slack farmer in the wasteland

Chapter 344

On the morning of Chinese New Year's Eve, Cang Hai slept until seven o'clock before opening his eyes. It's not that Cang Hai is lazy, but that everyone loves to sleep late. It would be too troublesome to wait for everyone to get up and make another meal.In addition, it was snowing heavily outside, and there was nothing to do after eating, so I had to run back to the bed and lie down, it was better to sleep until I was hungry and then get up.

He didn't get up immediately after opening his eyes, but got tired of being in bed with Shi Wei until 08:30, then got up from the bed and started to prepare for cooking.

The New Year's Eve meal is not particular about breakfast and lunch except for dinner. You can eat anything. Last night, two old men, Qu Guowei and Xu Sheng, proposed to cook white rice porridge, so the staple food this morning is white rice porridge. The fried oil pancakes sent by the third aunt, as well as the homemade fried small fish, are ready to be steamed in a pan, and it is a meal with two small pickles.

Cang Hai just entered the kitchen and saw that Ping An was already working.This kid is picking leeks in the kitchen. The young leeks just cut from the greenhouse are green and juicy, and some leek leaves are still covered with dew.

The purpose of choosing leeks is to make dumplings at night. The small leaves of leeks are not big in size, and are only half the height of the large leeks sold in the vegetable market. Moreover, there are dead leaves on each leek, which needs to be selected one by one by hand.The hard-to-select small-leaf leek is a good material for making dumplings. It is full of flavor. Whether it is served with eggs or meat, it is the best material for leek dumpling filling.

Cang Hai’s family has a lot of people celebrating Chinese New Year this year, so the need for leeks is naturally large. Of course, it is impossible to eat only one kind of dumpling and have other fillings, such as celery and horse vegetable fillings, but these two fillings are also It's easy to prepare, the dried horse vegetables were already soaked in water last night, and the celery can be directly picked up in the greenhouse.

"Second brother, what do you think Wu Hui is doing at home now?" Pingan saw Cang Hai walk into the room, and raised his head to ask.

Cang Hai smiled and said, "What's the matter, you've only left for a few days and you miss Wu Hui?"

Ping An's face turned red, and it took a while before he said, "I just feel a little empty in my heart without her, as if something was missing all of a sudden."

"She'll be back after the new year." Cang Hai walked to the side of the rice cabinet, picked up a small measuring device and began to scoop rice into the basin. After scooping it four times, it seemed that it was a bit short, so he scooped more.

Taking the basin filled with rice, I went to the faucet and turned it lightly, and moved the basin to catch the water to wash the rice.

"Second brother!"

Just as Ping An was about to say something else, seeing the curtain at the door being raised and Xu Xiaomin walking into the room, he had to keep his mouth shut.

Seeing Cang Hai washing rice, Xu Xiaomin opened his mouth and asked, "Cang Hai, what can I do for you?"

Cang Hai smiled and said: "Godmother, you just need to rest well, there are not many things to do this morning, and the white rice porridge is easy to cook."

Cang Hai is telling the truth. In the past, every morning was either hand-rolled noodles or something messy. Every breakfast, Cang Hai and Shi Wei had to work for an hour or two. Today’s white porridge and distilled cakes are relatively childish up.

"I've already slept for ten hours. If I sleep any more, I will be useless. Why don't I get up and find something to do?" Xu Xiaomin said.

Xu Xiaomin is a little older now, and she doesn't sleep well. She only sleeps five or six hours a day, and can sleep seven or eight hours every now and then. Although she sometimes catches up on a nap at noon, she still feels that The body started to go downhill.

When I arrived at Canghai, I slept twice, and slept until dawn every day. I lay on the bed as if someone had cast a spell on me and soon fell asleep. After nearly ten hours of sleep, Xu Xiaomin often woke up at seven o'clock. Then I opened my eyes, and once I opened my eyes, get up, don’t get up, let’s lie on the bed and have nothing to do, let’s go outside for a walk, it’s snowing outside again, finally get up to Cang Hai, Xu Xiaomin gets up again How willing to go back to the house.

Seeing that Cang Hai didn't send any work, Xu Xiaomin simply pulled a small bench and sat next to Ping An, helping Ping An choose leeks.

"Where's godfather?" Cang Hai asked.

After hearing this, Xu Xiaomin replied: "He is like a duck to water here. He plays chess with a bunch of old men every day or gathers around to listen to books and talk about ancient times. He only came back from the east of the village at about ten o'clock. Now he sleeps like a man. It looks like a dead pig, and it snores very loudly!"

He said so in his mouth, but in his heart he was extremely happy. Qi Feng had been worrying about such a big business all day long, and he slept less than Xu Xiaomin, and the quality of sleep was also poor. Lie down and open your eyes to sleep for seven or eight hours. Once you sleep well, your mood will naturally improve. So in the past two days, Qi Feng has been smiling and the whole person looks full of energy, as if he is five years younger. Like six years old.

As soon as he regained his energy, Qi Feng didn't have to think about the company's affairs, so Jie Jie, Qu Guowei and Xu Sheng went to a group of old men in the village to play poker and chess all day long. In Yue's words, in Sijiaping, Qi Feng's father is the most active one in the family.

"It's good to sleep well, I'm afraid that godfather might not be suitable for the first time," Cang Hai said with a smile.

Xu Xiaomin said: "He is so used to it, I suspect he is reluctant to leave."

Cang Hai laughed and said, "I'm reluctant to leave. I'll tell the village at the beginning of spring next year. Your old couple will also drill a hole kiln here. If you want to come here for two days, the kiln you built yourself will be more homely." a feeling of".

"Don't talk about it, I really want to make a hole here to live here after hearing what you said," Xu Xiaomin said.

