Affection for Sidaogou during the Famine

Xiao Sanzi was the most impatient. He roasted it for a while, then pulled it back to have a look. Roasted it for a while longer, then pulled it back to have a look again.

Niu Xiaoyun is no less capable, her personality is also very eccentric, and they are the eldest, not to mention the second.

I would take it back after a while to see if it worked, and if it didn't work I would continue baking.

However, their purposes were completely different. Niu Xiaoyun cherished the food and was afraid that the tender corn would be burnt and ruined, so she was being overly cautious.

Xiao Sanzi: "Why aren't you familiar with me yet?"

"It should be cooked, right? It's already browned at the front."

Everyone was holding back their laughter; no one paid any attention to him; they all wanted to laugh at his joke.

"Hiss, um, um, it's really not cooked through. The top is almost burnt, but the bottom is still raw. What's going on? Did I overcook it?"

The third child picked the burnt part and took a bite, hissing with laughter because of the burn.

Han Zhaozhao said helplessly: "You can't eat hot tofu if you are impatient! You blame the toilet if you can't poop! We are all using the same fire, and everyone else is fine, but you are burnt, why are you so impatient to blame the fire?

It's obviously you who is impatient! I told you to be patient, but you just ignored me!

Don't toss it around, keep calm, turn the corn more and roast it more evenly.

Hey! Don’t get so close to the fire! If you roast it like this, the outside will be burnt and the inside will not be cooked. Be careful not to get diarrhea if you eat it!"

Xiao Sanzi came over with a grin on his face, "Zhao Zhao, help me roast them. I'll go catch some grasshoppers. I just saw a lot of them in the pumpkin patch over there."

He is not stupid. He decisively passes on the things he is not good at to the things he is best at. He is very good at this!

Niu Xiaomin: "You bullied Zhao Zhao again and asked her to help you. I just told you to bake and eat by yourself. Where do you want to go to play?"

The older you are, the more stable you become, said the eldest brother Niu Xiaomin.

Xiao Sanzi was not afraid of him. Without waiting for Han Zhaozhao's consent, he stuffed the corn into her hands and ran away.

Niu Xiaoyun cursed from behind: "You stinky little bastard, run away! I won't let you eat it even if I roast it!

Zhao Zhao, you eat them all later, don’t leave him even a single kernel of corn. Let him watch us eat, he’ll be so greedy! You’ve spoiled him!”

Han Zhaozhao nodded with a smile. The little girl was standing up for her, so she didn't dare to ruin her show.

But in the end she couldn't finish her meal, so she asked Xiao Sanzi to pick up what she had left and eat it. She didn't say anything about it because she was afraid that she would be angry.

Niu Xiaolian smiled with a blushing face, "Let him play, otherwise he will definitely not be idle and will start poking at the potatoes under the ashes again!"

Everyone laughed when they heard it!

Xiao Sanzi can definitely do this. This kid is born in the year of the monkey. If you want him to sit still, he will not move unless he falls asleep.

"Niu Xiaoyun, come quickly! There are two katydids here. Help me catch them. I'll buy you some candy when we get home."

Niu Xiaoyun: "Bah! Who cares about the candy you bought? It's not like I don't have money. If I want to eat it, can't I buy it myself?"

The little girl was so proud that, apart from depositing the first sum of money into the bank and handing it over to her parents, she also kept one dollar for pocket money!

She is also a wealthy person now!

Niu Xiaoyun was carefully turning and roasting the tender corn in her hands. Waves of tempting aroma wafted out. The corn was roasted until it was golden and fragrant, without any burnt lumps or residue.

She held it up to her eyes and looked at it carefully. Yes, it was indeed cooked.

"Fufufu!" She puffed out her cheeks and blew hard a few times, then took a bite and said, "Ah-wu!"

"Mmm, it smells really good! Brother, sister, Zhaozhao, you guys eat it too, it smells really good!

It tastes absolutely different from boiled corn, roasted corn is so delicious! ”

Niu Xiaoyun chewed the food with big mouthfuls, hissing and snorting. It was so hot that her mouth was burned, but she was reluctant to spit it out, so she chewed and breathed out at the same time!

Niu Xiaomin and Niu Xiaolian swallowed their saliva together, "Is it really that exaggerated? It's even more delicious than the fresh cornmeal pancakes my grandma made when I was a child?"

