The billionaire girl: Daddy and Mommy, love me again

After Cheng Xingwan was held in Zhang's arms as she wished, she grinned and bombarded Zhang with her toothless smile, which made her very happy and smiling.

Seeing that Zhang was happy, she became more aggressive and pointed outside the cave, babbling and asking to go out to play.

Zhang coaxed her to Li's bedside, and seeing that Li seemed in good spirits, she felt relieved.

"The little devil is clever and refuses to stay at home for a moment. Mother-in-law, He'er will ask you to stay with her for a while. I will take the little monkey out for some fresh air. You don't have to cook tonight. Let's have a meal together."

"Okay, then I'll be lazy and not cook tonight."

Zhou did not refuse, thinking that she could bring some rice, meat and other food from her home to subsidize Old Cheng's family. Their family should have the most abundant food in the entire village. Every time the village distributed anything, her family was never left out. There was not much for the three of them to eat.

Zhang carried Cheng Xingwan out of the cave and strolled along the stream. She saw many women searching for something on both sides of the stream. Xie and Zheng were also there with their daughters-in-law.

Zhang thought about it and then walked towards them.

On the way, I met Liu and Wang. They were concentrating on turning over stones in the river. Wang's wooden bucket was already half full of snails, and Liu's bucket was not much less than hers.

“Aa ...

Cheng Xingwan saw them and greeted them happily.

When Mrs. Liu and Mrs. Wang heard her special baby talk, they straightened up at the same time. Looking up, they saw the little one in their mother-in-law's arms dancing and cheering at them, with joy flashing in his big dark eyes.

"Here comes the sweet baby!"

"My dear, you are saying hello to your aunt. You are awesome. Go play with your grandma. I will pick snails and make delicious food for you."

Thinking of the spicy snails last night, Cheng Xingwan's saliva flowed from the corner of his mouth uncontrollably, and under the setting sun, it turned into a shining silver thread.

She hated it so much. Why was she a little baby now and could only drink milk? She could only drool at the sight of delicious food. It was too much torture for the baby.

At this time, Xie and Zheng had just finished digging peppers and happened to pass by here. They saw Liu and Wang turning over stones in the river and were full of questions.

"Meihua, Yingniang, what are you doing?"

"Aunt, Second Aunt, we are catching snails."

"There are plenty of these things in the river. Why did you pick them up? To feed the ducks? If you drive the ducks into the river, they will eat them themselves. There is no need to pick them up."

"Sister-in-law, you misunderstood. This is not for the ducks. We are planning to stir-fry the snails tonight."

"This thing tastes terrible and has a foul smell. It's such a waste of oil and salt. Why would you want to eat it?"

"Could it be that the food at home has been eaten up? Are the yams we dug yesterday not enough? If not, I will ask Erniu to send you some later, and also some of the fresh bamboo fungus I just picked this afternoon."

"Yes, my family also dug up a lot of yam and some brown rice. I'll ask Erjin to send some to you later."

"No, sister-in-law, sister-in-law, you misunderstood. We are not short of food."

However, Mrs. Xie and Mrs. Zheng did not believe her and thought she was embarrassed. Otherwise, why would she eat something that others would not even starve to death when she had food?

"You are the same. You are starving at home, but you are so generous. You sent us the snake soup. You are afraid that we will starve."

After saying that, the two of them shook their heads and walked away without waiting for Zhang to explain. The sun was about to set, and they still had to plant the pepper trees before dark.

"It's no wonder that the eldest and second aunts misunderstood that we had no food. Who could have known that these smelly snails could be more delicious than meat when cooked."

"Yeah, didn't we have the same idea as them yesterday?"

"Forget it. There's no point in saying more. I'll send some over to them after it's cooked tonight and they'll know it's a good thing."

"Then I have to pick up more before everyone knows about it."

"Okay, you guys keep picking up trash for a while. It's almost time to go back and prepare dinner. I'll take my daughter over there to take a look."

After saying that, he supported his granddaughter's little butt and let her lie on his shoulders. This would not only relieve the numbness in her arms, but also exercise the little one's neck strength.

Cheng Xingwan lay on Zhang's shoulder, stretched her little neck as far as she could, and looked around with great interest.

As she grew up, her vision became clearer and clearer. Now, the world in her eyes is no longer just black and white, but a beautiful world with rich colors.

The endless green rice fields and the thriving seedlings turned into green waves as the wind blew.

A clear stream meanders from the center of the valley into the distance. There are flocks of ducks in the stream, some are chasing and playing, some are catching snails and small fishes to enjoy their feasts. The furry little ducks follow their mother nervously, afraid that they will fall behind and lose their way home.

The women on both sides of the stream were chatting and laughing while pulling up the grass. They looked at each other's winnowing baskets, and when they saw that they had dug more pepper seedlings, they gave the seedlings they had just found to the other party.

The carefree laughter of children could be heard from afar, and when I looked up, I saw a group of children chasing and playing in the crowd on the crowded rocky beach. Their still sallow faces looked a little more fleshy than before, and the panic on their faces was replaced by innocent smiles.

The men in the village gathered around the newly assembled wooden press, their expressions filled with excitement, hope and a bit of well-concealed uneasiness.

"The wooden press is ready, but I don't know if it's successful. It would be nice if I had something to try it on."

Cheng Dafu happily stroked the wooden press that carried everyone's hopes, and said with a hint of regret.

Zhang remembered that Li had said that mountain pepper could also be used to extract oil. After thinking for a moment, she said, "Why don't we try mountain pepper? I just picked a basket of it today."

"It's just that it's getting late. If we start pressing oil now, we may have to work until midnight."

Cheng Dafu glanced at the people gathered in a circle, thought for a while and then said.

"It's Hai Hour, if we don't get a result today, I'm afraid everyone won't be able to sleep peacefully tonight."

"Yes, yes, to prevent everyone from getting itchy, let's start trying now!"

"Okay, go and invite Ze Li over, and have someone else fetch the mountain pepper. The rest of you, gather firewood and set up the stove!"

After Cheng Dafu gave the order, the crowd dispersed. Everyone was busy, some picking up firewood, some picking up stones to build the stove. There is strength in numbers. When Cheng Zeli hurried over, there was already a pile of firewood on the stone beach, and a temporary stone stove had been built.

Fry the mountain pepper in a pan until it is dry and fragrant but not burnt, then put the mountain pepper into the grinding trough and grind it into pieces.

After the mountain pepper is ground into powder, it is put into a pot and steamed in a wooden steamer. The steamed powder is then stuffed into a round bamboo hoop (the bamboo hoop replaces the iron hoop) with thatch as the bottom (originally rice straw should have been used, but there was no rice straw, so thatch was used instead) to make a embryo cake.

Put the embryo cake into the pressing trough carved from a whole piece of wood, install a wooden wedge on the right side of the trough and start pressing.

"Oil is coming out, oil is coming out!"

As the clear and fragrant oil flowed out, the scene was boiling.

"It's done, it's done, we've squeezed out the oil!"

People cheered, hugged each other and cried with joy to celebrate this exciting moment.