Big businessman and little fisherman

Chapter 6 Rice Congee
Honghuye Wharf.

Lu Xiaoyu squatted in front of the clay stove, adding firewood to the stove bit by bit.

"Mom, is the rice porridge delicious?"

"It's delicious, why isn't it delicious? This is rice porridge. It's made from white rice. It's very fragrant!"

Qiu lifted the lid of the pot and stirred it to let the aroma out.

"Smell it, isn't it very fragrant?"

Lu Xiaoyu got up halfway, leaned close to the earthen pot and smelled it deeply: "Well, it smells good."

White rice, add water, boil for less than half an hour, and it becomes a thick and sticky rice porridge.

Qiu's family grew up so big that they had several daughters and sons, and they had never eaten such good food.

After smelling the aroma of porridge, Lu Xiaoyu became more concerned about lighting the fire.

Before leaving, Mrs. Qiu told Xiaoyu that it would be delicious to feed people by cooking slowly over a low fire, so she added fine firewood to the stove one by one.

She and her sisters picked up the firewood for burning at home, and the hay was cut and dried by the mother.

Don't talk about cooking porridge, even on weekdays, you don't burn firewood to waste firewood.

In the pot, the originally clear water was tumbling and jumping with white rice grains wrapped in it, and finally became viscous.

The aroma spread in the wild pier, and the children from several surrounding families gathered around.

One by one, they surrounded the small clay stove, stretching their necks and greedily inhaling the fragrance of porridge overflowing.

Li Canguan, wearing his brother's old jacket, ran over with bare feet. The loose jacket dragged down to the crook of his legs, and there was nothing under the jacket, not even any trousers.

The boy at Ye Pier doesn't dress like this alone.At least five of the six children don't have Zhou Zheng's clothes on. They either wear the old clothes of their brothers and sisters, or wear the rags of their parents.

It is good to have a place to sleep for those who can raise their children safely and stutter.

The weather is warm, and it's okay to wear thin clothes.In summer, some children are naked and shirtless all day long, and no one cares whether they are ashamed or not.

Li Guanguan relied on his own boat and Lu Xiaoyu's boat to lean against each other, and tried his best to squeeze away the two children who were surrounded by Lu Xiaoyu, and squatted directly next to Lu Xiaoyu regardless of whether he was wearing pants or not. .

Showing off her sparrow frankly, she doesn't feel shy.

"Little fish, what are you doing at home? It smells so good." As he spoke, Li Canguan sucked his snot.

The yellow pus snot was sucked into the nasal cavity, and slid out again.

He lifted up his sleeve and wiped it, and a long bright horizontal line was immediately wiped out on the shiny black cuff.

Li Canguan didn't feel ashamed, he raised his hand and was ready to push Lu Xiaoyu.

As if someone had pinched Lu Xiaoyu, he jumped up from the ground and shouted with a pointed throat, "Li Canguan, are you dirty?"

"Where is it dirty?"

Li Canguan rubbed his sleeves against his body indifferently, and leaned closer to Lu Xiaoyu, "What delicious food is your family making that smells so good?"

"You don't care what my family eats, stay away from me."

Lu Xiaoyu pushed Li Canguan aside in disgust, "It's so dirty, why doesn't your mother wash it for you, look at your sleeves, they are all crusted."

The Qiu family loves to be clean. Although the Lu family is also poor, the whole family always wears clean and tidy clothes.

Li Canguan's mother was not a fastidious person in the first place, and a half-sized man like Li Canguan was very popular.After washing it cleanly, he came back with a disheveled face after being out of his mind for half a day, and then his mother ignored him.

Children from poor families all came here, and no one would say anything.

"Why are you doing this?"

Li Canguan was also angry after being pushed by Lu Xiaoyu, "I'll just ask, and I won't eat yours."

"No, hurry up, don't get in the way here, if you get overwhelmed by my pot, you have to..."

Lu Xiaoyu wanted to say something harsh, but after thinking about it for a long time, he finally remembered, "I'll make your parents pay you fifty cents."

