Lin Lan came back from work and just started cooking when Xiaodouzi came back and looked at her with a smile: "Mom, the teacher said you visited me at school."
"Well! Mom is worried that you are not feeling well."
"It's okay, I'm fine." Xiaodouzi put down her schoolbag, "The teacher said we would have ten days of farm leave. Brother Xiaokai and sister Xiaoyun and I have agreed that we will go to the fields to pick up millet in the afternoon and come back to feed the chickens."
Lin Lan nodded: "Okay, let's eat, take a nap, put on the straw hat grandpa knitted for you, and carry the bamboo pole on your back."
"Well!" Xiaodouzi touched his stomach, "I'm hungry."
"There are mung bean cakes on the table. Eat two first to fill your stomach."
"Um!"
Xiaodouzi went to wash her hands, ate mung bean cake, and then went to pick up some ramie leaves that Lin Lan had cut and put on the eaves of the steps, put them into a vegetable basket, and carried them to the backyard to feed the chickens and collect eggs.
Two big white geese saw him coming, and ran over with a group of soldiers, fighting to eat the ramie leaves.
He went to the shack built under the wall for chickens to lay eggs, and found a particularly large egg in one of the chicken nests. He picked it up and put it into a vegetable basket. He counted it and found that there were sixteen eggs in total.
Xiaodouzi returned to the kitchen with the eggs: "Mom, look at such a big egg!"
Lin Lan turned around and took a look and said with a smile: "These are goose eggs. Dabai has laid them. Mom will steam you goose egg custard this afternoon."
Xiaodouzi nodded: "Let's eat together when aunt comes back."
Lin Lan said happily: "Auntie's love for you is not in vain."
Lin Yuezhen came back at noon with three barrels of oil, several bags of mung beans, peanuts, soybeans, and two small bags of sesame seeds.
Hearing that Dahuang was a thief at home and was beaten to death by Ye San, the more he thought about it, the more frightened he became. He felt that he should not go home, causing Lin Lan and her son to almost be in danger.
Seeing that her face was pale, Lin Lan smiled and comforted her: "Sister, I'm fine, don't think too much."
Lin Yuezhen looked at her and gestured with tears: "From now on, I will go home to visit the grave during the Qingming Festival and not at other times. This time when I went back to burn blessing paper, they didn't even let me in. They stayed at your house when I went back."
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Lin Lan patted her hand: "Sister, don't be sad, this will be your home from now on."
Lin Yuezhen nodded heavily, pointed at Lin Lan's dark circles, and told her to go get some sleep.
"Okay, I'm going to take a nap for a while."
Before Lin Lan even entered the house, she saw Li Xiangyang riding his bicycle to the entrance of the courtyard, got off the car, took off the carrier from the back seat, and slipped out a black dog with brown fur.
Li Xiangyang saw the tired look on her face and his eyes were blue, and his heart sank. He hurriedly lowered his head and touched the dog's head to hide it, and said in a light tone as much as possible: "Lin Lan, this is the paparazzi of the dog in my pig farm.
It’s been almost two months, and he is the smartest dog in this litter.”
Lin Lan looked at the dog lying on the ground looking at him, looked at Li Xiangyang and smiled: "How did you know that my rhubarb is gone?"
"Zhilin asked Gangzi to help find Gouzi, and I learned that there was a burglar in your house." Li Xiangyang said, patting Gouzi on the head, "She will be your master from now on, and this is your home."
Lin Lan knelt down and smoothed the dog's fur: "What's its name? It's only two months old. Does it have wolf-dog blood?"
"It's called Wangcai. Both his parents are coyote dogs. They look after the house and tend the chickens." Li Xiangyang took out the collar and dog leash from his back, looked at Lin Lan and smiled, "If you want to change its name,
Call it a new name every time you feed it, and it will understand it in a few days.”
Lin Lan nodded and said sincerely: "Thank you, I trouble you every time."
Li Xiangyang glanced at her blue eyes: "Everyone is so familiar with each other, so don't be polite. I'm going back first, and you can go and have a rest." What he wanted to say was, if you have anything to help, just ask me.
I'm afraid you don't want to trouble me.
"Okay, walk slowly!" Lin Lan diligently walked him to the entrance of the hospital.
