Chapter 34 I Never Expected
When the couple came back at noon, they found that Liang Shengdi and her grandson were not at home yet.
Thinking about how late it was yesterday, Chen Chunhua stopped worrying and went straight back to her room to sleep. She was really sleepy. She almost dropped the pot of seedlings in the greenhouse that morning. It was only because Wang Jingui was quick to catch it for her that she would have lost her work points.
When Wang Jingui asked her what was wrong, she could only make the excuse that Xiaomei cried last night, so she didn't sleep well.
Poor Lin Shumei opened her eyes wide and didn't know how to defend herself. Her little head was full of doubts. Did she wake up last night?
Lin Guoqing sent his two little ones off to take a nap, and then he went to the backyard to play with his chicken coop, making quite a bit of noise. Xu Youqing, who lived next door, actually came over to visit and asked what he was doing.
When I learned that they wanted to buy a few more chickens, I was surprised and asked, "Are five not enough?"
Here, every family would raise three or four chickens and sell their eggs for money. But they wouldn't raise more than that, because after all, there was only so much bran, and there wouldn't be any leftovers these days.
Lin Guoqing smiled innocently, "My daughter Chunhua said that the children are growing up, my mother is old, and we work hard, so everyone must eat an egg a day to be nutritious. There are seven people in my family, so we have to raise a few more!"
Xu Youqing went back and talked to his wife. His wife curled her lips. She said that Chen Chunhua was about the same age as her, but because Liang Shengdi didn't take care of things, she could be the boss and could eat as many eggs as she wanted every day.
It's not like her family, where her mother-in-law holds all the power. Forget about eating eggs. Even if she eats one extra sweet potato in a meal, she will be scolded for a whole night.
Although she was envious, she didn't dare to complain to Xu Youqing. Moreover, although her mother-in-law was very nosy, she also did a lot. She was concerned about everything at home and outside. Even their children were taken care of by her mother-in-law.
Only then can she and Xu Youqing just focus on their own work. Then think about Chen Chunhua and Lin Guoqing, who hold the younger one by hand and carry the smallest one on their backs every day... Well, forget it, this thing is fair, there are gains and losses!
Chen Chunhua fell asleep immediately and was unconscious. She didn't hear the clanging sound of Lin Guoqing outside, nor did she hear Liang Shengdi and Lin Shu rushing back.
Lin Shugan felt like he was dying of exhaustion. At such a young age, he was bearing labor that did not belong to him.
Lin Guoqing looked at what the two of them dragged back... one basket, three baskets. Lin Shugan and Liang Shengdi's clothes and trouser pockets were filled with bamboo shoots, and he was also impressed.
"Why are there so many? Did you go deep into the mountains?" Lin Guoqing helped his son and mother to remove the bamboo shoots from their clothes, and took the one cent that Liang Shengdi handed to him at the first time.
"No, but the area outside that hill has been dug up pretty much, so we have to give it a few days to rest. Xiao and I went to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy some meat, and then we started digging on the hill behind us."
The hillside was covered in bamboo, with shoots dotting the ground. The outermost area must have been dug out, so they decided to go a little further in. The hill wasn't very big, so even if they went further in, it wouldn't be dangerous.
Not only are there a lot of bamboo shoots, there are also a lot of mushrooms. Today, the three baskets are all made of bamboo branches and leaves, and they are all filled with chicken thread mushrooms that are abundant in the bamboo forest.
Liang Shengdi lifted the pork she had been carrying all the way and said, "Look, I gave you a pound of meat and a penny. I didn't drop anything!"
Lin Guoqing took it with a helpless look, and imitated Chen Chunhua's way of coaxing his mother, "Yes, yes, it didn't fall off. Isn't my mother worried about her work?"
The old lady was delighted. "Then I'll go dig some more this afternoon. Can we still have braised bamboo shoots and stir-fried mushrooms with meat tonight? Or braised bamboo shoots with pork is also fine?"
The meal she had last night was so memorable. Really, if every meal was like that, she could even camp in the mountains at night!
"There's also some pig's offal, Mom. Want some braised large intestines?"
Chen Chunhua opened the door and came out with an alarm clock in her hand. She had taken it into the room before going to bed, so that she could get up half an hour earlier to do a colon cleanse.
"eat!"
"Large intestine! I want to eat large intestine too!"
"I want to eat! Xiaomei wants to eat!"
Liang Shengdi was still swallowing her saliva when her three children started to make a noise. The third and fourth children woke up with their mother's alarm clock, and when they went out they heard their mother asking if they wanted to eat braised large intestines.
Can you not eat it? That's braised large intestine!
"Mom, can I have three bowls of rice tonight?" Lin Shuchao gestured four with his hands and said three.
Chen Chunhua put down a finger in his face in annoyance, "That's only three. If you can eat three bowls of rice without dying of fullness, then go ahead!"
Turning to look at Liang Shengdi again, "Shredded pork with eggs and braised large intestine, how about that?"
What's the difference between a Manchu-Han banquet and this? Could Liang Shengdi refuse? Of course not!
Liang Shengdi didn't even care that she hadn't had lunch yet, and followed Shen Chunhua to do the colon cleansing together, but was driven to the dining table by Shen Chunhua.
"You should eat lunch first and don't go out this afternoon. I need to blanch the vegetables after washing them before stewing them tonight. I probably won't have time for work, so you'll have to watch over the blanching process later."
Liang Shengdi nodded, and her facial expression and body language all revealed one word - obedient.
Chen Chunhua looked at her and Lao Er's clothes, which were covered in mud, and sighed again.
"Mom, if you have time, why don't you help make a basket for the family? This small basket can't hold many bamboo shoots. You can make a bigger one so that when you dig too much, you won't have to put it in your pockets."
She is now starting to have a headache about how to wash the clothes tonight.
Liang Shengdi readily agreed, "Oh, I know, I'll do it this afternoon!"
Chen Chunhua went to wash her large intestine. Lin Guoqing put the piece of meat that his mother had just given him in the kitchen. He didn't see it until Chen Chunhua finished washing her large intestine. He didn't pay attention to it before, but he saw it now.
This meat is more than a pound, Chen Chunhua even suspected it was two pounds. She took the beam scale and weighed it, hmm, one pound and eight ounces.
When Lin Shu was called over to ask again, Chen Chunhua laughed so hard that she bent over.
She never expected that the old lady would be a socially anxious person when she went out. Asking her to buy a piece of meat was almost like a revolutionary mission.
While Lin Shu looked gentle and obedient at home, he was still a bit mischievous when he went out. The combination of the old and the young could produce a special effect.
Liang Shengdi, in particular, seemed to have spent her entire life in the village, rarely leaving the village. She supposed she wasn't very familiar with the outside world. It didn't matter; she just needed more practice.
Chen Chunhua has already started thinking about how to get her to go out more often, not just going up the mountain to dig for food.
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