Chapter 146: Baba
The young wife was very dedicated to her work, and Lu Dongping couldn't think of any way to help her, so he could only go outside to wash the handkerchiefs and take them to the kitchen to dry them.
The pot was already boiling, and the spicy smell of ginger seeped out from under the lid and spread everywhere.
Lu Dongping was roasting handkerchiefs for Wen Wan while making a fire. Lu Chun'e was standing in front of the stove preparing food, with both hands busy.
Before all the food had been delivered, Zhang Hongying came back.
It was difficult to pull the pigweed at this time. Most of the grass in the cornfield had blossomed, seeded, and withered like the straw. Only some plants could be dug out from under the grass, quietly sprouting from the soil below, such as ground lettuce, chickweed, and mud kale.
The pig grass can be pulled, but the weather is not pleasant either.
Even though all the stalks in the cornfield had been cut, I was still soaked when I came out.
Not only the body, but also the hair was wet.
She put the backpack down against the wall and wiped her cold face with her hand, which was covered with grass leaves.
Wen Wan walked out of the house and took a look: "Mom, go change your wet clothes quickly and go to the kitchen to warm up. Don't catch a cold. It's too uncomfortable."
Zhang Hongying responded, "I'll change it right away."
When the meal was ready, Lu Donglin came back, still soaking wet.
Lu Dongping divided the ginger soup that had been drying for a while into two portions, one for Wen Wan and one for Zhang Hongying: "Wan Wan has a cold, so I made some ginger soup for her. You should drink some too. It's been raining and cold today, so drink some ginger soup to keep the cold away."
"Wanwan has a cold?"
Lu Dongping responded and went into the bridal chamber with another bowl in his hand.
Lu Donglin continued, "It's not appropriate to go in the morning. Her nose is running. She didn't even eat two bites of the food my brother brought her. I ate it all. I went to the clinic and got a prescription for a white pill, but I didn't let her take it. I was thinking of drinking some ginger soup to sweat it out first. Maybe that would make her feel better."
Lu Mingjiang sat on the doorstep, raised his eyelids and chuckled, "You know quite a bit."
"That's right!" He puffed out his little chest, as if he had immediately turned into a 1.8-meter-tall, upright man.
Lu Chun'e scooped up some rice and handed it to Lu Mingjiang and Zhang Hongying. Zhang Hongying said, "I've also heard that it's best to take less medicine for headaches and fevers, and to just get through it. If you take this medicine once, you'll get sick again next time and you won't be able to recover without it. It's addictive."
Wen Wan didn't leave the house, and Lu Dongping didn't let her out.
I didn't scoop up any rice, but just boiled two soft-boiled eggs in sugar water.
"Don't let the ginger soup cool down. If you do, you won't be able to sweat. I tasted it and it's not hot. Drink it quickly. I'll give half to Mom. It's not much. After drinking it, eat the sugared egg and rinse your mouth."
Wenwan once experienced the taste of ginger soup and still remembers it vividly.
Anyway, it doesn't taste good, but you have to drink it anyway. Wen Wan took it and took a sip. It was indeed not that hot anymore. She pinched her nose and drank it in one gulp as if she was drinking medicine.
The spicy taste instantly extended from the root of the tongue to the throat, and then spread to all the internal organs.
The whole person was ignited by the spicy smell.
Lu Dongping hurriedly gave her the sugared eggs.
She didn't eat much at noon, and she still didn't feel like eating. Her mouth felt numb, and her stomach had been hungry for a long time, so she felt very tired.
If she wasn't waiting for the ginger soup, she would have fallen asleep before this moment.
I finished the sugar water and ate only one egg.
He coughed a few times and said, "No more food, I don't want to eat anymore. I want to sleep."
Lu Dongping didn't force her. He put the bowl aside, pushed her to sit on the bed, and took off her shoes. Wen Wan took off her outer clothes and pants and got into the bed.
Lu Donglin went to open the wardrobe and took out the quilt she brought from home and put it on top of her.
He bent down and kissed her forehead and said, "Go to sleep. You'll be fine tomorrow morning."
Wen Wan fell asleep almost as soon as she hit the bed, and didn't even know when Lu Dongping finished his meal or went to bed.
The room was dark, and Lu Dongping held the person in his arms like a furnace, pressing him tightly from behind.
Wen Wan felt hot while half asleep, as if it was summer. Her arms and legs kept looking for opportunities to stretch out, seeking the coolness outside the quilt.
After sleeping in the same bed for so long, this was the first time she slept so restlessly. In order to make her sweat, Lu Dongping couldn't sleep well all night.
She was sweating from midnight until dawn. She drank ginger soup and sugar water before going to bed, but didn't get up at night. Wen Wan thought that all the sweat might have turned into sweat.
Lu Dongping didn't sleep well last night, and there were bruises under his eyes when he woke up in the morning.
Without waiting for Wen Wan to get dressed, he got up and took a look outside, then came back in: "It's not raining yet, but it's dark and a bit cold. Don't wear sandals today. The road should be dry after being left out overnight. Just walk slowly."
Wen Wan put on an autumn sweater and a plaid shirt over it. Before going out, she put on the tweed coat that Lu Dongping had found yesterday, which was a perfect fit.
"You're not in a hurry to go to the commune, go get some sleep!"
