take a wife to support the family

Chapter 26

As early as when cooking, Li Caifeng set aside a portion for several of her own, and first sent food to the brothers in the field, and then brought the two girls back for dinner.

You can’t cut corners on the meal for labor. In the morning, you must have steamed buns or steamed buns; at noon, it’s mostly noodles. When it’s cold, you can make simmered noodles, and when it’s hot, you can make water noodles; is standard.

In the countryside, when other people's strong laborers come to help with work, they are always entertained like this, otherwise no one will come next time.Li Caifeng couldn't treat her brothers from her natal family badly.

The small half pot of sour and fragrant saozi was reheated, and it gave off an amazing aroma after a while.The noodles are wheat yellow noodles that have been ground twice. The dough is prepared in advance, rolled out into a large sheet on the table, cut into thin noodles with a large cutter, shaken and poured into the tumbling pot. The ones that are as thin as paper and as thin as thread, go down into the pot and turn like a lotus flower.

The noodles were cooked, and the glutinous rice seeds had just boiled. After taking half a bowl of noodles and pouring two spoonfuls of sour and fragrant glutinous rice seeds, several people couldn't help but salivate.

The scorpion noodle is the heaviest scorpion. Choose fat and thin pork and cut into cubes. Stir-fry with minced ginger, dogwood (Note 1), and peppercorns. Add autumn oil and a lot of mature vinegar to simmer for a while, then add water. It is dark brown in color, the meat is tender and spicy, and the soup is sour and delicious, it goes well with rice.

Li Caifeng also added some egg skins and gray vegetables to the simmered soup to make the simmered soup more delicious and chewy, plus the noodles were chewy, and after a bowl of hot scorpion noodles, several people broke out in a fine sweat. The fatigue is gone.

After dinner, Li Caifeng told Li Caifeng that she wanted to make a pair of insoles for Song Haonian, and asked her if she looked good.You must know that women in each family have their own unique patterns these days, and they are usually traced or cut out with paper, carefully stored, and only taken out to draw on cloth when needed, and they are not easy to lend to others.

Hearing what Li Caifeng said, Li Caifeng smiled: "If you have a heart, I'll find it for you." There was a bit of narrowness in her smile, and Li Caifeng couldn't help but blush.

For a while Li Caifeng came back looking for a trick, and secretly gave Lily two eggs: "You take it home and eat it to nourish your body."

Eggs are precious items in the countryside. Some people raise chickens at home, and they can't eat a few eggs all year round.That is, when a family gives birth or gets sick, it is already a great gift to bring eight eggs to visit.

Lily has been alive for so long, and she has eaten a lot of chicken soup, and she has never eaten eggs. She didn't have any egg skin left in the bowl just now, and she even drank all the soup.

Seeing this, Li Caifeng thought that Lily's chickens were not ready to lay eggs, so she decided to share two of her own eggs with her.He also taught her: "Don't throw the eggshells around, crush them for the chickens to eat, and they will be able to lay eggs in a few days!"

Eggshells can supplement calcium, which can indeed improve egg production.

Lily declined, "I don't need food and clothing right now, Sister Caifeng, please keep it for Xing'er to eat."

Li Caifeng pretended to be angry: "You are so polite, why don't you think of me as a sister? Even if you don't recognize me as a sister, you will always recognize me as a sister-in-law. How can Xing'er miss this bit of food?"

Li Caifeng wanted to say that she was an adult, and she stuttered a lot, but she didn't say it in Li Caifeng's pretending stern eyes.

She took the eggs and held them carefully in her hands. The people at this time were so simple and honest.Li Caifeng has a great kindness to her, she always says thank you but seems frivolous, there will always be a chance to repay her in the future, just keep it in mind.

Lily took the eggs home and put them in the chaff pile in the shade of the kitchen, sprinkled a handful of chaff for the half-sized chickens at home, moved the table to a well-lit place by the door, and prepared to make a pair of insoles for Song Haonian.

The shoe samples are rubbed on a piece of yellow paper with fire. This kind of yellow paper is usually burned during the Ching Ming Festival. It is very rough and easy to smudge. Poor families sometimes use it to wrap things, and there are only fire and charcoal sticks. Only things can write and paint on it.

Lily cut out the shoe pattern with scissors, spread it on the white cloth again, turned it over and rubbed it again, and got two shoe prints of the same size.There is no need to cut this one out, Lily used an embroidery frame to prop up the white cloth, and then used a piece of blackened wicker to trace the pattern of the flower given by Li Caifeng on it.

The flowers used on the insoles are mostly patterns such as Double Happiness, Ping An, and Magpies Climbing Plum Blossoms. Li Caifeng gave the appearance of magpies climbing plum blossoms, a bunch of plum blossoms and two magpies, which is very troublesome to make.

Lily looked at the painted insoles. She didn't have many colored threads in her hand. To make them look good, she still had to buy colored threads.Although she has set herself the rule of not spending money recklessly, she is not stingy about this matter, and plans to wait until tomorrow to go to the market to buy colored threads.

If I can't embroider flowers for a while, I will make the base of the insole first. If the base is not visible to others, I don't need a good cloth. I just stick it together with rags to make it look like a shoe print.

Lily went to the kitchen to see that the fire buried in the stove hadn't gone out, so she poked open a gap to let it burn a bit hotter, took a spoonful of black flour, put it in a bowl, added enough water, and stirred it on the fire. When the water temperature rises slowly, the batter becomes sticky.

After stirring for a while, the batter will become thicker and more viscous, and you will get a bowl of paste, which can be used to stick the soles of shoes.

The rags were covered with paste, and glued on layer by layer, and each layer of paste was pounded firmly with a mallet to prevent it from falling apart in the future.Stop after five or six layers of paste, and put the insole under the straw mat to dry in the shade to avoid deformation.

These things are trivial and hard to do, but Lily doesn't feel bored, because they are done for Song Haonian, she puts extra effort and must do her best under the limited conditions.

I ate well at Liu Yi's house at noon, but Lily didn't cook too much in the evening, and only cooked half a pot of millet porridge. I had one meal at night, and I could have another meal tomorrow morning.

It was dark not long after eating, Lily closed the door, tied it with a wooden peg, and lay on the bed alone.The night in early spring was still very cold, Song Haonian brought a bearskin with him when he went out, luckily the bedding had been washed, the lily was sun-dried frequently, his nose smelled full of the fragrance of sunshine.

She was thinking about where Song Haonian was going now, but the big girl had limited knowledge, she only knew Liushan Village and Qingliu Town, and she didn't even know which direction the county town was in, so Lily had to guess by herself.

Outside, the Baishui River runs continuously all year round, and the sound of the river washing over the stones always echoes in my ears, and the sound of insects chirping in the spring night, which is a bit more lively than the complete silence.

Lily smiled when she thought of the insole under her mattress.

When Song Haonian comes back, she must have already made this pair of insoles, and the man's face will definitely show a smile mixed with surprise and embarrassment, which makes her laugh too.

Although it wasn't long before they separated, she already missed him a little bit.Lily turned over and fell into a deep sleep.

(End of this chapter)