After I became a general, I went back to my hometown to farm

◎Brother Cheng: Our family always eats meat, which makes all the children in the village cry. ◎

Brother Cheng is like a treasure, digging non-stop with a wooden spoon, taking a bite of a piece of sweet watermelon. In this summer, he is very happy to eat.

Gu Zeyu also ate, finishing all the cut watermelon.

Brother Cheng dug up half of the watermelon, but he couldn't finish it after all. In the end, Gu Zeyu took it with a smile, and dug up the rest of the watermelon and ate it.

Then the two went to wash their hands together, picked a few watermelons and took them home, returning with a full load.

One person hugged two watermelons, and sent them to Uncle Gu's house and Cheng's house respectively after returning home.

He didn't lose anything, Brother Cheng sighed on the way back.

Gu Zeyu walked with his arms around the back of his neck, saw him sigh, leaned over and asked him: "What's wrong? Why are you sighing?"

Brother Cheng was actually embarrassed to say that he was still greedy for food, but in the end he said it in one breath under Gu Zeyu's gaze: "The watermelon we brought was given to my uncle and my father, and we will give it to my father." I have nothing to eat, I want to eat too, next time I will pick a few more melons."

Gu Zeyu laughed out loud and patted the top of his head, "Haha, brother Cheng is fine, you are still young, don't be shy, blame me for being ill-considered, next time we go to the field we will carry a basket and pick a basket full Watermelon is enough."

In Gu Zeyu's eyes, Brother Cheng is still a teenager, and it's normal for him to like fresh and delicious watermelon.

But he looked at Brother Cheng again, and then passed a hand from the back of his waist, touched his belly, and said teasingly: "But brother Cheng, you have eaten almost half of the watermelon, are you not full? ? I feel that it is already bulging, and whether I can eat it today is a question."

Brother Cheng is quite sensitive, and feels itchy even if his stomach is touched, so he wants to run away the moment he is touched.

Turning his head to retort: ​​"Where is it? I'm not full. Believe it or not, I can eat a bowl of rice in a while." Brother Cheng refused to admit it, but he was still thinking about the watermelon he ate in the field just now. It was red and sweet, so delicious .

Gu Zeyu didn't believe him, but he stopped arguing and took his hand and went home.

He's not full yet, it's only half a melon, and he still needs to eat for dinner.

Fried a sour potato shreds, then heated up a few steamed buns, and after serving them on the table, Gu Zeyu went back to the house and asked Brother Cheng to eat.

Brother Cheng saw him coming, coughed twice, blushed and said, "I'm not very hungry anymore, I don't want to eat anymore, you go and eat." He really couldn't eat.

Gu Zeyu pulled his arm and persuaded: "Watermelon will be digested soon, and it will be full of water at that time. If you don't eat now, you will be hungry in the middle of the night. I won't let you eat more, just eat." How about half a steamed bun? Good boy."

Brother Cheng reluctantly agreed, and was led by the hand to the main room for dinner.

Then he slowly ate half a piece of steamed bun and a little shredded potato.

Gu Zeyu had a good appetite, so he ate two steamed buns and ate up the rest of the food.

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The next day, the couple got up neither early nor late, they slept for a while after the cock crowed, and waited for the afterglow of the sky to get up to dress and cook.

It's a very leisurely and peaceful life. Brother Cheng went to wash up after cooking the meal. His beautiful and long black hair had not been tied up yet, and fell to his ears as soon as he lowered his head. The small and white ears looked better. He I washed my face with a handkerchief, and then dried it.

Gu Zeyu went to the backyard to exercise today, practicing boxing and running.

When he came back to the front yard, he happened to see this scene. Brother Cheng is a little beauty, so he realized it.

Going over to pick up a handful of hair, and then let it slip between your fingers, Gu Zeyu's voice was magnetic, coming from his chest, and it was even more pleasant: "Brother Cheng, your hair is so slippery, I obviously use the same hair as you Bathing utensils, why is my hair rough and hard, and it's not comfortable to touch."

Brother Cheng tilted his head, thought for a while and replied: "I was born with it, and my hair has not been carefully maintained, but brother's hair is generally softer than that of a man."

He just said this, Gu Zeyu pretended to be wronged, and pulled a strand of his hair for him to stroke, "Brother Cheng, the hair said that it needs to be maintained, otherwise it won't be worthy of a wife?"

The hair can't speak, it's just expressing the owner's meaning. Brother Cheng pushed the aggressive Gu Zeyu, but he still said: "My mother once told me some folk remedies, and it's time to teach you how to take care of them. Look at this The hair is all split, it must be nutritionally unbalanced, brother Gu, you should eat more vegetables, and you can't just buy meat."

Gu Zeyu's complacent face fell again, he just had a bite of meat, and the family had the conditions to eat meat, so he bought meat once every three or four days, and he could eat it on the same day, and he could make shiitake mushroom meat sauce if he bought a lot of meat. Special meal.

"Understood, eat more vegetables and less meat." His face drooped, like a big dog whose bones had been robbed, and he was completely out of spirit.

Brother Cheng knocked him on the head, and said with a smile: "That's good, but don't worry, when we work in the field, I will cook meat for you, stewed chicken is also good, and adding some potatoes is even better." tasty."

Then he silently said a sentence that had been buried in his heart for a long time, "Our family always cooks meat, which not only makes the children in the next door cry, but also makes the children in the whole village cry."

