Chapter 6 Bad weather

In fact, Liu has long had the idea of replacing refined rice with refined rice for a few days. This brown rice is actually the kind of rice that has only been removed from a layer of grain shell and has not been processed. Brown rice does not taste good and is not easy to steam.

But brown rice is more nutritious for adults. Although it is a little worse for babies, it won't eat people to die. However, Liu has seen the rice jar before he just came here -- even brown rice at home is almost at the bottom. Not to mention using it to grind rice for Yang Momo, more than a dozen people in the family may not be able to drink rice soup soon. .

The more Liu thought about it, the more uncomfortable she felt, but in order not to worry about Yang Dazhu, she finally didn't tell her family's situation. She only said something about the hope that the weather would get better soon and let the two men in the family go to sea to fish. After saying that, she left her hoe and planned to cook at home.

Seeing this, Yang Dazhu quickly pulled out a handful of white dragonfly from the field and handed it to Liu and said, "Take this back and make a vinegar white dragonfly at night. Several children love this dish."

Yang Momo poked out a small head from Liu's back, looked at the "Bai Song" in Yang Dazhu's mouth, and found that the "Bai Song" in the Northern Song Dynasty was the modern "cabbage". He thought that Yang Dazhu made Liu's dish was "vinegar cabbage".

Before crossing, Yang Momo was interested in those sweet and sour dishes, and she was even more fond of this "sour cabbage", so as soon as she heard Yang Dazhu's words, she immediately stared at the white dragonfly, hoping that Liu would take it over and take it home, and cook the soup in the rice paste for her to eat at night...

Unexpectedly, Liu put the white sardium back in the vegetable basket on the field, and only picked a large handful of wild vegetables at the edge of the field. At the same time, she explained to Yang Dazhu angrily: "These fresh white salis should go to the city to sell a few copper coins. Although these vegetables are not sold for much money, at least they can exchange those copper plates for some rough. Mi back..."

Liu paused and finally told the truth about the situation at home: "Even brown rice is almost gone at home. If it goes on like this, our family will be hungry, so it's better for us to save some places we can save. This wild vegetable looks fresh and tender and tastes good. We will eat this in the evening. Right!"

After saying that, Liu went to the field with Yang Momo on his back and walked slowly to the shore. She didn't coax Yang Momo as usual all the way. She only thought about how to make a meal that could make a family full with the least amount of rice and vegetables. Yang Momo knew that Liu was worried about the family's food and clothing, so she lay obediently. On her back, she didn't make any noise to add obstacles to the Liu family.

After Liu returned to the ship, he spooned a bowl of rice from the rice jar and took it directly to a simple hut built by the Yang family on the beach. This hut is the kitchen of the Yang family. Liu skillfully put rice into the pot, put water on the stove to cook porridge, and then washed the wild vegetables picked from the field and added them to the porridge. After finishing these, Liu picked out more than ten from the pile of sweet potatoes piled up in the corner of the hut.

This sweet potato grows very well. As long as you go to the ground, you can grow a lot, so this is also the most hoarded food in the Yang family. Yang Momo took a closer look at the sweet potatoes and found that their shapes were mostly oval, which were a little different from the two pointed sweet potatoes in later generations. I thought they were different varieties.

Liu first threw the selected sweet potatoes into the stove, then took a branch and stirred them and buried them under the firewood, so that the sweet potatoes could be cooked while cooking porridge. In order to save some firewood, rice, oil and salt, Liu did not plan to cook other dishes, so he planned to use them in the evening. Wild vegetable porridge and sweet potatoes have a meal.

The wild vegetable porridge here was boiled, and Liu Shi remembered that the confused refined rice for Yang Momo had been soaked for almost an hour, so she was busy taking advantage of the porridge to take the bowl of rice and tried to take out a grain of rice and try it with her nails. Seeing that her nails can easily cut off the grains of rice, she knew that the rice had arrived and could be ground. It was time to become rice paste, so I thought about going to the village to find a family to borrow it.

Most of the fishermen who live on the boat will only build a hut and a stove on the shore for cooking. Generally, there is no such expensive thing as grinding. Therefore, every time Liu's rice is soaked, she will go to the homes of slightly richer people in the village to borrow mill. At this point, she doesn't need other people's donkeys. She borrowed the mill. I pushed it myself and let it grind.

Liu first called Yang Qiniang to look at the porridge on the stove, and then walked to the village with Yang Momo on her back. Liu often went to borrow the Ding family, which was the closest to the seaside, so as soon as she got to the door of Ding's house, she raised her voice and shouted, "Is Sister-in-law Ding at home? Can I borrow your rice?"

