Rebirth Farmer Yaomei

Chapter 14 Mom, you've become smarter!
Ning Wan grabbed two handfuls of beans, gave one to her mother, and pulled her out the door, but took out the door lock that hadn't been used for a long time and locked the door.As soon as I walked to the gate of the courtyard, I met the three old ladies, and asked with a smile, "Are you going to see the gods?"

Yu Shi also hated the third aunt in her heart, but she couldn't show a cold face to her elders anymore, so she also smiled and said: "I just want to go and see. Third aunt, let's go together."

The third old lady shook her head and said: "Wan'er likes to watch the excitement, so let her go, you have a body, be careful of being bumped into, I also watched too much and I don't want to go, I just wanted to talk to you. "

Sanjia Village is really a small mountain village that is too small, and there are only a few dozen families in the whole village, and everyone is very familiar with it, so even Mrs. Yu can fully understand the third aunt's mind now. It’s a lie, but it’s true to get some fried soybeans back—almost half of the soybeans grown at home will be taken away by Sanfang under various names throughout the year. The aunt took it by herself.

Compared with the stewed chicken, fried soybeans are easier to take away. Yu Shi knew that he could not stop the third aunt. Smart, stopped in front and laughed: "I've been very bored at home these few days, let Wan'er accompany me to go out for a walk, and don't go to the Earth Temple, just watch from a distance, I can't collide with it." The gate of the courtyard is closed, but there is no need to lock it. Few people in Sanjia Village lock the gate of the courtyard. When they go out with their youngest daughter, they ask politely with a smile: "Aunt San, are you not going?"

The third old lady was so angry that her nose turned crooked at Yu Shi's hypocrisy, but now she really didn't dare to scold Yu Shi anymore.Although the three stones of food can be relied upon by the family, the third old lady also knows that she is unreasonable, and she is particularly afraid of the youngest daughter of the eldest family, so she hatefully watched the mother and daughter of the eldest family walk away hand in hand .

Ning Wan was in a very good mood, she smiled and whispered, "Mother, you have become smarter!"

Yu Shi smiled and patted Yao Nu, "Mother is not stupid, but she is not as smart as you!"

Ning Wan laughed loudly, "I'm not born to be smart!" She took a fried soybean and put it in her mother's mouth, and ate one herself.

The land ancestral temple in Sanjia Village is at the foot of the mountain. The ancestral hall is as tall as one person. The ten-foot-square house is dedicated to the father-in-law and the mother-in-law of the land. I heard that it was built by the ancestors after collecting the grain for the first year from inside the customs. Later, everyone pooled money and invited craftsmen to mold the father-in-law and mother-in-law of the land and put them in. Since then, the father-in-law and the mother-in-law of the land have been blessing the people of Sanjia Village, and there is no big sacrifice in Sanjia Village every year. Stop, in addition, there are often some small worships during the spring and autumn seasons. As for each household, in addition to the worship together in the village, they will come to the land temple to kowtow to the patron saint of Sanjia Village whenever they encounter difficulties.

Those who presided over the sacrifice were all the older generations in the village. A few days ago, they collected [-] yuan from each household. Yesterday, they sent people to Ma Yi Town to buy incense, candles, drinks, and steamed a lot of noodles at Guo’s house. He also killed pigs at Yu's house.Now that Ning Wan and her mother arrived in front of the ancestral hall, they could see from a distance that the usually locked wooden fence gate was opened, the land father-in-law and land mother-in-law were both dressed in red, and the old man Guo was leading a village of men to kneel down and salute.

Because I was far away, I couldn't quite hear what Old Master Guo said, but it was nothing more than asking the father-in-law and mother-in-law of the land to bless the Sanjia Village with good weather and a good harvest.It took a while for Mr. Guo to stand up, and everyone got up with him, and lifted down the pig and several kinds of wine and fruits that were originally offered on the table, and then the people of Sanjia Village were most concerned about the distribution of sacrifices.

The big head of the sacrifice was naturally the pig, which was ordered before the Spring Festival, and was specially reserved for the sacrifice of the land god at this time.It's just that the father-in-law and the mother-in-law of the land can only enjoy the breath, and the real meat still has to be distributed to all the people in Sanjia Village. If everyone eats this sacrificial meat, they can bless each family with safety and prosperity.

Of course, Mr. Guo will do the sacrificial meat. This is a very decent job. It has always been done by the most respected person in the village. He distributes the sacrifices to the whole village fairly and equitably. An extra share is openly and honestly, which is the reward for hosting the sacrifice.

Not long after, Dad came back with a piece of meat in one hand and two noodles in the other. When he saw his wife and young daughter, he asked, "Where is Qing'er?"

Yu shook her head, "She went out first, we didn't see anyone when we came."

Ning Wan guessed that Ning Qing was going to look for Shopkeeper Liu, because it seemed that Shopkeeper Liu was going to Hujia Village today, which was the nearest village to Sanjia Village.Thinking that Ning Qing took a lot of fried soybeans before leaving, Ning Wan felt that her guess was right.

Parents may not know about it, but the marriage between Ning Qing and Merchant Liu has already taken shape, so they no longer care about it, and they both said, "Let's go back. Qing'er will come back when we eat sacrificial meat at noon."

