As soon as Lin Lan came back from work and started cooking, Xiaodouzi came back and looked at her with a smile: "Mom, the teacher said that you visited me at school."

"Well! Mom is worried that you are not feeling well."

"It's okay, I'm fine." Xiaodouzi put down his schoolbag, "The teacher said that there will be a ten-day farming holiday, and I have agreed with brother Xiaokai and sister Xiaoyun. I will go to the field to collect millet in the afternoon and come back to feed the chickens."

Lin Lan nodded: "Okay, eat and sleep, put on the straw hat and the little belt that grandpa made for you, and go."

"Hmm!" Xiaodouzi rubbed his stomach, "I'm hungry."

"There are mung bean cakes on the table, you can eat two first to fill your stomach."

"Ok!"

Xiaodouzi went to wash her hands, ate mung bean cakes, and picked up some ramie leaves that Lin Lan had cut and placed on the eaves of the steps, put them in a vegetable basket, and carried them to the backyard to feed the chickens and pick up eggs.

Seeing him coming, two big white geese ran over with a group of soldiers, scrambling to eat the ramie leaves.

He went to the shed under the wall where the chickens laid eggs, and found a particularly large egg in a chicken coop. He picked it up and put it in a vegetable basket. After counting, there were sixteen eggs in total.

Xiaodouzi returned to the kitchen with the egg: "Mom, look at such a big egg!"

Lin Lan turned her head to take a look, and said with a smile, "This is a goose egg. Dabai has laid an egg. Mom will steam you a goose egg soup this afternoon."

Xiaodouzi nodded: "Let's eat together when my aunt comes back."

Lin Lan said with relief, "Auntie didn't love you for nothing."

Lin Yuezhen came back at noon with three barrels of oil, several bags of mung beans, peanuts, soybeans, and two small bags of sesame seeds.

Knowing that rhubarb, a burglar at home, was beaten to death by Ye San, the more she thought about it, the more frightened she became. She felt that she shouldn't go home, and Lin Lan's mother and son were almost in danger.

Seeing that her face turned pale, Lin Lan comforted her with a smile: "Sister, I'm fine, don't think too much about it."

Lin Yuezhen looked at her and made gestures with tears in her eyes: "I will go home to go to the grave on Qingming from now on, and I won't go to other times. This time I go back to burn blessing papers, and the couple won't even let me in. They will stay at your house when I go back. .”

Lin Lan patted her hand: "Sister, don't be sad, this will be your home from now on."

Lin Yuezhen nodded heavily, pointed at Lin Lan's dark circles, and told her to go to sleep.

"Okay, I'll take a nap for a while."

Before Lin Lan entered the house, she saw Li Xiangyang riding a bicycle to the gate of the courtyard, got out of the car, took off the back strap from the back seat, and slipped out a black and brown fur dog from inside.

Li Xiangyang saw that her face was exhausted, her eyes were blue, and her heart was sinking. He hurriedly lowered his head to cover up the dog's head, and said in a brisk tone: "Lin Lan, this is the paparazzi of the dog in my pig farm. It's been almost two months, and it's the smartest dog in this litter."

Lin Lan looked at the dog lying on the ground looking at her, then looked at Li Xiangyang and said with a smile, "How do you know my rhubarb is gone?"

"Zhilin asked Gangzi to help find Gouzi, and that's when I found out that your house was broken into." Li Xiangyang patted Gouzi's head as he said, "From now on, she will be your master, and this is your home."

Lin Lan knelt down and stroked the dog's fur: "What's its name? It's only two months old. Does it have wolf dog blood?"

"It's called Wangcai, and its parents are coyote dogs. It looks after the house and even releases chickens." Li Xiangyang took out the collar and dog chain from his back, looked at Lin Lan and said with a smile, "If you want to change its name, Call him a new name at every feeding and he will figure it out in a few days."

Lin Lan nodded and said sincerely, "Thank you, I will trouble you every time."

Li Xiangyang took a look at her blue eye circles: "Everyone is so familiar, so you don't have to be polite. I'll go back first, and you go to have a rest." What he wanted to say was, if there is anything you need to help, just say, I'm afraid you don't want to bother me.

"Okay, go slowly!" Lin Lan graciously sent him to the gate of the courtyard.

