Chapter 23
Xu Cao was opening the lid, hearing the voices of Uncle Dezi and Brother Qingshan, she hurriedly raised her head and smiled: "Yes, Uncle Dezi, Brother Qingshan, you can stay to eat together tonight, with Fugui and Miao Miao, we Can't eat so much."
Uncle Dezi and Brother Qingshan smiled, "That's it, the stove in the kitchen has been built, and you can go in and cook after two days ."
In the evening Uncle Dezi and Brother Qingshan stayed for dinner.
After the pork ribs in the pot were put into water and the potatoes were boiled, Chen Jintian ordered two large bowls. One bowl was sent to Shen and the others, and the other was sent back to her family. However, when he came back, he brought a few large noodle cakes. Fugui also went to drink a couple of small drinks and called Father Yang.
Several people gathered around the big pot in the yard and ate.
Next to him, Xiao Bai hurried around, humming and yelling around Xu Cao.
Xu Cao thought that Xiaobai had been with her for a year or two. She hadn't treated Xiaobai well, so she found two broken bowls and gave Xiaobai and Heizi a bowl of pig water.
Xiaobai ate it impatiently. Heizi lowered his head and sniffed twice, then raised his head and glanced at Xu Cao. Xu Cao smiled at it and said, "Heizi, eat quickly." Heizi looked at Fugui silently, and Fugui grinned, "Heizi, it's for you, you can eat it quickly." Heizi lowered his head to eat. Xu Cao was sighing, this is really a good dog.
A few people also started eating. When they ate the potatoes, the big guys were taken aback and asked in confusion: "Fugui wife, what is this? It's really delicious."
The potatoes are stewed with the ribs, and the taste is very good. When Xu Cao saw them eating, she hurriedly said, "Father, Fugui, Uncle Dezi, Brother Qingshan, do you think this thing is delicious?"
Qingshan picked up another potato and stuffed it into his mouth. The mouth melted immediately. "It's delicious, it's really delicious, it's as delicious as pork. It melts in the mouth, and it's in the stomach all at once."
Xu Cao laughed. The potatoes have been boiled with the ribs for half an hour, so naturally it is Instantly melted, fragrant and delicious, with a meaty taste.
Uncle Dezi also agreed, "No, it tastes really good. I have never eaten this stuff before, Fugui wife , what the hell is this?"
Even father Yang nodded and couldn't help saying: "It's delicious."
Fugui didn't speak, but he grinned silly. Even Miao Miao sitting on the side of Xiao Wuzi ate very happily, with a greasy mouth, "Mum...
Miao , it's delicious.
Xu Cao helped Miao Miao pick a few potatoes out and laughed. "The things I dug in the mountains a few days ago, I didn't expect it to be edible. Now it's snowing, I'm afraid that things are gone."
When everyone heard it, they didn't ask much and started to eat. A big pot of bone potatoes were all eaten up. Several men ate the pancakes brought back from her parents' house. Xu Cao was almost full after eating potatoes, and shared a pancake with Miaomiao.
When the pots in the yard are cleaned up, the sky is already dark, dark and some are out of sight. Xu Cao used a big pot to boil hot water in the yard again.
Miao Miao went to bed early, and fell asleep as soon as she was on the kang head. Xu Cao tucked the quilt for her. Then she washed her body and went into the room. She saw Fugui sitting on the kang head waiting for her, holding a cloth bag in his hand. . Seeing Xu Cao coming in, Fu Gui hurriedly handed the cloth bag to her, grinning and said, "wife , this is the money for selling pork today. I have collected it."
Xu Cao opened the cloth bag and saw that there was broken silver in it. There is also money, about two taels of silver. Xu Cao took the cloth bag and walked to the wooden box next to hrr, took the brocade box out of the box, and took out the twelve taels of silver from the brocade box, and put all of them in the cloth bag, and said with a smile: "Fugui, We now have thirteen taels of silver."
Fugui grinned, "I put away all for you wife and buy whatever you want to eat. We won't have to worry about mother and the third sister in law anymore."
Xu Cao wrapped the silver in cloth several layers. Put it on the bottom of the box, put the brocade box into the wooden box, and then locked the box. She didn't believe that Niu could still steal it.
Seeing her wife sulking, Fortune was very happy to hold her wife to the kang's head, provoking Xu Cao to exclaim a little.
Fugui held the petite wife in his arms and touched her body, and found that some meat was finally grown. Then he smiled contentedly, "wife, let's save more than 100 catties of pork for the winter, every day. Eat, you will surely grow well after the winter."
Xu Cao smirked, covering her mouth, "You think you're raising pigs."
"If only you can be raise to a white and fat pigs like piglets." Fugui murmured. After a while, he thought about it, and attached it to Xu Cao's ear, "Wife, that stuff called potatoes is very delicious. I looked at the corner and there are a lot of them. I can eat it for a long time. I didn't expect this stuff to be able to eat too. Yes, it tastes really good."
