Volume 1: Reborn in the 1980s, selling lunch boxes with my mother Chapter 23 Jiang Cheng was beaten
After the mother and daughter reached a consensus on making money, they immediately started working separately with great enthusiasm.
Hu Qiongfang took a breath, then picked up the backpack and prepared to go out to collect grass for the pigs.
By the way, I also have to water the vegetable garden and pick some vegetables to eat in the evening.
Jiang Tian also followed her mother, carrying a small broken plastic bucket and a shovel, intending to dig some earthworms from the manure pile near someone else's house.
There was no way, the earthworms in their manure pile were almost dug out by her.
Fortunately, these days many rural people are reluctant to spend money on chemical fertilizers, and every household builds a manure pile behind the house to make their own fertilizer.
Usually, we clean up the cow dung, pig dung and other things at home, and add a layer of manure, a layer of soil, and then a layer of kitchen waste or something. Pile them up layer by layer, and the fermented fertilizer is not much worse than chemical fertilizer.
Jiang Tian found a dung pile, greeted the owner, and started digging.
It was estimated that no one had dug this dung pile for a long time. After a while, Jiang Tian dug a full bucket and covered it with some soil to prevent the earthworms from crawling out. Jiang Tian took the earthworms home, washed his hands, looked at the time, and it was almost time to go home for school, so he hurried to the kitchen to cook.
After selling eels in the morning, they had lunch at Li Guifen's house. It was not yet twelve o'clock when they came out, so the mother and daughter simply strolled around the town near the provincial road.
This was the first time in Jiang Tian’s two lives that he went shopping in a market town along the provincial road.
In 1986, there were already many bustling market towns near Provincial Highway 336. Not only the morning market, but also the lunch market was bustling, with people selling fresh meat wontons, noodles and dumplings, as well as all kinds of fried rice, steamed buns and pancakes.
Jiang Tian and Jiang Cheng were growing taller, and their clothes were too short for them, so Hu Qiongfang bought some floral cloth, white dacron, and some cotton cloth from a cloth shop, intending to make two new clothes for the two children.
Especially my daughter.
Hu Qiongfang had been used to a hard life since childhood, and coupled with that special era, it can be said that she had never worn a floral dress from the time she was born until she got married.
All parents are like this. They hope that the wishes that they did not fulfill when they were children can be realized in their children.
Hu Qiongfang is no longer old enough to wear flowery skirts, but her daughter is old enough to wear skirts. She carefully selected a piece of flowery cloth for her daughter and planned to go back to the village to borrow a sewing machine from her neighbor so that she could make two skirts for her daughter.
Jiang Tian was not obsessed with floral skirts, but she dragged her mother to the pork stall and bought a piece of pork fat.
Hu Qiongfang also bought a large piece of pork liver, saying that she would stew it to replenish her blood.
Jiang Tian really wanted to say that as long as you cook a combination of meat and vegetables and have a balanced nutrition, you don’t necessarily have to eat pig liver to replenish the lost qi and blood.
But she knew her mother wouldn't listen.
Although Hu Qiongfang is usually gentle and non-competitive, when it comes to her two children, Ms. Hu can instantly transform into a female warrior of steel!
Unable to convince her mother, Jiang Tian could only try her best to make the pork liver as delicious as possible.
Anyway, she was really tired of stewed pork liver soup.
First wash the lard you bought, cut it into pieces, and put it in a large pot to slowly boil out the lard.
While the lard was boiling, Jiang Tian washed the pork liver, cut it into slices, soaked it in cold water, and also cut a few slices of ginger and put them in.
This will soak out the blood inside the bamboo pole, making the fried pork liver more tender and smooth.
A large piece of pork liver filled an entire ceramic bowl.
Jiang Tian picked up some pickled peppers and sour beans from the kimchi jar, and also took out two onions.
At this time, Hu Qiongfang also came back from collecting grass for the pigs.
A bundle of green beans was hung above the basket of pig feed, on which were placed a pile of green and red peppers, five tomatoes of different sizes, and two old cucumbers.
Jiang Tian laughed as soon as she saw the two old cucumbers.
"Mom, I just cut some pickled peppers and prepared to make stir-fried pork liver with pickled peppers, and you brought back some old cucumbers."
"So tonight, are we going to have stir-fried pork liver with pickled peppers, or stir-fried cucumber slices with pickled peppers?"
Hu Qiongfang was also happy. After thinking about it, Ms. Hu said generously:
"Two old cucumbers, they're not some valuable delicacies, just fry them if you want to eat them."
Although Ms. Hu was generous, Jiang Tian could only collect the leftover lard residue from boiling lard and save it for stir-frying lotus leaves tomorrow, thinking that their family did not have a refrigerator at that time.
Lotus cabbage is the kind of cabbage sold in supermarkets, but the locals are used to calling it lotus cabbage.
Although Jiang Tian thinks that lard and cabbage are a perfect match, who can blame the lack of cabbage in the countryside at this season?
It is no longer possible .
So, the dinner they had was three dishes and one soup:
The three dishes are stir-fried pork liver with pickled peppers and sword beans, stir-fried cucumber slices with pickled peppers, and stir-fried pork liver with onions.
One soup is tomato and egg soup.
The tomatoes grown at home ripen naturally. When you cut them open, the juice inside will ooze out. They smell sour and sweet, with a strong tomato flavor.
Of the five tomatoes, three are used for soup, and the remaining two are big ones. They are cut into slices by Jiang Tian and marinated with sugar, and can be used as fruit after meals.
Just as the first dish was cooked, their top student Jiang Cheng came back.
Jiang Cheng is the class monitor. Sometimes after school he has to help the teacher mark test papers together with the study committee member, so he often comes home very late from school, and his family has gotten used to it.
However, when she saw the bruises on her brother's face, his torn sleeves, and a big gash on his knee, Jiang Tian jumped out from behind the stove.
"Who bullied you at school?"
Jiang Cheng's eyes were a little evasive. He pretended not to care and put the muddy schoolbag on the ground. He took out the books and pencil case inside first, then took down the shoe brush from the wall and wanted to go to the ditch in the backyard to brush the schoolbag clean.
He only has this one schoolbag. If he doesn't clean it quickly and put it by the stove to dry at night, he will have no schoolbag to use when he goes to school tomorrow.
Seeing that he didn't tell the truth, Jiang Tian was so angry that she didn't even cook. She snatched the dirty schoolbag from her brother's hand and asked him harshly -
"Do you want to tell me yourself, or should I go to school and ask your homeroom teacher in person tomorrow?"
At this time, Hu Qiongfang, who was cutting grass for pigs in the backyard, heard the noise and ran over. She saw that her son had wounds on his face and his sleeves were torn. Her tone was even more anxious than Jiang Tian's.
"Being bullied at school? Who did it? I'll go find your teacher!"
This pair is truly worthy of being mother and daughter, they both have the same protective nature.
Anyway, as long as his son/brother is injured, it must be because of bullying by others. Otherwise, how could Jiang Cheng, such a good student with five virtues, four beauties and three loves, take the initiative to fight with others?
Seeing that he couldn't hide it, Jiang Cheng could only explain his injury in a low voice.
The problem still occurred with the sentence that Jiang Tian was most worried about.
It is true that "there are many troubles around a widow"...
