Ling Xiaowei looked at the direction Shi Mingwei was running away and curled her lips. Her thanks were scary! She ran so fast.
In the evening, the cicadas on the trees were still singing non-stop, and the sky was covered with colorful clouds, purple and carmine, covering most of the sky.
Long plumes of smoke drifted from the chimneys of every house in the village.
Zhang Cuifang brought out a pot of porridge from the hut and placed it on the table in front of the hut. After a while, she took out a chopping board, a kitchen knife, and a white porcelain basin filled with green cucumbers.
And two garlic cloves.
"I'll go inside to get salt and soy sauce!" Ling Xiaowei said.
"If you run out of soy sauce at home, just bring salt!" Zhang Cuifang reminded.
The soy sauce we eat at home is all made by my grandma, and I haven’t started making soy sauce this year yet.
After a while, Ling Xiaowei took out the salt jar. It was a sauce-colored porcelain jar with a lid. Basically every household in rural areas has one of these small jars. Without exception, they are all used to hold salt.
"Aunt Zhang, can you make soy sauce?" Ling Xiaowei asked.
She was quite curious about how to make soy sauce by herself. She had vaguely seen her grandma making it before and used soybeans, but she didn't let their children into the room at that time. Ling Xiaowei just saw a bunch of moldy beans. She thought about it.
I don’t understand how to make soy sauce using moldy beans.
"The weather is hot these days, which is suitable for making soy sauce. I don't have soybeans at home, so I have to go to the grain and oil station in town to buy some soybeans!" he said while patting cucumbers.
Pat the cucumber, cut it into sections, and then with a snap, the two garlic cloves are also smashed. Put the cucumber, garlic cloves and salt on the plate and stir evenly, then add two drops of sesame oil, and a bowl of cold cucumber is ready.
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In summer, eating porridge with cucumbers is the most delicious. If you add a salted duck egg, you will be even better. Unfortunately, the salted duck eggs at home have not been pickled yet, and you have to wait for another half a month.
I have pickled a lot of salted duck eggs this year, a jar full of them, pickled with wine and salt. Zhang Cuifen said that it is easy to produce oil this way.
She will wait and see.
At dawn, everyone had dinner. After dinner, it was not yet six o'clock. It was still bright, and the family members began to take a bath one after another. The first one was my father. Zhang Cuifen put the water in and then helped the person.
Go in, let dad wash himself, and then take him out after washing.
Ling Xiaowei was the last one to take a shower. This time Ling Xiaowei took a shower and found that she had grown a lot. Her little arms and legs were fleshy and her skin was white and translucent. She looked completely different from what she looked like during the Chinese New Year, when she was just skin and bones.
She is much normal now. She is finally raised normally. If things continue like this, she shouldn't be too bad.
In her previous life, she was not very tall, less than 1.6 meters as an adult. In this life, she would strive to grow a few centimeters longer.
After taking a shower, she put on a cool yellow dress, which was the style of a nightgown she designed. It was ruffled, sleeveless, and had a small circle of fungus around the shoulders, which gave it a little more flexibility.
Outside the house, my father was blowing the wind with a cattail leaf fan. There was a radio next to him, and the news was playing on the radio. What good policies had been introduced?
Ling Xiaowei went back to the house and took a cattail leaf fan, ready to go out for a walk.
The best entertainment activity in the evening in summer is to hold a fan and go out for a walk. The weather is hot and there are no entertainment activities. The villagers have all gone to the bridge, where it is close to the river. It is windy and cool. The old men and women in the village take it.
As soon as a few people gathered on the small bench, the Dong family and the Li family started chatting.
Zhang Cuifen had already taken Mingming out for a walk, and Ling Xiaowei went there later. On the way, she met Qin Lili, who was sitting with her sister by the wall of a house by the lake.
When she saw Ling Xiaowei, her eyes were fixed on Ling Xiaowei's clothes, "Ling Xiaowei, this clothes on you is so unique! Was it also made by your father?"
"Yes! Do you want to go to my house and make something like this?" Ling Xiaowei said casually.
"I want to, but I don't have money, and my mother won't give me pocket money." Qin Lili's face felt disappointed, "When I make money, I will go to your house to make clothes." Qin Lili thought about the fact that she was about to go out to work.
, with a look of longing on his face.
Ling Xiaowei smiled and didn't say anything more. Sometimes she always felt that she and Qin Lili couldn't talk together, which was really strange!
"Let's go play over there! That seems to be talking about something!" Qin Lili pointed to a group of people gathered at the bridge.
Ling Xiaowei walked over, waving her fan, and while standing aside, she heard someone inside talking about the incident between Zhang Cuifen and Wang Han during the day, and they said all kinds of dirty words that were unpalatable to the ears.
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That's too much! Why are these gossiping old women talking such nonsense?
Ling Xiaowei suddenly saw Zhang Cuifen, who looked ashamed and angry, and led Mingming back.
"There are really not many good women from Hongwei Village, and each one is more shameless than the last! Zhang Hu's wife, now that she has a child in her belly, is domineering at home every day, which makes her mother-in-law very angry.
Crying to me every day! Why don't you just give birth to a child? You can't do this, you can't eat that, what's the problem? None of us here have ever given birth to a child!" An old woman began to speak ill of other people's wives.
These old women are really scary, and I don’t know if the pregnant woman is here. After hearing this, she would probably be angry and have a miscarriage.
It’s better not to participate in this kind of small talk, there is too much negative energy!
She'd better take a walk! Ling Xiaowei waved her fan and walked around the village, followed by Doudou, one person and one dog, towards the small square in the south.
There are a lot of kids there, and it’s much better to see what the kids are playing with than chatting with those old ladies.
Along the way, I met several people chatting together. As I passed a group of people, I heard something different. These people were talking about the loss of chickens in the village.
"My family has lost five or six chickens in the past two days. Those things are really disgusting!" the eldest mother said angrily.
"Your family only lost five or six chickens! My family has lost ten chickens. How can you eat so many chickens in one night?" Another aunt looked angry and heartbroken.
"Stop saying that, that thing is the most evil. It must have become a spirit to be edible like this." An older grandma said in a confused tone.
When the other aunts heard this, they looked jealous.
These days, people in the village are still very superstitious, especially about evil things like weasels. They say that these things live in mass graves and breathe in evil spirits. One by one they have become sperms early. The chickens at home have been affected by this.
If something is stolen, you can only admit it. If you are caught, you can't beat him to death. If he is beaten to death, the family will be in great misfortune.
After hearing these words, Ling Xiaowei felt a chill all over her body and panicked!