The Sweet Little Fulang

Life in the countryside is mostly boring work. Day after day, year after year, and spring plowing of paddy fields and rice, winter wheat has already been planted after the chai beans were harvested last year, and the dry fields are nothing but seeing the sky. Pulling weeds, digging ditches or lifting water to irrigate when the land is dry is mostly physical work.

Brother Ling fell asleep around noon, and Lu Gu put the baby in the cradle so he wouldn't be afraid of falling out of bed.

In the kitchen, Ji Qiuyue was chopping vegetables, white steam came out from the side of the pot, steamed dry rice today.

Zhao'er was not good before, crying and wanting to go out to play, now it's almost meal time, there are several people in the field waiting to deliver the food, she was upset by her son's quarrel, she simply spanked her buttocks a few times, and hugged her again after crying. Coax, Zhao'er fell asleep after crying for a while, and also put it back in the room.

Seeing him come in, Ji Qiuyue said with a smile while chopping vegetables, "It finally stopped."

Just now when Zhao'er was crying, brother Ling also cried together. When the two children cried, even if they were mothers and mothers, their ears were noisy after hearing too much. I also felt relieved, which is never easy with children.

The rice has already been steamed, and there is no need to add firewood to the bottom of the stove. Seeing that the vegetables are almost cut, Lu Gu turns up the fire on the clay stove, pours out the water from the horse ladle and puts it on the stove. He pours oil into the pot outside the kitchen, Ji Qiuyue quickly brought out a bowl of blanched spring bamboo shoots and half a bowl of chicken slices. Seeing that the oil was hot, Lu Gu grabbed a small handful of wild onions from the spring bamboo shoots and poured them into the oil pan with a sound. Then pour the chicken and spring bamboo shoots.

The chicken is an old non-laying chicken bought in a neighboring village the day before yesterday. Their chickens and ducks are laying eggs, and they are reluctant to slaughter them. Yesterday, they chopped half of the chicken and stewed it. They put it in a big clay pot and sent it to the field, including the soup and meat. After eating everything, there is oily and meaty chicken soup served with dry rice and steamed buns. Everyone is full after eating, and there is still some chicken left for cooking tomorrow.

After the bamboo shoots and chicken were fried, Lu Gu wiped the horse's spoon, and Ji Qiuyue brought out wild vegetables and bacon. There is no chicken soup to eat today, so it's the same to cut some bacon and stir-fry a bowl of vegetables.

He was cooking outside, and Ji Qiuyue took a big soup pot from the kitchen, lifted the lid to cook rice, and made it full, then counted out six bowls, and put a pot of rice and bowls into the bamboo basket, because the soup pot was big, It is not easy to put vegetable bowls in the basket. I am afraid that the soup will be spilled, so I took another basket to carry it.

"Here to watch the house, do you know?" Lu Gu put the clay pot filled with water on the ground and locked the courtyard door, and took the boy who came out with him back. The two children are sleeping at home, so there is a dog so you can feel at ease.

Guaizai stood behind the door motionless and looked at him. After locking the courtyard door, he could still hear it whimpering twice inside.

Many people in the paddy field bowed down to plant rice seedlings. One of them carried a rice basket, the other carried a water pot and a vegetable basket, and they arrived at the edge of their own field after a while.

Busy for spring plowing, Shen Xuanqing came back with a mule cart the day before yesterday. The field is the foundation of rations, so it is naturally important, not to mention the countryside, even the farmers in the town are busy in the field recently.

His eyes were sharp, and he caught a glimpse of Lu Gu and Ji Qiuyue early in the morning. It wasn't summer, but he was exposed to the sun all morning and kept working, his face and body were covered with sweat.

"Let's go, dinner." He raised his hand, wiped the sweat from his forehead with the back of his hand, and greeted Ge Chunsheng and his son-in-law Li Laiqing.

Ge Chunsheng had no land to grow. Last year he worked quickly and honestly. This year, Shen Yaoqing told him earlier that Ge Chunsheng was less talkative, because the Shen family was easy to talk. When he went to call for someone, Ge Chunsheng held back for a long time. Only then did he speak out and asked Chun Peng if he wanted people. If so, his son-in-law only had one mu of thin land and he was not in a hurry to plant it. It would be no problem to work as a day laborer for a few days.

Shen Yaoqing knew that his son-in-law was also poor. There were two villages close to their Qingxi Village. The nearest one was Qinghe Village where Ge Chunsheng lived, and the other was slightly further away was Linhe Village where Li Laiqing lived. Young men are not like wives. Lang doesn't go outside the door, and he knows a few men with similar interests or temperaments.

There is only such a small place in the countryside, and some things will spread. He and Li Laiqing are not familiar, but he has never heard of the other party doing anything bad. Yes, otherwise the person who even bullied his mother-in-law and father-in-law would have already spread the gossip, so he nodded in agreement. No matter what the young man, as long as he has the strength to work, he can finish the spring plowing for a few days.

It's just that he didn't expect that on the first day of planting yesterday, Ge Chunsheng and Li Laiqing were waiting in the field early in the morning, half an hour earlier than their own family.

Six people in the paddy field went up to the field ridge and walked to the ground. Wei Lanxiang was sweating all over his face, and wiped it with a handkerchief. The sun was shining, and his eyes were narrowed. Take a big sip, and you will feel better after drinking it.

"Mother, this is tea, drink some to relieve the heat." Lu Gu took off the bowl from the pitcher, poured out half of the bowl and handed it over.

"Okay." Wei Lanxiang finished drinking the water in the bamboo tube, and was not polite to the half bowl of warm tea.

Seeing Shen Xuanqing coming over, standing tall and standing beside him, Lu Gu frowned slightly, and asked him, "Have you finished your water?"

