Su Ruyi picked up a little seed with her fingertips and held it in her hand, then returned the rest.
"Are there any other seeds at home?"
Liu Cui'er secretly complained that Su Ruyi was doing things inexplicably, but she still responded politely: "No more, only what can be planted at this time of year, the ones in front have been planted, and they are growing in the ground."
As he spoke, he pointed at the vegetable garden with his chin.
"If you want it, just wait until the vegetables grow in the fields. What do you want the seeds for?"
"It's nothing, it's useful."
Su Ruyi was casual and perfunctory, so Liu Cuier and Li Baozhu naturally wouldn't pursue her and ask questions. The relationship wasn't that important.
The three of them dragged their muddy shoes back to the front yard.
Liu Cuier greeted her mother-in-law and told her that the ground was too wet to plant.
I went into the kitchen to satisfy my craving - it smelled so good that I felt satisfied just by standing in the kitchen and smelling it.
Li Baozhu was in the yard, using a hoe to scrape the mud off her shoes. The soil in the vegetable field was already soft, and when it rained it turned into mud. She just stepped in it, and the shoes didn't look good at all.
Su Ruyi found a stone nearby and rubbed her shoes on it.
"Second sister-in-law, whose family in the village has more vegetable seeds? Are there any that our family doesn't have?"
There is a large area of land in the backyard of her space, so she can’t just plant these kinds of things, right?
The more variety, the easier it is to sell and the more money you make.
It was obviously the wrong person to ask Li Baozhu about this kind of thing.
She doesn't communicate much with her family, and she doesn't communicate much with people outside. She feels that she has exerted enough effort to say hello to her.
Li Baozhu's face became hot and she felt that she was really useless. She didn't know anything and couldn't help with anything.
"I don't know...everyone probably grows the same thing at home..."
She felt guilty.
Su Ruyi said: "I'll ask you later!"
Li Baozhu opened his mouth and wanted to push it to Liu Cuier. This kind of communication with outsiders was always done by mother and Liu Cuier. She was too stupid to explain clearly.
But at the critical moment, he shut his mouth again.
In fact, she doesn't want to be useless.
She was a little flattered that Su Ruyi asked her to do this.
She felt like she was finally seen, that someone finally looked up to her.
Even if this person is Su Ruyi.
Just nodded: "Okay, I just don't know if I can ask."
She has little confidence in herself.
Su Ruyi failed to scrape off her muddy shoes, which made her feel really uncomfortable. Fortunately, she went back and found an even worse pair. Not only was there a hole in the big toe, but the heel was also worn through, and the back was patched.
Just make do with it.
I went into the space and washed my dirty shoes.
After coming out, he ran to find Li Baozhu and asked her to mend his shoes when she was free. His big toes were exposed, which looked weird even if he was wearing cloth socks.
Li Baozhu was very happy and agreed.
The chicken, which had been stewed for more than an hour, was finally served to the table after Mrs. Zhang gave the order.
A basin was filled, but the soup in the pot was not finished yet.
In order to allow everyone to drink more chicken soup, Zhang specially added more water.
Ten people and ten bowls were all placed on the table.
The conditions at home are difficult, so in case the food is divided unevenly, the food is divided clearly before finishing. It is almost impossible to eat the second bowl.
There is no need to divide the soup today, the meat must be divided.
Several children stood around the table, their eyes wide open.
The adults were still suppressing the gluttons in their stomachs, wiping the table, arranging the chopsticks and so on. In fact, they were very anxious, and their eyes were secretly looking at the spoons of the parents, for fear that the small portion would be theirs... …
Zhang first found two chicken legs and scooped them into two bowls respectively, and then divided the other meat evenly into each bowl.
After roughly dividing it up, I took my chopsticks to "remediate" it. If there was too much in this bowl, I would pick out a piece, and if there was just enough in that bowl, I would fill it in.
Everyone swallowed with greedy saliva, but they couldn't bear to disturb grandma or distract grandma. It would be terrible if grandma couldn't divide it evenly!
Finally, Mrs. Zhang put down her chopsticks.
He brought a bowl to Liu Cuier, "This bowl is yours."
He brought another bowl of chicken drumsticks to Da Lang: "Da Lang, give it to your father. I'll come back and eat yours soon. Don't run away, walk over slowly!"
"I know grandma!"
Dalang expressed slight dissatisfaction with his grandmother's doubts about his abilities.
Keep dividing the rest.
The other one with chicken legs was given to Dalang. Mrs. Zhang said, "Don't be greedy. Dalang is Lu's eldest grandson and your eldest brother. You are not allowed to compete with him. Do you hear me?"
Although the children were envious, they all nodded obediently.
Zhang, who had the chicken head, gave it to herself.
The remaining two bowls belong to Li Baozhu and Su Ruyi.
Then there are Niu'er, Zhuang'er, Xing'er, and Dan'er.
Su Ruyi originally complained about Zhang's move of giving the other chicken drumstick to Dalang. She felt that the drumstick should be given to Zhang herself because she was the eldest in the family.
Isn’t it too patriarchal for the eldest grandson?
But held back.
This is not modern. Modern methods may not be practical in this era. Men play a decisive role in this era of low productivity.
The elder man indeed shouldered the responsibility as the eldest grandson, carrying much more hay and collecting firewood than his younger brothers and sisters.
He deserves to be rewarded. Since the old lady is willing to divide it like this, others shouldn't have any objections.
Another reason why Su Ruyi didn't have much objection was that the old lady had indeed been relatively fair.
The eldest son has the most meat in his bowl. He is the eldest son and a man.
The remaining four women, including herself, were pretty much the same.
Then the children were allocated according to their size. To be honest, I didn’t see any obvious preference for boys over girls.
This act of sharing meat made Su Ruyi's favorability towards Zhang +1.
To be honest, she had a deep impression of the ancient people's stereotypes, and felt that they must all be patriarchal. But looking at it this way, that's not necessarily the case!
"Don't be stunned, let's eat!"
The old lady gave the order and felt very majestic at this moment.
This hen weighed just over two pounds and was so skinny that when it was divided into bowls for ten people, each of them couldn't eat even two pieces.
There is no condition to add spices to the pot, the only spice is a few slices of ginger.
Not even much salt was added, and too much water was added to the chicken soup, so it no longer tasted like chicken.
The chicken is stewed till tender.
Su Ruyi put down her chopsticks and gnawed on the bones with her hands.
I actually thought this was the most delicious chicken I had ever eaten.
There is no fishy smell, just the aroma of meat.
It was so delicious that she almost chewed the chicken bones together and swallowed them.
This made Su Ruyi feel that the chickens she had eaten before were all fake, right? To be honest, apart from the flavor of seasoning, the chicken I have eaten before has never tasted like meat.
"well……"
While eating, she heard Mrs. Zhang sigh.
Su Ruyi looked up curiously and saw a half-shaped egg hanging on Zhang's chopsticks.
"Isn't there an egg? Why don't you lay it?"
Mrs. Zhang muttered and then said:
"That's right. I can't bear to throw a handful of millet to you. It's weird to be able to lay eggs..."
