After Lin Lan and Li Xiangyang got up and freshened up, they stood in the Zhoujiayuan Dam and looked at the clouds of mist floating in the air. In the morning mist, they could vaguely see the houses at the foot of the hillside in the distance, extending down like terraces.
It looks like a fairyland from a distance.
There are unknown birds chirping on the dead branches beside the vegetable field. The garlic seedlings are bending in the vegetable field under the courtyard dam. After the vegetables have been beaten by frost, a layer of cold frost has condensed on the vegetable leaves. The vegetables have already grown.
Two or three spores.
Lin Lan felt that the vegetables and vegetables that had been beaten by frost had a sweet taste when cooked. After a while, the bacon and chicken were marinated, and the sausages, vegetables and vegetables were filled and used to cook the bacon.
Boiled sausages and twice-cooked pork are the best.
Li Xiangyang saw that she was wearing a small floral coat and the tip of her nose was red from the cold. He felt a little heartbroken when he thought about how Lin Guoliang had dragged the quilt away last night and woke him up from the cold, and then was hugged by Lin Guoliang as his wife. He asked in a low voice: "Yesterday
Is it cold at night?”
Lin Lan saw that he was not wearing a coat: "Why don't you put on your coat? It's much colder here than down the mountain."
Li Xiangyang smiled and shook his head: "It's not cold. When I was feeding pigs in the mountains, I would put on a coat over my spring and autumn clothes when it snowed and it would not be cold."
Lin Lan smiled and glanced sideways at him: "You want style, not warmth!"
"See if I want demeanor rather than warmth!" Li Xiangyang said, looking around and seeing no one around, he reached out and held Lin Lan's hand, looking at her with a smile on his face, "Keep warm, from now on.
It's cold, so I'll warm your hands."
Lin Lan's cold hands were wrapped in his warm hands, and she suddenly remembered the hand warmers of later generations, and looked at him with a smile: "Yeah! I'll accept this energy-saving hand warmer."
Li Xiangyang looked at her smiling face and held her hand tightly.
"Hey! Are you cousin Qiaohui and cousin-in-law? Look, the people in the city are different from the people in the mountains. Their faces are as white and tender as peeled eggs."
Lin Lan and Li Xiangyang hurriedly let go and turned around. They saw Aunt Zhou and Zhou Qiaoyan standing outside the fence at some point.
Zhou Qiaoyan glanced at Li Xiangyang, who was standing side by side with Lin Lan, then blushed and lowered her head. She felt that the men in the city were really good-looking. It would be great if she could go to the city and find a man like this.
"Who are you?" Lin Lan glanced at the mother and daughter who looked at herself and Li Xiangyang like mascots, thinking that they were the Zhou Qiaoyan mother and daughter Wu Shufang mentioned last night.
Aunt Zhou opened the fence door politely and walked in with a smile: "I am Third Aunt Qiaohui, and this is my daughter Qiaoyan!" He came late last time, and Lin Guoliang left early in the morning with Qiaohui. This time
This time she brought Qiaoyan here early, and they had nothing to talk about!
"Oh!" Lin Lan's mother and daughter, whose eyes were rolling around, didn't like it. "I heard from my aunt that you want your daughter to help me. Sorry, my family already has enough manpower."
Aunt Zhou Zhou looked at Lin Lan and said: "Cousin Qiaohui, my Qiaoyan is very efficient at work. As long as you agree to take her out, we don't need any wages. I just ask you to help her find an in-law's family in the city so that she doesn't have to live in a mountain nest."
Suffering in the nest.”
Lin Lan refused: "That can't be done. Others will accuse me of exploiting working people and buying and selling people, and I will be arrested and rehabilitated." Even if Wu Shufang didn't say hello, she would not agree to take Zhou Qiaoyan home. This girl's eyes were not straight.
