butcher's little man

Li Wenxuan's apples were brought back from the north by someone, and the price was relatively expensive, but Li Wenxuan thought that the old and young at home hadn't eaten much, so he bought four of them at home.

This apple is not too big, but it is red and pleasing to the eye.Li Wenxuan took them all out, and handed them two to Aunt Li, one for him and Father Li, one for Tian Xiaoman, one for Le Geer, and one for himself. It's all in place.

Tian Xiaoman was not willing to let him eat nothing, so he picked up the apple and washed it in the kitchen, and cut it in half with a knife.He also ate it. Although his family is not particularly rich, it is still possible to buy one or two to satisfy his cravings. However, this thing is from the north and is not very common, so it is difficult to buy.

When Li Wenxuan saw him coming out, he even handed him half of the apple. He wanted to refuse, but Tian Xiaoman's face was full of no refusal, so Li Wenxuan had to take it.This year's apples look sweet, but they are already sweet to the bottom of my heart before I eat them.

Li Amu looked at his son's filial piety of apples, and was very happy, but he didn't think about eating them, so he decided to keep them first, and let Le Geer and Xiaoman share half of them next time they had nothing to eat.

Brother Le saw the two adults eating one bite at a time, holding the apple up and taking a bite. However, his small white teeth only bit the skin.Li Amu looked down, and quickly snatched it over, "It hasn't been washed yet! Wait for Mommy to wash it for you!"

After fetching water and washing it, Li Amu felt that the apple was too big for Le Geer, so she cut half of it and put it in the cupboard, and took the other half back to the yard with a small iron spoon in her hand.

After Li Amu sat down, Le Geer immediately moved up.He dug with an iron spoon, and the apple was dug out with a layer of foam, and then he sent the spoonful of apple foam to Le Geer's open mouth. In an instant, Le Geer was captured by the sweet taste in his mouth I swallowed it after grinding for a few times, and immediately opened my mouth wide to look at Li Amu...

Today is a sunny day, Li Amu looked at it and decided to marinate some vegetables today, if it is colder, there will be nothing to eat.

Pulling the pickle jar out from the corner of the kitchen, Li Amu fetched some water to rinse it clean.This jar of pickles is huge. After all, it has to be eaten from winter to spring, so it doesn't matter if it's not too big.

After washing the jar, Li Amu asked Li Wenxuan to turn it over and put it face down on the ground, so that the water would evaporate early.Then I went to the field to cut vegetables and came back.

When Tian Xiaoman heard this, he wanted to follow him, he didn't know where his home was yet, so he had to follow him to inspect it.Since he is going too, he might as well go with his whole family, except Father Tian who is still standing alone on the mountain, repairing those traps.

Before going out, Li Wenxuan went in again, seeing Tian Xiaoman looking at him, he smiled at him, and then walked briskly away with two big baskets.

Along the way, Tian Xiaoman and Le Geer seemed to be out to play, looking around, either picking a dog's tail grass, or picking a dead branch, without stopping at all.

Their family's vegetable field is at the foot of the mountain, surrounded by mountains on three sides, and it can only be exposed to the sun for an hour or two every day after noon. It is not a good piece of land. However, this is their own land reclamation, but they did not force too much.

Some expensive vegetables are grown in the backyard, such as cabbage and radishes, which are more tenacious vegetables, are grown here together, and there is also a vegetable specially made for sauerkraut.

Today they just want to collect some radishes and cabbages, and the most collected ones are this kind of mustard greens.Li Amu went down to cut with a sickle, and Tian Xiaoman went to pull the radishes. Li Wenxuan didn't end up. Instead, he went around the mountain and came back with a lot of dead branches.

Looking at his actions, Tian Xiaoman had an idea, "Should I eat roasted sweet potatoes?"

"That's right, I went to the kitchen to get some sweet potatoes just now, Xiaoman, you are so smart!" Li Wenxuan said while digging a shallow pit with a hoe, put all the sweet potatoes in, and then buried the soil went back.

"Hey! Why did you bury the sweet potato? Aren't you going to bake it? How can you eat it if it's all mud?" Tian Xiaoman was anxious, put down the big carrot in his hand, and came to Li Wenxuan for an explanation.

"Xiao Man, you don't know that!" Li Wenxuan put the hoe down, and he seemed to be talking about it, looking very proud. "You usually roast sweet potatoes, you throw them into the fire and wait to eat them, but the sweet potatoes baked in this way are almost burnt on the outside, but the inside is not necessarily ripe, it is not delicious at all .”

Tian Xiaoman nodded, when he used to go to roast sweet potatoes with Xiaoguo and the others, he would always eat a mouthful of black ashes, but he couldn't eat anything, it just smelled delicious and had a lot of fun eating.

