Dad's Pastoral Life

Chapter 507 Can't point to the moon!

Seeing Cheng He busy here, Cheng Xinxin quickly ran over.

She thought that she would eat roasted sweet potatoes later, so she climbed onto her father's lap and sat there, waiting for the sweet potatoes to be ready.

After waiting comfortably, my legs were still shaking.

Cheng He patted her leg and said, "You really know how to find a place to sit!"

Cheng Xinxin giggled, twisted and said, "Dad, I want to eat the first roasted sweet potato."

"Okay, I'll give you the first one."

It is good to have an oven at home. If you want to eat barbecue at any time, just light a fire.I also ate lotus leaf chicken last time.

Seeing that there was still a fat sweet potato left in the basin, Bai Qian asked, "Why don't you throw this in? Wash it together, don't you look down on fat ones? I will get fatter and fatter in the future."

Now, probably because of her pregnancy, she is a little sensitive to the word "fat".

This sweet potato is indeed of the "chubby" type. Cheng He raised it and said, "Such a cute shape, you say fat? You have bad eyesight."

Bai Qian was successfully appeased, and said with a smile: "Really? Then I chose you, how do I look?"

"You just have a good eye for choosing men, but the others are not. Let me tell you why you left this, because, this sweet potato is too thick, it is easy to be cooked on the side, and the center is still raw; or the outside is mushy. , the inside is only cooked, so it is best to choose sticks for roasted sweet potatoes." Cheng He said.

In the past, when they didn't build a special oven, they just threw sweet potatoes into the stove and roasted them while the fire was on.

Those kind of fat and big sweet potatoes are usually not baked, because as Cheng He said, they are either undercooked or mushy.

Bai Qian said: "There are so many ways to bake a sweet potato."

"Otherwise, do you think it's easy to be a farmer?"

While Cheng He was talking, he cut the sweet potato into several large pieces with a knife, and threw it directly into the pigsty from a long distance, and the two pigs ate it loudly.

Bai Qian watched his movements and said, "Sweet potatoes are also eaten by pigs? Do you want to say that we are fighting pigs for food?"

Cheng He laughed and said, "Then what can I do? The food you want to eat, let alone pigs, is eaten by humans. I have to get it for you..."

He said it with an aggrieved face.

Bai Qian was so angry with this guy that she couldn't help it. She couldn't beat or talk, so she had to find reinforcements.She said to Cheng Xinxin, "Xinxin, your father said we are all pigs!"

He thought that his daughter was going to vent his anger on her, but Cheng Xinxin didn't get her point at all.

When Cheng Xinxin heard it, she answered naturally, "Mom, I'm Paige, you're Mummy Pig, and Dad is Daddy Pig, hehe... Our family still lacks a brother George, hehe..."

As she spoke, she also imitated the pig humming in the cartoon.

This……

She didn't feel at all that calling her a pig was scolding her!

Bai Qian: "..."

The search for reinforcements failed.

However, this girl is quite interesting, saying that the family still lacks a brother George!

Bai Qian and Cheng He looked at each other and smiled, their hearts were very sweet.Since Cheng Xinxin is still too young to understand the meaning of "pregnant", and her belly is not yet big, she doesn't know where to start, so she hasn't told her first.

Bai Qian planned to tell her when her stomach got bigger.

In fact, she often heard on the Internet that the eldest in the family was unwilling to have younger siblings, and she was quite worried, but sometimes she guessed from the sidelines and felt that Cheng Xinxin would not be like this.

Her heart is very soft, gentle, and tolerant, and she should not reject having one more person in the family.

After such a sentence, the couple who were still bickering just now have forgotten the previous topic.

Cheng He asked Bai Qian: "Did you dig this sweet potato?"

"Yes."

"The doctor said..."

"Boss Cheng, old woman, I only dug up a few sweet potatoes. It's not a lot of physical work. I know the severity. Don't be so nervous. Okay?" Bai Qian said with a smile.

Seeing that she was in good health, Cheng He was relieved and asked, "What did you have for dinner?"

When talking about food, Bai Qian became excited. She sat down and said with great interest: "There are two food restaurants in the village, none of them are from our village. The fresh bean curd is the same as what we ate at Nanshan's last time, and Xinxin and I have eaten at both."

Cheng He was speechless, laughed out loud, and asked, "Is it newly opened?"

He was busy learning to paraglider these days, so he didn't pay much attention to the things in the village.

Bai Qian said: "Well, it's new, how can I not know? I think the taste is not bad, let's go there for breakfast tomorrow?"

Bai Qian had almost finished eating all the farmhouses in Taohua Village, and she also tried this newly opened one.Anyway, Cheng He doesn't eat at home. She is not good at cooking, so she will eat outside.

Cheng He didn't object. There was no rule that he had to eat at his own house. Anyway, there was one in the village.

Since the tourism industry in Taohua Village has stabilized, the farmhouses and homestays in the village have benefited a lot. The business is very good, and many people have made money.

