Chapter 205 Glutinous Rice
After Chu Hong made her grandmother smile happily, she did not go in to disturb her second aunt who was still sleeping soundly, and went home first.
As soon as I arrived at the door, I saw four children, Chuchu, Chuyan, Xiaoyuer and Shaocheng, coming back with some of them carrying baskets full of wild vegetables, some carrying baskets and herding chickens, ducks and geese, and they were talking and laughing.
Chu Yan is eleven years old this year, and Shao Cheng is nine. Maybe they have grown a little taller, and they look as thin as sesame sticks.
Compared to them, Chuchu and Xiaoyuer are a bit fatter.
In fact, they are also thin.
Chu Hong felt heavy in her heart. She had to find a way to let the older children go to school. She couldn't let them waste their studies when they were at an age where they should be going to school.
However, there is no school in Lingxia Village, and there are only two teachers in Lingzhong Village, and there are only first and second grades.
The main reason is that there are few children going to school now. There is also a primary school in Shiqian Village, and primary schools, junior high schools and high schools are only available in the city.
Chu Hong felt that a school had to be built in the second half of the year. After all, it was easy to find teachers now, and there were quite a few high school students among the educated youth.
There is no rush to build a school now because we have not yet seen the profits from the farm and we are afraid that people will think it is not cost-effective to hire educated youth as teachers and waste work points.
As long as we wait until the second half of the year and the farm starts to make a profit, everyone will no longer be reluctant to give up these work points.
In the past few months, she has also asked her father to nag the villagers more often: no matter how poor you are, you must not be poor in education.
Chu Hong waved at them: "Come in and have some water."
Before, she raised three geese for Lao Chu and his family. Add to that her own three geese, three ducks, and three chickens, and they would have formed a considerable flock of poultry.
It may be because the chickens, ducks and geese grew up together, so the goose will not bully the chickens and ducks in the family.
But these geese are a bit stubborn. They don't want to see other chickens and ducks coming over to play happily together. If they come over, they will be carried away and run around the field.
Nowadays, most chickens, ducks and geese are free-range. They go out in the morning to find food, come back to the chicken coop to take a nap at noon, and then go out again to play.
Xiao Yuer is also very sensible and will drive the chickens, ducks and geese back home in the afternoon.
Because there are plenty of wild vegetables at this time, after feeding the chickens, ducks and geese, they will not be willing to go out.
This is also a habit that is deliberately developed. Otherwise, the poultry will get used to roaming outside and will lay eggs, duck eggs, and goose eggs outside in the future.
Chuchu ran over with Xiaoyuer, and started talking to Chuhong while holding her hand.
Xiao Yu'er was very well behaved: "Auntie, you're back."
"Sister," Chuchu asked her to look at her basket, "We found a lot of snails, some of them are very big, we will knock them out and feed them to the chickens, ducks and geese later."
Snails are small, and they are especially delicious if you cut off the tail and slurp them up.
The snails are big in size and have edible meat. They are also good for feeding chickens, ducks and geese.
At the very least, the chickens and ducks raised at home look much bigger than those at the farm.
"Then be careful." Chu Hong thought that the snails were in a pond with deep water, so she asked them, "Have you all learned to swim?"
Previously, Chu Yan almost drowned while trying to save someone.
There are many rivers and ponds here, and now there is a reservoir, so it is difficult to avoid water. So when the weather got warmer, Gu Ci took them to learn swimming.
Chuchu smiled and said, "We have all learned it, but my brother still can't do it."
Jin Shaocheng was also very excited and nodded: "Swimming in the water is so much fun. Summer is great. I can swim and catch fish."
"Ayan, why are you afraid of water?" He patted his chest and said, "When I'm in the water, I feel like I'm as agile as a fish."
Xiao Yu'er was more honest: "Aunt said that Brother Yan has the sequelae of drowning before. Once Brother Yan overcomes it, he will definitely be able to learn to swim."
Chuchu would definitely help her brother: "Yes, I will definitely swim faster than you by then."
Chu Yan reached out and touched his two younger sisters’ heads, then smiled proudly at Xiao Jin.
Xiao Jin: One to three, a complete defeat.
Chu Hong changed the subject after hearing this: "Come in and have some tea."
They were not really given tea, but malted milk and three biscuits each.
Of course, she wasn't someone who would treat herself badly, so she had some snacks with them.
At this moment, Gu Ci came back and smiled when he saw this scene: "Chu Hong, I'm going to make bacon rice tonight, what else do you want to put in it?"
He was really glad that he knew Chu Hong.
Thanks to her, my grandparents don't have to work so hard in the fields.
Of course, on the farm, grandpa and his colleagues could only get four work points a day, and the children only got two work points.
If my grandparents really relied on that few work points, they would probably have a hard time making ends meet.
Fortunately, thanks to Chu Hong's secret support, my grandfather and his family are still alive today.
Gu Ci firmly believed that Chu Hong loved him so much that she loved his entire family.
He felt that Chu Hong was a very kind person, which was why she was so kind to these children.
Chu Hong immediately said, "Don't use broken rice to cook rice, anything else is fine."
After eating broken rice mixed with rice bran for several months in a row, Chu Hong was really tired of eating it.
I regretted bringing back so many broken rice.
But she also knew that food was precious nowadays and it was impossible to feed it to poultry.
Fortunately, there are more vegetables in her private plot now, such as cucumbers, gourds, loofahs, beans, etc. She can eat more vegetables and less rice.
But now when she heard that she was going to cook bacon rice, she couldn't help but protest.
Gu Ci hesitated when he heard this: "But there is no husked rice at home now?"
After he finished speaking, he saw Chu Hong sighing with disappointment. He couldn't bear to watch and whispered, "But we have glutinous rice. How about we cook glutinous rice and bacon rice?"
The main reason is that the Dragon Boat Festival is coming soon. Even if everyone’s life is not well off now, as long as the weather is good, everyone can have enough food and clothing.
Therefore, people will not be perfunctory about these festivals. The Dragon Boat Festival means eating rice dumplings, and every household will buy some glutinous rice.
Few people here grow glutinous rice, so they have to buy it from the Grain Bureau or exchange it for their own rice.
That means three pounds of rice for one pound of glutinous rice.
Did Gu Ci simply go to the black market and buy twenty kilograms of glutinous rice, waiting to eat the red bean paste dumplings made by his grandma?
Anyway, there are still several days before the Dragon Boat Festival. He can eat glutinous rice today and buy some more tomorrow.
Chu Hong nodded repeatedly and said, "It's a rare opportunity to eat glutinous rice. Let's use a wooden barrel to steam the rice and steam more so that Old Chu and the others can eat together."
She thought about how she used to like eating glutinous rice balls, which could have more than ten kinds of fillings. Just one was enough to fill her up. It was delicious and easy to make.
It’s just that there aren’t so many fillings to choose from now, no fried dough sticks or pork tenderloin, which is a bit of a pity?
She also quickly went to tell her grandmother not to cook and just eat glutinous rice to save trouble.
Nowadays, glutinous rice is also a good thing. Although Grandma Song grumbled that her granddaughter was greedy for it, she didn't say much.
When the lid is opened, the rich aroma of bacon and glutinous rice hits your nose. Just the aroma makes everyone drool.
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