Only then did Shen Xuanqing laugh, and said: "It's over, I wasn't thirsty at first, since it's just tea, I'll drink some too."

Lu Gu brought him a bowl from the rice basket, and Shen Xuanqing picked up the clay pot and poured it into the bowl. After the water in the bowl was finished, Lu Gu filled him with a bowl of rice.

"There's still some in the pot. There's a lot of steamed rice today. If it's not enough, I'll go back and serve some more." Ji Qiuyue said beside her.

Shen Yan was hungry, so she was so bored eating that she didn't even bother to talk. Seeing that her sister-in-law made muddy water on her face and body, she wiped her face with a smile.

Ge Chunsheng and Li Laiqing were also eating, mostly vegetables, and occasionally a piece of meat, they were a little cautious, not the kind who kept pulling meat into their own bowls, so they should be respected.

There were no tables and chairs on the ground, and a few people squatted or sat on the ground. Anyway, their clothes were mostly dirty, and they didn't mind getting a little more dirt.

"Have you eaten?" Shen Xuanqing asked while holding a bowl.

Lu Gu smiled and said, "No, I'll have dinner with my sister-in-law when I go back later, I'll save all the food."

That being the case, Shen Xuanqing stopped talking and lowered his head to pick food into his mouth, not to mention Shen Yan, he was also very hungry.

Planting rice seedlings has been busy for two and a half days, even if the third day is only half a day, the rice still needs to be cooked well. Ji Qiuyue and Lu Gu rolled out a pot of noodle soup today.

Regardless of just cooking, eating the same meal every day is different from changing the number of samples. If you put some thought into eating, your family will be happy too.

The noodle soup was warm and moist, and the leftover chicken was used to stir-fry spring vegetables. Lu Gu picked up another bowl of sour water celery and cut it into small pieces.

Ling Jun didn't want to sleep today, he was still too young, he didn't know the hardships of adults, and he didn't want to lie in the cradle, so Lu Gu had no choice but to beat Ji Qiuyue behind his back. Fortunately, Zhao'er was still good today, but she was beaten yesterday I learned a lesson, knowing that adults are busy, I stopped crying and playing with mud in the yard by myself, it doesn't matter if I get dirty, as long as he doesn't run outside, Ji Qiuyue let him play, and it doesn't matter if she frees up her hands to cook.

Because there was not much left after finishing work yesterday evening, the four of Shen Yaoqing were able to finish their work, and they came back from the field to pay Ge Chunsheng and Li Laiqing's wages for two days.

Today I was finally able to eat at the table. There were poached eggs in the bowls of the six adults. Because Brother Ling wanted to eat, he was moaning and crying, so Lu Gu fed him some eggs and noodles.

Zhao'er is very good at eating eggs now, Ji Qiuyue brought him a bowl and put all her poached eggs in it, Zhao'er sat at the table with the bowl in her hand, and ate the eggs with her hands, because his clothes were dirty , Simply don't even tie the bib, let him tinker.

"Aunt He and Uncle He came back from mowing the grass two days ago. Seeing that it was inconvenient for us to bring our children, she even helped feed the animals." Ji Qiuyue chatted and laughed as she ate, before taking a mouthful of spring vegetables, she added: "They are weak, I didn’t want to help carry the water, but if I hurt someone’s bones, Gu Zi and I hurriedly carried the water back, so why bother them both.”

"Well, that's the reason." Shen Yaoqing nodded in approval, seeing that Zhao'er had finished eating his wife's poached egg, she put the remaining half into the wife's bowl.

He Zhi's parents could only dig one cart of grass a day for the first two days, but there is a lot of dry grass in the thatched house, so it is good to mix it with the livestock.

Shen Xuanqing ate fast, seeing that Lu Gu had to feed the child while eating, after he put down the bowl, he picked up Brother Ling and coaxed him to the side, and went into the room to shake the rattle.

Lu Gu had time to eat properly.

Ji Qiuyue saw Zhao'er finished eating eggs, threw down the bowl and went to play in the yard to play with mud, and said, "Forget it, let him go, just change clothes at night."

Shen Xuanqing carried Brother Ling and walked to the courtyard, and looked at Zhaoer by the way, so as not to fall or something, he squatted down and smiled: "Give me a pinch to play with, see if you know how."

"Yes." Zhao'er understood the meaning, her voice was immature and childlike, and she picked up a handful of mud and tossed it in her hand.

Shen Xuanqing saw that the gourd scoop used to scoop water at home was thrown on the ground by him, and it was full of muddy water. He smiled and thought to himself, what a bastard.

After eating, the rest of the family were tired, and Shen Xuanqing was holding the baby, and Lu Gu came out after washing the dishes in the kitchen.

"When the sun is shining at noon, I'll boil some water. You guys change your clothes and then wash your hair." He pulled a chair and sat next to Shen Xuanqing, shook Brother Ling's little hand, and the child laughed.

I ate early today, and I went down when I came back from the field. It's just past half of the morning.

Shen Xuanqing smiled and said: "Fever more, my body is also dirty, full of sweat, I'll take a bath and see if mother and others want to take a bath."

"Okay, let me ask." Lu Gu smiled. It's not difficult to boil water, something that can be done in front of the stove.

Shen Yan came in from the yard. She had just changed her mud shoes and put them in the yard together with other people's mud shoes. She could see them when washing them, so no one would be left behind.

When she heard that she was washing her hair and taking a bath, she said, "Brother Guzi, I washed it too, and my hair was covered with mud. Fortunately, I put on a handkerchief when I slept at night, so that the pillow was not dirty."

"Okay, I'll burn more, you just wash it." Lu Gu agreed with a smile.

He didn't say anything, but he was very happy that Shen Xuanqing was at home these days.