"Click, click, click..."
Following the cry of the hen after laying eggs, Ruiduo rushed into the chicken coop quickly, and Feian followed closely behind her, staying by her side to protect her from being hurt by the hen.
Gu Zhenqi immediately and inconspicuously separated them from the hens with a wooden stick.
When I was a kid, I used to block chickens’ butts to pick up eggs, and the memory of being pecked was so deep in my mind! Do you still feel a slight pain in your hands now?
Ruiduo successfully picked up the egg, held it carefully in her little hands, and ran towards her happily.
He stopped in front of her, raised his little hand high, and said with a smile as if offering a treasure: "Give me some nourishment!"
Taking the still warm egg, Gu Zhenqi's heart was instantly filled with warmth.
She smiled gently and said, "Okay, thank you, my dears. Let's have steamed egg cake for lunch, okay?"
Ruiduo clapped her hands happily, and Feian nodded a little coldly.
Gu Zhenqi looked at them tenderly, and suddenly changed the subject: "But don't pick up eggs like this in the future. It's easy to get pecked by the hens!"
"Why does the hen peck us?" Ruiduo asked curiously.
Fei'an also opened his eyes wide, looking at her in confusion.
They know that they will be pecked by the hen, but they don’t know why the hen pecks them, and they feel very confused.
"Because eggs can hatch chicks, and the hen is protecting her chicks!"
"Is it the same as how my mother protects me and my brother?"
Gu Zhenqi's expression moved slightly and he nodded. It should be that maternal love knows no species and the primitive nature is the same!
"Well, next time, Ruiduo and your brother, wait until it finishes laying eggs and leaves before picking them up, right?"
"So good!" Gu Zhenqi bent down and picked her up, kissing her pink little cheeks twice lovingly.
Looking at the sunlight shining on her lovely face, she looked like a delicate little doll, so cute that it seemed unreal. At this moment, Gu Zhenqi's heart was filled with happiness.
The next second, looking at Ruiduo's cute little appearance, he suddenly wanted to play a teasing on her.
I stretched out my hand and tickled her armpit. The next moment, “Giggle, giggle, giggle…Mom, it’s itchy. Stop tickling Ruiduo. Giggle…”
She twisted her little body in Gu Zhenqi's arms, laughing and begging for mercy.
"That's fine, then beg for mercy from your brother and let him save you!" Gu Zhenqi said with a smile.
"No, hehe... don't save Ruiduo, it will keep going like this... hehe... "
Gu Zhenqi and Fei An were infected by her laughter, and for a moment, the whole yard was filled with the cheerful laughter of the mother and her two children.
…
Happy times always pass quickly, and in the blink of an eye, it is autumn harvest, another busiest time of the year besides spring ploughing!
The night before the autumn harvest, the team leader held a meeting for all the villagers, made specific arrangements and division of labor for the autumn harvest, and adjusted the start and end times of work.
The lunch break was cancelled at noon, which meant that each household had to bring their own lunch and eat it quickly in the fields.
Every production brigade races against time to harvest in the autumn to prevent sudden weather changes, such as wind, rain, temperature drop, and snowfall...
Controlling the grain harvest time also affects the quality of grain drying in the later stage, and is directly linked to the delivery of public grain to the commune grain station.
Gu Zhenqi doesn’t have to go to work, meals will be delivered to the fields! So the Chen family doesn’t need to bring food!
But if it is delivered to the fields, it cannot be the same food as usual, otherwise it will cause quite a stir in the entire production team in an instant.
Speaking of the 1970s, what people valued and pursued most was really just: a bite to eat!
At 10 o'clock in the afternoon, Gu Zhenqi brought the prepared pancakes, millet porridge and a bowl of cabbage, tofu and vermicelli.
Since meat cannot be put in the dishes and every household likes to eat stews, it saves her a lot of trouble.
However, if you really follow the villagers’ cooking method, it would be easy to collapse from exhaustion due to such heavy farm work.
She came up with a method: fry it with lard first, then add water to stew...
After packing everything up and putting it into a wicker basket, they carried their lunch and took their two kids to the fields where their production team was working.
As soon as I arrived at the end of the field, I saw from afar that most of the villagers were already sitting on the ground and starting to eat lunch.
She deliberately chose a field ridge with fewer people and walked towards where Wang Guiying and others were working.
Along the way, I would also politely greet the villagers I knew.
"Are you here to bring food to your mother-in-law and her family?"
"Yes, auntie, are you eating?"
"I'm here to deliver food. What delicious food did you bring today? This smells delicious!"
"What delicious food can there be? Just some pancakes, millet porridge, and stewed cabbage. I don't have any cooking skills, I just made it randomly!"
"Oh, look at me. She even brought her children with her to deliver the food. It's so hard work!"
"How can it be considered hard work? It's just delivering food. Granny Wang, you are the one who is really working hard!"
"..."
Gu Zhenqi kept talking about these daily and meaningless things along the way. Those who greeted her were considered to be the kinder people in the village, with simple smiles on their faces.
The food could not be simpler, just a bowl of porridge with so many rice grains in it, a small piece of mixed-wheat steamed bun, a flatbread, boiled cabbage without a drop of oil, or dried pickled cabbage that could be eaten for who knows how many meals.
This lump of dried pickled cabbage is considered a very precious food. Villagers eat it as a snack. They put a piece in their pockets, and when their mouths are tasteless, they just lick it or take a small bite of it, and they are very satisfied!
Because it is dried very well, the more you chew it, the more delicious it tastes!
But you can't eat too much. Some people eat too much and end up suffering from goiter, which makes their neck become much bigger and thicker!
She walked up to Wang Guiying and the others, who were already sitting on the ground waiting for her.
Ge Yun took it from her, spread a piece of plastic sheet on the ground, and lunch was ready in a short while.
After a morning of hard work, everyone was starving. They didn't have time to exchange pleasantries and ate voraciously.
Gu Zhenqi sat aside, holding the two children on each lap.
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