Fields of Gold

Big Aunt took a bowl of goosebumps out of the kitchen. She glanced at Liu Zhiqiang. "Zhiqiang, there are still a lot of goosebumps in the pan. Call your brothers and sisters, one can share the bowl! ”

Hu Shi saw that the bowl in the hands of his sister-in-law was made of pure white goosebumps, which were fried with pork oil and sprayed with fragrance. Knowing that Yu Xiaograss had brought this white face, she asked: “We just had breakfast, just make a bowl of grass, waste that white face to do! ”

Auntie smiled softly: "Mother said, how could it not be worse for the children! You can't eat grass. Cousins are watching. Can you eat grass? Grass, you must be hungry. Let's go and eat in the house! ”

Goosebumps are made by the number of heads of children, enough for each of the seven children. Liu Feiying and Liu Zhiwei thought they were grown-ups and gave their share of the bowl to Grandma and Grandpa. It gave way for half a day and the creeps were getting cold without a result. Yu Xiaograss took two bowls from the kitchen, filled seven bowls with facial creases, and evened them into nine halves. A large bowl of porcelain for the Liu family, half of which is enough to fill her stomach.

Sitting beside a kang table, the two old men and seven children melted and ate their face creases. Han's face creases, although no eggs were placed, the ears stirred fine, thickened, very appetizing for the remaining weeds. After eating all the goosebumps in the bowl, Yao also had to pour them out of the other half of her bowl. Yu Xiaograss was really full, and she really wasn't used to eating her saliva, so she resolutely excused herself.

Eaten a simple and cozy lunch and the snow stopped outside. Yu Xiaograss was ready to go back while the snow stopped empty. The Liu family had nothing to give back, so Liu Jinjin took the last ten kilos of green wheat left in the house and brought it to his granddaughter. He remembered that both his daughters and granddaughters liked to drink porridge made from green wheat, which was reserved for them.

It will be New Year's Eve soon after the ceremony. There is still snow and a world of powdered balls outside. The room is warm and full of years.

New Year's Eve was still with Yu and Liu's family. New Year's Eve rice is very rich, meat dishes include: sugar and vinegar fish symbolizing the surplus of the year, red roasted lion head, meat-stuffed tofu clips, red roasted meat, pork stew powder strips, and a pot of red and red water boiled meat tablets; vegetarian dishes are also abundant, including mushroom green vegetables, silver sprouts, oyster lettuce, hemp tofu, dried potato tablets, vinegar skewer cabbage; soup is both steak soup and three fresh soups, vegetarian, which one you prefer to drink. The staple food is a white, fat bun with a fresh aroma of wheat that can be eaten even if it's not just any dish.

During the locust year, meat and vegetables were scarce, and even rich people in the capital city could not find as many richest New Year's Eve meals as the rest of the family. Tang Gu's Zhenzheng Tower has launched an annual dinner worth hundreds of taels. From the rest of the house, the Grand Palace bought a few boxes of green vegetables at a high price, as well as hundreds of kilos of potatoes.

Needless to say, there are fresh vegetables in the winter, as well as the fresh species introduced from the West - potatoes - which can make the famous Tang Ancient Town climbing to the wind, and more than two dozen tables of New Year's Eve dinner are booked out at an extremely fast pace. There are a lot of unresolved reservations. Ask when there will be a similar wine table. Tori must leave them a table...

Most of the affected people, however, have had a pitiful year. Eating white noodles is good, many people are full of coarse grain cakes. As for the food, don't think about it. At the time of the locust disaster, not all villages were like Dongshan Village to collect the dishes in the vegetable field in advance and make dried or salted vegetables. Later, locusts and vegetables could not be grown, and silver could not be bought anywhere. As for meat, who can afford it!! So, most people, a family, are surrounded, haphazardly carrying coarse bread cakes, with a little salty soup, the grass ends the annual dinner.

Many people in Dongshan Village, because they have dried vegetables at home, stewed together a pot, put more oil, New Year's Eve dinner is kind of against the past. If you quit your old dumplings at night and welcome new dumplings, there will be no more. No meat, no food. What dumplings? Save it.

Compared to the lively and warm atmosphere of the rest of the house, the rest of the house looks much cooler. It is difficult for a smart woman to cook without rice. The Zhang family can no longer do it, nor can they make things out of the sky. At first, if Zhang did not believe Yuhai, he thought he was making up a lie. The vegetables in the vegetable area were not grabbed at all, they were all cheap locusts. Fortunately, when the Zhang family usually digs sea sausage, they also dig some clams while the tide is down, they make clams dry, they also pick up some sea food from the sea belt, they dry, and now they are all risotto. Yet a few days ago, Yu Dashan went out of the sea once and left a small sea fish, finally bringing up two dishes.

Fishermen by the sea have long been tired of seashells and sea fish, and Zhang's cooking is not worth putting in oil. White water is cooked and salt is added. The flavour can be seen.

