The Little Dumb Wife of the Mountain People

Chapter 39 I Almost Missed You
White rice porridge was cooking in the earthen stove at the entrance of the cave, and the sleeping Wen Bao moved slightly after smelling the aroma of the porridge.

For more than half a month, Wen Bao has been busy with winter affairs every day. Wu Houye didn't come back, but he sent someone to fetch wine twice. Except for the twenty catties left by Wen Bao himself, the rest of the wine at home was all He was dragged away by Wu Houye's people.

Wen Bao entrusted Wu Houye with the full power to sell wine. In the past half month, she cleaned up the house and made a lot of bacon by the way.

Wen Bao didn't know how people in Songjia Village made bacon, but she learned how to make bacon from a girl in the team at the end of the previous life.

The five-spice aniseed was ground into powder, a wild boar hunted by Song Dalang was killed, all four legs were marinated with coarse salt for a day and one night, and then the five-spice aniseed mixed with fine salt was continued to rub again.

In addition to marinating the four legs, Wen Bao also marinated pork belly, pork ribs and pig's head. Wen Bao made several offal dishes and invited Song Wei's family to have a meal with Aunt Ma, mother and son.

A few days ago, Song Wei's family also used Song Dalang's relationship to ask Wen's family to help buy two acres of land at the foot of the mountain. Although it was not much, it was enough for his family to build a yard and grow something on another acre of land.

By next year, the three of them will live close together.

Wen Bao didn't want to get up today, counting the days, Wen Bao knew that his period was coming, so he lay on the bed and waited for Song Dalang to come home.

Yesterday Song Dalang and Liquan agreed to hunt wild boars today because Li's family wanted to marinate bacon.

Wen Bao turned over on the bed, because Song Dalang had been gone for more than an hour, so the temperature in the quilt was not high at the moment.

Sleeping until noon, Wen Bao felt a pain in his lower abdomen, so Wen Bao hurriedly got up and ate a bowl of hot porridge cooked in big bone soup.

After eating the porridge, I washed the pot, boiled a pot of hot water, Wen Bao wiped my body, and then fastened the menstrual belt.

Song Dalang came back at the end of Weishi, and when he returned home, he brought two catties of wild boar foreleg.

"Daughter-in-law, are you uncomfortable?"

As soon as Song Dalang got home, he saw Wen Bao lying on the bed. After putting the meat away, he walked quickly to Wen Bao's side and held Wen Bao in his arms.

"Well, I guess menstruation is coming soon."

Wen Bao also guessed in the same way. After she finished speaking, she could clearly feel Song Dalang's depression.

Song Dalang put his arms around Wen Bao, and carefully placed his hand on Wen Bao's lower abdomen, "Why didn't you get pregnant?"

Although Song Dalang's voice was soft, Wen Bao could still hear his words clearly.

"Pfft, it's not that easy, why did you come back so early?"

Wen Bao knows that Song Dalang likes children, but Wen Bao also knows that pregnancy depends on fate.

Hearing Wen Bao's words, Song Dalang said, "I'm lucky today. I met a wild boar not too far away. Although it's not big, Liquan said it's enough for the two of them to eat, so I came back early."

The most important reason is that they didn't bring any stones this time. The two men are good hunters. They came back in the middle of the morning and helped kill the pig. Aunt Ma insisted on stuffing two catties of front leg meat before Song Dalang came back.

"Then did you eat?"

Hearing Wen Bao's question, Song Dalang really wanted to say that he had eaten, but at this moment his stomach growled.

"Daughter-in-law, I..."

"Pfft, it's okay, it's okay, there's still a bowl of porridge in the morning, you eat first, I'll cook for you right now."

Wen Bao got up from the bed while talking, and Song Dalang felt embarrassed when he heard what Wen Bao said.

Wen Bao understood Song Dalang's thoughts and didn't point it out. Seeing the two catties of front leg meat that Song Dalang brought back, he had an idea of ​​what to eat for dinner.