Some children would come to beg for meat. Although Brother Cheng felt sorry for them, he did not dare to give them meat, for fear of being entangled, because some thick-skinned people in the village would be difficult to get rid of once entangled. children, but their parents.

Some people even kidnap him morally, saying that your family is so rich?He always eats meat, which makes my child cry. If we don’t give him food, he will cry all the time. How can our family afford meat? Anyway, you have to give him food, or you won’t leave.

This is what Brother Cheng experienced personally, and after he got rid of it, he didn't dare to show kindness again.

Gu Zeyu frowned after listening, but he was thick-skinned, turned his head and felt aggrieved, looked at Brother Cheng and said pitifully: "If I don't eat meat, I will cry too much, besides, look at how big I am , if there is no meat energy supplement, I will be thin and not strong."

Brother Cheng patted his head to show comfort, "I'm just talking, how can I really not cook meat for you? I just try not to make it so delicious in the future." Otherwise, it will really attract a bunch of small child.

He couldn't stand it anymore, and he liked children. He might act like a baby or say a few nice words, and then he agreed to give each of them a piece of meat.

Gu Zeyu nodded, his face arched again, the two of them went into the room to eat, they could already smell the aroma, and the rice was cooked.

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After eating, Li Hua came to look for Gu Zeyu and said that the fruits on the peach and pear trees were almost ripe.

It will be available for sale at the end of this month.

Li Hua has been very low-key since he came to Gujia Village. He often wandered around the fruit trees. At Gu Zeyu's suggestion, he returned pears one by one. The peaches were wrapped in paper bags, using paper similar to oil paper. At that time, Gu Zeyu was busy with the work in the field. , Said to find someone to help with the set, but he refused, with a warm pillow in his eyes, he worked tirelessly to cover the big fruit trees on the three acres of land.

Those who climb high and step down, the ladder is moved back and forth.

Li Hua felt that since he was paid a tael of silver, he must do enough work.

Daily watering, as well as pruning branches, is never lazy.

There was a child who wanted to steal a few young peaches to eat, but he stopped him, and made it clear that this is not a wild tree, but a specially planted fruit tree, which will be sold for money in the future.

The remaining [-] mu of fruit tree saplings were also taken care of very well. Some of them grew fast but wanted to grow crookedly, so he fixed them with wood, and all of them straightened their backs, like poplar trees.

Gu Zeyu felt that he did a good job, and now he was sitting and talking, and said: "The melons in the field are ripe. If you want to eat, you can just pick and eat them. I planted two hundred acres, and I don't know if I can sell them all. Don't save me."

Li Hua responded honestly, "Okay."

Then Gu Zeyu sent him out. When he went back, he scratched his head and thought, the fruit trees are all bearing fruit, should they be sold directly, or do they make other plans?

For example, make some fruit wine or something, make some jam or something.

Gu Zeyu asked Brother Cheng for an idea, "What do you think should be done? Brother Cheng."

Brother Cheng pulled him to sit down and said: "If it tastes delicious and not sour like wild fruit, I pick it and sell it in the market. It must be popular. If it tastes sour, then you can consider brewing fruit wine and making it." It’s jam, there aren’t many such things on the market, so it must be able to sell for a good price, in short, we are not losing money.”

Brother Cheng calculated and calculated carefully, and only spoke after careful consideration.

Gu Zeyu punched with his left palm and his right hand, "Okay, let's do this."

"In a few days until mid-August, we will start picking watermelons to sell, and try to sell some fruit trees."

"Ah."

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On this day, the two husband and wife were not idle. They went out to cut a pile of grass for their livestock, and brought them home to feed them.

Gu Zeyu wanted to eat fish, so he spent the rest of the day at the small river in the village.

It was summer, and although some people were bathing and swimming downstream, the upstream was still fine. Gu Zeyu deliberately dragged Brother Cheng to the upstream, and took a harpoon to catch fish.

The harpoon was borrowed from the villagers.

But in the end, it didn't work a few times. Gu Zeyu was really not good at his skills, and he always missed the fork. After giving up the tool, he caught two with his bare hands. Fortunately, the water was not very deep and he was not in a hurry. People can only look at the river and sigh.

Brother Cheng handed over the bucket and asked Gu Zeyu to put the caught fish into the bucket, "It's grass carp, it's quite fat, it must be delicious."

The corners of Gu Zeyu's mouth curled up, squinting his eyes to avoid the sun, "Well, let's go home and stew fish with pickled cabbage. Eat this in summer to relieve tiredness. Of course, fish soup with rice is also delicious."

As he thought this way, his tongue was also secreting saliva.

Brother Cheng counted with his fingers: "Let's braise the other braised in soy sauce, it will be very fragrant when splashed with oil, and I have to look for something to remove the fishy smell at home. There is a lot of ginger, but there seems to be not much garlic..."

Gu Zeyu shook his legs to shake off some of the water, then folded his trouser legs, put on his shoes, and walked two steps with his trousers wet.

He picked up the harpoon and said, "Since everything has been calculated, I won't catch any fish anymore. Let's go home, deal with the fish and stew it early."

Enough for two fish.

Back home, the two of them got to work. Gu Zeyu took over the job of killing the fish. He was skilled at scraping the scales of the fish, picking the belly of the fish, taking out all the internal organs, and then slashed the belly of the fish with a flower knife, and then cleaned it with water.

Brother Cheng here takes the processed fish, then adds onion, ginger and garlic to relieve the fishy smell, and seasons to marinate for a while.

Then cook the two fish separately.

On this day, the village smelled very strong fish soup, very fragrant, very fragrant.