The woman who was called Ding's sister-in-law by Liu is actually a tooth. Because there are some ways in the city, she often helps poor people in several nearby villages to sell their children. His husband is a goodsman who walks through the streets and alleys, so Ding Yayu will pass through her husband. As soon as she knew it, as soon as she saw Liu coming to borrow the mill, she immediately greeted her attentively.

"What's the big deal for the villagers?! Dazhu's daughter-in-law, you can take the rice to grind. If there is more rice, I will lend you my donkey for free! We have been neighbors for decades. Don't be polite to me!"

Ding Yayu clearly saw Liu bring a small bowl to the door, but deliberately said that he wanted to lend the donkey white to Liu. Obviously, he wanted to embarras Liu - only a small bowl of rice, do you still need to use that donkey to grind it?

Yang Momo didn't have a good impression of this Ding Yayu. Bye, she was old and didn't like it. She immediately classified her as the three aunts and six aunts who love to talk about other people's right and wrong, and added a big black mole to Ding Yayu's chin in her heart...

Buting Yayu's words still made Liu, who has always been tough, blush slightly. He raised the bowl in his hand with some embarrassment and said, "How can we have how much refined rice mill? It's just such a small bowl."

Liu said while pouring the rice into the mill, slowly pushing the wooden pole inserted horizontally in the mill and circled around the grinding. Seeing this, Ding Ya immediately smiled and put his hand on Liu. At the same time, he chewed his tongue: "The weather has been gloomy for more than half a month, and it will shave from time to time. The wind and heavy rain have made these fishermen in our village suffer. In such bad weather, your big pillar and Erzhu can't go to sea to fish, can they?

Liu's stomach is now accumulating bitter water because of the bad weather. When he came back from the field, he has been trying to find a place to pour bitter water, so as soon as Ding Yayu asked, Liu couldn't help saying a lot: "That's right, our big pillar and two pillars have already I haven't been to sea for more than half a month, and the firewood, rice, oil and salt at home are about to run out. I really don't know where to find the next meal!"

"We big people are strong, and it's not hard to starve for a meal or two, but we still have eight small radish heads in our family. They are still small and just when they grow up, how can they stand hunger?! Hey, I hope Mother can show her spirit and make the weather get better soon!"

Most of the fishermen living on the ship rely on fishing to maintain their daily livelihood. Although there are several mu of thin fields, they are not good at taking care of them, so now the big guys suddenly can't go to sea for more than half a month, and most fishermen are struggling to survive.

The small family may be able to hold on for a while, but there are more than a dozen people in the Yang family. The old family consumes faster than others. In addition, Liu would not have brought such a small bowl of rice to grind in the past, so Ding Yayu immediately believed what Liu said and believed that the Yang family must be poor at present. I can't open the pot.

After Ding Yayu secretly rejoiced in his heart, he stopped talking about Liu's troubles. He pointed to Yang Momo on her back and changed the topic without a trace: "Your Ba Niang is about to turn one year old, right? Look, these little arms and calves are fleshy, white and fat, which is really lovely!"

Ding Yayu reached out and pinched Yang Momo's pink and tender little face. Yang Momo's first impression of Ding Yayu was not good. At present, when he heard her words, he felt that she was an old treacherous old fried dough stick, so Ding Yayu pinched Yang Momo's face. Yang Momo immediately stretched out his little hand to cover his little face to prevent him from being The old witch pinched it for the second time.

Dingya smiled and exposed a few silver teeth embedded in it. He laughed exaggeratedly and said, "Yo, this little girl will still be shy!" When she grows up, she must be as beautiful as her sister!"

When Liu heard the words, she felt a little embarrassed and couldn't laugh. She asked, "My eighth mother is only ten months old, and her eyebrows have not grown up yet. How can she see what she will look like when she grows up? Besides, my seventh mother is only five years old this year. How did Sister-in-law know that she will be a beauty in the future?

As soon as Yang Qiniang's Dingyayu was mentioned, she became energetic and said endlessly, "It's not your sister-in-law, I'm bragging. I've never looked away from people for so many years. I said which girls will be promising in the future. In the end, they were all turned into aunts by the host family. Days..."

"I'm afraid that our poor girl can't use a maid at home for the rest of her life, right? But if these girl looks good, it will be the life of half a master! Not to mention that it can call a girl, the benefits to my mother's family must be indispensable! Maybe I can help my brothers and sisters!"

Yang Momo doesn't like to listen to Ding Yayu's words. Yang Momo has read a lot of time-travel novels in her previous life. She knows that the ancient system of respect and inferiority is very strict, and also knows that women who sell themselves as maidservants. No matter how well they live in a large family, they are only slaves. Even if they become aunts, they still have to look at the face of the main room... ...

So if Yang Momo makes a choice, she would rather be the daughter of a poor family, farm and raise chickens in the countryside to live a free life than to go to the big family to watch other people's faces and survive in the cracks.