There are flowers and wine, hoeing and farming

Chapter 14

"Keep your voice down, the child is still asleep."

"Didn't I miss her? She should get up too."

Qiaoqiao heard voices beside her in a daze, she turned over, opened her eyes, and propped herself up with her arms.

"It's all your fault for waking up the child." Ning said helplessly.

Cheng Daman didn't feel guilty at all, with a cheerful face, he walked towards the bedside: "Girl, let's see who's back?"

Cheng Qiaoqiao opened her eyes wide, sat up straight for a moment, stretched her arms, grinning at the boss: "Daddy, hug me!"

"Okay, hug, Daddy hug my good daughter." Cheng Daman put his hand under Cheng Qiaoqiao's armpit, lifted her up high, shook her back and forth twice before hugging her, and asked face to face: "Father has been away these days, do you miss him?"

Qiaoqiao giggled: "I can't think about it, I dream about Daddy every night."

"Oh, what did you dream about?"

Qiaoqiao rolled her eyes: "I dreamed that my father brought me many gifts."

"You stinky girl, you're making arrangements for dad to buy things for you, right?" Cheng Daman pinched his daughter's nose, smiling even more happily.

"hey-hey."

"It's better to be my daughter, really..." The more I watched, the happier I became.

Cheng Qiaoqiao looked at her father's sense of happiness and pride from the heart, and felt a burst of warmth in her heart. She hugged Cheng Daman.Because he has been working outside these days, Cheng Daman's face is a little haggard, his skin is darker, his beard is not clean, showing some stubble, he hugged his father's face, leaned over, and poked on it , a kiss.

Cheng Daman was taken aback, then burst out laughing, and kissed his daughter's little cheek fiercely, and deliberately rubbed the stubble on her face when her daughter was laughing and screaming.

"Daman, stop making trouble!" Ning couldn't stand it anymore, she snatched her daughter who was trembling with laughter and hugged her, looking at her little face made Cheng Daman turn red, couldn't help it Glared back at him.

"My daughter is grown up, and you are still messing around like this."

"It's okay, kid. Besides, my daughter, I miss her, why don't you let me hug her?"

"You're right."

"Okay, stop laughing, put on your clothes, and come out to see what your father bought for you."

Qiaoqiao rubbed her belly: "What did Dad buy me?"

"You'll know when you come out and see for yourself."

Qiaoqiao put on her clothes in a hurry and rushed out, and immediately opened the big bag that Cheng Daman put on the table.

"oops!"

In addition to Cheng Daman's dark clothes, Qiaoqiao immediately discovered a peach-colored dress hidden deep in the bag. She grabbed a corner and pulled it out. No one else in this family can wear it: "Father, is it really for me?"

"Well, my daughter is so handsome, but she hasn't worn a few good-looking clothes. They are all remade from the old clothes of the two boys and your mother. Do you like this one?"

"I like it. But it's expensive, isn't it, Dad?"

"It's okay, go and change it and show daddy, go."

The material is not very good, but it is much better than the coarse cloth clothes that I usually wear. It is probably imitation silk, with the luster and appearance of silk, but it is not as smooth and textured as silk, but it is already very good. At such a long age, the clothes of many children in the village are picked up by adults, and if they are modified, they will be new. The real new clothes cannot be worn for many years.

Qiaoqiao changed and went out.

Cheng Daman smiled happier, and Ning's face also had a sense of relief, grabbed her arm, straightened her collar, and tugged at the hem.

"Mom, is it good-looking?" Qiaoqiao asked in a circle.

"Looks good, my little girl is handsome."

"That's right." Qiaoqiao raised her chin triumphantly, making the couple laugh hard.

Cheng Daman had a good rest at home for a few days. Under Ning's careful recuperation and care, the thinned cheeks slowly returned to their original fullness. Cheng Zhigao and Cheng Zhiyuan also finished their work in the past few days and received a sum All the money was given to Ning.

Ning muttered that she was going to marry her eldest son, and that the money would be spent on him sooner or later, making Cheng Zhigao, a little boy, blush with embarrassment.Qiaoqiao watched from the side, and also grinned, the eldest brother is really thin-skinned, he gets shy so easily, but he is too young, only 13 years old, and he is about to talk about his wife.

The people in the family got together again and made a fortune. Ning shi has been eating differently in the past few days, making the family's stomach full.

On this day, she saw that many things were missing at home, so she asked Cheng Daman to take Cheng Zhigao to the town to buy some things. It was rare that Qiaoqiao, who had always loved to play, didn't ask to follow her, but stayed at home with peace of mind.

"Mother, I'm almost five years old, when will you teach me how to embroider and tailor clothes?" Qiaoqiao sighed while resting her chin.

"Your little hands are chubby, and you can't even hold a needle. It will take another two years."

