It snowed heavily for several days during the Chinese New Year. Lu Ting had to go to work on the third day of the New Year, so he returned to the compound with his children and wife in the afternoon of the second day.
From the third to the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, people came to their house one after another to pay New Year's greetings. In addition, my father-in-law sent the TV back, so there were more guests this year than in previous years. Most of the guests came and had a meal before leaving.
Every day, people come and go in the house. Adults come to visit for meals and chat, and children come to eat snacks and watch TV. Su Yan is either circling around the stove or around a group of children.
As she went to sleep, her head was buzzing and the sound of children fighting over candy echoed in her ears.
By the 16th day of the first lunar month, the children had all gone to school, and Su Yan finally had some peace and quiet.
She doesn't do anything. When she has free time, she arranges flowers, drinks tea, and reads books in her space. She feels so comfortable.
After the first month of the lunar year, Su Yan became busy again as spring plowing began.
First, harvest the old and inedible vegetables in the vegetable garden and store them in the warehouse. These are feed for livestock.
Then she buried a hundred kilograms of sweet potatoes in the ground one by one, and waited for them to sprout and grow vines before transplanting them. Su Yan planned to plant more sweet potatoes this year so that she could dry more sweet potatoes and make sweet potato slices.
Peach blossoms bloomed in mid-February of the lunar calendar. In previous years, the peach blossoms fell as they fell, but this year, Su Yan took advantage of the peach blossoms being in full bloom and went up the mountain to collect a basket of peach blossoms and brought them back.
Because she was going to make peach blossom wine this year, among the boxes of antiques they brought back from Jinshi last year, there was an ancient book on winemaking.
She has brewed both fruit wine and rice wine, but has never tried peach blossom wine. She plans to give it a try this year. Actually, brewing peach blossom wine isn't difficult, but the traditional brewing method is somewhat different from the modern one.
Su Yan wanted to try it out. Would the wine be stronger when brewed using the traditional method? Would the peach blossom fragrance waft through the air when the bottle was opened? Would a sip of peach blossom wine leave a lingering fragrance in the mouth?
Anyway, the children are grown up, and she has more time to relax, so she naturally has plenty of time to study food and wine.
Just after she finished making peach blossom wine and was waiting for it to ferment, her next-door neighbor asked her to go up the mountain to dig wild vegetables. In order not to fall behind, Su Yan naturally had to go.
Together they dug wild onions, picked ground vegetables, and picked Chinese toon. They also dug a large basket of Qingming grass (Cudweed) to make green rice dumplings.
On the third day of the third lunar month, they went up the mountain to pick a basket of ground vegetables (shepherd's purse) and boiled eggs. As the saying goes, eating eggs boiled with ground vegetables on the third day of the third lunar month will brighten your eyes.
If you want your child to have bright eyes, you should eat more cod liver oil. However, everyone used shepherd's purse to boil eggs that day. Su Yan cooked a pot of shepherd's purse and eggs, and there were at least twenty eggs in the pot.
After they had a TV at home, not only the children next door would come to play, but Lu Jin and Lu Chen's daughter would also come to play.
They are our own children. There is no reason not to give them even an egg when they come.
After the Chinese New Year, Zhong Lingshan saw that He Na did not leave, so she stayed with her two daughters. After all, they would give as much living expenses as the other two families gave.
One advantage of raising children at your parents-in-law's house is that you don't have to buy groceries yourself. Most of the housework is done by your mother-in-law, and they will only help out when she is really busy.
As soon as the triplets got out of school, Lu Yiman and Lu Yiwei followed them. Lu Yilan and Lu Yiming were both studying in the city and would not be back until Saturday at noon.
As soon as the children came back, they were about to turn on the TV. Su Yan asked, "Sit down and eat your eggs first. After eating, wash your hands and finish your homework before watching TV."
Su Yian stepped forward, hugged Su Yan's arm, and said coquettishly: "Mom, my good mother, we will finish our homework at school."
