The Sweet Little Fulang

The days in the countryside are mostly all kinds of boring work, day after day, year after year, and when the paddy fields and rice are plowed in spring, winter wheat has already been planted after harvesting firewood beans last year. Pulling weeds, digging ditches when the ground is dry, or raising water for irrigation, are mostly labor-intensive.

It was almost noon when Linger fell asleep, and Lu Gu put the child in the cradle, so he was not afraid of falling out of bed.

In the kitchen, Ji Qiuyue was chopping vegetables, and white steam came out of the pot. Today, she steamed dry rice.

Zhaoer was not good before, crying and wanting to go out to play. It was almost time for dinner, and several people in the field were waiting to deliver the food. She was upset with her son, so she spanked her **** a few times, and then hugged her after crying. Coax, Zhaoer 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 cutting vegetables, "It finally stopped."

When Zhaoer cried just now, Linger also cried with her. The two children cried. Even if they were their own mothers, they would only hear a lot of noise in their ears. I also feel relieved, having children is never easy.

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 heated up the fire of the tandoor, drained the water from the horse spoon, wiped it dry, and put it on the stove. 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 pan with a sting. Then add the chicken and asparagus.

The chicken is an old chicken that can't lay eggs bought in a neighboring village the day before yesterday. Their chickens and ducks all lay eggs. They are reluctant to slaughter them. After eating everything, the oily, watery chicken soup with dry rice and steamed buns made everyone satiated, and some chicken was saved for cooking tomorrow.

After the bamboo shoots and chicken were fried, Lu Gu wiped the horse's spoon, and Ji Qiuyue brought out the wild vegetables and bacon. Today, there is no chicken soup to eat.

When he was cooking outside, Ji Qiuyue took a big soup pot in the kitchen, lifted the lid of the pot and filled it with rice, made it full, counted out six more bowls, and put a pot of rice and bowls into the bamboo basket, because the soup pot was big, It's not good to put vegetable bowls in the basket. I was afraid that the soup would be spilled, so I took another basket and carried it.

"Watching the house here, do you know?" Lu Gu put the clay pot with water on the ground and locked the courtyard door, and took the good boy who came out with him back. The two children are sleeping at home, so if you have a dog, you can rest assured.

The good boy stood motionless behind the door, looking at him, locked the courtyard door, and could hear it whimpering twice inside.

Many people in the paddy field bent over to plant rice seedlings. One of them carried a rice basket, the other carried a water jug ​​and a vegetable basket, and they arrived at the edge of their own field in a short time.

Busy for spring ploughing, Shen Xuanqing came back with a mule cart the day before yesterday. The fields are the foundation of rations and are naturally important. Not to mention the countryside, even the farmers in the town are busy in the fields recently.

With sharp eyes, he caught a glimpse of Lu Gu and Ji Qiuyue early in the morning. It wasn't summer, but he had been working in the sun all morning, and his face was covered in sweat.

"Let's go, it's time to eat." 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 has no land to plant. Last year, he worked swiftly and honestly. This year, Shen Yaoqing told him earlier that Ge Chunsheng was less silent, because the Shen family was easy to talk to. Only then did he say the words, and asked if he still needed people for spring ploughing. If so, his son-in-law only had one mu of thin land and was not in a hurry to plant it.

Shen Yaoqing knew that his son-in-law was also poor. There were two villages near their Qingxi Village. The closest was Qinghe Village where Ge Chunsheng was located, and the other was Linhe Village where Li Laiqing was located. The young man did not look like a woman. Lang's door does not go out of two doors, and he knows a few men with like-minded interests or temperaments.

There is only such a small place in the countryside, and a few things will spread. He is not familiar with Li Laiqing, but he has never heard of the other party's robbery or other bad things. If you think about Ge Chunsheng's honesty, it is not bad for his son-in-law to come. Yes, otherwise the person who even bullied his mother-in-law, mother-in-law and husband-in-law would have had gossip spread long ago, so he nodded and agreed, no matter what the young man, as long as he has the strength to work, he can finish the spring ploughing in the past few days.

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

The six people in the paddy field climbed up the field and walked to the ground. Wei Lan was sweating hot and wiped it with a handkerchief. The sun was shining, and her eyes narrowed. First, she took off the bamboo tube around her waist and poured a few times with her head up. Take a big mouthful and feel more comfortable after drinking it.

"Mother, this is tea, drink some to relieve heat." Lu Gu took down the bowl from the water jug, poured half the bowl and handed it over.

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

Seeing Shen Xuanqing coming, with a tall and big pestle beside him, Lu Gu frowned slightly and asked him, "Have you finished drinking?"

Shen Xuanqing smiled and said, "It's over, I wasn't thirsty at first. Since it's 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 gave him a bowl of rice.

