farmhouse ditty

Chapter 225
On August [-]th of this year, Xiuniang felt that the workshop was very lively. Their family consisted of six or seven adults and three children, plus a milk doll, plus the Liu couple and old man Li, it would be twelve. There are three.

Originally, Xiuniang thought that the workshop has a lot of people at the moment, and it should be too busy to prepare for the festival, but now it looks like everyone is busy working alone, which is not bad.

This morning, everyone got up late, because it was a holiday, so they slept for a while, waiting for everyone to sleep well, and it was noon after breakfast.

After eating, Old Man Chu and Old Man Li went out after chattering, presumably looking for someone to play chess with, and this Mrs. Shen took a few young ones outside to play, and by the way, he was looking for someone to play chess with. Are these old ladies chatting, and the family affairs are left to Xiu Niang and the others to do.

Then Mrs. Liu and Mrs. Wen started to prepare the meat and vegetables for dinner after cleaning up the stove. However, it would be boring to eat all these meats and vegetables. Mrs. Liu proposed to buy a fish and cook it in braised sauce. Mother thought about it, when they were in Xiayang Village, they also liked to eat fish, but when the two of them came to the town, they stopped cooking and eating.

Xiu Niang drained the bowl and put it on the wooden cabinet, and said, "Fish is also good, but let's not braise it this time, it should be sweet and sour."

Wen thought about it and said, "Hey, if you want to make sweet and sour, you have to buy carp. That stuff has thicker meat and fewer small thorns."

Mrs. Liu laughed, "It's because the fish has many small bones, especially the big, dark grass carp..."

Xiu Niang also smiled, and said, "Sister-in-law Liu, this big fish has quite a small thorn."

Chu Fu heard Xiu Niang and the others chattering in the stove, and said, "Hey, you guys are talking about fish, I'm going to have a hard time, so what about Xiu Niang, let's cook fish tonight. It doesn’t matter if it’s braised in soy sauce or sweet and sour, it’s just fish.”

Chu Ge thought about it, and said dumbly, "Hey, yes, we haven't eaten fish for a long time, and that was in Xiayang Village, and Anzi and I often went to the creek to catch fish for cooking. .”

Ji Laoliu and Liu Shi just came to the workshop yesterday, and they were a little strange when they heard what Chu Ge was talking about. Although this Shuangyang Town is not as rich in fish as in the village, are there any fish sellers on the Qianjie Street? Three of them came from Shangyang Village. There is a big river behind their village, and there are a lot of fish and shrimps. Why, Xiuniang and the others said that they haven't eaten fish for a long time.

The two of them stared at each other with a smile on their faces, and told Xiu Niang and Chu Ge not to be so frugal. These few catties of meat are bought every day, so why are you still reluctant to eat a piece of fish? Expensive.

Xiuniang and Liu Shi laughed and quarreled, and then explained to them, because cooking in the workshop is easy and convenient for them, and sometimes, in order to catch up with the order, the clerk in the workshop would carry the bowl They just ate Hesai in their mouths. If one day they cook a dish of braised fish, the guys in the workshop can eat it for a whole day, and they will all be smashed in the yard looking for fish bones.

Mrs. Liu and Mr. Ji Laoliu understood after hearing this. It turned out to be such a thing. Mrs. Liu smiled, "Hey, come on, let's buy two fish today, one braised in soy sauce and the other in vinegar." Put down the sugar, Lao Liu and I will take advantage of this moment to eat more quickly, and wait until the [-]th is over, we should be too busy to eat."

Everyone laughed when they heard this, Xiu Niang shook her hands, took out a tael of silver from her bosom, and said it was for Mrs. Liu to buy fish.

Liu looked at her and waved her hands, then chatted with Xiu Niang while pretending to be angry, took off her apron, put on the vegetable basket and went out.

The three big men, Chu Ge and Ji Lao Liu, were chatting and tidying up the yard. They had to put the board-making tools and other tools in the yard aside, make room in the middle, and put the three The generous table, so everyone can sit together to eat and watch the moon at night.

Xiu Niang and Wen Shi picked some vegetables, fetched some water from the well, washed them and drained them along the way, but there were not enough baskets in the stove, Wen Shi looked around the yard, and suddenly saw the kitchen room. There was another one on the drying sieve shelf in front of me, so I walked over to take it down.

When Wen Shi was in the basket just now, he felt that there was something in it, and when he took it down, he said, "Yo, I forgot."

Xiu Niang looked at her, and also at the bamboo basket, "What's wrong?"

Wen brought the bamboo basket in front of her, and said, "Earlier, I saw that the dried shrimps in the stove were a little damp, so I took them outside to dry. I didn't expect that after drying for so long, they were all dry," she said. He took it to his nose and smelled it, "Hey, it's such a good shrimp, what a pity."

Xiuniang watched Wenshi pick and pull the dried shrimps in the basket, those small shrimp shells were dry and brittle, and they were all broken when touched, she also remembered it while watching.

