Hard times have room

Chapter 888 Mosquito Pack

Pauline now has nothing but regrets in her heart. If she had known that after the sun went down, it would be like this in the wild, and it would not be impossible to stay for another night!

Although she experienced this kind of thing three years ago, she was different from her now, and she couldn't remember what kind of thoughts she had when she walked that part of the road, but at this time, she I want to walk more comfortably.

At least, the mosquito bag on her body now makes her very uncomfortable.

In addition, there is her father. She was self-willed and wanted to go to Tongmao Village to see Li Ting, but she did not expect to implicate him. Now he is like her, both of them have swollen faces. It's not good.

They walked non-stop along the way, and finally, the two came to a very familiar section of the road, and saw a stone bridge not far away. At the same time, there were figures shuttling through the fields in the distance. They were villagers who came to catch frogs and eels in the fields at night.

Not long after the second-crop rice was planted, although the roots had taken root, the rice seedlings were still small, so those who caught frogs and eels did not dare to go to the fields easily.

The two walked across the stone bridge quietly, without saying hello to anyone else. In the middle of the night, people are catching frogs, so don't bother them.

Returning to the familiar path, the closer they were to home, the heavier the footsteps of the father and daughter. When they entered the gate of their own courtyard, the two chose to be silent by coincidence, and went straight to the kitchen with a little orange light. Sure enough, Su Hongying was lighting a fire in the kitchen. There was a pot on the fire, and food was being boiled in the pot.

To be precise, she is cooking porridge, because she knows that if Wang Jiandang and Bao Lin are going to come back today, they should arrive home an hour or two after dark, so she will do it during this time I thought about waiting for the two to come back, and seeing that someone at home had already cooked the meal, the two of them would definitely be moved by then.

In fact, it is true, after a long journey, there is nothing more comforting than a bowl of hot porridge.

Of course, if the two of them didn't come back tonight as she wished, then what she cooked at night would be her extra meal tonight and breakfast tomorrow morning. In short, it wouldn't be wasted.

"I'm back." Su Hongying had a bright smile on her lips. During the days when Wang Jiandang and Bao Lin were not at home, she always felt empty in her heart.

When Baolin went to school before, Wang Jiandang went in and out with her every day, went to and from work together, cooked and collected firewood together. At that time, her heart was very stable and she had a place to put it. It was not like these two days. , that heart has been up and down, fortunately, they came back tonight.

"Yeah, we're back."

"The harvest this time is not very big, and the things in the sea are not so cheap, and the prices have increased accordingly. I said, there are no such stupid people."

"Fortunately, this time I mainly went to have a look and find out the situation. In the market, I bought some dried shrimps and dried small fish."

"Keep the dried shrimps for sale, maybe you can earn some money. Let's keep the dried fishes for our own use. After harvesting in summer, you've lost a lot of weight, so you should eat some meat."

"Although our family can't eat pork for the time being, fish is still fine. This time I bought five catties of small dried fish!" Wang Jiandang put down his back basket, happily took out the contents, and showed it to Su Hongying. He is a child who waits for adults to praise and affirm him.

"Okay, okay, I get it, don't show it to me, don't you know what your face looks like now?" Looking at the father and daughter who were bitten by mosquitoes, Su Hongying felt distressed. The kind that hurts just looking at it.

"Forget it, I'll go outside and pick some mint for you guys."

"Snapped"

"Baolin, don't scratch. If you scratch your face, you will regret it. Besides, if you do this, it won't stop the itching!" Su Hongying slapped Pauline away to make room for wanton scratching. hands.

"Treating the symptoms but not the root cause, it's just a matter of momentary pleasure."

Like them, if they are not careful, they will scratch their own face, even if the skin is torn, they will not stop, they will only continue to pursue that refreshing feeling.

After finishing speaking, Su Hongying ran out of the yard directly to give them a solution.

As for Baolin and Wang Jiandang, after looking at it, they didn't continue to scratch. They had been itching for so long before, and finally scratched it a few times, so they couldn't control it!
The two went to the water tank, scooped up water with a gourd ladle, and began to wash their faces, hands, and feet. The cold water touched their warm skin, which finally relieved a little bit of itching.

When Su Hongying came back from picking mint and mugwort leaves, she directly used a bowl and a small wooden stick at home to quickly mash the juice out of the leaves. Before it was mashed, she added water and stirred vigorously.

After doing all this, the two people who had been waiting for a long time stretched out their hands impatiently, and applied the juice inside to the itchy places on their bodies. Since their bodies were too itchy, the movements of the two seemed a bit hasty .

Seeing this scene, Su Hongying finally showed a smile, and then went to pick mint and wormwood for the two. She was in a hurry just now, because she was afraid that the two would scratch the skin regardless, so she didn't pick many leaves. In addition, she didn't pound it very carefully, so she needs to make another one.

After the mosquito packs on the two of them were all coated with mint water, the itching like maggots attached to the bones before finally faded a lot.

"Daughter-in-law, what are you doing? It smells so good!" His body was no longer itchy, and Wang Jiandang immediately thought of his hungry stomach growling before.

Now, it's finally time to solve the stomach problem.

"White porridge, thinking that you might come back at night, I soaked the rice in advance, and after it got dark, it took an hour or two before I started cooking."

"If you don't come back, I might close the door and eat by myself." Su Hongying said while checking the things the father and daughter brought back.

"Now eat quickly! You haven't eaten dinner, you must be hungry!"

"You don't have to worry about me, just eat it yourself, I'll just look at the things you brought back here."

Having said that, in the end Wang Jiandang and Bao Lin still left a bowl of rice porridge for Su Hongying, which can be regarded as her supper!After all, after working with them for so long, I should be a little hungry.

After eating, Pauline directly carried the water and clothes, and went to the bathroom to take a shower.

Wang Jiandang used the firelight to start processing the snakes he brought back. After the internal organs and skin were removed, the body of the snake, which looked good before, looked much smaller, with only a little more than a catty of meat left.

Put the meat in a bucket of cold water and keep it for tomorrow morning.

When Wang Jiandang went to take a shower with a bucket and returned to his room, the home that had been bustling for more than an hour before suddenly became quiet.

　There are too many mosquitoes in the house, I was bitten five times in one night, and the swollen mosquito bag is big

　　
　
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