Fragrant Spring - 131 The Generous Village Woman

The scorching winter sun for several days seems to indicate that spring is coming soon. Many people have already taken off their sweaters and only wear autumn clothes and a coat. Spring comes early in the south, and some years the peach blossoms have not yet celebrated the New Year.

It opened.

Jiazhen went to the vegetable garden and brought back some radishes. She washed them and cut them into cubes. She put them into the boiled porridge with the lean meat that had already been cut. She stirred a few times. Then she walked to the main room and said cheerfully: "

How many more mortars are there? It’s time to have lunch after washing.”

Lin Hua, Chen Ming and Youcai were all wearing only autumn clothes. Each held a big stick and rushed at the glutinous rice cakes in coordination with each other. They had been rushing all morning, and they were a little tired and did not bother to answer.

Jiazhen. Making glutinous rice cakes requires not only strength, but also coordination. After pouring the steamed glutinous rice into the stone mortar, several people have to pound it with big sticks.

After a few blows, he raised his big stick and rushed down. When one person raised the big stick, the other two people had to press the glutinous rice ball with the big stick to prevent his big stick from taking the glutinous rice ball out of the stone mortar, and also let the other two people hold down the glutinous rice ball.

It was easier for him to pull out the sticky glutinous rice balls with the big stick. It took more than ten minutes for each mortar to make the glutinous rice into glutinous rice balls.

Qiaoying and Liping were making glutinous rice cakes. Qiaoying said, "Come and help quickly. They are all starving to death."

Daliang, who helped move the finished glutinous rice cakes to the other side for Lin Hua's father, also said: "Yes, Mom, I'm starving to death. If you don't come to help me, I won't do it."

Everyone laughed and teased Daliang one after another. Jiazhen walked to the table with a smile, lit a little oil in a bowl with oil, rubbed it on her palms, and helped to knead the glutinous rice cakes.

Early this morning, Lin Hua's father came to call Jiazhen and Chen Ming, saying that he had steamed the glutinous rice and asked them to hurry up and help make glutinous rice cakes. Because it was done early, Lin Hua's He Qiao was finished.

It was only around ten o'clock for the Ying family, so they suggested finishing the Jiazhen family's meal before having lunch, so it was now past two o'clock, no wonder the children were crying hungry.

Finally, after washing it, everyone quickly washed their hands and went to scoop up the porridge. While eating the porridge, Lin Hua said to Jiazhen: "Sister-in-law Zhen, you are so willing to put in lean meat."

Jiazhen is a little proud. She likes to be praised for her generosity. In fact, she is also very generous. According to the practice of other families in the village, those who help each other with work would at most put some radish in the porridge for lunch, but Jiazhen buys

Here comes the lean meat. She smiled and said proudly: "What's the matter? It's noon. If it's evening, I'll kill a chicken to entertain you."

"Haha, then we are at a loss. If we had known earlier, we would have washed it for you in the afternoon, and we would still have chicken to eat in the evening." Lin Hua and Jiazhen were joking. Ever since they bumped into Jiazhen and Hou San, they have done something good.

After that, he loved to joke with Jiazhen, just to eliminate Jiazhen's doubts.

"Why don't you find some work for us in the afternoon and kill chickens for us to eat in the evening." Qiaoying also joked with Jiazhen.

"Okay, help me grind the biscuits in the afternoon, and I will definitely kill the chicken to entertain you in the evening." (The biscuits are a local snack in this area. Every household starts making them during the Chinese New Year. When guests come to the house during the Spring Festival, they will

Take it out to entertain guests. Hard biscuits, twists, and glutinous rice cakes are must-dos during the Chinese New Year in rural areas in this area.)

"Then we will really help you grind the hard cake. Don't be reluctant to kill us." Everyone also followed suit.

When Youcai was full, Jiazhen asked him to take out the cookie molds for making hard cookies and wash them. She said, "I'm really prepared. I'm not kidding."

So after everyone had eaten, they laughed and helped Jiazhen make hard biscuits. The hard biscuits are made from a mixture of sticky rice noodles and glutinous rice noodles. The method is also very simple. It is similar to making moon cakes. The difference is that the hard biscuits need to be molded with porcelain.

The surface is polished until it is shiny and then baked on charcoal fire. This cake is so hard after it is made that some people once broke their teeth when they ate it.

Jiazhen didn't have to lie. After making the cake, she actually boiled water and killed the chicken. Not only did she kill the chicken, she also chopped the pork she bought in the morning and made a pot of radishes, making the dinner as sumptuous as the Chinese New Year.

.It made everyone want to eat freely. Chen Minghe and Lin Hua were rich. Naturally, Lin Hua and the other three had to drink. They drank all the good wine and food until midnight.

After drinking until all three of them were drunk, Chen Ming's house was near, so he staggered back and went back. Only Youcai and Lin Hua were left. Youcai said he wanted to send Lin Hua back. Lin Hua said no, and said I would ask myself.

Liping just borrowed the flashlight and went back. Youcai said that was fine, but Youcai himself was so drunk that he stumbled into the room and fell asleep, supported by Jiazhen.

Liping was sitting alone on the bed reading a book, with the quilt covering her lower body. The tape recorder on the table was still playing. Because it was night, the sound was not turned up. Lin Hua shouted inarticulately outside the window: "Li...

Liping, lend me your flashlight...the flashlight."

Liping put down her book, lifted the quilt and got out of bed. While putting on her shoes, she said, "Wait a minute, I'll take them out for you." But she was thinking in her heart, these men really drink too much.

Liping took out the flashlight and came out. Lin Hua was leaning against the wall, shaking his hand, trying to catch something, but he couldn't catch anything. It looked a bit funny. Liping handed him the flashlight and said, "Why don't you return it?"

Can’t you go back?”

Lin Hua shook his hand and took Liping's flashlight tied with a rope. He hung it up several times before hanging it crookedly around his neck. The bright flashlight shot into the sky. He glanced at Liping and said: "

Why...I can't go back, you...think I, I, I, am...drunk." It took me several times to speak clearly.

Liping covered her mouth and laughed secretly, looking at Lin Hua's bulging eyes as if he was glaring at someone, she said, "Then you can leave. I'll take a look after you take a few steps."

Lin Hua staggered out of Liping's courtyard, muttering: "I'm not drunk, not... not drunk."

Liping followed Lin Hua. She was worried that Lin Hua would go back by himself.

Lin Hua walked a few steps, and when he was blown by the night wind, he felt his stomach churn, and a surge of sour water surged into his throat. He quickly squatted down, and with a "wow" sound, he vomited a large pool of filth.

Liping hurriedly stepped forward and patted Lin Hua on the back. The stuff Lin Hua vomited was so fishy and smelly that Liping was about to vomit. She had to pinch her nose with one hand and turn her head away, while patting Lin Hua again with the other.

Rubbing again. Lin Hua vomited intermittently for a while before he finished. Liping looked back at Lin Hua. This look made her extremely angry.

The flashlight on his chest was covered with the filth Lin Hua vomited. She carefully grabbed the rope around Lin Hua's neck, took off the flashlight, and threw it on the hay aside. She really wanted to get rid of the flashlight, but

We don't have to go back in the dark on this section of the road, so we have to step on hay onto the flashlight to rub off the dirt on it.

After Lin Hua vomited, his whole body was limp. He moved to sit on the stone next to him, not wanting to move at all.
Chapter completed!