May is the season for farming in the northern countryside. On the way back, Shen Ruolan could see hardworking farmers bent over every field, digging ridges, digging holes, making ideas, cultivating soil, watering, and weeding. In full swing!
It’s already May, and the rising temperature and the high-intensity labor during farming have made it impossible for everyone to wear jackets. Almost everyone has taken off their jackets and put on thin clothes, which look lighter and more flexible. .
Many beauty-loving women try their best to add a floral dress to themselves in this beautiful season, making themselves a beautiful scenery in the field.
Along the way, I saw a lot of women wearing flowered clothes. Because they were wearing beautiful flowered clothes, they were all full of energy and energy. After all, flowered cloth is not a cheap thing. If the family can buy such good clothes for them, they Can you be unhappy!
There are more women wearing flowered clothes in the mountain village, because in the spring, the men in the village helped Shen Ruolan's family build a house and earned money. Later, many people helped her open up wasteland and made another fortune, so the village men This year is extraordinarily rich, and many daughters-in-law bought a piece of floral cloth with the money earned by the man, cut a floral dress, and wore it so beautifully that their beautiful hearts almost blossomed!
After Shen Ruolan returned to the village, she saw the colorful flowers in the village. She was speechless at first, but seeing the happy appearance of those women because of their colorful clothes, she felt their joy and happiness from the bottom of her heart. Her mood also changed.
These women have all grown up in this remote mountain village, and it is very likely that they have lived here all their lives. After all, their knowledge and appreciation level is limited. They think that floral clothes are beautiful, and their men think so, so why does she have to be different? Thoughts
What is beautiful and what is ugly is defined by everyone, not by her own aesthetics, even if she comes from a thousand years later, even if she has a far higher appreciation than theirs, in this specific environment , she must also learn to abide by the law of the minority obeying the majority, and learn to appreciate this simple beauty.
Now that she has decided to take root in the village, she has to blend in and learn to appreciate the beauty that everyone appreciates.
After thinking about it, she no longer felt that the floral clothes were tacky and ugly, and even decided to make a set of floral clothes when she returned to the village next time, so that she could better integrate into everyone's world.
When we got home, Grandma Dong'er was cooking lunch, and Dong'er and Shouya went up the mountain to dig wild vegetables for Xiaoji and Xiaogezi.
The geese and chickens in the family have grown up a lot, and they have become especially edible. The wild vegetables that Qiuping’s sister-in-law dug alone can no longer feed them, so Shouya took Dong’er to the place every day Digging on the mountain, the three of them worked together to barely feed the beasts.
Shen Ruolan said a few words to Grandma Dong'er, then went to the backyard to see those chickens and goose babies.
I don't know if I don't see it, I was shocked when I saw it. In just twenty days, the chickens and gooses have grown nearly twice the size. Huang is not so cute anymore, and some even have big hairs.
Seeing Shen Ruolan, they thought that Shen Ruolan came to feed them, stretched their necks and ran over Baden-Baden, chirping around her, and the brave little goose cub stepped on Shen Ruolan's embroidered shoes On her embroidered shoes, there are small black marks like maple leaves!
Such big chickens and geese are like half-sized children in the family, and it is time to eat them. Feeding the more than 30 geese and more than 50 chickens is indeed enough for busy people. It's okay now, a few of them can still feed them. When they grow up and can eat more, I'm afraid the three of them dig in the mountains all day, and they won't be able to feed them.
She felt that it was time to put the matter of making feed on the agenda!
The feed she wants to make is actually very simple. It is to breed earthworms. Earthworms contain a lot of protein and are the most nutritious chicken feed.
After eating this kind of feed, chickens and geese not only grow big and fast, but also love to lay eggs!
It is also very easy to raise earthworms. First collect some earthworms, then make a pile of cow dung, find a cool place, put the earthworms under the cow dung, sprinkle some water every day, and the earthworms will reproduce by themselves under the cow dung.
When feed is needed, open the cow dung to collect some. Basically, after earthworms have been raised in this pile of cow dung, there will always be earthworms, because the earthworms reproduce very quickly, even if you take away all the earthworms, those The eggs left by earthworms will also quickly reproduce small earthworms, and then quickly reproduce more and more, basically inexhaustible!
