My village can't be like this

Chapter 77

I ate a big bowl of noodles in the morning, and the family was not too hungry, so Zhang An's family ate their lunch later.

After finishing all the preparations, Wang Fang began to make zongzi.

There are two kinds of rice dumplings in the village, white rice dumplings and meat rice dumplings.

But Zhang An didn't like white rice dumplings, so Wang Fang made salty rice dumplings filled with bacon.

Due to regional differences in diet, some people only like to eat sweet rice dumplings and sweet tofu nao, while others only like salty rice dumplings and salty tofu nao.

Of course, there are very few people who can eat both sweet and salty food. For them, it is just a kind of food, and it doesn't matter whether they like it or not, as long as they can eat it.

Both of these have not yet begun to break out conflicts, and the general trend of the sweet party and the salty party competing for the world has not yet reached.

But Zhang An himself is a loyal supporter of the salty party. He was used to eating it when he was a child. When later generations lived in other places, although the locals ate sweets, Zhang An still didn't get used to it.

Salted rice dumplings and salty tofu nao with chili are always the best in Zhang An's heart.

In fact, everyone in Changqing Village likes to eat salty rice dumplings, but because of poor conditions in the family, they only made white rice dumplings every time.

When Zhang An's father, Zhang Jianguo, and his generation were young, all they ate were white rice dumplings, not even dipped in sugar.

So until now there are only white rice dumplings left over, and the old people who are used to eating still make some every year, which means remembering bitterness and thinking about sweetness.

The dumplings made in the village are different from those in Guangdong and Guangxi.

Later generations of Zhang An saw that the zongzi made by Guangdong and Guangxi were long, while the ones made by the villagers themselves were triangular and pyramid-shaped.

The whole family watched Zhang An's father because he didn't know how to make bags.

Zhang Jianguo doesn't know how to cook, let alone make dumplings or zongzi.

He doesn't know these things, so Zhang An's Wang Fangneng has been controlling him for so many years.

In the past, when the two quarreled occasionally, Wang Fang didn't cook, and Zhang Jianguo had to bow his head obediently for at most two days.

But for Zhang An, Wang Fang taught him hand in hand since he was a child.

If you can't cook, you won't be able to find a daughter-in-law, and even if you find one, you will be taken care of.

So I taught Zhang An how to cook, how to make dumplings, how to make dumplings, and how to make cakes from an early age.

The reason is that I don't want my son to be manipulated by his daughter-in-law when he gets married.

Zhang Jianguo felt that his mother-in-law was not a standard person.

On the one hand, control yourself, on the other hand, teach your son not to be manipulated by others.

Zhang An followed his mother and quickly wrapped the zongzi.

In this way, the day of the Dragon Boat Festival passed by.

For children, they still have to go to school when they should go to school, but the family will make zongzi for them to eat, and the dishes that Kenmeng cooks at home will be better than usual. This is something that makes them happy.

Most people in the village now have three meals a year, which are basically those few dishes, and they usually don’t buy meat for cooking, except for Chinese New Year.

So there is such a saying, adults look forward to farming, and children look forward to the New Year.

In the evening, I cooked zongzi, and made dinner a little more casually.

If you are hungry at night, you can grab some to eat.

Zhang An hadn't eaten zongzi for a long time, so he ate five in one meal, and Wang Fang was worried that he had accumulated food.

"Xiao An, do you think there are too many ducks in our house?"

Sitting in the yard at night, Wang Fang counted in the outer circle.

When there were not many ducks in the house before, it was easy to see how many ducks there were at a glance.

But later, as the ducks in the family hatched several broods of ducklings, the number of ducks in the family increased a lot.

Every night, Wang Fang also made it a habit to go to see if the chickens and ducks at home were in the pen, and she counted them a little every day, so she knew the number.

"Ah, aren't there always a lot of ducks at home?"

Zhang An really didn't pay attention to this problem.

"I have been counting before. There are 21 big ducks in our family, and the eight ducklings just hatched a few days ago, but now there are 25 big ducks crowded in this circle."

Hearing this, Zhang An went to the side and counted them. My mother must have remembered correctly.

After counting, it was really 25 big ducks.

"Couldn't someone's duck run over?"

Zhang An turned on the flashlight and looked at it, and knew what was going on.

"Mom, there are a few more ducks, but they are not from the village. It should be that during the day when the ducks are in the river, some wild ones may have followed them in. Don't worry about them."

Wang Fang was afraid that other people's ducks would come to her own house, which would cause unnecessary disputes.

Recently, there have been many more water birds in the big river, and there have been many more water ducks.

Maybe it was because they saw a lot of ducks in Zhang An's house, so they joined together, because water ducks are social creatures.

When passing the deer shed, Zhang An went inside to have a look.

The yellow deer brought back in the morning are now familiar with Dahua's family, after all, they are all animals of the deer genus.

It should be regarded as distant relatives, maybe the language is interlinked.

Now there are two expectant mothers in the family, so Zhang An pays attention to their meals.

