vrcanaries Chapter 844 Sleeping in the Yard
Chapter 844 Sleeping in the Yard
Zhou Mi smiled and said, "Remember, remember, it is because you are our uncles that we are competing with you to eat, so that you can eat more deliciously."
Zhou Mai pointed at the egg custard and said, "When we were little, we loved eating this the most. But we could only eat it during festivals. Each person could only have a small bite, and it would be gone before we could even taste it."
Zhou Dacang said nothing.
Li said, "That was in the past. How many eggs do you want to eat now? We have so many chickens at home, and they can lay as many eggs as they want, but you haven't eaten many. As soon as my uncle comes back, you will fight for them. Tomorrow morning, I will make a big bowl for each of you, so you don't have to fight for it."
Zhou Guo smiled and said, "Mom, don't bother yourself. If you make a bowl for everyone, maybe no one will like it anymore."
Li said, "How can that be possible? Haven't you seen them? They want to lick the bowls. It's just like when our family was poor. They didn't even have to wash the bowls every time they ate."
In the evening, the family sat in the yard to enjoy the cool air.
Zhou Guo asked someone to bring a few mats and spread them on the ground, so there was no need for stools.
Li smiled and said, "It's a good thing you watered the ground before, otherwise the ground would be hot now, and it would be even hotter if we sit on the mat."
After dinner, Zhou Dacang took Zhou Guo and others to water the yard bucket by bucket. Not only did they wash the ground, but the well water also took away the heat from the ground.
Zhou Mai said: "When I was a child, we sat in the yard in the summer and washed the ground with water, and then sat on mats to cool off."
When someone comes to visit again, several families will sit on mats.
The children were laughing and playing, and the adults were chatting about family matters. Although those days were poor, they are also the ones that people miss the most.
Zhou Guo was confused most of the time at that time, but she would occasionally wake up. She had experienced such scenes several times. During the few times she woke up, she was lying in her mother's arms or on her legs, with the whispers of adults and the noise of children of all ages in her ears.
Although she had just woken up, that scene was inexplicably imprinted in her mind and could not be erased. It would pop up in her mind from time to time every year and make her miss it.
No one spoke, just looked up at the stars in the sky.
The old man was slurping his ice bowl.
Zhou Guo couldn't help but said, "Master, you should eat less now that you are old. Eating too much of these sweet and icy foods is not good for the elderly."
There was a pause after the snoring.
Then the old man's angry voice sounded, "How can the master be that old? Are you cursing me?"
Zhou Guo said, "You are not that old and you can't eat too much. You ate so much for dinner, including green bean paste. You've already eaten two bowls of this ice bowl. If you eat more, be careful or you'll have diarrhea again."
"You're going to have diarrhea?" Zhou Dacang was stunned. "Then you can't eat any more, sir. Eat tomorrow."
In fact, he thinks that you can just eat whatever you want, but since it makes you feel uncomfortable, you can eat less.
Zhou Mai and Zhou Mi also joined in.
Old man: "..."
Li suppressed her laughter and said, "Sir, I will ask someone to make it tomorrow. It's already this late, we can't eat too much. If we have diarrhea at night, won't we be the ones who suffer?"
The old man finished his meal in a few mouthfuls, wiped his mouth and said, "Okay, I won't eat anymore."
Zhou Guo got up and saw that his bowl was empty. He was amused and angry, "You've finished it all!"
The old man said confidently, "So what? What should we do with the little bit left at the bottom of the bowl? Throw it away? The thunder god will strike you if you waste food."
Everyone couldn't help but burst into laughter.
Zhou Dacang also smiled and felt extremely at peace in his heart. This was probably home.
The next day, the family didn't go anywhere.
We were busy on the farm, picking eggs, digging wild vegetables, weeding and fertilizing the vegetable fields, and the family cooked together, you cooked and I cooked.
Although Zhou Mai and his friends’ cooking skills were not very good, at least they could cook the dishes.
Among them, Zhou Dacang’s is the most delicious.
It's a scrambled egg dish.
Zhou Guo ate the scrambled eggs and said, "It tastes good!"
Zhou Su and the others stretched out their chopsticks, the food they made themselves tasted really not that good.
Mrs. Li smiled and said, "When you were still young, the family was busy, so your uncle would cook for you kids at home. Eggs were precious at that time, and he didn't want to ruin them after cooking them once and make them inedible. He also wanted everyone to have more bites, so he would always mix in some other things. He cooked them with care, and they were the most delicious."
It is considered his specialty.
Zhou Dacang said, "I am only good at cooking eggs. I can't cook anything else. I can only stir-fry a few wild vegetables."
Li said, "That's great. I just found out now that those wealthy families are very particular about rules. Men are not allowed to enter the kitchen. They are told to stay away from the kitchen. I, a country woman, don't understand. You said that the older and younger generations in our country don't all stay away from the kitchen. We all have times when we are not feeling well. If they don't do it themselves, are they just going to eat wind and drink water?"
The Zhou family does not have such a rule, and neither do the country people.
The older ones always lead the younger ones to do the work. When the older ones are able to work in the fields, the younger ones will take over the housework and lead the younger ones to do the work.
I've never heard of men not being allowed into the kitchen.
Zhou Guo laughed and said, "Mom, only wealthy families have this rule. In wealthy families, not to mention the men, even the women don't have to work. Have you ever seen a wealthy woman hanging around in the kitchen every day?"
Li was stunned and slapped her thigh, "Oh, that's right, I was confused. In wealthy families, not only do men stay away from the kitchen, but women don't do it either."
Everyone laughed.
Zhou Dacang said, "In fact, in the military camp, when we were hungry and craving for food, we would sometimes go out to find food for ourselves. We would cook the food we got back. Those who came from wealthy families also knew how to fry, roast, and stew."
It was very late that night, and no one in the family was willing to go to bed first.
Zhou Guo said, "It's so hot, why not just sleep in the yard? It's not like we haven't slept here before."
"Yeah, you're right. You can still recall the good times. You slept everywhere when you were fleeing." Zhou Mi could hardly open his eyes and spoke in a daze.
The whole family fell asleep in the yard.
Before Zhou Guo fell asleep, he was thinking whether he should light a handful of mugwort, as he might be bitten by mosquitoes in the middle of the night.
As a result, instead of the mosquitoes coming in the middle of the night, there was a raindrop.
She felt something cold falling on her face, and before she could come to her senses, she heard a voice saying, "It's raining, get up!"
Just as he finished speaking, the raindrops turned into big dots, falling down with a splash, hitting people's faces and bodies and causing pain.
Everyone in the yard woke up.
He got up screaming and rushed under the eaves.
Zhou Guo stood up immediately, helped her mother up, and rushed into the house carrying Zhou Su.
Even so, he was soaked through.
A group of people stood under the corridor, looking at the heavy rain in the yard, looking here and there, and couldn't help laughing.