A Story of a Little Village Girl Getting Rich

Chapter 41

Just do it.Immediately got up and asked Miao Da: "Father, do I still have flour at home?"

"No more, do you want noodles?" Miao Da was sharpening chopsticks with the leftover bamboo from yesterday. "If you want noodles, I'll soak some wheat, wash it, and grind it. I haven't eaten any wheat at home, so there's plenty of it." .”

"Okay, I'll do it." Miao Xiaocao had more hands and feet than yesterday.

Xiaocao took out the tub, fetched water from the well, cleaned the tub, and poured two buckets of water into the tub.Then I went to the granary and got two buckets of wheat and poured them into the water.

Taking advantage of the time to soak the wheat, I moved out two benches, took out the poles made of bamboo for drying the rice, and washed them with water.

For some reason, Xiaosi came to the yard slowly, took a stool and sat down, watching Xiaocao do things.

Find out the small shiaoji woven by Miao Da, which is specially made for washing wheat. It has a handle that is about as long as a spatula, and there is a small round bamboo wove the size of a plate below it.

Xiaocao turns the Shau Kei in the basin clockwise from top to bottom, and the clean wheat flows into the Shau Kei along the water, and the sand sinks.Once the shaukei is full, put it in the big shaukei next to it to drain the water.

Xiaocao has been doing this all morning, and her speed is very slow. She has to pick and choose again after pouring a shauke into the mason jar, fearing that there will be sand.

It was time for Miao Da to cook lunch, and Xiaocao was ready, and the wheat was evenly spread in the poles with chopsticks and covered with bedding.

"Mother, it needs to be dried in the sun before it can be ground?" Xiaocao asked the mother who peeled the corn while doing it.

"Well, it needs to be dried. Today's sun should be good in the afternoon. Last year it snowed on the second day of the twelfth lunar month, and this year it will be soon. It's the 27th of the winter month today." Xiaocao Niang muttered while doing things: "I don't know if your father has prepared the firewood for the winter."

"It's done, pile it up in the firewood shed. The pine needles may be even taller. I'll go to the mountain to rake tomorrow." Xiaocao cleaned up the battlefield.

Xiaosi spent the whole morning peeling corn for Xiaocao Niang, watching Xiaocao doing things, and barely said a word.

"I'll go with you tomorrow." Xiaosi looked at Xiaocao and said seriously.

"Just you?" Miao Xiaocao really didn't look down on him, it's just that he has difficulty walking, how can he go up the mountain to rake firewood! "Well, it's just me!" Xiaosi replied with his eyes wide open, looking at Xiaocao very seriously.

"Come on, you'd better stay at home obediently." Miao Xiaocao didn't want to tell him too much at all. Although he rushed home and told him about it, his words were affirmative, but Xiaocao really didn't take it to heart .The most unpredictable thing in this world is the human heart, the words of the most unbelievable people.With just one mouth, one can speak eloquently, flamboyantly, omnisciently and omnipotently, so the words of this person's mouth are the most unbelievable.Whether people believe it or not, Miao Xiaocao doesn't believe it anyway.

Xiaosi rolled his eyes, and smiled at Xiaocao Niang: "Mother, Xiaocao girl, I can't do anything when I go up the mountain alone, so I can accompany her, do you think it's okay?"

It's okay if you don't ask, but when you ask, Xiao Cao Niang frowned, "It's fine for my Xiao Cao to go with her father, you should rest at home."

Xiao Si was really at a loss for Monk Zhang Er, he didn't know what was wrong with what he said, and what he said was wrong, so that the aunt disagreed.

Xiaocao smiled at him contemptuously, mother would definitely not agree, this lonely man and widow don’t say anything, just said that Xiao Si has only been here for a few days, and he doesn’t know if he is a good person or a bad person, mother will definitely not let him Follow yourself up the hill.

All afternoon, Xiaocao was turning the wheat in front of the mast, planning in her mind what kind of cakes to make and how to do them.

"Father, have my chives froze to death?" Xiaocao thought it might be okay to make a chive box.

"Well, it's frosty today, and I've already froze to death." Miao Da was still peeling chopsticks.

"Father, I'll dig a tree and bring it back to water."

Miao Xiaocao did what she said, and went to the field with a broken bowl.

The vegetable field is not far from home, on the hillside behind the house, sunny and windy. Miao Da said that the vegetables here grow well, so he cut down the trees here and opened up a vegetable field. There are many vegetable fields here. Years ago, the previous vegetable field was in front of the yard. After pouring manure in summer, the smell would last for many days, which was unbearable. Finally, I spent a lot of effort to rebuild the vegetable field. The soil of this vegetable field is also the same as before the seedlings The soil for the vegetable field was picked. He said that the previous soil had been planted for many years, and the soil was relatively fertile. It would be much better if he picked the newly opened one and put a layer on it.

The leeks were planted in a small corner of the mountain, and there were not many of them, and now the surface was yellowed by frost.This leek is not like a garlic tree, but a clump. If you want to plant this again, you only need to break off some of it and plant it in the soil. After a while, it will grow a lot and form a clump. Cong's.

After scraping off the soil and ashes from the leeks, Xiaocao carefully dug out the piles of leeks.This green ash is the ashes left over from burning firewood in the earthen stove of Xiaocao's family. Every time the leeks are cut, the green ash is sprinkled on it, and the leeks will grow again later.

I dug a large clump and put it in a bowl, and went home excitedly.If it is kept well, there may be fresh leeks to eat in winter.

Miao Xiaocao put some cotton wool in the bowl, put the leek pile on top, covered it with a layer of cotton wool, added water, and put it under the stove.This stove has to be lit for three meals a day, and it is much warmer than other places in the house, so this is the most suitable place.

Seeing her own results, Miao Xiaocao was still very happy. After thinking about it, this kind of leek is also a kind of plant. Why not make some onions and garlic, just do it, find a wooden basin, and put a layer of broken cotton wool on it. Add water, put the onion and garlic into the cotton batting one by one, with the feet facing down, stuff them into the cotton batting and stand upright.After doing this, I happily clapped my hands and went back to the yard, turned over the wheat again, and it was almost dry.

"Father, are you going to grind this tomorrow morning?"

"It should be about the same." Miao Da came over and took a look.

"Okay, then I'll take it to grind tomorrow morning."

Time is like water, especially in autumn and winter when there is no farm work.The day passed quickly, and not much work was done.

(End of this chapter)