take a wife to support the family

Chapter 9 Steamer Millet Rice

The sun had just set in the west, and before it was dark, every household in the town was wafting smoke from cooking and began to cook dinner.

People at this time have no entertainment activities at night, and there is no extra lamp oil to waste for them. They eat dinner just after it gets dark. It's time to sleep.

According to Lily's modern algorithm, you time is from [-]:[-] to [-]:[-] pm. Small households are not so accurate in keeping time, so they sleep when it is dark.Go to bed early to avoid feeling hungry after too many activities at night.

As usual, Song Haonian didn't let Lily move around, and helped her to go to the hut again, this time without Lily's telling, he prepared a spoonful of water for her to wash her hands.

During the day, when the sun was shining warmly, the brazier was put away. At this time, the temperature gradually dropped. Song Haonian shoveled a few pieces of well-burned wood from the stove and put them in the brazier. Burning speed, put it by the bed to keep the lily warm.

He added a handful of firewood to the stove himself, and cooked the fried yellow rice until it was about seven or eight years old. When there was still a little rice heart left, he took it out with a strainer and spread it in a steamer lined with white cloth, and steamed it until it was cooked.

The rice soup left in the pot should not be wasted. Strain two bowls of thick soup and put it in a wooden basin and cover it. It can be used as breakfast tomorrow morning.

Because the temperature of the leftover chicken soup at noon is too low, a thin layer of oil has condensed, add some water, put a few grains of salt to boil, and it is another pot of tempting chicken soup.

The dinner for two is yellow rice and chicken soup. The yellow rice is rougher than the white rice, but the hot bowl has a very attractive yellow color and is also delicious to chew.

Lily has been hungry for a long time, and she can feel the most authentic aroma of food. Even if it is a simple meal, she still eats it deliciously.

Song Haonian remembered Liu Yisao's saying that patients are most afraid of not being able to eat, as long as they can eat, they will be cured soon.In order for his wife to get well soon, in his heart, the few chickens raised at home are already chicken soup running around all over the floor.

In order to avoid the embarrassment from repeating itself, Lily lay on the bed and pretended to sleep just after eating, but her body was still weak, and she accidentally fell into a deep sleep.

When I woke up the next morning, I was greedy for the heat on Song Haonian's body, and the two of them huddled together under the bear skin and thin quilt to keep warm.This time she was more vigilant, and the embarrassing situation yesterday did not happen.

There is nothing to do in winter, Song Haonian is a person who can't relax, even though the house is empty, he still tidied up the inside and outside of the house.

Da Niu is a diligent girl, but she is too thin and weak, and there are always things she can't do at home alone.

Song Haonian not only filled the gaps in the fence, but also found straw to fill the gaps in the upper part of the wall, and even cleaned up the cobwebs under the eaves.Although it is a dilapidated house with three rooms, it looks much neater.

It would be too wasteful and sinful to kill a chicken a day, even the big families in the town would not dare to do this.So after dealing with two bowls of rice soup in the morning, I ate chicken offal with yellow rice at noon and night.

Lily has never had the habit of being picky eaters in her two lifetimes. It is all because of poverty. When she was a child, she would eat meat as soon as she saw it, regardless of whether it was the dirty part of the chicken.

The chicken offal is also very fragrant when fried in chicken oil. There is very little chicken oil, just enough to slide twice in the pan.Fortunately, Song Haonian brought wine with him, put two drops on the meat, it can effectively remove the fishy smell of the internal organs.

Lily's body got better little by little. Song Haonian didn't talk much, but did things quickly. He didn't need Lily to say anything, he did most of the things by himself.

Lily thought about her past and future lives. As far as Li Daniu was concerned, she had never lived a better life than these few days in her entire life.As for herself, her life is getting better after working, but no one has ever taken care of her so meticulously.

She is not a heartless person, no matter what happens in the future, she must repay this man first.

No matter how careful the calculation was, the half-sized chicken would be enough to feed for three or four days. Song Haonian didn't hesitate to kill another little cock.

Hens can lay eggs, but no one wants roosters, so when buying chicks, hens are more expensive than roosters.Song Haonian doesn't know how to pick chicks. When buying chicks, he was tricked by a peddler. Half of the seven or eight chicks he bought home were roosters.

Thanks to this, he was able to kill the rooster and eat it.If there is only one rooster in a litter of other people's chickens, he can't help but kill them like this, and he will start attacking the little hen in a few days.

Lily can go to the ground, the first thing is to clean itself.Song Haonian took good care of her, but he is a big man after all, he doesn't pay much attention to himself, let alone help her keep clean.

Besides, these days, the daughters of poor families can't take a bath twice a year, and they just splash a handful of water and weeds on their faces, making them all unkempt.The patient is even less particular about it.

Li Daniu can make do with it, but Baihe can't stand that she hasn't washed her face for seven or eight days. Song Haonian went out to Liu Yi's house that day, she guessed that she could get out of bed and walk around, so she found an old wooden basin from a corner of the house.

This wooden basin is used for washing face and clothes. Song Haonian wipes his face by the river every day. It has been unused for many days. There is a thick layer of dust on it. Lily touched it with his hand and left A few clear fingerprints.

He walked out of the room with a basin in his hand, the sun was just right, and it was warm on his body.The river is only a few hundred steps away, but for the current Lily, it takes a lot of energy, and she can't walk across.

Fortunately, there is still a well in the yard. This well was dug by several of Song Haonian's brothers over ten days when he settled down in his home. The water quality is clear and sweet, unlike river water which always smells like earth. .

Song Haonian relies on this well for drinking water at home, and only washes clothes by the river.

The well platform is made of bluestone, with a wheel standing on it. Lily has never used this kind of well before, and she watched it for a while with her hands tied, before learning how to tie a wooden barrel to a hemp rope and twist it on the TV. Move the wheel down.

When she was watching TV, she thought it was easy to fetch water, but she couldn't do it when it was her turn. The wooden barrel itself was very light, and it floated on the water as soon as it was dropped, so it was impossible to fetch water at all.

She tried three or four times, but the water brought up was not enough to rinse her mouth, and she was so tired that she was out of breath, and standing by the well was dizzy for a while.

Lily was afraid that she would fall headlong into the well, so she took two steps back quickly, squatting on the ground and panting.

Song Haonian came back from the outside and saw Lily squatting on the ground, thinking that she was not feeling well, he rushed forward to help her up, and asked repeatedly: "What's wrong with you? What's wrong?"

Lily quickly explained to him that she wanted to fetch water to wash her face. Hearing what she said, Song Haonian moved a small bench for her to sit on, and grinned: "You sit, I'll fetch water!"

(End of this chapter)