Baoyao

Chapter 15 Food
After hearing this, Qiaozhen felt a little sour in her heart, it is not easy to be an elder.In fact, what my mother said was true, the food at home is already nervous, and it must be more difficult if there are more people opening their mouths. My parents have a family relationship with me, but my sister-in-law does not. It is normal for her to be picky.

"Mother, I don't want to eat these eggs. I don't care if I eat less, as long as the family is happy." Qiaozhen really doesn't want to have any more quarrels at home, and she doesn't want her mother to be in trouble.

"Mother's silly girl." Qiaozhen's mother touched Qiaozhen's hair, rubbed her nose, held back her tears, and continued: "Your sister-in-law has been away for two days, and she has been clean for two days. I will give you a good nourishment, you can eat whatever your mother gives you, there is nothing better, just don't pick your mother."

Qiao Zhenniang also felt sour, but she couldn't say these things in front of her daughter.Qiaozhen nodded and didn't speak any more.

Things really did not go as Qiao Zhenniang expected, Yuhua really didn't stay at her mother's house for three days, and she brought Chengzi back the next day, she said Chengzi missed his grandma, so she had to make a fuss to come back, but Chengzi said he He Niang was driven back by his aunt.

Everyone didn't heal their anger with her, what should be done, and Yuhua was still the same as before, but she didn't go to see Qiaozhen, nor did she look for trouble, she just muttered a few words, and no one paid any attention to her.

Qiaozhen had been lying on the bed for a few days, and now she didn't need anyone to watch her specially. When there was no one in the house, she would get out of bed and walk around, and look out through the window.

The courtyard of the Wang family is quite big, and there are several trees in the courtyard, Qiaozhen can recognize them all, there are locust trees, elm trees, and tung trees, and there are small benches under some trees, obviously you can sit under the trees to enjoy the shade when you have nothing to do of.

There are two squares near the wall, and the green vegetables are grown inside, but Qiaozhen couldn't tell what kind of vegetables it was until it was close.

In addition, there are some agricultural tools, such as frame carts, hoes, shovels, forks, rakes, and the like. In addition, there is a tank in the yard, I don’t know if it is a water tank.

There is also a small room, which looks like it should be a kitchen for cooking.

It's a very simple and pure farmyard. Qiaozhen looked at it a few times, but he didn't see any flowers, but it's good to be able to look at the yard if there is nothing to do in the house.

Qiaozhen looked at it for a long time and felt tired. She just walked to the bed and sat down, ready to lie down for a while, when she heard the voice of the second sister-in-law coming back. She went back to her mother's house today, and she will be back soon.

Qiaozhen walked back and looked out.

The second sister-in-law actually came back with a shelf cart, and there were things on the shelf cart. I don't know what they are.

"Hey, it's a lot of going back to get things, your mother is really willing, what are these things." Sister-in-law Yuhua looked at the things on the car and shouted.

Meihua glanced at sister-in-law Yuhua, didn't say anything, smiled, and started to get things down.

"Mother, this is bean dregs. I just made it. My mother told me to take it home and eat it at home." She said as she handed the basket to her mother-in-law.

"That's a lot. It's enough for our family to eat for several meals. I was just saying to get some bean dregs after eating these days. Your mother really knows what I mean." Qiao Zhenniang took it with a smile.

"It's bean dregs again. I haven't had enough of it every day. It tastes like a mouthful. It makes me sick." Yuhua said dissatisfied.

"What? Are you pregnant?" Qiao Zhenniang deliberately hurt her.

"What are you talking about, mother? How can I have my body if I haven't taken care of it yet?" Yuhua's heart was both angry and aching.

"What's disgusting if you don't have a body? We don't eat it every day, why no one is disgusting. In the past, you couldn't eat it if you wanted to eat it. It's only two days now, and it's set up. You don't eat it. You want to eat dragon meat. You have to be able to fly to win." Qiao Zhenniang said to his daughter-in-law.

Qiaozhen could hear and see clearly through the window, that is bean curd residue, which is basically fed to pigs in modern times, so this is what you eat at home?Can this be used as food?No wonder Niang didn't feed herself the food the family ate, it turned out to be like this, for a moment Qiaozhen's eyes were so stingy.

"Mother, this is half a bag of dried sweet potatoes. It was dried by my mother last year. My mother thought that sister Qiaozhen came back, and she was afraid that the food at home would not be enough, so she asked me to bring it back." Meihua handed her another bag to her mother-in-law.

