Because of today's dish, Niu Caohua also cooked dry rice extravagantly. After cooking, there was only a small handful of brown rice left in the jar, which was only enough for tomorrow's meal.
The rice in the fields is not yet ripe, and if we don’t replenish it, the whole family will go hungry.
With brown rice, I ate the chicken stewed with mushrooms beautifully. I even washed the clay pot with water several times and drank it, so nothing was wasted.
"Dad, go to bed early today. We will go to the market tomorrow morning and sell the things." Cow Caohua put down the bowl, grabbed the mosquito bag around her ankle, and did not forget to tell her father.
Mosquitoes in autumn are very venomous. They are as big as a tiny bit. Their bites are extremely itchy, and their swollen bags are very big. Even if they fumigate the house with hay, after a while there will still be a house full of mosquitoes, flying everywhere around us.
It's not winter yet, and the weather is not too cold. The wild animals we shot in the afternoon are already dead and cannot be stored for long. If they are not disposed of in time, they will soon deteriorate and become smelly.
Tomorrow happens to be market day, and it takes four hours to go back and forth from the village to the market, which means it takes four hours to walk there and four hours to come back.
This is the speed of a person who is in good health and walks fast. If someone walks slower, an extra hour or two is normal.
People in the village buy their daily necessities during the market. There is a big market once a month and a small market every seven days.
So apart from them, there must be many people in the village going to the market tomorrow. There will be many people in the village and they will bring so many wild animals with them. If they are seen by the villagers, there will inevitably be a lot of suspicion.
In order to avoid this, Cao Caohua decided to go earlier with Cao Dudu to avoid them.
It happened that their family lived in a remote area and had little contact with the village.
"Okay." Niu Dadu nodded.
He now firmly believes in his daughter's words. Her daughter has been enlightened by gods and is right.
"Xiaodi is going too!" Niu Xiaodi raised his head and fought for his own interests.
Although I didn't understand what my sister meant specifically, I still knew they were going out.
"Is Xiaodi obedient?" Niu Caohua touched her brother's frizzy hair. She felt the touch was normal and took her hand back.
"Obey!" Niu Xiaodi's voice was clear and loud, and he looked at his sister expectantly.
"Be obedient, Xiaodi will stay at home with your mother tomorrow."
"Ouch~" Niu Xiaodi was stunned for a moment, then burst into tears when he came to his senses.
"Sister is bad! Woohoo~" He also knew that he was suing, and the target of the complaint was his mother, Xiao Cuihua.
So, Cow Grass Flower was patted on the arm by her mother: "My brother is crying, Grass Flower is bad!"
Seeing his sister being beaten by his mother, Niu Xiaodi sniffed, but felt that he shouldn't complain, so he stopped his mother's hand and said, "If my mother doesn't hit me, my sister will be in pain."
Who could not love such a well-behaved and cute brother? Niu Caohua smiled and touched her brother's head again. This time, she didn't dislike her brother's hair. Instead, she thought that she would make her brother fatter in the future so that he feels like that. To be better.
Amidst the sound of Xiao Cuier swatting mosquitoes, the cow grass flower fell into a beautiful sleep.
In the early morning of the next day, before dawn, Chonger was still singing a ditty outside the house, and Cow Caohua was woken up by her father, Cow Pottu.
Although I went to bed very early last night, I was still very sleepy when I woke up. I felt dizzy and couldn't open my eyes.
Halfway through getting dressed, my eyes closed again.
"Grass flowers, straw flowers." Seeing that his daughter was still dazed, Niu Dadu simply put her in the basket on the other side and picked her up with a pole.
There were two baskets, one filled with hunted prey and the other filled with cowgrass flowers.
Even though Cow Caohua is already eight years old, she is very light, with both sides weighing about the same.
When Cow Grass Flower woke up again, she found that the sky had begun to brighten, and the stars in the sky had become dim, except for one morning star that remained bright.
The early morning breeze was chilling on people, but the cow was sweating all over while carrying the burden, and there was a trace of blush on its dark face.
"Dad, where are you?" Niu Caohua had never been to the market before. She only heard about it from the villagers, so she remembered it, but she didn't know the way.
"We're almost there, just another half hour of walking." Niu Dadu wiped the sweat from his face with his sleeves, but didn't stop.
"Dad, let me down, and I'll go by myself." There's still half an hour left, which means dad has been walking for three and a half hours. He's still carrying such a heavy burden. No wonder he's so tired.
"Caohua, please rest, we are almost there." Niu Dadu was actually a little tired, but looking at his daughter in the basket and the prey that could pay back the money, he felt warm in his heart, and he felt refreshed as he walked. gained strength.
"I want to come down for a walk. This basket is too small and my feet are sore." I was nestled in it, and I didn't feel anything when I fell asleep. But when I woke up, I felt extremely uncomfortable.
Niu Dadu saw that his daughter was really uncomfortable, so he squatted down, let the basket fall on the ground, and carried his daughter out.
"Wow, my feet are really numb!" The moment she stood on the ground, Niu Caohua almost fell because her feet were already numb, so she had to stand there for a while to recover.
Holding daddy's hand, the two of them continued walking to the market. There were many more people on the road, and they were all people who came to the market. Each of these people was like a big cow, carrying a load. The basket contained things that were exchanged for money at the market.
Niu Caohua looked around unscrupulously due to her young age.
These market goers bring a variety of things, including fruits, flowers, wild products, wild animals, eggs, etc...
There was also a big man carrying two buckets of water, with water splashing in them, and they were full of live fish.
Next to him was an aunt of similar age, who used her sleeves to wipe the big man's sweat from time to time.
It is very troublesome to raise live fish. Without enough oxygen, they will die quickly. In ancient times, there was no such thing as an oxygen machine. And these fish are still so energetic, which means they got up early in the morning to catch them.
Look at this big man, with a tired face, but also a longing for life, walking briskly past the cow-potted father and daughter.
There are many people in the market, and it is lively and lively. The clean stone road is lined with brick houses on both sides, which are much more elegant than the thatched houses in the village.
Obviously Niu Dadu rarely comes to the market, and he is a bit afraid of society. His big hand tightly held Niu Caohua's small hand, and he lowered his head and walked to a place with few people.
But not Niu Caohua. She had seen many more people than this in her previous life.
She looked at these lively crowds, at the people bargaining on the street, at the people shouting for business, and felt that she was truly alive.
Most of the people in the market were wearing the same clothes as Niu Caohua and his family, coarse linen clothes, but there were a few people wearing silk clothes, and they were followed by maids and servants. They looked richer at first glance.
