Four Foods in the Mountains

Brother Zhu dragged Cen Ning all the way from his own home to Lu's.

"So big?" When he arrived at his own courtyard, Cen Ning mixed a bowl of honey water for Brother Zhu, "Drink some honey water and go to the fire."

Seeing the smile on Cen Ning's face, Brother Zhu pretended to give him a look and muttered, "You're still laughing!"

Cen Ning's smile deepened, and he coaxed him: "I know you're looking at me, but it's just a plate of snacks, there's no need to be so awkward with your sister-in-law, after all, it's a family, and you don't see each other when you look up."

Brother Zhu wrinkled his nose and said, "I also understand the reason, but I feel a little uncomfortable." Holding the honey water, he thought for a while and said, "Actually, apart from being a little petty and fussy, my sister-in-law is quite nice. , My aunt scolds me on weekdays, but she always helps me speak."

Cen Ning said: "That's right, we're all a family, and some things will pass if we relax with each other. Besides, you will get married in the next year, and your sister-in-law will be left to help with many things in the family. You should be considerate and considerate now she."

Brother Zhu frowned when he heard this, and took a few sips of honey water.

His temper came and went quickly, and after being comforted by Cen Ning, he forgot about the accident just now, and just talked about other things with Cen Ning.

Aunt Li’s family in the west gave birth to a big fat boy, who was nicknamed Tieniu, and it was easy to support as soon as he heard it; Get together, it hurts to look at it a few times...

His mouth was parched, and Cen Ning refilled him with water three times.

After the beginning of autumn, the days pass quickly. Occasionally, two autumn rains fall, and the sky becomes cooler every day.

After Cen Ning cooked breakfast and sent Lu Yunchuan out every day, he would nestle in the back room and embroider the quilt.

He remembered Lu Yunchuan's words to be careful with his eyes, and after a while, he went out for a walk in the yard to tidy up the sun-dried melons and fruits in the granary.

There were so many vegetables in the vegetable garden that he and Lu Yunchuan couldn't finish them all. Taking advantage of the sun some time ago, they were all dried vegetables, and they could be used to stir-fry bacon or cook vegetable soup in winter.

Brother Zhu was about to get married, and Aunt Qian watched him embroidering wedding dresses at home every day, and occasionally slipped out to play with Cen Ning, and the two of them went to the mountains to pick saponins with baskets on their backs.

When the weather gets colder, the acacia tree will follow the cat and stop bearing fruit, so we have to pick it now.

The incense beads bought by Lu Yunchuan at home, Cen Ning was only willing to use for bathing, and soap locust was still used for washing clothes.

When it gets colder, people in the village wash less clothes, and the river water is too cold, and one winter coat per person can last a whole winter.

So at this time, no one picks the saponins on the acacia tree, and it is full of hanging.

Cen Ning likes to be clean, and brother Zhi and brother Zhu and his nephews are both young, so they change their clothes frequently, and in winter they have to boil hot water for washing.

On this day, Cen Ning put down his needlework and went to the courtyard to have a rest as usual. Yao Chunling brought Brother Zhi to come.

"Little mother." Brother Zhi called out childishly.

It was cool, Yao Chunling dressed Zhi Ge'er thickly, making her look chubby, Zhi Ge'er was white and tender, looking like a piece of dough.

Cen Ning hugged Brother Zhi and smiled: "If you wrap it thicker, I won't be able to hold it."

Yao Chunling also laughed: "I just wear it like this when I go out. I'm afraid he will catch a cold again. I don't like it when I get dressed before going out. I think it's heavy." He said again, "Ning'er, help me take him for a while. Grinding spicy peppers today, I’m going to have a look and join in the fun, it’s inconvenient to take him there.”

The old stone mill at the entrance of the village is used to grind the spicy peppers. There are many people who appoint it. Brother Zhi is young. Last year, Yao Chunling took him there. A butt squatting.