Of course, you can’t take out the earthworms directly to feed chickens and geese, because I don’t know if there are other germs or parasites on them. Before feeding them to chickens, you have to soak them in a big basin and wait for them to spit out the mud. Clean it up, cook it in a large pot, so that the germs and parasites on them can be scalded to death, then take it out and chop it up, mix it with wild vegetables and corn noodles, and feed it to chickens and geese, which they love most But that's it!
After all, for chickens and geese, earthworms are meat, which is much better than eating only wild vegetables and corn noodles!
After coming out of the back garden, she went to the front garden to have a look. The crops in the sheds in the front garden were almost ready to eat. The cucumbers had grown to the length of a thumb, and they were ready to eat now, but they hadn’t grown yet. It was too wasteful to eat, she was a little bit reluctant!
The persimmons are also fruiting and drooping, and many big ones have faintly shown red lines, but they are not fully ripe. I think it will take less than a few days to eat Mushu persimmons and persimmons mixed with sugar. saliva…
Peppers and cumin are also growing very well, and the mixed vegetables in the last shed are also ripe, and they have been ripe for a long time, and they have eaten a lot. When Zhang Eryong and his son helped Shen Ruolan open up wasteland last time, they were with her every day. To eat here, Shen Ruolan made delicious food for them in different ways. They ate a lot in the past few days, and now there are still some left, and it's time to pick them. If you don't pick them, you will grow old. She planned to take a batch when she left this time, and leave the rest for Shouya and Dong'er, enough for them to eat until the vegetables came down!
In the house, Grandma Dong'er finished her lunch and called Shen Ruolan to go back to eat. Shen Ruolan went out of the front garden and was washing her hands in the yard when Shouya and Dong'er came back, each of them carrying a big basket full of There was a basket full of wild vegetables, each with a small basket, and there was a lot of it in it. Heizi followed Dong'er, running up and down, as if he was having a good time.
"Sister Lan'er—Sister Lan'er—"
As soon as Dong'er saw Shen Ruolan, she seemed to be happy for something, and ran towards her with joy, ran to her and hugged her tightly.
Shen Ruolan touched Dong'er's little face, feeling quite touched in her heart. This child, every time she comes back, he is happy like a new year, as if a relative who has been away from home for many years has suddenly returned. He is very dependent on her, loves her, and treats her as his own relative.
However, every time she came back, she never thought of bringing him something delicious and fun. I am so sorry for the child's feelings for her.
Shen Ruolan felt guilty, and quickly rummaged through the space, trying to find something the child liked and make up for her guilt, but after searching for a long time, she couldn't find something suitable for him, so she had to give up.
Or wait for the opportunity to go to town and buy it for him!
She took the basket from Dong'er's thin arm, and patted his little head: "Go and wash your hands, we'll eat later!"
"Um!"
Dong'er listened to her very much. When she said that, Dong'er agreed and hurried to wash her hands.
The thin girl took off the back basket and put it in a place where the sun could not reach the north wall, then said to Shen Ruolan with a smile: "It's just in time for you to come back, I finished those pairs of shoes, just in time for you to leave this time It's time to bring it back, and it's Xia Tian, so you can keep it and change it!"
Shen Ruolan chuckled: "Thank you Sister Shouya, you have worked hard!"
Shouya also went to wash her hands, and she washed a few times in the basin where Donger washed her hands, and said while washing, "I don't have to work hard, my life is a thousand times better than before, it's like a fairy day Woolen cloth!"
This is definitely what Shouya is thinking. Compared with her previous life, isn't Shouya's current life the life of a god? No need to go hungry, beaten, angry, or work like a mule or horse. Lan Ya handed over her big family to her, and she ate whatever food was in the house. He often buys her clothes and hair flowers to make her dress decently and cleanly, and even the people in the village give her a special look.
She is so contented that she doesn't know what to do, she always feels that she would be a fairy in the current life!
After washing their hands, several people went into the house to eat.
Because Shen Ruolan came back, Grandma Dong'er specially opened a small stove for her and steamed a bowl of tender egg custard for her.
The old lady's craftsmanship is very good. The egg custard was steamed at the right time. It was too old to be steamed for a little longer, and too tender for a little steaming. The watery custard was still trembling when it was placed in front of her. Woolen cloth!
Shen Ruolan couldn't help being aroused by the appetite. She picked up the spoon and was about to start it, when there was a 'gudong' sound from the opposite side. It was Dong'er swallowing.
