"Nuobao?"

Nuobao lifted his eyelids from the temptation of the pig's hind legs. When he was picked up, the remaining aroma of flesh remained on the tip of his tongue.

She rubbed her eyes in a daze.

Brother Shi Santiao twisted a handkerchief and wiped her face, saying, "Dad is out, my mother is going to buy the ingredients for cured meat. After breakfast, you will take you to cut cypress branches."

Cutting cypress branches means going out to play.

Nuo Bao woke up instantly, nodded without thinking and said, "Go!"

Smoked bacon during the Chinese New Year is a major event for every household, and there are also different angles to pick on the ingredients of bacon.

For example, Nuobao's family, her father and several brothers like the special flavor of cypress smoke, and cypress is their key goal today.

Brother Shi Wu carried a basket on his back and said, "The place with the most cypress trees has been almost pulled. Brother Third, let's go to the wasteland in the south, where there are pine needles."

There were a few cypress trees on the wasteland, but the distance was far away, so it was difficult to cut it back. There were not many people willing to use this effort.

But they are not afraid.

His third brother has strength.

Brother Shi San thought for a while and said, "Okay, I remember that there seem to be a few wild winter dates over there, and I don't know if there are any fruits left now."

If so, I can pick a few of them for Nuobao to satisfy my cravings.

The brother and sister walked while talking. As they said, no one came to the wasteland at all.

Brother Shi San grabbed the machete and chopped the cypress branches. Nuobao stepped on his short legs and hugged the thick pine needles piled on the ground.

But as she held it, she found that there seemed to be a bit strange in front of her.

She patted the broken leaves on her hand and walked forward carefully, staring at the little remaining green on the ground and narrowed her eyes.

After winter begins, the pines and cypresses will be green, and it is hard to see any green color.

On the gray ground, why do these sesame green leaves look so familiar?

She picked up a small branch and sat on the ground to start digging. The fifth brother who was carrying pine needles back and forth carefully told him when he saw it: "Nuobao, don't play with mud in his eyes."

If the doll is dirty, you can wash it.

Clothes are OK, too.

But if it is touched in your eyes, it will be troublesome.

Nuo Bao hummed a few times with his back to him, and his little hands digging faster.

Brother Shi Wu was a little worried. As soon as he came over and approached, Nuobao stuffed a lump that looked like a radish and had a strange fragrance into his hand.

Nuobao looked muddy, blinked his starry eyes like he was asking for praise, and said happily: "Dangdang!"

sugar!

Brother Shi Wu broke off a small piece and stuffed it into his mouth. He smacked the sweetness on the tip of his tongue, and turned around in surprise and shouted: "Brother Third, Nuobao has dug up the beet head!"

Beet head?

Brother Shi hesitated and threw down the cypress branch, forced himself to flip the soil with brute force, looked at the beets piled up at his feet in a daze, and said happily: "Our Nuobao's little luck is absolutely amazing!"

Anyone who can easily slap in the mud can dig out such a large piece of beet head. Who wouldn't applaud if you see such luck?

He kicked Brother Shi Wu who was grinning and laughed, "Don't just look at it and quickly dig it. After digging, take it home to make candy for Nuobao!"

All the things buried in this mud are good things!

At first they came to concentrate on cutting cypress branches, but when they were digging home, the three brothers and sisters didn't even have a single cypress branch in their hands.

Dai Hongliu bought the big stuff and saw that they were muddy and said laughing and crying: "Are you rolling in the mud?"

Everyone is like a little mud cow.

Nuobao ran over with a face covered with mud film, holding a beet head that was about the size of his head in both hands, and babbling like offering treasures: "Mom, ding ding!"

Dai Hongliu recognized what she was holding at a glance. She was stunned for a moment and looked at the mud ball piled in the yard, and said in surprise: "Are these beet heads?"

Brother Shi was so happy with a muddy look on his face.

"Not only these, there are many more!"

"Yes, these were all found by Nuobao!"

The two brothers crazily added praise to Nuobao. Nuobao's little face was covered with clay doll-like face, making Xiao Mi's teeth whiter.

Dai Hongliu was both surprised and funny, and wanted to kiss her, but when she saw Nuobao's face was covered in mud, she couldn't find the place to mouth.

She held back her laughter and said, "When your brothers go dig, my mother will take you to wash your face and then take you to boil candy."

The mud doll with two basins of water that had been washed and restored to the cuteness of Xueyu, changed into clean clothes and ran back and forth to watch the sugar making.

Use a brush to repeatedly clean the dirty beet heads, cut them into thin strips, and place them in a stone mortar to mash them out of juice.

The beet juice water is filtered in the stacked multi-layer gauze. The impurities in the beet juice are filtered out by the gauze. The ones that fall into the wooden basin are poured directly into the hot iron pot. The excess water is boiled off over low heat, and when the vegetable juice becomes thicker, it is poured out and cooled. In order to speed up the condensation, a few pieces of sugar cubes were added to it.

Then the above process is repeated.

The fifth brother cut his hands into pieces, and the third brother beat him hard.

As a mascot that cannot carry hands and pound on the shoulders, Nuo Bao has only one task: applaud everyone warmly and evenly.

Dai Hongliu stared at the stove while marinating the meat, and from time to time he would praise Nuobao.

When the little doll was so coaxed that the corners of her mouth were already grinning, she suddenly remembered and said, "By the way, your father and I are going out tomorrow. You two are taking good care of Nuobao at home, remember not to go to the water."

Brother Shi San wiped the sweat from his forehead and said casually: "Mom, are you going to buy things to build a house with your father?"

Dai Hongliu nodded: "At the end of the month, your elder brother and second brother are going to come back. If the house is not closed, you must speed up this matter."

It is best to be able to build the house before the New Year, so that the whole family will be very lively.

She pressed the last piece of marinated meat flatly into the large jar, covered the lid and pressed a big stone. She turned her head and saw Nuobao staring at the sugar water in the big bowl with curious eyes.

She mistakenly thought Nuobao was greedy and smiled and said, "How many days will it take to make it into candy pieces? The rice dumpling candy your father bought for you before is in the house. Mom will take it for you?"

Nuobao didn't want to eat it.

But after she said this, saliva began to be honestly secreted from her mouth.

She pointed to herself very firmly: "Bao."

"go!"

I will relieve my own greed and take Nuobao's candy by myself.

Dai Hongliu wanted to coax her to move more, but he nodded repeatedly after hearing it.

"Okay, okay, Nuobao will go by himself."

"If you can't reach it, call me mother."

Nuobao walked away with his short legs strongly and independently.

To facilitate her to get it, the candy jar was kept very low.

She took out four rice dumpling candies on tiptoe, stuffed a piece into her mouth and stretched her cheeks. She was about to go out and continue to be the atmosphere group, and her cheerful steps suddenly stopped.

The breath of something in the room seemed to have changed.

She walked deep into the room with candy in her mouth, staring at a small wooden chair with exquisite style in the corner of the wall, and slowly frowned her little eyebrows.

Although my elder brother is doing hard work on the dock, his hands are the most coincidental in the family.

When Nuobao couldn't leave, in order to make his sister sit and play, he made many exquisite gadgets for Nuobao, including this wooden chair that became smaller because Nuobao grew up.

In places where ordinary people cannot see, the smooth corners of the wooden chairs were polished with sandpaper, but at this moment, a ray of unknown black air was silently emitting out.

If something shows a black evil, it may encounter a disaster.
Chapter completed!