Chapter 17 Well done, don’t do it next time
In fact, the Song family's yard is not the largest in Qingshan Village.
But because Song Ke was going to marry a wife before, he specially decorated it to make it look very open.
Different from the adobe houses of every household in the village, the three main houses of the Song family and the two rooms in the east wing are all made of serious blue bricks and black tiles.
Chen Dongyue now lives alone in two rooms in the east wing, with a few simple pieces of furniture placed in them.
There is a small square table with four long benches in the outer room, and a canopy bed in the inner room, plus two camphor wood boxes and an old elm wood wardrobe.
This configuration can only be considered ordinary in an imperial city or a provincial city, but in a rural place like Qingshan Village, it is enough to look good.
There are three other main rooms, and the middle one contains a large table and several benches. In winter or rainy days, the Song family will eat here.
Song Yang lived in the east room, while Song Haopo, Song Yun and Xiaomi lived in the west room.
In addition to these five serious rooms, there is a kitchen and a firewood shed on the west side of the yard. Although they are not made of green bricks and small tiles, they are still clean.
As for the backyard, when we were enclosing the land, we thought that if Song Ke came back, we would have to build a second courtyard so that the two brothers could live in it, so the enclosure was quite large. Chen Dongyue looked at it, and the backyard was estimated to be more than an acre of land. .
Song Ke can't be found at this moment. The land is empty and Song Haopo can't plant it. On the left side, there are only some corianders, green onions and a few cabbage scattered beside the wall and behind the house.
It would be a waste to keep it like this. She planned to build a school ground in this place in addition to building stables.
After all, she needs space to practice boxing and train her body. There are too many things in the front yard for her to use.
As for the nightmarish toilet in the northwest corner, Chen Dongyue is going to hire someone to dig a septic tank and repair the pit in a few days.
Otherwise, it would be too unsafe to step on the creaky wooden boards.
She always felt that she might break the board one day and fall down.
Although Chen Dongyue also wanted a flush toilet and a shower, didn't she have such conditions now? !
You can make a living by scraping by.
Anyway, she doesn't have any requirements for a refined life at the moment. As long as the toilet is within sight, she won't see anything disgusting.
After Chen Dongyue chewed willow branches and walked around the yard, Song Haopo had already prepared breakfast and was waiting for her.
Although their family didn't eat breakfast originally, Chen Dongyue was going to take Song Yang out today, which would take twenty or thirty miles, so she had to eat enough before setting off.
"What's in this pot?" Chen Dongyue picked up the contents of the bowl with chopsticks, but still couldn't accurately identify all the ingredients in the bowl.
Song Haopo laughed happily, "Hehehe, they are all good things. Here I put the big fat meat leftover from the previous two days, and I also cut one of the fried chicken left over yesterday, and added some fried chicken. Soybeans and cabbage leaves are so fragrant~~~Dongyue, please eat more."
As she spoke, Song Haopo took another spoonful of the mixture into the bowl in front of Chen Dongyue.
Chen Dongyue, who was about to ejaculate, immediately pushed the bowl forward.
She glanced at the yard, then pointed at Song Yang who was harnessing Song Dezhu's cart and said: "Song Yang will have to drive cattle in a while. He is very tired. I will give this bowl to him. I...I, I Just eat a carrot."
Chen Dongyue can tolerate simple and rough food. After all, she can eat green belts to lose weight, and she can swallow any coarse grains.
but!
She really couldn't accept the combination of fried chicken stewed with fatty meat and crispy soybeans and vegetable leaves.
This stuff really looks like swill.
So before she starved to death, she really didn't want to eat this thing.
But Song Haopo only regarded her daughter-in-law as being polite, "What can he do if he is tired from driving cattle? You still have to eat these..."
"No," Chen Dongyue stood up and feigned anger: "If you don't want to eat, just pour it out. I won't eat it anyway."
After saying that, Chen Dongyue picked a white radish that was freshly picked in the morning in the vegetable basket, washed it casually with water, and started to eat it.
Not to mention, although the fresh radish is a bit spicy, it is tender and sweet, and the taste is definitely stronger than that pot of mixture.
Seeing Chen Dongyue actually starting to nibble the radish, Song Haopo was so moved that she almost burst into tears.
She just said that her daughter-in-law suddenly changed her heart. In order to keep the old and the young full, she would rather eat the radishes she was going to feed the cows.
