Rebirth Farmhouse

Chapter 161

In the early morning of the second day, Liu Xu was talking to Xiuyao, studying the loom, and Mrs. Sun brought in a small earthen pot of stewed chicken, and the aroma immediately wafted throughout the room, making people salivate.

Liu Xu hurriedly motioned Xiuyao to talk about household topics so that her mother-in-law wouldn't bother her.

Sun said with a smile: "Aiye stewed chicken is a good food to protect the fetus. You drink the chicken soup and give the chicken legs and chicken wings to Yaoyao."

Xiuyao said: "Mommy, I'll just eat a chicken drumstick, give it to my aunt."

Sun said with a smile: "Your aunt will drink the chicken soup first, and I will make chicken noodle soup later. Good boy, you should eat more."

Xiuyao thanked her, and helped Liu Xu to drink a bowl of chicken soup. She saw that there was a layer of oil on the chicken soup, so she skimmed off the oil spoon by spoon.

Seeing this, Mrs. Sun hurriedly stopped her: "This can't be discarded, you see your aunt is so thin, she needs to eat some oil and water to nourish herself."

Liu Xu didn't want to drink something greasy, "Mom, you should drink a lot of oil. I'm still sick to my stomach. If I vomit, I'll be blind. It's better to drink something light."

Mrs. Sun was right when she thought about it, the daughter-in-law was upset, she should feel uncomfortable after drinking the oil and might vomit.It's a good chicken, if you spit it out, you will be blind.She smiled and said, "Okay, I'll give them this oily drink."

When Mrs. Sun left with a bowl of oily chicken soup, Xiuyao slowly gnawed on the chicken leg, "Auntie, my mother is very kind to you."

Liu Xu sipped the chicken soup and said, "It's okay, it would be even better if I could have a son." She lowered her voice and said to Xiuyao: "You don't know, their family has passed through several generations, and they always have a son. .”

Xiuyao blinked, is there really such a thing?It should be a man's genetic problem, but she doesn't know anything about it.She racked her brains to help Liu Xu think about ways to protect her pregnancy and things to pay attention to during pregnancy, but she found that she was almost blank in this regard.I knew that crabs, leeks, pepper aniseeds, etc. should not be eaten during pregnancy. It is better to eat more peanuts, walnuts, etc. I remembered it because I heard that eating this little baby is smart.

Seeing the mugwort leaf chicken soup, Xiuyao laughed at herself again. It is innate to human beings to have children. With thousands of years of cultural accumulation, they know how to protect the fetus at any time and how to pay attention to how to confine themselves to confinement. This modern person who has never had a baby is going to worry about it.

Moreover, these ancient foods are naturally green and free from chemical fertilizers and pesticides. As long as they are not offensive, they are good to eat.

"Auntie, how did you make Mammy treat you so well? Do you have any tricks? I'll tell my elder sister when I get back." She looked at Liu Xu with a smile, learning from it.

Liu Xu thought for a while, and seriously taught her experience, "It's like respecting your mother, but you can't be as casual as you are with your mother, and you can't be as intimate as your mother. You have to boo and greet her son in front of the mother-in-law. , all kinds of seriousness. If you are wronged, you can't say it in front of your mother-in-law, you have to go around. You treat her son well and respect her, and she doesn't care so much about some small things. "

Xiuyao nodded and laughed, "However, it also depends on the person. I think Mammy is also a kind person, not difficult to get along with. If you treat her well, she will also treat you well."

Liu Xu smiled, "There are very few people like your mother and your mother."

Xiuyao smiled without saying a word, ate a chicken leg, then packed up the dishes and put them in the main room to wait for the cook to collect them.She said to Liu Xu: "Auntie, you should also eat more fruits and vegetables, not just meat and chicken soup."

She also knows that she should maintain a balanced diet during pregnancy.

Even if there is no fresh fruit now, but the dried dried fruit in ancient times is natural and harmless, without additives, without deterioration, and can absorb nutrients after eating.There are many candied fruits in the grocery store, such as peaches, apricots, red dates, and hawthorns, but she doesn't know what can't be eaten, and she doesn't dare to suggest it to her aunt.

After talking for a while, Xiuyao asked Liu Xu to close her eyes and rest for a while, while she went to the yard to get some air.

Sun Dacheng came in with a basket filled with candied fruit, as well as hawthorns and oranges saved last winter, and brought them to her to eat.Xiuyao took it and asked, "Uncle, can these aunts eat too?"

Sun Dacheng lowered his head and took a look, "I asked the doctor, hawthorns are not edible, it's okay to eat less oranges, these are for you to eat."

Xiuyao thanked her and put down the basket, "Little Uncle, I'll go play in the shop for a while."

Sun Dacheng looked into the room through the crack of the door and saw Liu Xu sleeping on the kang, he lowered his voice, "Let's go."

Xiuyao followed him. Old Suntou and a young man were busy with work. Xiuyao went over to ask how he was and just took a look.The Sun family’s grocery store is indeed a grocery store, which has almost everything in it, except the daily cigarettes, wine, sugar and tea, candied fruit, needlework and cloth, soy sauce, vinegar and salt, and even baskets, hoes and brooms.