"Go back!" Li Xiangyang quickly got in the car and left.
Lin Lan sent Li Xiangyang away and went back to look at Wangcai tied to the eaves and corridor pillars: "How about I call you Dahuang from now on?"
Gouzi raised his head and glanced at her coldly, then lay back down.
Lin Lan went back to the room and saw Xiaodouzi sleeping profusely with his belly stretched out and sweating profusely. He picked up a bamboo fan and fanned him for a while before falling asleep himself.
When she woke up, Xiaodouzi was gone. Lin Yuezhen and Yang Liying were making bean paste in the kitchen.
Yang Liying looked at her distressedly: "I didn't know until I came that I was robbed last night. That bastard Ye San is really nothing."
"I'm fine. Sister Yuezhen is back. Xiangyang also caught a coyote dog. I won't be afraid of thieves coming to my door in the future."
Yang Liying said with a smile: "Yeah! Xiangyang people are really nice. Xiaodouzi said this dog is more majestic than Dahuang."
The three of them were busy with their work while talking. In the hot weather, frying orchid beans was a painful task. They were smoked by hot oil, sweating profusely, and the towel around their necks became soaked in a short time.
Before setting up the stall, Xiaodouzi came back with a small bamboo pole on his back. There was still charcoal ash on the tip of his nose and forehead, and there was a dark circle around his lips.
"Auntie, my Dabai has laid eggs. I picked up the millet and came back to feed them."
"Our little Douzi is so capable!" Yang Liying pulled him to wipe the charcoal ash on his face with a handkerchief, and glared at him, "Are you going to burn the grasshoppers and eat them?"
"Yeah! Brother Kai, we cooked grasshoppers and red sweet potatoes at the foot of the mountain. They were delicious."
Lin Lan looked at him with a stern face: "You are asking Xiao Kai to take you to cook something to eat again. The last time he cooked beans and ate them, Xiao Kai was beaten when he went back. Also, the fish pond at the foot of the mountain is not safe. What if you fall into the fish pond?
manage?"
Xiaodouzi pulled Lin Lan flatteringly: "Mom, I didn't go to the fish pond. Brother Kai put out the fire before we left."
Lin Lan patted the ashes on his body: "The millet in the field is yellow. If it is burned by fire, everyone will be hungry next year without food. Next time when the grasshoppers are caught, it will be better for mom to fry them and mix them with salt and pepper."
eat."
Yang Liying pretended to be a villain and glared at him: "Your mother spoils you like this. Look how hard it is for your mother! If you don't obey, my aunt will beat you with a bamboo stick."
Xiaodouzi pouted and waited for a moment before saying, "Remember! I'll feed Dabai."
Seeing him carrying the bamboo pole on his back and opening the door to the bamboo forest, Yang Liying smiled and said: "We were just like them when we were children, cooking bean poles and red sweet potatoes. We would go to the foot of the mountain to cook and eat whatever grew in the fields."
"We have more food in the mountains. After the farm work is over, everyone goes up to the mountains to hunt chestnuts. When they are hungry, they cook them on the mountains to eat."
After closing the stall in the afternoon, Lin Lan went to Zhou Xiaohong's house to take a look at the oven. It was more than one meter high and was square and somewhat similar to an oven.
After seeing it, Lin Lan decided to build a clay oven slightly larger than hers to bake mooncakes.
Zhou Xiaohong took her to Master Lu's house across the street to find Master Lu.
Master Lu said that his house no longer had iron plates and thick iron sheets, and asked her to prepare clay, bricks, cement, iron plates, and iron sheets and then notify him that they could be built in a day or two.
Lin Lan nodded: "Okay, I'll come and invite you after I've prepared all the materials."
After coming out of Master Lu's house, Zhou Xiaohong said: "Cement and bricks are easy to find, but iron plates and thick iron sheets are difficult to find."
Lin Lan thought for a moment: "I'll find Li Wu and wait for the soldiers to ask."
"I'll also ask for you."
When setting up a stall the next day, Lin Lan asked several black market dealers but couldn't find any. She thought about going back and asking Zhao Dehai for help to buy bricks and cement home and store them until she found thick iron sheets.
Millet is rice, and it is called so in southern Sichuan.
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