"Go back!" Li Xiangyang hurriedly got into the car and left.

Lin Lan sent Li Xiangyang away, and went back to look at Wangcai tied to the pillar of the eaves: "How about calling you Dahuang from now on?"

Gouzi looked up at her coldly, then lay down again.

Lin Lan went back to the room and saw Xiaodouzi sleeping with her belly upright sweating profusely, picked up the bamboo fan and fanned him for a while, and fell asleep herself.

When she woke up, Xiaodouzi was gone, and Lin Yuezhen and Yang Liying were pounding bean paste in the kitchen.

Yang Liying looked at her distressedly: "I didn't know I was robbed last night until I came here. That bastard Ye San is really nothing."

"I'm fine. Sister Yuezhen is back. Xiangyang also caught a coyote over here. I won't be afraid of thieves coming to the door in the future."

Yang Liying said with a smile: "Yeah! Xiangyang is a nice person. Xiaodouzi said that this dog is more powerful than rhubarb."

The three of them were busy with their work while talking. Frying orchid beans was a tormenting job in hot weather. The hot oil was smoky, sweat was profuse, and the towel around the neck was soaked in no time.

Before setting up the stall, Xiaodouzi came back with a small backpack on his back, with charcoal dust on the tip of his nose and forehead, and a black circle around his lips.

"Auntie, Dabai's family has laid eggs, I picked up millet and came back to feed them."

"Our little Douzi is really capable!" Yang Liying took him to wipe off the ashes on his face with a handkerchief, and gave him a look, "Aren't you going to burn grasshoppers to eat?"

"Hmm! Brother Kai, let's cook grasshoppers and sweet potatoes at the foot of the mountain. It's delicious."

Lin Lan looked at him with a sullen face: "You guys urged Xiao Kai to take you to cook something to eat. The last time I burned beans and ate Xiao Kai, I was beaten when I returned home. Also, the fish pond at the foot of the mountain is not safe. What if I fall into the fish pond? manage?"

Xiaodouzi pulled Lin Lan flatteringly: "Mom, I didn't go by the fish pond. Brother Kai put out the fire before we left."

Lin Lan patted the ashes on his body: "The millet in the field is yellow. If it is burned, everyone will have no food to eat next year and will be hungry. The next time you catch grasshoppers, it would be better for mom to fry them in oil and mix them with salt and pepper. eat."

Yang Liying pretended to be a villain and glared at him: "Your mother spoils you like this. Look at how hard your mother is! If you don't obey me, my aunt will beat you with a bamboo stick."

Xiaodouzi pouted and waited for a while before saying, "Remember! I'll feed Dabai."

Watching him open the door to the bamboo forest with a sling on his back, Yang Liying smiled again: "We were the same as them when we were young, we burned beans, sweet potatoes, and whatever grew in the field, we went to the foot of the mountain to cook and eat."

"We eat more in the mountains. After the busy farming, everyone goes up to the mountains to hunt chestnuts, and when they are hungry, they burn them on the mountains to eat."

After closing the stall in the afternoon, Lin Lan went to Zhou Xiaohong's house to have a look at the oven. It was more than one meter high and boxy, similar to an oven.

After reading it, Lin Lan decided to build an earthen oven slightly larger than her home to bake mooncakes.

Zhou Xiaohong took her to look for Master Lu at Master Lu's house on the next street.

Master Lu said that there were no iron plates or thick iron sheets in his house, and asked her to inform him when she had ready clay, bricks, cement, iron plates, and iron sheets, and it could be built in a day or two.

Lin Lan nodded: "Okay, I will invite you after I have prepared all the materials."

Coming out of Master Lu's house, Zhou Xiaohong said: "It is easy to find cement and bricks, but hard to find iron plates and thick iron sheets."

Lin Lan thought for a while: "I'll look for Li Wu, and the waiting soldiers will ask them."

"I'll ask for you too."

When setting up the stall the next day, Lin Lan asked several black market peddlers but couldn't find it. She thought about going back and asking Zhao Dehai to help buy the bricks and cement and put them away until she found a thick iron sheet.

Millet is rice, and it is called that in southern Sichuan.

It's the end of the month, and the cat has the cheek to beg for votes again. I beg you to move your rich hands and vote for the cat. Thank you!

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