The happy life of peasant woman Wan Xiaoliu

Chapter 8 Wan Mofei

"Then let's eat it. My mother used the noodles from the pumpkin head last night. It's delicious."

"My family has no noodles, ah, let's eat gnocchi."

Wan Xiaoliu filled a bowl of flour in an earthen bowl, added some salt, and slowly added water to mix. This noodle tower is more particular. The water must be appropriate and not too thin. Making steamed buns should be thinner and harder than making foreign soup.To reconcile the noodles, put a wet towel on the soil bowl noodles and let the noodles wake up for a while, so that the noodles will be softer and more delicious.After Wan Xiaoliu made the noodles, he went to the vegetable field to pick a pumpkin head. This pumpkin head is what the big yellow pumpkin is called when it is tender. The noodles or noodles under this tender pumpkin head are very delicious.

Wash the pumpkin head, the green skin on the outside is very tender and you don’t need to scrape it off. Cut the pumpkin head into shreds. , the pumpkin head itself produces water, so don't boil it.

After the pumpkin head is fried, put it into the pot, and add some water to the pot, which is almost enough for this noodle.Boil the water, Wan Xiaoliu picked up a ball of dough, pulled it into a cake shape with both hands, put it into the water, such a piece, until the dough was put in, pushed with a spatula, so that it could not stick to the pot, and covered the pot , cook over high heat.

Wan Xiaoliu took the earthen bowl to the well to fetch water, and stirred it vigorously with a bamboo brush twice, and the noodles sticking to the edge of the earthen bowl were washed away.

After washing the soil bowl and the noodles in your hands, boil them in the pot, and cut them into small pieces with a spatula.Pour in the fried pumpkin head and cook, taste the saltiness, add some salt when it is light, and cook for a while.

Xiao Jiu sat on the bed, her legs crossed and dangling.Watching Wan Xiaoliu rushing in and out. "Sixth sister, do you mean you can't play with Xiaojiu after you get married?"

"Little brat, if you dare to mention marriage to me in the future, I won't beat you up." Wan Xiaoliu filled the noodle bowl into an earthen bowl, which would get mushy if left in the pot for a long time.Shovel clean the pot, add water, so that the pot is easy to wash.Add water to yesterday's medicine and put it on the fire to boil again.

"How much do you want?" Wan Xiaoliu asked Xiao Jiu.

"Thank you, Sixth Sister, I just need a little." Wan Xiaojiu salivated when she smelled the fragrance, and ran to the side of the pot to watch Wan Xiaoliu fill it.

"This is for you, and I'm going to feed that person when that one is cold." Wan Xiaoliu filled a bowl for Xiaojiu, and ate a bowl for herself. There was also a bowl with many pumpkin heads, and two pieces of noodles were also eaten by her. Chop it into small pieces with chopsticks, let them cool down and feed them to unconscious people.

After Wan Xiaoliu ate his own, he mixed his bowl with a spoon from bottom to top, but he couldn't burn him.

Wan Xiaojiu finished eating his own, and helped Wan Xiaoliu carry the noodles. Wan Xiaoliu wrapped his neck with the old clothes he used to feed porridge yesterday, and fed them with a spoon. , Chewing and swallowing slowly.

"Well, it's good, we can eat like this today." Wan Xiaoliu was very happy, dragging him back from hell.The bowl of gnocchi was finished quickly, and I was fed some boiled water as usual.

"Sixth sister, when can he wake up and talk? What's his name?"

"I don't know his name or when he wakes up."

"This big brother is really pitiful. His body is full of injuries, and he hasn't eaten or drank water for several days."

"Well, so I can't run around alone up the mountain in the future, do you understand?"

"Yes."

The people on the door panel closed their eyes and listened quietly to the siblings singing together.

"Sixth Sister, look at his hands clenched together." Wan Xiaojiu looked at the hands that had been lying quietly on both sides, but now they were clenched into fists.

Wan Xiaoliu came over when he heard the sound, sure enough.

"Sixth sister, is he going to wake up?"

"Maybe, maybe not."

"Then is he going to wake up or not?" Wan Xiaojiu really couldn't understand what Sixth Sister was saying.

Wan Xiaoliu rolled his eyelids and retracted his hand in fright.

"You open your eyes when you wake up, why are you scaring people?" Wan Xiaoliu was very angry.He rolled his eyelids just now, and his black eyes stared at him.

"Sixth sister, is he awake?"

"Should be awake." Wan Xiaoliu stared into his eyes, and Wan Xiaojiu stared at him without blinking.

The eyes stared at by the two pairs of fiery eyes finally slowly broke away, and a pair of bottomless black eyes appeared in front of the siblings.

The three pairs of eyes did not move or speak as if time had stopped.

"You... what do you look at, I am your savior, my name is Wan Xiaoliu, and this is my younger brother's name is Wan Xiaojiu." Wan Xiaoliu wondered if he was lying alone when he was standing alone.

"I'm Wan Xiaojiu, just call me Xiaojiu." Wan Xiaojiu patted his chest and said.

The person on the bed just glanced at their siblings indifferently, then closed his eyes again.

"Sixth sister, why doesn't he talk?" Wan Xiaojiu asked Wan Xiaoliu.

"I don't know. Could it be that your brain is broken?"

"Big brother, what's your name?" Wan Xiaojiuzi asked beside him.

Silence answered him.

"Xiao Jiu, do you think he is deaf or dumb?" Wan Xiaoliu watched carefully.

"No way? Then he can't hear us, can't talk to us?"

"Well, I guess so."

"Ah...then what should I do, Sixth Sister?"

"I can't help it, let him go. Send him away when he can walk."

"The big brother is so pitiful. There are so many mountains. My father said that if I want to go out, I have to climb ten mountains. It takes several months to get outside. And there are many wolves, tigers, leopards, big snakes, wild boars, and locusts on the mountains. Terrible."

"He is not from our place, he will leave sooner or later." Wan Xiaoliu was too lazy to study him, and went to do his own thing.

Throughout the morning, the people on the door panel no longer opened their eyes, the same as before.Wan Xiaojiu was bored watching it, so she went back.

Wan Xiaoliu thought that there was someone else in his family, so he did not go far away, so he hoeed the vegetable field by the yard, the potatoes were shunshun, and the sweet potato seedlings were turned over the vines. The vines of sweet potatoes grow along the ground. Turn over, and the place with the pole will take root and sprout in the ground, absorb the nutrients, the sweet potato vine will not grow, and there will be not enough seedlings when it is planted.

It was almost noon, Wan Xiaoliu buckled some potatoes and picked some soup leaves for lunch.

After washing the potatoes and soup leaves, I went to the table, got myself a bowl of tea, looked at the person on the door, took another bowl, and poured him another bowl.Bring it to his side.

"Hey, do you drink water?"

The person on the bed slowly opened his eyes again, looked at Wan Xiaoliu and at the water in her hand, swallowed it, looked at her without speaking.

"I know you're thirsty too. Do you drink it yourself or should I feed you?" Wan Xiaoliu looked at him.

(End of this chapter)