take a wife to support the family

Chapter 90 Millet Sweet Potato Porridge

Qingliu Town is a big town. There are cloth shops and clothing stores in the town, as well as restaurants and inns where merchants come and go.

Lily has been busy for several days, and finally settled the troubles caused by Zhu's stupid short-sightedness to her sister. From then on, Lamei officially lived in the town.

Taking advantage of the set, Lily took Lamei to the cloth shop to pull the cloth, and then sewed the sheets and quilts by herself, which was cheaper than the finished product.

Mattresses are available in every household, but most of them are used to fit people's heads, and rarely come out. Master Tao and the others don't make mattresses at this time, and the six catties of heavy cotton quilts that Lily made earlier are not suitable for this time. She was worried about Lamei's bare bed board, and she couldn't make up her mind for a while.

Fortunately, Second Sister Song sent a set of quilts and pillows: "I just thought you didn't have any spares at home. This is what my sister used when she was at home. She won't need it anymore. Lamei will just use it."

The bedding and pillows are all old, they have been removed and washed cleanly, and they are soft and fragrant after drying. The winter plums just thank you with red eyes, how can there be any dislike?
Lily also said: "I am in a hurry to get a room here, thanks to you, otherwise I don't know what to do."

After accepting the quilt, I put another basket of cabbage and beans for Song Ermei. Her family is a butcher's family. She eats a lot of meat and does little farming. Some food is produced. Instead, she has to go out to buy vegetables from others every day. Lily these things are delivered to her home. heart.

For a while Lamei's house was tidied up: a short bed, a dry straw mat, and old but clean bedding.There is a small window to the west, and a table and a stool under the window are all.

This room is extremely shabby, but it is better than ever for Lamei. She doesn't have to be beaten and scolded by her mother anymore, and she doesn't worry about being sold to the house that beat her to death. What's more, it's such a nice room.

She looked at the room with a smile on her face, thinking that she would make some more money by herself, and she would post a New Year picture here, and add a box there...

Since then, Lamei has devoted herself to helping Lily, cleaning up the house, taking care of the vegetable fields, cooking and washing... She is hardworking and can endure hardships. She often has to persuade Lily to rest before she is willing to relax a little.

Lily didn't want to ask her sister to work for her for nothing, so she discussed with her: "I'll give you sixty yuan a month, do you think it's okay?"

Lamei shook her head violently: "I don't want money!"

The eldest sister pulled her out of the fire pit. It was only natural for her to work for the eldest sister. How much thought and money did the eldest sister spend on her?
Lily always believes that girls should have some savings in their hands, "You and my mother have a falling out, and she will definitely not prepare a dowry for you when you get married in the future. If you don't plan for yourself, who else will plan for you?"

After all, it was finally agreed to give Lamei thirty dollars a month.Lamei worked hard even more, and Lily wanted to save a dowry for her sister, so she didn't tell her so that she wouldn't think too much.

In a few days, sweet potatoes were harvested on the farm, and Mr. Liu rented ten mu of land to grow these things. People from all over the world were staring at them. If they were planted well, many people would follow suit next year; Related matters are always a talking point, and a great way to show yourself well-informed.

The two Lily sisters were selling vegetables at the market, and all they could hear were people talking: "Oh, I went to see it with my own eyes, such a big nest was dug out of the ground!"

"One mu of land must be worth a thousand catties, this thing can really grow!"

"I don't know if it's delicious..."

"Hey, what's wrong with the things the court ordered to grow? Next year my family will grow them too!"

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Lamei was dizzy when she heard that, and quickly asked Lily: "Sister, do you think that sweet potato is really edible?"

"The sweet potatoes are still planted in my field. Since they have been harvested in the past two days, someone will send them back in two days. You can wait and see." Lily said with a smile. When she thought about it, sweet potatoes are treasures. Can't think of how to make it so it doesn't taste good.

Lily's predictions were good. Within two days, Liu Zhong sent someone to bring the Song family's share to Lily. At the beginning, it was agreed that it would be 1% of the production, but even Liu Sheng didn't expect that the yield of sweet potatoes per mu could be as high as [-]%. There are a few thousand catties (Note [-]), ten mu of land is divided into [-]% of the lily, so at least there are two thousand catties.

Liu Sheng had no choice but to ask some tenants to bring them to Lily in carts, and asked someone to ask, "Do you have a way to deal with these sweet potatoes?"

Lily was very happy, and asked the tenants to pile up the sweet potatoes outside the cellar, busy pouring water for people to make tea, and asked them to bring a message to Uncle Sheng: "Thank you, Uncle Sheng, for remembering, I have a few ideas, but I have to do it first." Just try it out."

Now Lamei knows what her elder sister's big cellar is for. The cellar is cool and damp, and the hill-like sweet potatoes are piled inside, which won't wilt and go bad for several months.

Her eyes were straightened: "There are so many, how can I eat it all?"

Lily burst out laughing: "Is there anyone who is afraid of having too much food?"

Lamei moved sweet potatoes to the cellar on the ground, Lily stood inside, and then piled the frames to the corner. Fortunately, gloves were prepared in advance, otherwise the palms would peel off.