At this time, the people of Sanjia Village also came back from the Earth Shrine one after another. Shuan'er from Sanfang ran in front of the three members of Dafang, but with a large piece of meat in his hand, he shouted loudly to the people from Ningjia Dafang , "Our family has much more meat than yours!"

Indeed, the piece of meat from the Ning family's big house is almost the smallest among all the families in Sanjia village. Not only is the piece of meat from Sanfang showing off to them, but also the piece of meat from the second room is about three times larger than their own.

It was only then that Ning Wan remembered that this year Mr. Guo did not distribute the sacrificial meat according to the number of households that received the money according to the previous habit, but according to the number of males in the village.As a result, there is only one male in the Ning family's eldest house, so the meat allocated will naturally be less.

It’s okay to have less sacrificial meat, but this piece of meat is really not very good. A pig’s trotter is connected to a pork leg bone. Almost all the meat on the bone is removed, leaving only a thin layer of lean meat on the outside. , not fat at all.Probably also felt that it was too little to justify, so he built another pig's trotter - it seems that Mr. Guo really hates his family, at least according to Ning Wan's dream, although the family did not have much meat at that time, but Not so little!

This is the most just elder in Sanjia Village!
Looking at her parents, although they were still smiling hard, but they were all sad, Ning Wan was not angry at all, instead she was a little happy, because in her dream, this year's Sheri mother had a miscarriage at home The three old ladies scooped up a large pot of soybeans at home the first day, and they called it fried soybeans for their mother. In fact, they only sent a small bowl when they were fried; After entering the door, Shuan'er broke into the house and shouted with a smile, "Your family is extinct, and you won't be able to share meat in the future!" Unavoidably, her face was full of sorrow, and my mother cried all day on the kang...

Everything is much better now, the only thing worse than before is that there is indeed less sacrificial meat than then.But thinking about how much money he took from Mr. Guo, let alone buying meat, he bought two or three heads of pigs, so Ning Wan smiled and said, "What's the rush? We will have a younger brother next year." , you can have two portions of meat, and a younger brother will have three portions in the year after, and there will be..."

Yu Shi was amused and laughed, "What are you being a mother, you have one every year!"

Ning Wan smiled again and said: "Even if mother only gave birth to a little brother, she can always let the little brother marry a wife and have more grandchildren. Wouldn't it be the same at that time to share many sacrificial meats?"

Dad couldn't help laughing either.

When the three of them returned home, Mother took the piece of meat and looked at it again, then glanced at the two noodles, and couldn't help but say, "It's only two hundred dollars for these things, Mr. Guo is too..." She can't say this to outsiders in the village, even before, she wouldn't say it in front of her daughter, at most she whispered a few words to her husband in bed, but now she doesn't avoid Ning Wan, she has long regarded her daughter as an adult up.

Ning Liang also lost his face, and said angrily: "The village has always collected money and distributed meat for sacrifices by household. Who would have thought that Mr. Guo could do this? I am too embarrassed to argue in front of everyone."

Ning Wan, on the other hand, was still very happy at this time, "Actually, pig's trotters are the best, I'll make them! And this big bone, it can make a good pot of soup and stew!" Said: "If everyone is still hungry for meat, we will kill another chicken!"

After hearing this, the parents quickly said: "Why kill chickens if you have pork!" But they can think about it, after all, there is one in Yu's stomach now, so there is hope, and as long as people have hope, they will not be really sad .

Ning Wan took the sacrificial meat from the family, first separated the big bones from the pig's trotters with a knife, washed the two pig's trotters, put a long piece of firewood under the stove, burned it for a while, and scalded it with the red end For the hair on the top, boil the water for a while, take it out and put it in cold water again, so that the tendons and skin of the pig's trotters can be stronger.

In her free time just now, she had already broken the big bones with an axe, and put a large pot of water to boil slowly over low heat.Sit down again and pluck the fine hairs on the pig's trotters again. It turns out that after soaking in boiling water and then soaking in cold water, the pig hairs are easier to remove.

Mother saw that Yaonu was doing things in an orderly manner, and she couldn't help at all, so she called her husband, "Go to the vegetable cellar and get two Chinese cabbages. It would be best to eat some cabbages after boiling bone soup at noon." .”

The winter in Sanjia Village is very cold. No matter what kind of vegetables are placed outside the house, they will freeze to death, and if they are too hot inside the house, they will quickly rot. Therefore, every family has a vegetable cellar, which is dug six or seven feet deep in the ground. , and then put Chinese cabbage, radish and other storage-resistant vegetables in it, it will last through winter.Whenever it's time to eat, you have to go to the bottom of the cellar to get it.

Ning Liang agreed to open the lid of the cellar, and took out two Chinese cabbages in a short while.Mrs. Yu took it, picked off all the shriveled and worn-out leaves, and then put them in the water basin to wash, and only put the vegetables in after the meat and bone soup turned white.

There is another little trick here, that is, Chinese cabbage should not be cut with a knife, but should be torn into small pieces by hand, which tastes better than small pieces cut with a knife.

(End of this chapter)