Vol 2 Chapter 150: Xiao Dashi

Mother Zhang went out, thought about going back to the main room, took some money and put it on her. He looked at the clothes on his body, pulled it smoothly, smoothed his hair, hurriedly talked to the two daughters-in-law in the kitchen and left.
After leaving the yard, I walked quickly to the Xiao's house at the entrance of the village. When I was outside the Xiao's yard, I didn't know whether it was working hours or not. Shouting outside: "Sister Xiao, are you at home?"
"Here, who? Come in." There was a voice from inside, and Mother Zhang happily opened the courtyard door.
The Xiao family’s yard is not big, and it’s very clean. Their family is passed down from one lineage to another. Xiao Shitou has one son. After marrying his wife, he gave birth to two grandsons and one granddaughter. But he was so happy that he ran up the mountain to set off firecrackers in the middle of the night. Everyone knows what happened to the villagers.
"Sister-in-law, you didn't go to work today? I'm afraid you are not at home. What's wrong with your health, can you continue to take the medicine?" Mother Zhang watched her preparing lunch and coughed from time to time. I'm guilty of old problems when I'm cold
Aunt Xiao smiled and handed her a bench for her to sit on, "I'm okay, and my old man is making a fuss. This old tracheitis is sick, and the weather gets cold and coughs. Why do you come here when you have time? The new yard is busy. ."
"I heard someone say how many fish were caught by your dashi yesterday. I want to see if there are still fish left at home?"
Aunt Xiao pulled her to the big water tank outside the kitchen, "Look, there are a few more, and you will grab them all. It's cold and you will freeze them if you don't eat them. Let your little daughter-in-law milk her. ?"
Zhang Mu happily looked at the fish in the tank. The weather is not dead yet. It is fresh. "Give me three of them. You can save the rest and eat slowly. Sister-in-law, these fish are worth a lot of money. Are the fish sold alive?"
Aunt Xiao took out rice stalks from the kitchen, skewers four fishes and handed them to Mother Zhang, "What are you selling? You can eat them in the river. You are also busy at home, or else you don’t need to use my house. Are four fishes enough? I can't eat it anymore."
"My sister-in-law is just a polite, where I can't eat it, I guess I'm planning to make cured fish. I'm not polite to you, but you have to pay for it. I'm leaving in a hurry. I have time to go to my house and chat." , Mother Zhang put a dollar on the table, and hurriedly carried the fish out.
Aunt Xiao chased her with the money, and blocked it to her. She had to put away the money or leave the fish, "My family has eaten a lot of meat from your Xiaowu. You are going to settle accounts with me. Hurry up. Go back and get it when you are done. My Dashi said that I will catch fish in these two days, and there is no shortage of fish at home."
Mother Zhang couldn't help it, and it wouldn't be good to refuse. When she turned around, she asked the child to bring some bacon over, "Hehe, all right, I will accept it, but don't mess it up, it's all tickling me."
"Haha, go back early to catch lunch, I won't keep you." Aunt Xiao watched Mother Zhang leave before returning to the room. Secretly envy Mother Zhang, all three sons are filial and filial, the younger son is capable, and he has a grandson, so there is no need to worry, no wonder she is happily looking for things to help the little daughter-in-law. However, his family Dashi is also filial, she is not jealous, do more fish at noon and wait for the children to come back to eat.
In the kitchen, Lin Juhua was surprised when she saw Mother Zhang carrying four fishes in, "Mother, where did you go to catch the fish? If you are old enough, you will catch four big fish when you go out."
Mother Zhang was amused and laughed, "You silly daughter-in-law, does your mother still have this ability? Xiao Shitou's family took it, and you don't need any money. You will let the child deliver bacon to the evening."
"Well, I'll go after dinner. Mother, how do you cook this fish? It's all alive, do you want to save one for Jiaojiao tomorrow?" Lin Juhua took the fish and looked at it and said.
Mother Zhang thought for a while. The children in the family haven’t eaten fish for a while. I heard Xiaowu say that it’s smart for children to eat more fish. "Three fish are used to make a fish pot, and the other one is stewed with tofu for Jiaojiao, and there is no need to keep it. She probably won’t be able to eat such a large fish on her cat’s stomach tomorrow. The whole fish will be stewed. It tastes better after a long time of stewing.

Seeing Huang Cuilan coming out of the cellar, "Old man, what's missing?"
Huang Cuilan carried the wild boar thigh, "Mother, I think the house is full of bone soup, and some are ribs. Uncle Zhou and the others will come back at noon for fear that there will not be enough meat and vegetables. What do you want to do with thigh meat?"
