Nongmen scholar

Chapter 6 So You Are a Pig
"Shut up!" Before he finished speaking, Gu Xiaobei snarled. Gu Changqing's words really pierced his heart. The matter of motherhood has always been a taboo topic for the four brothers and sisters, but no matter how much they hate, they can't let others say that about their mother. They can blame or hate the people in their family, but it is not their turn to make irresponsible remarks in front of them.

"Hey! Father Dahai, why are you still here? Your mother-in-law fell into the river and was rescued just now, why don't you go and see?" At this moment, Mrs. Zhang, the neighbor next door, yelled through the gap in the fence. .

When Gu Changqing heard this, he immediately gave Gu Xiaobei a hard look: "If your second brother doesn't apologize to Qian Tong, I will definitely let you go around!" After speaking, he anxiously pushed Gu Xiaobei away and rushed out to the river go.

"This is God's retribution for you, who made you go around harming others with bad intentions!" Gu Xiaobei didn't know how the dark fat pig fell into the river, but she was very happy when she heard the news, and shouted at Gu Changqing Twice, this kind of people should be punished and let them learn a lesson.

Gu Changqing paused when he heard Gu Xiaobei's words, but he didn't stop, he spread his legs and quickly ran away.

"Hey! Everyone is walking away, stop gnashing your teeth!" When Gu Xiaobei stared angrily at Gu Changqing's back, a voice with a smile suddenly sounded from beside her.

"You haven't left yet?" Gu Xiaobei turned his head and saw Bai Qingli leaning against the fence, looking like he was watching the fun, and then he remembered that there was such a person.

"Your clothes." Bai Qingli smiled, and lightly kicked the wooden barrel beside her feet.

"Thank you." Gu Xiaobei picked up the wooden bucket, thanked him, and went into the yard to dry his clothes.

After drying the clothes, Gu Xiaobei immediately went into the kitchen to prepare lunch.

The kitchen is made of mud. Due to years of disrepair, a lot of the soil has fallen off. There are two stoves, three pots, and a table with some bowls and chopsticks on the table. Utensils, the most conspicuous are the two cabinets in the corner, the cabinets seem to be old but still very strong.

Almost everything in this house is simple and simple, only the wooden furniture is relatively easy to use. These wooden furniture are all made of good wood that Gu Changming found before he died, and they are durable.

Gu Xiaobei opened the innermost cabinet based on the impression in his memory, saw a clay pot, opened the lid, looked down and saw that there was only half of the pot, at most it was enough for the four brothers and sisters to eat for another five days, Gu Xiaobei sighed, this point After eating rice, if they can't think of a way to make money, they should starve.

Harvesting has already started, but because their family has no cattle, they borrow cattle to cultivate, so their crops are planted later than others in the village. Now it will take ten days to harvest. This rice may not last until then .

Gu Xiaobei endured the bitterness in his heart, scooped a bowl of rice from the clay pot inside, put it into the pot and washed it clean, put the pot on the stove, picked up two flints from the cabinet and knocked on the firewood in the stove.

Although there is the memory of the body itself, the memory is all mechanical, because Gu Xiaobei, who has never used flint before, clumsily tapped according to the memory for a long time. Although some sparks were knocked out, the firewood still had no gas, so he had to stop. After going through the memory of this body deity in his mind again, he remembered that this fire needs dry grass to ignite to make the firewood burn.

Taking a handful of hay from the corner where the firewood was placed on the other side, he put it among the carefully placed firewood, Gu Xiaobei hit the flint vigorously again, "Pfft!" After hitting it more than a dozen times, the hay finally ignited.

Seeing the flames that were finally ignited, Gu Xiaobei smiled, and seeing that the firewood was also burning, Gu Xiaobei turned around and opened another cabinet in peace of mind, and began to check.

There were four carrots and two cabbages on the top of this cabinet. There were only these two kinds of vegetables. It seemed that they were picked by her elder brother for her lunch in the morning. To Gu Xiaobei's surprise, except for a small pot of salt and some ingredients Besides, there are no oil tanks to be found anywhere.

How delicious are vegetables fried without oil?No wonder the dishes fried by the brothers are all dry and tasteless, Gu Xiaobei frowned, now that the weather is hot, let's make cold dishes, it's okay for the cold dishes to have no oily taste.

After washing the carrots and cabbage and cutting them, I started another stove and boiled water to blanch the carrots separately. Then I scooped them into a large bowl and put in salt, shallots, and sesame seeds and stirred them. I wanted to add more seasonings, but I only had these at home. That will be it.

"What are you doing?"

While Gu Xiaobei was stirring the cold dish with great concentration, a voice suddenly sounded above his head.

Gu Xiaobei was startled, looked up just in time to see Bai Qingli looking at the things in her hand suspiciously.

"You haven't left yet?" Gu Xiaobei said in disbelief, Bai Qingli hasn't left yet!
She always thought that he would go back to his house after she returned to the yard, but things didn't seem to be like this. Then, during the time she was cooking, this rogue-like wife was in her yard?What have you done?
"When did I say I was leaving?" Bai Qingli smiled leisurely next to the wall, the smile on his face froze immediately after he finished speaking, he saw the dark wall opposite, and then remembered that the wall was no worse than himself The wall was as clean as it was, and he jumped away from the wall suddenly. Junrong lost his color and exclaimed: "Why are the walls of your house so dark?" But it was too late, the back of his white robe was already covered with black charcoal dust .

"Brother, can you not be so exaggerated?" Gu Xiaobei rolled his eyes at him, and this guy was even less adapted to life in the countryside than a modern person like her, so he couldn't help but asked suspiciously: "Did you not live in the countryside before?" Right? How long have you been in this village?"

"Half a year." Bai Qingli patted the charcoal dust on his body, but when he couldn't shake it off, he stopped helplessly.

"Half a year is not too short. Haven't you visited people in the village? Haven't you ever cooked?" Gu Xiaobei frowned. Where did he come from? He doesn't follow the customs at all.

"I visited but never went into the kitchen, and my sister does all the cooking. I didn't know the farm kitchen was so dark." Bai Qingli looked bewildered.

Gu Xiaobei understood that when he visited other farmers' homes, they always entertained him with the cleanest and best things.

But this is also easy to understand. After all, it is difficult to find a teacher in this small village. In the past, almost no one had ever studied. Many people are overjoyed at the arrival of Master, as long as they have the ability to send their children to private schools, they will send them as much as possible. After all, everyone wants their children to study and get a good reputation, so that most people respect this Master, please He went home and entertained with the best places and things naturally.

"What were you doing in my yard just now?" Gu Xiaobei continued to raise his doubts.

"I was waiting for you to greet me, but I didn't know that you would not go out after entering the kitchen for a long time, so I had to come in by myself." Bai Qingli felt aggrieved, thinking whether he was a wife in the city or now in the village, which house he would visit as a guest Not as a guest of honor?Now the little girl was ignoring him completely.

(End of this chapter)