SFS Chapter 322 Busy
Chapter 322 Busy
"I just fed you this morning. Are you hungry again? You have almost eaten up all the wheat bran at home." Gu Qingqing muttered, but she pulled some grass from the top of the rabbit nest and threw it to them perfunctorily.
It was really not time for dinner yet. Other families only had two meals a day, but her family was the only one that still had three meals a day, so even her pigs had three meals a day.
Now, do they still want to bypass me and eat four, five, or six meals a day?
No, no, at most you can eat some grass as a snack.
"Brother Dong, let me do it. You and Brother Nan take care of your own things." Gu Qingqing came over to take over Zhao Dong's shift in a perfunctory manner.
"I just heard you talking to the piglets. Didn't you buy two bags of wheat bran when you came back from town a few days ago? They finished them so quickly?" Zhao Dong asked with a smile as he smoothed the paper that had just been pasted on the wooden board.
Gu Qingqing smiled before she spoke, "No, I'm just trying to scare them. Let them eat less these two days, and then I'll give them a full meal tomorrow or the day after tomorrow."
"Today, Zhao Bei and the others are carrying dried adobe bricks to the hillside. In a few days, the pigpen over there will be built. By then, you won't have the chance to feed the pigs. You should do this job, it's too tiring." Zhao Dong handed the brush in his hand to Gu Qingqing.
Obviously Zhao Dong thought that Gu Qingqing was patient, but he didn't know that she was also lacking patience at this moment.
Gu Qingqing felt that she was not suitable for this kind of monotonous but boring work, just like needlework, she was not as good as Dahua at it now.
From the rising of the sun to its zenith in the sky.
After lunch, Dahua saw her mother was going to the backyard to work again, so she stepped forward and said, "Mom, my sister will need to sleep soon. Please move the crib that Grandpa Yang made for her to the backyard. After I coax her to sleep, she can help me."
"Oh, my flower, you are really my sweet little cotton-padded jacket, let me cherish you." Gu Qingqing said as she bent down and gave Dahua a kiss on the cheek. As if one kiss was not enough, she gave another one.
"Hey, little girl, you're blushing. Let's go, mother and daughter, finish the backyard work as soon as possible. We can also blanch the vegetables you and Daxin picked this morning and dry them in the sun."
The adults started to get busy. Dahua looked at Sanhua, who usually went to bed at this time of the day and was a little anxious because she was still refusing to sleep.
"Don't look at mom, look at me." Dahua lowered her head and said to Sanhua, and at the same time turned her little face to face her, and at the same time her hands patted Sanhua's butt from time to time.
I saw that Sanhua was sticking his head out to find his mother and refused to sleep the previous second, and the next second, as he felt the comfort of Dahua, his eyes gradually became blurred.
After she fell asleep, Dahua carefully placed her on the small bamboo bed beside her and then went to her mother's side.
I have to say that with Dahua helping with sticking the paper, they were much faster.
Before sunset, thousands of sheets of bamboo paper were dried.
She had finished her work, but Zhao Dong and the others had not yet finished. Seeing that there was still one-third of the bamboo pulp that had not been added with the mountain pepper juice, Gu Qingqing said, "Brother Dong, let's leave the rest of the bamboo pulp as it is and continue tomorrow."
It’s not that Zhao Dong and his team are slow, but these are technical jobs and everyone is not familiar with them.
"Is it okay to leave it like this?" Zhao Dong was a little worried.
Gu Qingqing nodded affirmatively.
Then Gu Qingqing asked Zhao Dong and Zhao Nan to help carry the finished papers back to the west wing of the inner courtyard. Dahua followed behind and looked at so many papers. Her little face was flushed with smiles and she asked, "Mom, is this finished?"
Gu Qingqing clapped her hands and said with satisfaction, "Not really. We need to check again tomorrow to see if there are any broken, damaged, or uneven pieces inside. Then we will cut them one by one to complete it."
"Yes, I'll help mom tomorrow." Even though she had already helped in the backyard today, she still looked very cautious when she touched the paper.
"Okay, let's go together tomorrow."
"But now we have to process the wild vegetables you picked. It will be useless if we leave them until tomorrow."
The sun has set and the children have already finished school. Sanhua is being taken care of by Erhua, while Daxin has gone out with Old Yang. She doesn't know what they are going out for, she just knows that Daxin took a few earthworms from the bucket in the backyard.
Although she said she wanted to prepare the dishes, Gu Qingqing decided to cook first. Her family had been eating by oil lamps these days. After finally finishing her work today, she wanted to eat early so that she could take the children to open the letters.
The family had finished eating the buns. Just as she was rolling noodles in the kitchen, Li Xin's happy shouts came from outside.
"Aunt, look what Grandpa Yang and I caught!"
Gu Qingqing stopped what she was doing when she heard the voice and walked out. "What did you catch? Fish! Did you go to the river? How did you catch such a big fish?"
Gu Qingqing looked at the big grass carp weighing four or five pounds in his arms and asked in surprise.
"In the morning, we were cutting grass over there and saw some fish in the river, but we couldn't catch them. We came back and told Grandpa Yang about it. Grandpa Yang put some earthworms in the bamboo basket and put the fish in. Sure enough, we caught it.
As Li Xin finished speaking, Old Yang came in with a wet bamboo basket in his hand and a smile on his face.
"Uncle Yang, you are awesome." Gu Qingqing gave him a thumbs up.
"Hahaha, there are many fish in the river, and we will eventually meet a greedy one." Old Yang said with a smile.
"Okay, Daxin, go ask your Dong Bo and see who among them can handle it. I'll make braised fish for you later." Gu Qingqing said to Li Xin.
"Well, what are you looking for them for? It's just a fish, I can handle it." said Old Yang.
"Then I'll trouble you, Uncle Yang. You remove the scales and internal organs, and I'll cook it later."
Fish is not like meat. Meat can be left overnight and it’s fine, but fish will definitely not be fresh if left overnight.
It doesn’t matter whether you eat it early or late, it’s better to eat it fresh early.
In the evening, she had braised meat noodles. The big grass carp was braised and it was so delicious. She picked out a few pieces with big bones and put them in the kitchen for herself and the children to eat. She put the rest in a basin and put it on the table in the yard for everyone to eat.
Although the family had eaten fish several times before, Gu Qingqing had always picked out the fish bones before letting the children eat them. This time, she deliberately picked a few pieces without small bones.
Put it in a big bowl and tell him, "Be careful when you eat it. Make sure to spit out the fish bones before eating it. Got it?"
As she spoke, she used chopsticks to cut the fish into pieces, removed the bones from the piece in her bowl, and put it into Erhua's bowl.
"Thank you, mother." Erhua said to Gu Qingqing with a smile.