The bag is a small bag, which is half a bag, but it weighs about five catties on a scale.Just like this, Qiao Zhenniang couldn't be more grateful in her heart, she said: "Meihua, how can I thank your mother? It's good, your family's life is not easy, you see your mother asked you to bring this food back, I don't like it. ..."

"Mom, I'm not an outsider. Why are you being polite? My mother said that there are few people there, so we can't eat much. We have a lot of family members. If you eat more food, you will be less hungry. Don't be polite, mother. By the way, there is one more thing. Millet, it was my mother who asked me to bring it back to Qiaozhen, and said that she would make soup for Qiaozhen." After Meihua finished speaking, she took down a small bag, which contained about a catty of millet.

"Let me take a look." After hearing what the brother and daughter-in-law had said, Yuhua hurriedly took the bag, opened it, and found that there were grains inside. She grabbed a handful, and the small grains dripped down between her fingers.

Qiao Zhenniang looked at the yellow and orange grains, and her eyes turned red. She also wanted to make millet soup for her daughter, but she didn't have it at home, and she didn't exchange it. Now her daughter-in-law brought it from her mother's house. caught.

"Meihua, my mother shouldn't have accepted this thing, but now your sister... I am really thanking you for Qiao. Thank you, mother. I will accept it. I will wait for your sister to have a bright future, so that she will not forget this kindness." Qiao Zhenniang talked to his daughter-in-law emotionally.

"Look at what mother said, we are not outsiders, what kind of favor is not, coincidentally she is also my sister. This is what should be done." Mei Hua smiled.

Qiaozhen also saw millet, it is the plucked grain, also called millet, it is very nourishing when boiled into porridge, it is especially suitable for confinement women, and it is also a symptom of miscarriage, but it is very expensive Bar?The second sister-in-law is really kind to herself, and her mother is really willing to do so.Let her bring these things back.

"Mother, when it's dark, use millet to make soup. It doesn't need to be too thick. Just put two handfuls and it will hit. My body needs to be nourished. Why don't I give birth to the Wang family." Yuhua looked at the millet and panicked.

"When your upper lip touches your lower lip, what you say is so light, and it doesn't need to be too thick. Two handfuls hit the mark. How many are there in total? You drink all of it, what does your sister drink? You don't look like a sister-in-law all day long, it's also greedy." That's too greedy, let me tell you, if you dare to secretly eat this millet for me, I will exchange everything in the house with millet for Qiaozhen to eat, do you hear that?"

Qiao Zhenniang yelled at her daughter-in-law, if she is not good enough, otherwise the daughter-in-law can really cook and eat secretly.

"I heard it, how dare I not hear it, and I'm not deaf, so I won't hit it if I don't eat it? Mother needs to be so fierce, mother wants to eat me." Yuhua said weakly, and suddenly her eyes flashed, Pointing to the dry sweet potato, he said: "Mother won't let you eat millet, this dried sweet potato is ready, and it's dark today, and the sweet potato dry tea is also good."

Qiao Zhenniang looked at her daughter-in-law's greedy look, although her face was dark, she felt a little uncomfortable in her heart, it was all because of the hard times.

"Okay, just put two yuan in the pot when it's dark, this half bag is enough for us to eat for half a month." After finishing speaking, Qiao Zhenniang took the bag and entered the stove.

Qiaozhen saw that there was no one in the yard, so she sighed secretly and went back to the bed. She also knew about dried sweet potatoes. When she was a child, every time the sweet potatoes were harvested at home, her mother who couldn’t finish eating them always rubbed them into thick slices, and then shared them with her. Dad used it together to make a roof or spread a mat on the road, put the sweet potato chips on it to dry, dry them in the sun, then put them away, and take them out to make porridge in winter.

It is easy to store like this, the porridge made is sweet and delicious, and the dried sweet potatoes are also delicious, which tastes good.

Later, with the development of science and technology, there were fewer and fewer sweet potato cellars in rural areas. Sweet potatoes are not easy to store and are prone to spoilage. Sun-dried is a good storage method, but this method is becoming less and less, because more and more people go out to work in rural areas. The more there are, the less people are farming, the days are getting better, and nothing is rare anymore. Many families are too lazy to make such dried sweet potatoes.

Qiaozhen was stunned when she thought of this, she felt that something was wrong, but she couldn't remember, what was wrong?

right!Sweet potatoes, if she remembers correctly, sweet potatoes should have been passed down from Fanbang in the late Qing Dynasty, but she saw that the family's clothes didn't look like those of the Qing Dynasty. What's going on?What dynasty is this?Is it empty?Qiao Zhen was lost in thought for a while.

(End of this chapter)