Chapter 4 4

Jiang's mother was shocked.

She had never thought that her daughter, who had been obedient and sensible since childhood and had a cowardly character like a quail, would actually wave a knife at her and say she wanted to kill her.

After being stunned for a moment, she did not continue to beat her, but tears fell instantly, slapped her thigh and cried sadly: "What kind of life is this for me? I gave birth to such a heartless girl who held a knife and said she wanted to kill me. Why is my life so hard? I raised her with great difficulty, and she cut me with a knife!"

"Shut up!" Jiang Qi kicked over the wooden basin against the wall. Seeing that Jiang's mother was still crying, he picked up the thermos on the tea table and smashed it on the ground with a bang, which completely shocked Jiang's mother.

Jiang's mother couldn't help crying now, and waved her hand to hit Jiang Xi: "You suicidal girl, you actually dared to smash things in the house, why don't you just die!" Looking at the thermos that was smashed to pieces on the ground, Jiang's mother was heartbroken.

She was not afraid of anything in her life, but she was afraid of people destroying things.

Seeing that she finally calmed down, Jiang Xi chopped the doorpost with a knife, "If you dare to touch me again, I will smash everything in the house."

She has always been a person who would take action and never threatened. Others would make threats, but she would just take action without saying a word.

Jiang's mother was so scared that she didn't dare to do anything. She just cried and said, "You are asking for death. I asked you to wash the dishes, but you took a knife and smashed things in the house. The thermos is free, right?"

She really wanted to beat this suicidal girl to death, but seeing her fierce face, she was afraid that she would really smash the house when she was away.

If it was a day ago, she would not believe that Jiang Xi dared to do this, but she just dared to wield a knife with her, and smashed the thermos without any hesitation. She was afraid that she would smash the TV in her room as well.

She hurried out and locked her bedroom.

Seeing that it was getting late, she hurriedly picked up the scythe and walked out, shouting as she walked: "Hurry up and wash all the dishes and bring the food. If you don't clean up when you come back, I'll peel your skin off!"

"I'll peel your skin off" was a motto that Jiang's mother only said to Jiang Xi. Anyway, she had never seen her mother say this about her two brothers since she was a child.

Grandpa Jiang slept in the straw shed in the rice field at night to watch the rice. He and Jiang's father had already gone to the fields to cut a large area of ​​rice.

During the double-grab period, almost every household went to the fields to cut rice before dawn, and came back to eat breakfast and lunch after cutting until after ten o'clock, and then took a nap, and continued to work at two o'clock in the afternoon.

Jiang Wu used to go to the fields to harvest rice in the morning. She usually harvested until about eight o'clock, came back to make breakfast, and then sent it to the fields. After eating, Jiang's father and grandfather went directly to the straw shed in the rice field to take a three-hour nap while watching the rice. But today, Jiang Wu and Jiang's mother had a quarrel, and Jiang's mother forgot to call her to join them. Seeing that the sun was about to rise, she hurried to the fields.

Looking at the mess on the ground and the messy dishes on the table, Jiang Wu breathed a sigh of relief, and went to the kitchen to make breakfast without caring about it.

In my memory, the way to make breakfast is to use wheat flour and paste a layer of thin pancakes along the edge of the pot. It is simple, fast and filling.

Thinking about the heavy farm work during the double harvest period, Jiang Gui had no money and could not buy meat, so she thought of lobsters. She picked up a snail by the pond with a basket and smashed it, then continued to fish for lobsters. After a while, she caught half a basket.

She quickly washed the lobsters and put them in the pot at home to cook. She also went to the vegetable garden to cut a few leeks and picked a few cucumbers to make leek egg pancakes. She also made a few pots of wheat pancakes, peeled the roasted lobster meat and cucumber, added cucumber strips, and rolled them with pancakes.

Lobster meat is not high in calories, but shrimp roe is high in calories, which is very suitable for people like Jiang's father who do heavy farm work.

She rolled ten such pancakes and a plate of chive egg pancakes, put them in a vegetable basket, and sent them to Jiang's father.

It was already eight o'clock, and the sun was scorching. She wore a straw hat, carried a basket, ate the rolls, and walked on the road. When she was a child, she felt that there was nothing to eat, but now she only felt that there were delicious foods everywhere.

