Chapter 40: A family remembers bitterness and sweetness
Chapter 40 A Family Reminiscing about Bitterness and Thoughts About Sweetness
After the meal, Father Yang called everyone to sit outside the cave for a family meeting. First, he recalled the hardships: from the beginning of the drought last year to the time when he did not enter the inner circle of Dachong Mountain, how did the family work together to overcome and escape the disaster during the period of various hardships? Yes, under Yang Lan'er's insistence, he entered the inner circle of Dachong Mountain and ushered in the present dawn.
Father Yang looked around, formalized today's theme, and said with a smile on his face: "Ahem, now everyone knows that since Lan'er and Cunzhi went to the county last time, they sold some precious medicinal materials collected in dense forests, and bought them. Once we get to this valley, we can start building houses with peace of mind."
"Now that the drought is continuing outside, all of us have to consider the food issue in the future. So I will discuss with you now that the first brick kiln can be built and ignited tomorrow. What I mean is that everyone will open up wasteland together and prepare a variety of grains the day after tomorrow. No matter how the harvest is, less harvest is better than no harvest, besides, An Jun dug a ditch beside the pool yesterday. The area under the pool will never dry up. What do you think?"
"Father, we have no objection. Let's do as father decides." Tan Anjun was the first to respond. He didn't expect his little wife to be so forceful, and she always surprises him. Dare to take the whole family to venture into the inner circle of Dachong Mountain, and even dare to go into the dense forest to collect medicinal materials. Staring at her sideways, how much does she not know?
Others expressed no objection, and did as Father Yang arranged. Ding muttered in her heart, but dared not reveal it.
Yang Lan'er made some angelica and gave it to Yang's mother to let her stew pheasant at night to nourish the family. Angelica stewed chicken is most suitable for eating at night. It is suitable for pale complexion, unglamorous lip nails, dizziness, postpartum weakness, bruises, etc. It is suitable for the whole family now.
In the afternoon, everyone went out together, and the horse-drawn people brought back the chopped firewood on their backs. The rough firewood was used to burn the kiln, and the thin branches were used to light the fire and cook.
Yang Lan'er doesn't care how they transport it back, she just wants to finish chopping up the tree fork so that she can spare time to do other things.
Many people work fast, five horses and more than ten men transported all the chopped firewood back in one afternoon.
In the evening, everyone returned to the cave hungry. When they arrived at the entrance of the cave, they smelled a scent of medicine. The scent of medicine was also mixed with the smell of chicken. Everyone heard that chicken soup was stewed to nourish their bodies. Everyone swallowed unconsciously, salivating.
Soon Mrs. Wang and the others brought in the food. Everyone looked at the sumptuous dinner on the stone platform, and couldn't wait to sit beside them. Mrs. He served a bowl of soup for everyone.
He raised his hand and signaled everyone to taste it quickly, "Father and mother, please try it quickly, everyone, try it and see how it tastes? This is also the first time I have made this medicinal food."
"It tastes good, everyone should drink more of this herbal diet." Father Yang took a sip, half-squinting his eyes as he thought about it.
Mother Yang took a sip of the soup and looked at her second daughter-in-law, Mrs. He, standing and helping everyone to add soup, she affirmed in her heart that this was the most satisfying of all her daughter-in-laws, she was generous and straightforward, and acted neatly. "Second brother, sit down and have some soup too. The whole family is not polite, let them come by themselves."
Gugou's eldest daughter-in-law is sipping chicken soup, and she also looks after her daughter Liying and son Chenyang from time to time. This daughter-in-law is introverted and soft-tempered, and doesn't like to talk. But fortunately, he is not a troublemaker.
Glanced at the third daughter-in-law, Xiao Li, who was next to her, who was eating and feeding her three-year-old grandson Chenpei chicken, but the twin granddaughter sitting next to her turned a blind eye, and the little girl was trying her best to spoon the soup by herself. That cute look makes Yang's mother feel soft.
"Third child, don't worry about eating by yourself, give Lili some chicken and take care of it." She no longer wants to count on her from the third child's family. She is usually on top of it, otherwise how could it be so honest, but it works neatly.
"Well, mother knows," the third elder brother Yang Cunli replied, helped his daughter pick up chopsticks dishes, and started eating on his own.
(end of this chapter)