"Bone soup and Wowotou are all ready? Fast enough. Let's let them help to eat first. You and Uncle Zhou will not come back for dinner. They are almost ready. They should be eaten in the county. When we leave I said that I don’t need to prepare lunch. Ouch, look at my memory."
Huang Cuilan carried the pig's thighs back to the cellar, and came out and said to Mother Zhang: "Mother, we won't prepare separately for noon. Let's cook less fish. When we cook it in the evening, we will have all the dishes at noon."
"It's okay, cook one fish pot for the children, one fish stew for Jiaojiao, save two for burning at night. Chrysanthemums, you can make them and you don't need to deliver food. I and your sister-in-law will send them over."
"Well, I heard it. Mother can rest assured that I will clean up. Sister-in-law, the last pot is not ready, so I have to wait for a while. I asked Xizishitou and the others to call daddy. I guess they will come and pick them later. Let’s serve vegetables and soup.
Lin Juhua saw her sister-in-law put away Wowotou first, and hurriedly stopped.
Mother Zhang looked at the two daughter-in-laws helping to pour soup and serving vegetables, and sighed: "So many wowotou and vegetables, we are exhausted. We all say that building a house is peeled off and it's really tired. Fortunately, it's not a big summer. It’s hot to build a house, or you have to get heatstroke. Fortunately, I’ve been busy these days, which is a relief."
Huang Cuilan and Lin Juhua also breathed a sigh of relief. With so many meals every day, the three of them were busy. After serving good dishes, Huang Cuilan watched Lin Juhua want to stew fish with her hands and feet neatly, and asked, "Chrysanthemum, do you have any good people for carpentry work? The second one can't be too busy to do it yourself."
Lin Juhua was too busy to look up, "I don’t know, I don’t care about these things, I listen to my child’s father. I should do woodwork with Xiaowu’s family. I didn’t even see the wood, and I don’t know what to do. Wood work."
"Hehe, you are not worried. You need to use the things in your house when you move to the new yard, and you need to add things later. Now you have to clean up the yard before the ground is frozen, and wait for a crop of corn and sweet potatoes in spring. , Such a big back yard, you and your second child will smash the floor hard, the coming year will be yours." After Mother Zhang finished speaking, she smiled when she saw Lin Juhua look worried.
Lin Juhua looked at her sadly, "Mother, how can I manage such a large yard? I am not afraid of turning the ground. You can help me find out where to grow vegetables and where to grow sweet potatoes and corn. Crushed stones, I don’t know if we can grow live crops. The father said that he would still fertilize the land if he turned the ground."
"Well, it was originally a wasteland. Raise the land slowly. I can't come in a hurry. The backyard is the same as here. There is no additional arrangement. If you don't raise pigs, you will plant less sweet potatoes and use more corn."
Huang Cuilan looked at them worriedly, "Mother, second sibling, what do you say about Xiaowu's yard? I'm worried about Jiaojiao. I guess she will cry if she sees it."
Mother Zhang and Lin Juhua laughed.
Lin Juhua put the tofu into the pot, and said with a smile: "Sister-in-law, I didn't expect that this yard is such a big pity. Even if they both go to work in the county seat, they are reluctant to leave the yard empty. I will ask her later and see her. Will the brain work out a good way?"
Mother Zhang said with a smile: "Jiaojiao still doesn't know that Xiaowu is going to be ready. I will tell you that Xiaowu said that there are more vines in the front yard, which saves effort. There are three plots in the backyard, vegetable garden and sweet potato field. Corn fields. Most of the remaining land is planted with fruit trees. Vegetable gardens do not plant anything else. Just plant watermelons, melons, tomatoes, cucumbers, and plant loofah, winter melon, and pumpkin in the corners. Change in the four seasons and plant them all in autumn. Plant Chinese cabbage or large radish, whichever saves effort."
Huang Cuilan nodded, "It's good, it saves effort and effort. Otherwise, it's not enough to rely on Xiaowu, it's just that the strength is too strong."
Lin Juhua's eyes widened and said in disbelief: "So there is no need to raise chickens and ducks?"
Huang Cuilan ordered her, "The chickens and ducks need to be prepared to eat, and the couple are not happy to be tired of taking care of their parents. Besides, when you go to the county town, you can raise them in the yard."
Mother Zhang didn't say anything, and the couple would definitely not raise chickens in the yard until the county seat. The yard in the city is not as big as the village, so Jiaojiao's petty temper is afraid of getting dirty. She has planned everything. When they go to the city, she will catch some chicks and raise them in the backyard. Whenever she has time, she will feed them by the way. It doesn't take much effort. Besides, if the house is empty, they will come back to see them every other time. , Look at the yard.