The house is full of goods, and there are many goods outside the door. There is a porcelain stall outside the window, some farm tools in front of the door, and a snack stall.

At this time, someone came to make soy sauce, and the old man went to measure the soy sauce, and the man wanted to buy colored thread, so the boy went to find it for him.As a result, after searching for a long time, I sweated profusely to find out a pack of wires from the cargo box.

Xiuyao was sweating watching it, it's really hard to find so many things in such a small place, thanks to their good memory.She smiled at the old grandson and asked, "Grandpa, how many things do you have here?"

The old grandson wiped his sweat with a smile: "I don't even know."

The little guy counted dozens of items on his fingers, and finally smiled silly: "I can't remember some more, and they will be left there if no one buys them."

The old grandson pointed over there, and said to Xiuyao: "That blessing bean is really good, it's sold like the candied fruit here, and Yaoyao will make some for us later."

Xiuyao nodded: "Okay, but it's gone now, we have to wait for winter."

She looked in the store, and saw that except for a few commonly used items in the grocery store, there were regularities, and many others were stacked together, and she couldn't find them at all.She couldn't help but come up with an idea: "Grandpa, why don't you make a few shelves? Put these things on the shelves separately, and put the same kind of things together, won't it be easy to find?"

The old grandson rubbed his chin, looked at so many goods outside the door and sighed: "It's not convenient to move in and out every day."

Xiuyao went over and gestured: "Grandpa, you can tidy up the house, open up these few rooms, and then put them on the shelves. If people want to buy something, they can come in and pick it out, so they don't have to search through the boxes. Of course, the You can still play it."

The old grandson took stock and said with a smile: "This method is quite new. It's like setting up a stall to sell goods in a market. Take what you see."

Xiuyao knew that he must have thought about it, so she reminded him to buy a watch, "This is a small market, Grandpa, you can call your grocery store a small market. With this, everyone doesn't have to go to the market. You can also buy what you need.”

Sun Dacheng laughed and said: "Father, this is a good idea. From now on, people from the four outer villages will come to our house to go to the market."

The little guy was also happy: "There is a fair every five days, and it's a long way to go there. It's better to come to our house, it's not expensive anyway."

After saying this, the old grandson became interested, so he asked the young man to look at the shop, "Yaoyao, let's talk in the room."

Sun Dacheng also came in and found a pen, ink, paper and inkstone. The old Sun was not surprised when he heard his son and daughter-in-law say that Xiuyao could write.

Shelves are not difficult to make. After Xiuyao said that, Lao Suntou had an idea.Then Xiuyao gave some suggestions of her own, asking him how to classify the products, for example, food should be placed separately, clean and tidy, so as not to make people have bad thoughts.

The most important issue is: anti-theft.

There are only two or three shopkeepers in a small market. If a group of shoppers come and they rush in and steal the things without knowing it, it will be a big loss.

The old grandson also felt a little troublesome: "This is a matter."

Sun Dacheng said: "Father, the people who came here are all from the neighborhood, who would dare to steal it. Besides, let's just watch carefully."

Xiuyao also made a few suggestions, such as not bringing things you bought from other places when you go in, so as not to confuse them; providing baskets for them to use to choose goods; warning that if they catch a thief, they will be turned over to the government; the most ready-made method is to store shelves There are more mirrors on the surrounding walls, so that if someone steals something, he can see it.

The method of installing the mirror was appreciated by them, and Sun Dacheng said again: "It's better for us to have someone watch it. A few rows of shelves can be watched by one person."

Xiuyao also agreed: "Let's not say that we are looking at the goods, but we are saying that we are helping to choose the goods. What they want, they have to ask the price. There is a guy in charge of how many shelves, and he can answer when they ask, and he can Look indirectly at preventing others from stealing."

The old grandson was very happy, and told Sun Dacheng, "There is still some wood at home, and I will go to your uncle's house to see if I can get some more wood, and go to another village to find someone to make shelves."

So there is no carpenter in Chakou Village?Xiuyao immediately suggested: "Grandpa, the third grandpa of my grandpa's family is doing a good job as a carpenter, you might as well go and ask." It's also about spending money, so naturally it's better to let the third grandpa make money.

The old grandson smiled: "Of course that's good." He asked the boy to look at the shop, he went to ask for wood, and asked Sun Dacheng to go to Yangliu Village to see if the third grandpa had the time to come and see if he could do it.

The furniture in the house is usually custom-made. After all, it is not a farm tool, and it can be used for anything. The furniture has to be determined according to the size of the house.

Sun Dacheng drove the donkey cart to Yangliu Village to say hello to Lao Liu's house, and Lao Liutou accompanied him to find the third grandpa, and at noon he brought the third grandpa over.

Seeing the third grandpa, Xiuyao ran over with a smile, "Grandpa, whenever my little uncle said to find a carpenter, I always thought of you, you can give my little uncle a little bit cheaper."

The third grandpa smiled: "It's cheap and cheap, and it's cheaper than they find other carpenters for safekeeping."

(End of this chapter)