"Little stream, boil the pot in the middle." Chen's mother scooped a scoop of water into the pot, and then put the fresh meat in it. Before eating the fresh meat, it is best to cook it in the pot and blanch the dirty things out.

After blanching, take out the meat, cut one-third of the fresh meat into 2 cm squares, and put it in the stew pot inside. Planting seedlings is a tiring job, so you have to get more oil and water. At this time, people still like to eat fatty and chewy.

"Mom, you slice this meat, the lean ones and the fat ones separately."

"Mom, when the bacon is cooked, I'll make some slices so they can drink."

"Mom, I'll stir-fry the eggplant and tomatoes later."

"Oh, OK, okay, little nagging, I know how to do it, just burn the stove." It was really quarrel, so Mother Chen joked.

It seemed that it had passed a little, and Xiaoxi touched his nose and stopped interrupting and focused on burning the fire.

After cutting the vegetables, put the green beans, kelp, mushrooms and black fungus into the stew in turn. Then cook the rice with the ladder pot. After the rice begins to soften, scoop up the rice soup, leaving only the hot charcoal in the pot hole, and slowly cook until the rice is cooked.

When the rice and stew were almost cooked, Chen's mother picked up the bacon, cut about one pound of bacon into pieces, put it in the stew and continued to cook. Then she cut about half a pound of bacon into slices and put it on the plate. It was almost half past twelve to three days after getting these done, Chen's mother started cooking. She cooked a dish and put it on the plate, held it in a bowl, and placed it on the chopping board.

Xiaoxi, Chen Yubin and Chen’s mother were busy for more than an hour, and they quickly prepared the meal before the people who were working back. One was fried with vegetarian slices of cucumber, and the fried crispy one was fried with chili, one was fried with beans, one was fried with beans, one was fried with bacon, one was fried with eggplant, and one was stewed. Six dishes, four meats and two vegetarian dishes, and then a man had a bucket of 10 kilograms of white wine, and a large bottle of Sprite, which was drunk by a child and a woman. During the busy farming period, the food was good.

"Xiaoxi, go and see if your grandpa and the others are back."

"Oh, okay, mom."

As soon as the stream left the kitchen and walked to the yard, he heard the voices of his grandfather and the others. He simply ran to the edge of the yard and shouted to the mother-in-law and several old ladies who were pulling rice seedlings in the private fields below the slope: "Mother-in-law, I'm back for lunch."

Xiaoxi and their villages basically plant dry seedlings, and there are only a few scattered water seedlings. Drought seedlings are to divide the dry land into pieces, sprinkle grain seeds, cover them with glue paper, wait for the grain seeds to germinate and grow into 2 or 3 cm, and use bamboo strips to form an arch, uncover the tape during the day, and cover them at night. This is to prevent the seedlings from being hot during the day, and frostbite at night. Sometimes the temperature is too low at night, and grain grass will be covered on or around the tape. When the seedlings grow to adults (the length of the thumb, index finger or middle finger) long, you can plant the seedlings.

Hearing the mother-in-law's approval, Xiaoxi ran back, brought a basin of clean water from the kitchen, then took out the soap and said to the person who came back from work not far away: "Grandpa, Young Master, Young Master, Young Master, Come and wash your hands quickly, and eat after washing."

After that, he went back to the kitchen to help his mother set up a table in the yard, serve food and drinks. Because there were too many people, he set up two tables, one for men and one for women and children.

Because the youngest and uncle lived close to Xiaoxi's house, they called the children from both of them to eat together. After all, they were very rich and watery when working. The other families were far away, so they didn't call them.

Men and women and children all urge them to drink and eat, chat about homely affairs, and it is very lively.

"This year the rain is good, and the seedlings grow well."

"Well, today this seedling is green and has thick roots. It takes less than two days to plant it."

"Brother Chen's field can be planted today, and mine can also be planted in two days. Come and help me. After planting it for you today, I will start planting the field tomorrow."

"No problem, just tell me in advance."

"The seedlings planted for my brother today are so green."

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"Brother, your family is still able to teach children. He is only 3 years old, so he can help with adults. He doesn't feel greedy when he sees something delicious."

"Well, the stream is a good one. His vegetable garden is all kept by the stream."

"There are nowhere to be found. They are all children's homes, and they can't help but praise them. Come on, they can pick up food to eat."

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In summer, the sun is shining at 1 and 2 o'clock. In order to avoid the sun and prevent heatstroke, the busy farming season basically eats around 1 o'clock. After the meal, the nearby ones go home and take a nap for a while, the remote ones take a nap at the main house, and work again at around 3 o'clock.

After lunch, everyone went to take a nap. Xiaoxi helped her mother clean up the dishes and sweep the floor. After finishing it, she went to take a nap with her mother.

After waking up, Xiaoxi found that only his younger brother was still sleeping soundly beside him, so he got up to find his mother. She didn't know what she was doing now.

When I went out, I saw my mother in the yard, and I was pushing the mill to grind soy milk alone.

"Mom, I'll help you." After saying that, Xiaoxi ran over and soaked soybeans in the hole in the millstone in a small spoonful of soybeans.

