big sister headed home

Chapter 2

"Is this all the food for our family?" Dou Hua asked while carrying half a bag of coarse food.

"Well, that's all that's left now." Dou Qing nodded, "I used to have some fine grains and white noodles" These days, I ate them all for Dou Hua's health. Dou Qing didn't say these things.

Dou Hua reckons that the bag of coarse grains in her hand is only [-] catties, enough to last for half a month at most, and there are still more than two months before the wheat harvest. "This grain is not enough, no wonder Tweety and the others go to pick wild vegetables every day." In the morning, Dun Dun is porridge with wild vegetables.It’s not enough to just eat wild vegetables. The small ones in the family want to eat more for themselves. Everyone eats very little. Now they are all pale and thin. They are malnourished. Dou Hua feels very uncomfortable at this time. Qing, secretly made a decision in her heart that she must let her sensible brothers and sisters have enough food and clothing.

While Dou Hua's brain was racing, she was thinking about how to make some money, and at the same time, she was nimbly preparing lunch.Dou Hua knows how to cook. Her cooking skills are not bad. When she was Chen Siwei, she was also a child of a farm family. She did housework and field work since she was a child. Later, she went to university and stayed in the city to work. She is not a squeamish person. The girls usually cook by themselves, and cooking is okay.

The ingredients at home are limited, only whole grains and wild vegetables, and Dou Hua wanted to post vegetable pancakes. Speaking of vegetable pancakes, she often ate them when she was a child, but they were cornmeal mixed with white flour.First pick and chop the wild vegetables, sprinkle some salt, and live together with the coarse grain noodles. With both hands, pat the live noodles into palm-sized pancakes, and stick them on the pot while the pot is hot.

Dou Qing had already added water to the pot, he was in charge of lighting the fire, and Dou Hua was in charge of pasting the pancakes.Soon a pot of pancakes is posted, cover the pot and turn on the fire.

At this time, Dou Cui came back with her younger brother and younger sister, with a big basket on her arm, which contained half a basket of wild vegetables. The faces of Dou Lin and Dou Hong were a little dirty, with a lot of dust on them. They were still young. It was the time when I was young and didn't know my worries. I picked wild vegetables and played on the ground at the same time, just like playing a game. I had a lot of fun.

"Eldest sister, second brother, we are back. You see, this is a piece of wild boar given to me by my uncle. They went hunting in the mountains yesterday and killed a big wild boar." Dou Cui led her younger siblings into the kitchen and said hurriedly, He took out the wild boar in the basket and held it up in front of his chest, smiling happily.

"Hey, it's such a big piece, it must weigh three catties, my uncle is so kind to us." Dou Qing was also very happy.

The uncle Dou Cui talks about is Dou Sanshan’s brother, Dou Sishan, who is different from the eldest and second child of the Dou family. If you have delicious food, don’t forget to bring a copy to your children.

"You have to remember my brother's kindness. If my uncle needs anything in the future, he must help. Remember?" Dou Hua took the opportunity to teach.

"Remember." Dou Qing and the children nodded.

"Want to eat meat?" Dou Hua weighed the meat in her hands, thinking that it was more than three catties, and even counting the bones, it would be five catties.

"Think." The children said in unison. After all, they haven't eaten meat for a long time. Children are children, and they can't resist the temptation of food.

"Then I'll make a pot of broth." Dou Hua said, water was burning in the pot to stick the pancakes, and it happened to use the hot water in the pot to make a pot of soup.Dou Hua swiftly cut a small piece of meat, cut it into slices, put it into the tumbling water, washed some wild vegetables that Dou Cui and the others had picked, and put them aside.

Dou Cui took Dou Lin and Dou Hong to wash their hands and faces, and they were ready to eat after a while.

After a while, the aroma of pancakes and soup came out, and the rice was cooked.Use a shovel to uncover the pancakes one by one, and there is a delicious hot soup underneath. Dou Hua puts the washed wild vegetables into the soup, rolls it a few times, sprinkles a few large salt grains, and the broth is ready.

Dou Cui'er was the first to bring a stack of bowls and a small pot. She filled the small pot with a pot of soup first, and then put the rest of the soup into the remaining bowls. There were several slices of meat in each bowl. , especially the most sliced ​​meat in the pot, which is for Dou Hua.

"Uh, Tweety, bring me a bowl, don't use a basin." Dou Hua watched from the side, her face turned red, because her skin was dark, so no one else could see it.Everyone uses bowls, but she uses basins, and she eats the most in the whole family.

"How can you do this? If you can't get enough to eat with a bowl, you have to fill it several times. It's too much trouble. It's better to use a basin. Give it to the eldest sister. You can eat it." Dou Cui said disapprovingly, and handed the basin to Dou Hua. .She has long been used to Dou Hua eating in a pot, because her eldest sister's appetite is three times that of ordinary people, and even her father's appetite can't keep up with her elder sister's.

