The sun was shining brightly at noon, and Fu Jingyou and the boys in the team brought two oxcarts back from the brigade.
He Hongjin directed people to put buckets on the oxcart. Three hundred kilograms of fish were packed in more than a dozen buckets.
Counting the oxen carts in the team, there are exactly three oxen carts.
When the meal was ready, Lu Miao walked out slowly, preparing to call He Hongjin and Fu Jingyou to come back for dinner first.
As a result, these two people came back first, sweating profusely.
Lu Miao stepped aside:
"Uncle, it's time to eat."
"Hey, hey."
He Hongjin hurriedly responded and walked quickly house to the kitchen.
"Mom, hurry up and fill me up with a pot of water. I'm going to the county right away..."
He Hongjin's face turned black and oily due to the heat.
Fu Jingyou, who came in behind, was not much better.
The originally healthy and wild wheat-colored skin was slightly reddened by the sun and looked darker.
He Hongjin buried his head in the kitchen, while Fu Jingyou turned slightly and approached Lu Miao.
“Are you tired from walking around today? Are your legs still swollen?”
"It's swollen."
Lu Miao nodded and said truthfully:
"But I'm not tired."
I sit everywhere and don't have to do anything. What's there to be tired of?
Fu Jingyou’s face is so dark that it makes people feel hot just by looking at it.
He is tall, so Lu Miao can barely reach his forehead.
Now that her belly was so big, she didn’t dare to stand on tiptoes, let alone reach it.
Lu Miao took advantage of the situation and touched his smooth and strong arms:
"Is it hot? Wear a hat."
"Yes."
Fu Jingyou smiled and nodded.
He Hongjin stood in the kitchen and stretched his neck and shouted:
"Xiao Liu, what are you doing? Come quickly and make two rice dumplings to eat on the road. It's hot and the fish can't be put in the bucket. Come on, we have to send her to the county quickly!”
“Ang... is here”
He grabbed Lu Miao’s hand and kissed her without telling the elders. Palm.
Fu Jingyou led Lu Miao towards the kitchen.
Lu Miao raised her chin and kept telling him:
"My hat is on the big table in the main room, you can wear mine."
Fu Jingyou nodded, "Okay. . ”
Lu Miao’s hat has a wide brim and is a proper ladies’ hat for later generations.
Even if we don't care about men's and women's styles now, if a serious man wears her hat, it will probably look a bit "feminine".
Fu Jingyou doesn’t care about that.
In his heart, everything about Lu Miao was good.
Lu Miao’s stuff.
Lu Miao’s instructions.
Lu Miao emphasized.
Everything...
Because he is her husband, he has the privilege to enjoy and get it.
What is girly or not? How many people want it but don’t have it yet.
"Is there anything you want? Come back and bring it back to you."
"I want you to come back soon."
"Huh? Okay."
"I also want to drink the orange soda like last time."
"Okay, give it all. You buy it.”
He Hongjin and Fu Jingyou didn’t eat a bite of the fried crucian carp for lunch, so they took a cold well water to take a shower.
Chen Guifen shoveled the steamed sweet potatoes and rice crispy rice balls and kneaded them together. Each of them kneaded a large piece of multigrain rice ball.
The two of them carried the old-fashioned water bags at home and hurriedly went out with rice balls.
There are ten people in the team.
Fu Jingyou has a bicycle and is responsible for going to the county first to spread the news and let the county prepare.
Among the other nine people, three are responsible for driving the bus.
Six people are equipped with two beside each vehicle.
Keep an eye on it at all times to prevent fish from jumping out, and to prevent the bucket from sliding off the car. The men drove the bullock carts out of the production team. At home, Lu Miao had just sat down at the table, holding her belly.
"Auntie, I won't eat rice and sweet potatoes anymore. Is there any porridge? I'll drink some rice soup."
"Rice soup makes you full, so it's time to eat seriously. You still have to eat..."
Chen Guifen coaxed angrily:
"Auntie, please serve some to the young master. There is fish on the table today. It's your first time to eat Auntie's fried fish, right? Eat some rice and taste it, and drink rice soup later."
"Well... okay then!"
Lu Miao nodded.
Chen Guifen brought her half a bowl of rice.
Brown rice has been soaked in advance and is not as hard, but it is definitely not as soft and fragrant as polished rice.
This is already the best fine grain in the countryside. Of course Lu Miao won't say anything.
But one thing to say is that the crucian carp fried by Chen Guifen is really delicious.
With less oil, the surface of the crucian carp is browned, and the fins and tail are still a little burnt.
I don’t know why, but Lu Miao feels it smells good when she looks at it and smells it when she smells it.
After taking a bite, it tastes even more delicious.
She is picky and refuses to eat many things.
For example, eat fish but not the skin.
When eating chicken, we don’t eat solid chunks of meat. We only like to eat parts with movable joints, bones, etc.
But the fish on the table today is an exception.
The fish skin is crispy and crispy, and most of the water in the fish meat is lost during slow frying over low heat. The fish meat is sweet and firm...
It's delicious.
The only bad thing is that crucian carp has a little more spines.
Lu Miao spit out the thorns while eating.
Chen Guifen looked at her with a smile and saw that she loved to eat, so she spared some time in the afternoon and killed the other two crucian carp at home.
Score a few cuts on both sides of the fish, sprinkle a little salt on it and spread it evenly, then put it through a small sieve and place it on the manhole cover in the backyard.
Dry in the sun while drying.
This small fish is best eaten marinated and fried.
You can eat it in the sun in the afternoon or morning in summer.
When the weather is cold, it is worth drying for a while and eating at the same time.
The crucian carp Lu Miao had for lunch was not the most delicious.
The crucian carp she ate didn't have time to be dried, so it was only salted for a while and sanded to release some of the water.
If it is dried in the sun, the fried fish will be firmer and more fragrant.
Chen Guifen had something on her mind and her hands became more and more busy.
Lu Miao is really squeamish, and she rarely catches her eye.
Now that she finally had something that could make her eat two more bites, Chen Guifen couldn't wait to use all her skills.
Let’s talk about Lu Miao.
After lunch at He's house, she rested on the bamboo bed in the main room.
Listening to Tang Mei and Chen Guifen chatting until two or three o'clock, the sun outside was no longer so fierce. She sat up from the bed drowsily and shouted to go back.
“It’s almost time for them to come back from the county,”
Chen Guifen tried to persuade her:
"You can stay a little longer and have dinner together at night before going back."
Lu Miao shook her head, her chin slightly tensed, showing the lines of peach pits, and she was confessing. With a trace of a child's temper:
"I can't stand it, auntie, I can't be happy here. It's okay to sit for a while, but I won't be able to stay for a long time."
Chen Guifen had no choice but to laugh at her:
"You kid..."
Lu Miao also smiled: "I'll come back tomorrow!"
"Okay, go!"
Tang Mei took the cloth pocket, lead Lu Miao out.
Chen Guifen followed.
"In-laws, Miao Yatou, please slow down, come and sit down when you have time, we are all a family, don't care about anything else, don't worry about differences."
"Don't worry, her aunt, the sun is shining brightly outside. Come in and sit down!"
"Hey, hey..."
Chen Guifen responded, but she was holding the door of the yard.
One foot inside the door and one foot outside the door watched Tang Mei and Lu Miao walk far away before turning around and entering the house.