strictlysupreme Chapter 314 Luojia Village
Chapter 314 Luojia Village
"Okay then. I'll wash and cool the jars for pickling sauerkraut at home. We'll go catch the piglets early tomorrow morning and come back to dig bamboo shoots at noon." Gu Qingqing made the decision.
"Okay, let's do this, we'll go there tomorrow morning. But I see you haven't even built the pigpen here, where are you going to raise the piglets?"
"After raising the pigs in the front and back yards for a few days, the backyard has been messed up. They don't care about having two more pigs." She exaggerated the backyard. Except for the two sheep that were free-range, the other rabbits, chickens, and donkeys were either locked up or tied up.
Seeing that they had almost finished talking, Luo Meihua didn't stay here for long as she had other things to do at home.
As soon as Luo Meihua left, Wu Fang and Zhao Qin came as Zhao Dong said. Their general idea was similar to what Zhao Dong had learned, which was to see if she wanted to raise two more pigs and they would help take care of them.
After talking with them, Gu Qingqing decided to build a pig pen near the chickens and ducks. As for raising a few pigs, "I will go over there tomorrow to take a look. If the piglets are good, I will catch two more.
When sending them off, Gu Qingqing said, "I'll boil water at home today, so I won't let the kids call you later. As usual, each of you three should bring a bowl."
Gu Qingqing was very happy when it was being cooked, but when she was eating, she would always inadvertently think of what she had experienced in the morning, and instantly lost her appetite for this thing.
I just ate some vegetables and also told Zhao Dong about the pigpen.
After dinner, I took out the jar used to pickle bamboo shoots.
With my eyelids propped up with toothpicks, I forced myself to take out the pig pancreas I bought today and pour the so-called pig pancreas soap into the prepared bamboo tube.
She was so sleepy that she asked Daxin, who was still tutoring Dahua, to go back to sleep as well.
She closed the doors of the inner courtyard and the front yard, and went to bed with the child.
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"Mom, is Yuzhu going to the fields tomorrow morning?" Luo Meihua asked Niu Li at the dinner table.
"It doesn't matter whether you go or not. What's the problem? But let him accompany you back to your parents' home? Just go, there's nothing to do at home."
"Don't ask him to go back with me." Luo Meihua shook her head and then told Qingqing about making pickled bamboo shoots together.
"Oh, there is such a good thing. You say Qingqing is the same. When she needs people, she asks us to be her helper. Why does she say that she wants to cooperate with me and split the profits equally?" Niu Li felt that they were taking advantage of her.
"Mom and Dad, I think so too. I was just thinking of asking Yuzhu to go to the mountain to dig some young bamboo shoots early tomorrow morning, so that we can prepare them at home when we catch the piglets. What do you think, Mom?" Luo Meihua told her plan.
Niu Yuzhu, who was standing next to him, laughed when he heard this, and did whatever Meihua asked her to do.
"I think it's okay." Niu Li picked up a piece of chopped eggs and put it into Xiaoyang's bowl, coaxing her to eat.
At this time, Niu Zhanghe also spoke up, "There is nothing important in the team tomorrow, so Yuzhu and I will go together. The bamboo shoots are big, and we can bring back 100 to 200 kilograms in two trips."
"Then I'll have to trouble Dad and Yuzhu."
"Qingqing always thinks of us no matter what she does, so we should do more to help her," said Niu Zhanghe.
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The next day, after the rooster crowed three times, her mind finally cleared up and she made up for the sleep she had missed and the spirit she had lost the previous day.
He stretched deeply and then got up.
I made rice porridge, steamed buns and pickles for everyone in the morning. When they were eating, I smiled apologetically and said, "Everyone ate a little carelessly this morning. I rushed back to make it for everyone at noon."
Afterwards, before class started, Daxin and Dahua took advantage of this opportunity and ran out with the bamboo baskets.
Zhao Dong and his colleagues made earthen bricks in the morning, and in the afternoon they used donkey carts to apply manure to the wheat fields. It seemed like nothing big, but farmers were actually constantly busy with small things.
