Chapter 187 Shopping Back to the Village
Huo Bing placed Huahua on the haystack beside him and tied Xiaocao to his back with a large blanket. When he heard the question, he replied naturally, "I've almost finished cleaning up the house. It's still early for dinner, so I'll come over and do some work."
Jiang Shui raised the bamboo spade in his hand and said, "Mom said the rocks on the wasteland need to be cleared away, so we thought we'd come over and do some work."
There are only these people at home. If we don’t work hard, what will we eat in winter?
If you work harder now, the winter will be easier.
Seeing that they were raking rocks, Jiang Xiangdong knew that this job was not tiring, so he said nothing more and only reminded them: "If there are big rocks under the ground, call us to dig them out, and you don't do it yourself."
This is how farmers are. When they are busy, they don't care about men or women. Everyone has to work. They wish women could be treated like men and men like animals.
Alas, even mother has to take the lead in going out to buy things. They are so unfilial.
"Okay, big brother, don't worry." Jiang Shui said with a smile.
The three men bent over and used bamboo rakes to dig hard on the wasteland. They did not throw away the stones they dug up, but put them into the bamboo baskets they brought.
My mother said that rabbits can dig holes, so these stones can be kept to build nests for rabbits in the future. Even if we don’t raise rabbits, we can still pave a stone road.
It won't get dirty when you step on it, and it won't slip easily in rainy or snowy weather.
In a whole afternoon, seven people barely managed to clear half an acre of land. This was just the surface of the land. The inside was not plowed, the soil clods were not broken up, let alone ditches and ridges for drainage.
Jiang Shui and Jiang Yu glanced at the sky and went back to cook dinner.
Xiaocao was trapped on his back for the entire afternoon, moving around uncomfortably. Huo Bing had no choice but to return to the house with the two children.
The remaining four continued to fight against the bushes and tree roots.
"Brother, these thin roots are so troublesome!" Jiang Xiangnan couldn't help complaining.
The four men cut the weeds on nearly two acres of land and removed all the bushes. The aunt, sister-in-law and sister-in-law also picked up most of the stones on the nearly two acres of land. However, the weeds and stones on the ground were easy to clean, but the tree roots in the ground were fatal!
You know, if we don’t clear out these tree roots, how can donkeys and cows plow the fields?
They couldn't grow crops this year, so they could only grow more vegetables. The four of them spent several hours clearing only half an acre of land. At this rate, how could they grow more vegetables!
As it was getting dark, the four of them had no choice but to pack up and go home.
Shen Qing arrived at the village when the moon was high in the sky.
It was a dark winter night, but fortunately, Lei Dafu and four other people who were familiar with the terrain hurried all the way to the village under the moonlight.
Hearing the sound of the wheels turning, those who had torches immediately lit them and came out to greet the guests.
"Sister-in-law is back. Did you have a smooth journey?" Jiang Ying asked with concern.
The mother-in-law looked at the five people who looked exhausted and asked, "Have you eaten?"
Liu Cuihua replied with a smile: "Yes, Shen Qing treated us to mutton soup. After eating a bowl of hot mutton soup, I felt so good that I have never eaten anything so delicious!"
It is served with flatbread.
The noodles were brought by Shen Qing, and judging by the size, it was clear that the amount was for all four of them!
The mutton soup is boiled until it is milky white, and paired with chewy and tasty mutton offal. When serving, sprinkle a handful of chopped green onions on the bottom of the bowl. The boiling mutton soup will bring out the aroma of green onions. Although the flatbread is cold, break it into pieces and throw it into the mutton soup to soak. After drinking a bowl, you will feel indescribably refreshed all over!
Lei Qigui's eyes sparkled: "I've never eaten such delicious mutton soup. If mutton offal can be cooked so deliciously, wouldn't mutton be even more delicious?
When we hunt wild goats this winter, we'll make goat soup!"
Lei Ergui nodded vigorously on the side.
Liu Cuihua thought that they hunted wild sheep every year, and this year they would do it according to what Shen Qing said.
Let the family eat good food too - the same ingredients were wasted in the past.
"Maybe that's the store owner's unique craftsmanship, and ours won't taste as good." Zhao Mingyue said with a smile.
"No, my aunt said that if we do it according to her method, it won't be worse than the one in the store!" Lei Qigui immediately argued.
The three of them originally thought that others would doubt it, but they didn't expect everyone to believe it without a doubt after hearing it.
"I'm a little greedy and want to try what it tastes like, but unfortunately we don't know how to hunt."
"But it's okay. We can raise sheep ourselves in the future, and drink mutton soup sooner or later!"
"Oh, a bowl of hot mutton soup in winter is so comfortable."
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The women turned to talking about food, while the men asked Shen Qing, "How's the situation in Jincheng?"
"It's only been a day, there shouldn't be many disaster victims here, right?"
Shen Qing replied, "The victims haven't arrived yet. It will probably take some time."
After all, it takes time to distribute the relief food, and relying on their own legs and human power to pull the cart along the way is much slower than if they had animals to do the work.
"That's good. The earliest that subsequent disaster victims will arrive will be five or six days later." Xie Qingshan analyzed.
He continued, "Jincheng is still relatively safe at the moment. If we need to buy anything, we should do so as soon as possible in the next few days. Otherwise, once the disaster victims arrive, there will probably be chaos for a while."
The crowd was in chaos: "Yesterday I felt I had everything I needed, but today after building a house and clearing the land, I found that I lacked everything. I lacked everything, and there are so many things I need to buy.
Everything else is fine, but I think we need to prepare more food."
"Yes, once a large number of disaster victims arrive, I'm afraid the price of food will go up."
"What should we do? How about we go to the city together tomorrow?"
"By the way, have you bought the plow yet?"
A man in the crowd slapped his forehead and asked.
Shen Qing immediately replied: "I bought it, and each family took it. It's in the big carriage. You can each take your own home."
Listening to the discussion of the people in Qili Village, Liu Cuihua felt extremely fortunate that she could go out with Shen Qing today.
Not only did he sell all the precious leather materials he had saved, he also used the money to buy food for the winter.
They were all this year's new grain, and the most important thing was that they were brought back on Shen Qing's donkey cart, so they didn't have to do anything.
The people of Qili Village were unloading goods, and the Lei family was also moving grain downstairs - the mountain road was blocked by cars, and the donkey carts could not go up, so they had to rely on manpower to carry it up.
Shen Qing said loudly, "Cuihua, take down the carriage later, and you can put the food on the donkey's back and lead the donkey up the mountain."
Cows cannot walk on mountain roads, but donkeys are small and light, and can walk on steep mountain roads and narrow paths as if they were flat ground. Donkeys are most practical in mountainous areas.
The three Lei brothers refused in unison: "No, we didn't do any work today, so we're not tired at all. It won't be hard to carry this food up."
The donkeys had been running all day and had helped them pull so much goods back and forth, so they felt bad to order them around anymore.
The people in Qili Village saw that the three brothers of the Lei family easily carried hundreds of kilograms of grain on their shoulders and climbed the mountain faster than they could walk on flat ground.
Everyone was stunned and in admiration at the same time.
The men of the Lei family are really strong and powerful.
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