Smallholder Farming Daily

Chapter 15

In the morning, Pomegranate cleaned up the house.

Lin asked Pomegranate to sweep the floor of the house before going out, and she evened the protruding soil with a shovel after sweeping.Because of the summer tide, the family is trampled around, and it is inevitable that it will be unfair.After being shoveled so thoroughly by her once, the floors of each room fell flat.

Mrs. Lin asked her to clean the tables, chairs, wardrobe, and the kitchen, and said that she would check carefully when she came back at noon to see if she could pass the test. If she could not pass the test of her own mother, she would definitely not be able to pass the test of her mother-in-law. That's not okay.Pomegranate took a few buckets of water, washed all these places, then wiped them with plant ash, then brushed them with a brush, and finally washed them again.

The black dirt has been washed away, the black wardrobe has become an old yellow wooden wardrobe, the black tables and chairs have become old yellow wooden tables and chairs, and the kitchen is spotless, even the window sills have been scrubbed and cleaned by her.

Looking at the clean and fresh home, she put her hands on her hips and smiled foolishly, but after working for half a morning, she was already drenched in sweat.She suddenly thought of hearing people say that Qian Feng had to take a shower three times a day, what the hell was going on with the shower?Do you just pour cold water on your body?
She fetched a pail of water from the well, hid in the house and bathed in cold water.

"Oh my mother, I'm freezing to death, how can I wash it!" Pomegranate jumped up from the bathtub, wiped her body with a towel and hurriedly put on her clothes.

She muttered while wearing it, "What a wicked Qian Feng! If you wash like this three times a day, wouldn't you be sick all over?"

After getting dressed, she took her sewing basket and went to the old well at the entrance of the village to make wedding shoes. Because she had made an appointment with Shao Yao yesterday, she would go there every morning and afternoon to do needlework, and she could also gossip and relieve boredom. .

Next to the old well is a century-old elm tree, which provides a great shade for enjoying the shade.In this midsummer when dogs stick out their tongues and cats hide in the shade, this is of course the best place to go.As soon as Shiliu went, she found that Lihua was also there, but she didn't care. She had an appointment with Shaoyao, but she didn't make an appointment with Lihua.She listens to what Lihua says is nice, and pretends not to hear what Lihua says is not nice. Anyway, she can't figure out the meaning behind many of Lihua's words, and it's useless to listen.

Unexpectedly, Lihua was very silent today, she bent her head down to do her needlework, frowning, guessing that there was something unhappy in her heart.

Shao Yao sits next to her and chats with Shi Liu, and teaches Shi Liu how to embroider mandarin ducks.

"Pomegranate, don't embroider the stitches so sparsely, it will look better if they are denser. This is the first pair of wedding shoes you are making, why are your hands still so raw?" Seeing that Pomegranate was clumsy, Shao Yao was a little anxious.

Pomegranate is indeed only suitable for rough work, and she can't do this kind of delicate embroidery work. She blushed and said, "This is the first pair."

"The first pair?" Shaoyao exclaimed, "You are about to leave the cabinet in a month, how are you going to finish?"

Pomegranate smiled sheepishly, "My mother said she would help me make some at night, she is quick."

"Then you have to hurry up. Although it is said to make at least eight pairs for yourself and at least two pairs for the man, the more you do, the better. Some girls make more than 20 pairs at once. Come, let me teach you Let’s embroider plum blossoms, mandarin ducks are too difficult to embroider, if you delay, you won’t be able to finish even one pair.”

Shiliu followed Paeoniae seriously, and after learning for a while, she felt her eyes were tired. At this time, she saw a few children rubbing straw ropes beside them, and then jumped up to play with them.Shiliu immediately put down what she was doing and went to play skipping rope with the children.

Lihua, who had been silent for a while, finally spoke up, and yelled at Shiliu and the children who were having fun next to her, "Keep your voice down, it's making my head hurt!"

A group of children and Pomegranate stuck out their tongues at Lihua, Lihua rolled her eyes, then raised her head and covered her eyes with her hands to look at the sky, "Forget it, I'll go home and cook."

It was really getting late this time, and Shao Yao hurried home, so Pomegranate had to stop playing rope skipping and go home with her sewing basket to cook.When she came to the vegetable garden, she was worried about what kind of vegetables to eat at noon. She ate these few kinds of vegetables every day, and she was really a little bored.

She remembered hearing Er Huzi say that Qian Feng caught a big monster shrimp in the morning. Could it be that Qian Feng wanted to eat that terrible thing at noon?

Qian Feng did cook spicy lobsters at home, and the room was full of aroma. He made a whole pot, and now he just sat there and tasted it.At this moment, he saw Songcone holding something behind his back, and ran into the house avoiding him.

He was curious, so he followed him to look, "Songqiu, what did you bring home, let the second uncle have a look."

Song Qiu hurriedly hid it under the quilt, "It's nothing, Second Uncle is not allowed to see it!"

"Since there is nothing, why don't you allow Second Uncle to see it? You can't catch a snake and hide it under the quilt to scare Sui'er, right?"

Songqiu raised his neck and argued: "That's not true, Sui'er is my sister, how could I scare her by catching snakes?" In order to prove himself eagerly, he lifted the quilt.

Qian Feng smiled triumphantly, he knew Song Qiu would be in a hurry, and he would not be able to hide things when he was in a hurry.Songqiu showed Qian Feng a piece of straw paper covered with silkworm seeds, and then quickly covered it, "Second uncle, you are not allowed to have it. If you want to eat silkworm chrysalis, you can find silkworm seeds yourself. This is what I got from Niudan." I begged."

Qian Feng had already seen the silkworms densely packed on the papyrus just now, so he asked, "Aside from cow eggs, who else has silkworms in our village?"

Songqiu rolled his eyes, thought for a while, and said, "It seems that Niudan's family is the only one in our village, but there are many families in other villages. Many friends like to raise silkworms."

(End of this chapter)