Soul Travel: I was bought by the fierce man in the village to farm

It was cloudy and dark early, so she took a rest after two trips.

Li Yunshan came back early, carrying fish and a basket of mushrooms on his back.

He poured the fish in the bucket into the water tank and said, "I caught a lot of crabs and shrimps."

"It's so cold that you got into the water?"

"It's not down." Li Yunshan said, "I picked it up standing on the rocks."

Mao Xiaosui nodded and said, "Let's do it tomorrow. I'll deal with the suet first."

Li Yunshan took out the bones and smashed them.

The pot on the clay stove was too small, so Mao Xiaosui went to the kitchen.

Li Yunshan smashed the bones, took them in, scooped out some water, washed them and threw them in to cook, and then said, "I'll get water."

Mao Xiaosui nodded casually and patiently boiled the lard.

The two children disliked the cold and played in the room until the smell of oil refining came out.

It was still early to eat, so Mao Xiaosui urged, "Go inside, I'll call you later."

Li Ruyi was very greedy and stood unwilling to move. Li Ankang saw that she was unwilling to move and did not move.

Li Yunshan came back with water and smiled when he saw Li Ruyi staring at the pot eagerly, and asked, "Can you two see it?"

Li Ruyi smiled at him.

Li Yunshan moved the water jar into the house and poured water into it.

Mao Xiaosui was refining oil, and suddenly remembered that it was okay not to buy the suet, and her pigs should be killed in half a month at most.

Li Yunshan was afraid that it would snow and fill the water tank, so she filled a little of the refined oil residue and brought it back to the house for the two children to eat. She put the rest into a basin and placed it next to the clay stove. While it was still hot, a rice of dried beans was simmered in an oil pan.

After a while, it got dark and Li Yunshan was done with his work. Mao Xiaosui first asked him to eat some oil residue together.

He casually said, "The old lady asked you to give her a clay brick."

Li Yunshan nodded, "She just said it."

Mao Xiaosui didn't even ask him if he was going.

Li Yunshan took the initiative and said, "She wanted me to muddy her kang, but I didn't agree. Let her and Yun Qiang come up and I'll tell him how to do it."

"Did the old lady curse?" Mao Xiaosui asked.

Li Yunshan nodded, "Whatever she wants."

After a few mouthfuls of oily soup, the soup was ready. The two children didn't want to eat, so she only filled half a bowl of soup.

Li Yunshan took out the bones and ate the oil in the middle. He gave the meat on the bones to Heizi without touching it.

After finishing the soup and rice, there was a lot left. Mao Xiaosui put it on the shelf and planned to heat it up and eat it tomorrow, and then went to the kitchen to wash the pot.

The wind blew dust outside, and the doors and windows rattled. Fortunately, the room was warm and comfortable.

She was tired after a long day and fell asleep soon.

I vaguely felt someone moving, and when I opened my eyes, I saw Li Yunshan sitting up.

Just when she was about to ask what was wrong, Li Yunshan hugged Li Ruyi and Li Ankang to the wall and pulled her over.

He said, "The two children should sleep alone next year. In the spring, I will tidy up the woodshed and make mud on the kang."

"You haven't cleaned up the woodshed yet?" Mao Xiaosui said.

"Put up the door." Li Yunshan hugged her, "Put the entrance near the backyard with hay. The space is spacious enough to store firewood."

"Okay." Mao Xiaosui had no objection.

Li Yunshan said "Yeah" and then said, "Go to sleep."

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I slept until dawn, the stove was burning in the house, and I could still smell the smell of rice porridge. There was a rustling sound outside, and it was Li Yunshan sweeping the floor.

She sat up and slid the quilt off her shoulders. She went down and opened the window and saw that it was all white outside.

I quickly closed the window, got dressed and helped to clean it.

Mao Xiaosui was responsible for sweeping the snow on the steps. After sweeping, he was about to go to the hut when he heard Mao Mingzhu calling her from below.

Mao Mingzhu asked, "Can I bring you some cabbage today?"

"Okay." Mao Xiaosui shouted.

Wang Qingshan and Wang Zhong came up quickly, and Mao Xiaosui gave them the forty copper coins he had prepared in advance.

Asked, "Will it still be five copper coins this year? If it's not enough, let my aunt tell me again."

"That's enough." Wang Qingshan and the other two took the coins and left.

Li Yunshan suddenly said, "It's time to kill the pig."

The snow fell early this year, and she originally thought she could survive for another half month.

"How do we kill? Where do we kill?"

Li Yunshan: "Go to Ding's house. His house has a special stone trough, which is more convenient than ours."

"Then we have to wait until the weather clears." Mao Xiaosui said.

"No, I'll go tomorrow."

Mao Xiaosui didn't understand very well, "It was so thick last night, and the sky didn't look like it would be clear. The car couldn't even move."

"No need for a car." Li Yunshan said, "I pulled it with a rope, and Heizi drove it from behind. Kill it first, because there will be no food to feed it."

"Can it be done?" Mao Xiaosui was still worried. What if he ran away? What if he slapped you? You are a pig after all, and a slap in the face would be enough for you. "

Li Yunshan was amused by her: "No, I have a sense of propriety."

"Okay." Mao Xiaosui didn't hesitate after hearing that he was so knowledgeable.

I took one cabbage to the main room, put the others away, and called him, "Hurry up and finish sweeping and come in to eat."

Li Yunshan responded and went to sweep the door again.

Mao Xiaosui poured the porridge into the basin, washed the pot with water and started cooking.

The pig was about to be slaughtered at home. She didn't feel bad when she put in the oil. She also put in some oil residue and stir-fried it with the cabbage.

The smell of cabbage fried in lard was very fragrant. Li Ruyi and Li Ankang couldn't sit still anymore and quickly got off the kang to wash up and wait for dinner.

After dinner, Li Yunshan was chopping firewood in the yard, and Mao Xiaosui began to make clothes.

The two children look the same every year, and this year's clothes will not be worn next year. As usual, she took apart the thin clothes and re-stitched the seams. She made Li Ruyi's cotton-padded clothes bigger and stuffed them with more cotton.

She's growing up really fast, and the newly sewn ones this year are a bit too small for her clothes now, but Li Ankang fits her perfectly, and is even a bit too big.

Mao Xiaosui became more and more worried as he watched, and waved to him.

Li Ankang came over, called "Mother" and then stopped moving.

Mao Xiaosui pinched his wrist. It was fleshy and his face was much rounder than Li Ruyi's because he was not tall. The two siblings were completely different.

I finished sewing Li Ruyi's clothes and sewed some cloth to make shoes for next year. It was noon when everything was packed away.

She washed the crabs and shrimps, boiled the shrimps in water, and steamed the crabs on chopsticks.

After steaming, pour the water into the basin and keep it for a while to wash the pot and heat up the leftover rice and soup from last night.

When I was about to call Li Yunshan to come in for dinner, I heard who he was talking to. I thought it was someone from the Wang family and ignored him. When I was about to enter the house, I realized it was Li Yunqiang.

Li Yunqiang's voice is not loud, but it is easy to distinguish.

She didn't care. After a while, Li Yunshan came back and said, "Yun Qiang wants me to help Ni kang."

"What did you say?"

"I told him to come in and I told him what to do." Li Yunshan glanced at Mao Xiaosui, "He didn't want to, he said he would let me down after dinner and left."

Mao Xiaosui just felt baffled, "Does he still have a temper? If he didn't play those tricks, who would care about him? I feel like it's a waste of time to scold him."

"I don't know." Li Yunshan said, "He didn't lose his temper. I went down to take a look and came back."

Mao Xiaosui said nothing more.