they drink thin, she can have a few mouthfuls of thick ones, eggs when she was young One, starting from the twelfth lunar month, has become one every two days, because my mother thinks that she is getting older, and her nutrition can be completely absorbed by whole grains and vegetables. Eggs can be saved as much as possible. Each one costs a dime, and the exchange is for daily chewing. very precious.

It's very cold, and the faces of her brothers and sisters all have obvious rural red. Although she didn't look in the mirror, she could touch her slightly rough face and know what it looked like without looking. It's a pity that there is no space in this life to help her recuperate her body , if the skin is rough, let it be rough, and then take good care of it when she grows up.

Everyone in the family likes to kiss her, the only thing she resists is the love from her father, because the stubble is too hard, it always irritates her, so as soon as her father's face is close to her, she stretches out her little hand to beat her, making him It's extremely embarrassing, but even so, as long as I have time, I like to go out with her in my arms.

Zhao's mother has said more than once that she is the only one who enjoys the serious father's love for these children.

But after all, it’s a child, she still feels embarrassed to wet the bed at the beginning, but after a long time, she can face it calmly, after all, she is not a god, and she will not be able to control herself anytime, anywhere under one year old, and occasionally urinate on the bed The clothes are really normal, even the older brothers don't think she smells bad because of this, but feel that compared to other children, although his sister's clothes are not good-looking, but the clothes are kept clean and smell good, a little No urine smell at all.

On the night of the New Year's Eve, my parents used the white flour and cornmeal they had saved for a long time to make slightly yellowed dumplings. This was the thinnest meal she had eaten in so long since she had been here, and it could be called first-class.

On New Year's Eve in the middle of Liu's [-]s, it was already very luxurious to eat a bowl of fine noodle dumplings stuffed with lard residue and radish. It was served with lotus root bought by my father, two cold dishes of pork skin jelly, and cabbage stewed with vermicelli and pork. Blood and tofu cubes, as well as a little bit of shredded pork, this is the best New Year's Eve dinner in their family all year round.

Ding Wei ate a dumpling and a few pieces of tofu, and at the end drank half a bowl of dumpling soup, and burped with great enjoyment. She wore the red padded jacket that her cousin knocked out, and took turns in the arms of her parents and brothers like a lucky baby. She ate it first, so my father hugged it while my mother ate, and the cycle went to the end, and it fell into the little brother's arms.

Because firecrackers are very expensive, my father only bought four small hanging firecrackers, each with a hundred rings.

On New Year's Eve, on the first day of the new year, on the fifth day of the fifth day of the new year, and on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the four hangings are arranged just right.

All this added up cost Dad four dollars, and if it wasn’t necessary for Chinese New Year, he probably wouldn’t buy it.

In their village as big as my mother, there are almost no bound feet, but almost all of them were bound in my grandma's generation. Every time I see them walking, I feel distressed.

I can't do heavy work, I can only do some light work, so I may only earn [-] work points throughout the year, which is not easy.

On New Year’s Eve, I watched the New Year’s Eve with my family. In the evening, my parents gave each of them ten cents of New Year’s money. She touched the ten cents and stuffed them into the gap of the red rope around her waist. It is said that this is for pressing the waist, which has a better meaning, but she also knows that by tomorrow morning, the money will definitely return to her mother.

Rural people don’t have much to do after dark, and it’s expensive to light oil lamps, and you can’t see your fingers if you go out in the dark, so basically keep the New Year’s Eve until [-] or [-] o’clock (the latest), and then go back to sleep. In later generations, staying up all night is common.

Although no one has bought clothes this year, the clothes of the brothers and sisters of the aunts and aunts are all sent here. Picking and picking can make new clothes for each child, and the brothers don’t compare. , As long as the mother washes it clean and there are no patches, they are all happy to put it on.

Ding Wei was wearing a red floral padded jacket, a red hat, red sheep's head shoes on her feet, and a red scarf around her neck. She was dressed in Chinese red, which made her look more like a lucky baby.

Because my father is the eldest son in the family, after breakfast, uncles and aunts bring their children to pay New Year's greetings. When there are more children, it feels like they are everywhere, and Ding Wei's head is covered with chattering noises, but mother still expects her to earn money. Their family There are many children, and they must have a certain advantage in terms of New Year's money.

Uncles and aunts gave them first, five cents per person, not much, which means.

Parents are real people. There are five children in their family. The second uncle’s family now has two sons, two daughters and four children in the aunt’s womb. The third uncle’s family has only three children, so parents are giving them every day. After each child gave five cents, each gave a candy.

Don't underestimate this candy, it is a fruit candy with a candy wrapper, colorful candy wrappers, it is rare to see, this is a candy that my father traded for cigarettes, it is very rare, very precious, since I took it home until now, my family The child is not willing to eat one yet, but now one is distributed to each of the children of the second uncle and third uncle's family. After such a distribution, how can the second aunt and third aunt not want it?
Everyone knows how to calculate, especially when it comes to money. Their family has a better life than the two brothers. If they take advantage of the new year's money, they will definitely feel uncomfortable.

But the parents didn’t keep anyone for dinner. It’s very common for the whole family to go to dinner with one gift and two gifts in this day and age, but it’s the first day of the Lunar New Year, and the family is separated, so there’s no need to eat together. , there are so many people, how do you cook for a dozen people?It's scary to think about it.

Therefore, anyone who is acquainted with each other will leave after a New Year's greeting.

