Full of food and color

Chapter 29

Tieshan's marriage has just been busy, and the whole family has rested for a few days, and the corn in the field should be harvested.

Mrs. Wang entered the main room with the pearl in her arms. Seeing the pot full of hard-boiled eggs, her eyes lit up. The staple food was breaded noodles and pancakes. She couldn't help wondering: When did the mother-in-law become so generous?

Baozhu also wondered, the eggs laid by Chen's hens, Chen Liu's are as precious as golden beans, no one else is allowed to enter the chicken coop, except her mother stewed twice during confinement, and the day when she married her uncle on the full moon There are eggs on the table, which are never on the table on weekdays.

Chen Liu's face had been sullen for a long time, but when Zhang Hongyu entered the room, she raised her chin and asked, "Where did you get these eggs?"

Zhang Hongyu glanced at Tieshan's daughter-in-law, and replied cautiously: "Sister-in-law Li's bought it, it's fresh, and it's cooked in the morning, mother eats a few more."

Chen Liu muttered angrily, "If I want to eat eggs, our family has them, and my mother is saving them. If I have money, I don't want to take such wasteful ones. Why do I buy them outside?"

"I bought the eggs." Zhang Fenglan put down her chopsticks, and pouted at Zhang Hongyu, "I took them to the kitchen for my second sister-in-law in the morning, and these days I have to go to the fields to harvest corn, so I can only work after eating eggs! "

Chen Liushi sighed and persuaded: "The intention is good, but you can't waste it like this. Ten eggs are enough to eat for several months. You can eat it once in a month and a half. Take the rest of the eggs later. Come to the mother's house."

"Why is that?" Zhang Fenglan opened her eyes and asked Chen Liushi confidently, "My mother gave me the money, why can't I eat it?"

Baozhu huddled in her mother's arms and secretly looked at her little aunt. She was not tall, only about 1.5 meters, and her round face did not look like a narrow-minded person, her nose was fleshy, and her body looked like Much stronger than my uncle.But her temper was indeed as her father had inquired about, she only entered the door as expected, she had to be careful with her words and deeds, how could she yell at her mother-in-law?

Chen Liushi was choked for a while and said nothing, her face was extremely ugly, and she greeted everyone with a dark face, "Okay, I don't care about you, since it's ready, eat it."

Wang secretly laughed in her heart, with her mother-in-law's temper, how could she bear that anger, so she had to find a way to suppress it even harder?That is to say, because of the dozens of coins that Fenglan brought, are you hoping to buy a calf for building a house in the future?Naturally, I can't get angry at this moment.

He took an egg, peeled the skin, fed the yolk to Baozhu, and ate the egg white by himself.Baozhu pouted her small mouth, smashed the egg yolk bit by bit with her tongue, tasted the aroma of the egg yolk carefully, and sighed in her heart: In modern times, why have you never thought that the egg yolk is so delicious?It seems that if you don't touch meat for a long time, your mouth will really become greedy.

Suddenly raising her eyes, she saw her aunt and aunt staring at her without blinking. Baozhu smiled at her, and saw her stand up with a "whoosh" and handed over the egg yolk in the bowl. "Sister-in-law, I'll give you the egg yolk, I don't like egg yolk!"

Chen Liushi frowned, opened his mouth, and closed it again.Mrs. Wang got up and took it politely, and said with a smile: "Our little treasure is thanks to my little aunt." She put the egg yolk into a bowl, and handed Zhang Fenglan a pancake with corn flour, "Eat more, I'll go to the ground later. "

Zhang Fenglan took it, put it on the table, and said to Mrs. Wang: "Our family eats white flour pancakes. I'm not used to this."

Wang Shi smiled awkwardly and said nothing.

Cui Fen pursed her lips and smiled, "When I'm free in a few days, I'll take my sister-in-law to the town, there must be something my sister-in-law likes to eat."

Chen Liushi glanced at Cui Fen, "Eat yours, I'm just out of ideas! Don't you have to spend money in the town?"

After breakfast, Mrs. Chen called everyone to stop, saying that they were discussing the redistribution of the Baogu land at home.

The maturing period of the corn is short. It is planted at the end of August and can be harvested at the end of November. Wheat is planted a month earlier than the corn, but it will not be harvested until May of the following year. The Chen family does not occupy much corn land. Acres of land, Chen Erniu and his youngest son used to manage five acres of land, and the elder and elder two families each managed five acres. Now Tieshan got married, and Chen Liu's reorganized fifteen acres of Baogu land. Yiyi—three families manage four acres of land, and the remaining three acres belong to the old couple.

Naturally, the family had no objection to such a distribution. After breakfast, Tiegui and his brothers loaded the cart, took a rake, a big broom, and a big fork and jumped into the cart. The women followed behind and drove into the field.

Baozhu had never seen a farmer's harvest before. Seeing that her mother was about to leave, she was in a hurry. She held her breath and cried "wow". Baozhu's father, "Dad, my baby is not feeling well, I have never cried like this before, why don't you bring our daughter?"

"That's okay," Chen Tiegui thought for a while, "Runsheng and Liangdong also followed, and the two children took turns to look after them." Tieshan was married in the first day, and the next day, Mrs. Wang suffered from back pain. Chen Tiegui felt sorry for Mrs. Wang , do not want to make Wang work harder.

As soon as Baozhu heard her father's consent, she stopped crying immediately, and lay down in her mother's arms to play with her fingers.

Baozhu leaned against her second brother and sat on the ridge of the field, covering her body tightly, her little face was flushed with heat, watching her parents break off corn one by one and throw them into the field, while her eldest brother Runze followed behind with a basket to pick them up, The corn leaves rubbed on the faces of parents, showing a series of marks. Harvesting corn in such a weather, the cold wind blows, the sweat on the body can immediately turn into a chill, it is really hard.

When she was in the cornfield, Baozhu realized that farming is not an easy task. It is not easy to be a farmer. Modern people are under great pressure. They always lament that it is not as easy as a farmer. There is food to eat all year round, and Nian Gener still has two months of idle time. , but if those people are really allowed to come to the countryside to experience harvesting corn, maybe they won't be so hypocritical.

They worked until noon, without a break in between, and the three of them collected two acres of land.

Chen Tiegui was carrying baskets of corn to the cart, and Wang had time to rest on the ridge of the field with her two children. Baozhu saw her mother's face was covered with sweat, her hands were covered with black ash, and her clothes Dust was rubbed everywhere on the ground, and I wanted to say something to her mother: Mother has worked hard.But the day when I can speak a complete sentence is very early, and I can only read a few sentences silently in my heart.

The harvested corn is transported home by a cart, and then put on the roof to dry in the yard and outside. The Chen family only has one cart. The men take turns pulling the corn, and the women carry the baskets to the house.

After working all day, at dinner time, Chen Liu saw that Tie Fu had disappeared again, and asked Zhang Hongyu with a gloomy face, "Where did Fu baby go? It's been so long, why haven't you seen anyone?"

Zhang Hongyu put down her chopsticks, her tone was a little anxious, "I was still in the field in the afternoon, I figured something happened and walked away, I don't know where I went."

Zhang Fenglan raised her head, "Why didn't anyone ask me?" She raised her eyebrows triumphantly, "I saw it in the field today, and my second brother was dragged away from the field by a big sister in our village in the afternoon."

(End of this chapter)