activa-t Chapter 316 Water Celery
Chapter 316 Water Celery
"There hasn't been much work on the fields these days. If you want to sell pickled bamboo shoots, we'll help you since we're free at home." Niu Zhanghe said cheerfully.
"Uncle, you are always teasing me. Planting seedlings and hoeing the land are all work. Even if there is really no work, I worked hard in the fields a few days ago. You should take a good rest these days. Okay, you guys go back quickly. You and brother Yuzhu don't have to worry about the rest."
"Okay, you guys take care of the rest, we're going back."
After seeing Niu Zhanghe off, Zhao Dong saw her coming back and assigned Zhao Bei to help.
"Sister-in-law, you're back from selling the piglets." Zhao Bei shouted before he ran up to her.
Gu Qingqing looked at him and smiled, "I was just planning to call one of you to come over to help, and you came."
"Hey, Brother Dong and Brother Nan are busy, so I came over. Where are the piglets you bought?" While Zhao Bei was speaking, he saw four piglets tied up with straw ropes.
He bared his teeth and said, "You bought four, but didn't you say you would only keep two? Hey, look at this one, it's glaring at me."
Zhao Bei childishly pointed at one of them and they stared at each other, neither of them admitting defeat.
Gu Qingqing felt like holding her forehead. With such an uncertain look? Was she still thinking about finding a wife for him? She should just wait a little longer!
Gu Qingqing had just sentenced him to death for marrying late when she saw him baring his teeth and attacking the piglet. Was he going to take a bite? Gu Qingqing looked at him and dared to criticize him.
He picked up two piglets and held them under his armpits. "Hmm, they are smelly indeed." Then he looked up at Gu Qingqing and asked, "Sister-in-law, should we let them out in the backyard first? I'll carry them in now."
"Yes, in the backyard."
Gu Qingqing reached out to grab one of the donkeys on the cart, but Zhao Bei seemed to have a pair of eyes on the back of his head and shouted, "Sister-in-law, don't do it. They stink. Watch the donkey cart first and wait for me to come back and catch them."
Gu Qingqing looked at the piglet, which was indeed covered in mud, and decided to give up and wait for Zhao Bei.
Zhao Bei ran out of the yard, "Sister-in-law, the carpenter from Shangyang Village came today and brought some tools. He said they are what you want, so he put them in the front yard."
When Gu Qingqing heard that the carpenter from Shangyang Village had come, she was overjoyed, "Ah, has it been delivered? We've been waiting for him to finally arrive."
As he spoke, he was almost in a panic as he took the saddle off the donkey.
She was panicked, but she still led the donkey to the yard to drink some water. When she entered the front yard, the first thing that caught her eye was not the tools she had customized for making paper, but the bamboo shoots brought back by the Niu family father and son. There were so many of them that after peeling them, they cost at least 160 yuan.
She shook her head and smiled, what a lovely group of people.
"Mom, you're back! Look, my sister can walk now by holding my finger." When Dahua saw Gu Qingqing coming back, she happily showed off to her how powerful Sanhua was.
"Ah~Ah!" Sanhua saw her mother coming back and walked towards her unsteadily.
Gu Qingqing held the donkey with one hand and bent down to pick up Sanhua from the ground.
She said lovingly, "You little fool, you've almost learned how to walk, but you still can't call me mom. Tell me, are you a little fool?"
Gu Qingqing said as she kissed Sanhua. Sanhua giggled at the kiss and her arms were almost flapping leaving afterimages. After a while, it seemed that it was tired of flapping and tilted its head towards Gu Qingqing's neck, turning into a wriggling worm and rubbing against her neck.
Gu Qingqing allowed Sanhua to be dependent on and intimate with her.
Only then did she see the tools placed at the base of the wall and a wooden basin that was lower and larger than the bathtub.
Although she couldn't see any shape yet, she seemed to see piles of paper being made.
Dahua was at home when the things were delivered, but she didn't know what her mother was going to use them for. So she asked, "Mom, what is this for?"
"Paper." Gu Qingqing replied.
"Paper?"
"Yeah, that's the writing paper you use for school."
"Wow, then we don't have to buy paper when we write in the future? Mom is so awesome." Dahua looked at Gu Qingqing like a little fangirl.
"Dahua, just keep it to yourself. Don't tell anyone yet."
Dahua immediately straightened her body and said, "Mom, I won't say anything nonsense."
Sneeze~
The donkey was snorting impatiently at the side.
Gu Qingqing laughed, "Come on, I'll give you some water."
She held Sanhua in one hand, loosened the reins, and used a bucket to carry water sprinkled with wheat bran for the donkey to drink. Then she led the donkey out of the house, tied it to the open space outside, and let it chew the grass by itself.
After going to the backyard and seeing the piglets running around the yard, she gave Sanhua to Dahua and started cooking.
"By the way, Dahua, what wild vegetables did you and Daxin pick this morning?" Gu Qingqing asked as she walked towards the kitchen.
"Mom, let's go to the river to pick water celery. We picked a lot." Dahua followed closely behind.
Gu Qingqing originally wondered how much there would be, but when she entered the kitchen, she saw a bamboo basket sticking out and asked in surprise, "How did you two get so much?"
"Mom, Grandpa Yang also went to help this morning. Then I remembered that we used to pick a lot of water celery every year and dry it, so Daxin and I agreed to go again tomorrow." In Dahua's memory, the family would prepare some water celery every year, boil it in hot water, and dry it so that they could eat it until winter.
Now she is making it for her own home, she is so happy.
"Oh, you are really my sweet little baby. Okay, I'll clean it up later." Gu Qingqing said as she stretched out her hand to knock on a branch and brought it under her nose to smell it.
"Hey, this is also delicious for making dumplings, but it's a bit too late for lunch!"
She has to cook for six adults and three children at home by herself. If she really makes dumplings, lunch will have to be moved to the evening.
"Mom, I can help you." Dahua said from the side.
Gu Qingqing raised her hand and touched her head. "It won't work for just the two of us. We won't have enough time to make dumplings. Today we'll have fried bacon and water celery. I'll make some dough later and use it to make steamed buns tonight. It just so happens that we don't have many steamed buns left at home."
With Dahua's help, lunch went much faster, and everyone was drooling over the fresh and tender water celery.
In the afternoon, Zhao Dong and Zhao Bei went to water the wheat seedlings with manure, while Zhao Nan and Zhao Feng continued to make earth bricks.
After Gu Qingqing and the others, they began to peel the bamboo shoots, blanch them in water, and slice them together with Luo Mei.
Gu Qingqing scolded her a lot during the conversation, "It would be fine if we just did it by ourselves, but you even asked Shu and Yuzhu to help."
Luo Meihua smiled and said, "I mentioned this when I went back yesterday. I don't know either."
Gu Qingqing glared at her, "I'd be surprised if you didn't know!"
She originally thought that with two people, they should be able to finish everything quickly, but the sun had already set and there were still some pieces left that had not been sliced.
Dahua, who had come to see the dough rising again, came out and said, "Mom, the dough has lifted up the lid."
"Sister-in-law, let me take care of the rest. Go and steam the buns. If you don't go now, the noodles in the basin will go sour. There are still people working in your family. It would be bad if they come back without food." Luo Meihua urged her.
"Then I really won't be polite to you. I have to go make dumplings. The children picked a lot of water celery today, and I can't leave it behind." After Gu Qingqing finished speaking, she ran towards the kitchen in a hurry.