take a wife to support the family

Chapter 48

As the old saying goes, Qingming must be clear, and the Grain Rain must be drenched, so that the weather will be smooth for a year.

Twenty years ago, natural disasters continued, droughts and floods followed, and locusts were infested, and the climate was not normal.However, since Da Niu can remember, the weather has been getting better every year, and now it has been many years without seeing severe drought or flood.

On Qingming Day, the weather is fine. Early in the morning, every household brings joss paper money, flowers and fruits to the ancestors' graves, and then distributes the fruits to the children.On this day, both adults and children can enjoy a relaxing day, release paper kites, play on swings, fold willow branches, and sing songs...

Lily and Lamei are also swinging in the village with many big girls and young daughters-in-law. The timid ones hold on to the swing rope tightly and scream, and some bold ones can do several tricks on the swings.

The skirts only worn when meeting guests bloomed in the air, blue or red, and the laughter spread far and wide, making people feel refreshed when they heard it.

Foods such as green rice, cold food porridge, fried petals, jelly, and green balls that have been prepared long ago can also be eaten. , and put it in one place for everyone to use.

Although Ching Ming Festival is a day to commemorate the dead, it is also a time for the living to have fun, and it is really lively.

On the second day, it began to rain patteringly. Since the beginning of spring, there have been several light rains one after another, but it didn't last as long as this time.

When it rains, you can't enter the valley, lest the rain suddenly become heavier and you will be troubled if you get stuck in the mountains.Sometimes when it rains heavily, there will be floods in the ravines, which can wash away even a log as thick as a person.

Lily originally used wood, mats, and rags to build a nest for Heizi and Heihu. Heizi didn't like to sleep, but Heihu was in high spirits, and would have fun in it every night.

When it rains heavily, the kennel starts to leak.People are afraid of getting sick, so are dogs. Lily put the two dogs inside to shelter from the rain. Black Tiger was curious and wanted to chew on everything. Heizi watched, and there was no big trouble.

Not going to sell mountain berries in the last episode, Lily went to the vegetable field in the rain to have a look.The water level of the Baishui River rose, but the river was far away from the vegetable field, so it would not be flooded.There are pre-dug drainage ditches in the vegetable field. Although the rain is heavy, the vegetable seedlings are very energetic, each tree is full of water, and the green leaves are stretched out.

The clouds are like cotton that has absorbed water, sinking down on the horizon, raindrops as thin as a cow's hair fall to the ground, soaking the fertile land, wicker and flower branches fall heavily, and inadvertently formed a heavy rain that lasted for several days.

The dirt road and the yard were muddy, and the chickens huddled together in the chicken coop behind the house to keep warm. Heizi and Heihu seldom went out, but Lily stipulated that they must go outside to defecate, so as not to dirty the house.

Every time I go out and come back, the two dogs stand at the door and shake their fur, throwing water drops everywhere.

There was not enough light in the room, so Lily moved the table near the door and used the daylight to make insoles. Lamei followed suit by learning how to use rags to put together handkerchiefs and patterns, which can be regarded as learning the same ability to live and work.

Lamei talked less, and Lily was serious about making insoles. The two of them were speechless for a while, until Lamei looked up and saw Lily's smile.She was still in love, and didn't understand why the elder sister showed such an expression, which made people feel envious and embarrassed when they saw it.

Lamei wanted to pretend she didn't see it, but the smile on the eldest sister's face never faded, as if the troublesome thing of sewing insoles was a kind of enjoyment for her.

"Sister, what are you laughing at?" Lamei couldn't hold back after all.

Lily froze for a moment, put down her needle and thread and touched her face, only to find that she was really smiling.She blushed a little, "I'm not smiling."

She looked at the sky outside, and a sense of melancholy invaded her heart again: "The weather is so bad, your brother-in-law doesn't know what it's like outside..."

Before Song Haonian left, she prepared a lot of things, but in retrospect, she still felt that it was not enough, and she should have prepared an oiled paper raincoat.The more I thought about it, the more I felt that I was not prepared enough. I was afraid that he would eat cold food outside, sleep in the wild, and if he fell ill, there would be no one to take care of him.

She was smiling just now, but she became worried in an instant, and Lamei didn't understand what the elder sister was thinking, so she had to persuade her, "It will be fine."

These are her two sisters, otherwise Lamei wouldn't be able to speak persuasive words.

Lamei's clumsy tongue could not dispel Lily's worries, but the girl's reassurance was also a kind of comfort. Lily withdrew her thoughts and asked Lamei: "What time is it?"

There are no clocks these days. When there is a sun, the sun counts. When there is no sun, Lily can't tell the exact time. She has to ask Lamei to know what time it is.

Naturally, Lamei didn't understand Zichou Yinmao's timing, she only knew: "It's about to make lunch."

Lily stood up and stretched her waist, let her eyes relax while looking at the hazy Yanliu in the distance, and asked, "What do you want to eat at noon?"

Lamei was very disturbed by this. She hadn't done any work for the past few days. Seeing that her eldest sister didn't earn a penny and had to provide for herself to eat and drink, she was afraid that she would make her poor and return to the old days when she couldn't eat. .