In the cherry grove at home, a lot of spring water was poured when the trees were planted, so now not only the trees grow well in the grove, but even the grass grows very lush.

Originally, Zhang Jianguo wanted to take advantage of the free time to get rid of the grass inside.

But Zhang An didn't want to shovel it anymore, because during the day, Dahua's family and Dahei would go inside to graze.

It happened to save Zhang An the effort of mowing the grass every day.

After all, the grass in the forest was watered with space spring water, so it was quite popular.

Zhang An touched the yellow deer, and now it is a member of the family.

Zhang An was thinking in his heart that he should give this little guy a name.

The big black horse at home is called Dahei, and the sika deer is called Dahua.

Looking at the yellow fur of the muntjac, Zhang An gave full play to his reputation.

After thinking about it again, I got it, this deer is called Dahuang, and when its child is born, if it still has yellow fur, it will be called Xiaohuang.

perfect!

Zhang An is very satisfied with his naming level.

Patting the little guy on the back, "Little guy, you will be called Dahuang from now on."

Zhang An specially gave Cuihua and Rhubarb a drink of their favorite space spring water, and guarded them to eat a bunch of fresh space grass.

There's no way, it won't work if you don't keep it.

The main reason is that big flower, a scumbag, doesn't know how to be courteous to pregnant women.

If Zhang An is not around, the water is also his, and the grass is also his.

The remaining two pregnant mothers can only watch with dry eyes.

When sleeping at night in summer, there are still so many mosquitoes, and the buzzing is the most annoying.

This year Zhang An didn't get used to them, and directly lit the mosquito coils he just bought.

In the past, the family didn't buy mosquito coils because Wang Fang thought it was too expensive, and it was a bit of a saving. When she went to bed at night, she burned a handful of hay to repel mosquitoes, and then put down the mosquito net.

What impressed Zhang An most was that he had to chase away mosquitoes every day when he slept.

At that time, every family had mosquito nets made of palm leaves. Every day before going to bed, the mosquitoes on the bed would be chased away, and then the mosquito net would be put down to ensure that they would not be sucked blood while sleeping.

However, some mosquito nets are made of white cloth, which are somewhat airtight and uncomfortable to sleep at night.

When summer started this year, Zhang An bought several boxes of mosquito coils.

Although the current mosquito coils are expensive, they are very effective.

Zhang An lit a plate of mosquito coils and burned them until dawn the next day.

When I woke up in the morning, the ground was full of suffocated sharp-nosed mosquitoes.

But Wang Fang was still very worried, saying that the smell of burning mosquito coils was poisonous, and she was afraid that she would be poisoned when she fell asleep at night.

Many people thought so at the time. In their opinion, mosquito coils are neither poisonous nor kill mosquitoes.

Zhang An explained to his mother for a long time before letting her accept it.

But every time they lit the mosquito coils, they saw that the mosquitoes were almost smoked, so they got up and snuffed out the mosquito coils, and then put down the mosquito net on the bed.

On the one hand, I am still worried about gas poisoning, and on the other hand, I want to save some.

Zhang An was very annoyed by these mosquitoes, and every time he saw the scene of dead mosquitoes piled up on the ground, he cried out in his heart: How dead.

As time goes by, summer is getting hotter and hotter.

It was cooler when I first woke up in the morning, but the weather was already too hot by nine o'clock.

Everyone couldn't eat lunch, so Wang Fang had to pick some green beans and zucchini in the garden and cook a pot.

After cooling down, it tastes good, with a icy and sweet taste.

"Your family is eating."

While Zhang An's family was eating, Second Master Huang came to Zhang An's house.

"Don't be too busy, my family has already eaten. I came here to ask Jianguo to help my family wear a cow's nose later. The little scalper at home has grown a lot, and it's time to wear a nose."

Seeing Wang Fang getting up to get bowls and chopsticks for herself, Erye Huang quickly dissuaded him and said to the family.

Zhang An, the little scalper of their family, has an impression that Huang Erye took his own cow and calf with Zhang An to let off the wind on the mountain.

I didn't expect that after these few months, I could already wear a cow's nose.

But when Zhang An saw it, the little calf was no longer young, and now a few months have passed.

This kind of newborn animal has a very fast growth rate in the early stage, basically not changing every day, but it can also be seen that the calf has been growing up.

Wearing a cow's nose requires the help of many people, and it is necessary to find someone with experience.

So this time Huang Erye invited Zhang Jianguo instead of Zhang An, because Zhang An had no experience in crossing the nose.

Although there are not many people raising cattle in Changqing Village, there are also two kinds of cattle raised in the village, yellow cattle and buffaloes.

The yellow ox has yellow skin, short horns and short hair, while the buffalo has taupe fur, a pair of big horns on its head, and slightly longer hair.

There are more buffaloes in the south, and more cattle in the north.

And in the mountainous area in the southwest, there are cattle and buffaloes.

It can be seen from the name that buffalo loves water. Zhang An often sees buffaloes in the village, and often submerges his whole body into the big river, and doesn't want to come out for a long time.

(End of this chapter)