Song Yun, who was equally moved, also wanted to persuade Chen Dongyue to eat two bites of food, but Chen Dongyue said she didn't want to eat anything.
Seeing that this man was really angry, Song Yun had no choice but to pick two more tender radishes for Chen Dongyue and let her take them with her on the way.
Song Dezhu, who had not eaten much since yesterday afternoon, saw Chen Dongyue eating radish, so he came over and licked Chen Dongyue's hand holding the radish.
Speaking of this cow...it drooled a lot. After being licked by it, Chen Dongyue's hands were covered with sticky saliva, which made her throw the carrot and scold Song Dezhu for being disgusting.
After being scolded by Chen Dongyue, Song Dezhu actually sneezed at her twice...
She was so disgusted that Chen Dongyue washed her face five or six times.
The few people who were eating in the courtyard wanted to laugh, but they didn't dare to laugh. The breakfast almost made them happy to death.
Except Xiaomi.
"Milk," she also had requirements for this food. "Can you let my sister-in-law do the cooking in the future? You are so burnt that it doesn't taste good!"
"Why doesn't it taste good?" Song Haopo was very confused, "These are all good things..."
"Good things are good things, but if you mix them all together, it will cause a loss of flavor..."
"Don't they all smell like meat?"
"The taste of meat is different from the taste of meat!"
After washing her face, Chen Dongyue stopped the argument between her grandfather and grandson, "I think Xiaomi is right. Let Song Yun do the cooking from now on. Song Yang, let's go!"
As soon as he heard that he was leaving, Song Yang quickly drank the last sip of soup in the bowl, and then said vaguely: "Mom, you can let Song Yun cook from now on. It's time for her to learn a little bit. I'm leaving first." ah.
Don't go to the fields today. You can clean up at home. Just wait for me to do the weeding and other things in the fields tomorrow. Let's go~~"
After saying that, Song Yang hurriedly led the bullock cart outside.
Because she was sitting cross-legged on the trolley, looking at Chen Dongyue who looked like a Buddha, and she was no longer very impatient.
This woman has a really unstable temper, so Song Yang is still a little wary of her.
After all, we had agreed today that we were going to the county town to buy food, rice and noodles. Don't make the Buddha unhappy again, and the whole family would have to continue eating all kinds of unknown wild vegetables.
In the morning of the small mountain village, the villagers got up very early.
Song Dezhu, who had no horns, was walking on the country road and faced the darkest moment in his life.
"Hahahahaha, it's terrible. Isn't this the cow that Song Badi's family sold yesterday? Why did the other cow's horns disappear in one night?"
"This looks like a pig no matter what. Whose cow looks like this?"
"Song Yang, was the other horn of this cow broken by your sister-in-law again?"
"Ha ha ha ha......."
Fortunately, Song Dezhu couldn't understand human speech, otherwise he would have been depressed after hearing so much ridicule.
Song Yang, who felt sorry for Song Dezhu, shouted loudly at the people who were laughing at them: "Why are you laughing? What's so funny? Cows don't use their horns to work. If they fall off, they'll fall off. What's the big deal?! It's okay if you can work!" "
But it is useless to say this. People should continue to laugh at Song Dezhu.
Some idle children chased Song Yang and the others out of the village, laughing at them all the way.
It wasn't until the two of them were far away that the laughing children dispersed.
Song Yang's face turned red with anger, but now he had the audacity to blame others, "You bought a wretched cow for thirty taels of silver! You were laughed at for nothing."
Chen Dongyue, who was sitting on the cart at the back, who had been silent for a long time, said quietly, "Didn't you say that the cows can be used as long as they are usable? What's the matter? Now you think our Dezhu is ugly?
Since you don't mean what you say, you really can't convince others. "
"No," Song Yang suddenly lost his temper, "I...I mean, since we have spent money, we should choose a cow with a better head."
"What is the standard for a good cow?" Chen Dongyue closed her eyes and asked, "Does a cow with beautiful horns count as a good cow?
I think Song Dezhu is not like a cow, but you are quite like a cow. As soon as someone leads you by the nose, you will follow them. "
"...I..." Song Yang was speechless for a moment. This woman... actually has some truth to what she said.
what happened? !
Why did his fat-brained, stupid and cruel sister-in-law suddenly grow a brain? !