"Okay, take out your homework. I'll check it later."
The children don't need much supervision now that they are older, but Su Yan is very strict with their studies. They can play as much as they want, and study as much as they want, and they must not be careless.
The triplets didn't dare to mess around. They were very serious in class, especially in the afternoon's moral education class. If the teacher didn't come, they would use the time to do their homework so that they could watch TV when they came back.
Lu Yiwei looked at Su Yan and whispered, "Auntie, I don't have to do my homework. Can I watch TV first?"
"Wait a moment. I cooked shepherd's purse and eggs for you today, two for each of you. Eat the eggs first and then watch TV."
Lu Yiman licked her lips and said, "Auntie, can I still eat eggs even though it's not my birthday today?"
"Today is March 3rd. Eating shepherd's purse and boiled eggs is good for your eyes. When you go back, bring two for your brother too."
"I'll eat two eggs, otherwise I won't be able to eat when I get home later."
Su Yan rubbed Lu Yiman's head and said, "The eggs are on the table, take them yourselves."
The children ate eggs and watched TV. Su Yan went back to her room to check the triplets' homework, marking the wrong questions first, and then came back to tutor them after they finished dinner and took a bath.
At night, after the children were asleep, Su Yan took Lu Ting back to the space. Lu Ting suddenly reminded her, "Yan Yan, it seems you forgot to plant something?"
Sweet potatoes, potatoes, corn, soybeans, peanuts, early-maturing watermelons... She had planted everything that should be planted, and Su Yan really couldn't remember what else she hadn't planted.
Lu Ting went to the warehouse and took out the sprouted sugarcane. "Here, the sugarcane hasn't been planted yet. If Comrade Lao Qian hadn't said today that sorghum stalks are sweeter than sugarcane, I would have forgotten that Yanyan still had sugarcane to plant. You should take a shower and go to bed first. We can plant these sugarcanes tomorrow."
Su Yan touched her nose. She didn't expect that the seedlings on the sugarcane joints had grown out. How could she have forgotten this?
But Lu Ting said sorghum stalks are sweeter than sugarcane, so he decided to plant another three mu of red sorghum today and cut a few sorghum stalks while they're still tender to eat. The harvested sorghum can also be used to make sorghum wine and sorghum cakes.
The next morning, Su Yan buried the sugarcane in the vegetable field, then went back to the warehouse to look for sorghum seeds and began to select and raise seedlings.
In the past two months, Lu Ting went to the fertilizer factory to get some fertilizer, and Su Yan collected at least a ton of fertilizer like a mouse moving house.
I wonder if the fruits and vegetables that have been fertilized with chemical fertilizers this year will taste different. When Su Yan didn't raise livestock, she didn't fertilize the crops, but they still grew up.
After raising livestock, she used farmyard manure directly to fertilize crops. Perhaps it was a psychological effect, but she felt that fruits such as tangerines, watermelons, and strawberries became sweeter.
This year, more varieties of crops were planted, and Su Yan spent more time on them, going into the room whenever she had free time.
Su Yan didn't even know that Chen Yuhe was about to give birth. She thought she would also give birth to her third child in the hospital. But when she went to the backyard to use the toilet, she defecated the baby in her pants.
This scared Hua Min so much that she finally calmed down and helped her daughter-in-law deliver the baby herself.
Zhong Lingshan and He Na had to put their children into rocking chairs and cradles, help boil water, and prepare clothes for the children.
When Su Yan received the news, Chen Yuhe had already cleaned up and was leaning on the bed feeding the child.
Zhong Lingshan was secretly laughing in her heart, feeling somewhat gloating, because Chen Yuhe gave birth to another daughter for Lu Jin as a third child.
Chen Yuhe comforted herself in her heart that she would definitely give birth to a son next time, because she gave birth to a daughter and then a son. This is called blooming before bearing fruit.
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