Back to 80s: It's not easy to be a group favorite

Chapter 179

Li Shaoyun jumped down the steps under the eaves, and rushed over in two or three steps, watching the old lady cooing and throwing grains to feed the chickens.

Chickens, big and small, huddled together in the fence to grab food, and there seemed to be a dozen of them.

Half of the chickens are roosters, and the rest are hens.

If there are too many roosters in the flock, they will fight, so usually only one breeder chicken is left.Two at most, no more!

However, the chickens raised by the old lady are eliminated quickly, because the hens are allowed to brood every year, so in addition to the laying hens, there are also big breeding roosters, and the rest will basically not be kept until the next year.

Either the family killed and ate them, or they brought a few to the eldest son's family in the city.

The old lady had just finished sweeping the yard, so naturally she wouldn't let the chickens out to harm the cleaned yard.

"Mistress, do you raise so many chickens?" Li Shaoyun knew that the old lady would let the hens in the family nest by themselves every spring. She hadn't noticed how many chickens the old lady raised before, but she didn't expect that this number would add up. few.

"It's too much," the old lady didn't care, "It's convenient to eat it by yourself! During the Chinese New Year, we will eat it at home, and we will give your brother a tooth sacrifice at ordinary times. How can it be enough to eat if you have less?! How many more have you raised this year? Only, I also want to get some chickens for your dad and the others, leaving enough chickens for laying eggs, there are not many chickens left!"

Li Shaoyun raised his eyebrows. According to the old lady, there are not many chickens.

All kinds of points, really not much.

"Daddy, do you still feed Li Er chicken? We haven't caught up yet!" However, thinking of Li Er who can eat domestic grass chickens at home at any time, Li Shaoyun felt sour and couldn't help acting like a baby with the old lady.

The old lady smiled, "Didn't the food you eat in the city be good? Your mother said that the two of you pay attention to nutrition, not to mention three meals a day. I'm afraid you will lose your mouth, and you still think about chickens?"

Li Shaoyun waved his hand, "How can it be the same? Besides, it's not as delicious as the chicken raised at home!"

The old lady was right, the chicken raised at home really tastes good and authentic.

"Then after the New Year's Eve, I'll kill one for you and take it away!" The old lady said with a very generous look.

"Only one?" Li Shaoyun and the old lady teased, "Then where is enough! Your eldest grandson can eat more than half of it by himself!"

The old lady also said: "Are you stupid? You won't fight with him! If you grab it quickly, eat more, if you grab it slowly, eat less!"

Li Shaoyun shrank his neck cooperatively: "Then what if I can't snatch him! Why don't you make the chicken and I'll eat it secretly?"

The old lady smiled and said: "What's the matter! If we want to eat, we can eat it openly, why should we hide it and eat it secretly?"

The old man smiled and shook his head listening to his wife and granddaughter talking and laughing.

After walking in the yard for a while, the old man said to the old lady: "I have nothing to do at home, I'll go out for a while!"

The old lady glanced at her old man, "Go, go! If you don't go out for a couple of times a day, you will feel uncomfortable!"

The old man smiled at his wife's habitual chatter and said nothing, and walked out of the yard slowly with his hands behind his back.

Li Shaoyun watched Grandpa Li leave the courtyard, wondering where he went for a walk.

To say that there is nothing to see in winter, it is bare everywhere, except for the evergreen trees, most of the leaves of the trees have fallen off, and the flowers and plants are all withered and yellow.

However, many people are still used to going to the field every day to take a look.

Grandpa obviously did the same.

It's not that there is no green in the field at the moment. Apart from winter wheat, there are also some cold-resistant and frost-resistant vegetables.

Thinking of this, Li Shaoyun couldn't help feeling a little greedy.

To say that the cabbage that has been frosted is delicious, with a lot of sweetness, unlike some cabbage that she ate in later generations, which are stalky, and it tastes good in winter, but after the beginning of spring, it will start to grow chaff and moss.

The cabbage here is in the open air in winter, and there is no cover, so you can chop a cabbage whenever you want to eat it.

The good thing at the moment is that the fruits and vegetables we eat are basically grown in the open air. In accordance with the seasons, greenhouse vegetables have not been popularized yet, and there are restrictions on what to eat, but relatively speaking, the taste is much better.

Unlike many fruits and vegetables in later generations, they can be eaten all year round.As long as you have money, let alone out of season, you can eat fruits and vegetables from the other hemisphere!

But when I tasted it, I always felt that there was something wrong, but I couldn't tell.

"Grandma, how about we have cabbage patties in the morning? Otherwise, carrots are also fine!" Li Shaoyun almost drooled when he said this.

There is no fresh meat at home, so I can only use the bacon that grandma just marinated a few days ago.

I ran too fast yesterday and forgot to buy some fresh meat.There is no refrigerator at home, and I am not used to hoarding fresh meat.

The current temperature is relatively low, but the villagers are still used to cutting fresh meat.If you want to eat meat, you can go to the town to buy it. There is a market there, and there are butchers selling meat every day.

Fortunately, the cured bacon at home has not been marinated for a long time, and it is relatively fresh now, so it is best used to make meatloaf!

The old lady looked at her granddaughter with a smile. This child has always been more concerned about food, his eyes shine when talking about food, and he also likes to be orderly.

"Okay, if you want to eat it, we can do it! There are radishes and cabbages in the field, but we have to pull them out."

The old lady felt a little regretful when she said this, and complained to her wife: "It's all your fault for running fast! Otherwise, let him go to the field to pull a few radishes or dig a cabbage right now!"

Li Shaoyun sweated, "No need, just give me the milk! It's not good to always instruct my master!"

The old lady snorted arrogantly, "What's the matter, what's wrong with ordering him to do some work? Could it be that he just opened his mouth to eat!"

Li Shaoyun said with a smile: "You really are, I'm not back? I'll just go!"

The old lady said: "You only come back every ten or eight days. Your grandfather has nothing to do after eating all day. Let him go for a walk just in time to move around and save his old arms and legs from getting rusty!"

Li Shaoyun snickered, the old lady is so cute sometimes, this is for her!

But she can't add fuel to the fire, "Next time! I'll go this time. Shall we pull the radish or the cabbage?"

The old lady no longer struggled, and thought for a while: "Then turnips! Turnips are more oily, and the pork belly sold in the village is a bit fat this time!"

"Okay! Then I'll go pull the radish now. Is this side going to be posted now? Otherwise it will be too late." Li Shaoyun suggested.

"You go first, wait for the milk to knead the dough, then use warm water to heat up the fire, it rises quickly."

The old lady was going to get a dough pie instead of a dough.

Li Shaoyun wanted to come by herself, just like the old lady said, she only came back once every ten or eight days, so naturally she wanted to do more work, so she should be filial to the old lady.

The old lady waved her hand, "No, I'll meet with you, you can go and pull the radishes! By the way, look at the onions in the field and get a few, there are no more at home! Oh, yes! There are also green garlic sprouts. Pick some leaves and bring them back. This is delicious mixed with stuffing! It’s delicious!”

Li Shaoyun agreed one by one, dug out a bamboo basket from the utility room and took it, after thinking about it, he carried a thin hoe with a narrow blade, planning to use it to dig onions.

The green onions in the ground are buried deep to prevent freezing, and they are easy to pull out with bare hands. It is more convenient to dig directly with a fine hoe.

(End of this chapter)