She put the basket on the ridge and called out, "Dad, it's time for breakfast!"

Dad Jiang wiped the sweat off his face with the linen towel around his neck and looked at the sun: "Why are you bringing food so early today?"

But he had worked all morning and was really hungry. He walked to the ridge to wash his hands and saw the rolls and chive pancakes that were different from usual. He sat on the ridge and took one and put it in his mouth: "Well, this one is delicious today."

Especially because it actually has lobster meat in it.

Locals think lobsters are dirty, it takes a lot of oil to cook them, and they don't know how to cook them, so they don't eat crayfish. They didn't expect that the crayfish that can be seen everywhere would become so delicious in the hands of their daughter.

Father Jiang finished three rolls quickly, and took a piece of chive pancake. He ate it in two or three bites while walking, and then bent down to continue cutting rice. Mother

Jiang came over, saw the lobster roll, put it in her mouth, and saw that there were cucumber strips inside. She said with disdain: "Why do you do these fancy things?" She picked up another piece of greasy chive pancake with golden sides: "You have wasted all the oil at home, right?"

In other words, they were fighting for it. Farm work was heavy and oil was indeed needed. That's why Mother Jiang didn't say much about the oil.

She took out three yuan from her pocket and gave it to her: "Go weigh a pound of meat."

At that time, pork was only two or three yuan per pound.

Like Jiang's father, she ate two rolls and two chive cakes in a few bites, then went back to harvest rice with a sickle.

Jiang Xi covered the unfinished food on the porcelain basin with a plate and placed it under the shade of a tree. She said hello to Jiang's father and the others, and went to deliver breakfast to Grandpa. She

didn't stay long at Grandpa's house, and hurried to the neighboring village to buy meat. If she was late, it would all be lean meat.

Because it was too sunny, Jiang Xi couldn't help but go home and get an umbrella. Although it was an umbrella, it was better than nothing.

Uncle Jiang, who lived not far from the Jiang family's fields, saw this when he stood up to plant rice. He sneered at Aunt Jiang beside him: "That's Qing Qing, right? It's such a short distance, and she's still holding an umbrella." There was no lack of sarcasm in her tone.

Aunt Jiang raised her eyebrows after hearing this: "You are the only one who has too many things to do! Qing Qing is a little girl, what's wrong with holding an umbrella? She must be tanned like you guys, right?"

Uncle Jiang was scolded by Aunt Jiang, and he whispered, "I just see that Shuang is so busy now, she doesn't even know how to help her parents with some work..."

Aunt Jiang glared at her: "Why isn't she working? She fainted in the field yesterday. Are you blind and didn't see? She is now... It seems that you are going to Xu Village to buy meat, not to work?" Then she shouted loudly: "Hehe! Hehe!"

Jiang Xi heard someone calling her, turned around and looked at the fields beside the road, and saw her aunt running here quickly, with a smile on her face: "Hehe, are you going to Xu Village to buy meat?" She took out a few yuan and gave it to Jiang Xi: "Please bring me a pound of meat, fattier, and a piece of tofu."

She wanted to touch Jiang Xi's head, but her hands were dirty, so she didn't reach out.

The eldest aunt was a person with a round face and a short stature, but she was very kind and gentle. When she was a child, her deepest impression of her was that the food she cooked was delicious. There were all kinds of vegetables in her aunt's vegetable garden, and she often called her to eat. As a result, when she grew up, every time she went back to her mother's house, she was unwilling to eat at home, and always went to her aunt's house for free meals.

She was the most promising person in the family in the eyes of others. Every time she went home, her relatives would rush to call her to eat.

Only the eldest aunt simply called her to have a home-cooked meal.

The pork now was all big black pigs raised by the family, fat and strong. Jiang Gui did not buy pork belly, but directly bought the fattest and thickest meat according to the needs of Jiang's mother and the eldest aunt, and went to the tofu shop to buy four square tofu.

At this time, tofu costs fifty cents per square. Jiang Xi bought fifty cents less when she bought meat just now.

Old tofu is also a high-protein food. She decided to make braised pork and tofu for them at noon.

When she passed by her aunt's wife's field on her way back, she gave the meat and tofu to her aunt. After returning home, she thought about it, took the fishing net again, and went to Xujiagou to catch loaches.