"If you dig a small hole and cover it with a thin layer of soil, don't let the fire directly burn the sweet potatoes. The sweet potatoes that will be roasted later will be fragrant and waxy, and they will be cooked inside and out. I can’t eat it all in one mouthful.”

Hearing his description like this, Tian Xiaoman felt that he was a little hungry now, so he hurriedly asked him to get angry now.

Li Wenxuan looked at his anxious look, and didn't continue to tease him. He took out a flint from his pocket, hit sparks hard, ignited those leaves, and then set up firewood.

After waiting for it to be ripe, Li Wenxuan also took a sickle to help Li Amu harvest the cabbage.Looking at it, Tian Xiaoman remembered that Li Wenxuan helped his family cut rice this summer in order to please him. At that time, he didn't even know how to use a sickle!

Tian Xiaoman thought to himself, a happy smile appeared on his face, he was already married to him!Recalling the time when I was hostile to Li Wenxuan back then, it seemed like a lifetime ago.Now he looks at Li Wenxuan, he is good everywhere, but his physical strength is too good, he is a bit too much...

Brother Le was playing with the grasshopper that was about to fall apart, and looked at Tian Xiaoman strangely, why did he blush?He called Tian Xiaoman out of his mouth, and pulled Tian Xiaoman back who was immersed in his own thoughts.

Facing Brother Le's clear and ignorant eyes, Tian Xiaoman said embarrassedly, "I'm going to pull the carrots!" Then he quickly walked off the ground.

well!Le Geer sighed like a little adult, what a strange adult!

By the time they collected the two baskets of vegetables, the pile of dead branches was almost extinguished, leaving only dots of flames running upwards.

Li Wenxuan used a long branch to push away the dust, and then began to pry the soil below. He didn't dare to use too much force, otherwise it would be bad if the sweet potato was smashed.

Following his movements, both Tian Xiaoman and Le Ge'er smelled a strong sweet fragrance at the same time, and moved towards him by coincidence.

Li Amu went to a spring in the mountains to wash his hands, and when he came back, he saw the appearance of the two of them and smiled. He sometimes felt that Xiaoman was like a grown-up Le Geer. The two stood together, Some people believe that he is Le Geer's dear mother.

Thinking of Le Geer's Ah Mu, he was a little unhappy. Originally, he didn't have any thoughts about that son-in-law.But he didn't even want to come back for such a big event as Li Wenxuan's marriage, but it made him chill, he just gave birth to their two brothers!

While he was thinking about these things, the voices of Tian Xiaoman and Le Geer called him to eat sweet potatoes.Forget it, for Brother Le's sake, he didn't think about it anymore!

When Li Wenxuan was digging out the sweet potatoes, Tian Xiaoman picked up one regardless of the heat, and moved his left and right hands over each other, unwilling to let it cool down for a while.

He has already touched the sweet potato, which is soft and completely different from the one he used to bake into black charcoal!After the sweet potato cooled down a bit, he peeled off the skin, revealing the red, yellow and yellow sweet potato inside, and took another bite, it was sweeter than honey!

Tian Xiaoman walked up to Li Wenxuan excitedly, "Husband, you are amazing! This baked sweet potato is really delicious!"

Li Wenxuan was very satisfied, it was worth it to roast a sweet potato in exchange for a husband!Tian Xiaoman, who knew that he usually only coaxed them when they were intimate, called out.However, this is also reflected from the side, the current food is ranked ahead of him in Xiaoman's heart!

"I'll take a bite!"

Tian Xiaoman was not stingy this time, he generously held up the sweet potato and let him take a bite, anyway, there are still there!

After the young couple ate a few sweet potatoes affectionately.I'm ready to go home and dry the pickles.

After several people returned home, Li Wenxuan poured out all the vegetables in the basket and spread them out on the ground, washing and chopping, he was busy.

Although it is already winter, the warm sunshine in this simple farmyard at this time creates a steaming feeling. The well water is not cold to the touch, and even Brother Le helped wash a radish .

The busy day passed quickly, and the mustard greens and cabbage would have to dry for another day or two. The radishes had already been cut into strips and pressed into a small jar. As long as you wait for a while, there will be very refreshing sour radishes to eat up...

It has been almost a month since Tian Xiaoman got married.In these days, apart from doing some housework, Tian Xiaoman followed Li Amu around the whole village to recognize these villagers.

Before marrying here, Tian Xiaoman always heard from villagers that Liushupo was a poor place.There is a saying that troublesome people come out of poor mountains and rivers.Naturally, most of the people in Liushupo are unreasonable.He was still a little apprehensive before, wondering if he would be bullied by the villagers, but then he thought, isn't his own reputation in Xingtian Village just unreasonable, there is no need to be afraid of them.

