take a wife to support the family

Chapter 77

Rice is harvested in July, and the farmers who have finally rested for a while are busy again.

Planting rice is a particularly hard job, as is harvesting rice. Even the strong laborers complain secretly, and those who are a little weaker will faint from heatstroke at every turn.

Fortunately, the Liu family farm had prepared honeysuckle water and mung bean soup early this time, so the farm workers did not suffer from heat stroke.

Song Haonian thought the mung bean soup was delicious, and when he came back, he said to Lily: "I think mung bean soup tastes good, don't cook honeysuckle for me in the future, make some mung beans."

Lily blinked her eyes, and then remembered that she didn't see mung beans when she came here, and she forgot about this magic weapon for relieving summer heat, and told Song Haonian to take a lot of bitter medicine for nothing.When she went to ask Mrs. Sheng for advice, Mrs. Sheng only thought about medicine and nourishment. She never thought that such a smart little daughter-in-law would not think of mung beans.

She was very sorry in her heart, but she didn't show it on her face, she said confidently: "Mung beans are not very easy to buy, you should drink honeysuckle water."

When Song Haonian heard this was the reason, he nodded without reasoning, he thought it was his daughter-in-law's negligence, so he specifically told her, but he didn't expect mung bean.

This man is really easy to deceive, seeing Song Haonian's letter, Lily almost burst into laughter, and confessed to him in a low voice: "I was stupid for a while, I didn't expect it."

Song Haonian always thought that his daughter-in-law was an honest person, it was the first time he saw her so cunning, she was trembling like a flower when she smiled, and with a watery look in her eyes, half of his body was numb, holding his daughter-in-law was just a toss, in her Whispering in the ear: "Give me a doll."

The baby born by his wife must be smart and cute.

Lily turned around and quickly made up for her mistake, and asked someone to buy a few liters of mung beans to cook soup for him.

The mung beans are boiled until they are overripe and flowered, the dregs are filtered out, and sugar is added after cooling, which is the common mung bean soup.Lily went to the pharmacy to buy some dried osmanthus. The cooked mung bean soup had the aroma of osmanthus. Drinking a bowl made people feel refreshed and refreshed.

Lily always thinks carefully about these daily food and clothing expenses. It doesn't cost much money and effort, but it can improve the quality of life by a notch or two at once. Even Song Haonian feels that life is much more refined, and said with emotion: , you think so, the young mistress of a rich family is just like this."

Lily smiled and nodded his forehead: "Where is it possible, the attention of the big family is gone!"

She goes to and from the Liu family every day, and she also knows that the young lady of the Liu family is from a scholarly family. She has heard of some of her particularities, such as using snow water from the old year for drinking tea, and sending a servant to collect mountain spring water, river water and well water more than ten miles away. She dislikes the earthy smell, so she doesn't use it.

For example, incense is burned in the house every day, and the incense is different in different seasons. If you want to play the piano or entertain guests, you have to change the incense, and the same is not repeated every time.

Another example is that there are flowers and fresh fruits in the house all the year round. Sometimes in the kitchen, I see the little girl coming out of the young grandmother's house, dressed differently from others, even a head flower, which is very elegant.

In the final analysis, Lily's careful thinking is to make her life more comfortable. The young mistress of the Liu family is really particular.

Furthermore, this Liu family is just a country gentleman's family, and it is a first-class family in Qingliu Town, which is not enough to be seen in a big place.What the real wealthy and scholarly family looks like, it is really hard to imagine.

The young couple are both poor people who only have a few taels of silver in their hands. They talk with gusto about the particulars of the rich. Song Haonian likes to listen to his daughter-in-law talking about things slowly, which makes people feel refreshed, even if the parents are short-sighted Also make him feel funny.

Song Haonian listened for a while, and said: "In the future, when we make money, we will make you live like a young mistress!"

Lily smiled and said: "He came here as a child, how could I get used to that kind of life? You want me to be followed by eight servant girls, and I don't wear my own clothes, I don't comb my hair by myself, I feel uncomfortable. I don't want to be rich and powerful, I just want to be safe and happy."

Song Haonian carefully chewed the four words "peace and joy", the more he thought about it, the more he enjoyed it, he was a little crazy for a while.He is not a dull person, he can understand a little bit, after much deliberation, life is alive, isn't it just these four simple words?

It's just that it is not easy to achieve these four words. In addition to hard work, luck is also indispensable.

Song Haonian felt that being able to marry a wife was the greatest luck in his life, and with Baihe around in the future, his luck would definitely not be bad.

In addition to making mung bean soup, you can also make mung bean sprouts while the weather is hot.Lily soaks the mung beans in water, covers them with gauze and puts them in a ventilated place. Within two days, white shoots will sprout.

The mung bean sprouts are white and tender, without the beany smell of soybean sprouts, and they taste very refreshing and crisp.Stir-fried bean sprouts and boiled soup are both delicious. Blanch them in water and mix them with fresh courgette shreds. The noodles are extremely crisp and tender.

Lily soaked another pot of rice, and went to the neighbor's house to borrow a small mill. The last time she made vegetable tofu, she borrowed the neighbor's mill, and distributed the tofu to his home after making tofu.

