strictlysupreme Chapter 271 Kiss the Child
Chapter 271 Kiss the Child
Gu Qingqing softened the dough that Dahua had kneaded again. While the dough was recovering, she sliced and then diced a piece of bacon that she had cooked last night.
As for what was soaking in her basin, they were potato slices of varying thickness and irregular sizes that she had picked out.
Those that are too large are slightly trimmed with a knife and then made into marinade together with the meat.
Guda Guda~
When Old Yang came in, he heard the sound of a rolling pin squeezing dough and the sound of a chopping board coming from the kitchen.
"Yummy! Shall we eat noodles today?" Old Yang asked, smelling the aroma of the stew.
"Well, let's eat noodles today. The kids are all out of school. We can eat right away." Gu Qingqing said as she sped up the rolling of the rolling pin.
“No hurry, I just came in from outside and saw Zhao Dong and the others digging the vegetable garden over there.”
"I was wondering why they didn't come in. It turns out they went over there to help. There's no rush for that little piece of land. Erhua, go call Uncle Dong back and tell him that it's time for dinner." Gu Qingqing said to Erhua.
Erhua said "hmm" and ran out.
After a while, he came back with everyone.
Dahua didn't hear Li Xin's voice, so she asked, "Mom, isn't Brother Daxin back yet?"
"Huh? He hasn't come back yet?" Gu Qingqing said as she stretched her head outside. Even so, her field of vision was still limited, and she did this as if to hear the sounds better.
After making sure that Li Xin's voice was not heard, Gu Qingqing said to Dahua, "When she came back just now, she saw some wild vegetables on the roadside and said she would come back after digging some. I guess she wasted time. Dahua, go there. She is in the fields south of the village. You can see her if you walk along the main road."
Sanhua had already been taken away by Old Yang, so Dahua was just in charge of making the fire. After hearing her mother's instructions, she shouted outside, "Erhua, come and help me make the fire. I'll go find Brother Daxin and come back."
Before Dahua could leave the kitchen, she heard Zhao Dong's voice outside, "No need to go. I just saw Daxin coming back with a bamboo basket on his back. I think he will be home soon."
Almost as soon as he finished speaking, Li Xin came back carrying a bamboo basket.
"If you don't come back, your aunt will send Dahua to call you, but to the backyard?" Zhao Bei asked when he saw Li Xin.
Li Xin didn't know why Uncle Bei asked this, but he nodded anyway.
“Here, take these earthworms [1] to the backyard to feed the hens.” Zhao Bei said as he handed the earthworms in his hand to Li Xin.
Li Xin finished the task, carried the bamboo basket on his back and went to the backyard. He first threw the earthworms into the hen coop, then threw half of the grass he had dug today to the lamb, dried some on the rabbit's roof, and threw the rest directly into the donkey trough.
Why dry grass on the rabbit's roof?
My aunt said that the newly cut grass has a lot of moisture, which will cause diarrhea in rabbits if they eat it.
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When the noodles came out of the pot, Gu Qingqing first served a full bowl to Old Yang and Zhao Dong, and then poured a spoonful of thick meat sauce on them, which made them extremely greedy.
"If you ask me, your place is almost as good as that of a landlord. In that landlord's family, a bowl of noodles is already the best meal for a farmhand. But you have both noodles and meat stew. Mm, it really satisfies my appetite!" Zhao Dong picked up the noodles with chopsticks, letting the stew and noodles blend together.
"Brother Dong, please don't praise me. This is not pure white flour. What we have at home is for eating. Besides, you have been busy these days, you shouldn't eat something good. I didn't cook any vegetables today. If you think it's not salty enough, just add more sauce. Don't be polite. You can treat my house as your own. Eat as much as you want. There are noodles in the pot."
In the past, Gu Qingqing and Yiersanhua shared one table, and Wen Wuyan, Old Yangtou, and Li Xin shared another.
Now there is one more person, Li Xin, sitting at her table, leaving Zhao Dong and his friends at the other table.
During the meal, Zhao Dong told Gu Qingqing in front of her that he would take his brothers to Niutou Mountain to dig bamboos with bamboo shoots and confirm the area she wanted to plant.
"Brother Dong, you carry the dug bamboo to the foot of the mountain in the afternoon. I will bring the donkey cart to bring it back in the evening." Gu Qingqing agreed.
"Forget about the donkey cart. We can pull the cart over later. It doesn't look like it has grown up yet, so there's no need to rush to do heavy work."
"What can it be tired of if you don't mind? Besides, we didn't let it plow the fields in the past few days. It can't just sit there doing nothing. Didn't we buy it to work?" Gu Qingqing said disapprovingly.
"Okay, let's give it a try. After lunch in the afternoon, Zhao Bei and I will go to Niutou Mountain to dig bamboos, and you two will go to the hillside to dig holes. This way we can plant the bamboos when we come back." Zhao Dong first agreed with Gu Qingqing, but said the following words to Zhao Nan and Zhao Feng.
"I understand and know what to do." Zhao Feng replied.
Originally, all six brothers were supposed to help here. Zhao Zhong and Zhao Xi went to the town a few days ago and accidentally took a temporary job, which paid 30 cents a day.
In fact, the wages paid by Gu Qingqing were also thirty cents a day. Zhao Dong did not say it explicitly, but still asked Zhao Zhong and Zhao Xi to go to the town.
The reason is simply that Wuyan needs to go to school, and his family has to build a house and buy food, so how much money can they have?
Wuyan often invites these brothers to have dinner. Now Yang Xing and the other three women are here to help. Are these brothers ignorant people?
Others who own dozens of acres of land only employ a few workers. How could they have the nerve to specifically take advantage of Wuyan's family?
He just wants to make a living, he won't really take any money.
Gu Qingqing naturally didn't know what he was thinking, because she had already planned it out. After she finished the work in the fields and the mountains, she would start making paper.
Although the output of finished paper this year will be less, she plans to ferment more bamboo this year so that she can complete a certain cycle around the end of the year.
After they went about their business, Gu Qingqing took a broken basin from home and used a spoon to scoop out the soup from the pot of noodles.
This soup is also a good dish for ordinary households, after all, there is a lot of flour in the soup.
But now Gu Qingqing was carrying her to the backyard to feed the two lambs first.
Xiao Yang has no tether or sheep pen, so it can be said that the entire backyard separated by the fence is a place for them to interact.
When someone came, the two lambs ran towards Gu Qingqing, bleating. When Gu Qingqing put the basin on the ground, the two little lambs drank the water with gulps.
Gu Qingqing looked down from her vantage point and observed that the two lambs had grown a lot in size in the past half month. At this rate of growth, they would become adult sheep by the end of the year. If they were lucky, the family might have more lambs this year. If they were unlucky, they would have to wait until next year.
If you don't give birth...
Gu Qingqing thought with a smile that the mutton soup she drank last time was quite delicious.
After the lamb finished drinking and ran away, Gu Qingqing gave the remaining noodle soup to the donkey.
As for the missing big black figure at home?
It was Dahei who was sent to the mountain by her. The first batch of chicks and ducklings moved to the mountain after the spring rain.
Let him be a chicken/duck herder over there.
She also took a look at the new batch of chicks and ducklings in the house. Yang Xing said that this batch could be released in the next two days.
They were taken good care of by Yang Xing and others, and there has not been a single casualty since they were brought here.
.......
"Miss, don't be nervous. Since she dares to send the letter to us, she must be sure of it!" Amber comforted her young lady when she saw that she was holding a handkerchief in her hand.
"I'm not nervous, it's just that we missed the time stated in the letter..."
【1】Earthworm: earthworm, earthworm. Different places call it differently.