"Okay, you wait." Lin Lan went out to take a look, picked up the bamboo pole and walked quickly towards the health center.
When we arrived at the brigade headquarters, we saw a row of more than a dozen brick buildings with positive slogans written in red paint on the walls.
Lin Lan saw a cross mark on the door of the fifth room from the right. She walked over and saw Liu Guozhi's second daughter, Liu Fang, sitting on a chair reading a book.
"Dr. Liu, I have a headache, a fever, and aches all over my body. Please help me get some medicine."
Liu Fang sat still and glanced at her: "Have you finished the medicine you took yesterday?"
Lin Lan made a random joke: "I put it in my pocket and it fell into the well when I was carrying water."
Liu Fang stood up slowly and started to take the medicine. After a while, she turned around and threw the medicine on the table: "Two days of medicine, one pack at a time, totaling 15 cents."
"Thank you!" Lin Lan counted two cents to her, took the change and left quickly.
Liu Fang looked at her back and curled her lips: "Crazy."
Lin Lan quickly returned to the hut, took a bowl and poured some water, woke up Lao Chen and asked him to take medicine.
Yang Liying knelt down and hugged him with open arms: "Are Douzi good? Do you miss Aunt Three?"
Yang Liying looked at the clothes and quilts hanging on the bamboo poles, the clean courtyard, and the vegetable seedlings planted in the vegetable field.
Lin Lan smiled and shook his head: "It's not a quarrel, it's a matter of reasoning.
"Yes!" Lin Lan nodded heavily and said with a smile: "I cooked sweet potato porridge, you can go to my place and eat together."
Lin Lan didn't dare to stay longer, so she pulled the stiff quilt from the corner of the bed to cover him, quickly left the hay shed and walked towards the slope. She remembered that the easiest job in the Lexing Brigade was to cut grass for cattle and feed pigs.
Beekeeping.
"Okay." Xiaodouzi smiled and snuggled up to her.
She returned to the foot of the mountain carrying a basket full of mugwort on her back, tied it with straw and hung it on a bamboo pole in the woodshed.
"Good boy, I even helped my mother sweep the floor." Xiaodouzi hugged her neck, "Third aunt, do you smell the fragrance of my hair?"
Lin Lan picked up the hoe and bag, put it aside, and looked at Yang Liying with a smile: "Third sister, come and sit for a while."
Xiaodouzi came over on a broomstick: "Mom, do you want to plant potatoes?"
After cutting a piece, I stood up and hammered my sore back, cleaned out the mugwort from the cow grass and put it aside.
When we arrived at the slope, we saw that the bottom of the slope was covered with green oat grass of different lengths and a lot of mugwort.
Lin Lan carried the cow grass to the drying ground, spread it out to dry, and the trumpet sounded to call it a day.
"Thank you!" Lao Chen glanced at Lin Lan and fell asleep again.
As soon as I walked to the back door of the old lady, I saw Xiaodouzi sitting on a small stool, looking over here.
A ridge was planted staggered on both sides, one at a time, and then covered with a shallow layer of soil. A handful of potato seeds were planted in three ridges.
He put the cow grass into the bamboo basket and compacted the grass, squatted down, carried the bamboo basket and propped it on the ground with his hands, and stood up. When he passed by the cowshed, he didn't hear the groan of Old Chentou anymore. Just when he wanted to go in and take a look, he saw someone in front of him.
Come here, she hurried away.
Mugwort is a good thing. If you take it back and keep it for two or three years, Chen Ai can be sold for a sum of money. Lin Lan took the sickle and started working quickly.
Xiaodouzi smiled and nodded: "Mom eats it too."
Xiaodouzi smiled and narrowed his eyes: "Mom gave me a bath and washed my hair last night."
The mother and son returned home. Lin Lan picked up some potatoes, picked out the sprouted ones, fried pickles and shredded potatoes, and the mother and son prepared to eat.
"I know." Lin Lan nodded, picked up Xiaodouzi and walked back.
Lin Lan's heart felt sour and sweet, and she kissed him on the face: "Thank you, baby."