Lu Dongping responded, "Don't worry about the homework. I'll bring you lunch later if you can't finish it. I can correct your homework during lunch."
Wen Wan waved goodbye to him: "I know!"
Lu Dongping didn't really go back to sleep. He only had a short time at home in the morning and he had a lot of work to do.
Although it doesn't get light as early in the morning as in July and August, it's still light at six o'clock, and the time when the days are short and the nights are long has not yet arrived.
He went back to the room, dressed neatly, made the bed and left the room. Zhang Hongying and the others also got up.
"It's not raining anymore, and I don't know if it will clear up."
Lu Dongping said, "It stopped raining in the latter half of yesterday, and there was no rosy clouds in the afternoon. The clouds and fog on the mountain are all water vapor, so it's hard to say."
Lu Mingjiang poured cold water on his face and walked out: "I'll go ask my brother what to do about this."
The straw shed on the wheat field has been cleared, and the spring corn is hung up. In theory, the autumn corn can be picked as long as it doesn't rain. Just pick it and put it under the shed to peel it first.
Zhang Hongying quickly washed her face, chopped some pig grass and poured it into the pigpen.
"Dongping, is it time to kill the rabbit Wanwan is feeding? It's the only one, and it's just like that if I keep feeding it."
Lu Dongping went into the house, took out the shoulder pole and said, "I'll ask when I get back this afternoon. I don't think they'll be willing to give it away."
Zhang Hongying said, "City people are like this. They are curious about everything they see. Unlike us mountain people, the most important thing is to fill our stomachs with food."
Then he asked, "How were you this morning? Are you feeling better? I looked listless yesterday. My eyes were red, my nose was red, and I was sneezing one after another. If you really can't get better, you still have to take medicine."
Lu Dongping walked out carrying a wooden bucket, saying as he walked, "I kept coughing in the first half of the night, with alternating hot and cold temperatures. In the second half of the night, I sweated and didn't cough as much. I was thinking that if things didn't work out, I'd go to their school early today to ask for leave. She actually got up on her own this morning and looked more energetic than yesterday."
Zhang Hongying was sweeping the area where she had just chopped pig grass with a broom, saying as she did so, "Growing up in the city, your bodies are really not good. When you were little, you all went out in the wind and rain without clothes. No one cared how much your noses ran in the middle of winter, and it was nothing. And now, it's just the beginning of autumn, and the next rain is already blowing us down. What will we do if it gets even colder? Their school is also like this in the winter. Once winter comes, they have to get up in the dead of night to go to school. Why wouldn't they be annoyed? The annoyance is still to come!"
Lu Dongping didn't know whether he heard it or not, and he had already gone out to the yard with the bucket.
After the water tank was full, Lu Dongping started to light a fire and cook. He didn't know whether it would rain or whether he should start working. Anyway, he was free anyway, so he cooked the meal and ate it first.
She baked some mixed flour pancakes, took out some jiangshui vegetables from the jiangshui jar and chopped them up, then cut the pancakes into strips. She put some lard in the pan and fried the vegetables until the moisture was dry. She poured the pancakes in, took them out of the pan and divided them into two, one for Lu Donglin and the other for Wen Wan.
They cooked half a pot of sour soup at home and ate it with the pancakes.
I had only eaten half of my meal when someone called me outside to go to work.
Lu Mingjiang shoveled the rice in the bowl into his mouth in a few bites, wiped his mouth and went out.
Zhang Hongying did not dare to delay. She had to recover all her hard work for a year before it rained. Only when she recovered it would it count. Otherwise, it would be all in vain.
The Armed Forces Department had not yet notified the teams to rush back to harvest, so Lu Dongping was unable to go to work for the time being. After eating and cleaning up the kitchen, it was already late, so he went out with his lunch box.
Maybe God really doesn't want people to eat. Less than two hours after work, the rain started dripping again.
Lu Minghai cursed in anger but it was of no use. He barely managed to hold on for a while, but the rain got heavier and heavier, and he really couldn't work anymore.
We only harvested a small amount of corn and everyone was wet.
Lu Mingjiang found Lu Minghai, and then went to talk to Liu Chaoxing and Zhou Minghong. He took a backpack and went to the wheat field and picked up a basket of green shells.
The eighth company's leather weighed about 80 kilograms, and they gave a few cents to the team as a token of appreciation.
Autumn corn doesn't grow as well as spring corn, year after year. Its maturity is also uneven, with some unripened corn mixed in. This corn, so tender it can be squeezed out with a fingernail, is just the husk even when dried. It's delicious when fresh, peeled and roasted over a fire or boiled in a pot. Or you can just pick it off and grind it into a paste, perfect for making porridge or tortillas. It's incredibly delicious.
If you can't pick it out properly, just chop it up together with the green leaves and feed it to the pigs. The pigs are very happy to eat it, and it also increases nutrition.
Fresh corn porridge, also known as "jiangbaba" in Lujiazui, was once served to Wenwan at a wedding banquet last time, and this was her second time. No other dishes are needed, just some chopped green chilies pickled in salt. It's the perfect match with this rice.
Wen Wan had a big appetite and ordered another half bowl after half a bowl.
Zhang Hongying laughed when she saw this: "This is making up for yesterday's loss."
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