There were not many people eating in the morning. There were only Song Youde and his wife, Zhang Yanping who slept in, and my seventh cousin's family.
That’s nine people in total.
Uncle Seventh asked about the number of people and re-estimated the amount of food yesterday, so he and Grandma Seventh started washing rice, making a fire and preparing to cook without saying a word.
People who do farm work should not drink liquid drinks early in the morning, otherwise they will have no strength.
Song Tan just woke up and couldn't help laughing when he saw this:
"Uncle Seven, why did you ask Grandma Seven to come into the kitchen as well? In this way, I have hired two people with one salary. It's a great bargain."
The seventh cousin said arrogantly:
"With your meager salary, isn't that just a gesture? It's good to let your seventh grandmother do some work. She has to keep working when she's old. If she doesn't work, her life will be wasted."
That's true.
If the elderly people in the village gradually stop working, no matter whether they are unable to work or simply don't want to work, their bodies will deteriorate very quickly.
But what does a paltry salary mean
Song Tan thought to himself: Uncle Zhang on the mountain only makes two thousand a month!
But she didn't say anything else, just said to Song Sancheng: "Dad, you guys are tired these two days, don't work today, I'll go to my grandfather's house to pick up pig food later, you can weigh the bamboo shoots at home."
In the past, Song Sancheng would definitely say: How can my daughter do this job
But now, he was all smiles: "Oh, my daughter is still filial! Okay, don't worry, your bamboo shoot dad will definitely take care of you!"
When we arrived at my grandparents' house, Song Youde had just come back from outside, with some wet mud on his feet. Looking at the vast sky, he said firmly, "It will definitely rain today. Tan Tan, are you still going to sell vegetables?"
"Sell!" Song Tan was more confident than him: "It won't rain much today. Besides, I've already notified everyone in the group."
"Okay." No one in the village took the rain seriously: "Just remember to wear a hat."
Grandma skillfully used a large ladle to scoop up the full bucket of pig food. Through the pig food, she seemed to be able to see her big fat piglets...
"Tan Tan, we've raised this pig for more than half a month now, and I see it's growing very fast. The weather will be warm soon, so do we not need to cook pig food anymore?"
Just mix some wheat bran or rice bran with water and add some other random ingredients, and pigs can still eat it.
"Yes," Song Tan nodded:
"Grandma, you should have reminded me earlier. I forgot and made you work so hard for so long."
"It's not that hard!" Wang Lifen smiled so hard that her teeth were showing. "If I have something to do every day, my life will be complete!"
"Besides, the piglets are too small. It won't hurt to feed them pig food for a few more days. It's safe."
Song Youde was scraping the mud from under his rubber shoes with a bamboo stick, and he said happily: "Tan Tan, have you checked the fields? The seedlings that were just transplanted yesterday look very energetic today. This year is guaranteed to be a good harvest!"
Song Tan thought, how could it not thrive
Yesterday I climbed up the back mountain in the middle of the night. I spent the first few hours in the peach orchard and the last few hours in the fields.
Da Wang, Dabao and Erbao were all very happy, only Sanbao and Sibao in the chestnut forest looked aggrieved.
Tonight, we have to treat everyone equally!
Alas, it's like a top spinning during the day and a top slipping away at night!
If there is not a good harvest, it would be like tearing off and trampling on the reputation that has lasted for more than a hundred years!
It’s a pity that no one knows this pain.
Song Youde thought about it:
"What else do you have to do this morning? If not, I'll take some nets and go to the field ditch to catch fish. When the water was released yesterday, a lot of fish washed down with it."
Speaking of this, Song Tan wanted to sigh again.
If you want the fish to grow well, you need spiritual energy from two ponds. I am like a sponge that is squeezed tightly by someone, with drops coming out from the east and drops coming out from the west. It has been squeezed clean.
She thought about it:
"Don't worry, Grandpa. You and my dad can build a few large stoves for Uncle Seven at the door. It's better for our family to have a meal in a spacious place."
Even though there were only nine of them, if they really let loose, they could eat as much as 10 or 20 people. It was not right to always keep my seventh cousin in his kitchen.
"OK."
Song Youde looked at the sky and said, "Then you should go sell vegetables early today. Your father and I will build a shed and build a stove in the morning. It will probably rain again in the afternoon, so we can go and see how to renovate your seventh cousin's old house."
Grandma Wang Lifen was still a little confused: "That's... not busy anymore?"
In the past few days, she was so busy that every day was like fighting a war, and she felt a little anxious when picking tea leaves.
Now that it's quiet, I feel a little overwhelmed.
After thinking for a while, he quickly tied the basket again: "Isn't the meal not ready yet? I'll go to the tea mountain first."
Song Tan didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Grandma, even if you just turn around twice, I will only pay you a hundred yuan a day. Why bother? You have to be lazy when you should be lazy."
Wang Lifen also laughed: "Helping your granddaughter, why be lazy? But going around the tea mountain and coming back to eat won't do much work... Otherwise, I'll help you feed the pigs."
Oh, I dare not do that.
The mountain road was not easy to walk on, and her grandmother's small body might not be able to handle carrying such a heavy pig feed bucket.
Song Tan thought for a while and said, "I see a lot of wild vegetables growing in the back hills. Grandma, if you have time, you can help dig them up."
Over in the peach orchard, because the soil had just been turned over and exposed to the sun, the grass roots would not sprout quickly.
But around where the spiritual energy was emanating, the wild vegetables were growing vigorously. Even now, during the Qingming Festival, fresh new shoots were still sprouting.
—It would be embarrassing not to eat this.
However, grandma thought for a while and said, "Tell your mother to go and let her take some time off. I'd better go pick tea leaves. I'll get paid for it."
Song Tan: …
This hundred yuan salary is really useful.
She went back carrying the pig food bucket, only to see that Wulan and Song Sancheng had already called up Zhang Yanping and Qiao Qiao. The four of them were weighing and packing the food at the same time, and they were quite fast.
Looking into the kitchen again, there was smoke rising from the chimney and Grandma Qi was sitting in front of the stove, constantly adding fire to the furnace.
There was fragrant rice cooking in the pot, and my seventh cousin was standing on the side. He was holding a handful of sour cowpeas that he had found from somewhere, and was chopping them with his knife very quickly!
Just chop the sour cowpea into small pieces.
I picked out the leftover peppers from yesterday, chopped them up as well, and beat a bowl of eggs.
Finally, I searched around the kitchen again, picked out some yellow heart cabbages, and stir-fried them with crushed garlic.
When the dish was cooked, the rice had already bloomed. My seventh cousin skillfully used a ladle to scoop up the excess rice soup, and then slowly simmered the rice with the remaining fire.
The rice soup was not wasted. It was put directly into the pot. Some frozen chopped astragalus from the refrigerator was added and two eggs were cracked into it. The green leaves and yellow flowers in the clear rice soup smelled tempting!
Everyone hurriedly set up the table and looked at the four dishes and one soup in front of them. It was obviously not luxurious, but the portion was large. Everyone present swallowed their saliva.
How to say it
Now that we have a chef, we no longer have to make breakfast by ourselves!