Rebirth Farmhouse

Chapter 44

Mrs. Yao laughed and said: "If others are not good, but your family is very good, especially your mother, let's plant the land, it's easy, you have time, your grandpa didn't go, then Of course someone has to come."

Before Xiuyao could speak, Xiuxian said loudly, "Second concubine, it wasn't my mother who asked me to come here, but Xiuyao who asked grandpa to help us get some vegetable seeds and vegetable sprouts."

Yao Shi was surprised: "Oh, your family also has a vegetable garden? Is your mother willing to eat vegetables?"

Xiu Xian was upset, and straightened her neck and said: "Second concubine, why is our family reluctant to eat vegetables? My grandma was living a life, and now she is better, and she even gave us the pastry of Layuezhi."

Yao laughed loudly, "Oh, my mother, you guys didn't send us a letter when you ate Layuezhiha cakes, so let's eat two." After speaking, he smiled and said, "Which year is it?" What's the matter? If it's been ten days and a half months, why don't you let your grandma make Kazakh cakes for you to eat now."

Just as Xiuyao was about to say yes, Xiuxian immediately said: "No more, we just ate and got tired of it."

Xiuyao bit her lip, giggling happily, entered the backyard, hurriedly greeted her grandma and the others, Liu Xu stepped forward to take Xiuxian's shoulder bag, "Hey, your father gave your grandpa the straw sandals."

She said to Yao Shi: "Our father is thinking about it. He said his pair is broken and he is not willing to throw it away. My mother said that someone will send a message to brother-in-law to make a pair, but our father still agrees that we should not delay their family's farming. .”

Yao said with a smile: "That's right, this land has been sent over quickly."

Mrs. Li glanced at her and said with a smile: "With your mouth, you know how to tease children. Those who don't know think you love children."

Mrs. Li knew this second daughter-in-law, she was diligent and agile, and she had a loud voice.

Yao shi laughed loudly, "I wish they would come to eat more often. Our house is still lively, so we will follow suit."

Liu Xu laughed and said, "Second Sister-in-law, people thought you thought your mother wouldn't give you food after hearing your words, so you could only follow your niece to satisfy your hunger."

Yao shi washes his hands and said, "Which one doesn't hurt to eat? If it doesn't hurt to eat, try eating big fish and meat all day long. Our mother is not stingy, she knows when to eat and when not to eat."

Why does Xiuyao sound like she is talking about Mrs. Zhang being stingy? She doesn't care if she says Mrs. Zhang, she and Mrs. Zhang don't get along well. Even though she is a nanny, she thinks that she is Yaoyao's nanny, who has nothing to do with her. relation.

Xiu Xian was not so happy. When two straight people were together, it would inevitably sound like arguing in other people's ears.

Xiuyao quickly took out the piece of cloth, "Auntie, think about it for me, I forgot the vegetable seeds I asked my grandpa to ask for." As she spoke, she began to read, and she had to think about it when she encountered blurred words, which annoyed others laugh it out.

Li Shi said angrily: "You child, why are you so dumb? When you talk about vegetable seeds and seedlings, your grandfather will naturally find ways to get them for you. If you can't get them, you can't do anything if you write them."

Xiuyao giggled, and Xiuxian said: "Grandmother, she said that she will repay the family after receiving the food. You let her fix it. I think it's similar to a ghost drawing talisman."

Mrs. Li said seriously: "Hey, we Yaoyao are really sensible, we are a child who comes and goes, but for such a small matter, your grandfather will return this favor, you just wait to harvest the seeds."

As she said that, she asked her daughter-in-law and granddaughter to prepare lunch. It was still early, but the two children came, so they could improve it anyway. It just so happened that the old Liu's family did not improve for a few days.

Mrs. Li is in charge of the house. She is used to it. She eats home-cooked meals at home on weekdays, and she will even be a little tighter. When her daughter's family comes, she will improve it together.To avoid the situation where the home has just been improved, but the children come again.If it is improved, it will cost a lot. Otherwise, it will be difficult for the children to come here. They have nothing to eat and drink at their own home. If they do not improve, Li will also feel that they have treated the children badly.

Yao Shi proposed rolling out pancakes, Li Shi asked the two girls, Xiuyao and Xiuxian naturally agreed, as long as there are fine flour steamed buns to eat, it doesn't matter what tricks they have.

Xiuyao naturally knew that her grandma's home made Kazakh pancakes like her own. There was no meat, and she was reluctant to part with the oil. Naturally, her grandma's family had to practice martial arts.

Sure enough, Mrs. Li asked Liu Xu to give Liu Qi the money to cut the meat, and cut two catties of roast meat by the way, especially to buy a catty of roast pork sausage for Xiuxian to eat.

