Four Foods in the Mountains

The middle coat was easy to make, and the two pieces were sewn together until noon. Cen Ning put down his needlework and went to the gate of the courtyard to look around. After a while, he saw Lu Yunchuan carrying something.

Lu Yunchuan was drenched in sweat. After entering the yard and unloading the farm tools, he said, "I'm dirty. Help me get a change of clothes. I'll wash them in the yard before going into the house."

Country people don’t really care about these things when they work. It’s normal to wear sweaty clothes for a day. When farming is busy, they will get dirty in the afternoon and don’t have so much energy to wash.

During the difficult time for Lu Yunchuan and Lu Yunlang, it was common for them to wear the same clothes for a month.

But Lu Yunchuan knew that his husband loves to be clean, and he washes his hair and clothes diligently on weekdays, so he also paid attention to it, fearing that his husband would dislike him.

The sun was strong, so there was no need to waste firewood and boil water for washing, so Lu Yunchuan washed the sweat and mud off his body with well water.

When Cen Ning came out with his clothes, he saw him rubbing his body naked, and immediately stayed where he was, with his eyes fixed on the toes of his shoes, not daring to glance around, his face blushing.

Even if they slept together every night, it was also when it was dark. How could they ever stare at Lu Yunchuan in broad daylight like this.

After Lu Yunchuan finished wiping, Cen Ning handed over the clothes in his hand, lowered his eyes and said in succession: "You can put on your own clothes. I'll take the changed clothes to the river to wash in the afternoon. There are fruits soaked in them. You can eat two mouthfuls to pad your stomach. Now go cook."

Lu Yunchuan laughed when he saw him rushing into the kitchen. After getting dressed, he went to pick up fruit by the well. The fruit was soaked in the well water for a long time.

In the kitchen, Cen Ning thought he was tired from work, so he deliberately cooked a solid lunch.

Scoop out two bowls of rice from the rice tank and put them in the pot, cook them and put them in the pot, cut the winter melon into cubes, peel the peas and fry the pea rice with ginger and garlic, season with salt, and put a spoonful of soy sauce When it goes down, the color will come out immediately after frying, and the fragrance will also come out.

Pour another ladle of water into the pot, break up the rice and steam it with the winter melon and peas to make stewed rice.

Thinking about making some meat for Lu Yunchuan, Cen Ning cut up some oily bacon and fried it with chili.He kept two of the cucumbers he picked in the morning, crushed them and served them cold with vinegar and sesame oil. He opened the jar and picked up a plate of Yao Chunling's pickled radishes, eating them together with bacon to relieve the tiredness.

We still eat in the yard at noon, and the stone table is not very hot under the shade of the trees.

Lu Yunchuan was very hungry after working all morning. After serving the table, his head was sullen and he chomped down on the rice. After eating half a bowl of stewed rice, he was relieved from his hunger. He picked up a pickled radish with chopsticks and ate it. Sister-in-law did it."

"I sent fruit in the morning, and my sister-in-law gave me a jar of radish and asked me to bring it back." Cen Ning also ate a piece, it was sweet and sour and crispy, and he had to eat some refreshing side dishes to have an appetite in summer.

"I pickled pickled cucumbers in the morning, and when they are ready to dry, I eat them with radishes and rice porridge."

"When it rains after a while, the round bamboo shoots on the mountain should pop up. Digging them up to make pickled bamboo shoots is also delicious, but the smell is not very pleasant."

Cen Ning was holding the bowl and talking about eating, but he didn't notice that Lu Yunchuan was looking at him and smiling.

During the busy farming season, time was tight, so after a short rest after eating, Lu Yunchuan got up and went to the field again.

This time, Cen Ning filled the crock and kettle with water and asked Lu Yunchuan to take them with him. He also put two thirst-quenching fruits in the back basket, and he also replaced the cloth towel for wiping sweat with a new one. It is convenient, and it is not troublesome to change it frequently.

After Lu Yunchuan left, he continued to sit under the tree and sewed three shirts in a row. Cen Ning reckoned that they would be enough to wear, so he put a few shirts and the dirty clothes that Lu Yunchuan had changed into the wooden basin, and brought soap locusts and Bangchui went to the river to wash clothes.

People in the village use saponins to wash their hair, bathe and wash their clothes. The things that grow on the mountain are free, and they can be used after smashing and rubbing.

There is also a kind of incense beads sold in the shop in the town, which is made of saponins that are ground into juice and spices and made into balls. Not to mention smooth to the touch, the fragrance will always be on the body and hair after washing.

I heard that all the old and rich families in the town use it, but the small thing costs half a piece of cloth, so the country people are not willing to buy it, so they all go to the mountains to pick the saponins and use it directly.

Cen Ning loves cleanliness, washes frequently, and uses the saponins at home quickly. He came back from the river to dry his clothes, and he carried a basket to the mountains to pick saponins. The acacia trees in the shorter places were almost all picked. Cen Ning could only go up the mountain.

He remembered what Lu Yunchuan told him not to let him go into the deep mountain alone, so he just carried the basket and searched around the mountainside, and only picked half of the basket after searching for a long time. In order to pick the saponins, he rolled up his sleeves, leaving a bloodstain on his arm.

The wound wasn't deep, so Cen Ning didn't care, he just wiped it casually. It took him a lot of time to pick the saponins, and he was rushing home to plant bean sprouts.