Seeing Shen Ruolan looking over, Dong'er hurriedly said sensiblely, "Sister Lan'er, eat it quickly, this is steamed by grandma for you, I'm not greedy!"
Children will not lie like adults. Although they are not greedy, their expectant eyes cannot deceive people.
Dong'er seldom eats eggs. Although the chickens at home lay eggs every day, and the eggs are not young or old, grandma and Sister Shouya say that the eggs belong to Sister Lan'er, and the places they eat and live are all from Sister Lan'er. Sister Laner raised them with good intentions, and they also had to know how to repay them. If they could save, they should try their best to save for Sister Laner. They usually don't eat such good things as eggs!
No need to ask, just looking at the two baskets full of eggs on the ground, you can tell what kind of life these people are living at home.
Shen Ruolan was very helpless, and told them several times that they should eat well and eat more when they were at home, but when they came back today, the food at home showed that the corn noodles and millet were much reduced, and the rice and white noodles were basically gone. move it. There is no shortage of vegetables in the greenhouse in the front garden, and a lot of eggs and goose eggs have been saved.
These few people, who eat corn noodles and radishes and cabbage at home all day long, are reluctant to eat good things at all!
Every time they talk about the two of them, they say that now they can eat enough, wear warm clothes, and live comfortably, which is many times better than their previous life. They are already very content, and they dare not waste good things anymore. I'm afraid I'll lose my life!
Hey, it seems that it is not easy to change their ideas!
Shen Ruolan dug out a spoonful of egg custard and put it into Dong'er's bowl, "Come on, Dong'er, you eat too!"
Dong'er looked at the trembling, golden egg custard, and hesitated for a while, not knowing whether to listen to sister Lan'er and eat it, or to listen to grandma and not eat expensive things from her house!
He looked at grandma, then at sister Lan'er, her little face was tangled up.
Shen Ruolan told him, "Dong'er will grow up quickly if he eats good food, and earn money to support grandma when he grows up. If he doesn't eat good food, Dong'er will grow very slowly, and it will take a long time to grow up." growing up."
After hearing this, Dong'er bit her lip, and as if she had finally made up her mind, she started to eat with a small spoon.
He ate very slowly, taking small bites, holding it in his mouth and reluctant to swallow it, it took him a long time to take a bite, as if he was reluctant to swallow the delicious food on the tip of his tongue into his stomach, Shen Ruolan felt very distressed watching it.
Hey, it seems that I really have to talk to them and change their ideas as soon as possible. I can't be so frugal in the future. It hurts to see the child like this!
She dug another spoonful and put it in Grandma Dong'er's bowl, and said, "Eat too. Eat more to be healthy, to see Dong'er grow up, and to be filial to you when Dong'er grows up." ah!"
Grandma Dong'er saw that Shen Ruolan scooped up the egg custard into her bowl, and it was difficult to scoop it out, how unhygienic! So even if you are reluctant to eat it, you can't spoil the good things, so you can only smile and say: "Okay, okay, I will eat, I will eat!" So I lowered my head and started eating.
"And your skinny sister, how can you just work and not eat well every day, look at you, you have lost weight these days." Shen Ruolan scooped another spoonful of egg custard into the bowl of the skinny girl.
When the thin girl heard that Shen Ruolan said that she had lost weight, she hurriedly touched her face and said, "No, I'm obviously fatter, and I'm dozens of catties fatter than before I came to your house!"
Shouya has indeed gained dozens of catties compared to before, and she is not as frivolous as before. Now she wears the clothes Lanya bought for her when she goes out, and people often praise her for being handsome.
Because of this, she has some confidence in her appearance.
But, like Shen Ruolan, she is most afraid of hearing people say that she has lost weight. The self-confidence she has built up so easily is based on being fat; hey, if she loses weight, she will become the original skinny girl again. Doesn't it still have to be as rough as it used to be
Therefore, she is afraid of hearing that she is thin, just like a modern fat girl is afraid of hearing that she is fat!
Seeing that she was so nervous, Shen Ruolan smiled and said: "If you are afraid of losing weight, eat more delicious food. It will not only make you fat, but also make you more beautiful!"
Thin Ya knew that it was Lan Ya who said this on purpose to coax her to eat egg custard, so she laughed and said, "Don't worry about serving it to us, you can eat it yourself, and it will be cold after a while, but it will be cold when it is cold." It won't taste good."
