Pinellia pastoral

Chapter 111 Together
The matter here is just a small stone, and when thrown into the water, the ripples it can make are limited after all.

Yuan Guang simply didn't let his family know. He had a faint feeling in his heart that he should be able to stir up something on his shoulders.

The Zhang family’s vegetable garden has to open a road, and because of the terrain, the terrain on the Su’s side is higher, while the Zhang’s side is lower. When it was the vegetable garden, the Zhang family also had to leave when they came to the vegetable garden from the back door. There are a few steps, and now the road is open, so it is natural to dig the soil, and then there will be a small slope to be able to walk down.

With skillful hands, Su Youli had already made a dustpan and baskets. He put the excavated soil into the baskets with a dustpan, and then the soil happened to be piled up in his own vegetable field, so that he could use it to ram the courtyard wall.

Three or four people were working in full swing.

Zhang Liu dug the soil, Su Youzhang saw that it was almost done, and built the foundation of the vegetable garden with the stones he picked up earlier, so that the vegetable garden of Zhang’s family would not be washed away when it rained. Go to your own vegetable garden and pile it up.

Not long after, Mrs. Li also came to help.

Zhang Liu laughed haha, "Sister-in-law Su, you don't want to come, we are here, so we won't be able to eat later!"

Hearing what he said, Mrs. Li was a bit like her brothers, and she was not a careless person, "To tell you the truth, Pinellia is the best cook in my family, and then it will be my turn. Now Wumei and Mint are also having trouble. There is no room for me to stand in the kitchen, and if I don’t come out to do some work, I really don’t know whether I should eat or not later.”

Just as he was talking, there was a burst of laughter from the kitchen over there.

A small figure came this way, "Third Aunt, may I help you pack the dirt?"

Mrs. Li quickly waved her hand, "Mint, how can a girl like you do such heavy work, go back and go back."

Mint curled her lips, and rubbed to Su Youzhang's side, "Uncle, I'll help you move the stone, I have strength now."

He was chased away by Su Youzhang again, "Mint, the bones are not fully grown now, why can't we move these things and go back to cook, huh?"

Now that it was boring, Mint shook his head and went back, looking around, but didn't want to go back and circle the stove.

Zhang Liu looked at Mint, "This girl is like a kid."

It was almost too busy, and another rain came down.

The work was a bit difficult. Although the rain was not heavy, after a long time, there was still a stream of muddy water accumulated in the place they had just dug. Now the road is not completed, and naturally it cannot be drained. It was muddy.

The group simply took a break first and then talked after eating.

Seeing them come back and sit down, Ban Xia speeded up the speed at hand.

Here and Wu Mei are still busy, Gu Ya'er also rushed in with a head of rain, seeing Li Shi, she just blinked and smiled as if she just ate something, and dawdled to Ban Xia, "Sister, I Sent."

Only then did Ban Xia nod her head, Su Youzhang and Zhang stayed here to help, they won't take wages, if they insisted on giving it, it might hurt their relationship, but I would feel bad if I didn't give it to them.So when cooking, Banxia can focus on cooking, and it is a little bit of kindness to ask Gu Ya'er to send a big bowl of braised pork to each of these two families.

Of course, they don't know it yet.

The side of the kitchen is a bit dark, and the rain is only vague, so Ban Xia thinks about putting the table in the shed over there, at least a half-open one, with a few rows of shelves on one side. Rows of wooden basins are used to germinate bean sprouts, but otherwise it is spacious.

In such a rainy day, after working for half a day, drinking some wine, looking at the vegetable field outside and chatting, it is considered at ease.

Ban Xia came out to ask Su Youli, and Su Youli looked at the other two with inquiring eyes.

There is no problem, and the table is naturally set down.

Because they came back a little earlier, Ban Xia hadn't finished the work at hand, so she simply served a pot of small fish tofu soup first, she wanted to buy fish heads, and she needed them too.I bought this from those half-children unintentionally.

"Hey, this thing is not bad!" Seeing green onions floating on the milky white soup, it smells very attractive.

The table outside is naturally the three of them sitting with Yuan Guang, Mrs. Li is not at the table, and is going to eat with Ban Xia in the kitchen when the dishes here are ready.

Seeing Ban Xia put a portion of soup on the table first, although it looked good, Su Youli still waved his hand, "Why don't you serve wine?"

"Father—" Ban Xia and Yuan Guang yelled in unison.

In the end, it was Ban Xia who spoke quickly, "Drink some soup before drinking, so as not to hurt the stomach, so as not to get drunk easily."

Yuan Guang's words also rushed up, "Father, don't you see that restaurants serve dishes one by one on the table?"

What the brother and sister said made them laugh again, not to mention that the fish soup looked really good, and they drank it because they wanted to do whatever they wanted.

As soon as I put it in my mouth, I realized that the taste was particularly delicious and not fishy, ​​so I stirred the soup with a wooden spoon, and I knew it in my heart, but it was because of this understanding that I found it was especially difficult.