A family of five sat around the small dining table, eating the pancakes just out of the pan and drinking the fragrant broth.

Dou Hua stopped eating after eating two pancakes, resigned to her fate and drank a pot of soup, but she was thinking about how to replace this pot, because eating in a pot is too much, doesn't it mean that she is a fool.

"Sister, are you still okay? Why do you eat so little today?" Dou Cui asked with concern.

"Cough~" Dou Hua, who was drinking soup, choked.

"Eldest sister must like to drink soup and not eat pancakes. Come on, elder sister, I don't want to drink this bowl of soup. Let me drink it for you." Dou Qing pushed out the bowl sensiblely.

"Cough cough cough~" Dou Hua coughed even harder.

"Elder Sister, if it's not enough, I still have mine, drink mine." Dou Lin was also very sensible, and even the remaining two wanted to push out the half-eaten soup in their hands.

"No, no, I'm full, I'm really full, drink it quickly." After finally straightening out her breath, Dou Hua waved her hands again and again, and pushed the bowls in front of her to Dou Qing and Dou Lin respectively , and afraid that they would not believe it, she patted her bulging stomach and burped in response to the occasion. She inherited the memory of the original Dou Hua. She knew that the original Dou Hua could eat five or six pancakes in a meal, but it does not mean that she is now She is also willing to eat like that. What she is doing now is to slowly shrink her enlarged stomach little by little. Well, she doesn't want to be a rice bucket.

Dou Qing and the others looked at Dou Hua seriously, and made sure that Dou Hua was indeed full before continuing to eat.A meal, the family is very happy to eat.

After eating, before Dou Hua could make a move, Dou Cui quickly cleaned up the dishes and went to wash the dishes.It is noon now, in the middle of the sky, the sun is very strong, and the yard is warm. Dou Lin takes Dou Hong to play in the yard. Dou Qing spreads the firewood picked up in the morning on the open space in the yard to dry. The firewood is easy to burn, and there is not so much smoke.

Everyone seemed to have something to do, except for Dou Hua, who was a little bored.Ancient times are not modern. You can watch TV, play computer and mobile phones to kill time. The only way to kill time is probably to work.

Now it is just March, when there is no harvest, there is no work in the fields, and there are only some housework at home, and Dou Cui does all the work alone.

Sitting in the yard, basking in the sun, Dou Hua was a little dazed. She remembered that the few coarse grain noodles left just now were about to run out, and she hadn't figured out any good ways to make money.Here is the ancient times, ordinary people, out-and-out small farmers, all they can do is to grow local grain, exchange extra grain for money, and exchange daily necessities for pocket money.

The Dou family had a good time at first. Dou Sanshan had good hunting skills. When the farming was slack, he followed the villagers and several people went up to the mountains to hunt. If they were lucky, they could sell wild boars, roe deer, and muntjacs for a good price.However, these big animals are not so easy to hunt, most of them are pheasants and hares, and those can also be exchanged for some money, and they can be used for tooth and tooth sacrifices.

Hunting Dou Hua is not acceptable. Although she has strength, she has no skills. Hunting is a skilled job. Besides, she is a girl, and no one will take her into the mountains. This way of earning money can be temporarily denied.

It will take more than two months to rely on the harvest in the field. At that time, the crops in the field will be harvested in abundance, but their family has already stopped. Although they still have a small amount of money, this is a family It was the last savings, and Dou Hua didn't want to touch the money unless it was absolutely necessary.

Dou Hua thought about it but couldn't think of a good way.Suddenly, she thought of the few roe deer skins on the cabinet, which could still sell for some money.It happens to be the ninth day of tomorrow, which happens to be the day for the county town to go to the market.Dou Hua immediately decided to sell these few skins as an emergency. She also had another idea, thinking about going to the market, maybe she could think of a good way to make money.

During dinner, Dou Hua shared her thoughts with her younger siblings.The younger siblings did not object, they all listened to the elder sister.

The next morning, before dawn, Dou Hua and Dou Qing got up from the warm blankets and put on thick cotton jackets and trousers. The early spring morning was very cold, and they had to rush to the county town early to sell leather.Dou Cui also got up, she got up earlier, cooked a pot of hot porridge, and the two little ones were still asleep.

Dou Hua and Dou Qing drank two bowls of hot porridge in a hurry, wrapped them in a rag, and with Dou Hua behind their backs, they hurried out of the house and walked towards the county seat.

The sky outside is dark, the stars and the moon are still there, it can be said that she wears the stars and wears the moon, and Dou Hua has never woken up so early in her previous life.He yawned loudly, and led Dou Qing to rush forward resignedly.The spring wind is still quite cold. It blows on the face like a small knife, and it hurts a little. Thanks to Dou Cui’s reminder, Dou Hua wears a scarf and Dou Qing wears a hat. .

(End of this chapter)