The sweet potatoes are big, fresh and contain a lot of water. One weighs two or three catties, and the largest one weighs four or five catties. The two sisters took turns moving all day before they could barely move most of them into the cellar, leaving more than 200 The jin was still piled up outside, and Lamei was worried: "What should I do?"

Lily looked at the sky, there were few clouds, and it didn't look like it was going to rain for a while, "You don't need to move these in. Ask Heihu to guard them at night, and give them to Sister Caifeng and the others tomorrow."

Because they moved sweet potatoes all day, both of them had sore arms and couldn't lift them up, so they had to keep it simple for dinner, cooking sweet potato and millet porridge.

Peel a few sweet potatoes with a knife, cut them into small pieces, wash them, put them in the millet porridge that has been cooked until six or seven mature, and continue to simmer until the rice grains bloom, and the sweet potatoes are also melted in it.

Lamei sniffed the aroma of sweet potatoes, and her saliva almost came down: "Why is it so fragrant!"

With a sour and refreshing kimchi, the rice is simple but very delicious. The sweet potato is sweet and the millet is thick. The combination is surprising.

Early the next morning, Lily and Lamei went around calling for people: "Try the new sweet potatoes that came down yesterday, and bring a bag."

At that moment, Li Caifeng, Wang Da Niang, Liu Daddy, Song Ermei and others all came. Seeing more than 200 catties of sweet potatoes, all of them stared straight in their eyes: "So many of these things can be grown!"

Lily put the sweet potatoes into the basket quickly, and said to them, "Peel the skins and steam them to eat porridge. It's delicious. It's even better to roast them with the skins in the ashes. It can also be mixed with pumpkin and flour." , make pumpkin and sweet potato pancakes."

These are all simple methods. As for sweet potato vermicelli, Lily has not figured it out yet, so it is inconvenient to teach others for the time being.

Just these insights are enough for others to look at her with admiration. Li Caifeng said: "My family has been running outside for many years, and I still think I am a knowledgeable person. Compared with you, I am blind."

Lily said casually: "You talk about my cleverness every day, this is my cleverness!"

She has hundreds of years of experience more than others, and some things are new to others, but she has long been familiar with them.

Several people went back with their bamboo baskets on their backs, and there were still a lot left. Lily asked Lamei to take them to the kitchen for the time being. In two days, Li Bamboo Carpenter came to the town to sell bamboo wares and asked him to take them home.

When she heard about her father, Lamei was very upset, she agreed reluctantly, and walked to the kitchen with a dark face.

Lily quickly said to her: "Mother did something wrong, Dad didn't tell us, what are you like?"

"If it wasn't for father not caring, how could mother be like that?" These days Lamei has been thinking about her family's affairs over and over again, and the more she thinks about it, the more she feels that the craftsman Li is also at fault. These things happen?
Lily sighed: "Father is like that. If he wasn't like that, we two could have beaten him and asked you to follow me?"

Two days later, Carpenter Li brought Qingsong to the market. Normally, when they were tired, they would come to Lily to rest and drink.

What was the reason, Lily understood as soon as she thought about it, so she had no choice but to persuade her: "Father, there is no overnight feud in the family. Lamei didn't blame you. If you don't go to my place, people who don't know will think you are far away from me and me." Lamei."

Carpenter Li's nose was blocked: "I'm useless, I can't even protect my daughter." Several men from Guojiapo went to rob someone that day, if Lamei hadn't run away early, they might have been robbed.

The latter matter was also handled by Lily alone. As a father, he had no effect in it at all. No wonder Lamei blamed him, and Mrs. Zhu also said that he was troublesome.

Every time he saw Qingsong, he was a little bit bigger than the last time, Lily stretched out his hand and gestured, the boy grew taller again, he couldn't help laughing: "He grows really fast."

Qingsong recalled what his mother said about him: "You are only tall, but you don't have a heart. Those three losers all have their elbows out. If you don't grow snacks, how will you live in the future!"

Qingsong blushed and said to Lily: "Sister, I'll help you."

With the help of Lamei, Lily didn't need Qingsong for a while, but asked him to bring the sweet potatoes at home, so he took him home and gave him a steamed sweet potato left over from breakfast.

Lamei hid early, but she was determined not to see her father and brothers. Lily searched around but found no one, so she had no choice but to reassure Qingsong: "When I saw my father, I told her that everything was fine with your third sister. I slowly persuaded her, I will never ask her to remember your grudges. When you go back, you should also reason with your mother, and tell her not to be confused again."

Qingsong nodded heavily, he knew the severity.Since Da Niang wanted to sell the third sister, his sister was gone.

In the past, Li Mi was soft-tempered, and most of the family affairs were decided by Zhu's family. Qingsong thought that his mother was powerful in his heart, and was willing to listen to her.Only now do I realize that it doesn't matter if you are powerful or not, your mother's temperament is already going astray, she wants to harm others and herself.

Unless he becomes the master of the family in the future and makes up for Lamei, Lamei will never forgive Zhu, forgive this brother who doesn't have to do anything, but can enjoy everything just because he is a son.

(End of this chapter)