"Dalang, drink up the porridge, go and bring a cabbage, mince the meat and vegetables, let's make dumplings and eat."

Of course, Wen Bao also had another idea that the night in Songjia Village was already below zero, if the dumplings were frozen overnight, they would be fried and eaten in the morning, and they would be delicious.

Song Dalang's eyes lit up after hearing Wen Bao's words.

Song Dalang gulped down the porridge warmed by the stove, washed the bowl by the way, and then went to get vegetables and chop meat.

Wen Bao and dumpling noodles use pure white noodles. Most people in Songjia Village are reluctant to eat this way, but Wen Bao is.

When kneading the noodles, Wen Bao added a little salt, so that the kneaded noodles will be more chewy.

Song Dalang always listened to Wen Bao when it came to eating, and he would not object to anything Wen Bao said.

After chopping off two catties of front leg meat and a cabbage with a big knife, Song Dalang's business was over.

Wen Bao took a large pottery pot, put the cabbage in it, added some oil and mixed well, then added minced meat, salt, eggs, chopped seaweed, green onion, ginger, and shredded mountain mushrooms ready to soak.

With so many ingredients, Song Dalang felt delicious just looking at Wen Bao's stuffing.

After mixing the fillings, Wen Bao started making dumplings.

The dumplings made by Wen Bao are not northern ones, she doesn't know how to make them, and she still learned how to make these dumplings in her previous life.

Wen Bao's dumplings are not extruded, but squeezed out one by one. Fillings are placed in the middle of the round dumpling skin, and then the middle is pinched, and then the folds on both sides are pinched towards the middle.

The dumplings Wen Bao made were like crescent moons, and she moved them nimbly. Before Song Dalang could understand them, she made twenty or thirty dumplings.

"Daughter-in-law, teach me how to wrap. I see that your wrapping is quite simple."

Song Dalang has a big appetite, and he knows that if Wen Bao is left alone, it will probably be very late.

Wen Bao was also aware of this matter, so when Song Dalang mentioned it, she followed suit.

only……

"It's not pinching like this, you want to scatter like this, no!"

Wen Bao patiently taught Song Dalang to make three dumplings, and the last two were almost pinched with Song Dalang's hands, but the dumplings made by Song Dalang would still fall apart.

Song Dalang blushed and lowered his hands, not daring to look at Wen Bao's face, his hands were big, and the small dumplings couldn't be shaped in his hands.

"Forget it, why don't you try rolling dumpling wrappers?"

Wen Bao just said casually, after all, the dumplings made by Song Dalang are really ugly.

Hearing Wen Bao's words, Song Dalang's eyes lit up.

This time Song Dalang was cautious, took the rolling pin and followed Wen Bao's instructions to roll out the dumpling wrappers.

When the first not-so-round dumpling wrapper came out, Song Dalang felt that the clothes on his back were getting soaked.

Although the dumpling skins rolled out by Song Dalang were not very round, Wen Bao was already very satisfied with it.

With Song Dalang rolling out the dumpling wrappers and Wen Bao wrapping them by himself, more than 200 or nearly [-] dumplings were wrapped in no time.

While boiling the dumplings, Song Dalang started to tidy up the cave, and when Wen Bao cooked the first pot of dumplings, Song Dalang also tidied up the cave.

"Dalang, go and deliver two bowls of dumplings to Aunt Wei's house, and we'll have dinner when you come back."

During this period of time, Song Dalang has gotten used to the back and forth between his wife, Aunt Wei and Aunt Ma, and when he heard Wen Bao's words, he didn't object, he just took the dumplings that Wen Bao had just filled and went out.

While cooking the second pot of dumplings, Wen Bao made a dipping sauce.

The garlic is crushed and a little vinegar is added to relieve the greasiness, and the dumplings will taste more fragrant.