"There is still in the pot. There is a lot of steamed rice today. If this is not enough, I will go back and serve more." Ji Qiuyue said beside him.

Shen Yan was hungry, so she couldn't talk with her head down when she was eating. Seeing the little sister-in-law's face was covered in muddy water, she wiped her face with a smile.

Ge Chunsheng and Li Laiqing were also eating, mostly with vegetables, and occasionally with a piece of meat, they were a little reserved, not the kind of people who kept shoveling meat into their own bowls, so it was more respectful.

There were no tables and chairs on the ground, and a few people squatted or sat on the ground. Anyway, most of the clothes were dirty, and they didn't care about getting a little dirt.

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

Lu Gu said with a smile, "No, I'll go back later and eat with my sister-in-law. I'll keep the food."

In this case, Shen Xuanqing stopped talking, lowered his head and pulled the food into his mouth, not to mention Shen Yan, he was hungry too.

It took two and a half days to plant the rice. Even if it was only half a day on the third day, the rice had to be cooked well. Ji Qiuyue and Lu Gu made a pot of soup noodles today.

Don't look at just cooking, eating the same meal every day is different from changing the number of samples. If you spend some thought on eating, your family will be happy too.

The noodle soup was warm and moist, and the remaining chicken was used to fry the spring vegetables. Lu Gu took another bowl of sour cress and cut it into small pieces.

Lingjun didn't want to sleep today, he was too young to know the pain and tiredness of adults, so he didn't want to lie down in the cradle, so Lu Gu had to fight Ji Qiuyue behind his back. Fortunately, Zhao'er was still good today, but he was beaten yesterday. I learned a lesson and knew that the adults were busy, so I stopped crying. I played in the mud in the courtyard, and it didn't matter if I got dirty, as long as he didn't run out, Ji Qiuyue let him play, and didn't care about cooking.

Since there was not much left to finish work yesterday evening, Shen Yaoqing and the four were able to finish their work and returned from the field to pay Ge Chunsheng and Li Laiqing's wages for two days.

Today I can finally eat at the table. There is a poached egg in the bowls of the six adults. Because Brother Ling groaned and cried and wanted to eat, Lu Gu fed him some eggs and noodles.

Zhao’er is really good at eating eggs now. Ji Qiuyue brought him a bowl and put her poached egg in it. , He simply didn't even bother with bibs, let him tinker.

"Uncle He and Aunt He came back from mowing the grass two days ago. Seeing that it was inconvenient for us to bring our children, we even helped feed the animals." Ji Qiuyue laughed while eating, before taking a bite of spring vegetables, she added, "They are both frail. If I wanted to help carry the water, I didn't let it, and if I hurt someone's muscles and bones, Gu Zi and I would be in a hurry, and the water would be carried back, so why bother them."

"Well, that's the truth." Shen Yaoqing nodded in approval, seeing that Zhao'er had finished eating her daughter-in-law's poached egg, she put the remaining half of herself into her daughter-in-law's bowl.

He Zhi's parents were only able to dig one carload of grass a day for the first two days, but there was a lot of hay in the thatched hut, which could be mixed with livestock.

Shen Xuanqing ate fast. Seeing that Lu Gu had to feed the children while eating, he put down the bowl, picked up Ling Geer and coaxed him to the side, and went into the room to get a rattle to shake.

Lu Gu now has time to eat well.

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

Shen Xuanqing carried Linger and walked into the courtyard, watching Zhaoer by the way, so as not to fall or something, he crouched down and said with a smile: "Pinch the second uncle to play, and see if you can do it."

"Yes." Zhao'er could understand the meaning, her voice was childish, she grabbed a handful of mud and threw it in her hands.

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

After eating, everyone else in the family was tired, and Shen Xuanqing held the child again, and Lu Gu came out after washing the dishes in the kitchen.

"When the sun is shining at noon, I will boil some water, and you will change your clothes, then wash your hair." He pulled the chair and sat beside Shen Xuanqing, and shook Linger's little hand, and the child laughed.

I ate early today, and I came back from the field and went down. It was just after half the morning.

Shen Xuanqing smiled and said, "Bur it more, my body is dirty and sweaty. I'll take a bath and see if they want to wash it."

"Okay, I'll ask." Lu Gu smiled, it's not just boiling water, what can be done by sitting in front of the stove, what's so difficult.

Shen Yan came in from the courtyard. She just changed her mud shoes and put them in the courtyard with other people's mud shoes. You can see them when you wash them, and no one will fall.

When she heard washing her hair and taking a bath, she said, "Brother Guzi, I also washed my hair, and my hair was covered in mud, so I put a handkerchief on my pillow when I slept at night."

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

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