The soybean milk, peanut slurry, corn slurry, etc. are all made of stones below. It is very stable. The upper and lower pieces of stone slabs with a diameter of about 80 cm and a thickness of 30 cm are made of two stone slabs above. The side where the two stone slabs come into contact is chiseled into shallow grooves one by one to increase friction. The stone mill is about one meter high. At the waist of an adult, there is a wooden stick, one end is tied on the stone slab on the stone mill, and the other end is tied on the waist, and one person can push it away. The stone slab below will protrude into a circle, and the groove is made out, and then a outlet is protruded, and a bucket is placed below the outlet and then the slurry is enough.

There is also a stone mill, which is much larger than this one, used for grinding powder and other things. This stone mill is heavy and needs to be pushed by animals. Xiaoxi and their village only has cattle, no animals carrying heavy loads such as donkeys and mules. The only horse nearby is raised by a veterinarian in the village.

"Mom, why did you grind soy milk so early?"

"It's getting late, it's past 4 o'clock, and they'll be back in more than an hour. They fell into trouble for half of the morning and it's almost in the afternoon. We have to hurry up."

"Um."

The mother and daughter worked together and grind the beans in about ten minutes, and the rest was to clean the stones.

"Where is your brother?"

"The little lazy pig is still sleeping"

"Then go and call him up, otherwise you won't be sleepy again at night."

"Well" Xiaoxi saw that the soy milk was almost done, so he went back to ask his brother to get up.

When Xiaoxi returned to the stone mill to help her mother clean the stone mill, a confused little boy followed behind her butt.

Rinse the stone mill over and over with clean water. After washing it, stuff a piece of wood between the two stones above to facilitate drying the water inside the stone. Chen’s mother lifted the soy milk to the kitchen and let the stream boil the big pot inside. Then she cleaned the pot, poured the soy milk in, and added some clean water to a full pot. Put the lid on the pot and cook it hard.

I took out the peanuts peeled last night in the cabinet, washed them and chopped them into the pot to cook them together. Then I scooped a few bowls of rice and washed them. When the pot was boiling, I put them in and cooked them. This porridge is called soy milk porridge at Xiaoxi's house. Xiaoxi later went to Beijing to study and did not find such porridge in Beijing. I haven't eaten them in those years. I miss it very much.

After the porridge was ready, Chen's mother scooped up the porridge with two large iron basins to cool it up so that they would not burn their mouths when they came back to eat, and it would be too hot in the summer. There were too many leftover vegetables at noon and they could not be put on hot days, so they would heat up all the leftover vegetables at noon.

After finishing it, Xiaoxi scooped some water in the washbasin, washed it with his mother, and stayed in the kitchen for more than an hour, it was hot and gray.

After washing, Xiaoxi scooped up another basin of water and soap to put it in the yard, and waited for the grandfathers to come back to wash their hands.

Although the sun was still hanging in the sky, Xiaoxi and her mother took their straw hat and pulled their younger brother to the vegetable garden to pull weeds.

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"Xichuan, go and scoop us water and wash our hands."

"Grandpa, you are back. I have already scooped the water and put it in the yard."

"Xiaoxi, Binbin is back home." Seeing that all the people working were back, Chen's mother packed up and brought them food and scooped rice.

When the dishes were served, she saw her mother carrying a large basin of porridge, Xiaoxi went to carry the bowls, and Chen Yubin took the chopsticks. Chen's mother scooped the rice, Xiaoxi handed the bowls beside her, Chen Yubin divided the chopsticks, and the three of them worked together.

After everyone washed their hands and faces and sat on the table, the three of them had already scooped the rice.

"Guihua, go and bring the medicinal wine I made. Let's have two drinks." Chen Youde ordered the eldest daughter-in-law on the table next to him.

"Oh, OK, dad."

After Chen's mother took out the wine, Chen Youde personally poured it on several old people, and the few people started to drink.

"Mom, I want to eat sauerkraut, is there any fried one?" Porridge and sauerkraut are perfect matches. Xiaoxi likes to eat sauerkraut.

"Yes, there are still some leftovers that were fried yesterday, I'll get it."

The sauerkraut here in Xiaoxi and the others are different from the Northeast sauerkraut, and they are also different from the sauerkraut bought in supermarkets.

With the pickled vegetables, Xiaoxi ate two bowls of porridge. He was so full of support that he pulled his younger brother for a walk with his belly.

Because it was still early, several old people drank, talked about the past, bragged, and had the gossip. After nearly two hours of eating this meal, everyone was still feeling over.

Because Xiaoxi's family planted the seedlings the day before, the next day, Grandpa Chen and Grandma Chen went to help others' homes. Mom Chen was watching two little ones at home.

The houses of Xiaoxi family and the other four families are together, forming a courtyard house. In fact, it did look like a courtyard house at the beginning, but one side was demolished.

Why do they look like a courtyard house? Because the house of Xiaoxi family takes one side, the other four families jointly build it together and occupy two sides, and the house of Xiaoxi family is not connected to their house. It is not built together, but only one piece of construction.

After breakfast, Xiaoxi took his brother to his neighbor's house, which is in the yard.

Alas, it's really boring. A 3 or 4-year-old child doesn't need to work. He doesn't know what to do except turning over ropes and playing with mud.
Chapter completed!