Rebirth Farmhouse

Chapter 148

Qian Xiuyao discussed with her parents about buying piglets for these two hangings. The piglets are about 20 yuan a catty, each of which is about [-] catties, and each of them is about [-] yuan. The total is a lot of money.If the piglets were sold as meat, the price would naturally be around [-] yuan, but country people, unless they were dead piglets, basically no one would sell piglets for meat.There are also very few people who buy piglets to eat meat, they always buy them as pigs.

The pigsty at home is broken, so it has to be repaired in order to raise piglets.It is necessary to dig a ring pit, build a wall, re-nail the ring door, and do all kinds of trivial work.

After breakfast this day, the Lius all went to weave gloves.

Qin Dafu said to Qin Xian and Xiuxian: "You take a basket of grass and send it to fertilize and then come back quickly. We need to tidy up the pigsty and raise a few pigs to fatten up this year."

Xiu Xian went immediately after she responded, but Qin Xian was a little bit unhappy. In the past, this kind of physical work was done by the eldest brother, but now he has to do everything.He hesitated and said: "Father, I'll go and see that Er Dada is okay, so let him help." The elder brother is here to save his injured hand, so it's only right for him to help.

Qin Dafu said: "What did you tell Er Dada to do? He also has a job. Go quickly, don't evade excuses."

Although Qin Xian was not happy, he still went with the basket.

Qin Dafu didn't allow Qin Ye to help, so let him watch from the sidelines, and the two of you talked.

Xiuyao heard it, and hurriedly said: "Father, don't forget to dig a small hut next to it, it's not good to raise pigs in the hut."

Qin Yang laughed, imitating the way of going to the toilet to drive pigs: "Liu, yo." He said to Xiuli: "Aren't you going to dig rings with us?"

Xiuli wondered: "I want to, too, but my mother told me to go home after dinner." The second aunt kept her tight and told her to eat and sleep in the big room, and she was not allowed to help with work, and she had to go home after dinner. Go to work, otherwise she will be beaten or scolded. She is afraid, so she dare not delay.

Qin Yang looked worried about the country and the people, and sighed: "You are really unfortunate, you are in dire straits, and you urgently need someone to rescue you."

Hearing what he said was embarrassing, Xiuyao slapped him, "Hurry up and do your homework, don't go back to school, if the teacher asks you, you will just say you forgot."

Qin Yang had no choice but to move a small house and sit in the yard to review books. Xiuyao took a homemade charcoal pencil and made plans aside. She has the habit of making plans.Make a note of the completed projects, and then list the new plans below, so she can keep track of them.

And Qin Dafu went to dig circles.

Qin Ye came over to help with a big hoe, Qin Dafu saw it and shouted: "Daye, put it down, put it down, don't touch your hands, it's been more than a month, and it will be better in two months, but Don't be tired anymore."

Qin Ye said: "Father, I'm not that delicate. I don't use my right hand, but I can use my left hand."

But Qin Dafu refused and insisted on letting him stay, so Qin Ye had no choice but to rub Xiuqin's eyes.Rubbing eyeballs are the cotton slivers used for rubbing spinning threads. Untie the lint, and press down a piece of cotton more than half a foot square with a tappet. When you rub it with your hands, the cotton becomes a piece of cotton wool with a hollow in the middle. .

Soon Xiuxian came back after cutting the grass, put down the sickle and basket, she said: "Father, I'll go to help Nanny Zhou's house to carry water first." As she said that, she took off her coat and went with a bucket, and came back not long after. As soon as he put the pole and bucket away, he tied up his skirt and went over to help shovel the soil.

She said to Qin Dafu: "Father, you take a rest, I will do it for a while."

Qin Dafu came up and sat on the wall to rest for a while, and asked, "Where is Er Xian, didn't you come back with you?"

Xiuxian said: "I didn't see him. I came back after I got the grass. Dad, I saw weedwort and shepherd's purse in our wheat field. I have to dig."

Qin Dafu turned to Xiuyao and said, "Yaoyao, why don't you take a small basket and go to the wheat field, gouging out wheatworms and shepherd's purse, and gouging out now, so as not to grow taller and have to do it again." Go get it."

After hearing this, Xiuyao threw down the charcoal pencil and said, "Okay." Then she called Qin Yang, "Little Yang, let's go, I will lead you to let the wind go, so that you won't be idle and grow hair." In Zhang's words, That is the one who is too hungry and thin.