There are a lot of things borrowed and borrowed in the countryside, and giving something is a favor. The neighbors don't feel that Lily is taking advantage of her and using her things indiscriminately.

In the words of the sister-in-law next door, things are idle wherever they are, and if someone wants to use them, they can use them, so there is no need to put them away for nothing.

The stone mill finely grinds the rice into snow-white rice milk, which is just thick enough to flow and hang on a spoon. Lily then takes out a freshly made thin iron rake.

A few days ago, she was in an episode, and happened to meet someone who was tinkering with pots and pots and making pans. Pans are pans, thicker ones are used to make pancakes, and they are called pans, and thinner ones are called pans.

The two freshly made rascals were shining brightly. After cleaning them, Lily boiled water, put the two rasses into the boiling water pot, and let them float on the water.

Scoop the rice slurry into the griddle, shake it gently, and the rice slurry will slide along the round bottom of the griddle and solidify. Affected by the high temperature of the boiling water, the rice slurry will slowly solidify and become a thin, translucent skin-like.

At this time, take out a griddle, put the bottom in cold water for a while, peel off the skin while it is hot, and apply cooked rapeseed oil to prevent adhesion. It is a hot, fragrant and flexible rice skin.

The rice milk was just enough to make fifteen sheets of rice skins, and an ordinary person would be full after eating one or two sheets. Lily sent a few sheets to the neighbor's house, and went to the house of Liu Yi and other brothers to tell them not to make dinner. come home to eat.

When everyone heard that she made hot rice noodles, they were all looking forward to it, and promised to have dinner with a smile.

The dough has to be cut into finger-width strips to be delicious, but the hot rice skin is extra soft and glutinous, so it is more delicious to eat if it is cut into palm width.

Put mung bean sprouts on the bottom of the bowl, cover the top with a sliced ​​rice skin, pour chicken broth and seasoning juice, it is delicious whether you eat it hot or cold.

Hot rice skin and vegetable tofu are a perfect match. One has a strong salty aroma, which makes people want to eat it even after eating it.

People who have been tired for a whole day can eat this kind of food effortlessly, cool and nutritious. After the brothers finished eating, Wang Xiaofu also said: "These days, I have seen many wild rabbits, all of which are very fat. Put some more on."

Lily is still raising the white rabbit that Song Haonian brought in, it is so fat that the black tiger sniffs it several times a day, every time he wants to eat it, Lily won't let it, so he has to endure it.

Liu Yidao: "After the rice is harvested, it will be autumn, and the beasts in the mountains will grow good fur. At that time, we will take the opportunity to hunt some prey and sell them outside. We will have a good year this year."

The brothers all nodded in agreement. They were all young and strong, and they were unwilling to waste their lives in ignorance. They tried their best to find a livelihood, all in order to earn a better life for themselves and their families.

Lily worked as a teacher in the town primary school in her previous life, so she never made breakfast herself, but cooked it at a small stall outside the school, and the most eaten one was Remipi.

Now that she made the hot rice skin by herself, she thought about selling it for breakfast again, but Song Haonian persuaded her: "It took you half a day to do this, but how much can you make if you sell it for money?" bowl?"

"This thing is so troublesome. Even if you wake up in the middle of the night and light the lamp to grind the rice milk, you won't be able to grind much in the morning." He felt that his family was quite generous now, and his wife didn't have to suffer that trouble by getting up in the middle of the night.

Lily thought so too. The small stall she used to eat had an electric grinder. When would she use the stone grinder alone?

It's not that she made up her mind to make a living by selling rice skins, she still has many tricks.I had no choice but to press this thought and not mention it, and continue to live some ordinary life.

Rice is different from wheat. It is harvested and then threshed in the rice field. A huge wooden bucket is placed in the local area. Several strong men directly hold bundles of rice and beat them on the edge of the wooden bucket. The rice grains fall off from the straw, and it rains Generally, they fall into the wooden bucket one after another.

After the rice grains are dried on the threshing floor, they are sent to the barn for storage until they are ready to be eaten. The surface chaff is ground off to reveal the white rice grains inside, which is the rice for cooking.

Cutting the rice is not too hot, the trouble is in the threshing process, even Song Haonian, a strong laborer, has a backache after a day, so tired that he can't even chew the rice, Lily had to change the dinner to sour rice , Let him eat with soup.

Once she was so distressed that his arms were shaking, and she wanted to feed him, which made Song Haonian blush, and finally insisted on eating by herself.

On the second day, Lily bought a wooden spoon in the last episode. It is more convenient to use this to eat sour rice than chopsticks.

Song Haonian muttered: "I'm not a child..." For such a big man, he still eats with a spoon, making people see it as a joke.

That being said, if the spoon is useful, he will have a good meal.He knew that his daughter-in-law felt sorry for him and was considerate of himself. He said a few words back then, pretending to be dissatisfied to cover up his emotion, but when he turned around and told others, he looked proud: "My daughter-in-law, you really put me in your heart!"

All the workers on the farm hated Song Haonian: "Show off that you have a wife?"I have it too!
(End of this chapter)