Sarin's mother heard from several children that Sarin's sister had returned with her friends and rushed back at noon.
They heard Saren's mother's voice from afar, "Saren, child, why didn't you tell us you were coming back in advance so that your brother could catch some fish for you?"
"Mother". At this moment, Saren became a little girl, acting coquettishly in front of her mother.
Song Shuqian and Tiantian watched this scene from the side and felt warm.
Saren's mother seemed a little embarrassed when talking to the two of them, "Hello, come into my house and sit down, I will cook for you."
Song Shuqian smiled and held Saren's mother's hand. "Auntie, I'm really sorry to bother you. We are Saren's neighbors and just came here to follow the army. We are a little curious about our life here, so we asked Saren to take us around."
Tiantian smiled and responded, "I'm sorry to have troubled you to come back all the way. I'm sorry to have wasted your time."
Seeing that both of them were easy to talk to, Saren's mother gradually became less reserved.
The four of them returned home, and Saren and her mother entered the kitchen. "Eji, these are the gifts they brought. I couldn't refuse, so I accepted them for you.
You can use this brown sugar to make brown sugar eggs to nourish you. "Saren's mother patted her on the back. She knew her daughter was a sensible person, so she didn't say much.
Saren's parents have a very good relationship. Her four brothers and sisters all use Han Chinese names, following their father's.
Only for the youngest daughter, Sarin, her father respected her mother's ethnicity and, against all odds, let her be called by a Mongolian name.
In daily life, Saren follows the living habits of his father's family and calls them "Da" and "Ma".
Only when the family is together will they call each other Abu and Eji in private.
Saren’s mother cooked very quickly and came out with the food in a short while.
"Come and try Auntie's cooking. They are all home-cooked dishes."
Sarin’s mother made milk tea by boiling brick tea water, adding milk, and a little salt and boiling it.
Brick tea is unique to the Cai grassland people. It is made from the rough and old leaves and tea stalks of the tea tree. After fermentation, it is put into molds and pressed into blocks. It looks very much like bricks.
It is also very hard and extremely durable.
The herders stay on the pastures all year round and have no vegetables to eat. They rely entirely on brick tea to move their intestines.
This kind of milk tea is a very high level of hospitality etiquette among the grassland people.
Song Shuxi and Tiantian took the milk tea handed to them by Saren’s mother with both hands and hurriedly expressed their gratitude.
He lowered his head and took a sip, and said it was delicious.
For lunch, we had yam balls, which were made by cutting potatoes into thin strips, coating them with cornmeal, steaming them, and eating them with sauce.
It's a bit like the homemade buckwheat cake they eat in the morning.
During the meal, Saren's mother was very enthusiastic. She was worried that they might not have enough food, so she wanted to refill their milk tea, but Song Shuqian and the others stopped her.
These things are nothing to Song Shuqian.
But for the Saren family, it is indeed a rare thing that can replenish the body.
She was embarrassed to compete with them.
She could all imagine that after they finished drinking, Sarin’s mother would add enough water to it and feed the family.
A bowl of milk tea. Song Shuxi and Tiantian finished their meal and still had half a bowl left.
They finished the food in their bowls only after Saren’s mother left.
To be honest, it doesn't taste very good.
Song Shuxi had never tasted such bad tea in her life, but the thought was enough to make up for everything else.
Tiantian was a little curious about the eating habits here, while Song Shuqian called Saren "da (dá)".
Saren explained, "Our village is a mixed-surname village, and most of the villagers are here to escape famine. For example, my family came here from Shaanxi to escape famine.
It's the same in Cuiyuan City. There are many people coming from Shanxi. You will know when you see them. "Song Shuqian and her friends have always thought that the people here are all grassland people, and all of them make a living by herding.
Unexpectedly, this was not the case.
After dinner, Saren took them to take a look at the back mountain.
Compared with the rich resources in the mountains of Huludao, the supplies in the mountains here are very scarce.
There are many apricots and plums in the mountain behind Sarin’s village, but these things do not fill you up and cannot be eaten as food.
There are no walnuts, chestnuts, hazelnuts, etc. in their village.
But Daqing Mountain is so big, it should be somewhere else.
After saying goodbye to Saren's family in the afternoon, Song Shuxi and the other two set out on their return journey.
Passing by the forest, they picked mushrooms for a while.
Maybe because it’s close to the village, the harvest was very small.
When we crossed the river again, the water was much faster than in the morning.
Tiantian took Song Shuxi's hand and walked her over.
When she reached the other side, Song Shuqian's heart was still pounding. She was scared to death.
This falls in and must not be washed away.
Saren was used to it, she had been walking this way since she was a child.
Saren said, “When it rains heavily, the river will flood. At that time, the villagers stay in the village and do not come out.
Our village is located on high ground and is relatively safe."
It was very easy when coming, but when going back, Song Shuxi felt that the bicycle weighed a thousand pounds.
I finally got home, took a quick shower and went to bed.
Wei Jianguo came back with his two children. He saw from afar that the house was dark and was worried that Song Shuxi had not come back yet. "Let's see if Mommy has come back. If not, you two stay at home with Shandian and the others. Daddy will go pick up Mommy."
The two children had no objection.
Wei Jianguo felt relieved only after he found that the courtyard door was locked from the inside.
I knocked twice gently, felt Lightning coming, and said, "Lightning, it's me, open the door."
Lightning is very smart. He uses his two paws and mouth to cooperate with each other to quickly open the door and welcome his little masters home.
Seeing the person sleeping in the room and snoring softly, Wei Jianguo signaled the children to be quiet and got up to go to the kitchen to cook.
Song Shuqian was awakened by the smell of food.
She came to the kitchen in a daze, leaned on Wei Jianguo's back, and said softly, "I'm so tired. Their home is so far away. We didn't get anything in exchange. Their village can barely be self-sufficient, so they may not have anything extra to exchange with us."
Only after I said that did I realize something was wrong.
When she saw the two children, her face turned red.
I was so sleepy that I forgot there were two children at home.
Wei Jianguo deliberately changed the subject and soon talked about what he had seen and heard today.
Song Shuqian was a little surprised. "This is the first time I've seen a village like this. It's a little unbelievable."
An An Lele was even more stunned and couldn't imagine it at all.
Wei Jianguo narrowed his eyes. It was time to let the two children see real life. He began to plan to take the two children to see it.
Song Shuqian said another thing, "There is only one school here, and there is only one class in the school, and all the children go to school together.
The teacher’s surname is Zhao. She is also a military wife. I heard that she only graduated from junior high school. I am a little worried about An Anlele’s education. "Wei Jianguo explained, "There is only one elementary school. The middle school needs to go to the town. Teacher Zhao has taught for many years, so there is no problem for him to teach in the elementary school."
Song Shuqian disagreed.
But there is no good solution for the time being.
Children need to integrate into the group and learn to get along with others.
I'll go and inspect it tomorrow and then make a decision.
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