Chapter 4: Neighbors
The two children of Qiaolian's family are a pair of dragon and phoenix fetuses, don't look at the Qu family's life is not good, but the two children are extraordinarily outstanding, and they are very sensible and well-behaved, and the neighbors are rare These two children.
Sister-in-law Hu hugged Jiayuan, took out a cooked big cricket from her pocket and stuffed it into Jiayuan's hand.
"This is what your brother Erniu caught this morning, and when it is cooked, I plan to give your little nephew a snack, come, give our Jiayuan a taste."
Sister-in-law Hu is almost forty years old, the eldest son in the family has become a biological son, and the youngest grandson is only one year younger than Jiakang Jiayuan.
In order to coax the little baby for convenience, Sister-in-law Hu often carries some food in her pocket.
How can the dealer have any novel snacks?
In the spring, it is just a few sorrel grasses, and in the summer, it is at most wild berries in the field.
Autumn is better, wild chestnuts, red in the mountains or something, just get a handful in your pocket, and take out one to coax when the child cries.
The front of this Shijiagou village is close to the Xiaoya River, and there are crickets in the river, which is a very famous river fresh in the northeast.
Put a little salt in the water and cook, the taste is fresh, adults and children love to eat.
The second son of the Hu family loves to catch fish and touch shrimp, and often catches some crickets back, and Hu's sister-in-law will pick the big one to keep and coax the little grandson to play.
Sister-in-law Hu saw Jiayuan's white and handsome little girl very much, so she simply took out the crickets left for her little grandson and gave them to Jiayuan.
No one in the Qu family went to catch crickets, and Jiayuan only ate them a few times occasionally, but she knew that they were good things.
However, he didn't reach out to take it, but turned his head to look at Qiao Lian.
"Mother?" This is to ask Qiaolian, can you ask for what others give.
"Since it was given by the eldest mother, you can take it." Qiao Lian received her daughter's inquiring gaze, nodded, and agreed.
"Thank you, sister-in-law." This was said to Sister-in-law Hu.
Crickets, it's not too rare, the neighbors give the children something, and the people are really rare children.
If you refuse, you will see the outside, and in the future, you will have something delicious to send to the little tiger of the Hu family.
"Thank you? It's not a good thing, there are a lot of things in Xiaoyahe, it's just that ordinary people don't have that idle time. ”
In this year, the products in the mountains and rivers are still quite abundant, as long as you are willing to do it, there will be no less.
Of course, it is impossible to sell it for money, that is, to make a tooth sacrifice to satisfy the child's hunger, so no one should take it seriously.
In the autumn harvest season, it was noon, and the families had not eaten yet, and they did not have much time to chat outside.
Since there is nothing to do, of course, they go back to their respective homes to prepare for dinner.
"Brother and sister, it's not early, we have to go home for dinner, you can also lead Jiakang Jiayuan back."
No matter what difficulties there are at home, just tell us that these are old neighbors for many years, and if we can help, we will try our best to help. ”
Sister-in-law Li handed Jiakang to Qiao Lian and instructed with a smile.
The sister-in-law also put Jiayuan down, "Yes, there is still rice in the pot, I have to go back to eat, and the crops in the field have to be recycled quickly."
Looking at this day, if you don't keep it, it will change the sky.
Brother and sister, if you can't get busy with your family's work, just say it, and the big guy will help you and it's done. ”
Qiao Lian nodded, "Well, I'll try my best to recycle, if it's really too busy, I'll have to trouble the big guy at that time." ”
After saying that, Qiao Lian put Jiakang on the ground and picked up the kitchen knife on the ground.
Then he carried a kitchen knife in one hand and pulled Jiakang in the other, and nodded to everyone.
"Thank you big brother and sister-in-law, then I'll take the two younger ones back for dinner first, and then talk when I'm free."
After speaking, Qiao Lian led a son and a daughter to turn around and walk back, and the others saw that there was nothing to do, and they each shook their heads and sighed, and went home to eat.
Shijiagou really deserves to be the name of this place, and the ground is full of uneven stones.
Qiaolian led Jiakang, Jiakang pulled Jiayuan, and the mother and son slowly walked back to the courtyard of the Qu family.
Before he could enter, he saw a small basket in the doorway, and in it there was something like a small lantern with a red skin.
That's the Red Girl, and it's also called lantern fruit in some places, which is a wild fruit that can also be used as a medicinal herb.
There are a lot of such things on the slopes of Shijiagou, and Jiakang Jiayuan and the two of them got Qiaolian's order to go out and pick this fruit when they had nothing to do.
"Yo, I picked a lot of them today, you two are getting more and more capable."
Qiao Lian looked at the red girl in the basket, it looked like she could weigh two pounds, two children less than four years old, and it was already very good to be able to pick up so much in one morning.
The mother's compliment made the two babies happy, "Mother, can you have chicken legs to eat at night?" ”
Xiao Jiakang remembered his mother's promise, and he couldn't control his saliva for a while, showing a greedy cat.
"A-Niang said that if we pick up more red girls and come back, A-Niang will give us chicken legs."
Hearing her son ask, Qiao Lian laughed, bent down to look at Jiakang's greedy cat, and reached out to rub Jiakang's face.
"Yes, there must be chicken drumsticks for you to eat at night.
You two go into the house and wait for a while, my mother quickly heats up the rice, and after eating, you two can pick the girls or pick chestnuts, and your mother will definitely make chicken legs for you to eat in the evening. ”
When the two little babies heard that there were really chicken legs to eat at night, they were overjoyed, so they went into the house hand in hand.
Jiayuan handed the cricket given by Sister-in-law Hu to Jiakang, and the two of them puffed and opened the cricket and ate the meat with a smile.
In the outhouse, Qiao Lian was busy cutting half of the vegetables on the board at this time. She was chopping vegetables just now, and she didn't want Jiang Dequan to come, so she made a fuss.
After the vegetables are cut, add a handful of firewood to the bottom of the pot, then lift the lid of the pot and bring out the corn nest in the pot.
At this time, the fire at the bottom of the pot also rose, so I hurriedly brushed the pot, poured a little oil into the pot, put the vegetables in and stir-fried a few times, added water and stewed.
After a short time, the dish was cooked, and it was brought out into the inner room along with the nest head, and put on the kang table, which was the lunch of a family of three.
In these years, the life of every family is not very good, let alone the Qu family, the funeral of the old couple has spent all the family's money.
Until now, there is still a nest to eat, and it is already very good. "Let's eat first, wait for the new grain to be harvested, and my mother will make you rhubarb rice to eat."
Qiao Lian looked at the simple lunch on the table and said helplessly.
The two children did not dislike it, although it was a cornmeal nest in front of them, it was also better than the vegetable dumplings mixed with bran and wild vegetables before.
It's good to have something to eat, the two children are very sensible, and they are hungry, each holding a nest, and the one to gnaw is called a fragrant.
"Mother, the nest is so fragrant, sweeter than the previous Xuanteng, it's so delicious, mother eat it quickly."
Jiakang gnawed on the nest head, with a satisfied little look, not to mention how cute it was.