Chapter 19 A sweet rain from heaven
When the rain was falling the most, Sun Chunxue happened to catch it. She was soaked like a drowned chicken and slept for most of the day when she returned home.
The villagers were all very happy for this sweet rain.
The village chief was so excited that he even dropped his cigarette.
He took a basket full of vegetables and rushed to the Jiang family in the heavy rain.
"It's raining, Jiang Laosan's family, your daughter was right the other day, saying that it would rain in seven days, and it really came!" The village chief was wearing a straw raincoat, but he couldn't hide the wrinkles from his smile.
Feng was also very happy: "That's good, you don't have to worry about your vegetable garden. This rain is enough to soak the land in our village. When the spring comes next year, it will be much easier to sow seeds."
The village chief wanted to go into the house and hug Xiao Nuobao.
I want to cherish this good girl.
But I was afraid that I would get wet and make the child uncomfortable, so I had to resist going.
He was really happy.
I thought that day, Xiao Nuobao just said that she came to coax him, she was a sweet-mouthed girl, and she would be happy for a while.
But I never thought that now not only did the girl's auspicious words come true, but even one day would be missed.
It was exactly seven days!
This is simply a timely rain for the whole village.
The more the village chief thought about it, the more he felt that this child was definitely a blessed girl, and she must be taken good care of.
Before leaving, he patted his chest and said, "Mrs. Feng, I really love your daughter. If anyone dares to bully her in the future, it would be bullying me. Just come to me for help. I, an old man, will never tolerate it!"
Mrs. Feng wished that there would be more people who loved their daughters. She smiled and agreed quickly.
After the village chief left, she opened the big basket and saw that in addition to the vegetables grown by the village chief's family, there was also a small bag of eggs wrapped in a dark blue linen cloth.
Mrs. Feng put them all in the jar and kept them for the daughter to make steamed egg custard.
It was a coincidence that the rain fell.
But it only fell in the Daliu Village.
The villagers in the surrounding villages looked at the dark clouds hovering over the Daliu Village, and they were all waiting impatiently.
"What's going on?"
"Why don't the clouds move?"
"Rain can only fall in one place..."
"Da Liu Village is really strange. Only they have rain. Why doesn't our village have rain?"
The villagers in other villages waited for a long time, but they didn't get this timely rain.
Some couldn't help it, so they went to Da Liu Village to ask the village chief.
"Did your village find someone to do something? Why is it raining in your village?"
The village chief took the smoke pot and just about to light it, he squinted his eyes and smiled and put it down.
"This, the secret of heaven cannot be revealed." The village chief touched his beard in a mysterious way.
What kind of thing is there?
It is said that a family that accumulates good will have more blessings.
The Feng family in their village adopted a daughter and accumulated blessings, so it rained in the village!
But this blessed girl is from their Daliu Village, and she must not be missed by other villages.
The rain after a long drought brought a lot of joy to Daliu Village.
After a heavy rain, the dry ditch became full, and the children in the village played water fights and caught earthworms around the ditch, and they all had a great time.
Only the second branch of the Jiang family didn't know why, and the big house suddenly leaked. From Mrs. Jiang to Jiang Zhizhi, everyone caught a cold.
Lying at home with a fever, he kept talking nonsense.
In the evening, Xiao Nuobao put on his newly made small shoes, stepped on the rain in the yard, and was trying the feel of his feet.
At this time, Feng Jing and Feng Miao ran back excitedly with four large buckets.
Feng picked up the girl and looked down. She saw something jumping out of the bucket. It was all fresh crucian carps. There were thirty to fifty in each bucket!
"Where did the fish come from?" she asked hurriedly.
Jiang Fengmiao was splashed with water. He wiped it off and laughed: "Mom, my fourth brother and I caught them in the big ditch at the entrance of the village. The ditch was full of water. I don't know why it was full of fish!"
"Yes, Lao Wu and I caught several buckets, and other people in the village are catching them too." Feng Jing also laughed happily.
Feng was immediately surprised and said, "Take it home quickly. While it's still fresh, make a spicy fish hotpot with corn cakes and stew crucian carp soup tonight!"
It just so happened that fish was available in the village, so she didn't have to worry about the aroma wafting away. She could stir-fry it with spicy sauce, deep-fry it, steam it, or stew it slowly .
When Xiao Nuobao heard this, he secretly hid his fishy little hands and happily rubbed his mother's shoulder with saliva.
Hehe, her efforts were not in vain, and there was crucian carp soup to drink!
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This crucian carp was really caught. Later, Jiang Fengnian and Sun Chunxue went to catch two more buckets.
The whole family ate it for two consecutive days, and even the burps smelled of fish soup, and there was still more than half left.
Feng made all the rest into salted fish.
First, wash and cut open the belly, then pickle it in a basin with coarse salt. After two nights, string them up with hemp rope and hang them on the sunny wall. They can be eaten for half a year. After
processing the crucian carp, Feng thought of two baskets of strawberries stored in the cellar.
The strawberries were pulled out with the seedlings and soil, so they were kept fresh for a few more days. But if they are not eaten now, they will soon rot in the basket.
Feng held little Nuobao and looked at the strawberries with some worry.
"My dear, we still have so many fruits at home. What should we do if we can't finish them?"
Feng said while secretly glancing at the lady's reaction.
She always felt that these things that suddenly "popped out" at home seemed to be "made" by the lady herself.
Little Nuobao deliberately looked up at the sky.
She smacked her pink fingers twice, looking calm even when faced with a great pressure.
"Oh, really? Oh, Liang, I'm worried too. What can I do?" Little Nuobao wrinkled her eyebrows into two caterpillars.
Feng Shi couldn't find out anything, but she found that the lady had learned her accent. She couldn't help but smile until her eyebrows curved into crescents, feeling very happy.
But food really should not be wasted, otherwise it will damage your fortune. Little Nuobao tilted her head and pondered for a while.
At this moment, she suddenly remembered that when she was in the Shen Mansion, she often saw maids and old women eating a kind of sweet food in a small porcelain jar.
It seems to be called fruit jam!
It is such a small lump, and it smells sweet and tempting.
But since her mother left, they never give themselves that kind of delicate food.
Sometimes they even deliberately bring it to her, making her cry, and then take the things away with laughter.
Little Nuobao couldn't help drooling, she swallowed quickly and said: "Liang, if Guoguo can't finish it, let's make jam!"
Make jam?
Feng's eyes lit up when she heard it.
"That's a good idea. When it's done, seal it in a jar and it won't go bad even in winter. Listen to the lady!"
In the afternoon, Jiang Fengnian went out to buy some sugar, and Mrs. Feng and her two daughters-in-law started to make the sauce.
After working for more than an hour, when the sweet and sour strawberry sauce came out of the pot, Mrs. Feng sealed it in a small pot while it was still hot, so that it could be stored for a longer time.
Looking at the full grain jars at home, five or six pots of jam on the ground, and the bacon and salted fish hanging on the wall, Jiang Fengmiao jumped up and down with joy, and his eyes were a little wet.
Since he could remember, this was the first time there was so much food at home!
"Mom, I'm so happy. As long as there's more food at home, I don't think about anything else but having fun!" Jiang Fengmiao held a pancake dipped in jam in her mouth and laughed so hard that her eyes could not be seen.
Little Nuobao was lying on the kang listening and laughing with big bubbles of saliva.
This is just the beginning.
Wait, Fifth Brother, the good days for our family are still to come!
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