Li Shi frowned and swallowed clam meat that didn't taste good. His eyes turned and said: "Mother, it looks like Yuhai is really breaking up with us! ”

Zhang raised her eyelids and glanced at her without answering. Li Shi continued: "I heard Yuhai sent a dozen pounds of pork to Uncle Da's house, fat three fingers thick, and a bag of white noodles, not to mention 20 pounds. And a lot of cabbage and radish. Big Uncle's New Year's Eve dinner must be full of oil! ”

“Mother!! I said go to Uncle Er's house and buy a few pounds of fat, you won't let me. Now I envy people eating meat...” Blackie frowned and ate the coarse grain cake, complaining about his mother.

I have become a regular employee of the dock and have saved up to ten taels of silver a year. Grandma doesn't have to pay for meat. He just pays for some. Why is the family so clear? The mother-in-law refused to let her buy meat for fear that she would not eat it in their mouth. It was cheap for the uncle's family. Alas, I wish I could split up like Uncle Er, Daddy went out to fish, he went to work at the pier, Mother is at home to run housework, definitely won't eat coarse grain cakes like now, even if it's full!

Xiaodou commissioned to chew the cake and put his head aside, reluctant to eat the fish Zhao sent to his mouth: “No, it's too funny! ”

After a few months back, Zhang can't always open a small stove for his youngest son's family. Since the locust disaster, there has been no entry into the house, food has been bought with money and silver has been pouring out. The eldest son was stolen by the Li family, and only half of the money was handed over for each fishing trip. It wasn't much, it's even less now.

Almost all the fishing villages by the sea during the disaster year depended on the sea for their livelihood, especially the sea sausages and oysters. Zhou family's workshop was harvested and the price was not low. Therefore, villages that did not come to the sea, even villages farther away, people would come early and greedy to dig for sea sausages and pick up oysters. The nearby sausage is almost extinct, and she's going further away, not necessarily. Three more people chewed at home, less and less money in their hands, and Zhang's rush filled with sparkling bubbles.

But what can happen? My youngest son can't leave the book every day, the house is not very easy to get out. My youngest daughter-in-law looked at the child while embroidering some padded insoles and other small pieces to sell in town. The money in exchange is not hidden, and I gave them to her. Embroidery is too slow, and small pieces are not worth the price, which is no different than a cup of water truck salary compared to how many people in the family open their mouths to eat. A few months later, Zhang's hair became completely white and his waist bent. The whole person looked older than before and was over 10 years old.

Zhao sighed softly and softly persuaded his son: “Beans, eating more fish can grow longer. ”

“Well... I'll take a bite! When I grow up, I can work for my family like Brother Stone!” The small rock commissioner bent over and swallowed the fish in his mouth without chewing it, and drank the smell of coarse grain porridge into his mouth.

Li Shi is starting to say acid again: "‘Brother Rock’, you're so close! You treat people like brothers, they don't treat you like brothers. They must be eating big fish now. How can someone call you together? ”

Zhao Shi glanced at her unhappily. If there was any indication: “Brother Er had already split up the list, the relationship would count as two families. My face is not that thick, I always want to take advantage of other people. ”

Li Shi slapped the chopsticks and pointed at Zhao Shi's nose. "Who do you think has a thick face? You have no face. Who always rushes to dinner? Who are you trying to teach her to embroider? The family eats bran and pharyngeal dishes at home, so you can take your son to someone's house to eat fragrant and drink spicy food, eat fat and white, and don't care if men die. Do you have a wife like that? ”

Speaking of quarrels, Zhao's rival was Li's. She was so angry and hated it: “I taught Xiaolian Xiaolian Xiao to embroider flowers. The Second Brothers only entertained me and Beans for dinner to thank me. Sister-in-law, your eyes are useless! Human feelings are reciprocal, and rewards are rewarded by giving. Sitting at home doing nothing, waiting for the pie to fall from the sky, only your sister-in-law can make it! ”

Li's mouth was open to say anything, but Zhang's slap on the table interrupted it.

“What's the noise? New Year's Eve!! Big daughter-in-law, did the old third daughter-in-law eat you or drink you? Being able to manage meals willingly is what people can do. If you're capable, why don't you try it? Not if you don't hit your big stick!!” Zhang is getting more and more tired of being lazy, and Li is always looking for something.

Li Shi spat, "Mother, you will prefer the daughter-in-law of your youngest son. Do you ever think about the feelings of your eldest son and his daughter-in-law? Why doesn't the Penis want to see us because you're so good at what you do, you break people's hearts? If we don't split up, the big house of the penis, and all the land, isn't it ours? ”

The Zhang family stared at her violently. "Who said Yuhai's legs couldn't get better? Their family was sick and weak. They would definitely drag us away. Let me think of a way to separate the family? Without your instigation, I could risk being scolded and split up? ”