The people in the nearby villages couldn't help being jealous when they saw it, and they wanted to follow suit to make some money.

Those who are willing to learn bamboo weaving have already come here, and others will also see if there are any small labor needs on the construction site here, and do some casual work to earn some money;
And those who are clumsy, unable to learn, and have no energy to do small jobs, they have the idea of ​​selling snacks.

Cheng He did not refuse this point. Originally, in addition to building a hotel, the village also built a small commercial center to prepare for these. They can sell some snacks and gadgets. They only need to spend a certain amount of money to rent It can be operated when it is down.

After any scenic spot becomes prosperous, there will be these needs, and it is impossible for the people in this village to cover everything.

It can be said that Taohua Village has gradually used these aspects to drive the surrounding villages. Although there are no major cooperation projects, these aspects have also somewhat driven.

Perhaps those who cannot go out to work can also use these methods to make money at home.

This also indirectly made Bai Qian happy. When she saw any food, she wanted to try it. Sometimes she felt embarrassed and used Cheng Xinxin as a shield—well, she followed the child because she wanted to eat. , After all, you can't wrong the child.

Cheng Xinxin ignored the adults' conversation, sat on her father's lap by herself, and started singing and playing when she was bored.

"twinkle Twinkle Little Star,

The sky is full of little stars,
Hanging in the sky to shine light,
like many small eyes,
twinkle Twinkle Little Star,

The sky is full of little stars……"

Singing, clapping and playing, attentively waiting for the roasted sweet potatoes to be cooked.

At this time, the sky was completely dark, and Cheng Xinxin occasionally looked up and saw the stars in the sky light up. She pointed at the crescent moon with a smile and said, "The moon is so small..."

Cheng He hurriedly took her hand and said, "Children can't point at the moon, otherwise, the moon will come to cut your ears at night..."

Cheng Xinxin was really startled, she retracted her hands to cover her ears, and asked in a low voice, "Dad, why did the moon cut off my ears?"

"Because it doesn't like being pointed at by others." Cheng He made serious nonsense.

Bai Qian didn't tear him down, but she also looked at him with disgust, thinking that he shouldn't talk nonsense to children like this.What a beautiful thing the moon is, why should children be afraid?

Cheng He shrugged and said, "What can I do? I was told so by adults when I was a child. I can't stop the inheritance here. Such a beautiful story must be passed down from generation to generation."

Bai Qian couldn't help being amused when she heard him turn the fallacy into the truth.

Yes, inheritance. I don’t know how much the mountain village culture can be passed on. After being assimilated by the city, it will become less and less like a mountain village.

Many rural inheritances seem to be unreasonable and have nothing to do with science, but it is precisely because of the existence of these things that they reflect the flavor of the mountain village.

If there is nothing left, only the shape of the mountain village remains.Let these innocuous things be preserved, why not do it?

Cheng He said to Cheng Xinxin in a serious manner: "Look, mom and dad don't dare point fingers, we're all afraid."

The little girl was a little scared, covered her ears, and asked Cheng He in a low voice: "Dad, then I pointed at the moon just now, did it see it?"

Judging by the look on her face, she was very worried.

Cheng He said: "I don't know if I saw it. Otherwise, if Dad doesn't sleep tonight, I will help you guard it, okay? If the moon comes to cut your ears, I will speak nicely to it and tell it not to cut your ears." ,OK?"

Cheng Xinxin nodded cautiously, obviously taking it seriously.

Then she asked again: "What if the moon comes to cut off Dad's ears?"

It seemed that she did not forget to worry about her father.

Cheng He was quite comforted by Lao Huai, and then said: "Dad is not afraid, because Dad didn't point out just now, the moon will not cut my ears."

Cheng Xinxin nodded reassuringly.

Finally, Bai Qian couldn't bear it any longer, and burst out laughing with a "poof".

Children are so sweet.

She was a little embarrassed to laugh out loud in front of everyone, so she brought up a topic and asked, "Tell me, when did the saying that the moon can't be pointed at and ears can be cut off come out? Why can't it be pointed out?" Woolen cloth?"

Cheng He shook his head and said: "Who knows. Maybe it has been passed down for thousands of years, maybe there was a reason at first, and then the reason was forgotten, and the only thing left is that it can't refer to the moon. "

While talking, he saw that the sweet potatoes in the oven were a little soft, so he quickly turned them over with long tongs.Otherwise, one side will be burnt and the other side will be raw.

Cheng He said: "Let me tell you, this sweet potato is not the most delicious now. After the winter moon, after the frost, the sweet potato will wilt. At that time, it is really crispy and sweet. fine."

"Really? Why is it delicious when it's wilted? Isn't it fresh?" Bai Qian asked.

"It's possible that the fresh ones haven't been extracted from the sugar yet, and they'll become soft when they're wilted, or they'll become sweeter after part of the water has evaporated?" Cheng He said speculatively.

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