"Okay, I'll eat it too. Let's all eat it. It's fun to share good things with everyone!" Shen Ruolan put the bowl of egg custard in the middle of the table for everyone to eat. She also dug a spoonful of it herself. Put it in your mouth.
Well, let alone, Grandma Dong’er’s craftsmanship is really good. The steamed egg custard is not only beautiful, but also tastes good, tender, smooth, and the heat is just right!
Shen Ruolan couldn't help but raised her thumbs up, and praised: "Grandma, your steamed custard is really good, and your craftsmanship is comparable to that of a chef in a restaurant!"
Grandma Dong'er chuckled, and said with a little pride: "Of course, back then, I was the cook in the backyard of Mr. Yin's house in Qingzhou Prefecture!"
Shen Ruolan was taken aback, she had never heard Grandma Dong'er talk about her life experience before, but now hearing what she said, it seemed that both of them, grandparent and grandson, had a lot of background!
Now that the topic was brought up, Grandma Dong'er simply told her own life experience, but her life experience was a bit rough, which made people feel sad.
It turned out that both their grandparents and their grandson were slaves, and they were slaves of Lord Fu Yin's family in Qingzhou. When Dong'er was just born a few months ago, Dong'er's father went out with Lord Fu Yin on errands, and was assassinated by a man who killed him. The gangster was stabbed to death, and the adults were grateful for the death of Dong'er's father because of him, so they released Dong'er, his mother, and his grandparents, restored their good status, and rewarded them with fifty taels of silver to settle down.
Although his good status was restored, Grandpa Dong'er couldn't bear the pain of losing his father. Ever since he beat Dong'er's father to death, he had been suffering from illnesses. After spending a lot of money, he finally let go.
Dong'erniang was still young, probably because she didn't want to delay her youth by guarding an old woman and a son with open crotch pants, so on a dark and windy night, she fled with the rest of the family's money. Nong'an ran away, so he found Nong'an all the way.
The old lady felt that her daughter-in-law was unwilling to take care of her as an old woman, but Dong'er was her own flesh and blood, so she couldn't abandon her. She herself was getting old, and she was afraid that someday something would go wrong and Dong'er would be left alone. I was lonely and had no one to take care of me, so I wanted to find her, hand over Dong'er to her, and then leave alone, so I searched all the way to find her with this idea.
It's a pity that before I found someone, I spent all my money. There was no way, the grandparents and grandsons started begging to survive, all kinds of hardships and hardships, and almost died here. Fortunately, I met Shen Ruolan, otherwise I really don't know Can you live until now
Speaking of the sad part, the old lady stopped talking, sighed a long time, lowered her head and ate silently, her old face looked lonely and lonely.
Shen Ruolan felt sour when she heard what happened to her. The old lady was pitiful enough. She lost her son and father in her later years, and the two most important people in her life went away. The next little grandson who is not sensible will have to be taken care of by her, an old lady. If it weren't for raising Dong'er, the old lady would definitely not even have the courage to live.
"Grandma, don't be sad, you still have me!" Seeing grandma's sadness, Dong'er hastily leaned her little head against grandma's arms to comfort the old man.
Grandma Dong'er saw her grandson so sensible, wiped the corners of her eyes with relief, and said, "Grandma is not uncomfortable. Why is grandma suffering from having Dong'er? If it weren't for Dong'er, grandma wouldn't want to live. I'll go find you soon." Dad and your grandpa went..."
Shen Ruolan said, "Dong'er is so sensible, she will respect you when she grows up, you should live well, and enjoy his blessings in the future!"
Grandma Dong'er smiled and said, "Yes, I have to live a good life. I can't afford to die without him. In addition to meeting you and Shouya, I can live this day, and it's getting better and better." It's getting more and more exciting..."
The thin girl is not very good at talking, but when she saw the old lady was sad, she still said stupidly, "Don't be sad, we will definitely take care of you!"
This is what Shouya said from the bottom of her heart. She has never felt the care and love of her elders since she was a child, but after the old lady came, she finally made Shouya feel the happiness and warmth that she had always dreamed of. During the time, she was cared for and loved by the old lady in every possible way, pampered and loved like her own granddaughter, so that the thin girl has unconsciously regarded the old lady as her relative...
The old lady looked up at the three people in front of her, smiled, and said, "Yes, to have the three of you in the rest of my life, God treats me well!"
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