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When Wu Shufang heard Aunt Zhou's voice, she quickly came out of the kitchen and asked Lin Lan and Li Xiangyang to go back to the house. She turned to the mother and daughter and said, "His third aunt, you heard it too, so go back and don't embarrass my niece."
When Aunt Zhou saw Lin Lan and Li Xiangyang entering the house, she looked at Wu Shufang jealously and pointed at her nose: "You must be the one who instigated it. Cousin Qiaohui refused to take Qiaoyan with her."
"You are afraid that your ugly girl with a small nose and small eyes will be robbed of the glory by my Qiaoyan. If you wait, I will not believe that the butcher Wang is dead, so she will eat pigs with hair on them." After saying this, she angrily pulled Zhou Qiaoyan away.
, Zhou Qiaoyan, who turned around three times, left.
Wu Shufang also returned to the kitchen angrily and said to Xu Hongjue: "You are not allowed to tell your third aunt about family affairs in the future. See if it is annoying or not!"
Xu Hongjue looked at her aggrievedly: "Mom, you clearly know that it was the second child who said this, why are you angry at me?"
Wu Shufang was stunned for a moment and said softly: "Let me just say this, Xiaolan wants to collect the dry goods. You will go back to her parents' house later and ask Qiao'e to bring the dry goods and sell them to her cousin in exchange for some money.
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Wu Shufang had four children, two sons and two daughters. The second daughter came back in exchange for Xu Hongjue. Zhou Laoer had no money to find a wife and no suitable sister to exchange for a wife, so he had to become a live-in son-in-law for someone else.
Xu Hongjue and Zhou Qiao'e exchanged marriages. It was difficult for people in the mountains to find wives, so they had to exchange marriages with similar families.
"Mom," Xu Hongjue looked at her and asked in a low voice, "did my cousin really lend us so much money? Isn't she worried that we won't pay it back to her? What's the use of Old Pumpkin for her?"
"Beans and pumpkins don't have to be picked up. You can plant them in every corner. Dozens of households in the Shishanling Brigade have grown pumpkins and beans. The piles of beans are as high as a mountain. Has she finished using them?"
"What do you know?" Wu Shufang rolled her eyes angrily, "I've kept all the money. I'm warning you, go back to your parents' house and keep your mouth shut."
"I'm not a melon!" Xu Hongjue agreed and then looked at Wu Shufang, "Mom, when I go back and pass by my siblings' parents' house, do you want to tell the second child's family that my cousin is here?"
Wu Shufang frowned and shook her head: "Don't tell him!"
The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law took out a few eggs from the rice pot and put them aside, scooped out the porridge cooked in the pot, washed the pot and fried a pot of mixed flour pancakes with corn flour and white flour.
The white flour was brought by Lin Lan, and there was some wheat flour in the mountains. They were all used for public rations. Each family would share a little of the leftover flour, grind it finely, and mix it into corn flour. It was a rare occasion to eat it.
The eldest grandson came out of the room with his younger siblings, rubbing his eyes. When he saw the eggs Wu Shufang put in the basin, he looked at her with bright eyes: "Milk, I want to eat eggs."
Wu Shufang looked at her two younger grandchildren lovingly, leaned down and whispered to them: "Be good! This is for your cousin, aunt and uncle to eat. Pancakes made with milk and white flour are fried with milk.
Bacon, can you eat it in the kitchen later?"
The two younger ones said obediently: "Okay, let's give it to my cousin and aunt. My cousin will buy us some candies to eat."
Wu Shufang nodded sadly, turned around and fished out a handful of sauerkraut from the sauerkraut jar, stir-fried it with the old bacon Lin Guoliang sent last time, and stir-fried garlic sprouts, bean drumsticks and green vegetables.
The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law brought the food to the main room and said to Lin Lan, Li Xiangyang and Lin Guoliang: "You guys eat first, while your uncle and cousin go to notify those families in the team who have mountain goods."
Lin Guoliang smiled and said: "It's okay, we are not hungry yet, we will eat together when uncle and cousin come back."