But after being a guest in every household of Li Amu, Tian Xiaoman found that in fact, the people in every place are similar, some are good and some are not easy to get along with, and it is not as unreasonable as imagined.

The days passed day by day like this, and it was almost Laba Festival in a blink of an eye.

On this day, Li Amu took them to the street together to buy ingredients for making Laba porridge.

Because this year is Tian Xiaoman's first year of marriage, so on this Laba Festival, the children in the village will come to beg for Laba porridge, which is called a test of the new husband's craftsmanship.Therefore, things must be well prepared, otherwise these boys will not buy it.

They took Brother Le into the village car and rushed to the county town.In the car, Li Amu was talking to others, and Tian Xiaoman was also talking to a brother named Ayun whom he met recently.

This Ayun is the husband who makes tofu in the village, and he is very gentle. There seems to be no such type among Tian Xiaoman's friends, so Tian Xiaoman has a good impression of him, thinking that Ayun is like a big brother.

Le Geer was sitting in Tian Xiaoman's arms, holding a small twist in his hand, looking at a little boy.I don't know who he came with, sitting alone in the far corner of the car, looking at everyone with thorns.

Brother Le stared blankly at the little brother. It was rare for him to get along with children of the same age. Seeing this kid staring at him, he didn't know how to react.

Seeing that Brother Le was also looking at him, the child made a fierce expression, and Brother Le buried his head in Tian Xiaoman's arms at once.

"Brother Le, what's the matter?" Tian Xiaoman asked with concern when he saw that he was behaving abnormally.

"Scared!" Le Geer turned his head to look at the child, motioning him to look.

Tian Xiaoman followed his gaze strangely, but only saw a child with his head down and looking very honest sitting in the corner.

"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, just hit him later!"

The child shrank when he heard this, and lowered his head even lower.After a long while, he quietly looked at the little twist in Brother Le's hand from the corner of his eye, and licked his mouth.

Brother Le was buried in Tian Xiaoman's arms and fell asleep.

When they arrived at the county seat, they got off the cart outside the city because the ox carts would not go in.After greeting other villagers, they walked inside.

Seeing Tian Xiaoman hugged Le Geer all the way, Li Amu took him over. As soon as he started to hold him, Le Geer woke up and struggled to get off.

They also let him walk slowly, holding his little hand.After a while, I came to Nanhuo store.

Most people cook Laba porridge in different ways, because poor people generally only put some white rice and glutinous rice, and mix them together to make them soft and sticky.

But rich and noble families have everything that one expects to find, some of which you have never even heard of.

This year, in order to show off Tian Xiaoman's skills, Li Amu spent a lot of money and bought lotus seeds, longan, red dates, lilies, red beans, wolfberries, plus rice and glutinous rice already at home, and made up eight items. It also cost hundreds of dollars to Li Amu.

There is no need to sacrifice ancestors during the Laba Festival, so they don’t need to buy anything extra. They carried these things and walked to Li Wenxuan’s shop, and then they would go back directly in Li Wenxuan’s car.

When Tian Xiaoman passed by a cloth shop, he suddenly thought of Le Geer’s spoiled grasshopper, and thought that he didn’t have anything to play with, so he went to the cloth shop to buy some rags and cotton, and planned to make one for him. Cloth tigers play.

Li Amu felt that he was careless, but he didn't expect Le Ge'er to be bored at home. Seeing Tian Xiaoman's actions, he was more satisfied with Xiaoman.

When he came to Li Wenxuan's shop, he found that only half of the two pigs on his chopping board were left unsold. Because tomorrow was a holiday, he killed one more pig than usual.

When they went, only Li Wenxuan was in the shop, and Niu Jin, who usually accompanied him, had gone somewhere.Li Wenxuan saw their doubts and explained that Niu Jin's grandparents had taken him to meet his husband, so he didn't come today, which made Li Wenxuan too busy.

Looking at a pig's trotter on the chopping board, Tian Xiaoman suddenly wanted to eat soy trotters, so he asked Li Wenxuan to put the trotters down, so as not to be bought later.

Li Wenxuan didn't dare to refuse, and immediately put the pig's trotters down.

"Hey, little brother, do you still have pig's trotters? My son-in-law is giving birth to a baby, buy some and go back to breastfeed!" A aunt came over.

"I'm really sorry, the pig's trotters are sold out, why don't you go early tomorrow? I'll definitely save one for you!" Li Wenxuan coaxed the old lady away with a guarantee, and bought a catty of meat before leaving go back.

Tian Xiaoman looked at Li Wenxuan telling lies without changing his expression, wanted to laugh but held back, but his heart was actually sweet!