Xu Cao hurriedly rolled over after hearing the words, and slammed into Fugui's chin. Fugui looked as if it was okay, but she bumped her head into pain, Fugui helped her rub it. After rubbing it for a while, she took down Fugui's hand and said: "Fugui, I want to discuss something with you. Looking at our house, we don't have a field. Why don't you go to Lizheng there tomorrow and ask ? I want to buy a field? Let's buy an acre of land. My potatoes can't be eaten anymore. I'm going to keep the ones that germinate and plant them in the spring. If they can be planted successfully, they can be promoted vigorously. This can be regarded as a kind of food, yes. Everyone is good, and this thing is good, the harvest is good, and the storage time is long. We can also make some money while being the leader. However, the first thing to solve is the field problem." She said, wrinkle and raised her eyebrows, there were not many fields in the village, and the fields were the life of the peasant family. Unless the family was to be moved, few people would sell the fields. I'm afraid this matter is difficult to handle.
Fugui hugged her in his arms, held her hand, and smiled: "What's this afraid of? Tomorrow, I will go to Lizheng and ask. If there is something for sale, let's buy an acre of land first. If not, Let's talk to Lizheng that if you open up wasteland on the top of the hill, just open up a piece of land. But the land that has been open up from wasteland is afraid that the harvest will not be good."
Xu Cao thought about it. No conditions are needed. Even if the land is just opened up wasteland, sprinkled with fertilizer, there is a heavy snowfall in the winter, and the spring will be in the next year, and things can be planted. If there is really no land to sell, it can only be so.
Thinking about this, she felt a lot more relieved, and chatted with Fugui for a long time, before she went to sleep. Fugui looked at the sleeping sweet wife, and sighed secretly that it was a hard life. This can only be seen when it can only be touched and cannot be eaten , he's going to endure.
No! He must quickly raised his wife's body to be strong!
On the second day, Xu Cao was busy processing the pork, putting salt on the pork. Half of the pork is marinated and half is smoked, which can take several days. Moreover, Chen's and her third sister in law had dirty hands and feet, and someone had to watch them if they were drying it in the yard. Thinking of this, Xu Cao couldn't help sighing.
Fugui helped Xu Cao put salt on the wild boar, and before long, Li brought a basket of corn dough steamed buns. When Li gave the steamed buns, both Yang and Chen had ugly faces. Old Yang was embarrassed, and Chen was angry. When she saw Li, she thought of the dozen kilograms of wild pork and a big Pork legs.
Li looked at Chen triumphantly, and stuffed the steamed buns into the arms of Fugui, "Fugui, you are tall, but you have to eat more. If these are not enough, I still have them. Don't be polite with your mother, Now that you have married Da Ya, you are my half son!"
Fugui took the steamed buns happily, and hurriedly said: "Mother, enough, enough." This steamed bun is big, more than a dozen steamed buns, it is estimated that Li's half The steamed buns in the pot are here.
Chen saw the two intimate appearances, and her teeth were itchy. But she also know that Li is also a nasty person. The aunts in the village, how can there be one that is easy to provoke? On weekdays, she just scolded her daughter-in-law, really told her to quarrel with other aunts, and she couldn't quarrel others.
Li Mother held Fugui and talked for a long time. They were all taunting Chen mother secretly. Mother Chen blushed and her neck was thick, but she didn't dare to let go of a fart. father Yang was afraid of this situation, so he left home a long time ago.
Li mother murmured a few more words before being kicked away by Xu Cao.
Chen stomped at the door of the kitchen angrily, but she didn't dare to scold Xu Cao for a while.
"Mother, have dinner." Niu, who had been busy all morning in the kitchen, came out and called the big guy to eat. In the past two days, Niu has converged a lot, and she doesn't know if she really regretted it. Anyway, she was very diligent. She cooked the meals for the two days. She took the clothes of Third Brother Yang to wash early in the morning, and all the houses in the yard were cleaned up.
Chen's anger happened to be nowhere to come out. When she saw Niu, she get angry. "You little hoof, you are so slow, want to starve this old lady ." Niu looked up at the angry mother Chen, she was stunned. Didn't dare to say anything, let Chen's curse. It seems that Niu is really afraid of Third brother Yang will divorced her.
Third Brother Yang couldn't see it anymore, frowning and said, "Mother, you're eating, don't scold anymore."
The whole room went to eat breakfast.
Xu Cao was full after eating two steamed buns, and she ate six at one go. Then she put the basket in the kitchen, "The remaining ones, let's keep them for dinner at night, and I go to my mother's house to save them"
. After breakfast, Xu Cao was busy putting the salt-touched pork on a string and hung it under the eaves to dry, and put two pieces of wood in the corner of the kitchen, and burned the wood. When it was almost burnt After extinguishing the fire, only the choking smoke was left, and then the remaining pork was put on the wood and the smoke was smoked.
After all this, it was all noon, and Xu Cao guessed that Fugui should also be back. It took another half an hour for Fugui before returning. Xu Cao helped him pour a bowl of water, and Fugui drank it all at once.
The pots and pans at home were still taken from Li, and Xu Cao went back to the town to buy pots and pans after two days of work.
After Fugui drank the water, Xu Cao asked, "How is Fugui? Is there any land to sell in the village?"