Peasant woman

Chapter 46

Now there are still some potatoes left by Xu Cao, but she didn't send many to Lefeng Restaurant. She still kept more than 400 catties, mainly to save them for the winter.In addition to tomorrow's seeds, I will send some to the Yang family, and there is not much left for myself to eat.

Mrs. Shen hasn't come to pick up potato seeds for the past few days. It seems that Mrs. Shen has given birth to a baby, and Mrs. Shen took Brother Jun back to live for a few days.

In autumn, it gets dark very early. As soon as the sky darkened, Fugui came back from the mountains. The two had dinner and discussed sending potatoes to the Yang family. Naturally, the Yang family gave more potatoes than others. Xu Cao I plan to send [-] catties over, and [-] catties can roughly plant seven or eight percent of the land's potatoes, but Xu Cao and Li's have not grown many potatoes this year, and there is no way for each family to share less. Wait until tomorrow After each family has planted potatoes and harvested, it will be fine.

"Well, let's eat quickly. After dinner, we can send the potatoes to Dad. I met Dad on the road two days ago, and Dad even mentioned this to me."

After eating, the two took Miaomiao and Fugui to Yang's house with a bag of potatoes.The Yang family is having dinner, it looks like Xiaoan and Niu's dinner should be cooked.

Seeing Fu Gui and Xu Cao, Xiao An hurriedly got up, brought two little scorpions over, and smiled at them, "Brother, sister-in-law, sit down quickly."

Father Yang glanced at the potatoes on the ground, and said, "How many catties of potatoes are these? I'll settle the money for you later."

"What?" Chen, who was buried in her meal, suddenly raised her head and glared at Fu Gui, "You want money to bring something to your father and mother?"

Xu Cao hurriedly said: "Mother, you misunderstood, naturally you won't accept the money." Naturally, this money cannot be accepted. Although Mrs. Chen is a bad person, but Mrs. Yang is a rich and noble father. I won't poke people's spine anymore.

Only then did Mrs. Chen nodded in satisfaction, "This is the best, but there are too few potatoes. I guess next spring I won't even be able to plant an acre of land."

"Mother, this is still too much. The people in the rest of the village only weigh a few dozen catties, which is half less than this." Xiao An said.

"That's right, mother, I have distributed some to the people in the village, and there are not many left in the family."

Chen frowned, and then stopped talking.

Seeing this, Old Man Yang looked up at Fu Gui and Xu Cao, and asked, "Have you two eaten? If you haven't eaten, why don't you eat something?"

"Father, we've already eaten, so hurry up and eat."

Just as she was talking, the sound of Xiao Osmanthus howling and crying suddenly came from the back room. Hearing Xiao Osmanthus's voice, Miao Miao looked up at Xu Cao, as if she wanted to see the baby.

Upon hearing this voice, both Niu and Chen's expressions changed at the same time. Niu gave Chen an uneasy look. Since the last incident of being suspended, Niu has become much more honest and dare not disobey Chen.Chen's face was also dark, "This dead girl is crying again, howling all day long."

"A milk doll, what does she know?" Father Yang reprimanded with a frown, displeased with Chen's behavior.

Niu's face was a bit ugly, and he stood up hastily, "Father, mother, I'm going to see the sweet-scented osmanthus."

"Go, hurry up, you lose money!" Chen scolded.

After Niu went out, everyone was silent, Miao Miao quietly tugged at the corner of Xu Cao's clothes, raised her head, blinked her bright eyes and whispered: "Mother, I want to see my sister."

Xu Cao told everyone, and took Miao Miao to Niu's room.

After knocking on the door, Xu Cao led Miao Miao in.Niu Shi was breastfeeding the child, and his face was still a little ugly. Seeing that it was Xu Cao and Miao Miao, he called "Sister-in-law" embarrassingly and stopped talking.

"How is the sweet-scented osmanthus?" Xu Cao asked.Miao Miao also leaned over and touched Xiao Osmanthus's bare hands, which were soft.After touching such a soft milk doll, Miao Miao's breathing became much lighter, fearing that the milk doll would be shocked.

"It's okay, I'm just hungry."

Xu Cao nodded, and then fell silent. She didn't have a good relationship with Niu, and now she just brought Miao Miao to see Osmanthus fragrans.

After eating sweet-scented osmanthus, she turned her small head to look at Xu Cao and Miao Miao, seeing Miao Miao, the little milk boy smiled cheerfully.

After sitting with Niu Shi for a while, she heard Fu Gui's voice calling her to go home. Xu Cao hurriedly told Niu Shi, and took Miao Miao out.As soon as he walked to the door of the house, Niu's voice sounded behind him, "Sister-in-law, I... can I discuss something with you?"

Xu Cao turned around and looked at Niu in doubt.