"Hey, these dried shrimps have been stored for a long time. They didn't dry out for a long time to become the last ones. These dried shrimps were given by the sixth sister-in-law years ago. At that time, there were few people in the family and busy at noon, so I didn't take them out to make soup. ..."

She talked about what she thought of, and said to Wen, "Oh, yes, how about making soup? I didn't think of it. After a while, I went out to buy some wax gourd and came back. I put dried shrimps in it and boiled it together. I can make soup at night." .”

Wen Shi thought about it, there are still some scallops in the stove, and they can be cooked in wax gourd together with the dried shrimps. Anyway, the dried shrimps are not easy to keep for too long.

Xiuniang nodded thinking, the shrimp, scallop and winter melon soup is also very fresh, the weather in August is already a bit cold, this night, with this hot fresh soup and just two sips of wine, it will be even more delicious. There is nothing to say, she was thinking well, but thinking that there was no wine in the house, old man Li drank all the original ones.

Alas, she sighed secretly, at this time Xiuniang could only go out and buy a few jars and came back, she said she asked Wenshi to soak the scallops and dried shrimps in water.

Chu Ge watched Xiu Niang unbutton her apron to the side, and said that she was going to go shopping. He thought about it and said, "Xiuniang, what are you going to do?"

Xiu Niang straightened her skirt and said, "I went to Qian Street to buy two cans of wine and came back. There is no wine at home. I thought it was a holiday today. Everyone should have two glasses of wine."

Chu Ge folded the stools and put them away, and said, "Didn't Sister-in-law Liu go out to buy just now, and you still want to go?"

Xiu Niang said, "Well, Sixth Sister-in-Law went to buy fish, I didn't let her buy wine... Hey, did I just notice that there was no wine at home?"

After hearing this, Chu Ge thought for a while, and let Xiu Niang buy it by himself, he might as well go by himself, "Then you wait at home, and I will go buy it."

Although Xiu Niang was a little strange, what happened when she went to buy wine, why did she not let her go, she thought about it and smiled, waved her hand and said that she would go back, then went upstairs to get some money and left. out.

But the wine shop closest to her home was crowded with people, she didn't want to join in the fun, so she turned around and walked to other places, anyway, there were more than three or four wine shops in the town.

But before buying wine, Xiu Niang went to Qianjie for a walk, hoping to see if she could meet Mrs. Liu, so that she could go buy some pastries together, although she asked Mrs. Liu to buy them yesterday, But I was worried that it would dry out and harden after a night.

But she didn't see anyone after walking for half a street, so she bought a few catties of winter melon, and then went to Tonghe grocery store, where Mrs. Cao brought three packs of seasonings, but when she was about to leave, Mrs. Cao He held her back, and chatted with the women next door and brought her together.

Xiu Niang couldn't leave, so she had to nagging and deal with it first. What Mrs. Cao and the nearby women were talking about were family matters, and she didn't want to listen to it anymore. Is there anything interesting about it? This sister-in-law Cao has elder brother Cao at home, and her family is still waiting for her to go back to finger painting!

After about half an hour, she finally escaped. Although she almost drifted along with Mrs. Cao and the others during the period, she finally left with an excuse.

Fortunately, it was time for her to go, and she bought all the last four cans of old wine in the restaurant. A woman who came in behind heard that she also wanted to buy wine, but the store said that the wine was sold out, and the woman was very upset Said that he had gone to several places,
Xiu Niang couldn't help smiling when she heard this, she felt that she was blessed, she went there so timely, otherwise Chu Ge and Father Chu would have to watch the meat and vegetables become addicted to alcohol tonight ,hehe……

Uh, although there is no feast without wine, the food on the table will be more delicious when there is wine, but how should she take back the four cans of wine now, there are still several catties of winter melon in her basket!
The store owner was also in a hurry to close the door and go home to prepare for the festival, so he took four cans of wine outside, chatted with Xiu Niang with a smile, closed the shop, and left in a hurry.

Looking at the four jars of wine, Xiuniang felt worried, she twitched the corners of her mouth, now it was her turn to be annoyed, she really shouldn't have tried to take advantage of it just now, after hearing from the store that there were only four jars of wine left, if she wanted them all, Just ask for two slings less.

But after saving these two hangs of money, she stood on the street blowing the cold wind, and she only had two hands, so she couldn't take it back no matter what. Many shops on the street have been closed these days, and they all have to go back to prepare festive.

Alas, Xiu Niang sighed secretly, could it be that she just stood there so stupidly, or waited for someone to pass by, and sold it at a high price...

Only then did Xiu Niang ponder, and suddenly saw a familiar figure on the opposite side street, looking anxiously, looking left and right.

"Chugo, I'm here."

She stared blankly for a while, her heart suddenly warmed up, she waved her hand to look at the anxious figure and shouted, then looked at Chu Ge, the two looked at each other, Chu Ge undisguisedly showed peace of mind smile.

Xiu Niang looked at it and smiled to herself, obediently stood across the street and waited for Chu Ge to come over, muttering in her heart, she was sweating profusely as she ran like a fool, she probably ran a lot...

(End of this chapter)