Planting bean sprouts is a simple job. Cen Ning took the wooden basin in which the mung beans were soaked and went to the small vegetable garden in the backyard. He dug a hole in the ground with a hoe, poured two ladlefuls of water for soaking the mung beans into the hole, then sprinkled the mung beans evenly, and finally blocked the hole. Stay here, so I can pick bean sprouts in two or three days.

Mung bean sprouts are delicious whether eaten cold or stir-fried. When it rains, they can be put into a casserole and cooked with tofu skin in broth. The bean sprouts are full of soup. Warm up on a rainy day.

Time passed quickly as soon as he started to do things. Looking outside to see the sky, Cen Ning came back from the vegetable garden and went into the kitchen to start a fire and cook.

I ate dry rice at noon, and I didn’t scoop out the rice at night. I steamed a few buckwheat buns in a large pot, and fried golden eggs in a small pot. It tastes delicious.

The oil at the bottom of the pot should not be wasted. Cen Ning went to the small vegetable garden to pick some fungus vegetables and a few tomatoes. The fungus vegetables were fried with garlic. The color was emerald green, and the entrance was smooth with a fragrance. Eat it, it's very sweet.

It is the busiest time of the day, when the sun goes down and the heat recedes, every household smokes and smells the food.

During this period of time, the village is preparing to harvest wheat. The weather is good this year, the harvest in the fields is good, and the grain can be sold for more money. During this time, every household in the village is beaming.

The men carried farm tools and walked home chatting in threes and twos, and the children had been playing wildly in the fields all afternoon, and at this time they were in a hurry to go home to fill their stomachs.

The food had to be eaten together when the family workers came back, so I asked my mother for a piece of cake or half a bun, and when I got it, I rushed out of the house like a rabbit, and I had to wait until my mother called my name several times at the door. return.

Lu Yunchuan walked home with a basket on his back, and when he walked outside the courtyard gate, he saw Fulang busy in the kitchen with the oil lamp on, saw him coming back, Fulang's almond eyes were bent, and he said with a smile: "I'm back. "

"Well, I'm back."

Summer in the mountains is strong.

At night, after washing, Cen Ning went into the house to make a bed. The quilt was soft and fluffy. Although it was warming up in summer, the mountains were still a bit chilly in the morning and evening, so he had to cover his stomach with the quilt when sleeping.

After scrubbing, Lu Yunchuan went to the yard to fix the gate, and when he entered the room, he saw Cen Ning wearing a middle coat making the bed, and there was a long bloodstain on his exposed forearm.

"Why did you get hurt?" He stepped forward and held Cen Ning's arm for a closer look.

Cen Ning was born fair, and the bloodstains on his body were particularly glaring. The wound was bloodshot, and the surrounding area was scratched, with redness and swelling.

"Going up the mountain to pick saponins and accidentally got scratched by grass, it's fine." Country people are busy working in the mountains and fields every day, so there is no one who is not injured. This small injury will heal in a few days, and Cen Ning himself doesn't care too much .

Looking at the wound, the corners of Lu Yunchuan's mouth tightened, but his tone was soft: "Is it because there is not enough saponins at home? Next time if there is not enough, tell me, I will go up the mountain to pick it."

"The work in the field can't be delayed, I'll just be more careful next time." Cen Ning said to Lu Yunchuan with a smile.

"The saponins on the mountain have almost been picked, and they have to grow again. I won't go to the mountain during this time."

Then he turned around and picked up a stack of clothes from the box at the end of the bed, picked up one and compared it to Lu Yunchuan: "I made you some undershirts, and you don't have to sweat when you change them in the future. It's always more comfortable to be dry. "

Lu Yunchuan was a little stunned. He looked at the jackets, each of which was neatly stitched and made of good cotton, and his throat seemed to be blocked by something.

He wanted to say that it is not necessary to use such fine fabrics to make me a middle coat, and he wanted to say that the dowry you brought should be used to make new clothes for himself.

In the end, he held Cen Ning's hand and whispered, "Thank you Fulang."

"Tell me thank you for what..." Cen Ning was still thin-skinned after all, he felt his face was going to burn under the scorching gaze above his head, and he couldn't speak clearly, "It's late at night, let's rest."

"it is good."

Blowing out the oil lamp and laying down on the bed, the room was in darkness. Just as Cen Ning straightened the quilt to cover the stomachs of the two, a pair of hot hands tightly grasped his waist.

The middle coat was unbuttoned, and there was the sound of cicadas singing outside the house. Cen Ning blushed and twisted his waist in Lu Yunchuan's arms, thinking, this is not the rest he was talking about.

The oil lamp was lit again, and Cen Ning's legs were so weak that he couldn't get up. After Lu Yunchuan twisted the cloth towel and wiped it for him, he went to the yard to take a shower, and when he lay back on the bed, Cen Ning was resting on his arm. sleepy.

"Go to sleep." Lu Yunchuan hugged Fulang into his arms and said warmly.

Taking advantage of the light moonlight by the window, Lu Yunchuan lightly rubbed Cen Ning's cheek with his thumb. He grew up suffering from childhood. He didn't have a mother to love him when he was a child. When he was older, he and his elder brother depended on each other, and spent all day trying to fill his stomach. worry.But now he has married such a good husband, he takes him into his heart, loves him and is considerate to him, and let him know that life can still be so good.

He must never let Fu Lang down, he must treat Cen Ning doubly well, Lu Yunchuan thought in his heart.