Seeing this, Qin Ye hurriedly said, "It's nothing to worry about, I'll go with you."

Qin Dafu hurriedly warned: "Pay attention to your hands, don't hold heavy things."

Qin Ye responded, "Father, I know."

Xiuyao didn't want him to go, but Qin Ye couldn't stay idle and insisted on going, so Xiuyao had no choice but to take him with him.But Xiuyao didn't allow him to carry the basket, so she carried it by herself, and took a broken sack, if it couldn't fit, she would put it in the bag.

Qin Yang helped her carry the shovel, and the three of them set off to the wheat field.Last year, their family planted [-] mu of wheat, and kept the other [-] mu of land for cotton.In early spring, the wheat has not yet turned green, but is a dry and dull green.

Vegetables such as spinach, cabbage, and radish have been interplanted on the wheat ridge before, and it has been hoed several times, so it is very soft.There are still some spinach that has not been dug up, and there is not enough wheat grass to cover it. After the invasion of the cold winter, the color is gray and faded, and it is very ugly to shrink.

These frozen spinach will not taste good even if they are kept in the future.

Xiuyao said: "Brother, let's dig out these frozen spinach."

Qin Ye looked at it and thought it was a pity, but if he kept it for a few days, it would not turn green again and would absorb nutrients, so he also supported digging it out.Fortunately, there are not a lot of spinach here. I basically dug it home to cook a few years ago. I was thinking that I could eat the self-cultivated field in spring, so I didn’t keep much here.

After the spinach was almost dug up, Xiuyao and the others began to dig up wild vegetables such as Artemisia annua and shepherd's purse.

The wheat in early spring is not afraid of being stepped on, and the more you step on it, the more prosperous it is, so Xiuyao is not afraid of Qin Yang running around in the wheat field looking for wild vegetables.

She said to Qin Yang: "Little Yang, you can't bump into it like that. You have to follow a wheat ridge, dig out what you see, and then come back along the other, otherwise the digging won't be clean."

Qin Yang was running around digging wild vegetables. Hearing what Xiuyao said, he said curiously, "Then I have dug wild vegetables, so much."

Xiuyao said: "We came this time to dig up all the wild vegetables in the field, not to dig a lot of wild vegetables to eat at home. So you dig in our own field, don't dig in other people's fields, Don't run around."

After listening to his sister's words, Qin Yang felt that it made sense, so he began to dig wild vegetables in a regular manner. His calves were light, and he was able to dig a piece in a short while.

After half a day, he got hot and had to take off his coat, "Sister, it's so hot, I have to take off my coat."

Xiuyao refused, "It's cold in early spring, don't take it off, I don't have money to buy medicine when I have a cold."

Qin Yang had no choice but to bear it. After a while, not only him, but also Xiuyao and Qin Ye felt the heat.Looking up at the sky, it was almost noon, and the sun was hanging white on the head that day, which made people feel warm.

Xiuyao said to Qin Ye: "Brother, why is it so hot this year?"

Qin Ye also felt strange, "It was still chilly at this time last year."

After digging wild vegetables in a wheat field, Xiuyao and her elder brother took Qin Yang home, and came back after lunch, trying to walk the ten mu of wheat field in one day.When she got home, Xiuyao found that it wasn't just them who were hot, but the second sister who was helping her father dig the rings had taken off her small jacket and was working there in a jacket.

The mother and the two older sisters haven't come back yet, the second sister can't cook by herself, and the second brother is even less likely to take the initiative to cook, and the father is still digging circles.

Xiuyao took the initiative to make lunch, anyway, the noodle rolls are ready-made at home, she only needs to boil the noodle rolls for a while, and then fry two dishes and make two pickles.

Qin Ye didn't want to be idle, so he helped her light the fire. Xiuyao put the noodle rolls on first, and then started to prepare the food.

Qin Yang ran in and shouted: "Sister, I don't want to eat Qingbai Shuangke anymore." Qingbai Shuangke is cabbage and spinach, and he eats it almost every other day. He is tired of eating it and wants to change it.

Xiuyao smiled and said: "In the past, there was nothing to eat at home, each cabbage had one chopstick, now you can eat whatever you want, you are picky, yes, my sister will change things for you."

Qin Yang shook Xiuyao's arm, "Sister is the best, I'm going to help daddy and the others dig a hole."