They also remembered eating boiled corn when they were children in their hometown. It was the seedlings that were planted in the corn fields after the autumn harvest, and the tender corn that formed had not yet matured.

They remembered that the Hu Bingzi made by their grandma was not as delicious as the one made by their grandma.

"If you don't believe me, try it yourself, Zhaozhao. You bought these corn seeds, right?

Is it a different variety from others? I used to eat young corn from the village when I was in my hometown, but it didn’t taste like this.”

Niu Xiaolian: "It's been so many years since this happened, do you still remember it?"

Niu Xiaoyun suddenly felt nostalgic: "How could I forget? That was the only time my grandma hit me!"

Niu Xiaomin and Niu Xiaolian were both silent, and the atmosphere suddenly felt a little strange.

Han Zhaozhao: "Don't think too much, just eat what you have. Labor makes us happy!

Maybe it’s because we planted them ourselves and worked hard and endured hardships, so we feel that the fruits of our labor are sweeter! ”

Eating in the wild seems to be delicious!

But the only drawback was that the potatoes were a bit over-baked, and a thick layer of burnt lumps formed on the outside.

The meat inside was yellow, glutinous and fragrant, but it didn't affect the taste. As the saying goes, mushy cakes and rotten rice don't hurt people, they were reluctant to waste food and ate even the lumps.

After eating the baked potatoes, everyone had a mouth full of black dust. Little Sanzi was even funnier, even the gaps between his teeth were black. When he grinned, his image was like a funny video in later generations.

The five children ate five cobs of tender corn, a dozen potatoes, and a dozen large grasshoppers, but they still felt hungry.

Han Zhaozhao also contributed the multi-grain pancakes that he had brought with him, which were toasted over the embers. They then each had a pancake and finally filled their stomachs.

Niu Xiaolian calculated in a low voice: "We ate five to six kilograms of potatoes, at least three kilograms of corn, plus five pancakes, one and a half kilograms of food. Wow! My goodness, we ate ten kilograms of food in one meal at noon today. That means we have no food for the day!"

Xiao Sanzi rubbed his belly contentedly, and smiled as he lay under the tree for his afternoon nap. "Sister Xiaolian, look at the potatoes all over the ground. What a great harvest!

I grew them myself, so what if I eat a few? When you are alive, you can’t be petty, or you won’t be happy! "

Niu Xiaoyun: "You're acting so high and mighty again! You don't know how expensive firewood and rice are until you run the household. You just remember to eat every day!"

In the afternoon, the five people divided the work again, and the three older children carried potatoes in half bags and carried them to the foot of the mountain.

When there was enough to fill a cart, Niu Xiaomin and Niu Xiaolian took it home. Xiao Sanzi continued to work at the foot of the mountain, while Han Zhaozhao and Niu Xiaoyun stayed in the field to dig potatoes.

They calculated that they could harvest more than 1,000 kilograms of potatoes from one acre of land.

It is possible to plan it all, but it is definitely impossible to transport it all.

A small cart can carry 200 kilograms at a time, so it would take at least six or seven trips.

In one afternoon, no matter how fast Niu Xiaomin walked, he could only make four trips and bring home about 800 kilograms.

The three older ones have to go to school tomorrow, so the remaining five or six hundred kilograms can only be left for Han Zhaozhao and Niu Xiaoyun to move bit by bit.

They worked until dark and the five children were so tired that they had to limp home.

They didn't have the energy to catch scorpions that night, so they just divided the potatoes at Han Zhaozhao's house. They didn't even use a scale. In the presence of the adults from the three families, they roughly estimated the pile.

Niu Xiaoyun's parents' eyes almost popped out when they saw the two sacks of potatoes they were given.

“You guys must have planted this on the mountain, how come it’s so big and so good?

How can I not believe it! To be honest, you didn't steal it from the countryside, did you? "

Eight hundred pounds, too much! This was too unbelievable. Mother Niu was so frightened that her heart was pounding. She pulled Niu Xiaomin over and asked secretly.

"If someone catches this, he will definitely be beaten to death!"

Aunt Qian was so frightened that her face turned pale.

Uncle Qian was away on a business trip and was not at home. Uncle Niu had a gloomy face and did not speak, as if he would explode at any time if something wrong was said.