Reborn 1980 The Thousand Gold Peasant Girl

Chapter 23 23. Potatoes
Looking at the woman who was running away, Ning Qiu curled his lips, dropped the stick, and turned around to see a few boys staring at him dumbfounded.

Ning Qiu tilted his head and looked at them with big innocent eyes.

"Brother, what's the matter with you?"

Ning Qiang came back to his senses, "Sister, what did you do just now!? You actually scared that vicious woman away!!?"

Ning Qiu frowned, looking confused.

"I thought she was going to hit me, so I let her do it, but she didn't dare to hit me, so she ran away."

"But... But what if she really hits, what can you do?!"

"She didn't dare. She stopped me when I said I wanted to go to the village chief. She was afraid of the village chief and us going to sue."

Ning Qiang's eyes lit up, thinking he had understood the essence. "Sister is so smart! It turns out that the fierce woman is afraid of the village chief! We usually hide from her when we see her!?"

Ning Jian and Ning Wei also surrounded the younger sister, "Yes, yes, my younger sister is so smart."

Ning Qiu sighed, luckily there were only a few children, so it was easy to be fooled.You can't be so impulsive in doing things in the future, especially in front of others, or your five-year-old personality will collapse sooner or later.

Seeing a few white lambs approaching the bushes in the distance, Ning Qiu pointed with a small finger.

"Brother, those sheep ran away."

"Oh! Brother, hurry back. My sister is waiting here, don't go away."

"Ah."

After the boys ran away, Ning Qiu walked up to Tu Niu and bent down to look at her.

"Are you OK?"

The girl lowered her arms and stared at Ning Qiu with black and white eyes.

Ning Qiu's heart skipped a beat, she was very familiar with this kind of look, and the prisoners in the prison often showed this kind of look.

Like a vigilant beast, the seemingly icy eyes suppressed unimaginable stormy waves.Once this emotion is released, it can be devastating.

"Are you... in pain, do you want to see a doctor?"

The dirty girl looked away and got up from the ground in silence, but her back was bent at such a young age.

Not only did she ignore Ning Qiu's kindness, she also ignored the pain from her body.Expressionlessly waving the branches in his hand, he drove the sheep to the village.

"Sister, where else do you want to go, we will take you there." Ning Qiang and the others had already returned with the sheep.

Ning Qiu looked away and thought about it. "Brother, where is our field, I want to go and see."

"Tian is to the south of the village, I'll take you there right away."

Ning Qiu was led by her brother through the whole village to the entrance of the village.

"Brother, do we still have to leave the village?"

"Yes." Ning Qiang pointed to the road ahead, "You can go straight to the main road on this road, and our fields are on the other side of the main road."

"Oh."

Several children held hands and came to the so-called main road.This is actually a two-lane gravel road, and there is no shadow of a car on either side of the road.

Across this road, there is a large area of ​​farmland opposite.

At the end of summer, the green fields in the farmland are pleasing to the eye.Ning Qiu didn't know anything about crops, and didn't even know what they were growing.

Ning Qiang pointed to the distance and shouted, "Look! Our grandfather and father are here!"

Several children were running on the ridge of the field, shouting grandpa and dad.

Ning Cheng heard the cry, and when he looked up, he saw his sons leading Ning Qiu to this side.

He straightened up and walked onto the ridge. "Why did you come here?"

Ning Qiang ran the fastest and rushed to Ning Cheng first. "Father, it's my sister who wants to see our land."

It was only now that Ning Qiu rushed over, "Uncle."

Seeing Ning Qiu's blushing face, Ning Cheng put on a smile. "Go out in the sun, next time you come out, bring a straw hat."

Ning Qiu obediently agreed, pointing to the field next to her.

"What kind of uncle is this?"

"Here's a potato, there's a sweet potato."

Seeing grandpa bending over to work in the distance, "What is grandpa doing over there?"

"Grandpa is plowing the field. This crop of wheat has just been harvested in June, and it will be planted at the end of next month."

The field in the distance is a piece of white, which is particularly conspicuous under the cover of green.

"What's there, uncle?"

"That's cotton planted by someone else's family, and it will be harvested in a few days."

Seeing that the little girl stopped asking questions, Ning Cheng reminded her. "You just hang out nearby, don't run around, and go home with dad and grandpa for dinner later."

"Understood!" Several little ones responded loudly.

Near noon, Ning Cheng walked back with a basket of potatoes and Ning Hongfu and a few children.

Ning Qiang asked on the way home. "Sister, can potatoes be made into something delicious?"

Ning Qiu thought for a while, "Yes, there are many."

"Really!? Then my sister will do it for us later, okay?" Ning Qiu readily agreed.

As soon as they got home, the boys wanted to help Shen Qiu, and Shen Qiu was not polite, and assigned tasks to each of them.

She is going to make two things this time, one is potato fried dumplings, and the other is potato pancakes.

Potato fried dumplings are stuffed with potatoes and leeks, rolled into skins with cold water and noodles.Shred potatoes and chopped leeks, add seasonings to make stuffing, make dumplings, put them in a pan, fry them in oil, and add water to stuff them.

Potato cakes are even simpler. Shred potatoes, add flour, eggs, chopped green onions, season with seasonings, and fry them in a pan to form cakes.

If it wasn't for the limited ingredients, Ning Qiu could make more tricks.

With the help of the family, the two meals were quickly settled.Although the ingredients are not expensive, they are quite oily.After finishing the two dishes, half a can of oil was used.But seeing everyone eating happily, Zhu Ximei didn't say much.

Ning Qiang took a bite of the potato pancake, and then drank a mouthful of polenta, and immediately greeted the fried dumplings with his chopsticks.

"Slow down, slow down! No one is robbing you, can't you eat all of them!" Zhu Ximei couldn't get used to it, so she started to scold her grandson.

"Grandma, this is so delicious! I didn't know potatoes could be so delicious!"

Ning Hongfu smiled and said, "With Qiu'er here, you guys will have a good fortune in the future."

Ning Huimin, who was sitting next to her mother, was unhappy, but her mouth movements were not slow, and a potato pancake was gone in a few bites.

"Grandma, sister Qiu'er is amazing today, she scared that vicious woman away!" Ning Wei said inarticulately while stuffing fried dumplings into his mouth.

"The wicked woman?"

"It's the stepmother of the native girl."

"Her, have you met that woman?"

Ning Jian next to him interjected, "That's right, I happened to see her beating a local girl with a wooden stick."

"Sister is amazing, she only said a few words, and the vicious woman ran away."

Several elders looked at Ning Qiu with strange eyes, Ning Qiu pretended to be ignorant.

"I said I was going to tell the village head that she beat the child, and that person ran away."

"You guys will take a detour when you meet that woman in the future. That's not a good person."

"Grandma, does the village chief not care about her beating a local girl?"

"Which family in the village doesn't beat children, but it's not as ruthless as that woman. The village chief can't control this matter if he wants to."

If you think about it, it’s only the early 80s, and most people don’t have a strong sense of the rule of law.Beating children is commonplace in the perception of most people, and this is a remote mountain village.

(End of this chapter)