In the forest farm, Zhang Xiulan and her sister cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks, kneaded the noodles and put them in the steaming drawer, set up the wood and burned it, and then went to the small pool to get the mud, and brought the washbasin back, and then scooped the mud with the wooden board and wiped it on the wall of the wooden board, the house looked not big, but it was not easy to get it up, the noon meal had to be sent to the place where they cut their heads, seeing that it was nearly eleven o'clock, Zhang Xiuzhi went to cook, and Zhang Xiulan made mud and plastered the wall by herself.The moon vegetables and potatoes sent, Zhang Xiulan and her sister clicked on them, looking at the beard of the old three-pointed monkey, but they were not stingy, there were sixty cabbages, a bag of potatoes, plus the original more than ten cabbages and half a bag of potatoes, the vegetables were enough to eat.There is also a large vat of sauce, and the salt also has half a jar, or a large grain of salt, which is more salt than the fine salt in the future, and it is enough to put a little oil, and the oil is not much, only a small canned bottle, so that it can be used for two months.There is not much grain, one bag of bud rice and sorghum rice, plus millet and cornmeal, each bag has 100 catties.There is no white noodles, a little white noodles before were obviously bought by Hu Laosan for the brother-in-law who guarded the house, and now the workers have come up, and they haven't made it again, plus there are still some buds and millet before, and it is not bad to eat this month.Zhang Xiulan didn't let go, the remaining white noodles from before were steamed steamed today, and she was hungry at noon, and the rice was also left before, and now it is gone.Dry until the evening back, just get some big porridge, the morning rice can not be fooled, and finally decided to use the bud rice ballast plus millet and sorghum rice, steamed rice together, noon is the nest of cornmeal, the vegetable is one in the morning and one at noon, there is no vegetable at night.At the end of such a month, there will be some food rations left.Such a calculation.It's really not good to eat.If you don't calculate well, I'm afraid you won't be able to eat enough.One Chinese cabbage needs more than 20 people to eat.Even if you drink soup, you can't get a few pieces of it alone, Zhang Xiulan used to think that this Hu Lao Sanfang was generous, but when she understood it, she knew that it was a nonsense skin.This is all hard work in the mountains, two people and two people have to keep pulling to put down the thick trees of two people, how much force does it take?
But what can she say as a cook?
The cabbage soup is filled with potatoes and soup.The soup came out of the pot and put the soup in the water chong, Zhang Xiuzhi grabbed two buckets of soup and picked them heavily, Zhang Xiulan could only pick two buckets full of steamed buns, and went down the path to the mountains together.After walking for more than half an hour, the sisters stopped and rested for a while, then got up and walked forward again, and walked for another half an hour before they arrived, and heard the sound of sawing wood in the distance.I saw the sisters deliver food.Everyone was happy, and they still came to eat with the work in their hands, and they didn't care about whether their hands were clean or not, and they bit on the steamed buns.There were no bowls, so everyone used spoons, and you ate a mouthful of soup and I ate a mouthful of soup around the bucket.Within a few minutes.The four barrels were all bottomed out, and they were clean.With food in their stomachs, everyone can be considered alive.There were even jokes.The atmosphere was good, everyone was not in a hurry to work, sat down to rest, and the Zhang Xiulan sisters had already packed their things and went home."
Uncle Zhou, these sisters are from the same village as you?"
Shi Min spoke to Zhou Shumin with a kind face.Zhou Shumin smoked a cigarette and slowly exhaled the cigarette, without thinking much about it, "It's from the next village, the sisters are bitter enough, my sister was beaten all day long when she married a widower, wasn't she beaten out to make her find a job?"
found me here, my sister is angry at home, and life is not easy, otherwise a good girl, where will she follow a group of old men out to work. ”"That's very bitter, no wonder it will turn people away thousands of miles away."
Seeing that Zhou Shumin didn't understand, Shi Min smiled shyly and explained, "I saw her nailing things in the morning, I thought about going over to help, and she looked at me vigilantly, like a bad person." ”Zhou Shumin laughed, "This is a misunderstanding, Xiulan has a good personality on weekdays, and she likes to talk about it, what you meet may be Xiuzhi, and you will hide when you see someone." ”Shi Min suddenly realized, "So that's the case, no wonder, it seems that I was mistaken." ”knew in his heart that Zhou Shumin had misunderstood, and he didn't explain much, so he followed his words, and in this way, it also made Zhou Shumin very happy, and he was a little closer to Shi Min.Gao Dajiang heard Sister Zhang Xiulan talking over there, and also came over, "Xiulan has her face with her hair all day long, and she can't see her appearance clearly, her temperament is good, and she can live when she marries home." ”Gao Dajiang is twenty-two years old, and he hasn't said kiss yet.Looking at Zhang Xiulan's arrangements in the past two days, she is a little like.Zhou Shumin raised his eyebrows when he heard this, "This child's marriage still has to be decided by her grandmother, and her parents are not around, so she can't be the master." ”Seeing Gao Dajiang's portrait of Zhang Xiulan, Zhou Shumin didn't dare to give an idea in the middle, it's a good thing, but the mistakes are all his fault as a matchmaker, and Gao Dajiang's character, Zhou Shumin also feels that it is not good, not to mention the side, it is the matter of cooking for two days, although Zhang Xiulan did not say it, he also knew, from this point of view, he knew that Gao Dajiang was too calculating, and his heart was small, and a man had a small heart, and he didn't have much to offer.Gao Dajiang couldn't understand Zhou Shumin's words, and said with a smile, "That's not necessarily, now that there are more people in my relationship, it doesn't necessarily mean that it's not good." ”"It's all our own business, we outsiders don't care."
