The fertile farm girl in the portable space

Chapter 10 The little uncle is coming

After lunch, the "washing three" ceremony officially began.Aunt Wang set up an incense table in the main room to enshrine thirteen statues of gods, including the Empress who gave birth, the Empress who gave birth, and the Empress Douban. The incense burner was filled with millet for incense.A pair of small red wax is inserted on the wax skewer, and yellow coins, ingots and other god-respecting objects are stuffed underneath.

On the head of the bed in Chen's west room, there are statues of "Kang Gong and Kang Mother", and three bowls of oil cakes are placed as offerings.Then, Mrs. Chen put the copper basin containing the soup made from locust twigs and mugwort leaves and many other things on the bed.

At this time, Aunt Wang brought coriander over, and the old lady, Hai Rui, and Mrs. Chen each added a small spoonful of water into the basin, and put some coins.The Hai family couldn't get out any gold or silver carabiners, so Mrs. Chen touched a few copper coins and put them into the basin.When adding clear water, Aunt Wang recited "Long flowing water, smart and clever", and when she sprinkled fruits, she said: "Early sons will have sons, and they will give birth to precious sons; Guiyuan, Guiyuan, and three yuan in succession."

After "refilling the pot", Aunt Wang picked up the mallet and stirred it into the pot, muttering: "Stir once, stir again and again, and my brother will lead my brother to run away. Seventy, eighty, crooked hair , naughty, Xilihulu are here!"

After chanting, the coriander was stripped naked and put into the basin. The water was a little cold, so she bared her toothless mouth.Look at the copper coin fruits in the water, colorful and colorful, it's quite fun, so I grab it with my little hands.

While washing, Aunt Wang muttered good wishes.Then use ginger slices to hold the ignited mugwort balls, and burn them back and forth on the coriander forehead.He took a comb and combed it randomly on the coriander head a few times, and said in a long voice: "Three combs, two combs, wear a red top when you grow up; draw eyebrows on the left, and temples on the right, find a son-in-law for the fourth village; Brush your teeth, rinse your mouth, and talk to people to avoid embarrassment."

After reading, Aunt Wang rolled the egg on the parsley's face again, and muttered: "The egg is rolled on the face, the face is like egg skin, the willow red is like white, it is really a lover."

After all this tossing and washing, Mrs. Chen picked up the coriander, and Aunt Wang took a scallion, and lightly beat the coriander three times, muttering: "One dozen is smart, and the other is smart." Then ordered Throw the shallots on the roof.

Then, there was a weight and a lock, and they made gestures on the coriander one by one, and Aunt Wang kept gurgling.Coriander looked at it, Aunt Wang looked like a god of the world, it was really funny.

Finally, Aunt Wang took a small mirror to take a picture of Xiangcai Guangguang'er's buttocks, and said: "Use a mirror to take a picture of the buttocks, and the shit will be clean during the day."Coriander is embarrassingly full of black lines, why is this, looking for hemorrhoids?

Aunt Wang burned some god-respecting things in the courtyard again, gathered the ashes into a pile, wrapped them in red paper, and handed them to Mrs. Chen, asking her to press them under the kang mat, saying that it would keep her mother and daughter safe.After finishing the whole set, Aunt Wang smiled and congratulated Mrs. Chen, and Mrs. Chen hurriedly took out the few remaining copper coins and handed them over.

Coriander really doubts whether this set of cumbersome procedures carried out by the ancient Wenpo was deliberately used to get "external money".Aunt Wang was secretly happy, and picked up a small handful. Although the Hai family is poor, unlike the rich people in the village, like the rich Lin family who have gold and silver coins, jewelry, etc., but the copper coins, apron Small things like cloth are enough for her to grab a handful.But what surprised Aunt Wang was that the old lady was really shrewd. During the time she was in the yard, she collected all those copper coins, apron cloth, millet, eggs, xiguo, and oil cakes. .

Aunt Wang hated her teeth and thought, why is there such a family, which one in Qingshui Village invited me to deliver and wash the third child, these things are not honored to the newborn grandma?But their family is poor and stingy, and even hid the items that should be given to the newborn grandma.

Thinking about it this way, Aunt Wang looked very ugly on the face, and it was hard to tell, she just cursed in her heart, thinking that she would not come next time she invited me.When Mrs. Chen sent Aunt Wang out, seeing her ugly face, she naturally knew what was going on and felt very embarrassed.She wanted to wrap up those things and give them to Aunt Wang as soon as she finished washing them for three times, but she didn't expect the old lady to be so quick with her hands and feet, even collecting these things.Knowing that Aunt Wang was annoyed now, she had no choice but to watch Aunt Wang go home angrily.

The days passed leisurely, Little Coriander blinked and went to sleep, two months had passed, and the weather was getting hotter by the slightest bit.The life of the farm is simple and simple, and the life of coriander is also very simple. After eating and sleeping, sleeping and eating, I am trapped in the body of this milk doll, and I can’t do anything I want. I got used to it.

The old lady of the Hai family is shrewd and strong, and her father Hai Rui is a stubborn elm-headed man who only knows how to test for academic achievements and has no knowledge of the world. , Chatting with Mrs. Chen for a few words, usually not empty-handed, always bring some food, sometimes a few handfuls of fresh vegetables picked up in their own fields, sometimes a few melons and fruits touched in the fields.Mrs. Chen often feels that she owes favors, but she has nothing to return.

When they were busy in the fields, the old lady of the Hai family went to work with Mrs. Chen, but Hai Rui, as the only male in the family, never had to go to the fields, not because he didn't want to, but because the old lady didn't allow it.Chen was worried about leaving the coriander at home alone, so she carried it on her back and tied it tightly with a belt, for fear that it would fall off while working in the field.So in the field, I often saw Mrs. Chen busy carrying coriander on her back.Fortunately, Coriander is also good, neither crying nor fussing.The neighbors always like to tease her when they see each other, and she also smiles at them generously, the smile is sunny and cute.

But relying on two women to farm alone is not enough to support this family of four.So after finishing the work in the fields, the old lady and Mrs. Chen did some mending and needlework to supplement the family income. Although it was a bit hard, they could barely support the family.

It's just that coriander is only fed with some rice soup, and the nutrition can't keep up. She is a little sallow and thin, unlike Liu's daughter, who is white and fat with sweet-scented osmanthus.Osmanthus fragrans is not really a fool, it's just that her eyes are a little dull and her mind is relatively slow.When Mrs. Chen saw that the coriander was thin and yellow, she was anxious, so she secretly made a bowl of egg custard every day with the eggs that Mrs. Liu sent, and added it to the little coriander.Mrs. Chen knocked an egg into a bowl, stirred it with chopsticks, and mixed it into a thick egg liquid. Sprinkled a little salt, added water, mixed well, dripped a few drops of sesame oil, steamed it in a pot, and sprinkled some more at the end. Chopped scallions, golden and emerald green, make the coriander's saliva "click".

Mrs. Chen herself was not willing to eat any of them. Since then, Xiao Xiangcai has fallen in love with eating soft and tender egg custard, and her complexion has become rosy.

In the evening of this day, Mrs. Chen was bathing coriander in a small wooden basin in the west room, when she heard voices in the yard.

"Hey, it's Chen Zhu! Why are you here?" The old lady was sitting on a small wooden stool mending a piece of clothes when she saw Chen's younger brother Chen Zhu enter the courtyard gate, holding a net bag of fresh fish in her left hand, and the armpit of her right hand. There was also a piece of calico under his shirt, his eyes lit up, he was busy smiling, and got up to greet him enthusiastically.

(End of this chapter)