"Yes! My little beans love to eat, so my mother will grow more."
"Third Aunt!" Xiaodouzi shouted happily and ran towards the door.
"Okay, you go and play aside so that the hoe doesn't touch you."
Dig a hole in the field ridge, put a handful of soaked soil fertilizer in the hole, put the potato sprouts facing up, and gently press it into the soil.
After washing the pots and bowls for a few times, I found all the sprouted potatoes in the basket, cut off the buds, put them into a dustpan, mixed them with plant ash, and brought them to the edge of the vegetable field.
The old lady curled her lips and said, "Who cares about your sweet potato porridge? If you eat it well, it's better to call me."
Xiang Xiang took out an enamel jar from the cupboard, put the porridge in it, and put two pickled peppers and some pickles in it. He put the enamel jar in the stove to warm.
Xiaodouzi took the mint candy and asked Yang Liying to put him down. She took the mint candy and gave it to Lin Lan: "Mom, let me give you the mint candy!"
Yang Liying smiled uncomfortably: "I still have potatoes, I'll bring you some tomorrow."
The old lady stood at the back door and looked at her with a slightly raised corner of her mouth: "Xu Chunyan was originally doing the job of cutting the cow grass, and Liu Guozhi suffered a dark loss today. Do your job well, and don't let anyone find a reason to take you down.
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"No wonder my little Douzi was so good today." Yang Liying took out a piece of candy from her pocket with a smile, and took out the big candy piece wrapped in white paper. "Third aunt bought you your favorite mint candy."
Lin Lan smiled and said: "When I make money, I will treat you to a good meal and I will honor you."
The fragrant sweet potato porridge is served with pickles, potato shreds, and adzuki beans. You can eat it with relish.
I went to the kitchen to wash the pots and dishes, peeled two sweet potatoes and cooked sweet potato porridge. When the water in the rice pot boiled, I opened the lid of the pot a crack, and then I went out to pick up the beans.
Lin Lan wiped the porridge from the corner of his mouth: "Okay, mommy will plant more potatoes, and the little beans can eat whatever they want."
Lin Lan picked up the hoe and dug the soil backwards on both sides, starting to divide the ridges. Each ridge was about two feet wide. Thinking of planting sweet potatoes, she also dug up the remaining ridges.
"Mom, the potato shreds are delicious, I will order more next time."
Lin Lan pretended to take a bite: "Yeah! It's so sweet! Thank you, third aunt?"
Lin Lan thought that when the potatoes in the basket sprouted, she could plant two more ridges.
"When you make money, my bones will be fed with thatch." The old lady smiled and rolled her eyes, "I will cut some sweet potato vines in the afternoon, and you can dig out the ground at noon and plant them in the afternoon."
Liu Guozhi was bleeding profusely today, and he must have been so angry that his teeth were itching. Lin Lan felt happy when she thought of Liu Guozhi biting his back teeth.
"Grandma, my mother is back." Xiaodouzi held on to the door frame and crossed the threshold. "Mom, did you have a fight with someone?"
Yang Liying smelled it: "It smells good!"
"Thank you, auntie!" Xiaodouzi said as he rewrapped the candy and put it in his pocket: "Mom likes mint candies best."
She turned to look at Lin Lan and felt that she had changed, got better, became more energetic, and became more diligent.
Lin Lan looked at him with a smile: "Xiaodouzi, mother is here."
"I'm going to sweep the floor." Xiaodouzi dragged the broom away.
Lin Lan kissed him and said, "Baby, let's go play in the courtyard for a while while mommy washes the dishes."
Lin Lan scooped the remaining porridge into a bowl and suddenly thought of Old Chen Tou in the cowshed.
"Third aunt, the shredded potatoes fried by mom are delicious, and Xiaodouzi likes them."
Yang Liying smiled and pinched his nose: "Glutty cat."
Lin Lan went into the room and brought out two chairs. After the two sat down, Xiaodouzi nestled in front of Lin Lan.
Yang Liying looked at Lin Lan with some disbelief: "Are the debts owed to Liu Jinbao really gone?"