Gu Qingqing drove a donkey cart to Luojia Village for the first time. Looking at the houses, most of which were made of semi-green bricks, she felt that this village was much richer than Niutoushan Village.
"Meihua, your village is rich. Niutoushan Village still has a lot of adobe houses, but your mother's village is built with blue bricks. Why didn't you find someone from the same village at that time? Why were you willing to marry in Niutoushan Village?"
The spring breeze blew open the corners of Luo Meihua's mouth, and a smile from the heart was reflected on her face. "It's only in recent years that it's become better. When I got married, not all the people in the village were so good."
Gu Qingqing sighed at the side, "Your village is so good, it's hard for me to say anything, tsk tsk tsk." She said to herself and shook her head.
The two of them sat side by side in the car. Luo Meihua heard her sighing beside her and deliberately bumped her with her shoulder. "What else can't you say to me? Tell me what you want to say."
Gu Qingqing turned her head and wrinkled her nose at her, then sighed and said, "That brat Zhao Bei asked me to be his matchmaker. You see, he has no house and no land, and he lives like a tumbleweed every day. He doesn't even have a proper place to stay. Which good girl would dare to be with him! Alas!"
Luo Meihua was also a person who was easily led astray by her. Hearing her sighing, those who had not come also started to worry, "It is a bit difficult. I don't think there is anyone in Luojia Village, but he has been working a lot now, so he should have some money. If it doesn't work out, we can buy a child from a poor family. He is not a bad person, it's just that his life is difficult."
"Buy? Well, then there shouldn't be that urgent." Gu Qingqing has been here not too long, but she still can't let go of the human trafficking.
"He is almost twenty years old this year, right?" Luo Meihua asked.
"Not really. I remember Wuyan said he was seventeen last year." Gu Qingqing replied.
Luo Meihua nodded and said, "If you still can't find it in two years, you can still buy it."
Hiss~Buy people!
Gu Qingqing murmured in her heart that if it had been put in after the founding of the People's Republic of China, she would have to sing Tears Behind Bars.
"There's an intersection ahead. Which way should we go?" Gu Qingqing asked, looking at the intersection ahead.
"Let's go to my mother's house first. I'll just deliver these eggs back. If my mother is at home, call her and let her take a look. By the way, we can also ask about the pomegranate tree." Luo Meihua said.
"That's great, I'll go over and bother you right away."
Gu Qingqing was also thinking about the pomegranate tree. She had already decided where to plant it at home. She would plant it in the open space in the backyard. Pomegranates are good, with many seeds and auspiciousness. Many children and auspiciousness.
Luo Meihua greeted many villagers along the way, and more people asked, "Did your family buy a donkey cart?"
Luo Meihua explained all the way with a smile.
At Luo Meihua's insistence, the donkey cart went straight into the yard.
Gu Qingqing took the opportunity to look around. The yard of her mother's house was quite old. Although it had adobe walls, the yard was kept clean and tidy.
Luo's mother has white hair on her temples. She is a simple villager with a round face and a blessed appearance.
It doesn't necessarily mean having a mountain of gold, it could also mean having many children and grandchildren.
"Mom, you are at home. I was wondering if you could go. This is Qingqing." When Luo Meihua returned home and saw her mother, she happily introduced her to her.
"Hey, there are distinguished guests in our house, come in and sit down."
"I don't deserve to be a distinguished guest. Hello, Auntie. We are really sorry to trouble you today." Gu Qingqing dropped the reins in her hand and hurriedly stepped forward to support her.
"It's no trouble, no trouble. I've been looking forward to your coming. Come into the house and have a bowl of water." Luo's mother must have heard a lot about the good things about Gu Qingqing from Luo Meihua, so she took her hand affectionately and pulled her into the house.
"Sister, you're back."
The person who can be called Sister Meihua must be the wife her younger brother married last year.
Gu Qingqing's eyes fell on her big belly and she felt a little envious.