But Xiuyao said: "Little Yang, you pick some toon sprouts outside the window, and when you turn around, my sister rubs them and marinates them to eat." The farmer's spring is when vegetables are in short supply, and last autumn the dried vegetables were long gone. Those who will plan may still have cabbage and radishes left, and those who are diligent and skillful will also have spinach and leeks. Last year, if the bean rich family made sauce, now they can eat fresh sauce. Pimples and radish sticks.Chinese toon will germinate in early spring. At this time, the young leaves are the most delicious. Pick off the tender branches and leaves, rub them gently with salt for a while, and then seal them to prevent them for a few days.When the time comes, you can take it out and eat it directly, or chop it up and mix it with sesame oil. You can also scramble eggs or make stewed eggs.

Qin Yang naturally knew the taste, so he went to pick it immediately, and kept telling Xiuyao to make more, he really wanted to eat fresh ones.

Xiuyao thought she had to change the taste for everyone. She collected materials from the local area, picked and washed the wormwood and shepherd's purse that she had dug up.At this time, the wild vegetables are naturally green, without pesticide poisoning, and can be eaten with a little processing.She asked her eldest brother to boil water in the Dongjian pot, then sorted the cleaned wild vegetables and threw them down to scald them. After they were blanched, they were taken out with a wicker strainer to dry on the cover.

When it was almost cold, Xiuyao gathered wild vegetables, soaked them in cold boiled water, and added a little salt so that the wild vegetables would not be so astringent.

After the noodle rolls in the Xijian pot were finished, Xiuyao's side was almost soaked, and when they were saved to drain the water, they mixed a dried tofu shepherd's purse with sesame oil.The wheat wormwood choked on the pot, and then made a wheat wormwood egg drop soup.

The scent of chopped scallions filled the whole small courtyard, Xiuxian shouted: "It smells so good, the Qingbai and Baike are tired of eating these two days, it's because Yaoyao thought cleverly and thought of a different pattern. Our mother and the others Three, the knitting gloves are possessed by demons, and they refuse to cook properly."

Xiurong got encouragement from Mrs. Liu, and gave her one penny for every ten pennies in the gloves she woven, and asked her to spend it herself.So Xiurong, who originally wanted to obey Xiuyao and not knit gloves and take good care of her family at home, also knits gloves day and night like chicken blood.

Naturally, the meals at home are not so carefully prepared, just fry and order dishes every day, Xiuxian made an opinion, and Xiurong smiled and said that it was the same when I didn't have to eat the appetizers, but now there are oil and vegetables, which are delicious Very much.

After finishing the wild vegetables, Xiuyao hurriedly fried a pot of Chinese cabbage with miso, or there would not be enough wild vegetables.

After the meal was ready, she asked Qin Yang to call his mother and the others to come back for dinner, then she picked the toon sprouts, cleaned them, added salt and kneaded them.

Xiuxian smelled the aroma and threw down the shovel, "Father, let's make it after dinner, I'm so hungry." After saying that, she went into the house, saw the plate of crispy and juicy shepherd's purse, and went to pick it up.

Xiuyao shouted: "Second Sister, you haven't washed your hands!"

Xiuxian smiled and said: "You guys are busy with things, you don't clean up, and you don't get sick after eating." But she still went to wash her hands, and then came over to eat.

Xiuyao knew that they could eat it, so she cooked all the wild vegetables dug in the morning, which was enough for them to eat, and naturally she was not afraid that the second sister would eat it all.

Soon the three of the Liu family came back and smelled the fragrance and said: "We are not at home, what are you guys doing delicious?"

Qin Dafu came up and stomped his feet, washed his hands again, and said, "Yaoyao did it, and said to improve it for us."

Seeing them coming back, Xiuxian shouted: "Mother, come and eat quickly, the wild vegetables mixed by Yaoyao are so delicious, if you don't come again, I will eat up the pot."

Qin Xian said: "Pour sesame oil vigorously, then use the oil to fry chopped green onion, it must be fragrant, whoever cooks it will be fragrant." Then he went out.

Xiuxian took a look at him. Although they were twins, she felt that she and her second brother were really different. They didn't have the tacit understanding and telepathy of twins, and there was absolutely no similarity in their personalities. She followed and said bluntly: " I can't do it, and you can't do it either."

Qin Xian glanced at her, "Erman, why are you talking to brother?"

(End of this chapter)