After the hot pepper was worn, the pants were rubbed on the ground, but fortunately they were wrapped thickly, and there was nothing wrong with the buttocks inside.

So now that A Niang gave it to Xiaomao, brother Zhi didn't cry and just sat in Cen Ning's arms shaking his feet.

"Spicy grinding?" Cen Ning asked while hugging Brother Zhi.

"Yes, you bring me a jar, and I'll pack a jar for you too. It would be nice to use it to stew tofu." Yao Chunling went to the kitchen to pick out a big jar without waiting for Cen Ning to do it. , "The spices ground by the old stone mill in the village are even better than those sold in that town."

Yao Chunling has always been vigorous and resolute in her work, and she took the jar and went out.

Cen Ning and Brother Zhi were left with big eyes and small eyes.

Brother Zhi pointed to a golden string of persimmons in the yard: "Persimmons, my mother also hangs them."

There are many wild persimmon trees on the mountain behind Yunxi Village, which can be picked by others.

Every year at this time, every family starts to dry persimmons, and they can be eaten when it snows heavily.

Sun-dried persimmons are sweet and soft, and they are also good-looking to serve guests. The layer of persimmon frost on the outside can also moisturize dryness and relieve coughs, which is a rare thing.

"Bask in the sun for more than a month, and when it snows, brother Zhi can eat it."

Brother Zhi nodded, then shook his head: "Little mother, it's hot."

Cen Ning looked at his pink face and smiled: "Go to the back room, the back room is warm, and my little mother will take off your clothes for you, so you can move around."

After entering the back room, Cen Ning took off Brother Zhi's outermost cotton coat, and fed him a few mouthfuls of hot water.

The cotton coat was heavy, and Brother Zhi felt much looser when he took it off. He was good-natured, and he sat in Cen Ning's arms without making noise while wearing a cotton vest, quietly watching Cen Ning embroider the quilt.

After Cen Ning finished hooking a flower, Brother Zhi gently touched it with his clean little hand: "Wow!"

Cen Ning said with a smile: "Brother Zhi has started to like little flowers, right? When the New Year's day comes, Xiaomao will embroider a handkerchief with little flowers and pin it on the cotton-padded clothes. Can you wipe your mouth with it?"

"Yeah!" Brother Zhi was so happy that he pressed his face into Cen Ning's arms.Xiaoma embroidered bellybands for him, and often served him delicious food. He liked Xiaoma.

It was dark when Yao Chunling came back with the hot peppers, and Cen Ning was taking Brother Zhi to light a fire in the kitchen and prepare to cook the pot.

After the two drank a bowl of water, Yao Chunling took a breath and said, "There are too many people. Aunt Wang's family has asked for a whole load. It's all waiting for her to go. There are still a lot of unfinished ones. I have to go tomorrow."

Cen Ning lifted the jar to look at the spicy peppers, and the smell hit his nostrils: "Ah, it smells so good!"

"Really." Yao Chunling took some chopsticks and ordered some for Cen Ning to taste. "The old stone grinder is extra salty and fragrant. You can seal this jar with cloth and it will last for a long time. Wait until it really arrives." When it’s freezing cold, how can you not eat some spicy peppers to warm your body, people will freeze to death.”

Cen Ning ate a bit of the tip of the chopsticks, nodded and said, "It tastes good, and it's more delicate than the small stone mill at my mother's house."

Thinking of Yao Chunling saying in the afternoon that this stewed tofu with spicy peppers is good, there happened to be a piece of tofu in the cupboard, which he bought in the morning and planned to fry it at night.

Cen Ning and Yao Chunling said: "Sister-in-law, let's eat here at night. It's getting late, so you don't have to run back to make a fire. Let's stew tofu with fresh spicy peppers."

"Okay, let's not cook dry rice tonight, steam a few more steamed buns, then spread out a piece of cake, and eat it with spicy peppers is the most delicious." Lu Yunchuan and Lu Yunlang are brothers, and to be more serious, they have depended on each other since they were young. The two families are closer than the neighboring brother's family, so there is no need to twitch about how many meals to eat.

