take a wife to support the family

Chapter 33

There are 37 small baskets in total, the big ones are as long as a forearm, and the small ones are no bigger than a palm. There are thin handles, some single strands, some double strands, each of them is small and exquisite, not looking like a basket, but like a work of art.

Carpenter Li also asked: "Do you think it still works?"

Lily nodded heavily: "Father, you are so skillful!"

She knows how to weave the big bamboo baskets that she often uses at home: several pieces of wood are bent into a shape with two ends upturned, tied into a cross or hexagonal shape, and then wrapped up with pieces of bamboo strips inside and out, and the ends are made Cheng Tiliang took a lot of time.An unskilled person can't weave a basket in two or three days, and a skilled craftsman like Li bamboo craftsman can only weave three or four a day.

The small baskets are not big, but splitting bamboo pieces and weaving patterns will only be more troublesome. Carpenter Li strippers drove out nearly forty baskets in a few days, no wonder his eyes were bloodshot from being so tired.

Being highly praised by his daughter, Carpenter Li felt that his hard work was not in vain, so he laughed naively.

Lily said: "Father, don't bother so much in the future, just send me twenty or thirty of them every five days. Qingsong, take care of Dad for me. If he wants to work more, just tell me."

Qingsong agreed, and then asked Lily: "Sister, I'm going out to play for a while."

Lily saw that this kid really couldn't sit still, so she told him not to run around and come back for dinner on time: "There are eggs for lunch, don't forget."

Li Qingsong agreed to run away, Carpenter Li took a look here and there, Song Haonian cleaned up the house before leaving, there was no room for him to do anything.

Seeing Lily go to the kitchen to cook, he hurriedly said: "Big girl, cook less, save the eggs for yourself."

Lily smiled and said, "Father, the baby chickens I raised have also laid eggs, so I'm not afraid I won't have anything to eat."

Carpenter Li grinned, and was afraid that his daughter would not have enough firewood for cooking, so he planned to go to the firewood pile behind the house to chop some firewood for her.Unexpectedly, as soon as I went to the back of the house, besides a chicken coop, there was also a pile of firewood piled up into a hill, all of which were neatly chopped and could be used at any time.

"Big girl, did you chop this firewood?"

Lily poked her head out from the kitchen, "Where can I chop? It's all your son-in-law, he chopped so much for me in case he left without enough firewood."

Only then did Carpenter Li believe that Song Haonian was really good to the big girl, and felt a little relieved.The daughter is already a member of the Song family, if Song Haonian treats the eldest girl badly, he has no choice but to feel sorry for the eldest girl and subsidize her daily.

My daughter is doing well, of course it couldn't be better.

Today's lunch is richer than usual. In the past, it was a family again. When married, the old father and younger brother are guests. If Lily is rude, the Song family will gossip about her.

Fragrant hot yellow rice, scrambled eggs with toon sprouts, cold gray vegetables, and a pot of egg drop soup.

Blanch the ash vegetables, and add some salt and vinegar to make them very fragrant. Lily took the time to borrow a few heads of garlic from Li Caifeng's house, and mixed them in the vegetables to sterilize them and increase the fragrance.

Just add some water to the oil of toon fried in the pot, crack an egg into it, and it will be a bowl of nutritious egg drop soup.

In the countryside, the highest standard for entertaining guests is to cook poached eggs in a pot of broth. Although Lily does not cook meat or make poached eggs, there are eggs and vegetables on the table, which is already a decent life.

Qingsong is the age when a half-child eats a poor old man. He was sweating profusely from running outside, and when he came back, his eyes were shining when he saw the food.

In the Li family, if there are eggs and meat in the pot, it is reserved for Qingsong as a rule, and the extra ones may be the Li bamboo craftsman and his wife, and finally the three daughters.

Lily didn't intend to get used to Qingsong's faults, so she used chopsticks and a spatula to divide the egg yolk into three equal portions, one for each of the three people, and each person ate the fried or boiled egg flower according to their own taste.

Li Qingsong bit his chopsticks and smiled: "Sister, I'm just saying that you can keep the egg yolk for yourself. Fortunately, you can share it with me."

Lily smiled and said, "You're the one who talks a lot! Eat quickly!"

The younger brother knows that he loves his elder sister, and he hasn't been used to bad things by his mother. Lily thinks it's a good day.

In the countryside, mothers and uncles are very important. If Lily has a child in the future, the closest person will be Qingsong.A married daughter can only rely on her natal brother, who is useless, and no matter how capable she is, she will be dragged to death.

Fortunately, this brother doesn't seem to have much promise, but he has no major problems. As long as he teaches well, he won't hold her back in the future.

Not long after dinner, Carpenter Li said he was going home, but Lily didn't ask to stay any longer. There was never a rule for an old man to live in a son-in-law's house. Besides, it was a long way back to the mountains, so he didn't want to leave for fear of dark or rain.

Lily repeatedly told them to walk slowly, and filled the bamboo tube with boiled warm water in Carpenter Li's carrying water, and then watched the two leave.

Most of the heads of garlic that Lily and Mrs. Liu Yi borrowed were purple-skinned single heads.Purple-skinned garlic is more fragrant and thicker than white-skinned garlic, and single-headed garlic is especially delicious.

Before Lily crossed over, during the period of "garlic you are ruthless", the price of purple-skinned garlic in the vegetable market rose to more than ten yuan a catty, and the single-headed garlic was even more expensive.Nowadays, half of the onions, ginger, and garlic that every household in the countryside eats are grown by themselves, and most of them go to the market to exchange food, eggs and other things with vegetable farmers.

She is diligent and thrifty in managing her family, so she naturally saves everything. She rents out ten acres of land to Mr. Liu's family to grow sweet potatoes, and it is still possible to grow lilies in the yard.

There are still a few heads of garlic left over from cooking. She picks out the relatively intact ones as seeds, and leaves the damaged ones as seasonings.

Just do what you say, the yard surrounded by the bamboo fence is not small. Lily picked a sunny piece, close to the well and would not block the road. From the west side, she found the picket that Song Haonian used to repair the fence before, and marked out a piece of it. In the area where vegetables are grown, the soil inside is turned up, the stones are removed, and the large soil clods are broken up, and a small vegetable field of about ten square meters is opened up in half a day.

Lily felt that she might have been out of work for too long, and her back hurt after doing a little work.The vegetable field was ready, and I poured a few buckets of water with my waist sore, and it was almost dark.

She went back to the kitchen and soaked the picked garlic seeds in water. After one night, a little bulging white spot appeared on the head of the garlic.

Taking advantage of the good light, Lily broke off the multi-headed garlic, pressed them head-up into the soft and moist soil one by one, and pressed a few single-headed garlics in, watered them again, and found some straw thatch (Note 1) to get up. In case the sun is too strong to dry the soil, the garlic will rot in the ground.

There are chickens at home, and I drive them around the vegetable field every day without adding manure.

Within two days, thin white new shoots appeared on the ground, which quickly turned green and quickly turned into thin and long garlic sprouts.Garlic sprouts are a delicious condiment. It is spicy and fragrant when used to stir-fry meat. It is also very delicious to chop and make scrambled eggs with garlic sprouts.

Since Lily came to this world, the most common seasoning is salt, and then there are autumn oil, vinegar, and a few heads of garlic.Now that garlic seedlings have been grown, she can't help but think about planting some green onions, ginger and the like to improve her life.

(End of this chapter)