Chapter 5 Every Family Has Scriptures that Are Hard to Recite

Heidan's screams came from behind him, Wu Tao stepped on the car, happily got into the green corridor covered with grape vines, and glided to the blue-gray porch.

"Dad, Mom, I'm back!"

A call, but no one answered. Only a big, shiny black dog rushed out, circling around his people and cars.

After touching Dahei's head, he pushed the cart into the house and parked it. On the coal stove in the yard, the tea was already bubbling and steaming, and the lights were on in Grandpa's room. He was probably reading a book, and the remaining 20% ​​was reading and answering letters.

There is a flatbed of mulberry leaves at the entrance of the east house, exuding a fresh breath, it seems that the parents must be busy in the silkworm room of the east house.

Find a thermos bottle and pour boiling water into the bottle. Then refill the well with water and put it back on the coal stove. Seeing that the furnace was about to turn off, I had to find the tongs and replace it with new charcoal.

"elder brother!"

Hearing his younger brother Wu Jiang's voice, Wu Tao scolded immediately: "Where did you go, and you don't care if the water on the stove is boiling?"

"I played with Heidan at Aunt Hua's house..."

"You're lying!" Heidan's miserable howl was still ringing in his ears, this kid dared to speak nonsense as soon as he opened his eyes. Wu Tao turned his head and caught a glimpse of the white ice cream remaining at the corner of his brother's mouth, "Where did you steal food again?"

Eight-year-old Wu Jiang rolled his eyes and felt that he couldn't escape his brother's eyes, so he had to tell the truth.

"Brother, Mom and Dad are so busy that they haven't cooked yet. I'm starving to death. So just now, Heidan asked me to eat ice cream, so I went."

It's the busy mulberry season right now, and the family raises three silkworms this season, and the three east rooms are full. Now that silkworms are getting bigger, they eat two to three hundred catties of mulberry leaves every day, which fills a flatbed.

Every day before dawn, I go to pick mulberry leaves, and I can't come back until the afternoon. When the mulberry leaves are harvested, they must be mixed with potion, and after preparation, they can be sprinkled on silkworms. When the silkworms are finished eating, they will be pulled, and if they eat more, they will pull more, so they have to replace the silkworms with silkworm plaques, and throw away the silkworm excrement...

After all this work, there is no time to cook and eat seriously. It's no wonder that Xiaojiang doesn't complain about being hungry.

"Okay, why don't you just be hungry for a while? I'll cook."

"Brother, you know how to cook, why didn't I know? Could it be scrambled eggs? Mom said that those eggs are not allowed to be eaten, and I left them for your high school entrance examination to supplement nutrition."

In his previous life, at Wu Tao's age, he could only scramble eggs, which was a skill he learned in kindergarten.

Now, what's so difficult about cooking a meal?

When I walked into the kitchen, I saw that the pot hadn't been brushed, the bowls hadn't been washed, and there were leftover peppers and garlic cloves on the chopping board. In addition, there is not even half a vegetable, let alone fish or the like. As for the only meat in the house, that is eggs and duck eggs, which have been hidden in the cabinet by the old lady long ago.

Fortunately, there is still home-grown japonica rice in the rice tank, and half a bowl of oil in the oil bottle.

that's enough.

Throwing a bunch of bowls and chopsticks into the basin, throwing away the loofah pulp: "Come on, Xiao Jiang, come and wash the dishes!"

"Huh? Brother, I can't wash! My parents never let me wash the dishes."

"Mom and dad are busy, but they can't protect you! Not only do you have to wash today, but you must also wash clean, otherwise you won't be allowed to eat dinner."

"Brother, brother, why are you going?"

Wu Tao walked out of the courtyard, and the voice came back: "Picking vegetables!"

There is rice but no vegetables at home. Fortunately, at this time of year, there should be green goods to eat in the vegetable garden outside the yard.

When I came to the vegetable garden behind the house, I saw that the cucumbers on the two rows of shelves were growing gratifyingly. I picked a few of the same size and put them into the basket, and this was the first dish.