After a long while, Lamei didn't answer. Lily saw that the girl was staring in a daze, so she had to figure out how to make some pimple soup for herself.

Pimple soup is the simplest meal. Boil water, break an egg into it and stir it into egg flowers, sprinkle flour evenly in it and let it condense into small lumps.

Lily boiled the water, took out the noodles, and suddenly saw a wriggling white and fat worm in the flour, and the hairs stood on end in shock.

She clutched her chest and took a breath before remembering that when the weather was warm and humid, bugs were easy to grow in the rice noodles, especially when there was no refrigerator.

The noodles with worms were not bad, Lily hesitated, but she didn't throw it away, she sifted it twice, and poured out the sand and worms to the chickens, they liked to eat it.

She called Lamei to inspect the noodles on the table carefully, and picked out all possible impurities, and then asked Lamei to make pimple soup.She sewed a few small cloth bags by herself, filled them with dozens of prickly ash and a few cloves of garlic, and stuffed them into wooden buckets and bags containing rice noodles, so as to prevent regenerated insects.

The Lamei pimple soup was cooked quickly. Lamei put on an old dress and went to the yard against the rain to pick up two green onions and garlic sprouts. After returning home, they washed them and chopped them up to season the soup.

This meal has a bad appetite, Lamei asked worriedly: "Sister, what's the matter with you?"

Being able to eat is a blessing, but if you can't swallow the food, it's probably a disease, which is not a good sign.

Lily shook her head and ate the last bit of pimple soup at the bottom of the bowl, and Lamei added another bowl for herself.She waited until the winter plums were finished before talking about the worms in the noodles: "It looks disgusting."

Lamei wondered: "What's the matter! There are worms in the rice naturally, and it doesn't grow a little in some years? When we eat at home, there are worms in the rice, and my mother said it's not clean, and I won't get sick if I eat it!"

Lily recalled the past and couldn't help laughing: It's really like this.

Most of the country people don't pay much attention to hygiene, but also cherish food. If there are insects in the rice and noodles, just pick them out.

She is a habit developed in her previous life, she is more pursuing the quality of life, and she can't see dirty things.

Lamei didn't take it seriously, Lily had no choice but to take it seriously by herself, and checked all the rice noodles at home in the next afternoon. Fortunately, there was only a small piece of insects in the noodles, and the rice was still good.

Pepper and garlic can repel insects, and she is very careful not to let the rice noodles get wet. The situation is not bad, and it is estimated that it will not get worse.

In the middle of the night, Lily was woken up by a sound of "...drip...tap...tick...tap...".

At first she thought that someone outside was approaching the house, but Heizi didn't call out, and was still lying peacefully beside the bed.Listen carefully, the sound is in the kitchen next door.

Lily quickly woke up Lamei: "San Niu, wake up! Listen to what sound it is!"

Lamei was sleepy, and after listening for a while, she said in a daze, "It's nothing, it's raining." Then she fell asleep again.

It is common for the thatched house to leak rain, as long as it doesn't leak on the bed, San Niu has long been used to it.In fact, some tile-roofed houses also leaked rain. In the last few years of Lily's previous life, she was either studying at university or living in a newly built school building in the town. She had long forgotten about these things.

Knowing that outsiders had entered, and there was no light at night, Lily had no choice but to lie back.It's just that the sound of the rain bit by bit seemed to hit her heart, making her unable to sleep peacefully.

She thought she was living a good life, but at this moment she suddenly realized that it was not enough. Her current life was still far from her ideal. To live a better life, she had to work harder.

At dawn, Lily got up to look at the situation in the kitchen. She didn't need to look in the mirror to know that she still had two dark circles on her face, and she looked like she hadn't slept well.

As soon as I entered the kitchen, there was already a large puddle of water on the floor, the entire floor was wet, and water was still dripping from it.

Lily looked up and observed for a while, and found that except for some water seepage on the four walls, most of the water dripped from a gap in the thatch, and the landing point was right next to the stove, where a small hole had been smashed.

The kitchen is made of mud, which has only been rammed with a roller a few times when the house was being repaired. The water on the ground is not easy to sweep, so we have to wait for it to seep by itself.

Lily took a wooden basin and put it under the leaky roof, so that the dripping rainwater would fall into the basin, and at most splash out to wet a small area around it.

Every two or so hours, Lily will go to see, pour the water in the basin outside the house, and then use the basin to hold the rain.

When it was almost night, it also started to rain in the bedroom. Fortunately, it didn't leak on the bed, but in a corner of the room.Still put a basin to catch the rainwater, and Lily began to worry that if the rain did not stop, her house would leak everywhere, just like Du Fu's thatched hut, "there is no place to leak at the bedside".

The sound of raindrops falling into the wooden basin is louder and clearer than that of falling on the ground. If you are a poetic person, you can still think of listening to the rain in the monk's hut, but Lily frowned and couldn't help sighing.

Lamei didn't take the rain leakage seriously at first, but when she saw her eldest sister frowning, she also became distressed.She has a bitter face, and when she is worried, she looks even more worrying, and sighs along with Lily.

(End of this chapter)