Obviously, the second and third uncles didn't plan to stay for dinner. Their Ding family is also a big family in the village. In addition to their house, there are also uncles, so after finishing here, they went to the uncle in a mighty way. , Third Master, Fourth Master, and Fifth Master's house, my mother is still saying that the three aunts and grandma's will wait until the fourth and fifth day of the new year.

This family has more relatives when it gets older, because in addition to the relatives on the father's side, there are also relatives on the mother's side, what kind of aunts, uncles, and just counting the elder brother there, she feels that these relatives may be transferred to the first month. The tenth day may not be able to complete the series.

As a child who was only born last year, she is popular everywhere this year. When she wants to be hugged and wants to kiss, she makes a voice of resistance, which arouses laughter from relatives and friends. They all praise this girl for being powerful and smart. She must be a big girl when she grows up. iron maiden.

After all, she is only eight or nine months old and lacks energy. Every time she visits relatives, she falls asleep at least on the way back.

There is no bicycle in the family, the population is large, and there is a baby in the arms, so the father is pulling the shelf car, and the mother is holding him and sitting in the car with the third and fourth brothers. The eldest brother and the second brother are pushing behind. The family is mighty Carrying the gifts to the relatives' homes on both sides, there must be lunch, but the gifts they carry will not make people feel unhappy.

In terms of dealing with the world, Ding Wei feels that the parents are cautious and don't fall into the trap of others. It's good, but some relatives can't take it seriously, otherwise they will push their noses.

There are quite a few of the best among these seven aunts and eight aunts. Sitting together is all kinds of comparisons, and it is really no different from later generations.

Comparing sons and daughters, daughters-in-law, children, and other men are more capable, and if someone's in-laws are not capable, it is simply a gathering place for gossip, and she yawned when she heard it.

Finally, on the twelfth day of the first lunar month, all the relatives were finished, and my parents were so tired that they lay flat at home for two days before they felt that they had changed their energy.

When the Lantern Festival came on the 15th day of the first lunar month, my father took them to the town to watch movies and buy Lantern Festival.

Movies in this day and age are all open-air movies. Who likes to show a movie at night when doing business? Good guy, as soon as you hear that someone is showing a movie, it will spread to several surrounding villages a few days in advance. The whole road was full of people, and the trees on the roof were also full of children, which was very spectacular.

Because my parents also wanted to watch it, so I had to take her with me. She has a good temper and doesn't make trouble. Whoever saw it would praise her. But this kind of night is too hard, sitting there next to each other, not to mention the taste, It's still cold, so sometimes she doesn't seem so considerate. Even if she hasn't finished the movie, she still provokes her mother to leave the scene quickly. The happiest moment is when she is lying on her own bed.

But there is another thing that makes her very uncomfortable, that is, since the beginning of winter, her mother only takes a bath once a month, and parents like them who take their children to take a bath are the most unpopular in the bathhouse, but who doesn't The child basically takes the child to the bath with a basin. The mother and the aunts go to the bath every time, and there is no charge or time limit for a bath ticket of [-] cents.

It’s not bad for them to wash it once a month. Some people don’t wash it all winter. They have to wait until spring to wash it at home. This can save more than one yuan. After all, there are many families and children. That dime, added together, is really not a small expense.

My mother is a woman, naturally agile, and I usually take a bath at home. This is the year when I want to celebrate the new year cleanly, so I think this money must not be saved, so I let my father take four older brothers and my mother took her. , the whole family went to the bathhouse together.

In the public bathrooms of this era, there is a big pool in the middle and showers around it. Whenever my mother wants to take a bath in the big pool, she will cry, crying for her life, but as soon as she comes to her, stand in the shower Below, she kept silent and sat in the basin to play with the water.

It turned out that she didn't soak in the big pool, and took turns washing it with the two aunts in the shower.

As someone who has been there, naturally she does not allow her family members to take a bath in that public bathhouse. Sitting in it like a dumpling made her feel sick.

So she generously used what she was good at to prevent the possibility of her mother being polluted.

She likes to take a bath, but in this era, there is no shampoo, no bath towel, no bath milk, and even soap. There is only a piece of extremely precious pig pancreas soap. After rubbing her body, she rubs her hair. The body is easier to rub dust, and the hair can be washed very clean.

This is the only part of her house, and her father and brothers are not eligible to use it. This is her and mother's exclusive supplies, including the cream that is put on the face after taking a bath. Not willing to pay five cents for clam oil.

The cream is [-] cents a box, and you have to buy it in about two or three months. In winter, when it is cold, you can finish it in two months. This is still a case of saving.

My mother is not a woman who likes to dress up. She only uses oil after autumn and before spring, and she doesn’t use it at other times, because it’s too expensive, so she can’t bear it.

She often saw her mother washing clothes and hair with plant ashes. There is an acacia tree in the village, but there are so many people in the village and it belongs to the collective property of the village. I only use it when I go to the bathhouse to take a bath. Usually at home, if I really need to clean anything, I still use the ash from the firepit.

So Ding Wei sometimes feels that she is living in ancient times, in the era of Baihe.

Because my mother is not willing to buy toilet paper, she is still using the menstrual belt sewn with plant ash and cloth strips during her menstrual period. If you say this thing is not clean, it’s not that she has never used it. As long as she does a good job of disinfection, it will be fine, and my mother seems to know For this aspect of care, at least the cleaned cloth strips will be sterilized with a pig food iron pan, and they will be exposed to the sun. This is as hygienic as possible under the current conditions.

After all, not everyone can afford toilet paper that costs a few cents a knife, and for inferior toilet paper that costs a few cents a knife, it is better to use plant ash, at least plant ash has the effect of disinfection and sterilization.

(End of this chapter)