happy daughter-in-law

Chapter 20 Pickled sauerkraut ([-])

"Yunfang, are you going to pickle sauerkraut this year?" In the evening, Dashuan's daughter-in-law was sitting in the courtyard and saw Yunfang's girl walking home, thinking she must have just finished work, and asked.

"You are alone, and you will be hit if you don't pickle it. I will pickle a few more and bring yours out." Dashuan's daughter-in-law said with a smile.

"Thank you, sister-in-law. I have been thinking for two days to ask you to pickle a pot for me. I have sun-dried all the vegetables, but I am not very good at pickling." Shen Yunfang pawed at the fence wall to watch Dashuan's daughter-in-law pickle the cabbage leaves deftly. .

"Oh, you can't eat much by yourself, why don't you pickle it, just come to the house and get one when you want to eat." Dashuan's daughter-in-law didn't stop talking.

"No need, I grew a lot of cabbage this year, and I can't eat sauerkraut without pickling it. It's better to pickle it." It's still righteousness to eat comfortably at home.

"Okay, I'll pickle the food for you tomorrow after I've finished pickling it at home." Dashuan's daughter-in-law didn't try to persuade her, and agreed without hesitation.

"That's great." Shen Yunfang was also happy, "Hey, why didn't you see Brother Dashuan?"

"He, he went to pick up the child from her grandmother's house." Dashuan's wife couldn't stop smiling when she thought that her daughter would come back at night.

"Oh, Xiaojuan is coming back, so you have to take her to my house to play tomorrow." Shen Yunfang didn't have much impression of the little girl from Dashuan's family, she just remembered that she seemed to be in poor health and very quiet. little girl.

"What are you doing with her? She will make trouble when we work." She scolded, but the smile on her face showed her true thoughts.

"Xiaojuan is not a child who makes trouble. It's settled like this. Tomorrow night, you bring Xiaojuan with you. I will fry pumpkin seeds for you to eat." Shen Yunfang walked to her home after speaking.

When she got home, Shen Yunfang turned over the pumpkin seeds drying in the yard with her hands. They were almost dry, and they could be fried tomorrow morning, and kept them for entertaining guests tomorrow night.

Then she started to get busy, first she prepared dinner for herself, steamed a pot of rice, then fried shredded potatoes, sliced ​​cabbage, stewed melon and so on.

In summer, a circle of melons was planted in the yard. Two days ago, Shen Yunfang took back a total of sixteen large melons, and asked her to put them in the cellar.

In order to fear that she is too used to using the space, which will reveal her flaws in front of people in the future, so now as long as it is visible to the light, she will store it at home normally, and only those who cannot show up now will use the space. .

Nested melons are easy to store, so Shen Yunfang put them all in the cellar, as well as most of the harvested sweet potatoes and potatoes, and the leftovers from her family's food, etc.

The next night, just after she finished eating at home, Dashuan's daughter-in-law brought her little girl, Xiaojuan, over.

"Hey, Xiaojuan is here, let's see what delicious food Auntie left for you." Shen Yunfang carried the child onto the kang, and then dragged a basket next to it, which contained the pumpkin seeds she fried in the morning.

"Thank you, Aunt Fang." The little girl was a little shy, but she still gave Shen Yunfang a smile, and then said in a low voice.

"Oh, Xiaojuan is so good." Shen Yunfang touched the little girl's two little brushes and said with a smile.

This time the little girl's smile widened, revealing two small front teeth.Children also need praise.

"No prospect." Dashuan's daughter-in-law scolded her daughter with a smile, and then she complained to Shen Yunfang, "Why are you doing this for her? It's not a New Year's day or a holiday." Only when they are fried and eaten, there are very few prodigals like Shen Yunfang.

"Our Xiaojuan is so obedient, who will eat if you don't give it to Xiaojuan, right, Xiaojuan?" Shen Yunfang teased the child.

I don't know if it's because she's getting old in her heart, but she likes such a quiet little girl from the heart to the outside.

"Children are not used to it." Dashuan's daughter-in-law smiled and saw her little boy holding a pumpkin seed, sitting there seriously and chewing it with a few small front teeth. It was so cute.

"What, I'm used to eating a few pumpkin seeds, Xiaojuan, just wait, wait until Aunt Fang goes to the county to buy you candy in two days."

"Okay, let her play in the house by herself, let's quickly pickle the sauerkraut for you." Dashuan's daughter-in-law doesn't like to take advantage of others, especially Shen Yunfang who is a loner, so she hastened to remind her that she still has business to do.

So the two moved to the courtyard, and since Shen Yunfang was not familiar with the work of pickling sauerkraut, she listened to Dashuan's wife's order and boiled a large pot of boiling water in a large iron pot.Then I turned out a half-person-high small vat from under the window in the backyard, washed it inside and out for the well in the backyard, rolled it into the main room, scalded the inside with boiling water, and played a good role. Disinfection.

Then she began to chop cabbage leaves with Dashuan's daughter-in-law.

"Are you going to the county in two days?" Dashuan's daughter-in-law seemed to mean that when she heard Yunfang just now.

"Well, I'm short of everything at home, so I can't afford to buy them. Besides, it's about to snow. I don't have any cotton clothes for the winter yet. I have to hurry to see if there's any cotton for sale. I'll buy some so I can come back and make a living." Cotton clothes." Shen Yunfang explained.

"That's right, you won't be able to survive the winter in this suit." Dashuan's daughter-in-law looked at what she was wearing, and nodded. "Although there are supply and marketing cooperatives in our brigade, if you want to buy cloth and cotton, you still have to go to the supply and marketing cooperatives in the county. There are all kinds of things there. But after waiting for two days, it will be time to go to the market. You can go to the market to see and get It can happen even if it’s not good.”

There are still episodes?Shen Yunfang really didn't know about this. It's not that private sales are not allowed at this time, why is there still a market.

"You look like you don't remember, that's right, your mother never took you there before." Dashuan's daughter-in-law was amused to see Shen Yunfang's surprised face, but then she thought of Yunfang's mother's temper, Also relieved.

"Sister-in-law, there will be an event someday. Sister-in-law, do you want to go, or the two of us go together." Shen Yunfang looked at Dashuan's daughter-in-law with sparkling eyes.

"Haha, what am I going to do? I don't have anything to buy." Dashuan's daughter-in-law really wanted to go, but she only had the two money in her pocket, and she saved it for her daughter's medical treatment, so she couldn't spend it recklessly.

"Can you take a look without buying it? I haven't been to the market since I grew up, and I can't find a place to go." Shen Yunfang said with emotion.

Dashuan's daughter-in-law was so teased by her that she burst out laughing, "Don't worry, the commune is such a big place, you can take a look at it when the time comes, and you can go to the place with the most people."

"Hehe, sister-in-law, my house is short of everything, and there are many things I want to buy. When the time comes, you can follow me. You can help me carry some things, and you can give me advice and advice." Shen Yunfang saw that Dashuan's daughter-in-law was hesitant. If you want to improve the relationship, of course you are trying your best to encourage it.

Later, Dashuan's daughter-in-law couldn't bear Shen Yunfang's nagging, and agreed to go to the market with her, and the two of them also had a companion.

(End of this chapter)