When Xiuxian heard the excitement, she hugged her grandma for a while, and her grandma shouted shortly, and Li Shi was so happy that she put on an apron and sat down to roll the cakes.

Yao Shi hurriedly said: "Mother, let me do it, your back hurts after sitting for a long time."

Li smiled and said, "It's okay, I'll roll out a dozen or so for the children, and then you can roll it out again."

Li's pancake rolling is excellent, even better than Liu's. Xiuyao and Xiuxian couldn't help swallowing, and Xiuyao took the initiative: "Then I will help bake the pancakes."

Liu Xu pulled her away, "You little guest, what are you cooking? Your sister Liu Yun cooks it very well. Let her do it." Then she pulled Xiuyao and Xiuxian away. In Yun's house, Xiuyao was also interested in looms, so she went happily.

Xiu Xian doesn't like female reds, she said to go to the mill in front, and Liu Xu let her play by herself.

"Yaoyao, look—" Liu Xu pointed to the spinning cart on the ground, Xiuyao looked over and immediately noticed the difference, and said pleasantly, "Auntie, did you change the spinning cart?"

Liu Xu laughed and said, "Last time you said you were going to spin two or three threads, so I thought about it. It should work, but I have to change the tassels a little bit, otherwise the thread won't be easy to twist and the spinning won't be even."

Xiuyao sat down and tried to spin, but she felt that it was not very smooth. She tilted her head to look at it, stretched out her little hand to fiddle with it twice, and said: "Auntie, try to press the tassels here, and then there will be Change it."

Liu Xu stepped forward to discuss with her, "Hold the eyeball with one hand, and crank the cart with the other, that's the only way."

Xiuyao looked at it, and said: "Auntie, it would be great if we use pedals instead, just like weaving." As she spoke, she gestured, pressing a pedal on the spinning cart, and then pedaling to draw the yarn , hold the cotton sliver in the left hand, and twist the thread in the right hand, so that not to mention two, three or four can be spun.

Liu Xu's eyes lit up, and she said happily, "It's really a good idea, why didn't I think of it, you little girl is really smart."

Xiuyao said embarrassingly: "Auntie, how smart am I? It's just that you didn't pay attention all of a sudden. I just thought about it."

Liu Xu smiled and said, "That's because you're smart. I've been groping for it all day, but I didn't even think about it. When you said that, I realized that it's really the case. It's very simple."

As she spoke, she thought about how to modify it, and then asked Liu Sheng to go to the third grandpa's house to make some objects according to her request.

Xiuyao's third grandpa's family was a carpenter. On weekdays, they made household tools and other agricultural tools. He was the one who made the catkin loom.

The work in the mill was one after another, and the two uncles basically had no rest. Anyway, rolling out cakes and eating them was not a banquet, but a few people ate the meal alternately.Xiuyao and Xiuxian had a good time. They rolled the roast pork dipped in miso sauce with pancakes, and added a juicy shallot, which was delicious and fresh.And Xiuxian is even more beautiful, with her beloved pig intestines, she ate and praised, "Grandmother, the roast pork sausage from the Hakka roast meat is delicious, and the roast pork sausage from other homes is not right."

Just as Mrs. Yao was about to speak, Mrs. Li shot her an annoyed look. She quickly pursed her lips and said in a low voice to Xiuyao, "Whose roasted pork do you eat?"

Xiuyao knew what she meant, but said that the second sister didn't eat it often, and she didn't know what the other family smelled, so she laughed: "Second concubine, when my sister was working as a helper at the Zhou family, she always ate it, it made me hungry. Yes, but she said it’s not as good as the one bought from my grandma’s house.”

Xiuxian was very happy to hear that Xiuyao was saving face for her, so Yao said: "Xiuxian, you are a big girl, if you don't do needlework, then don't go there all the time. Now that you are tired when you grow up, it's not fun. son."

Mrs. Li also said when she heard it: "I said the same thing. I heard people say that some girls do heavy work at a young age. They are so tired that they can't have children after they get married. You have to remember, Xiuxian." Don’t do heavy work, I’ll ask your grandpa to tell your mother later.”

Xiuxian smiled and said: "Grandmother, second concubine, I didn't do that kind of hard work. You see, our family farms, and I just carry water..."

"Silly girl, carrying water is not a heavy job." Yao said loudly, "Don't take it seriously, there are so many men in your family, you are not lacking."

Xiuxian hummed, and Xiuyao hurriedly said: "Second concubine, my second sister is an occasional substitute, and they are all chosen by my third uncle, second uncle, and elder brother. She doesn't do heavy work in Zhou's house. There are many men in the family. Yes, the second sister went to help the backyard, and I thought that the second sister went for the roasted sausage." Working in Zhou's house, I can always eat meat every once in a while, but I don't have that at home treatment.Although it is said that the landlord's family exploits people, the landlord of the Zhou family is still good to them. Of course, she just discusses the matter, and the Zhou family will not tell her when they do bad things.