Zhou Shumin didn't want to turn his face with him.After saying that, he got up and called everyone to work.Gao Dajiang's face was not depressed, he thought about it before, but now looking at Zhou Shumin's attitude, he still had to take Zhang Xiulan's little girl down, and then he slapped Zhou Shumin's face without saying anything.Shi Min, who had been ignored, noticed the gloomy look in Gao Dajiang's eyes the moment he turned around, and secretly remembered it in his heart.When everyone returned to their residence in the evening, they saw that it was still a wooden cabin in the morning, and the three walls had become mud walls, especially Zhou Shumin's face was also a little unbearable, and he found Zhang Xiulan, "That wall, I'll ask a few people to help you get it after dinner." ”"Uncle Zhou, no, you don't need to make that wall, there is a kitchen on the opposite side, there is a kitchen blocking on that side, and there is no wind."
Zhang Xiulan didn't care, "I counted the food and vegetables I brought, and I could only eat porridge at night." ”It's better to explain this matter first, and save yourself from saying that they didn't do it well, "I sent sixty cabbages, which I used in the morning and noon, and didn't eat them in the evening, so that I could use them until the end of the month." ”Zhou Shumin couldn't help frowning when he heard this, "Okay, you do it first." ”After going back, he found Gao Dajiang, "Is the food given by your brother-in-law too little?"
There are only sixty cabbages, and we have to drink soup every day, and there are no vegetables to eat at night, so we can last until the end of the month. ”"No, I see a lot of cabbage coming down in the morning."
Gao Dajiang looked incredulous.Zhou Shumin's face sank, "That pile is only sixty trees, how many cabbages do you still eat from you as a sister and two of them in a day?"
Don't you look at how many of us there are?
Plus two cooks, twenty-two people, eat sixty cabbages a month, two meals a day, and soup, who can dip the leaves in order?
”Gao Dajiang's face turned blue and red, "I really haven't calculated this in detail, so Uncle Zhou, what do you think about this matter?"
”"Tomorrow you go to the next mountain, ask your brother-in-law, is this all for a month?
We can eat whatever we want, but we can't eat enough and can't work, and it's not your brother-in-law who can't earn money when we don't live?
”Zhou Shumin didn't dare to make a decision, his job was also introduced by others, what kind of person Hu Laosan was, Zhou Shumin didn't know."
Okay, then I'll go to the next mountain tomorrow."
When Gao Dajiang heard that he was going to delay his life, he didn't dare not take it to heart.When he saw that there was only big porridge in the evening, and there was no food, he couldn't swallow it, and as for the others, after a tired day, he just had something to cushion his stomach, and he rested early after eating.Zhang Xiulan and her sister cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks, it was dark early in the morning, there was an oil lamp in the kitchen, with the faint light, one washed the dishes and chopsticks, and the other washed out the rice to be eaten yesterday and soaked it in water, and got up early tomorrow, just put it in the steaming drawer and steam it, and the potatoes to be made were also cut out, this time there was no cabbage, the potatoes were cut into strips, and they were used to make potato sauce tomorrow.When everything was ready, there was no watch to check the time, Zhang Xiulan guessed that it was almost ten o'clock, picked up the stove mouth, and piled up the dry firewood far away from the stove, and then the sisters took the oil lamp and walked into the house.But as soon as she went out, she saw a figure at the door of the small room, and Zhang Xiulan grabbed her sister vigilantly, "Who?"
”Shi Min stepped out of the shadows, "It's me. ”Zhang Xiulan frowned tightly, her tense body relaxed, and her face was not depressed, "In the middle of the night, are you okay?"
”If it weren't for her sister still around, Zhang Xiulan might have said a few more ugly words."
I have something to tell you."
Under the faint light, Shi Min's face turned slightly red, and he cautiously glanced at the side where the men lived, "You should be careful of Gao Dajiang in the future." ”Shi Min didn't know what was wrong, he originally lay down, but when he thought of Gao Dajiang's expression during the day, he couldn't sleep more and more, so he simply got up and told Zhang Xiulan about it, but he didn't dare to go to the kitchen to say it, for fear that people would see it, so he hid here, in case someone saw it, he could also say that he went to the toilet.As soon as he said it, Shi Min's heart was also steady, and he strode back to the side where the men lived, and did not stop much when he passed by Zhang Xiulan's sisters.Zhang Xiulan came back to her senses slightly, thinking back to Shi Min's words, her heart tightened, according to Shi Min's meaning, Gao Dajiang was beating her idea, and was discovered by Shi Min, so Shi Min was waiting here to tell her?
Zhang Xiuzhi also heard it, pulled his sister into the house, closed and locked the door, and then sighed, "I think that Gao Dajiang is not very stable, is he the idea of beating you again?"
It's only the next day, and there's still a year, but what can I do?
”(To be continued.) )......