Framed at the beginning: Female educated youth forced to marry disabled military officer

Making bean dregs cake is very simple, but it requires a little egg. Most people just stir-fry it with green leaves.

But Meng Xiaoman prefers to eat bean dregs and egg pancakes. Beat a few eggs into the bean dregs, add some flour, salt and chopped green onion, add some water, and stir evenly to form a batter. Heat the pan, pour oil, scoop out a spoonful of bean dregs batter, spread it into a round cake, fry both sides until browned and serve out of the pan.

Bean dregs should be eaten fresh when used to make pancakes or stir-fries. If left for a long time, they will dry out and cause throat irritation. Meng Xiaoman saved some of the stir-fried vegetables to make pancakes, and the rest was used to feed the chickens and ducks at home.

Just two days after the summer harvest, it was time for summer planting. However, at this time, two different opinions emerged in the team. Some people think that they can cultivate first and then wait for rain, so as not to delay the emergence of seeds. Others feel that it may not rain in the short term. Moreover, from the time when harvesting sweet potatoes and rapeseed to harvesting wheat, the weather has been sunny, there has been no rain, and the soil in the fields has been very dry.

The soil is very dry, so plowing is more laborious. The team only has three plowing oxen, two donkeys, and one mule, which cannot plow so many fields. Many fields, especially sloping fields, are plowed and sown by human hands. When the land is dry, people and animals will be very tired.

If the rain does not come in time after the seeds are planted, the seeds will be suffocated in the soil and will not be able to sprout. It is better to wait until it rains before planting. This will not only save effort in plowing the land, but also ensure the emergence rate of seedlings.

Farming is a time-sensitive matter. People don’t want rain during the summer harvest, but when the summer harvest is over, they hope God will rain soon so that they can plant soybeans and corn more conveniently.

Everyone had just experienced an exhausting summer harvest and wanted to take a breather, so the latter opinion prevailed. However, after waiting for a week, there was still no sign of rain, so the team leader and those in charge of production began to become anxious.

"If we delay it any longer, we will miss the season. God can't keep it from raining forever. Let's plant the seeds first and wait for the rain. If it doesn't work, we can water and irrigate. It's better than waiting like this."

The team finally decided to farm first.

Meng Xiaoman started working normally again.

Although Meng Xiaoman knew that what she was doing was useless, she couldn't say it out loud. Delaying production was a big crime and she couldn't bear it.

At this point, Meng Xiaoman felt that she was not as courageous as Shen Yuru. She once strongly suggested to the team leader not to farm because drought might occur. It's just that the captain thought she was alarmist and didn't listen to her.

Because livestock are limited, plowing mainly relies on human power. The land was so dry that three of the wooden plows in the team were broken. This made the captain Xiao Hongjun very angry.

The whole team worked hard for more than ten days, and finally planted soybeans and corn in the ground, waiting for God to rain.

In the house, Meng Xiaoman shook the cattail leaf fan, ate watermelon chilled with well water, and talked to Xiao Xiangdong about the strange weather this summer.

There was little rain in early summer, so the watermelons were very sweet. Meng Xiaoman ate the crispy and sweet flesh, put the watermelon seeds on the table aside, and fried the watermelon seeds to eat.

"I always feel that the weather this summer is not normal. Will there be a drought? Should we prepare something in advance?"

Meng Xiaoman expressed his conjecture as naturally as possible.

Xiao Xiangdong forgot to look at the big sun in the sky, "It's a bit hot this summer. It's not afraid of ten thousand, just afraid of the worst. It's better to take some precautions."

Once a drought occurs, the first thing they face is water shortage. Meng Xiaoman's family has dug a well, but the depth is limited and they don't know if it will dry up.

"Don't worry too much, I'll figure it out."

In the next few days, Xiao Xiangdong first asked someone to dig his well several meters deep, and then asked someone to replace the thatched roof with tiles.

If the temperature is too high, thatch roofs can easily catch fire.

After getting these done, he ordered several water tanks and dug a large cellar. Used to hold water tanks and store vegetables.

I don't know where I got the saltpeter from, and I also made a lot of ice cubes and put them in the cellar to lower the temperature and store water at the same time.

"Tomorrow Shang Shang and I will go to the county town to meet Liu Zhiyuan. Is there anything you want? I'll bring it back for you." Liu Zhiyuan helped him a lot before selling wild animals. Xiao Xiangdong hasn't visited him since his leg healed. Pass him. This time, when he went to express his gratitude, he also told him about saving food during the drought, and took some wild animals with him in exchange for money.

"I don't want anything. By the way, you can buy a bag of tooth powder. We're running out of it at home. By the way, Liu Zhiyuan helped us a lot. I'll pack some things later and you can take them with you as a thank you gift."

Meng Xiaoman packed five or six kilograms of pecans and wild chestnuts, two kilograms of dried mushrooms and fungus, as well as a dried chicken and a dried rabbit, and put them in straw bags for Xiao Xiangdong to carry.

The bamboo basket was too hard and inconvenient to carry, so Meng Xiaoman asked Xiao Xiangdong to weave a lot of straw bags of different sizes out of reeds and cattails to carry things.

The next day, Xiao Xiangdong set out at four or five in the morning and didn't come back until he was about to go to bed at night.

"You're back. Have you had dinner? Can I make you something to eat?"

Xiao Xiangdong was indeed a little hungry. Meng Xiaoman rolled out the noodles, beat two poached eggs, added a handful of green vegetables, and cooked a small pot of green vegetable and egg noodles.

I picked a cucumber, peeled two eggs, and prepared a refreshing cold dish.

When the noodles were served, there was half a table full of food on the square table.

In addition to the tooth powder that Meng Xiaoman asked him to buy, there were many other things: two bars of soap, a plastic soap box, two boxes of facial oil, a flashlight, four bottles of soda in glass bottles, and a pair of things wrapped in newspapers. , inside was a pair of plastic sandals.

"I didn't know what kind of facial oil was good, so I bought two different ones."

Meng Xiaoman took a look and saw that one box was filled with purple and red and the other was Shanghai Cream.

"There are also sandals. You can try them on to see if they fit. I bought them based on the shoes you are wearing."

Meng Xiaoman tried it on and found that the size was just right.

"Why are you buying them for me? Didn't you buy something for yourself?"

A flash of panic flashed in Xiao Xiangdong's eyes, he hesitated for a moment, and said, "I don't need anything. By the way, you put this flashlight by the bedside and use it when you get up at night."

Meng Xiaoman's night vision is not as good as his. Sometimes when he gets up at night and comes back, he accidentally bumps into the edge of the kang.

"Glass soda, I'll hang it in the well first and drink it at noon tomorrow."