Qiaoqiao pouted dissatisfiedly, Ning smiled: "Yo, that mouth can hang a bottle of oil, what are you thinking?"

Qiaoqiao snorted and remained silent.

"Embroidery is really bad, it's too small, you can't do it like drawing patterns, stretching embroidery cloth, it's not that mother doesn't teach you, or, let's learn something else first?"

"What?" Qiaoqiao finally turned to look at Ning.

"In addition to embroidery, there are also webbing, making shoes with shoe soles, and tailoring clothes. However, you can't do these things. You need a lot of strength to stitch the soles, and you can't get the right size for tailoring. I'd like to teach you how to web. It's the easiest. kind of."

"it is good."

Ning took out the nets she made at home and showed Qiaoqiao, and unwrapped one of the simplest ones, and showed her while talking.

Qiaoqiao took it and quickly took it apart, clumsily tying it up with little hands, the speed was not fast, but it succeeded in one go.It's not very pretty, it's crooked, but it still surprised Ning.

"Qiaoqiao is really smart."

Qiaoqiao nodded vaguely. In fact, she had been lying on the hospital bed for a long time in her previous life. She also had a little contact with handicrafts such as cross-stitching, netting, and patchwork, but it was limited to this very simple entry-level one. Many of these manual things have been lost, and even cross-stitching is just a mechanical operation that prescribes everything, so she very much hopes to make something of her own.

Looking at the other complex nets, she didn't say anything, she couldn't eat it all at once and become a big fat man. Take your time, and Ning's craftsmanship will definitely be passed on to her. I'm afraid that even if she doesn't want to learn it, Ning's will too. force her to learn.

Asking Ning for a new cable, she moved a small square and sat in the yard to review the network connection method just now.

After unraveling, weaving and dismantling again, she didn't finish until she remembered it firmly. On the last time, she carefully made a beautiful net, avoiding the attention of Ning who was serious about embroidering. She walked back to the room and put I hid my net under my little pillow and put it away.

At noon, Cheng Daman and his father and son hadn't come back yet. Ning thought maybe Daman took the two children out to eat, so she simply cooked some food and ate casually with Qiaoqiao.

It wasn't until halfway through the afternoon that the three came back with a lot of things in their hands and returned with a full load.

"What did you eat outside?" Ning asked while helping to clean up.

"I just ate some to deal with it, but the scorpion was not bad. The yellow inside was like sand, and it was full of butter. It was very fragrant. When we went to the market, we happened to see someone selling ducks, so I bought them." Get some, you can pickle it later, let's make some jellyfish to eat."

"Is this expensive?" Ning looked at the duck eggs and asked, "Actually, chickens are also acceptable."

"It's not as delicious as ducks. It's not expensive. It's left over from a duck farmer after selling ducks. I bought them back. You can get them."

"Okay, Xiao Yuan, go outside and get some wood veneer."

"it is good."

Qiaoqiao went over to look at it, the duck egg was big, and it held a lot of weight in her hand. Thinking of her father's description just now, she also became greedy.The Yuanzi mentioned just now should refer to the pickled salted duck eggs.

After Cheng Zhiyuan ate the twig, he was still thinking about it, and soon ran to the village to pick up a lot of twig bark.

After Ning washed it, she put it in a porcelain bowl and pressed it with a small stone roller to slowly ooze out the juice.

Put the juice into the pot, boil it, pour it into a porcelain jar, put down the coarse salt and stir it evenly.

Qiaoqiao watched from front to back, just like Ning's little tail, this was the first time she saw how salted duck eggs were pickled, how could she not see clearly.

"Is that all right? Do you want to put duck eggs... ducks?"

"No, don't worry, wait, let the water cool down, it will take a long time, don't watch it here."

Qiaoqiao couldn't sit still, and ran to have a look after a while, after about an hour, the sky had already darkened, and the juice inside was cold, so she hurriedly called Ning to come over.

Ning walked over with the ducks in a small basket, carefully lowering them down one by one, listening to the plopping sound, Qiaoqiao felt excited.

"Mother, how long will it take to eat this?" Qiaoqiao asked curiously, looking at the bottomless black water surface of the porcelain vat.

"It will take about a month. At that time, the whole duck will be salty, and it will slowly float up and float on the water, which means it is all right."

"How long will it take?"

"Want to eat it? Then go to Xiao Hei's next door and get one for your Aunt Zhang, but what she marinated is chicken. I saw them eating it a few days ago."

"No, I'll just eat these made by my mother. By the way, mother, after marinating, can I give two to brother Zheng Cang?"

Ning was stunned for a moment before reacting, and said with a smile: "Okay, why not, thanks to your carefulness, mother didn't even think about it. But, you played crazy that day, so you remember him?"

"Where is it!" Qiaoqiao ran out and went to play with her father.

(End of this chapter)