Xiuyao made everyone laugh, and ended the topic, freeing Xiuxian.

After lunch, Lao Liutou personally went to ask for vegetable seeds for his granddaughter. This family wanted a few gourd seeds, that family wanted a handful of lentil seeds and rapeseed, and whoever had gourd seeds and loofah also wanted a few. I asked for a small bag of celery seeds and sunflower seeds. Lao Liu's family has melon seeds, cucumber seeds, carrots, and radish seeds. They also got a bag of Chinese cabbage seeds that can grow stronger.

In addition, I also need a few vegetable seedlings, which can be planted directly when I go back.

Anyway, regardless of whether it is useful or not, Lao Liutou will have everything if he asks for it once, lest Mrs. Zhang go back and say that the child can't do things, and he doesn't even get some of the vegetable seedlings she wants.

Old Liutou smiled and said: "Those who lend money to death in famine years starve to death, those who grow vegetables without starvation, one mu of garden and ten mu of fields, your family also has many kinds of dishes to order, eat black noodles, millet porridge all day long, look at one by one Skinny."

Everyone chatted and laughed, Xiuyao happily counted them one by one, carefully, for fear of losing a seed, Xiuxian teased her, and reached out to grab it, "Give me a gourd seed to eat."

Xiuyao quickly covered it, "This is the seed," wrapped it up quickly, and stuffed it into the satchel.

The roots of those vegetable seedlings were covered with soil, and the old willow head was afraid that the soil would loosen, so he folded some wicker to tie them up, and put them in small baskets padded with soft grass, so that the leaves of the seedlings would not be damaged when they were carried.

Mrs. Li packed up a dozen sheets of Kazakh pancakes to use as a burden bag, and also packed up a dozen duck eggs from the pickle jar, and put the remaining roasted pork and sausages on it.The duck eggs in Hechakou Village, a few miles away from Yangliu Village, are the best. The ducks here eat the fish and shrimps from the Daqing River, and the eggs laid are extraordinarily large and marinated into salted duck eggs. Woolen cloth.

After tidying up Xiuxian and the other two, they said goodbye to their grandpa's family and went home. Now that the sky is long, there is enough time to go home, so they refused to let their cousin see them off.However, Mrs. Li still sent Liu Qi to see them off, but the animals were busy and there was no donkey cart, so the three of them could only walk.

After walking for less than half an hour, Xiuyao said to her cousin: "Brother, it's still early, the road is safe, don't send it off."

Liu Qi sent another paragraph, Xiuyao and Xiuxian insisted on letting him go back, he saw that it was still early, and there were farmers working in villages and fields nearby, so he felt relieved, watching them walk away gone back.

Xiuyao said to Xiuxian: "Second sister, we will pass by Shahe Village later, we can agree, you can't go to see other people's flowers anymore."

Xiuxian said: "I know, you see, I didn't ask grandpa to ask for it for me."

There is really no place to grow it when I go home, and I will inevitably be scolded, so I simply don't want it.

The two walked all the way, resting when they were tired, Xiuyao looked back at the second sister chewing her mouth twice, "Second sister, you eat roasted pork."

Xiuxian shook her head, "No." I ate sausage.

Xiuyao took another two steps, turned her head abruptly, Xiuxian's hand was just in the basket, she giggled, "Little girl, I think it's just a little roast pork, why don't we eat it."

Xiuyao pursed her lips, no, she can't be as greedy as the second sister, in fact the second sister is not greedy, but the piece of sausage.

She said: "Second Sister, eat the sausage, I won't say anything about it."

Xiuxian was so happy that she hurriedly called her a good little girl, picked it up and took a bite, then stuffed it to Xiuyao. Xiuyao shook her head and said intentionally, "I don't like eating very much."

Xiuxian took it seriously, thinking that she really didn't like food, so she said: "Then you should eat that roasted pork."

Although there wasn't much roasted meat, for a child like Xiuyao, she would definitely enjoy it, so Xiuyao still ate a piece, so that the second sister wouldn't feel uneasy.

Seeing her eating, Xiu Xian ate the meat sausage with peace of mind, and sucked her finger after eating.

When they arrived at Shahe Village, Xiuxian sniffed, why is it so fragrant?As soon as she turned her eyes, she saw an old woman on the side of the road. She was about to tell Xiuyao why that old woman was still standing at the door?Suddenly, Xiuyao let go of her feet and ran, and hurriedly chased after her, "Little girl, slow down, what are you doing?"

(End of this chapter)