Nowadays, there is no phenomenon of battery fishing that almost kills all fish and shrimps. There are fish, shrimp, loaches, and eels everywhere in various fields and rivers. In the past, her brothers went to catch them, and she followed behind to watch, but in fact, catching loaches and fish is not difficult.

She has fishing nets at home, which are all handmade by her two brothers.

She caught almost two kilograms of small fish and loaches, as well as a lot of lobsters. The loaches still needed to spit out the mud and sand so that they could be roasted in the evening. She roasted the small fish until both sides were golden brown, and then cooked a braised pork stew with tofu. The remaining tofu continued to be kept in the water.

In summer, all kinds of vegetables are ripe, including long beans, sword beans, green beans, lentils, edamame, green peppers, tomatoes, gourds, winter melon, amaranth, etc.

Yesterday she cooked eggplant, and today she roasted winter melon and tiger skin green peppers.

They are just ordinary ingredients, but she cooked them with good color, fragrance and taste, which makes people salivate at the sight.

The enamel basin from yesterday had not been washed yet, but Jiang Xiao didn't care. He found a new ceramic basin in the cupboard to put the rice in, and a ceramic bowl and soup bowl to put the vegetables in. He put them in the vegetable basket and sent them to the ridge.

At this time, the rice in this field had been harvested. Jiang's father and mother were tying rice stalks, and carrying the bundled rice stalks to the rice field.

Although they had eaten three lobster rolls and several chive egg pancakes in the morning, they were still hungry. When they saw Jiang Xiao bringing the meal, Jiang's father couldn't wait to carry a load of rice to the threshing ground, and then he quickly washed his hands in the ditch and came to eat.

When he saw that the basket was not a random stew, but clearly distinguished braised pork with tofu, stir-fried winter melon, tiger skin green peppers, and dried fish, the aroma filled his face. Jiang's father couldn't help but be hungry. He picked up the bowl and quickly picked up a piece of tofu stewed in gravy and put it in his mouth. He couldn't help but quickly pick up other dishes and eat them. It was so

delicious that he didn't even have time to talk.

God has pity, what has he eaten these days.

He usually cooks at home, but when both of them are competing for the food, there is no other way, so Jiang's mother and grandfather cook. What do Jiang's mother and grandfather cook? It's no different from pig food. These two days, he finally ate something edible.

One meal last night, two meals today, the cooking is even better than that in the restaurants in town.

Father Jiang ate a big meal to relieve his hunger, and finally called to Mother Jiang who was still tying rice in the field: "Ailian, come to eat!"

Mother Jiang tied the rice stalks tightly with straw ropes: "Come!"

Looking at the four clearly separated dishes in the basket, Mother Jiang didn't say anything, but stared at the umbrella in her hand and cursed: "You are so shameless, holding an umbrella, are you afraid that the sun will burn you to death? I work in the fields every day and I'm never burned to death!"

Jiang Xi's body swayed, and he looked like he was about to faint.

She was thin to begin with, and when she reached out her hand and pulled her back, she only saw a layer of skin, without any flesh at all. In addition, she had heatstroke yesterday, and her brows, neck, and arms were all covered with red sand. Jiang's father was so scared that he quickly jumped up and put down his bowl and chopsticks to help her, "Quick, stand under the shade of the tree. It's so sunny, why don't you find a place to cool off? What are you doing here waiting for us? Go home quickly, I'll bring grandpa's meal later!" He also said about Jiang's mother, "Let her play with an umbrella. Isn't it good for a girl to be white and clean?"

This was the first time that Jiang's mother encountered "green tea" behavior. She did not suspect that her daughter was pretending to faint. In addition, Jiang Xiao was indeed dizzy for a long time due to heatstroke yesterday. Seeing that she was really about to faint, she was a little worried.

But she was always strong-willed and sharp-tongued. She couldn't help but say, "You are the only good person, I am the stepmother!" She also scolded Jiang Xi, "You are really a young lady. I didn't ask you to cut rice and plant rice seedlings, but you fainted when I delivered food to you! You are so useless that you can't even catch the sparrows' shit in the sky with your mouth open!"

Jiang Xi stood under the shade of the only small tree on the edge of the field, stroking his forehead, and said weakly, "Mom, you are really amazing. You can definitely catch it with your mouth open."

After that, without waiting for Jiang's mother to get angry, he ran away.