Hard times have room

Chapter 98
As soon as Paulin got home, she spread out the bed. It turned out that playing would be so tiring!
After thinking about it, I got up and went to the kitchen to boil water in an iron pot to cook rice. The wild vegetables I brought back were piled up in a shady corner of the kitchen and sprinkled with water.

At noon, Baolin made potato and wild vegetable porridge directly. He scalded the wild vegetables with hot water. He also added a little salt water with moldy beans and sauerkraut, and chopped the leaves of onion, ginger, and garlic. are quite satisfied.

"Paulin, I think it's very sunny today, why don't you just boil the water and scald the wild vegetables in the kitchen!" Su Hongying sat in front of the door with a small stool, looking at the sun outside, shaking her legs, taking Picking his teeth with a small bamboo stick, he said.

"Okay, I'm going to boil the water now." Pauline thought about it and went to work. Anyway, it's impossible to talk about going outside to work in such a big sun. The sun is too big and you will suffer from heat stroke.

"You and Dad have been tired all morning, go to sleep, and let me handle the wild vegetables."

Paulin usually gets enough sleep at night, and won't take a nap at noon the next day. She can't sleep, and she is idle when she is idle. It is just right to scald the wild vegetables.

"Okay, be careful when you cook the vegetables yourself, don't burn yourself, come little by little, don't rush."

"Ha", yawned and stretched, Su Hongying said with emotion, "This day is really suitable for sleeping!"

After rinsing the tableware and chopsticks in the kitchen, Pauline took out a match, lit the fire, and burned water in the iron pot.

It's hot now and the water is easy to boil. After the water boiled, Paulin directly took a large amount of wild vegetables into it, and stirred it with a bamboo stick. I picked it into the wooden basin next to it, and then continued to add water to the iron pot, add firewood to the bottom, and continue with the previous steps.

It had been half an hour by the time Pauline had cooked all the vegetables.

Paulin directly took out two stools, went to the door with four bamboos, spread the wild vegetables one by one on the bamboos and hung them. As long as it doesn't rain, they can be put here at night, and they can be put away after they are completely dry the next day. stand up.

Afterwards, Baolin boiled a pot of boiling water in the pot, put half of the snails that she touched yesterday into a broken jar, and then poured boiling water and scalded them to death.

I was sitting at the door of the kitchen with a small bench by myself, slowly picking up the snails. It was not easy to pick, and the head of the screw was broken when I picked it out. After half an hour, it was only half a bowl.

Smelling her hands, which were slightly white and wrinkled from being in contact with water for a long time, um, the smell was a little hard to describe. Paulin grabbed a handful of plant ashes under her stove and rubbed her hands several times.

"Zhu" took a deep breath at his hand, and sure enough, grass and wood ash is omnipotent, and now the peculiar smell on his hand is gone.

Usually, when Paulin's clothes are dirty, they are soaked in plant ash, and then scrubbed vigorously. I cooked dishes with oil at home, and iron pans and tableware were also washed and washed with plant ash. Not to mention, the decontamination effect of plant ash is really good.

Put the screw meat in the cast iron skillet, cover it with a lid, and save it for the evening.

After thinking about it, there was nothing else to do, Pauline went straight back to the house, laying on the bed and resting with her eyes closed.

Maybe because she was too tired, Pauline went straight to sleep. When she woke up, her parents' house was locked.

Pauline simply brought fishing tools, a fishing net and a small fish cage, and a small bucket, and went to Dongmei's house to find her. When they separated at noon, they all made an appointment to catch fish in the afternoon, but only I don't know why Dongmei didn't come.

On the way to Dongmei's house, when Paulin passed Lao Wang's house, she saw that the bamboo fence door of Lao Wang's house was closed, and the two little ones were not at home.

"Dongmei Dongmei, are you at home?" Paulin didn't enter the house, she called someone in the yard.

"I'm here, Paulin, I'm in my room, come in directly!" Wang Dongmei was sleeping, but after being woken up by Paulin, she answered quickly.

"No, I'll be waiting for you at your door. After you get dressed, come out with your things!"

After Paulin finished speaking, she sat directly on the stone pier under the persimmon tree in Dongmei's yard to enjoy the shade.

Dongmei's house is very large, with many rooms and a large yard in front of the house.

What Bao Lin is most satisfied with is the persimmon tree in her house. The persimmon tree is very big, and it is cool to sit under the tree in summer.

Under the tree, there are ten flat stone piers, which are very clean. It can be seen that people often sit on these stone piers.

Looking at Dongmei's persimmon tree, Paulin has the idea to plant a persimmon tree in front of her yard next spring.

However, thinking about the fact that fruit trees are easy to attract insects, Pauline decided to plant two pomegranate trees at home. They can be eaten without attracting insects, which is perfect.

Amidst Bao Lin's various thoughts, Wang Dongmei put on her clothes and went out with a net bag and a small bucket.

"Paulin, why did you come so early?" Wang Dongmei said preemptively, pouting.

"Are you sure it's still early? My parents and the others went to work early." Although Pauline didn't know the current time or when her parents were out, it didn't matter. Prevent her from taking this counterattack.

"Oh, isn't it that people are too tired at noon! My mother and my grandmother didn't call me, that's why I got up late." Wang Dongmei took Paulin's hand and acted like a spoiled child, trying to push the responsibility that she didn't take up. to others.

After all, when the two of them made an agreement, Wang Dongmei was the one who called, not waiting for Pauline to wake her up at home.

"Okay, okay, shake my hand again and you'll fall apart. It's getting late, let's go!" Pauline stood up and walked in front with the tools.

This time the two of them went to the upper reaches of the Daqing River. The Daqing River is formed by several small tributaries flowing down from the Daqing Ridge. This time Baolin and Dongmei went to those small tributaries. Block fish.

Not only fish, but small shrimp and small snails have seen them, and of course they will not let them go.

After working for more than two hours, both of them had a good harvest. There were more than 20 small fish in Baolin’s small bucket, and two were slightly larger. In Wang Dongmei’s small bucket, there were more than a dozen small fish. One, but enough to boil a pot of fish soup.

As soon as Pauline came home, she found that her parents had returned, carrying water to water the vegetable field in the back room.

"Come back, have you caught the fish?" Su Hongying asked excitedly, holding the empty bucket.

"Mmmm, how could your daughter miss a shot? If you catch it, it's enough to cook a pot." Paulin nodded, and excitedly raised the small bucket in her hand.

"Okay, your dad is pulling weeds in the vegetable field. I'll ask him to take care of the fish. You go and change your clothes first." After Su Hongying finished speaking, she turned around and walked briskly towards the vegetable field.

Pauline looked at her dirty clothes and smiled helplessly. It seemed that she had to soak in grass and wood ashes before doing laundry tonight.

(End of this chapter)