No pain no gain

In the days when he went to the mountain to cut firewood, Da Zhuang not only picked a lot of fungus, but also picked up many wild fruit pits left after they fell to the ground and rotted. After drying the pits, they were fried in a pot. It is a good snack, and most of the fruit cores are rich in fat, which can supplement the nutrients that are lacking due to long-term eating of coarse batter with less oil.

In fact, Da Zhuang knows in his heart that calcium is what the children lack the most. The twins are more than seven months old and have not started teething yet. Zhuang, Da Niuer, and Er Niuer are all relatively short, much shorter than normal children of the same age. According to the original memory of this sentence, before I came here, this family had not eaten meat for a long time. Bones or something.

Da Zhuang thought, thought, and felt a little headache again. It is really not an easy task to raise all six children well!

Er Zhuang and Da Niuer took Er Niuer and San Niuer to play in the yard. Da Zhuang put the twins in a big dry wooden basin and put them in the yard to bask in the sun. The twins seemed to like this kind of treatment very much. The "giggle" who stretched his arms and kicked his legs laughed straight.

"Da Zhuang, Er Zhuang, are you home?" There was a shout from outside the yard following the knock on the door.

Er Zhuang was relatively close to the gate of the courtyard, and ran to open the door while answering.

"Uncle, Auntie, you are here!" Er Zhuang shouted happily.

Da Zhuang frowned slightly. The father of this body had an older brother and a younger sister. The younger sister married to another village. When his father just died, that aunt sent over half a bag of rough noodles, and he never came to the door after that. However, this uncle has never come to the door. The reason is only because of this powerful uncle...

Da Zhuang put down a small basket he was weaving, went up to greet them, and greeted them politely.

The uncle put the things on his back in the main room, and sat on the chair in silence.

The aunt entered the yard behind, and Da Zhuang noticed that the aunt's eyes glanced suspiciously at the chickens in the yard.

The eldest aunt exaggeratedly went up to tease the twins, but made the twins cry.

The eldest girl and the second girl stepped forward to protect the twins unhappily.

"Calm down for a while!" the uncle said in a rough voice.

The eldest aunt raised her eyebrows, she was about to get angry, but she noticed Da Zhuang and the others, so she endured it.

The uncle pushed the bag, and said to Da Zhuang: "There are some grains and white cabbage in here, you eat first, there is not enough waiting, uncle is bringing some over for you."

The eldest aunt couldn't bear it anymore, and said quickly in a sharp voice: "You can save some food, the aunt's house is not relaxed..."

In the end, what the auntie said meant that the family didn't have much food, and it was already difficult to get them out. Also, Da Zhuang and the others had eaten the food from the auntie's house now, and they had to be filial when they grew up. Uncle and aunt Yunyun.

Da Zhuang didn't refute, and agreed one by one. Don't waste the food delivered to your door. As for the future, let's get through this difficulty first!

The uncle stopped the aunt who was going to continue to explain the greatness and difficulty of delivering food from her family, said in a hurry, "there is still something to do at home", and left the yard.

Da Zhuang didn't care, this uncle is actually quite an honest person, but he was taken to death by his mother-in-law. This time he took half a bag of things here, and he probably had to fight for a long time before he succeeded, besides, the uncle has five children in his own family. , but life is tight.

Da Zhuang asked Er Zhuang and the others to continue playing in the yard. He was about to untie the bag when there was another hasty knock on the door outside.

When he opened the door, the uncle came back again, obviously walking in a hurry, his face was flushed, and he was panting slightly when he spoke.

The uncle touched his bosom a few times, took out some copper plates tied with ropes, stuffed them into Da Zhuang's hands, and said in a low voice: "You can use the money, buy some good ones and eat them back, and what's more, in the bag There is a piece of meat in the middle of the white cabbage, eat it quickly, don't let your aunt know, don't take what your aunt said to heart, if you have any difficulties, just go to the uncle's house to find it,..."

Da Zhuang nodded a little touched. The hundred or so copper coins are probably all the private savings of the middle-aged man in front of him over the years...

After the uncle left, Da Zhuang untied the bag, and there were four or five stalks of white cabbage, that is, cabbage, but they were not as big and beautiful as the modern cabbages. It is fat and thin pork belly, half of the bag is thick noodles under the bag, and there are a few handfuls of rice hidden in the corner. These are all neatly wrapped in old coarse cloth. I think the rice is probably packed in by the uncle without telling the aunt. stop.

Da Zhuang sighed in his heart, and when he met his aunt in the future, for the sake of his uncle's face, let's make room a little bit more, so as to save that honest man from being difficult...

In the evening, Dazhuang generously cut the piece of meat in half, chopped half a cabbage, mixed some fungus soaked in hot water, made dumpling stuffing, and made a pot of dumplings.

Although there was very little meat in the dumpling filling and thick skin and little stuffing, the children seemed to eat the most delicious food in the world, and even drank the dumpling soup cleanly.

At night, lying on the warm kang, Er Niuer said in a soft voice: "Brother, shall we eat meat dumplings tomorrow?"

San Niuer, who was about to fall asleep, also said vaguely: "Eat, eat..."

Da Zhuang gave a wry smile silently: "There will be no dumplings for tomorrow, but there is still meat to eat."

Er Niu'er heard that there was still meat to eat, so she didn't care whether she ate dumplings or not, and fell asleep happily.

Even Er Zhuang and Da Niuer let out a small cheer when they heard this.