Niu was a little embarrassed, he held the sweet-scented osmanthus tightly, and after a while he raised his head and said, "Sister-in-law, I... I want to borrow some money from you, and I want to move out with Xiaotong. You know what kind of mother I can't live with my mother anymore. I mentioned the separation once, and she said that if we separated, she would not give us a penny, and let me move out with Xiaotong. Sister-in-law, I... I have no choice but to I will borrow money from you."

Xu Cao was a little embarrassed.

"Sister-in-law, I know that I was wrong before. I was too naive at that time. I hope you can forgive me. I will pay you back the money in the future. If I don't move out, I'm afraid I will go crazy Yes." Niu said this, and began to cry, "It's not easy at first, but my mother made things difficult for me when she saw that I gave birth to a daughter, sister-in-law, please help me."

Xu Cao also understood that few people could stand her mother-in-law Chen's temperament, so she let her in because of her good temper.Niu has a hot temper and was pampered and grew up, so naturally he can't tolerate people like Chen.The two continue to live together, and at the worst, the house is full of turmoil and people are turned on their backs, and at worst, one day they can't stand each other and fight violently.

However, for someone like Niu, Xu Cao didn't believe her at all.After thinking about it, she said, "Does the third brother know about the borrowing of money?"

She believed that Niu Shi said about the separation of the family was true, but if Xiaotong wanted to move out and borrow money from her, he would naturally ask Fu Gui, and he would not let Niu Shi do the talking.Now that Mr. Niu has spoken, it either means that the money is not used to divide the family, but that Mr. Niu borrowed it for use, or that Xiaotong does not agree to borrow money from Fugui.

Niu lowered his head, and after a while he said, "My husband doesn't know about this. Sister-in-law, actually, my husband didn't want me to ask you to borrow money. He said he would wait until he has earned money before moving." Go out, but I can't stand my mother at all, there is really nothing I can do."

Xu Cao nodded, this time she really believed Niu's words.But even if what Niu said was true, she didn't intend to lend her money, unless it was Xiao Tong who came to ask her.

After thinking for a while, Xu Cao said: "Third brother and sister, since the third brother does not agree to your borrowing money, I think so, after you discuss with the third brother, let him go directly to Fugui."

She made it very clear, if she wanted to borrow money, she asked Xiaotong to ask Fugui.

Niu was stunned and frowned, as if she couldn't figure out why she was so submissive, why her sister-in-law still refused to lend her money, she was telling the truth, and she would pay back the money in the future.That's all, let's discuss it with Xianggong and let Xianggong open the mouth.Having figured this out, Niu sighed, "In that case, I'll discuss it with my husband."

On the way back, Xu Cao told Fugui about Niu's loan from her.Fu Gui said: "If the third brother comes to open this mouth, I can borrow some. Forget it, don't worry about it, she just says no. For the third brother, let's do what we can, the third brother will not cheat us. "

"Okay." Xu Cao smiled, and suddenly remembered the way Miao Miao looked at Little Osmanthus, and couldn't help joking: "Our family Miao Miao seems to like Osmanthus this little sister very much."

Fu Gui grinned, "Miao Miao only had Brother Jun as a playmate when she was young, and Brother Jun is mother's baby bump, so Miao Miao was not often asked to play with him."

Xu Cao thought about it, but it wasn't true, Miao Miao didn't even have a playmate of the same age, it seems that she should get in touch with Xiao Shan or other children of the same age in the future.

The two chatted and laughed, occasionally mixed with Miao Miao's childish jokes, and soon arrived home.Xu Cao lit the oil lamp, boiled hot water and wiped Miao Miao's body first. After taking the little guy to her own room, the little guy refused to sleep anyway, so Xu Cao told her a story before giving up.

After Xu Cao washed and put on the kang, Fugui hugged her soft body, "Cold, I'll keep you warm."

Listening to his simple and honest words, Xu Cao grinned, "The weather has been cold these days, and Miao Miao doesn't have many clothes. Tomorrow, I'll go to the town to buy some cotton and make two padded jackets for Miao Miao."

"Sure, buy more cotton and come back, and you can make two, I think you are most afraid of the cold in winter." Fugui said, holding Xu Cao's arms tightly again.

"Well, buy more, each of the three of us will make two pieces." Last year, they didn't make any money, and the three of them spent the winter in old cotton-padded jackets. Now that life is better, they naturally make two pieces. New jacket.

Holding his warm and naked daughter-in-law, Fugui not only felt warm in his heart, but also warmed up his body.In the darkness, he searched for Xu Cao's mouth and kissed it, muttering, "Daughter-in-law, let's give Miao Miao a younger brother and sister."

Xu Cao also became a little irritable, and just smiled when she heard Fu Gui's words, but didn't answer.Not having children is her last bottom line.She is fifteen now, and she is waiting for three years.

