Fengcheng old events

Chapter 39

The little white dog came in, sniffed at Liu Zhaofeng's legs, walked to Liu Jinrong's feet, and looked up at her wagging its tail.

Liu Jinrong stretched out his hand carefully, and tentatively touched the little white dog's head. His hand was licked by the little white dog, and he quickly retracted in fright.

Zhang Wanzhi said with a smile: "It's okay, puppy, don't bite. It treats you well."

Liu Jinrong looked into the dog's eyes: "It, what if it bites me?"

Zhang Wanzhi said: "It doesn't bite, it wants to play with you. Look at how much it wags its tail. Dogs wag their tails and don't bite people, they only bite when they bark their teeth."

Liu Jinrong carefully reached out to touch the puppy: "What's its name?"

Zhang Wanzhi said: "There is no serious name, just call it a little white dog, bark indiscriminately."

Liu Jinrong said to the puppy: "Xiaobai, Xiaobai, do you want to play with me?"

When the puppy heard its name being called, it got excited all of a sudden, raised its front paws to put on Liu Jinrong's lap, stretched its neck vigorously to lick Liu Jinrong's face, and made a humming sound.

Liu Jinrong giggled: "Mom, Mom, it's looking for me to play."

Zhang Jingyi smiled: "Okay, it likes you, then you can play with it."

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Zhang Wanzhi went to work in the field, and Liu Zhaofeng followed.Zhang Wanli took Zhang Jingyi's household registration and went to the team.

Zhang Jingyi packed up the things he brought, while Liu Jinrong and the little white dog played in the yard.

Looking for good things, Zhang Jingyi looked around the whole room, found a place for firewood, rice, oil and salt, moved the basin, tried the dustpan, checked the time, thought for a while, put on an apron and started cooking.

Use a kitchen knife to cut off the tree that is tied to the firewood, break off a small handful of twigs, scrape off the charcoal ash at the bottom of the stove, put the twigs on the reddened charcoal fire, and soon the flames will be strung together. branch.

Brush the pot, scoop clear water from the big vat, and first boil half a pot of boiling water to fill the two thermos pots.

Add water to the pot, wash the corn dregs, put it in the pot, and measure the water.

Peel the potatoes, wash and cut into pieces, thinly slice the sauerkraut into shreds.She tried her best to shred the sauerkraut thinner, but she was afraid of cutting her hands, and she was already sweating after cutting a few sauerkraut.

I went to look at the stove fire, passed the thick branches into the stove so that the flames were licking the bottom of the pot, and added a piece of firewood on top.

"Mom, look, it's nice to me." Liu Jinrong and the little white dog appeared outside the door, squatting on the ground with a smile and hugging the little white dog's neck, the little white dog tilted its head and looked at Zhang Jingyi.

"Meow", a lazy cat meowed, and a big tabby cat came back from nowhere, jumped onto the window sill and yelled, looking at Liu Jinrong and the little white dog.

"Cat. It's such a big cat, mom, look, mom, it's such a big tabby cat." Liu Jinrong jumped up excitedly and looked at the tabby cat.

The big cat ignored the surprised Liu Jinrong, looked back and walked back and forth a few times, lay down on the window sill, and slowly licked its paws.

"Mom, can I touch it?" Liu Jinrong asked while looking at the tabby cat.

Zhang Jingyi said: "It doesn't know you yet, don't touch it. The cat scratches people."

Liu Jinrong was a little disappointed, so he let out an oh, squatted down and hugged the little white dog leaning on his lap: "It's better to be Xiaobai, I've known me since I came here."

The water in the pot boiled, and it was steaming. Zhang Jingyi took off the lid of the pot, stirred it with a spoon, put the lid back on, took the little horse and sat down at the stove mouth to watch the fire.

When the porridge is ready, scoop it into an aluminum basin, put it aside and cover it, brush the pan and put a little lard, put the washed shredded sauerkraut in it, and let the oily smoke rise with a sizzle.

Stir-fry, add minced garlic, add some soy sauce, add water, put the potatoes in, add a little salt, cover the pot and stew.

She wanted to put some MSG, but she couldn't find it after searching around.After thinking about it, I went to get two pieces of radish and pickles, washed them and shredded them.

After a pot of sauerkraut and potatoes is stewed, cover the fire at the bottom of the stove with stove ashes, put a wooden stand in the pot, put the corn porridge and two bowls of leftovers left over at noon and cover the pot. It won't be cold.

Liu Jinrong ran in: "Mom, can we eat?"

Zhang Jingyi brushed Liu Jinrong's hair: "We'll have to wait a while until your brother and the others come back to eat together."

Liu Jinrong agreed, and sat down on the threshold, clutching his stomach, and looked at the courtyard door. The little white dog jumped a few times beside Liu Jinrong. Seeing that she ignored her, he tilted his head to look at her, and lay down next to her lap. down.

After waiting for a long time under Liu Jinrong's feeling, she leaned against the door frame and was about to fall asleep. The gate of the yard finally opened, and the three of you walked in together.

The little white dog got up and ran over to greet him, wagging his tail. Liu Jinrong stood up and ran into the house: "Mom, they are all back, let's eat."

After the three masters put away the hoes and tools, washed their hands and entered the house, Zhang Jingyi had already put the kang table down and said, "Come back, let's eat, the child is hungry."

Zhang Wanli took out the household registration book and handed it to Zhang Jingyi: "It's done, and the name of the school has been reported. I will send them there tomorrow morning."

Several people packed up and ate.

Zhang Jingyi said: "There is no monosodium glutamate at home. I searched around but couldn't find it."

Zhang Wanzhi said with a smile: "No, I haven't used that thing before. If you want to eat it, I will go to the cooperative to buy a pack tomorrow."

Zhang Jingyi was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and said, "Forget it, it doesn't have to be used, it's so far away."

Zhang Wanli boiled some white wine in a tin pot, took a few small cups, and poured Zhang Jingyi a cup: "You drink some too. From now on, you take care of the house and take care of the children. It's up to us. As for you, just talk if you have something to do, we are a family now."

Zhang Jingyi nodded.

After eating, it was already dark outside, Liu Zhaofeng helped Zhang Jingyi clean up the table, took out the leftovers from the pot, put the leftovers on the stone mill and covered them.

Zhang Wanli went to light the stove on the west kang, got the water from the shabu-shabu here, added bran and rice bran, peeled some bean cakes, boiled a pot of thick paste in it, scooped some for the little white dog, and used the rest to use the bucket Carried to the pigsty.

Chickens, ducks and geese are only fed a little in the morning, and they look for food by themselves during the day.Cats are not fed. The cats in the countryside are self-reliant. The old man said that if they are fed, they will stop catching mice.

Early the next morning, Zhang Wanli took his brother and sister into Baozi to meet the teacher at the school.

This is how Niang San settled down here, no need to rely on others, and finally felt a little safe. Zhang Jingyi also bid farewell to the stone mill that gave her nightmares, and no longer needed to work in the team.

In this era, every family is poor, and eating enough is the happiest thing.

With a home, life has stabilized, and Zhang Jingyi no longer has to worry about it. Every day is cooking, tending to chickens, ducks, geese, dogs, feeding pigs, washing, sewing, and tidying up the house.Waiting for the kids to leave school and the men to leave work.

Drinking a cup of white wine for dinner, and smoking a bag of tobacco during the day, the time passed day by day, and she had already adapted to this kind of life.

I wasn't an assertive person in the first place, and I didn't have any other thoughts.

(End of this chapter)