For a child of her age, it is difficult to own a penny, let alone fifty pennies.

Fifty Wen, that is a huge sum of money.

"Humph."

Being so disliked by Lu Xiaoyu, Li Canguan's face can't be saved.He snorted unhappily, and took a hard look at the steaming pot lid of Lu's house, before angrily tugging at some of his good friends.

"Let's go. No one is allowed to play with Lu Xiaoyu in the future. Anyone who plays with her will not give me Li Canguan's face."

The boy was dragged away by Li Canguan, leaving a black and thin little girl who was about the same age as Lu Xiaoyu still squatting on the spot, only staring at the rice porridge pot, wishing to get in and have a look.

Before the Lu family's rice porridge was ready, the little girl was also called away by a skinny woman: "Ma Lanhua? Where did you die? You haven't come back to wash diapers yet."

Ma Lanhua got up reluctantly, turned her head as she walked, and was finally dragged back to her boat by her ears to wash diapers.

In the shack, Lu Yange could not help but breathe a sigh of relief when he heard the noise outside turn to quiet again.

She has no curiosity about this strange world, only helplessness and sighs.

This fucking time travel, it turns out that everything written in the novel is true!
After the rice porridge was ready, Qiu took a wooden bowl and carefully scraped the rice grains and soup in the pot into the bowl.She glanced at Lu Xiaoyu who was squatting beside her, feeling a little unbearable for a moment.

Not to mention the child, even she was so greedy that she wanted to bow her head and take a sip.

Qiu took a spoon, scooped it out, hesitated for a while, poured back half a spoonful, wiped the bottom of the spoon on the edge of the bowl carefully, and then carefully handed it to Lu Xiaoyu's mouth: "Little fish, be good!" Ah, just take a bite, this is for Xiaosi, she is still sick."

Lu Xiaoyu struggled to look away from the rice porridge in the spoon, and shook his head vigorously: "Mom, I don't want to eat, I'm not hungry, I'll give it to Xiao Si, and Xiao Si will be fine when he's full."

In the first few days when Xiaosi came home, she fell asleep in a drowsy state.

The doctor came twice, and my father went to grab several packs of bitter medicine and came back to boil it, and then poured it down to Xiao Si bit by bit.

The bitter medicine, Xiaoyu secretly dipped a little bit of it with her fingers and tasted it, it was really bitter, a bitterness that she had never tasted before.

Yesterday, Xiao Si finally woke up, and he didn't know what father and Xiao Si had said in the room. When he came out, his father's eyes were red, and mother kept wiping away tears.

Xiao Si, is this alright?
After she drank the porridge made by her mother, she would recover sooner, right?
As long as Xiao Si gets better, it doesn't matter if she drinks porridge or not.

Qiu Shi glanced at the well-behaved little fish guiltily, and took back the spoon again.She thought about it, and then simply added another half bowl of water to the pot, stirred it, and scooped it out to the little fish when it boiled.

"Drink."

The rice porridge in the pot was scraped clean by Mrs. Qiu, only a little bit of rice porridge baked on the bottom of the pot was left, and Mrs. Qiu boiled it with water, and a small half bowl of slightly white rice soup was obtained.

Lu Xiaoyu drank the water for washing the pot with clear soup and little water, which tasted like rice porridge.

Xiaoyu didn't want to drink alone this small bowl of rice soup, so she took the bowl into the cabin and asked her two sisters to share it.

Seeing Xiaoyu holding the bowl very carefully, Qiu's throat choked.

Xiao Si woke up, and the doctor said that the child was seriously injured, and he had to drink medicine for a few days to take care of him.

This rice porridge was hard to come by, almost all the money the family had saved in the past six months was used for Xiaosi's medicine, and the remaining tens of Wen only bought more than half a liter of rice, so he could only cook a few meals of rice porridge for Xiaosi.

It's not because of her partiality as a mother, as long as life is better, she can't do this either.

(End of this chapter)