"Then you go back and talk to your godfather, and it's agreed that when the soil is not so hard in the spring, you will open a kiln with Wen Dao's family," Cang Hai said.

Now Sijiaping Village is full of less than 100 people, and the number of families is only a dozen or so. This is calculated by dismantling everyone into small homes, and the surrounding area is inaccessible, let alone one or two more hole kilns. There are ten or eight more than a third of the size of a normal village.

While talking about Cang Hai, he motioned for Ping An to come over and light the fire.

Seeing Ping An, he clapped his hands, sat directly behind the stove, quickly picked up a straw, bent its head and tail like this, lit it with a lighter, put it on the straw to start the fire, and lit the straw Put it into the stove, then put some small branches in, wait for the small branches to almost burn, and finally add the split firewood.

Cang Hai poured the rice into the pot, added a few ladles of water, brushed the bamboo curtain, put it on the pot, put the cakes to be steamed, fried fish, etc. on the curtain, and covered it Cover the pot.

Everything was fine, the curtain was picked up again, and the boy Fang Wu walked in.

"Is there anything you want me to do?" Fang Wu's eyes lit up when he saw Xu Xiaomin was there, and he opened his mouth to do some work, obviously ready to start the mother-in-law route.

"Let's sort out the leeks!" Cang Hai stretched out his finger.

Fang Wu saw that it was exactly what I wanted, and immediately sat on the small stool where Ping An had been sitting, grabbed a handful of leeks and began to straighten.

As for the attitudes of Xu Xiaomin and Qi Feng towards Fang Wu, Cang Hai secretly nodded when he mentioned it. The two treated Fang Wu just like they treated Ping An, with a certain distance but still intimacy. As if he didn't know about his daughter's affairs, he showed his attitude that Fang Wu and his daughter's affairs were not going to interfere at all.

Fang Wu didn't know what was going on in his heart, but Cang Hai knew that this already represented a tacit agreement between the two: as long as you have the ability to catch up with my daughter, then we have no objection.

This attitude is very open-minded, unlike many Chinese-style parents who interfere with the transition of their children's marriage, what kind of marriage is right, etc., are not what they consider at all. The couple's requirements for the future son-in-law, then There is only one that can be good for your daughter.

"Auntie, did you sleep well last night?" Fang Wuli opened two leeks and started the flattering mode.

Xu Xiaomin said with a smile: "Thank you, I slept well. I have slept well every day for the past two days."

"That's good! By the way, the snow outside has stopped today. I heard Qi Yue say that there are many interesting things here. If you have time, you and your uncle can go out and play together, like snowboarding or something, or you can go out with Qu Bo Go fishing on the river with Uncle Xu and the others..." Fang Wu said.

Cang Hai used to think that Fang Wu was a boring kid, but he never thought that when he met his mother-in-law, he would talk endlessly.

Xu Xiaomin laughed and said, "How can I play that!"

Cang Hai listened to the interface and said: "Why don't you go skiing, you don't need to learn much, just take a small sledge, sit on the half slope, and slide down naturally."

Xu Xiaomin really doesn't have anyone to talk to here. Shi Wei is too young, and the women in the village have nothing in common with her. The women in the village can make shoes or something together, but Xu Xiaomin can't, one is There are wealthy wives who live in villas in the city, and one is a peasant woman in the village. I really can’t find anything to talk about. After a few polite words, I can only chat awkwardly. It’s really quite boring.

"Let's talk again." Xu Xiaomin mainly spends the past two days opening a book to pass the time. She also likes reading activities. She sits by the big French window in the house, puts a cup of hot tea on the small table next to her, and flips through a book. Good book, when you are tired of reading, you will look up and let your eyes look through the window to appreciate the snow scene around you.Because the location of Sijiaping Village is higher, at a glance, the sky and the earth are vast, and the magnificent scene of the vastness of the sky and the vastness of the earth cannot be compared with the devil.

Just as he was about to say the last sentence, Cang Hai turned his head and noticed that steam was rising from the lid of the pot, so he said to Ping An: "Let's keep the fire low, don't use a big fire, just simmer for a while, go and call Qu Bo and Xu Bo Come over here, when they get up, they should eat this meal."

When Fang Wu heard this, he said, "I'll go!"

Cang Hai nodded after hearing this, and then ordered: "Don't knock on the door outside, listen with your ears, if the two of you get up, you call them over for dinner, and if you don't get up, don't call the door, these two old men are angry when they get up. It's quite big, if you wake them up, it's like waking up two old lions, and you'll be blamed if you tear them apart."

Fang Wu hummed after hearing this, then washed his hands, wiped them with a dry towel, and went out the door.

"Are they so interesting?" Xu Xiaomin asked with a smile.

Cang Hai shook his head and said with a wry smile: "The two old men pay more attention to this. They open their eyes naturally when they sleep, and lose their temper when anyone wakes them up!"

Cang Hai didn't understand that the main reason why the two old men came to Sijiaping was because of sleep problems. It wasn't because of their insomnia, and because the two old men were much more sensitive to the surrounding conditions at their age, sleeping in a big city Eight hours can last half a day, and I have to take a small nap at noon. I sleep here for eight or nine hours in Sijiaping, and I can maintain a good spirit for a day, and my whole body is refreshed. Otherwise, I would be called a genius As soon as he left, the two old men came back eagerly.People like them still lack a quiet villa in the city?
When they came to Sijiaping, the two old men were very concerned about sleeping. Unless the house was on fire, whoever woke them up would be angry at whom. After getting angry at the attendants twice before, the whole village knew what was wrong with the two old men. No one calls them when they sleep anymore.

In short, the sky and the earth are big, and sleeping is the biggest for the two old men!
(End of this chapter)