"There are only small fish and tofu here, how are they cooked?" Zhang Liu asked decisively.

Pinellia happened to serve the braised pork. It takes a lot of strength to work. Naturally, it can't be justified without meat. Anyway, how much money can you eat?She always thought so, and when Zhang Liu said this, Ban Xia became happy, "How do you cook this, uncle, let aunt come."

Su Youzhang laughed loudly, "That's right, that's right, you can't cook by yourself, Pinellia, I'll let your third aunt come over another day, you teach her, lest I don't want to eat when I go back."

Ban Xia naturally agreed.

Fish soup, braised pork, and then a sweet and sour pork ribs, dried small fish fried capers, and fried bean sprouts and vegetables, it's almost the same.

There is still an aroma in the pot, it is Banxia who is making braised meat, and I want to eat it at noon today, but it is too late.

Mrs. Sun came over and told Bo He and Wu Mei to go to eat, but Mrs. Li stayed here, so let's forget it.

Su Qian didn't yell or scold, probably because there was nothing to say about saving food over there, Ban Xia and the others thought so.

But they didn't know that Mrs. Su Qian wanted to get angry at first, but she looked at Mr. Su and kept silent.

So everyone ate very happily.

"Third Aunt, when can I walk here?" Mint asked enthusiastically.

Mrs. Li unscrewed the head of Xiao Yuzai and put it into his own bowl, then separated the fish meat and gave two to Yuanchen Gu Ya'er, without delay in talking, "Now dig the soil first and build the vegetable garden over there , the road is open, it is convenient to build houses and courtyard walls here, and it is closer to transport things.”

Thinking of this question, Banxia hesitated thinking about the muddy dirt road. In fact, when she went to Su Chuner's house with Wu Mei, she thought about it, but it was just thinking about it at the time, but now it can come in handy .

"Mom, the road over there is very muddy. Why don't we pave a cobblestone road? There are many fist-sized pebbles by the river. Although the water is flooded, the riverbed is not full yet. There should be some by the riverside. A few of us went to pick up stones and put them in baskets. When you and Dad find time to pick them up, we will pave the way along the dug road, stepping into the mud like this, and it will be washed away after a few heavy rains. When it rains in the future, you don’t need a foot of mud when you go out, and if you use a wooden cart or something on a rainy day, the wheels won’t get stuck in the mud.” Said Ban Xia.

Mrs. Li was very pleasantly surprised, "Why didn't I think that when I was still at home, there was a small road like this in the vegetable garden. Picked up pebbles."

"Mother, not only that, when the repairs over there are completed, when we build the shower room, we will also lay cobblestones, so that the water will flow out from the bottom..." Ban Xia couldn't stop thinking about her own independent yard.

Before the rest of the people could react, she thought again, "When the road is repaired and we pave the cobblestones, I'll sprinkle Impatiens seeds on both sides. I've saved a lot here, and I'll just pick some when I go out. Those things are easy. Live, when we build the yard, maybe the flowers will be in bloom. All the way past, it will be pink, yellow and white, not to mention how beautiful it is. There is a saying that Huang Siniang’s house is full of flowers, and thousands of flowers are pressed down on the branches... "

Mint stuck out her tongue, "Huang Siniang, who is it? Who is surnamed Huang in the village?"

Ban Xia knew that she had slipped her tongue, so she quickly made amends, "I am just talking casually, but it can be done like this, plant two more rose bushes in the vegetable garden..."

"Sister, you can paint my nails when the flowers bloom." Gu Ya'er was still thinking about the Impatiens, looking at Ban Xia's fawning face.

"Okay!" Still a smug one.

Gu Ya'er saw that Banxia agreed to come down, quickly looked at her nails, touched the plum blossom pit on the back of her hand, but turned around, "Yuanchen, you can't dye your nails, you are a boy, do you know?"

It was as if he was a little grown-up.

This is probably because Li Shi and Ban Xia are the same, because they will explain everything to Yuan Chen recently, and he can say more and more.

Just like at this time, Yuanchen smiled and said with a good temper, "I don't dye, I'll help pick up stones."

Gu Ya'er patted his head, "Good boy—"

Yuan Chen's face turned red, and a few people beside him laughed like crazy.

Seeing the children making a fuss, Mrs. Li was naturally flattered.

In this family, since the separation, there has been more and more laughter.

Several children can help with work. For example, this time, they are better than themselves in making suggestions, and there is a feeling of a young child growing up.

She talked about Ban Xia's idea just now, and Su Youli naturally agreed.

Not only that, but he also thought about it a little more, "That's right, after the rain washes away, I'll bring back a cart of sand and spread it on it, which is even more convenient."

Su Youzhang joked, "I'm afraid you will be the first in the village to repair this road!"

So they ate a meal satisfactorily, and the faint rain stopped. Ban Xia looked around for baskets and baskets, and went to the river to pick up pebbles.

(End of this chapter)