Turning around, a row of tomatoes leaning against the fence, only the size of a finger, is far from ready to eat.

The two rows of eggplants, green beans and plum beans in the back are all just blooming, and the square melon seedlings on the fence are only blooming but not fruiting.

A big family, with seniors and younger ones, can't just eat cold cucumbers, right?

For a while, Wu Tao was also a little embarrassed that a smart woman can't cook without rice. Looking at the blossoming morning glory on the Fanggua seedling, I thought that my mother was too busy to take care of the vegetable garden. With so many flowers, some must be pinched off to make the remaining square melons grow bigger.

Thinking of this, Wu Tao's heart skipped a beat, yes!

After a while, looking at the half-bowl of square melon vines and well-arranged square melon flowers in the basket, Wu Tao knew that there was another dish.

Going into the depths of the vegetable garden, looking at the three stubbles of leeks that had just scatter leaves, Wu Tao gritted his teeth, cut it, cut it and made a plate!

Stepping through the leek field, you came to the east end of the garden. It was a small piece of melon field, which could not be made into vegetables. Just when he was about to go back home, he suddenly caught a glimpse of the loofah vines on the fence wall from the corner of his eye.

Sweeping along the loofah vine, I found that two feet long loofah has grown. Hey, the four dishes are finally together.

Heaving a sigh of relief, Wu Tao turned his head and left the vegetable garden, preparing to go home. Aunt Hua next door showed her head, waved at him and said, "Are you cooking today?"

"Um."

"That's right!" Aunt Hua said, "Take off the leeks, and I'll choose them for you. After you choose them, Heidan will send them to you."

"Why is this bothering you so much?" Wu Tao declined.

Without saying a word, Aunt Hua took out the leeks in the basket and said, "I'm fine at home, Blackie and I have to cry for a while."

"Then thank you, Aunt Hua."

Seeing Aunt Hua swaying back home with leeks, Wu Tao sighed secretly, every family has a difficult scripture to recite.

Originally, he thought it was pitiful enough that his family couldn't even put together all the dishes for a meal.

But when you think of Aunt Hua alone, a woman in her thirties, with the oil bottle of Heidan alone, the mother and the wife are full, and the whole family is not hungry, so the pain is not to mention.

What's more, Aunt Hua's charm is well-known in these towns and villages. When she married Heidan's father back then, Wu Tao was only as old as Wu Jiang, but he still stared straight at him, only one thought was in his head, this bride is so beautiful.

Throwing away the miscellaneous thoughts, he turned and went back to the yard, just as his old lady Zhang Huilan came out with a large plaque of silkworm sand.

"Yo, Tao is back?"

"Um!"

"The meal will have to wait a while, the silkworms in the room are not finished yet."

"Okay, Mom, you and Dad will continue to work on sericulture. I will cook the rice and keep it so that you can have a hot meal after you are busy."

Zhang Huilan glanced suspiciously at her eldest son who had never been in the kitchen, and that was the only thing she could do now. Even if it is half-cooked, it is better than cooking on an empty stomach.

I'm really tired.

When I entered the yard, I saw that the dirty bowl beside the well was still there, but Xiao Jiang disappeared without a trace.

"Xiaojiang, don't want to eat anymore? Come out and wash the dishes!" Wu Tao's tone was not polite at all, he was definitely his brother.

Zhang Huilan returned with an empty plaque and said, "Put the bowls away and I'll wash them. Jiang is still young after all."

"Mom, don't protect him all the time." Wu Tao put down the basket and said while washing the vegetables, "Heidan is one and a half years younger than him, and he can do everything at home now. Look at Xiao Jiang again, he can't even wash the dishes! "

"Who made Heidan die when he was a child, and no one cares about his father? My Jiang doesn't have to suffer like him." Zhang Huilan took it for granted.

Wu Tao, however, was getting a little angry, and he didn't take what his wife said, but his tone became more and more cold: "Xiao Jiang, if I count to three, if I don't come out to wash the dishes, I promise the Jade Emperor, you will never have anything to eat!"

"One, two..."