At the moment of Chunxiao, low and shallow groans were heard in the room after a while.

When she got up the next day, Xu Cao took Miao Miao to the town to buy cotton and cotton cloth. Cotton was quite expensive in this era. The cotton for the three of them cost her nearly a tael of silver, but the price of cotton The weight is very large, and it must be thick and warm to make six sets of padded jackets.

Back home, taking advantage of the still not very cold weather, Xu Cao made six sets of cotton-padded jackets, followed by pickled Chinese cabbage and pickled radish, and dried some radish in the sun.

Xu Cao was busy pickling pickled cabbage, while Miao Miao and Da Shan squatted at the door of the pigsty and looked at the two big fat pigs.These two pigs were brought back by Xu Cao half a year ago, they were well fed, and the pigs were willing to gain weight, gaining more than 100 catties in the past six months.

Those hens could lay a dozen or so eggs a day, but Xu Cao was willing to eat them, one egg per person per day, and the rest was sold for a while.

The red wine made by Xu Cao can also be drunk, because there are no preservatives and the like, and it can only be stored for two or three years at most.Xu Cao planned to keep a few jars for drinking, and sell the rest next spring.This wine will taste more mellow when it is left for a winter.

Putting a big rock on the pickle jar to cover the lid, Xu Cao went to wash her hands. Seeing the big pig smacking Xiao Shan, Xu Cao smiled and said, "Xiao Shan, let's have dinner at my sister's house at noon."

Xiao Shan also had to make up for it. Although Mrs. Li had earned a lot of money, she still refused to eat better, saying that she wanted to keep the money for Xiao Shan to marry a wife.The hill is a few months older than Miao Miao, but it is not as strong as Miao Miao.

Xiao Shan thought that he would be able to eat delicious food at his sister's house every time, so he nodded hurriedly, turned his head and smiled at Xu Cao, "Eldest sister, I ate at your house at noon."

Looking at the hill like a young adult, Xu Cao said cheerfully: "Well, you and Miao Miao had a good time, the eldest sister is going to cook."

Xu Cao went to the cellar to get a few potatoes, then stewed half of the pheasant left over from yesterday with the potatoes, and then spread out a lot of egg pancakes. These egg pancakes were made with white flour and eggs. love to eat.Finally, another pot of white rice was cooked, and when the white rice was cooked, Xu Cao removed the hard firewood from the stove, leaving only some charcoal fire inside, so that the bottom layer of rice could be put on the kang for a while. A layer of fragrant crispy rice.This is Xu Cao's favorite food, but Fugui and Miao Miao both like to eat pasta on weekdays, and there is not much white rice at home, so Xu Cao rarely eats crispy rice.

The crispy rice would take a while to eat, so Xu Cao first added rice to the two little guys, and another gave an egg pancake.

Eating delicious egg pancakes, eating a mouthful of stewed pheasant and potatoes, Xiao Shan squinted his eyes comfortably, "Sister, your food is still delicious, mother is too stingy, every time the prey you send She has to pickle it and say it’s for Chinese New Year.” Xiao Shan wrinkled his cute little nose as he said.

"You can't blame mother, mother wants to save all the things for you to marry a wife." Xu Cao joked with a smile, "I put half a pot of pheasant stewed potatoes in it, and when you go back, I will take it back for mother and the others. Eat at night."

Li still has the habit of eating two meals a day.

Xiao Shan responded, took a big bite of the egg pancake, and picked up a piece of potato to eat, "Sister, these potatoes are so delicious, my mother sold all the potatoes, and I can't eat them even if I want to eat them on weekdays."

Seeing Xiao Shan's pitiful appearance, Miao Miao obediently put a piece of potato into Xiao Shan's bowl, and said with a smile, "Then Uncle Xiao Shan eat more."

Xiao Shan also took a piece for Miao Miao, "Miao Miao also eat more."

Seeing the humility of the two little guys, Xu Cao was overjoyed.

When the meal was about the same, the crispy rice in the pot was healed. Xu Cao cleaned up the rice on top, scooped up a piece of crispy rice, and ate deliciously with the soup in the stewed pheasant and potatoes.The two full-fledged little fellows also gave face, and one of them ate half a bowl of crispy rice soup.

This crispy rice is not only delicious when soaked in soup, but also can be spread with some meat sauce or shrimp paste, and then dried and stored. It can be eaten anytime and anywhere. It is fragrant and crispy.What Xu Cao likes most is to spread a layer of fermented bean curd on top.

In her previous life, Xu Cao ate a lot. She ate them at her grandma’s house. The grandma’s house was in a rural area, and she made fermented bean curd by herself. Put more than half of the pot on the rice crust.

Xu Cao vaguely remembered the method of making fermented bean curd that grandma told her, and hesitated whether to buy a few pieces of tofu and try to make it.

(End of this chapter)