Wen Bao's dumpling fillings are juicy. One bite is filled with a mixture of meaty and vegetable flavors. Chewing carefully, you can also eat mountain mushrooms and seaweed in the stuffing.

Wen Bao's meal of dumplings was enough for both of them, and Song Dalang had a big appetite and ate sixty dumplings.

Wen Bao was full after eating twenty, and finally got up and took a stroll around his yard, his stomach felt better.

At night when he was sleeping, Song Dalang put the dumplings at the entrance of the cave. It was cold outside, and they would not spoil if they were frozen overnight.

After eating enough, Song Dalang went to sleep with Wen Bao in his arms after boiling water and taking a bath at night, but in the middle of the night, Wen Bao was woken up by the pain in his lower abdomen.

"Dalang, Dalang."

Song Dalang vaguely heard someone calling him, and when he opened his eyes, he saw Wen Bao pushing him all the time.

"What's wrong with the daughter-in-law?"

Song Dalang was terrified when he saw Wen Bao like this, but Wen Bao knew what was wrong with him, and quickly said, "I'm having my period, go and make me a bowl of brown sugar water."

Upon hearing Wen Bao's order, Song Dalang immediately got up and made brown sugar water for Wen Bao.

After Wen Bao drank the brown sugar water and fell asleep, Song Dalang hugged Wen Bao regretfully and sighed in his heart.

'It seems that he still needs to work harder! '

Wen Bao didn't know Song Dalang's thoughts, she fell asleep not long after drinking the brown sugar water.

When Wen Bao got up early the next morning, he saw Song Dalang boiling hot water in a pot.

"Dalang."

Hearing Wen Bao's voice, Song Dalang immediately walked inside.

"What's wrong? Does your stomach hurt again?"

Song Dalang looked at Wen Bao worriedly, and after saying this, Wen Bao shook his head.

"I am fine."

Wen Bao just felt so happy to be pampered by Song Dalang.

In the middle of the night, this man would still be willing to get up to make brown sugar water for her. She also saw it just now. Song Dalang got up so early to boil water for her.

And the menstrual belt she changed last night, she looked around, but there was none in the cave.

Song Dalang felt relieved when he heard that Wen Bao was fine, carefully pushed Wen Bao back on the bed, and then said: "Go back to sleep."

After Wen Bao lay down obediently, Song Dalang kissed her on the forehead before turning around and going out to wash Wen Bao's menstrual belt. After Song Dalang went out to fetch water from the mountain spring, Wen Bao got up immediately.

Just as Wen Bao put the frozen dumplings into the pot, she heard voices outside the courtyard. She looked sideways, and sure enough, it was Song Dalang and Wu Houye who came back together.

Looking at the frozen dumplings in the bamboo pan, Wen Bao put some more into the pot.

Put a layer of oil on the bottom of the pot. After the dumplings are put in, add firewood to the bottom of the stove to increase the fire, and then add water to half of the dumplings.

When the water in the pot is almost boiled, remove the firewood from the bottom of the pot and dry it on a low heat. In this way, the fried dumplings will be soft on the top and crispy on the bottom side against the pot.

When Wu Houye entered the yard, he could smell the smell of meat coming from the cave.

"Cousin, cousin, I didn't go back to the city last night. I just came to your house to have a good meal. You must have known that I was coming, so you specially made meat for me, didn't you?"

Wu Houye ran towards the yard with bright eyes, and indeed appeared in front of Wen Bao with a shrunken body trembling.

"Why are you here so early?"

Wen Bao brought out a large piece of seaweed, and prepared to eat it with the dumplings later in the pot of seaweed egg soup after frying.

Wu Houye smelled the smell of meat in the air, took a deep breath, and said: "My cousin, your cousin, I almost lost sight of you!"

Wu Houye spoke with deep affection, and after he finished speaking, two tears came out of his small eyes.

Hearing what he said, Wen Bao gave the hand holding the egg a hard time, what happened?
(End of this chapter)