Yao Chunling graciously agreed, washed her hands and helped Cen Ning scoop up cornmeal to make dough.

Brother Zhi sat in front of the stove and played with the flower rope by himself, waiting for his egg custard to eat.

Brother Yao Chunling gave birth prematurely when she was a child. In winter, Lu Yunlang and Lu Yunchuan braved the wind and snow to walk the mountain road and carried the doctor to the house with a bench before giving birth smoothly. When they were born, they cried like kittens.

So the family raises Brother Zhi carefully, and eats a bowl of egg custard every day. Before the age of three, the family could not afford to raise sheep. Lu Yunlang went to the sheep-raising family in the next village every two days to buy a bowl of goat milk for Brother Zhi. Drink, even in the winter, I never left a bowl.

At that time, many people in the village secretly said that Mr. and Mrs. Lu were stupid. A little brother took more care than a kid. He was so poor even though his family didn't have much money. How could he raise a flower?

Lu Yunlang and Yao Chunling let others gossip, as usual, a bowl of custard every day, and a bowl of goat's milk every two days.

Seeing that the couple couldn't make sense, the villagers ran to Lu Yunchuan to chatter.

Your brother and sister-in-law have the money to buy goat’s milk for your brother’s eggs, so why not cut some meat to eat? You and your brother bring dry steamed buns to the field all day long, and I can’t bear to watch them. "

Unexpectedly, boy Lu Er was even more of a dull gourd, and this dull gourd was extraordinarily cold and hard. When those eyes glanced over, several people hurriedly shut their mouths and left in a hurry.

Little did he know that Lu Da couldn't take care of it sometimes, the goat milk that Brother Zhi drank was all squeezed by Lu Yunchuan to someone's house with a kettle.

Under the gossip of the villagers, the Lu family raised Brother Zhi to be juicy and beautiful, and he became the most beautiful little doll in the village. The elder brother of the village head's family is not as good-looking as Brother Zhi. I like everything I see.

The people in the village chewed the tongue of the Lu family because they thought that the children in the village were raised normally when they were young. Auntie drank milk when she had milk, and drank rice soup when she had no milk. When she had teeth, she would eat the same food as adults. , Momo can't chew dry rice, it's not uncommon for adults to chew it in their mouths before feeding them.

Why is it different when it comes to your Lu family?Feeding eggs and goat milk all day long is not just a big fat boy but a brother.

As soon as I compared it, I started to feel uncomfortable in my heart.

But two years later, seeing that a prematurely born doll from Brother Zhi can look so beautiful and well-behaved, like a doll in a New Year's painting, many people are moved by it.

The chickens raised at home can lay eggs every day, and a bowl of goat milk for two days does not cost a few copper coins.The most important thing is that everyone's Lu family can afford it, so my family can afford it!

If my dolls can grow up to be like brother Zhi'er, it doesn't matter if you spend a few dollars.

The strange thing is that those who follow the Lu family and feed their own dolls eggs and goat milk are really better looking than the average dolls in the village.

It's not that he looks good-looking, but that his body is stronger.

Little dolls are hard to feed, not to mention that Lord Yama can take them away when they are sick, but sometimes they will get hot in the middle of the night when they bump into something when they are taken out to play.

But the dolls who were fed eggs and goat's milk all grew up strong without exception, and they rarely suffered from headaches on weekdays.

Now no one said anything about Lu's family, and the aunts and aunts in the village were all boasting when they got together to chat.

"My eldest grandson has been fed goat milk for two years. He is as strong as a cow. He is happy just looking at it. My daughter-in-law took him with her when she returned to her mother's house. No one is not boastful! Everyone said that looking at it is a blessing! "

"Don't tell me, this Lu family is really clever, the fields are well cultivated, and the babies are well raised!"