Nongmen sisters and brothers are not simple

Chapter 4 Batter
Yesterday, they lost their father and mother one after another, and the children of Xie's family were too afraid to fall asleep. Xie Fanxing couldn't get off, so the younger siblings squeezed into the same bed.

Fortunately, the wooden bed made at home was big enough, and the brothers and sisters were small and not fat, so they barely squeezed into one bed and slept all night.

At two o'clock in the morning, Xie Fanxing woke up leisurely. She saw that although the younger ones were asleep, their brows were still tightly frowned. It seemed that yesterday, one after another lost their father and mother, which made Xie's family Little was still worried and afraid in his sleep.

"Fanyue, wake up, take care of your little brother first, if he wakes up, you can relieve him, if the diaper is wet, change it into a clean one.

After I go out to wash up, and finish cooking my little brother's messy food, I will make breakfast for us. As for the few of them, let them sleep until they wake up naturally. "Xie Fanxing put on her clothes, she pushed Fanyue awake and said.

She can't help it, the youngest one will wake up at any time, she needs someone to watch and take care of her, and she has no way to do it all by herself, so she has to wake up Fanyue and bring someone with her.

"Eldest sister, I see, you can go to work!" Xie Fanyue rubbed her sleepy eyes and yawned to let her elder sister go out in peace.

Xie Fanxing went out of the house and looked at the house carefully. The earth was built with tiles, but the earth was yellowed and there were cracks on it. One can tell that the house has been built for many years.

There are four rooms in the main room, two on the left and right, one is for Mrs. Liu, one is for Xie Fanxing and his sisters, one is for Xie Fanyang brothers, and the last one is used as a warehouse. .

Used to store rice noodles, pickled vegetables, dried wild vegetables, sweet potatoes, etc.

Looking out through the crack of the gate, you can see that the outside is a fenced yard surrounded by small bamboos, and two large vegetable fields are circled on the left and right sides.

It is now the beginning of February, and in the vegetable field, there are still some green onions, garlic, lettuce, white radish, Chinese cabbage, cabbage moss, and red cabbage moss that have been sown and grown last year.

After that, Xie Fanxing pushed the door to the backyard and walked.

Seeing the kitchen on the left side of the backyard, a firewood room and a sundry room were built in turn.

The innermost part on the right is the pigsty, but there are no pigs in the pigsty, and a chicken pen is built in turn. In the chicken pen, there are five hens. These five hens were raised last year. They were originally intended to be given to Liu. After Mrs. Liu gave birth, she killed Mrs. Liu to make up her body so that she could give birth to milk and take care of the child, but now she is useless.

Down from the chicken coop is the latrine and the washroom.

This family is simple and clear, if you use one word to describe it - poor.

After Xie Fanxing cleaned up and washed, she went to her family's grain warehouse.

Food is the most important thing for the people. At this time, each household does not have much food, or is even short of food. Xie Fanxing wants to know how much food their family has in storage.

Make a good plan for how to live in the future.

When I came to the warehouse, I saw a pile of half-sized sweet potatoes and two bamboo baskets in the innermost lower left corner, and eight or nine jars in the upper right corner, which seemed to be used for pickling sauerkraut and the like.

The pile of sweet potatoes weighed less than forty catties.

Xie Fanxing opened the lids of two bamboo baskets, one of which contained about ten catties of brown rice, and the other bamboo basket contained two bags, one bag contained twenty catties of black flour, and the other contained ten catties of white flour. It was the white flour that her uncle bought yesterday and put it here.

After that, Xie Fanxing opened the jars of pickled vegetables one by one to have a look.

Seeing that most of these jars were empty, there were only half of capers, artichokes, zest made from unknown dishes, dried radishes, sour peppers, and some dry goods.

Xie Fanxing couldn't help but sighed when he saw the food.

This year's new food will not come until at least August and September. These foods are obviously not enough for the Xie family siblings to eat until August this year.

In addition, I have to send [-] catties of black noodles or [-] copper coins to my uncle's family every month for grandma's support.

Although there is no food, you can take money, but their family only has 320 pennies, which is not enough to pay until August.

"Forget it, the boat will go straight when it arrives at the bridge. Let's go out after finishing the breakfast for the whole family, and then go out to see if we can buy something to eat or sell for money." Xie Fanxing sighed helplessly. , She took a bowl from the kitchen, scooped two spoonfuls of white flour and came to the kitchen, intending to steam a bowl of batter for the little brother to eat.

However, Xie Fanxing who came to the kitchen was completely dumbfounded.

There are two stoves, but there is no iron pot, only two pots are placed on the stove.

It's hard for a good woman to cook without rice, but Xie Fanxing's place is hard to cook with utensils.

Without an iron pot, even if Xie Fanxing had superb cooking skills, she would not be able to cook many dishes.

However, Xie Fanxing quickly found out from his memory that ironware was extremely expensive in this era, and ninety-nine percent of people could not use iron pots.

Their entire village, even the village chief's family with the best conditions, does not have an iron pot.

Moreover, for an iron pot, the cheaper one costs as much as five strings of money, and the more expensive one costs ten dollars.

Such an expensive thing, just for the sake of tongue, dissuades [-]% of people from buying iron pots, I can't bear it!

Now the daily meals of the villagers in the village are all made of pots, and they are not particular about stewing in a pot.

Xie Fanxing originally wanted to steam the batter for his younger brother to eat, but now that he doesn't have an iron pot, it's a bit difficult to steam, but it doesn't bother Xie Fanxing.

Xie Fanxing first poured an appropriate amount of water into the white noodles to stir the white noodles. After mixing well, he added water to dilute the white noodles.

Considering that the baby has just been born, and the functions of swallowing and other functions have not yet been fully perfected, Xie Fanxing plans to make the paste not thick, but to dilute it a little so that it can be eaten by the younger brother.

After mixing the white noodles, turn on the fire, pour the stirred white noodles into the jar, and keep stirring back and forth to prevent the batter at the bottom of the jar from burning.

This keeps stirring back and forth, which is a great exercise in wrist strength, and the other hand has to hold the handle of the jar to prevent the heat from being too hot, and lift it up at any time to prevent the bottom from being burnt.

Around the time of a cup of tea, the batter was cooked, Xie Fanxing added some water into it according to the thick shape, trying to make it as thin as possible, so that it would be easier for the younger brother to swallow.

After making the batter, pour it into a bowl, Xie Fanxing carried it and walked into the room.

"Elder sister, younger brother is awake. I finished pissing and urinating my younger brother. My younger brother is so good, I haven't even cried." Xie Fanyue saw her older sister enter the room, she hugged her younger brother and greeted her older sister with a jerk, and said happily .

"Hush! Keep your voice down, they haven't woken up yet. Fanyue, go wash up first. After I finish feeding the little brother, you will take over from the elder sister to take care of the people, and then the elder sister will make our breakfast.

This morning, I wonder if anyone came to our house? "Xie Fanxing put the rice paste in her hand on the table in the house, and she took the little brother from Xie Fanyue's hand and said.

Note: One hundred coins = a string of money, ten strings of money = consistent money, consistent money = one tael of silver.

(End of this chapter)