These boring villagers don't think it's a big deal to watch the excitement.

The little woman's face turned red with embarrassment, and she was so anxious and afraid that she almost cried. She stopped washing the sheets, picked up the tub, and ran back home without even saying thank you.

She may still be complaining about Chen Tianhua in her heart. This damn resurrected ghost couldn't find a way to wash it, but he came to her landing.

Chen Tianhua smiled bitterly, took off his pants and washed himself in the river, put them on again and returned home.

He put the washed hoe into the thatched house at the far end, where farm tools and straw were piled, and then walked to the middle house, which is called the main house in the countryside of Shaoxing.

The so-called main room is the collective name for the dining room, kitchen and integrated living room.

Opposite the door and against the wall, there is a big thing made of bricks and mud. This is the most important building in the house. It is a dual-purpose stove specially used for burning straw in Shaoxing countryside.

There are two iron pots on the left and right in the middle of the stove, one for cooking rice and steaming vegetables, and the other for cooking.

Between the two iron pots, there is a large copper soup pot. The soup pot is filled with water. It makes full use of the residual fire of the stove to boil water. This is the drinking water for the whole family for a day.

The stove is high and wide, which is suitable for adults to chop vegetables, stir-fry vegetables, wash dishes and cook pots. There are also running channels around it, which is quite scientific.

This is equivalent to the kitchen platform of later generations of families, and it is designed to be reasonable and practical.

"Brother...you are back."

The younger sister Youjuan stood up from the stove behind the stove and greeted Chen Tianhua with a smile.

There were piles of bundled straw, and her head and body were covered with straw ash from the stove stove. Her face was dark, and only her grinning teeth were yellowish white.

She was about twelve or thirteen years old, not tall. When she stood up, her neck just reached the surface of the stove. Her arms were small and her cheekbones were protruding. Her arms and ten fingers were like a bunch of dead bamboo branches, as if they would break if broken.

"You've cooked the rice..."

"Well...I'm bored."

She is the "fire leader" in the family, and she is very good at controlling the heat. Now that the rice is almost cooked, she relies on the remaining fire of the straw ashes to collect the water, which is called boring rice.

"Then...I'll cut open the river clams."

As he spoke, Chen Tianhua picked up a thin knife on the chopping board of the stove, picked up seven or eight river mussels from the large wooden basin next to the door, put them in a small wooden basin, and carried them to a bluestone board outside the door to cut them open.

There were several large wooden basins of river mussels and snails in the main room, which he had spent two afternoons fishing for in the river outside Henghu Lake a few days ago.

Zha Mengzi's technical movements of sinking to the bottom of the lake to touch river clams are memories stored in Tugen's mind, and his breathing luck method for diving was exclusive to him in his previous life, and the lung capacity produced was of course much greater than that of the original Tugen.

Therefore, he touched the river mussels quickly and plentifully.

"Take care of your soil roots..." Mother came back from the river bank carrying a pot of green vegetables and a few cucumbers.

She had been doing housework since yesterday. Her husband and son had died, and she was so heartbroken that she was not ready to live anymore.

But the resurrection of her son Tugen was a great spiritual support for her.

Although her husband is gone, her children are still there. She wants to live strong and watch them grow up.

"Don't worry, mama, I will be careful..." Chen Tianhua quickly comforted her.

Youjuan started to put straw on the fire in another chamber of the stove, and her mother was cleaning vegetables, peeling cucumbers, and stir-frying snail meat with bean paste on the stove.

The green vegetables and cucumbers are all found in the vegetable patch in the backyard of the house. The eldest sister Tingjuan seems to be still tidying up the vegetable plot in the garden, pulling weeds and loosening the soil.

The snail meat was picked out from the cooked snail shells by Youjuan, who used a thick needle to sew quilts at home.

To be honest, this was Chen Tianhua's first time cutting open river mussels. The first two days, his eldest sister Tingjuan was responsible for cutting and cleaning them before cooking.

However, he has memory storage in his head, so take your time.

I saw him carefully inserting the thin blade of the knife into the mouth of the river mussel, and then pressing down hard with his arms and wrists, "click...click..." to cut off the shell-sucking muscles around it.

Insert your fingers into the slit of the shell, but be careful not to cut your fingers on the shell opening.

He hooked his fingers around the shell and cracked it open...and then cracked it open again. "Wow..." the whole river mussel was broken open.

Take out the whole body of the clam and put it into a foot basin. Throw the empty clam shells into a corner where there are piles of clam shells. Then uncover the clam meat and remove the cheeks. Rinse the remaining flesh with water and put it in the pot for cooking.

The cheeks of river clams are also good food for chickens.

Mussel meat is extremely rich in protein, crude fiber, vitamins A, D and other trace elements, and has extremely high nutritional value.

The eldest sister, Sister Ting, who had just come in, was dumbfounded when she saw her brother dissecting a big river mussel so skillfully and with strong arms and fingers.

She didn't understand how her brother, who had always been so clumsy at dissecting river clams, was able to do it alone today.

Despite their small size, river mussels have very strong shell-sucking muscles. Although Sister Ting does not understand what shell-sucking muscles are, she knows that cutting open large river mussels requires certain skills and finger and wrist strength.

Tingjuan made gestures and said "oh...oh" in order to guide her brothers in cutting open the river clams.

I heard from my mother that my eldest sister Tingjuan is two years older than me, and she is twenty-one years old this year. In rural Shaoxing, people usually say her age is false. She is said to be twenty-one years old, but she is actually nineteen years old.

In turn, it proves that Chen Tianhua is actually nineteen years old, but actually seventeen years old.

Tingjuan has jet black hair, which is tied up with a peach wood hairpin. She has big eyes, a delicate face, slightly rough skin, and two palms with calluses, which are obviously caused by using farm tools such as hoes and iron rakes.

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She was born deaf and mute, but it was obviously not a family inheritance. Based on Chen Tianhua's knowledge, he guessed that the mother accidentally injured the baby's auditory nerve during childbirth. If acupuncture is used, it may be cured or improved.

There's no rush, we'll talk about it later.

Seeing that Chen Tianhua had cut open seven mussels quite quickly, Tingjuan smiled happily. She helped clean the mussel meat, then cut it into strips and gave them to her mother to cook.

The main room of their family, according to visual inspection, is about forty square meters. The double stoves against the wall occupy about seven or eight square meters.

All the utensils in the house, except for the pottery bowls used for serving vegetables and rice, are all wooden basins.

Handbasins, vegetable basins, footbaths, bathtubs... are all round in shape, with different diameters and sizes. They are mainly used for washing face, feet, clothes and bathing.

There is a wooden cupboard placed against the side wall, which is divided into upper and lower parts. The upper partition is for placing tableware and dishes, and the lower part is for larger utensils.

There is a large water tank next to the cupboard, but this water tank is still different from the water tanks used in modern rural areas.

Modern large water tanks are cone-shaped with a large mouth and a small bottom, and have a large volume.

The water tank used at home should be a substitute. It is not large in volume and shaped like the belly of the human body. It is so big in the middle that the neck suddenly shrinks at the top. The mouth of the tank is more than half smaller than the belly of the tank.
Chapter completed!